The Exeter Times, 1886-5-13, Page 6ennetwieehattihremweentitewereeeelefieitanterst
AN EGYPTIAN ROMANO
a Story of Love and Wild Adventure, founded upon Startling' Revel&
tions in the Uareer of Arabi Pashal
By the siuSlitlr " NISTA, 'ins NIHILIST,'
ETO,
CHAHTER LIX,
THE FIGUR OF nen sueneme TNIAL—DOW
WILL IT END?
Let we return mem more to Nellie within
the gilded be of her harem prison. .
Ai more and More days passed the en-
thuidasm of the Cairo population eeemel to,
increase. There was eue little windowm
closely latticed, from which she could ob-
tain just a peep, a dinnuutive bird e-eys
view, of the outer world, and et this win-
dow she was never tired of standing.
From it she could see some of the old gilt -
tering European shop% now closed ani bar-
red with great planka of wood across their
fronts, From it, km the failing light of
evening, she sometimes saW pictureeque
Arabs equatting in every conceivable atti-
tude on the sidewalka, with curve of hate
upon their lip end upon their frowning
browa as they doubtless disouseed iu all its
bearing mine lying bulletin from the front,
and more than once in the deepest hours of
the night the rush of hurrying feet, the
shrieking clamour of human voicee and the
red lurid glow of torches would came her to
rush thither, when as likely aa not she would
behold aome hapless murdered Earopeen
carried along on a cluater of like or spear
heads, with 9. ram of blood droppivg on
the bearers, whilet the surrounding crowd
poured forth their hate in every curse and
epithet that the Arabic vocabulary is cap
able rf, and whilat citing every manner of
'abomination at the stripped and often cruel-
ly gaehed body of the dead, which was as
often that of a woman or an innocent little
child as of a strong and stalwert man,
It w as impossible, while; witneesing sight5
such as theee, for Nelde not to feel thankful
that her parente and herself, were honeed me
they were, or not to be aware that at the
very last, all three owed their lives to the
war minister, so that it was oraly when she
came to remember the price that ehe, in-
dividually, veould have to pay for that pro-
tection that ehe shuddered,
The settling day could not for long be
-postponed, she felt sure, and she never
doubted but that the Egyptian army, la its
enerwhelming numberie wa,s again and again
beating the mere handful of men that fool-
-hardy Englieh miaistere el vaya think suffi-
oient to overcome an Oriental or African
'foe, 1 orgetting how modern rifles and or-
dnance equallze the strength of contending
eoldiery by rendering a quick eye of far
-greater account than a strong arm.
IfYlieu we are anticipating the terrible or
the unwelcome time aometimes seeme to fly
and sometimes to creep, and so it was with
Mellie, At last, however,./ate one evening,
the Valide Khanoum came rushieg into her
little room ha a state of great excitement and
-terciaimed :
" He has aniseed! Ahmed is at home!
He 'inlets on seeing you immediately."
"Ob, I cannot see him to -night. Can you
not tall him that I am gone to bed?
" He will not take that as an excuse, and
—and—I dare not urge it as one. For the
firet time in my life 1 am afraid of him. I
would not refuse him a thing for the world.
I suppose his blood is still hot with the
fighting and the victories he has won."
Nellie glanced at the elder wife and saw
that she was deathly pale, and trembling as
well,
Such a sight was not at all calculatied to
soothe or encourage her, but rather to im-
prees her with the dread that scmething
dreadful wile at hand, she dered not think
what.
Acting instinctively, as it wee% she rais-
ed the morquite curtains, spravg from off her
cotton etnfled mattress and began to hurri-
edly dress herself.
She was not yet presentable, consonant
with Europeans ideas of modesty, when
heavy seeps accempanied by the clatter of a
sword ecabliard and the silvery Haig of
spurs, became audible without, announcing
the unwelcome fact that the man who deem-
ed himself her husband had grown tired of
waiting the return of his messenger and waa
coming to seek her in person.
" Oh, don't let him come in 1" gasped Nel-
lie. "Keep him out for a little while. Oh,
what shall I do ?"
"My dear, your shoes are not ontelde the
door. I they were, he would not dare to
enter."
"Bat a word from you would keep him
out Oh, do beseech him not to come in
yet."
" I would not cross his will this night for
worlds, He looks es though he had the evil
eye."
And it was evident-, from the way in
which the woman trembled, that she was
really alarmed.
But Nellie's terror was ten thaw greater,
and her agitation made all her fingers
thumbs, so the common saying is, so that
she could neither clasp nor fasten anything
properly that she was putting on,
At this juncture the footateps had emit,•
ed just wuteide her curtain door, but the
next instant her fears were allayed, if no
entirely diseipated, by a calm voice saying:
" Directly you are ready to receive me,
but not before, I wish to speak a few words
to yen. Do not be alarmed, little one. I
come to you 09. 9. friend, nothing mere," and
hardly were the words uttered when the
heavy footsteps were heard receding agein.
It was very strange.
