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The Exeter Times, 1886-3-18, Page 6AN EGYPTIAN ROMANCE. A Story of Love and Wild. Adventure, founded upon Startling Revelations in the Career of Arabia Pasha. Bey lie Author of " NINA, TETE NznILIET," "THE RED SPOT," "TETE RUEEIAN ETD., Ewen ETo CHAPTER XXYI(qoNT uEn ,) o a He grassed that the populace, having by this time accompanied the Khedival cortege as far as the gates of the Ras -e1 -Tin palace, or In ether words, ae far ae they could go, would now be returning late the town, ripe for any species of mischief, and he knew that a considerable portion would Dome stream• ing baok through the Place. Acquainted with every in and out of the city, and consequently with narrow lanes that constituted short outs by whioh he would be able to reach the Grand Square in half the time that the calecbe would take to do so, no matter how feat it was driven, he rushed along ae quickly aa hie bronzed naked legs (they were very swift ones) could carry him, and directly he gained the equ.re began calling out at the top of a meat power- ful voice such disjointed sentences as : " The English fleet is steaming in to take off the Khedive." " He has conte to Alex- andria to oast himself on the protection of his friends, the Feringheea and unbelievers," " The filthy swine a titers are oohing to carry away our tyrant, and when they have got him their ironclad, willshell the city and destroy the faithful and the mosques wherein we worship Allah and the one true prophet." The wily eunuch had not, however, yet had his fail say. He had secured a hearing and surrounded himself with listeners, and this end being gained he at once came out with the pith of that whioh he had to com- municate. " What think you ?" he went on, in ac- cents of fiery scorn, " The Christian dogs are hastening to escape the fate that they have brought down upon the Faithful, who are to be fired at with shot and shed only because they want to govern themselves in- stead of being ruled and robbed by foreign. ors. They are running as rata run from a -falling tower ; but they would rob ne still, even in their flight, and one will oome along here preaentry, aye, and I see his carriage 3n the distance even now. who is running -away with a beautiful Circassian damsel who is destined for the harem of the chosen of the people, the light of a darkened nation, the regenerator of the feith of Islam, the Khedive that is to be, the war minister, whose aga I am " He told this lie every bit as coolly es though it had been the truth, and at mention of the audacious insult that had been offer- ed by a Keppi and au unboleiver to their Idel of an hour (the greatest insult that can by any possibllity be offered to a Mofiam- medan), his listeners grew as furious as fan- atics could grow. "We will take her from him. ea e will recover her for yon to take back to your master. We will kill the Kaffir who has oast this dirt on our beards." Tnese and many similar speeches broke from the lips of those whom the eunuch had stirred up to be his catspaws, and whilst they thus expressed themselves they grasped their clubs and knives ominously, At this juncture an event oocnrred that was well calculated to increaee their fury, an event which, though trivial in itself, has gone to make contemporary history, and is erroneously thought by many to have been the circumstance that previously led to the Arab uprising and the terrl rile massacres that followed. Close to the spot where the eunuch was awakening the vilest passions of a small handful of natives for his own and his mis- tress's selfish and evil purposes, a drunken Maltese sailor, belonging to one of the ehipe in harbor, had taken upon himself to sound- ly trounce a native donkey boy for having cheated him in giving him his change. In times of peace and quietude he might have lashed the youngster to his heart's content, and whether he had deserved it or not ne notice would have been taken of the matter. Now, however, that the populace were so exasperated against Earopeans, and were about in force, acme of them very na• turally rushed to their countryman's asslet- ance, whereat the Malceae began to lay about him with his stick, calling loudly for help the while, and soon his cries brought (most unfortunately) a lot of his fellow countrymen to his assistance, who had also been drinking somewhat heavily in a neigh- boring cafe, - Finding that they could not bring their countrymen off without having recourse to something more than fiats or sticks, these fellows had instant recourse to knives and pistols. Half a dozen shots were fired by them, perhaps more to frighten than to hurt, but be that as it may, one, at least, of the na- tives fell dead, and the first blood being shed by a "tyrant and oppressor," as all En- ropeans were deemed, the faot had as quick .and as deadly an effect as the applying of a lighted match to a train of gunpowder. Yon might have imagined that