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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-02
70 SOUDANESE ARABS.
y Failed TO Keep Most Solemn
Promises of Faithfulness to
Their Leader.
Had Saved Their Necks From
the Moose Only the Day
Before.
as Soon as Night Came on They
Again Deserted and Fled Into
the Wilderness.

Written for The HELENA INDEPENDENT
7HERE is A LAND WHICH SEEMS
to me the land Of the lotus eaters
" with all of the grace left out. When
v to recall it there comes up a picture of
at brown, shining plains, dotted with
1uent villages of straw huts or thickets
ray %acacias. Over these plains steal
ups of black or brown men, bareheaded
half naked. Sometimes they meet
fight and leave a score of bodies on
plain for the beasts and the vultures,
their bones CLEAN in the sunlight for
[erations. The sun is always shining in
ard and cloudless sky. the air dances
h heat and everywhere is dead silence.
at land was the Egyptian soudan whom l
prince. or chief or prophet who can
rern it. In my time, which was just be-
Q the mahdi revolt began. the country
governed by officers and soldiers sent
from Cairo, and to the Soudanese these
70 Turks" My fat old friend, SAID
!. a pure blooded Kurd; my yellow friend.
amiss- Effendi, a fellah major; that tril-
at Circassian. Ismail Pasha Ayoub;
Pgler.. the German engineer; the hordes
bashi bnzouks from,all the lands of the
T.. and the casual Yankee who wore the
dives uniform-all these we're Turks to
natives, who did not discriminate in
kind or degree of their hatred for their
era.
Nevertheless the rule of the Turk was a
BID deal better than what has followed, 1t
s cruel and titful and %rapacious; but
,ce WAS kept. and the people could make
hir crops M eat what WIS left by the tax
Hector. Since the mahdi drove out the
rider and famine; and the people of the
pital, khartoum, have eaten the dead in
streets. But all that is a long story
d would lead US into too deep water. The
bic tale that l have to tell now is not a
|ldy how to rule ~barbarians, but the
hder who likes morals will not find il hsrd
Idraw one for himself.
: came to my lot to march an expedition
pm FL Obeid, the capital of Kordofan, to
flasher. the capital of Darfour. and |
|eded about 400 camels in tho march. The
|ople did not like to hire their camels to
% government for several reasons. Camels
d camel drivers were sute to be abused by
h several kinds of Turks set over them.
re abuse might bs hunger or thirst, or it
light be death of man or beast; but bad
entment of some degree Was certain.
|hen the journey for which tho cnmels
re hired was ended they were liable to he
ken by force for another one, and thu
Tor Arab never knew when he would got
me again. Finally. If he lived and his
|mels lived, and he was allowed to go back
his W county with them, he might or
might not get mis- pay. He could be
sure. however. that some of il would
ok to the fingers of the officials who
bod between him and the treasury.
Pet while ] was sorry for the Arabs l
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-02
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Ladies' will do we'll TO reserve their orders for
dry goods OF every description until the grand
opening of The iee Hive in their new and com
modions quarters. Complete line OF dry goods,
everything new and fresh, tho latest patterns and
bottom prices will be their watchword, Their
removal takes place Oct. /.
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Independent job Rooms mako IA spe-
ciRlty of law briefs.
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The Independent meets these
requirements in every re-
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-05

