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CHAPTER IV
The Israelite
When the king left his affianced
Trtde t9 was sorely perplexed and the
longer he reflected upon what had
transpired the deeper grew his rage
and chagrin He walked alone in the
garden until the sun had set and then
he went in and called for his minister
to attend him
Aboul Cassem what think you of
this outrage which the Scourge of Da
mascus has now committed
I think it is high handed and
startling replied the minister
Has your daughter explained more
to you than I have yet heard
She has told me all she knows sire
The robber came according to his own
account for the purpose of wresting
her from the King of Damascus but
she refused to go with him and so
urgent was she In her protestations
that Julian finally went away and lft
her I think however that his retreat
was hastened by the fear that your
majesty might be upon him with a
dangerous force
I have no doubt that such is the
case Aboul But the end of this is
not yet This daring demon has run
at large long enough He has already
stricken fearful blows upon our com
merce and now he takes a new course
of attack upon our defenceless daugh
ters It has come to be so that a
caravan is not safe to start from Da
mascus nor are our merchants safe in
returning from other lands It must
not be so By the heavens above me
it shall not be so I must find some
way for this mans capture I have
sent out my armies against him and
he has either avoided them or met
and overcome them Life of my soul
just think of it He met a thousand of
my armed men and swept them back
over the plains of Abilene as though
they had been so many women What
shall I do Aboul
There is but one way sire that I
can conceive of It seems to be useless
to send out force against him for he
is a quick witted rascal and if he
cannot successfully cope with them
he can keep out of their way He has
spies throughout the whole land
Aye I know he has cried the
king with a fresh burst of rage He
has friends among those who live
very near to our capital I wish I
could get hold of them
Get hold of the chieftain first
Ah but how
It must be done by strategem sire
If you cannot find some one man who
Is able to entrap the Scourge I see
not how you are ever to overcome him
A single man with wit will and en
durance may accomplish much A lit
tle mouse working in secret may
uproot a great tree
By my life Aboul you have spoken
the truth The work must be done
secretly Have I such a man about
me
How is it with Judah the Israel
ite suggested the minister
The king started and clapped his
hands together when he heard the
name
By the shades of Tartarus good
Aboul you have hit the very man Ju
dah is with us now I left him in the
hall as I came in from the garden I
will send for him
A slave who stood just without the
door was sent after the man who had
been spoken of and ere long he made
his appearance before his royal mas
ter He was a middle aged man with
black hair and keen black eyes with
features sharp in outline and moulded
into a cast of peculiar cunning and
with body and limbs light and muscu
lar He was below the ordinary size
of man and what he may have lacked
in physical strength was more than
made up by the quickness and J
sion of movement He had been a
dweller in Damascus since childhood
his mother having come from Judea
in poverty and disgraceand given him
away to an officer of the kings house
hold
Judah spoke the monarch I
want you to engage in a dangerous en
terprise but if you are successful the
honor will be greater than the danger
Are you willing to try it
Anything sire that can yield me
honor and emolument replied the
Israelite with a low bow Give me
the freedom of a citizen and gird the
sword of a lieutenant about my loins
and I will undertake anything I
would- not even hesitate to go out
against the Scourge of Damascus
Ha It is the very thing Judah
It is this accursed robber chieftain
that I wish to secure If you will
slay him and bring me his head I will
make you a free citizen of Damascus
and if you will bring him to me alive
and deliver him into my hands I will
not only bestow the citizenship upon
you and gird the sword of a lieuten
ant about your loins but I will give
you a house and a wife
The black eyes of the Israelite snap
ped and sparkled like polished gems of
jet He strode across the room and
then walked slowly back
Sire he finally said give me un
til tomorrow morning to think of this
In twelve hours from this you shall
have my answer If I embark upon
this enterprise I must have some hope
for success I will conversa with
those of the slaves who have seen the
robber and his men and their observa
tions may help me
A Story of
the East
By
SYLVANUS
COBB JR
But Judah you are not to breathe
a word of this My slaves must not
mistrust your object
I underseand you sire and I will
be guarded Shall it be as I have
said
Yes only bear In mind that the
thing must be accomplished if ac
complishment Is possible
I understand you sire and be as
