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The Clinton News-Record, 1898-10-05, Page 3THE Is r"X � � P,A,C�1eA►; -- OR, -, THF MAGIC OF A .MASTERPIEGE (Continued.) forenoon. Have you the keys of yo "Oh l" he said to himself, as he rooms with you l" ' . moved away from the office of the "Yes, only my rapier and pock 3cquryeil, "if the painter shall lis safe- knife were taken from me. You w —113—but of 'the way before Antonio see that I have my knife, I sh finds opportunity to hold private con- want it." fab with him all may be well. By "You shall have that, or mine. Y heavens, I would kill him with my shall have all you sin possibly want own hands if I could. Why have I Zanoni selected the keys whi not done it—I have been blind. I would be required, and with them have been a fool. But wait. We shall gave to the duke directions full a see." explicit. He found the baron at home, and Not a long time had elapsed aft was admitted to his presence, but the duke had'gone when the keeper scarcely had he mentioned his busi- the prison made his appearance, as Hess before he made the discovery ing for direction•�s with regard to t that here, too, he was unwelcome. curtains wanted for the window. T "Signor Marquis," his lordship an- Prisoner explained what he requir awered sharply, "if you are seeking and the keeper promised that t in[ormation on that sub'ect I mus t work should be done at once, and refer you to your brother the duke."was cheerful about it. The thoug "But, my noble lora, you will tell of having a great painting done f I ` the if the order has been issued:' the duke, it might be said, under "Marquis, you have no right to ask own eye and supervision really plea me such a question. Yet, I will tell ed him. you this. The warrant for Zanoni's Before the day had passed our her execution has been signed by myself. prison cell had been transformed in r '' For further information I must refer a proper studio, and he felt his chaff you to the duke," no longer. His easel had been set u "Baron, I trust you have not auf- the canv� was on it ; his own eta fered the duke to—" for colors had been brought, togeth "Stop I I 'beg you will say no more, with all the pigments he had onlban If you would lease me, ou wi11 o." In short, nothing was wanting f P Y g the cons mmat' u u io of the and n r d t e b g P An h anon as he said thin, pointed to the door, pose he had in view. Defeated at every turn, the mar- What should come of it I He d r, quis wended his way toward the room not know ; he could not guess. Y t od the club, cursing bitterly as he a still, small voice, with a music went. He must find a place where he tt of a bygone time, whisper :' Gould procure wine ; and drink it in Hope'" CHAPTER XVII. peace, and at the saame time think. On the mornin of the day tette mBut we may remark hare, his thtnk- ing the transformation of the prix g amounted to nothing. w for, d cell the duke made an earl call u ed and he plotted, but he was forced Y P in the end to acknowledge himself the painter. Arrangements had be '�7 powerless to accomplish his purpose. made with the keeper for the procu If blind fortune did not help him, ing of everything that should be r �6. than be was powerless. In short he quired, but Antonio had not be able to resist the desire to know t was in that most wretched and suf- there was anything more he could d tering condition of spirit to which the This was his ostensible reataon for t ';, ma of evil passion can be reduced— morning visit. I3ud ha confessed t posse sad by impotent rage. true reason, however, it would pro `t',- 'Vh Ie the Marquis Steffano, feel- rf. ing hi self baffled at every turn— ably have appeared that he wished for he, surely felt so --while ha sat satisfy himself that the painter w' alone in the room of the club, swat- really at work—that his St. Cecil lowing cup after cup of the wine and was to be a substantial, beautif i' cursin his fate, the fact. B painter Zanoni , Si nor," he said, when he b paced to and fro in his realty con- � g Portable prison cell. From the broad closely scanned the various prepa . � arched window he could look upon the ations which he had already made f river and see the path on the bank Proceeding with the work, 'I have I — ws — h no thou t to hurt ou. whet• e be a h h d B Y often walked. Would would not have ou, on an accoun ha ever walk there again $ He was lose atience. Yet I wish you woo thus reflecting when his attention p Y ,. • was attracted by the sound of a foot- tell me, as nearly as you Grin, ho r;,., fall in the corridor without, and a long a time you will require in whi ;; moment later he heard the bar re- to complete the picture?" . 'moved from his door and a key turn- "Has the chief justice asked y '' ed in the lock. Next the door was that ?" t1`; . opened, the duke entered the cell, and No," replied the ruler quickly, " t,, the way then closed behind him. He one has spoken to me on the subje was alone. at all ; but they may do so—either t There were two comfortable chairs baron or some one or more of his co 1n the place, one of which, the easiest, leagues, and I would like to be ab the prisoner handed out, at the same to answer intelligently." time bowing with grave politeness. "My lord, let us call it—say the `' Once the visitor made a motion as weeks. I shall probably have it co, though he would put out his hand for plate in two; but we may as well friendly embrace,. but he, did not do on the safe side," it. Yet his look was friendly and ' `You are right, signor, We ha sympathetic. He asked after the hest take time enough. I shall call i prisoner's health, and hoped he was three weeks." pleased with the quarters which had And now, Duke,' said