Show the egeto ti ar AN ademy annihilated aten 1 M de barseck Sar seck the french consul at Mas Mai entered and was conducted before the king he was introduced into the royal palace and brought into the presence of king john a man of about thirty years of age of middle height slim his hair of deep black worn aft after r the abyssinian fashion eyes en energetic e I 1 his nose a little curved his mouth small his complexion bronzed brown as us an old florentine statue he ia Is extremely agie agile successful in all games brave to temerity as impassive as a hin doo and the best rider in his coun try when ba M de do Sair salt seck entered king john was seated in the ethiopian fashion squatted on a red and gold dais ascended by nine peeps in a hall hail forty metres long he e was enveloped in a large cloak of or cloth of gold and wore on his head the abe triple crown of Et ethoplas hopla resembling the crown of solomon such as it is painted on the walls of the church of the imperial pal pai palace a cc of gondar around him were the raz baz or feudatory princes in rich white and purple purple garments each wearing a light ight crown of gold on his hg head ea d on both sides of the hall according to rank were the great vassals of his crown and to complete this thoroughly oriental picture on one of the steps was reclining agos one of the four lions which according to etiquette precede the king in combats and to which king john has given the name of one of hn hia brothers killed in fighting 11 al M de barseck was struck by the thorough of this monarch who in the midst of this state audience 3 seemed to hayo have forgotten forgot t en that an implacable enemy was treading thu the soil of his country on thead the ad of november the tho king hing was that mac his nis count country was definitely invaded that the egyptian army had arrived at addico ala the last village that precedes the valley of condet and that the vanguard had penetrated into that valley ring king john then mounted his horse to proceed to a camp proceed whither lither he ba had convoked the warriors of abyssinia the khedive had bad thought that the negus was going to call on the princes his vassals to supply tho the contingent due but as these princes had been secretly aly hired by the khedive to revolt t john 6 saw they would refuse to obey and that he would be powerless he therefore preached prea ched the holy war wae the abouna the re chief of abyssinia had ordered a three days fast to which the king himself submitted and had bad commanded edmin andea all the warriors of the country under penalty of excommunication to liel ff if present resent dur alida arida tits expiration at the given place john mounted his bis Jib horse norse at ac the gate orbis palao palace rid rio lid nor thor at the foot of iro irb mount Chal chai loda ioda just as he ee was about ta ablio civo the tha signal oade i brej u te and wili will when all the inhabitants of adoba and the invaded provi 1 ludes inces vere were assembled there was a formidable earthquake aracri Ar crl cri and beasts yfeme thrown down W the roofs of several houses were displaced and from the summit of the chal chai ioda loufa blocks of stone and dud torrents of dust duat were precipitated to the feet of the tho ring eing every one was alarmed A moment of hesitation on the part of or tile tilo laig ole hie terror would have spread all over abyssinia ninja sinia alid left TL tapp of or the invaders nut but tin jumping fridia his horse himself 11 oh on tho the ground and cried enthusiastically 1 I thank god fe fer fie he lie sieps of protection tec tion which allow me that the day has his at length come como when the ancient lang land of B Ethiopia hail hali hall en gulph her invaders A shout of joy welcomed wel wei coined these words and the king ring fing re mounted his horse and left adoba amid the warm and prolonged applause of the multitude on oh tile the of november M de Barse barseck dk proceeded to thlu the ring king at tho the camp bere where here lie called his warriors together antaus astonishment may nth be imagined at seeing tile the nil elt eghi wio alo oil orl on the iho second of tb the month t h llad only a re few hundreds of caval cavalry rr in command of an army of men all abyssinia had responded to 6 li his f s call cail A A nation essentially feudal divided into a warlike aristocracy and an inferior class the nobles and princes are ara prompt to respond to tS a call to arms and six days nad had sufficed to col coi collect 1 I lect elect this formidable his whole army encamped in the great plain of mareb as if lie wished to offer battle to the vanguard posted at sherad iska in the night while his camp fires carefully kept up led to the belief that he be was posted osted eight miles milea from the enemy 2000 horse crossed the march and placed themselves on the flank of the eg egyptian tian van at less jess than a mile distant at the moment when the latter concealed in the woods were preparing to turn the hill to fall back there was heard something like a long peal of thunder getting louder as it approached and before there was time to give a command this living hurricane covered the narrow space on which the little Egypt egyptian lan lau troop was massed the abyssinian caa airy passed over the unfortunates th the