s I h foe Sccmrge r 1 5 r x I c S SCIS Copyrighted 1831 by Itobart Bonners Sons CHAPTER XI Horam is Caged Carefully the three men emerged from the dungeon and when Osmir had closed and bolted the door behind them Selim went on ahead with the lantern They were armed with good stout swords and the blacks wore daggers in their sashes In what direction must we pass out asked Julian as they came to the end of the first valutcd passage We must pass up where a guard is always kept answered Osmir and our only hope is that we may be able to fall upon the sentinels and over come them without creating disturb ance enough for a general alarm Whatever can be accomplished by strength of arm we will accomplish said the robber and I think we can be shrewd enough not to strike until we see that the blow shall fall sure ly You can depend upon us added Osmir stopping while Selim opened a door We have already placed our lives in jeopardy and only a success ful exit from the palace can now save us But as I told you before there is danger in the way You have counted the chances Yes And are you ready to bide the re sult Yes Hien smeet the worst If you to set me free risk I should be much more so At this juncture Selim who had opened a door and gone on a few steps in advance came hurriedly back with a look of alarm in his face I hear footsteps in the passage overhead he said in a whisper Are you sure Yes I heard them very plainly What is the passage of which you speak asked Julian It is one through which we must pass replied Osmir and one in which we had expected to find no ob stacle It may be suggested Selim thai a new guard has been set there That cannot be asserted Osmir I came through there only a short time since and the place was empty Hark I hear the steps from here and I think they are coming this way Hold a moment Remain where you are and I will find what this means Thus speaking Osmir glided away into the darkness towards the point where the stairs led down from the upper passage After an absence of a few minutes he returned and his first exclamation told that he was excited The king is coming The king repeated Julian in a quick deep whisper Yes and two of his guards are with him Some one else came as far as the nead of the stairs with them but I think only the king and the guards are descending -He must be coming to see me said Julian it must be so answered Osmir for there is nothing else here for him to see save uare damp walls and toads Hark Here they come I hear their voices and can see where the rays of their lantern breaks in the gloom It was Selim who said his and as he spoke he drew back and hid his own lantern beneath the skirt of his tunic Our adventurers from where they stood could see the foot of the steps at the far end of the passage and presently they saw two men descend the foremost one bearing a lantern and wearing the robes of the king while the other seemed to be an of ficer of the household I see now said Osmir as he gain ed a view of the approaching men I was mistaken The guards have been left behind and this is Benoni one of the captains of the guard who comes with the king The robber chieftain was for a mo ment undecided as to the course he should pursue Once his sword was half drawn from its scabbard but Osmir who heard the movement seemed to have a better idea My master he whispered touch ing Julian upon the arm let ns draw back out of sight and allow them to pass They will certainly keep on to the dungeon we have left and we will follow them thither You are right replied the chief tain They will be completely in our power when they have passed us Just back of where our trio stood was the door by which they had last passed and upon one side was a deep niche in the wall which had evidently been constructed for thr reception of rubbish Into this they quickly glided Selim so effectually cloaking his lan tern that not a ray of light escaped In a little while the king came near to the hiding place with his lantern held carefully before him and his head bowed as tnough he was fearful that he might make a misstep He walked slowly and his frame shook with a perceptible tremor When he reached the door he stopped and turned to wards his companions Benoni he said I think you may remain here This is the last passage and I will go the rest of the way alone I had better accompany you to the end sire No I prefer to go alone A Story of the East By SYLVANUS COBB JR niirwririra 1 I But urged the captain the way is rough and dubious and you may miss your step Out upon thee for an ass cried the king indignantly Do you think my step Is growing feeble I tell thee it was never stronger I will go the rest of the way as I have said I shall find Selim at the door of the dungeon and he will render me such assistance as I may need there I must see this pris oner alone He possesses a secret which I must fathom before he loses his head T beg thee sire be careful Peace good Benoni Dont fret on my account I know what I do Ill find out the story of this robbers life and then his head shall come off right quickly Stay you here and await my return Thus speaking the king moved on and when the sound of his uncertain stumbling footfall could be no longer heard Julian reached forth until his hand touched one of his companions Who is this he asked in a hush ed whisper It was Selim I There is no time to lose The cap tain must be disposed of quickly Un cover your lantern and I will throttle him Selim did as directed and as soon as the rays of light fell upon the captain the latter started to gaze about him But his fcee TnYl movements were quiptly terminated by a blow from