HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-3-11, Page 6AN EGYPTIAN ROMANCE
A., Story of Love and Wild Adventure, founded upon Startling itevela-
tons In the Caner of Arabi Pasha
To Author or' "Nitwit, Taw WeirruesT," "Tut Rim Seam'
ET
CHA.PFER. XXXV.
PEANR, DISGUMED AS AN EGYPTIAN, DE,
ARTS ON A PERILOUS MISKON.
It did not take long to bring the beautii
eat girl bride back to oonamorteness, and
when he recovered from her Moen she
Lound herself lying on a eolith in the
pretty sitting-romn and her husband bend.
bag fonely over her.
She first of all lieteiaed nervously and
tinaidly for sounds of riot and tumult from
withent, but the fickle orowri had already
dispereed hI (meat of other excitement and
raensatione, inetead of beeeiglug the hotel in
order to get at her.
"le at safe also ?" was her next in-
quiry, and when her husband had answered
toe question in the affirmative she next re-
marked :
"You see, Frank, my presentiments
were far from idle ones, for we are not yet
out of Egypt and terrible perils still sur-
round us on all sides,"
"Nonsense, deer. There have been
eiota and uprisings of the mob even in dull,
prosaio London, and in Perim well-cireseed
people have often been in worse danger in
the streets then they are in those of
Alexandria to -clay. Here comes the land-
lord to ask how you do, 1 will inquire of
him what he thinke of our chances of get.
ting away immedietely."
It was almost the first question that he
put to the burly host after ae had told him
how much better his wife was;
but Mon
sieur Bmccear hook his headand made
answbr that he feared getting eut of Alex-
andria for the present was quite out of the
question, beeauee even threw days ago the
different European cousals had jeinecl ixi
atrangly recommending all their fellow
countrymen who could leave the place to
do so without % moment's unneceesary loos
-of time, and the mejority had acted upon
that advice so promptly that there hed
been a regular stampede, delicate ladies
and children being only too glad to be
taken as deck passeugers even in such dirty
craft as steam celliers rather than be left
behind."
This eves very discouraging, but Nellie
epoke up bravely and said:
"Bat we also are quite ready to go as
deck pastengera on board collierm"
"Aye, madam," rejsined the host, with
a ehrug of his enema -here, "but the colliere
are not ready for you. They steam away
as fast as they load, and. thousands of
frightened people are actually living in the
warehousea and etoree along the quay tides
In order to be able to step aboard the firat
veseel that wharfe alongeide them. Tb.eae
fellow countrywomen of yours, in their love
and anxiety for their can:drat, wonld be
ready to fly upon you and tear you to
pieces were you, a,s a new arrival, to try to
take prece'dence of themselves and little
mum aftet they had waited so patiently in
order to have the first chance."
"Well, Monsieur Beuccear," said Frank,
"then I think thet we will ro.
main with yen."
" Mensieur bas- I am sure, decided
whey, nor let the little madam be afraid,
for the threatening aspect of She populetion
has already been reported in Cairo, and a
telegram has been received in reply from
the war minister to the effect that as order
has been perfectly restored there he will
at once start for Alexandria and do the
Immo here. SD the chanees are that be-
fore noon, even, we shall be quite quiet
again."
Moneleur Boucceur," delivered all this as
a sort of soothing balsam, but its efftce on
the shattered nerves of Welly Donelly was
that of a strong irritant,
She flashed crimson end then turned
deathly pale as she gasped out :
"Arabi Pasha coming to Alexandria ?
Then we must leave it at any and all risks,
Frank, and that at once."
Before Monsieur Bo nem ur or Frank Donel
ly either could melee any answer to this
speech there came a gentle tap to the
half spen door, and then the tones of a
voice from without :
"Pardon, but may the dove bring the
olive branch into the ark?' and without
waiting for answer, into the room name a
burly, swarthy, black -bearded man, habit.
ed entirely in black, who very much more
resembled the raven than the dove.
Frank Doman), looked up aed at once
recognized him as one of those who hed
fussed about Nellie in the hall, but rather,
or at least so he had thought at the time,
for the sake of gazing at her expozed love -
linen than to render her any real service.
He was therefore more dieposed to resent
his intrusion than to thenk him for his
visit.
The next few words that he uttered en
tirely changed his feelings toward him,
however, for without waiting te be ques-
tioned he went on with :
"le it not the truth that you want to
"leave Egypt at once ? Very well, I can
help you. I have pessages secured far my-
self, wife and servant on board the French
steamer Le Comete, welch sails this after-
noon for Marseilles but at the last mo-
ment my wife is taken ilI prematurely, and
ae the doctor says it would in all probable
ity kill her to remove her, here we must
atop ; wherefore, if you would like to pus -
than our passage tickets, you oan."
