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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1885-12-18, Page 7!#N ECYPTIAN ROMAN0d. , Story of Love and Wild Adventure; founded upon Startling Revel - tons in the Career of Arabi Pasha. By este At e%or of " NINA, TBH NIIiILIST," "' TIM RED SPOT," " THE Rosseen SPY," ETC., ETO. CHAPTER 'XII. TUE MEDICINE AND TFtESUOABOLUM•O STLES IN one elft, Frank Donelly had left the pretence of Mr, and Dime Trezarr burning with indig- nation, whioh was perhaps all the more in. tense beaauee they' had given him n r oppor, aunty of ahowing it, for chilly politeness as If ng as it is politeness, does not afford even a hot Irish temperament a valid excuse for getting tato a rage. Frank, quitted the hoose, however, with the firer resolve never to enter it again, and ho might hate cherished and made hims if miserable with thia determination for a matter of several hours but for the happen - ling of a most unexpected and weloome inci- dent. Determining to leave the Mount Carmel lawns and Baia the Chonbrah road through a little door in the well instead of by the main carriage entrance, a proceeding which would ewe a couple of hundred yards of din tnnoe, he perforce passed directly under• death a certain window, and at he did so the mesh was gently raised aad a rose was thrown at his feet, Frankel first action waste glance up at the Window and recognize the pale but lovely countenance of Nellie trezarr, and his next was to pick up the rose and Idea it as he looked upward for the second time whilst vesinly endeavoring to think of some fining thing to say. But It wa.s the lady who thought of the fit- ting thing first. and it took the form of " 0, ?'rank ; the summer house. I will be there presently. I must speak with you." The young dragoon had net expected such a greeting, but it pleased him mightily, as Ile gave a. bow and pantomimic motion ex resolve o1 delight and obedience, and at once strode off is the direction of the spot indicated, a gracefallittle kiosk, shaded by myrtles and magnolias and very nearly bur- led beneath the creamy blossomed Moraine, which attains to such perfection in Egypt, Donelly had been the occupant of the ki- osk -like summer house for more than a very few minutes when he descried Nellie cross - Ing the lawn towards ib with a hurried and apparently nervous gait, clad in sett, cream- ootored Indian muslin, and her Iong unbound flair floating like a golden cloud around her bead and shoulders. He rightly guessed that she would sooner that he die not advance to meet her, and therefore remained tranq'illy where he was. A minute later and Nellie stood before :trh'a. Instead of extending a hand, however, idle stood with both clasped behind her back? whilet she said with lips that trembled with agitation whilst she spoke : " !would not let you go away, Frank, without bidding you farewell. This is the lot time that you will ever gee me." "The last time that I shall ever see you? Oh, Nellie, what do you mean by that ?" " Just what I say, Frank Donelly, and no more. Oh, you won't care much, so don't pretend to look so grieved, for if you could voluntarily stay away from me during a whole month, forever will make little dif- 'irrence. And yet I did want to say good "God knows, Nellie, that if I've stayed away from you for a month it bae been the mist difficult and disagreeable task that .l've ever accomplished all my life through, and also, that I did it entirely for. your /lake. If a man loves a girl he should' think , of her happiness before his own, and I should have been hardly studying your hap since by creating a kind of home war be. tween you and your parents." "Such a home war is likely to break out without your interference, and I'm such a tulle coward that I've resolved to run away without even risking an engagement." "Nellie, for heaven n sake toll me exact ly and plainly whet y u t mean ?" "I dare not, began c you would be dis gusted eelth me for what I have done." "Not at all, because I know that you "Mild perpetrate nothing to create diegust or even disapproval," a What, not if I was to do so mean a thing as to listen at keyholes, for instance ?" ." Why, I should not admire auch an act in tate abstract, bet 1 am very sure, dear Nel- he, thRt yon would not commit such an ap- pareuJ underband action without weighty veasone.' • " Frauk Donelly, I shan't tell you plainly whether I did or whether I did not, because Ifiate to make myse f look small ; but what• ever my action may have been, the result is that I have learned that mamma intends me ix) marry Arabi Pasha, the war minister, and that, though papa as yet opposes the Match, the, having the stronger will of the two, will twist him around her little finger, and, unless I escape whilst there is yet time, me likewise." "This is terrible, This is a ten times worse danger than any that I had anticipat- ed. Don't give me a half confidence, Nellie ; tell me all—everything, and without re - verve." "I have already done so. Cariosity took .me to the door, but shame drew me quickly away—theme Lest the Servants should die- sover what I was about. But the war min- e/liter saved