the first of the robber chieftain which felled him to the floor and before he could move or cry out he was securely bound and Osmirs sash passed over his mouth Now cried Julian for the king He will be an easy subject to dispose of And how will you dispose of him asked Osmir For an instant a dark thought strug gled through Julians mind Here was an opportunity to put his worst enemy out of the way and at the same time free the world from a ruler who had ceased to do justly But the thought was not long entertained The soul of the chieftain was above the doing of such a deed Osmir noticed the hesitation and tremblingly asked Will you kill him No no was the quick reply That would be too cowardly He is a poor foolish old man whose continued life must be the greatest curse We will put him where he put me and let his slaves find him after we are gone Come I will lead to this event and then you shall lead to the next Without further remark the robber moved on towards the dungeon where he had been confined Selim going by his side with the lantern Pretty soon they saw the king ahead of them whereupon Selim was suffered to go on in advance Horam had reached the door of the dungeon just as Selim came up Ha Selim is this you Yes sire I did not see you when I came Yhere have you been hiding I have not been hiding sire but have been doing my duty And the prisoner He is safe Open the door I would speak with him He is securely chained No mortal man can break the chains wherewith he was bound sire Then open quick His arms are bound Like iron sire And he cannot move from his place The chains all center upon the bolt in the floor Then you may remain without Se lim I wish to speak with the prisoner alone Selim had no particular understand ing with his companions touching this movement but he understood that Julian would act when he saw fit so he proceeded to unbolt the door and throw it open We can shut him in and leave him whispered Osmir when he saw the king about to pass into the dungeon No no quickly returned Julian I have another thought I may find use for those royal robes which he wears By the gods cried Osmir the prize is worth ten thousand times more than I had thought If you don those regal robes Selim and I can lead you in safety from this place By the blessed star it is a lucky thought Ha He goes in Shall I accompany you You may remain close at hand CHAPTER XII A Royal Disguise Until the present time Julian had thought of overcoming the king with out a word of felling him to the pave ment and binding him and leaving him in ignorance of who had done it but a different fancy seized him as he saw the monarch enter the dungeon The temptation to face his deadly enemy and let him know to what he owed his disgrace was too strong to be resisted The thought that he could now place his foot upon the neck of the king of Damascus and grant the poor life which he had the power to take was not to be passed by And then the robber chieftain had an other reason for wishing to speak with the king since the opportunity had thus unexpectedly offered itself Ho ram had come on purpose to see him to learn some secret Our hero had a curiosity to know what this meant Stay a moment where you are ho said addressing the blacks and thus speaking he passed into the dungeon just as the king had discovered that no prisoner was there PIo Selim shouted the monarch turning his face to the door What Is the matter here Is not this the He stopped for the light of his lan tern falling upon the face of the man who had followed him in revealed an other face than that of Selim Horam spoke the chieftain you find the Scourge of Damascus not quite as powerless as you had expected What ho Selim Selim Easy old man Selim will not come at your bidding Let me inform you that I am master for the present of this lower region and Selim is my slave Mercy gasped the terrified king What ho Benoni Benoni Eenoni is in my power said Ju lian He is bound hand and foot and cannot help you And thou base false man thou too art in my pow er Down in this deep dungeon where the light of day cannot come and where the noise of the upper world cannot penetrate here I have thee as thou didst hope to have me Ho ram I am thy master The kings knees smote together and the lantern dropped from his hand Mercy he cried And then as though remembering that he was king of Damascus he clenched his hands and tried to speak with the voice of authority Vile miscreant he said let me pass If you dare to oppose me you shall be torn limb from limb Easy old man I am your master now and if you give me occasion I may do you harm There was that in the look tone and bearing of the stalwart chieftain which caused Horam to quail The lantern had fallen in an upright position and its light revealed quite plainly the features of the two men You will not kill me whispered the king No replied Julian I should scorn the deed and I should despise myself if I did it I wish simply to do this I must leave this palace tonight and you must remain here in my place Some of your slaves will find you in the morning You must strip off that purple robe and that golden chain and I must have the jeweled crown from your head Come I have no time to waste Ye gods of heaven ejaculated Horam how can this thing be Who ever heard of such a thing Who dares to disrobe the king I dare to do it replied the rob ber sternly and quickly at the same time taking a step forward Remove the garments instantly or I shall tear them from you No no you dare not rob your king Peace poor fool Hesitate another minute and I will smite you to the floor Off with the robe The trembling monarch cast