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The Exeter Times, 1885-12-17, Page 10Iowa a aro tr was that the CTi areae and such of s t. bribe or affright by sewage. lace an hour oefore days d that he had dfemiaeed the min VI and from all rank mind in thio army as well, and that t you should he on your way to the or the White Nile. He added that the Khedive al -Tisa, the sole govern- er in Egypt, and that he wiahed it ouerally known that his goad friends, !tench and English, could land tens of da of soldiers and quoll with faro, d steel any uprisirg of the populace r . - army againat his lawful and nudivided uthority." +"This is eerlous," exclaimed Arabi. "From ,hom got you this intelligeuoe ?' moment "Yon think a, diamonds shall bo to put up with the neat a have on. your pistols Taulbee I know that you a- 1 ways carry a braoo, and you can replenish the lose from my armory, since you neem to 1 bo" in no T am hurry."n no hurry. On the face of the clock the chart hand foliowe the long, but though it seems to lag behind it over tolls the sane hour, I am to -day the short hand and you the long, but mayhap I shall do as muck work, though I traverse lees ground." The war minister seemed to be quite aatla- fled with tide reply, and left Toulba clap, ping his hands for another Dnp of ooffee, Arabi Pilules thrust tbo brace of tiny silver barreled and gold inlaid pistol, into the breast pocket of his blue military frock Dost, whilst Toulba tonohed with his right hand first the floor and then, in rapid auc- cessicn, his hearr, his lips and his brow, a common form of greeting or farewell from an inferior to a superior in Egypt, which signifies, "My respect, my heart, my speech and my thoughts are all yours." The war minister simply bowed in reply, as though this act of homage on Toulba'a part was but his right, 'and then hurrying forth frcm his cool and spacious hall, he re- entered his carriage, the safe, or running footman, slamming the door after him, and in guttural Arabic paesing on the destination to the coachman, "The Gizereh. Palace." Then, as he was whirled away amidst a cloud of dust from his home, Arabi Paella could not help looking back and wondering whether he should ever -enter in at iia por- tals more, and for a moment the great scar- let hibiscus flowers seemed to take the form of English soldiers in armed poeseasion of the place, and he shuddered lest the thought should be a foreshadowing of destiny. red, ,ruta ide of tt+ at band, n gilt pa - a, and glvea a like gilding. present from a apnoea, the Expense will not be at all heavy. can be made heavier, and also cr, by potting the gilt paper only b:rttom, and trimca(ug the top with breeuin. Small Chiaceo crepe plc. awed in black velvet ribbon, en a ndation of burlap—the velvet to be om- ofdered with various colored ailka—and niched with a narrow frieze repeating these oolora, are qnito in character with tea -cheat ; snob. a lambrequin has a a.e ally 'madame Effecb. Or, fiowera any '40 cut from crepepiotures and tranaferred some material of suitable color—crim- n or gold color be!ng best. It will an. ter jest to paste the flowers on, if neatly done, bvithout ombreiderinx the edges ; but c.ntlir.ingthem with gold thread or gold -colored silk would be found a great improvement. " The value of empty tea-chests has never been appreciated ; and even a plain one, covered with tin foil, could bo done in blue so as to bo very ornamental- If the inside is shabby, line it with a pretty blue paper ; or bine eileela pasted in would look very well. Then make a strait lamb rcquin of plain blue sateen' and finish it at the top and bottom with narrow black velvet ribbon, through which the lambre- quin can bo fastened to the box with smell gilt headed nails. Palm leaves, or almost any pattern in scarlet and gold and ether colors, can be worked on the sateen, or a scarlet pa?m leaf cut out of flannel, and appliqued on. Tiny brass bells on the edge would make a quaint finiah ; and the strip should be lined with the blue s:lesia. "From Gieeffer, the .Aga, wh', as you mow, is Ir. our pay,' answered Abdullah. "And, added Ali Bey Fehmy, "Giraffer, he Via, counseled immediate flight, be. &use teat the machinations of our ice a were his time not to be defeated. Abdullah and are to share your fate, and, as you see, are Arcady mounted to evade it, but we could lot depart without giving you a warning." "Now, by the holy prophet, I thank you Toth, einoe the more who desert me, the 'ewer I shall have to reward when I become -hadire-el-Mise, in the piece of that wretch - L. Tea nk, =t those who abandon