mamma's and my lite last night from a crowd of Bedouin robbers, and I .seed What he would have said to mamma daring my swoon in the carriage, and that she would diabase it with papa at breakfast, sand so I made a bad head-aohe en exouse for remaining in my roomand then I did the dishonorable thing whioh I just hinted alit, and whioh I now confess in full ; but I Only retrained at the door five minutes at the most, for one of the mon servants wan hovering about and had already twice odpied me standing on the mat, and'I think I'd have died of very Shame if he had discover. oil me thorn a third time." " There aro still eoine canoe in whioh the end justified the inmate; Nellie, and we will Say that yours is one of them, Well, I am *lighted, my darling, because, to escape Arabi, you will accept me, We will be Married neat to immediately." "Indeed; no, Frank, I will not marry you, knowing that you love another better'" hove another bettor 1 Nellie, you must have taken leave of your seines or you would know that to be impossible " " Caa you then i oneetiy deny that you don't love the terrible woman who sent me this deadly warning and then attempted my murder by means of hired assassins, bettor than you do me ? If she had not some etrong Claim upon you, why should she have been enraged at your daring to look at me in the theatre last night—so angry as to want to kill me? Aye, so angry as to kill ole—for very sure am I that the armed Bedouins who attaoked our carriage were her agents," "Nellie, my darling, you both astound and bewilder me. I know what yon mean, and I nm aware also that she was at the theatre last night, but I have neither poen nor held speech with her for weeks, and on the very nighe of the fete at the Gezirah Palace, and within a quarter of an hour from the time when your mother found and took you away from me, I returned her her gift, the op sl ring, which hadoaused youso much terror and uneasinees." " You did this and for my sake ! Then that is why she hates me, Oh, I am so glad of it, and I do net fear her hate no •v, in the least, See, Frank, this—this Is what she sent me." And as oho spoke Nellie drew from her bo' som and handed to the young dragoon the symbolical warning from the 'i Eagle " unto the " Dove " whioh had been forced upon her acceptance by the huge black hand in the vestibule of the opera house the preced- ing night. As Frank Donelly received it a perturbed and anxious expression name into his face, which he in vain endeavored to hide. Then, finding that she was regarding him intently, he said, with a forced laugh : " By George, I believe an Oriental wo- man is o'pable of any iniquity ; but we will defeat her machinations, and threes of the crafty Arabi as well. I now put to you the question whioh I should have put the day emcee ling the fete at the palace, had I not feared that your returning me an affirmative answer w tuld have marred rather than made your happiness. I swear to you, Nellie, that 'twos for your welfare only that I held back. Now, however, that changed circum- atanoes have en hely altered the else, I urge you of two evils to choose the least, and to ssaretly elope with me and become my wife." " Why secretly, Frank ? Everything that is secret seems to me to be also wrong,' " Nellie, it' is sometimes legitimate to fight a certain dark complexioned gentle- man with his own weapons, Your parents could prevent our marriage because yon are under age. Now, don t look indignant, for I did not apply the demoniac simile to them, but to Arabi Pasha, who is a man of great power, and one who would not be likely to let you slip from between hie fing- ere after he had obtained your parents' con- sent that you should be his wife ; for a be- trothal accordiug to his creed, is almost as binding at' a marriage, and he would not comprehend your having any right to dispose of yonreolf contrary to the expressed will of your parents. He would for these reasons think it properly legitimate and proper to seize upon you and slay me, and he is in a position at present to couple both deeds with the will. "Oh, Frank, I am very loth to lead yon into danger, but what is to be done? I know that if I remain here mamma will eso- riflce my happiness to her ambition. She has never failed to win p: pa over to a single cne of her Pet achemcs yes, nor will she in this case. My only hope of safety lies there• fore in fl ght, but I can esc ipe alone. Two hours will take mo by train to Alexandria, and I do not despair of getting away to England by si me ship or other, for there is nearly always one on the point of sailing," "Your scheme is my own, any precious darling, my own at least with some slight variations. Instead of your got g alone we must go tegether ; In lieu of two hours' journey to Alexaedria, it must be a three hours' one to Port Said, and in place of simply some vessel or ther, it must be the P & O. mail Whip Poonah, which sails from thence at five o'clock to -morrow morning, and can be easily naught by the night mail leaving Cairo at midnight. It muet be a case of a downright old-fashioned elope• ment, such as we read of in novels, with a ladder, a carriage in waiting