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VOLUME V.
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TAI L AT THE
IAILR0AD RESTAURANT.
'Under tha Car Shed,)
ATLANTA, GA.
l( r« all tho delicacies of the season
te furnuqed in the best ef style and
as any establishment in _ the city
pMeali furnished at allbours of the
BALLARD k DURAND. uuej.20
Valuables by Mall.
L sending of a registered package
Saining bonds valued at $1,000,000
Baltimore for transmission to Eu
whioh has been a subject of com
[t regarded in the by Baltimore the postal newspapers, authorities is
i as a transaction of unusual magni
I. The post-olliee officials are in
fed to be reticent as to tho value of
[money packages received and de
red through the registry depart
kt, and, in fact,, the amounts are only
wn when the packages become
ken and havo to be ro.iaolred and
led. Bonds sent between this coun
and Europe are now transmitted
lost pod entirely by mail, because that
is the cheapest and quickest.
Ire is no delay of paekagos for ex
nation at the custom house, and the
ris only 10 cents on each package,
Bes tho postage. The bonds are
trod by tho marine insurance compa
J in tho same way as other merchan
p, lonsible and the for Government their is not legally
safe delivery. If
value of the package is declared, the
t-office authorities may refuse to take
risk of delivery. The transmission
roperty worth several hundred tlious
dollars is thus secured at the cost of
w dollars. The sending of gold by
111 is also very ootnmon, especially be
N 1 S;u > Francisco and this city. The
Id sent by the Government from Cali
mm is packed in heavy iron safes and
(delivered under the usual Govern
r nt riie safes are taken from
[ P 09U >fflce to the Sub-Treasury, and
p contents carefully counted, the seals
i)ein g touohod from the time of do
, ture to that of arrival.
pm ato Gold sent
persons is packed for mailing
R n S ’ bring sent in each bag.
•
dank receives the largest
, tl '”K okl thus sent from Cali
.
3 h j™ th( ! value often of the gold sent
> lars in many millions
a year, and that of the
b bon*1 lbot at T?i U r ! ' e Erie * 8 railway sa ' d that whon bo¬
r rn!'! m , t thw . were
kt)K’oS count ry for a special
ere r re Purities valued at
fc«'m.am° the ” U8onhepost ’
PreC ? Uti ? ns are taken by the
’ ant L k ( »nties to guard
>ssof V a Uab e matter committed against
> thf>ir C Jn the Registry De
■ansteti! artment ^ ftU as possible,
noalrT ! fltnessod by clerks, every
lul har! two
eiSat time out of tho
o P 6V80n responsible for
leliverv eCe il pt9 !lve £’ lven for the
of ^ P acka ge by clerk
0 another one
he fact sun*,! hM ♦ be packtt » e fa,Is °P e,1 »
he ° at once reported to
lontents, m endeilt i who sees that its
riastenj ' 6 w®» '.'ben ftnd the that registered it is securely let
rs an 4 J )acka distributed
iailincr t S e s are for
hich «r , T •f « erent ro ' Hlt from mto those canvas used bags,
irntuon for
’adloek-i # ’ f. nd are fastened with
padlocks P ecubar construction. The
o. 6 P Umber(4d
an on ono an< J
*een h tin' a dumber through whioh can be
every nf,v!^ which changes
number e *° ck k opened. The
are • P a *U°cfc and rotary num
lUielock ft? 2 p8tere n n * °! ‘ be l at disturbed each place, and
statin,, between
f!]° f S fact a PPe a ving
|*entby beside a ah,e e articles nnnib er. there als^
rMr . tere are
0ne rematk^P m odler d mail some A that brm are in
of the v ° rt ,hwestern , wa . ys *
f° * habit of ‘ 1 nt i Territories has
the ci^v lns - registered otter skins
T ^rce he of',,?* tS - , aint keir °d°r is the a fruitful clerks.