"1 am infinitely obliged to you," said
Frank. "Name the price and 1 will
write you out a obeok for the amount,
Yet how the deuce caul do that without a
check -book 2e
"Aix what bank have you an account ?"
"The Anglo-Egyptian.
"Thee I have a check book of that
hank, and if you like you oan 611 one up
payable ta Mimeo Cohen, or order, for
lefty pounds ($250), that being the amount
thet 1 paid a week ago for two saloon and
one steerage parmage to Marseilles."
There being pen and ink on the table,
Frank Donelly rapidly filled in and signed
a cheek and hande& it to Mr. Cohen, who,
as he took it, said to him :
"Now, I would adviee re to go at once
to the Maseifies Steam le evigation Com -
velvet offices* the Old Harbor, clone to
the mole, and get the narrow changed in the
boolre and Mao the passenger list, became
they all know me, and were you to sitripiy
go on board and take your &mit at the
test motremt, the ottani packet people
might suepeet armee fraud and ridge eorne
awkward difficulties about taking you,
Which it would be jot as well to avoid—
don't you nee ?"
Corteiniy I do, end will be of at once
ohettit be long gone, Nell, so 'debit be
nevem,"
"Oh, I an eure you will be tern in
pleeea by the mob, atAa that I that never
tcO you again. At alt (wattle. won't Mr,
Cohen end PeleMoneghen go with yott ?"
remained her ouriereity got the better ofi
awl in order to see mere clearly whsit was
epproaching eho atood boldly and without
any attempt at concealment loefore the wiu.
dovr, as he beheld many other European
women doing on the opposite side of tho
street, all of them apparently ea ourloue
ehe was.
Their curiosity Waa poen destined to be
Trn Rlesetew Seer,'
eatitified, for pow the head of au approach-
ing proceselon appeered in view, in the
shape of a troop of Egyptian cavalry, Med
in a kind of French zeneve milkman with
scarlet and white Waimea with long lemma,
These really deshing looking troopere
were followed by a portion of the oelebrat.
ed dromedary corps, strange looking cavalry
indeed, dressed in Oriel:Mud garb, groping
long pennonless spears, and sitting between
the two humps of their ungainly, long-leg.
ged steeds, that were grinning like devils
Hotel d'Orient, 'A slight wash of tine- and uttering uncouth cries as they mane
I
ture of iodine over your feme and hands, along, for dromeie.ries and owes are alike
and a red tie -bench on your heed. That bepraised as they both are by poets and
dark blue flannel jacket and trimmers are novelists who know next IQ nothing about
wonderfully like an Egyptian offioer's un- them, are the most quarrelsome, etubborn,
dress uniform, and the tarbouch would
render it undetectable, whilst the iodine
would stain your skin to the exaot tint.
I've some remaining that I had to paint
a swelling with and Pillow it on with a
camel's hair brush and make a first-rate
job of it."
The landlord's offer having been accept-
ed, Frank Donelly's face, throat and hands
were quickly rendered as dark as a real
Egyptian's, and as the natural color of his
eyes and hair very well corresponded,
nothing but a red tarbouch was wanted to
complete his disguise, and this Monger
Bonecenx was also able to supply him with.
"Now, Nellie don't you think that I am
quite safe ?" excleimed her husband.
"Yes," replied his wife, " I think you
look much more Egyptian than English.
I'll try not to be frightened whilst you are
away. Nevertheless, do not be gone long,"
"You may depend on that, my bye.
Well, farewell for the time, gentlemen, and
thank you very much,"
He sold this because he wished to peer
his adieux to his bride in private, and both
the Frenchman and the Jew took the hint
and departed.
"Nellie," said Frank, then, "you must
ring for Marie, and see if yon caunot some-
how purchase clothing sufn Went for the voy-
age and have it already pecked agaiust my
return, for I shall emuggle you abeard this
French steamer us soon eft ever she lies
alongside the quay. Procure a yashmack,
also, if you can, so as to look es much like
a native woman as possible. I dare say one
or other of the hotel servants haa one as a
curiosity, and would part with it for an ade
geate coneideration, but if one isn't to be
got procure as thick a veil as poseible and
be ready for a flitting the instant that you
see me return, whiel I have no doubt will
bounder an hour, so now goodbye, darling,
for a very little while. It will be our last
parting.
Their last parting I Poor fool! Little did
he ouess that another was close at hand
which would prove the most terrible experi•
eace that either of them had ever known.
But we must not anticipate, and misfor-
tunes always come soon enough.
