The Signal, 1893-11-2, Page 66
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CRISP AND CASUAL
MINIM d'i W.lme.l. Lam►eresaa's Friend.
Austro-Hungarian papers are printed in
15 lancrugee.
The .;oath rate is St. Petersburg exceeds
the bc:!, rate.
Th.: • are no streets in London that are
not ligh'ed by public lamp..
More women than men go blind is
Swedeu, Norway and Iceland.
The island of t'eyloo ia the moat remark-
able gem deposit in the world.
It lases to use Freeman's Worm Powders,
as they act only ot, the worms and do not
injure the child. 1m
In many parts of Jaya the bride shows
her subjection by washing the feet of the
g eons
Painful burns, bruises. scalds and cuts ars
quickly soothed and healed by Victoria
Carbolic ':.IT. lm
la Nuremberg they have just diaooversd
900 songs of the Metstersiugers, including
some by tins Sachs.
Prompt. potent and permanent, results
always come from the use of Milburn's Aro-
matic Quinine Wine. lm
There are yet 1,000,000 acres of govern•
meat land in Kansas open to settlement,
but it is almost worthless.
Sick headache caused by excess of bile or
• disordered stomach is promptly rblieved
by using N at iooal l'illa. I m
The countess of Mays has a screen cover.
01 with the autographs of all the distin-
guished people she know..
In Bengali, India, there are three har-
vests reaped every year --pease and oil seeds
a April, the early rice crop in September
and the great rice crop io i)ecember.
E.eljay's Liver Lozenges ere a thoroughly
scientific production of the present day, aad
are the beat remedy known for biliousness,
constipation, headache, etc. 25 cts. • box
at all drub etores.
The "angry tree," a woolly r'i.t found in
eastern California and western Arizona, can•
n ot be touched without it exhibits sigma of
vexation by ruffling its leaves and giving
forth an unpleasant, sickening odor.
gusto-percha was tint introdw,ed into
Europe from Slalege in 1842. The annual
consumption now amounts to 4,000,000
pounds, and the East Indian trees which
supply the demand are diminishing at an
alarming rate.
Farmers of Mexico use oxen of one color
in the morning and of another color in the
afternoon. They have no reason for doing
so beyond the fact that their forefathers
did w. and they conclude it, must be the
right thine to do.
Interesting experiments have recently
been made with the new tents which the
German soldiers carry with thein. The end
in view ia to make the tents, or rather their
cloth, serve to construct ferry boats for the
soldiers' baggage.
Few remedies for billiouanese are at all
agreeable. A pleasant and perfectly harm -
les. medicine for •11 liver and stomach
troubles is Eeljjai's Liver- tomenges. They
effectually regulate the digestive organs and
purity the blood. 26 cents at .Il drug-
gists.
A blood thirsty engine of war has recently
been invented. Electricity is the chief
point in Ha construction, ono it is oarried on
• light wagon drawn by a couple of horses.
Four men can discharge it tour times in 15
minutes, each discharge throwing 25,000
bullets oyer a surface of 22,000 yards.
A lady who gets very ill,
And who never gen swallow • pill,
Says that rather than try
Stye surely would di-
Shs'll try hsellsy'a method. she wUL
Eseljay's Liver Lammers are *asset,
harmless and effective. 25 amts
• Canine saw.
Marie Why Ethel, what is the matter
with Fido ` Ftbe1-im't it too bad . I
gave him to the leaadsege to wash, and she
starched him.
surMslk laser/ Restawe
Burdock Blood Mom is a medicine made
from rots, bark ani barbs, and is the best
known remedy for dyspepsia, oonetipation
aad billiow.tess, ed will euro all blood dis-
eases tram • common pimple to the worst
scrofulous sore.
Theee.atty Versed.
" Are yes pretty well acquainted with
your molkor toggne asked a Harlem
echos! rasher s1 MO sow boy. " Yea, sir,"
answered ahs bey" and ea is pe.
