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 krJGYPTIAN ROMANCE. .rjirr of Love and Wild Adventurfl, foMed upon Startling Revela- 1^'"' tions in the Career of AraM Pasha. â- â-  NisA, The Nihilist," "The Eed Spot," «« The Russiah Spy " Etc., Etc. ' obligt' i:} $8O,00«.9« 1 Irrndttii?] 1^ affor** Bna^ Oit. //,. DO very to make rSAPTKR vn. -(Continued \^.ia\v 80. There can be I' •• f. j. All these accursed losusts J,(t«: »^'v ' n in Egypt become our mas- """.vbringim them. too. their own I*!* ^Lr that they may vioUte ours," I'lll^ToulblPMha, to which Saleiman I^Jpd with an oath: -iSonbt .boat it. and what is worse, I ,„n!v start busm 888 here unasked. te°i' -^'""•'1^" when they fail v' â- ^'^Jn^emuities which our weak-minded " 3 seems ready to pay.' 'Ziie the taxes of onr poor until they Utheat the collectors and get the bas- K7rb-ir-'dete3ted. or else pay and '^° Pean'^. smcq as these mafce i"pH»'8 'ror there is nothing l^v^" s..iaIoulba. SLvi AlUh call upon me to reign over I ., T wUl m^!c them lojal, for the fellah, r V- would lay down his very life for ' ' ^t'ster. By the Prophet, would that %v bette- what it was to have one, :.v,e war minister proudly, and Toulba jraat cn'je mide answer Tjist i« because he has eo many mastera. â-  " -i tw^^nty foreign consuls in Egypt, t.'^cii i8 a p 'tty prince. They are above r.rpt Their watches regulate even the L?t a Feringhee do what wrong he ' vet cie consal wi'l protect him from r^aMfluences, whilst the Egyptiim is '..^minkd by the seeking of redress. Ihatiatme, for his ewe is tried, not lEijoTOla'Ts. bnt by those of the man ijtfcMicjarei him, which of cours^ there M cnderEtanding, so that in seeking to -jterhis stolen coat the chances are tiat iu^oes all tiie rest of his apparel,"' said jci'-an Ksv. 3v Allah and the Prophet, where is the oi'diecussing these matters farther? Can 'â- â- ;mt the sands of the desert or the sea- ^â- o, no, but we can try to save our- :i from being buried beneath them, nev- slees Mv friends, we must lose no time '.iichiagthrugh trusty but secret emis- reithe population of our great cities the ;:e and injustices w'riich they suffer and ;» aey c .n beat rid themselves of them. .i-ied Ar .bi, of O.abi, proclaim myself tiinend cf the downtrodden and the op- l, and as beinj; ready to lay down my in tneir cause. Should they elect me as ::Lh«n^.ion my battle cry will be ♦ Egypt •ie F.t'yfi'iins and down with the Euro- control ' You my friends, I am well :e, are wit.'i me hand and glove, whilst allies that we can number without are fJiy more numerous than all the foUow- ::he Khedive. io, then, and sow in .:ia order that we raip amidst the ai victory, ' spoke the war minister. Toulba Pasha ne.aswir: "A victory that has been â- -ifri for by the unlying tongue of pro :!:;, for hr.s it not been foretold that the ieadt; rrho shall restore Mohammed- to its 'clden glory shall be called :1, and is cot thy name Ahm^d And Mtthe time in which this deed will be ;::ht been rixei for the thirteenth cen- â-  'f the Hsgira And do we not enter It that century in the course of a few insBaHar., be it as God wills," replied f'^ar ir.ini-t.r de\ outly and then he " V'.u m'.y tsll that jirophecy l::r.ep€cpe likewise, for if AUah spea'is :::':. .lis j.rophot and I am the person â- ;! aliude: to, I d:\re not, even if I 'â- â- i. ref-ubr 'Q :ibey the behest of the M ost ;: oro -:.-'ay, and loss no time in sow- ^::ejoci sif {, yet be c ireful that it falls -ron 8tr;M sround, where the birds of tiirwills'far.d devour it. With this r~e' I disn.iis y.u, r.-.y bro*;hers, and ••^itnth; va'ting asburances that as I soar t.it^refore remember that con the -*1 ulcEgt t t"-iiU." â- â- ::::ip6 ti Tit'.; f- ^!t«eir.. bird;; that remember their â- rarnmj: â-  be ihi was not altogether as it may, the trio expressions of fidelity -riNi. i A pro. tH.M'TKK Vjri lA-" iS' \|. THE K •inct'r.fr v eek has paiead away and a "The •iro Theatre to crowded 1; "*Mc-fi.:a company is playing I '« at the C .iro Theatre to c; â- '•isr case of danc. aj^, singing and fid- -the brink o- chaos, though to be ".- 'b:.c3 how cloBs chsos IS at v-vere of revolution have per- â- li'or in darkness and in si- ~-.td ti-ei; '"-i no ozi perceives as yet the strong ' S'fag^r and scimitar blades -ntless bayonet points that all .iround. n a shower of blood drops to re.