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A
WE sat together In the veran
da at Shepheard's Hotel.
Cairo lay beneath and
a round us- Cairo filthy, multi-colored,
and malodorous, but always pictur
*»que. Suddenly an Arab boy came
around the corner, and with a salaam
of the deepest, handed some mall to
Crlmshaw. Then he squatted down
on the veranda boards, with his g reap
black eyes fixed on my companion 's
face, waiting for further orders.
"Your boy, Captain?" I asked.
"Yes," replied Orlmshaw, "but a good
deal more than that. I should be burled
In the Soudan now If It were not for
Ibrahim yonder."
"Tell me about It, please," I asked,
rather eagerly; for this small Arab In
the clear, white tunic, and brilliant tur
ban Interested me mightily.
Orlmshaw settled himself back In the
bungalow chair and began:
"You know, of course," he said, "that
I was In Khartoum with Gordon. I
did not regularly belong to the Gener
al's forces, but I had volunteered as
one of his aides -de -camp. Well, we
Were shut up In that death trap City of
Khartoum, surrounded on every side
by the forces of the Mahdl—myriads of
fanatical Soudanese Arabs following
that high priest of bloodshed. We En
glish were but a mere handful of men;
the auxiliary forces were wretchedly
small. Our only hope was aid from
Egypt; and, as the whole world knows,
that never came. Poor Gordon was al
lowed to fall a victim to the Mabdt's
■word, and most of the garrison were
slain. With the exception of Slntln
Bey, who became a Mussulman, I think
I was the only European who got out
of the doomed city with his life. That
I did so was due to Ibrahim."
Here the Arab boy—hearing his name
mentioned—looked up and smiled,
showing a row of teeth exceptionally
even and white.
"A few days after we entered Khar
toum," continued Grlmshaw, "1 was
patrollng tho town under Grn. Gordon's
order, when we came across a great
rabble of boys, hallooing and shouting
at a deafenlag rate. I sent an Egyp
tian soldier to discover the cause, and
he reported that the young 'fuzzy-wuz
zles* (It is so that Private Atkins of her
Majesty's troops denominates the Sou
danese) were 'having fun' with one of
their number. I was then, as now, In
tensely Interested In native manners
and customs. Halting my men, I en
tered the boisterous cordon of boys to
determine the reason of their tumult.
"The little rascals were teasing one
of their number. 'Teasing,' indeed, in
this case, is too mild a word. They
were beating and stoning the lad, who
lay bruised and lialf-bllnded in the gut
ter. H's turban was off, and his al
ready scant clothing had been torn to
shreds. I sprang Into the middle of the
mob and demanded the cause of such
brutal treatment. At first they affect
ed not to understand my Arabic, and
went on beating their victim, but when
i had soundly cuffed one or two and
summoned my Interpreter to my aid,
I succeeded in making them answer.
" 'He is the renegade's son,' said a
ringleader—'Hassan, the renegade's
sou. Stone him, in the name of the
prophet.'
"Then I understood. The poor boy's
father had taken service with Gordon,
leaving his offspring to suffer all the
cruelties which the Khartoum chil
dren, egged on by their elders, were
sure to inflict upon him. I lost no time
In calliug up a few men and sending
that pack of youthful fanatics to the
right about. They went away, vowing
dire vengeance on the 'renegade's
brat,' and I raised my protege from the
dust. He had fainted from pain and
loss of blood, but one of our Burgeons
soon brought him to. When he opened
his eyes and saw me he smiled like a
little coffee-colored angel and wanted
there and then to give me Ills best
salaam. Of course I made hiiu lie down
ugain, but he blurted out Ills gratitude
for preservation so vigorously that he
came near fainting again.
"Next day his father, Hassan, one of
Gordon's servants, came to see him.
The two had a long talk, und finally
Hassan announced that for his son's
sake he had decided to leave the Gen
eral and go back to his cobbler's stall
In the bazaar. Ibrahim—for the lad
whom I had helped to rescue was the
same one now sitting before you
soon recovered, thanks to his native,
tough constitution. He left my hut,
absolutely refusing to touch any of
the money which I offered him.
" 'Protector of the poor,' he said In
his quaint, grandiloquent Eastern way,
•you have saved your servant's life.
Did not the mouse once repay the Hon
that had been his benefactor? Lo!
X am the mouse, effendl; and you are
the lion. Perhaps some day I may re
pay yon. Salaam, friend r Then he
backed out of my but, and I saw him
not for many day«.
