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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1885-12-04, 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 SPOT," " THE RIISSIAN SPY," ETC., PTO. CHAPTER VII,—(CONTINUED ) " It is certainly so, There oan be no alta bt about it. All these aeoursed locusts who settle down in Egypt become our mas- ters. They bring with them, too, their own laws, ineorder that they may violate mire," trrxtutted Toulba Pasha, to whioh Suleiman litey added with an oath : ef No doubt Meant it, and what is worse, they not only dart business here unasked, br1 they claim indemnities when they fail therein, indemnities which our weak-minded levier always seems ready to pay." • Raising the taxes of our poor until they either cheat the collectors and get the bas - Ontario on being detected, or else pay and starve. People such as these make very gyos1 rebels, for there is nothing to make then loyal," said Toulba, "• Should Allah call upon mo to reign over therm I will make them loyal, for the fellah, New, a dog, would lay down his very life for a "Wad master. By the Prophet, 'wouldthat he :knew better what it was to have one," seed the war minister proudly, and Toulba Pemba at once made answer : That is because he has so many masters. Tide are twenty foreign consuls in Egypt, and each is a potty prince. They are above an Egypt. Their watches regulate even the sun. Inst a Feringhee do what wrong he will, yet his consul will protect him from the conseciuences, whilst the Egyptian is twine injured by the seeking of redress," That Is true, for his rase is tried, not by his own laws, but by those of the man wlea has injured him, which of course there ie me understanding, so that in seeking to reliever his stolen coat the chances are that he :looses all the rest of his apparel," said Scdo man Bey, ".By Allah and the Prophet, where is the rtsa of discussing these matters further? Can we count the sands of the desert or the sea - Wore ? No, no, but we can try to save our - seines from being buried beneath them, nev- ertheleas. My friende, we muat lose no time in reaching through trusty but secret emia- sar.i4ee the population of our great cities the wreings and Injustices which they suffer and how they can best rid themselves of them, I, .Ahmed Arabi, of Orabi, proclaim myself the drlend of the downtrodden and the op. premed, and as being ready to lay clown my life in their cause. Should they elect me as their champion my battle cry will be ° Egypt for the Egyptians and down with the Earo- pett control.' You, my friends, I am well aware, are with me hand and glove, whilst the riffles that we can number without are alrecety more numerous than all the follow- ing of the Khedive. Go, then, and sow in silence in order that we reap amidst the pean of victory." S,r, spoke the war minister. Toulba Pasha mania answer : " A victory that has been veneered for by the unlying tongue of pro pberiy, for has it not been foretold that the great loader who shall restore Mohammed- enism to its 'olden glory shall be called Aimed, 'and is not thy name Ahmed ? And has. not the time in which this deed will be wrought been fixed for the thirteenth cen- tur' of the Hegira ? And do we not enter upea that century in the course of a few weeks ?" ° i..nshallah, be it as God wills," replied the war minister devoutly ; and then he added : " You may tell that prophecy un;o, the people likewise, for if Aliah speaks thremgh his prophet and I am the person when Is alluded to, I dare not, even if I wcuid, refuse to obey the behest of the _\host High, So go away, and lose no time in sow- ing the good seed, yet be careful that it falls not z:pon stony ground, where the birds of the sir will see and devour it. With this counsel I diernins you, my brothers, and aka, with the parting assurances that as I soar yenwill soar, therefore remember that Atlak blesses the birds that remember their own nests." Perhaps this warning was not altogether unheeded ; hut he that as it may, the trio parted with mutual expressions of fidelity and esteem. CHAPTER VIII. T' it aiANGIN O AND TIIE ROASTING OF A PIG. ';?et another week has passed away and a E :eepean opera company is playing " The S rarer" at the Cairo Theatre to crowded a wee. Another case of dancing, singing and fid- e, ^n on the brink of chaos, though to be au -c. nobs Ftv guesses how close chaos is at hand, to rue sowers of revolution have per- formed their Iabor in darkness and in al- kalosis, and no one perceives as yet the strong crop of knife, dagger and scimitar blades mingled with countless bayonet points that is sgeringine up all around. Bat very soon a shower of blood drops win, no needed to replenish that crop and m,+i a it grow the quicker and bear fruit in nue season, and then as h'eringhee blood will give it the strongest nourishment these dancers, singers and revelers will be aroused from their pleasant vision of ease, luxury and amusement at the coat of the Egyptian, as though by a thunder clap. So for the present the Frank hotels are crowded, and the European quarter of the city is as bright and cheerful as any arist+ocretio suburb in Paris, London or New