Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-20
,ntouen the nearr-Dus you must not strIk.

tnrougn tne neor~Du8 you uuse Hoe sIA6e
me-"
In these few words had struck the three
controlling strings IN the diapason of his
soul The result was q perfect chord, which
awakened In his heart all the tenderness and
sympathy Of a child. He was minel All the
brute had disappeared. His face was lighted
up with a soft, gentle expression which
seemed to say: "What can ! do to help your
Raising his hand placed it upon my heart,
which with every beat seemed ready to spring
from my breast. He exclaimed: .Hamoon,
hamconl stahammet, stahammetl" In other
words: ''Sick, sicki Lie down, lie down." He
arranged pillow for my head and sat by me
until felt able to go.
We reached Adowa, and learned that the
hing was at Meckela, distance OF four or
five days journey to the southeast Of Adowa-
wanted to visit the Europeans in Adowa,
but was not allowed We started after day
in Adowa for Meckela, but in chains. After
leaving the town, however, we were I'M
chained. After some days Of marching ws
met the king en- route for Adowa. Our
chains had been put on us again for the KING
to see us.
The king passed on horseback about the
middle Of the forenoon. We gave him
deferental salute, which he noticed but did
not return. King John was not large man.
He was not tall, but rather thick set and
muscular. Before he became King he was by
profession highway robber. Covered with
vermin and in rags I had to march back to
Adowa. I was gradually starving to death.
Ny body was a mass Of scabs and raw, bleed
ing sores from neck to heels. II such q con-
dition crept back to Adow - shadow and
physical wreck. Innocent ohAu wrong do
ing against the king or his people, either In
thought, word or deed, nevertheless to such
q plight as this had been brought as the
effect Of treatment received at the hands Of
the Christian officers of this very Christian
kingl II the cardinal principles Of the Chris
tan religion consist OF injustice, cruelty, Gov
etousness, selfshness, prejudice, fanaticism,
pride, bigotry, superstition, shamelessness,
and immortality, which can be defined only
as the very essence Of unbridled hcentious-
ness and beastly lust, then, indeed, is the
Abyssinian, in point Of fact, as in name,
Christian!
Bayoumi and the other soldiers under me
at Ailet were treated as captive and made to
do mental labor. l was to be released be-
cause | was a Christian, my soldiers made
slaves because they were Mohammedans. ]
did all could to save them, but without sue
cess. Two Interpreters questioned me and
my story ax 20 whom / was, why I was in
Ailet, and thlt I did not know that the
Abyssiniansfiaimed Ailet as their territory,
were reported to the king, but even then he
did not release me until Gordon Pasha the
governor of the Soudan, wrote him letter
asking him to do SO. In rags, a skeleton and
fostering with sores, I was released and found
my way to some European friends in Adowa,
who took care of me. King John never apollo
gized for the treatment received. During
my painful captivity of over two months
never met with any hind treatment from the
natives, except IN Mohammedan town.
New York Mail and Express
John Gilbert's Wonderful Memory.
have heard an anecdote of John Gilbert
which illustrates alike his own powers OF
memory and the characteristics Of an old
time Washington street dealer in dry goods
on very limited scale Mr. Gilbert had
coat in which be intended to enact a certain
part it was a suitable garment for this pur.
pose, with the exception, as a friend sug-
gested, of the buttons which were of cloth of
the same color. The friends suggestion,
with which Mr.. Gilbert agreed, was that a
button Of q brighter hue should be used, and
Of different material The comedian then
remembered that some twenty years before
he had seen button of this kind in the shop
Of Mr.. Quincy Tufts that quaint, old fash
Toned dealer who was never known to be
'out" Of any article which had ever been in
his stock. So Mr.. Gilbert went to Mr.. Tufts
shop-and queer little place it was, as every
old time Bostonian knows--and instead OF
asking his friend. the proprietor, for what be
wanted, trusted to his memory to locate it.
Putting his hand on an upper shelf in the
bandbox Of the shop. be took from under q
pile Of cloths a package which actually con-
tanned the very buttons he was in want Of
Boston Post.