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The Sable Lorcha Horace Haieltinc {OamtUtm. SO* A. a MoClom * (Jo.) It It oue thing to hsve yonr faith In a friend shaken. That is serious ?ooufth In all conscience. But your faith may tremble, and sway and rock, and still there ia always U* poesibl} tty of Its being resteedled and made Arm again by explanation?by extenu? ation even. It Is quite another thing to hare yonr faith toppled headlong, by tbe snatching away of the last vest? ige of support, tbe last sliver of under? pinning. That hi more than serious. It Is calamitous; It is catastrophic; It la tragic Back in tbe library s^aln I sc* to pacing tbe floor. I think Pvelyn re? sumed her seat In tbe big leathern chair. I am sure. For a time I was not conscious that aba a as in the room. Thst It was incon ilderate of ate. I admit. It was, perhaps, unpar? donable. And yet it was not wilful. Frankly, I hsd forgotten her, absolute? ly, la tbe stress of tbe emotional tem? pest raised by thst revelation in tbe darkened bedchamber. Back and forth, I strode from book? case to bookcase, over the soft neu? tral-tinted Persian rugs; and aT the while there echoed those repeated de? nisia of Cameron's that be bad ever been In China. "Never nearer than Yokohama," be had said. "Once I ate chop soey in a Chicago Chinese restau? rant.'* "1 have always been Interested la China and the Chinese, but I know only what I hsve read.** And the words of his quondam friend came back to mo now, too, with redoubled e/nrhaala: "He refused to admit what I knew to be the truth." Nevertheless I bad chosen to believe that Cameron, should he ever return to ua, would be able to clarify this turbid stream of circumstance, and prove the fallibility of appearances. Tbe illusion to which I had clung, howe-sr, was mow In shreds. Cam- j ercn. retu.nlrg, with body enfeebled and brain crn.(used, hsd spoken in his unguarded delirium. The mask was dropped, the acreen thrown down, and barefaced end stark he stood revealed, a woeful figure in the impartial glare of truth. T" *? At tha moment I could aoe no exten aatton. Me waa a liar and be was a coward; and all the sympathy, all the friendship 1 ev >r felt for him died ut? terly, ss I thought how, probably, every untoward incident of the past month, wl'.h its chain of vexatious consequences, might hsve been avoid? ed had he been brave to the point of confession. It waa now plain enough for the ' least sstute to see that at some time he hsd committed an act which had aroused certain of the Chinese to re? taliation. It waa this which I hsd fesred from the first. It waa thla which be bad chosen to hide. As I paced to and fro, his craven words rang once more in my ears: "No, no. tdf God a sake, not that! I didn't kill tbem! I swear I didn't kill them! It waa an accident!" And I knew that be was lying. Tbe very tone of hia disclaimer convinced me of his guilt. He had killed, and he cowered before tbe avengers. Disgust, abhorrence, anger, all were mine in turn. , At length I paused before a window, and remained there, with my back to the room, looking down on the with- , ared garden behind the house, yet see? ing nothing but the red of my own pas? sion. A touch upon my shoulder aroused me to a realization of my surround? ings, and Informed me that I *vas not alone. Startled as one awakened ab? ruptly from a dream, I turned, and turning, there came a revulsion. Every surchsrglng emotion that had held and bound me gave way Instant? ly to a violent self-reproach, excited by tbe pathos of K'velyn's sad. ques? tioning eyes tsal sadde-, quivering mouth. My Impulse was to take her In my arms, and pacifying, to plead pardon for what must hsve seemed to her an Inexcusable churlishness Hut the con dltlona which so recently aSe had set upon me forbidding the coveted em? brace. I compromised on a hand clasn "My dear child," I began, earnestly, "I'm sorry. Hut then you must know how what we Just saw and heard dis? tressed me. I think I have been mad since we left that room. I hardly know what I hav.- 1?^ n doing. To him so unstrung, d*am*nted, raving. To hear him?" Hut she would not allow me to fin? ish "Philip'" ehe cried, passionately. "Ol;. Philip! Hail you are? lsmt you understand. It is a mistake, an awful nightmare of n mistake. Thst Creature over fh*?re is not my und?'. 1 am convinced that he ia not my Uncle Robert/' CHAPTER XX. An Enigma and Its iohjllofli To my iima/. n.SI I I found M il BvS> lyn nn'nnt more "..u I : an. < ?I. My Interpretation of hei words a m H at Cameron waa not in hin right n it <: that he wan not her ('ncl* Robert, as she had known htm. Put In a very brief moment she disabused me. "It la not be, at all," she declared, with emphasis. "There is a resemb? lance, yes. Hut the man you found in the street is not Robert Cameron; I am sure of that." The idea that I had brought there, not my friend, but my friend's double, seemed to me too preposterous for a moment's entertslnment, I fear I sus? pected. Just then, that Evelyn's reason had been warped a trifle by the rack? ing seen? of which we had been wit? nesses. 