—
"1 would not think of allowing Mr, Co.
ben to leave his el& wife, and as for Pat,
though a fine fellow to help one out of a
serape, 1 ahould feel far less sure of getting
into one whilst by myself. I assure you,
tny darling, that everything is quiet out.
side now. '
" tell you what would make you
doubly safe, monaieur," said the landlord of
cantankerous and viadattive brutes in exist•
enoe, who have been known to kill a child
for tiokling lt with a straw, and many an-
other vengeful rice
The mounted baud pansed directly under
her window, now blaring forth the well
known "Turkish patrol," end it was follow-
ed by a sumptuoue open earriege drawn by
six gray bowies, in which at or rather re•
alined, the Khedive, bowing to right; and
left as he paueed along, but receiving no re,
ply from hie diecioneented and rebellious
subjects, unless sullen looks and soowle
could be accepted as such, eo that it was
no wonder Nellie thought that he looked a
sad and dejected.
So full were her thoughts of him (though
admiration for the fickle, extravagant and
weak-minded prince she had none) that she
took no notice of, and, indeed, hardly saw
the entire regiment of white uniformed,
red tarbouthed Egyptian infantry thot
closely followed the Khedive'a oterriage and
her attention was only again attracted to
the street by shrill and vociferous cheering.
Nellie was now in a kind. of maze, or men-
tal lethargy, in which her brain slept though
her eyes were open.
Had it not been so the would assuredly
have guessed who was approaching and re-
tired from the window to have escaped the
°hence of having boon teen by Itim.
But her thoughts, still running on the
Khedive who was nothing to her, she for-
got all about the war minister, who was
everything or at ell evente destined to be
every thing to her, end his existence was
first recalled to her mind by the sigbt of
his floe looking directly upward, with his
fierce, eager eyes fixed upon her with a
glance of mingled surprise, recognition aed
triumph, or so at leeet, the poor girl read it
This and the tempest of sound attuned
her,
as it were
Sae caught hold of the curtain and gra,ep-
ed them firmly to save hereelf from failing,
and thus she stood, riveted to the spot, and
as unable to move therefrom as though her
delicate auclee had been gripped between the
teeth of eteel train.
She knew that she was recognized, She
felt that her chances of escepe from Egypt
were forever at au end. She was conscious
of a feeling which was rapidly creeping over
her thatsheno longer cared whether she lived
or died ; and yet whilst troubled thus in
mind, she was aware of a intent admiration,
deep cloven in her heart, for him who was
the chosen of the people, and as she thought
the predestined liberator of Egypt, even
while she concleraned the worldly guile that
had prompted him to interpose a far -stretch-
ing regiment between himeelf and his nomin-
al sovereign and master, so that by no pos-
sible eleenem pouid the Khedive lay claim to
any of the apialause thee; he knew would be
laviehed on himself.
She -still stood at the window, earnestly
prayiog to herself that Freak might soon
return and at once take her away— any-
where, so long that it was out of Alexandria,
aye, even to the desert egein.
It never struck her that there could be
others from whom the had more to fear than
from Arabi Pasha himself.
But it was deetined to occur to her before
very long, nevertheless, for when regiment
after regiment of Egyptian soldiery had
again marched past, they were euceseded by
o continues roll of carriages, containing,
though for a long while she remarked it not,
a portion of the harems of the Khedive, of
the war minister and a fox, others of the
great pashas who bad emoompanied him,
She was destined to make this discovery
in a single instant, when she all at once saw
a hideous black face leering at her from the
box of a gilded and curtained oaleche, and
the next instant beheld one of those curtains
drawn aside by a tiny but swarthy han.d,
and another face gazing up at her filled her
with a greater degree of terror than the
war minister and the hideous blank eunuch's
united could have done, for those magnifi-
cent vet tigerish looking eyea had been bent
upon her twice already, once while driving
with Frank, along the Chonbrah road anu
again from behind a latticed box at the Ceiro
Opera House, and it was assuredly from the
owner of those eyes that the written warn-
ing hail come which had threatened her,
though veguely enough with so terrible a
doom.
CHAPTER XXXVI,
PREPARATIONS FOR FLIGIIT—TEREE DANGER'
ons RECOGNITIONS.
After her husbend had departed the time
paseed very slowly to Nellie, that is to say,
when once she had made assisted by Marie
the French chambermed, all necessary pre.
paratione for flight, and had bought half
her wardrobe and box as well, for now that
the girl saw the urgency of the case she of.
!red to go out and do whatever shopping
was neceesary, Nellie would not %now her to
run the ride of leaving the hotel.
So, after the little box containing just
suffident necessariee for the voyage were
packed, padded and labeled, the hour -old
bride had nothing left to do but to gaze out
of the window of the prettily famished
sitting room and watch What was going on
in the streets, for though she had entreated
Mamie to stay with her for company, the live-
ly little French maid could not neglect her
work any longer, and was compelled to go.
