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The Exeter Times, 1885-12-3, Page 6Wellen1111/1111 AN EGYPTIAN ROMANCE apeotaole of one street gambit:, web -ay i the etrange, and to them as ye naeeeing I of the carriage window, when VeeT behelel A Rory of tow and Wild .Aliventurei founded upon Etartliug Reveja- tileglinYe°l-afrgsve ptitclisraetne : idariZer ;Tit Christiana over a tire to roast, taking good titniE j.li the CaTeer of Arabi Padiai ear% however, not to tough it with, tbeir hands. By £heAutio of 4' Nana, Tne Nenzusen "Tee Ran So;" "TE. Ito:sneeze See," Eno. Eno. ClIAPTER 171,—(Connteven ) been NAY], and their conedence in the ;Tout Oent:rol. With thee obliquity of vadon all around, who then perticularly blame Mr. Trezaer, the rich E glieh beneer, for allowing hit: comely wife end lovely daughter to atteed the Opera. flame even unaccompanied by himself t Ile held errlyed at that time of life when an easy chair and a newepeper, teken in ear juocelon with a prime cigar and a bottle of iced enateae I.afitted, proved a land of entoyment mach greater than even a ballet, fen less an opera, could hey§ afford- ed hinn So, af-er bidding his vvomankInd an Impetieet farewell, for he woe in the middle of a leading artfele in a fortnight old lemee, he had his armchair moved out into the garclee, where he might weteh in a kinn of drowsy erjoyment the gm geone set - flog of the blood red Egyptian sun, from within a little eurrener houee that wee alreeet buried beneath fregrent jasmiae, and in froot ef which 4 droopiog dato tree geatly waved. its saunters of onmeen and golden fruit, the :sunlight oeueing there to resemble huge precious' stones. " Aeguredly hie lot bad tolen n pleseant elates," the rich men thought to hineeelf, u4 he *menet Isteeres at off in Ma little hut thatched with straw, with ita ocilQ 46 tt 1-1$ certainly ace There cam be no &IAA k bout it, All theee accursed leetaats who inende deem in Egypt become our Olaa- tom re:hoy bring wt te them, too, their own leave, be erder that they may violate ours," nted Toulba I'aelm to which Suleiman Ottadded with en ; sot No deebt,about it, and whet la worse, they not only'. Linen bueineam here unasked, butotttev4iiim hedeamities when they fail th'jndemniUea which our week-mho:len tween seems teady to pay." aistng the tang(' of our poor until they cheat tlae collectors and get the baa" tined° on beteg cleteeted, or dee pay and entree, Peeple (mob as these make very good rebels, for there is nothing to make them loyal," said Toulha, "Should Allah eaU upon me to reign over them I will mete them loyal, for the Math, like a dog, would ley down M5 very life tor router. By the Prophet, would that be know better wleat it was to Iowa one," ecid the war mlateter proudly, and Unita Pasha at Once made answer : " Theti beeemee, he hall 30 UMW masters. [Theta are twenty inreige eoneels en Egypt. ttesd enelete a pet' prince. Tneyhre (wove eil Egyt, Their weeehea regulate 4V64 the ,euu. Forkghee do what ennui; no 1 furuiture of3 met etad two pstehere, eating will, yet hie consul protect hint trout bit eveoing meet of coarse maize breed, tha Qoueilaeacee whim the Bhypeeee whilet he gaze(' haq eatagely and hell de- .c.,e) loured by ;he aeehhis of reaseegO, spairlegly At the thly copper coins that to 4 That 13 true, for hie eve le tried, uut the velne of the thirteenth pert of a dollar y hie own lawe, but by theee of the Mac rePre"14 a eTe3r'e labor of 45ixten bourg In bee ecured hoe, whieh et courp there the burotug sun, yet oat of whieh the tax anderetendiug, an that in welting to gatherer wdl Pelee at lode q,uerter In order bio latolea cot tho ohemee Are tut that rich Buropeane tray be feted at the e Iooiee all the rot et we apparel*" flaw Khcdive'e APTAIR41, met of theta poor starved selmeu tley. wretehee real, expense. 6 By Allah and the Prophet, where le the Bat while we are thue znoralizing, the of discumelog these mates ferthcr? Can baudeome two -boned ellarlot tonteluing our lovelydulling out the geode of the deeert or the Bee heroine and her mother le c here'No, no, but we eau try to save our. along the Choebrah road towarde the ity, adyeettete beteg hurled beneath theu; tem, with coachman and footman in irreproaoh- ertheleee. My frientle, we moat lose no thee Able livezieus an route to the Opera 110455• , tewttottgthx-u3h truly hut eeeret elute, near the Rae de Moseew. Nellle le not loeltiog her beat, for her cal. ell the pop/anon et our great ciders the and injutiges which they Rarer Aud or aud epirita neon to have alike foreaken an heat IN themeeivee of them. her. The faet le, she frettiog alma Frauk iereehe of oreoe, peoesnou enyeeee Dartelly, whom elle hen (rely seen gone ilit3e4 af tha dawutrodoeu laud the op. tbei fete at the Gizerele Palace, pewee event ae being may to lay &we, teyefthe, to