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Show X OF WA1TXU. vanquished, uc prophetic nakAoM ONE DAT of that immortal refrain of bv the people, That government the people and for the people, shall PROVED SUFFICIENT FOR THE earth."--Ex-ti- en : UNLUCKY WAITER, not prrinh from the tor Ingalls - j tar a The linul y Shrapnel. Jtahlad a Luash Csmbr-Asns- M Recent experiences in little wars in Jab the Vnoag Maa Bless Himsslf Is the far last and in pcacrf.il practicin' btaad Hablad tha Bar aad U area Oat havecauwd military expert to class Fisa aad Hlik, Bat t'aasas ta Urtot RESACA. AU to (till scre--a tlM valley. An an luy aur nuaa al Mat. Sava tha ul ket'a raadun vollay Unlaw Ins froaxloj eratL WUk alon tkn borirnn rim btrnaund Milov at Am aod anVka And thru thn fun. vruy aad .rlai. W Una all our batuinna woke i 1 r illy and thane By column uuuwrl (la tha halxhla of tha rlrnr'a -- tmra, Krtraatlaa down tan nhady miro With a rumbliax volley and runr. Jl a wall in that dreadful fray. When they eaian with nnry lirrath, Harri-aa- 's menaral Blood Ih it d i y When they aid tha lire of doath iln-- Tbay checked the lid of tha rnlm'i ray And unaltered ilia truoimof Harden Aloe i thMlauulau'n aandv way. When Johanna chanced wlih Ma army. -- 41 W. H Ci ura. W rr' Kara Thaneaada Fall. li id reckoned that within ten mile of Chattanoogi more fighting was dune than anywhere else during1 the late war, and tha battle-li- e id in that neighborhood are particularly inter- esting ua that account. At that point tha Western military oprrmtione were concentrated, writea a iVanhington correa poa dent of the Dos Urn Tran-arri- pt Into the valley below Mission Ridge the bold eminence of lookout mountain proJoels. Thus from tlin top of Lookout mountain spectator can view the whole scene of the conflict of Miaalon ltidga. The liana are to ha marked along Miaalon Uiilgn where Gragg's army wtte stationed, and where the regiments of the army of tha Cumberland attacked hnn. Likewise tha Union and the Confederate liuee will be indicated on lookcan out mountain, which battle-fiel- d be viewed from the top of Mission Uidg From Lookout mountain the can look down upon the which the army of the Cumberland, under General Thomas, threw np around Chattanooga. Although the town haa been extended over a great part of the works, some of the fortifications stilt remain and will be preserved intact The site of other forte and earthworka will be marked with tabteta placed on bulldlnga or otherwise. At Chattanooga the Tennenaea river make a turn so as to leave a point nf laud known aa Mountain point, it la shaped like an Indian Just at the big to of the moccasin waa stationed a Union battery. It waa directly under Lookout mountain and the Confederate kept firing at It eonatantly, but they could rarely hit it Because men are accustomed only to aiming at object at or nearly on a level they find it very difficult to shout down hill or up hill with accuracy. That la one reaaon why thn Federal were able to atorm successfully tha pracipltona ascent of Mieahm Ridge. Their adversaries could not hit them aa they cam up The ideal place to defend is not a steep but a gebtle slope. One of tha mint extraordinary incidenta of the war occurred at this very battle. Uenersi Sheridan rode up the mountain on horse bark a wonderful feat in Itself. At a turn in tha pathway he suddenly found self close in front of a hostile battery, almost at tha mwtilee of tha guns. A touch of a match and horse and rider would have been blown to atom But, not losing hi nerve fur an instant, ha waved hia hand with a gesture of command to tha soldiers who manned the cannon, saying: "Steady, boy! Dont shoot dont shoot I And they were ao taken by surprise that they did not alioot. Before they had time to consider the matter further the Union troops had come np and they fled. During the fighting which went on about Chattanooga Ueneral I! rant had hia headquarters on a little hill called Orchard KnoU Tha place ha occupied for this purpose will be suitably marked with a tablet ee se moe-i-aai- : tha ahrupnel shell the gunner's most deadly weapon. There have been man? improvements in the shell and Uie manner of using it hi recent years. J t consists of n hollow cylinder of steel filled with bullet and Having in its head or its base a charge of powder just sufficient to break the cylinder when desired. Tlie charge is tired bv a time fuse, which light itself from the flash in thn gun sud fires the charge after a fixed number of seconds or by a percussion fuse, which explode the charge whenever tint shell strikes the object aimed at. The time fuse makes the shrapnel do its deadliest work Firing at a targ.