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THE OMAHA DAILY SUNDAY , JANUARY 19 , 1800. in IS THE SICKMAN AN ARMENIAN tTho Unspeaknblo Emperor the Greatest Mystery of the Timj. ABDUL HAMID , "THC SHADOW OF GOD" Holotr of tlie Promoter n t Dcfcmlcr of Iliinilin Slniinh- < er IlorritrN of I lieSiitnii' ( HrNlilnioc. ( Copyright , ISM , l.y fl. 8. McClurr , Limited. ) The character of the sultan of Turkey Is the 111071 profound mystery ot our time. Some of us IMVO seen him. We know his origin and hIMory , we have studied his rule In his own capital , we are acquainted with the facts of his reign , and wo have questioned the few men who during recent years have talked Intimately with him face to face. Hero Is an A static , first a debauchee and later o religious fanatic ; who has hardly Men a civilized city or had a civilized man for a friend ; who lives In the strictest seclu sion , fearing Instant assarulnotlon ; who rules over a pcoplo , nine-tenths ot whom look upon him as a p.lltlc.il and religious usur per ; who has seen during his reign vast territories detached from his kingdom ; who < hat been crushed In a great wai ; who- has let n powerful fleet go to utter ruin , and a splendid army totally degenerate ; who finally , was once the ally ot Great Ilrttaln nnd France , and Is now without a sup porter among all nations. Yet he Is able to defy Europe ; with Impunity to outmgu the con-science of the civilized world ; lo tram- Iile under test every a ok tun engagement that ha't been wrung from him ; to score ono diplo matic victory after another over six of the most txporlonccd and wily ambassadors living ; to Ian nil at the pros an re of powers whoao battleships could lay every coast town In Turkey In ashes In a few hours , and who could srt In motion 10,000,000 men , and , finally , when ho has at last been con- dtralucd to promise llfo and liberty to an oppressed people , deliberately sot about tu exterminate them. This mnn I Bay , l the greatect mystery of our lime. Moreover. J db not bellevo anybody lives who can ex plain him. Certainly , I nialcn no pretcnsi to do BO , but I have recently been studying him at rathoT close range , and that I am not without some Intimate knowledge of his THE SULTAN'S SIGNATURE. movements Is perhaps proved by the fact that I know , and published In the London Chronicle , hU acceptance ot the project or Armenian reforms twenty-four hours before any ono else In Europe. Therefore , I may per haps throw a little light upon the mystery. THE PERSON OF A11DUL HAMID. Take the outward man first. Abdul Ha- mld II. Is short , bent In the back , languid In movement , with occasional paroxysms of nervous activity. He has large ears , n largo nose , large lips , large hands and largo feet. His eyes are grayish , his hair Is thin and dark llko hh beard , his teeth are long and yellow , nnd his complexion is like parchment that has been roughly folded a do en times. That Is everything In his appearance contradicts the Idea that ho la an Osman a pure Turk. In fact , he is an Armenian. His mother was an Ar menian slave , and unless all tradition lies , his father was not the Sultan Abdul Mejld , nut tne latler'H Armenian gardener. The Turks to a man call him "tho bastard , " and tell you with many circumstantial details how his ; mother lavished upon the plebeian of her own race the favors which she suc ceeded In withholding from her alien If nu- giiBt lord and master. In this fact ot lila ori gin Is to bo found the secret ot the sultan's Intense and unreasoning hatred of the Armenian race , and also the explanation > V of many practical qualities of statesmanship * In which he excels the Turk. For the Ar menians are the Jews of Turkey , the buyers and sellers , the money lenders and usurers , the bookkeepers , the speculators- commer cial parasites. Thus , though Abdul Hamld II has played with success many a game In which a Turk would have been utterly worsted , and though he ( s In name and posi tion the thirty-fourth man who has girded on the auord of Osman In the sacrosanct Mosque of Kyoub on the Sweet Waters of Europe , he does not really belong to that race which Freeman declares to have produced more fr great leaders of men than any other that has ever existed. He Is E3 years'old , and he suc ceeded his elder brother , tlio.deposed Murad V , three months after the latter succeeded his uncle , the deposed Abdul Aziz , namely , on August 31 , 1S7C , at the moment when Servla was waging war against Turkey , and only eight ' months before the czar would be doing BO , to'o. He rejoices In. the cdlclal titles of "Sultan of Sultans , King of Kings , Bcstower of Crowns Upon the Princes of the World. Shadow of ( ] oil Upon Kartli , Emperor and Sovereign Lord of the White Sea and the Black Sea , of Iloumella and Anatolia , " and a dozen places. Including Jerusalem the Holy , "and Manager of an Infln'ty of Other Prov inces Gloriously Acquired. " According to the theology of Islam , God evidently casts a very dark shadow. HIS DAILY LIFE. From the man let us turn