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In truth sire it is as you have t with year life
said replied the minister He spoke
not with the enthusiasm of apprecia
tion but as one who would net dispute
his king I trust sire your hop23
may find their fruition I pray that
Clin may bear to thee a son and thus
make bright and promising the even
ing of your life
Good Abcul I trust in thy words
Ha what new Whom have we
here
Sire spoke a page the Israelite
Judah -is without and would speak
with thee
Hew cried the king Is it the
Judah whom I sent from the Valley of
Lycanius
The same sire
Then send him to me at once By
-my life Aboul he cannot have ac
complished his mission so soon I
dare not hope so
Let us hope for the best suggest
ed the minister and before further
remark could be made Judah stocd
in the royal presence
Ha Judah do I see thee back so
seen Have yon come to bring me
word of failure
Nay sire replied the Israelite I
have come to bring the robber chief
tain to Damascus
Have you taken him
Yes sire
Alive
Yes sire
And have him here
Ready to be brought before you at
any time
He is bound
Yes sire
Then bring him at once By the
host of Pluto I would see the fellow
But hold He is guarded
Yes sire Osmir and Selim are
-with him
Are they all
It needs no more The prisoner is
securely bound and can offer no re
sistance
Then let him come
Ye gods uttered Koram turning
to his minister after Judah had gone
what manner of man shali we be
hold
I cannot guess- sire -
A giant I think as ugly as a Cy
lop But he is bound Aboul he is
bound
In a little while the dcor opened and
Judah entered followed by Osmir and
Selim who led a bound man between
them
Sire spoke the Israelite this is
the prisoner
But where is Julian demanded
Horam
This is Julian
This cried the monarch taking
a step forward and gazing into the
face of the bound man before him
This he repeatea in a lower tone
advancing another step and gazing
more earnestly upon the bold open
youthful face This is not Julian
This is he who hath commanded the
robber band said Judah
Aye and I am he whom you have
called the Scourge of Damascus spoke
the prisoner standing proudly erect
and gazing full into the face of the
king I am Julian the enemy of
3Ioram and the avenger of wrongs
done years ago
The monarch as he gazed more in
tently upon these features and as the
tones of that voice fell upon his ear
seemed startled by the memory of
some old dream And Aboul Cassem
was not entirely uninterested The old
minister gazed as fixedly and as earn
estly upon the face cf the young chief
tain as did his royal master and he
too seemed puzzled and perplexed
Who are you asked Horam
I am Julian the Scourge
But what else
You should know what else most
mighty king I have tried to make
myself felt by you
3ut urged Horam taking no no
tice of the robbers tone why have
you sought to harm me Who are you
that can have cause for such enmity
I am one who knows the bitterness
of deepest wrong replied Julian Fa
therless and motherless came I from
the feeble steps of childhood and I
know that Horam was the murderer of
my parents
Ha cried the king with a start
Who were your parents
T will not speak their names in your
presence
Beware robber I may compel you
to answer
If you have power to extract an
swers from dead men you may force
answers from me
By the gods thou art insolent
Then bind my tongue as these
slaves have bound my arms
No said Horam struggling with
his passion I have another plan
The secret which you will not speak
to me you shall never speak You shall
follow your parents with ail possible
speed Judah
I am here sire
You know the deepest darkest dun
geon where the most dreaded prison
ers are confined I
A Story of
the EslsI
By
SYLVANU5
COBB JR
CHAPTER VI I Yes sire
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It -was near noon and the king of Conduct this man thither Plunse
Damascus was in his chamber with him into the very bowels of the deep
est cavern where the doors are of iron
and the bolts of triple steel and see
that he is kept safely there until the
morrow You will answer -for him
Cnce mere the king gazed into that
youthful face and then turned away
to a window
Sire spoke the minister after the
prisoner had been conducted away
why do you spare that man for even
another hour Why do yon not exe
cute him at once
Because replied Horam starting
up I have a curiosity to know who
he is There is some mystery in that
face of his It is now near the hour
of the council and I have not time to
think I must see him again Did you