-- t 3,000 yards away the guuner wi 1 time tlie fuse to explode the shell 10 ab ut yur is short of the target, wh-fifteen feet from the ground. Th.i 13 I bullets rush on, spreading aa they go, and tarrying destruction to a mane points over an area twenty yards wide and 300 yards long. "One such i of bulleta," says an expert wh lms lately been studying the effects of shrapnel fire In actual warfare aad in artillery experimenting, "would due a 'errible effect upon any body of troo'is within its area. Fifty or a hundred such showers falling within a few tufnutea in the an me area would utterly destroy all living things upon the ground they rirpt The modern gunner's ubjet i accordingly to niter with a quick succession of shrapnel-bullhurricanes the region wiie re hia enemy is to be attacked. WatCsuSml lur One. When General Sherman waa In command nt Benton Barrack ML Louis, he was in the habit of visiting every part of that institution, and making himself familiar with everything lint waa going on. lie wore an old brown coat ami a "stovepipe hat aad was not generally reu.igiiLed by the minor official or tiia soldiers. One duy, white walking through the grounds, ha met with n soldier who waa i fully beating a mule. "Stop pounding that mule," said the general. "Uit emit! aaid the soldier, in blissful ignorance of the person to whom ha waa speaking. I toll you to stop," reiterated the Uaeola at Oatljraborg. Abraham Lincoln and Edward Everett apoka at the dedication of the National cemetery at Oettyahurg, November It, IMS. The place, the occasion, tha audience, the associations were in the highest degree inEverett was an orator spiring. of deserved renown, with copious and glittering vocabulary, graceful rhetoric, strong, cultivated mind, elegant scholarship a rich, flexible voice, and a noble presence. Hia address occupied two hours in delivery, and waa worthy of the speaker and hia theme. At the close, Lincoln rose slowly on the platform of the pavilion. From au ancient ease he drew a pair of eteeUframed spectacles, with bows clasping upon the temples In front of the earn, and adjusted them with deliberation. He took from his breast pocket a few sheets of foolscap which ne unfolded and held la both hands. From this manuscript, In low tones, without modulation or emphasis, he read 366 words, and aat down before his surprised, perplexed, and disappointed auditors were aware that he had really begun. It left ao impression, so it waa said, except ml la consternation and n modi tied sense of failure. None supposed that one of the gnat oration of tha world had been pronounced in tha five minutes which Mr. Lincoln occupied in reading hia remarks But tha studied, elaborate and formal upeech of Mr. Everett haa long been forgotten, while the few sonorous and solemn sentence of Lincoln will remain so long aa constitutional liberty abides among men. Henceforth, whoever recalls the story of the battle of Gettysburg, when tha fate of freedom and the union hung trembling upon that awful verge, will hear above the thunder of its reverberating guns, above the exuHinr shouts of tha victor and tha despairing criea of tha et uu-m- er general You mind your business and I will mind mine," replied tha soldier, continuing hia flank movement upon the mule. "I tell you again to atop." said General 8. "Du vou know who 1 am? I am General Sherman." Thiit'a played out," said the soldier. "Every men who eomes along here with an aid brown coat ami a stovepipe hat on claims to he General Sherman." It is presumed Sherman that for once General considered flanked. himself out- Valuable Lantara. written with a pencil on a shingle waa once admitted to probate iu the United Suites. The author of Gossip of the Centura tells a story still more cui ioua Two British soldiers, comrades, while talking over the chances of war on the eve of a battle, agreed that which ever one of them survived the other should inheritall hia possessions. To insure the carrying out of their Aa agreement, they made their will paper and prna were not ut hand, they scratched their "last will and testament" on a horn lantern with a runty nail. Tha lttle waa fought and one of the comrades waa killed. The other man, in course of time returned to England, carrying with him tha singular document Retook it to Doctors' Common, where it waa proved and allowed. Then it appeared that the poor follow who had died in battle had, without hearing of it inherited property yielding . 