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THE mm mim. WHEBE THE SULTAN DROWNS HIS POOR VICTIMS. n..rrlhlr \i c i,i Nnrdrrs Wklck Nav ! I nlnlil Ufa mmH WMM>a lrlli or I>>c1lnz Harrw Wlrr. tTrnppril In H..rk ntt K<-lr Wllb im Thry ! Irtldllac 10 the Hlirfrr rig Kurope's most terrible stream, the Itosphorua, flowing dark, deep and swift from the Black Sea past the gild- ed minarets of Constantinople, there is one dread ribbon through its entire ' h known a* the " Devil's Current." W,iih inconceivable rapidity the water rushes madly down to the Slediterran- ean. leaving far behind, as a king of racers distances his fleetest runners. t he flying currents on either side. Red- | dened with tragedy this ribbon of water has long been the scene of the most dastardly, cowardly and always silent crimes of the world. It has been the j I-r of successive Sultans, the shifty j stage of Turkey's bloodiest drama*. The Golden Horn, that famous, broad-bosomed harbor of the nearby ; Orient, divides Constantinople, or Islam- j boul. as the Greek Church called the' historic metropolis, into two sections. Two bridges of iron bind together the two halves of the Sultan's town. To the northeast is Pera. the foreign quar- ter, the city, as good Mussulmans term it, of the franks. Across the Horn is Monlemdom. properly Stamboul. and on the great rounded point where Horn and liosphorua meet are the many palaces of His Majesty, the Padishah Abdul Hamid. Sultan, among them hia seraglio of white and gold, that vast harem at; which the entire civilized world looks askance. Most prominent of all, sur- vival of the old Cuurch of Byzantium, though now Mahomet's temple, the golden minarets of the Mosque of St. Sophia, visible far away on the Bos- phorus, glitter at eventide from the rays of the setting sun. Seraglio Point, on whose shores Horn and Bo.-pb.orus mingle their waters, is but a few rods distant from the " Devil's Current," which at this point nears the land, a* if by some dread design. In the dead of night, its waters lit only by the pale stars, time and again swift, long black caiques have glided out with muffled oars pul- led by black-garbed servants bent on their master'* cruel bidding. Here crimes of a Horror that it is hard to picture have been perpetrated unwitnes- sed Plash, down in the deep, dark waters, truggling. but voiceless, unwept, iincof fined and unauing, form after form has gone to death because of the caprice or hatred of the fretful, dark-eyed man in the palace on the height. RKD WITH INNOCK.NT BLOOD. More corneas of men and women this grim current has borne upon its breast than any other stream in all the re- gi"iis of the globe. As a watery ceme- terv of slaughtered innocent* has been its history. All who have sank into its tide of death will never be known, but the ghastly whims of the Commander of the faithful have thrown to it dainty women, valiant soldiers, ardent states- men and youths whose only fault was i'uople, and other public prome- nades. Never, however, are t lie.y seen on fool. They have enjoyable times within the four walla of the hacam. where many cnte.rtainnicnt.s are giicn. ""' "i I lie palace grounds in an ex In lie theatre in which all sorts of performances take place DHOWNKD IN A S \CK. Nevertheless this freedom is only a mock one 1 hoe women are continually ed by spies, and should they ven- t lire t.o cast even a look upon any man i hey might puts, their caau is lu>|ielcss. ' !iug to the Sultan's views them is infidelity in a look. He orders but "tie punishment for anything of that MUM . and that U death. Death in the " devil's current," tossed like a leaf in the arm* of the wave. It has always been the popular idea that the sacks in whiuh these women are sewn up and then tossed to the v of the current are heavily weighted. But that U not the case. The account of an eye witness of the tragic death of one of the Sultan's monarch of Turkey has no idea of ex- tending even such mercy to the woman he h:us condemned to death. Painless and sudden sinking, a quick merging into eternity, is not for her she must be tort ui ed aa she die*. So far as is known this is the only authentic account of the terrible death that is meted out to the frail woman who has somehow offended her imperial master. The simple, dramatic narrative is given complete. The writer lived for many years in Constantinople, and knw th mode of detail. He says: There is no romance in one of these frightful executions all is harsh, un- mitigated horror I The victim may. or may not. be youag and beautiful , her executioners have no opportunity of judging. She may be the impersonation of grace, and they must remain equally ignorant of the fact, for she has neit her power nor opportunity to excite sym- pathy, were she the loveliest houri who from the paradise uf Ma- " I have a friend, a man in place and power, who had been detained in the palace of one of the Ministers until three hours past midnight, and who, on passing across the dep bay near the C.