The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-13
THE BOOK AGENT.
=. Of the Traits Of this "Pest Of
S Mankind"
a., However, is Often as Much Sinned
Against
Siaalng-A Laughab!e Sketch.

,a,ails of O'Donovan Rossa's plot 10
the Welland canal are awaited
Nv inch curiosity. We refer this plot ~
s vs.. because, as is very well known, this
w. a,,.,igsbe and patriotic dynamiter
nj .~ds bis nights and days il evolving
' 'ls.mss 10 bling the naughty British lion
sI =, kpen by means of explosives of vaI-
Wv .rnroyed designs. Whenever any
. MIN happens to British naval, military,
'D eivil apendage, anywhere, Rosa sends
y reporter, winks portentously, and
" w.. ~ have nothing, whatever to say
grant this business" Cholera morbus in
>. . ,srjment at Wimbledon or an explosion
'.s s,aam.chest on board British man-ot.
wis alike grist to Rossa's dynamite mill.
rs.,sfore, II the Fenian went to Canada for
,As purpose of destroying the Welland ca
~ An the day of Brady's execution, they
pA y" have been 0'Donovan Rossa's men,
mus nIsas;ssly why the canal should have been
ile"IIod ont for destruction, in preference
n', MANY other public works in Canada, We
" m snt Ia guess. The wheat shipments
s s., Chicago and other lake ports pass
nu m the canal on their way TO the Ca.
I aSTa sea.board. The stoppage of these
nIas;,S,l steamers would raise the price of
l..;n in the Canadian ports and would
s"shar the American shippers very much.
pnt Il would not seriously affect the British
lion. u,. - s,r;,,. torrorr 20 th.
.,n,,o If the Irish dynamiters and it is
.aVtain that cold shivers would have run all
w. the Dominion OF Canada If the Wei.
iand canal had been wrecked and the ship.
, liant nj American wheat had been tempo
.s,;lv suspended. As it is, the mere report
nSths intentions of the raiders has created
manic in her Maiesty's Dominions in
yor America, and her loyal subjects are
haunting guard ovor every work which
nav he supposed to invite the torch and
Svnamite of the foe. In this recent instance
tSa invaders exhibited a richness of re.
source combined with a poverty of inven-
i'm which is really remarkable. They
we're so amply equipped that they were
sble 10 send long, low, rakish, black'look-
inc schooner from Boston to Halifax, with
Osentatiously practical designs. But, while
The provincial authorities were nervously
dredging the harbor in search Of torpedoes,
and expecting to be blown skyward at any
moment, the crafty tenians, we are told,
we're only doing all this las blind"
Their real point of attack was the Welland
canal, near st. GATHERINGS. But the gov
eminent was not so easily fooled. The IN
eyilabe informer, who Is uniformly present
where two or three Irish plotters are gath
cred together, had warned the Dominion
government; and to be iorewarned in this
case was to be forearmed,
The alleged fenlans were fifteen in mum.
Der. They were suspicious looking"
Any man is Suspicious looking when the
observer is suspicious. And, in the middle
Of May, the Canadian constabulary was in
q most suspicious frame of mind. More.
over, the invaders did not 90 to hotel
wnen they arrived at st. GATHERINGS. In.
vAdprs, rs a rule, 60 not go to hotels. The
NOtmsns did not take their baggage TO
hOlel when they invaded Britain TO drive
uuI "lhe hated Saxon" The forces of
tisLeral T.yior when they went to Mexico,
slhrugh they had great expectations of
revslfy IN the halls of the Montezumas,
did not 90 ,oa hotel. But the fenian in
nders, Notwithstanding they did not 60 to
any hotel land st. GATHERINGS is notori-
Ou,y wilderness of hotels carried sach-
ss Each man of them had sachel. More
over, detective overheard "snatches of
conversation" between two OF the mis-
Creants which left no doubt in his mind as
tOthelr intentions. Miscreant No. said
something about lightning" which OBJ
yiOusly referred to an explosion of some
sort, and Miscreant No. . replied with
Inference to water" which could not pos.
aoe mean anything else than canal wafer.
twill not do to attempt to cast ridicule on
this part of the business by reminding us
that Canadian whisky is usually known as
lightning 10 the quarrelsome Americans
who infest the border. Nor can we accept
the suggestion that the fifteen suspicious
looking visitors were merely book agents
Who had made rendezvous at st. Calne.
nne's prior to general scatteration of their
lendsh work throughout the Province. 1t
strue that fifteen book agents, armed with
oAbbot's Lite of Napoleon" and THE
0pening OF Chestnut Burr" would carry
CONSERVATION into the homes and firesides
OF the Dominion. Its true that these book
asen!s-or invading fenians-returned as
myslerlOusly as they went. 1t is also true
.hh not even the bravest Canadian was
efaVe enough to examine one of those dead
y'looklng sachels, and that the invaders
were allowed to depart unquestioned and
anscathed. But Canada is not only loyal,
put cautious. The Queens faithful sub
leCls did not NEEDLE with strange dyna.
Ile' They did not encourage the advance
Oithe book agents. And when the last one
q The invaders had returned over the Dor
yer The honest Canadian thanked God that
ne ne was wel-rid of the knaves,-[New York