friends. The w~orkingman and his
family are represented as being very
cold because coal is SO a ton.
Now, whether Sc a ton is or is not
an exorbitant price for coal, it is GER
tainly not a prohibitive one. 1t may
or it may not be a form of petty
larceny to extort the extra dollar
from every buyer, but it is simply
n~onsensical to say that anyone will
go cold this winter because of it. The
poor and the rich, for that matter,
will have a few dollars a year less per
family to spend for some other COM
fort; but they certainly will not do
without coal, and SO that part of this
precious libel has either point nor
force nor meaning.
But what has Governor Abbett's
yacht to do with this or any other
political question? Governor Albeit
bought and paid for his yacht with
money arduously earned in the prac-
tice of his profession. 1t is a very
modest little boat, indeed. 1t bears
no comparison with the palatial
pleasure craft of such Republican
magnates as Jay Gould, the Wander
bits, the Astors, the Drexels, the
Huntingtons and the Rockefellers. 1t
is merely a comfortable, inexpensive
little boat which enables the Gov
ernor to take the open air recreation
which his doctors urge as an absolute
necessity to preserve the remnant of
his health, broken and impaired by
hard work in the public service. 1t is
just about such a luxury as the horse
and buggy which the average bust
ness man enjoys when he has &C
cumulated a competence. In first
cost and in annual expense OF main
tenance it represents perhaps one
tenth of the money that General
Sewell's private car on the Pennsyl-
vania Railway does.
1t is particularly outrageous to di-
rect an attack of this sort against a
man whose simplicity of life and
habits are so ~honorably conspicuous
as Leon Abbett's. There never was
any man of equal eminence more
Democratic or more accessible. So far
from adopting any tone of luxury or
any attitude of exclusiveness, it
seems to be a matter of principle and
system with him to keepin touch and
sympathy with the people, to go
among them, and, above all things, to
hear them at all times and consult
their interests, Perhaps that shame
full poster might have some effect in
other parts of the State; but not here.
The people know the man it is
aimed at too well.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-05
NEW c
The ..Forum" for November.

2ho Forum Tor November.
In the United States we have a system
of protection with a continuous agitation
for free trade. In England the estab.
lished system is as nearly as possible free
trade with u constant agitation for pro-
lection. A discussion of the subject
by Englishmen, therefore. throws an i'm
portanU light upon our own controversy
In the Forum for November will be fouu nd
TWO articles by the most prominent Eng
iish writer's upon this subject:-Sir
Thomas Ii. Farrar, for E:any years Secre-
tary of he English Board of Trade, VINO
explains the several English views of the
Mckinley tariff and its effect upon British
exports; and Lord Masham, President of
the Fair Trade Club and the largest
textile manufacturer in Great
Britain, gives the reasons why the present
policy Of England should be changed to a
protective policy, arguing that England
has not profited by free trade. A unique
contribution to the political campaign Is a
group of eight short papers entitled For
Whom l Shall Vote aud Why" by eight
prominent men who are not actively iden-
titled with politics:-Mr. Schouler, the
historian; Mr.. Schiff, and Mr.. Cannon,
two of the most prominent bank Presi-
dents or New York; MI. Franklin Mac
Veagh, of Chicago. and Mr.. John Claf1in,
of New York, Two OF our largest mer-
chants, being among the number A
note worthy TACT about this group OF opin-
ions is that the gentlemen who represent
what may be called vested interests favor
Mr.. Harrison, and the others
favor Mr.. Cleveland. OF a semi
political nature also is a group of
two papers on Our Failure in Municipal
Government - n by Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain, the English political leader,
who compares the cost of the municipal
government of Birmingham, England,
with the cost of the municipal govern
ment of Boston. These two cities are
about the same size, but Boston's govern
mect costs about tve times as much as
B~irmingham's. The other article is by
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams, who writes
of the lessons from the municipal expert
ence of the historic town OF Quincy,
Massachusetts.
The series of Educational articles about
our public school system by DR.. ]. NJ i.
Rice. who made a personal study of our
public schools in thirty-six of the princi-
pal American cities for the Forum, is
this month devoted to the schools of Buff
falo and Cincinnati. Other articles in
this number which give it unusual var
iety are "a New Impulse to an Old
Gospel" by JAM adams, n of the
founders OF Hull House, Chicago; "What
We Really know About Mars" by Prof.
Edward S. Holden, Director of the Lick
Observatory; The Library OF the United
States" by Ainsworth Il. Spofford, Lib
rarian of Congress, and 1.-THE Matter
With the Small Farmer" by Prof. r.
Means Davis of the College of South
Carroll ma
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-05
HaskInc in the Sunshine

80 asking in the sun is In itself of real
and considerable benefit, and it is no COM
plimeut to our human Intelligence to fnd
that cats and dogs understand that fact
much better than we do. Even the s'blue
byass" craze had a truth underlying it.
aud owed such success as it achieved 10
the proportion of sunlight which pene-
trated its colored medium. The love of
sunshine is naturally one of our stro INCEST
instincts. and we should ne far healthier
aud happier if we followed and developed
it instead of practically ignoring and re-
pressing it. How a sparkling, sunny
morning exhilarates us and makes us
feel that "it's too fine a day to
spend Indoors and yet how few
holidays are taken for thatA reason.
The wealth of the suubeams is poured
ont layishly all around us, and we turn
from 1t to struggle for a few pitiful hand
Iule Of something else that is yellow and
shining. but not half so likely to bring us
happiness, and often has strange. red
spots upon it. Give nature q chance, and
we shall find that there is more thar a
mere fanciful connection between natural
sunlight and that sunny disposition,
which after all is the trne "phisosopher's
stone. NORTH AmericdR Reuiew.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-05
CHURCH NOTICES.