-ustle of Kurope. was startled by per- ceiving two caiques bearing lights, lying upon t heir oars in the cent re of t he stream. His curiosity being excited, -he de.sired tils boatmen to pull towards them, when at the instant be came alongside he discovered that they were filled by police officers; and at the same moment a female, closely shrouded in a yashmak and with the mouth of a sack into which her whole body had been thrust, tied about her thn>at. was lifted in the arum of two men from the bottom of the furl best caique and flung into the deep waters of the bay. A.S no weight had been appended to the sack, the miserable woman almost instantly reappeared u|>n t he surface, when -he wan beaten down by the oars of the bout men. and this ruthless and revolt- ing ceremony was repeated several times ere the bod A DUEEN ROASTEU ALIVE, FRIGHTFUL CRIMES BY THE JAPAN- ESE IN COREA. > lie I'hlBM* ra|rr Orrr II miff ml W*irn KarBril to Ifmlt -Ihrt Wr* kr<l ! CHI Tb<-B'Kuriiril. Wbll* law MOB'I Tbrcau Wra 'l The t**i Bar- hrH NniliiK on F.nrili. Chinese papers brought by the steam- er " Empress of China" to Vancouver. B.C., bitterly attack the Japanese au- thorities in Corea for the murder of the Queen. They say Japan, pretending to be civilized, is the most barbarous nation on earth. The Queen was hung up by the hair, it is asserted, in the rear of the palace, and after being otherwise maltreated, was tied band and foot, soaked in oil and burned, her body be- ing reduced to ashes so that all traces of her might be lost. Thirty of the Queen's attendants, it i* alleged, were murdered, their corpses being left about the palace. When the palace was at- tacked of some 1.500 guards on duty only six remained at their posts and they were quickly despatched. Accord- ing to Chinese reports there were fif- teen women of title in the court, the Queen's mother and a hundred and fifty ladies in waiting. They were nearly all soaked in oil and burned, while the men's throats were cut. The Japan mail of Nov. 5th says: " Before the coup d'etat the Queen of Corea was secretly maturing a political scheme involving the murder of not less than a hundred and twenty persons of the opposition. A list of intended vie- \ tim.s had been drawn up. After the wholesale massacres of her subjects, it wan her purpose to reject Japanese | friendly assistance and invoke that of | Russia. " The. discovery of this scheme, though the moKt terrible part of it does not . seem to have been at first known, led the Tai- \Von-Kun and bin followers to take a sudden and decisive step to pro- vent the intended revolution being car- ried out." PKJLSONALITY OF THE QUKI The Queen of Corea waa one of the most remarkable women of the age, and | her personality stands out with excep- iomil lustre among the nations of the | East, where woman's plane is infinite, v , lower than in Christian countries. Her 1 intellectual gifts, joined to a vigorua j force of will and a rare degree of execu- j t ive tact and astuteness, gave her a time of tier !e*th. She waa of medium height mi I] |'Vii"ifTi:i au|Mu ranee., her fac bearniK evfcry M|{M of high intelligence. e.ucr^y u,wi vivacity. She wav of lighter complexion than the majority of nans, and her eyes were dcjtcnbd as duk and full of spark l> . said to have dressed chiefly in Kuri.pejin faiibion. wearing skirts of contlv mater- ials, Inn often disdaining li'.i u ~ii -s and Mockinrfs. Slie cunii'<l no jewellery beyond a diamund-Mtudde.d America:) wuich. In the latter years of her life t he Quuen U said to have been in constant dread of assassination, " because ^hc knew she had dou so much wrong," mice l'ik explained it in H|ieakiiir of her. It was her cuxtom to sit up all night and she never went to bed unt il five or six o'clock in the morning. She u> said to have had several Ix'drooms in the palace, so that no one knew where t>he .slept except her own intimates. I n- der her l>edcliaiiiber there was a trap- door, with .