York, and c my in the Iabyrinth of dark, filthy, intricate lanes and valleys, where the upper stories of the flat -roofed houses on either side nod. towarda each other, where the occupants of the highest rooms of ala call easily shake hands across the tor- tuous winding thoroughfares from their re- spective verandahs and balconies, are the aeethi.ngs of hatred and discontent allowed even to swell into a murmur; and that nutr- mur is quickly suppressed. And yet are there a suffictency of sighs and'ementi to give timely warning of what is ehertly about to happen to those who are engaged in the headlong putenit of wealth and pleasure, did not those ecoupations en - peas their entire and undivided attention, ()writ bo po?sible that the Europeans, as a elan, do not notice the hatred with which the native population have begun to regard there—the flashing of the oyes, the curling of tho lips, the sound of the spitting on the ground atter they have pained by ? 'Pis true that one or two commis have lodged complaints of not being saluted by Egyptian seotrles when in official uniform on their way to and from the palace, but the remissness on the soldiers' part has been set down to opium instead of impertinence, and has been either overlooked or forgotten. 'Tie true, also, that many Europeans have observed that the masses pay far more def erence to the war minister, .Arabi Pasha, wbon he driven or rides abroad than they do to his highness the Khedive, but they consider the reason for thla to lie in the paella's austere piety and b iundless gener- oslty, two qualities for whioh he has long been famed, and their confidence in the Jojnt Control. With this obliquity of vision all around, who shall particularly blame Mr. Trezarr, the rioh E glish banker, for allowing his comely wife and lovely daughter to attend the Opera House even unaccompanied by himself ? He had arrived at that time of life when an easy chair and a newspaper, taken in conjunction with a prime cigar and a bottle of iced Chateau Lafitted, proved a fund of enjoyment much greater than even a ballet, far less an opera, could have afford- ed him. So, after bidding hie womankind an impatient farewell, for he was in the middle of a leading article in a fortnight old Times, he had his armchair moved out into the garden, where he might watoh in a kind of drowsy enjoyment the gorgeous set- ting of the blood red Egyptian sun, from within a little summer house that was almost buried beneath fragrant jasmine, and iu front of which a drooping date tree gently waved its clusters of crimson and golden fruit, the sunlight causing them to resemble huge precious atones. •' Assuredly his lot had fallen in pleasant planes," the rich man thought to himself, and he saw not Lazarus afar off in hie little mud hut thatched with straw, with its sole furniture of a mat and two pitchers, eating his evening meal of coarse maize bread, whilst he gazes half savagely and half de. spairingly at the tiny copper coins that to the value of the thirteenth part of a dollar represent a day's labor of sixteen hours in the burning sun, yet out of which the tax gatherer will seize at least a quarter in order that rich Europeans may be feted at the Khedive's nominal, out of these poor starved wretches' real, expense. But while we are thus moralizing, the handeonfe two -horsed chariot containing our lovely heroine and her mother is dashing along the Choubrah road towards the city, with coachman and footman in irreproach- able liveries, en route to the Opera House, near the Rue de Moscow. Nellie is not looking her best, for her col- or and spirits seem to have alike forsaken her. The fact is, she is fretting about Frank Doneliy, whom she has only seen ocne since the fete at the Gizereh Palace, now an event of the, to her, long ago; and on that solitary occasion he had met with so cool a reception from her parents that he had ever since held himself aloof. The young officer was the last man. In the world to stir np a daughter to needlessly rebel against those to whom she rightly owed obedience, and as it had seemed to him very evident that neither Mr. nor Mrs. Trezarr would ever sanction his marrying her, he had made up his mind that both for Nellie's sake and his own it would be better did he try to forgot her, and by zealously keeping out of her way, help her to forget him in like m'nner. But Nellie, far from giving him credit for kindly and unselfish motives, had made up her mind that he had surroudered her far too ereily ; and then jealousy, of course, crept into her heart to make her still more uncomfortable, and she began to believe that after all he must have learned to care much more for the Egyptian lady whose life he had saved than he had ever done for her- self: There is not one girl in a hundred who would not torture herself in a very similar manner under the same circumstances, and certainly Nellie had some excuse for doing so, since when her lover had called at Mount Carmel on that one solitary oocasion whioh we have mentioned, he had never as much as asked her for an answer to the question which he had propounded with such fervor in the illumined palace gardens the night before—namely, whether