and all that kind of thing. What say •you, Neil ?" ".How can I allay my parents' anxiety concerning me, and how and when can we got married, Frank 1" " A note on your toilet table will effect one and the chaplain of the Foolish will per- form the other. She is the vessel that I came out in, and I know him to be a good fellow, who would oblige me in anything. We'll be married within a quarter of an hour of getting aboard, and we'll sit down to breakfast as man and wife with the land of Egypt many a mile astern of ns, My dear Nellie, the whole thing is so easy that it cannot fail. I will bo at your window ex, actly at a quarter past eleven, by whioh timoovery ono in the hobos will bo sound asleep, Comb, darling, why do you look so sad?' "'Tie at the thought of leaving my par• eats, from whom I have never yet been par eat "That sorrow comes to nine Ririe out of every ton, dobner or later, Nellie, and, bei Sidon, I feel quite sure that they Will both be in England before long, whore we shall of mmurke meet them ort land, and receive the patental bleating and all that sort of thing." With this and similar assurances the young dragoon ginger won the fair girl's uie- quanded consent to all his proposals, when they proceeded to the building of bright Castles in the Air, whioh an untowatd fate was destined in tho briefoat possible while to knobk over, CHAPTER XIII. xN WHICH TITS ialSIID(AN TWISTS TO 13114 sworn) AND TILE EGYPTIAN TO 1'IN1;3SE, All things beiog at last arranged, even down tq the minutest details, Frank hinted to Nellie that it would be more prudent for them to part, for that, were they men to, gether. or should it even be discovered that they had met, suaplcion might he aroused and, as usual, steps bo taken which would render an elopement impossible, Nellie saw the sense of his line of argai wont, and yielded tq it et once. She rose to go and Frank sprang to his feet to bid her farewell and then take him- self off to town, The sodden action oauaod his sword to clatter in his sheath, and, strange to say, the fair girl for the flrat time noticed that he wore one, She took alarm at once and said : ++ Why do von wear a sword when not in uniform, and when simply ooming out to pay a morning Dell ? Is there any real meed for it? Is Cairo at all disturbed ?" " The canaille is disposed to be a trifle insolent; that is all, or very nearly all, Nel- lie, And then you know it sword is a kind of emblem of respectability in a semi -bar- barous city like Cairo. Those ore some of the reasons why I buckled mine on this morning." Frank Doneily's chief reasons were far more serious ones, but he did not dare to give them utterance, for he knew that did Nellie once get it into her head that danger menaced her parents, nothing would ind;tee her to Ieave them whilst it remained. •He was delighted to think that his inno- cent subterfuge was accepted by her with- out question, but as a further precaution against her putting to him any more awk- ward questions he hurried their parting over, and felt glad when he behel i her steer- ing her way towards the houeo so as to gain the rear thereof by the route of a think ahrubbory and a door in a wall which be knew led into the kitchen garden. Not so delighted was he, however, when, upon entering " the kiosk shaped summer house in turn, he soughtas quickly as possible to regain the Choubrah rotd and his hotel (the world famed Shepherd's, whioh, with its lovely gardens, stands in the very outskirts of Cairo), he espied Arabi Pasha, the war minister, coming directly Veard him aoroes the lawn, and already so near that to avoid him was a matter of sheer impossibility, Perceiving that hie retreat was cut off, Frank determined to stand his ground, but to avoid a quarrel if possible, since it would be dangerous to provoke so powerful, and as he suspected, so unscrupulous a foe as this daring soldier of fortune. He saw hie heavy brows meet in a frown and his naturally thick lips coutract into utero lines as he bit them to restrain the fierce promptings of his passion. Then he readjueted his swordbelt, apparently so that the halt of the weapon should come handy to hie grasp, and the sight made the wrung Irish dragoon mutter fiercely to him- eelf : " If he appeals to that argument I think I'll be able to out -reason him." By the time that he had come to this con- clusion Ahmed Arabi confronted him. He touched the edge of his red tarbouch in salutation and then said in French : " I Dame hither through being told that I should in all probability find Miss Trezarr here."'" " ere."