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Show j AN ARAB tVdfTf' MO. A Cruel A Hark of One Trltie tTpoa An other In the Wild ef Afrit. Soon after Tippo Tib's occupation of Stanley Falls in 1879 minors reached Yabuli and the neighboring villages of oppression and persecution by the Many-em. Many-em. Chiefs met together to inquire each other the reason of this invasion Less than three years after fctanleyl tight with the Bnsokn at the mouth of the Aruwiini, the Manyema mercenaries of the Arabs attacked and destroyed several sev-eral villages higher up the same river, having traveled overland from the Congo through the dense forests below Stanley Falls; and descending the Aruwimi river b canoes they laid waste all the village by the way, capturing men and worcen and imposing fines of ivory fur their redemption re-demption npon tiiose of tho r.ativas who were fortunate enough to escape to the woods. Although every precaution wu taken by the people of Yabuli to guard against surprise, they instinctively felt impending impend-ing evil and a gloom settled over the village affecting young and old alike. They all appeared to realize their isolated iso-lated position, escape being impossiM os their neighbors were at enmity with liem and with each other, and the poor wretches lived in a condition of fear bordering upon panic. At last the evil day arrived. Early one morning, just before daybreak, they were suddenly startled by the loud report re-port of the Manyema guns. The forest around the village appeared alive with armed men, who rushed among their dwellings from all sides, firing recklessly, reckless-ly, sometimes in the air, into the doors of the huts, and at the panic stricken savages, who rushed toward the woods 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. i After firing their muzzle loading muskets mus-kets many of the Manyema rushed npon Ihe natives and clubbed them with the butt end of their guns. The women encumbered en-cumbered with their children, whom they were bravely trying to carry off to the shelter of the woods, were soon over-'aken over-'aken by the Manyema, who roughly threw them to the ground and bound f ' dr anus and bars. Nearly tu.-a-Uiirl must come it is great fun and your husband, too; isn't he at home?" ' "Mr. Clifton was called away today on business," answered Elizabeth, "and I'm afraid I can't leave mother for any length of time." But the party would not accept this excuse. Mrs. Clifton the elder was used to being alono they knew that, and she young Mrs. Clifton must be lonely, with her husband away. Protestations wero useless; so finally, seeing there waa no way of escape, Elizabeth Eliza-beth yielded gracefully, only stipulating that fhe must tell her mother-in-law where she was going. Two or three of tho party wanted to go in her stead, but this she positively refused to allow. There was a farm a short distance up the road, whero their conveyance awaited them, and Mrs. Clifton agreed to meet j them there. Some of the people would have insisted on accompanying her; but, being possessed of quick intuition, and divining that the young brido was in no mood for company, Miss Earlo dragged the whole party toward the meeting place, leaving Elizabeth to hurry home alone. "If they have had a tiff she had better forget her misery in company, after she has had time to recover herself," was Miss Eurle's wise reflection. Young Mrs. Clifton informed her mother-in-law of the invitation, which she was of course urged to accept, said good-by, and went to her own room to make some changes in her toilet. She lingered over the process as long as possible, putting off the moment of joining join-ing the merry makers until she felt she must go. Then she started out at a very laggard pace. Hardly had Elizabeth entered tier room when her husband knocked at his mother's door. "Why, Henry! yon have got back very early." cried the invalid in surprise, when her son appeared in answer to her "Come in." "Yes, Ormsby was away; I couldn't do anything. I shall have to go tomorrow," to-morrow," Mr. Clifton answered, as he stooped to kiss the face upturned to his. "If I hadn't known you expected F.e , home this cvoning I would have remained re-mained all night." . 1 This total ignoring of his wife s tied Mrs. Clifton, and one look inf son's n face strengthened her - - lies! they must ie re- -cnu6 Corny" r mf, "Kit Kitty," the hero atrangely enough, is a market living at one of the river vil-ttle vil-ttle higher up than Teddington. b Mail. IIAU mil llllVULAllUll. r.er destination she nc e outside the wood wa. 4rly uprooted, while the bran, ,most denuded of the leaves whs, co days before had glowed in all i and gold glory of autumn. Then membered that it had stormed the us day one of those violent t which sometimes como early and b forests of their foliage. With a i Elizabeth wondered if a chill had over every one was the winter 1 come? Left alone in her qtiiet room the elder Mrs. Clifton leaned back in her armchair arm-chair looking grave. "Poor child! I wonder if they have had their first quarrel? Well, 1 suppose it must come some timo. They will be all right by evening. I am sorry Il iry was obliged to be gone all day; I wish I could help them," and she ended her soliloquy so-liloquy with a sorrowful shake of the head. j In the meantime Elizabeth did not get ' a chance to enter the wood; for, as she j stopped by the bent tree, she glanced np j the road and saw in tho distance a party of ladies and gentlemen whom she fancied i she recognized. They evidently knew hor, for they waved their handkerchiefs, shouting and gesticulating frantically. As they came nearer she saw that they wero the yonng people belonging to sev- eral families in the neighborhood, all of whom bad called on her and at whose ! houses she had visited. Elizabeth stood her ground. "There is no use in retreating into the wood," she told herself; "they would only follow and hunt me up. I must submit." She did so very unwillingly, however, for she did not feel in the least like seeing see-ing strangers; she consoled herself by thinking that they probably had some object in view and would soon go on their way. She was disappointed in this, for no sooner had greetings been exchanged than the foremost of tho party Miss Earle, a young lady to whom Elizalieth had taken quite a fancy and who was a favorite of Mrs. Clifton's cried out: "How lucky! We were just coming to the house after yon. We hal planned a picnic for today, but yesterday's storm has made the wopda too damp, so we have decided to take a straw ride instead. Yon |