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have been established in the barracks at
Cairo. Fourthly. he has had to face a
very dangerous revolt in Arabia lie quel-
"a II l,v a policy OF concession, when ward
ed OF a serious peril TO the empire ana
gave tc the Arabs securities against OPP
precision. ...,
Fifthlv. he established an international
commission for the payment of the interest
OF the debt
Seycnthly, Abdul Hamid has shown
trustworthy appreciation of the import
ance OF education After the war was over
inter arma silent leges-he founded a
school OF law at the capital-a measure
Of reform in which il is to lac hoped. ms
example will be followed with the neces-
.arv interval by Great Britain. Many
other special schools have been opened
since ~ assembled the throne. Eigh.hly,
Abdul Hamid deserves credit Tor ms IN
trr1st IN the education OF women. He has
taken a notable step in advance by estab-
liebing various girls schools In Constan-
tiuoDle and other towns. Ninthly, Abdul
Hanlid has taken a new departure in be
slowing some attention on art There IS
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Espionage Universal.

He lives. IKE Domtiau, in constant sus-
picion OF ali around him; ana all VINO SUI
round him are ..'Ved to 1--we IN lihiIi-
nent peril OF their lives, should their mn
pcriai master suspect they mediate ue-
signs against HIS life. tie changes ms
body guard every week, and never allows
his ministers to so out of his paiace Wlth-
out written PERMISSION. Livery Witlc 'c
has his spies--in the ministry, IN the haIthl,
in the street. Brother can hardy SPEAK
TO brother without one SuSprctlHS "
other to Ice q py. The sultan lNes IN inc
MIDST OF this atmosphere OF suspicion ~
is to him Jhe brcatn OF life. lie once pul
OSman pasha-Osman the VICTORIOUS, Us
man the hero OF Pievna-under arrest ior
three DAYS, owing to a false report that
he had saIutcd Eeschad. her apparent
to the throne. No one IS to be anybody
but Abdul Hamid
The press is gagged. Minister'S are re-
duccd 20 thc position or mere puppets.
way. his very destruction is his doom; l.G
is ban.shpd lest the discontinued shou.d
rally round him. No one must be conSiic-
uous. Every one must be reduced 70 the
UNIVERSAL dead level of uhiect nculocrity'
What Is TO Be Done.
The atrocities which have recently startled
the world in Armenia are nothing new. J
doubt whether they should be reSaIccQ as
a count in the indictment against Aou ~
Hamid. lie is simply dong as Grh7 ~
ways do. ana always VIII do as IolE -
the ottoman empire exists. - "oIlu 20
ass absurd TO complain OF a .!oS Tor pitil,S'
of Il car ttif NEW tttt1 st.' ~ % - 49,
Grand Turk for resortinE to that which has
been for centUrie. tine recognized method
OF maintaining tine state.
No one knows this better than the EeE.
Canon MacCou, who ina his latest article
csl,rcsslv admits and asserts IL ia the ioi-
lowing passage, which is as true as II IS
vivid and powerful After referring 70
the saturua!ia Of horrors repoi ted IRON
ASIA. the Canon says. ~
''There is. however, nothing new In tins
exhibition Of Turkish policy. These iraSSa-
ores Of Christians are periodical IN Turk.s ,
and they are never the result OF local "a
Uaticisn. chey are invariably oIGani2 n
and ordered hy the sultan and his minister's
for the purpose OF keeping down the Chris-
tiau population. Ahiect coward-ce mas
made this sultan more rccklessly fcrocious
than his predecessors: that IS all The
policy is the same, at one Time Greece ior
lie theater: then Syria: then bulgaria
and the Herzegovina; then Armenia; 1t IS
a Deliberate system Of pollardinS the va
rious Christian communities as each threat
ems to ovcrtop its Mussulman nelghnors
in population and prosperity.
As TO 'abicCt Cowardice' and reckless
ness of ferocity, those are points on which
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Action of the Turkish soldiery.