she would marry him without her parents' consent, • In plain truth, the young dragoon had had no time to do so, for he had wasted a precious five minutes in the usual greetings, and then the mother had come into the room end directly' aftorwarde the father and had not left him alone with Nellie for a single instant hereafter, and when half an hour later he had received his cool conga from the severe paterfamilias, who had followed him outside the drawing room door in order to be as coldly impertinent as he could make himself oonsonan, with what he considered to be good breeding, Frank had tried to per- suade himself that he was glad he had not been allowed time to ask what he had called expressly to ask, since he had been forced by their conduct to the conclusion that there was less of Christian forgiveness and the milk of human kindness in Nellie's parents' constitutions than ho had before supposed. " And if they persisted in not forgiving her she would mope and fret, and instead of making her,happy I should only make her wretched, on which account I shall sacrifice my own happiness for hors without further struggle," had been Prank's final resolve ; but he would have been able to carry it out better if he had at once retired from the scene of action, instead of whioh, with a strange, yet natural, inconsiatenoy, ho still lingeredon in Cairo,, though there was not the slightest neoossity for do'ngso, his health having by this time been quite re-estab- . lished. Though the young dragoon had •resolved to give Kellie up, he could not tear himself wholly away from her ; that was tho true state of the case. He still had no small de- gree of comfort in gazing at her afar off, and even in looking at the windows of the House in whioh she dwelt if he had been unable to catch a view of her fair self for a few days, He also derived some degree of satisfaction, though it was certainly allied with dill more of uneasinesa, in the suspiclon (which he wee one of the very few to entertain) that a time of peril and danger was near at hand in whioh he might bo able to render her or hers some great essential service whioh would create a revolution in their sentiments to- ward him and lead up to as happy a climax as any recorded in a novel, Bat Nellie has no such hopes or comforts to buoy her up, and her sorrow is all the harder to bear because her pride forces her to assume a gaiety of disposition whioh she is far from feeling, and in the artificial sus- taining of whioh she is constantly breaking down. In the dark depths of the carriage, how- ever, she makes no attempt to sustain the part which she has set herself to aot, but giving way to her real feelings suffers the great crystal tears to escape from her beau- tiful violet eyes. And now the carriage has entered Cairo proper, through the great Gate of Victory, and rolling along the no longer level canoe - way presently teaches the opening to that unsavory and evil reputationed locality, the Quartier du Crocodile. Here the glare of flames and a shrill hub- bub of cries and laughter frightened the horses and oauaed both ladies to glance out of the carriage window, when they beheld the strange, and to them as yet unmeaning, spectacle of some street gamins, actively aided by a few children, of large growth, hanging a large pig that was dressed like a Christiam over a fire to roast, taking good care, however, not to touch it with their hands. CHAPTER IX, IN THE CROCODILE QUARTER AND AT THE THEATRE. Yes, it was a comical sight enough when not viewed as a sugges'ive one, and there was nothing in it of cruelty to cause a shud- der, for the pig was dead, and from the serene expression of its porcine countenance he died (for one of its race) happily. A stiff shirt collar and a high black satin stock connealed very probably the gap in the throat which had let the steel in and the life out, while his capacious paunch was .covered with an immaculate white waist- coat, and his little short front legs dangled inside the sleeves of a black cloth coat, whose lappels were thrown well back. As for his hinder legs (and it is to bo pre- sumed his tail included), they were tuoked inside a pair of black cloth trousers that were a mile too long for them, whilst some• how or other an eyeglass was fixed in front of one closed optic, and wbat had been once a jaunty Paris high -crowned silk hat (though now disfigured by many a dent) was fasten- ed (stuck a little on one side) atop of the huge lop-eared head, which also hung a lit- tle on one side, owing to the manner in which the brute was hung. • As the coachman was reducing his fractions horses to obedience, a crowd of the young street roughs, the majority of them nearly naked and more than half of them possess- ing but one eye (for ophthalmiea is a terrible scourge in Egypt, and many parents also out out the pupils of their children's eyes, so that they may esoapeiwhin grown up the horrors of military service) surrounded the carriage, loudly demanding baksheesh, for in Egypt aims are demanded as a right in- stead of asked for as a favor. Mrs. Trezarr, however, who knew that both pig and clothes must have been stolen from Europeans, and