‘atue amon £
°f c ompr P , 13 found with packages
10 this j nmshrooms that
co,,-, are sent
dollars -' r * V ^ rom Italy. Two trade
w, Sent tbe other day
them V erson who did by seal at*
in Pn 8lo » not
a piece 0 y” P e *. but tied around them
80 tk at thp per ;staining the address
das* marto 1 • co ' ns Occasionally might go as fourth
mail m«„ * a bag of
P la T loose oninf °P eued will dis
&n d paper money from
kttera ,
J fastened. The
Usually \ ar ? 86111 with the packages
«nable Ka / n enou gb particulars to
th -1 jb replace the light
Scants jr y
ur&.
a tiai id man. He lives onto!
n Ut , £ town be bas remained
*° month “very morning he start?
r the ts riy
briroad U red nea as the far as the
and return at station,
fiiuch s come ward, wondering how
to keen iFn! 1 lat case ot small-pox is
fl0m the dep0t *“
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Nashville has twenty-one hotels.
Tennessee has but nine daily papers
Saloon license costs $1,500 a year at
Meridian, Miss.
eneacola will soon begin the con
Btruction of a street railway.
ihe new three-cents-per-mile railroad
!a» has gone into effect in Texas.
Fort Valiev, Ga, twill erect a beanti
fu! and costly Confederate monument.
Pike county, Ala., has a fourteen
year-old boy who weighs 385 pounds.
Arkansas is shipping immense quanti¬
ties of black walnut timber to England.
Last year Texas imported corn, but
this year will have 50,000,000 bushels
to sell.
Mississippi has organized several live*
stock insurance companies—a new de¬
parture.
A million dollars worth of improve¬
ments are being added to Birmingham,
Alabama.
Five miles from Fort Smith, Ark., a
vein of coal five feet in thickness has
been struck.
Griffin, one ef the most enterprising
little cities in Georgia, is to have the
electric light.
The wooden plate 'factory at New
berne, N. C., turns out 600,000 of the
plates each week.
Atlanta, which last year handled 129,
0f0 bales of cotton, expects to handle
160,000 bales this year.
Gne hundred and twenty-four varie
lies of cotton eoods are turned out by
the Mississippi mills,
Athens, Ala., has a population of 8,
000 and a valuation of $8,000,000—that
is, $1,000 to every inhabitant.
The coal measures of the Warren,
Ala., coal field are 4,000 feet in thick¬
ness. The seams number forty-two as
far as developed.
Mrs. Butler, of Marion county, Ga.,
who has reached the age of 112 years,
was baptised last Sunday as a member of
(he Primitive Baptist church.
Pensacola parties have sent to Ger¬
many for 200 servant girls, to be held
under a years contract, with privilege,
to employers, of two years.
A shark was killed in Mobile bay a
few days ago which measured fifteen
feet from tip to tip, and of that variety
known to sailors as the tiger shark.
Columbus, Ga., has ten cotton and
woolen mills. Sixteen thousand nine
hundred and forty-eight bales of cotton
were used in manufacturing last year.
D. R. McCurry, of Floyd county, Ga.,
has succeeded in making a fine article of
syrup of watermelon juice. It is rich
and thick, and has the taste of honey.
Mattresses made of needles from South
Carolina pine boughs are said to cure
pulmonary and rheumatic ailments, and
an active trade in them has been estab¬
lished.
A $7,000 diamond was found recently
in the bed of a creek near Danbury, N.
C. As it was in the rough and other
large ones have been found in the State,
the charge of salting will not hold.
Perhaps the best apology|for Mormon
polygamy that has been made is by a
wit on a Pacific coast newspaper. He
says that at least the system does not
throw the burden of supporting a hus¬
band on one woman.
Ixmisiana’s salt mine, which is in
Iberia parish, covers an area of 140 acres
and is a solid deposit of remarkable pur¬
ity and excellence. The rock is very
solid and is without fissure or seams.
Over 1,200 sacks Js the present daily
A weed far superior to oakum, has
been discovered in Putnam county,Flor¬
ida. which, after being put through a
process, proved the above assertion. A
stock company is Jbeing formed for the
purpose of utilizing it. The weed is
found in abundance.
The oldest stove probably in the
United States is the one that warms the
hall of Virginia’s capitol in Richmond.
It was made in England and sent to
Richmond in 1770, and warmed the
House of Burgesses for sixty years be¬
fore it was removed to its present loca
cation, where it has remained for thirty
years.
“Is the Turkish civil service system,”
af'ked a traveler in the orient of a pasha,
“like ours? Are there retiring allow¬
ances and pensions, for instance?” “My
illustrious friend and joy of my liver,”
replied the pasha, “Allah is great, and
the pub. func. who Btauds in need of a
retiring allowance when his term of of¬
fice expires is an ass! I have spoken.”
