HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1885-11-27, Page 7AN EGYPTIAN ROMANCE
A Story of Love and Wild Adventure, founded upon Startling Revela-
tions in the Career of Arabi Pasha,
By the Author of " NINA, THE
NIHILIST," " THE RED SPIDER," " THE RUSSIAN SPY,"
ETC,, ETC,
CHAPTER VL
Tien FIRST F.IINT MURMUR. O1 THE COMING
STORM,
Traversing eevoral long and dim'y lighted
passages that were glazed and celled with
perfumed chunam, each having a door whose
lock yielded to one or other of the keys that
dangled at the girdle of Elman, the buffoon,
a kind of hall was at last reached, and at
its further end were massive curtains of
sloth of gold having a heavy bullion fringe,
and these were partly looped up, whilst on
each aide thereof, like a etatuo of bronze,
stood an enormous eunuch with a huge flame-
solored turban on hie head and loosely hang.
ing robes of the same color draping hie form,
but leaving his brawny limbs baro, whilst
in hie hand he grasped a naked scimitar.
Considering that he was perfectly unarm-
ed, and was fully aware that the penalty
was death for one of hie sex to be found in
mole a place, Frank Donelly did not feel par-
ticularly comfortable at eight of these arm-
ed Goliathe ; but bad they uoen,iron columns
they could not (to all outward seeming) have
regarded him with greater unconcern and
indifference, and a minute later Ehnan had
led him between them into a beautiful apart-
ment on the other side of the curtains, the
Walls of which were painted with a se•ies of
brilliant landecapoa in akind of distemper,
but in which nothing having life was intro-
duced, for to draw such is a deadly sin ac.
cording to the laws of Mohammed. Thus
there were boats being rowed upon lakes and
rivers, but no one handling the oars, ships
sailing the sea to all appearance paesenger.
less and crewlesa, and the interiors of mos- the Fering tee women. If I marry a Mussul-
quea and palaces, but all empty and desert- man I shall never obtain thorn. Am I not
edyoung and fair ? Why, then, should I be
Whilst tho Irish dragoon was looking at forever hidden behind atone walls, and
these things and aloe at the piles of cushions guarded by hideous armed eunuchs, whilst
the vases and the flowers that formed the others more favored by fortune but not by
sole furniture of this splendid apartment, nature dance before all men with their
the old buffoon advanced alone into one that faces and necks uncovered ? Whilet you
lay beyond, but had hardly been gone a min- are tbe only Peringhee whom I have
ute when she reappeared and beckoned known, and as you risked your life for me
Frank to follow her. you must love me. Take me, then, to your
He did so to find himself a second later in own country and marry me, and there let me
a small but luxuriously fitted up chamber enjoy life as the Christian women do. El -
that was most brilliantly lighted, and in the man has learned that ono of the big steamers
' presence of a woman who was reclining cit a goes through the canal this very night and
pilo of soft cushions, in a pose of voluptuous leaven Port Said with the early dawn. We
langour, and who, directly that Elman had should assuredly catch her if we started
retired, drew aside her veil and smiled upon without further loss of time, and on a festi-
him. val night like this we should not be misaed
As she did so the young Iriehman recog- for many hours. Why do you hesitate to
nized the beautiful Egyptian whom he had grasp the happiness offered to you?"
saved from the crocodile and from drowning "Because, your highness, I may not," re -
while bathing in the Upper Nile. aponded the young dragoon, at last driven
Ho was not surprised, for he had guessed to sheer desperation, °`eine it happens not
and almost known that she was his summou- only that I am unworthy of the honor and
er, but he was astonished at discovering how the ha ppiness'that you proffer me, but also
much more lovely a woman looks am hat lux- that I am engaged to be married to a fair
ury, splendor, and gonial warmth, than when young girl, one of my own oree.1 and race,
terror-etrioken, wet and exposed to the ole. than whom 1 could never love even au em -
menta. even as they are tempered and soften- press half so well. Ao for the saving of your
ed in Egypt, the land of the sun, bighnees' lite at tbe risk of my own, pray
Her dress was gorgeously rioh. She wore think not of it, for I would have ventured
a low out vest of crimson velvet, embroider- as much, I hope, for a drowning beggar."