not mark something peculiar in his
look
Yes sire there is something in his
face which is familiar to me or at
least it seems so
By my life Abcul it must be so
Did you mark that bold front that
open brow that Jove IIke sweep of
ncse and chin and did you mark the
deep lustrous eyes and the gentle curl
ing of thatsunny hair
Yes sire
And can you net read its secret
No Can your majesty
Not yet not yet Abcul but I must
I have a strange curiosity and it is a
curiosity which has bten strangely and
suddenly excited
CHAPTER VII
At Kassems House
Ulin had lost none of her wondrous
beauty but she had become pale and
the healthy flash of the eye was gone
Late in the evening she sat in her
chamber with her brow resting upon
her hand and ever and anon a deep
sigh escaped her
My dear good mistress spoke Al
bia gliding to the side of the princess
and resting her hand affectionately
upon her arm T cannot bear to see
you suffer so What is it
It is nothing Albia Ulin spoke
without raising her head and her
voice was low and sad
Dont tell me that urged the at
tendant She got down upon her knees
and gazed earnestly up into Ulins face
Cn my dear lady you are misera
ble and unhappy Why will you not
pour out your sorrows to me Perhaps
I can help you bear them You know
I love you you know that I will be
faithful Tell me all and I will suffer
with you if I can and I will help you
if there is help to be had As I live at
this moment so if it should appear to
me necessary would I lay down my life
for your welfare Will you not trust
me
Ulin leaned her head forward upon
Aibias shoulder and burst into tears
Oh Albia you are my friend you
are my sister I know you love me
and I cannot tell you how grateful I
am
They why will you not lift the veil
from your sorrow and allow me to
feel still more for you
I had almost resolved to tell you
Albia
Then make the resolution sure and
admit me to your fullest confidence
The princess dried her eyes and
finally lifted her head from her com
panions shoulder
Dear Albia I know not how to com
mence I am a child a poor foolish
child as you will say when I have
told you all You will say that I de
serve to suffer and that punishment
should be mine
Nay my lady responded the bond
maiden you must not commence in
that way Tell me first all the cause
of your sorrow and leave it for me to
base my own judgment Come trust
me and 1st me give you all my sym
pathy
A few moments the princess was si
lent and then she said with a low
tremor in her voice
Dear Albia when I said that I
would marry with the king I did not
think what I was doing That strange
dream so wonderfully repeated led
my father to broach the subject and I
did not refuse When he talked of
my being queen and of my giving
birth to a king to a king of Damascus
I thought it might be my duty to offer
myself I did not then know Horam
But now I have learned new things
I dread the fate which I have courted
I fear and loathe the man whose wife
I have promised to become When I
first promised to give myself to Horam
I felt that I could perform the duty
without the sacrifice of any real vir
tue or comfort of life But oh how
changed it has all become Not only
does my whole nature shrink from the
sacrifice but it seems as though a fate
worse than death were involved in the
ordeal Last night I dreamed that Ho
ram was my husband and that he
meant to kill me He did not plan to
drown me as he did poor Helena but
he declared that I should be thrown
alive into a den of wild beasts It
makes you shudder Albia
Oh how terrible
And yet my dear girl I dreamed
that I felt a relief when I knew that
death was coming even though it was
to come so dreadfully Just thinkwhat
a state of mind that must be Oh it
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Is horrible Dear Albia I know net
what to do
Have you told me all whispered
the bondmaiden winding her arm
about her mistress neck and kissing
her upon the brow
Have I not told you enough re
turned Ulin covering her face with her
hands
Not if there is more to tell dear
lady You have trusted me this far
trust me with all You have told me
that ycu dread the king and I do not
wonder at this You cannot have for
gotten that I spoke against the union
from the first It seemed to me un
natural But lady there is something
more
Nothing more which I dare to tell
AJbia Nay do not ask me I have
tcld ycu all that I can tell And now
I ask you what can I do The fatal
hour is nigh at hand in the which I
have promised to give myself to the
king
There is one thing you can do my