had a vague and misty idea that the whole show war meant as an insult to the whole population, would not part with a single paistre, whilst Nellie, whose perceptions were keener, was too terrified even to feel for her parse. Happi- ly, at this juncture, the horses condesended to spring forward in the right direction, wnioh, however, they did with such sud- denness that one importunate young beggar was knocked down and trod under their hoofs, whilst the wheels of the carriage pass- ed over the toes of a second, extraoting from the sufferers a chorus of howls, mingled with oaths and exeorations in gutteral Arabic. Then a shower of atones was thrown, and one, smashing a window, struck Nellie's oreamyhued right shoulder with a force that caused it to tingle and its fair possessor to cry out in alarm : " Oh, let us return home, mamma, or we shall bo murdered," " No, my dear. The danger is behind us now, and were we to return we should have to pass it again. Besides, to be afraid of the wretched natives would bo very bad formand to show our fear might be impru dont in addition. Mobs do strange things even at home, sometimes, so you must not be afraid. I wonder what could have been the meaning of the show 1" " What could it mean, mamma, except that the fanatics would like to serve our en- tire raoe as they wore serving its repreaent- ative ?" " The representative of our race a pig ? I don't follow you, my dear." " Oh, mamma, don't the natives hate us in part because we aro swine eaters, and therefore do they not couple us with the to them unclean animal which we make our food ? Was not the blttereet scandal that they could con000t about the Khedive the tale that his European favorites had taught him to like ham ? Should he Ione his Drown and our lives a pig will bo at the bottom of it. I feel sure that it was in the bloody Indian mutiny when the false rumor that the Mohammedan rower's carbine cartridges had been greased with hog's lard led to the shedding of whole rivers of Chr:staan gore." " Nellie, you are a little fool, and may depend upon it that instead of being intend- ed as an insult to the Christians, that dress- ed•up animal was merely a kind of Moham- medan Guy Faux. It's a pity that their scruples will prevent them from eating the animal after it is roasted, and it's a pity if they've stolen it from a poor man instead of a rich one, and if you want a third regret from me it is that our carriage windows are broken." " Mamma, tell me if my shoulder is ent." " No, my dear, I don see a mark, If you were hit 'tie 'fortunate that tho stone was tot a sharp one, for the bruise will not ehow until to -morrow. Here we are at the theatre, so do call up a smile, my dear." Nellie essayed She task, and in part suc- ceeded, for the bright Iamps, the flaunting play bills and the richly carpeted and light• ed interior of the dress circle entrance look- ed so homelike and European that they seemed to breathe an assurance of safety,. The footman, descending from the box, threw open the carriage door and assisted his ladies to alight, and a minute or two later they were in the company of a snore of other elegantly dressed Christian woman in the sumptuously filled up cloak room, whose slivery laughter and anticipation of ooming enjoyment caused Mrs, Trezarr at all events to forgot the outward occurrence that had happened during their drive thither. The house when they entered it looked particularly bright, for the performance that evening was under royal (that is to say, Khedival) patronage, so that the oontre of the dress oirole (the heat of the climate for- bidding the construction of olose, stuffy boxes) was brilliant with rich uniforms, gold laoo and glittering jeweled orders. Prince Tewfik was seated in a golden chair of state, and around him atood a goodly ar- ray of pashas, beye and effendis, miogled with many an embroidered coated European ooneul, and here and there an English, French, Austrian, German or Italian officer in the uniform of his corps and ccuntry. To the right and the left of this gay as- semblage sat many a comely dame or lovely maiden, attended by father, husband, brother or lover, all olad in sombre black, for they had been in uniform or official dress they must, by court etiquette, have gone over to swell the resplendent group who encircled the Khedive, amongst whom were Ahmed Arabi Pasha, the war minister, and Captain Frank Doneliy, the latter clad in the brilliant scarlet and gold of the British cavalry ser- vice, for he had been dining with Sir Ed- ward Meld, the consul -general, and after- wards, rather against his will, been induced to accompany him hither. He was no longer sorry that he had come when he beheld Nellie Trezarr and her mo- ther enter the circle, and it was notlong ere. the young lady saw him likewise and wonder- ed that he c id not ceme over to her, rather despising him in her heart, in that she fan- cied he was afraid of her mother, and all unconscious that court etiquette prevented his quitting the Khedival party. There was one present who read her thoughts and rejoiced in her mistake and evident chagrin, and he was Ahmed Arabi Pasha, who, far from having given up all hopes