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Show lish failed, to gain the love of the Egyptians, but ".hey succeeded in mitigating the oppression which the native rulers had before practiced upon the WITH CIVILIZATION RUINING. For merciless, unhelpless laborers. GOLD STANDARD. mitigated cruelty, British rule in Egypt has only been equalled by the same Row Sho XI os Bacons ths Arbiter mf rule in other countries where It has Absorbs ths Wealth and gained equal opportunities. Motions From all the Vitality of AH Who Trade with this and much more, wi Americans should learn a lesson before it be too tier Bason Zook Avery's Bumming late. England failed to subjugate ns 3REED OF ENGLAND. l. Last June while the people of Eng- snow. had gone to sleep there, in the spite cold, in a painful attitude of utter weariness, with her poor little head and shoulder propped in an angle of the icy stone. One of her old shoes had fallen from the foot which hung over and lay In the She of iBrnmoBOyretrS 'HEN 'Lucien' de Hem had aeen hla last note raked in by the banker and had fill risen from the roulette table where he had Just lost the Remains of his small fortune he experienced a sort of vertigo and almost fell. With reeling brain and failing limbs he tottered over 'to the leather bench Ithat' encircled the room and threw himself on it For some minutes he gazed vaguely about this private gambling hell in which be had wasted the nest years of his youth, recognizing one by one the plundered heads of the players in the bold glare of the three great green shades. He heard the soft friction of the gold on the felt and realised his loss, his ruin; but be remembered that at home, in a bureau drawer, there were two army pistols which had been bravely used by his father. General De Hem, in the attack of Zaatcha. Then utterly worn out, he slept profoundly. : He 'awoke with parched throat and glancing at the clock saw that he had barely slept a half hour. An imperative need to breathe the ; plght air came over him. The hands marked a quarter to midnight, and, on rising and stretching his arms, Lucien recollected that it was Christmas eve, jpmd by an ironical freak of memory he saw himself a little child again putting his shoes .In front of the chimney at bedtime. Just then old Dronskl, the Pole, a fixture of the place, in threadbare, braided livery, came up to Lucien and mouthed a few words in his dirty beard. "Lend me five francs. Monsieur. Here re two days since I have been out of ,the club and 17 has not turned up once. Laugh at me If you will, but you may cut off my fist if 17 does not come out in a few minutes, when the clock strikes midnight." Lucien de Hem shrugged his shoulders; he had not even the wherewithal In his pocket to pay the tax known by the house habitues as The Pole's Pence." He passed into the hall, put on his hat, his coat, then descended the stairs with the haste of a fevered person. During the four hours he had been In doors heavy snow had fallen and the street, a central one, walled in by high houses, was all white. Multitudes of k cold stars shone In the purged sky. The ruined man talked rapidly, revolving desperate thoughts in hla mind, and was more than ever drawn to the pistol box in h!sa dressing case drawer. Suddenly he stopped. He was con- scene. fronted by a On a stone bench, placed according e custom beside the to the monumental door of a palace, a little girl of 6 or 7, barely covered by a ragged Uck frock, was sitting in the 100-fra- 1 blue-blac- heart-breaki- old-tim- ng nc snow. Lucien de Hem felt mechanically for his veBt pocket, and was suddenly reminded that a moment before he bad not even found a forgotten franc, nor a pourbolre for the valet. However, stirred by an Instinctive pity, he approached the little girl, and would' perhaps have carried her in his arms to give her a night shelter, had he not seen something shining in the old shoe as it lay In the snow. He bent over. It was a gold louls. Some charitable person, a woman, doubtless, in passing by this Christmas eve had seen the shoe in front of the sleeping child, and had remembered the touching legend. This generous alms had been given so that the little one might believe in the gifts of the holy child, and in spite of her distress retain some hope in the goodness of Providence. A louls! It meant many days of plenty for the beggar, and Lucien was about to waken and tell her so, when he heard a voice in his ear, a drawling, thick voice, mumbling: Here are two days since I have been out of the club. You can cut off my fist if 17 does not come- out when the clock strikes midnight." Then the young man of 23, coming of honest stock with a magnificent military record, never failing in honor, this young man suddenly conceived a . - land were preparing to celebrate the Queens jubilee, that leader of American snob journals said the words quoted below. Whereupon Susan Book Avery, wrote a stinging answer which also appears below: No fact of contemporaneous history s better known perhaps than the marvelous growth and expansion of the British empire during the last sixty years. It is not the circumstance that a single monarch has reigned for sixty years that is so wonderful; nor even that she has done so without for a day losing the enthusiastic regard and lympathy of her people; but it is that luring her reign a small kingdom has expanded into a mighty empire embracing a large part of the world, and infinitely more of Its civilization, wealth and progress than any previous empire of ancient or modern times. Steps have been taken to make the celebration an object lesson of worldwide significance; of this and in this will be its novelty and its chief appeal to the imagination. When an object lesson of such magnitude and brilliancy is prepared to attract the attention and admiration of the world, it would seem proper to the scrutinize somewhat carefully methods by which such grand results have been obtained, that we may decide whether the object lesson