The Hebrew Aid Society, of New
York, is sending back to Russia the
pauper, diseased and infirm Jews sent
over to this country by the London
committee. This is very [sensible, as
the Hebrew Aid Society has enough to
do looking after the able-bodied refugees
ana getting them work in this country.
A Jewish agricultural colony has been
established in Colorado, which is said to
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What is said to be the largest flag-
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1882.
stone in America is soon to be laid in
front of the stoop of R. L. Stuart’s
house, at Fifth avenue and Sixty eighth
street, New York. The stone measures
26 feet 6 inches by 15 feet 6 inches, is 9
inches thick, and weighs nearly 60,000
pounds. It was cut in Sulivan county,
the same quarry from which came
^ raW " by 18 h ° rBeS 3 *° ,ta ' fla f ' J* WaS
Pittsburgh Telegraph : It is a mistake
to su PP 08e that Maine P a »« d firat
prohibitory liquor law in America. An
old act passed by the Trustees of Ogle¬
thorpe’s colony ’'li as been unearthed
which “enacted that the drink of rum
in Georgia be absolutely prohibited,and
that all which shall be brought there
shall be staved.” This historical record
has considerable interest in these days,
the act having been passed in 1733, or
forty-three years before the Declaration
of Independence was signed.
While the foundation or pillars for
the railroad bridge across Flint rive r , at
Montezuma, Ga., was being constructed,
one of the workmen placed a toad in the
crevice of a rock and fitted another rock
over the crevice, and then made the
abode of the toad air tight by means of
morter. Sixteen years rolled by, when
it became necessary to repair the pillar,
which was done by the same workman
that placed the toad in the pillar when
it was first built. He remembered the
circumstance, and, upon examination,
found the toad still alive.
Mrs. Sykes on the Egyptian war: “Is
it not strange to reflect upon, that all
these miehty engines of war, these splen¬
did armaments, these wonderful equip¬
ments, this pomp and circumstance, are
directed upon a distracted enemy by the
mere penstrokes of two gentle old-lady
ish persons—the Qu^en, to wit, and Mr.
Gladstone? I am sure the Queen-moth¬
er would not personallv harm a dove,
and as for the people’s William, no
doubt Uncle Toby, who freed a captive
fly, was a bloodthirsty creature beside
him. Yet by the irony ’of fate it is
these two who are thrown into positions
which force them to be the arbiters of
war and death, of cannonading, famine,
bodily anguish and every manner of
mortal suffering!”
Rhode Island is the State that has the
largest population in proportion to its
area, the extreme smallness of the latter
giving it an exceptional density of hab¬
itation. This State, with its 255 per¬
sons to the square mile, being excepted.
Massachusetts then becomes very re¬
markable with its 222 to the square
mile. No other ia near it; hut New
Jersey is next conspicuous with its 152,
and Connecticut with 129. New York’s
cities bring her fifth on the list, with
108 persons, in spite of her great extent.
Five States only have a population bes
tween 100 and 50 to the square mile,
these being Pennsylvania and Maryland,
with about 95 each ; Ohio with 78, In¬
diana and Illinois with 55. At the oth¬
er end of the scale of States is Oregon,
with not quite two to the square mile,
while even California and Nebraska
have not quite 6. The territories are
all, of course, very thinly peopled in
proportion to their areas, except the
District of Columbia, if indeed this can
be classified among them. The District
naturally is far more densely populated
than any of the States, having 2,960 to
the square mile; but obviously it is to
be oompared in this respect rather with
cities or counties containing cities.
These various densities are based on the
census of 1880; in all cases they are
now greater, as the populations have
since then increased, while the areas
have remained the same.
Boy Wanted.
There is a gospel tent at the corner
of Michigan Sunday avenue and Fourth street,
and of a evening there is a con¬
siderable passing in anclout on the part
of boy pedestrians. of fourteen who Last had Sunday just lef$ evening the tent a
encountered a stranger, who stopped
him and inquired:
“Say, bub, what sort of a per for m
»aee is going on in there?”
“ “I’d Purty kinder good like th ng.” was the reply.
to see the fat woman
and the living skeleton and the Albino
children once more, but I'm purtv near
strapped. Is there any way I kin git in ?”