ur ^ quake and tremble,' •ay forgive a foe, 1 friend. Wbere ;vieiman Bey ? I'll ever blanch from paw :,i adverse news that will go, go. I have lift. I can do A men, We are ah eheepiehly. me us that our s will throw it to l'ehmy. "At all c. u d not leave Cairo au to induces me to take r." replied the polite s, I at all events `Von, and in trib- ,[ my news. Know /warlike minister of aid fain have served Egypt nnia, has fallen from power, peace has filled his place, who .aught to do with cur oppression ..,ration. On the other hand, England ",vi1l not dare to fly alone in the teeth of both Austria and Germany, by whose con- suls I, dal supported." ;a32Whove and when did you learn this bout France 2' demanded both his audi- re, "By private wire not an hour and a hall o, and I doubt if even the French consul in poeseasion of the intelligence as yet. I . ,, Il; ..herefore, go at once to the Khedive, for i is lay intention to beard the lion in }r d n," '"I ou will be rnehing to certain deatrue- tioa,' pleaded Ali Bey Fehmy. "N t if you abandon , our Idea of running elWay, and instead gallantly support me. New the time to strike the blow that sleall give freedom unto Egypt. I am still yaieninister, and as such it it your bounden duty to obey my orders, and none can pun. fisher blame you for so doing. Abdullah Bey, the third regiment of the line is on guard at the Gezlreh palace. Go and let it be relieved within half an hour by your negroes. Here is the penci'ed ordered for he obaege. Alf Bey Fehmy, a portion of oiir troops are at the citadel and the rent Mpg thg Kan -en -nil barracks. Lot them main rzrder arms and be ready to obey in. tly any order that they may receive me, Now, my friends, don't you see when t present myself before the Khe. e will be virtually my prisoner, and t. t that I am meditating, e'the virtual CHAPTER XV. A PRISONER IN HIS OWN PALACE. Through streets so narrow that two ve- toles could not have passed each other there- in, and where the running sais in advance was a neceasity in addition to a fashion, past open places, oases of dusty palm trees amidst a desert of rnins (for fully a third part of Cairo is in ruins), and where camels, sheep and goats lay huddled together pant- ing for air, past doors devoid of houses, and houses apparently destitute of doors, and long lines of shop windows with nothing in particular displayed therein save the pro- prietors seated cross-legged on bare tables and long pipes, and then on into wider thoroughfares, where Europe at East seems to nod heads with Africa, and Brown, Jones or Robinson, mounted on another donkey as big as himself, gallops frantically about, each moment in danger of colliding with some etately Arab horseman, or a slow pac- ing animal laden with a mountain of cotton, or some fairer but almoat as bulky burden mounted' on a painted ass that is led by an armed eunuch, and then the glittering shops of Moscow street and the fantastic treasure stalls of the Khan Khalil bazaar being also left behind, the beauties of nature begin to mingle in the scene, and suburban gar- dene and pleasant villas, alternating with mud huts and stately palaces whose founda- tions a; e laved by the yellow Nile, with lilies and lotus ,flower starring its bosom, greet the wearied gaze, with in the near dis- tance yet more palace and towering groves of palm, all banked by the dimly outlined pyramids and the far away Arabian hills glowing with softened ahrdes of violet and ultramarine, But Arabi Pasha, the war minister, had no eyes for the inanimate beatifies of nature, He was risking his all on one oast of the die. He was about to thrust his head into the Iion's mouth with as yet nothing but threats at his command to prevent its being bitten ne - sena iN re used a a • , e. But hardly had the wore a Id his lips when a acurrying of feet w. td within, and the other end of the ours;° ., wan raised by a similarly uniformed official, who weld fn a much ma:humble tone, "The Khedive will reoeivo his excellency in his private room." The war minister smiled at the contradic- tory ordure, but followed him who had brought the last, and a few moments later WAS ushered into the presence of Prince Tewfik, who was seated on a pile of gold - embroidered ouehions, in a small room whose walls were richly painted and to a certain 'might hung round with a kind of arras or tapestry. "Ahmed-obu, Arabi, your slave, solicits the favor of touching your higheeaa'a august alippers with his unworthy lipe," said the war minister, giving the customary greet- ing. Bat the humility of the apeech was so opposed to every action