-tcps leading to a guard room below, where she kept always on guard fort y fleet-footed courier*, wit h a vehicle ever in readiness so that she could fly at a moment, .s notice. VA il h all her precaut ions, the unfort u- nate woman was unable to escape her terrible doom. In I'orea her memory will b treaMiireil by soi:ie |>ersons, but probably be auathe.umi i/.ed ny many as long :u her life- long enemies hold sway. In ;my event, she cannot be easily for- got ten, and in the hulory of Corea she will figure as no commonplace atiarer of the throne. Merit U what gives Houd'tHarM parti la ItMfTft/t popularity ad oonsUntly larrnaatng aim. It perfectly aad pwmuuaaUy aor> "t*rrh. rbrumatiniu, ncrufula, aau rheum, In fact all blood diseases. "Before my husband '*fftn using Rood'* Harsaparllls ha > oerroa* and bud ncarooly any mppellUi, but wtiau he bad takeu U a weak he fU b*llr, and by tht- time be bad takeu one lutl it WM entirely well." MRS O. A. PAKBIM- son, Mtjudou, Mass. tUmemrwr Hood's Sarsaparilla Is thsOnvTroa Blood t'tiritlur |1, Itorf*. Hood's Ills fiue ail Uret 111*. awhile to convince themselves that the would not reappear." . WHY IT IS BLUE. r* r ik<- <:ol*r of th "7. Prof. W. Spring, in discussing the question. " Why is the .sky blue <" has approached pretty near a .solution, says the Popular Science News, if he baa not really reached it. After premising that, excepting nitrogen, the principal ii'iisi.iluents of the air oxygen, wat- ery vapor, ozone, ic. are blue when subjected to strong pressure, he points been stifled forever a large share of Turkey's patriotism, ability and wom- anly loveliness. Abdul Hamid, though he seems from his presence to be the most relent less of all the Sultans, is bin following in the footsteps of the Padishahs that have gone before him. These crimes have been going on silently, stealthily, fiendishly fur cenliiries. But Abdul Hamid. his hands already stained with the blood of Armenians and other law- less acts committed in his domain, put the final touch, which has aroused the whole civilized world, when hy his .-\ press orders within the past month he deliberately drowned like dogs a score of brilliant and patriotic youths whose one aim was the betterment of tlieir country, and who belonged to that fearless, thoughtful, earnest band, the Young Turkish parly. 'Though the Mussulman potentate now cringes feverishly at the feet of all the powers of the Old World, asking par- don for his iniquities and promising lavish reforms, there ia little question that during the PH.XI few years wholesale ' sacrifi.-es t,. the DevilVCurrent" have been going on with the, virulence of seventy years ago, when, with one fell, swcxip, the Janizaries were wiped off , t he face of the earth. That waa a crime some details of which have gone dow n to history. Down by the water's edge, along the sea wall of the old city, and on the beach below the palace terraces, t he little gate or door, with its arched top from which the Janizaries were thrown one by one after they had been bow-strung by order of the reigning I'adishah, is still to be seen. When Janizaries were nent to their death a gun boomed forth as each body was cast into the Rosphorus. signalling to the imperial despot that, vengeance had been wreaked u Ids enemies. H 'iKKM WIVKS AND CIIIUWKN A harem U a little world, in fact, by itself. Its constitution is peculiar an. I known by few. Into four clasMw the, women and girls are divided. At the bead stand the Kadincs. who are morel or less legitimate wives, though never ff I' i illy esp. used. It should he lemon bered tint it is not the custom for the Turkish Sultan to marry, though in- stances of Padishahs having done so are matters of history. Contrary to accepted belief, the Turk- ish harem woman is not altogether the indolent individual, .spending all her days lolling upon cushions ..f silk, that she was several gem-rat ... us ago. Though the Suit nn is cruel though he has no conscience and shows lit tin mercy, be allows the women much direct rays is. nevertheless, too -hort to allow of their acquiring so intense b. hue as that which we actually per- ceive. Assuming, therefore, that the all-pervading