“ Us boys crawl under the canvas.”
“Anybody around to knock you stiff?”
“Never saw anybody. I’ll show you
where to go under.”
“ By hobev, Til try it! It’s no use to
throw away a quarter when you kin
beat a side-show.'’
The boy took him around behind the
tent and saw him sate under, and then
crossed the street and sat down. He
waited just exactly three minutes, and
then the stranger came out of the tent
by the door. He looked up and down
the street, closely scanned every young¬
ster about him, and finally said to a
boot-biAck:
“Bub, I'm looking for a youth about
two heads taller than you—peaked nose
—brown straw hat—hair cut short! I
want to see him so awful bad for about
a minute that I'll give you half a dollar
if you can find him around here.”— De¬
troit Free Press.
—According to the Salt Lake Tribune,
an Apostle of the Mormon Church
^ Lake City by twenty-nine purchasing a fam
Uy ticket, on which women
| with babies in tbeir seventy-nine arms, fifty-two freckled red
headed girls and
uto the teak
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Illikois farmers are feeding theii
hogs rye, as being cheaper than com and
more fattening.
It keeps the postal authorities busy in
England watching for dynamite in m ai l
matter from America.
Montgomery, Alabama, has quaran¬
tined against Pensacola, Florida, where
yellow fever is reported.
The census of 1880 will make thirty
volumes of 18,000 pages. They will be
quartos, the size of the Congressional
Record.
Arabi, whose name is just now on
every lip, is pronounced A-ra-bi, the
accent on the second syllable with the
long sound of “a.”
The Jesuits of Quebec are again agi¬
tating for the restoration to them of all
their property confiscated during Henry
the Fourth’s reign.
Attention is called to the fact that the
latest official returns show that the ratio
of the insane to the sane has doubled
during the last ten years.
Oscar Wilde is still in this country.
He is at Saratoga. (It is just possible
that we owe our readers an apology for
permitting this paragraph to be printed.)
It may yet be a question whether
England will have to whip Egypt, De
Lesseps or Turkey. DeLesseps, how¬
ever, thinks he is one size larger t ha n
Egypt.
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Curious tourists are not flocking to
Egypt in as great numbers just now as
they did in former times. The strange
scenes of that country have lost their
charm.
Cadet Whittaker has dropped from
the public gaze. He has given up lec¬
turing cud returned to his South Caro¬
lina home where he will earn a living at
hard work.
The Baltimore Ameidcan cites two
classes of professional tramps: One is
the wealthy idler who will not toil; the
other is the impecunious idler who will
not toil. This is a distinction without a
difference.
The postal authorities of the United
States have asked the British officials
for an explanation of their action in in¬
terdicting the delivery of American mail
matter suspected of containing seditious
articles as information.
August 13 Professor Yennor wrote to
the Boston Post: “No more hot wave,
and the straw hat season is over.’*
Straw hats will be worn, however, until
enough money can be scraped together
to purchase another sort.
Cincinnati is making extensive prep¬
arations for the forthcoming Exposition,
which occurs September 6th to October
7th inclusive. The industrial parade on
the opening day is expected to be the
largest ever witnessed in the West.
An odd landlord says that not more
than half of the summer hotels will es¬
cape loss this season, nor more than one
in five yield a profit. Persons who have
been subjected to extortion at these fash
onable hostelries may extract some com¬
fort from this statement.
The approaohing school days leads
us to remark the fact that now-a-davs all
school books are pretty good, and, as
far as merit is concerned, very much
alike. The pressure of competition
makes it so. And changes of text-books
should be made very rarely.
The Treasury Department has decid¬
ed that Custom officers may detain ro
prints of American copyrighted books,
and notify the owners of the copyrights,
to the end that the latter may take such
measures for the forfeiture of the books
as circumstances mar warrant.
The Washington female kickers,
Known as the Female Society for the
Prevention of Unsympathetic Congress¬
men, have arranged what they call a
black-list, it being tbeir purpose to de
lefeat the future political aspirations of
those whose names are upon it.
Corea, the country now attracting
some attention owing to the revolt of
her people, is a mountainous peninsula
lying between the Yellow and Japanese
seas. It is a kingdom, whose sovereign
is nominally a vassal of China. It con¬
tains about 80,000 square miles, or a lit¬
tle more than twice the area of Ohio.