09 a year, and the legatee under the horn-lantewill received the inheritance. A will rn Artillery First That the earths motion haa an appreciable effect upon artillery fire, deflecting the projectile from a straight course, may be news to many and as such would probably seem a novel notion. It haa, and the exact nature and extent of effect is an Important point of utudy with artillery expert. An English army expert told of tha results of many interesting experiments along this line in a paper read before the Royal artillery institution tha other day. Firing from north to south there is a divergence of projectiles to the left, due to the earth's rotation, and firing due north the divergence is to the right The extent of the "pull" varies at different point on the earths surface, and with projectiles fired at different speed nnd elevations. In England a deflex t ion of five inches is found to occur with the projectile of a twelve pounder in a 4,00-yarrange. rosaadreass at tbs Wroa Tims. Army teamsters have always been proverbial for the sclentitlo volubility of swearing Modern times have not altered this fact A teamster with the Cumberland army got stuck in the mod and ha let fly a stream of black ami blue oatha that would have astonished "our army in Flanders" even. A chaplain, passing at the time, was greatly shocked to hear such solid balls of nouns aubatantive whlxxing d around. My friend,''aaid he to tha taamater, in plaintive accents, do yon know who died for sinners?" "D your conundrums! Don't you see I'm stuck in the mud? Tha worthy chaplain here became o eonfuaed that ha triad thirteen times in hia mind to make joiner's work of the question and answer, but wua obliged. like Dogberry, to "give It up" American Tribune. A new A Fast Torpedo Boat. French torpedo boat, the lansquenet, attained a speed of x twenty-siknots, nearly thirty miles, an hour on her official trial two weeks The ago. boat is the fastest craft In the French navy, fine la 163 feet four inches long, fifteen feet eight Inches broad, draw four feet three Inches of water and displaces 136 tons. She haa twin screws, with triple expansion engines indicating t,8U0 horse powsa YOUR HEAD TO THE NORTH. Tha Froper Way ta Wasp Asssrdlag ta tow Msdlesl AutSurltlss. There appears to be foundation for the idea that sleeping with the head is beneficial, pointed northward many people claim to have been benefited by observing the rule, and a London editor i quoted by the Brooklyn Eagle as saying recently: Years ago 1 suffered from nervous irritation and consequent loss of sleep. I fancied that I slept better In some rooms than in others and, after trying to ascertain why, came to the conclusion that a great deal depended upon the position of the bed. For twenty-fiv- e years 1 have had my bed placed with the head to the north, or aa near that point aa I can get, and I have found great adIn DM1 a vantage in doing aa writer la the Revue Phllosophique aaid: "la there then, an agency capof exercising a continuous able action on the apparatus of the nerves, varying with the position of the bead? To my mind this ageuey exists and is non other than terrestrial magnetism. It Is beyond dispute that galvanic currents exercise a powerful effect on our nervous system, but that electro magnets themselves produce marked effects in certain nervous affection " To this the author add the note: I have this fact from M. Nordstrom, Swedish consul at Alger: Dr. Julus Von dem Fischweiler, a physician at Madgeburg, who died lately, asserts in hia will that hia own great age (109 years) is to be ascribed entirely to hia constant habit of sleeping with hia bead to the north." IVoba-bl- y the benefits to be derived from the position of ones bed are wholly Imaginary, but many persona have tried It and testify to a aenae of benefit from the change to that position from a previous one A very eminent physician said on this subject: "My opinion is that it la a piece of nonaenae worthy of some superstitious old lady. I would rank it with fortune tolling and table wrapping." Hindoos, Russians and Japanese are opposed to sleeping with their head to the