1 would to God, my dear child," I said, sympathetically, "that you wero light But there can be no question as to the identity of the sick man. Every one who has seen him recog? nised him at once?Checkabeedy, Lou Is, Stephen, Dr. Massey. No, no, Evelyn, you must not be misled by his rav? ings." And at this point there oo enrred to me a tentative explanation one la which I did not in the leapt be? lieve, but which, at all events, was worth trying; one which, indeed, I prayed would serve. "Cameron, yon must remember, has been with his Chinese captors for four weeks. In that time he must have picked up something of their language. It Is only natural that he should. So, you see, to hear him use a few words of pidgin-English In his Insane gibber? ish is not so remarkable, after all. And as for that spirited denial Just before he dropped off to sleep. It Is very evi? dent that they accused him of some? thing with which he had no connec? tion, though quite cognisant of the facta" Bot the girl would have none of It. Tolerantly she listened, and tolerantly she smiled when I had f nlshed. "No, no, Philip," she insisted, "I see It all quite clearly. Whatever crime was committed, the creature lying there committed it. But he is not my uncle. Others mistook the resemblance for Identity, Just as you did, only the situation was reversed. Those who abducted Uncle Robert thought they were abducting that villain we are now housing." It was an Ingenious notion, but of course it was not possible. However, I saw that It would be Idle to continue to dispute with her. "What would you suggest, then? Shall we send our Invalid to a hos? pital?" I asked, In pretended serious? ness. But very sagely she shook her bead. "Oh, no," she returned. "We must keep him. He is very valuable to us. Perhaps we can do as contending 1 armies do?-arrange an exchange of prisoners," Ip suite of my wretchedness, I sup? pressed a smile. It was all very amus lag] and yet the fear that she was suf- , ferlng aberration due to hysteria, tem? pered pitifully the humor of it. When, later in the afternoon, Dr. ' Massey called, I told him everything, Including this hallucination of Eve- 1 lyn's. 4,You did perfectly right," he said, in I tone of cordial approval. "The malady 1 with which Cameron is afflicted has a 1 tendency to distort certain lineaments. ' Especially at times of excitement his face changes, so that Miss Grayson is Justified In fancying that this Is not the Robert Cameron she knew. I have noticed the dissimilarity myself, but It is due, of course, entirely to dls- j torted expression. In a couple of days, at most, he will be fully restored, and then he hira3elf will be the best one to rectify her error. Meanwhile, if I wer? you, I would not dispute her. She b gone through a great d< al, and gone through It bravely; Indeed with a cour? age that Is quite phenomenal, and she is entitled to any little consolatory be? liefs that she chooses to entertain." And then, as If such advice were not wholly superfluous, he added: "Bo kiad to hcr, Clyde! be good to her. She Is a wonderful young woman." W1 er?at I grained his band, and promised him, lifting him a notch In my estimation because of his porspi- ' caclty. And all the while a lump kept rising in my throat and threatening 1 my t<ar ducts. \ On the following day I heard noth- 1 lng from Miss Clement, which some? what surprised me, though she had told me that her prospective inform- ( ants were likely to take their own time. Earty, on the second morning, however, I had a note from her, the enigmatic character of which impelled me to speculation. "Dear Mr. Clyde," she wrote, "I hope , you can make It convenient to visit me j this evening, at the Mission. I want j to talk with Ling Fo, an exceptionally | well-educated young Chinaman, who | tells me that his people are much mys? tified over a recent event; and, if what he says be true?and I never knew him to He?a new complexion is placed upon this whole matter. Come about nine thirty, after our service is over." As Dr. Massey*! orders forbidding my one save Mr. Bryan to enter Cam- \ eron's room, leaned Immediately after our hideous experience, bad not yet t*en rescinded, our knowledge of his condition was,perforce,gleaned entire. Ty thro rgh jbysieiau and nurse. Both now assured me that he was progress* lng sa*Isfaetorily, and that there had Ix^-n no return of the dementia. Ev? lyn .still persisted in h?