in a single moment all those Arabe who until then had been crossing the £quare from one direction as' the other, or standing in sullen or excited groups therein, had been changed into furi- ous and malignant fiends. The native whom the Maltese had killed was held up aloft as a rallying point by six bearers, who continued to yell out what had been done with him by "the dogs of Ksfiits" in such ahrili accents that every word could be heard from one and of the immense square to the other, and the answering shont was "Down ! Down 1" as every Egyptian brandished his knife or bludgeon, determin- ed to stab or brain all Europeans who came in their way. Well would it have been for tbo Frankish shop kee :erg if, once having put up their shutters that morning, they had not taken them do ten again, under the false impression that the presence of the sovereign of Egypt and some thousar, ds of additional soldiers in the place would frighten the mob into good behavior, Into the glittering cafes, the toba000 shops, the hotels, the plate glass windowed emporiums of fashion, the banks, and in short, into every European ontabllahment of this, the very heart of the European quarter, rushed the wild and infuriated fanatics, and their shrieks and groans and piteous cries for help might have been heard from within Mott of them, and whenever the murderous enthusiasts issued forth again, the clnbe of at all events the great majority wore betpat- tered with blood and brains, and in some instances their big shar p knives s were blood ddrlPping as well. CHAPTER XXX VIII. TORN ASUNDER—THE Fet2steeFu OF THE EUNtOrt, 1lfattars were at this pass when the oaleele containing Prank Donelly and his wife, with on the box behind the driver, entered the ear eq e but they were. more nth Yr arae third of I r L the waythrough ougli £t ere nether of themdie- coveredthe '(muse of the confusion and tu- mult whioh until then they had imagined to be occasioned by a boisterous rejoicing at the arrival in the town of the popular war minister, It was Nellie who first exclaimed in terri- fied aooents "Qir, Frank, it le murder that is being perpetrteted. Those are screams of agony that are mingled with the shouts and oheore. Look ! look 1 on further, over there by the Peninsular and Oriental Hotel, they are run- ning after and braining every European whom they oan overtake. There, too, are some people being torn out of a carriage to be butchered, Oh, let us turn baok or in another minute their fate will be ours." Frank Donelly was about to issue the order, but it was already too late, for as he rose in the carriage the myrmidons of Osman O,11on, the Princess Zaeneh'e age, swarmed around it, prompted thereto by such whis- pered sentences as "That is the Feringhee, though he le disguised as an Egyptain,' "A Kafir ass attempting to canape in the skin of an Egyptian lion." "Have at him in the name of the prophet, and when he and his aervant have been dragged out ef the car- riage, I will get into it and take the girl et -might away to the harem of my lord and master, the eavlout of Eiypt and the chosen of the nasion." Thus up to the very moment of the attack had the wily eunuch worked both upon their anger and their gratitude, so that they surrounded and attacked the carriage with au excess of fury that convinced the yeung British officer that any attempt to parley with them would be worse than neelese, and driven to desperation he tried to get at hie revolver, bidding Pat to do the same and the driver to force his way along. Iinatead of doing so, however, the Arab John, all his eympathiee being with his countrymen, made a clutch at Pat Mona- ghrn's arm in order to preveut his getting at his shooting Irene, and though the athletic Irishman would have shaken off his grasp in almost next to no time, he could not do eo ere a bludgeon blow over his head knocked him off the box down under the wheels of the carriage, whilet his matter, almost at the same instant firing his revolver at his foremost aesallanta, heard a faint snap, snap snap, without any report, which reoalled the fact to his mind (with a thrill of horror at the conviction) that in his hurry he had for. gotten to reload hia weapon ere leaving the hate', It ores too late to remedy the omission by drawing his sword, for ere it was .,elf ant of its scabbard a dozen swarthy hands had seized upon his arm, and their owners, by sheer force dragging him out of the carriage, would then and there have dispatched him had not a young Egyptian cavalry officer at that instant galloped up to the spot, exelafm- ing in Arabic : • " Hold, my brother. In killing the F rin- ghees you are dooming your beautiful city and perhaps your wives and little onee to destruction, His excellency the war min- iater reel mires all much fcr his prisoners, In order that by threatening to hang them in caee a hostile shot la fired against the town he may deter the British ironclad, from bombarding it, Perhaps in the