Show y BOOMING CANNON theresla th eresli ill be wars and rumors of R ars saya the good book and how painfully and has that prophecy bean verified can be easily ascertained by reference to history america is a peaceful country happ and prosperous now but perhaps before another year passes we may bear thy booming of cannon within our own peaceful borders 1 he average ave rago memory has not forgotten the fatal effects of the bombardment of foil ov ei twenty one years ago there are too many soldiers and widows and orphans all over the countey to permit the memon to become languid the inhabitants of egypt are now undergoing der going such a fatal experience and for downright brutality degasta tion and rapine it this early stage of the war is unexcelled in history the egyptians are a closely allied people their habits and costumes are as nearly alike as awo classes can well be and live under different flims of governments the turk with his blood up is the most unreasonable and revengeful living the most atrocious and heartless tortures conceded by man is inflicted up on the victim of an irate lurk the egyptian is equally as vindictive and the bloody scenes enacted a ago upon the de fenceless men women and children of bulgaria are again being to the pubic eye in the chained and crumbling arena at alexandria the first gun from the british squadron squi dron was the for the application ot the torch and for ane murderer ravisher and plunderer to begin the of sevastion de england not content with having control of tian finances an unquenchable besne takes possession of her and france to get control of the army and military the khedive did rot possess the proper stamina to administer the affairs of government in the interests of his people and before he was ivare of it arabi pasha had gathered around him a band of patriots who were determined to resist to the last this encroachment upon their rights and privileges As the dif faculty continues new facts are brought to light which is rapidly turning the tide of opinion in the opposite diorec tion when the dirk and foreboding war cloud ras a arc speck on the distant horizon england and france en joyed the sympathy of nearly evcic nation and pasha was looked up on as a meddlesome aspiring er it turns out differently at the pros time it we die permitted to base our judgment upon the opinion of men who claim to have i knowledge of tie cause of this difficulty pasha is doing nothing more than ahat duty demands of him he understood the attitude england and france had assumed or acie assuming and the khe dive good permitting these unjust to be taken prompted pasha to protect his government and people from encroachments encroach ments england should have contented herself with the control of egypto finances fin inces the bombardment bombai dment of alexandria is but the commencement of hostilities and it is barely possible that before sho succeeds in banging bunging the egyptians into sub ejection jec tion she will find hei purse distressingly depleted |