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The_Soudan,'whcre the English hero Gordon waited in vain the relief that lsr.

Gladstone never sent-an error, by_ the way, that caused Mr. Gladstone to change from prime minister of the British Enl- pire to a retired country gentleman lu the neighborhood of Folkestone, Suiloik-is about to undergo a,~ transiormatioll from

barren, shifting sands, more treacherous and less hospitable than the waves of the North Sea, toe veritable garden. A suc- qsselop of harvests and pleasant reaches of cultivatedfnelds will greet the traveller along that railway which Kitchener pushed from the Jilpeticn of. the Blue and the White Niles, straight across the sands to Khartoum, -and there avelllild 011° d°*,"°11 of Gordon, I.u the Scudan, when it r-nine,

the etolid Hohsmmedana fall on thi-sir knees and pray. inch 'events aretold and* retold hom one generation' to mother. ,In

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other words, scientists calculate that it ` .D- ‘ , <.1l7'4C2/1

rains in the Soudan proper about once in every 100 ybars. The tranelorllaticn of the Soudell fl‘0ll1

aa arid, sandblssted desert to one of the most fertile coun- gyige of the world, it is eXP¢°if‘ .d,1y|l| require live years of haul labor, lbogi; |50,000,000, and a force of some 800 Bufgpeen engineers and overaeere, and

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The tremendous change in the prosperity of Egypt is owing to the marvelous eng- ineering which has enabled the British to dam the Nile in several places and by the construction of regulators to make it pos- sible for th'e Valley of the Nile to secure a regular and certain irrigation. This means that the families which enabled

pmmbly n-om zoooo to 40.000 fsllehoen.

Joseph to gain the favor of the* Pharaoh

by his true Jewish forethought and com- rhercini ability are now n thing of the past in Egypt. The lean and fat klne have beeh replaced in modern Egypt,unler the iagaoicus ruling of Lord Cromer, who, in the name of the Khedive,rules lgypt and Hieps in his embroidered pocket the great le! tothe Suez approach to India by a constant succession ofweil-fsttensd beev- as. More than that, without vexatious taxation, the Egyptian fellah has been able to pay more than the interest of the bends and stocks issued to secure the funds 0( the irrigation in Egypt proper.

But the Soudan, which is separated

gsgia Egypt by the lefty slim; or me Nils llcuntains, and which is really ls strong depression which leads up to the slightly higher desert of the Sahara, presents a ptoblsm in irrigation lsr more dlillcult, Nevertheless, the engineers, who for years

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more or less civilised Soudan, Abyssinia would occupy the now historical and traditional post in British diplomscy'of being the next natural and inevitable ad- dition to the British Empin. However. wenellir has been worked on so thorough- ly and so skilfully thnt his consent has been given, despite the counterdntrigu- ing of the French Foreign Odce. The key to the whole situation is Lake Tsahu.

Lake Tsansis about the sine of Lake

Ontario and is thelamest body of fresh -water in North Africa. While not the chief _source of the Blue Nile, which ‘~gushes through the Soudan ilve months in

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would havcto hold up six feet head c water. The rock bed above and below tin regulator would have to he cut down ful

some distance to form the channels of np ,preach and discharge. Were such a. res' iervoir made, a dam near Wad Mednni would also be necessary to provide for the distribution of the summer water to the lands lying in the Gherireh, south of Khartoum, between the White and Blue Niles, and the lands on the right of the Blue Nile. i . ‘

_ Lord Cromer, in a recent interview,

figures out that the dams and locks of the entire Soudan system will cost

have been studying the possibilities of _the year, and is merely a succession: of $'l,0iD,iIIl, while the canals ang t\eBiue Nile in 'eorinection with irrlgatipg shallow puddles the remaining time, it is' basins will cost $w,iID,ilXi. The 7 the Soudan, have solved the question. the onlypossiblehope ofSoudsnirrigaticn.` necessary bond issues for commence

The water, which it is proposed to store and yet, now that it has been arranged ment of the work, amounting tc $10,000,-

let drivel down during the" with Abyesinis, the problem of irrigsttng ill), wah eil abedrbedin London and New .dfyiedsemin the bed of the Blue Nile, the Soudan is in many ways aneesy ohe. `Ybrkabeut18'm6nths ego sta'very fair descends frmn' the heavens over The Blue Nile has noneof tlie telvide fllie figure. The interest is at a little over 4

_elarge section of Abyssinla. As a result which plagued the' engineers who arrang percent., while Lord Cromer declares , _line lyltlen rsrtllustlbn of the senden sa for the control onlie ml Nile. that, messgefl in the sane :semen ss me world st urge and the sessemeeie

praetinelly and politically depends upon Ae regards the work necessary to con- irrigation ofltgypt proper, at the end ot the consent of Emperor Menelik, the most vert Lake Teens inte a reservoir to etbre ` lilyesrs the revenues derived from Souden potent herharic and altogethereraftyruler \il),iI)0,0(l),Gli gallons a regulator should be irrigaticnshould pay a little over 105 per .pt Abyminie. Menelik withheld his een-x built on the outflow channel about lelniles cent. onlthe investlnent, time leaving a eantfor sometime. in the ilrst plees, the distant from the lake. The rsguldto clear ii per nt to be ` into the

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' wasthe natu;-al and providsntlal would haveiilopenings of nine feet edcii sinking funds under Lord 0romtr`a ooh

.eeirinnsfssslmt 'ms mme -emotion with lie ses: mnl¢~ls»l»t below the hu-s' tml. rn. ,vol-ring out ol.u»sse,ls-:nation

i » _ » f n .~ ‘ his new suse lmuelruss. with e w-mllsvel ls unless; it weulsbessoeble problem is mm sm lsestee season:

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-1- ‘>"""' l suitivated and consequently populous and oi' passing $111,000,000 eailess a day eadlandf- human-' siulvetion of the country.