end he will hang them all the name. We shall see," Neither Nellie nor Orman Oglon heard half thio speech, for the eunuch jumped Into the carriage by one door as quickly ae Frank Denelly wan hauled out of it by the other, and grasping hold of the veiled bride, so that she could not spring from the vehicle to her husband's fate, as it was evidently her half -formed intention to do, he leant for- ward and meld to the driver : "To the Rse-el-Tin P,slaoe as fast as your horses can tear along, and you shall be paid with =oh gold—aye, with a purse half full of gold." Away they then went at a terrific pane, pact the circular panel of the fountain, past the flowering parol trees on the one side and the shattered and rifled shope and magazines on the other, where groups of Arabs sat squatted on the broad pavement coolly dividing their avails, whilet those whom they had butchered lay mangled oorpees within the half open doors, and a few young girls even inside the plate glass windows, which they had been redressing (In honor of the court having arrived brck) at the me- ment when the rioters had rushed in, and catching them unawares, beaten out their brains with their clubs. Such and many another dreadful eight met her gaze, but she saw them all with her outward eye only, and without any terror whatever, for with the eye of the brain she still only beheld poor Pat Monaghan felled from off the box under the wheels and her husband of three hours dragged out of the carriage by a mob of seeming demons, who perhaps ere this had dispatched them both with a score of cruel blows and stabs, for she had been too excited and hysterical to take any comprehending heed of the arrival of the Egyptian cavalry officer upon the Keene, or of what he acid or did in the matter and even now mho was more like a mad girl than a sane one, as well she might be. Often she attempted to throw herself out of the carriage, not only because she anx- iouKly courted the same fate which she im- agined had befallen her husband, but also by reason that even in her preeent condition she recognized the hideous, insulting coun- tenance of the eunuch plainly enough, and felt vaguely convinced in her heart of hearts that he was conducting her to a fate that to. her refined mind and Western prejudices would be infinitely worse than a Budden and. agenizinn death. But alas, there were none to help her, Osman Oglon sat grinning maliciously by her side, with ono arta thrown around her waiat, and a drawn stiletto grasped in hie other hand with which he kept vowing he would kill her if she attempted to uncover her face or otherwise attract attention,. There were certainly plenty of Egyptian police about,abut when upon passing the open door of a station house she beheld a few Europeans, who had apparently rushed there for safety and protection, beingmasea- ored by these men, and their bloody disfigured corpses flung forth into th and for the wanderin doge to prey o ,she gupon, on she o > shromk with horror and loathing from such wretches, and felt oven in her present eon- ditfonthankful that she had notventured to cell to them for aid, whilst Osman Oglon aeemod to read hor thoughts, But soon the onoe gay Place Mehemet Ali is left far behind, and then the governor's palace Is flashed past on the rigt, and a momentary glanbe is eau ht of :the lil ue Pat Monaghan stuck up es stiff at a ramrod 1 Mediterranean and of Port Pharos , with the tall, white lighthouse, all at the extremity of a narrow point of land that atretohed far out auto the sea like a, tongue, But itwas poen lost sight of again, and then the celooho turning sharply to the left end preeontly peeking the hospital on tho apo hand and the high walla and huge iron gates of the arsouel on the other, reaohod those of the Ras -el -Tin Palace, The well-known form of the gigantic eunuch clad in the gorgeous livery of hia ggaehip (uniform he would doubtlose have ,alfod It) wee eo well known to the aentties at the gates that they did not even trouble to challenge the hi a cl but le tit tt ase in althoutany peening notioe, though doubt- lees they wondered who female was being brought to the palace in a common hada oaleche. The atelid indifferenoe that woes written in the eountenaneee of the soldiery appalled poor Nellie Abeam as much as the barharitieu whioh ahs had previously witnessed, it look - 54 to her so much AB though they were ao- ouatomed to nee helpless European girls pounced upon and brought to the palace in this manner, and she did not reflect that (as ander momentary fear of Oman O ‘1011'e dagger paint) oho was sitting quite still and also' closely veiled, there was nothing about her to show them whether alma was Cnrietiau or Moslem, or even whether she wan yielding to foroe and threats or coming there of her own free will. Neither did ahe know that ninety-nine out of every hundred Moslem girls would have thought it a great honor to be brought pria- oners to the Khedival seraglio by