mistress one thing alone which I can
see
Speak Albia
You can flee
Flee repeated Ulin in a startled
whisper
There is but one other course open
to you
And that
Marriage with the king
Oh Albia this is dreadful That
same thought of flight has entered my
mind before but can I leave my fa
ther
If you become the kings wife you
must leave him Think of it lady
But whither can I flee
I have thought of that said the
bondmaiden and I think I know
where you could find safety Some
miles from Damascus among the hills
where the Pharphar winds its water
in a mummuring channel lives an old
hermit named Ben Hadad His home
is in a cave which the hand of nature
has fashioned in the solid rock and
his life is given to deeds of charity and
good will I have seen him and I
know that he is good and kind
And how came you to know this
old man asked the princess with
some surprise
I know him through an old woman
named Ezabel who has been often in
the city and who was well acquainted
with your mother This Ezabel used
to come often to our house and once
Ben Hadad came with her a white
haired old man whose just and tem
perate life is lengthening out far be
yond the span of years usually allotted
to man Your mother gave him money
to be expended in charity and he told
her if she ever could find use for his
aid it should be freely given I know
that he will befriend you If you wish
to flee I will go with you and to the
last of my strength and my life I will
help and sustain you Think of it my
mistress
I will think of it Albia and on
the morrow my mind shall be made
up You may retire now It it late
and we both need rest
To be continued
Good Eaongn for Ulm
Two brothers recently visited the of
fices of a firm of American machine
agents in London One was at the
head of an important English manu
facturing firm the second was an en
gineer who had lived in Pennsylvania
for some years The latter pointed
out to his brother machine after ma
chine that he ought to have You
know Tom he at last declared em
phatically if I were in your place Id
throw every bit of your old machinery
on the scrap heap and have an up-to-date
plant right through Youd double
your output and halve your expenses
Tom listened carefully and put his
hand to his chin in reflective fashion
Well Dick he said at length you
may be right I wont say that youre
not But why should I change The
old machines were good enough for fa
ther and they were good enough for
grandfather so I am thinking theyre
good enough for me
Centuries of Imprisonment
To be sentenced to imprisonment for
the term of ones natural life is hard
enough but to be consigned to a dun
geon cell for a couple of thousands
years is Indeed harrowing Yet foreign
judges not infrequently impose sen
tences of several centuries without it
being considered anything remarkable
Not long ago an Italian adventurer
L was convicted of 63 distinct forgeries
He was sentenced in each case with
the result that he will be free in the
year 20S9 A couple of years ago a
young man was arrested in Vienna
who upon his own showing should
have been sentenced to 2500 years im
prisonment A total of 400 charges
was brought against him and he was
convicted and sentenced on ail of them
But the judge was a merciful man and
in passing sentence he threw off 1000
years in consideration of the mans
youth
Flower of England
The flower of England is the rose
and this choice dates back to the Wars
cf the Rases when that branch of the
royal family known as the house of
Lancaster chose a red rose for its
badge and the rival branch the house
of York had a white rose Previous
to that date the badge of the English
royal family the Fiantagenets was a
sprig of broom from which indeed
they took their surname as the found
er of the family Fulke Marcel the
earl of Anjcu having expiated a crime
b a pilgrimage to Palestine and be
ing scourged there with broom twig3
ever afterward
HE IS EEMIMSCEKT
SOME FOURTH OF JULY
BY UNCLE SAM
TALK
Tells Hott HI Zttaaajarj from Wasn
lnctoa to McKInley Have ZnrarlaUly
Succeeded with Protection Lam and
FaUod with rree Trade
It will be conceded by all that the
Fourth of July was a most appropriate
day for a good talk with Uncle Sam
The hearty and hale old gentleman
has been too busy of late to grant an
interview to any one but a representa
tive of the American Economist begged
an Interview on the Fourth and It
was granted I found him surrounded
by a noisy pack of boys with their
firecrackers and pistols
Dont you mind the noise I
asked
Bless you no he replied They
cant make too much noise on my