sured that my wits shall be stretched
to their utmost
Aboul Cassem said the king after
Judah had gone what do you think
I think the fellow will study up
some grand plot between now and
morning At all events sire I do not
believe you can find a better man for
your purpose
At an early hour the king retired
and all night long his sleep was trou
bled with very unpleasant dreams He
dreamed two or three times that the
Scourge of Damascus had robbed him
of hi3 beautiful bride and once he
dreamed that his throne had passed
from him In the morning he was
more anxious for the apprehension of
the robber than before and impa
tiently did he await the coming of the
Israelite
At the appointed hour Judah made
his appearance and announced that he
would undertake the task of delivering
up the terrible Scourge
If I succeed he said you will
hear from me as soon as success
crowns my efforts If I fail you will
perhaps never hear from me again
And when will you set forth ask
ed the king almost beside himself with
hopeful anticipation
At once sire This very day if I
can get ready
Do you want help
I would select two of your most
trusty guards
Take as many as you want
Two will be enough sire
Will you take them from those who
have been on duty here
No sire That would not be safe
The robbers might recognize them I
will have two who came with us from
Damascus yesterday
As you will Judah Select the men
you want and they shall accompany
you
The Israelite promised that he would
have all his arrangements made be
fore the king was ready to depart and
with this assurance he went away
By the middle of the forenoon the
king was ready to set forth on his re
turn to Damascus Ulln and Albia
were placed within a comfortable box
upon the back of a stout camel and
around them were posted a hundred
armed men The remainder of the
retinue was arranged under the direc
tion of Aboul Cassem the kings prime
minister and only the order was
needed to set the whole in motion
At this point the king withdrew to the
palace where he found Judah ready to
set forth on his dangerous mission
and with him were two guards Osmir
and Selim two resolute intelligent
fellows who seemed to love the excite
ment of the work upon which they
were about to enter The king was
pleased with the choice Judah had
made
I might not have hit upon them
he said but I know they will serve
you And now what more can I do
Nothing replied Judah I have
all that I can use and am ready for
the work If I succeed you will hear
from me in good time and if you nev
er hear from me you may at least be
assured that I failed from no lack of
will to serve you
With a few words of encouragement
close retirement Horam asked that I
she might not be suffered to go out
for he feared to have her see too much
of the outer world before he had se- i
cured her hand
We must now return to the Palace of
the Valley where we left these who
were to go in search of the robber
chieftain As soon as the king had
gone Judah repeated the instructions
he had already given to the guards
They were not to accompany him but
they were to come after him in a man
ner agreed upon and were to conduct
themselves towards him in all respects
as though they had never before seen
him
Towards the latter part of the after
noon Judah stripped himself bare to
the skin and caused one of the men to
beat him with a leathern thong until
long livid ridges were raised upon his
shoulders and back After this he re
sumed his clothing and as soon as the
shades of evening began to fall he
Abilene He knew that Julian had
taken that course and he hoped to
overtake him before many hours Un
til midnight he sped on quite rapidly
but after that he moved more cautious
ly peering and listening upon the
right hand and upon the left as he ad
vanced So he rode until day had
dawned without seeing or hearing
anything worthy of note But he was
coming upon something very soon
Just as the sky began to glow with the
rich red glare of the rising sun he
came to a point where a narrow pass
between two steep hills opened Into a
pleasant rale and just here his horse
was stopped by a stout man who ad
vanced spear In hand from some trees
by the wayside
Hold said the sentinel Who
are you
A wayfarer as you may see re
plied Judah
Whither are you traveling
To the north
Of what are you in pursuit
Just at this present moment I am in
most urgent pursuit of something to
eat
Have you money in your purse
Enough for present use
JAre you afraid of losing it
How
By robbers
Bless you no I am rather anxious
to see some of these robbers
You may see them sooner than you
would like
That cannot be sir for I would
like to see them at once
Ah what would you with them
Never mind If I am so fortunate
as to find them they shall know
Perhaps I can find them for you
I believe you can and my good sir
if you will cone act me into the pres
ence of Julian I shall thank you
Upon my life you give me credit
for wonderful power
I give you the credit of belonging
to Julians band and as I am very
