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THE GUARDIAN, CHABLOTTWWK. FEBRUARY I2 19661 _

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WORK ON

THE NILE

Britain's

ment in Egypt.

OF ACRES

MILLIONS

Are To be Added to Egypt

Through a Mighty Engl- neering Peat.

While GreatBritaiu has been sus-

taining reverses in South Africa, she has been achieving in North Africa the mightiest engineering feat ot it-1 sort ever a:te:np'ed in the dammlng of the Nile.

The Nile, harnessed and made Co-

cile. will insure thousands of British subjects against famine. swell enor- mously Egypt‘s produce and put gold in Brilsin‘s coffers. The minds of tho --unprogrsseive” natives, made to toil lor Eigland‘s gain. will he tired to a uicker intelli ence by contact with

modern engineering.

t to British skill will it will rival the pyra-

q il the science 0! And a monumeu be set up where mide in woider.

Palm groves and broad plateaux

have had to give ivay to railroads. mounds of masonry. enzineering ap- paratus and half demolished rocks. The quietcl the land oi the lotus eaters is destroyed by the sbrielrs ei engines and the lotus-eaters’ descendants are lorced to tail for the British six days in the week and give up the's».ventti to the British Sabbath.

But the work is one of the greatest of

modern marvels. ing built nt tivo spots on the Nils- Assiout and lssouan. Ancient ¢2‘\&lS are being restored, ancient aluices re built. Witter that now runs waste into the Mediterranean will be guarded in the reservoirs until the surrounding land shalt erjoy a fertil ty it has not known in two thousand years.

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will he more than millions of unused over to cultivation

doubled in volume, acres will be given , and in a few years

the British public will begin to ses the return of the bread it so lavishly cast on the waters of the Nile. It was only last spring that morelthau 850,000,000 _ was advanced ti the contractors hav- T ill; thi' great work iuhavd.

Ths_ia.'gaslrsssrvoirls near Assn- .

nan. Tnere is a tremendous cataract »' here which the British are busily en- _ gaged in subduing. This done they

A rtiii~:»m'l_tiii emits of lsilimi.

After 'rwelve \'iin'»'a‘ §,,g¢,||\g, 'ru-

ronfn Phyalblahs /Advllfd Leav- UIK “PP "Whse to Go to Manitoba. ‘~`\l\l'¥“"\ Kola Compound Cured-

Mrs. Lt". ii__;;;--_-[_ sri \':iiiaiiley street. T0'

r»~:it- \‘Ii'»tv-~‘ l hiive been troiilileil wt-‘lt i-l“i-- f~ » -mils for twelve yearns.

"-ii worse each \'e‘\l' U1

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tinii-i l.:i< -;»~-1.: with .<1-mi-;il electors. ulvl

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will till up and divert the torrent and crown their efforts with a grlnits via- duct 70 feet high on the avenge, but _ in some places bonble that elevation.

Two hundred rriles down the river is

the subsidiary reservoir, at Assiont, where 11.000 men are employed. This work is only one fourth done, yet con- sidarable more than a million dollars has been spent. The dam will hold up mere than ten feet of water, the river

re being more than a half mile wide.

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°h 10 fee! Wlde. all provided with ° iw. 011°” WOW. to rlloir the mud- ' Nile water free Vent, for water stirr-`

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ed np motionless losses its tertilizing

parties. There will be a navigable O' O I ‘ _ _.__

ei;l,twi;l' States. fart the Passage of

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“down the river. g A up ‘E _ --_ _ `\

The watorsn ly of thirsty Egypt

_These two mammoth reservoirs, each with its system of canals. weirs and

dame, represent only two-thirds ofthe

great work whose object is to fertilize

gypt. The remaining one-third is the

Cairo barrage, the pioni. er of all Nile dams

The barrage is more than a mil.; in*

length. handsome paved roadway with i embat led walls. Sluiees stem the cur- i rent and hold up at the proper season a l will ot water from twenty to thirty feet _

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adequate view of this beautiful structure, with its slim towers and embat led gates, spanning the historic Nile.

i-

Oddities of the Language. 1

We’ll begin with a box, and the plural _

is boxes,

But the plural of cx should be oxen,not

oxes;

Then one fowl is gcose, but two are

calltd geese, `

be msese,

You may iind a lone mouse or a whole

But the plural of house is houses, no

hlce;

ll the plural of man is always called

men.

1 Why shouldnt the plural ol pan be call-

ed pen?

The cow in the plural may be cows or _ kiue. ` But a cow it repeated is never called

kine,

And the plural of vow' is vows, never

vine, “‘_‘_§‘

And if I speak of a foot and you show

me your feet,

And I give you a boot. would a pair be

called beet E’

O ll one is a tooth and a whole set are

teeth.