to hla dally llfo. On the nosphru9 , a few miles above Con stantinople , IB the palace of Uolmaboghcheh. It Is a dreiin of wlilto marble , a perfect TUB SULTAN AUD-UL-HAMID It. fairy creation , glittering like a row of Alplno aimimHs , BO goroamcr In design that ono Is tempted to think a rough wind would blow It away , Within everything Is of superlative beauty , and cf thcurcst eastern art , Every rare \\oocl , every beautiful stone , every.skill cf cjrv- Ing. every conceivable luxury , has been lavished upon It. No sove reign la the world has the clmnco of Inhabiting such a gem. Of course you say , Abdul Hamld lives there. Far from It. Ho onlv Bets fcot In It once a vear > n receive the hcniago and the allegiance of lila I'-jbJecta. He lives In a plain white marble building , of common modern shape , on the highest point of the city Ylldlz Klosh , "the Palace of the Star , " a name It does not dos.'rve. The ground of his choice Is simple but sufficient. At Oolmabaghcheh ha would be close to the water , which might bear boat load * of conspirators tj his very door , and there , too , the gites cf hla dwelling would be paioed by the crouds , among whom assas- eine might lurk. At Ylld'z he la far from tbo dangerous waters \\hlcli have drowned so many of thoa > upon whom hli displeasure lias fallen. Nobdy can oven approach his B to > , for ho mirroundi himself with thou sand , of trcops , tbo only ones \\ell paid In lila whole empire , whoso loyalty la assured by ceaseless favors and present ! ) . If you wish to convince yourself of the reality ot his seclusion , walk up the hill toward the gates of Ylldlz. You vrlll not have got far before a warning , cry of "Yasak It Is forblddenl" reaches you , A second later the gleam of a ECU- try' * bayonet and tbo rattle , ot the lock ot hla rlllo bids you pause , and If you ap- er to show th.lightest hesitation tba next morning will probably find you lying Hlff and cold In some remote slum of QtUU , hiving obvleuilr boon killed In a mid night liranl by some of the human scum with whom the city swarms ono man added to tti4 thoutandg of unexplained mysteries ot the Ottoman capital. For uppermost In the mind of the sultan at every moment of the day and night Is his dread of as a-- Inatlon. The water he drinks Is brought from a safe distance In scaled casks. Ills food l.i prepared with unimaginable pre cautions and tasted by others before It reaches his lips. He never sleeps In the * amo % place for two nights running. He hat A bed room to which ho ascends by a ladder , pulling It up after him. Whenever ho receives a foreigner ho wears white glove ? , let 'nfectlon ' should be convoyed by a touch of the hand. Let the chief eunuch but whis per that a certain minister or officer Is plot ting : Against his life , and that man finds himself In life-long' exile on the confines of the empire before * ho Is much older. I have seen men tortured , shot , hung , guillotined and beheaded , but I have never seen such tt-rror lurk In human eyes as was betrayed by this "Kings of Kings" a he drove through It/o sorrled r/inks of thousands of saluting soldiers on his \\ny to pray In his private mosque. It vag the look on the face ot a rat upon whom the cage door had Jn.it sprung when h& Is lifted up to the light to bo ex amined. , AT YILDI55 I'ALACB. It Is this same dread that has allotted tholr rcDpectlvo uses to the three floors of Ylldlz. On the ground floor are eecrctarles nnd their olll os > ; above them Oman I'aiiha , who held Plevna so splendidly against the Russians , the grand chamberlain and the chief of tlio secret police ; In the top story hvo the aiitlan and the favorite ladles cf his harem , When nn ambassador presents his credentials ! ho Is tccclved In an Imposing reception room , he make his speech tu his own dragoman or ofllclat Interpreter , the lat ter repeats In Turkish to the sultan's cham berlain , who In low respectful tones passes It on to his Imperial marter. The Imperial reply reaches the ambassador In tha same roundabout way , and then the visitors arc conducted an ay to bo entertained with cigarettes each accompanied by a delicate amber mouthpiece , and coffee served In Jew elled cupi. When diplomatists are Invited to dine at Ylldlz It occasionally happens that the sultan sits at the tame table with them , but more cftou he nits In his own apartments sends his guesta certain dishes from his o\\n table as a mark ot special courtesy , and re ceives them afterward. Private visitors are treated with much less ceremony , though they are subjected to a great deal ot Inaction before they actually reach the Imperial presence. It Is not at nil dldlcult to sccuro flii audience Indefinitely easier , In fact , that In any ether European capital. Ono condition only Is necessary ; that y u bo known as a frlond ot Turkey and a defender of Turk ish rule. Any Journalist , of position , for Instance , who could point to articles he had written sympathizing with Turkish views , and who lot It bo known thnt ho was prepared to continue on the oamo lines , would bo qulto safe to have his request for an audlonc * granted. Moro than this , If ho would send to his newspaper always supposing It tobo ono which the sultan know and feared certain statements of alleged fact and opinion which the sultan would dictate to him , representing them as derived from hlo own knowledge and ex perience , ho could have much more , than an an audience. A bag of gold , a diamond brooch for his wife , ai Turkish decoration for hli buttonhole ho would only have to drop a veiled hint and th ? thing would bo done. Out ha would be wlso to leave Constanti nople son afterward , for secrets are not kept In an Oriental country , and he would find cold shoulders at the club. In fact , Turkish money smells , and scon betrays Its presence In anybody's pockot. A particularly flagrant C390 occurred a few months ago. A con tinental journalist turned up In Constanti nople , at once had a long Interview with the sultan , left again Immediately with 500 and u Turkish order , and his Journal one ot Iho most Influential In Europe published a long article pooh-poohing the Armenian mas- .Bncro and praising to the skies the sultan's benovolcnt rule. The French press Is reg ularly bribed by the Turkish embassy In Paris , just as It Is by M. Diane , the di rector ot the -Casino atMonte Curio. ABDUL HAMID A HARD WORKER. To do the sultan justice , ho Is a very hard working man. His ministers and creatures are liable to bo summoned to Ylldlz at any hour of the day or night. A man I know , supposed at Ylldlz to have certain relations with the English press , was aroused at 7 o'clock ono morning by an aide-de-camp of the sultan In full uniform , and carried off then and there to the palace , the messenger barely allowing him time to fling on a few clothes. Ho vias eo nervous at this sensa tional and hurried summons that ho scribbled n note to me and left It at my rooms as he passed , saying that It he returned all right ho would call upon mo at noon. All the tiul- tan wanted was for him to telegraph a long message lo the London Morning Po : > tcouched In terms of almost Idiotic eulogy ct Abdul Hamld and the condition of Turkey. In vain my acquaintance assured the sultan that no English newspaper would dream of Inserting such an article , no matter who sent It. The sultan only replied telling him to alter a few words If neceswry and to ai'k In re turn for anything he would like. Ono day I had an appointment with the late grand vizier at his house. The hour fixed was at 8 o'clock In the morning , and whllo I was drinking a cup ot coffee In his ante room a smart carriage and pair dashed up , a palace ofll- rcr sprang out , and a minute later Klumll Pasha sent his secretary to me to beg mete , to excuse him , as he had that moment been urgently summoned to the sultan's presence. Abdul Harold's whim miy de mand tha attendance ot his ministers at any moment , while on the other 'hand ' they may bo unable to see him for a fortnight on business which they know to bo urgent. For Instance , when I was last In Constantinople Klamll Pasha had not bcon able to secure an audience' for many days. He had bcon re peatedly to the palace , sent In written re ports , been kept waiting several hours , and then dismissed with a contemptuous verbal message brought to htm by a eunuch. It must ba berne In mind that whereas previously ministers of state , gathered In council at tbo sublime portc , the headquarters of the Ottoman government In Stamboul , used to cxerclso real powers , the sultan acting upon their advice , Abdul Hamld has taken the rolns of authority entirely Into his own hands and moat of the ministers today are the merest figureheads , having llttlo moro real Influence over Turkish affairs than any readers of these lines. They are appointed end dismissed In accordance with petty personal motives , on in order to throw dust In the eyes of Europe. A set ot wax Images could do their work. The sultan does every thing himself. An acquaintance of mine saw him one day deeply Immersed In a volumi nous document. A few days afterward ho had the opportunity of Inspecting the document at the ofllce of Nozlm Pasha , minister of police. It was the official report upon a Bcufflo that had taken plica In a cafe chant- ant between a Greek and a Jew , The Shadow of Qed was giving hours of hla time to a miserable Incident that In Lon don or New York a police magistrate would have dismissed In five minutes. THE SULTAN'S FOUR COUNSELLORS. There are four pcoplo In the Turkish em- plro with whom the sultan taken counsel. They are , first , Osman Pasha , of whom I have already spoken , and who fits In the same carriage as his master when the latter la driven at every Friday's Selamllk , 200 yards from the palace gateto the private mosque for prayer , while C.OOO troops nil the streets all around and rend the air with two savage simultaneous shouts of welcome , The second Is Haitian Pasha , min ister of marine , who has shared with tlio sultau the peculations wlUcu have reduced the once fine Turkish fleet to a mass of