"One evening, while hurrying through
the bazaar on my way to Gen. Gordon's
quarters, a boy sprang out of a cob
bler's stall and handed me a tiny bun
'^' e "lipping away Into the darkness
before 1 had time to do more than rec
ognize him as Ibrahim, son of Hassan.
I carried the bundle to the General,
and together we undid Its fastenings.
Have you ever deciphered an Oriental
object letter? I mean a letter which
Is not written upon paper, but of which
the sense is conveyed by objects—flow
ers and the like. The bundle handed
me by Ibrahim was Just such a commu
nication. It contained a queer collec
tion of articles. They were: A piece
of broken knife blade, a scrap of green
cloth, two flowers (marigolds, I think)
with only the heads remaining, a brick
from the walls, and, lastly, an Iron af
fair, which I at once recognized as the
point of one of those sticks with which
camels are urged onward.
"Gen. Gordon lost no time In unrav
eling the mystery of this missive. 'The
green cloth,' he said, 'means the Mahdl,
because his sacred flag Is green. The
knife blade stands for a sword, and tue
decapitated flower means that our
beads are going to be cut off. The
brick, I take it, hints of treachery In
side the walls. The camel-spike ad
vises you to fly from Khartoum Imme
diately. Where did you get this?"
"When I told him the source of my
Information he was Inclined to pooh
pooh Ibrahim's letter. 'It Is a boy's fear
and fancy,' he said. 'We shall be re
lieved In a few weeks."
"But the Mahdl's men formed an
Impenetrable circle around the town—
a circle that grew narrower and nar
rower. Day after day we scanned the
desert horizon for some sign of the ex
pected relief, but without avail. Day
after t ay the Impression grew stronger
upon each and all of us that we were
doomed.
"During an early morning walk Ibra
him accosted me as suddenly as he had
done before. 'Fly, effendl,' he whisper
ed. The city Is betrayed. My father
and other Mussulmans have decided to
let the Mahdl within the gates. Dis
guise yourself and fly before It is too
late!'
"I shook my head, for duty kept me
in Khartoum; and Ibrahim retreated
with tears in those big, honest eyes of
his.
III.
"The very next night his warnlug
was fulfilled. It would be Idle, my
friend, to tell you over again all the
horrors of the capture, or rather be
! trayal, of Khartoum. The Mahdi's sol
! dlers were like flends Incarnate. Spent
I with fatigue and slender fare we could
! not si and before them. Gordon, poor
fellow, was slain, and a remnant of us
! was driven, fighting for life, from hut
to hut across the city. Finally, with
empty revolver and broken sword, I
found myself In the stairway of a rude
minaret, waiting for the death which I
felt would be Inevitable. It is all very
well to meet death boldly on the field
of battle, with comrades and friends
around one, but to sit down in a dark
stairway and count the minutes until
its coming might make the bravest man
In the world feel uncomfortable. All
around I heard the hideous sounds of
slaughter and watched through a tiny
loop-hole in the wall the red flames
shooting across the sky (for it was mid
night, and a starless midnight to bootj.
A sick feeling stole over me. To re
main cooped up thus seemed Intolera
ble. I had Just resolved to rush Into
the thick of the Soudanese and sell my
life as dearly as possible when a foot
fall on the stairs below arrested me.
"It was the sound of a naked foot,
and «s I peered, every sense on the
alert, Into the half-light by the minaret
doorway, I vaguely distinguished a
dark form and two shining eyes. Was
it one of the ^lahdls in search of hu
man prey? I gripped my broken sword
tighter and prepared for action.
" 'Effendl!' whispered a voice, 'is It
you, protector of the poor?"
"The voice was that oi Ibrahim, son
of Hassan. My heart ga.v-> a leap for
gladness and 1 answered biui that it
was. Indeed, myself.
•' 'It Is good.' he exclaimed. 'My
lord, I have come to save you. Hasten
down and don these garments which I
have brought you. They belong to the
old blind priest who lodged with my
father. He died last night, but nobody
knows of It yet. You can pass as the
old priest and escape. Make haste, sa
hib, make haste r - f
"I fcaw the chance and seized It. Be
fore you could have repeated the pro
verbial 'Jack Robinson' many times I
had pulled those b^ggy Mohammedan
clothes over my soiled and bloodstained
uniform. A turban took the place of
my khaki helmet, and around my face
I draped the white hood which the
Soudanese Arabs wear. Then, before
I could protest, Ibrahim coolly seized a
handful of mud and liberally daubed
my face.
" "The sahib la too whit«,' ho explain
ed. The olu blind priest wh always
black and dirty—so kick off your boots,
sahib, and let me daub your feet.' Ott
went my boots; and In a minute or two
my legs from the knee down were aa
brown (and as dirty) as they ws'l might
be.