- " Your excellency has been misinformed on that point, yet, nevertheless pray pass in and convince yonrael£," replied Frank, stepping on one side, The Egyptian at once did so, but to dim cover nothing but an empty room, The sight did not afford him the aatistac- tion that Captain Donelly had hoped that it would have done. But the Oriental nature is pre-eminently auspicious, and there were certainly even more than sufficient grounds in the present case to cams that suspicion. " Though Miss Trezarr is not here at pre- sent she has been hero," Said he. Thereat Frank merely shrugged his shoul- ders, for he scorned to give utterance to a falechood, though he never -the leas wished to avoid confessing to the truth. Arabi Pasha was not, however, to be put off with a shrug, and therefore retorted sharply ; " I have said that Miss Trezarr has been here, and you do not seem to bo able to deny it." " Your excellency, I fail to see that I am under any obligation to affirm or deny it," "You may eee it clearer when )(inform you that I am making inquiries concerning my affienoed wife," answered Arabi, with the redness of anger showing through the bronze of his cheek. " I can assure your excellency that I have seen nothing of your affianced.wife." "Liar, you name here to meet her, and she has been in your company within this past quarter of an hour," roared the Egyp- tian, his anger getting the upper hand of his discretion as he observed the flashing eyea and curling mustaohed lip of the young of. floor, as well as the contemptuous sneer that he had laid on the last three words of his epeeoh. But the epithet "liar," proved as it, tight• ed match to a barrel of gunpowder, for the Celtic blood was every whit as hot as the Egyptain and the weight of the Iseult was so heavy that prudence kinked the beam. Frank Donelly, in short, first of all seiz- ed the war minister by the throat and hurl• ed him back against the wall of the little summer bonne, and next drawing hie sword exclaimed in menacing tones Your excellency will not leave this place until you have apologized for that in - atilt, or else have placed It out of my power to demand the apology, Como, Sir; either retract or defend yourself. You wear e. sword and I presume you can use it." "My sword and nay life belong alike to my country, and the one May not bo drawn' or the other risked in an idle quarrel," an. dwered the war minister, folding his arms ten his broaet whilst confronting his tival With art apparently undaunted mien, though the red flush had suddenly died out of in- deed of deepening on hie cheeks, It would have boon well for ail puttee concerned had Frank Donelly thereupon Sheathed his weapon and walked away. But an Irishman's temper when once heated takes a little time to cool, and Frank's was yet at boiling point. " Coward i" he hissed between his clench- ed teeth, "you dare not °roan swords with me," "I have already told you ae mach, young man, so miethinks that you aro the greateat coward of the two in thio bellytttg and menao ng a man who is obliged to devote hie sword and his life to nobler purpoeoa than common brawls," Whet reply the dragoon could have made to this unskilful retort of the Egyptian's it is impeesible to say, for at this ,junoture in through the door of the kiosk -like summer house burnt, eword in hand, the war minis- ter's two white orderlies, whose duty it was never to lose sight of their master for more than a fete seoonde at a time ; and by these herculean fellows, whet were Degrees of the Soudan, with faces, throats and hands as black and shining and polished as ebony Frank D rneily'a arms were pinioned in an instant and held as in a viae. '+ Iueheltah, methinks it Is I who now pontoon the power to foroe an apology from you," said the war minister, calmly. "But," he added, " I will be magnanimone, for the winner of so great a prize (you know well to what I allude) can well'afford to forgive the chagrin of the loser. Moreover, that which I refused to threats I grant as at free offer - bigamy regrets for my hasty speocb. So ealeni alei000m, and may God be with you, Let the Feringheo gentleman go in peace." Hie last words were addressed to hie two black orderlies, who at once released the young Irishman's arms, though to place themselves in such a position between them and their master as to be able, instantly to frustrate any attack that might be made upon the latter, But Frank Donelly had no longer either a desire or an excuse for such an attack, The proverbial coals of fire had been heaped up- on his head, and though they burned and tortured him exceedingly, a) such coals al- ways do, it would have been moat ungraci• one to have received them discourteously, or to have made any effort to get rid of them. The young officer therefore bowed, sheathed his sword and hurriedly retired, leaving Mount Carmel by the route that he had originally intended, and thereafter making his way along the Choubrah road cityw,rde as quickly as possible, for rapid movement in always the beet antidote for a troubled mind, and Frank's was particular• ly troubled and sore, "He has interviewed Nellie's parents, dazzled them into sanctioning his snit and entertaining his abhorred proposals, Then they referred him to the dear girl herself, and failing to discover her in the house, di- rected him to what they knew to be her fa- vorite haunt—the kiosk sammsr house; How fortunate it wan that I• saw her and that we had time to arrange all, our plans before we were interrupted, As it is, she can suffer only a few hours of persecution at the most, and then we will have left it and its origin alike behind." Such were Frank's refleotions, mingled, however, with many an anxious fear that something might now occur to frustrate aU their