rusting Iron and rotting wood , unable ever again to leave Its moorings In the Oolden Horn. The third Is his own body servant , a man of the lowest extraction , The fourth Is his private mollah or priest , a creature of tbo profoundci't Ignorance and fanaticism. And the two latter are far more Influential than the two former. If to thesa be added the name of "HU Excellency. Yofer Agba , chief eunuch , " there Is nobody else In the whole Turkish empire who counts , I must pay this man the compliment of saying that ho Is the moat repulsive object In human shape that I have ever sot eyes upon. At the Friday Gelamlik he Is the last person to paw before the sultan arrives , The broad Incline from the gates of Ylldlz to the portals of the Hamldleh mosque Is crowded with troops In a dozen picturesque uniforms , squadrons of cavalry block every approach , brilliant aides-de-camp and general officers aUudJp. rigid groups. The clash and clang of a doxeu military Lands ku luddenljr erased , In the reception pavilion the diplo matists are posted at one window and the favored guests at another , the roadway has been sprinkled with sand and every twig carried off , every wind-swept leaf removed , every footmark removed by a long broom , and the whole gathering Is petrified In spec tacular attention , when from the palace a huge figure emerges , dressed In fez and long black frock coat , and marches down the mid dle with slow , waddling steps , casting arro gant and Insulting glances to right and left. This Is the chief eunuch , and he Is followed by a dozen of his unspeakable tribe. For merly their horrid mlsproportlons were con cealed under long robes. Now these are emphasized by European dress. * , Pot-bc11jed , long-legged , splay-footed , thin-shouldered , beardless abortions , with drooping jaws and bulging lips , their eyes filled half with fear and halt with defiance , poor , sexless beasts , dowered forcibly with all the vices of civil ization and ot savagery , and cut off from the virtues of cither you shudder to your marrow as they pass. THE SULTAN'S MUTE EUNUCHS. ThoM ID something at Ylldlz , however , worw even than these Intriguing keeprs of the pearls of the harem. Hidden away from common sight and hearing are the mute eunuchs , rendered also speechless In earliest childhood. Thesa are the pecplo of the dagger , the pillow , the bowptrlng and the swift-running river. In the old centuries , , when the foreign ambassadors wcto thrust Into the Imperial presence with the cry , "Let the dogs come and bo fed , " a cannon boomed from Seraglio battlements as the strangled corpses of the victims of displeasure were flung Into the Uophorus. No cannon nowadays announces the tragedies of the Palace of the Star , but they occur nil the same. There nro plenty of dungeons there , and they have been full lately. Men told ' In whispers In Constantinople the other day how' seventeen men had been bow-strung there In a single night. And any Turk who trut'ts you can tell you of a score ot men who have recently been summoned to Yll dlz and never seen again. Within Us walls live the cx-sultari , Murad V , whom the young Turkey or constitutional party would t'ct ' upon the throne ; nnd the white- faced ron of Adbul Aziz nnd his ravishing Circassian. There knew well that the mcment Abdul Hamld feels himself on the eve of deposition will bo their last. They are cut olT entirely from the outside wcrld , and never a door opens behind them but they expect to hear the horrlblo Inarticulate yelp of the mute executioner , springing upon them bowstring In hand. Within the vrhlted sepulchre of Ylldlz , at the end of this nineteenth Christian cen tury , deeds are rlally done of which ono dare hardly think , bes'do which Sodom and Gomorrah were respectable communi ties. ties.Yet Yet Abdul Hamld II seems to sit firmly on his throne , secure In the Jealousies of the great powers , unable to agree upon the division of his kingdom. One of them will do nothing to introduce stability or further autonomy Into the Balkan penlntmla , prsfsr- rlng to wait until the ripe and rotten fruit shall drop Into her lap , and the hands of the others are thereby paralyzed. And If the sultan loses heart for a moment In the des perate game ho Is playing , ho can find fresh courage by thinking , as Prof. Qrosvenor In his great book has recently reminded us , that the British embassy stands upon land presented to England In gratitude for help against France In 1801 ; that the rite of the French embassy was given to France In thankfulness for aid against England In 1S07 ; that the shaft among the cypresses In the cemetery nt Scutari commemorates English and French support against Russia In 1857 , and that another column on the Bos- phorus tells how Russia saved Mahmoud II his empire In 1833. "You think us weak. " said a Turkish statesman recently to a for eign ambassador , "but In truth we are very strong , for our strength Is rooted In your di visions. " HEN.RY NORMAN. IP THE COURT PM3ASC. Anecdote nml Incident Uciicli niul llnr. In an action for