cf the apeaker that the words far more enraged than appeased him to whom they were addressed. Springing to his feet he hissed forth the two words : Insolent traitor." Thereupen the war minister folded his arms and said calmly, yet firmly: "Perhaps your highness will condescend to inform me in what I am a traitor to my country. "You are worse than a traitor to your country, for you are a traitor to y-onrt sov- ereign." "My character and my objects have been falsely represented to your highness. I will be loyal to my sovereign as long as he is loy- al to the country that Allah hath raised him to rule over, and no man's loyalty is longer required of him, for what saith the Koran : 'The ruler is ho who is just, and he who,coasc s to be just may no longer be ruler.' Have I not quoted the prophet rightly, your highness ?" The Khedive grew perfectly livid with anger. He half drew his scimitar from its sheath, at the same time exclaiming : "Who made you juege of my actione?" "The crime moans of the downtrodden people, the waxing fat of their oppressors, the taxing of the poor and the immunity of the rich, the idle luxury of an Oriental court a gagged press, irresponsible ministers and a bullied Parliament, and a swarm of greedy European locusts, encouraged by your high- ness to settle here and eat the bread of the childreu of the soil, and who are paid excel sive salaries for simply systemizing financial oppressions. Does your hiehnees wish me to continuo the nation's indictment against you?" "The nation indictment ? Say rather your own and that of your fellow-conapira tors," "If your highness speaks truly, my fellow - conspirators must be many in number, for 1 am backed by twenty-five thousand of the most influential repreaentatives of every class and deotion of the population, whilst the poor of Egypt are with me to a man. Your highness, 1 have only to add AM] stand before you now as your servant, and that it will be your own actions that will transform me into your master." "Tell me what actions wi 1 p*' you from becoming my master," sno sr ,;�# a,:.•k. "The act of being a just' being a tyrant. The act stead of a puppet .hat is ^ T , : ,as the European ahowm= . Yi "' e, and finally the act of r i'4 . Parlia mens that is eh f r a " J e. Sire, the movemon , ilitary re- bellion, as fi ,.,ti po oaf France and Engl. ', : " °and that Christmas Evening- Entertain- ments. The evening entertainment, which pre- cedes or foliates the Christmas -tree, as the case may be, takes quite naturally a oifierent form fee that cfthe afternoon. The gueata, after engaging in active games, are quite ready, especially the older members, to listen to a more quiet and formal entertainment. The following excellent method, and one which commends itaelf for varioua rea- sons to the hostess, in that it enables the guests to bring contributions of music, readings or story, has proved very anc- oeeeful. To the invitation extended by the hostess is added the courtesy of enquiring what part of the entertainment her guests will contribute. The hostess' knowledge' of her guests' accomplishments enables her to make suggestions which may ensure variety, and will also make it eaay for the guests to name the numbers they will eelecb, and the time it will take for their performance. A programme may then be prepared. Those living at a distance will naturally give singly, Bongs, readings or instrumental music. The young people at home, and those living near, may join forces and get up tableaus; dialogues, dem uses, and various cxercieesin musical calisthenics. Dramatics, in many families, form a pleasing part of thehome entertainments. With double doors between the rooms, quite realistic effects may be obtained in he way of stage arrangements. The Phofogroph Album is made very artistic in effect, thus : Make a large cover on hinges to represent a photograph al- bum. Cover th`.s with crimson cotton•flan- nel. Place an oval matting inside of this. Let the pictures to be represented, like Beatrice or Washington ea Darby and Joan, stand ready to pore behind the oval matting. After each picture is shown, the album lid may close for a moment un- til the next figure is ready. Care should be taken to avoid long waits. For Cbrst- mas evening, this album is especially at- tractive. Santa Claus may happily ap- pear, as one of the pictures. The use of magnesium lights is a decided improve- ment in showing off these living pictures. Hing at I a at that all the tomo e 16*ten is the building up of in- umanity since the days of .Eaeulapius. le tread, a mild, persuasive word, a magnetic hand, a tact-- or shall we Nay a genius?