be one for Imitation or avoidance.' It is far more agreeable and gracious to approve and applaud, than to crltlclso and condemn. We would honor the Queen. We would honor also the multitude of noble men and women who are her subjects. No country contains more illustrious statesmen, broader philanthropists, or more earnest, Christians, than Great Britain. It is when we consider her as a governing power when we weigh her methods n? in the scales o' Justice and righteousness, that we flnl. ourselves obiiged to limit and quallf; , not only our admiration, but our approval History, written or unwritten, records that long ago Grrat Britain, (which for brevity I shall c til England) became dissatisfied with hei general progress. She was ambitlc'is She desired supremacy in the woi'-How could she obtain it, was the pr- b lem which she set herself to sol e. She saw herself a small country, fchj fcould not raise her bread and matei 1l for manufacture must be largely Imc ported. Neither by agriculture manufii' tures, therefore, could her tT-pos- e be accomplished. It must be y flnanro Thereupon she devised and execr kd plans which have given her the m- control of the world. She mas would soon have far more than th heritage he had fooled away. In his haste to play he had kept on hla heavy coat, and the great pockets were already crammed with rolls of bank notes and gold pieces. He now had to stuff them into his inside pockets, his vest and trouser pockets, his cigar case, his handkerchief, and everything that could hold them. He still played. He still won; like a lunatic, like a drunken man! He threw the gold anywhere on the table with disdainful certainty. In his heart a redhot iron was burning; he thought only of the child asleep In the snow; of the little beggar he had robbed. She la still there, of course; certainly, she must be there! In a minute, when it strikes I I swear it I will leave here and carry her home sleeping In my arms. I will bring her up, love her as my own child, and care for her always, always. The clock struck 1, the quarter, the s, and Lucien half, the still sat at the table. A minute before 2 the banker rose abruptly and said in a sharp voice: Enough for the day, gentlemen; the bank is closed." Lucien leaped to his feet Roughly he pushed the players aside as they lingered about, eyeing him with envious admiration; hurriedly he cleared 'become the arbiter of nations :or the stairs and ran to the stone bench. whoever controls the money of a naThank God! he cried; she is still tion, controls Its liberty and its there! He seized her hand. How she accomplished this ve Ah! how cold she is, poor little need not describe in detail Suffice it one.1 that she first demonetized her silver, As he lifted her in his arms the bought all the gold that she could tnd childs head fell back limp, and she did for sale In the world and then qulttly not waken. How children sleep, he persuaded other nations to demone: Ise thought, pressing her to his breast for their silver, snd buy her. gold. Thfse warmth; and, vaguely anxious, he was are some of the methods by which Eig-laqhas caught und octopus-likabout to kiss her lids to draw her from this heavy slumber, when he saw with holds her victims in a relentless gr ap. For proof that England absorbs the terror that the childs eyes were half wealth and the vitality of any pojple open, showing glassy pupils, extinguished and motionless. With terrible so unfortunate as to come within her suspicion Lucien brushed her little lips power, we have only to recall the Hiin with his own, and no breath came from story and observe the condition them. While Lucien had been winning Ireland, In India, in Egypt and no to a fortune with the louls stolen from consider the cause of her willing less her, this little beggar had died of cold. to stand as guard to practically old His throat contracted in awful agony, the hands of a weaker and noble; naand in tion, while the "unspeakable Turlc inhe tried to cry out a from tb effort he awoke nightmare flicts upon her terrible and unme lted on the bench at the club, where he had punishment And this, while the apfallen asleep before midnight, and had peals of the humane in her own and been left undisturbed by the kindness in other countries, and the cries of the of the old valet, who had gone off last sufferers are ringing in her t nrs! of all at 6 o'clock. His heart had bees There are those who remember the terrible Sepoy rebellion in India, when touched by the poor bankrupt. A noisy December dawn was peering intelligent, educated revolting soldlerr, an oppression no longer enthrough the panes. Lucien went out, against were chained to the mo tbs durable, pawned his watch, bathed, breakfasted, of cannon and blown to atoms! If one then went to the recruiting office, Is Interested in know what relentisss, where he enlisted in the First African means, mercenary oppression merciless, Chasseurs. let him read Spoiling the Egyptians, now a is Hem Lucien de lieutenant; written by J. Seymour Keay, an he lives on his small pay and never' and a liberal who lived many touches a card. years in Egypt and the east (is It appears that he saves something, principally a compilation from ahe too, for not long ago, in Algiers,' he wasi British blue books, and therefor. ofseen by a brother officer who was walk- -' ficial. In a prefatory note the lng behind him in a winding street of American edition, the publisher ?C-- . P. the Kasha giving alma to a little Span- Putnams Sons, 1882) says: "TV auish beggar asleep under a doorway. The thors statement which is based line officer had the indiscretion to look at' upon line on the authority of U.j ofof (he money which Lucien had given to ficial documents, constitutes o.4 the most damning arraignment that poverty. He had put a gold louls in the childs has ever been made of the acto of. a Christian nation and throws lij-hand. upon some at least of the causes of the bitter hatred of Europeans vhich A Frlnc an Flertrirlan. such fatal