Bat the prospect from the window was not
an tuatheerliag one to Nellie; indeed, it was
exactly the reverse, for the mob had dwin-
dled away by degrees until the long, broad
and not altogether unstately thoroughfare
was almost dewarted, and encouraged by
this the shopkeepers had, for the most, part,
taken do ern their shatters again, and were
conducting busines,s as usual, ,the cafes,
whose name is legion in all parts of Alexan-
dria following their example and the benlie
In Ars maianer.
All this made her hope her husband was
not in peril, more especially as he had dis-
guised himeelf so very like an Egyptian,
but even while she was hugging this corn -
fort to her heart the hoarse boom of a can-
non from the direction of Fort Tebareh
brought back all her fears with redoubled
force, and she clasped her hands together in
terror.
"Boom, boom, boom 1" went the cannon,
and she was not experienced enough in the
sound of artillery to know that such a dull,
leonine roar could never proceed from a
shottedmun.
That it was Egyptian ordnance she did
not know, bovrever, beemme the reports
came from a landward direction.
From this she jumped to the condi:elm
that the maesaore of the Chrietians had
commenced, and she pictured them as being
blown from the months of cannon just as
Sepoya were blown during the Indian
mutiny.
Then, presently, the roar of'artillery °eas-
ed, but only to be succeeded by rattling
peals of musketry and a contintione and
prolonged cheering that seemed each pas-
sing minute to be nearer and nearer, and
while Nellie wondered what it could all
mean the street without began to fill again,
moth narrow thoroughfare that opened into
it disgorging a living streun of wretched
humanity, who presently filled each side of
the long Rt.' de la Colonne Pompee as far as
the eye could reaoh.
We have already en more than one °ace.
don described an Egyptian crowd, so there
is n I need of a repainting of the picture.
The only difference was that this one
teemed to be more excited than they usual-
ly are, and to be eagerly awaiting the ante.
al of samethieg, while naked suntans, look-
ing like revivified mummies, or plucked ba-
boons, kept running about and around and
two and fro, their long, unkempt boucle all
of a thelte with the increment wag ing
of their j aweisa they continued to
preach to or exhort the multitude, poneibly
es to how they should oonduot themeelven
on thci 000tusioni
"But what emotion Was it?" Nellie men-
tally asked herself, for she (Mid eee no
eaeughterleg of Chrtstienti going on, which,
at my be imagined, was an intenee relief
to her.
Ah, that evae a blare of a braes band., too.
Well, that was cheering et any rate, and
as Nellie could not aesociato a merry air
from the (merit bouffe 'with either vielelloei
rapine, ineendlariem or murder, all hot fears
begat to melt away, whilet smith few as yet
He reoognized me at the window es he
palmed uuder in hie oerriage, and so did ttve
Others, the beautiful but terrible Wernan
whose life you wed and who gave you
that Opal ring, and the hideoue Week man
who fieeine to be always with her.
"Web!, my dear, it don't much matter,
for it ta quarter ot an hour we shall be
aboard a Wrench ship, and a French ship is
to all intetita and purpoties Prom* terri
tory."
Nellie said not another word, but rush
ad into the adjoining bedroom, and hurried-
ly pet on the natty little hat and jacket
thtt she had pureheeed from Marie.
Then Mee muffled up tier pretty face in
tho hideoue green veit and reientered the
sitting -room just as Fax Monaghan was
moviug out or it with her box on his shoul-
der.
A couple or three minutes later they
OTHVG driving away from the hotel door,
Frank end Nollie inside and Pat Monaghan
on the box Imelda the driver.
"Aad eo we are really on our way to a
steamboite bound for Europe, Frank ?'
Nellie spoke the worde as though sb,e
desired to be convinced again of their
truth,
Tete strauge °inland of hers ceused her
husband to 'nigh as he rejeined
"Yea, Nall, we really are, and what its
more she saile within an hour and no we
shall alt down to dinner in all probebility
out of sight of land."
"Oh, that will be glorious," exclaimed
the new made bride. "And Arabi Pesha
could not tear me out of the French ship,
even undtr the plea that it was to restore
me to my parents, could he ? That is what
mules me most approheneioa,"
" Your marriage certifiee.te proves that
you no longer belong to your perents, but
only to your husband, so of course he could
net tear you from me, my darling."
"Naw I am se,tiefied. Now I do not
believe that I am one bit afraid, Frank,"
Poor girl, oho might not have expressed
hereelf no mrefideutly had she but known
that the Ile us eunaoh ago, of the Khediv-
el aeregilo was witein both eye ,and ear
shot, and waiting but a favorable opportun-
ity to pounce down upon and beer her off
as an eagle s000pi down upon a dove.