-leuiiih that crop and le (juicker and bear fiult in ,„. • -d then as Feringhee blood .«;â- =« tne streagest nourishment these ;•' tiLjers and revelers will be aroused t) Of _.,.^. '^â- si with -â- â- ery ,. Medeq •"' zro\T â- â€¢-«on, â-  1.3! on of ease, luxury the cost of the Egyptian, under- clap. ^â- Mfrrseat the Frank hotels are â-  1 laa f\ K;r-idean quarter of F-K-s '*/"'ght and chee.-ful as any it "•V^^f^'-it Paris, London or New Py'intrW^"' ^^« labyrinth of dark, k. "'^«*nrsand vallf.ys," where the hi:'i\ ' ^hs Sat-roofed houses on WK- ""'"5 '^waris each other, •"P*^-' of the highest -iC 4^.f'y shake hands _. ive4af-?"'"^°'-*8^^*"» from their where rooms across the tor- re- ^nln ' """ balconies, are the r».." i '^itred aad disc"""*** •"'•~«.il ' '!^-o a murmur "'â- â- '^Veii -^^" *^^ discontent allowed ^â- i -d\° '"uraiur, and that mur- ;:i5;l-;-"_^'iPPr-sssed. F-'-ifs^^J^'""" a suflBciency of signs ""^yab'v' *^*"^^'y warning of what ^â- ^ b t}T: '° '^^Ppei to those who are 'p^ure ^â- '.â- ^*^'ong pursuit of wealth "^^H entire and '^-^Lfi'???**!"^!"" i-do Poasibl act undivided " attention. t .. '^*.^ tbe Europeans, m a ice the hatred with Which tion have begun to regard 'g of the eyes, the curlirg of the lips, the aonnd of the spitting ground after they have passed by 1 j^'**"' *!»»* one or two oonsala have wdged complaints of not being aalnted by Jigyptaau sentriea when in ofacial uniform on their way to and from the palace, but the remusnesa on the aoldiera' part has been aet down to opium instead of Impertinence, and has been either overlooked or forgotten. Tis true, also, that many Europeans have observed ttat the masses pay far more def- erence to the war minister. Arabi Pasha, when he drives or rides abroad than they do to his hJghaosB the Khedive, bat thfv conaider the reason for thb to lie in the pasha's austere piety and b^nndleaa gener- osity, two qualities for which he has long been famed, and their confidence in the Joint Control. With this obliquity of vision all around, who shall particularly blame Mr. Trezarr, the rich E. gliah banker, for allowing his comely wife and lovely daughter to attend the Opera House even unaccompanied by himself He had arrived at that time of life when an easy chair and a newspaper, taken in conjunction with a prime cigar and a bottle of iced Chateau Lntted, proved a fund of enjoyment much greater than even a ballet, far leas an opera, could have afford- ed him. So, af cer bidding his womankind an impatient farewell, for he was in the middle of a leading article in a fortnight old Timea, he had his armchair moved ont into the garden, where he might watch in a kind of drowsy enjoyment the goigeons set- ting of the blood red Egyptian sun, from within a little summer house that was almost buried beneath fragrant jasmine, and iu front of which a droopiog date tree gently waved ita cluatera of crimaon and golden fruit, the aunlight causing them to reaemble huge preciooa atonea. " Assuredly his lot had faUen in pleasant places," the rich man thought to himself, arid he !!aw not Lizarus afar off in hia litf I3 mud hr t thatched with straw, with its sole furniture of a mat and two pitchers, eating his evening meal of coarse maize bread, whilst he gazes half Eavagely and half de- spairingly at the tiny copper coins that to the value of the thirteenth part of a dollar represent a day's labor of sixteen hours in the burning aun, yet ont of which the tax gatherer will seize at least a qiiarter in order that rich Earopeana may be feted at the Khedive'a nominal, out of theae poor atarved wretchea' real, expense. But while we are thus moralizing, the handsome two-horsed chariot containing our lovely heroine and her mother is dashing along the Chonbrah road towards the city, with coachman and footman in irreproach- able liveries, en route to the Opera House, near the Rue de Moscow. Nellie is not looking her best, for her col- or and spirits seem to have alike forsaken her. The fact is, ahe is fretting about Frank Donelly. whom she has only seen ocne aince the fete at the Gizoreh Palace, no w an event of the. to her, long ago; atid on that solitary occasion he had met with so cool a reseption from her parents that he had ever since held himself aloof. The young officer was the last man in the world to stir up a daughter to needlessly I rebel against those to whom she rightly owed obedience, and as