-r DOtl< b that the patient was not her uncle, but hia double, and following the doctor*! difSJCtlOBI I refrained from frying to OOBTtBCS h*r of the truth; even going so far iih to pretend thai I hi lleved as she did. and planning to bt gin ne> got la t torn through Miss Clement *od her Chinese confidant! for an ex? change of captives as soon as our hott? age WM able to h<. mOYOd, "I am to isx Ml - Heim nt, tonight,*1 i f told her. late thlt afternoon, "also an Oriental seQoalntanec of ion, whoop p<nr* lo b< Informed on the subject , arbl< i lnt< r. its at, it is possible that he will prove t\e very person who can arrange it nl!.* "Let me go with you," sho urged, laying a beaeeching hand on my arm. "Do 1ft me go with you, Philip. I am fo anxious. It will soem years if I have to wait here for you to bring mo the news; and there are sure to bo some things you will forget to ask about, if I'm not. there to prompt you." In spite of the unflattery of her speech I smiled, indulgent Her great blue eyes, pathetically pleading as her words, were able advocates. It was hard to deny her under any circum? stances, and now, as I thought it over, I saw no reason why in this instance she should not have her desire. "Yes," I agreed, "you shall go. But remember, you must be very careful, for the present at least, not to let slip the slightest inkling that we suspect our Cameron is not the real Cameron. We are seeking Information, you know, Evelyn, not squandering it" Pell street wore its night gaudery when the Cameron electric brougham with Evelyn and myself as occupants glided to a halt before the door of the Mission over which Miss Clement ably and successfully presided. The pale, vari-tinted light of lanterns from the balcony of a restaurant across the way, mingling with the flickering yel? low beam of the city's gas lamps, threw into sharp relief the curious pendent black signs with their red cloth borders and glided Chinese let? tering, hanging before shop doors. It revealed, too, oddly contrasting figures of loungers and pedestrians, residents and visitors. And it bared, back of all tbar was bizarre, the commonplace brick fronts of the typically American buildings, with their marring gridiron ing of fire-escapes. To Evelyn, rarely observant, the combination was inter? esting, but disappointing. "It does not look at all as I expect? ed it would," she jaid to me. "It hasn't the air. It is neither one thing nor the other. It is like a. stage scene, care? lessly mounted." As we alighted at the Mission dcor, the last notes of a familiar hymn, mangled in words and melody almost beyond recognition, flowed out to join the babel of street sound ? and before we could mount the high steps there had begun to pour forth a motley, malodorous freshet of felt-shod soles, that gave us pause; blocking, for a few minutes, not merely the ascent but the sidewalk as well. When, at length, the way was clear, and by direction of a youth at the en? trance, we had pafsed through the close, ill-smelling hall, where the lights had already been lowered, we came upon Miss Clement, alone in a little well-ventilated and brightly-lighted of? fice or parlor, jutting off at the rear. I If she was surprised at seeing Eve? lyn, she gave no sign. She welcomed us both with the smiling cordiality of a life-long friend. But abruptly her smile died. "I tried to get you on the telephone an hour ago," she explained, "but there was some trouble wiih the wire. I hoped to save you this journey for nothing." "Your protege couldn't come?" I queried. "Unfortunately, no," she returned, with a little quaver in her voice. "My protege will never come again. He was shot, to death. Poor, poor Ling Fo!" "Shot to death!" I cried, while Eve? lyn, with .'hecks suddenly pale and eyes wide, h< Id her underllp fast be? tween her teeth, and gripped hard on the arms of the rocking chair in whjch Miss Clement had placed her. "Yes." And this Strong, sweet faced, gray-haired woman in gray, her momentarily-lost composure quite re? covered, laid a quitting hand softly over Evelyn's tensed clutch. "Yes. That sort of thing is not unusual down here, you know. There is always more or less bad blood between the tongs. Hut it was most unforunate, just at this time, because I feel sure he could have told you something worth learn? ing. I'm glad he was a good bo>\ Jle was on<' of the few converts that are really sincere." "Perhaps he knew too much," 1 suggested. But Miss Clement made no com? ment. I fancy it was out of considera? tion for Evelyn that she refrained from endorsing my conclusion; while I reproached myself for being less thoughtful. 