rbose yeptrv are resspOnSihie for much.
But some of the later rna.sSacres Wen r. me
work of fFre Turkish soldiers. The Times
correspondert in ErZeroum, writing after
the Arrlenians had been EauChtered IN
the natter-of-fact way in which tho mas-
sacre had been ordered and executed lie
..The following is a conversation had
throa guarding our d1nr after the affair:
"Where were YOU whom this TING com
paoced9 Ane7ver. In the barracks. nfav
tne- car7s We were al called oGt ~
SIGNAL from tho huCle a1d drawn uu n
lire. Our Office then said ~ us: "Sha~Den
your swords; today You are 70 XIII Arine-
mans v-hnrave~ You find them for six
hours: after that you ara 70 ston, and
the blood Of any Armenian YOU Kill after
this IS nv Ecad. the Ar0~-liauS have
broken into the Serai" 1t the given sig
nal. which was inst after noon he sad.
tho troops started for t,e seal We
into the Scrai when we arrived there We
did not find anv Armon'3ns with arms.
and e-lw ONLY one Shot fred a U= hv N
Armenian. We were ordered tn kill every
Armenian Saw. Just rs II was 81
SaSun.' continued this soldier. who h7d
A~-1Onan friend our command nC Office
ordered us 70 kill him; We w"re - spare
M one Other soldiers told D-t'ttv 1n'i-h
tho Same story. The soldiers cviden liz
h~d no great rr'fzh for tho horrible
work. but Once heEur they did Il thor
oughlv and brntallv."
evidence Of massacre orea niZad nc q gov
ernnren department. Bat 20 is al IN TIE
roguiar way Of business with tho Tllr91-
And ENGLAND. who. through Lord EeacoTs-
field and Lord Salisbury ut Rorlin in fSlS,
insisted upon intervening to save the Turk
from the doom he so richly merited, is
more guilty than the sultan. who hut acts
according to his lights. ard does as other
sul:anS have done before him.
Like the children Of Israel in Egypt the
Armcnians have proved to be moro than
a match for their wouid-be destroycrs. A
race tough as the Armeni1nS Takes
good deal Of killing They arc like the
irish in one rcSDcct. like Tire Jews in an
other. In the Caucasus. by sheer dint Of
breeding and of craft, they have converted
This into an Armenian city. and rule il
as the liish have AZ times ruled New
York The Armenian we may dcper9
upon II, may ne harred and m1ssacre3.
but ne cannot bee eXter minated. y" is IS
indestructible as the Jew, We need have
no fear 0s to his disGppaf from
western Asia. w. T. STEAD,
Ispyinxy Of Hoviarrs
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earia, the sultan would have been within
his treaty rights. and he would probably
have had. TO say the least no opposition
from Russia. if ne had invaded the rebel
Luus province ard re-established his au-
thority at phnippop0Es. But he RETAINED
from Interfering. and as the net result Of
twenty years diplomacy he is probably
or better terms with the Bu!sariaus than
rr tlc Russians. 90 whom they owe their
siaGrlc .I2tcu. Thirdly. he has not done
tlt fhfa,. like t1s DOL. chief bee might have
don. ip Egypt Tie might have complicat-
cl thiHGs terribly II De had accepted our
proposal fer joint occupation. He refused
AID although hc may have been regretting
ID ever since. he has ina reality contributed
miHEtIly ID establish English authority
IN cairo. Rumor says that he encouraged
AraM 70 revolt. If SO. we owe him only
one more good turn For If Arab had not
r,N0ltcd, the British rcdcOat would never
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all-powerful, who at the eleventh hour
might make bare his arm and overwheim
the hosts of the infidel.
What He Has Done of Good
What has Abdul Hamid done for the en-
pire over which he regns? First and fore
most. he has kept il in existence for TWEEN
ty years. lie has survived war, insurrec-
ton. treason, attempted assassination,
bankruptcy. And that in itself is no mean
achievement. There seemed but forlorn
hope that he would succeed. But he has
succceCed--so far at least as man may ne
said to succeed who succeeds in evading
the continual menace of annihilation.
His Foreign Policy.
Secondly he has. on the whole. been
more reasonable and practical in his deal
ings with the powers than he might have
been. He was slow to give up Dulcigno
to Montenegro and Epirus to Greece His
resolution needed to be quckened by a
naval demonstration in the Adriauc and
threatened descent on the custom houses
OF Smyrna: but in the end he gave way. In
his dealings with Bulgaria he was more
reasonable than any one anticipated When
eastern ROumania tore up the Berlin treaty
and joined herself to the pricipality of Bull
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CONSUMPTION CURED.