This result of a Southern duel, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch , depends a great
leal upon the looality, it would appear.
In Virginia, as a general thing, the 00m
oatants return from the field of honor to
1 wine supper. That (isn’t the way in
Kentucky. There both men generally
return full of buckshot, and with no ap¬
petite to speak o£ ..___
The first sentence under the new
whipping-post ... . , law . Maryland ,, . , was pro
in
aounced on a negro wife-Deater the
other day, the sentence bemg that the
offender receive thirty lashes. “Fore
de Lord, Judge,” pleaded the criminal,
“give me seven years in jail.” A mo
tion for a new trial, which was made,
will stav y the execution of the sentence
ior several days.
Is approving : of T7 the oouraeof 77. the Khe- TJ.,
?«. tha Lop4o& Tnttk sail hia wifa
should have the credit of being the in¬
stigator. The Khedive married a grand¬
daughter of Abbas Pasha. She is beau¬
tiful and strong minded, and Tewfik is
entirely under her influence. This mod
ern Cleopatra is very rich, and when
money has been wanted to bribe the
Turks, she has, greatly to her dislike,
been obliged to provide it.
In Toronto, Canada, the street cars
do not run on Sunday, the bootblack
boys are not on duty, and all the tele¬
graph offices are closed except the cen¬
tral one, where one man remains all day
to attend to important messages. The
cab stands are deserted, and anybody
who wants a vehicle and team must t?o
to a livery stable. The drug stores are
open at certain hours, and that only for
the sale of medicines. Tne liquor shops
close at 7 on Saturday evening, and re¬
main closed till 5 on Monday morning.
In an article on the death of Senator
Hili, of Georgia, the Cincinnati Commer¬
cial (Republican) says :
His character is too widelv understood
to require a word of comment. His abili¬
ties shine forth like stars from the night
of contemporary mediocrity. Perhaps no
man of bis time could both speak and
write the English language belonged with such
force and elegance as to his
tongue and pen. More especial]v was he
a thorough orator. The worthy successor of
Webster, of Clay, and of Calhoun, his un
timely death is not his loss-a Nation's.
Above all, his loss will be most severely
felt by the Southern people, who recog
nized in him a fearless, unyielding pat
riot and statesman.
Corea, whose King and Queen have
been assassinated because they effected
treaty . , of . with , _ the , „t United . ,
a commerce
States and England, regards the world
at large as barbarians and want
to do with it. Confucianism mixed with
local superstition is their religion Tor
ture is inflicted as a part of their judicial
proceedings. Sometimes a prisoner’s
bones are bent or pulled out of joint •
sometimes his calves aro beaten into
rags by blows from a heavy plank ’ • his
thighs t g mav may be be sawed sawed lw by a .h heavy cord,
or ne may De Hung up by the arms until
he faints or dies. The final step is to
cut off the victim’s head
A large, new clock has been con
structed for the United States Signal
Service in Washington “ % ’. D r» The ®, e
- made of brass, height
is m of sufficient t to
allow the swing of the pendulum one
moter in length, which weighs about
three hundred pounds. The case is
made air tight, so that the air can be
exhausted from it and the clock move
ment , runs m . a vacuum, in . order . „ that ,
the variation caused by atmospheric
ohanges will be s’ightly felt. A very in
gemous attachment has been affixed to
the movement, whereby the clock winds
itself as it runs so as to Jhp overcome Tom the
difficultv difficulty whffih which miabt might arise fiom the t o
difference m the power of the spring
when fully wound and when partly
spent. The way this is accomplished is
by alternately breaking and closing an
electric circuit, and using the motion
thus obtained, and the power of the
electricity in rewinding the spring by
means of a worm end and other mechan
ism, which is so graduated as to motion
that the winding keeps exact pace with
the running.
A Prolonged Fast Ends in Death.