anxious to see him I ask you once
more to lead me to him
The man hesitated a moment and
finally said with a smile breaking over
his sunburnt features
You are free spoken and seem to
be honest and I think I will lead you
to the man you seek But my bold
friend you have need of some fair
purpose
Lead me to Julian and I will be
answerable for the rest
Yery well you shall not ask again
Dismount and follow me
To be continued
TOO MUCH FAULTY ENGLISH-
People Hare Grown Careless in Thel
Rhetoric Familiar Errors
The books of rhetoric used to tell us
that the great qualities of style were
perspicuity energy and elegance or
clearness force and grace and that as
a means toward these and for other
reasons it was important to be concise
to avoid needless words writes Freder
ick M Bird in the Literary Era
Whether they no longer teach thus or
their pupils disregard their instruc
tions you can scarcely read a page or
a column anywhere without meeting
words that add nothing to others with
which they are immediately connect
ed Thus Thought to himself How
else should he think If he thought
aloud you would have to say so Either
he said to himself which is another
way of putting it or he simply
thought Nodded his head If he had
nodded his legs or his elbows the case
would be more notable He might
properly shake his head for he could
shake other things but in the present
state of language one can nod no other
part of himself or of creation than his
head Together with If John went to
town with his wife they went together
if they went together he was necessaril
ly with her Month of May summer sea
son etc Everybody knows that May is
a month and summer a season Rose
up If people were in the habit of rising
down or if it were possible to do so
this would not be tautological It will
not do to say that these specimens
abound in the best writers and are
therefore justifiable They are not the
Dest writers when they write
in tnis way tnrougn pure car
lessness for they know better Homer
sometimes nods but his nodding did
not produce the Iliad We want to
frt1n r -T-1 n l mX T T I 11
the king left his servant to pursue his e m lue eiLeu
-a j j encies not in tneir errors
J v IX LUU15C auu piuiccucu LU JUiLL Ills
army which was soon in motion and
before the close of another day he
arrived at Damascus where Ulin was
once more suffered to find shelter be
neath the roof of her father Touching
her marriage it was understood that
the ceremony should be performed as
soon as the period of mourning had
passed which would be in two weeks
and until then she was to remain in
Women Physicians in Rassia
Russia has long prided herself on
having the first women physicians
The Chautauquan refers to the career
of Nadezhda Susloff one of the earliest
and best women doctors as particular
ly interesting Born a serf and freed
with her parents at the emancipation
in 1S6L she and her brothers and sis
ters received the best possible educa
tion at home and abroad for her par
ents were both extremely intelligent
and her father acquired wealth after
gaining his freedom Everywhere in
Russia and in the continental schools
Nadezhda was brilliantly successful
For thirty years there has been no
manner of doubt as to the sympathy of
the public and of the medical world
with the idea of thorough medical in
struction for women Men started the
movement In 1S7T me professor and
two other men xuf took to establish
courses for instructing women in ten
years there were 959 women students
the majority coming from the privi
leged classes that is to saynot peas
ants The majority were members of
the Russian church but there were
several Jewesses Roman Catholics and
Lutherans In 1S77 twenty four stu
dents were sent to the seat of war
during the Russo Turkish campaign
and did so well that they received im
nprial Tiermission frn rail tJtomcnipn
mounted a fleet horse and rode away j ff rtup - nmm
kn tVitt T3 fnrr nii ln A 1
LU tilC uuiLuntuu tunaiua die pmiilS U
cians and to wear s badge
A Chicago photographer has invent
ed and patented an automatic nickel
in the slot photographing machine
which will make a complete picture in
20 seconds The machine is called the
photographist and is said to be as
simple as it is remarkable
THE EETCSIONERS
STRONG STAND TAKEN
SENATOR GALLINGER
BY
He OppojM Tariff Tinkering of All
Sorts Whether by Direct Legblatloa
or by Special Treat for the Pro
motion of Foreign Trade
Senator Gallinger of New Hamp
shire who has during his entire pub
lic career been one of the the most
persistent and able advocates of the
tariff policy of the Republican party
was recently asked his opinion as to
the present agitation for a repeal of
certain tariff duties and the modifica
tion of the Dingley tariff through the
ratification of the reciprocity treaties
negotiated by Mr Kasson The sen
ators reply was as follows
The Democratic party In its economic
blindness and political perversity is con
sistent in advocating tne ratification of
the treaties in question and enactment of