ed all over with gold and having buttons of "You} darn tell me this, ungrateful
solid bullion, It fitted her to perfection wretch 1 exclaimed the princess, with a cud•
and showed the surprising beauty of her den change of manner, and all the latent ti -
neck, shoulders audbow:en, for her skin was ger awakening within her ; and as her beau -
darker than a Spanish girl's, and looked tiful eyes dilated and her magnificent bosom
positively fair when the heavy ebon masses began to rise and fall with the violence of
of herearl-entwined hair formed its back- her emotions, she added with a snake -like
p "iaa in her tones :
"I have no wish that tbou ahouldst," an-
swered the lovely odalisque with a smile
that showed a double row of teeth as tiny
and regular an two rows of pearls. "Is it
possible, then, that thou lovest me in com-
plete ignorance of who I am? It is the
Princess Zeeneh, the sister of the Khedive,
who condescends to honor thee with her af-
fections, and who is ready this very night
and hour to fly with thee and become thy
one and only wife. Elman, the buffoon, hath
provided the disguises and will accompany
us, and I have sewn up in my dress diamonds
and other gems that will make thee rich be-
yond thy utmost imagination. Come, hap-
py man, you may kneel and kiss my hand
and thank me. Ah, why do you hesitate ?"
"Because, your highness, I now know that
I am unworthy of the honor that you would
• do me, and I will not he base enough to take
advantage of your condescension and un-
bounded goodness of heart and generosity of
disposition. I am too humble even to be
permitted to kiss the hem of your robe or to
stand in your presence, wherefore I beseech
you to allow me to retire." And whilst he
wail thus doing the civilities of speech,
Frank was thinking to himself : "Was ever
mortal man in such a predicament before?
I wish I was well out of it. Catch mo ever
wanting to got Weide of a harem again," and
no on.
"Humility may be carried too far," ex-
claimed the princess, in answer to Frank's
last volley of excuses. "I am sick of this
monotonous prison life of the harem, I pant
for freedom, the freedom and enjoyment of
ground or strayed over it in wanton tresses, happi- For the rest her full Turkish trousers were "She who stands in the way of my pp - answered the war minister, reprovingly.
of white satin and also covered with filigree nese and my freedom I have seen thee twice "To drive them forth from the country that
work, and, being banded tightly around her with, have I not ? Once in a carriage, when they have ruined. with the help of Allah
ankles, revealed the tiniest of feet, that were she held thine hand in hers whilst she gazed and the Prophet I should be quite willing to
thrust into a pair of crimsou velvet heelless at the opal ring which was my gift ; and do, and perhaps I am the only man in Egypt
slippers, thickly studded with precious again not half an hour ago beside the amber- save one who could do it."
atones. hued fountain, within view of this very win- "And who is the other ?"
"So you have not forgotten me ? You dow, which was in darkness then ? You "He whom his foes call the False Prophet."
obeyed the summons of the lotus flower and need not newer mo with your tongue, for "Arabi Pasha, you alone are the chosen
all is well. Yes, well for ourselves and for your oyes have Bono so already, and besides of the nation, and all men know it, for you
others that you love me." 1 knew it aforehand. It was the sight of have a heart that feels for the misery and
This was spoken in the purest French, and her liberty that made me nigh for a like free- degradation of the people, and 'tis not a
Frank was not slow in making reply : dem. But do you mean to tell me seriously ,mann, selfish ambition but 'an earnest de.