He was furthermore resolved to make
ths.t opportunity if he did. not find it ready
mede
Coneeviled behind one of the Ionic pillars
that assisted to form a portico of the hotel
door, he heard t he route to the harbor
given to the driver of the caleche by the
landlord, Monsieur Bonecear, as the one
whereon his guests would be lout likely to
meet with unpleasant interruption, and no
sooner bed he been thus mede aware that
the curriage would be driven through the
Grand Square, or Piece Mehemet Ali, as it
is snore generally called, than he resolved
that it etiould. get no further.
(TJ DE CONTINUED,)
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CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE MASSACRE IN THE GREAT SQUARE.
When some five minutes later Frank
Dsnellyeemerged into the Rue de la Col-
onne Ponmee, on his way back to the Ho-
tel d'Orient, he found it almost empty, for
the Khedival procession had swept by and
the populace, had followed it.
His oaleche (he had endeavored to pro-
cure a close cab or other carriage, but in
vain) had therefore not the slightest
difficulty in getting along, and no sooner
had it drawn up at the hotel steps than,
Ent ordering it to await his return, he ran
indoors and upstairs to Nellie.
He found her lying on the sofa with her
eyes closed and looking deathly pale.
No sooner did he burst into the room,
however, than she sprang to her feet and
throwing herself into his arms exclaimed :
" Oh, take me away from here, Take
me at once, Frank 1'
"That's what I've just come to dm my
love. The etwriage waits at the door, and
I dare say Pat is already on his way up.
stain; for your box. It is ready for him ?"
"3"e,, Frank, there, And I have only
to put on the bat and jacket that I got
from Merle." '
"And the yaiffitnack that I adericori you
10 proeute. Ono was to be had I sup.
perm ?''
"No, Fronk, r could not get ono, and I
would not allow Marie to risk going out,
I have, however, a very thick veil, and I
hope that will do very miatly ae well."
"1 doubt not but that it will do quite as
well, my darling; indeed!, I belieere that
it wmild be new quite torife to eraveree the
greets with your face uncovered, fOr the
germ eenecie to have passed away, in proof
ot which all the shops and berths have open.
eel
" The stotin is at all events not over for
us, Fraiik, for Arabi Paella is in Alexe,ndriar
WINTER WRINKLES.
Always right: Both lawyers.
a he shoes for milkmen—Pumps.
A pleybe mon—A homely physic:lam
"A cold anap'—The plumbing business.
A peultry exhibition—A woman stonipg
a ben.
Tne telephone girl thinlee'lthX-thie.'L'e
hollow world,
The boy with the dirty face seem to
"want the mirth."
A fiat failure—Trying to keep house in
one with comfort. oL
Woms.n is not mush of a philesopher, but
she is proverbially a clethes observer.
When the mercury falls to zero the
plumber's bill rises to blood heat.
the line. The haul to the lake port would
" T eis requires head work," as the bar-
ber said when preparing for a shampoo.
The lining of a Chicago man's coffia was
made to metah the color of his whiakers.
In three- or four months you wlll wisk
you had bottled. up some of this weather. oti
Seliinon was the first king that issued an
dorieder !et:, the ..ttirto..:1;e„Lpa.r..t0e1d„ 1_11 th4ee,in_idr,-
The ladies adorn their bonnets with eke -
lark, but plain larks are good. enough for
the men.
The original lapidary was presunaably a
man without guilt—at all events, We cast
the firet stone.
"I am collecting the back rents," said
the woman as she began to repair he: hus-
band's trousers.
nu40olea Bay Railway gonetraetien,
A
I t
There le a strong probability that the
eonetrueelon of the rellway from Manitelae
to the Hudson's Bay wlfl be eorenienoed
during the corning pring and that the work
will be prosecuted With vigor, and Without
let up until potripleted, uttleets when eeverity
ot wether will oompel a, cognition of work.
It is a matter decided that the Work of
CoMmillitsOiRoilreeR;78:17,130i:t8he Hudson
A ifelidemeraYniewor iiinsglieZehtne.elellfs ofthe
Bay company, who hi now in the Provinom
was SpOkell to the other day by is reporter
with eegard to Noeth-Weet mitten.
Are the WininPeg people deeireus that
conetruotion will commenoe from the head the 111-14seu Bay reileveY should be built ?"