birthday This is the one hundred and
twenty sixth Fourth of July Ive cele
brated and in three different cen
turies
There have been most wonderful
changes since your first celebration
I remarked
Well I should say so Sometimes
I can hardly realize it But it has all
come about so gradually and so natur
ally that I have been ready for any
thing I get reminiscent on a day like
this and cant help going back and
making comparisons Just think of it
there is not a person living that was
alive on that Fourthof July when the
old liberty bell rang out in Philadel
phia Those were stirring times I tell
you During the Revolution from 1776
to 17S1 and during the Confederation
from 17S1 to 17S9 I was an unruly kid
like a boat without a rudder but in
1739 I got into long pants and my
manager whom the people selected for
me was one of the greatest men that
ever lived I realize more and more
wnat a general what a statesman
what a president Washington was
Perhaps my most important birth
day anniversary was the Fourth of
July 17S9 It was on that day you
know that my congress passed its
first bill and Washington signed it the
same day a Protective Tariff bill
How well I remember the preamble to
that law
Whereas It is necessary for the
support of the government for the
discharge of the debt of the United
States and for the encouragement and
protection of manufactures that du
ties be laid on Imported goods etc
therefore be it enacted etc
And how frail it worked All my
early managers praised the act and
called attention repeatedly to its
splendid results Washington Adams
Jefferson Madison and Monroe were
all good Protectionists And there
was no material change in the law till
1S12 when the duties were nearly
doubled to provide money to carry on
my second war with Great Britain
Then came the Tariff of 1S16 and
with it widespread ruin
But I thought the Tariff of 1SI6
was a Protective Tariff I ventured to
remark
It was intended to be Protective
but it was not I have always found
that a Tariff that is not Protective
enough is not Protective at all Its
either one thing or the other There
is no such thing as high and low Pro
tection Its either Protection or no
Protection
Well the people got pretty tired cf
the first Free Trade period but after
all it was perhaps a good lesson for
in 1S24 the boys gave me a Tariff that
was a Tariff My how things did
hum It was such a success that in
1S2S the boys increased the duties
But Im too happy today to more than
fust recall them in passing
In 1860 the boys got back to Pro
tection again and with the exception
of three years it has lasted till now
and I can tell you I never want to see
Free Trade again
How came the boys as you call
them to pass a Free Trade law In
1894 In the face of the success of the
McKInley Tariff
Oh the people got restless and
then the election of 1892 was in some
respects like that of 1344 Then it
was Polk Texas and Free Trade in
the South and Polk Dallas and the
Tariff of 1S42 in the North Well
they worked Cleveland the same way
and then though I suppose I ought not
to say it the Democrats did some
pretty tall lying in 1832 Why the
McKInley law was the best Tariff law
wed ever had and everybody was
prosperous and happy But the people
gave me Cleveland again for a mana
ger He had not done much harm the
first time I tried him though I dis
charged him because I found a better
man In Ben Harrison But what wa3
worse they gave me a Democratic
Popullstic Mugwump Free Trade
Congress and then things began to go
to the demnition bowwows Gosh all
hemlcck but things did change fast
I lost 10000000000 in twenty four
hours and things went from bad to
worse till In 1S96 the people gave me
Bill McKInley for a manager and Ive
kept him ever since Renewed the
contract last March for four years So
youre sure of three more happy July
Fourths
Well Uncle this little Tariff his
tory is all very interesting and now I
I want to ask one or two questions
Well fire away
Who do you consider has been your
best manager as you call the presi
dent
Well now thats a hard question
to answer Washington and Lincoln
were great men and had great ques
tions to solve but let me tell you I
like Bill MciKnley about as well as
any cf em He aint quite as obstrep
erous as Andy Jackson and he dont
weigh as much in pounds as Cleveland
but hes a mighty good man Hes
a safe level headed man and thats
what the people like
The Free Traders say he is a little
shaky on the Tariff I hinted
What Bill McKinley shaky on the
Tariff Dont you believe it for a sec
