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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-10
HORRORS OF STARVATION.

There was little relief if he turned
his eyes outward. In the country
along and between the White and Blue
Niles misgovernment by the tyrant of
the Dervishes was productive of dis
asters and then grim famine. There
were terrible months at the close of
1885. when horrors came tumbIing over
each other in their eagerness to shock
and to distress. "On one occasion"
Slatin says. q remember seeing a man
who had seized a bit of tallOw and had
crammed it into his mouth before its
owner could stop him. The latter
jumped at his throat, closed his hands
round it, and pressed it till the mans
eyes protruded: but he kept his mouth
tightly closed until he fell down in
Again: Cone night
it was full noon was going home.
when I saw something moving on the
ground and went near. AS [ ap-
preached 1 saw three almost naked
women, with their long tangled hair
hanging about their shoulders. They
were squatting round a young donkey.
which was lying on the ground They
had torn open its body with their teeth.
and were devOuring its intestines while
the poor animal was still breathing.
Infuriated by hunger, they gazed at
me like maniacs - And again |
. woman of the JaaIin (who are per
haps the most moral tribe in the Su- 4
lam, accompanied by her only daugh- |
ter, a lovely young girl, dragged her
self YEARLY to my house; both were at |
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-10

of succession, the present ruler OF the
Dervishes, suggested the foregoing pro
gram to Ahmed. Be that as il may, the
two men acted in concert, moving west
ward from the Gezira (the district that
is wedged between the Blue and the
White Niles, the first stronghold OF
Mahdism) and completely mastered
kordofan, the province lying east Of
Darfur.
Thus Slatin found his communication
with Egypt cut of. But that was the
only avenue Of intercourse with the
outside world. On every side were
novel dangers, and he stood alone, the
solitary European in a foreign country,
and in the midst of an intriguing and
hostile population. As he himself says.
For four years / struggled alone to
uphold the Governments authority in
the province which had been entrusted
to my care, against the great fanatical
movement" His sense of duty TO his
employers seems to have been uncom-
monty lively; anything to maintain the
Governments authority; anything to
lessen hostility to himself as the Gov
ernment's representative So he openly
professed himself a Mohammedan on
being assured that his subjects objected
10 MS faith. Anything and everything
would be justified. he believed, if only
IL would enable him to hold out until
the arrival of Hicks Pasha's relief ex-
petition. Ten thousand men in and
enormous square, with six thousand
crowded inside the human
were advancing from the
Nile, Offering such a liberal target that
no Sudanese rife could miss it's mark
That was the only hope, and it utterly
tailed; the army was annihilated. The |
story of the awful blunder was told |
Oy one who seated himself on the edge |
If Slatin's carpet, lest he should soil |
t with his blood. And then Slatin |
December, 1881.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-10
SLATIN'S CAPTIVITY.

SLATIN'S CAPTIVITY.
Captivity, with it's tiresome lesson OF
obedience and patience with the pool
| consolation that 'fhe who lives lone
sees much" was the next phase of this
strange experience. Slatin put on q
jibba covered with patches, took the
oath of allegiance to the Mahdi, and
| to prove himself a Jealous convert
made a practice OF going through his
| prayers most carefully in the sight of
the bystanders, holding in his hand the
rosary which all good Mohammedans
carry; but in reality he was repeating
over and over again the Lords prayer.
A neck-chain was bestowed upon him
but not for purposes of adornment,
nor to be laid aside at will. 1t con-
tanned eighty-three links, each a span
long. He would wrap it around his
body, and in this iron casing Gf it be-
came necessary to move him from one
camp to anOther) he was lifted on a
donkey, and held in position by a man
on each side; otherwise the weight
would have made him overbalance and
fall.
Meanwhile Gordon had been besieged
in Khartum, offering such resistance
as was possible when the garrison was
disaffected or half won over to the new
Prophet of God. The town was car
ried by assault on the 26th of January
1885; and to prove to Slatin the full
extent of this calamity by a single ar
gument, three black soldiers, with in
sulting gestures, brought Gordon s
head wrapped in cloth. El Mahdi also
died within the year.
The discovery was made that Slatin
had hoped to escape and aid his gen
eral; so he, and q number of slaves
who were under sentnce for having
murdered their masters, were bound
together by a long, chain passing
around their feet and fastened to the |
trunk of a tree. But after a term of |
such Imprisonment it occurred to the
who had succeeded to the |
Mahdi's power, that he was denying |
himself a rare pleasure; for he had |
only to make Slatin a member of his
household in order to emphasize his |
He would then be able to |
point to the European with the re-
mark: This man was once a high |
official of the government. He is now |
my slave" Therefore Slatin became |
q member of the Khalifas household, |
and stood at his masters door in sun |
shine and in rain walked barefoOted |
beside his masters horse, and attended |
five prayers daily at the mosque in
and when he had found |
favor through diplomatic flattery, the
Khalifa would send, as his reward,
ugly black wives. whom Slatin would
pass on to his servants-and then
somehow contrive to support his in
creasing family of dependents on a
Deggarly and uncertain pittance. Fl
1ally the Khalifa's cousin was offered
n marriage and Slatin had the courage
o refuse her. Servitude more CALLING
could not be imagined. When news
,ame of his mothers death in Austria,
md Slatin communicated this to his
master, the latter said: Your mother
,annot expect Gods mercy" being
nothing but a Christian
The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06
THE SOLID SOUTH BROKEN.
(New York Evening Post.