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Under Ismail Pasllnthe financial condition `|‘ of Egypt could not have been worse. "

By 1010, then, at the latest, the ileids of

the Soudnn should be green with millet und corn, while the most important crop is expected to prove the fine Egyptian cotton,which excels the American pro duct, ani may yot make Fgypt one of the wealthiest countries in the world. France now rcslizes more bitterly than ever the importance of the Fashoda incident. Driven back from the upper end of the `Soudsn, too wise to attempt to ceeree`

hopes and slaughtered the soldiers of italy, France may now dsUnitely s`ee the' restriction of her African iniiuence to that almost worthless strip of ls_nd edging the Southem Mediterranean coast. With sn irrigated Seudan one iinds inevitably an irritated Fl-ence, but while Franee may prove irritable, she will hardly low ii' tractable.

The spending of what will total QM,-

000 in forcing the waters of [Ah Tama to hold their dashing ioroee and to gently

snllsssusss is osssobusly s selltlsol triumph for Greet Britain yet to the

ticular the constant enhdsiqkile d` Great Britain, however ploililfbil by a selfish absorption of territory. & only prove snunalloyedbleseing. Tiehlnsnpp

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In British hands the spade and piongb

share inevitably succeed the sabre and the rifle. The picture of the undaunted and abandoned Gordon holding his mud- ,wslled 'citadel in Khartoum in lseo,d,v- llltiinaliy upon the savage epeere of ll ~ Mnllshs' Arab horsemen, is slowly hut surely fading to give place to a. Bondsnsae

landscape of rose gardens and field.-s ripe for the harvest. Certainly the fairy tales I the future will be those created by that modern magician-the

those engineers who now boldly e miinent and chi leface ol

mon ded lhonsasds of years ago!

What Sulphur Docs `

For the Human Body in Health and D s=-ass. '

The mention of sn'phur will recall ie

mln! of ns the earl» days when our motbl “Bind Krandmotherega e us our daily dose of sulphur and molasses every spring and fall.

It was the un

, “blood purifier," ixgfxligalalrdmilnllgre-.sliii :ag mind you, this old-fashioned remedy was not without merit.

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crude and unpni§otgbie,“nt|1td1ill`e?;,d§\x: tity had to he taken toget any eiect. N°WMilyB we get nfl the » eneiloial

effects of sulphur in a pslata'»le, eoncen- trnted form, so that a single grain is far nnreelfective than a tebmepocntul of the dude sulphur. In New rem. re-su-cn asa expel-l~

In nt have proven that the best sulphur I- r medicinal me il that obtained fri m tlalicinlsiilelcium Sulphide) and so d in drug stone under the name of 8tusrt's |‘s'clnm Wan-rs. 'Ihev are small chocolate coated pellets and contain the active msdlelnev pn.. cipie on sulphur in s highly eoneeg

trated, effective form. ' FBW DO0Dlear~e awhre of the value of this form of sulphur in restoring and msintainirg bodily vigor sadhea th; sul harasts direl tlyon the liver and exerewry organs and purides and enriches th- bicod by the prompt elimination of waste ll\B|0l‘|&l. / Y Our grandmothers lfniaw this when ther dosed us with suiphlir ani molasses every epfinz and ran, but the cs-any ess impurity of ordinnri Howersvof sulphur ,were l~ften_\~Qree than the disease, and cannot compare with the mf dern con an

8tnart's Lalcium Wsfan is ondoubte ly

s ns", on-1 most widely used. They are the natural antidot ~ for liver and kidney troubles and cure constipation and parifithe blood in a way that often surprleeenetient and ihyaician alike. Uh R. H., Wiikihl while expfrlmeli-

ing with, sulphur reniediee soon found 420 \l_e tulnhnr from ealoiomwae snpef -

Abyssinia where Menelik dashed tht train' |l1'eDll'oi»i0n»s0fsul\Vhur, of which

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~ ,anyotlferform lie ~svs Fel-ii vq, k|dney~ and blood troubles, sep:-cially whehf resulting hom constipation or l'illarla,Ihave heenhrprised at the re one obtained from stusnfe fslelmn

_ ,wsrssn lnpaasmamng non ooh.

ripple as the need arises overthe lndflsnd pimplee and e~ an dee fiatid

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dq,upendd‘sappear in toororiive ` - leavihs the sein clear and smooth. -

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and tor that reaefn traced by mg,

physicians. yet i know of nothing ee site

sad reliable for eoestipeelee, lieqi at-e

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of the Briton in Africa ie'md'dy\/e`¢e¢`| 5 eiiggf .eh ¢||.e|g.' u 1@l&,_»

the survival of the ilttset. A study OCT

British methods in Hfpwh ho* being made by several C" the

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