legislation such as has been unwisely
proposed by Representative Babcock
That party is wedded to the doctrine
of Free Trade and seems quite willing
to repeat the experiment of Industrial
disaster and wretchedness that has come
to this country whenever a low Tariff
law has been placed on thi statute
books but how any Republican or Repub
lican newspaper can advocate that policy
surpasses my comprehension It would
seem as though the sorrow and suffering
incident upon the passage of the Wilson
Tariff bill is recent enough to be fre3h
in the minds of our people and that all
classes would instinctively shrink from a
repetition of such folly But many seem
to have forgotten those dark days and
even some Republicans have succumbed
to the siren voice of Free Trade For
one I am absolutely and unqualifiedly op
posed to any change in the existing Tar
iff laws of the United States Under them
the country has had four years of un
exampled prosperity and I do not pro
pose to be a party to any proposition
that looks to the repeal of modification
of existing statutes I believe it will
be a crime against humanity to follow the
lead of those who are agitating for an
abandonment of Protection and a return
to practical Free Trade
The proposed treaty with the Argentine
Republic reduces the duties on wool 20
per cent and if ratified will inevitably
strike a death blow to the wool industry
of this country as severe and disastrous
as that which resulted from President
Clevelands advocacy of free wool The
wool producing states should rise in
mighty protest again this proposition and
givf the matter its eternal quietus The
proposed treaty with France deals a
heavy blow to certain lines of manu
facturing in the United States and so
far as I can perceive every one of the
treaties agreed to by Mr Kasson is
inimical to American interests and ought
to be rejected by the Senate
As for the Babcock proposition that Is
too absurd for serious discussion The
man who claims that trusts are created
by Tariff legislation has certainly not
given serious thought to the proposition
and the legislator who believes that trusts
can be destroyed by repealing the duties
on certain classes of goods should join
a kindergarten class in economics unless
the proposition is to destroy the trust
by destroying the industry thus closing
American workshops and bringing disas
ter to the mechanics and laboring men of
this country- The man who sawed off
the limb of the tree on which he sat
got rid of the limb but his bruises and
broken bones reminded him for a long
time of the folly of the undertaking
The Republican party came into power
because of Its advocacy of Protection and
when the party abandons that policy it
will go out of power and deservedly so
Just now there are evidences of timidity
and retrogression in some quarters but
I feel confident that when the hour of
trial comes the party will remain true
to its traditional policy and that the
Kasson reciprocity treaties and the Bab
cock Free Trade proposition will alike
be relegated to the tomb of forgotten
things The duty of the Republican party
is plain and woe be to the man who
attempts to strike down Protection in
this country
Senator Gallinger is noted for his
plain outspoken way of stating his
views You always know just where
he stands A little more than a year
ago in a public speech he said re
garding the movement to remove the
duties from paper and pulp
You can not select a single Industry for
slaughter without imperiling the whole
system of Protection If Protection is
withheld from one industry it must be
withheld from ill
That warning was heeded The bill
in question was never pressed for pas
sage Today so influential a news-
fsfEoa JJS IMS
1 i ICT MW
SENATOR GALLINGER
paper as the San Francisco Chroni
cle is saying in reference to the Kas
son scheme of reciprocity treaties
If the orange growers of California and
the hosiery operatives of New England j
and of New York New Jersey Penn-
svlvania and other states it might be
added are to lose their just Protection
thev will endeavor to see to it that no
one else is Protected at their expense
These things are worth thinking
about They should engage the serious
consideration of revisionaries and
reciprocators
Reciprocity Treaties Acaln
It would be interesting to know the
facts in the case of the alleged reci
procity treaty negotiations between the
United States and Germany We find
it difficult to believe that our ambassa
dor at Berlin is seriously encouraging
the German government in this re
gard at least upon his own motion If
he has kept in touch wth the represen
tatives of American thought and pur
pose he must know that the so called
reciprocity treaties have been set aside
by the senate If he has carefully ex
amined the organic law of the land he
must believe that the senate and the
state department cannot enact laws to
create a public revenue In a word
there seems to be absolutely nothing to
warrant the faintest hope that any