"It is impossible to help loving the beau- that my beauty, my wealth and my exalted eine for Egypt's welfare that spurs you to
tlful, for Allah has created the beautiful in rank cannot win you away from such a girl take codon." Without me, however, yon
order that it ahonld be loved," and having as she?" would be powerless, and you know why."
spoken thus aloud, ho muttered to himself : "Your highness," responded Frank, losing "]lecause without you our mighty lord
"Now, if she was an Irish or an English girl hie temper in turn, at bearing Nellie Trez err and souzerane, the Sultan, would designate
l'd be inclined to think her a forward hussy, so contemptuously spoken of, "you could .the etc uggle for liberty a military rebellion,
but if 'tie the fanhion here for the women to not win me from her wore you tbrice as and help your brother, the Khedive, to crush
do the love making, I suppose d must cub• lovely, rich and exalted, all of which were it out."
mit with a good grace." impossibilit ion. I may show bad tanto in „you have said it, and 'tis no more than
Meanwhile he thought he had made a preferring the dove to the eagle, and be un- the truth. But my beauty can away the
very polite answer, but it seemed to he a pardonably rude in saying so, but you have Sultan, for he loves me; And that beauty
good deal to vague in its nature for the party put to me a plain question and pressed me and that love combined shall obtain you that
to whom it was addressed. for a plain anawe , therefore I• 1 an hidly tell which alone you require to insure samosa.
will make your secret safe with me," was ? remaining themse•ves unseen) upon an object
of interest in the hall below.
Had any of the ladies been there upon
the present occasion they would have be-
held nothing that would have tempted them
* • to remain, for the salmi() was 000upled only
by the master of the house and a couple of
early morning visitors, who were walking
to and fro with measured strides and eon•
verslog meanwhile in Turkish instead of
their ri.tive Arabin, so that nota syllable of
their disoourse could be understood by the
sentry in a dirty linen uniform and red tar-
bousb, who was posted just at the outer
door, or by hie oompanions of the main
guard who were lounging on a stone bench
olose by gossiping whilst knitting, for the
Egyptian soldier is generally handy with
the needle,
Ahmed Arabi, the war minister, Is the
centre figure of the three, and he on the
right with the crafty, oruel look in his face,
is Toulba Pasha, afterward* nicknamed
Arabi's brains, whilst his left hand compan-
ion is Suleiman Bey, who is fierce looking as
a junked.
Ad three were clad in dark blue regiment-
al, and all three wear the red tarboush on
their heads, for no Mohammedan can don a
head dues hewing either peak or brim by
reason that five times a day his devotions
oblige him to touch the ground or floor with
his forehead, whilst he isforbidden to uncover
his head during prayer.
It is now high time for us to discover
what those three men are talking about, a
task, which by donning our invieible coats
we shall find easier of accomplishment than
does the Aga of the eunuchs, who, concealed
behind the carved moucharable of the lowest
of the throe galleries, is trying very hard to
make the same discovery.
"You have the Sultin's firman and all is
well," says Toulba Pasha,
"But our lord, the Sultan, grants that
firman on the sole condition that we work
in secret at the first and reveal not our high
authority until suoeeas appears already as-
sured. Thus it loses much of its value."
This from Arabi, to whom Suleiman Bey
at ones replied :
Frank's haughty reply, and bowing low he
dropped the yashmaok over his face again,
and followed Elman, the buffoon, out of the
chamber and the harem,
* * *
Hardly had he gone when Zeeneh, the
prinoess, happening to be looking on the
ground, beheld something sparkling with a
lurid light within easy reach of cher hand,
and stretching one forth, she pinked it up
and discovered It to be the beautiful opal
ring which, a couple of weeks before, she
had bestowed on him who bad rescued her
from the crocodile,
"ae was too proud to keep it after what
has just pealed between us,' she muttered,
with a frown ; then her fade brightened
with a strange light as she added : "And it
is well that it is so, for ancther will be hero
presently who, if he did not see his gift upon
my finger, would wonder what had become
of it, and perhaps even suspect treaohery.
Oh, that would never do, for he is the only
one now loft me on whom I oar depend for
avenging me on my brother Tewfik and all
the others whom I hate."
« « * • • * *
Half an hour later another man, clad in
the same dieguiao as the Irish dragoon had
worn, and guided thither by the Same hideous
old woman, stood before the princess, and
when ho raleed the yashmack he revealed
the stern face of Arabi Pasha, the war min.
istor, who said, curtly, as his brows con-
tracted in a frown, "Your highness eent for
mo; I am here."