expression is the Prince Victor Emmanuel of Nr.ples found of Alexandria. The Rev. Dr. massacre is said to be an expert electrician. He II. Barrows had not read .SpoiJohn experiments on all Its application to ling the Egyptians, when in writing to light, sound, motive power, and pho-- ; the Chicago Interior a few months ago tography, and was one of the first per--; from Alexandria, he said (in substance sons in Italy to investigate the Roent-- i 4 cannot give his words) The Eng gen rays. - three-quarter- ry d, e, HE APPROACHED THE LITTLE GIRL. dreadful thought, fell prey to a wild, hysterical, monstrous desire. Assuring himself with one glance that the street was deserted he swiftly stooped, advanced a trembling hand, and stole the louls from the old shoe. With a wild rush he reached the club again, cleared the stairs in one Impetuous rush, flung open the door of the reeking hall, and threw-thgold piece on the green, just as the clock chimed the first stroke of e midnight "All on 17! Seventeen won. With a turn of his hand he. shoved the 86 louls on red. Red won. He left 72 louls on the same color. Again it appeared. Three times he put up the doubled stakes with the same luck. 'There was now a great heap of gold and bank notes in front of him, and he began frantically to sow them broadcast over the table. Every combination favored him. The little ivory tall jumping about the divisions of the roulette seemed to be magnetized by the gamblers gaze, and obeyed it In 10 plays he had recovered the few thousand- franc?, his last resource, that he had lost early in the evening. By punting 200 or 800 louls at once he - Ing-lishma- t n by the sword. Her financial methods are somewhat slower more subtle, but equally effective. It would appear incredible that any nation could consent to make such a record for herself as England has made and continues to make. It is but a verification of the truth of what Sophocles said centuries ago: nearly twenty-fiv- e Nothing in use by man for power of This lays ill, can equal money. cities low. This drives men forth from quiet dwelling place. This warps and changes minds of worthiest stamp, to turn to deeds of darkness, teaching men all shifts of cunning and to know the guilt of every impious Courier. deed.-Evansvl- lle FROM THE SHOULDER. The Republican party is very unfortunate for its alliterative combinations. A few years ago it was Rum, Romanism and Rebellion, and now it is Homestead, Hazleton and Hanna. It may be that there is yet no papei trust but the way the price Is crawling the publisher who does not up own a paper mill the cold shivers. gis The e Is no wealth, whether in money or property that Is not produced by labon and the person who spends a milllcn dollars a year in riotous living is sqiandering the products of ten thouiand toilers. And while the one is baking in the luxuries purchased by his or her dishonest methods, the ten thousand who produced it are suffering for the necessities of life. It is a self-evide- nt fact that, to-da- y, one cannot employ themselves. They must seek an employer, and, if aate enough to find one, must accept his terms, even if the wages are barely sufficient to procure the barest necessities. If one protests against suck a system, it is evidence that he li crkzy. Thn nation that will ask perm 14 elon of another before enacting a financial system to suit its own peopls should carry its flag at half-maLittle Rock Tribune. st. Men, who, like Hanna, declare that wealth ought to govern in this country, no matter what reasons they give are traitors to the republic established on the basis of equal rights to all men Government of the people, by the people and for the people," will perish from the earth if these men have theli way. To elect such men to office is U turn over the keys of the castle of liberty to the enemies of the people. Thi shadow of imperialism already fall! across the land. The forms of populai government will not long survive the destruction of its spirit which is now going on. Representative governmenl is a failure, and every session of congress demonstrates the fact anew. CoTtrinz Dp the Deficit. All the flnanaclal experts now admit that the Dingley tariff is a failure in producing revenue. The deficit continues month by month and is likely to continue. Of course this was to have been expected. Tariffs framed to shul out importations by a system of heavy duties must impair rather than increase the revenue. The plea that ths advance Importations of wool and other articles, to forestall the new tariff, caused loss in receipts enough to account for the deficit is ridiculous as well as false. The loss of duties from this source is only a fractional part of the amount of the monthly deficit But the government has sold a railroad and has others for sale. The proceeds from this source will go into the treasury as miscellaneous receipts. The money will be used to pay the expenses of the government Ti e sum of $18,000,000 realized from the tale ol the Union Pacific has been Llready placed to tbe credit of the government This swelled the receipts so that, if the books are cunningly Juggled, It will appear that there is a surplus Instead of a deficit in the regular revenue. As one correspondent expresses it, so long as the government has railroads to sell the receipts may come up to the expenses. But when that source of supply is exhausted the dimensions of the deficit will loom up apparently greater than before. It would be the part ol wisdom for McKinley to look around now for other sources of revenue. In taking time by the forelock and providing for the future he may save himself from the necessity of selling bonds to pay expenses after the railroad money is all used up. Afraid of Platt Lmdmhlp, Indianapolis Journal: Already the Republican press in New York is warning the party that it cannot go into the campaign next year with Platt candidates, since no excellence of character can overcome the growing repugnance to the hosslom of the |