treaty of the kind mentioned will ever
acquire the force of law and yet if we
mav acppnt half the statements
tained in our foreign press reports Mr I
White United States envoy to Ger
many Is gravely confabulating with
the authorities at Berlin alternately
exalted and depressed by developments
within the empire
The language of the constitution
seems to be unmistakable It provides
that laws intended to create a public
revenue shall originate in the House
of Representatives and while the Sen
ate is authorized to offer amendments
to such laws the concurrence of the
House is indispensable to their valid
ity If there be in all this a hook upon
which to hang tariff laws made by the
state department and the senate act
ing in collusion and without the
knowledge and consent of the House
we are too dullwitted to discern it
Nevertheless Ambassador White is
said to be solemnly pushing the reci
procity negotions and the wires are
warm with messages of rapprochement
and tender yieldings and all the rest
of the affectionate folderol which
makes diplomacy so beautiful and
bright a thing Washington Post
ARENT THEY DAISIES
3
Dissecting the Babcock Plan
Discussion of Representative Bab
cocks idea of removing the tariff from
all products of the steel trust has
brought out some interesting facts
about the steel trade It has been
shown that big as the trust is it by
no means controls the steel trade In
this country there being many estab
lishments some of them employing a
large number of men which have no
connection with the trust It seems to
be generally admitted that the removal
of the tariff on steel products would
not injure the big trust to any marked
extent but it is claimed that it would
necessitate an immediate reduction of
the trust This claim which is being
made by those who ought to know
whereof they speak is causing many
who were at first inclined to favor Mr
Babcocks idea to entertain doubts of
its wisdom and if it be substantiated
by unprejudiced investigation which a
number of members of the House are
quietly making the bill for the repeal
of the tariff on steel products will not
be supported by a corporals guard of
Republicans in either branch of con
gress at the coming session Desirable
as many consider it to curb the power
of the big trusts the Republican ma
jority in congress are not going to
be stampeded into the support of any
thing of the sort without carefully con
sidering it from every point of view
and they will certainly not allow any
legislation to get through that will re
duce the wages of American working
men Crawfordsville Ind Journal
Protection Gains Foreicn Market
Our increase of exports during the
fiscal year 1901 over the preceding year
will approach 5100000000 This too
has been done without the sacrifice of
a single American industry or the loss
of a single job Were our exports to
Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands
included as formerly 520600000 could
be added to the above amount which
is in itself very satisfactory consid
ering the war in China European re
taliation etc Protection gains more
foreign markets than free trade and
preserves our grand home market as
well
Higher Than Under Free Trade
The wool sales at Price yesterday
averaged over 11 cents This of course
is not as high as wool raisers have got
at some times and it is below the aver
age for wool under this Republican
administration but it is so much high
er than the average under the Demo
cratic administration that preceded it
that it takes the cheek of a mump
sufferer for a Democrat to speak of
low prices for wool Salt Lake City
Tribune
Expanding Home Market
Bank clearings throughout the coun
try continue to show about 25 per
cent increase over last year This is
outside of New York City where the
increase is over 75 per cent This
means that the Dingley law is expand
ing our home market to the value of
at least 10000000000 a year And yet
tne free trade trust want us to aban
don our home market and try for some
foreign sales in competition with the
pauper labor of the world
Parraeri Getting Rich
The farmers of the United States are
getting wealtny The banks are bulg
ing with their money Abandoned
farms and farm mortgages are a thins
of the past and instead of paying from
6 to iO per cent for money our western
farmers after buying all the neces
saries and luxuries they vmt have
money to lend
The census returns giving the area
of various states show that the one
which has the largest amount of land
under water is Florida and the least
In proportion to size Wyoming
WESTERN WATER FARMING
tVUcoastas Many LakM G1t FroeoUe
of Great rroBt
Scientists who make it their busina
to Ieofc ahead into the far future art
now bU3y telling what will happen
after all the land in the United State
has been put under cultivation When
here are no more quarter sections up
n which the settler can establish him
self it Is predicted that water farm
ing will become a general occupation
This information Is comforting to resi
