The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-02

his Turkish friend, told Barring that II
he went on discharging. officials and
busting away the cobwebs Of centuries
of misrule, he would certainly be
poisoned by his own cook or stabbed
some dark night as he passed thru the
his way without needing these warn
) ings. ;;:t4.
Fortunately, his English assistants
and aides-de-camp were alive to his
danger and formed a kind Of body
guard to watch him night and day.
Plot after. plot against his life was dis
, covered but !, the facts were never
made pub1ic-just as numerous an
! archical attempts against the lives Of
! European sovereigns are: carefully
kept secret. = s.-.sz,sss.l> ss.ssa.s. S.
One day, at: public audience a
ragged dervish .approa c1ed Barring,
: carrying. a long roll Of parchment.
The guards. supposing that the man
waited to, mesent raspetition, allowed
him to .,pAss.n But Sir. William Gar
stin, who Is, now under secretary of
state for public works in Egypt,
IS: -:,stepbeda UP TO- him. gripped his right
sNrist and1gave it a,ssharp twist With
4 howl Of pain, the dervish opened
. his hand and a knife which had been
: neealed.yin 1.-The roll Of parchment
!. fell Gathering on the. marble pave
+ nsnt of the hall.
G. Zone night, in 1885, IAN English tour
EH.ists was found dead n the streets of
n Cairo. & Hes had BEEN stabbed three
times m the, back. His watch and
purse had mot been stolens and the
police Toffi cers could not at once; COM
3 pre- bend the mo tive Of the crime. At
last one Of them, after looking care
fully at the corpse, exclaimed:
/ s"I- have it! Don't you see that he
! isiratherI like the British agent in face
i: and figure? Those knife thrusts were
meant for Mr.. Barring"
Trusted servants in the Barring
) household had to be discharged or
!, sent. to prison again and again be-
T. nation plots. So it went on, for
: months and years, until at last the
E superstitious natives became con-
!. WINGED that Barring bore charmed
E life and would not5lift a finger against
e him. To-day he lis, as safe in Cairo
as he would be in London. The Esyp-
n tians 3idolize: him, because. he has re-
n leased, them from bondage as effec-
o tually as Moses released the Israel
e ites.''
e cit has been my consistent aim, >
s he said, some time ago, ito so gov
s ern Egypt that every peasant would
be sure Of reaping that which he has
: sown and enjoying life of comfort
d in recompense for his toll. When
IS first made a tour Of inspection up the
). one ana then the other, until hi
e head dropped like a tired flowers an(
: he was carried off and placed in hi.
It own little crib. Mrs. Hopkins, also
: slept the greater part Of the morning
s but when she awoke, her elation. hae
It vanished. Her husband, however
It had waited patiently to hear the par
It ticulars of the trip.
Mrs. Hopkins knitted vigorously
IS but her son-in-law's face would conn
h between her and the stocking. It.wat
st not a particularly happy face for
!. look in the eyes which had not beel
} there during her daughters lifetim
l. "a look. now sharpened to painful
anxiety. Moreover, he was the maj
J. her daughter had loved. She. strug
e, gled with the memory.
', And naturally; he'd like to keel
x his own boy" pursued the old mar
is "and it was real kind OF him to let 70,
20 take him"
~ She laid down her work with a sud
:. den air Of desperation. who said h
:, let me take him?" she demanded
o'>l NO one let me take him. I just too
v him.
+ He stared at her. She had mad
q her confession defantly, but she tren3
bled under his slowly comprehend
q ing gaze. He rose and stood over hel
.'You mean to say that you--brough
:. observation-disclosures permission
e. That you stole him 2"
l. TT wasn't stealtn'," she fashe
back.
re He waved her words aside. "Wom
lg an he cried with terrible emphasis
don't We know We can be arrested fo
ne abduction % #
er She paled little, then rose val
er iantly to her own defense. stop
ed stop just where you are Theodor
in Hopkins" she commanded. II kno'
as what I've done, and it amt nuthil
tie SO turrib1e. I took him, but II had
er right to. Accordin' to Solomon ha
a right to - q.
he Her husband was staggered. AZ
d. cordin' to Solomon he repeated.
ed Yes; that king in the Bible. Ain
MT I proved that care more for the chill
,st. than she does. and amt he really ~