An old rav-icsu retired from practice, had placed
in MS hs.ns an Fast India missionary tae i'ra.
Of a simple vegetable remedy tor Tie eeoy a1u ~
r,areut cure ct Consumption. EscEc-tts- Z alarm
Asthma and all Throat ans Lung al -ciio1e- a--" 2
-,stiyo ara radical eure for Nervous Debility and at
H.-,.,rs Conpiajnts Having tested its wonderful
,,ri,r movers ID thousands OF and desiring q
an ,bo wish i this recipe In German, Frcuchor-
TnSiish with full directions for preparing and using
sent by mail by address ng With stamp naming thS
nper. W A MOVES, SO Powers Block, RocAesler'
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brigandage as a means of living"
The Wealth of the Sultan.

At the same time the peasants are grow
ing poor the sultan is growing rlch he
has by one means and another acquired
immense estates. According to an Ameri-
can antiquarian who has spent some yeas
in BaEdad and Syria:
"NIore than half of the landed property
of the province Of Bagdad has passed into
the hand of the sultan. and he has possess
ed himself of the whole of the valley OF me
Jordan one effect Of this was that the
province no longer paid its way In the
sense of returning surplus income TO the
treasury as the sultan's land and those
cul .iyat' Ir II were not subject To taxation.
The Sultan as He Looks.
Miss Elliott, when she saw him. re-
marked:
''The sultan is the most wretChed, pinch
ed-up little sovereign | ever saw. most
unhappy looking man OF dark complexion.
With "a look of absolute terror in his large
eastern eyes People say he is nervous,
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AMERICAN CITIZEN KILLED.
Turks Are Determined To Bring Trou-
BILE on Themselves.

Worcester Mass. January S.-A letter
received from Harpo0t. Turkey, states that
Nordrios Enfijian, who formerly lived here.
l. one of the victims of the massacres. He
was a citizen of the United States, having
received his naturalization papers August
l 1893. He lived in Worcester about ten
wears and went back to Armenia in Febru-
arv. 1891 He was killed in HarpOot near
the American college buildings.
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chiefly on hard-boiled eggs. Abdul Hamid
never stirs outside his park. lie refused
to accom- amy the German emperor to So
phia
Some grand duchess whom he received
at his court, on his complaining that ms
health was Indifferent. advised him to take
more exercise AID change of air ana 10
dive about the country. on her departure
he is reported to have said. What harm
have / done that this woman should desire
my Caath? Why does she advise me 10 run
INN ,LIt- !. l4nnar. ~
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New Cure for Kianeys ana bladder.

We are glad to announce to sufferers
from kidney and bladder diseases, pa i'm
back. and rheumatism, that the new no
tanic discovery. All<aviS, j. pronounced 2
positive cure for these Ir8l1Gio=. Many ~
its cures are certainly wonderful. and We
advise our readers to send name and adj
dress to the Church kidney Cure Com
pauy. AIS Fourth avenue. New York who
viii send You treatment free by mai post
paid. II costs You nothing.
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ABDUL HAND, @
Sultan of Turkey.
Wbat He Has Done of Both Good and III.
A CHARACTER SKETCH.