north, but their objections are baaed on superstitious -- It looked easy enough and in my Innocence, alias ignorance, I thought it waa it did not Appear to require an enormcua amount of muscular force, nor, above all, to demand more That than a minimum of brain suited me to a tee. Pecuniary troubles had begun to burden my mind tha more aa my purse became less of a burden to my body, and 1 felt that something mutt be done, 1 must live and to live I must eat To eat 1 bad often sought the marble bar of a lunch cafe, and as I gazud scrota 1L between my munches of pie and tips of coffee, at the nonchalant waiters. It occurred to me that It was easy enough, and then there was $7 per week in it and table board. Therefore I determined a waiter at a bar I would be. I singled out the manager of a large city cafe and tackled for a job, lie says a Chicago Herald writer, asked me if 1 bad had experience aa a waiter and I answered In the affirmative, with Intent to deceive. Ha liked my looks and engaged me. Promptly at 6 the next morning I was on hand, and attiring myself In my white coat took my place behind the bar and waa lnitiatod into the myateriea of the check system. Then 1 waa left to my own devices and watched some of my colleague wiping off the counter with wet cloths. Soon the head waiter came rushing up and wanted to know what the inferno I was standing there loafing for, any way. 1 politely explained that aa I waa a I waa getting to the place gradually sort of getting acclimated aa It were. "Acclimated, sheol!" he remarked, with evident emotion and strode away pulverising a commandment and strewing the powder in his wake. Everything was now prepared for the rush. Each waiter had a certain portion of the bar to look after and soon all had their hands fulL Subh article as they had not to hand they called aloud for, designating themselves by the several number that were their noma de guerre. The noise began as the first of the noon patrons came In, in a subdued murmur of "Ham sandwich, numb foh; dror one; "doughnut, numb sick. " Tha murmur gained in force and volume aa the throng of lunebers grew In density, and when they were dammed up and waiting, three deep, behind the stools, pandemonium had come indeed. Shrieks, howls, yells, execrations, prayers, walls, groans, cries and aobo, for cake and coffee, salads and strawberries, ice cream and pie, rent the air Incessantly. A blind man at a little distance might have supposed some horrid helooauat were being enacted and blessed hia infirmity for saving him the full horror of it Crockery rattled, spoons, knlvea and forks jingled, the white-coate- d waiters flashed to and fro and tha eaters grumbled and swore because their servitors lacked eyes like spiders and arms like oetopL new-com- "Clatter-atter-batter-- at tor-clac- went the dishea went the "Chile nsal 1 ! k g! plated-war- e. dtongueiand'lchstacko'-plateaclroron- o! ! shouted & Na ! ! went a stack of plates from the grasp of some luckless wretch. Tree fried -appelpielcetcaspoonswanteddroronei. yelled' Na spoon 8L went a new relay of "Lera 'meringue pot tesald- - platestrawber bakedbeansgluabut mtlkdrorchocultdrorone! Na ! -- I" shrieked 1. went the acoompanymsnt These things excited me greatly. I rushed hither and thither and emulated the discordant noises ot the others, but somehow or other, I didnt seem to have the knack and nothing came of It; but I served out bread and glasses of ice water to The bread and water everyoneseemed to be my forte and I was beginning to grow quite proud of this achievement when a gentleman addressed some invidious remarks to me through a highly sarcastic nose in the course of which ho naked if I thought I waa dealing out rations at Cherry 1111L I disposed of him in short order told him to go get Lis - faoe fixed. lie seemed much almshed. My o tlier client, however, now rebelled, swore at and applied epithets to me which I returied at a usurious rate of interest While gliding over the Hoar, well lubricated with spilt milk and butter, after more bread and water, tie earth suddenly changed its equlibrium and came in contact with me so forcibly that 1 saw into tha krthest recesses of the starry universt where undreamed-o- f sum, moons aad solar systems esvorted in a drnnkea dance in regions not yet mapped. Some knlvea and forks made a plumb line from my hands towards the senith, and I am firmly convinced that they penetrated the oeiling