But not feet+ reaesuring than strange, and
Nellie's fingers lost their awkwatdruses and
became deft and mger enough. The Vallee
Khanown was now Able to help her too.
" The Mirk fit has paw ed away, I rap-
pese," she remarked, "He epeke gently
to you, at ell event% and I say this for our
lord and easter, that when he is gentle with
one be is usually so with ell. Bat I felt
euro juet now that an evil eye had been cant
en him,"
"1 am quite ready now," amid Nelik eud-
denly. "Let us go out and meet hire,"
"Would you sooner that he came in
here 2 '
Yes ; certainly, my kind Monet"
So the two women, or rather the woman
and the girl, raised the curtain and lamed
forth into the vestibule, the further end of
which. Arabi Puha wee pacing to and fro
with the quick, eeger steps of a tiger in a
menagerie as feedieg time approachen,
"The dark hour is etill on him I fear,"
whispered the Venda Khanourri as they ap-
proached, " Speek to him gently, my dear,
Do not venture to oppon his elightest wide
Whilet he is thus."
Nellie did tel answer* for she felt that
she could not premise to follow advice,'
By this time the war mieieter heard the
soft fall of lopproteohing footsteps, and wheel-
ing sharp round he advarioed to meat the
Iwo women.
As he moved near to them the larops of
perfumed oli that were hung hero and there
against the wail showed hove deadly pate he
WAS and howetratego a light gleamed in his
" THR RED SPOT," "TRH RUSSIAN SR;
ETO.
eyes. Oa his white face there was a spot or
two of blood.
4'Gazi41%, leave ue," he oaid in peromp
tory tones. But he haetoneci to add in moit.
er accents: "For awhile only. I will come
to you Presently."
The Valide Kinenomn attewered meekly
Ae you will, Ahmed. My lord's will it
his slave's life," and droppiurter compare -
Ion arm, she hurried away as fast as she
could.
Nellie could plainly hear her heart beat
Ing when her Bole friend and protectress
had gone, and Arabi Pasha, notioing her
trepidation, eeized her both hands, and
graving them in his looked eminently into
her facie, whilst he exclaimed in almost
tearful acoente
"Why do you tremble so"little white
dove? Is it beceuee you pant to be free and
so quit the ark whioh has been your eafe
refuge for ao long a while ?"
"The ark may be a safe refuge when the
floods are out, but the wild bird prefers the
green woods end liberty," responded Nellie
faintly, in the name figurative language.
"Why don't you add to return to ite
own mate in ita proper nest and no longer
to consort with the fierce kite. DO you not
regard me as some such vile bird of prey ?"
' Indeed, no. I have never had an ill
opinion bf you. Far from it." I.J
"Then you do not in your heart make me
responsible for all the crimes and calemitiew
that have attended this great national move-
ment and fee the frequent shedding of inno-
cent blood,"
"God forbid that I ehouid do so, All
risings of the people against tyrenny, in
every couetry and in every age, have been
characterized by such crimes and exceseee
tin the part of the more cruel of the popu-
lation, bue the leaders of such movements
have never beim answerable therefor." Here
she oeme to a full stop, dreedine what he
would next, say.
"1 thank you. I sincerely thank emu for
this, your good opinion of me. Poesesiied
of it loan defy that of all the world bead°,
But I am not yet quite satieffed. Tell inc
Otierlidly how do you think that I hive
eifeeted you. Do you consider that I have
used you very badly ?"
"11 you will but treat me aa well in the
fature as you have done in the pest I eta(
have Retie reason to complaia ; aye and I
will daily lideee you for your merciful for-
bearance."
At this point Nellie would have aank on
her knees before him had he but permitted
her.
"Do you know, little white dove that
begin to thiok the daily biessings and pray-
ers of one so lovely, so innocent and so pure
would be a richer prize that even her ador-
able face and person if ut freely given. When
I made you my wife I thought that I could
also soon make yon very happy and teaoh to
forget the Feringhee youth to whem your
parents told me you were not married. I
might have done so had Allah seen good to
make me what, for my country's sake and
yours, I yearned. to be. But that dream
has forever past away; and ao, though yeti
are at tale moment ,nore absolutely in my
power than ever you were in my pavilion at
Hair Dewar, and in my opinion every bit as
much my wife, I will prove to you that the
despised Egyptian can be generous and
merciful, for I will give you freely up unto
him you love. Farewell, little one and for-
get not your promise, for from this moment
you will never see me more."
"Oh, this is good 1 this is brave 1 this is
noble and magnanimous indeed 1" cried Nal -
lie, feeling hysterioelly joyful, but struggl-
ing hard not to show it, "1 cannot (peak
my thanks, for words could not express my
grat tude and hearts, unhappily, are dumb."