ond Hes more of a Protectionist
than he was in IS90 and he was a
mighty good one then
It was sad about Dingley though
How I wish he could be here today and
see what his bill has done for me
How he would rejoice over the exports
and the balance of trade the surplus
the bank clearings the railroad busi
ness and the immense earnings of the
people The McKinley bill was a good
one but the Dingley law has proved
to be the best Tariff law the boys ever
passed
Still I said the apers say that
parts of it may be repealed and that
the Tariff will soon be removed from
so called trust made articles and with
the heip of Republicans too
Dont let it worry you my boy It
wont happen for four years anyway
I acknowledge the people get restless
sometimes and contrary like but
there aint no signs of it this year
They wont forget that Gorman Wilson
abortion and they will be slow to give
up their jobs again Why just think
of it my people are earning from 20
000000000 to 30000000000 a year
from 566000000 to 1QO000000 a day
and that is not our total income either
Thats too great a snap to throw away
You dont hear any one complaining
do you Theres plenty of work good
prices and plenty of money to pay the
price No the Free Traders are just
filling space Im sorry to admit it
but there are always some fault-find-
Andy Jackson who was my manager ers ail malcontents in my big family
in 1S32 said we were the happiest and
most prosperous country in the world
Wish he could see us now
Why was such an effective Tariff
so soon repealed Uncle Sam I asked
Why Just because a lot of the
boys down South got a notion they
wanted to go it alone I wasnt going
to have that so the whole thing was
compromised In 1S33 and good times j
flew out of the window Youve read
cf those times of course and I dont
- T
need to say anything about it It was
awful and it got worse every year t
Why horses only fetched 50 cents and
cows less I remember the boys had i
so little money they would tear a bill
into halves Quarters and eighths so
there would be enough to do business
with That lasted till 1S40 when the
people gave me William Henry t
rison for a manager and a Protective
Congress In 1S42 Protection began
asain to bring prosperity and in 1S46 i
my manager Polk although he wa
Free Trader had to acknowledge
in resources and wealth and the
py condition of the people and in
ress and greatness we were ahead of
all other nations
But there was trouble ahead I
dont want to say anything against any
of my boys but some of them down
South were headstrong The question
of slavery began to bother me too
Weil in 1S44 the people elected Polk
for manager and with him a fellow by
the name of Dallas and I must admit
that there was a little double dealing
during that campaign Its all past
and -gone now but it orought Free
Trade again and iTee Trade brought
hard times I donc like to think of
those times from 1S46 to 1S60 If it
hadnt been for the gold discovery in
California and the famine abroad I
dont know what we would have done
As it was we had to send our gold
to Europe about as fast as we could get
It The old people can remember those
times They were awful awful awfuL
Always black sheep in every flock
But its a great people a great coun
try and a great day
And Uncie Sam went off with a
bunch of fireworks in one hand and
patting the Eagle with the other
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Im sorry to admit it said Uncle
Sam but there are always some fault
finders and malcontents in my fam
ily always black sheep In every flock
But its a great people a great coun
try a great day
Happy Vacation Days
These are the very happiest vaca
tion days the American people have
ever known Few indeed are those who
cannot plan a joyful trip to the sea
shore or mountain with well filled
purse thanks to Protection and full
employment at high wages
A man will resent being told he is
a fool no matter how often he may so
designate himself
TO FOOLISH MOTHERS
Soma Caaitlc bat llopcfal Itrmarlcs from
a Kantu Sa
A girl of sixteen passed the Gazetts
office this morning dressed to kill says
the Emporia Gazette She had on red
fiiligrea stockings patent leather shoes
a i hAt a bustle of great price a
tailor made skirt a tucked and frilled
shirt waist and she carried a 750
parasol Here hair was frizzed and
frumped and bedecked and she wore
jewels and all manner of stuff that a
sixteen-year-old girl has no more busi
ness wearing them than she has to go
naked One rig Is about as vulgar and
cheap and tawdry as the other Of