Zanoni, loo `-``' been given him. Ing his ,pa.tron squarely in the fac "I am pleased, my lord; and I arm and speaking with full, deep meanie „' certainly grateful ; and I Um more „I have a barglain to make with yo or, I had betters , I demand of yo grateful, because I believe I am in- debted to your kind offices for them." a Promise—a promise that you she The duke nodded, but made no fur- not presume to break. You shall no 'ec.' _ ther admission. He paused for a time look upon my painting, after I hav thoughtfully; and at length said: commenced work upon it, until th "Signor Zanoni, you remember the last touch is given; until I pronoun, request you made on the occasion of it finishedl W ill you give me the my former visit. I may inform you promise,?" that your wishes have been com- ,rhe duke hesitated. It was 'a pr r ,,._. •,,. plied with. Though . you did not dis- mise that he Qd not like to giv tinctly ask me to put off the execu- He had anticipated a great deal of .plea i ..-. tion of the sentence of the court sure and satisfaction in watching th against you, I have done it. Tha work grow toward perfection. +Wool warrant is in my hands; and I may the painiKr ask him almost anythin +, hold it, at least. for several drays—per- but than haps for weeks." t "Mly lord," pronounced the prisons The painter's handsome face glowed w'i•tllr a look and tone not for one mo with joy and gratitude. Ile had not went to be mistaken,r "you must muk yet seated himself. Ise took two or Your choice. Xou may have the St three rapid turns to and fro across Cecilia, perfect as ,Yin create it, W 1";' the- cell, after which he drew a chair my terms; or, you may s!g near to his visitor and sat in it. mY death warrant forthwith." '`+ "My lord," he said, with deep and YOZanonil You are not serious I powerful feeling in look and tons, "I IIuahl It is useless to ar ue or t will not attempt to express m3o thank- g fulness for the favor you have con- dirput,e. Do. I look like a man wh i, ;erred. I can only hope that in the would trifle?" f end you will find yourself richly re- There was p. solemnity,f a pathos, paid. I will now •tell you why I depth of Power and feeling in th would have asked the boon which you voice of the painter that impressed hi have granted without the asking. Am hearer as he felt he had never'bee �: I mistaken in supposing that you impressed before. He knew, at least could, if you would, allow me to have that he taust consent or give up hi my easel, my canvas Band my materials pictures The last he could not do. for painting here in this place?" My lord, added Zanoni, while th The duke, though some such thought duke was struggling up from th had once or twice occurred to him, great: &L,appointment—he spoke wit was startled when the proposition had touching gentleness and humility, " been thus plainly made.. Hp, did not have a roason—a reason deep an r 1 r e a des to — t once. me for makin t ' At le his demon P Y l; d n h h e sa' g t g d, "Do you mean, signor, that you!wish It is no mere caprice, no whim;it is to paint here?" purpose of mine, whish I ca.n not ex lar "it I n but Z or 1 " a I Call c , Z, non; a s P �u Lhis' in 'the end Y n waned YY wi th a wondrous . when o r i u �- 1 ht e es hal g in his lustrous PyeQ Y Y m t have seen the the light of Inspiration; "I ask to finished picture, if you do not forgive live until I have finished the Pic- me for Lha course I have taken I Lure I have commenced—my St. Ce- will bid you bold; me in memory as a cilia. It shall be yours when it is false and recreant friend—a traitorl" done—my gift to you for your kind- "Enough!" said Antonio. Ard in ness, amt in token of the love I 'bear the depth of his emotion he put-Si-th tioward t• 1, '' his hand, and gave the painter awarm The, duke was deeply moved. Afferlembrace. "You halve my promise. a little tla„utchl, and with marked'From this time) I will not look upon hpaitttliun, h� ,vnid: the picLure again until it is finished. ” But Zanoni — the model I Of I mtty look at it. nowt?" COu rHt;, you rust ba award that you 'Yes." And the artist wont to the can not.—" canvas and lifted off the curtain that "Hush I I know what you would bac! covered it. say. If 1 required the features of 'Phe duke gained a'favorahle position the Pr inress Tsftbol tot• my model, be l and looked upon it long and earnest= sure I have them in my heart. But Iy. Its possibilities of surpassing I do not. i have a far+a of my own, --I beauty and excellence were already a face that ban come to me as from apparent, and already was there a heaven. It i, the face of the princess; s•Lartling beauty springing into life in and yet unlike. It is as beautiful ora the face. is Iters ; yet itis beauty Is different, "It is Ise,bel's fac,el" the gazer whis- The glory of the divine maternity is pored in a sort of ecstasy of 'wonder in it. Oh I let me. paint, it I I feel I a.nd delight. that I phall do the subject ample ,'Wait until it is finished and then justice." tell me if you know it.," Zanoni re - Antonio was stirred to the utter- Plied in a like whicperod ;one. most depths of his art -loving heart, "Oh, You will not: altar it; you will Ire sat. for a. time in silence„ gazing not paint another face?" Into the painter's inspired face, Then "MY dear dulce, I will follow my in - he started up and took a turn neross iViration. You hame my promise that the cell, FillaDY he resumed bis seat You shall be content in the end," and spoke. "I must 'be satisfied. iiut you will "Signor Zanoni, can you paint here preserve the dear face if you can." in this cell l Will the light. be good? "You shall be satisfied. Be Lure of "It could not, be better, my lord; that." only, I should require two or three For a