"Happily, say rather, for had they the
gif of speech they would lose their intensity
of feeling. Yet, would to God that miue at
this moment could find relief in speech, for
then it won' d not be ao likely to brea k. Think
net that you are wholly responsible for my
grief, for dearly as I have loved you I have
loved my unhappy country even more, and
now she is lost indeed. The crimes of your
countrymen have riveted her chains strorae-
er than ever, for victory ha e been theirs in
every engagement, and in an hour they will
be here and I their prisoner. Bat it is all
as Allah wills, so probed be the name of
Allah. I can at leapt say that."
"Bat can you not escape Surely there is
yet time," suggestel Nellie, anxiously.
"My friends and companions in this great
venture are already taken and I would share
their fate,' &flowered the war minister. "1
go from hnce to deliver myself up, and Igo
quiokly, for I would not ba suspected of
trying to hide myself like a cowardly jackal.
You and your parents had better remain
here until your countrymen occupy the city
ID force, for not until then will it be safe
for you to venture forth, I have still an
hour to give to the good wife who has been
fond and true to me for so many yeare, and
who is the mother of my brave boy. S3
farewell once more and may God have you
ID his keeping,"
And quickly raieing one after the other of
Nellie s hands to his lips, he kissed and
drepped them and with a deep sigh, then
took a hunted departure, whilst Me whom
he had thus abruptly quitted retreated to
her room in tears, fer it was inaposable not
to fool sorry for one who had behaved so
nobly to her.
OHAPI'eR LX,
THE CAMPAIGN OF THE SPUR— THE FALL OF
THE CURTAIN.
The march from the Suez Canal to Cairo
deserved to be called the Lightning Cam-
paign, for with three pitched battles and 0,
dozen skirraiehes its accompliahnaent took
but a fortnight and a day.
Twenty-four houra after the scenes re-
corded in our last chapter but one Sir Gar-
net Wolinley made the midnight kb ally,
and Under cover pi "Egyptian darkness"
led his little army within rushing distance
of ehe Egyptien general's stronghold, tailing
Tel-el-Kebir in fifteen minutes by the cloak,
and with the bayonet only, a rate feat
against rifled cannon..
Directly the "linsfrogriable" Tel-el-Kebir
had collapsed like a burst balloon, it was
the cempaign of the spur and the mine once
again, and Major-General Sir Drury Lowe
followed up the enemas by a splendid CtAF111
forvverdi with the cavalry, thereby preventing the enemy from rallying in the direction
of the capital.
The Irbil Dragoon Guards /ea the van,
and entered with Moll ardor into the pew,
stilt that they soon clidanoea bail the Hag-
fish and the Indian cavalry, and though men
and horses were faini, with hunger, pe,rched
with thirst, and troopers not unfrequently
dropping out of their saddleS iron' the effeot
lef sunstroke, they pushed. on and on until a
distant view of the doom and minarets ot
the great lelosquo of Mehemet Ali, rising
above the rocks of the Citadel, drew an en.
%mimetic oheer from the ranks.
Captain Donelly bad the honor of ciona
mending the advance ,quadro4 of this brit.
tient vaeguard, and though his little force
oonsisted of hut a hundrud and forty-five
men, and he knew that there were ten thou
, -
mud Egyptien, soldiers in the capital, and
most probably by than the commander-in-
chief se well, he hesitated not to enter the
iity with blaet ef trumpet and brattle of
kettledrum, and before another hour had
elapsed, in obodienee to hia gunmen:3 to the
offioer commauding the citadel to surrender
inemediately, eight thoneand Egyptian eel-
diera kid down their arms and nied out be-
fore hint as prieoners of war ; the most
extraordinary ocoarrence ever recorded in
hietory. An nnexeggerated fact, Coptain
Darley was the real oame of the Irbil officer
in °berg°.
The populace at iiret looked aulien me 1 i -
eentful, bue no sooner did the blest oc ince ii
trumpets announce the raphl approach if
Larger bodies of the foe than they grew civil
and even cringing, ana when at length the
main body of the regiment oeme eparrivg
In through the Gate of Victory, okeely fol-
lowed by the ferocious looking Indian con
eingent, with their lieng 'emcee swaying like
a forest of lofty pines before the atreegth of
a gale, than they buret out into loud shouts
for the Khedive, so that one would have
'eluded that that highly unpopular prince
had always been Idelized by them and been
In ever?, fact the father of his people.
These cheers, in which Tewfik's name was
always hudly called, ao Ai to prevent the
slightest possibility of naleconoeption, moan-
ed Arabi Pasha's mere elmoat continuonely
as he rode thrcugh the crowded streets to
surrender himaelf up to the fine British
cffioer whom he might °hence to meet.
It must have been s bitter sound to one
who a short month, aye, even in a little lase
degree a Mutt week ago, was the chosen of
the people and the idol of the nation to hear
a despot restored by foreign arena thus
greeted and proolaimed, while his own pro-
gress through the streets called not forth
ene single cheer of oommieeration.
Some even hissed the fallen hero who had
sacrificed all that he passeseed for their
sekes, and it is very possible that wore° in-
dignitims ere long might have been offered to
him had he not suddenly ocme acroee a
British cavalry patrol, vvhieh, aa ha obeerved
teat it wile under the command of an officio%
ID at owe approached.
