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The Conyers j [sszsa mm v % A CD I f— o i k W A HARP Publisher. VOLUME V. T H K IYERS EXAMIKER [ full. bed every Friday, CONYERS. GEORGIA, I 5 o p er Annum in Advance. 0B PRINTING, Every Description, Promptly and Executed, at KtAsoNABL* Rates, ,, 8 poll adv ertising u’pTlquare, insertedfor ONE for tha firat inasr ; j pippy CENTS per sqaare for S^pariod. for one month, or Iobb, a liberal disoount will rone inch in length, or leas, consti in the local column will be *d at Ten Cents per line, each mser jriftfe* and deaths will be published of news, but obituaries will be «d for at advertisin' rates, 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 l. ® ' 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. _ _ _ 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. - 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 • J ,° h , i ‘ , b t , J’s ,. J E? 1 ,1 d i/ 0 ]' ! 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. | _ —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 $ 1.50 PER ANNUM IN AD/aN '.i NUMBER 33 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.