1c'; LaakileortWheirulnyiPdegireaentidonbe upnutsilhetdifir-Ziag a811,,coahthyeear,°,,Pleterfilea ' Mr. Wrigley, 4' the
navigittion on the Nelson river is reathed. Whininee Polite haVe greet faith in
There may be those who will object to thie the selleme. They think it is tut nowt m
armee to the
point of oommencing conatruotion, and who required to give them easy
think that it should commence from the(man ''
terminus in We province and move by "P0 you think the ethernet practioable Ye
stages northward, That eellishness might "Well, I cannot imeak from pereonal
meggeet suoh far:ours° there in no doubt, and knovidedge. The whole thing seeing to
the people of Winnipeg more than those of ahninygoeonosnideevrilebtilemprortthiSonSotfratithseayreearoionriinfootr.
any other place can produce selfith argu-
ment in itt favor. But after all we believe Ef the Straits are only open for a short time
the projector's of thee road are adopting the as sortie aseert, woll the echeme would hard.
wise and sensible course, anal even those le be e, 81100eas, for the ocean travel Is what
ewvheontuseaellyimbemmedoisattebegnaeifinteldnbsirluthoathterabwouilt1 it depends 00. Itt however, the ocean could
be readily reached why thee would alter
to be pureued. the complexion of thing e mottally, but the
obfectahneswe bythe
* matter of dispute." ,
length of time that the Stiehl re open is a,
p "What kind of a country would the pro -
The commenoement of construotion at
the head of Lake Winnipeg is a who move
etheroelnaatrsuuctirtilneorfoleustsletttehablel osed road traverse ?"
itiregcutroedthewhoolemhpwanily1 fuinrnaievhearysonarhooertof teittinrne:
It is ehnply a medium for reaching the sea,
"The country is barren and inhospitable -
and commence the Practical test of the TtLierie,2oHould never be any looal traffio,"
value of the outlet for commercial put-. "What length would the road be, do you
poses.
ewmillwoaomteprwelatyhse, lailleishinhgatotecosur% eNlyorbthee-wn eastt-
Then the oeuree is a wiae one because it 6' Well, I can't st y, but the distance be-
tween Winnipeg anti Fort York is something
tempted as yet, and which will we believe over six hunared miles."
THE INDIANS,
prove them to have a value, far beyond "Is there alarming in the rumors of a
any calculations hitherto made upon them, tieing amongst the Indians of the North -
and ere the conetruotion of the whole road West 2' ,
ie completed thew whet is valuebie auxin "There are many rumors about thein -
ties.
iary they really are to railway faoili. diens, and in some oases the time is actually
fixed for the rising. I think this is absurd.
Then the course ie is wise one because it I do not believe there is any plan among
only available in eummer time will be of vale rising amouget the red men might take pima°
the Indians fora rising, but I think that a
will hurry the opening of an outlet which if
ue to the whole province; whereae stating at any moment. You oan never depend on
p000ninsttritinetthioenprforovmineWe airirtolamdewe oourlaabneyinotphreor. the Indians' temper."
"If a tieing amongst them did take place,
grass for several years, which ended at no- would you consider it serious ?"
where, opened up no productive country of "Moat decidedly eo, unless it was orush-
any constquenoe, and would be of no mater. ed out promptly. Any playing with the
Lal value to anyone until completed unless trouble or red tepeism would be dangerous.
far the circulation of money which its con- If a rising amonget the Indians took place,
struetion create& Thue looking at the pro- and was allowed to run for any considerable
gre.mme of oonttruction we iraust say that Period unchecked, then the trouble would
from every view point it gives evidence ot be far more serious than ever before."
wisdom, caution and economy on the part "Hese the Hudson Bay company settled
of those who arranged it. up with the Government yet ?"
But as we look at the arrangements for "The company's bill for transport sew
utilizing Lake Wiesalpeg in connection with vices has been paid. We engaged transport
this Hudson's Bay outlet, we naturally tn. for the Government, but received nothing
cline to ask: Bat what about the Red River further than a commission for our trouble. .
amstuaofacte edveerrtyo otatisuiantoirotnheinnezd
egaetfewthaayLbIalei to the people we employed. We got po-
What we got from the Government we paid,
ing from Dakota and Minnesota has been
of the Hudson's Bay route the grain carry. thing but a commission on the service."
"You have some claims against the
counted upon, and indeed the route wonld Cil overnment for losees in the rebellion V'
loose muck of ite commerciel value if it did "Yes, those claims have been duly pre.
not attract a mood share of that trade, Bat sented, and will doubtless be settled oath: -
then na,vigati'son of any practical value for factorily."
such it treffic reaches no further up the Red Mr, Wrigley is only a short time a reef -
River than St. Andrewei Rapide, and from dent of Cenada, and has alroecly won his
way into the confidence and redeem of the
there north to the international boundary
Hudson B w company cifietels, who speak of
the river needs no small share of improve-
ment to make it nevioable all the open ewe
e him in the highest peed* weer.
eon for craft large enough to be employed in
a carryiug trade en Lake Winnipeg. With- A rAmous FENIAN DEAD.