one look into the face of the man before him and then shrank back against the wall He was as a mere child and for the time while unable to do evil he seemed an object of pity If I give you these things will you spare my life I told you once yes And once more I beg you to remember that my time is short You will save yourself some trouble if you obey me This was spoken very slowly each word dropping from the robbers lips with the weight of a death sentence and the lowering of the brow the swelling of the broad bosom and the nervous working of the hands told too plainly that the edict must be obeyed To be continued HOME MADE HONEY A Kestaurant Man Captures a Stray Swarm of Uecs Ralph Gushee the lessee of the Park Department restaurant overlooking the Hudson at the upper end of Riverside drive tells a remarkable story of how he obtained the honey which is one of the specials on his daily menu Two weeks ago said Mr Gushee to Corporation Counsel Whalen who was the host of a party of politicians at Claremont I noticed a swarm of bees under the tree down there overhanging the drive just where the carriages stand at the dinner hour I offered 10 to anybody who would remove them and nobody wanted to take the offer until one of the policemen detailed to guard Grants tomb heard of it He said he knew all about bees and I told him to go ahead He went down in the basement and got an empty sugar bar rel Then he demanded a sheet and bor rowed a pair of buckskin gloves from a gardener He spread the sheet on the drive under the tree and set the barrel from which he had removed a couple of staves on its side Then he climbed the tree and gently shooed the bees down to the sheet whence he gathered them up into the barrel This was covered with the same sort of mos quito netting with which he had en veloped his own head and taken back of the hotel There must have been tree or four quarts of bees and they settled into their new home as natural ly as though they had come to River side Park for that purpose They be gan to hive at once and for the last two weeks Ive been getting four or five pounds of honey right along and the bees are still at home and at work Mr Whalen remarked laughingly that as the bees were evidently taking sweetness from the blossoms in the park it would be in order for the city to increase Mr Gushees rent It is sup posed that the bees came across the Hudson River from New Jersey EMAEKABLE SHOW ING HOW WE COMPARE WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD In Wealth Production anil Consumption the United States with 5 Fur Cent of the Population Kuuln Ilulf of the Remainder of Mankind A comparison of the United States with the rest of the world as regards annual production consumption pop ulation wealth and many other items relating to the question of comparative prosperity shows some remarkable facts With less than 5 per cent of the population and only 7 per cent of the area yet in many ways wo equal or surpass all the rest of the world com bined and taken as a whole we are equal to one half of all the remainder of mankind besides ourselves We equal or surpass all the rest of the world in corn cotton eggs petroleum leather products copper forest and products We produce two thirds as much as the rest of the world in coal pig iron steel three fifths of the total food and agricultural products and manufactures one half as much in silver iron ore fish one fifth as much Oats consumption bu Rye production bu Barley production bu Hay production tons Potato production bu Hops production bales Butter and cheese tons Eggs Cotton production bales Cotton consumption bales Wool production lbs Wool consumption lbs 320000000 4841000000 100000000 3820000000 3000000000 2800000000 2500000666 3iooouo6o6 13S0000C00 750000000 250000000 4000000000 1050000 2COO000 20000000000 13500000 2700000660 SDindles in operation 105000000 Number of sheep -00000000 Number of milch cows C2OOO0OO Sugar production tons S55o00O Sugar consumption tons Coffee consumption lbs 1700000000 Tea consumption lbs 150000000 Food production tons 350000000 Food consumption tons Agricultural products 5 1C000000000 Meat products tons 25000000 Leather and products GOO000000 Fish products tons 3250000 Forest area acres 1330600000 Forest products 3000000000 Beer production gall C53O0000OO Wine production gall 3000000000 Petroleum product gall 5000000000 Coal production tons 750000000 Copper production tons 4GS300 Iron ore tons 90000000 Pi- iron tons 40000000 Steel tons 27000000 Steam horse power 70000000 Manufactures 40000000000 Railroad mileage 475000000 Spent for public education 500000000 Life insurance in force 18000000000 Savings bank deposits 7000000000 Shipping tonnage 30000000 Revenue 5600000000 Expenditures 5900000000 Kxnnrts 7750000000 Imports 9000000000 Debt 33000000000 in paid wheat oats hay butter and choao one fourth as much In hops and beer one fifth to one tenth as much in barley and wool Reckoned In value we consume twice as much corn as all the rest of the world one half as much wheat one third as much oats one third as much cotton one fifth as much wool one third as much sugar one half as much fish nearly as much coffee ono fourth as much tea and about three fifths as much meat Wo have one third as much wealth one third as muoh gold one fifth as much silver one tenth as many sheep one third as many cows two thirds of the railroad mileage twice as much life insurance one half as much savings bank depos its one fourth of the export trade one tenth of the revenue and expenditures and less than one thirtieth of the worlds debts We are today practically independent of the rest of