Iter, long ago; aud ou that eolitary a ztheetd they elect ute ei occaelon he had met with so cool a reseption acmy ettle cry will. be 6 Egypt from her parent, that he bad, ever since held down with the Euro- hitmelf my friends, I am well The oouog officer eras the lot man in the e4. net owe, whim world to astir up a daughter to needlesaly =neer without Are rebel agabsetthose to whom ahe rightly owed them en the fellow, obedieuee, Alia as It had Gamed to him yeti Cia, then, and ow in evident that neither Mr. nor Mrs. Trezarr would ever sanction Me marrying her, be order that we reap emidet the had rnede up hie mln that both for Nellie's of victory." e war ministerToulba Paella eeke mud hie own it would be bettor did he Le swer; . "4 victory that nee been try to forget her, AS111 by tealouely keeping by the unlying tougue out of her way, help her to forget him in of pro it uct been foretold that the like mmuer who ellen restore Mohammed- : But Nellie, far 1CM:0:giving him credit for eatted kindly ond uneelfish motivee, had made up olden glory shell be her mind that he bad eurrendered her far too °lolly ; and then jealousy, of couree, crept into her heart to make her !still more uncomfortable, and she began to believe that alter all he mutt have teemed to care muck more for the Egyptian lady whoae life he had saved than he had ever done for her - "elf. There is not one girl in a hundred, who would not torture hereelf in a very eirnilar manner under the same otrournstancee, and certainly Nellie had some excuse for doing so, since when her lover had called at Mount Carmel on that one aolitery occasion which we have mentioned, he had never as much as asked her for an answer to the queetion which he had propounded with ouch fervor In the illumined palace gardens the night before—namely, whether ahe would rnatry him without her parents' oonsent. In plain truth, the young dragoon, /ad had no time to do lie, for he had wasted a precious five minutes in the meal greetings, and then the mother bad come into the room and direetly afterwards the father and had not left him alone with Nellie for a eingle instant hereafter, and when laalf an hour later he had received his cool conga from the severe paterfamilias, who had followed 11407012•TO AND TIIEROASTM Or A PIG. him °Stade the drawing room door in order Yet another week has passed away and a to be as coldly impertinent as he could make uropean opera company le playing "The t himself consonant with what he considered roarer" at the Cairo Theatre to crowded; to be good breeding, Frank had tried to per- med'. ' suede himself that he was glad he had not Another cue of dancing, singibg and fia- been allowed time to ask what he had called ing on the brielt of chaos, though to be expreasly to ask, since be had been forced re nobody guesses how close alters is at by their caneuct to the conclusion that there and, for the sowers of revolution have per was Jess of Christi= forgiveness and the railed their labor in darkneaa and in se, milk of human kindness in Nallies parents' ce, and no one perceives 14B yet the strong constitution:1 than he had before supposed. rop of knife, dagger and scimitar blades "And if they persisted in not forgiving gled with countless bayonet points that her she would mope and fret, and instead of springing up all around, making her happy I should only make her Butvery soon a thower of blood drops wretched, on which a,ceount I shall sacrifice 11 be needed to replenish that crop and my own happiness for here without further like it grow the quicker and bear fruit in struggle," had been Frank's final resolve; ue eeseson, and then as Feringhee blood but he would have been able to carry it out ' give it the strongest nourishment these better if he had at once retired from the cars, singers and revelers will be arousedl scene of action, instead of which, with a m their &agent vision of ease luxury strange, yet natural, inconsistency, he still affnusement at the cost of the Egyptian, lingered on in Cairo though there was not though by Li thunder clap. the slightest nem:lady for doing so, his health So for the present the Frank hotels are having by this time been quite re-estab- wded, and the European quarter of Halted. e city is as bright and cheerful as any Though the young dragoon had resolved tocratio suburb in Paris, London or Nevi to give Nellie up, he could not tear himself ork, and only in the labyrinth of dark, ' wholly away from her; that was the true thy, intricate lanes and valley, where the state of the case, Be still had no small de - per stories of the flat -roofed honoes on gree of comfort in gazing at her afar off, and ther side nod towards each other, where even in looking at the windows of the house e occupants of the highest rooms in which she dwelt if he had been