the aga of eunuchs, and au great a disgrace to be taken away therefrom, oven to become the one wife of an honest• man. The oaleohe containing our lovely heroine mud newly made bride has now been driven through the weeding pathways of a garden wherein the flowers and fruits ef every trop- ical country under the sun bloom luxuriant. ly, and are interspersed with a hundred dif- ferent varieties of blossoming trees, whioh joyously flourish with their roots in the water, their heads to the sun and myriads of singing birds nestling in their branohea, until at last pink walla and golden, or at least gilded roofs, in company with windows innumerjahle, flashed upon her vision from between the green waving boughs of syoa- morea, acacias, fig, olive, palm, plum and carol trees,' and she recognizse at a glance the famous palate of Ras -el -Tin. But there are many wleding and serpon- tine paths to be traversed still, bordered by bode of moss and pastures of flewera, and everywhere, in and out, about and around them are the little terra cotta channels of murmuring water, without which all their greenness and freshness would soon bo scorched and withered ; so that at last when the palace is really reached it is neither the front nor one of the side wings thereof that they are oppesieo to, but a portion thereof where the windows are few and far between, and defended with strong iron arose bars, as though they were those of a�ppriaon, whilst deep sunk in the thick wall Nellie observes a low arohed door, painted in brilliant colors, and covered alt over with deep out and gild- ed Arabic charactere. Then, as her eyes rest on windows and on door by turns, she seems to see an imaginary fountain, throwing high into tho air amber - hued waters, and the gleaming whiteness of baro necks and shoulders within the dark- ness of one of the deep-set windows, and rank Donelly standing beside her in his bright court uniform, with the baleful opal ring glittering en his finger, and lastly her mother coming toward them to tear them asunder, and an this phentaemagorio vision vanished like a dissolving view, the painted doer is opened and she seta standing In the aperture an unveiled woman with her face painted like a clown's. CHAPTER XXXIX. IN THE POWER OF THE PRINCESS ZEENEH. The resider will have already reoognized in the female who stood awaiting Nellie at the outer door of the KhedivaI seregiio El- marr, the buffoon, Osman ° glen got do wn out of the ealeche, but never let go of Nellie whilst he did so. No sooner were both his feet planted on the ground than he lifted his capltvo out of the carriage as Badly as though she had been a child, and then flinging to the Arab driver spuree, whioh from its clink seamed to be tolerably full, he grasped Nellie by an arm again and with gentle force led her in through the opou door. Ae it closed behind her the legend over the gates of a certain famous prison occur- red to the poor girl's mind and she kept murmuring them again and again Abandon hope all ye who enter here 1 And well might she at all events abandon hope, for the hideous looking female jester locked the door in their roar with one of the bunch of huge keys that dangled at her girdle, and then seizing her other arm, helped Osman Oglon to lead her along sever- al almost pitch dark paseegoe, and then up a staircase, at the top of whioh they came into the light again, and our lovely heroine found herself in a kind of "spacious vestibule that was illumined by three windows and thinly scattered with mate and squares of Turkish carpets and piles of onahions. On some ef the mats Nellie saw half -naked blank gide lying like nymphs carved out of ebony, fer the negreases of the Soudan are of meat perfect form in their earlyyouth, though they get groes, sometimes elephantine, with increasing years. But Nellie only mat a passing glance on these girls, for her attention was almost im- mediately attracted by the vast and heavy (lath of gold bullion•fringed curtain that marooned the whole of one side of the eeeming vestibule, and by the two gigantic eunuchs with Ierge and brawny limbs, and scarlet and white turbans and body cloths, who stood one on each aide thereof, with soiatols and daggers in their belts and great broad - bladed and nakedeicimiters grasped in their monstrous hands. There was no mere exproseion on their limes than 11 they had beenoarved frem wood, nor would there have been, even if the moat lovely girl in the seraglio had been etripped naked and lashed to death in their presence, Oman Oglon made to these seeming sta- tues a rapid sign, whioh remained nnannwer- ed, Perhaps, however, in Cele cave as in athete, silence and stillness gave consent, for without more ado the aga raised the centre of the curtain and peased thereunder, dragging Nellie after- him, and she being closely followed in turn by Eimarr. They now pawed alongcorridor after oor- eider, having curtains on rass rods here and there' at regular