The break in the solid South is one
OF the most striking and encouraging re-
suits of the election. For the first time
IN ~ years, the 16 states in which slav-
ery formerly existed bavs not gone to-
gether for the Democratic candidate.
Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia and
Kentucky have chosen Republican cleo
tors Maryland gives Mckinley quite as
large plurality as does New Hamp-
shire, and Kentucky does better than
Kansas. Even if Bryan shall prove to
have the electoral votes in all of the
states below this border tier, the large
Republican vote cast in Tennessee North
Carolina, and In the industrial and COIL
mercial centres still further South, shows
that tho old sectional issEo has disap-
peared, and that the people in that part
of the country have at last begun 60 di-
vide according to their views on the
questions of today, and not according
TO race lines growing out of slavery.
The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06
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The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06

down. 1t is an indispensable work to
the player who wants to learn scientific
foot ball and keep abreast Of the modern
game.
The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Football by Walter Camp and Lorin
F. Deland. (Boston and New York
Houghton, Miflin & Co.; Portland :
LoTing, Short q Harmony This volume
is publish ed in the hope thai it may aio
in development of American football,
and more especially that it may encour-
age a scientific study of the game
Messrs. Camp and Deland are bot
authorities on the ubject and the wor
they have produced will undoubtedly h
accepted as standard work on footbel
In this country. The book opens with
history of football and a brief desci IN
tion OF the various games, then fol-
lows an explanation Of the game as nov
played. Chapter III treats of the finer
points OF the game; chapter " tell,
how to watch a game. The effect
the game on the players Is told in chap
ter V and chapter vi contains an
explanation of technical words ana
phrases, slang terms and correct express
ions of college football. Part II Of tn,
book is devoted to practical points
football-the organization of the team
its training, individual positions. rela.
tionship of the positions, BLOCKING
breaking through, opening holes in tn,
line, interfering for the runner, kicking.
tam play, tricks in football, how to con-
struct plays, football don'ta. Part III
treats Of the general system of coaching.
occasions of coaching, choosing the team.
testing the developments, field taotics
improved signalling, training, diagrams
of lays go. The book is well supplied
with diagrams illustrating the rules laid
The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06