M• jaws se sI IM 1`M.h
•
One ger efntalbt
There ie N •eelsd► that makes ea large •
Norwat•go dredges ewes ea Or. Wood'.
flume.) Pies Byre Is cunei every cage
of 000gY., Beide, .sehiea, hroe itis, hoarse-
ness, croup, ole., its o.rative etfeota ere
prompt .ad fatting.
earssase reuses tared.
(:a'rn.aests,-i had • very bad sough
w►leb ' oo.id a.t get rad o1, but by miss
H.pvd's Peeter.i Balsam i was mired in
two or three days. it is the beat .ad wrest
mash medicine I ka.w ef. 2
Joesru (iAan,crt, (ideriet , Oat.
• .tee e'.wnsr.
" 1 c.n't be your sister, Masao I •m •
ester to so many brothels stew, but 1 ear
be year amity," she m 4, se she gently
t
dropped him. " Make it • gnadmetber,
he anewmod windy, se she spurned bin
Mw her /moor.
A etaee.v of a eewewsr.
Vier mus ono twnn44v.,orm M. Us .
ysed's Yellow Oil thea. e.Hdrt
..d N has saver Idled M glee m i�rd
ties ass
nam aid ••lenem d the Seek ler enema
midi WOW gem r of ptaill -,-- - is
MY NEiePsso 'e ROY.
de memo to be sm eral bees la ear.
M mash i• be o.astaatly everywbeget
ue the mreusvom Mast that bar Melees
No entail cm remsesierw smelt chanes
de 011e the whale et bis siege Oman
With hie strong. etralg41 Arm ad W ni"vy
tam
ga r eery cowardly. very bran;
lie 4 kind and erwl. good lad bad.
A brute awl a keno! Wbo will save
Tb. beat from the wont of my wlgbbee•
lad!
The mean .ad the noble strive bd•y;
Which of the powers win have Ill way?
rt. world Is needing him strength and .kill
He will make hearts happy or make them
ache.
What power U in blas for good er W?
Which of life's paths will hie swift feet tithe/
W W he rim and draw others tip to hila
Or the light that is In him barn low and dim?
But what Is my ..igbborls boy to mem
More than a nuisance! 1f7 neighbor's hey,
1 bough 1 hare mese leers for what he may be,
L • worre of eoltcttude, hope and Joy
And • con.tent pleasure, because 1 pray
Thal the best that is 1n him may rule some
•l.7•
He penes me with •.mile end • sod.
He kiwis 1 hale hope of blas. goes..,, 1001
That 1 whisper his name when 1 ask of lied
That mea may be righteous, his will to do.
And 1 think that many would have more for
If they bred and preyed for a neighbor'. boy!
-b1. Farnhegh.m in C'hrt.tiaa Advocate.
MAGIC IN THE EAST.
1 have intended to tell the story of lit-
tle Akli lief‘ t,. I Isn't kr.ow why I
haven't done so, unless it has been be-
cause-- But I will tell the story this
time.
I h'd been journeying through Egypt
in company with my friend, Harry Kel-
lar, the magician. We were stopping at
the quaint old town of Boolak, which is
tsitnated on the right bank of the Nile,.at
the divergence of its Pelneiac branch,
one mile northwest of the historic city
of Cairo, of which it forms a suburb.
Our holt was an Egyptian grandee,
whose fine country place overlooked the
shipping from just outside the more
densely populated part of the town.
One day we were strolling dawn near
the leading. when an old Egyptian
market woman besought ns to purchase
some of her tsmartnds, naming an ex-
orbitant price.
"Why, my good mother, do you sell
these tamarinds at that low figure?" ex-
claimed Kellar in mild surprise, ad-
dressing her in her own tongue. "They
are worth much more than that, I am
sure."
She looked surprised; so did our host.
"Yes, I was sure of it," Kellar con-
firmed, and he broke one of those that
he had taken up and drew a small cop-
per coin of the country from its renter.
For a moment the woman was too
startled to do snore than regard the coin
with wonder. Tben, however. her nat-
ural avarice asserted itself• and she
matched the bit away from Kellar's un-
reeiYti- g hand.