" 'You are all right, now, effendl,'
said Ibrahim, 'lot us make for the Cairo
gate.'
"With all my heart I thanked the boy;
but he would listen to no thanks. 'You
saved my life; I'll save yours,' he said.
'Remember, effendl, the mouse and the
lion. Let us hasten to the gate.'
" 'But you are not coming ,' I be
gan; when my protest w&o Interrupted
by a troop of black Mahdlsts surging
into the little bystreet where we stood.
Never shall I forget the sight they pre
sented, In the false light of the burning
city, with their huge pfhäs of hair,
thelr ferocious faces and their spears
and sclmeters a-drlp With blood. 1 bad
given myself over for lost, when Ibra
him, gripping my hand, led me onward,
calling In sing-song tones: 'Room for
the blind priest. Room' for Anted, son
of All, the soothsayer. The light of
Allah Is upon the blind priest.'
"Taking the hint 1 plucked up cour
age enough to shout the war-cry of the
Mahdl. Tne 'fuzzy-wuzzles,' entirely
deceived, Joined In my cry. 'Bide your
time, holy father,' said one of them;
'we'll give you plenty of Christian headt
later on." . . . Then they left us—
whooping like demons down the street,
but Ibrahim plucked at my sleeve and
mechanically 1 followed him. Many
times we met parties of the Mahdlsts.
but In the darkness our ruse succeeded
beautifully, and we reached Cairo gate
In safety.
"Around the gate, despite the con
fusion, a strong guard had lwen posted,
in the open space without many scores
of camels wore sprawling.
" 'A camel for the Mahdl's messen
ger!' cried Ibrahim in bis shrill voice.
'Ho. brothers! A camel for th? blind
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soothsayer. Allied, son of All. who bears
tllo u.kj,, ■ ' . _.
the Mahdl's defiance across the desert.'
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"A dozen dusky warriors surrounded
us, and as many awkward camels were
prodded to their feet. One of these un
gainly beasts was made to kneel, while
Ibrahim made a great show of helping
the supposed blind priest to a seat upon
bis back.
"Just then a tall fuzzy-wuzzy—clear
ly an officer—rushed forward. "Who Is
this?' he demanded. 'Where does this
man go? The orders are that no man
shall leave the gates before daybreak."
"My heart sank, but fortunately for
us the natural superstition of the Arab
came to our aid. 'Have a care!" cried
one of the soldiers. 'It Is r blind priest
—a soothsayer. He may curse you."
The officer stepped back invoiuutar
lly. eying me with fear. 'Give us your
blessing, holy father,' cried a dozen on
lookers.
"Here was a new predicament. I
could not remember enough Arabic at
the moment to give the desired blessing;
but a whisper from Ibrahim recalled to
my mind a simple form of words,
'The T>erlls and adventures of the
Journey were too numerous to be told
at one sitting, but It was nearly a
month after that awful night that our
camel limped Into Cairo, carrying on
h^back Uvoj-nmeloted fugitives who
>,„h »i >o un.» a,,
which, eked out by discreet mumbling,
on my part and the loud responses of
the boy, suited the Arabs well enough.
They prostrated themselves—the offi
cer with the rest—amid a great cry of
'Allah Ackbar.' Then Ibrahim smote
our camel soundly, and atvay we went,
through the outposts, speeding fast
from the gory City of Khartoum.
IV.
had once beeif'an officer of the line and
an Arab boy.
"Ibrahim has been all around the
world with me since, and will probably
continue to be my comrade until one of
us twain departs this life forever, eh,
Ibrahim, old friend?'
The Arab lad smiled and spread out
hls hands. 'My fate Is thine, effendl."
he said, "you saved my life."
"On that score. Ibrahim," answered
Capt. Orlmshaw, "I think we are quits,
Remember Khartoum."—Atlanta Con
sfltutH n.
Mtatiies of Corpses.
The, pleasing possibility of transform
ing the dear deceased Into a marble
like statue that may be set in a niclie
or on a pedestal was suggi-sted to the
members of the Academy of Sciences
of l'aris recently by Mr. Mortin, who
read a paper detailing his discovery of
a process of converting animal matter.
before decomposition se4s In, Into a
substance leseinbliug marble, being
sufficiently hard to allow of its being
sculptured. He called the attention of
the society to the possibility of his In
vention, which he has taken the pre
fautlon'to patent, being utilized to pre
serve human bodies after death. Inas
much as this marble-1'ke substance can
be sculptured. It Is jiosslble to remedy
llttle physical defects that, unnoticed or
at least not obtrusive In life, might de
tract from the attractiveness of a stat
ue. This process Isa stepalie.nl of the
St. Louis silver-plater who for ten years
has been experimenting upon a plan
to succeed embalming by hermetically
plating In gold, silver or nickel the an
cestors of such people as are willing to
undergo the expense of having them
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Btreogthening Iron.
