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Show I!! ing nursed in the hearts of the people which 1 ak have been deserts for centuries. . ; England is moving in her accustomed me- i ffl thodical way, but it is clear enough that her pur- 1 tiffi PPse is to extricate herself from the necessity of i I'M importing American wheat and cotton. Then, too, it she is pushing her navy and her railroad north : Wt from the Cape and south from the Mediterranean. , j II She is preparing to have a great self-supporting ' ; m empire in the Dark Continent, one with area 1 PI enough to absorb and support not only all her i 1 1 1 poor but the poor of Europe. She means to rule ! tjj it, too, her way. Not as Canada is handled, not : iM as Australia is handled, but as she holds her S '111 sovereignty in India, except that in Africa her liH power will always be in evidence and no local I m faction will debate where her power leaves off H and the native power begins. She is the world's Si great colonizer; from her little island throne her Sj voice is potential all the big world around, and ! despite her many harsh ways, where she moves, ' " i I ' B wor's freedom advances. |