1 was all the more con? vinced that I had voiced the motive for the shooting. As Evelyn did not ask for particu- ( lars, I profited by the lesson thus taught and curbed my curiosity. But I was In no mood to drop the subject. From Miss Clement's note it was cler.r that Ling Fo had already communi cnted to her some of the more impor? tant facts in this connection, and of these I hoped to possess myself. "And so. Miss Clement,** I ventured, Eharpening my wedge, Chinatown is mystified, I understand." She was seated, now, hv her little desk, and for a moment h cl born turn? ing up, searchlngly, one k>aper aft< r another, from an open drawer. At my observation, she paused and raia< d her glance, a folded sheet of note size in her hand; for a heart-beat her eyes held nitn<* "Yes," the said at length. "China? town is all si sea, so to ?peak." "t r?ar what ?" I pressed. Slowly she unfolded the scrap of writing she held, and before replying sli?- read it through, slowly and delib? erately. "If yotl don't mind." Bbc proposed, "I would prefer not to talk about it. I am in a pei ullar position here, Mr. Clyde, as you can well understand, ami I can't nfford to play falsa to those who trust p e. At tha same time I do not always know whom among iheee people t?> trust. Borne one who knew thou very well wro?c, once upon a tlm<, something like this: Tou ran take a Chtnk away from hfs fun. Away from his lotteries, Addles and You can tflve hhs queue to the bartx-r, boss; But y?>u can't t&-* down to the nx^ta that start From the yeliow base of his y<lW>w heart. And it's very true. There are tliose here who pretend to adore me, who would think nothing of treating me as they treated poor Ling Fo, if they suspected I knew anything and gave information." "I don't want you to think I'm a coward, Miss Crayson," she went on, turning to Evelyn. "I think I've proved to you that I want to help you and mean to, but I'm rather upset tonight, and I'm so afraid we shall have to let matters rest a little longer. T.lere is one thing, though, that you can do for me, if you will." The last sentence was addressed to me, and I made haste to assure her that she had only to command me. As she had spoken she had been folding and refolding the paper in her hand, until it was now a tiny, one Inch square. "Take this," she said, handing It to me, her voice a low murmur, "and after you have read It, destroy it. I shouldn't want it found in my pos? session." "I understand, Miss Clement," I re? turned and the folded square went Into my waistcoat pocket. "It may mean more to you," she added, In a whisper, "than anything I could say." When once more in the brougham, I speeding northward, Evelyn, who had ! been unusually taciturn throughout the interview, asked me a question. "Did you mean what you said, Philip?" "What did I say?" I queried. "That you understood." "I understood that it might not be weil for her to have this letter of Ling Fo's about" "But the rest? Her refusal to talk? Her uneasiness? Her fear of possible traitors?" she persisted. Once more she had gone straight to the heart of the situation. I had been as puzzled as she by the missionary's attitude of constraint which I could not attribute wholly to the tragedy she had told us of; and I admitted as much to Evelyn. "If she suspected eavesdroppers," the girl argued, "she said too much. If she didn't fear being overheard, why couldn't she tell us all she knew?" For want of a better answer I said: "Perhaps the letter will solve the enigma," and plucking it from my pocket with thumb and forefinger I 1 began carefully to unfold it. The interior of the vehicle was bril? liantly alight, aad though we were already far beyond the Chinatown zone and the chance observation of any lurking spies, I nevertheless chose discreetly to draw the shades prior to outspreading the written page. Before the sheet with its network of creases was quite flattened, Evelyn, who was bending attentively near, ex? claimed In surprise, "It is her own handwriting! See, it is written by Miss Clement herself!" , Already absorbed, I made no re- j sponse. Avidly my eyes were racing ! over the lines; greedily, my brain was \ digesting them, j "Tidings of the cruel murder of Ling Fo have just reached me. When you come, as I know you will, I shall not dare to speak what I have written, and which is all that the poor boy j ever told me. Already there are spies about me, and your visit is a risk to us both. I would have prevented it, if I I could. "Three weeks ago, ncv*ording to Ling Fo, a white man was abducted by or? der of the Six Companies, and shipped to China for punishment, aboard a tramp steamer. Ling Fo would not I give me the white man's name or any j of the particulars, save that sixteen j years ago he had committed a crime, known to every Chinaman in America as 'The Crime of the Sable Lorcha/ or Tdack funeral ship,' by which near? ly one hundred Chinese coolies lost | their lives. 