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Show Suez Canal a Gold Mine. An enterprise that pays lou per cent per annum must bo conducted on Shy-lock Shy-lock principles. According to tho latest lat-est Baedecker's "Egypt," tho stockholders stock-holders of tho Suez canal exact from Its customers every year as much money as It originally cost to dig tho ditch! Tho expense for maintenance cannot bo groat. A score of pumps, along tho seventy miles of channel, always al-ways pumping water thick with nand from the bottom of tho canal and squirting it far upon tho banks con-Mltuto con-Mltuto tf'o chief expenditure. |