the value of hounds killed by a train In Tennessee-tho opinion of the court says : "Theplaintiff's version Is that' the train was going 'west , toward .Chat- ' lanooga , and the dogs were going east , to ward Knoxvllle. They were all on the same track , and going In opposite directions , and under these facts a head-end collision was unavoidable. " And again : "It Is Insisted by the plaintiff that , whllo the whistle -was sounded , It was Intended for the whole pack , and not for the th'rco ' dogs that were run over. This , however , seems to be a mere oplnlcn of the witness , as ho was a quarter of a mll&away from the place when the whistle was sounded. In addition , It would , we think'be requiring too great diligence for the engineer to whistle for each par ticular dog , and more especially as he had no means of Informing each dog that any special whtstld was sounded for him. Upon these facts It appears that the receivers were running their train upon their own track , on regular schedule time , and had no other track at that place upon which they could run. On the other hand , the plaintiff's dogs wore running on the railroad's track , Instead of the fox's track , which simply crossed the railroad. " On thcso facts It Is held that "the dogs were guilty of the gross est contributory negligence . . . and were only entitled to such consideration as tres passers have under the law. " On the question of the value of the dogs In this case , plaintiff testified that both of the hounds were "good fox dogs , and'also ' good 'possum * and squirrel dogs , and were as good 'all 'round' dogs as he ever owned. Other witnesses described the dogs as "young , of common stock'on the mother's sldo , but good parentage on the father's side , and they both resembled their father. " For these reasons It seems peculiarly sad that they should meet an untimely end In a "head-end collision. " It Is obvious that training Is not always good for dogs , and these manifestly met their death by over training , i A Durham , ( Eng. ) minor , aged 73 , visited a Newcastle lawyer ( a bachelor ) , for the purpose ot making his will. The old man's property consisted of two small cottages , which had cost him 150 , and a llttlo furni ture , The lawyer having asked his client how he wished to dispose of his property , the latter replied : "Ma old woman hos to hov all Be long as she's my widow. * Efter that ma bairns gets alt. " "What age Is your old woman ? " asked the lawyer. "Over 50 years , " replied the minor. Thereupon the lawyer suggested to bis client that he should give the wlto the Interest during her llfo , whether she continued a widow or otherwise. "Hlnney , aa wlnnot ; aa'll hov ma aan way , " Eald the miner. "But surely , " replied the lawyer , "you don't expect your old woman , 72 years old would marry again ? " The miner , looking the lawyer full In the face , anuwered with much solemnity : " \Vcy , hln- ney , thor'a uao knaanlng what young chops like youroclf will do for money , " "It lo the genial habitude of the English Judiciary , " says a London correspondent of the Phllidelphla Ledger , "to affect an In fantile Ignorance ot anything but purely judicial matters. Ina celebrated trial Lord Coleridge asked with due- solemnity , 'Who IB Connlo Gllcbrlst ? ' . a young person who at that time was the most celebrated dancer on the English stage , whence aho has sub sequently pirouetted Into the English peer age by the convenient way ot the martlago oervlce. In llko manner Sir Henry Hawkins not long ago propounded the query : 'What lo hay ? ' and Lord Halbury wanted to know on cno occasion 'Who was Pigott ? ' In a libel suit recently against a Mr. Gilbert an even moro Imbecile affectation of judicial Ignorance was evinced by Lord Rus4ll. Sir Edward Clarke read from a book of the plaintiff's descrip tion of Chopin's 'umber-shaded Iwlr. ' 'What shade ? ' asked Lord Russell. 'Umber , ' replied Sir Edward , 'Yos , but what Is that ? ' per sisted tbo chief justice. At this point the feelings of the jury were too much for them. With a unanimity reminiscent of the pllco- nien In the 'Pirates ot Penzince * they chanted In expostulatory chorus , 'Brown , My Lord , brown , ' and the case proceeded. " A California Judge saya In respect to a complaint ; "It should bo said , perhaps , that while appellant's criticism of the com plaint , considering the latter as a work ot art , has some foundations , still wo think that for the purposes of a pleading It Is sufficient. " Lawyer ( to prospective Juryman ) Have you been acquainted with the prisoner at the bar ? Juryman No sir. Lawyer ( pompously ) Please Uato tow long you were not oc- ijualoteJ with the prisoner at the bar. MEMORIES OftJHE 'HOPPERS Untold Mischief Wrought by Them In Four Westprn tatos. DEEP DESPAIR ' ; 1OF THE PEOPLE flow < lic ClomlMrtClltrM omul * . Innrctii Drnnnllpil (111- , l'nlro-,1 Plfliln on IJnrlli Itjrlilpntn ot Tliclr Coining } \iyl ( iolntr. ( Copyright , 1S9 , by Si S. McClure , Limited. ) It Is more than two decades now since tho"gra ihopper