it had seemed to him very evident that neither Mr. nor Mrs Trezarr would ever sanction his marrying her, he had made up hia mind that both for Nellie's sake and his own it would be better did he try to forget her, and by zealously keeping out of her way, help her to forget him in like m-nner. But Nellie, far from giving him credit for kindly and unselfish motives, had made up her mind that he had surrendered her far too Bisily and then jealousy, of course, crept into her heart to make her still more uncomfortable, aad she began to believe that after all he must have learned to care much more for the Egyptian lady whose life he had saved than he had ever done for her- self. There is not one girl in a hundred who would not torture herself in a very similar manner under the same circumstances, and certainly Nellie had some excuse for doing so, since when her lover had called at Mount Carmel on that one solitary ocoasion which we have mentioned, he had never as much as asked her for an answer to the question which he had propounded with such fervor in the illumined pilace gardens the night bsf oreâ€" namely whether she would marry h'm without her parents' consent. In plain truth, the young dragoon had had no time to disc, f o*- he had wasted a precious five minutes in the usual greetings, and then the mother had come into the room and directly afterwards the father and had not left him alone with Nellie for a smgle instaat hereafter,, and when half an hour later he had received his cool conge from the severe paterfamilias, who had foUowed him outside the drawing room door in order to be as co'.dly impertinent as he could make himself consonan-. with what he considered to be good breeding, Frank had tried to per- suade himself that he was glad he had net been allowed time to ask what he had caUed expressly to ask, since he had been for^ by their conduct to the cocolusion that there was less of Christian forgiveness and the milk of human kindness in Nellie s parents constitutioDi. than he had before suppoaed. " And if they persisted m not foi^i^g her she would mope and fret, and instead of making her happy I «honld only m'^o,^«f wretched, on which account I ahaUaacrifice Ty own happiness for hers without farther S?ugSe,"h^ been Frank's final resolve; but he would have been able to ca«7it ^t better if he had at onoe retired f«» «• scene of action, instead «* Y"""' u!"^n strange, yet natural, inconsistency, he rtUl Ungefed on in Cairo, tiiongh there w-nrt the slightest necessity for domgso, ^i'^^ having by this time been quite reestab- Though the young dragoon had rMolvwi to give Nellie upThe ooold not taar hinudf whSlly away from her that was the tree state of the^case. He atUl had no am^ de- gree of comfort in gazing. at her •{«. «^«£ Ivt n in looking at the windows of the hoiue in whioh aha dwelt if he had bem unable to «toh a viaw of her fair aelf for a few days. He auM derived aome d^^ne of aatiafaction, though it was certainly alUed with atiU more of nneaaineaa, in the aaapioion( whioh he was one of the very few to entertain ^that a time of peril and danger was near at hand in which he might be able to render her or hen some great essential service whioh would create a revolution in their aentiments to- ward him and lead np to aa happy a climax aa any recorded in a novel. Bat Nellie haa no aach hopea or comforta to buoy her up, and her sorrow ia all the harder to bear beoauae her pride f oroea her to aaanme a gaiety of disposition which ahe ia far from feeling, and in tiie artiiSoial ana- taining of which ahe b constantly breaking down. In the dark deptha of the carriage, how- ' ever, ahe make a no attempt to anatainthe I»rt which she has set herself to act, bat giring way to her real feelings suffers the great crystal tsars to escape from her beau- tiful violet eyes. And now the carriage has entered Cairo proper, through the great Gate of Victory, and rolling along the no longer level cause- way presently reaches the opening to that unsavory and evil repatationed locality, the Quartier du Crocodile. Here the ;;lare of flames and a shrill hab- bub of cries and liaghter. frightened the horses and caused both latUea to glance out of the carriage window, when they beheld the atrange. and to them aa yet unmeaning, apectacle of aome street gamins, actively aided by a few children, of large growth, hanging