| Show THE MAN BEHIND THE SCENES host most of the daily newspapers of the country have published editorial articles on the egyptian disturb ance almost as frequently as they is issued but none of them seems to 0 us to have struck of the discordant con certor to have e found the s secret of the whole complication we have in these columns given a review ortho of the causes that led to the present conflict as far as the superficial aspect is concern concerned cd on one side we have bave john bull the tile in inexorable bondholder who insists on his pound of flesh on the other hand we encounter arabi pasha a wily scheming unscrupulous semi civilized fanatic whose patriotism is a passion rather than a principle between the two extremes the crackling firo fire and tho the quiet water we have the puppet tewfik the nominal ruler of egypt and that other dummy on the dardanelles Darda nelles I 1 abdul hamid the commander of I 1 the faithful from the telegrams received and published thus far fair even a casual observer could d divine vine I 1 that there waa was and is a collusion coll aslon between the turbaned trio A rabi arabi tewfik and abdul hamid E every very one of them is imbued with an instinctive in hatred of tile giaouris Gia ours as they call the christians every ona of them would hail the day when the Create crescent ent is not tainted with the vestige of a shadow from I 1 the cross every one of them wishes to see tho odious occidental driven from the realms of the khalif tho the khedive of egypt certainly would I 1 be pleased to obtain independence from his spiritual ruler tho the sultan at stamboul the ambitious ex minister of war arabi pasha undoubtedly doubted y desired to influence the I 1 political current in his w way and thus rebelled temporarily against his master the Klie khedive dive but on the whole they are all inspired by the same feeling of aversion to outsiders exclusiveness and know the sultan having various and widely ramified diplomatic connections dare not exhibit hig lie true inclinations tewfik 1 Is 1 s too deeply steeped in the dissipations and delights delight of european civilization to arouse himself from the couch of indolence and indulgence but arabi the stern ton son of the stubborn 1 soil comes on the stage of action with an unbroken mind with a purpose set firmly before him egypt for the egypt fians expulsion of the infidels rule of the faithful all this recalls the times of omar an and osman dOsman but still the cunning of the sultan the treachery of the khedive and the enthusiasm of arab Arabi would never havo have led to the consequential complications which new now fill the oriental horizon with the din of war and the clouds of smoke smoker were it not for a force ma feure a power behind the thet throne brone this unseen stage prompter is the crafty Chanc Chan der celer of the german empire prince bismarck in whose wiry and wary hands are gathered the knotty threads of E european european diplomacy he ile has been tersely and truly called the mephistopheles of modern politics his ilis mind is ever brooding mischief he ile is to speak with goethe the force that eer denies his capacious and capable brain encompass ss all the doings and dealings of other nations always with the ultimate view of R ag g grand izing the power of his empire and enhancing the prestige of liis his emperor at the conference of berlin after the russo turkish warp war lie played the first fiddle though to a tune set by the still craftier disraeli ever since indeed long years before turkey has had recourse to german talent german gel genius litlS german organizing gan izing and administrative ability at the of long years no influence has bas been BO so powerful u iiii voice so much listened to no counsel so faithfully lived up to as the instructions innuendoes or indications in from berlin german officers have reorganized tho the army of the civil officers have reformed the turkish Adminis tm 1 I 1 1 k 1 5 tion german marine engineers kavo have built the railways and constructed i the tile roads on the balkan peninsula all this though hidden to individual individuals had a deeper meaning ft a far reaching significance now is the day and the time bismarck has been laying his game came out other hands hold his cards if they win he lie pockets the tile p pot ot if r they loso lose it is their damage last year lie got franco france into a snare and a trap in tunis net not that he wanted any 1 thing in or with tunis any more than ho lip is hankering after any direct advantages in egypt but he ile wanted to give ianco francean an indirect lesson and france got it at tho the hands bands of the Krou the same way prince otto von bismarck Is desirous that england should have some experience in north africa after the british lion lias has had its tall tail squeezed and its mano pulled by the zulus and boers theres is no doubt at all in our mind that bismarck lias has given abdul harold f tewfik find and arab arabi their c cues u es with a view to humiliate england in ft a similar situ ilar game laid out to entrap france he lie succeeded he lie forgot this time that john bulls blood is thicker than water and his blow more thau than wind his blow cornea comes from the fist and egypt will feel it it 1 loomas has ha s shown that ll 11 int more rain falls on tho the eastern tl alian all on the western side of continents this is true everywhere except in the higher latitudes thus the average rainfall at st francisco is only from a half to a third as great in quantity as on the coast of pennsylvania and the same or even more striking diar difference arence may be found by comparing morocco the chinese coast and the west with the east cast coasts of south africa australia and south america Ani erica the comparisons being in each case made between points having the same latitude ir IT is stated according to mr lockyer the english astronomer that the E egyptians have recorded solar and lunar eclid eclipses s Cs mr lockyer thinks the statement ent correct as the proportions are x act and ano eclipses odthe of the sun and moon would reach the tile respective numbers given in a period of twelve or thirteen centuries |