yearn" ot 1872. ' 73 and ' 74 , end their very memory seems almost to have disappeared from the public mind. To those of us , however , who passed through the visitation , which brought complete dev astation to all growing crops In Colorado , Nebraska and Kansas , causing widespread fluttering and destitution and seriously at- foctlng mcst states west of the Mississippi tlio memory of these years la still a vivid one. And during tbo recent harvest months o autumn , when news of bountiful crops , untnarred by Insect or other plagues , was being received , this memory became moro vivid by very contrast. Wo In Missouri had beard and read ot the plague In "poor , drouthy Kansas , " but there was little fear felt that the Insects would como further caot , for the papers assured us that scientists had found the habitat of the locusts to bo the Rocky mountains , and study of previous plagues ot this sort had shown that the Insects' night was regulated by such definite limitations as to llmo and distance , that their return trip westward was near at hand nnd so Missouri might congratulate herself on being not only be > yond the great drouth bolt , but alsj east ot the locust line. Out the locusts refused to follow the course , ot conduct declared to bo theirs. They came , they MW , they con quered. COMING OP THE 'HOPPERS. One very hot day 1 was n llttlo girl then I was sent to the postofllce to get the mall. I saw tlib men out In front of their stores looking up at the sun through smoked glass and talking excitedly. Suddenly there was a loud pattering like hall on my llttlo parasol , on the pavement , the fences , the streets and the roofs of the houses every where. It was a hall storm of grass hoppers. Looking up there seemed to ba a great , wide-spreading cloud descending. In childish fright I ran , but there was no es cape ; 'hoppers to right of me , 'hoppers to left of me. were flying and jumping. They lit on my shoes , my hat and my dross skirts In squadrons. The ground was literally covered with the strange , unwel come visitors. Out of breath from my fright ened run , I stopped to rest under1 a tree by a neighbor's back yard , where there was a flock of fowly. In watching their crazy de light over this unexpected and unlimited feast , I soon forgot my fear. They dashed around with outspread wings , made wild leaps and llttlo flights In the air , tumbling over each other Hi thalr eagerness. They devoured the Insects so fast as almost to choke themselves , but kept cackling and gobbling and quacklrig between mouthfuls , as If saying : * n "Git all you canj , keep all you git , and.'git a-plenty while you're a-glttln' . " Dogs barked and Howled , and .some ran cowering Into shelter. ' ( Horses were fright ened and-tried to gpt vay from such an un heard-of shower. Theso' grasshoppBrs' ' 'ds ' wo called them though they were ireally locusts were much larger than the cpmmqn Insects known by that name , and their heads were much larger In proportion' lo their bodies. Their uyos. bnlged out In ia way to make them seem actually to have an Impish expression .of countenance , as they would turn : their 'heard frorrl sldb < td"sldo and move th'elr , . , baccp , " as wo children . .called the dark brown liquid which they seemed to roll around In their jaws as cows do theircuMs. . ThD long hind lf > gs and .outer- ; wings were roush and strong. The fowls , after their first ravenous hp'petltes were appeased , would try to pick these wings and the legs off before eating the Insects. The fowls became- thin from their continued grasshopper d'et and the yolks of tl\e eggs were red. 'Everybody ' did without eggs and fowls for food as far as possible. ATE EVERY GREEN THING. The grasshoppers preferred the rankest tasting vegetation , and so took peach leaves , oak leaves , tomato vines , jlmson weed and rag weed first. These having been devoured clear down to the roots and branches ( many of the trees looked as bare as In November ) , they attacked everything green , Indiscrim inately. The bare stones of the half-ripe peaches and plums were left In pitiful grotesqueness hanging on the trees. In flower gardens the foliage was often eaten and the bright flowers left on tha leafless stalks. , Many pcoplo did not abandon their gar dens to the ravases of the enemy until after heroic resistance had been made. Paris green and other poisons were sprinkled over the gardens. The 'hoppers seemed to thrive on the diet. Whole families would go out and beat the ground with tree branches , thus driving the Insects out of the yard , like swarms of bees but to see them return with reinforcements' ' or added regiments. Kerosene oil was put Into sprinkling pots and scattered broadcast over the millions , and then pieces of burning paper , or pine , were thrown about. Long ditches , three feet deep , were dug , and the ' .hoppers , by means of brooms and branches , of trees , were urged to hop 'nto them , nrd then oil and flro were put Into the trenches. To see the millions thus slaughtered , gave couraga for the time to keep