illumination of the heav- ens is produced by polarized and not by diiecl light, he offers the follow ing nx- I I mat ion: The solar rays, after strik- ing the earth's surface, are reflet ted from the latter in every direction Passing upward t hey encounter atmos- pheric layers of gradually decreasing densities, by which they are more and more di. cited from their normal path- way. The highest of these layers they will strike at so wide an angle as to be unable to penetrate them. This must give rise to the well-known phenomenon of total reflection, and the rays return to our level after having taken a much longer journey than if they were di- rett. In this way tbev reach us from far-off regions by a kind of celestial mirage conveying t lie color, which, as said above, is blue, of the denser layers traversed. Inhuman Punishment. Several people have a habit of punish- ing their children by sending the poor little things to bed without any supper. This is one of the most cruel things that any mother ever did. and any humane society would be justified in taking her child from her. Some time ago a well- known Montreal woman sent one of her children hungry to bed, and in the morning 'he tot was found delirious and in the most serious condition. A phy- ii mi was called, and he found that the child's .sickness was caused by starva- tion. This woman has gone unpunished, although the limit of the law. in my opinion would scarcely be heavier than she deserves. tbe rulers of the Eastern races. Her si riknit; individuality, however, while it earned for her a great influence over the King and a powerful group of ad- herents throughout i lie kingdom, tend- ed at the same time to render her un- popular in certain quarters, and to c<m- ceninite upon her the relentless h:iin-'i of IHTSKIIS of weight and prominence in the naiion. The head and front of the forces that moxt violently o|i|M>sed the Queen was the Kind's father, the Tai-Won-Kua. .lust when Her Majesty's father-in-law first ounce i ved his inii-nse .lislike of his son's royal .spouse, or what was the first serious cause of the antipathy, are not definitely known to the outer world, but it i uener.-illy assumed that the Tai- Won-Kun. himself in ambitious and fon-eful man. irrew gradually to ronent the limill'-ss influence that the .-lever Durability of Bricks. There is probably no building material so durable as well-made .bricks. In the British Museum are bricks taknn from the Imildings in Nineveh and llat . i"ii which ,<lh>w no sign of deciy or disinte- gration, although the ancient s did n .: burn or boko them, but dried them in the un. The liaths of Caracalla and of Titus, in Home, and the Thermae of 1'n del ian have cmlu'ed inn ravages of limn far lietter than the stone of the Collstuim or the nuu-ble of the Forum. Anglo Saxon Justice Among the Anglo-Saxons every por- tion of the human inxly bad a mime forms concealed in the regulation knocked out one of the front teeth of yashmak and feridje, they drive, pay I hia neighbor he had to pay nun shil- visits, go t bazaar's and are often seen lings aa compensation, but if he de- on the Grande Hue de Per-i the great si roved hi.s l*ard h" hod to hand over driveway of the Frank quarter of Cou- !*> wu th * 2 stalling*. woman of _ in) rod need at court cuttloms that we.re at vivid variance with the, conser- vative fashions of t.he, country. She asserted her independence, we are told. in a variety of ways, and some travel- lers go so far as to say that she t reat- ed her husband will) a haughty. :m- IM-I inns .li-d tin, never inviting his judg- ment upon any public matter, and pm ting him in the light of a nonentity before his people. All her relatives of the princely Ming family were unwa- vering in their devotion to her. Many striking instances are cited of the royal lady's methods of proceeding in enforcing her will upon t he King, regardless of the established cust s of the country. The King, for in.stan.s-. once grew insistent upon his ancestral right to KKKP A II \HK.M. This the Queen protested against, anil made it a habit whenever a new fav- orite wa-s introduced into the palace to \ IMI the newcomer's Quarters during the night, and assist at toe assassination of her would-be rival. The enmity between the opposing forces reached its climax when the war between China and Japan was begun. The Queen was a determined