a large pig that was dressed like a Chrlstiam over a fire to roast, taking good care, however, not to touch it with their hands. CHAPTER IX. IN THE CROCODILE QUAKTEB AND AT THE THEATBE. Yes, it was a comical sight enough when not viewed as a sngges'ive one, and there was nothing in it of cruelty to cause a shud- der, for the pig was dead, and from rhe serene expression of its porcine countenance he died (for one of its race) happily. A stiff shirt collar and a high black satin stock concealed very probably the gap in the throat which had let the steel in and the life out, while his capacious paunch was covered with an immaculate white waist- coat, and his little short front leg's dangled inside the sleeves of a black cloth coat, whose lappels were thrown well back. As for his hinder legs (and it is to be pre- sumed his tail included), they were tucked inside a pair of black Cloth trousers that were a mile too long for them, whilst some- how or other an eyeglaaa waa fixed in front of one cloaed optic, and what had been once a jaunty Paria high-crowned silk hat (though now disfigured by many a dent) was fasten- ed (stuck a littie on one side) atop of the huge lop-eared head, whioh also hung a lit- tle on one side, owing to the manner iii which the brute was hung. As the coachman was reducing hisfractioas horses to obedience, a crowd of the young street roughs, the majority of them uearly naked and more than half of them possess- ing but one eye (tor ophthalmies is a terrible scourge in Egypt, and many parents also cut out the pupils of their children's eyes, ao that they may eacape wh' n grown up the horrora of military aervice) aurrounded the carriage, loudly di manding baksheesh, for in Egypt a^ms are demanded as a right in- stead of asked for as a favor. Mrs. Trezanr, however, who knew that both pig and clothes must have been stolen from Europeans, and had a vague and misty idea that the whcle show was meant as an iosult to the whole population, would not part with a single paistre, whilst Nellie, whose perceptions were keener, was too terrified even to feel for her parse. Happi- ly, at this juncture, the horses condesended to spring forward in the right direction, wnich, however, they did with such sud- denness that one iirportunate young beggar was knocked down and trod under their hoofs, whilst the wheels of the carriage pass- ed over the toes of a second, extracting from the sufferers a chorus of howls, mingled with oaths and execrations in gntteral Arabic. Then a shower of stones was thrown, and one, smashing a window, struck Nellie's creamy hued right shoulder with a fo.ce that caused it to tingle and its fair possessor to cry out in alarm " Oh, let us return home, mamma, or we shall be murdered." " No, my dear. The danger is behind us now, and were we to return we should have to pass it again. Besides, to. be afraid of the wretched natives woold. be very bad form, and to show onr fear might be impru- dent in addition. Mobs do strange things even at home, aometimea, ao yon mast not be afraid. I wonder what could have been the meaning of the show I" What could it mean, mamma, except that the fanatics would like to serve our en- tire race as they were serving its represent- ative " " The representative of our race a pig T I don't follow you, my dear." " Oh, mamma, don't the natives hate us in part because we are swine eaters, and therefore do they no* coap'e us with the to them unclean animal which we make onr food Was not the bitterest scandal that they could concoct about the Khedive the tale that his European favorites had taught him to like ham Should he lose his crown and our lives a pig will be at the bottom of it. I feel sure that it was in the bloody Indian mutiny when the false rumor that the Mohammedan sowar's carbine cartridges bad been greased with hog'9 lard led to the shedding of whole rivers of Chr st an gore.' «« Nellie, you are a littie fool, and may depend upon it that in8te*d of being intend- ed as an insalt to the Christians, that dress- ed-un animal was merely a kind of Moham- medL Gay Faux. It's a pity that their scruples will prevent them "omemtmg^e anitmd after it ia roaated, and ifa a pity if they've atolen it from a poor man instead of a rich one, and if you want a third regret from me it is that our carriage windows are " Mamma, tell me if my shoulder is cnt. '" "No. my