on waging war , but results certainly did not justify the hope , for It certainly seemed as If a hundred caino to attend the funeral ot each slain comrade. They attacked the grass , after gardens had been eaten bare , and for oomo unknown rea son they would leave largo spaces In some fields and lawns untouched , while In adjoin ing parts every space of green was devoured. Some housewives had sad experiences , clothes drying on tha lines being riddled with holes. One lady's parlor was Invaded , and when she entered the room she found the ION 01 quarter of each of her lace curtains lying fteparated from the rest on the floor ; they had been chewed straight off , on a line with the window sill , by the omnlveroua pests. At night , the grasshoppers went regularly to roost. They chos'b the western sides of fences , houses and barns , where the setting sun shone hottest and covered every Inch of t'pace ' , so one could , no | toll the color of the paint underneath. t. Papers in tne ea "tom 01 tno stopping 01 trains by grasshoppers. ! ! Friends wrote to Inquire , thinking tbenw"holo thing must be a pure fabrication. Of course the trains were not stopped ; by monndJ ot Insects piled up like snow banks Ityifrpnt of the engine as strno seemed to think. . Dut their quantity "was so great as tit crag the engine wheels and their crushed bodies made the rails so slippery that tralns.jbad to go very slowly , and sometimes had to stop until the track ahead was cleaned off : " " Wo hoped , against hopb day after day and week after week that U > p Insects would take their night. Ini'tead of this , they settled down to preparations' ' for1 the next season by Industriously laying/ lr cggg In countless millions. The females .made holes about an Inch and a half dee [ > 'In the ground , using the strong hind leg&'iAa the body Itself as drills for the purpose , ! In each holetliua made was deposited a tough , membranous sack nearly as large as the abdomen ot the Insect , filled -with rows of little white , eggs lko ! tiny kernels of rice , The hole was then covered with earth , the Insects using their front feet al most like hands , DESPAIR OP THE PEOPLE. The feeling of gloom amounting almost to despair , which took possession of tha people ple cannot be described. Some were bitter and railed against luck. Some accepted the plague as rate In stoical silence , Out a sense of the utter weakness of human power per vaded the town and thU filled the churches og neter before. Special prayer meetings to petition divine help were held , and there was little laughing at this even by the inotrt. skeptical. We heard of farmers' famlllci In Kansas and Nebraska who were starving because everything green Including the crops had been destroyed. ThU meant no food , no money , nothing for the coming winter. Trains went through carrying supplies sent from the e rt to the grasshopper sufferer * further west free of charge. At about this tlmo the state entomologist of Missouri went to Wdrrensburs , the seat of the largest state normal cchool , nnd held a consultation with the faculty , some of whom were enthusiastic scientists , ni to his theory that these locusts were the same as those which John the Bsptl-t ate with wild honey In thewilderness. . The starving people , hu nald , would find thcso locusts as nutritious food as oysters , It they could only bo Induced to put nsldo prejudice and cat them. An example must be set first by Influential persons. Entomol ogist Rlley was not the man to preach and fall to practice. Ho nnd a few fi end * and the whole Normal school faculty , of whom the principal was the well known educator end author , James Johonnot , had "a grass hopper dinner" as people called 11 In ridicule , tt was served at one of the hotel ? , as no housekeeper could bo found who was ready to run the gauntlet of public criticism for Bupcirlntendlng so- barbaric n feast. The heads , outer wings and the hind legs were taken off from the Insects and then they wore served ! n various ways ; soup was made which was declared to be as * good as any beef soup ; some thought the fritters were still better , and others preferred the locusts n la John the DaptlsL style , I. e. , with honey , except that the locusts were brotuied crisp llko coffee kernels before being served. The nenspipers , east as well as west , dressed up the facts here given In almost unrecognizably exaggerated form. A famous weekly paper had a picture and article on Its front page. Hut It Is not known that any starving Kansas or Nebraska family , or any where ever Imitated the example set'by the would-bo benefactor Entomologist Rllcy. PRAYERS FOR HELP. The excitement and tun caused by this cplsodo noon passed by und the weight of the plague settled down more heavily than ever. The pastors of the different churches In Warrensburg met together for prayer and conference , and the outcome was the ap pointment of a day of fasting and prayer to petition Almighty God to remove from our midst the devastating plague. The notice WES published In the papers like u