opponeui D| what, she believed the aggressive de- signs of the Japanese, while, the Tai- \\'on-Kiin wa-s the moat enthusiastic ally of Japan in all Corea. When Japan became victorious the regin of the i '.ne. m Queen was doomed. Gradually her hold weakened upon the throne, and her mighty enemy, the King's father, became the real ruler of the nation. The Ming faction, hnaded by the Queen, mode a desjx-rate effort to re- tain it-s high place in the slate., but. fate neemed against it. On Oct. 8 last i In- bitter struggle was practically brought to an end in Seoul. The troops rallied around the Tai-Won-Kun. who marched in force upon the palace The guards posted there made only a feeble show of resistance, and soon dispersed. The old prince King, and what was really a coup d'etat was thus quickly accom- plished. Il was on this fatal day. and almost ut an instant, consequence of the enirv of the forces of I he 'Tai-Won-Kun, that the Queen was set. upon by the Prince's adherents,, and led to her death. A few days later the widowed King issued an ext rnordinary proclamation in which he credited his late spouse with obscuring hi.s intelligence, robbing hid people, 'tinf using his orders, and dc'.. countless other things subversive of the national welfare, on account of which he then and there deposed her and de- graded her to the level of the common people. I UK LATK QUKKN was one year older than her husband. and was in her forty-sixth year at the SOOTH AFRICAN GOLD. AB aillMalr thai HWM -IUIIM-- Will IM nine five Voan r ., \., The actual output of gold from the deposits of the Rand in the Transvaal constitutes one of the moat remark- able phenomena in the history of min- ing. The far larger deliveries, how- ever, which are expected in the near future, seem likely to have a marked effect upon the ratio of value between two precious metals. We find in a late number of " Nature " a trustwor- thy account of these immense aurifer- ous lieds. which offers grounds for lie- lievmg that by the end of fifty year* the Transvaal region will have exer- cised a greater influence upon the gold market of the world so far as the ' influx of the yellow metal is concerned. than baa lieen exerted by the Western hemisphere during the four centuries since it.s discovery. In what kind of rock are the gold ' deposits of the Hand encountered? It seems that the southern, western, and middle parts of the Transvaal, or South African republic, are covered with the hale*, sandstones, conglomerates and limestones which make up what ia known as the Cape formation. The gold of the Witwatcrsrand. to give the aurifermui region its full naim, ia obtained exclusively from beds of con- glomerate, known aa "liatiket," car- ried hy the Cape formal um. These are composed mainly of peltries of white or K.rav quartz emlwdded in matrices consisting originally of sand, but now completely cemented to an aliutt homogeneous material by a later de- ponii ion of quarts. We are told I hat the |x-M>les as s rule, do not carr\ mv gold, 'he mineralization U-mg confined lo the matrix. The aveatfe yield of t he conglomerate stamped lanl year waa 13.1fi jH-nnvweigliis of fine gold, or $14 per ton. As to the origin of the ore IxMues, none of the hypotheses mooted has I bus far oltUined' general accep- tance on the part of C4>m|n-ieui min- eralogists. What i of most practical importance to the world, the persist- ency of the banket di-pniait.s in point of depth ni.l the uniformity of the me- tallic contents, has Iwen established by deep liorings. In 1WM the Komi Vic- toria bore-hole was i r >00 feet deep. Sev- eral shafts have lieen sunk, encounter- ing the .tin ifen .;s conglomerates at | depths of tiOti to HNXI El ' Niw let us look at the data relating to the present and prospective output of these inin-.s. The delivery of gold from I lie Wiiwaiersrand has risen, it ap|iears, from .'.'I.INHI ounces in 1X87 to J,uJ3,l!iH ounces, valued at nearly 885.