of makiog her his, had firmly resolv- ed that his she should be directly the pat- iently for the hoar should arrive, when kis- met or deat'ny should make him the master and ruler of Egypt and of all that it contain- ed, though he had almost determined more than once that as a puuishment for her treating his offer of marriage with so much disdain, he would no longer make her his wife, but merely one of the many beautiful slaves of his harem. But the swarthy war minister's was not the only malevolent gsze that was fixed up- on poor Nellie, for from behind the gilded lattice work that concealed the ladies of the Khedival harem from the view of the entire audience, whilst it permitted them to see house and stage alike, a pair of large, blank, glorious eyes, soft as velvet, yet sharp as steel, were fixed alternately upon our hero- ine and her two admirers, taking fierce cog- nizance of the expressions of each, whilst the fire of fiercest hate was kindled in the heart of their possessor as she discovered that the rival was beloved by both. The excellence of the music was as power - lees to attract her attentionas the rich dress- es of the performers or the beauty of the mise•en-scene. A quarter of an hour ago she had longed for the epectaele, but now she had eyes for nothing but the objects of her love and hate, and she would have given her very life to have been able to plunge a stiletto up to its very hilt in the white breast of her fairer and younger rival, and to watch her die with greatest agony first. Nor let these vengefnl reefings on her part be wonierod at, for Eastern blood is natur- ally hot and vengeful, and a life of idleness and seclusion is apt to increase and foster all that is evil In a nature that is never given to the study of aught that is good. Despite the great heat of the night in the narrow streets, the interior of the theatre was kept deliciously cool by the continual fluttering of enormous punkas, worked by machinery. There was a free circulation of air to everywhere, mad the lamps in the aud- itorium wore not numerous enough to gen- erate muck heat of themselves ; whilst be- low, in place of the European arrangement of pit and stalls, was marble pavement, with a foudtain in the centre that threw spray In- stead of water, which, instead of falling, seemed to dissolve into the atmosphere and tend to cool and moisten it, The habitants of this part of the house had to move about with bare or stockinged or foltaoled feet, so that no noise should dis- turb those who sat above, but the lowest dames amongst the audience were accomod- ated as with us in the topmost circle or gal- lery, and these celestials, like our own, were not always silent or well mannered, and had not the European portion of the spectators felt so secure in their self-conceit they might have noted many things to pause them even more than uneasiness, But neither the marked disapprobation of the bomio incantation scene which many of the baser class of spectators seemed to re- gard as an insulting burlesque on their own belief in the supernatural, or the growls and ejaculations that greeted each appear- ance of the British grenadier officer who is one of the leading characters in the opera, were regarded or noticed, and at the term- ination of the. performance the audience be- gan to disperse, the fashionable portion at all events well pleased with the amusement that had been afforded them, and Nellie Trezarr alone received any indication of danger in the future. Tho warning came in the shape of a piece of rather thick writing paper folded in two, which was suddenly pushed into her white kid gloved hand by a huge and bare one as black as ebony from behind, but when she looked round she could give no guess as to its owner, so with a thrill she opened the paper and road in delicately traded cheviot. era : " The dove who hovers near the eagle's neat should beware its clava and beak," -_.. (TO BE CONTINUED,) Wreckless engiueering Is what is wanted en railroads and steamboats, Girls, a delicate way of giving a young man a hint that he is acting too fresh is to treat him to pretzels. "Has he any expensive habits?" "He has one rather expensive one that I know of." "What is it ?" "Eating," - PERSONALS. King Milan is said to have the lar est foot of any man in Europe. It is planted pretty deeply in Bulgarian Olay. Jesse Grant denies with emphasis the rumors in regard to Mrs. Sartorie and the alleged unhappiness in her domestic life. Albani recently sang before Queen Tie- toria, and had the choice between au India shawl and one of Her Majesty's published works as a souvenir. Of coarse she took the book, Dr. Die Lewis says "that wearing largo, think heavy boots and bine hand-knit stook. lugs will improve a woman's complexion." We fear it will require more than this is kill the sale of face lotions and complexion powders. An engine driver on a Saxon railway has just retired from a service of forty years, during which he has traveled on hie rose - motive, without a single accident, a dia. taneo of 253,347 milee, equal to forty save* journeys around the earth. The footmen who wait solely upon the Queen of Sweden and her daughter wear a