plans, for he felt that he was no match as far as scheming went, with an Oriental, especially one who possessed the almost nn - bounded power of Arabi Pasha. He would have felt infinitely more un- easy still could ho but have heard what passed between the war minister and his black orderlies after he had quitted them. " Yousaoof and Mansour," the pasha had said to them impressively, at the same time laying a hand on the shoulder of each, "that Foringhee dog from whom yon have just preserved me is staying at the Hotel Shep- herd. Now attend, the dinner hoar there is at seven, the meal lasts an hour, and as a Feringhteo would almost as soon lose his life as his dinner, exactly at eight, or, to be quite safe, a few minutes previously, he must be lured forth on some spacious pre- text or other, be made prisoner and con- signed to a dungeon from which by no pos- sibility will he be able to escape, De you clearly understand me? ' " Would not a grave be the safest dun- geon, excellency?" demanded :liansour. "It is the only prison house from which 0800' e is impossible," chuckled Youesoof. " No, he must not be made away with," answered the war minister slowly. "I will have no shedding of blood for any less holy purpose than the winning of freedom and the destruction of tyranny. He must be be- guiled into some dark way or turning and then a gag must be s-oured in hie mouth and the loose covering and face meek of a woman be thrown over him as a disguise, and in that plight he must be conveyed through the native quarter to the Citadel and handed over to the custody of his ex- cellenoy Suleiman logheibEffendi, the gove ernor, whom I will see during the day as to his disposal. Your task will be accom- plished with his safe delivery." Ho then stood in apparent deep reflection for a minute or two, when he muttered : " I dare not lose any more time on such an important day as this," and with ovi- dent regret hurried toward his carriage, fol- lowed by the orderlies (To DE CONTINUED, The Boot and Shoe Trade of Montreal. During the past ten years this leather business has been developing as ona of our great national induatries; and it is probable that in a few more years Canada wilt have acquired no mean reputation abroad as a manufaccnrer of leather, and leather goods, These industries have developed greatly in the province of Quebec, owing partly to the oheapness of labor and its facilities for tan- ning the raw leather. Out of 60 tanneries for tanning note leather, about two thirds are in the province of Qaobec. Montreal alone has 25 tanneries, and out of $.10.000,000 worth of leather made annually in Canada, Montreal dealers and manufacturers take over $5,000,000. There are acme 35 boot and shoo factories in the city, a leather -board works, five factories for making trunks, valieea, Satchels, etc,, and the total hands employ- ed over 5,000, besides those to whom work ie given out to do at their homes. These boot and shoe estsbifshmenta produce 15,- 000 pairs every day or $6,600,000 wotth a year ; about six per cent. of which are now sent to foreign countries. A correspondent of ,this paper, noting these facts, and ahxibus to see how boots and shoos were turned ont in this wholesale fashion, visited one of the large factories of the city. The establishment in queation— long khowri totho trade of Canada as 3. &T. Bolt—happened to be the oldest In Canada. To give an idea of the vit.ility of some of thea' Montreal firms, it may be mention. ed that this firm has been in continuous ex- istence sinoel824, It was feunded by the late Alexander Bell, whoto brother Joshua had started in the boot and shoe line in 1$I9. Joshua and Thome. eonsof ,Atex. Bell, continued in the steps of their father, ea* on his own account. It is not often that brothers, haviwg embarked on their own as count, join hands in bnsineee again, bat these two separetofirm were amalgamateda 484:0, and the result is, the firm of J, 4 T. Bet stands to this day aa one of the lead ngboat and shoe eetablis menta he Canada engaged on the finer glass of goods." The factory and warerooms comprise seven Elate, the (stale. liniment ferning out several thousand paint per week, A. fine oorlies engine coo ,spur the basement, and the Brat floor is taken up with machines for cutting and shaping the soles of boats. A oomplete solo is out o$ at each stroke o£ the machine, and another machine presses the mole into the shape el the foot. There are other maohinee far splitting theealeand formakingit of nnifoitet thiokneaa ; and again another machine ones a groove in the e,rge of the sole so that the sewing can afterwards be done, On another flat the uppers are out and passed in to m- other department to be sewn together. The sewing is done by maohinory, of °aurae, and this firm were the first to introduce shoe machinery of any kind into Canada, having as early as 1845 imported a Singer machine from New York to sew uppers with. From this time dates the adoptioii of machinery in the boot and shoe trade of Canada, Det- ,nie Barron, a min who has been in, the em- ploy of the firm for 43 years, mentioned the introduction of the machine as a great cur- iosity in the