- 000.000 in 1*U4 ; w hile the return fur the first, nine months of 1895 was 1.711.337 ounces, which would give a value of alMiut $;:I.INI I.IKMI for the cur- . rent year. The Transvaal now pro- ! duces one-f if! h uf the world's supply of the yellow metal, and it is calculat- ed thai, at the present rule of pro- i gress. the output, of the Rand inirie.s 'will have reached by the year IJHKian annual value of |100,000,OM. When the author of the article in " Nature ' ; visited t he region in 1K92, there were 197(1 stamps running; in June of the present year there were 2ti42. During the last three yoars I he work uf extrac- t ion has lieen pushed more vigorously i han ever before, and from liie sixty mines near the outcrop of the main bed 5,000.0110 finis uf ore were taken in 1W)3 in. I |S!M. !''ive years hence I here will lie HOUO stamps running 'The present average crushing capacity is over four tons ir .st-ainp |>er day. but il is pro- nounced probable that shortly, through technical impr >vemeiiis. the average will lie raised to five tons per diem. Assuming ' ha' the average amount of gold yielded per Ion should not exceed II) |ienn> weights, which according to the local experience is a low estimate, the total output in 1!>00 should be 0,- 500,000 ounces. The average cost of mining anil treating the mineral is tioi expected to exceed the present figure of |li per Ion. In view of all these facts it is a safe forecast that the total production of gold from the Witwatera- rand within the next half century will not fall short of 3, .MM). 1)00,000. Krotii the. view point of probability il is plain that Mr. Rider Haggard made no mistake in his location of " King Solomon's Mines." FOB TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. DUNNS BAKING POWDER LARGEST SALE LN CANADA. A GBATEFUL LETTER A Prince Edward Island Lady Speak* tor the Benefit of Her Sex. Had 4|iprlllr W... file mill >..il I -.. M>d wiker liUlrrwlHK ymr Tigniah. P.E.I.. May SOth. 1895. To the Kill tor of I/lnifiartial : Dear Sir. 1 see by your (uiper the names i >f many who have been benefited by the u* ,.f'l)r. Williams' Pink Pills. I feel that I ought to let my cane be known aa 1 aui sure that many women might be benefited as 1 have been. For a nuiirher of years 1 have been almost an invalid. I did not know the nature of my malady. I bad a tired fneluig, being exhausted at the least exenion. I had no appetite and was very [tale. I sometimes felt like lying down uvver to rise. A di/zinuas would -.turn-time* take me causing me u> drop whore I would be. I)uriu4. r them spells uf liz::i- A Dizziness Would Overtake Me. nen< I had a roaring sound in ray bead. I took milicl iriviimeui but found no relief My husband and father both drew my alteiinon lo the maoy articles) which appeared from time lo ' uue in your paper concerning toe cures wrought In l)r Williajns' Pink I'lll*. At first 1 had no faith in them, in fact I had lost faith in all medicines and wa* resigned t/o mv lot, thinking that my day* were numbered ill this world. Kin- ally. liowe.yci, 1 coimeiiled to try the Pink I'ilkt. I had not taken them loug revived. I ordered more and continued taking the pills for three mninli- and I miiAi say that to-day I aiu as well and strong ae ever and the many ailment* which I had art* completely aurod. I attribute my complete recovery to toe Dr. Williams' Pink 1'ill.s aud bo|>e by telling you thia that others may be bene- fited by them. Mm. William Perry. 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Sold by ill dealers, but mily in IHIXC.S tb* wia|>|H-r around which lieais t lie full trade mark "Dr. Williams' I'ink Pill* lor I'ale People." Pills offered in loose form, by the hundred or mince, are imi- tations and should i- avonleil, is they are worthless and perhaps dangerous. A City of Champagne. Epernay. Kranoe. M a vast mibtnr- rnneaji " city of champagne " Kor miles and miles there are streets hewn out of solid chalk, flanked with piles of cbajnpagiie of all bleniln and umilities. Thi're is no Light in this labyrinth of ire-'i.s. croMsings and turnings, except what the spluttering candles afford. All is dink, dank and diunp. with t IM teniiwrature away down about zero. The. largesi cli.tmpit^iie inaniifacl urer* in Kjiernay have undergi >:ind cellar* which ixjver forlv-fivo .ic.re.s and con- I.UM .'i.tHHl.iXIti bottle* of wine I here is a whole street in K|>e.niay lined with line chateaux, the piopneNim of which poMMMui similar esiahlishiuoiiLs. Tlte w holt! town ut Ihuie* cointwd with these undei^rtMind gMlieiie.s fur the inaui*- fact lire and storage of rhampagim. Berlin's Race With Parts. Itorlin i hrnien.<t to eclipse Pat is. It now bus a |x>i>ulai ion of 1.7M.7W, and trie oarlv lumexal uxi of 'iirbs will incrtMue this to 1.980,000. Vienna i* nut far Iwhind. Inning l.:,,Mni,u