"Ahcimed, I have summoned you in or-
der that you may teach me how to hate."
"I fear that I might find in your highness
too apt a pupil, yet fain would I teach you
to hate, and hate deeply. all those who are
the enemies of Egypt and its people."
"You mean tae Fcringhees who swarm
like locusts over the land, I am prepared
to hate them."
"It were difficult to do otherwise. '!:hey
are our rulers while they pretend to be our
friends. They Bend all the wealth out of
the country and bring nothing into it but
what we should be better without. Trey
refuse to he subject to our laws, and living
amongst us wilt not pay any share of the
taxes, whilet their presence has so raised
the price of everything that our poorer classes
labor sixteen hours out of the twenty-four,
and yet can barely cavo themselves from
starving• Thousands of our Arab and Coptic
clerks, too, are discharged to make way for
their Syrian interpreters, and that because
they don't take the trouble to make them -
solves acquainted with the language of
the people whom they have so thoroughly
well learned to rob and wrong. Encourag-
ing national liberty in Italy became, as one
acct of ChriaoIane, they hate our older soot,
the English, who are the most powerful of
cur foes, crush it here lest it may imperil
their dividends, derived though they are
from a scheme that has cost Egypt thou -
Benda of lives and loaded her with a debt
from which she can hardly hope for an en-
tire centuay to recover, Then, too, their
presence stirs up t he vanity of our rulers to
the building of palaces and fleote, for both
of whieh the starving fellahsen has to pay,
and neither of which is in the least requir-
ed, and—"
"Yes, yes, I know all that and more," in-
terrupted the princess impatiently. "Well,
you once aought my alliance to help set all
these thing straight, and I then refused is
because at the time I still loved my brother,
Tewfik. Tonight you have been brought
thither to be told that that time and that
love have passed away. I hate my brother.
Why, matters not. Let the fact suffice, as
also that I hate these Christians in addition.
I would give my life to see them all, aye,
all, every one of them, driven into the sea,
and universally perish."
"Your highness carries her hate too far,"
"I do not want you to love everything anu
every ono who is beautiful," she said petu-
lantly, as she tore a rose to plume and acat-
terod thecrimson petals in a shower on the
floor ; "I require you to love only me, and
I am not ono who could brook a rival."
Here was a nice state of affairs. Frank
glanced at the woman who had made so im-
perious a demand upon his affections, and
was bound to own to himself that very few
men would find the least difficulty in obeying
her, for she was indeed lovely, with the
dreamy, voluptuous loveliness of the East,
but for all that there was something about
her suggestive of the beauteous grace cf the
tiger in repose—a something to ahuddor at as
well as admire.
"Madame," said Frank, bluntly, ail this
latter feeling took `possession of him, "to
help loving yeti is, as you must well know,
impossible; but to be candid with you, I
love another more, aye, one whom I have
known for months instead of days."
"I cannot believe you, for love grows in
an instant of time to as groat a degree as it
can ever attain. Had you not loved me you
could never have deiced your life for me. It
stands to reason that you would not, for life
is dearer than all thinga, save love alone.
Knowing your most aeoret feelings towards
me, and knowing also that you would never
have dared to aspire so high without encour-
agement, I have stooped to raise you up, and
therefore, I now bid you to oelk qufsh all
lower ani baser affections, for your courage
' and devotion have touched me and made neo
thine and thine only."
"But I am unworthy, totally unworthy of
so great an honor," etammored Frank. "Be-
sides," he added, aolemnly, "it is written :
"Thou Shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.'
your highness, that too a r gig w om yo
provide me with n secret and trusty mermen -
myo twice seen that tth is dearer tou dmtake ger to Constantinople, and in a month from
my oda life, and nothing could make now I will hand you the Sultan's authority
Thher lose eo, and the Chief Imaun'a blessing for the me*.
rhapsody
princess gldeanced supreme
answer to this wont that shall give Egypt to the Egyp-
tian." Is it a bargain ?"
