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DEFEAT OF THE DERVISHES— THE SOUDAN RECONQUERED, fr- “Chinese” Oordon. Avenged. OMPLETE and overwhelming is the defeat of the Dervishes. January 27, 1885 — England was humiliated in the Sondan by the rout of her troops, the assassination of Oordon and the fall of Khar toum, the capital of the Equatorial Provinces of Egypt and the centre of British influence in Cen tral Afrioa. , September 3, 1898 — England and Gordon were avenged by the utter rout of the Mahdists, by the fall of Omdurman, the Mahdist capi tal, just across the Nile from the ruins of Khartoum, and by the oomplete re-establishment of British power in the rich Soudan ese provinces. With the overthrow of the Mahdist empire the last strong hold of the Blavo trade in the world has boou destroyed. 'l'ho man who lias routed the Der vishes, Major-General Sir Horatio Herbert Kitohener, G. B. 0. M. G., has rondored tho greatest service to Then, becoming bolder, the pretender of a sudden openly called himself the Mahdi, a name derived from a word in the opening chapter of the Koran. He callod himself Mahdi Khalifat er Basul, ("the successor of the Prophet”), while his adherents called him Sayid ("The Master"); Savid na el Mahdi ("Our Master, the Loader”). This troublesome and extraordinary person, with no drill or military sci ence, no weapons to speak of, but plenty of ferocious followers,principal ly of the Baggara race,marched through the towns and villages of Kordofan, and with 30,000 men beseiged El parts broken and indefensible. The vast mass of assailing Dervishes made thereby their rush, in two bands, just before the British relieving force came in sight of the white walls and green palm groves of the oity. Gor don died at his hopeless post. This undoubted triumph intoxicated his followers with faith, but demoral ized the Mahdi. He took to unbridled luxury, and died of its consequences on July 22, 1885. The desert ascetio, whose bed had been a mat of straw, expired upon Persian carpets in nil the splendor aud state of a great East ern prince, having founded in his brief career an empire built on the basis of slavery and reckless blood shed. Before death he had himself nominated Abdullah as his successor, who thus inherited a dominion stretching from the Bahr-el-Gbaxal to Egypt, and from Darfur to the Bed Sea. The new tyrant began with very great ideas. He proclaimed that he would conquer all Egypt, as well as Abyssinia. Putting all laws on one side, he made himself absolute master over life and death in the Soudan. ICAJOn-OENERAL HERRERT KITCnBNER. his country, both in a military nnd civil capacity. Ho was born in Ire land, of good old Irish fighting stock, in 1851 and obtained a lieutenant's commission whoti twenty years of age. He became captain in 1883, major in the following year, lieutouaut-colonel in 1885 and oolonel in 1888. After the Sondau campaign he was ■elected to reooguizo tlio Egyptian army and appointed Sirdar of the forces, and striking testimony to his ability lias been given by the officienoy of the troops under his command dur ing the expedition which has culmin ated in tho rooapture of the strong hold of the fanatics. The fall of Khartoum means thnt the power of the Khalifa Abdullah is practically overthrown aud thnt Knr- dolan aud tho Soudan aro restored to the rule of Egypt, and that a point of great strategic importance and of vast commercial possibilities lias boen gained. Seated at the confluence of the Blue Nile nnd White Nilo, tho oity is bound to be a great emporium of trade. It is shaped like the head of an elephaut, from whioh it derives its name. In the old days it was very beautiful, with whito walls and domes and minarets gleaming through green palm grovos. But the Khalifa's wild THE KHALIFA ABDULLAH ON GAMELBAOK AT THE HEAD OF HIB DERVISHES- Obeid and took the town after one re pulse, cruelly murdering its brave de fenders. That oonauest increased the name and fame of the Mahdi, who settled down like a king at El Obeid, while preparing for a further advance to Khartoum. By this time he had in flamed with his preaching and snocess the whole of Kordofan and of Sennar. a nERvisn CHIEF, except that corner where the city of Khartoum sits upon the junction of the Whito and Blue Nile. Before he