little time longer the duke Y ins of light, fieri fa.bri¢, of dif- gazed upon the picture, and then turn - shades of color, and large ed, slowly and thoughtfully, toward u h to cover the window; they the door. Wil.h his hand on the latch, eliould be so arranged that they can be stopped, and looked back. be rolled up at the bottom, so that I "Signor Zanoni, I repose in you the may have my full light, if I desire, fullest confidence. I shall leave you high up," to your wat•k; and, since I am not to ' It shall be arranged, signor ; it see the pictutre,l I shall not comellagain shall be done forthwith. If you will until the two weel4n are at an end. tell me how I shall get them, and Should It be complete before, you will . What 14 -boll get, I will myself super- send me word?" Intend the work of taking them from "I will, my lord:' your studio, and nothing else shall "Then—for the present I .cave. be disturbed. Ahl And thnt. re- Heaven prosper and keep you!" And • minds me, Signor Maraceini has giv- with this ,Antonio opened the door, en me your rapier. I will hole, it. in which had been left unlocked during keeping. You shall tell me tiluout his stop, and passed out from the It some other time. For the pra4pnt painter's presence. t I must Imir t.o this other matter, as fAn hour later Zanoni was at work, `' . I Nave another engagement for this The prison was forgotten; the dead I , l„ , I " , '' fYys. L .. l� • e QnO tkw, p4plor,: d' they E * ' - - . I " , '' fYys. L .. . . . f ... X111 A►1 t 411 QnO tkw, p4plor,: d' they E * ,Io hand .%hd the inspiration that gave him guidance. o?unt and the living mrarquis�-every* thtinfx for the time suss banished from all ou e, nd edget his nd et, on on an en as ad. or nI ld ch ou No ct he le ee m- tie k_ g u; o- e• r, n n o a e s n s e ,j h I d a - . QR (��j �1(� (j 1 desl►oiled by poilntl trj ns, �tllia c tt'entt tl ilik X111 A►1 t 411 QnO tkw, p4plor,: d' they E tis. memory, save the work beneath his waiting for the,pi4rlit that' will rpgtoi hand .%hd the inspiration that gave him guidance. �+ A LAND, 'WASTED WITH WAR AND them to their` own, . Uordon and 7�`boirtoor will. ever 1 �He worked slowly and with exceed- AAWAYS IINSETTUD. associated, and it ryas bteoauss of tl ing care. Every touch of the magic —. world-wide attention, which he dre' brush brought the ifaee of the saint nearer to life—nearor to perfection. wlicke E Y R 4 Oqo Tinto 11[eld suprenaay s16d. I\'.here lulrltutu Avet.gctl uertlort'e upon himself when he andel .tool tY mission and the eircumstancek attenc Occasional! a touch would be put on y that he must blot out or change, taut 1lleatli- Maud eC tlto Arab ultd ]Negro. In his death that g gave a peculiar is tereat to the ruined city, A gree not many, He saw the end and The tSoudan ,embraces the vast man, already famous, had undertake wrought surely toward it, region of Africa, that stetches from what was noon found to be an impo ur So the hours passed; the days. The keeper himself — M.araepini — walted the Atlantic to the Red Seta and the Bible task; but Gordon's heroism an devotion to what he regarded as tI et upon him, diligently and kindly, sup- Abyssiprian highlands, and from the right are revealed in his celebrate ill Plying him with everything he re- Sahara and Egypt proper in the north "Journals." While Gordon's primal quired, even anticipating his wants when he could. to the Gult df Guinea,,the central equa- objeot was to evacuate Khartoum t withdrawing the Egyptian A week --six days—had passed, when torial regions, and the Albert and Vio- garrison he was expected afterwards to axial one evening, the keeper ,said, as he was taria, Nyanza in the south. This isr the lish a local form of government i about to carry the supper tray to the home of the true negro race, though the interests of Great Britain. It corridor where a servant was to he there are other pure and mixed ele- shown by his journals that Gordon wi waiting to receive it: • Si nor Zanoni, ou will miss me to- ' g y ments in the population, derived grin- opposed to the permanent retention , the Soudan by Great $ritain; Y morrow. I am called away unexpect- cipally from tHamitic and Semitic thought that it should be left wit ofedly, and imperatively, but my lieu- (Arab) stocks. The Soudan is divided decency, and the people given a ma tenant will do all ou want. You al- k- Y into three parts, the Eastern Soudan to lead them,around whom they coul he Toady know him." "Yes," replied the palnteir. "I shall being that portion of the are4 east, of rally. W hen neither the evacuatic nor the lo.al government Eeemed like', along very well with him; but d Wadai, mainly the basin of the Middle of accompl�hment, the British Govern he shall miss you. t trust you may -be and U Aper Nile. This part of the ment wisEed to be rid of all ret ons p he prospered, and that good fortune may Soudan is also frequently styled the bility of the Soudan in the matter r ht attend you, You have been vane good to me, Signor Maraccini, and if Egyptian Soudan. ;Until 188.2 it form- garrisons, In Pact, Lhe inatruetior conveyed to Lord Wolseley were to t} ul, my life is spared long enough, or, it ed one ill -organized province, with effect that the primary object of ti s- I can gain time from this other work, its capital at Khartoum. IB,ut in that expedition was to bring away Goner 1 will paint for you something that Year it was subdivided into four sec - Gordon and Colonel Stewart fro; ou will g y prize in the corrin time and Khartoum. To this Gordon objeote� to that your children may prize after tions—(1) West Soudan, including Dar- He would not leave ns you." Fur, Kordofan, Bahr -el -Ghazal (the THF (GARRISONS TO THEIR FAT I'Signorl" cried the keeper, in an p' ecstasy uf. delight. 