"Ah! I see you are a fakir," our Bost
said smilingly as we moved: on. "It was
well done. Now I know that you and
my other esteemed friend here will more
than ordinarily enjoy the slight diver-
sion I have to offer for your entertain-
ment after coffee today. Perhaps, too,
you may have the keenness -though it
is not in me to explain the performance
to divine how little Akli can survive
the marvelous act Abalani forces him
to do, and to discover how Abalani can
perform his part of the strange enter-
tainment.
But abort the old market woman: A
servant told our host later that she had
hurried directly to her ride cot on oar
departure, where she luul carefully
opened every tamarind in her basket to
find the copper bit in its center. The
disappointment she suffered on not find-
ing a single bit of money and the lose of
the spoiled fruit served her right for at-
tempting to impose upon the supposed
ignorance of strangers. But Kellar was
too large hearted to allow the lesson to
be one that should make her the poorer,
and the servant was diseatcbed directly
to the old peddlers home with more
than twice the worth of the fruit in cop -
That evening Abslani, the fakir, ar-
rived at our host's house.
He wee a small, wiry little man. whose
age was about 4l, if yon were to judge
it from the dark, clear eyes with which
he quickly gram med you rap. They seemed
to pierce me through and through as he
made a deprecatory bow before me, his
thin arms and palms extended toward
me in the attitude of benediction.
His only garments were a light breech-
cloth of a dark reel shade and a flowing
silk mantle, dark yellow in color. The
only ornament he wore was a dark cop-
per ring hanging from his neck by a
gressy looking piece of leather or cord.
I looked for Akli, the little boy with
whose amistance he performed the tricks
we expected to wj,nees.
But Abslani was alone.
I then looked for the coil of rope which
I had heard played a part in the strange
spectacle.
The fakir had brought non,.
1 said to myself that we were to be dis-
appointed, and that the fiche we•sea
limbed fakir had come to make excuses
for his inability to amuse ua this time,
and I could see that Kellar thought the
same.
But our boat retained hia wanted good
nature as tbongh nothing was wrong,
and it was not the plash of either Kellar
or myself to stow disappointment
Meanwhile the little fakir led tbs way
tom smooth bit of round not far from
the house.
Hen we almost unconsciously formed
an expectant circle about him.
He spoke few wards, and we main -
Wined a perfect iileam ander the np.0
tbs little fellow .messed to throw around
Nm. But this was not the sensation d
geeing upon a serpent that one sapid -
micas wham w1tammimg the performaac @
so mmry .t Ns olsss.
"My washes, you wish to me Akli
climb," hew to a ermeblhg, teshmimad
eons.
"Tiny d0.' new hod sneers..* far ua
Ths an dapped bis 8841 psis i►
vase Moe amerly.
As be tri ea • mese bey appors4 by
hi. die it d fedi whore flpr W
boss nows the soa.sat bafase. Kellar
rs11s0 leeward with so involuntary •s.
__Kmiec cm hi• lips. i. boo, •vas gr.a-
lp startled. The fakir had thrown adds
lea silk winds and stood before is.
.i.IW only in his bcseohcioh. The
bee, a Madame lad of apparently 10
or 11. was simiiiarl7 clothed. Al my r••
quad be took my head and gave it a
triead
pressure. '
1 a a tops -coat have a
roper .sclatsaed Lbalad nervously, and
he gesticalatud in the air quickly with
his right arm, kis actions mooning to
fascinate me
"AhF
H. ceased the action, and lowMsg
his arm displayed a large coil of main
rope in his band that it would have been
impoesible for him to have mamba
about his person. Then, with a task
motion, he pitched one end of theme
straight up into the air, kelpieg tits ctfo
er end in Ilia grasp
The line seemed to catch up there hl
the atmosphere. It staid there dangling
down between us.
Abalani ordered Akli to climb up, hur-
rying hien with a word of impatience
and stamp of his foot.
Akli shook the rope with one band, as
if to see if it were quite secure, and then
did as he was requested.
L•p, up, up, he clambered, higher and
higher, gradually growing smaller and
.mailer as Le ascended until he actually
disappeared from view. Yet we could
tell that he was still climbing away up
there, for the rope before as trembled
with the motion that he mads. Abalani
did his best to study it.