oould master this central position he had to confront the expe dition under Hioks Pacha, sent by tho Egyptian Government to Ballad. Everybody knows the miserable issue. The Malidi out that force to pieoos, so that hardly a mau escaped, and by this- Some idea of the inner life of the Mahdi and the Kahlifa is found in the remarkable experience of an Aus trian officer named Slatin, who, while noting as governor of a province in the Soudan under Gordon, was captured by the Mahdi and held a prisoner many years. When Khar toum was .taken Siatin was living in a hut at Omdurman, heavily ohained and exposod daily to tho insults of the mob. After the taking of the oity some Dervishes came to him with something rolled in a cloth, and, com manding him to stand fortb, they un rolled suddenly their bundle and showed him the gory head of Gordon. Afterward be learned how Gordon had died. When Khartoum fell and the Mahdists were swarming through the city, Gordon came down the stairway of his house and demanded tho leader of the invaders. He waB speared to death where he stood, and his head out off to show to the Mahdi. The return of "The Man Who Was” in Kipling’s story was no more dram- atio than the aotual return to the land of white men of Rudolph Slatin, or Slatin Pasha, as he is known. Six teen years before the young and dash- ODD SEWING MACHINES. j Bom* of the More Curious of the Uses to Whtch They Are Pat. . The buttonhole sewing machine is familiar, hut it is probable that the button-sewing machine is lesB so. Suoh machines, however, have been used for years. The same button- sewing machine might serve to sew on buttons of a dozen styles and sizes, but they would all be buttons with the eyes at the same distances apart. There are many buttons of various sizes as to diameter whose eyes are punohed alike. Button-sewing ma chines are most commonly used to sew on buttons that are placed close down to the fabrio, as on underwear, and many other things. They aro not used to sew on buttons as they are often sewud on clothing, where, after sewing on the button, the thread is drawn with a few tight turns around between the button nnd tho cloth, thus raising the button upon a little column. ”* “t Ordinarily in the use of sewing machines the material is fed to the machine. In sewing carpets the ma chine travels along the carpet. The carpet with the edges to be sewed to gether is stretched and held between the supports of a frame. The carpet- sewing machine is plaoed on tbs double edge of the carpet, along which it travels, as it is operated, sewing as it goes. Thero are carpet-sewing maohines that are operated by hand, and also maohines that are operated by power. Sewing machines have long been used for a great variety of leather work. Some of the machines used for suoh purposes, as, for example, sewing machines used for stitching leather or rubber belting, are power ful maohines that stitoh through such materials half or threo-qnarters of an inch or more in thickucss. Besides maohines usod for stitching leather thero are ulso made sowing machines thnt are used for stitching paper iu blank books and others.—Now York Sun. WORDS OF WISDOM. Tho merry hearted have a fortune that thieves cannot steal. Tho confession of past folly may be only the profession of present wisdom. You may depend upon it that he is a good man whoso intimate friends are good. Spend loss than you earn. Do not run in debt. Watoh the little leaks and you can live on your salary. Every consideration pleads for the sheathing of the qword, and the end ing of warily peaceful arbitration. . Do the right, and your ideal of it grows and perfects itself. Do the wrong, and your ideal of it breaks up and vanishes. The constant duty of every man to his fellow is to ascertain his own powers and speoial gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others. Taot is a gift; it is likewise a grace. As a gift it may or may not have fallen to our share; as a graoo we uro bound either to possess or acquire it. Bight in one thing becomes a pre liminary towards right in everything; the transition is not distant from the feeling that tells us that we should do harm to no man to that which will tell us that we should endeavor to do good to all men. BROOKLYN'S "FIRST CITIZEN." A Farmer's Sea Who Kola Public