It was formerly believed that cast
,ron - wben subjected to long-continued
8hock8 and 3"ring, became "crystal
and brittle; but Mr. A. E. Outer
bridge, Jr., of Philadelphia, has re
centl J' «bown, by a series of expert
ment ». tbet Instead of being weakened,
ca,t lron lB «ally strengthened by re
P ea ted blows and concussion».
A Qhoatly Cat.
An Invention calculated to terrify
mice and rata Is described In Popular
Science News. It consists of a metallic
c-at, which, being covered with lumin
ous p&lnt, shines in a dark room with a
mysterious radiance which, the Inven
tor tblnka, will be more effectual than
traps, or even genuine cats. In ridding
house« of rodent pests.
Carnivorous Planta.
That such plants as "Venu«' fly-trap"
actually catch and squeeze to death
and other Insects alighting on
' their leaves has long been known, but
the discovery Is comparatively recent
' that the plants digest the aofter part«
of their prey by means of a peptic fer
ment secreted by the leaves. These,
then, are real instances of plants feed
log upon animals.
. t "«rvelion. Meaanrement.
At the recent "conversazione" of the
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Royal Society In London a pendulum
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Instrument was exhibited. Intended to
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record the slightest tilts and puliation^
Of the crust of the earth. It was As
serted that this Instrument would ren
der observable a tilt of less than one
three-hundredth of a second of arc. In
other words, If a plane surface were
tipped up only so little that the rise
would amount to a single Inch In a
thousand miles, the Instrument would
reveal the tilting!
A Reach of Iron Band.
On the western coast of the northern
Island of New Zealand Immense de
posits of magnetic Iron sand are found,
The sand Is brought down by many
streams from the slopes of Mount
Egmont. The cliffs consist of a mlx
ture of ordinary silica sand and Iron
sand, but the waves sweeping the beach
carry the lighter silica sand away, leav
lng an almost pure deposit of Iron san<f
fourteen feet In depth. Furnaces have
been erected by which the sand la
smelted and formed into pig Iron,
Killed by I,i„ht.
Dr. James Weir, Jr., who haa studied
strange Inhabitants of the Mammoth
Cave In Kentucky, says that the cele
brated blind fish from that cavern,
when placed In Illuminated aquaria,
seek out the darkest places, and he be
lieves that light Is directly fatal to
them, for they soon die If kept In a
brightly lighted tank. The avoidance
of light seems to be a general charac
, terlstlc of the sightless creatures dwel
ling In the great cave. Doctor Weir
jj Ä8 geen ftn e y e iess spider trying to
Hvold thc li(tht and „„lmalcules from
the waters of the cavern hiding under a
graln of on the 8tag „ of hl „ ml .
j cr0g(<0 p e jj e thinks the light in these
.
cases is In some manner
through the sense of touch.
perceived
An Air Teater.
An Instrument for measuring the
amount of Impurity In the air of a room'
or shop was shown at the Zurich lu
dust rial Exhibition recently. It con
slsted of a glass bulb containing a red
liquid which turns white on contact
with carbonic acid gas. The liquid In
the bulb was kept from the air, but
once In every 100 seconds a drop, drawn
automatically from thc bulb through a
bent tube, fell upon the upper end of
a stretched cord and began slowly to
descend the cord. If the air was foul
with carbonic acid the drop turned
white at the upper end of the cord, and"
the purer the air the farther the drop
descended before changing color.
Alongside the cord ran a scale, like that
of a thermometer or barometer. Indi
cating the degrees of Impurity of the
atmosphere.
(infer Pacta Abont Colora.
According to Information given by a
German officer to the Horse Guards'
Gazette, an experiment was recently
made In Europe to determine what
color In a soldier 's uniform Is the least
conspicuous to an enemy. Of ten men
two were dressed In light gray unl
form, two In dark gray, two In green,
two in dark blue and two In scarlet. All
were then ordered to march off, while
a group of officers remained watching
them. The first to disappear In the
landscape was the light gray, and next,
surprising as It may seem, the scarlet!
Then followed the dark gray, while the
dark blue and the green remained vlal
bin long after all the others had dls
; appeared. Experiments la Urine at
bin« and red targets, »«cording to ths
same authority, proved that blue oonld
be more easily seen at a distance than
red.