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Mrs. Hester A. Fryer, Crozerville,
Delaware County, abstained from food
for ation fifty-two days. Her period of starv
was ended by her death last Mon
day. Yesterday she was buried. For
two Previous years the lady had been an invalid,
to her illness Mrs. Fryer was a
large pounds, woman, weighing about 250
and seemed to have a very
strong constitution. About two years
ago she began to be troubled with hy3
teria, and gradually became so ill that
she was confined to the home. She
wasted awav slowly, end finally became
unable uname to to take take anv any food moaexc excent pt milk milk and a_na
weak tea, upon which she subsisted for
near'}- a year. Even Om became un
mined to attempt a complete fast, with
the idea that by absolute rest her stom
ach might become more vigorous. Fif
ty-six days ago she commenced her long
fast, and no food of any kind passed her
mouth for forty-fire days, although she
occasionally she drank water. She said that
felt better every day that the fast
continued, and really appeared to rally
and pick up in spirit and hopefulness if
not in flesh. She was no more troubled
with dyspepsia, and although her physi
cians protested against her course, she
persisted. Her friend* and the doctors
watched the ease with great solicitude,
and the latter with great curiosity. One
day, about two weeks ago, she for the
first time in a year complained that she
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w a / d
tea and milk was resorted to i but this
^ ^ dH '
Sinld 1 nnTd pL™ 1
,ri
her failed. Her husband and friends
and the doctors were, there! n-e, com
pelled to watch her slowly but surely
starve to death, without being whJ’aUended able co
help her . The physicians history
her propose to give a of the case.
| -Philadelph ia Record.
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—M. Muybridge, who has been so
successful in photographing the horse
in motion, says there is no”such thing
as a “dead heat” in horse races. He
of predicts that in the near feature no race
anv importance will be undertaken
without the ass-stance of photography
to determine the winner of what might °
- A enviw he «»Ueda “ dead heat.”
Unfurling the Holy Flag. j
bo much is heard nowadays of the 1
possibility !
of a union of Islam wlKtin* and a !
holy wav, briefly that it look may not be I
terest to into the subject as i
it is presented both in history and
popular it hardly belief-two very different
things, need be said. An ap
parently competent writer in the Lon
don Times, when writing of it last y T ear,
insisted that it was practically impossi
ble for the idea of a jehad, or war of ex
termination against the infidels* to be
carried full submission out. Islam—the to God, and word is used signifies by
Mohammedans to designate their faith
and the whole body of believers in it—
had its rise among the Arabs of the
desert who inhabited the sterile ranges
eastern coasts of the Red Sea and
;; ie Nejd, equally barren districts of
tae wno, like all nomad and
semi-savage tribes, relied for their live
hhood chiefly upon plundering their
richer each other neighbors, s territories and with as often equal raided
I hese raids and called vigor.
and who takes were are in ghazi, ghazi.
one part them a
“All the expeditions and petty warfare
by which Mohammed established his
power m the Hejaz areispoken of, ” we
read, “as ghazawat, and it was only when
more ambitious attacks were made Up
on the Roman and Persian borders and
of ‘There is no god but Allah,
and . (hummed is his prophet, had be
come the watchword of victory, that a
ghazi came to be synonymous with ‘one
who fights for the faith. 1 This title .ex
pressed affected in full, ghazi ed din, was much
by later Mohammedan princes
G f other than Arab blood; but few, if
any, of the conquering Persian, Turk or
Tartar notables ever even understood
the term in its original sense, or ever
fought merely to propagato the mono
theistic creed. Mohammed was the
first to make a ghazi on a large scale,
and the first to preach to his Arab com
patriots ‘mutual the duty of jehad— that is, of
strenuous effort 1 for the attain
ment of their common aim.” The
prophet, become knowing that the tribes never
cou!d a power while they wasted
their energies in internecine warfare,
and at the same time that they could
not be united under any master, sought
ing to bring about national unity by bind
them by that “ comraoa
which rea11 ? meant ’ a8 lt 30
olt ? n does, common interests, , customs, f
and superstitions.
At Mecca were all the elements of
centralization—the kaabah, containing
all the gods of the different tribes and
the locale of all the fairs and gatherings
pious at which the historical and circulated religious and tra
of the race were
kept alive. 1 he Persian Empire was
weak and the Roman Empire was de
clining, and their dominions bordering
upon Arabia fell an easy prey to the
band- now for the first time acting in
eonc ® r ^ “The long series of conquests
saysthe wnter aheady all°nded“to alluded to, “-of of
course attributed to the potency of the
profession of faith winch formed their
battle-cry, and the»r religious enthusi
““ Z't
powerful name of which the children of
Shcm have ever dreamed, by means of
which Solomon controlled the demons
and the elements, ’ was wafted through
fche . his m agic | carpe t, or seaffid
the refractory en ie in a bottle at
the bottom of the sea. Henceforward
the conquered infidels were offered but
one alternative—to acknowledge the
name of Allah and his prophet, or to
perish by the sword; while the formula,
‘In the name of Allah, the merciful, the
compassionate,’ was Moslem ever after placed The at
the head or every writing.
