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Show A BEGGAR OF KHIVA. Pathetic Figure Appealed to the Trav eler from the Ea3t. Onco in an open square, where tin dust pall foib.tdo sight or breath, I directed mv steps toward the source of a throbbing lull that ceaselessl woo Itself lu with the unlaw of voliea and the pattering of unshod feet ol beasts As I neaied it tho noise bo came detached fiom the hubbub, a dls tlnct and Individual t' w which in statolith claimed atlen 'i and made tho mm j motes In tho li dante U time t'nder n willow tieo, b tho wu tor ditch that defined tiiu square, sal a bent old man, unbelievably rugged So torn weie his man Mialnts that the did not seem 111'" constiucted garments at all, but stilus of tatters and tags collected and bur" on his fat weak hod Ills head was bent on his breast, and his ejus wero half closed On his stomach was a wooden bowl with a skin diuinheail str-tched across It, and on this diumhead ho beat In cesBiiuth ttith his knifkles and his fist The motion whs so automatic and and do" y re-julM u Its recur rent changes that It seem' d almost as If ho weie a clockwork llguio set at tho edge of tho busy marl.ot to record the passago of time I tin is somo cop peru on the Uasx begging tiay by hit side and went olT, uncoiibclously ad justing m stops to his beating Ho made tho trivial bartei and tho drlv Ing of laden animals seem vapid and futile, and m bit of chur,lty sickened me It was as If I had happened along and patted Sociates on tho back Centui), |