the earth In a few years we shall raise our own sugar silk all fibers tea coffee wines and In fact everything used by mankind The conclusion then is warranted that in another generation If the pres ent system of Protection is continued the people of the United States and Territories will equal or surpass in production consumption and wealth the peoples of the rest of the world combined Comparison of Present Status Annual Production Consumption etc Kctween United States and Rest of World Figures are approximate Where possible official otherwise from most reliable authorities dating January 1 1901 or last fiscal or calendar year Where last an nual iigures are abnormal an average is taken of recent years Status and commodity World Population 1600000000 Area sq miles 32000000 Wealth 5100000000000 Gold production Stock of gold Silver production a Stock of silver Paper money Corn production bu Corn consumption bu Wheat production bu Wneat consumption bu Oats production bu United States 77000000 3603000 100000000000 80000000 1020200OCO 33000000 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455000000 91 46000000 26 71 S340000 25 975 6440000 25 75 1210CO000O 46 54 3G5C00000 19 81 200000000 43 57 222000000 37 63 yoooocooco 44 16000000 3S 62 250000000 58 42 2250C00 31 C9 636000000 53 47 1300000000 50 50 5329000000 19 81 2974000000 9 991 2500000000 50 50 450C0000O 40 GO 1S850O GO 40 60000000 33 G7 25000000 373 623 1G000000 40 60 4500000il 36 64 25000000000 373 625 2S000000O 40 GO 300000000 40 GO 6 OOOCOOOOO G7 33 4500000000 36 64 21500000 IS 82 5000 000000 11 89 5375000000 9 91 6250000001 20 80 8130000000 9 91 31930000010 3 97 a Commercial value coining value somewhat more than double these amounts b Average recent years c Total track 2S0C00 miles fd More than four lifths engaged in lake and coast trade COMMON SENSE Every Producing Country Cuts Prices on Its Surplus Goods When Exported Referring to the circular issued by The American Protective Tariff League urging a general response to the inquiry of the industrial commis sion relative to domestic and export prices of American made goods a well informed correspondent writes Your circular No 171 is acknowl edged I am not a manufacturer but have purchased and shipped goods to a Mexican railroad It was then the universal practice to give a discount on goods shipped to that country This practice I believe is common in all countries and some of the British railways are I am told by their char ters forced to give lower freights on goods for export Sir Bernard Samuel son M P F R S in his report on Railway Goods Tariffs December 22 18S5 gives these British rates among others COTTON GOODS Export Domestic Manchester to London 21 36 Manchester to Liverpool 610 106 GENERAL MACHINERY Export Domestic Leeds to Hull 126 25 Leeds to Newcastle 116 142 A like discrimination seems to be made in Belgium It seems to me the Industrial Com mission should extend their inquiry unless they wish it to be inconclusive and unrelated to well known facts governing the foreign trade of all producing countries Unloading man ufactured commodities on foreign mar kets seems to me a patriotic proceed ing It keeps mills running regularly Hence the power to purchase in this country is increased by the consequent steady employment and the increased production makes it difficult for for eigners to pinch our markets as for Instance in 1SS0 when they caught as short on steel rails and for two months held the price at S2 per ton Yours truly EDWARD P NORTH New York July 25 The instance cited by Mr North of a systematic reduction by British rail ways of carrying charges on export goods is very much to the point and entirely conclusive as showing the commercial policy of our greatest trade rival in placing a premium on export business The same policy Is pursued today in Great Britain and by all the leading export nations On the conti nent A recent consular report to the state department tells of the marked disparity between domestic and export prices in certain lines of iron and steel production in Germany It is the regular practice of the Germans to work off their overproduction by means of cut prices on goods for ex port Cut price goods from every country would now be dumped on the American market if the free traders and tariff revisionaries had their way It is the certainty of this result of tariff tinkering that prompts the busi ness interests to vigorously oppose any and all meddling with the existing schedules of the Dingley law They do not want this country flooded with cut price stuff from all creation to the infinite detriment of American pro ducing interests and American labor They very much prefer and so does every level headed right thinking man to keep American labor employed at high wages and when necessary to secure outside markets work off their surplus production on somebody else That is the common sense of the mat Cer What Xot to Do According to the Winona Minn Herald of July 10 Congressman Bab cock objects to being classified as a Free Trader He is quoted as saying in a recent letter to a personal friend in Wisconsin Some of the papers try to make me out a Free Trader and claim that I indorse the Democratic idea that all trust made goods should go on the free list This is simply rot and I write this that you may know just what my views are It would have been interesting and very much to the point if more of the letter had been quoted to the end that light be thrown on just what my views are Enough however is made known to indicate that Congressman Babcocks ferocity as a smasher of Tariffs and trusts has undergone some amelioration