dear, I don « see a mark. If yon were hit 'tis for.unate tiiat tiie stone waaEotaaharpone, for tiie bruiae willnoti show until to-morrow. Here we «eat_ tiie theatre, so do call up a "mle, my dear. Nellii enayed ihe task, and in p«t sac- ceedS for tiie bright lamps, tte flM«tog pUy Mta and the riohly carpeted and light- ed Interior of the drcas drole entranoa look- ed so homelike and European that they seemed to breathe aa aaaoranoe of safety. The footman, desoendlng frosn the box, threw opMi the carriage door and aaslBted his ladiea to alight, and a minnte or two later they were in the company of a aoore of other elegantiy dreaeed Christian woman in the aumptoonsly filled np doak room, whose silvery lauf^ter and anticipation of ooming enjoyment caused Mrs. Trezarr at all events to forget the outward oocorrenoe that had happened daring their drive thither. The house when they entered it looked partionlarly brixht, for the parfoimaaoe that evening waa nnder royal (tiiat is to say, Khedival) patronage, so that the centre of the dress circle (the heat of the climate for- bidding the construction of close, stuffy boxes) was brilliant with rich n^forms, gold laca and glittering jewded orders. Prince Taw was seated in a golden ohidr of sta'e, and around him stood a goodly ar- ray of pashas, beys and effehdia, mingled with many an embroidered coated European consul, and here and there an English, French. Austrian. German or Italian officer in the uniform of his corps and ccnitry. To the right and the left of this gay as- semblage sat many a comely dame or lovely maiden, attended by father, htuband, brother or lover, all clad in sombre black, for they had been in uniform or official dress they must, by court etiquette, have gone over to swell the resplendent group who encircled the Khedive, amongst whom were Ahmed Arabi Pasha, the war minister, and Captain Frank Danelly. the latter clad in the brilliant scarlet and gold of the British cavalry ser- vice, for he had been dining with Sir Ed- ward Milet, the consul-general, and after- wards, rather againat hia will, been induced to accompany him hither. He was no longer aorry that he had come when he beheld Nellie Trezarr and her mo- ther enter the circle, and it waa not long ere the young lady aaw him likewiae and wonder- ed that he c id not ceme over to her, rather deapismg him in her heart, in that ahe fan- cied he was afraid of her mother, and all unconscious that court etiquette prevented his quitting the Khedival party. There was one present who read her thoughts and rejoiced in her ihistake and evident chagrin, and he was Ahmed Arabi Pasha, who, far from having given up all hopes of makiog her his, had firmly resolv- ed that his ahe ahould be directiy the pat- iently for the hour should arrive, when kis- met or dest ny should make him the matter and ruler ef Egypt and of a'l that It contain- ed, though he had almost determined more than once that as a punishment for her treating his offer of marriage with so much disdain, he would no longer make her iiis wife, but merely one of the many beautiful slaves of his harem. But the swarthy war minister's was not the only mUevolent gsze that was fixed up- on poor Nellie, for from behind the gilded lattice work that concealed i^he ladies of the Khedival harem from the view of the entire audience, whilst it permitted them to see house and stage alike, a pair of large, black, glorious -eyes, soft as velvet, yet sharp as steel, were fixed alternately upon our hero- ine and her two admirers, taking fierce cog- nizance of the expressions of each, whilst the fire of fiercest hata was kindled in the heart of their possessor as she discovered that the rival was beloved by both. The excellence of the music was as power- less to attract her attention aa the rich dress- es of the performers or the beauty of the mise-en-scene. A quarter of an hour ago she had longed for the spectacle, but now she had eyes for nothing but the objects of her love and hate, and she would have given her very life to hive been able to pluago a stiletto up to its veiy hilt in the white breast of her fairer and younger rival, and to watch her die with greatest agony first. Nor let these vengafnl reelings on her part be wondered at, for Eutern blood is natur- ally hot and vcngetul, and a life of idkness a:^d seclusion is apt to increase and foster