HEDD1Ne NJ. E., Montg emery near Barrow.
the Rev. J.C JACKSON, Pm. D.. Services 10. 80
A. M. and Z. 80 F. M. Holy Communion in the
forenoon. In the evening, preaching by the
pastor upon "Adoni-Bezek, or RetribuIion for
Cruelty"
TsiN1rY M. E. CHURCH. York street near
Warren. the Rev. John Krantz, Pastor. Re-
ception of members and Holy Communion in
the morning. Mr.. John P. Quinn, the converted
gambler, will speak on Gambling a Curse,' in
the evening.
avenues. the Rev. D. Halleron, Pastor. Preach
ing by the Pastor, 10. 80 M. and {. 30 p. nj. At
the morning service, preaching. Communion
and reception Of members: evening topic, 'sThe
Majesty of Our Faith,
CHRIsTADELPHIAN EcoLEsIA, Union Hall. Grove
and Fourth streets. Services at 10 80 a M
and {. 30 P. NJ. Morning lecture, "The Apostle
Pete;'' evening lecture, ssThe Return Of t1e
Jews to the Land Of Promise a Remsrka Iae
Fnllfillment of Divine Prophecy The even no
lecture will deal with one of the most important
topics of the day from a ~prophetical standpoint.
EMORY NJ. e. CHURCH, Bergen and Belmont
avenues, the Rev. r.. d. Lowrie, D D.. Pastor
At 10. BOA. M, Infant BAPTISM, Reception Of
Members and Holy Communion. Al no L. NJ
young men; subject, Noble Young Manhood :
service of Sacred Song precedes the sermon
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Grove street, be-
tween Mercer and Wayne streets, the
R Ror.bip Theodore &c iea nei'ig, Pastor. ,a Fu6l 6
P. NJ Preaching both morning and eyen;np.bv
the Pastor. Baptism at the close of the evening
service.
ST. PAuL's NJ. E. CHuop. Third near Erie
streets, William EaSlns. Pastor. 1883 A. M.
1870 A.. NJ, Infant Baptism. Communion and
Reception Of Members: 80 P. NJ, subject
The Bible and Its Enemies. y
SOUTH Bergen REFORMED CHrRoH, Bergen
avenue and Union street, William D.. Grant.
Pastor. Services at | $50 A. M. and 80 +. NJ
Morning subject. What Man Wants versus
What Man Needs" evening, "A Service of
Sacred Song
ScoTcH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Mercer street
near Varick, the Rev. David Mitchell, Pastor
Services 1880 a. NJ. and 40 p. NJ. Ths Rev
Henry B. Chapln, D. D., OF New York City will
preach. Morning subject, Gods Delight in
His People, evening subject, 1.-THE Gospel
Motive to Service. :"
TIE TABERNACLE. York and Henderson street.,
the Rev. John l. Scudder wilt preach. Morn
iag topic, The spirit of the Gospel. . Evening
T Sc Service. subject, The Power Of Song,
CHRIST CHuRcH, Clerk street and Claremont
avenue. Morning pray 4r. sermon and Holy
Communion. 10:45. Evening PRAYER and sermon.
$50. Class for confirmation, p. N,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-05
Y. NJ. c. A. FAIR.
Ii Masculine Element VIII Take
Hand at Feminine Finery,