'You shall certain- province on a western tributar of Y no matter what the result mi ht b g ly have the time. Theo duke shall ive of the White Nile south of Kordofan,) In his journal Gordon writes; "Tl er it. fAhl I can not tell you how h ppy and Donogola; (L) Central Soudan, com- more' one th[nkis of it the more impo d. you have made me." (And his glowing or face prising Khartoum, Sonnaar, Berber, Bible does it seem for her Majesty Government to get out of this ,coati r- did not belie his words. The morrow camp, and the keeper's Fashoda, south-east of Kordofan, and without extricating the garrisons ar id assistant brought in the breakfast to the equatorial province, atretohing establishing some government at Kha our painter. lie was a middle-aged aloe the U g open Nile to the great tbum," But the Government he wisl ed was not one under the authority , man, with a kindly face, though evi- ' lakes; (3) East Soudan aloe the Rod g Great Britain. He thought the ,our dently of a quick, hot temper, when aroustetl. (1de name was Cola Pandoy Sea, including Taka, Suakin and Mas- try should be given to the Turks, c for He bade the prisoner a cheery sowah; Harar, east of Abyssinia, and to Zebehr Pasha, to govern, but n( ' Good -morning!" ,as he entered, but north of the Somali country, abutting Egypt, as in a couple of years they w- made no conversation ftuther than to inquire on the Gulf of Aden. All this region is would be another Mandi. It has been stated that the conque, if anything more was wanted. Later, however, when he returned to WATERED BY THE NILE � of the Soudan means also the retei r- take away the tray, he asked permis- cion --or, rat'her asked If he might ask and its tributaries, possessing highly tion, of Egypt, and'that France is loot ing with eager eyes in the same dire( e- meiaso u—to look at the painting on fertile soil, capable of yielding im- tion. When Egyptian finances were i h manse quantities of cotton, doers, In- muddle some ears) a o a dual•' Eel Y g tf JZanoni uncovered] it without hesita- digo, sugar, rice, maize, tobacco, fruits; l lash and French control was laced ei dunderft he tion, at the same time remarking, he with a smile—a smile that always while Kordofan and Dar -Fur are bare tu•ely ,Europea,nrmanagemer warmed the lieutenant's heart: and waterless, except in the rainy sea- It will also be recalled that in 186'. b- "lf so alight a Luing as that can son, after which their wide, grassy durin the Arabi revolt. British an g French warshi s were des etched t give you pleaaw:a, I should be a nig- Bard, indeed, to refuse it." steppes give sustenance to numerous Alexandria top overawe the rebel la 'rhe assistant was a lover of good herds of camels, cattle, sheep and Arabi persisted in the rebellion despit ul pictures, and possessed a correct judg- goatp. ;Resides the products mention - the order sent him to des}al., and th wen a azed lon , and earnest! g y At lengLh he said, a deep drawn ed, ivory, ostrich feathers, caout-chouc, French sailed away in dismay. Th French took no share in the bombarc r- with breath as he moved back with his eyes salt, cloth, gums iron, gold, honey, ment, in the military expedition, or i still fixed upon Lhe picture, seeming wax and hides, are Important articles direct co-operation with England i I to take p all Its parts: "Perhaps of internal traffic and fore; n trade. g the re -arrangement of E fairs and it is a question whait ste r t my ;udgment is at fault. Very likely it is. But, lot The area of this portion of the Soudan has they'will take now to establish the otherstsay been estimated at 2,500,000 square claim. ww what they will, I will say, if our Ita- miles, and the total population at about Tian masters—or an one of them— ever painted a picture more worthy 15,000,OUO, 1'he Egyptians established _ CHINESE JUSTICE. the name of master• -piece than is this themselves at Khartoum in 1819, and, now before me, I halve not seen lit!" -Your praise is to me, (luring the next fifty years, gradually _ An Unfortunate widow HitH a Trete of Iai, pleasing signor, for I know you possess true extended their power over the provin- lu �11e Flowery Kingdon►. taste and feeling. I only hope you e� lying west and south of the city, Mr. James Murray, writes fror 1_ may think as well of it when it is rind were more especially active dur- Chung -King, West China : "IIavin finished," No fear of that, Signor Zanoni:" ing the third guar•ter of this century. had occasion to buy a small lande He paused a moment and glanced In 1874 Dar -Fur was con uered with q estate on the hills near Chung-Kinf again at the painting. Presently he the help of Zebehr Pasha, a noted slave I found a widow lady, named Hsac added: t hunter. a did not receive the reward ig who owned property suitable, encs wh a, May I •ask you a question?" "Certainly:' he considered himself entitled to, and agreed to sell at the price of 140 teal; d t "What' 1 would ask is this: Are provoked insurrections In that district, The silver was thereu pen paid over t you intending that this face shall re- and in Bahr -el -Ghazal province 1877 - ( her and a deed of transfer give; present the features of Princess Isabel 79) which were successively crushed by which was duly registered at th e dig Varona?" Why do you ask?" returned the Gordon. and Geilsi. The revolt of Arabi Pasha in 1881, Chime Yamen and British consulate artist, with marked interest. and its consequences, loosened the hold A neighboring landed proprietor, hear u "Because," replied the other, "I u of Egypt on the Soudan, which by ing that an Englishman hard bough heard it said, not long since, that fVou Baker's annexations in 1874 and