Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18

telegraph wire which he controlled, he
told his subordinates at Alexandria that
he was going on a visit of inspection to
Cairo, where he might stay for some
time. He asked them to be very
careful during his absence, especially as
to the important news concerning Said
Pasha's health-about whichpoor Ismail
Pasha was very uneasy-and, mounting
his dromedary, started for Cairo.
The Cairo Office was then managed by
young American from Baltimore named
Iinney, to whose surprise Mr.. Thomas,
instead of going to the hotel as he had
always done, took up his quarters at the
telegraph station, where, besides staying
all day, he also passed the night. lie
never left the office for one minute, hay
ing his meals brought to him there, and
always being near the instrument to see
what passed over the wire. The system
by which the telegraph was worked In
Egypt was by impressions of dots and
line on paper bands, and not by sound
as it is in America, and Mr.. Thomas kept
his eye on the slip for fully ten days and
nights and yet the news he was SO anx-
iously expecting came not. Young
Tinney was at loss to understand what
all this meant, and was much annoyed
by the managers proceedings, who be
thought suspected him, and therefore
watched him. Mr.. Thomas had by this
time become quite nervous, the effects
of sleepless nights were plainly visible
in his face, and at about o'clock one
afternoon, feeling exhausted, he told
Iinney that he YVES going to take little
rest on the floor, giving him strict orders
to call him in case any telegram came
about the death of Said Pasha. Tinney
then, for the first time, discovered what
all Mr.. Thomas anxiety was about, and
as soon as the latter was fast asleep he
called In the Arab bookkeeper, from
whom he learned in casual way, as if
in no way interested, that the bearer of
the news of Said Pasha's death to his
successor, Ismail Pasha, would receive
the rank of hey and 10000 piastres.
Hour after hour passed; many bust
ness and other kilograms came, but not
the one expected. At the commence
ment Mr.. Thomas awoke every time the
instrument licked and asked what it was,
but at last he slept so heavily that no
ordinary noise could awake him.
About two hours after midnight "tick-
tick tick F." went the instrument. Young
Tinney became all ears and eyes, and he
knew In a few seconds that Said Pasha
had just then expired at Alexandria.
He Immediately tore away the slip, I'M
screwed the instrument, took away part
of it with him, and, pulling off his boots,
left the room, making as little noise as
possible. For further security, he went
up to the story above and disconnected
the wire. He then ran as fast as he
could in the direction of the Ezbekich
road, where he knew Ismail Pasha lived.
Arriving at the little kinosque the latter
| then occupied, he was stopped by the
guard, but upon telling him he had ran
all the way from the telegram-station to
give the pasha news of a revolution that
had broken out in Alexandria during the
night, he was kept in the basement until
word was brought from upstairs that
| IsmaI Pasha would receive him. The
moment he saw the telegraph operator
enter he knew what had happened, as
nobody had been more anxiously ex-
pecting the news than himself, not even
Mr.. Thomas.
Tinney told him in English, which
| language Ismail Pasha understands, that
Said Pasha was dead, and then gave him
the slip off the instrument. Ismail
asked him his name, and, upon his say
ing George Tinney, the pasha, who was
now viceroy of Egypt, w1ote something
on piece of paper, and, handing it to
him, said; Chimney Bey, [ thank you
very much. Here is an order on the
treasury for 100000 piastres, and the
trade naming you hey will be the first ]
shall sign