very quaint uniform, consisting of tallies, petticoat and breeches edged with gold lace. Their attire includes a wonderful head- dress, consisting of a kind of embroidered skull -cap from whioh arises throe ostriok feathers, none of whichis has than three feet high. Elder L., R. Hurst, grandfather of the noted Miss Lulu Hurst, the eleotric girl, predicts the end of the world In 1932. He declares that the next year will witness symptoms of the coming event, after wheek startling developments will follow rapidly, suoh as the moon turning to blood, the sun wi hholding its light and a general derange. meat of things. The Czar of Russia and Kaiser Franc Joseph of Austria had a fine time at Gastien. The bills for the entertainment of the ]tLna- perors and their suites have been sent in, and amount to $200,000. The wine mer- chant's bill enumerates 1,500 bottles °fold Rhine wines, 2,500 bottles of various French vintages, 3,000 bottles of champagne and 1,000 oottles of liquors. Report comes from Turin of the deatk, aged 77 years, of Father Giacomo, the friend of Cavour. For years he was the dispenser of that atatemen'd charities, and when the Count lay dying the priest went to receive his last confession and administer the last sacraments. It was his privilege then to have addressed to him the states- man's last words in this world : " larother, a free church is a free State." Charles Heber Clark (Max Adler), lately converted, has some of the old man left in him still. He managed to raise a lively shindy in the Charoh Congress at New Haven and enjoyed the Inc as much as the man iu one of his own stories who, after submitting to a transfusion of goat's blood, got a globale in his brain at church and bnoked the sexton up into the pulpit. Ella Wheeler -Wilcox was born in 1850, and is said to be below medium height, spare in chest and shoulders, but witk shapely arms and hands. Her eyes are hazel, with a peculiar amber tint, ap- proaching yellow. Their color has once been poetically defined as old gold, A prominent chin imparts an attenuated aspect to her features., Her complexion is pale, with a transient bloom that appears on the cheeks under the stimulus of any mental excitement. Her hair is of that tex- ture and shade of brown that is the uner- ring indication of a refined nature. In phrenological development the imaginative qu ilit es are strikingly prominent. Col, Higginson writes to a Beaton news- paper that the "shock" caused in Boston by Matthew Arnold s lecture or. Emerson related, in the opinion of many persons, not so much to the subject of the lecture as the author. He recalls an anecdote of Mrs, Elizabeth Montague, who, while in Paris, was invited to hear Voltaire read an essay on Shakespeare, in whioh he attempted to show that the great poet was not a great poet, When Voltaire had finished roading the hope was expressed by some one present that the essay had not caused her pato, " Why should it pain me?' she said calmly, " I have not the honor to be one of the Mende of M. de Voltaire." A Desolare Spot. Isle Royal, where the ill-fated Algoma was lost, is the largest island in Lake Su- perior, and lying about forty-five miles south of Port Arthur. It is wholly American ter- ritory. Like other islands in the great in- land sea, it is rugged and rooky in character, It contains several mining locations of more or leen value, and is a favorite resort for travellers in search of amethysts and agates. On a clear day it can be seen very easily with the naked eye from Port Arthur. The course taken by the C. P. R, steamer,whick runs direct from Sault Ste. Marie to Port Arthur, panes olose to the north-eastern ex- tremity of the island, Its length northeast and southwest is about 45 miles, and its greatest breadth nine miles. Beyond a few fishing huts and mining camps it has little iu the way of human habitations, and it has no permanent population. Copper veins have been discovered on the island, whioh must have been worked by a rano of people now unknown and extinct. Here are to be found open cuttings more than, a mile in length, and connected by tunnels or drifts, which were timbered with beams now broken and decayed. Tho tools with which this pre -historic people worked, are still to be found scattered about the scenes of their long neglected labors. Stone hammers, cop. per knives and other tools have been found in these old workings in great abundance. The stone hammers ranged in weight from ten to thirty pounds. The copper tools were found to have beoa tempered by fire. At least one generation of forest trees has grown over workings made by this now for- gotten people. There is a cluster of rooky islets located at the northeastern extremity of Isle Royal, some of which are mere reefs of solid rock scarcely rising above the stir - floe of tho water, Por a steamer to run in- to one of these rooks labyriuthe whom there wail a sea on would be swift and oertaln de- struction, which could hardily be unattend- ed with loss of life, for right reside these reefs and islets there is otton found from ton to twenty fathoms of water, As far as oan ba learned at present it would seem that this was the fate of the Algoma,