follow- land adjoining his, tried to raise th t were to paint for the duke a Saint Cecile which should be at the same ing years had gradually extended to the shores of the Victoria Nyanza. people against the foreign purchaser e e time a portrait of the princec)s; !and A WIDESPREAD REBELLION and actually had the boundary stone because, further, I can trace in this t a striking resemblance to the beauti- broke out in Dar -Fur, and Kordofan thrown dawn• Knowin the insti ai g g fol lacy I have named." under Mohammed Ahmed, calling him- or of this disturbance, I mentioncAilti Still," suggested Zanoni, smiling, self the Madhi, a word meaning "the name to our energetic British Consu "you would, not call it woorrect like- guided by God," The ,modern Mahi is Mr. G. Litton, who prowptly had a. IIs , ,, C not necessarily a descendant of Ali, intimationrnL to ifim through th "No, I should not:' „ tVell, my friend, I tjell you Frankly or a resuscitated Iittan, but ha puts himself forward as a prophet• whosea Chinese �' y' g urate, sa in that if an d Ido not mean it to be a portrait of the mission is to free Islam from external disturbance occurred with regard t g princess, though she Ea,t to me in ithe enemies and re-establish the are, pri- p miLive faith. Diohammed Ahmed this transaction, he would be held eT P ba innin and the outline:) of the face g R were drawn from her model; even claimed to be the Mandi when about 40 pecuni frit res onsibh sonally and y p _ yet ..efore she had; made her last visit to years old, Gradually, at his call, the This message had immediately the de e me I had resolved to make a change. eastern Soudan stirred itself against sired effect, and the pec le wer p tr ' I' can truthfully say what of likeness hgyptian misrule; and so it came to peaceful,. but only that the ;rat there bu at the y present time, in pass that in 18813• he seized El' Obeyd, Chinese proprietor might turn hi this face to the face of the Princess the chief city of the Kordofan, and veng,ance on the unfortunate Mr; I Kabel is purely accidental. I am made it his capital. An army was Haim; who hail sold tb, land. A cl4ain painting from anon her memory en- sent a ainst him h the E Lian g Y gyp gav- was made that a few feet of the lane o tincts. tAt sono future time you may ernment, under an English officer, sold belonged to the adjoining estate know the secret, but not now." Hicks Pasha, in November, and was which, if. true, could not be valued a Ito be Continued. annihilated near El' Obeyd. The more than 10 tael�; but 150 taelswer Mandi's influence extended to the demanded and paid. Then a n—ighbor Red Sea shores. An Egyptian force ing temple, taking,courage from th under Ccunt. Moncrieff was routed with success of this claire, dem-ended 51 ODD INFORMATION. severe loss in the came month near Sua- taels for the sale having aadversely of kin; and Baker• Pasha was twice dis- fected its interests, find thk sum al ' 111yers Short snatcher' of Knowledge About astrously defeated at Tel) and Tamani- so wits paid, but as the 'Tuan ]iia' of Curloaw Things. eb, early in 1&84; but t.heise reverses local militia acted as intermediarie No fewer than 1,173 have were afLei-wards wiped out by the hard on this transaction, the silver stuel persons been buried in Westminster Abbey. won successes of a British expedition under Sir G. Graham. to t.hPir hands, never reaching• flit priests. Then the Chinese Magist.rati The thickness of the halr varies from Meanwhile, in January, 1884, Gen, levied twenty t'.aels on the unfortun Lho 250th t th o e 600th r• P a t of a n Inch ha r s G r e rd n d ora at th Chia le eo Go o e B R a to i to f r w( w o havin settle(; the dis' R During the Jordan's course of 120 request of Mr. Gladstone's Govern- pute. The British Consul obtained i miles' it ham 27 falls and descends 3,000 ment, lis English representative to despatch from the Taotai saying• tb( feet, Khartoum., to secure the withdrawal land had all been fairly bought ani. Tea is vet y cheap in China ; in one arrisons fro h of the .P; t tan m t e g) P g that P e o� o i v ry tot f i, was mine wit h province of Lhe empire good tea is sold Soudan, a having, the advice out the enditura of another e@nt at` 1 1-4d a pound. iv of I•;ngland, agreed to give up till her nd, as but the ,rise o� the pont widow Hfuu Bank of England notes are number- s ,' So dan save t t } os, es Tons in the u e 1 ec p h, Sea littoral. (Gordon though supported a. w s far P p , a �' �• .r oth�rwrs Sh hid r cu e 140 taels as th'e price of the land, wind ed backward—from 10,900, hence the by only one other English officer, gal- hart expanded 220 taels to satisfy the figures 00,001, lanily maintained his position in Khar- clamorous neighbors, leaving it net The deepest coal mine in the world toum against the. Madhi'sfollowers,and loss of 70 Lapis and her land on the is the Lambert, in Belgium; you can even ventured successfully on the ag- transaction. descend 3,490 feet. grestslve. rile found, however, that he --- A hive of 5,000 trees should produce had attempted CUNNING SPIDERS. 