Then enddenly the fakir clapped his
hands and sprang to one lade. We heard
the rushing mound of a body falling
through the air, and then the form of
Akli landed upon his feet before as un-
hurt and smiling. Another clapping of
Abedani's hands, and rope and boy both
disappeared.
The fakir stood alone before ua. Kellar
and I were mystified. He asked that
Abalani perform the trick again. When
it had been done a second time, Abalani
left us as per flexed as before.
For my part I gave the whole riddle
rap. I had seen many a strange feat of
jugglery, but this one completely non-
plused Inc. Kellar was determined not
to leave Boolak until he had satisfied
himself as to bow the trick, or feat, had
been performed.
A week passed. Our host enjoyed
Kellar's quandary keenly as a boy, and
joked him about it. However, Kellar
joined ua on the porch one afternoon
with a certain amused expression upon
his face that made me feel reeeonably
sure that something interesting was rap.
"I should like to see little Akli climb
jest once more this alteration," he said,
dropping into a 1^w steamer chair with
more satisfaction than I had noticed him
erinoe for the past week, "Con and I
should bo leering tomorrow or the newt
day at the lat 'et."
To make known • wish there was to
have it gratified. After coffee that aft-
ernoon Abalani came walking gravely
up the shaded path, his slight figure
clothed as before -in the flowing mantle
and scanty breechcloth -that dark cop-
per ring, a shade lighter In color than
the breast it hong against, his only dec-
oration. As before, he was alone.
There were the same low salaams, his
dry, hard palms that were of almost the
whiteners of mine being stretched over
us. Few words were spoken. The man
could sot have been more deferential.
But at the same time I thought that I
detected a gleam of egotistical challera,
in his dark eyes that maple me hope Kel-
lar would succeed in detecting his trick
and increased my desire to know how it
was performed.
We moved down to the place in the
garden where we had witnessed the ant
before, Kellar clipping into tlli"T1pOM a
moment first. Little Akli appeared as
brigbt rad /aniline as when we had first
seen hitn. The rope appeared, Aldi had
climbed it, when I heard a alight, sharp
"click" on the nicks where Kellar was
standing. When little Akli had clam-
bered out of sight, Abalani clapped his
hands twice. We shuddered as we heard
the sound of Akli's falling body. The
rope had disappeared, and the little fel-
low stood there bowing before ,ss. The
next moment he was gone.
Kellar hurried me into the hoose and
to our room. The room had a dark
closet, and moon Kellar was hold op a
dripping 4 by 8 plat. from his camera
for inc to view by the dim light of our
rflby lantern.
I could see our host, arms akizebo,
looking up wonderingly. I could ass Alta-
Iani-showing up white in the negative--
his
e ative-.his thin arms raised above kis head, hie
feet braced widely apart, as they had
beep when steadying the rope for little
Akli to climb when I had heard the
shutter of the canoes map. Bet there
was no little Arkli b be seen anywhere,
nor tier rope, for that matter.
Abalani had mesmerised our host,
Kellar and myself, but it was beyond
his fakir skill to mesmerise our detect-
ive camera. --Conyers C. Converse to
New York Herald.
Cb/r1w Dud...
China is perhaps the last place in the
world where owe would expect to find
dudes and mashers, beet it appears that
is Shanghai the gilded yoeth among the
Oelestta s have adopted the masher cos-
tume. Very curious they look in their
high oollare and tight fitting costa They
have also tarn to wearing foreign un-
derclothing, eating foreign foods, arnok-
hig foreign tobacco and doing many
other things contrary to the old fash-
ioned toned Chinese usage. They also ride is
foreign carriages, teem and eons te-
gather. and soave of them lire le fangs
�s.s in grand style. These w alt:
bemired' of schools kept by Chinese
where nothing but liagiish is taught,
fit being eomeid red the most asetml
Migsaga,-Londow Globs.
• aaa.mle Moe.
Duty akesi01—Do you Mad yew
who st
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Leda Jill' --Nein Mar d-
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