Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-25
The Worlds Fair.
Two Numbers that Were Not Down on
the Program.


the Program.
The dispatches tell this story of little
diversion in the Bedouins' camp in the
Midway Plaisance early last Sunday morn
ing. The actors were three Bedoun per-
formers in the show-Rashad Ago, Mas
taph Aba Hala and Mastaph FL Elabras-
of the first part, and Hastab Abahd, man
ager of the camp of the second part
just before sunrise the Bedouins stole
from their beds and taking one of the
horses arranged on it a harness, with a
long rope dangling behind. Then they
went to the tent in which Hastab Abahd
slumbered. They bound and gagged him.
One of the thongs was passed under his
shoulders, forming a loop at the end.
Through this loop the rope was passed and
securely fastened. Then the horse was
dashed into a race about the Enclosure.
Around and around dashed the horse,
dragging Abahd behind him. With the
first leap of the horse one hoof struck
Abahd's head, making a fracture on the
skull three inches long. Every time the
horse came near the avenging trio he was
lashed, and he continued to dash around
the ring.
The uprOar aroused the sleeping camp,
and soon the place was filed with the cries
of the dusky men and women. The at
tention of the surrounding villages was at
tracted, and soon the fence top was lined
with Laplanders, Chinese, Dahomeyans,
Algerians, Viennese and Americans. Two
turbaned men rushed to the assistance of
Abahd, but the three Bedouins beat them
back with sword and lance. The specta-
tors filled the air with terrible yells.
Then from the tents rushed a dozen
brave men. Half of them were armed
with swords and bayoneted carbines, and
they descended upon the avengers with a
yell that awakened the sleeping guards at
the west end of the street. A fight follow
ed, in which sabres were freely used and
with bloody effect. The trio made bold
stand, but were beaten into subsection.
While the fight was in progress the fright
ened horse had been captured and the vic
tim released. He was carried into his tent
unconscious, but doctor brought him
around.
The trouble was that the three perform
ers couldn't get their pay of the manager
and so they took their native way of get
ting even" with him.
The other number was an Indian tor
ture dance which the Chicago Herald
says was served up on a raft in the grand
lagoon. These were the details, according
to this paper: After going through their
usual warming-up exercises, Chief Two
bites and Joe Stronghold retired to one
corner of the platform and pulled off their
shirts. George Hunt produced a keen
knife and two pieces of rope and cut four
deep gashes in the back of each Indian be-
tween the shoulder blades. Then raising
the quivering flesh he passed the ends of
the rope beneath the skin and tied them in
hard. Twobites and Stronghold stood like
statues while they were undergoing the or
deal. The songs suddenly changed to a
wild and vehement cry, and the two In
dams plunged forward 20 the centre of the
platform, Juggling with all their strength on
the ropes. With shrill cries and grotesque
gestures they dashed back and forth, the
red blood trickling down their backs and
glistening in the glare of the Bengal lights
that blazed fiercely over the scene. A
pause came in the dance, and then Two
bites and Stronghold threw all theil
weight on the ropes and tore them out OF
their tieshy fastenings. OF course the
crowd was Mortified at the barbarous spec
tacle, but this scene was as nothing L
what followed when one of the Indians
maddened by the terrible agony he hat
gone through, lost his reason, and jumping
upon Hunt bit out big piece of flesh from
the latter's arm.
Somebody suggests that, for the mex
'event," the directors have roast mission
airy served up in the cannibals' camp som
fine day when the other diversions of tn
great show languish.