He was within a half a dezen yarda of the
little party of red (mate before he perceivee
who that c ffioer ware but it wee too late to
retreat ere ne wax recognized in turn, not
first of all bsr 0 eptain Danelly, but by Cor -
pupa Patrick Monaghan.
" Bedad, yer honor, an' here comae Hor-
rible Pasha eager to make friends at last,"
Thie was Pat's way of rutting it, but no
sooner did our hei o recognize his discomfited
rival than he saluted him courteously with
his drawn sword, and then spnrred forward
to meet him, his handsome face full of un-
conacieue commiseration the while.
"Captain Danelly, I would pedlars soon-
er that it was any ono else, bat what is to
ID will be, and at all events 1 ceuld not sur-
render my sword to a braver man," said the
war minister, as he tendered hi sheathed
weapon -
Bac ehe generous young Irishman hastily
depreceted the movement, saying; " No, no
not to me; not to me ; but allow me to con-
duct your excellency to the quarters of Maj-
or General Sir Drury Lowe, who, I am sure,
will accept your aurrender on parole and re-
fuse to accept from you a weapon which he
will feel, though he may not perhaps aay 11,
that you neither drew without reason nor
sheathed without honor." Then he motion-
ed to his men to surround their prisoner.
Arabi Pasha seemed to be much affected
by this repartee= speech.
"Thank you," 8AM he; "your words
have blunted the keen edges of your country-
men's weapcus. They have lightened my
heart aleo, and furthermore made me wish
to lighten yours in turn, As soma as your
duties allow, go straight to myhouse (palace
it was called in the days of nig protperity,
but no matter, for palace or house, any one
will point it out to you if you do not know
it already), and therein you will find one
who still an every way deserves your love
and who while little Omit has made a better
msn of roe efter, by groat effinti, I had
failed to rnakeea worse women of her, T ike
her egaiiii to your heart, wilt e.erared that
she recline merles all the love tint an honor-
able and proud man can bestow on her."
* * * * * *
I. there any need for assuring the reader
that F ask Donelly foliowed thin advice as
soon di ever he hed delivered Arabi Pasha
over to General Sir Drury L ewe ?
Attended only by Corporal Monaghan
(whoee sergeantey loomed le the noar dis-
tance for many state of personal gallantry
that he had performed during the campaign,
and which would almeet to a certainty give
him the brorze cross of honor ae well) he
rode through the atreets to the war minis
ter's late abed°, and en reaching it entered
It withont any invitation, the color of his
coat being under the circumstances ot the
ease quite mfficient passport.
He was too delicate minded, however, to
seek to pass behind the harem curtain in
like manner, and se merely signifyiug to tke
aga of eunuchs what he wanted, and that
she had better be brought to him safe and
uninjured or that his life should answer for
the °caw quences.
The threat was amply sufficient and the
jet black Soudan negro salaamed and dleap.
peered, returning in less them five minutes
with Nellie walking beside him.
Who shall describe the rapture of that
meeting, wherein the hueband and wife who
had been separated almost se it were on the
step of the altar mot again after a lapee
so many woeful, every one of which had
laten no full of petils to each of them ?
So oblivioue were they of theta. surround.
Ingo that Pat Monaghan felt himself called
upon to keep a very clean watch on the age,
eunuch a lent he should play them tome dirty
trick or other with hi ecimeter or pistol%
of which he seemed to be quite capable.
While the threewero thus employed there
came the sudden rustle of silk Skirts and
Mfrs, Trezerr hove into view like en old-
fashioned line of battleship under fail sail.
"Here comes the bitters after the aweets
—the naety physic after the lump of sugar,
indeed of before itethought Pat Mona-
ghan to himself,
But for ork0e the shrewd Mahal= was
mietakea, for Inateed of resembling a bitter
astringent Mrs. Trezarr was as sweet tee
molareeed and thanked Prank Donelly so
unctiouely f or his atelleue and preservation
of them all," that he felt; gut° he Yvan an
accepted son-in-law at once ; while the ,
hearty and genial greeting of Mr. Trent.% i
when he just as ouddenly turned up bran
another direetion, eonverted the decided
impeeeeion into a positive conviction,
Vim will protect the inmates of this
hotuto where I have been o kindly treated
byone and all from any &arm of insult or
Injury, won't yetis, Prank 2" pleaded Nellie,
anxionely,
" Certainly, my love, thotigh they have
46,
only ouch a thing to fear from their own
3ountrymen and most decidedly not from
Britieh ooldiees. Yet, nevertheleee, I will
plaeo hell a dozen of ours to guard the
'Wilke, and Fru eure such a precaution will
meet with the approval of the general."