unable to I can easily shake hands =rose the tor- catch• . view of her fair self for a few days. us winding thoroughfares from their re. 31e aloe derived some degree of satisfaction, eotive verandahs and balconies, are the though it was certainly allied with still more things of hatred and discontent %flowed of uneasinees, in the suspicion (which he WWI en to swell into a murmur, and that mur- one of the very few to entertain) that a time r is quickly suppressed. of peril and danger was near at hand in And yet are there a sufficiency of signs which he might be able to render her or hers a omens to give timely warning of what some great essential service which would shortly about to happen to those who are create a revolution in their sentimenta to - gaged in the headlong pursuit of wealth ward him and lead up to as happy a climax d pleasure, did not hose occupations en- ap any recorded in a novel. oss theh entire and undivided attention. But Nellie has no such hopes or comforts n it be possible that the Europeans, as a to buoy her up, and her sorrow is all the as, do not notice the hatred with which harder to bear because her pride forces her e native population have begun to regard to :mum a gaiety of disposition which she em—the flashing of the eyes, the curling is far from feeling, and in the artifioial sus - the lipe, the sound of the spitting on the taining of which she is constantly breaking ound after they have passed by? Tis true that one or two consuls have In the dark depths of the carriage, how- ged complaints of not being saluted by ever, she makes no attempt to sustain the yptian sentries when in official uniform part which the has set herself to act, but their way to and from the palace, but giving way to her realfeelings suffers the e remiesness on the soldiers' part has been great crystal tears to escape from her bean - down to opium instead of impertinence, tiful violet eyes, d has been either overlooked or forgotten. And now the carriage has entered Cairo a true also, that many Europeans have proper, through the great Gate of Viotory, ervecithat the masses pay far more defand rolling along the no longer level oause. me to the war minister, Arabi Pasha, way presently reaches the opening to that en he drives or rides abroad than they unsavory and evil reputationed locality, the to his highness the Khedive, but they Quartier du Crocodile. skier the reason for this to lie in the Here the glare of flames and a shrill hub. she's austere piety and boundless gener. hub of cries] and laughter frightened the ty, two qualities for which he has long hones and caused both ladies to glance out • and e not thy name Ahmed? And at the time in which 'Ellie deed will be ght beeu fixed for the thirteenth ecu. o! the Hegira And do we not enter it that century In the course of a few a 11' nehallah, be it as God with," replied mintster deveotly oted then, he • Yon may tell that prophecy he plop's likewise, for if Allah speaks ugh his prophet and I am the person leo IS alluded to, I dare not, even if ould, refuse to obey the behest of the Most igh, So go away, and lose no time be aow- g the good seed, yet be careful that it falls ot upon stony ground, where the birds of e sir will see and devour it, With thin unsel I &smile you, my brothers, and Iso with the parting aasurances that as I soar ou will soar, therefore remember that ah Memel the birds that remember their nests,' Perhapa thin warning was not altogether nheeded ; but be that I it may, the trio ted with meted expressions of fidelity esteem. CHAPTER VIIL CHAPTER IX, on one caeca= WAPNER AND AT TUR =RAUB, Yee, It was a eomical sight eneugh when not viewed as a auggealve one, and there was nothieg in it of cruelty to masa a "'had - der, fin the pig wee dead, and from, the eerene expreesion of its porcine countenance he died (for tete of les race) heppily. A stiff shirt collar aud a high 'slack satin atock cotreeded very probably the gap in the throat which had let the steel in and the lite out, while hia eapamous paaneh Nyike covered with au iumoulato whlt" wg4-41" house and 'stage alike, a pair of large, Week, oat, and his little short front lege dangled glorious eyes, soft as velvet, yet aharp at uneonselous that court etiquette prevented hit quitting the Khedive' party. There was onepresent who read her thoughta and rejoiced in her mistake and evident chagrin, and he was Ahmed Arabi Pasha, who, far from having given up all hopes of makiag her his, had firtnly resolv. eel that his she otsould be directly the pat- iently for the hour ahouldatrive, when kis. met or dest;ny should make him the master end ruler ef Egypt and of a 1 that it contain- ed, though he bad almost determined more than once that as a punishment for her treetleg his offer of marriage with so much disdain, he would no longer