Intervale, and which seemed to be the entrances to different chambers, in lieu of doors. Sometieneii pretty ty little of allow satin all ere or of rod pairy pP heeled shoes would ho l 'est ou t�pido .r ono lying 7of these curtains, and Nellie remembered to have road that this was a sign that the lady within was en- gaged, and that even the Khedive Unwell did not dare to intrude, upon her privacy in, the face of such an intimation. Behind some of the curtains music and singing could be heard, and in the rear of others vetoed raised in merriment or anger, but no weeping or other sound of sorrow camp hon pry>direction, and Elmarr, the buffoon, drew Nellie's attention to the fast end bluntly told her to make hereolf happy. Bet our heroine made no answer, for she knew that all replies would be equally vain, At fangtf; oho reaobed a ourtette of much richer material than the others, and above whioh were two or three' Arabic words en- graved in gold, and now Elmarr tools the fair captive by hand and Osman Oglon re- liugniehod hie grasp on her arm and raised the curtain for the two to pase under, whioh. doing our unfortunate horoiuo found herself the next moment In a mem that was furnish ed ae uenal with carpets and heaps of one. bions only,n a d in the presence of a moat beautiful but fierce• eyed woman, who was reclining in en attitude full of unstudied grace upon a divan, whilet a little nogreea, uaked to the been, stood behind her wiefding a punkah and a fly flap in one, Bo that alae cooled the air and diaporsed the little buzz- ing tormentors at the same time. The lady had evidently been smoking, for the little snakelike seem of her ohibouque was still coiled around one of her shapely Crura, but the pipe was out, or at all events teemed to be, S throw down the flexible stem as she gazed upon her trembling visitor (prisoner would be the better word, perhaps), and marl with lips that gniaered with rage the while : ' Se you are come, The last time that we met was, T drink, in the Cairo theatre when I neat you a note whioh up to this moment has been unacknowledged, whilst the first time that we ever encountered each other was upon the Choubraia road, one evening after sunset, when you were too in- tently admiring a ring upon a gentleme,n's hand, or maybe the gentleman himself, to take mush heed of me. Was it not so ?" The taunting speooh and the sneer where• with it was accompanied effected two things, for they aroused the English girl's indigna- tion while they dispelled her fears, " The gentleman whom I was with was an old friend, a fellow -countryman and my af- fianced husband, At preaont he is my hue. band, for we wore married this morning." Tne princeas's magnificent and starlike eyes actually blazed with wrath at this an- nouncement, hut the balefal light seemed somewhat to die out of them as oho replied in the French tongue, whioh she knew that neither Elmarr nor the negroes could under- stand, but which she herself spoke even bet- ter than did her prisoner : (TO BE CONTINUED.) PERSONAL. M, Gounod always writes with a Huge goose -quill pen on large ruled sheets of paper. Mr, Gladstone has reduced by about 25 per centum the rents of the farms on hie Hawarden estate, Prof, Storm Bull, a nephew of Ole Bull, €s one of the Faculty of the Wtecenein University. Sergeant Long, one of the survivors of the Greely Expedition, is now stationed at the Signal Sar vice office in Philadelphia, Mme. Gerstor suffers from persistent in- aomnia, which has so worn out her system that two. or three years will be needed to effect restoration, Theodore Thomas has need his right arm so much In conducting his orchestra that he is said to be threatened with a new kind of peralyais. Dna. Emilio Marnmga, the new Spanish Minister, has had an American training, having been educated at Georgetown Col- lege while his father was Secretary of the American Legation. His mother was a Russian. A note from Paris announces that M. Pasteur has received from the Comte Lion- el de Leubespin, first cousin of Lafayette, a gift of 10,000 francs to aaeis't in founding o hospital fer the treatment of persons bit- ten by mad dogs. Mr. Justin McCarthy has received from the sales of his "History of Oar Own , Times" about $30,000. Red he been able to copyright the work in America it Is estimated that he might have increased this sum to $80,000. The Paris Gaulios publishes, " under re• serve," the news that Jenny Lind, the celebrated Swedish singer, now 65 years of age, will shortly reappear in public. At the instance of her frianda she ham decided to give a Belies of concerto in L )radon dur- ing the. coming Beason. Philip D, Armour, the Chicago million. afire, is at work in his office from 6:45 a, m, to 6 p, m. six days in the week, and goes to bad at 9. p, m. Asked how he sine oeeded in business, he said recently, "I always made it a principle when the Al- mighty wasn't on my side to get on His," Mn. Walter Boeant, a writer of email stories, who