shop, adding that the oircunt- stance was emphasized in hie memory byre- ceiving in the same case a Bible as a present from Mr Bell. Judging from this incident, and the faot that many of the other employ- ees have been with the firm for periods of 20 and 25 years—several girls having come as children and left only on the occasion .f their marriage—there must have been a great deal of good will existing between the firm and itsemployees. Speaking of machia- ery, the .change that has taken place in this respect in the boot and shoe trade is wonder- fal. Almoeteverything that was done byhand thirty years ago is now performed by ma- chines, except the lasting preemie, and even this is now largely done by machinery me some of the lower grades of boots in the S matea. Although thirty years comprehends the era of machinery in this line the most important improvements have been effected within the list fifteen years. Making the button holes for button boots, for instance, was done by hand till within a few years ago. This once tedious process is now done on a peculiar machine, whioh will but- ton -hole 60 pairs of boots, or a total of 1200 button holes a day. Another com- paratively new machine will stitch and trim the edges of uppers atone operation, and does its work in the most exaot man- ner. Still another machine does the "skir- ing" or beveling of the edge of an upper, and here again the machine work is an improve. motet on the hand process, being done quick- ly and evenly, whereas by hand it required a certain " knack" whioh many otherwise excellent workmen could not attain. There is one curious machine which turns an edge of leather in upon itself, and with the help of cement, will makea sort of hem complete in one operation. Another triumph of skin €nthisol,ess of work is the machine whichwili sew in the sole of a boot in less than half a minute, and others are the heel trimmers, scourere and burnishers. The taut named machine omelets of a steel barnieher heated from within by a jet of gas, and moving round the heel, pressing hard to the heel as it moves back and forth and giving a perfect polish to it as it travels by an automatic motion over every part of the heel, One of these sets of burnishers will do 7 cases, or 420 pairs of boots a day. There are also buffing -machines whioh by means of sand- papered cylinders impart a finished and vel- vety feel and appearance to the soles of the boots; and many other contrivances which are an improvement on manual labor is point of speed and perfection of work, eoee- prising in all some 30 or 40 different kinds of machines. On being asked as to the effects of the small pox epidemic on the . bu inecs, Messrs. J. T Hagar and Joint Stephens, the managing partnere of the firm, acid that as far as their own trade was concerned they had had a very setisfaotoey season; and now had movies prepared for their travelers to start out for the coming season, with every prospect of a good grade. They hada wn.er range of goods than be- fore, having gone into men's as well as ladies, boots and shoos, which had been their sole specialty for some martens past. While they worked only on the better 'lase of goods and employed therefore the bettor Class of workmen, they had taken extra pies - cautions against small -pox, even though it was the opinion of some medical men that contagion could not be carried in boots ani shoes owing to the disinfecting nature .f the chemicals used in preparing the leather, They had withdrawn all work each as bind- ing, etc., formerly done by work people out- side, and had everything done on their own premises, and they had not only had a* their employees vacoin.ted, but had caused an impaction of their premises to be made by an independent physician, and have had subsequent weekly visits to the factory made ny a doctor who sees that noneof the employees or their families are suffering from the disease. Hence with all these pre. cautions, of whioh their onetomers have beat aware. they have not suffered in business. Happily, also the disease has of late great- ly abated, and this, together with the pre- cautions taken by Montreal merchants generally, will restore general confidenoe in trade. Your correspondent was pleased to learn that it is the intention of two or three of the prinolpal beet and shoe manufac- turers here to send samples of their prodnote to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition to be held in Landon next year. They w* certainly do Canada oredit. Itis said that a man who eats onions will always keep a secret. This is partly due fid the fact that the man who Date onions ly rarely allowed to get within whispering di.o tenors of his 1ellow•nien.. A correspondent reenter to know if it la proper to urge a young lady to sing at an evening gathering, after She lies reform' once. It is proper to targe a little, bat not too much, test she should change her ?hind„ An eltchange says : " A Netnueky man recently wandered into church while service web being held It is °apposed that smite Halioty e'en jokers had removed ai it et beer sign and placed it over the. ciao ohuroh. It is Mt outrage to foot a man that way t' •