•
out these improvements 1Vinnipeg, Emer-
son and the towns south of our province can- One of the Six Won—vrets Rescued by an
not take advantage of a waterway, and would .anieriettn. whaler.
have to transport all freight by rail to the
mouth of the river or at least to Selkirk. Michael Harrington, the eldest of the Fe -
Under such circumstances the Hudson'a Bay nian prisoners who were rescued from New
line from the head of Lake Winnipeg to South Wal- e by the American whaler, Cato -
Fort Nelson would he of very value to the lapin in 1876, died recently of pneumonia,
southern portion °Manitoba, and would of- at the residences of his brother-in-law, Ed -
fax' no temptation to grain shippers south of ward Whelan, in San Francisco. The fifty-
four years of Harrington's life were full of
romantic intermit. He was born in Cork.
While a young man he e:#3ted in her Ma-
jesty's sixty-firet regime- t just in time to
serve in tho Sepoy rebellion and Indian mu-
tiny. He fought in
THIRTEEN ENGAGEMENTS,
was wounded, end returned to England,
where he continued his military service un-
til he lacked but one year of the time to re-
tire on a pension. That was in 1866, when
the mine of Fenianism was about to be fired
in Ireland. Herrington deserted his regi-
ment and hastened to Ireland to join the up-
rising, but \Vas arrested at Dublin and was
brought before a court martial, charged with
denertion and high treason. Ho was sen-
tenced to be shot. But the penalty was com-
muted to penal pervitude for life and he was
transported with a number of others to the
isolated island at New South Wales. But
in 1875 the Clan -rut -Gal society in New
York
PLANNED THEIR RESCUE,
and a whaling hip was fitted out for the
purpose. John J. Breslin, meanwhile,
under the guise of an Amerloan millionaire
went to Australia and managed to com-
municate with the prisoners. The vessel
eet out, none of the crew knowing her desti-
nation, except the captain, and in April
1876 the ship having arrived out the six
convicts began their perilous maroh of
twenty miles to the sea. Of mime their
prison garb betrayed them before they had
driven many miles, and the alarm was given
at the quartere, but they hurried on and
fmally reached the vessel. But this was
hardly under sail before the British corvette
Georgietta was discovered in chase. As it
neared the' whaler the captain hesitated, as
he doubted his ()serve into the high Imes,
but when the first mate, Wfillam Smith, an
American from Maesaohueette, learned of
the state of affairs he urged all hands to
press on. The escaping Fenians were heavily
ARMED AND DESPERATE
to the last degree. The sailors sided with
the Irishmen, and Smith's; advice was fol-
lowed. The American flag was run up,
and when the oorvettowomerhauled them
Smith proclaimed the ngewerality of the
waters and dared the Englieldnaan to fire on
the American flag, The Y hesitated and
then changed the Georgietta's course. The
Catalpa, that was the whaler's name, reach-
ed New York safely In Auguele and the
prisoners tvere free men once more. The
British Government tried to extradite them,
but failed, The other Wye rescued ones are
still living. Hassett keeps a saloon on Sul-
livan street, New York, Hogan is in Chloe,
go, and Wilson, Darrell and Cranston are in
Philadelphia,
"1 will appear in print to -morrow," said
the young Lady as she put the last stitch in
hor calico frock.
Florida lost her oranges but saved her al-
ligators, res there are stilt mime attractions
for the tourist:4.
For the first time on record the man with
a remedy for frozen feet finds a welcome in
the Southern States.
Tho man who wants an offise is numer-
ously preeent ; but the office that wants a
man is numerously vacant.
Bothering a rieh mart by bunting of a set
of malaohite etude he just bought, a fop
atked him if he did not admire them. "0,
yea," replied the man of wealth, " very
much indeed; I've got :a mantlepiece like
them at home"
Teacher—" What is the difference be-
tween the body and the soul ?" Johnny
(vaaantly)---" The body is mortal and ma
terial ; the soul—" Teacher (impitiently)
--" Yes; and the soul ?" Johnny--" The
soul is immortal and immiterial.
Teacher to a boy whose father keeps a
corner grocery—" Johnny, if your father
has one hundred eggs and twenty of them
are bad, how many deee be lose ?" Johnny
He don't lose any of them. He sells
the bad ones to a restaurant keeper to make
omelettes of."
Said a young man, the other evening:
Is it etiquette, in writing to a young mar-
ried woman whom you have known well, to
call her my darling little pet?'" My dear
sir, it is not a question of etiquette, but of
athletiore 11 depend's how far you can dis-
tance her husband in a mile.