So, vvhen Nellie had bidden a grateful and
Affectionate adieu to the Valide Kbanou.nt
end aaeured her Reid no harm could happen
to her cr to any of the other ladies, and that
her hueband vette safe under the protecti- u
of one of the British, ;morale and could not
be eurreederedup to the revengeful Khedive
without a gueraetee from that prince that
he sheuld bs fairly dealt with (iviaioh items
of information she had previoasly obtained
from Frant ), the party of five made an inn
mediate move froni the war minister's palaoe
to Shepherde Hotel, whieh was already
open and doing a brisk busineete and there,
over chatripague and other welcome refreeh.
mous, the Trezarr pere Lula mere did the
" Bleu you, my children," beelines with an
amount of gush and proteetetion that would
have been highly comicial and slightly dis-
gusting had it uot chenced to be also moot
pertioularly welcome, for such a father and
mother-in-law could be pat lentm borne with
for a ehort while for the sake of so beautiful
and darling it bride.
* * * * * *
A few lines more will conolude our tale.
There is no need for uo to enter mtnutely
into events that have become matters of leis -
tory. Hov the Sultan of Turkey played
with the hare and ran with the hounde, and
so loot the moped of all perties, els too well
known to he commented on here; as well as
that the Khedive new fik would have had
his fallen rival murdered in secret, on the
principle that dead men tell no Mk% had
not Great Britain taken the greatest care
that such an ant ef barbarity and lei ustice
should not be perpetrated.
But the tales that were told an a conse-
quence of thin convinced the English govern-
ment, when too late, that they had made a
most egregious mistake in ineerfering with
Arabi at all and had been beguiled into
mistaking a great nationel upriaing and
heroic struggle for freedem for a mere
tary rebelliea conduoted and aet on foot by
three mnbitioue colonele.
Ae for the Princess Z eeneh, the Khedive's
sister, her fate is a mystery. She hes never
been heard of since tire fall of her secret
lover and affienced husband. She worked
ID the dark on hie Whoa like a noxioas
arid venomous, spider, and oho is by now
either buided alive behind tlae harem cur-
er lying deed in the narrow prison
house of the grave.
The sole token that she has left behind
for the world to eee and wonder and puzzle
over is a bracelet exhibited in the window
of the most famed goldsmith in Parie—a
bracelet made from pure virgin gold sant by
her to him along with the Menke in which
it 917c40 to be wrought, and in which the-.
names of Arabi and Zaerieh are worked into
a clever cipher on the inside of the ornament,
whilst the outside le embossed with euenee
emblematic of her lover's anticipated triumph
and her brother's hoped for defeat and fall.
Strange sentimenta for a sinter.
Maier Donelly end hia fair young wife
now reside on the former'a estate in Ireland,
whilst Sergeant Major 'Monaghan has quitted
the army to become his butler.
THE END,
INVESTING- IN CANADa..
--
Large Sale of wiee jflchlaa Cup-
imusis
Col. M. Jeffers, of East Saginaw, in an
interview with a Detroit paper said.
"1 have bought from parties in Canada
50Q000 mores, or twenty townships, of
standing white pine. There ia no Norway
pine in that region. I have paid a large
sum upon the perchaee, and would not sell
out for a big adva,nom I have been engaged
in the business of buying pine lande for
moot of my life and think that nothing out-
side the Saginaw valley, was ever seen like
this whole Georgian Bay country, fall of
good pine. 11 in far superior to the Wis.
oonsin or Lake Superior pine. I think thie
is the biggest transaction that has taken
place in pine lands in Cancida. Upon the
property at the month of the Serpent R'ver
there Li a saw mill that outs 40,000,000 a
year ; it cost $250,000, hao gang sews and
every convenience, including an iron steam-
er and a tow of barges,
" The Canadian Pacifia Railroad is on the
northern border of tbe treat. A spur runs
through it, built to afford rail Blipping Mei-
lities from the mill itself. / think no land
could lay better both for rail and water
transportation. It is well cat up by lumber-
ing streams, Gov. Alger has a large amount
of timber in the middle of these limits south
of us. Col. Blies, of Saginaw, is also In-
terested in the same region,
A Prediction Fulfilled.
The fcllowing anecdote was related to me
in 1861, long before the fulfilment of the
prediction that it contains, Napoleon D.I.
one day took it into his head to consult the
celebrated chiromancien, Desbarolles, who
died the other day at a very advanced age,
Desbarolles told him some curious facts re-
speetieg his character, his tastes and hie
past life. "Now," quoth the emperor,
"tell me something about the future. Where
will my death take place and by what mal-
ady shell I die ?" Deebaroges hesitated for
a moment. "Sire," he said at length, "you
have asked me for a frank response, and I
will reply to you frankly. You are dietined
to breathe your last, on Englisn soil, and you
will periela by the knife." Very curiously
was tho prediciiiin fulfilled, though the
knife proved to be net that of an aseasein,
but that of a surgeon,
An Enterprising Woman,
Madame Astie ele Valseyre'the female
fencer, who called out and fought MI38
Shelby on the femme field of Waterloo
because the latter had called her an idiot, be
evidently prepared to go anywhere and clo
anything. She was one of the grid persons
who offered thernaelves to be inombeted hy
M. Pasteur, and she is now in come -Junks,
tion with a Swedish doctor who, it is said,
freezes people into inaensibility and restores
them to perfect health, strength and spirits
atter a Vow or two. Sinuld Dr. Groadlbach,
the experimenter in qaestion, reluse to
freeze the eccentric ledy, she ea:nommen her
intention of proceeding with her former
antagonist, Miss She'll?, to help M. de
Brame to civilize the Congo Meeks.