dents of Wisconsin No state in the
Union has better facilities for water
farming than the one famous for the
number and beauty of its lakes When
the time comes for men to fence off
acre plots on the crystal waters of the
inland seas Wisconsin will have a
boom worth while waiting for with pa
tience Of course there will be draw
backs to water fanning but the in
dustry offers great possibilities Al
though it will be difficult to keep ones
crop of fish from being mixed with
ones neighbors there will be no plow
ing or harrowing no wrestling with
stumps and no trouble over Irrigation
After the fish are planted each season
there will be nothing to do but to wait
until harvest time By a little diplo
matic advertising water farmers may
persuade city men to spend their va
cations on the lakes as assistants dur
ing this harvest season Houseboats
on the water farms would be ideal
places of residence during the hot
months It Is estimated that the fish
eries of the United States produce food
of the value of 45000000 every year
As soon as the water farming industry
has a good start Wisconsin will be
able to add millions to this amount
If the calamity howler cannot find any
thing worse to prophesy about than the
water farm this state can pursue daily
its business pursuits without any fore
bodings Milwaukee Sentinel
HOW TO KILL MOSQUITOES
Chinatown Sells a Cheap and atost Ef
fectWe Oblltarator
It is the experience of the average
housekeeper in Philadelphia that no
matter how thoroughly the doors and
windows of a house are screened mos
quitoes will get inside Many of them
do not understand that a small pool of
stagnant water in a cellar or water
standing in pitcher plants i3 a birth
place for thousands of mosquitoes In
flower vases on the table where the
water is not frequently changed mos
quito eggs are found in great numbers
Applications of kerosene oil will stop
that The general question is how to
get the small insect pests out of the
house when once they are in To per
sons of careful habits chlorine gas is
recommended Pour into a plate con
taining four teaspoonsfuls of chloride
of lime about ten drops of crude sul
phuric acid This liberates the chlorine
gas which is said to kill the mos
quitoes The plan can be used only in
rooms not temporarily occupied or in
which the gas vapors can be allowed
to remain for several hours The burn
ing of pyrethrum powders In a room
will also kill them The powder should
be moistened and then made into lit
tle cones which are dried in the oven
When a cone is lighted at the top it
smoulders slowly emitting an odor
which many persons find pleasant But
a good simple and cheap mosquito
killer may be bought in Chinatown
The Chinese use pine or juniper saw
dust mixed with a small quantity of
brimstone and an ounce of arsenic
This mixture is put Into little bags in a
dry state Each bag is coiled like a
snake and tied tightly with a thread
The outer end is lighted The coils sel
at 10 cents a hundred and two of them
are said to be enough to clear any or
dinary room of mosquitoes
Drastic Anti Gambling Laws
Some little time ago the Belgian
chamber of deputies passed a some
what drastic anti gambling law The
bill has reached the upper house and
is being discussed in a somewhat
acrimonious tone and meeting consid
erable opposition Some of the sen
ators point out that gambling is in
herent to human nature and that if
the law were carried into effect it
would tend to foster clandestine
gambling houses on an extensive scale
This argument has been put forward
before but where the shoe really
pinches seems to lie in the fact that
the fashionable watering place of Os
tend would be the principal sufferer
The casino there ranks with the fam
ous gambling hell at Monte Carlo jnd
many of the senators are said to be
financially interested and hence their
opposition It is claimed that if the
casino were abolished the loss to thf
town would lie between 52500000 and
550OO00O and that most of the puWi
works now in progress would have to
be abandoned as they were undertaken
on the strength of the revenues de
rived from the eamins tables
A BmarVable Voyage
The arrival at Manila of the squad
ron comprising the gunboat Annapolis
and the ocean tugs Frolic Piscataqua
and Wampatuck which sailed from
Hampton roads early last winter com
pletes a remarkable voyage This is
the longest trip ever accomplished by
such tiny naval craft and was prob
ably never equaled by similar war
ships The distance covered was near
ly two thirds around the world cross
ing ose ocean skirting the southern
part of Europe thence through the
tornado seas of the Indian ocean down
to the Philippines at a season when
typhoons are usual There have been
trips of small ships across the Atlantic
and once an old monitor was sent
around to San Franciaco by the Horn
but no vessels of such light displace
ment have yet covered so much dan
gerous water area as the little squad
ron of American boats
i
it
n
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