The Masculine Element VIII Take a
Hand at Feminine Finery.
The nexJ fair that will ensnare the
pocketbooks of the down town young
people will be at the rooms of the Young
Mems Christian Association on Wavne
street. Next Tuesday evening the rooms
will be thrown open. Young men need
not stay away because they are required
to watch the returns, for arrangements
have been mad with the Western Union
Telegraph Company to run a private wire
all night. if necessary.
Generally young women have had a
monopoly of working for fairs; indeed,
some people have gone so far as to say
that If it were not for clever girls to trim
the tables and pretty girls to coax dollars
OUT of pocketbooks, there would De no
more fairs at all, and people would have
to find some other wey of meeting ex-
penses. Che Y. M. G. A. teels that this
is a mistake. and that a man ought to be
as much of a success IS a girl
in selling things, so the mem
bers are going to furnish, decorate md
attend one miscellaneous Table" Every
thing on it will be either made by a man
or bought by a man or coaxed away from
a WOman by a man. The result is bound
to be interesting. Mr.. Arthur Lucas nd
Mr.. Fred Clerihew are in charge. They
do not say whether the attendants are 10
wear white caps and aprons. or whether
they will refuse to give change. Ii they
do not they will not have used their eyes
and their memories on similar affairs.
The decorations Of the room will be de-
signed and executed by the young men.
The columbian Booth" where fancy
articles will be sold, will be attended BY
MIS-. John Ewing. Mrs. Burdette Craig.
Mrs. Elliot Greene, Jr., Mrs. Edward Me-
henzie. Mrs. G. E. Kyle, Mrs. Margaret
mcknight and Miss Rebecca Mckenzie.
The Art Department will be under the
charge OF Mrs, Charles Clerihew, assisted
by Mrs. Gray, Miss Jennie Clerihew, Miss
Julie Sherwood and Miss Nora Foster.
At the Apron Table every sort of this
womanlv article will be SOLD by Miss
Allie Frost, Mrs. A. Creyeling. Mrs.
Arthur Lucas, Miss susie Paddock and
Miss l.. r. Darling
GROCERIES. CANDY AND FLOWERS.
The Corner Grocery" will be stocked
with everything that a corner grocery
should have III a town where p%rohibitorv
laws are enforced. The mattresses will
be Mrs. M. A. Searle, Mrs. Scion Briggs
and Mrs. smith. There will be a lemon
AIDE we'll and a candy table. where Mrs.
Fiemming and the Misses Mary and Ion
Doremns will attend. assisted by other
young ladies. The flower booth will be
banked with Dalms and rooted over. Miss
Lottie Wordeli aud young ladies OF her
acquaintance will sell posies. III The sup
per room Mrs. John Van Horn. who al-
ways sees that this department is a sue.
cess. will preside, assisted by Mrs. Brain.
Mrs. Niese and a number of young ladies'
as mattresses.
Every evening there Will be n musical
entertainment Thursday Will be s.Chil-
dren's Day." and amolg the attractions
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-05
WANTTHEIR PASTOR BACK
Bayonne Methodists Object to Mr..
Ryman's Being Presiding
Elder-Notes.

The members of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church of Bayonne are dis
gruntled because the Right Rev. Bishop
Bowman early this week removed their
pastor, the Rev. Charles S. Ryman. and
assigned him as the Presiding Elder of
the Newark Methodist Conference,
Elizabeth district. The promotion of the
Rev. Mr.. Rynan to the vacancy was
made by Bishop Bowman without any
consultation with the clergyman or the
leading members of his congrega-
ton. In consequence, the Board of
trustees OF the church called
a meeting of the congregation
and had drafted a protest against the re-
moval of Pastor Ryman. The protest
was freely signed by members of the
church. Pastor Ryman also signed the
protest. AS yet, Bishop Bowman has
taken no cognizance of the protest. AS
the congregation of the First Methodist
Church has just finished a handsome
SIC. GOO edlfice, and completed Il new
$4,000 parsonage. mainly through the ex-
ertions of Pastor Ryman. the members
feel that Bishop Bowman's action is an
injustice to their pastor as well as them
selves.
Four applicants for membership were
initiated last evening by Court Winfield,
No. 1851, A. o. f. of A.
Bayonue City Lodge No. g.. A. o. U. W..
held a Qualification last evening in Odd
Fellows Hall at Centreviile.
A large delegation from Bayonne Lodge
No. SO. f. and a. NJ, attended the five
hundreth communication OF Roselle
Lodge No. 129. +. and A. NJ, at Roselle,
recently.
Members of Court Pamrapo No. s,o82.
A. o. f. of A. are about to organize a
conclave of the Knights OF the Sherwood
Forest. For the app icatlon of the charter
twenty-five signatures have been secured,
On the north side of East Twenty-frst
street. near Avenue b, a two-story frame
cottage Is to be erected at a cost OF 81, 900
for August H. Bahr.
George Taylor is TO have a two-storv
frame cottage, TO cost $1,000. erected on
North street, near the intersection of Lin
den street, Bergen Point.
Miss Louise A. Washburn, of Utica. N.
T.. is visiting relatives in the Third
ward.
This evening the Repu blicans will hold
mass meetings in the Fourth and Fifth
wards.
There was a lively Democratic rally
last evening in Brady's Hall at Bergen
Point.
Mrs. F. A. Beers, a well known South
ern authoress, has become a resident of
this city.
DR.. William H. Mitchell, of No. 25 West
Eighth, street, will return III a few days
from a visit to relatives in Oneida county,
n. Y.
For Thomas Donovan a two-story frame
cottage Is In course of erection Oh East
fourth street, Bergen Point. zeal Ho-
bart avenue. 1t will cost 81, 100.
AT a cost of $500 Thomas Herbert is
having a two-story brick store and dwell
ing erected on East Fifteenth street.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-05
DUEL ON A TIGHT ROPE.
A Desperate With surprrs

