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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
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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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fBspa.rt1nen\ at Washington.
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.
The idea was -‘l h
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
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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
Ah .
~ ,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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aes, llleve rspeseedly seen insi-
dq,upendd‘sappear in toororiive ` -
leavihs the sein clear and smooth. -
.vwtnsnga stun-vs cause wsfueise -
wepsleies-y article, and sold by
drum in
and tor that reaefn traced by mg,
physicians. yet i know of nothing ee site
sad reliable for eoestipeelee, lieqi at-e
lllhiylrcoblesandm in all
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 
Atany rate people
gtharties and
ies,”w1»idnd ln
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neers, under the llinotim 0( the Shine
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