attempted two years ago in a small pamphlet entitled " The Art of Fic- tion "to teach authors how to write novela, now declares that there is no cookery in America, which is in opposition to the opinion of George Augustus Sala, who avers that the best dinners in the world are famished in New York, General Lew Wallace toIis with great gusto the story of a German whe opened a beer saloon in Constantinople. Of course Mahometans do not drink strong liquor. But when they saw the foaming lager they said : " By the Beard of tee Prophet 1 That does not look like wino. .Bat by the wav the gMaours drink it, it must be good. Let us try it 1' They did try it ; numer- ously ; indeed, multitudinously. And General Wallace says the enterprising man from Vienna is making an independent for- tune from good Mahometan patronage. Service of sonar. If a nation may be made to drlft into war be the influence of martial music, why may not the spirit of peace be generated and in. fused by the influence of sacred music and song ? The poet Lowell says one of His aweeteet charities is music, In our poorhouses there are old men and women, sad, hopeless, weary—long dtrang- ere to any gentle ministrations. In our prisons there are dull Intellects and hearts hardened against span religious efforts; in our hospitals are suffering ones, do worn with pain, so weak, se near the ,world for whioh, also! they have received no prepare- tion—to all these might be borne, on the wings of song, the words of life from Him who came "to proaah the gospel to the poor and heal the broiton-hoarted, to sot at liberty thorn that are brulaed," A'Chrietian song has this advantage over a sermon—the truth in it tonal -tee the heart of the hearer unawares, when he is not on the defensive against the gospel. Specially succetsfnl may the hymn be if some helpful thought is repeated over and over as in the refrains of the chorouses: This fastens on many a hearer and sings it- self in his mind hours and days after it was heard. Educate the hearts of the people by sacred music, and the heart will readily eduoato the head, MAN HUNTERS. Tke Master of the Elooellrounds and lits Wondevitri Convict Catchers. " Wynton, allow me to introduce my friend, I+.. 0, Crauewell, who is the Creeper of dogs at Pratt Mines, Ala,, and who has the only pack of genuine bieodhounds of the South," The speaker was L. W Johns, the mining engineer. Mr. Qreuewoll advanced and ex- tended his hand to your oorreepondent. Lie was heavily built, six feet eightinohes tel 1 offtrz !• o l om t�z n c iG ,i ,and wore o a wide p w brim slouoll hat. His feet were encased in high-topped boots, inwhioh his pants were stuffed, 11 is coat wan wore open in front, showing au tmsnaeuletc shirt of snowy whiteness, on the bosom of whioh, half hid-, den in the ruffles, glittered a large diamond. He had the appearance of a desperado, but', he wan genial and frank and an intoreatin talker, with a volae as soft as a woman's end with actions as timid as a girl'a. :This is the man whose daily life is spent with a pack of bloodhounds, the fieroect an imals raised South, "I wan born in Pike county, Ala., near Troy, a{ lived with my pareute there until I was 21 years of age. My father was a hunter, and always kept a peek of dogs for hunting dear and catching runaway negroes. When 1 was 12 years old I remembsr being with my father in a race after a runaway negro. The negro had gotten about twelve miles the start, and we tracked him up a mane, chimney. When I waif 16 1 took charge of my father's negro dogs and fol- lowed them until the elope of the war. I have always beea fend of the sport of run- ning foxes, and kept it up until four yearn ago, when I accepted the position of keeper of the dogs at this plane," When a convict escapes a general alarm is sounded, and the dogs are ready, They are taken to the place where the cheeped convict was last peen. Crauewell mounts his feet horse, and the dogs are let lame. Each dog circles for a trim& and begins to hunt. Every one pea to work for the trail, like as many human detectives. When the trail is found the dog who discovers it makes a signal arid • every other animal folio we. Fenule and Bucker always take the lead with any other dog, Crauewell and horse follow at full speed, and the longer the cbaee the more iaterostiug it grows, Mr. Crauewell was asked of some of bis meet remarkable hunts for escaped convicts. John Daleoso was a white convict, sen- tenced for a long term, He escaped from the prison at the slope February 1883, and went to Clanton, in Canton county. He, had a atart of five hours. He was run by the doge until dark, when they were called in, Tho next morning he was followed to Clanton. His trail was etrnok sixteen hours old, and after ho had taken the train from Birmingham. When the trail was atruok it was followed three miles, and Dame, with his wife, was found in the woods. ^ Ye left his wife, and ran on, The dogs gathered around ham, and