course the child who Is being rushed
Into womanhood by a fool mother
doesnt move in the best crowd of girb
and boys of the town She cant get
in Her father makes plenty of money
but her mothers fool notion of dresn
bars the child Another girl passed
the 3treet a few minutes after th first
girl passed the office Girl number two
is the daughter of a family that counts
Its wealth with six figures She wore
a simple gingham gown that she made
herself and a pair of plain 3 shoes
Her hair was done up neatly and sim
ply a3 a girls hair should be There
were no rings on her fingers or bells on
her toes She was a pretty quietly
dressed sweet faced innocent school
girl with her head full of the fine
dreams and fancies that come to every
girl Her name is found in the list of
those present at the entertainments
given at the best homes in town Her
mother is responsible for the childs
graces Her mother keeps her girlish
and in doing so the mother retains her
ycuth She is one of the handsomest
women in town Her face reflects a
clean hearL The girl doesnt hear ma
licious gos3ip in her home She
doesnt know everything on earth or
in hell which word is here used rev
erently and she doesnt gad the
streets She is a good cook a good
housekeeper and has the making of a
woman as useful as her mother is -It
is all a matter of ideals in this old
world Often people think because a
girl doesnt conquer the world as she
promised to in her high school essay
that she has forgotten all about it But
when a woman brings up a clean
wholesome family in this generation of
vipers she has been reasonably true
to herself and her aspirations even if
she doesnt strip the laurel tree for her
millinerv t
Machine In Agriculture
In 1S55 it required on the average
four hours and 34 minutes of the time
of a laborer to do the ploughing har
rowing cultivating etc that went to
the producing of a bushel of Indian
corn and the price of that laborer was
nearly 30 cents on the average To
day machines have changed conditions
Their use has reduced the necessary
time of the laborer to about 34 min
utes and the cost of it to about 10V
cents The wages are however much
better now than in 1S55 In 1S30 the
time required to produce each bushel
of wheat was over three hours it is
now about 10 minutes the cost has
been reduced from over 17 cents to
about 3 cents Before the introduc
tion of machines the time devoted to
producing each ton of hay wa3 about
35 hours it is now 11U hours In
1S50 the corresponding cost was over
53 it is now about 4129 These and
many other comparisons of the sort
are to be found in a report by Mr
Holmes printed by the Department of
Agriculture in Washington
Contrast of Temperature
The British Meteorological Council
has just published charts showing the
remarkable weather conditions which
prevailed over the North Atlantic
ocean and adjoining lands in the win
ter of 1SSS S9 At sea the weather was
extremely boisterous for a period of
six weeks while a great difference of
temperature prevailed between the two
sides of the ocean On February 16ta
the thermometer at Fort Logan Mon
tana was 61 degrees below zero while
on the same day at Liege Belgium it
was 705 degrees above zero a differ
ence of 1315 degrees and over exten
sive regions on two sides of the At
lantic the difference in temperature
amounted to 103 degrees
Color ot
Butterflies change their color ac
cording to the heat of the atmosphere
This interesting fact has been discov
ered by M iandfuss of Zurich Swit
zerland who subjected 40000 butrer
Jegrees of the sans heat On one oc
casion it being unusually cold in Swit
zerland a butterfly common there took
on the appearance of a butterfly from
Lapland On the other hand butterflies
which were subjected to a higher de
gree of solar heat than the normal
looked as if they had been born and
raised in Corsica or Syria One result
of these novel experiments is the pro
duction of butterflies of an entirely
new type some of them being of be
wildering beauty
Counter VfatAmerlcan Vfldotr
The countess of Strafford retired
from society entirely on the death of
Queen Victoria but will resume lavish
entertainments as soon as the period
of mourning is ore1 Her ladyship
previous to marrying a title was the
enormously rich widow of Samuel Col
gate a fcoap manufacturer of New
York The earl was killed by a train
in England and his estate went to a
brother the countess having meantime
expended a large amount of money In
rehabilitating the Straffocd family
mansions
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