Statue la His Lifeline. The late James S. T. Stranahan, who for a quarter of a century had been known as the "First Citizen of Brooklyn,” was born in Peterboro, Madison Cqunty, N. Y., April 25, 1808, and came of Scotch-Irish an cestors, his great-grandfather having settled in Bhode Island in 1725. Mr. Stranahan was brought up on a farm under his stepfather, his own father As Explanatlsa. She—What is meant by the saying that a man is convalescent He— That he has outwitted his doctor, T inppose. —Topeka Capital. The Growth of Socialism. It Is argueU'bj deep thinkers that the growth of socialism Is due to tho large elan ding irmles of the world. In which men are often made to enlist agslnst their will, ana thus become discontented with existing con dl- tlons. The growth of a stronger race of peo ple Is due to the large sale of Hostetler's Stom- tch Bitters, which la the best medicine for soetlroneee. dyspepsia, fever, ague and oil nervous troubles. Try ona bottle. The average speed of a carrier pigeon la ■ 1* 1.— JAMES S. T. STRANAHAN, calm weather I-. 1,130 yards per mtnu' Educate Your Ilowels with Chscarete. Candy Cathartic, cure conattpattnn forarer. 10c,We. IfU.C. C.fall.drugglstsrefiindmoney. Fire* can be kindled automatically by a new apparetun oon-letlng of a lamp placed nnder the ft re-box and carrying a wlck-tube holding a wick and match, tho latter Is Ignited by a spring striker released by the meohsnism. To Cure u Cold In One Day. Take Laxative Hromo lutue Tablets. All Druggists refund monvylfltfallstocure. Ho. The area of Cuba is about 41.000 square miles, exrlu.Ive of the Into of Pines, duo south of Havana province. Take Caecarets Candy Cathartic. 10a or 33o. If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money. having died when he wbb eight years old. He worked on the farm in sum mer and attended the village school iu winter, and whet) about thirteen years old was enabled to go to an academy near his home, where he studied hard until he reached the age of seventeen years. He then succeeded in getting a school, where he taught for several terms, at the same time studying oivil engineering, and when nineteen years old he visited the great Northwest, conducting a party of emigrants. He moved to Brooklyn in 1841, aud it was in this place that he soon became popular, both in politics, business and financial circles. At first he was en gaged in the business of rnilroad con tractor but, nfter looking over the oity, deoided that there was a great fortune in the waterfront and began his favorite scheme of developing the waterfront until lie succeeded in hav ing one of the most perfect and systematic basins in the world. In 1860 Mr. Stranahan began the movement for the developing of Pros- peot Park in Brooklyn. There were many who thought his seheme was visionary, but he soon had the city officials interested. During this period Mr. Stranahan saw Prospect Park, the Oity Park, Washington Park, Tompkins Park and Oarroll Park added tc the great park system. In 1891 a movement was started to ereet a bronze statue of Mr. Stranahan in Prospeot Park. The oost was met by a popular subscription. Frederiok Maomonnies prepared the statue, and it was unveiled on June 6, 1891. Mr. Stranahan was also interested in Greater New York, and frequently re marked that he hoped he wonld live to see the day that New York and Brooklyn were united in one grnnd municipality. He wo i one of the members of the original commission that was appointed to bring about the Greater New York. OMDURMAN. THE MAHDIST CAPITAL, CAPTURED BY THE BRITISH FORCES. followers have probably made the city desolate. The city has had an eventful history since 1882. Baouf Pacha was govern ing the Isle of Meroe for the Khedive iu that year. News was beginning to arrive of a certain Dervish wandering in the Soudan, who was drawing all the natives to him,and especially those Arabs who lived by the Blave trade, which Gessi Pacha had been extirpa ting. This Dervish, Mohammed Ahmad by name, could tarn, it is said, all government ballets into water, and bad, in trntli, once and again defeated Egyptian troop* sent to arrest him. victory gained almost the entire Son- dan, and opened the way to the con quest of Khartonm. Then the victorious and pious slave dealer Bet. out for Khartoum, where