and roof and are at present leading a vagrant existence out In space as comets or meteors or something. I arose and served more water and bread and partook in more mutual abuse, and finally quitting time came. As I want out 1 stopped at the cashier desk and was told that my services ware no lunger req sired. I remonstrated and tried to txplain. but it was useless It aeeaed the gentleman with the aarcasti: noao whom I had counseled to hare his features revised was none other than the proprietor of the eslabliihment hlmselL grounds ' A It FOOL KINGFISHER, Paratotod la Stealing a Anglnr's Bait aad Cams ta GrlaC Now, let me tell you a little inci- dent or two that happened to me last summer, says a correspondent of One dny, as the American Angler. I waa walking across the river bridge with two frienda and happenod to look down Into the water, which, by the way, la about forty feet distant from the bridge, laaw a pickerel about two feet ( long, lying there in the clear water near the shore. I told my friend to stay there and I would get my rod and line and a live minnow and cutoh the fish. I did so and put a nice little shiner on the hook I had an automatic reel with ninety feet of line on lb I let the minnow down In the water, and it hardly reached there before a kingfisher came down from under the bridge, seized my minnow and started down the riven When he got the line straightened out he let the minnow drop, and I supposed he went on down the river, so I started once more to catch the pickerel, but had hardly got my line in shape again WILLOW AS A CROP. TO CONDEMNED DIE. Catting Time Coma Osh la Faar fear Hal It Fays. CHRISTIANS WILL HAVE TO PAY" lowland of In a beautiful sweep THE PENALTY north of Melvale station on tha Northern Central railroad, and about la Blot nine miles from the city, there la a Far illtsH Participation Raglan Mala t'allnd Will ta Baltimore peculiar farm, says the BiUar-Tarhlah tha With It Interfere American. It ia peculiar In that Santas cef renders to it owner and tiller but a one crop in four years and that a erop of willow shoots. The farmer, Antone Spath, came from Frankfort, Germany, many years aga and after erecting himself a comfortable stone house, which still stand In the midst of a picturesque clump of willows at the end of the little valley, set about planting hia first crop of willow shoots Every year since be has gone on planting row after row until the valley haa become covered with them. Spath had learned the art of weaving willow ware in hia boyhood days by the shores of the river Main, ani aa fast aa hia little plantation grew he gathered the shoots, stripped them of their green outer covering and after drying them wove baskets of every conceivable form or size. "It aeems rather peculiar work in this country," said the willow farmer in speaking of his business, "but in all parts of Europe, especially in the German provinces, it It a very common thing to find willow plantations and willow weavers, fur thora willow la used in many forma and for a greater number of purposes than I find it used in this country. In Germany and France willow is employed In making at least twenty different sorts of bird cages, while in America metal is used brass or iron wire and different wood Among the heat families in European countries cradles, woven by tha German workers, may be found constructed entirely of willow. Then there are a hundred and one shapes of marketing baskets, baskets used by milliners and laundresses, baskets and panniers to be carried upon tha backs of men and beasts for holding fish and fowl. To prepare the willow fur tha weaver we plant the slips in long rows, parallel with a running stream of water, and eut them when they have attained four years of growth. The cutting time is early in the spring, before the sap ia done running, and after tying them in bundles they are placed in ponds of water to keep them in a green state until ready for stripping. Stripping the willow ia accomplished by drawing the switches through and between two heavy iron stanchions, whose edges peel the light green bark from the white heart, and then, after drying or curing them upon long racks, we have got the willow in a form for the weaver. "It waa many years after I planted this farm with willows before anyone thought of Imitating my example, but now, there are several other plantations located upon the Washington and Annapolis roads, and though