Then she clapped her hands (still, as for the of Allah and the Prophet,
three thousand years pant, the invariable ye "In the nameatoeAnar minister, withPfervid
phot,
Eastern method of summoning a slave or at- . zeal and then a silence of death fell upon
tendant,) and in quick answer thereto El. the two conspirators,
man, the buffoon, re-entered the exquisite
little apartmeut.
"Take him away ; the man is a fool and
knows not ovil from good, and when he is
gone bring hither—you know whom I moan
—for at last he seems to suit my taste."
This she said in Egyptian to the buffoon,
and directly she perceived that the old hag
understood her clearly she turned again to
Frank, and continued in French :
"I thank you for the lesson you have
taught me, namely, that I am not invincible.
It has proved a bitter lesson, but it has been
thoroughly well learned, I can assure you,
and it will never bo forgotten. And now
go, and take with you the knowledge that
you have also taught mo to hate you and
your entire race as well, more especially her
whom yon have dared to prefer to me. Be-
ware, both of youfor I am not powerloes,
though shut up within those barren walls I
may coni, to bo so. Nay, more, I can be
dangerous, aye, dangerous as the trod on
serpent or vexed scorpion, which you may,
both of yon ono day discover to your cost.
Go, sir, and I warn you not to prate of your
admission here, for the oar of the Egyptian
spy ie long, and to indulge in such rash fol-
ly, oven amongst your most intimate friends,
would be to jeopardize your life."
"Your highness, honor instead of for
• CHAPTER VII.
TILE STIRRING til' Or HELL BROTH,
A month has passed away since the even-
ing of the fete at the Ghezireh Palace, and
duriugthat month nothing of any rmportanco
seems to have happened, but as in the case
of the little mole, whioh once upon a time
was the death of a king, dangerous enough
work has been done in the dark during that
period, as we shall presently, ace.
Introduce we the reader to the palace of
Ahmed Arabi Pasha, the war minister, a
big, pink house, with yellow jalousies and
blinds, having a garden in front gorgeous
with eoarlet hibiscus blossoms, and to the
salemli° of big hall thereof, which, accord-
ing to custom, is the general reception room,
and wherein at the hotter eeasous of the year,
on account of its coolneea, meals ore generally
taken n s well.
Tho floor was of marble, the surrohnding
walls were whitewashed and hung hero and
thorn with arms and earner, whilst surround.,
ed at different altitudes by balconies or gal
lories, some of which were fronted by a tel.
lis -work of wood palled mouoharabies, the
object of which was that the ladies of the
harem could peer cot therethrough (whilst
"We should have got on very well with-
out the firman, and its chief value seems to
me to be in the fact that the Sultan thereby
indirectly pledges himself not to oppose us
in our doaigns. If the Sublime Porte re-
mains neutral, we must succeed. Have we
not tens of thousanda wherewith to oppose
the Feringhee's hundreds ? Inshallah 1 (God
being wilting 1) in another month we will
have driven them all into the sea.•'
"On to the sea will suffice," said Arabi.
"We simply desire to be rid of them and
their creature, the Khedive, as well. Wo
want to secure Egypt for the Egyptians.
Allah knows that I have no higher or other
ambition,"
A somewhat incredulous smile played
about the lips of Toulba Pasha as the war
minister gave vent to these very disinterest-
ed sentiments, but he merely said : "We
have no doubt of it, Excellency. We know
you to be the champion of the downtrodden
people, and it is the people whom we must
now proceed to stir up, for their own good."
"The army ie ours to a man," replied
Arabi "The pay of a single piastre a day,
A Providence woman gave birth to freer
children recently; the new corner. lived but
a few hours. The husband took advanttti,a
of the seneation it caused, and got an ad
cion fee of ten cents from each of the s"Q'
people who viewed the little ones' bodies.
The Imperial and American Club—tike
outcome of an association of gentlemen de•
circus of tightening the bonds et sympathy
uniting alt English speaking people—has
jaet effected a fusion with the Hanover
Square Club, and the new club °ally itself
the St, George's Club, Hanover Square. The
club house is handsome, largo, and well ap-
pointed; situated in the very heart of Loan
don, and possessing forty bedrooms.