1 "It seems now that this man, who they thought was on the ocean, sud? denly reappeared in New York, a few nights ago. He was recognized and set upon by two Chinamen, but he escaped, and the Six Companies and all the tongs are in a ferment over the mystery." Evelyn's hand was on my arm s I read, her face close to mine, reading with me. Having finished, I held the sheet for a moment, waiting for her to signify that she, too, had reached the end. And that moment the brougham came to a sudden halt. Before either of us could voice a word the door on my side was wrenched violently open, and the blue steel muzzle of a revolver covered me. CHAPTER XXI. When the Doors Parted. What Immediately followed must have occupied a second or two at most. Yt t it seemed to me that for many minutes I sat mute and motion? less, starting at the leveled weapon I and at the rude black mask behind it; ! for my brain was superactive and my thoughts were racing. Instantly I comprehended all that ; had happened, and the situation, cli? maxing In our peril, was as (dear to i mo as though 1 had witnessed the , whole chain of events from Inception to final execution. The assassination 1 of Ling Fo was to be succeeded by the abduction, perhaps the murder, of Eve? lyn and myself, already while we 1 were conversing aith Miss Clement our driver had been spirited from the Ii >\ and one of 'he enemy mounted In his place, In the rush of my review ? recalled that In hurrying Evelyn Into II brougham anxious to iw> started . nd away, I had not cast even BO much as a glance towards the man !n front. At first, ir our absorption, and later behind I'*vrerod silken shades, we had made no effort to trace our course. Hence our present location was mad? deningly unguessable. We might be far on the East side or far on the West, or we might merely have circled back to within a block or loss of the Mission from which we started. All this, I say, flashed fhrough my brain with inconceivable swiftness as I sat rigid, with eyea on the revolver barrel and the masked face of the shadowy, sinister creature that held it. Ah this, and more. For in that brief space I considered one possible course of action after another, groping des? perately for a plan of rescue and es? cape. In that passing second or two there had been no sound?no word from him at the door; no whisper even from her at my side, who, like myself, sat dumb and inert, stricken* to stone by the sud? denness jf the attack. But for a sec? ond or two only this silence and in? ertia lasted. (TO BE CONTINUED) There is more Ctarrh in this section of the country than all other diseaaei put together, and until the last few years was supposed to he incurable. For a great many years doctor.-? pro? nounced it a local disease and pre? scribed local remedies, and by con? stantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a Constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohls, is the only constitutional cure on fhe market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mu? cous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollards for any case it falls to cure. Send for circu? lars and testimonials. Address: P. J. Cheney & Co., To? ledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti? pation. REDS ARE DEFEATED. Greens Stop Onward March of Load ers?Standing of Teams. The Qreens Thursdsv night put a stop to the onward n arch of the Reds in the V. M. C. A. bowling tourney, \\ hen they defeated them by some fifty-two pins in the match of three Kanus, four men bowling. Hitherto the Reds have been far in the lead for the bowling trophy and their de feat wai welcomed l?y the opposing teams, who are working hard to win the trophy. Th?> tirst game went to the Greens by nineteen pins, the second to the Reds by two pins an i the third to the Greens by thirty-five pins mak? ing a majority of fifty-two pins for the Greens. This leaves the standin? of the t? ami as follows: Team Games \v L P. C. Reds.9 I 667 Blues.S 4 4 500 Greens.*.? 4 5 4 44 Whites.8 I ? 375 Escaped After Fifteen Years. ?W. P. Broyles made a successful escape after fifteen years of suffering from kidney and bladder troubles. Poley Kidney Pills released him and will do just the same for others. He says: "They cured a most severe backache with painful Madder irreg? ularities, and they do all you claim for them." Refuse substitutes. Sibert's Drug Store.?Advt. Tablet For Battle Ground. The tablet tor the site ot' the Din? gle's Mill battle ground has reached Sumter and will be taken out to the newly constructed concrete bridge across the stream and will he erected there during tin- next week. The bridge is slowly hardening and it is thought that it will be opened to traf flce in a short while now. 