make her his wife, but merely one of the many beautiful elavea of his harem. But the swartuy war minister's was not the only melevolent gaze that was fixed up- on poor Nellie, for from behind the gilded lattice work that conoealel the ladies of the Kheclival harem from the view of the entire audience, whilst it permitted them to see made the eleevesole black cloth coat, whose lappets were thrown well back. As for his hinder legs (ant it is to be pre- sumed his tell included), they were tucked beside a pair of black cloth trousers that were a mile too long for them, whilst some. how or other an eyeglase was fixed in front of one Owed optic, and what had been once a jaunty Parisi nigh -crowned. eilk bat (though now diefigured by many a dent) was fasten- ed (duck a little an oue tide) atop of the huge lop-eared head, which alto hung a lit- tle on one side, owmg to the manner in which the brae was' hung. An the coachmenwaereincing hieframtions horses to obedience, a, crowd, of the young etreet roughs* the majority of them nearly netted and more then half of them pewee - log but one, eye (for oplethelnalee la a terrible semage in Egypt, and maw perente also cat out the pupils' of their childrents eye; so Oat they may 0/0APO Whf 11 grown up the horror(' of military eervice) (=rounded the carriage, loudly dtmancling belteheesh, for in Egypt alms are demanded as a rightins stead of aelted for as a fever, Una. Tann', however, who knew that hoth pig mid clothe(' tatan biota beer( etoleu from Eeropenut, fowl had a vague and intety idea that the whole show was meant as an km* to the whole population, would not part with a stogie paiatre, whilst Nellie, whey" perceptions' were keeper, was too terrified even to feel for her purse. Happi- ly, at tide juncture, the honesconcleeendea to spring forwent in the right direction, weieb, however, they did with suck aud. &amen' that one importunate young beggar was knocked down and trod *leder their !woke witulet the wheele of the carriage pass. ed over the tees of 4 40014 extracting from the sufferers a chorus of howls, mingled with oaths end execrations in gutteral Arishice Then a shower of stones was thrown, and one, saseshing 4 window, etruck oretunnthuen right ehoulder with a force that caused it to tingle and Ito Lek pooaeasor to cry out in alarm "Oh, let ue return homes manna% or we shall be murdered." "No, my dear, The danger is behind us now, and were we to return we should have to pass it again Beeldes, to be afraid of the wretched natives would he very bad form and to ahow oar fear might be Immo, dentin addition. Mobs do atrange thinge even at home wometimes, ao you. must not be Afraid. Iiwonder what could have been the meaning of the ehow "What could it mean, mamma, except that the fanatics would like to serve our en- tire race ws they were serving its repreeent. rave 1" "Tha representative oE our race a pig? I don't follow you, my dear." Oh, mamma, don't the natives hate us in. part because we are swine eaters, and therefore do they not couple us with the to them smote= animal which we make our food 7 Was not the bitterest scandal that they oould concoct about the Khedive the tale that his European favorites had taught him to like ham 1 Shouldhe lose his crown and our lives a pig will be at the bottom of it. I feel sure that it was in the bloody Wien mutiny when the false rumor that the Mohammedan sowar's carbine cartridges had been greased with hog's lard led to the aheddiog of whole rivorteof Christ an gore." steel, were fixed alteinately open our hero- ine and her two Admirers, taking fierce cog- nizance of the expressions of each, whilet the fire of fiercest hate was kindle(' in the heart of their poeteseor as ehe diecovered that the rival was beloved by both. The excellence of the m,usie wee' as power - lees to attract het at'entionae the rieh drew ea of the performers or the beeuty of the miyeenemene. A quarter of an hour ago she bed imaged for the epectacle, but now she had eyes for nothing but the objeots of her love arid hate, and see would have Onto her very life to have been able to pleoge a stilette up to Ito very hilt in the white breast of her fairer and younger rival, aud to weteis her die with greeteat none` Unit, Nor let theee vengeful 'feelings on her part he wondered at, tor Exatern Woad is Dater. ally hot and vengetul, and a life of idioms's and eeclualen is apt to increase and foster all that ie evil in a nature that is never given to the study of Aught that is good. Despite the greet heat of the night in the narrow Onsets, the interior of the theatre WAS kept dellotatudy cool by the continual thettering of enormous punkas, worked by maclainety. There NVA5 a free otroulation of air to everywhere, aud the lamp in the aud- itorium were not numerous enough to gen- erate much heat