Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-21

struck him sharp on his shoulder, so that his arm fell lame from the blow. gj
 What was it?l lt.et4 .t1 ,,aa4 1. 0a A great block of ice, which did not come alone; for after 1t heaven let loose all its thunder-stones, crashing and cracking quick and hard. The misshapen stones smashed down out of the sky,-some as big as an egg; others like transparent nuts, or more like the head of Badrul Bey's own mace, studded with nails; for a dozen Jumps would be frozen together, so that, wherever the heavy thing fell, it gave murderous blow. The lightning flashed from one end of the sky to the other; and, as the white plain was piled fetlock deep with blocks of ice, there was grooming so loud, that you would have thought it was being crushed by the fall of the heavens.
 ''Allah Karin :! Allah Ekber p cried out the disappointed slave-hunters, flying wildly before the icy sling g-stones, which were banging down upon them, with hor- rid rage, from every side, and which they had never seen in their lives at home. The struggles of their horses, which were rag ing with terror, made the alarm more hor- rible; and, If any one of them kept up his courage for an instant, the terrible light ming was too much for him, flashing here, and cracking there, while pouring down upon them the blocks of ice, as millions of diamonds and silver-stones, poured down out of the heavens.
 ''Allah is Allah; and there is no help but in him." so cried the predestined Turks as they rushed here and there, wherever their horses carried them. A part rushed to the forest which they had just left; and there they were caught among the trunks and trees which were flung down by the gale: another part pressed forward, and so plunged into the ragng gsa strea@ 59atH Ea Eaea t5s sEanx the breaking of the cloud. Some, who tried to ride through the storm, kept all the. e.way in it's path, and were hustled and beaten by 1t for miles. When 1t had spent it's fury, Badrul Bey could not rally more than fifty of his five hundred horse men.
 Some twenty of them were mortally wounded, lying here and there with gap ing wounds in their breasts, or with their heads knocked in, or their ribs broken. Many had been thrown from their horses by the ice; others were buried in it so completely, that you could hardly see hand. The whole plain looked like will derness sown all over with great and lit tie pebbles, all so white and so cold
 These sons of the palmy oases of Ethi- opia had never seen ice before.
 "Wonders upon wonders !'' said the crestfallen Badrul Bey. "Who can fight against Heaven? This is a strange god, whom these Hungarians serve; and he works wonders to show his love for them. Allah preserve us from the wrath of the strang god!'
 And now he began to ask himself how Kuzuk Pacha would be satisfied, ,--wheth- CT he would believe him, when he came back with his troop so cut mp, after he had let the women escape him and whether Kuzuk would believe in such a miracle as none of them had ever heard of before. He could not have any better voucher for his words than to fill these very iron-bound chests, which he had brought with him for the jewels of the Debreczin girls, full of the thunder sling stones AS they had fallen from heaven. He would show these to tho pacha to con firm his marvellous story of misfortune
 So he filled four of the iron-bound chests to their brim, and bade the men swing them, two and two, over the backs of the pack-horses which he had brought with him. To make sure of his treasure, he locked the trunks himself, and kept the keys. and sealed the locks with wax
 Two weary days they toiled back, be- fore they came to Grosswardein. Mean while the wrecks of the shattered army struggled together once more. Some had broken bones; all were wounded or bruls- ed: there was not one who did not show a bruise or a scar,
 Meanwhile, from morning till night, the blazing sun streamed down upon: them. Drop by drop, the water trickled out of the iron-bound trunks, and dried up as 1t came to the surface.
 Arrived at Grosswardein, the black bey, with his lame arm and hang-dog head, went at once to Kuzuk Pacha, told him his story, and waited in terror.
 Kuzuk Pacha heard the story with scornful face, and would not believe word of it. Badrul Bey ordered in the iron-bound trunks, and begged the pacha to see with his own eyes the sling stones which had fallen from heaven.
 When the seals were taken off, and the locks were opened, there was not in any of the trunks a speck or straw,-not a trace of one of the sling stones!
 Badrul Boy tore off his clothes. GAL lah, be gracious to me! The God of the Hungarian has made the sling-stones disappear with which he struck down my warriors."
 Living coward!" screamed the pacha, who did not believe one syllable of what had been said, ''geese often kill hounds; and the hero-hearted women are more than match for you"
 So he hanged Badrul Bey outside the door. There he swung till evening. But he pardoned all the negroes who came home with him; for the rest he cut off half an ear of each, and sent them to Belgrade.
 The women of Debreczin all came back safe and sound. Kuzuk Pacha was glad to let alone people who had treated Bad r1l Bey so mercilessly; and from that moment he held them in great honor.
 This story is written in the records of the Council of the noble city of Debreczin. Thou who -eadest, remember that God still lives; that in his high heaven he knows how to protect his own; and that his arm is no shorter than it was then.
 The DEMURE FL1RT. A magazine writ CT says: 1u0 Oemure nlfC IS Ill many re- spects the exact opposite of the dashing fiirt. The latter looks you straight and steadily in the face with clear, unfaltering eyes; the former has downcast orbs, some times lifted suddenly with great effect, and as suddenly the white lids, with their long, dark lashes, fall. The demure iirt blushes good deal, and is quite simple and modest in manner. She is also of a larchrymose tendency, and her eyes fill with becoming tears on suitable occasion. She is afectionate and docile to credit able extreme and deports herself on all occasions Tn model style. She does the 'spoor oppressed" in telling manner, and man is brute indeed if, after re- ceivinp her soft confidence he is not i'm