—for detecting the interior aspects of discaae, are invaluaWo adjuncts of good nuraiug. Clatter of firearms, rattle of dishes and newepapera, loud talking and whisper - hog, aro snout (gutsily abominable. Growing planta are usually intordioted in a slick -room, but out iiowere are gra at brighteners of its soinbcremes, rear and D;seaaa. Same emotions ea:eleratethe heart, quick- en the action of the brain,'glve new etrtmeth and elasticity to the step, and greatly enliv- en the spirits—the effect being of brief (law ,tion, Others, like hope, for instance, have a similar effcet much lower in degree, but much mere prolonged. Still others have an opposite ofiect. Among the peat is fear, Many meets are on record in which It has zonated in sudden death. Under its influence, as is well known, the face often becamos pale, the heart beats violently, the breath is obstructed, the iimba tremble, the appetite is lost, and all other emotions are overcome. Wo •speak of the man as paraty.ce;l with fear. There is literal truth in this. The etl'oat is due to the influeueoof the emotion on some ono of the cerebral centres—the gan- gliga, or nerve massae, neer the baso of the brain, which govern the action of the various vital organs This influenceels, for the time, of aparalyzing nature. Hence the capillary blood -vessels near the surface are collapsed, and the blood is driv- an hack on the heart, burdening both it and the lung ; while the secretion of ;the gastric juice is arrested by a paralysis of the great nerve—the pneumogastric—which supplies the stomach with it+i working force. Such a case is an extreme one, but it is the same in kind with fear in every degree. It low- ers the tone of the system. It lessens the vitality. Even this condition is a diseased one, and if protracted, the system would, sooner or later, give way under it. But the particular point we wish to make ie that fear exposes even the most robust to the attacks of infectious diseases. The dis- eases are caused by minute organisms which enter the body through the stomach or the lungs. Tney may be harmless, if the stomach digests them, or if the body has its full pow- er of resistance to infection. But just here is the danger from fear—it lessons the normal reeistance of the system, and especially arrests the power of the stomach to secrete the gastric fluid. It puts the se gem, for the time being, wl'ere it is left by debilitating disease, by drinking habits, by over -eating, by excesses, by too continuous watching, or by anxious worry. If therefore, the cholera invades America, or smallpox prevails, don't let us invite an attack by fear ; but repel it by keeping about our daily vocations with a cheerful trust and a hand of help for others—having, of course, done our whole duty in the mat- ter of hygiene, Cholera Morbus, At a recent gathering of medical men in Philadelphia Dr. W. S. Janney, lateCoron- er of that city, made the startling state- ment, that "no healthy man or woman ever dies in this climate from cholera morbus." He repeated the remark to the editor of the Medical and Surgical Reporter, saying that the records of the Coroner's office would sub- stantiate his words. He explained that by " healthy" he meant a person with organic diseases and of average strength and vitality. " Such a person," he said "when dying with eymptona of cholera morbus, always dies from poisoning (usually arsenic,) and the Daae is one of suicide or homicide." The ex -Coroner first examined into those cases whena stout; healthy man of his acquaintance died after an illness of thirty-six hours with cholera morbus. He had been attended by four reputable physicians, one of whcm had signed the death certificate. Yet he insti- tuted an investigation, andfound enough arsenic in the deceased to kill a dozen men. He afterwards met with five or six similar oases. Dr. Barthlow, in a conversation with the editor of the Reporter, said that he had not the least doubt of the correctness of Dr, Janney's assertion. Another promin- ent physican stated his belief in these views, and referred the oauees of auoh attempts to poison with arsenic to connubial uncoegen- iality, Sutherland Edwards has published a novel entitled " What is a girl to do 7" That depends some what. If she wants to climb a fence, she should look careful- ly arour;d, gather her skirts in her hand, and— chitnge her mind and crawl under. living is much more expensive, The hause- eper In queatien has lived in Fratte°, and base learnea the art, as the French people gyaetise it, of making much of little, cf buy- ing