all that is evil in a nature that is never given to the study of aught that is good. Despite the great heat of the night in the narrow streets, the interior of the theatre was kept deliciously cool by the continual fiuttering of enormous punkas, worked by machinery. There was a free circulation of air to everywhere, and the lamps in the aud- itorium were not numerous enough to gen- erate much heat of themselves whilst bs- low. in place of the European arrangement of pit and stalls, was marble pavement, with a foudtain in the centre that threw spray In- stead of water, which, instead of falling, seemed to dissolve Into the atmosphere and tend to cool and moisten it. The habitants of this part of the house had to move about wi:h bare or stockinged or f eltsoled feet, 83 that no noiae ahould dis- turb those who sat above, but the lowest classej amongst the audience were accomod- ated as with us in the topmost circle or gal- lery, and these oeleatiala, like our own, were not always silent or well mannered, and had not the European portion of the spectators felt so secure in their self-conceit they might have noted many things to cause them even more than uneasmess. But neither the marked disapprobation of the comic incantation scene which many of the baser class of spectators seemed to re- gard as an insulting ourlesque on their own belief in the supernatural, or the growls and ejaculations that greeted each appear- ance of the British grenadier ofiiser who is one of the leading characters ia the opera, were regarded or noticed, and at the term- ination of the performance the audience be- gan to disperse, the fashionable portion at all events well pleased with the amusement that had been afforded them, and Nellie Trezarr alone reieived any indication of danger in the future. The warning came in the shape of a piece of rather thick writing paper folded In two, which was suddenly pushed into her white kid gloved hand by a huge and bare one as black aa ebony from beUnd, but when ahe looked round ahe could give no guess as to its owner, so with a thrill she opened the paper and read in delicately traced charact- ers " The dove who hovers near the eagle's nest should beware its claws and beak." (TO BE COXTIjrUED. Wreckless engineering is what b wanted en railroads and steambmts. Girls, a delicate way of giving a young man a hint that he is actlog too fresh la to treat him to pretzels. "Has he any expensive habits!" "He has one rather expulsive one that I know of." "WhatUftr "Eating." PEB80VAL8. Kinc Milan is said to have the Ur est foot of amy maainEoiope. It is planted ^«tty deeply In Balgarlan olay. Jesse Grant denias with emphaaia the mouna In regard to Mra. Sartoria and the alleged nnhapj^ess in her domestic life. Albani recantiy sang before Queen Vio- toria, and had the ohoioe between an India shawl and one of Her Majesty's published works as a soaveidr. Of oonne she took tiie book. Dr. Dio Lewis says " that wearing large, thick heavy boots and bine hand-knit stor- ings will improve a woman's oomplexioii." We fear it will require more than this te kill the sale of face lotions and oomplexioii powders. An engine driver on a Saxon railway has just retired from a service of forty yeacs, da^ig whioh he haa traveled, on his looo- motive, without a single accident, a dis- tance of 253.347 miles, equal to forty seven journeys around the earth. The footmen who wait solely upon the Queen of Sireden and her daughter wear a very quaint uniform, consisting of tonic, petticoat and breeches edged with gold laoe. Thdr attire inolndes a wonderiul head- dress, conaiiting of a kind of embroidered skull-cap from whioh arises three ostrich feathers, none of whichis le.s than three feet h^h. Elder L. R. Hurst, grandfather of the notedMiss Lila Hurs^ the electric girl, prediets the end of the world in 1932. He declares that the next year will witness symptoms of the coming event, after which startling developments will follow rapid^, such as the moon turning to blood, the son wi hholding its l*ght and a general derange- ment of things. The Czar of Russia and Kaiser Franz Joseph of Austria had a fine time at Gastiea. The bills for tiie entertainment of the Em- perors and their suites have been sent In, and amount to ^00,000 The wine mer- chant's bill enumerates 1,500 bottles of old Rhine wioes. 