50 pounds of honey every year, and AN IM.POtSSIBLE TASK. -„-,• multiply tenfold in five years. he could not leave t he. garrisons to fall Uve tun fixe Flower off' tine 1.114-11011 Plant Italy produces annually 70,000,0;)0 into the hands of the Mwdhi, •and he Brellawof11AnnngerN. gallons of olive oil, the market value of which is £24,UOO,000, required reinforcement of British troops before he could drive the lat- AI r, R. I. Pocock, the ] ugiish natur- It is estimated that there are 62,- ter from the. ne.ighl,orfiood o£ 1{her_ alist, tells an interesting story of the 05.0,000 horses in the world, 185,150,000 ttoum. Tim! ity anti in('e i ion ma k d spidors which dwell in the flower of cattle, and 435,500,000 sheep, t be whole of t he poi icy of t lin Engli,,h ' the pitcher -plant of India and Aus- The longest span of telegraph wire Government, o'h toward the Soudan and the Red Sett liltcrral. In October, tralia. This flower is an insect -trap. in the world is in India, over the River Kisina. It is over 6,wa ft. in length, 1884, when it was too late, an ihtigIisb Around its upper edge it is brilli.ant- Cyclists should wear shoes with soles e.,Xpodition, under Lord Wolseley, was despatched to Khartoum and arrived in ly colored and sweet with hon^y. of average thickness. Thin soled shoos touch of it only to learn that the her- Lower down the walls are wtixy, find cause numbness of the feet, and abouid oic Gordon had been assassinated two so smooth that. no insert can gfii❑ ai not be worn, especially on long rides. days before (January 20. 1886.) The ex_ hold upon thein. 'I'htt bottom of the In a home for sandwichmen, in Lon- pedition thereupon withdrew, without pitcher is filled with it liquid, eon - (ion there are said to be several uni- attempting to retaliate, but. with the twining several acids, which possessors versity graduates and medical men, fall of Xbartoum pe,roshed. F,gypt tan in- the power of digesting organic mat - and a Scotchman who ran through fluence in the Soudan. Linea then an- ter. The luckless insects which fall £50,000 in three years, archy has prevailed among the native into this liquid are gradually ahsorb- Egypt is the only country in the tribes and the followers of Sheik Sen- ed by the plant. But whits most in - world where there are more men than ussi,aMoslem confraternity of austere sects carefully avoid this death-trap, women. The male sex in the dominions an•I f,nati(al doofiines, increased their a particulwr species of spider chooses of the Khedive exceeds the female in power in Kordofan and the adjacent it as a dwelling -place. By spinning a numbers by 160,000. distticts. One of Gordon's lieutenants, little web like a carpet over a part: of Dr. Schmitzler, known as Emin Pasha, the waxy interior of the pitcher, it is ----- was still holding out in the equatorial enabled to stay there in safety• These CURIOUS WORTS FOR MEN. regions in 1888, when he was visited spiders have apparently chosen their by the explorer Stamey, at the head singular home just because of its dan- Among the Riffian pirates of Mo- of a relief expedition. The Madhi died gers. In such a place they are pro- roceo the women do all the agrieultur- at Omdurman June, 1885, a.nd his calif, tected against their encinies If alar•m- al and other hard work, while the men Abdullah, reigns in his stead. Sheik ed, the s •ider drops into the li uid at P q Senussi, when, at home, do the cooking and tained of Tripoli, is said to have 15b- the possession of much of the Sou- bottom oY the plant and remains mend the clothes, including the we- dan; beyond this the affairs of the escaping there until its enemy has disappeared, afterward, probably bymeans mens. . Soudan 1892 are obscured bly mystery. In the Madhi's suweswr' was besiegg'ed of a silken cable which it had s un tis It fell, A short submergence in the byy I A MUSICAL INVENTION, the the Benusai in Omdurman, whither digestive headquarters of Mmhdism had been fluid is not injurious to the In order to fapilitate the production tranafetrred. spider. �.— - .�'____-_— of higher notes on a cornet the ordin. A WASTED CONIQTRY. ENGLAND'S ARMY AS IT MIGHT IIE,' any mouthpiece is inaloaed to a spring the The extent of country governed by Xhallfa is practically the same as If the'Erumian conscri t p ice were ap- controlled sleeve which fa pressed In that by the lips on Ge high notes,to form plied originally occupied by the Egyp- In Ind{a, England, would have thine, a smaller opening In the rubber mouth Nurous ,But places that were "once pros- 2,500,000 have been laid vl sate and the batraoks, regular soldiers actual! in y with 800,000 roisruita, coming ring, o Industrious Nile dwellers have been up every year. n t � A' *A*R1* !*****Rl#Ir*** 'Rhe 4911 should contain a large pro+ i portion Ilf fikxe= -well rotted sod with f ; U1 t#cldition .of some ,good garden los 2 About L��!• .laR. * mxtd a little €Iilarp sand nysk®s a goo znlure, A lighter soil is nvt advis- e # ablc,. because of its drying out tour rap- ���*��♦������� '*###10**** 'idly,', W4eg palms are once establish. ' INTELLIGENT COpC,G, od: clln not water them until the surface pf the soil looks dry and shrinks slight. Good llviag is not high livit.ir11► the ;lY. from the pot. Then give sufficient ordinary sense. The very acmoof good 4004 water to thoroughly saturate tha llviag is t}ye best presentation o4 gored' gall a`nd to run through into the sau- 400r, but do not allow any of the sur- f material in simple form; and in that plus water to remain. Surface water- ' sense It is the best and highest pf liv- lag, or a slight and frequent drib- ' ing, The introduction of cookery as a bling is ruinuua to all plants, and es. branch oP our public school training pecially so to the, mass of palm. Show- er them at least once a week,—better will start the coming generations of every other day, if you want them to housekeepers in the right direction; shine as if varnished;. the bent -neck; I plant sprinklers are excellent, as it is 3 but the crying need of the present, necessary that every part be reach- ] next to a knowledge of materials, is ed; get the largest sprinkler for beat ' for housekeepers to better understand results. If not convenient to shower, r the importance of the high art of them so often, sponge the stems and i both upper and under side of foliage simple cookery. i