conceived the idea OF throwing dust in
the eyes Of Europe by proclaiming a CON
sti;utson. The sultan assented to il as he
would probably have assentod to any other
expedient which the grand Vizier proposed
at that time. But he never liked u. and
took the first opportunity Of dissoiving the
nariiament and putting the constitution
ON the shelf. Parliamcnts indeed were
not in his lire. The house Of Ottoman
has many virtues. but those of constitu-
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The finest peari OF the age. and the eS-
tnsmed center % the universe. At whose
portals stand the Camels OF justice anu
mercy. ami 20 whom the eyes 81 tue Aiiiss
and u.upie in thu west have becn draNh'
the rulers there finding an example OF po-
Eticzl pruwcES and the classes a model OF
mercy and kindness. our lord and master.
the sultan Of the two shores and the hfsn
king of the two seas the crown Of arcs ana
tire pride Of an cctgntries. tnc greatest OF
all khalifs. tn. shadow OF Cod on eartn.
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ing of the Kurds. Mr.. Richard DaVey,
vrs.inp before the present outbreak, said
of the Hamedyeh as the Kurdish irreSu-
lars are named after the sultan, their
enrolment was one of the greatest
mistakes ever made:
The sultan doubtless had in his mind
the success of the Russian emperor with
his Cossack regiments. when he gave per
mission for these barbarians 20 be sup
niied with uniforms and arms. The on.y
distinction they obtained I'm the war of III
was for their blood-curd!ing atroclnes on
tho moor wretchas who fell into their
hands and their dabolical mutilation OF
the dead Their HEADQUARTERS are at Melai-
srerd on the eastern Euphrates, and there
arc about thirty regiments Of them regf-
ste--pd i'm the area of the nlatcau. each
regiment consisting Of from 80 70 600 mon.
They will not. and possibly cannot. accept
i;scinline and their natural sava"ercs2s
&c rendered ten times moro dreadful whom
thev are provided with modern arms ant
ammunition ar1 tau0ht bow - uen them
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and no wonder, considering the fate of his
predecessor Yet this Is to be regretted,
for If he could surmount these fears. his
would be an agreeable and refined counte-
nance, eminently Asiatic in type and with
a certain charm of expression. All can
say is that his eyes haunted me for days,
as of one gazing at some unknown horror.
So emaciated and unnatural is his appear
ance that were he n European we should
pronounce him I'm a swift decline. l hear
that his greatest friend and favorite Is his
physician. And no wonder, for he must
need his constant care, considering the life
he leads How all the tabled state of the
oriental potentate pals before such les
son in royal misery The poorest beggar
in his domnions is hapnier than he"
Dread of Assassination.
II Is not surprising that Abdul Hamid
should fear assassination. Abdul Aziz was
so afraid of being poisoned that he lived
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II is permitted to differ from Mr. MacCon
The present sultan is like his ancestors.
AS they did so does he. The massacre of
Scio was quite as horrible as those of
Sasun, and the horrors of Batak throw
those of Erzeroum into the shaOe
Aiming of the Kurds.
There is little doubt but that in many
cases the orders to kill emanated from the
sultan But the worst suffernSs inflicted
upon the Arrnenians were due to the arm
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What He Has Done of Ill.

II these be the good deeds of Abdul
Hamid, what are his evil deeds? From
the point of view of the house of Ottoman
his evil deeds are two, neither of which
count for much with his most acrimonious
critics and both of which can be explained
and excused as the natural result of the
circumstances under which he came to
he
The Press., 1896-12-24
An Honest Judge.

"One of the most honest men who ever lived was Judge Arthur Shields" said c. R. Markham of Cheyenne. "He was on the bench ill the early days of Kansas, aud was one of the lawyers who practiced in his court. Upon one occasion I was conducting a case in which I had perfect confidence when the trial began, but before it had pro- gressed far the evidence against my clients side of the controversy was so strong and so unexpected that saw the case was hopeless. fully believed the witnesses lied, but could not shake them by cross examination, and it looked as though my client would lose his prop erty. Judge Shields had decided every question with perfect fairness, and it could not be seen that he was in any way interested until suddenly he called to an attorney, MT. Black. take the bench for the rest of this Case;' then, turning to me, he said: Have ne sworn as a witness. I will not see man robbed in this court in matters of which [ am personally cognizant. He took the stand, and his testimony saved the case for me. The other side appealed, but the judge was sustained, the only case of the kind ill the books. w Washington Star.
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The Scs,ly Ant Eater.

An animal made of tin plate, of the shape of an elongated fir cone, about three feet in length, which crackles and rustles with every movement, is one of the latest acquisitions of the Geological society of London. Its name is the pan golin, or scaly ant eater, and it belongs to the same family group as the arma- dillo and platypus. It has excited great attention at the zoo, for it is-if we are correctly informed-the first animal of the kind which has been exhibited there. Its home is where the termites,
 or white ants, are found, for the animal feeds on these destructive creatures and possesses claws which are designed to break down their strongholds. The claws are also necessary for burrowing in the ground, for the pangolin exca- yates a cave for himself and his mate eight feet or Go below the surface of the earth, and ill this strange home one or two young are produced every year.
 The pangolin al present at the ZOO is fed upon ants ard their eggs, and also exhibits a partiality for cockroaches scalded in milk. The scales with which it's body is covered are hard and sharp as steel, and it can give a terribly cut ting blow with it's powerful tail. It can roll its body up into ball like hedge hog when it so wills. ls.-Public Opinion.
The Press., 1896-12-24
BLUE PETER IN WHIST.
The Signal For Trumps First Employed
 by Lord Henry Bentinck.