French Tales of Englishmen
A Paris paper informs its readers that
the Prinoe of Walee'd recent vieit to the
gay capital was for the parpose of borrow-
ing a sum of £560000. It further states
that the "'Arno went on to Cannes, where
he iplayed baceerat with Lord Dapplih, that
that nobleman lett 250,000f. on the occasion,
and, being unable to pay went home aud
blow out his, brains. The itnaginatIon of
the true 1iceneus, unrestricted by falai; and
unbiased by oonniderritions of probability,
attains to a, growth that rivals Jonah's
gourd or' Jaok'e beanstalk,
speak out freely,"
wish to rise above it," said the admiral,
neer the edge of the quarter-deck, and watch-
ing. " What position do you want ?" he
asked. turning to the boy.
sir," s del the lad, '‚ I should be very glad."
come to ask you to take me to sea with you."
"Is that all you have to say, you young
sco.mp ?'' asked the captain, aharply,
name, AB Admiral Nelson touched her deck,
young lad of about eighteen. He was'dreesed
elinply but neatly, and leis cheeks glowed,
and his eyes kindled, as ho watched the ex -
°Min events that were going on around him.
admiral. Maimed to °beery° the lad.
captain of the yeesel.
few home ago,' replied the captain. "He
insists on eeeivg you, sir, as he imp he has
something of importmoe to sum to you."
bristling with grins, was all in conamottov.
aerrounded by a brilliant (staff. S tending
Mg the scene with intense eagernea was a
4'
the Englieh fleet ley at anchor he Portantoatio
oat on a oeuiee, Tne flagehip, a huge, for.
guns of the squedron were beginning to
vessel was wreathed in smoke, and quiver-
ing beneath the (Recharges of her heavy ord.
A3 he reterned the salutes of the officers, the
herbor, awaiting the admiral's aignal to otart
midable ship of the lino, with ita dark sides
The admiral, the most famous sailor of hie
day, was ready to reoievo him. Already the
thunder forth weir welcome, and soon ehe
It WAS a bright morning in SPrillg• rend
" That'a a poor chance for you, if you
" If you please, sir," eald the boy, " I've
"Let him alone," said the admiral, laugh-
" If yon would take me as your cabin boy,
"Who is this ?" he asked, turning to the
" Well, my lad," said the admiral kindly,
The 1Youtterfeti traviter Etivstrilk Wee.
He's a young lad that came on board a
kindly
'will be a beginning," replied the lad.
IIELBON'O PROTEGE.
"11 youll
give me a start, I'll work my way
up, sir. You did it; and I mean to do so,
too."
The admiral gszod at him kindly bra
searchingly, and then said, with e.smile, "I'll
take yoe with me on this oruise ; and if you
want to rise, give sn u a chance.,..What is
yoer name ?''
" Edward Lee," was the reply.
" Very well, then, Edward, I take yon into
my service," said the admiral. "1 shall ex-
pect yon to prove yourself worthy of the
; dolt, sir," said the boy, earnestly, as
three! moved snide, respectfully, to let the ad-
miral ease.
In two hours the Vanguard stood out to
Sea'followed by the egaadron, to join Eerl
S Vincent at Gibraltar. The young valet of
the admiral made a decidedly favorable inn
preesion upon the offieere of the ship before
the completion of the voyage.
"'Tis too bad," sad the admiral to his
fla.gmaiptein one day, "that that boy should
till a menial's position."
The oaptain agreed with hie commander,
and Wee remit of the matter was that, a few
cfays after the arrival of the Vanguard tit
Gibralter, Edward L38 was given a midship-
man's warrant by Eerl St. Vincent, at the
epecial request of Admiral Neleon.
Then came the famous nruise in the Medi-
terranean, in seerch of Bonaparte and his
fleet. In the terrific gale which dismasted
the admiral's ship. young Lee proved that
he merited the kinclnees his great oomman.
der had shown him, and won prelim from all
on board. Then came the brief halt at Syra-
cuse, the arrival of the wished -for reinforce-
ments, and t'ne departure for Egypt, As the
dawn of the memorable firet of Augnet re-
vealed to the eyes of the Itnglish the tricolor
floating over Alexandria, and the French
fleet in the bay of Aboukir, Edward Lee wee
standing by his olaief on the deck of the
flagehip.
' There they are," burst from a aware of
voices, as the diatant vessels came in view.
" Yee," muttered the boy; "and well be
there, too, before night."