conquest of a country was first treated
by these Bedouin raiders like that of an
encampment or desert village; could all laid the
portable property that be
hands on was seized and shared among
the soldiery, and a poll-tax was themselves imposed
on all who chose to save
f r0 m massacre by the profession of the
Mohammedan faith. But this primitive
system soon became unmanageable as
their dominions extended, and a more
settled and elaborate government was
required. The only way in which this
could be secured was bv leaving the ad
ministration practically in the hands of
native officers and holding which the country
by a military occupation, siosre. consd
tuted a perpetual state of
x Qe possibility p ; 1U V * of a holy war ronodtprliv being
Pjeached u , has bee - P -
^ ate y ears ^ 13 m H 1 ” 13
-
the i n fl uence 0 f Islam has never been
tae" ^InS’ and m" that at ?n
do ° 111 forei « u dress ' Wlth SCaiCCly an
exception the Ulemas, when India appealed
to to decide whether or not was
aar al harb ,—an enemy’s negative, country—
pronounced fetvas , in the an
opinion confirmed later by the disposed assembly of
of Meccan doctors, who
the subject once for all. At the same
time it is pointed out that the Arabs
who migrated to Africa and set up the
rival caliphate in Spain were not sub
ject to the same extraneous influences
as those under the caliphate of Bagdad,
having mixed but little with the na
live 3 , and having preserved to tradi- the
present day their Arab customs,
lions, and general ogies. “The same
elements of Arab religious fanaticism,”
said the writer in The Times, “combined
-vith Arab clan feeling, Yemen, exist and there should as
in the Hejaz or
c me powerful Mo dem saint and chief
_ and ther „ are many 8nch in Morocco, ex!
Tunis, and Algiers-preach lEe Kafirs, it would the be
termination of
useless io hope that any such moderate
counsels would prevail as those which
averted a si mi 1 ar danger in India. It
might be strictly a ‘Pan-Islamic’ move- of the
un at, to quote the current iagron
daT but p would be a universal Arab
ont which would <nve rise to in
exmedible horrors of war and blood
she d in Western Africa itself, and it
would attract sufficient sympathy in
o her Mohammedan countries to prove
a serious aanger to the general peace.”
The “unfurling of the probably green flag” 13 a
f »rm frequently used, because
the flag in qu< stion is not green and can
not be unfurled. It would be refresh
ing, indeed, te find any two authorities
quite agreed upon the subject of this
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banner. Mohammed’s earliest standard
was the white turban which he eaotured
from Boreide, and he adopted subse
... doorof'w ,, , *?*
••\? 116 ol < ” wde ’ Ayesha,
w‘aeh passed ,. to rk Omar *. the Abba.si,lea,
' 1 " and tl> Ami,r “ th IU~
who took it to Europe. This “black
eagle,” words, whioh is inscribed with the
“Nasrura min Allah”—“The
Help of God”—was instituted dit-on, in
contradistinction to the great white ban
ner of the Korelshites. Another account
insists that the sanajak-i-sherif is a
green flag, brought down from heaven
to the prophet kept, in by the angel Gabriel,
and it is fair covering of green
taffeta, inclosed in a case of green oloth,
in the mosque of Ayoub at Constantino
le< A third preserved authority recites that it is
carefully built the wall. in the seraglio in a
case into “The stand
ardf » we rea d, “is twelve feet high, and
t which he golden ornament, it, holds a closed ball
surmounts a copy of the
Koran written bv the caliph, Osman III.