1t Is the custom to regard the great
cities as the hot beds of all that is corrupt
and Sdemoralizing in our government and
to look to the rural districts for the
salvation of the country. Yet it appears
to be the fact that in the CONTEXT of Tues
day it was the vote of the great cities
largely that saved the nation from en-
barking upon an experiment in the free
coinage of silver which would have pre-
cipitated the national government into
Reputation and made the name of the
United States synonym Of national dis
honestv and triokery. Every great north
ern city gave large majority for the
gold standard, and the most of them
overwhelming majorities As the returns
come in we are gradually finding out
that although the country folk had made
progress toward a right estimation of the
Importance of the chief question before
the people and correct understanding
of it the recovery from the delusion with
which they have been afflicted for some
years, that silver would IN AXE them al
prosperous, in great many states had
been far from general enough and COM
plete enough to save the cou ntry from
trying the free coinage experiment had
not the people of the cities been much
sounder as rule on the currency than
they were. Doubtless we are to look for
the superior soundness Of the city folks
to their superior education upon the
currency. The occupation of large por-
tion of them is such that they are COM
PEELED to study to certain extent the
laws OF money. They know all about
banks too, how in 1igpensible they are to
the community and how utterly I'M
founded and silly is the outory that Ia
made against them. Their knowledge
of these things makes them proof to a
very large degree against financial de-
lusions and superstitions. In the country
the case is different. The majority of the
people in the remote country towns have
never been inside bank. Such ideas as
the most Of them have abont those insti-
buttons IL derived from looking at them
from the outside and hearing dema-
gogues talk about them. As banks are
generally in large massive buildings
with plutocratic appeara noe. and as
the arrangements inside, the bars and
bolts and high railings-have a rather
unsociable and forbidding appearance it
is quite natural that they should be preju-
diced against them from inspection mere
ly. Hence the demngogues who preach a
crusade against banks generally find q
good soil of prejudice already existing in
eth country, we'll suited to the rapid
termination of the seed they SOW. II
wasin the country that the green back
delusion ragged most furiously and 1t was
there that recovery was slowest; and the
recent election shows conclusively tina
the same is the case with the silver here
sv
The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06

Altogether the most frantic silver man
since election is the Hon. Joe Black
burn of Kentucky. Altgeld has issued a
gloomy farewell. full Of more or less
guarded intimations that he is to
make his appearance again and revive
his anarchistic notions, but Blackburn
refuses to disappear at all. Wednesday
night be was addressing mob in Louis
vile, claiming that Bryan had received
216 votes and that enough more were in
sight to elect him, and shy the eternal
he added "we are going to inaugurate
him." Perhaps Black burns superior
pluck is due to Kentucky Bourbon.
The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06

Two politicians who seem to have sue
ceeded in getting nowhere In this CAM
paign ara the Hon. Arthur Pue German
Hill of New York. Both of
them sat on the fence the most
of the campaign and one of them
the whole of ii. German got down in
time to lead the silver forces to a crush.
ing defeat. but Hill did not get down at
all. Neither of them have any friends
now either in the sound money or the
unsuund money ranks. Both of them
have manifested great political vitality
but it looks as If they had received a
blow now that would end them.
The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06

unimportant states that have given. their
electoral vote to Mr.. Bryan. A glance at
the Mckinley statos and the Bryan
states will show that all the great pro-
gressive communities in the country
have been carried by Mckinley and that
too by very large maJorities, while to
Mr.. Bryan have gone the unprogressive
south and the mining camps. 1t is too
early yet to determine accurately Mr..
McKiuley's popular majority, but it is
safe to place 1t above million.
The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06

The Bangor Commercial lays the sill
yer licking to President Cleveland.
Doubtless some of the credit belongs 20
him but by no means the whole Of it.
The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06

1t Is about time for some Popocrat to
announce that nothing is settled until 1t
is settled right and declare his intention
of making more disturbance.
The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06

Mr.. Bryan has had the good sense to
keep quiet since election. 1t is to be hoped
his good sense i'll this respect will re-
main.
The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06

George Fred Williams is tho head of the
silver party in Massachusetts,; and he is
pretty much the whole of it too.
The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6.

the country that does not know that Nc
Kinley is elected.
The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06
CURRENT COMMENT.
SPEAKER REED IN THE CAMPAIGN
Boston Journal,)

Thomas B. Reed has good cause to DO
happy In the knowledge that his voice
and pen have powerfully helped to the
result. His Western tour was VOL tn
thousands OF votes to the Republican
party, and that. too, just where they
were most needed,
The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06