The new water works for Venice, invols'
lag the construction of an aqueduct to con-
vey water from the main land to that city,
under the auspices of the Compagnie Genere
ale dee Eaux of Paris, have reaceed the fin-
ishing point after a lapse of some nine yearn,
the finished works comprising the aqueduet,
which paseea under the lagoons ; the under-
pipes for the distribution of the water, and
two large reservoirs in the town, the water
to be taken from the canal known as Doti
Moraezeni. .Private families will be supplied
with water at the price of sixty certimes pen
cubic metre —1,000 litres—special arrange-
manta being also made for the supply of largos'
quantities of water at lower rates, while
the minimum quan'ity of water which will
be furnished is 250 litres per day.
The calculating machine invented by Fred:,
Thomson appears to excel, in its ingenioats
adaptation to a variety of results, even Bah •
bage'e wonderful apparatus. By means ni
the mere friction of disk, a cylinder, and a
ball, the machine is capable of effecting nu••
merous compiioated calculations which oconr
in the highest application of mathematics to
physical problems, and by its aid an nnskilt-
ed person may, in a elven time, perform
the work of ten expert mathematicians. The
machine is appliceele alio e to the calculating
of tidal, magnetic, meteorological, and other
periodic phenomena ; it will solve differen••
tial equations of the second or even higher
powers or orders ; and through this same
wonderful arrangement of mechanical parts„
the problem of finding the free motions a
any number of mutually attracting parti-
cles, unrestricted by any of the approximate
suppositions required in the treatment of
the lunar and planetary theories, is done bg-
simply turning a handle.
An account is given of the introductinu.
into England by Mme. DeLong of her metal
cutting machinery, which has for some throe
been in succeeeful use in Franca. She has
now, it appears, perfected some ingenioat:
machinery, worked by steam, power, which
cuts with the utmost precision the hardeoe
and sof teat motels in any design, no that b;q
it can bo produced a gold lace pin or a stet'[
castle portcullis from the solid metal, with-
out any moulding or filing. This unique in-
dustry is divided into four general branaher„
The first is the production of gates, doors.
balcony fronts, and other architectural meta[
works, without misting—plates of brags e
foot thick being thus cut into lattice work
at a single operation ; a second branch is
the making of la.tice metal work filed in.
with glass, to supersede the ordinary leaden
especially when it happens to be two years frames for church and other ornamental
in arrears, is a very low bid for loyalty and windows ; the third branch comprises then
cheerful service." inlaying of plush ani ebony jewel cases, cal:
"And for suer troops the prospect of pit- inets, &c., with red and yellowcopper, steak,
!aging the banks, magazines, warehouses and other metals ; and a fourth for the
and shops of the Frankish swine world working of picture frames, baskets, mete,
prove a temptation that they could hardly &a., out of the solid metal fully finished.
resist. Yes, I myself imagine that they are
ours to a man ; yet must the populace of, Fate of an Old Hooter.
at all events, the largest cities be won
over." Simon Truman, of Bells Oabin, in the
So spoke Suleiman Bey ; and Arabi re- mountaina near Elkland, was one of the old-
joined : est and beat -known hunters and guides in.
"It will he no difficult task, for to make Pennsylvania. He was 70 year of age,
them one with us we have but to tell the but was atilt strong and active, having milt
simple truth. It wants no coloring what- last week spent three days and nights in the
ever." open wopde, during which time he killed e
"They kno w that the European merchants deer and a bear. He always asserted that
despise while they fleece them," growled he had killed over 200 beers, and it was
Toulba Pasha. "The very children are aware well known that he had had many battha e
of that." with them hand to hand, many deep and;
"By Allah, European commeroe quad- ugly scars on his body testifying to the
ruples the price of everything to the poor," fierceness ofsome of them. He had escapes
echoed Suleiman Bey. "Ayeand it doubles many dangers in his mere then .half a ceem
i
their labors as well, There s no slave driv- tory of life in the woods Last winter on
er equal to an Englishman ora Frenchman." • killed the long -hunted big bear that half
"Benda of piltiagers are they all. They prowled about this via nity for more than
have never known how to be useful to us." two yeare, carrying off sheep and other
"Because for every honest man Europe stock repeatedly and successfully. In the
sends us twenty swindlers." fight with ttis bear Truman lost three den
"And the one honest man makes his for- gers on his left hand. the handbeing so beef-,
tune in Egypt only to spend it elsewhere. ly mangled that it was barely saved by the
That is not the way to do good to the amputation of the fingers.
country."