of themselves; whilst be- low, in place of the European arrangement of pit and otalls, was marine pavement, with foudtain in the centre that threw aprey in- eteall of water, whieh, illeteed of falling, steamed to diesolve Leto the atmoupbere and tend to cool and moleten it, The habltante of alio part of the house had to move about with bare or stockinged or feltsoled feet, eo that no nage ehOOM die - tub those who sat above, but the lowest clams amongst the audience were aecomod- sated as with a in the topmost circle or gal- lery, and these celestials„ like our own, were noloalways client or well mannered, and had not the European portion of the speatatore felt so metre In their ealf.conceit they might have noted many things to cause them even more than, unease:lean PBut neither the marked diaapprobation of the comic incantation some which many of the leaner class of epectetors seemed to re- gard as an insulting burlesque on their own belief in the supernatural, or the growls and elaoulatione that greeted eaoh appear- ance of the British grenadier °Meer who is one of the leading oharacters in the opera, were regarded or noticed, and at the term- ination of the performance the audience be. gars to disperse, the fashionable portion at all events wall pleased with the amusement that had been afforded them) and Nellie Tenure alone reeeived any Indication of danger in the future. The warning came in the shape of a piece of rather thick writing paper folded in two, which eras 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 read in delicately traced charact- ers "The dove who hovere near the eagle's nest ehould beware its claws and beak.' (TO BE CONTINUO.) "Nellie, you are a little fool, and may depend upon it that inateed 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 18 10 that our carriage windows are broken." "Manama, tell me if my shoulder is out." "No, my dear, I don s see a mark. If you were hit 'tie fortunate that the stone was not a sharp one, for the bruise will not show until to -morrow. Here we are at the theatre, ao do oall up a smile my dear." Nellie essayed the task, and in part suc- ceeded, for the bright 'atom the fieunting play bilis and the richly carpeted atta light- ed interior of the dress circle entraneelook- ed so homelike and European that they seemed to breathier: assurance of eafetee The footman, descending from the ,lao14 threw open the carriage door and assisted hie - ladies to alight, and a minute or two la4r they were in the company of a score of other elegantly dressed Christian, woman in the sumptuously filled up cloak room, whose silvery laughter and anticipation of coming enjoyment caused Mrs. Trezarr at all events to forget 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, Khedive') patronage, so that the centre of the dress oink' (theheat of the climate for- bidding the construction of close, stuffy boxes) . was brilliant with rich uniforms, gold lace and glittering jeweled orders. Prince Tewfik was seated in a golden chair of state, and around him stood% goodly ar- ray of pashas, bays and effendi, aniegled with many an embroidered coated Eeropean consul, and here and there an English, French, Austrian'German or Italian officer in the uniform of his come and country. To the right and the left of this gay as- semblage oat many a comely dame or lovely maiden, atteoded by father, htusband, brother or lover, all clad in sombre black, for they had been in uniform or deecial 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 Donelly, the latter clad in the brilliant scarlet and gold of the British cavalry ser- vice, for he had been dining with Sir Ed- ward Moaet, 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 be 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 18 was afraid of her mother, and all BRILLIANT. Peace in a:sinful come is one of the great- est of curses. The highest and most important Utte of this world is thedevelopment of a noble man. The way to speak and write what ellen eot go out of fashion is to epee& and write Sincerely. Safisimess blinda Ema destroys! While we hug our fancied insult's the devil is lasighe hag in his sleeve. Thhtle ie the best policy. Every person feels flattered by the reflection that you think him too clever to be eajeled. Let a men: learn that everything in nature, even motes and feathers, goes by law and not by "luck," and that what he BOW13 he realm. The effect of water poured on the roots of a tree is seen aloft in the branches and frait ; eo in the next world are seen the effects of good deeds. Feelings come and go like light troops fol. lowlog the victory of the present; but pin- eiples. like troops ef the line, are undleturb. ed and steadfast. In these words is comprehended the whole code of courtesy : Put everybody on the same level as youreelf