three times a week with tepid water ; I Many a woman will take infinite daily sponging is better, using a soft i pains in making a rake who probably fine sponge as least liable of all things could not tell of the vegetables in com- to catch and tear the foliage. Treated mon use which should be put on to in this way they will be frees from red spider, which appears in dry, healed f cook in hot water and which in cold, atmospheres—in Pact, no peat will trou,- t which should be salted at first and his them if the work is thorough. AA i whichp later, and why ; how each occasional scale may appear ; rub off r the first one as soon as discovered and I should be dressed for serving, and the there will be no trouble. No plant is t difference in dressing them when more free from pests than the palm, • young and old, Among housekeepers and with only half care. If small, there are more good pie -makers than white worms appear in the soil, give a 1 bread—makers; twenty who maks thorough soaking with lime water, ill pretty desserta to one who is expert in one application does not answer, give( ° i cooking meats, and fifty who make a second. Add a piece of fresh lime as . fine cake to one who understundsgood large am an orange to three gallons of water •. wh n di s lved and clea so ' makin . _ Do E a O r 1 u,p- g not, because you have kept house, ten, twenty or thirty pour off the clear water for use. The I years, feel your housewifely dignity time water is perfectly harmless. A' . would be compromised by beginning saturated solution, which means all thq . all over again in certain things, for lime the water will dissolve, will not f that is being progressive. A narrow- harm the plants. Lime that has been . minded woman would not do it, be air -slacked is worthless • sure of that. The really useful know- Do not repot plants oftener than oned - ledge you already possess will count in two years, or longer if not rooi; for its full value ; p bound. Remove the portion of the old your ex a sirabl - soil from the top without disturbing the non -essentials o very impo Cant the roots, and replace with a fresh, as a supplement ur more important rich soil. Do this once or twice a year, knowledge. OP course you can cook a and give some good fertilizer once a . potato. But how? when you have really exhauster) "the fine art" of month. An occasional soaking with i cooking potatoes you have finished one- weak soot ten, when the soil is dry fundamental branch of a splendid will intensify the color and glow o�' education. There are others of equal the foliage. Bone meal well worked in- . Importance, and each alike necessary, to the soil is a most excellent ferttliz- if one would be an intelligent• house- er; the best time to add the latter is keeper. —y when repotting. SEASONABLE RECIPES, HORRORS OF SUDAN WARFARE. r Green Tomato Preserve -- To one pound of fruit use three-quarters of a No wounded Dervish are Ever Brought to rue Field-lloelrltal. pound of granulated sugar. Allow Naw, there is no braver, kinder man one sliced lemon to two pounds of in the world than the army doctor, In fru; fir to i t, st st ng of the white of his extemporized field -hospital, often the lemon to be sure that it is not bit - tar. IE bitter, use the under a heavy fire, with a hastily yellow rind thrown -up screen of commissariat cas- grated or shaved thin and file juice. Put the sugar on with just water �' pack -saddles, water -tanks or what enough to melt It, add the tomato and ever came handy, he minuted to the lemon and cook gently until the tomato les ; he was ready de minister a the is tender and transparent, Cut the to- wants of alt wounded men. He was matoea around in halves and then anxious to tend the wounded Dervish quarter the halves. This shape is pre- whenever one might be brought in. ferred to slices. This will keep with- Beit no wounded barvtsh ever was. It out sealing, but it is better to put it in was as much as any one's life was small jars, as it is so rich that only a worth to go near a wounded Dervish. . little is wanted at a time. He would lie o•n the ground glaring Canned Pears—Remove the peel and about him like a wild beast. Approach leave the stems on firm, ripe pears, him, and out came his curved ham - Make a thin syrup in the proportion make) vic knife. With it he would of about half a pound of su make) vicious sweeps, any one of which g�� to a would maim you for life. pint of water, or with even Less sugar if the syrup is too sweet. Boil the It is not possible in the terrific stress pears in the syrup until soft enough of Sudan warfare to detail fatigue par - to pierce easily with a broom straw. ties to overcome the resistance of While boiling hot, carefully place the pears in'the jars, stems downward, so wounded men and beat' them to the arranged that there will be little or field -hospital. 'Hundreds died of their no space, between the pears. Fill to wounds as they lay on the battlefield, overflowing with the hot syrup and and those that did not die of their seal. wounds !tad to be,put out of their mis- Pickled Cauliflower — Two cauli- flowers, cut up; one .pint of small cry, c onions; three medium-sized red pep- TERRIBLE STORIES , pers. Dissolve #of a pint of sail; in are told of this dire necessity. Those water enough To cover,.the vegetables know best' who have been engaged in and let them stand over night. In battje with the. L'er-vtsh what happened the morning drain them. Heat two after the fighting was over, and how quarts of vinegar with four table- the problem of dealing with the ene- spoonfuls of mustard seed until it m a woundRd was solved. In the caui- boils. Add the. vagetables and boil for y' about 1.5 minutes, or until the cauli- paign