he began to fire at them. When Crauewell cane up DaBese sworn he would not anrrender, end would never be taken alive, He was shot at, and in the ex - ohmage his arm was broken. He was cap• tared and taken back to priaon. Au interesting chase was had when the outlaw, Renfroe, eeoaped with three others. Crauewell said : "At three o'clock A. er. I was sent for to go to the shaft, a diatanoe of over two miles, The prisoners had gone three hears when I took the track, and they had taken the railroad for Birmingham, The doge followed the trail to the city through the main streets until the track branched of on the Alabama and Great Southern Rail- road, on which they went several miles, and then went to the mountains and divided. The doge separated, which was an unusual thing to do. Mr. Jus±ice Collins, the man- ager of the eonviots at the mines, took one pack of them, and Mr. J. G, Moore, the prI- son warden, took the other doge. Moore• caught his man After a seven -mile trail. Collins and I ran our man twenty hours be- fore we caught him. We then returned to where we had divided on the mountain, and the dogs soon caught the trail of the third man. He had twenty-six hours' start of ne, and we naught him. The dogs could never seoure the track of Renfroe, and I do not believe he aver left iairmingham. It is very easy to catch a man, even if he gets an eight hours eaart. It is a. picnic for the dogs when bo only gets from two to five hours' start, and he had as well make a cir- cle and come baok to the prison, for the deg never fsila." The longest trail this man and his man hunters ever had was in mulch, 1S84, when a negro escaped from the shaft priaon. He had gone forty miles and had been away twenty-eight hours, The dogs had trouble to catch hie scent after ,such a time. The negro took an astonising run and want ten miles through water. He was found at last on top of a old house on top of a moun- tain near Warrior River. He was half atorved when captured. Crauewell was asked to speak of some of the oharacterietica of his dogs. "I am con- vinced," said he, " beyond the shadow of a doubt, that a bloodhound has more than mere inetinot. I believe that they think and reason like human beings, I know that Female and Bucker do, The dogs are docile in camp and very vicious on a trail. Their sense follows the movements of men, There is no trouble to get them to take the truck when they find it. "After a convict is captured the doge re- turn satisfied and as happy as if they had caught a rabbit. When they return to the prieon they become perfectly docile ; when called out again they grow very excited. Tho affection of the doge for me is more like that of a child to its father than anything else I can describe, I feed them myself and they have great confidence in me. I have five fine puppies, four months old, that have fur on them like sheep, which are now ready, to trace a man to the depths of hell, if hecould travel there, and as for hiding e, trail, it is, an impossibility. .1 am raising them for silo, and I guarantee them to find a trail thirty-six hours' cold," Driving With One Hand,` Heat the al+•lgh bells bow oho chatters WitFrewshe haltere, ehettere, chatters, Of innumerable matters While the borer's hook bespatters flor with snow! See the sleigh belle with her lover! flow they feel Like a pair of colts In plover, This sweet eloieh hello and hos lover, Uoderneath the dainty cover et too seal 1 See the pvnple stand and stare. Atthe bll As, with loosely flowing hair, And a ennle beyond compare. See is seceding through the air With a swop. Oh! each westher suite for riding, Thoueh tie rough, And the weigh belle loves the gliding, Ana much merry, merry eliding, g With her fifteen fingers hiding In her muff 1 The Criminality of a License, The wonder of our age is that in this civ- ilized community we can find men so stupe- fied with their selfishness as to assume and believe that orime can be regulated by being. sanctioned by law as right, provided t< money consideration hi paid by the criminal. If os' race is sanctioned by selling a perms. pion, what is to prevent anarchy except that the price bo put so high that no per - minion can be obtained by the oriminal So long as he finds it pays a profit to buy the pormietion, the criminal will continuo and make the business profitable to himself by doing all the damage he can for = his own benefit• this is a loisal conclusion, and the parties who take the criminal's money aro' certainly as inevitably rosponalbo for the consequences of hie prime as a matter of course. • Representative Mill of Texas is the fastest talker in Congress, delivering 215 .words a minute, . Evidently he is not 000 of i' the mills of the gods," whioh are generally understood to grind slow and exceeding small. aw,..