1t is difficult to understand just where
Chairman Jones of the Popocratic party
sis at'' in putting out his proclamations
claiming the election of Bryan. There
has been nothing whatever to base them
on from the first. The loss to the Repub-
licans of every state about which there
was the shadow of doubt would have
left Mckinley still elected. His claim
that there was doubt about Indiana was
answered before the ink on his proclaim J.
tion was hardly dry by the admission of
the Democratic chaii man of that state
that it had gone for Mckinley by rs, O00
His claim of doubt in Michigan and
Minnesota never had shadow Of foun-
dation. Very likely he will issue more
of these absurd proclamations, for MS he
evidently needs nothing to base them on
he can go on issuing them until the in
auguration of Mckinley takes place.
What his motive is we cannot Imagine,
or what he expects to accomplish, unless
some of the Bryan gamblers who have
lost heavily on the Boy Orator have em-
ployed him to create an uncertainty that
The majority for Mckinley in the cleo
toral college will be large, but it will
not be so large as Cleveland's four years.
ago and NOS much, If any larger, than
Mr.. Harrison four years before that. 1t
would be wrong, however, to infer from
this that Mr.. MoKiDley's VIC
tory is a smaller one than Mr.. Harrison's
or Mr. Cleyeland's. If the electoral col
lege were based entirely upon population
Mr.. McKinley's majority in it would
be enormous The representation which
the little states of the far west that Mr..
Bryan has carried have In the electoral
college Is enormously out of proportion
to their population. If the three electors
of Nevada were based ON population
then, in the same ratio, New York would
be entitled to 108. The size of Mr.. Nc
Kinley's victory is only fairly appreciat-
ed when the size and Importance of the
states he has carried and the enormous
majorit!es he has received in most Of
them are contrasted with the small and
The herald., 1896-01-12
A VALUED BOOK

On the steamship Spree, which ar
rived few days ago, there was i'm
ported a thin little volume of only
eight pages, the appraised value of
which WAS $1,000. The booklet is a
Latin translation of letter written by
Christopher Columbus, giving report
of his discovery Of what he supposed
to have been only some islands off the
coast of India. Stephen Plannck, q
printer, of Rome, struck off a few
copies of the translation of 1893. Not
all of these are now to be found.
In tn Barlow sale of Americana, st
the American art galleries in 1889, a
copy of the Plannck edition, identical
with the one that came on the Spree,
was sold to Brayton Ives for $1,000.
There is dispute among the au-
thorities as to whether or no the
edition of the Columbian letter, of
which the two little books is the first
printed edition. Mr.. Eamos of the
Lenox library says that no two author
tiles agree as to the priority of date Of
Harrisse stoutly maintains that this
ance of the letter, while r. FL. Major of
the British museum advances argu-
ments, said to be both logical and
weighty, to show that is is the first.
Ellis, in the Hutch catalogue, claims
that Msjor has proved this impression
to be the first. John Russell Bart
lett also placed this particular edition
fret in the John Carter Brown library.
But however much the antiquarians
may disagree among themselves, tnere
is no doubt as to the great value of the
book, which is printed in clear type on
heavy paper. The dimensions of the
pages are 1-16 inches "full" by BIG
Some of the leaves have water mark,
the device being pair Of scales. II
printed in the World the letter would
occupy about column and two-thirds.
The binding of the $4,000 copy, which
was imported by Dodd, Mead & Co., the
Fifth avenue booksellers, is full blue
crushed levant morocco, with double
Of red levant. The binder is Thibaron-
Jolly of Paris.
The first sentence of the "forewood,'
or preface, is as follows:
"Epistola Chrtstofori Colon: cut etas
nostra multu debet: de Insules Indie
supra Gsngsm nuper invetis."
Translated the "foreword" entire
reads:
Letter from Christopher Colon: to
whom our age oweth much: concern
ing the Island of India beyond the
Ganges recently discovered. In the
search of which he was sent under the
auspices and at the expense of the
most invincible Sovereigns of Spain,
Ferdinand and Isabella, addressed to
the most noble lord Gabriel Sanchis,
Treasurer of the most serene mon
archs: which the noble and learned
man Leander de Cosco translated from
the Spanish idiom into Latin, the
third day of the calends of May, 1893.
The year One of the Pontificate of
Alexander VI."-New York World.
The herald., 1896-01-12
Charges of c. osSedness

SAN Francisco. Jan. l l The Pacific
Amateur Athletic association has suspend
ed the Stanford University Athletic associ-
alton ard the Acme club of Oakland for
delinquency in dues. 1t has also suspend
ed every amateur athlete who has taken
part in any athletic contest since January
lst until his record could be thoroughly
investigated and the charges of profession
alism made by Casper Whitney dsproved.
The Pacific association includes twenty-five
clubs all over the Pacific coast, and is
itself member of the American Amateur
Athletic association. Casper Whitney has
disregarded in California. and that the So
called amateur associations consisted
largely of men who were not only recog-
nized as professionals, but we're known to
he of 6isreputabie character