negus from whom M de dc barseck requested a letter in reply to that of the president of t the he french republic and who had verbally consented to all required of him did his utmos tto retain the french consul about him he uc would liked to be able ablo to affirm that he rejoiced in the protection of france showing the official agent near him in the midst of his war flors but M de barseck declined returning to adoba and came back baek atter alter three different attempts without having been able abie to obtain the letter at length on the just as he was making up his mind to return for the king still remained he received the following curious letter of which my informant obtained and preserved a copy a translation of which he was kind enough to communicate to me from john by the grace of god king of the king kingg of ethiopia and of all its dependencies to the consul s u of france M de Ba barseck ho how tv are you my soldiers and myself thanks to heaven and to the intercession ter cession of the saints and the god of armies are safe and sound good news I 1 have con conquered q yBy BY the grace of god I 1 hav have be beaten aten my enemies of all the egy egyptians who invaded my countr country not one has survived mya A all ail I 1 are dead M my heart rejoices thou my friend come now without loss of time written at 9 of 1868 november 1875 M de do Sar amazement may be conceived for he had believed the king to be je in the camp and learned rr from oni the bearer of the royal letter ahat that john had the cam camp p on the loth and that on the in two engagements at a few hours Inte interval real fral the egyptian army first at sherad iska and next at gonda had been signally defeated and that leaders and soldiers Q wem were all killed this 0 onslaught n lasted a quarter of an hour the last jast horses had crossed the space only unconscious an and d mutilated remained alive fo for in their gallop the abyssinians ns struck down all who attempted to w withstand them thein arakel bey who had remained in the condet valley awa awaiting biting the order to advance received to cc ived tidings of the massacre he took the command of or the army and tried to strengthen his position during the three hours which elapsed bafo before re his hig own death the accomplished the distance in two hours and a half and attacked his improvised they were twenty to one the egyptians fought like lions lioni during three quarters of an hour but their efforts were use useless ieso leso the natural difficulties of the ground prevented the of the i rocks 0 k the enemy slipping through th the trees profiting by tho the slightest accident accidents had soon hemmed in the little army and rendered the use of firearms useless nor far driven forward by those behind them they ended by attacking the ments mentA with the bayonet and inside there was a haud to t hand struggle ohp th abyssinians ns had bad killed and or wounded arakel died like a hero struck by a first bullet he kept on his horse leaning on two soldiers sol soi diema diera of soudan A second ball made him slip from his horpe at the point of death lie he perceived the naib raib Dar kiko who had drawn egypt into this expedition and who after arter throwing oft off his clothes was trying to creep among the abyssinian Aral arai arakel rei cel raising himself by an effort struck him with two shots of a revolver and rind died after seeing the naib all fall london times rimes A memphis lover refused by hist his sweet heart thought to botten soften her stony hert heart by py a mock tragedy and out h W a p stol atol t 41 hg 41 placed ed the m muzzle muzzie zi at between en his arm a and nd h his side bide ide he e fell in simulation ef of deat death 1 A 1 real distio policeman who witnessed the tho affair f took the desperate lover to the station statton houe louse when he lodged over and 1 in th tho morning contributed 5 sor tor disturbing ta be tho peace the pious czar the threatened war iu iii europe presents itself under many aspe aspects ets from many different points of view yet certainly there is noth nothing ng more novel or more strange in th the whole question than the pious solicitude displayed by the czar for the principle of nationality the tho cause of justice nud aud the freedom of religion in this country cheri A a man claims to be a reformer we at once accept him as a reformer and as we ought ough t not to treat his russian majesty less courteously courteously than we treat ben hill or J john oh morrissey we are bound to accept his profession professions tt to 0 o believe that his heart is wrung at tbt th sight bight of Slavon fans ians s subject to ai tin alien allen race of christians bend in ing g under a moslem yoke of 0 subjects j act expose exposed d to arbitrary and vexatious law laws and of rebellions put down by nirh firn 11 and sword how tender must be too the heart which is so easil easily y moved by twe the woes of strangers and for foT foreigners eigners and yet how strange it is that the power which threatens to plunge europe nto into war rathie rather r than see vee the serviano ians oppressed or the bul but garlans punished with too cruelty has never felt any qualms of conscience over cruelties cruel ties ten times 3 more atrocious perpetrated on its own subjects it ic has been less than twenty