Manaolanm In a Tree.
One of the most curious mausoleums
In the world was dlscovurud the other
day In au orchard at the village of No
ebdenlta. In Saxe-Altenburg. A gigan
tic oak tree, which a storm bad robbed
of Its crown, was up for public auction.
Among the bidders happened to be a
Baron Von Thummel. scion of a fam
ily of ancient lineage that has given
the world of literature one charming
poet and the Fatherland many distin
guished statesmen. The Baron, who
Uvea on a neighboring evtate, bad rid
den to the auction place quite acciden
tally. Finally the tree waa knocked
down to him for 200 marks. Upon hla
arrival at the castle he told an old ser
vant of hla purchase, describing the
tree and Its situation. The old servant
said he remembered attending the fu
neral of a Bardon Thummel seventy or
eighty years ago, and that the body
had been buried In a 1,000-year-old
oak, belonging to the parsonage. In
vestigation clearly proved that the or
chard bad once been the property of
the village church, and that at one aids
of the old oak waa an iron shutter,
rusty and time-worn, that the people
of the town had always supposed to
have been placed there by some joker
or mischievous boys. The Iron shutter
proved to be the gate to the mausole
um of Baron Hans Wilhelm Von Thum
mel, at one time Minister of the Stat*
of Saxe-Altenburg, who died In 1824,
and wished to be buried "In tha
1,000-year-old tree he loved so well."
In the hollow of the tree Baron Hans
caused to be built a sepulchre of solid
masonry, large enough to accommodate
his coffin. The coffin was placed there,
as the church records sbow, on March
S, 1824, and the opening was closed by
an Iron gate. In the course of time a
wall of wood grew over the opening,
which had been enlarged to admit the
workmen »nd the coffin, and for many
years It has been completely shut, thus
removing the last vestige of the odd
use to which the old tree had been put.
Imitation 8e«d Packages.
There seems to be no end of trouble
to the Agricultural Department from
the distribution of seed this year. Ths
department haa learned that requests
have been made on commercial seeds
men for seed put up In papers similar
to those used by the Government and
printed In simulation thereof. Acting
Secretary Dabney has sent out notices
to a large number of seedsmen In re
gard to the matter, atatlng that the
department cannot permit the Govern
ment seed contractors or any seeds
men to sell seeds In packets bearing the
name of the Department of Agricul
ture, or any words which might cause
the receiver of the packet to believe
tl at It was a part of the Government
seed distribution. No seed can be dis
tributed free of postage through the
malls except that delivered upon the
order« of members of Congress by the
Department of Agriculture, or sent out
directly from the department. The act
of March 8, 1875, confines the franking
of seeds by members of Congress to
those seeds which they receive for dis
tribution from the Department of Agri
culture.
Cashing'« Heroic Deed.
In 1861, at the very beginning of our
civil war, a young lad named William
Barker Cuahlng entered the navy aa a
volunteer officer, though he had pre
viously been through the Naval Acad
emy at Annapolis. Hs was only IV
years old, but a braver or more reckleaa
sailor never grasped a cutlass or stood
by a gun. Never a fight but be was In
the thick of I , never a battle but Cuah
lng's name was mentioned In orders.
He dared do anything that man dared.
One dark night, at Plymouth, N. O., he
took a boat's crew and, stealing quiet
ly away, he crept up beside the Con
federate ram "Albemarle" aad, taking
the chancea of almost certain death, hs
sank her by a torpedo fired from hla
ateam launch. Then he fought at Fort
Flaber with great bravery, and, what Is
ever rarer, he used sound judgment, se
curing for his command all the fruits of
the victory.—St. Nicholas.
A Chinaman Bees a Piano.
A Chinaman, lately returned from a
trip to Europe, treated his countrymin
to the following description of the
piano:
"The Europeans keep a four-legged
beast, which they can make sing at will.
A man, or more frequently a woman,
or even a feeble girl, sits down in front
of the animal und steps on its tail, at
the same time striking Its white teeth
with his or her fingers, when the crea
ture begins to sing. The singing, though
much louder than that of a bird, la
pleasant to listen to. The beast doss
not bite, nor does It move, though It
is not tied up."
Flower Perfumes.
It Is claimed that the perfums of
flowers disappears as soon as the starch
In the petal Is exhausted, and It may. It
Is said, be restored by placing the flower
In a solution of sugar, when the forma
tion of starch and the emission of fra*
granee will be at once resumed.
Every man Is more or less of a fool
about some things.
Every thoroughbred Is abls to maka
his own salad dressing.