since he introduced his famous bill last winter He has had time to think it over and while he probably doesnt understand the ques tion any better than he did six months ago he is at least better informed con cerning what not to do Muscadine is a disease to which silk worms are liable It consists of a fungus growth in the body which breaks through the skin and speedily kills the insect WORKS IN DIG WORL City Official Iungimso Iln Doo No Understand There Is a certain city official whq although capable enough In his busi ness is notorious for his lack 01 knowledges of the klnss English and for his fondness for big words says tin New York Times He came to his oSct one misty muggy day and noticing that the air was foul called yjt to one of his subordinates Open that win dow and putrefy the air On anothoi occasion when called upon to take ac tion for an infraction of one of tin city ordinances he was asked where he got his information Oh I got word through a unanimous tetter that this work was being carried on superstl tlously Speaking of his horse a fin trotter which ho drives almost dallj on the speedway ho remarked 1 cant drive out for some timo because Jack the horse has a spasm on hfa hind leg On another occasion speak ing of a severe storm in which he had been caught he said It was a per fect toronto Once In speaking of his daughter who he said was Inclined to be musical he remarked I am going to send her to the Controversy of Music Once he felt 111 and blue and to a friend he remarked I am growing feeble and feel as if my work ing days were about over I am a poor man and suppose Ill have to pass my last days in some institution for in dignant old men Wonders of Dylnu Dolphin We were on a sailing ship seven passengers of us bound from Rio de Janeiro Brazil to New York Our ship was a bark the Adelaide Pender gast owned in New tfork She had been long out from her home harbor fir3t to Cadiz Spain with merchan dise thence to Rio de Janeiro for coffee with which she was now laden Her crew were Norwegians her master Capt John Lawson as jolly an Irish man as ever sailed the salty waves says a writer in Forest and Stream Hurrah cried the captain one day Here is something now for you Come and see a dolphin tho most beautiful fish that lives in water We made a rush for the bulwarks and to our de light saw swimming along with us sev eral emerald hued fish from three to five feet long graceful in shape and motion Their bodies were like satin of a delicate green shading to a deeper hue at the fins Darting and whirling they changed places rapidly moving from one side of the ship to the other Ill give you a sight you never saw before exclaimed the captain You shall see a dying dolphin He brought his gig a small harpoon with its cruel fishhook darts and fastening a line to its long handle made it secure around his wrist Cant hook these fellows with a hook and line he said We had already been regaled with shark and barracuda from the line that hung at the stern The captain leaned over the rail With lithe motion the fish darted under the weapon suspended over them A quick plunge with sure aim a green flash through the air and the struggling leaping victim was landed on the deck And now- we saw the dying dolphin Let scientists ex plain how it changes its colors we can but make record of its appearance The glowing green died away to silver This became spotted with blue which gradually spread until the whole fish was a sapphire color Waves of gold flashed over it growing deeper until it was golden fish only to be trans formed into a roseate one by spots which came and extended Thus from color to color changed the gleaming sides of the quivering beauty of the deep until pity was almost forgotten in admiration and we exclaimed Never have we seen anything more beautiful than a dying dolphin We were practical enough to enjoy the friend fish of a delicate golden brown which was a welcome relief to our salty bill of fare but that is common place recollection compared in the minds eye with the memory of the fish which swanlike yields its charms in the dying hour How Jamie Landed His Dig Iiih A fifty two pound catfish was taken from a shallow pool formed by the subsidence of the Platte river a few days ago says a Fremont Neb corre spondent of the Nebraska State Jour nal Jamie McLean a boy of about 15 years was going after some of his fathers horses in Saunders county and Happened to hear a splashing of the water behind him He looked around and beheld a fish of huge proportions floundering around in the pool He at once formed a lasso of the rope he was carrying and proceeded to fasten it round the head of the fish While he was thus engaged the creature knocked him down once with its tail but he finally managed to get the rope in place He then mounted his horse and fastened the end of the rope to the saddle and started for the shore The fish was so strong that progress was made but slowly and at one time the horse began to sink in the quick sand but after considerable pulling and hauling the catch was safely landed Women Pharmacists in the United States It is a fact not generally known that there are nearly 400 women pharma cists in the United States One of the largest apothecary establishments in New England employs women almost exclusively giving them precedence over men and assigning as the reason therefor that women can be depended on or to use the language of the head of the concern No big heads no mistakes hence no suits for damages as the result of careless reading of pre scriptions Many manufacturing chemists employ women in different capacities LW ii feci w ffl