years bibee since the last vestige of freedom di appealed from the tho caucasus less than sixteen years since this tenderhearted tender hearted czar was fusillading fusil lading women and c children ildren h in the streets of warsaw ladles le less lesa sa than five years since lie placed on the wandering 0 of f t an the sam same ealler eallen alien allen domination n tion which so suddenly moves his resentment after ib it has lasted for years in the insurgent provinces of turkey the history of russian agaran i diz ement and of russian aggression is one in which mercy justice and humanity have not hot only been uh unknown but bub in which cruelty injustice and brutality seem tollace to have been indulged merely to delight the stupid despotism which allowed them free sway the partition of poland is an old story but the story of russians Rus bus sias cruelty in poland is renewed every day it is a persecution se of race of religion of language of the family of humanity the polish language which records the deeds of their ancestors and the libi history tory of their race is forbidden in jin the schools and in the courts their religion is suspect suspected etl eil and dud persecuted il nay oty oky even their private life even the cut of their garments is 14 nott 0 safe from the uneasy jealousy s Y v alch constantly casts abor abort about tuf for tor or some excuse for new punishments and new cruelties cruel ties T turkey ke y h has as never per persecuted her gid greek e ury catholic subjects as 4 russia has persecuted her roma roman 11 1 subjects and to russia th the oatho gatho lie and rind the Mahome Maho tati tall fi are r all ali I 1 one ono the territory on the blaek black sea which twel twelve vet years yearn ago was waa the tho home of half million of haroy hardy Is t today to aay dax day a desert t the he entire population having havi ng taken refuge in turkey after the subjugation t of schamyl and the steady extension of russian power across tp tle tie great desert of asia has made even the herds heida of 0 the he tartar pay bay their tribute ltd ia fix roubles and kepics to h a tax collector who visits delin delinquents I 1 cuts with fire and abd if their air religion i is 19 spared it Is because tha the government ent neither knows cpr npr n or cares what it labut 1 but it would be a tery tory unhappy day bussian for these poor moslems if their russian governors should sus suspect that get ret net I 1 ba luat reli roli religion lorr was any bond or any source of strength the cruelties cruel ties of russia do not of course courso excuse the cruelties cruel ties of turkey key kes and the demands which itus sia makes may beho benor mord nord nora ihan than the demands of humanity but in irl pretending that humanity ig s the motive behind her ft demands mands bassia russia is dulity of a hardly carea cares anether it 1 detected and ana there thero Is dayal kcal denn de fl ance of f decency not 0 only n ly in iche tb e contrast between her prof professions essi essl ns and her practices but in the contrast on between the motive which whid is assumed and the motive which has avowedly shaped her policy for years Q citizens liti zens zeng of the united unito states who ought ba naturally fu rally raily to have a detestation of russian tyranny have only toa much admiration for dor Russian power and grent great reat admiration mi ration which is not mait Malt at it lessen lewsen asen e ed I 1 by the circumstances that england and russia russi a are opposed in interest we should be on our guard against this feeling which is at best an unworthy one and not allow our sympathy for tho the sed bed to be abused by a tyrant who artfully appeals to principles which he has never respected st S louis globe democrat tim TUB SORT OF A WOMAN TO dream mrs alien allen of calaveras talaveras Cala veras cal lives on the stage road between ballf railroad 60 tt I 1 a t ana and W west est cat point and she bhe dreamed stra strange go drea dreams riis on october mh her h ouse e was entered erd by a robber during her absence and her lier watch ail all and d pocketbook stolen that night she saw in her dream a thief thiet enter her house take the watch and follow the trail u up P thib the river in the morning bh she bhe e whistled for fon dorher jhen dog mounted hen her horse hors alid anul anui anil a iid ild followed the trail u up acied stream aalde A fide yide of or a P milo brought her to abold sip sup old gan oan abandoned boned quartz mill and in ift the iho ruins slid she discovered discover iM the man bhe eho had seen been in her hen dream she accused him of the theft but he stoutly denied having committed it she determined to go to west point for an officer flaer bf but after proceeding a 6 short di distance fo i to make the tramp give up the PIU plu plunder at all hazard hazards 6 when W 11 e if 1 he she re reached a cli ell edthe the mill the man had bad gone but with w ith the ald aid of the dog she over overtook took him about half a mile up the ridge dismounting and arming herself with a stout club she choll coolly y I 1 in informed him that she ille knew lie ho had the and money she let loose the dog upon him and dealt I 1 him a blow upon the head which fi felled him to the ground she found her watch steh and find her wallet in i his boots mrs |