with a view to a variety of combination, and of making the eimplebt diah palatable, She kaowe, for ivat'nce, twenty different wawa to aerve eggs. Vegetables are made to take the place cfton of meat or fish, and aoupa—which the average housekeeper in thio country knows little ab ut—she makes supply more costly but lees nourishing food. Her account book showed the following pur- elaasoa for the table during the week referred to :— Saturday, 25 pounds of flour, S5o. ; 4 pounds of auger, 20e, : 1 pound of butter, 233. ; 1 4 pound tel, 12c, ; 1 2 pound coffee, 14o, ; 1 pound oatmeal, 3a. ; 1.9 peck of po- tatoes, 1Se. ; 1 paunr+ of lard, 7c. ; pout, 2x, ; 1 beef kidney, 5a. ; 1 roll Neufchatel cheese, l:im. ; 2 bones for soup, lie. ; 1 pound of steak, 143. ; sundries, including salt, pop- per, vinegar, lettuce, oniona, etc„ 14e. • cabbage, ;,e, ; nuts and raisins, 1130. ; 1 canof aalmon, 180. ; apples, Se, ; peaches, 10o.; dozen eggs, 23o. ; Ema11 egg plant, 4o. ; hominy, 8, ; total, $3.31. Sunday—milk, So, Monday—milkele, ; pound of cheese, 90. ; soup bone, 80. ; knuckle of veal. 10e to meteors, 4e. ; rice 4a pears, Se.• total, 4(.e. Tues- day—livor, de. ; soup bonny. ' . , maoarrni, (p-ickage), 20 ; tomatoes, ; total, 38c. Wedueauay—milk, 4c, ; el , 10o. ; soup bone, tie, ; round of beef, ; total 48c. Thursday—oysters, 10o, ; l lemon, 3c, ; soup brie, 5e, ; yeast, 2c, celery, 5o, ; mutton, 233. ; total, 50e. Fri ay --Lobster, 10o. ; soup bone, 7e. ; milk, • , total, 21e. Saturday morning—milk, 4o Grand total. .S,'5 81. From these puroht t: there were left on hand Saturday mo` ., when the next week was begun, about thirtean pounds of flour and one egg, worth 47o;, which savings deducted from the whole outlay, left the coat of the tables for the seven days, $5,01. It is the custom of this housekeeper to make out Friday or Saturday mornings a bill of fare complete for the week. So, when aha goes out to lay in her supply Seturday, she known what she will need the entire week, This costs some time and consideration, but it is the secret of saving money in the purchases, and it also saves her any thought from day to day about what she will provide to eat, one of the great worries of daily existence. eShe keeps theae bilis of fare in aserap book ; and every two or three weeks she substitutes an old for a knew prcduction—" Just as the min- ister," she remarked, " does with his ser- mons and so saves himself the trouble of writing a brand new article." It will bo of interest perhaps to learn what she provided with the provisions that have been enumer- ated in detail. The scrap book furnishes a record of the living from day to day. Sat- urday—Lunch ; stewed kidney, apple tarts, and Neufchatel cheeee with bread. Dinner; Potato soup, steak rolled with parboiled onions, salad of lettuce, fried bread pudding. Sunday—Breakfast ; Oatmeal and milk, milk toast. Dinner : Scotch broth, salmon salad with egg dressing, nuts and raisins. Supper ; Peaches, tea and cake. Monday Breakfast; cracked hominy with milk, toast with egg plant in crumbs. Lun Welsh rarebit. Dinner : Beef soup, blanquettest" id boiled potatoes, s sliced tomat&.. boiled rice, with a of stewed peen, .__ .nesday—Brea. plain omelette, Lunch, Stewed liver potatoes and onions, ser, ed on toast. ner : Macaroni soup, Ivl, oaroni and at tomatoes, apple fritters Wednea Breakfast : Oatmeal and mi.- griddle Lunch : Clam chowder, cabin ' with cream sauce. Dinner ; Tomei, beef a la mode, with spinach, salad.' - tatoes and parsley. cheese omelette hu• day—Breakfast : Hash made from a,ua rat beef, Neufchatel cheese. Lunch': Oyet fritters, lemon pudding. Dinner : Celery soup, roast leg of mutton, macaronia with tomato sauce, baked apple dumplings. Fri- day—Breakfast : eorambled eggs. Lunch : lobster salad, nuts and raisins. Dinner : Bean soup, croquettes (made of the remains of the roast mutton), with tomato sauce, salad of cold boiled potatoes, blanc mange, Saturday—Breakfast : ]hominy and milk. It should be observed that although this is plain and inexpensive fare, every meal has some substantial dish, food that has much nutrition in it, and that no two days are alike, It is the hardest thing in the world to convince some people who blame ail their misfortunes or want of success on what they call their " bad luck " that the "bad luck" in nine oases out of ten is just their own term for shiftlessness, carelessness, laziness or mere stupidity. The time spent by some folks in bemoaning their bad luck, if put to good use, would go far to deprive them of any good excuse for indulgence in • er:oh folly, t