A Desperate Encounter With Surprising
Results in Dublin Many Years Ago.
In Dublin, at the beginning of this CEN
fury, there were two rivals in the art of
rope ~dancing-a Frencbman named
Perote and an Italian, Signor Sarfuico-
who. after trying in every way to outvie
each other, agreed to perform together in
a dance of friendship" The two men
on the rope were in full dress
OF the period. with lace
%rufles. bagwigs and swords. Signor
Sarruico, In beginning, seemed to nave
some difficulty with his feet, which,
Perote perceiving. caused him to make
some remark which aroused the Italians
anger, who raised his hand as if to strike.
The same instant Perote's rapier was
drawn, and before the audience could
comprehend hat they had quarrelled,
Sarfuico's sword was out also and the
We were thrusting at each other on
the tight rope. Both were good swords
men, but, Tfd-Bits says, Perote was
the better of the two. He warded
off the Italians thrusts with his
rapier till Sarfuico. making one desper-
ate lunge, received a back stroke which
threw him off his balance. and at the
same time he attempted 10 grapple with
his enemy. Down he went and down
went Perote. and there was The Italian
hanging on the rope by his feet and the
Frenchman holding on to it by both
hands, when the latter, with a face of
triumph. cried: Look, ladies and gem
tlemen, aG the straps attached to his
heels and passed over the ropel
There is how he has made himself safe
and dared TO pretend he surpassed me,
whose life was spent on the rope and
whose Observation-Disclosures performed
before Henry W. By this time the
spectators had rushed with ladders and
feather beds and got both men safely
down. Sarfuico's exposure, however.
prevented his further success and he
quickly disappeared from the city.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-05
AMUSEMENTS.

Walter Sanford's scenic production of
the local melo-d rama, "Ihe Struggle of
Life" will be seen at the New Academy
of Must C, next week. II details the story
of a young man, whose best ''friend'' par
ticularly wishes to put lii out of the way.
A charge of forgery is brought against
him. aud he is forced 10 fly; he meets for
tune in his wanderings, however, and re-
turnes to confound his enemies and wed
the girl of his early love.
Special scenery is carried for this pro-
duction. and the principal stage pictures
represent st. Patiiek's Cathedral on Fifth
ryenue, Battery Park in an a snow storm,
City Hall and Park Row, a 'Diye'7 in the
slums. and Il view OF the docks on the
East River. showi ng the sewers under
meath,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-05
iren should never be Weakened

dren should never be wakened in
the morning. Yet demands of
household convenience and the claims OF
school make 1T necessary that they should
be out of bed at a certain hour, usually
not later than seven. To make this pos
sible, and give them their fair share of
sleep SO that they will be ready to waken
OF theirown accord. they must be in bed
between eight and ten according to their
ages. If bedtime is made pleasant to
them. as motherly love can make it, with
a story, a little talk over the events of the
day, With loving words and min"istrations,
the hardship of Punishment to bed will
be robbed of its bitterness.