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THE GUARDIAN, CHABLOTTWWK. FEBRUARY I2 19661 _
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, 7
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.
_ _PP
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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'1~ -'  3;-_~» tw of tlolliirs my liiis-
tinii-i l.:i< -;»~-1.: with .<1-mi-;il electors. ulvl
wtliiio.-I »'.-ry r‘»z;:t-tl_\' we votiltl l»l'0C\lI'='»
l ii ' -i vt-airs I voiiltl not lie fin
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ii» ilii' i-~~i~_ »i f.» iiifl_if-»- -il.; _siiliervr i'\'0m
this 't~i'-?!li-- <‘.:~»-i-'t~ to try it."
t`l:ii°t:f `- l~'_~»£.l ~`t»siii»oiind is soltl hi’ drug-
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ADAl`\SON’S BALSAMI
No cough can stay after being
treated with it. lt SimPlY ‘_
soothes it out of eXiSf¢¥!C¢-
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perative about
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up the irritated air P23338”
md 5;;-gngihena the bronchial
tubes - inns stopping 01°
sources of the °0l\{fl-
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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-`
.Y
ed np motionless losses its tertilizing
parties. There will be a navigable O' O I ‘ _ _.__
ei;l,twi;l' States. fart the Passage of  
xenive raeta oe d _ S
“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 _
8
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
r   _ “H _e »  _  
_ tp; ;,__ __ _.ii Y.- »~ ~`» . §i_g;'f,;-~,i,‘gicf-i=:;.=;f»s%fE4§%; e§a;
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
 =°° '“'“- . - -$,f-...r.':.'~i’*.-t’-t4"t’e»“"
im; imagluethe feminine, she this and
_ shim, ssytsa. Uribe! __ ggngggg _  Abwd¢llsehlls|liHl'i
so uni-i»¢li»h.I oink. you allvill °°°"'° _' ' ._ w.r.c»iviiii»
_ in ii»g°'v°u¢h\s¢»s° :wmv is   biwm'
4k
I Pensions for the Troops.
ol Particular lsterest to Canadians.
genta, a cable
Government in
lien being killed or injured in action.
For the loss
en a pension
Colonel, £800 a year: mejor. £200;
captain,£100 ;lieutenant, £70.
Il the injury
half the above rates.
_ For even less severe injuries a gratu-
ity of from three to twelve mouths’ full
pay is given, but no pension.
Paueloxs ron WocND=.
Pensions tor wounds received in act-
ion by warrant o-ulcers. non-commis-
sloned o$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.
£
Pensions to widows and children of
flleers. it killed
llio
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
` i _ _
‘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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Jill Llelt   etexft 1  _   r ff
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
;‘.§t:i‘i..f’.§; ‘.‘:';::‘.:“‘1..P‘e‘:,'.i;‘f“°_...°.';; MY STORE means ie odered to travellers to et an     S of -
Charlottetown.
edit Sdn is __
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You’l1 buy embroidery cheap
Wednesday.
COME EARLY
The Bnsiest White Wea; store. f,~;-°-M '-~
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i 1 Enzianti _ THELARGE WHEAT
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 “°_
ransv _ was attached. ug" “||¢°*_
,,id,,,_£10c , im; itointiism tint distraction ta my nina Q., ’(,'¢"0"',°°‘;,) Burp? 4"- °"
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ye" each; lieutmantm was un-American in the extreme. The mum' dm "4 “ug u”
year; children £15 a :::°b‘*B§u::LP°wY::t(;'£ uadgalazdmal' :stthe.: :las given up
_ _ - - gag u one of the
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