My gracious I You don't mean to tow
that you have another baby up ae, your
house?' exclaimed a lady, when informed
by the happy father of the event. " Yes ;
got fourteeu now." "Well, 1 don't know
but it's all right. Thirteen is an unlucky
number, isn't it
Lord Welseley's refusal to pay fees to
the Herald% College for his new title, and to
leleter King of Arms and his officiate for the
lueigrtio, of let. Patrick, cane up a story of
how a eimilar exhibtion if independence was
dealt with by George IV. A cettein Knight
at Windeor icor:dyed the order of St. Michael
and St, George and after the ixitreetithre a
bill for the usual fees wal emit to him, which
he swore riothbog Would induce him to pay.
There was no precedent for ouch a oafie 80 a
memorandum wan sent to Sir William
Knighton at Windeori in order that the
King's pleasure might be taken. The doeu
moot evue returned with the tollowing eti-
dorsement by the King himself: "Stop the
a—d fellow's pay nail the claim he awed,"
have to be mede by tbe C. P. 11., and so far
as freight from all eouth of fifteen miles this
side, of the international boundary line is
concerned. we would not under the preeent
etate of affeirs be allowed to build e com-
peting lino of rail. Thus the whole Uaited
States freight by the Hudson's Bay route
could be easily choked off by the menagere
of the C. P. R.
There le no use in trying to hide the flat
that until there is independent communica.
tion between Manitoba., Minnesota and Dak-
ota, the eimpiementery tied° for is
son's Bay Bey railway from the two letter will
not make the ownert °fetich a road wealthy.
Tho cheapest and beet link of counnueicie.-
tion is by the Red River with its °Marna
Wow; removed. A matter of a quarter of a
minion of dollars would do that on the Men.
itoba side, and the efforts being put forth at
Washiegton by our neighbors in Minnesota
and Dakota Meows that they will not fall
short in improving the channel of the river
within their territory. Surely private en-
terprise could take hold of a matter so small
tie this work in Manitoba, mad we might
reasonably expeot that the Dominion Gov
ernment would contribute liberally tetvarde
the same.— Winnipeg Commercial.
THE AGE OF INVENTION'
Inoculation of rabbito with tho beeillus of
tubercular oonsampeion is proposed as a
method of exterminating them in Aus-
tralia.
°rookery coffins are proposed by a Phila-
delphia inventor. His idea is to glaze them,
thus reeking a tight and imperishable recep.
tech), the object being to protect under-
ground water currents from pollution.
Mineral wool is said to be coming into
use in the oonetruotion of buildings' on ac-
count of its etrengthe lightnees, andresist-
ance to the conduction of heat. It has also
the advantage of being fireproof. ,
The manufaoture of aloohol from wood
has increased rapidly within a few years,
and it is seld to be need largely for patent
bitters, ginger eatraots, and otner alcoholic
oompounde, whose strong flavor makes it
unnecessary to use a better quality of spir-
its, Wood alcohol is a dangerous product,
and sometimee gives rise to serious disturb-
ances of the brain and nervous system.
A St. Louie doctor is credited with hav-
ing cut off the tails of two Wends and unit-
ed the animals by cowing the stumps to-
gether, thmi making a Eteeolee of Wiamese
twine. The object of the experiment was
to ascertain if blood could be transfueed by
this 'method ; and one writer nanintains that
if, for example, a weak and bloodless invalid
were attached in tide manner to is strong
and healthy animal, the result must be fav.
oreble to the invalid, Dr. Rouseel of Paris
is fetid to have met with encouraging etuicees
in moll an experiment,
Will S. Hays, the wog writer, made hie
If ellence is golden, whet a valuable mien
fortune lockjaw must be.
William Guyton was a brakeman on the
Evensville and Terre Haute Railway. There
Waa is monition in which he was badly injur-
ed, but remembering that a, passenger train
wee due soon he managed to extricate him.
ealf from the wreck, arid, mangled and bleed-
ing, eeized a red tlag and etaggered up the
debut on tho minstrel stage in Louisville track, Twice he fell from exhauetion, but
the other niobt to a orowded home. He
personated Old Ike, the negro ohmmeter he
has mete famous through the river 0Ohlthile
of the Courier..Tovirnal. Hays has not yet
eigned with the shone but it is thought hd
witi
rle Duke of Edinburgh bus been rent to
the Mediterraneen for playing the flute„ If
he played the accordion he would have been
tent to Maffei,
patchily got up end went oh tifld, llagg8d
the train 500 pada from the place of &In -
ger. Then he feinted away end remained
uneonsoioue for two days. When he reoev.
ered he Wail a oripple for life. He eent the
dootor's bill to tee reilroad company and
peyment Was eefrieed. Then he Sated for
e10.000, and a jury hag juet awarded him
$5,08 damages after four yews of litiga-
tion,