the hapeless people, deceived by the hope of Euglish help, had lingered tc welcome Gordon. No notice was taken of that hero’s proclamations to the Soudanese. His communications were cut with the north, and very soon a horde numbering 200,006 swarmed at the heels of the Mahdi into Omdnrmau and the outskirts o' Khartoum. This was in October 1884. < The low Nile left a part of tha rasa ing Austrian offioer had gone out into the wilds of Africa as governor of the great province of Darfur. For twelve years he had been a slave iu tha bauds of the Mahdists, suffering every in dignity that the ingenuity of the Mahdi and his successor, the Khalifa, could invent. One day a man dis guised as an Arab trader, passed him iu the street and whispered to him that he had been sent by Major Win gate, Director of Military Intelligence, Egyptian Army, and Baron Heidier, Austrian Ambassador in Cairo, to help him to escape. They managed to have several interviews, aud finally one night, after the Khalifa had gone to bed and the oity was asleep, Slatin mounted a donkey and rode to where the faithful Arab, Hussein, had camels iu waiting. Then a long and hazard ous flight began, which, after much suffering and many perils, ended in t&S officers’ mess at Assuan. Spaniards In a Hole, One of the interesting details of the second shelling of the coast defenses at Santiago, snys a Santiago letter in the New York Post, was performed by the gunboat Dolphin. Firing had ceased, and tho vessels taking part withdrew off shoro. Presently tho Dolphin, breaking from the reBt, steamed back and began a spirited notion againBt something on land. Thero was a railroad bridge in sight, so the supposition was that she was trying to knook the slender steel sup ports from under it. But presently her business was plain to sight. At one end of the bridge there was a short tunnel; into this a train had hurried and Btopped, having esonped tho solid shot with which the Dolphin had attempted to strike it. It was, as I say, a short tunnel. When tho en gineer had his locomotive hidden, the rear of tho train wns still exposed, nnd when tho conductor ordered him forward so ns to cover tho rear, ths locomotive as far ob its bell projected from the tunnel’s mouth. Thus the Dolphin kept it dodging unt'i a shell to tho rear tore up rails and bod, and another to the front detached a piece of the hill nnd stuffed the tuunel's mouth with it. Having (actually) put the enemy in a hole, the Dolphin turned hack to the flagship and re ported that she had captured a prize, but found it impossible to tow it to port. Ceutenarlana In Kurope. According to the last census of the Germnn empire, of a population of 55,000,000 only seventy-eight have passed the hundredth year. France, with a population of 40,000,000, has 213 centenarians. In England there are 146, in Ireland 578, and in Soot- land forty-six. Sweden has ten and Norway twenty-three, Belgium five, Denmark two, Switzerland none. Spain, with a population of 18,000,- 000, has 401 porsonsover 100 years of ago. Fined For Wearing Cycling Costume. There is worthy magistrate atStras- bnrg, Germany, who has a certain an tipathy for ovcling oostume. A cycle maker named Blonhke, wlio had been summoned for some breach of regula tion appeared to answer the charge dressed for a ride. Thereupon the magistrate fined him, not alone for the offense charged, but five marks extra for "appearing before the Court un becomingly dressed.”—Birmingham Gazette. First Woman Balloonist. Mrs. Lucretia Bradley Hubbell, now living at Norwich, Conn., was the first woman to go up in a balloon. MRS. HUBBELL, THE COSTUME WORN AT HElt ASCENSIONS IK 1855. The asoension was made at Easton, Penn., March 25, 1855. At the time Mrs. Hubbell was twenty-seven years old. The ascension was a deoided success, and the papers of those days extolled the achievement as one of the most marvelous nith which women was accredited. Nominated Him For " It." Pure Blood Good Digestion These are the essentials of health. Hood's Banaparllla Is the great blood purifier and •tomaoh tonlo. It promptly expels th. Impurities whioh oanse pimples,-sores nnd eruptions and br giving healthy aotion to the stomaah and dlgeetlve organs it keeps the system in porfeot order. 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