you may find quite aa busy scene there you will scarcely find a more picturesque place than this anywhere, and that waa one of the reaaon that led me to settle here. WHY HE KILLED Aa Italian HIMSELF. School bo jr'l Extraordlaair when down came Mr. Kingfisher and Latter Explaining Bis loleldo. took the minnow again. Hits time, At Bologna a boy 18 years of age, however, he went back to the bridge, Giovanni Costa, who waa in the "gymand after a moment or twa let the nasium" of that town, committed minnow fall back In the river, and I suicide with a revolver. Ilia last will then went after the pickerel again, and testament has just been distriband for the third time down came uted among his schoolfellow It ia Mr. Kingfisher, but he got the hook lithographed, and contains the folalong with the minnow and I held lowing paragraphs: him fast He flew straight up in the L Causes of my death Last year I air and I let him have the whole fell in love with Emma Fizzirani, but ninety feet of line; then I reeled him waa unrequited. This ao affected in from the sky and you never heard ma that I neglected my school duties. such a noise as he made, but I landed I fell behind my schoolfellows, and, him all right 1 then took him and in consequence, should not have been showed him to all the fishermen in able to finish my studies in time to town and then let him go, and he get free from military service. I am went back to the bridge therefore obliged to kill myself (1) for unrequited love; (8) for the frePICKINGS FROM PAPERS, quent reprimands of my masters; (8) to escape being a soldier, which Coachman's and footman's livery would be hateful to ma must harmonise with the color of the under the especially present government (!): carriage. and, lastly, because of the sorrow 1 An advertiser in a paper says he have already caused my parents, and bus a cottage to let containing six especially my dear mother. rooma and an acre of land. R I appoint my friend and schoolA stump orator wanted the wings of fellow August Liveranl my executor, a bird, to fly to every village and ham- and request him to give me a quiet let in the broad land, but be collapsed funeraLbut I shall be greatly pleased when a man in the crowd sang out: if my friends and acquaintances "You'd get shot for a goose before yon would follow me to the grave. S. I leave my watch to flew a mile. my father, as well as tha task of comforting my At a recent wedding of a fashionable Christian eoupla in New York city mother for my death. To my mother, the "Chuppsh" of the Hebrews waa whose tears I have o often caused lined in tha service. Tha marriage to flow, I leave all my handkerchiefs took place under a canopy of white in order to dry them, and beg her satin supported by four pillars. pardon. I leave to my sister Ada the with tho death's head wkloh 1 "Jack, the Hair Cutter, is a new ring wore; to my sister Ida my always fiend that is causing little children which have not yet been puband young girls with long and beau- letters lished. tiful hair considerable trouble in the A I intend shooting Eastern district, Brooklyn. During myself with a the last three months at regular in- revolver which our dear family doe-to- r, Dr. Brijatto, has lent me ia extervals this man haa robbed tha school change for my old gun. and beg that children of their hair. he not he oonsidered responsible From 1820 to 1856 there came to this for may death. If I had not had hia my country 4,311,834 immigrants, of whom revolver I should have committed about X 500,000 came to settle, while suicide in tome other tha others were mere visitors or so- am too tired of life to manner, for I llva journers. During tha thlrtv-ai- x years, 1856-9tha nnmber of immigrants His Fsts had risen to the total of 11.371,959, ao Mias Laura Oh. You rethat altogether during the century member Mr. Meeker auntie! who went from 14,000,000 aliens have arrived in the here as a missionary? I have just United State heard that those awful cannibals ate Among the many Russian articles cf him. use and beauty now Imported to thla Aunt Sophronia La. me! I do hope country are girdle for feminine they cooked him with turnip' The waist They are, like most Rus- poor dear man waa so fond ot turnips! sian ornament gorgeona to the last degree. The girdle itself la mad of Joseph Maytubley, a cloth woven with threads of gold or Choctaw Indian, has been awarded the silver. The buckle la usually a large