"There's a °hence for promotion for no all
in there," he said, smi
He was right. The fearful encounter
which oarried wade sorrow and despair to so
many English homes, brought to these two
men fame and honor. Through the whole
action the admiral's eye was oa the young
" middy," and all through that long and
thrilling Slimmer night it never lost the
gleam of satisfaction which had illumined it
as he heard the young sailor's words in the
moraine, The same dispatch that greeted
him as lord Nelson informed him that his
request for a lieutenancy for young Lee was
granted.
Steady devotion to hia profession, and con-
spicuous bravery in times of danger, soon
made the youthful lieutenant a noted man in
His Msjesty's navy. The battle of the Baltic
was a memorable day to him. It was truly
the greateat battle he had been in. Though
severely wounded, he refused to go below,
and stood at his post until the close of the
action, When Sir Hyde Barker gave the sig.
nal for discontinuing the fight Lieutenant
Loo reported it to Lord Nelson. The ad-
miral, putting the glass to his Kind eye, said,
with mock gravity, "1 really don't see the
signal. Keep our flag for closer battle still
flying. That's the way I answer such sig-
nals. Nail mine to the mast."
It seemed that the fortunes of the great
admired and his protege were mysteriously
uiaited, for this victory, which made
the one a viscount, made the ether a
grit lieutenant, though he had just come
of age. He followed hie commander,
who had become warmly attaohed to him,
through all the yeara tb at intervened, so that,
when the great day of Trafalgar came, he was
the second in command to Ceptaln :tardy.
As the action began, Lord Woken approached
him, and, placing his hand on his shoulder,
said, " We are going to have a hard day,
Edward, I hope you may pass through it
safely,"
" I ahall try to do my duty, my lord,"
saki Lieutenant Lee. • But, ' be added,
pointing to the uniform and decorations
vvhich the coinmander wore, contrary to his
castom, "why does sicur lordship render
yourself so conepionous to day ? Yon will
aurely draw upon you the fire of some
marksman."
" I have a preeentiment," said the admir-
al, " that my ram is run • so I have put on
all my hownese towlay. in honor I gained
them, ' be exclaimed, proudly laying his
hand on the insignia, " and in honor I will
die with them,"
The presentiment was realized. It was the
last action of the great eager, Aa he fell00
the deck, in the heat of the battle, the cap-
tain ancli lieutenant of the ship sprang to
him, in an agony of grief.
"Go back to your post, Edward," he said,
ae the lieutenant knelt by him. Then he
added, gently, "God bless you, lad,"
With a sad heart the young naan returned
to his plaice. The fete 'which had moaned to
unite bid destiny with thet of his cotninander
was fully realized on this day, for, just as
the victory was gained, a heavy discharge of
grape from a Frenoh ship of the line swept
the deck of Lord Neleon'e ship; and when
the smelt° cleared away, Captain Hardy taw
hie lietitenaht lying almost in the same spot
where the conqueror Of the Nile had fallen,
with hie breast torn open by the terrible
disohargc,
OVER THE 00EAR'.
0815MAre't Glil aa ttrdn:n V7Ctli la ttte"Wdh 2 en ho °t1engageldr°i
in Thhhe PtaolltivercaotScoru)ttind.
pautin Great Britain
last year was 159,31,415 term. with 520,632
colliers employed, apinet 160,757 779 toss
lad 520360 colliers employed the pieeeding
year,
The backwardneas of the season in &me -
lend is reerionalytreearding agrioultural °pert
eticne ; and in some dieeriete farm work ie
bee advanced than it has been for a great
many yeare peat,
Her Majesty has written a letter to Eliza.
both 'Roma, the heroine of the Columbine,
expreiming sympathy with her in the suffer-
iiI2goei, she endured in her memorable voyage,
and sending at the sitme time a check for
A copy of Dickens' "Strange Gentlemni,"
one of the meet of hie production, was re-
cently bought by A small bookseller or three
pence. By him it was sold for iii to a
yelling man in the trade, he in hie twine dis-
posing of the book to another porton for WI,
Tnis last knew the value of his prize, and,
iri spite of its being imperfect, resold the
the volume for £5 to a well-known firm of
booksellers, who now want somewhere about
W12 for it. A perfict copy is worth £20. It
hi quite a small pamphlet, and haa been re-
printed—withmit the frentiepic cm
In the confederation of Switzerland, with
a population of about two a idioua and a
half, or j [1St one half that of London and its
auburbe, there are no lean than font lan-
guages. Oat of every thousand of iuhabi-
tante about 600 sneak Germain, 227 French,
56 Italian, and 17 R )mstaipti, Bach et these
languages represents a separately and sharp -
defined raoe, and in addition to this multipli-
city of race and language, the Swiss are
divided he the matter of religious confeesion;
in every thoueand of the population there
being roughly 600 Protestants to 400 Ra-
man Cethellos, Surely it he no email praise
to the constitution oil Switzerland and to
its adminietration, that with such diversity
of race tongue rand religion, there should
be a profound corinnon sentiment causing
Gm rniiiu, French, and Romanieoh alike to
cherish as the etreneest political feeling—
affection for the fetnerland.