and put yourself into everybody's place. Every MAA has IMMO peculiar train of thought which he fells back upon when alone. This, to a great degree, moulds the MAIL Tbere is no 'leveler lila° Obriatianity, but it Ievele by lifting to lofty tableland acceeen ble only to humanity. He only thet is hum- ble cau rise, and rising, lift. It is one thing to love truth, and to seek for its own take, and quite another to vveloonae as much of it aa tellies with our im- preasiens and prejudices. Pconouuoing matches heve taken the place of the spelling bees of e few years ago. The ernalleat Welsh new:Ire:per would be suffic- ieet to put down both dela of the lergeet American pronouncing claws In the tomotry, Por example ; Pronouece Wgrellerunllyg, Duty is a peter which rises with tut in the morning, and goes to rest with us at night. It is co -extensive with the action of oux ia- telligence. It ie the shadow which cleaves to us, go where we will, and which only leaves no when we leave the light of life. Plow lovingly are grouped along the wait(' of tender reeinereee many se pleasing picture illuetrating anew atareery "Goodtmorning,:' a tweet "Good -night." a tender "Good-bye, ' or a sad "Adieu! from loved ones to dear ones --from casual acquaintances even—and thews, when once spoken, are "words that never die." Pleasant greetings smooth the thorny pathways of life, win friends:, con- found enemies, and the homea where they are the rule, and not the exception, cannot be otherwise than happy ones. By all noises, then, lot us cultivate the practice of family salutations and adieux. Ambition, that high and glorious passiou which makes such havoc among the sons of men arises from a p.oud desire of honor and distinction, and, when the splendid trap- pings in which it is usually caparisoned are removed, will be found to consist of the mean materials of envy, pride and covetoua- nem It is described by different authors as 4 gallant madness, a pleasant poison, a hid- den plague, a secret poison, a caustic of the aoul, the moth of holiness, the mother of hypooriay, and, by crucifying and disquiet- ing all it takes hold of, the cause of melan- °holy and madness, Indian Summer. There is nothing that happens with such unfailing regularity about which there is more dispute than our Indian summer. What is it, when is it, and why is it, are questions that are disouseed as often as it oomea. The cameos of our Indian summer are not very hard to find. Daring the sum- mer the earth becomes heated to the depth of several feet. About the time of the ac- ourrence of the autumnal equinox. there MO atmospheric changes in the northern hemi- sphere that result in storms of cold rain and often snow, When these rains cease, find the weather becomes settled, the surface of the earth hae been cooled by them, but it at once begine to bring the heat from the ground below to the surface where it ia ra- diated and the water rapidly evaporated, which gives the atmosphere RS peouliar blue, hazy appearance. The escaping heat of the ground, added to that of the sun causes the warm, pleasant weather of the Indian sum- mer. From what has been sold this delightful aeason may be expeeted any time after Sep- tember. It comes earlier in the east than the west. There it is expected in October, while here it usually does not come until November, and it is generally of longer dur ation in the interior than on the coast, main- ly became the re is leas wind in the interior, and the heat is radiated more slowly and retained in the air. In 1869 our Indinn sum- mer lasted untinthe; middle of 71;sec:ember, and every one will remember the long sea- son of warna, dry wether that seemed al. moat providentially to, follow the Chit:3,g° fir in 1871. In3874 it lasted, until the day be fore thanksgiving and WOUIK1 Un with th most boieterous snowitorm of the ,winter Turned Away, "Well, yes, I can spare you a dime, I guess," he said as he produced the coin and, handed it to an old man, whom any officer might arrest on sight as a vagrant. " What made you do that?" queried a by- stander, when the mendicant had passed on, "Don't you know that every cent .given to that class is an encouragement to vim ' "Wait a bit till you hear my story. Itvas only a boy when 1. first left England. Like some other boys I got into a bit of trouble with the law, and as a matter of fact, I ran away. Father was terribly put out with me, and the last words he !spoke were to disown me, I wrote several letters home after reaching Olio country, but never a one was repiled to and I finally decided to paddle my own canoe and make the best of it. Ten years after my artival here, and. when living in Chicago I stood in front of a theater one bitter odd night, and an old man came up and began to tell me a pitiful story. iwas waiting and lookingfor