In times of peace it is guarded in the
hall of the Noble Vestment,” where are
preserved Still the another prophet’s authority dress and other
relics. declares
that it is “an innocent piece of rotten
and faded silk, which used to be covered
with sacred in writings, color. and The which once
was green only legible
word remaining upon it is ‘Alem’—
wov j d —which appears in a secluded fold
near the stair. . „ r i r .„ ne .. < is . never un
* urled ^ it be from rot
“ n ? r ’ 1 can
tenness—but is . , kept rolled on its staff
and c ° v f ed with a green satin cover,
ll !° whole packed away in a gold or
,J0X -”
When the holy standard is to be
brought out, it is carried in its green
cover through and the the streets city walls of Constanti- passed
nople, after field.” It is are stowed
it is “in the then
away in the gilded box once more and
this is carried with the army much as
the Jews used to take the ark of the eov
en ant to the wars. When it is in the
field every Moslem is in duty bound to
follow in its train. The usual procla
mationis: “This is the prophet’s ban-
1161 ’; this is the standard of the caliph
furled ate. It is planted heads, before you and un¬
over your O true believ
ers, to announce to you that your religion
U threatened, that your caliphate is in
peril, and that your lives, your wives,
y 0ur children and vour possessions cruel are
danger of becoming a prey to
enemies. Any Mo lem, therefore, who
refuses to take up arms and follow this
fcolv fl a g j s a n infidel amenable to
" flag brought
death.” When the was
0 m in 1708, according to Baron Tolt,
the ChiTrians had no difficulty In which rent
} n g windows and h usetops f ora
to'view the ceremony, but when the
proclamation was made: “Lei no infi
dti i dare t 0 profane with his presence
the h >iy s'andard of the prophet, sei and
let every / Mu*ulma,>, If he an an
beli i nsta ntly make it known!”
thcir hoat s pushed them over the roofs
or drove them out of the houses to be
b utc | iere d by the soldiers and mob. The
“ de J_ to b ^ ' JUSSJTS Chnstians
volunteers, flags of brotherly love
we*e paraded throm?, which bore le 8 iee white a ’
Constantinople, ground the ia and the
upon a crimson cross
orescent.-^. T. World.
Paid a Bill.
A Detroit lawyer took in a new boy
the other day, and as he had suf¬
fered to some extent from the depreda¬
tions of the iormer one, he decided to
try the new lad’s honesty at once, lie
therefore placed fifteen dollars in bills
under a weight on his desk and walked
out without a word. Upon his return,
half an hour later, the bills were gone
and seventy-five cents in silver had taken
their place. I stepped out to get
“Boy! when a
draft on London I left fifteen dollars un¬
der this weight!”
“Yes sir.”
“And now I find only seventy-five
cents!”
“ Yes, sir, but you see you hadn’t
been gone five minutes when a man
came in with a bill againstyou of $14.25,
and I paid it. I guess the change is
correct.”
“ You—you paid a bill?”
“ Yes, sir—there it is, all receipted. mind
The man said it had slipped so-—” your
for the la<t four years, and
He didn’t get any further before he
was rushed for the stair 3 , and he isn’t in
_ .—Detroit
the law business any more
Free Press.
Western Meanness.
“Don’t you go there!” he said as he
^ urned around^on the passenger through who
announced that he was the going most selfish
to ;dabo. “They are saw.”
Be t 0 f people ^ you ever
“How?” wildcat
“ Well take my case; I ran a
un der a school-house and discovered a
6 i] ver mine end yet they wouldn’t let
d() anv blasting under there during
sc h 00 l-hours for fear of disturbing the
c hii ( | ren H ad to work nights alto
and thev even windo'w.” charged me thirty
® hrcakiW
‘ ° a
<4 r ndeed “ where I staked
“And in another case jumped .
out a claim and three men i ,
the Governor refused to issue ammunt
tion or to let the Sherifl move; and do
you know what I had to do? I had to
d g a canal from a river three miles
away and let the water in to drive the
jumpers out, and even then the Coroner
who sat on the bodies made me pay or
tlje eo fli u3 an d charged me $12 for a
J minutes
, ^ , SQrmon on iy seven
joned Don’t wo beyond Colorado if you
S well?'-—Wall Street
_ A gentleman admires «S charming
woman over whose head tb ® swarms of
6eventeen-year locusts have passed at
least thrice. “But, I say,” say» one o
his friends, “she’s very charming, 1
know; wrinkled.” still, you must admit that she is
chivalrous lover. “Wrinkled!” “No, sir! There ®9 hoes J^® may
be the indelible impression of a smu«
npon her face here and there, but lhatu
all!”—From the Frenoh.