-- ITEMS OF INTEREST. "Called Back" has beonrtr =elated into S anish and the edition is ea b have p had a large circulation. Diphtheria is shown by official reports to have increased almost double in fatality during the past four or five years in Eng- land, A farmer found a hornets' neat in his barn het fall and tried to burn it. The in- eurauoe on the barn has not yet been ad- justed, Two hundred and two lions have been killed in Algeria during the last twelve years. Also 1,214 panthers, 1,882 hyenas, 27,185 jackals, The ooneumption of tea per capita in Great Britain for the year 1885 will be over five pounds, while that for thin country is only LIS pounds. • A letter from Kimberley, South Africa, represents that no less than $5,000,000 is annually paid in that town alone in wages for diamond digging, President Gravy only draws $5,000 each month of Iris monthly salary of $10,000, and lets the remainder draw interest in the Bank of France. Neither bustles nor corsets are worn in Japan, and when a Japanese maiden sits down in a skating rink she gets her mo- ney's worth every time What with temples for cremation and burial urns far the ashen, French architects and doeignora are looking forward to fresh pastures for their decorative instincts. There is an association in Paris whose object is to help drunkards home at night. If the patient la too far gone to give his ad- dress, the club cares for him till he can. A skeleton was unearthed the other day with a smell Dopper coin under one hand, The remains of an editor, most likely, who tried to take his wealth along with him, It has been found that under the vast tracts of sage brush in Nevada :there is a rich, deep, loamy soil, which -can be made wonderfully productive with a little irriga- tion, Charles J. Santer of Dwyer, 'Ind., claims that there are but five madstonea in the United States and that he owns one of themoffit. He makes a profit of $1,500 a year , A pound of benanas, it is said, oontains more nutriment than three pounds of meat or many pounds of potatoes, while as a food it le, in every venae, superior to, the best wheaten bread. An experienced "'vocalist has, it is said, during feurteen years, cured uy number of cases of obstinate Dough by eaeribing the free use of raw oysters as a et The rem- edy is easily tried, In the United States there are eighty-two faotories engaged in the manufacture of glue, and they employ altogether about 2,000 hands. The value of the product Is about $5,000,000 a year. A New York naturalist has received from Madagascar the first black parrot ever brought to this coantry. The bird stands nearly fourteen inches in height and its plumage is a dense purple black. A full third of the territory of the United States is a eheep pasture of the !meet favor- able character. Texas repreaente the high - eat money value in aheep, and the most ex- eusive ronohea are there, A child at Pueblo, Col., died of scarlet fever and her clothes were thrown in a shed, Soon 'afterward a dog and a oat who had been playing with the clothes were ,taken with the same disease and died. Sacramento beaded recently of a car horse which was so well acquainted with some of the regular patrons of the road that, when they were aboard the car, he would stop in front of their residences to let them off, A tailoring firm In Berton 'are making a $3,000 overcoat for a well-known wealthy reeident of that pity, The exterior of the coat is of fine blue oaator beaver cloth and the !naide of the finest Russian sable fur skins. The late King Ferdinand of Portugal left a collection, raid to be "prodigious and per. fectly marvelous," of the forbidden litera- ture of Europe during thelast thirty years, It includes books, pamphlets and prints. German writers complain of a lack of in- terest among their' own 'people in works of native writers, the consequence being small sales of their books,; and the suggearlon has been made that foreign literature be boy- cotted, What is difficulty Only i rd inti eating the degree of strength uisite for aocompllahing partioular objeote ; a mere notice for the necessity of exertion ; a bug- bear to children and .to fools; but often stimulus to men, The diamond fields in Cape Colony were discovered only about twelve years ago, The industry has been prosecuted with ao much prudence and system that the exports now' amount to more than $15,000,000' a year. Models of the new cruisers, Chicago, Atlanta and Boston, complete in details, and as big as small rowboats, have been put up in the room of the Naval Committee of the House of Re. presentazivee. Conneofiout has less than 1,000 miles of railway, but these carried last year seven- teenands elf ." mt ' h pions ofpa a,1 open ora of whom only twelve were injured. The pat. sgreneatergortra-u thano othatf 1885of1884was almost 50 per cent. , Mr, Froude'taays Mr. Ormsby's transia- tion of " Don Quixote" "aurpasdes all pre- vious translations," Iioprediets that it will pass through many edtiona, Not only is it gibhaslse to hia, mxamineind thedbut bbatto'Eonigdinlisp translationreadersit hei- ` a _.. the first that' has made the book intent