a party who was to meet me, and therefore paid lit- tle attention to the beggar. I did not even give him a square look in the face. Hn turned from me to another with his story and I heard him say: "I am hungry and pennilese. For God's sake have compassion on a poor old m=1" "You go away or 111 have you arrested le was the unfeeling reply, and the old man staggered off into the might • "'Well, later on in the evening I got to wondering where I bad heard tho old man's voice before. I felt that it had a familiar :sound, and yet.I could not place it, and the thing worried me so that I could not sleep before midnight. Next morning, as I reathe ed the corner of State and Sixteenth street on my way to work, I saw a crowd gather- ed before a door, and a boy told me the body of an old man who had been frozen to death on the street was inside. "It came to me like a flesh that this was the one who had addressed me, and I entered the place. They had his face covered, but I removed the leandkerohief. As true as there is a heaven beyond us that was the dead body of my old father! I teamed in time that mother was dead, and that father, finally forgiving me for my boyish prank, had set sail for America to hunt tre up. Thieves plundered him of his every dollar, and he had tramped a year like an old va- grant, hoping to find nee. As I had not written to him for years he bad no clue, but depended solely upon encident. Accident brought us face to face,at last, but I repuls- ed him. He was penniless and bungryeand I refused him a paltry trifle, I tell you it went hard with me to cal ,up those things with his pinched, pale 'face befere me and his voice forever stilled 1" " And eo ?" At the recent opening of a new addition to the London Temperance Hospital —en establishment started to test the question as to the value of alcohol in the treatment of disease—it was stated that in only three out of upward of 3,000 cam last year had alcohol been ueed. In these three cases no 'Sensible benefit had resulted, while the average mortality in thehospital since 1873 had been bat five per cent. The number of patients treated since the commencement wars 22,500, The example of Lady Grenville Gordon, who, under tee pseudonym of " Lierre." short time ago opened a saline 'e shop in May Fair. London—where it is said the Prhmeeo of Wales bought goods to the value of $500 —boa fired the ambition of other ladies to go aud do likewise. A late student of Girton, adopting for business purppses the name of Mme. Isabel, has now become partner in a well-known bonnet $hop in Wigmore street A leading motive in these English ladies in taking up millinery as a career, next to the laudable aim of earning ,money thereby, is to lead English fashions to be more inde- pendent of Continental inapiration, working after deeigns better eclapted ot English habit -is of life and climate, and also more in har- mony with the 'awe of p'ctureequenees, The Calling in the Boy's Nature, Parents often make grave mistakes by choosing professions for their eons with- out refeeenee to their fitnesa. A man who has rieen from poverty or the lower levels of business life to comparative wealth, does net care to have hire sons pass through all thee he experienced. It is not neoetsary that they should. Let them profit by the hard-earned knowledge. Same men do not seem to know how to make thle knowledge available for their eons. Instead of endowing them with a knowledge of how to make money and how to nee it to the best advantage, they give them all they want of lb. Boys instinct- ively know how to apend money. SOTOO of the moei noted epencltihrifte and total wrecks are the sons of men who made their fortunes by hard work and the dos - est economy. Through a desire to see their sons enjoy the fruits of their labor, they made gentlemen. of them instead of bueiness men. A boy with a decided taste or aptness for any calling le easily diaposed of, It is the one with no apecial genius who is hard to fix. Such a one is a good all-round scholar, can make a sled, tinker a SeW.. ne-machine, play the piano, make a pas- sable drawing, citnea well, wise a fair essay ---in short, lo almost anything tol- erably well. Now what is to be dene with, snolt a chap'? He does not play the fiddle well enough to make a good Ifni sg fiddling; hie eltetchea are not ntrong enough to guarantee eneceee as an argot ; hit pen ix namely trenohant enough to Ify making an editor of him ; his skill a tt tinker doe's not indicate any epee me- oharsicel geniuts—in shozt, the surf ce in- dications, are in a manner meshes, none of th,ern being stroeg enough to warrant AU Inveetment. What is to be done With bine 1 If he has no money and has to tualca hi(' own way in the world, pethape the beet thing is to pay strict attention to hie hebits and his morale and