2,500 bottles of various French vintages, 3,000 bottles of champagne and 1,000 bottles of liquors. Report comes from Turin of the death, aged 77 years, of Father Giacomo, the friend of Cavour. For years he was the diapenaer of that atatemin'a charitiea, and when the Count lay dyiag the prieat went to receive his last confession. and administer the last aacrameats It was his privilege then to have addressed to him the states- man's last words in this world " Brother. a free church is a free State." Charles Heber Clark (Max Adler), lately converted, has some of the old man left in him still. He managed to raise a lively shindy in the Church Congress at New Haven and enjoyed the fun ai much as tiie man in one of his own stories who, after submitting to a transfusion of goat's blood, got a globule hi his brain at church and bucked the sexton up into the pulpit. Ella Wheeler- Wilcox was bom In 1850, and is said to be below medium height, spare in chest and shoulders, but with shapely arms and hands. Har eyes are hazel, with a peculiar amber tint, ap- proaching yellow. Their color has once been poetically defined as old gold. A prominent chin imparts an attenoated aspect to her features. Her complexion i« pale, with a transient bloom that appears on the cheeks nnder the atimulua of any mentdl excitement. Her hair is of that tex- ture and shade of brown that is the uner- ring indication of a refined nature. Iu phrenological development the imaginative quUites are strikingly prominent. Col. Higginson writes to a Boston news- paper that the " shock" caused in Boston by Matthew Arnold s leoture on Emerson related, in the opinion of many persouB, not so much to the subject of the lecture as the author. He recalls an anecdote of Mrs. Elizabeth Montague, who, while in Paris, was invited to hear Voltaire read an essay on Shakespeare, in which he attempted to show that the great poet waa not a great poet. When Voltaire had finiahed reading the hope was expressed by some one present that the easay had not caused her pam, "Why ahould it pain me ' she aald calmly, " I have not the honor to be one of the friends of M. de Voltaire." ASesolare Spot Isle Royal, where the ill-fated Algoma was lost, is the largest Island in Lake Su- perior, and lying about forty-five miles south of Fort Arthcr. It is wholly American ter- ritory. Like other islands in the great in- land sea, it is rugged and rocky in character. It oontains severtd mining locations of more or less value, and is a favorite resort for travellers In search of amethysts and agates. On a clear day it can be seen very easily with the naked eye from Port Arthur. The coarse taken by theC. P. R. steamer, which runs direct from Sault Ste. Marie to Port Arthur, passes close to the north-eastern ex- tremity of the island. It« length northeaat and aonthwest ia about 45 miles, and ita greateat breadth nine milea. Beyond a few fishing huts and mining camps it haa littie in the way of human habitations, and it has no permanent population. Copper vdna have been discovered on the island, which muat have been worked by a race of people now nnknown a' extinct. Here are to be found open cut ga more than a mile in length, and connected by tunnela or drifta, which were timbered with beama now broken and decayed. The toola with which thia pre-historic people worked, are atill to be found scattered about the acenea of their long neglected labora. Stone hammers, cop- per knives and other tools have been found in these old wwkings In great abaudamce. The stone hammers ranged in weight from ten to thirty pounds. The copper toob were found to have baon tempered by fire. At least one generation of forest trees has grown over workings made by thb now for- gotten people. There b a cluster of rocky Islets located at the northeastern extremity of Isle Royal, some of which are mere reett of solid rock scarcely rising above the sur- face of the water. For a steamer to run in- to one of these rocky labyrinths when there was a sea on would be swift and certilB de- stmction, which could hardly be unattend- ed witii loss of life, for right beside tlieee ree and iitiets there b often found from ten to twenty fathoms of water. As far as can be learned at present it wonld seem that this was the fate of tiie Algoma. iiiifli' •' â-  .-i# ',H bii 1 .,.: â-  M HJ H M ' -• â- !lj '.I t' lll'll'ip â- ::!;1 -Imj./^ "S5' i j; i ' ' '.I