The Signal For Trumps First Employed
 by Lord Henry Bentinck.
 There is a house in London which should be the Mecca of all whist players who believe in the new school and the "information" game, shrine before which they should bow respectfully as the fountain head of all that is modern in the game. This is 87 St. James street. and it is within sight of Marl- borough House. Its fame rests chiefly on the fact that it was at one time known as Graham's club, and that within it's walls Lord Henry Bentinck first introduced the blue peter, or signal for trumps, which consists in playing a higher card before lower when no attempt is made to win the trick. That signal has been to the whist players of the world like the pillar of fire to the children of Israel For more than 40 years it has led them up and down in the wilderness of arbitrary con- ventions, but it has never brought them to the promised land of better whist.
 The blue peter was the introduction to whist of 8 purely arbitrary signal or convention, and it's seed has spread like thistle's until it has entirely overrun the old game of Calculation, observa- tion, position and tenace, leaving in its place long suits, American leads, plain suit echoes, four signals and directive discards. These seem to have choked up all the dash. brilliancy and individual ity in our whist players, reducing them all to the same level, not by increasing the abilities of the tyro, but by curtail- ing the skill of the expert R. Frederic Foster in Monthly Illustrator.
The Press., 1896-12-24
CremRtiOns.

It is noteworthy that though in each Df the American crematOries more men than women have been Cremated the movement abroad was practically begun by women, Lady Dilke of England and a German woman having been cre- mated at Dresden. When efforts were made in the years 1873-4 on the conti- nent of Europe, in England and ill the United States in favor of the cremation of the dead, Lady Rose Mary Crawshay was one of it's prominent advocates. A number of we'll known women in this country have expressed themselves de- cidedly ill favor of cremation. Among them are Olive Thorne Miller, Mrs. Lippincott, Mrs. J. c. Croly, Mrs. Ella Who oler Wilcox, Mrs. Alice D. Le Plon- geon, the late Kate Field, Rose Eliza beth Cleveland and Edith Thomas. At public meeting Mrs. Ballington Booth referred to the time when her body should be carried to the crematory. The total number of crematiOns in the Unit ed States from 1876, when the first cre- matory was established, to the close of 1895, was reported to be 4,647. The number of men cremated in New York is more than double the number of wOm- en.-NeW York Tribune.
The Press., 1896-12-24
TOMMY CRUISE,
In Hard Luck When He Struck Drum
 LummOnd snd BloOmed Out.

Tn Hard Luck When He Struck Drum
 LummOnd sInd BlOOmed Out.
 When met Tommy first, his only asset was a serious danger, for his five underfed and underbred ponies were about to be seized for overdue taxes. could not help Tommy with money, but tried to with advice. ''Strike old Sam Ashby for a couple of hundred dollars" suggested. Sam Ashby was one of the rich men of Helena, Mon at that pe- riOd and ran small savings bank. Tom my Cruse "tried old Sam Ashby.'' All he got, however, was some pretty free talk, in which the banker assured Tom my Cruse that he would rather throw his money into the home of his satanic majesty than loan it to such, 8 drunken, shiftless fellow.
 Tommy Cruse got the money, how ever. Three weeks later he located the great Drum Lummond gold mine He knew he had big thing, but somehow he could make nobody believe in his mine. For years he worked at it, how ever, living at times dogs life.
 Once, while talking to a friend of mine, he fell forward unconscious. He had not eaten a mouthful of food for 86 hours, and yeg, with dogged persist ency, had worked on till he fell in his tracks. At last his day came. He open- ed up big vein and had 1000, 900 to bis credit in good safe bank, Hard times over, he decided to pose as ''sol- i'd citizen," so he opened a savings bank in Helena One of the first 1len to apply to Tommy Cruse, banker, flor small loan was the one time banker, old Sam Ashby. now less prosperous. Then came to the old prospector the happiest moment of his life, one that wiped out all memory of starvation and privation. For Tommy Cruse, showing his would be customer to the door, as- sured that customer in language too emphatic and graphic for English ears, that he would sooner throw his money into the house of his satanic majesty than loan it to such a drunken, shift less fellow as Sam Ashby. Magazine.