of 1855, parties of English sol - flower is tender enough to be pierced diets conimitnded by English officers, easily with a fork. used to go out to kill the wounded. Grape Jelly—Wild grapes, gathered Ona prlvaYe prodded the helpless body just as they begin to turn, are the between his shoulders with his bay- be.st for jelly. Cultivated grapes, if onrt. if there was no movement the fully ripe, are quite likely to disap- party went urn ; if the Dervish proved point one if used for jelly ; the color alive and squirmed, another private in - is dark and unattractive and the com- stanlly blew his brains out. pound is often a. syrup rather than a In one case, remarkable for its lnevit- jrlly, but they make- delicious marma- able colt{ -blooded horror, it is said, the lade, Wash the grapes inti free them troops inside a zereba, the night af- from the stems, Put them in the ter one of the moat desperate of bat- kett.le and mash until all( broken. Pleat slowly and cook unf it the juice t.les, were driven to mildness by the is well drawn out. Then place a, voice of a wounded warrior who lay square of cheese cloth over a colander outside amidst heaps of slain. All and set the colander over it howl, night, a g'ruarling c:ry of "Allah I 1l - Tu r t in the ra e.. t s and tat it dei R � P P la ' . h 1" rose intra the silent nef,hl. Not without an,y pressure. Mansura the the fierce sharp ring of the y;ord when juice and allow an equal measure of it, is the w•ar-cry fur headlong ch;trgo, su a r f •i r T w 11 ra rs aro. .'e i110 • I R u5 d a w � P 1, u a i � , '' L u m !c r r I s >a' i r ', u ce ern iio,u . li tie more •, , I g t g t lh n an e ttil erste t no� I P ]lour after hour that. one w'urd uuly� sugar. Boil the juir•e 15 minuics. ,,h,Or God'a sake silence that n,nn"— Skim a.nrl strain n{niin, th n add the that was the feeling of all• Council ryas s ar a b u nd o�l t t[ ,• •, r. l* t n I t h • su, f, ap In ks held as Lu how' it e -Quid bo dons. Soon wrinkled rind the liquid ,jellies on the three men were told off to get upon edge. Skim well anti turn into glass- the sand -bags of the little redoubt tit es. the corner of the zereba, and when the moon carne out. from behind the clouds, to fire volleys in the direction A PALM• from which the cry come. The volleys Palms will do well in a strong light were fired, but the cry tvenL on, [ in - ally it ceased, Whethor file man was without sunshine. They are often thus silenced or not w•as nut ascertain - greatly injured by hbing kept con- ed, but. in the morning lheratvereonly slanLly in dnrkenod halls and in apart- (tend mon in that part of the field. marts that preclude the traalmenl ea- here aero others, however, still alive. ]'hese could not: he tended. Another sentiat to their health. A daily spong- story wits current iu ing of their foliage with tepid water THO,SA:'I E[till13LE DAYS -- may be given by careful hands wit h- of bow• an officer, going up to a group out. damnge to surroundings, and if of surgeons round a wounded Dervish they are carried to another aparfinent and inquiring what was the matter, for an hour of morning sunshine, and was tolyl that nothing could he done with hire no one could approach him. thoroughly showered once or twice a Ile lia,y there with his knife out, ready week, they will remain in a healthy with one of tha,o sweeping ham -string - condition, with judicious watering as ing cutin for rimy one, NVho dared to cotyle demanded. Remember always Thal near, tr'hereupun tho officer, still un- der the blood-tnadness of the fight., while limited and N rly morning sun- and "seeing red," whipped out his own shine brightens find invigorales the knife, nvoldpd tho rapid sweep of the palm, strong sunshine dostroya the wounded mnn's weapon, and drove his rich, green color, Palms are casil,y pot- own h his brant. Suah are Bunte of rho incidents of ted, when received by express, and Sudan warfare. As said above, the from a pains -taking florist—coming Dervish has learned to know us bet - with the soil and roots intact, just as ter, and has become tamer; but tho removed from the pot, these enveloped problem of deahirg with his wounded mast still remain. Was there any men - in excelsior and bound with twine. tion of Dervish wounded after the bat - Provide a pot ,of Iarger size and as tle of the ALbara this year? And are deep as possible—twice as deep as wide there many of them in the hospienis is none too much. The roots of nearly In the rear? 'rhe correspourleots have all palms runt downward instead of always remainod strangely silent up - spreading; if you have ever grown one on this subject. 1t has boon denied in from seed, especially a date, you have Parliament, we believe, that over much an Idea of their delving propensities. things as we have dosm•ibed took place. They must have good drainage, as Well', Ministers are not lrise hypocriLi- they will not remain healthy in soggy Gal than the rest of us, and possibly soil; place three or four inches of ebar- some of them know that these things coal or broken pottery In the bottom did, happen. Whether they knew It or of they pot and over this a layer of not, there are dozens of men, like the sphagnum, florist's moss, or some fib- writer of this article, who know that rous material to prevent the soil wash• they happenod--because wo were thero Ing into the drainage; over this a gen- and saw them. Tbey do not make plea- yrvus layer of soil; place the pasta on sant reading. But our military com- fit and fill around with soil, water' thor- mandors in Etgypt cannot: be blamed >ughly and kerap In a light, cool place for them; they are the east of going out out of the sun, for a week or more. to war with aueh a penple, e: , .