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Show onco a long way from home).- Ma story runs that the queen possessed a strong desire to own the little volume in which tho names of these two (freat contemporary masters of fiction were thus associated; that an unlimited commission com-mission was Riven for its purchase, and ! that it eventually became her majesty's j property for tho sum of 25 10s., and was immediately transferred toiler keep iug. Tho original authority for tho statement state-ment appears to have been tho late Mr. Ilotten, tho publisher; but it is mora ; important to noto that Dickens' biog- rapher, Mr. John Forster, has given it ' additional currency. The Htrange part i of tho matter, however, is that tho royal . ! librarian knows nothing about it, except that no such book is included in the col-! col-! leLtion under his care. London Kuwti. i 1 - --... AN ARAB IVORY RAID- A Cruel Attack of Oim Trlbo Tpon Another An-other In tlio M ild, of Afrli:. j Soon after Tippo Tib's occupation of Stanley Falls in 1879 rumors reached Yabuli and tho neighboring1 villages of oppression and persecution by the Many-ema. Many-ema. Chiefs met together to impure of each other tho reason of this invasion. Lo?s than three years after Stanley's fiht with tho Basoko at the mouth of tho Aruwimi, the Manyema mercenaries of tl Arabj attached and destroyed several sev-eral villaj,'eB hiRher up the same river, having traveled overland from the Congo through the dense forests below Stanley Fa-Is; and descending tle Aruwimi river i in canoes they laid waste all the villages I by tho way, capturing men and women, ' and imposing fines of ivory for their ro-: ro-: demption upon those of the natives who i were fortunuto enough to escape to the woods. Although every precaution was taken by tho peot loof Yabuli to guard against mrprise, they instinctively felt impending impend-ing evil and a gloom settled over tho village affecting young and old alike. They all appeared to realize their isolated iso-lated position, escape being impossible as their neighbors were at enmity with j them and with each other, and the poor wretches lived in a condition of fear i bordering upon panic, j At last the evil day arrived. Early ! one morning, just before daybreak, they ; were suddenly startled by the loud reports re-ports of the Manyema guns. The forest around thevillngo appeared alive with armed men, who rushed among their I dwellings from all sides, firing recklessly, reckless-ly, sometimes in tho air, into the doors of tho hut;!, and at tho panic stricken savages, who rushed toward tho woods i for shelter. A few of the braver natives ' stood their ground and hurled spears and knives at their assailants, but one by one they dropped, shot by their brutal bru-tal enemy. Alter bring their muzzle loading mus- kefs many of the Manyema rushed upon the natives and clubbed thorn with the butt end of their guns. Tho women encumbered en-cumbered with their children, whom they were bravely trying to carry off to the shelter of the woods, were soon overtaken over-taken by tho Manyema, who roughly threw them to tho ground and bound their arms and legs. Nearly two-thirds of the women anil children were captured, capt-ured, including tho favorite wife of Ioko; but many of tho men and a few women managed to escape to the woods. Herbert Ward in Scribner's. |