highest honor for oratory at tha metallic affair bedizened with Bysaa-tin- e Trinity College. Durham, N. C., decoration. full-blood- Special Cores pon4eucl he ikterfer-- ence of either England or the United IS t tee in behalf of the seventeen Armenians who were sentenced to death for alleged participation in the spring riots a t fwutrea and Msraovsn haa been hitherto confidently anticip-inadvice seem to ated. The latest interpoeition dicate that the hoped-fo- r will come from England, and addifrom Arderived tional informaton menian resident in tliia city aupporta. this view. In regard to the matter our government is placed in a peculiar position. The disturbance at Maraovan cul- minated in the destruction of the Girls' school build-"- ? ing, an institution'' erected and conducted by Americans. The Rev. Dr. G. T. Herrick of instructor vxxinin. New York ia ita principal- - Representations were at once made to the Porte by our minister at Constantinople Mr. Thompson, with the result that an irade was granted by the auitan, giv-l- ng the college the atatna of an officially recog- nized institution snd declaring all . . . its property free from taxation. Steps were taken to prosecute persona 5! believed to be e for the e riot among them-thchief of police, whose removal si axis adji ax. lowed, lint in ad-dition to these disgraced officials a number of Armenian Christians were Thomaian, arrested, inclnd ng Prof Venides, Kayayan. Theokharide Manisadjlan and Apastiades, instruct on attached tothe college. Theeemen, seventeen in all, have been tried hnd sentenced to death at Angora on n charge of having provoked the riot A meeting waa held in London on June 33 to protest against the execution of these men and to urge action on the part of the British government. As the position in which the condemned men are placed ia indirectly traceable the demand for reparation made by the United 8tates government to the Subl me forte, and aa the late secretary of the American legation in Constantinople, Harry R. Newberry, had even requested the American cf liege authorities to suspend the accused professors, it seems rather difficult for this country to protest. The question ha however, been repeatedly aaked within the past ten . day in tha British house of common aa to whether the fol-rit- or. ' t British govern- ment intended to interfere. Mir Edward Grey, parliamentary secretary of the foreign office, replied that there was no prob--, ability of the death sentences carried out being prior to the further hearing of the ease before the Turkish court of appeal According to several Armenian reddenta of New York, moat of whom are now American citizens, English interference ia certain in the matter. One of these gentlemen, P. M. Ayvad, the an of an Armenian newspaper proprietor and for years resident in Constantinople, says that hia countrymen have long that some definite actionanticipated would be taken in their interest by Mr. Gladwhose aversion to Turkish stone, methods of treating Christiana ia well-knoeverywhere. The American Armenians describe the condition of affairs in their native country as quite intolerable. There are virtually no constitutional rights accorded to Christian Trials are a feroe. Aa an instance of this they quote the case of Mansaa Bey. accuaed of assaulting an well-informe- d Armenian girl . three years ago. He was tried by a Turkish court and acquitted. Popn-lar indignatien resulted in his being put on trial fort:: second time. A representative of each foreign power ao-credited at the Sultans court was IxsTRucTOH axas-present at the trial TIAn11-and a con viction followed, but the aneniy was , culprit never imprisoned. The rapidity which . the conviction of these distinguished Christian cul-leprofessors is considered a corresponding case in the other direction. There is one lew for the faithful und another for the infldeL action England V take she is fortified by the sixty-fir- maysection of the Treaty of Berlin, and also lw a clause in the Treaty of Cyprus, or Turkish Convention, both of which provided for the protection of righto of Armenian Christian Not long since Mr. Gladstone wrote a letter to a prominent Armenian expressing his determination to take np. the whole question of Ottoman ernment In Armenia as soon aa gov Irish home rale bill is out of the the way. ot Irfh wlt Mbrtd in . wnico oh Htinic nikitT floum. It an. waa tonrist shown tJbahtoh!a. st |