let him go. Bebag forced to earn hie owlet bread he will very own find a nithe ire vrhich he will be comparatively comfortable. Hewever, if he to a situated that he does not have to work for a living, it le not probable that he will do muott eldr- retelling, but wait contentedly for some, thing to turn up. He knowe the dinner bell will ring and the tailor be paid all the earne, whether be worke or not, If there is no way by which he can be dumped Out 1140 the world and made to feel that his existence depends upon WS own efforts, the taxi: beat thing, probably, is to assist Lim in choosing a trade or prase. store and then pot him at it in earnest, keep him down to it until he shown elghe of positively liking or disliking it, and let him be governed ac =dingier. The country is full of doctors, lawyers and preaohere, who are Reich because it was not known what else to make of them, and a eorry lot they are. Ib le a clear 'mate of raw material to try to make a lawyer out of a born mechanic, a doctor out of a natural artist, ora bud- ness man oub of the stuff ketended for a danclug master, While it may not be clear waate to make either out of a mixed stick, the chances are the result 'will never be considered a great success. Well -formed habits and good morale constitute the best 'start a 3at trades Call have. With, these, t but little danger of his going to th: even if he does not make a. greatrli life. Without thee° we are a esti as liable to go down the hill se tip, to oink as to swim. The woret mistakes made by parents are when they pay no attention tit the amine indications and set their sons up in professions because they want to eee.them there. Some do this when they are mor. ally certain, the place is not milted to them. Feilure in suck omen is inevi- table. ** "And SO the old in= who Tot left us may be limning for a son or daughter. In any event, 'I Cannot refuse them. Their words bring , to mind that bitter night, and their hungry looks recall a face I kla,11 never look upon again." Mystery is another name for our ignor- ance; if we were omniscient, all would be plain. "4 fair woman which is without (Were - tion" is likely to prove the curse of Spain should King Alfonso succumb to his serious illness. In that event a regenoy would be impossible owing to the unpopularity of the Queen who is a stickler for caste and other foolish trifles, and a Carlist rising is looked upon by neany well-informed persons as In- evitable. 44-4.1111111m.1.4•111gon 7 The 'Wealth of Chill. The worldeesupply of nitrate of soda and guano has been obtained from the arid rairdees went coastregions of South Amer- ica. Along the southern coast of Peru are a serlea ot rooky, desolate islands on which no rain ever falls and only the gentlest brews sweep. There are at present, as there have been for centuries, myriads of sea -birds along glee coast, ani they, with thousands of sea lione, live,breed and die noon these !elands. Guano is a mixture cf the excrement of these seals and birds, the decomposed bodies of both and the bones of the &lee which have been their ff000rdi Tenteuries and in many places depeaits have been accumulating are hun- dreds of feet deep, baked into a solicimass by the tropical sun. These masses of guano were worked by the Peruvian Government from 1846, when their value as fertilizers became understood, up tothe war with Chili in1880. The annual ship- ments to Europe and the United States amounted to millions of tons, valued at between $20,00,000 and $30,000,000, all above the expenses of working being clear profie. This should have enriched Peru, but it merely enriched her governing classes. During the war the Chilians seized the islands and annexed them to0 hill. There have been no exports of guano since, bubtheChillan Government is mak- ing preparations to resumethe :ship ',Leen and it will probably be in market aga next year. Gave /Rim Just Twenty Minutes. Just before the arrival of the "dyer," leet evening an elegantly clad young lady who wee also quite pretty, was noticed sitting near a window in the station. She occasionally cut her eyes in a modest way at a fascinating traveling man who strolled past with noticeable regularity. The traveling man also gazed and his glances were full of admiration. He finally stopped and they entered into convereation. As they chatted the young man's hand unconsciously got!) under the wren and claepecl in a tender embrace the shapely fingers it concealed. The young lady turned her head leleure- ly boward the captivating drummer, and aid in a dignified manner: "1 am surprised at your action, sir, and presume I should call an (Inc:43r. But 1. live in Toronto -1 have been absorbing its cul- ture f or years and hate a SO0110. So I shall give you just twenty minutes to re- move your hand from under that wrap."