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"I have us. d it for years both for my children and m> und it never falls t" relieve and cure i cough or cold. No family with chlldi?o should be a It houl it a* it ::iv? h alnio> t Imnv di?te r< Iii f in eases of croup." Chamberlain's Cough llemedy Is pleasant and safe to take, which ia of great importance when a medicine must he g Iven t.. > oung i nil dren. For Bah bj all dealera.- Advt. WAR CHIEF SHOT. V\/JM PASII \ KIU.II? IN < OX ST.W'TINUPl.i; I>1ST1 Kll\\< I With 1 all of MlnlHtr) Young Turks Take Chatte and Intimate intention to Continue W*r. Constantinople, Jan. 23.?Xazim Pasha, tin- former war minister an?l commander of the Turkish army, was shot dead during demonstrations here tonight. Bnver Bey and Talaat Bey had given explicit orders that no blood should be ihed. But Xaalm Pasha i aide de camp lired from a window of the porte at Bnver Bey and his companion and the\ returned the fire. Their hullets killed Xazim Pasha, in spite of this tragedy, there was no disturbance elsewhere. Constantinople, Jan. 23.?A crises in Turkey's affairs came today with dra matlc suddenness. The grand \ .sier, Kiamil Pasha, and the Ottoman cabi? net resigned and Mahmound Shefket Pasha, formerly minister of war and commander of the constitutional army which enthroned Ifehmed V. as sultan, was appointed grand vizier. Yesterday the ^rand council, rep? resenting the intellect and wealth of the nation, pronounced in favor ot peace. Today a vast crowd drawn fr< m all classes declared for war rather than peace without Adrianople. And because the crowd was backed by public opinion, the government surrendered and relinquished office, making way for fhe same men whom the popular movement brought to the top after the revolutions of 190S and 1909. The resignation of the Turkish cabinet in which Kiamil Pasha was jirand vizier was announced in the following official statement: "The decision of Kiamil Pasha's cabinet, taken in response to the note handed to the Turkish government by the European powers to abandon the fortress of Adrianople and part of the islands in the Aegean sea, for the convention of an extraordinary as? sembly of the grand council of the Ottoman Empire to which the cabi? net's decision was submitted?a course contrary to the prescriptions of the constitutional charter and violating the sacred rights of the people? aroused the indignation of the Turkish nation, with the result that the peo? ple made a demonstration before the sublime porte and brought about the resignation of the government." The council of ministers met short? ly before noon to give final shape to the note accepting proposals of the powers. About J o'clock people from all quarters begin to gather in front of the gate to the grand visterate. Bnver Bey, a leader of the Young Turks who was identified with the campaign In Tripoli, and Xadje Bey, prominent Unionist. arrived about this time and were deputed to in? form them that they must retire. Bnver Bey soon issued from the visierete and announced that he held the resignation <>f Kamil Pasha. This was greeted with tremendous cheers, which were frantically renewed an hour and a half later when he re? turned with an trade appointing Mah moud Shefket Pasha grand vizier. After a living visit to the porte. on his return from the palace, the Young Turk leader procee ?od to the resi? dence of Manmoud shefket to com? municate the imperial message. In the meantime Talaat Hey assum? ed provisionally the porfolio of the ministry of the Interior and Izzel Pasha that of war. in an Interview Talaat Bey said the movement had not been planned, but was the out? come of popular feeling. if Adrian? ople were abandoned, he said, dis? turbances would break out ail over the empire. With regard to money, the whole nation would make a sacri? fice. "We do not want a continuation of the war, but wo are determined to ke. n the fortress of Adrianople at .11 rests. This is an indispensable con? dition to peace," he said. a proclamation nominating Mali moud Shefket Pasha as grind Vlzter was read at the porte at 7 o'clock this evening. On his arrival he will be enthusiastically greeted by a great as? semblage outside. The portfolio ot foreign affairs have been offered to Hasseln Hilm! Pasha, the present sm baaador at Vienna and a former grand visier. tfiambrrlauVs Cough Remedy. This remedy has no superior for coughs and colds, it is pleasant to take, it contains no opium or other narcotic, it a I way a cures. For i by all dealers Advt. There were a great man) visitors from out of town In attendance upon the -how at the lendeni) of llusii Thursday night. IlintM toe ll.ee < no- *, !<? . p I' ?b \ a I ton. > a i 1 Tar Com