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Show K?jpt's Exchange or blasters. Turkey i- anxious to resume again her nominal authority over Egypt, aud Is negotiating forthu withdrawal of the British troops, who for some years have played the role of debt collectors on behalf of foreign bondholders. Other countries coun-tries are comjiclled to undergo recurrent re-current periods of disaster, but the land of the Nile has had no respite from misfortune since the days when the Pharaohs held the Jews I n capti vity. The history of Egypt Is one long unbroken record of tragedy trag-edy and oppression. Nearly every dominant natiou of Eurojie and Asia has camped on the fertile plains of the unhappy rand and held the natives in bondage. Might nild greed have wrung from the luckless tiller of the toil the last copper his ceaseless labor lias brought him, and the work of spoliation spolia-tion still goes ou as briskly today as In the centuries past. Egypt under the English protectorate has not fared ladly, but when she again passes beneath the Turkish yoke the fellaheen will probably answer with au emphatic negative the query, "Is life worth living?" . |