Truth learns that the Princess of Wales
has really been euffaring from blood -poison-
ing. Her P.oyal Highness is now oonvales.
cent, but it is probable that during the En-
ter holidaye she will either go abroad for a
short time, or else take a orulee in the Roy-
al yacht, Osborne. The Prince' health
cannot yet be pronounced to be eiatirely sat-
iefactory, as she wiil require much care for
a coneiderable time to come. The Low
Church people at Torquay are by no means
pleand that the PHI:mese should have " sat
under" Mr. Hewitt, the vicar of Babbei-
combo, who is locally known as "Father "
Hewitt, and ie one of the most " advanced "
clergymen in the West of England. The
Duchess of Sutherland is a regular member
of thg congregation, and Babbacombe is a
very attractive church, the musioal services
being exceptionally good.
Beroness Bardett-Coutteneenye Life) has
been carrying out the suggestionlof cooking
savory dishes for the poor in Westminster,
and the results are most encouraging. Large
supplies of scraps are sent in, which are
oarefully cooked and prepared into eoup,
etews, pies and puddioge, and these are sold
at 1 penny a dish to the poor, who gladly
avail themselves of the opportunity of pro .
curing a good meal at mole a price. The
girlo at the Guards' Industrial Home have
been called to assist in this good work, and
tor sorae time prepared the 'reels in their
own kitchen, but the business has so largely
increased that miteble premises have been
secured where the work la dImlay started a Mayfair sera cart, and has
eelai Ludy IN ol-
org tnized ber plan so syetenaatically that
large quantities of really dainty morsele
aro collected and rent to Westminster two
or three times a week, and add greatly to
the material in hand. Under the auspices
of Lady Sudeley a similar collecting cart
will go about Belgravia..
Switzerland, einoe the time of the Ro-
man, Bellinzona has been a very important
military Leese, for it is the southern key to
the Gotthard Peas, anti commands the whole
valley ef the Ticino. In old times the con-
guering cantons of Eri Salem- z and Unter-
walden sent in turn a Landvogt or governor
to rule in Bellinzona over the province, and
each canton built itself a mighty castle. All
three remain, and their ancient towers and
hoary battlemented walls, built as they are
upon commanding eminences, give the town
an old world and pictureeque appearance.
Some thirty years ago, too, the Swiss con-
federation, profoundly !impressed with the
neceseity of making good tam Gotthard Pan
againit all comers'gang a line of fortificom
Roes right morose the valley just below the
town. To a layman, tide pictures.que zigzeg
of turreted macionry looks very formidable„
and as if no man or mom could overleap
such a wall much less an army ; but military
critics assert that so rapid has been the ad-
vance in the art of war, that ae a work of
defence it is now absolutely valuelees.
A goose which has tint died at Stuttgart
left the flock, while still a gosling, and re-
solved to hey° nothing more to do with its
companion geese, but to try a new way of
life for itself. So it boldly marched into the
barracks of a Ualan regiment one day and
stationed itself next the nentry box, The
Uhlans were touched by the goose choosing
to ally itself with their corps, and built a
shed for it to live in. For twenty-three
yearn neither threats or persuasion were
oble to separate this bird frotn its adopted
regiment. When the corps changed guar -
tern the goose went with them, and when
t no comer ; but
the Uhlans went to fight for, 'l
r country
tho desolate creature took tii " for a time
with a battellon of lafantree
did the first; Uhlane enter the town than the
gem.° marched out to melt them, and went
with them to her old quarters. Since her
death ehe has been stuffed, and is to be mon
in a glass ease on the gate of the barracks of
Stuttgart.
When Franklin bottled the lightning he
was °moldered an Aj ax ; the pulpit thunder-
ed against his daring impiety. It was echo
of the ancient cum on the first tiller of the
ground, the first builders of towers, the first
bearer of gro and the arts to men. Never.
tholess, cue of Jove's belts vsaa bottle& ;
and, from that time, it has boon studied and
analyzed, until (mimeo hale learned how to
store up lightning and regulate its action.
Semi yeere ago a Frenchman crossed the
English (shame' bringing nixteen thunder.
storms in a Gladetone bag, He conveyed
to Sir William Thompson, at Glasgow, ao
many little rnetal boxes, canned lightning.
Dr. Buohanan oame in ono day to borrow
one of these boxes, saying that he wanted to
um it on a patient,—a little child that had
a tumor On Ito tongue, which he was afraid '
to out off or to burn off in the old way 1 the
heated wire cornotirnee loses its heat, has to
be reheated, cringing much pain. The etori
ed electricity Was taken to the child's room,
the wire was kept at one heat, In one mo-
m" the lightning tonchod off the tumor,
painlessly, soft as a nadthert.kklea ; and the
°him be well,