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fort, whom he afterwards made his
queer. has furnished fruitful theme for
fictiss.s, poetry and song.

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queen a furnished fruitful theme for
hctds.e, poetry and song.
Anfer weary years OF confine-
!lment, in first one and then another cas-
tile or fortress, Diem was transferred
TO the keeping OF Pope Innocent VIII,
n litter his death passed into the Gus
tody of Pope Alexander vi, of the i'm
famous family OF Borgia, and Languish-
Ied .or three years III the Vatican at
tRome. where now rules Pope Plus X
iD1em was now up against the supreme
peril Oh his life, For his jailer was cruel,
treacherous n avdricious and history
tledVes us no doubt that Bajazet was
boldly striving to bride Pope Alexander
20 either deliver up his prisoner o. put
him to death.
But a champion, and a powerful one,
was OF hand for the Turkish prince
Charles VIII, the young king of France.
Perhaps ir all history there were no
two men more unlike than Charles and
MS rather. Louis XII of France was a
cold blooded compound Of craft, cruel
fy, meanness n superstition. He was
Iwithal he'd most astute politician in Eu-
rope, and probably the ablest and mos
powerful monarch of the fifteenth zen
fury. His son, Charles VIII, was i'm
Ipulsive, chivalrous, warmhearted, err
uatic, Of towering but misguided am
Ibition, as shown in his wild project of
1.-THE conquest of Naples. In his negotia-
Itions with the Borgias, the allies of the
king of Naples, the French monarch
did not permit politics to usurp gener-
losity, and one of his stipulations was
1.-THE immediate and unconditional sur
lrender of Diem. The captive left
Rome in the train Of Charles VIII, VINO
~lureated him throughout as an honored
guest; but at Turaine Diem was at
Hacked with fever, and was carried to
Mice, where he died on the 25th of Feb
lruary. 1895.
His ~biOgrapherS assert that Diem was
repeatedly offered, not only his liberty
Ibut aid in arms of the then leading
powers of Europe to place him upon
the throne of Turkey, if he would alb
jure Mohammedanism and profess the
lOhristian faith-overtures which he ce-
jected with firmness n dignity.
Contemporary writer's describe Primo
lDjem as one OF the most accomplished
linen of his time, endowed with a keen
intellect, equipped in literature and sci
lence, and gifted with no mean powers
las a poet. In person he was tall and
graceful, with the majestic port of d
king; he proved himself valiant in the
field, was a fine horseman, an expert
IswOrdsman, and excelled in athletics,
especially in wrestling.
Iamartine, who of all historical Wri-
tiers, delights in the sentimental view
Iof persons and things, gives the follow
ling as ar ode composed by Diem dur
ling his captivity:
Fill it with the wine of revelry;
Though we be in he land Of exile,
Inhabited by the Franks,
Let destiny deal with us.
What avails it to shed tears?
None can escape the lot before him.
IA pilgrim Of the Holy Kaaba.
Ii have trodden the deserts of sand:
I rave dwelt in C~amarania's wales,
La foot's space around the Prophets
tomb
rs worth all the empire of Ottoman.
l"Take thy cup, O Diem!
lGIory and hanks to Allah!
II am young and happy stiM,
Though held.in exile by the Franks
HE who loves and is beloved =
He is true Sultan of the universe
[ .1ad occasion recently-in writing to
1.-The Messenger of the resolutions OF the
18th Of June, 1915, by a convention OF
1.-THE colonial patriots Of the upper CAPE
Fear-to make mention of Liberty
Point, at the intersection of Person and
I " IN
lgloomy brick building, with steep hip
lrooe, at this point, standing out in
lclear relief to anyone coming up Person
street, IS a very ancient structure,
probably seventy-five years old. 1t was
l~erected by the elder Stedman, father
lof William Stedman and Captain John
IP. Stedman, who lost his life on the
ICape Fear river by the explosion OF
1.-The boiler of the steamer Magnolia, cf
tyrhieh h. was the commander
| Mr.. Stedman save the contract for
1.-The building 10 a man with an interest
ling history. He had appeared here
|some time before, calling himself Tom
lGrimes. which was probably an assum-
led name, as he was a native of a Do
lmingo, but how Or why he had drlftad
Ito this distant part of the world was
never clearly a~scertained. Grimes was
Ia bright fellow, we'll educated after the
lSan Domingo French fashion, but was
intensely passionate and irritable.
The late Edward L. Winslow, a lead
ling member of the Fayetteville bar
lowned a very handsome mulatto girl,
Iby whom Grimes was powerfully at
Itracted. He applied to Mr.. Winslow to
buy the girl, the price was agreed on.
land the sale was made. Grimes then
lmanumitted his newly purchased slave.
land married her. But he and his hand
lsome young wife did not agree, and he
lprocured a divorce. Soon afterwards he
married again, and returned to a
domingo, where he died within n
month after landing on the island, &C
Icording to a letter written from there.
Ito his divorced wife. j. h. NJ.
Fayetteville, N. C.
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Deaf Are Never Seasick.
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