"Yet our Khedive, who. as you well
know, should be the father of his people, is
never so happy as when surrounded by these
blood•nuokers, and feteing and feasting them
' on the money which he wrings from the
starving peasantry for the special purpose.
To each new arrival who is armed with a
' letter of introduction, he says, 'Welcome,
a the riches of Egypt are yours,' and by Allah
and the Prophet, I have never looked upon
the Feringhee yet who has been slow to take
• him at his word."
' This from the war minister, and his com-
paniona laughed approval.
(TO DE CONTINUED.)
SUNDRY TOPICS.
The municipal authorities of Rome axe
removing antique works of art from the ot en
air and substituting exact productions. The
antiques are placed in the various museums.
Masses of deep sea ooral, many tons in
weight, which were torn from their ocean
bed by the volcanic explosion in Sunda
Straits two years ago, my now bo seen two
or three miles inland, whither thy were
borne by the tidal wave.
Half of tho boys in the Dexter, Me„ high
aohool use toba000, and whiskey bottles aro
passed around among them. A Dexter aohool
girl smokes and swears in public. These
cases were uo for consideration at a recent
looal teachers' inetitute.
Watches may be sent for testing to the
Kew Observatory in London, and a certifi-
oate of excellence will be given ; but so ex-
treme is the accuracy required that no watch
can bo marked first-class which varies as
much as one dolt in 43,000.
Recent experiences in the Russian Gov
etnment workshops have demonstrated the
fact that the steel guns for the heavy marine
and coast batteries cannot be made at home,
and that, as heretofore, these orders had bet-
tor bo given to the Krupps.
A few days since two travelling Italians
came to that place with two largo tralatid
bears. In the afternoon they left teem, axed
a mile from the village met a team of horses
belonging to a f armer nam id Gibbs. Gibbs
was driving, and Simon Truman was riding
with him to the village. The sight of the
boars frightened the horses, and they turn-
ed square about in the road. The wagon
was upset, and both Gibbs and Truman were
thrown ont. Truman struck on a sharp pro •
jecting knot on a log at the aide of the roadd.
The knot penetrated his side to the depth
of throe inches. Gibba was unhurt, With-
out stopping to look after his runaway team,
he compelled one of the Italians to help carry
the injured old hunter to Eikland. Tee
knot had broken three of Truman's ribs, and
pushed the broken ends with it into his lung„
He did not utter a groan all the way in is
the village. He was carried to the tavern
and a doctor called. When the doctor ar-
rived, Truman said to him :
'This will eottio me. I don't mind dying„
but it's the thought that after escaping fico
wild burs for fifty years I am killed through
tame board, chained and muzzled, that wor-
ries me."
Trumeu died three hour" -tete: b@i
brmight h m^. Re was the lea e. is fwely
" It beats all creation," muttered oid
Mullethead, " what pains swindlers will
take to boat honest men. .Here, bemoan()
has saddled a load 10 cent piece off on me,"
" Can't you pass it again?" tirnidly saggeot-
ed his lesser half. " Pass it t" he shouted.
" why, the thine, is ail black as my hat 11"To,
I'll have to put it in the contribution -box,
" It fills my heart with joy," said en
earnest country pastor at the end of his sore
mon, " to see so many strangers among our
congregation on this beautiful Sabbath morn•
ing Sojourners in our town are always wee
come ; we want them to come. Young men
and old mon whom pleasure or business hie
palled away from the softening influences of
home, we greet them with open hearts, Tho
collection will now be taken up,"