Why shonldn`t the plural of both be called teeth? _ It the singular"s this and the plural is

these,

Should the plural ot kiss be nicknamed

keese ?

,Then one may be that and three would i be moss. Yet hat in the plural would never be

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Yet the plural oi mouse should never _

neat of mice. l

Pebrethreu, ul 'ro rxslllnltaas

But though we say mo er, we never It mm qui“,,,,,u,,,¢¢_|,_¢,.|»,g‘ _ say methern. _ d ;;§ @** t'1'\|¢n masculine pronouns arelie, his ¥}°{*{m_ ou, wa” ,mguu ,M =°° '“'“- . - -$,f-...r.':.'~i’*.-t’-t4"t’e»“"

im; imagluethe feminine, she this and

_ shim, ssytsa. Uribe! __ ggngggg _ Abwd¢llsehlls|liHl'i so uni-i»¢li»h.I oink. you allvill °°°"'° _' ' ._ w.r.c»iviiii»

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I Pensions for the Troops.

ol Particular lsterest to Canadians.

genta, a cable

Government in lien being killed or injured in action.

For the loss

en a pension Colonel, £800 a year: mejor. £200;

captain,£100 ;lieutenant, £70.

Il the injury

half the above rates. _ For even less severe injuries a gratu- ity of from three to twelve mouths’ full pay is given, but no pension.

Paueloxs ron WocND=.

Pensions tor wounds received in act-

ion by warrant o-ulcers. non-commis- sloned o$cera and men,if discharged be- bocause unfit for service. scale as loi- lows: Warrant from one shilling to three shillings and six pence a day; corporals. from nine pence to three shillings; privates. from six pencé to two shillings and six pence.

` _ Pmtsxoxs 'ro wioows.

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Pensions to widows and children of flleers. it killed

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in action or died with-

n a year: Colonel’s widow £ 180 a year : children. widow, £140; each; captain’s children, £18 s widow. £80 a

year each.

24 a year each ;major’s children. £12 a year

_ 'a year; major'a widow. £105 ; children,

lilr. Chamberlain Gives information Which ls

ence regarding the Tranavaal contin-

from Hon. Mr. Camber-

laln gives particulars of the pensions

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‘mi ‘l1°W”"°’t§;v:;’BDt;Yo:ho°m;g_§°:n?mfor the widows of non-coma. and men. _

--_ ~'Tells- of Farmm in Sl.

ct an eye. or

or for an injury equal to the loss

Orrawa, Feb. 9.-In the correspond

" of a limb, a iull yesr’a pay is gi\'6D.tmd th

is granted per this scale.

is less severe. a lull

year’s pay is given.and the pensions is

omeers, sei-geents, etc. .

Celoael’a widow. £185; children,

£17 10s a year; eaptaiirs widow, £75 ‘ children, £15; lleuteuanvs wldow.£60 children, £12 10s a year

It is noticeable that noueof the

rewards are made if the widow is lm _ in more oonifoitabls circumstances..

Widows of warrant odlers and ser-

geanta get £20 a year. and ohlldreu £5 3 }’°°l'- N 0 provision has been made

1 “Heplays well that. _wins." Hood’s * Sarsaparilla wins the vioto ove -

1 ry r dis __ °l_80i because ltpossesses genuine cur-' alive power. ~_

_New York Banker Afraid of

Hon. George Van. Sicien. the au.

ithorized representative of the Ora:-ge '_ Free Stats in this count , sa s» N w

I r °the Beers or the 'I‘i-susvsal.” lie says: °- When the fund was started

_in this couutgy lor Baer widows and yorpnaaa, I went to every New York banking house with which I was ao- 7 quaintedand tried to geteach in turn to _ take the account in the tund`s name and

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T OMORE CRSESO

Of the most exquisite White wear, received Saturday night which we have added to our already line -dis-

ladies lined our

counters since the great sale began, and every lady went away satisied that

night; il stands the barrage ls the most

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means ie odered to travellers to et an S of -

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edit Sdn is __

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You’l1 buy embroidery cheap

Wednesday.

COME EARLY

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become the fuud’s basket. Not .

would do if. They hired G hd* they feared oppoaition,or they claimed gg ymh Wm,'mn _um N' d to fear both. Each one ollerded to V;`¢.,g_ H,-_ muh., 'gu to bank the money in my name, 'but re- V155." 17 ynutxo bwmuid fused to have anything to do with imgptwmm ,°m.,“u um &’ lllytmg th' 'old hgwm ‘hh u st. . Boer or T ssl “°_

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