Thanks giving day proclamation , changing thanks to petition for mercy of course. The governor of the Btato gave his written sanction and this was printed with the notice. Other towns besides Warrensburg appointed a sim ilar day. For the most ! rrnrt It WJIH by the public with reverential orlou.css. . Some of the- dally papers of St. Louis and Kansas City , however , waxed merry over the "modern miracle seekers. " On the day ap pointed all places of business wore closed after 8 o'clock' In the morning , and services were held nil day long In the three largest churches , which were filled to overflowing. Men and women who had never prayed In public * before poured out unconsciously eloquent petitions for divine mercy. The es- sentjals of true prayer are sometimes given In four words whoso Initials spell "acts" adoration , confession , thanksgiving and supplication. These conditions were fully realized on that day. The people pleaded with tears to bo shown their sins for-which this punishment was sent , that they might put them away. The sense of the nearness ot God , and of utter dependence upon Ills mercy was enough to Impress even a child with the mos't reverential solemnity. The times ot penitence and appeal to God for help of the children of Israel have always been much morovivid to mo because of the experience of that day. When the churches were closed at sunset a sense of peace and resignation , If not ot hope , filled all hearts. The next day there was family worship In homes long indifferent to any Christian service except formal church at tendance. There were gatherings of neigh bors In' the afternoon In one another's homes for united prayer. And the hordes of Insects what of them In the meanwhile ? They'continued steadily on their devastating way. . And the next morning after the day of prayer the dis heartening word went round that more swarms of them were to be seen In the EkyHhey ; had not begun to light yet , but probably they would by. afternoon or even- Ing. They were more and more plainly to bo seen , seeming to fly lower all the time. DEPARTURE OF THE LOCUSTS. But the direful looking : clouds did not de scend. They swept on over the town ; moro clouds pasycd over. Then the truth was 'seini The grasshoppers were leaving ! Soon they were rising everywhere In great swarms and joining the clouds which wo had seen passing over. By the evening of the * next day there was scarcely a grasshopper left. The Joy of the people and the Impress- Iveneys ot the next Sunday's services can not be desrlbed. It can only be Imagined or remembered with a thrill of emotion. In some towns the church bells were rung and bonfires made for a general jubilee. The papers which had made fun ot the day of prayer for the most part preserved a decent silence. Some said simply that It nas a remarkable coincidence. Some said It way the regular time for the flight of the Insects , anyway. Others stood their ground and said , "Just wait till next spring when the millions of eggs hatch out and then see how much good the day of prayer did ! " Next spring the grasshopper eggs did hatch and prospects looked dark ; faith met a hard trial. The ground seemed filled with tha egg sacks. Various plans were proposed by scientists for destroying them , but the past experience with the nine-lived parents ot the embryo pests had been so disheart ening that there seemed to be little cause for bopo that the combat with the second generation even before they had become full- fledged hoppers would bo encouraged. Well do I remember a pan of earth that had been placed behind the steve to warm ready to bo used for tomato plants , and Its appearance In the morning. It seemed trans formed Into a mass of ridiculous , palo green , slim-bodied , long-legged , llttlo Insects. The heat had hatched them out In the night. It was surprising how such largo Insects as they appeared even when just hatched , could como from such tiny eggs. Watchlrig them , \vhilo bursting the egg skin as chickens would do , showed us how tightly legs and wings and head were packed together , and how they unfolded like a telescope or fan when freed from the pressure of the egg skin. Well , the millions ot eggs hatched and the grasshoppers began to grow and flourish , as the wicked always do , like a veritable forest of green bay trees. The papers said , "Wo told you so list summer , when , with childish belief In so- called faith , you had a day of prayer. " Dut before vegetation wau far enough ad vanced for moro than slight damage to bo done , the grasshoppers began to die. En tomologist Rlley told us the whole pestifer ous race would soon be exterminated , root and branch , for a parasite bad attacked them from which they could not escape. So It proved , and fields which had been the most dangerously threatened , yielded moat abund ant harvests because of the fertilization from dead grasshoppers.CLARA CLARA COLTON. THE ANIMAL EXTRACTS Free , Coupon , OMAHA 111:13 Detach nnd forward to Manufacturers. 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