Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-19

 tafiz or nizam it is quite certain that none of the rabble would ever have dared to raise hand against q foreigner. kourbash is quite enough for the courage of the Egyptian on any ordinary occasion. As soldier, the bloody regime of Mehemet Ali has given him B prestige which, like the scent of the roses,' fingers long after the organization is shat tered. It is true that once Egyptian soldiers defeated Turkish, but the latter were in a much lower state of discipline than now, while the former were ruled with vlgor of which the following incident, related by veteran who remembered Mehemet Ali, will give an example A milkwoman came to the Pasha one day complaining that one of his soldiers had robbed her of the milk she was bringing to camp. The soldier was identified and denied having taken the milk. What did he do with it P asked the Pasha. Drank it, was the reply. At sign the mans head was off his body, and his stomach, being opened, was found full of milk 'Go,' said the Pasha to the mortified milkwoman, pay ing her the value of her milk, but if he had not taken it your head would have paid for it.
 Needless to say this Draconian rule has long passed away, and the Egyptian soldier of to-day is perhaps the most cowardly and degraded regular in existence. In the late Russo-Turkish war they could not be brought | to face fire and were kept in reserve for de- | pot duty. In the Cretan insurrection of 1866 | the Viceroy's guard was sent to the island to | aid in the subiugation of the Christians, but | on the first encounter 4,O0O of them, at | tackled in an intrenched position by about | 1.5OO ill armed 0retans, were driven into | their intrenchments, their access to the water sources were cut off, and they surrendered internationally after the defeat of another division, which had marched to their relief the total being 5000 men, with artillery, and considered the best troops in the Egyptian army. In a subsequent affair, under Me- hemet Kiritly Pasha, when the Egyptians were to cover the retreat of the main army, they broke and fled precipitatsly at the first attack of the insurgents, and squads of them, lost in the complicate byways and broken ground of the pass of Krapi, threw down the1r arms and were butchered without re- sistance by the Cretans. At the assault of the Convent of Arkadi the only use the Egyptians could be put to was to be put in front with the bayonets of the Turkish regu- lars behind them and no alternative of safety. They were in this way driven into the breach, covering the Turks by their bodies. This was the testimony of one of the Italian off, cers in command of them, and nothing was more common than for the Cretans to send an Egyptian prisoner away contemptuously, saying that it was like butchering sheep to kill the Egyptians. They are capable only of the simplest evolutions, and their officers know little more of the science of war than the privates. The former are fond of fine uniforms and gewgawry, but they actually are never exercised in any movements of warfare; there fs no conception of organiza- tion, and if a necessity arose for action it is not too much to say that the soldiers could not find their cartridges the officers their commissariat, nor the commanders their off oers. Nothing but the most inconceavable blunders could ever give them military ad- vantage, and the slightest menace toward fanking movement would put the entire army to route without firing shot, A division from India landing at Suez and marching on Cairo would see the defenders of Alexandria in instant retreat and the distribution of few pounds would set the whole of the Be- douin tribes to piundering the regulars. With the exception of the Copts and small number of the better classes of the inhabi- tants of Lower Egypt, there is nothing to form a self governing nation while anything like representative government military efficiency must be the result of generations of development"
 Some Hnwkeye Philosophy.
 My son, when you hear a man growing and scolding because Moody gets $2OO . week for preaching Christianity, you will perceive that he never worries 8 minute be- cause IngersoQ gets $2OO night for preach ing atheism You will observe that the man who is unutterably shocked because Francis Murphy is getting $50 week for temper ance work seems to think it is all right when the barkeeper takes in twice much mon- ey in single day. The laborer is worthy of U it in the pulpit as he is upon the stump. Is the man who is honestly trying to save your immortal soul worth less than the man who is only trying his level best to go to Con- gress Isn't Moody doing good work es- Ingersoll Isn't John B. Cough as much the friend of humanity and society as the bar tender? Do you want to get all the good in the world for nothing, so that you may be able to pay high price for the bad Re- member, my boy, the good things in the world are always the cheapest. Spring water costs less than corn whiskey; box of cigars will buy two three Bibles gallon of old brandy costs more than barrel of flour s'full hand'' at poker often costs 8 man more | in twenty minutes than his church subscrip | tions amount to in three years State cleo tion costs more than revival of religion; you can sleep in church every Sunday morning for nothing, if you're mean enough to dead beat your lodging in that way, but a nap in a Pullman car costs you $2 every time 90 cents for the circus and penny for the little l ones to put in the missionary box $1 for the theatre and a pair of old trousers, frayed at tue ends, baggy at the knees and utterly bursted as to the dome, for the Michigan sufferers the dancing lady who tries to wear l the skirt of her dress under her arms and the waist around her knees and kicks her slippers clear over the orchestra chairs every night gets $500 week. and the city mission ary gets $500 year the horse race scoops in $2 O0O the first day and the church fair lasts a week, works twenty-five or thirty of the best women in America nearly to death and comes out $40 in debt-why, my boy, if you ever find yourself snsering or scoffing because once in awhile you hear of preacher getting a living even luxurious salary, tenl- perance worker making money, go out in the dark and feel ashamed of youseif and if you don't feel above kicking mean man, kick
 yourself. Precious little does religion and
 charity cost the old world, my boy, and when
 the money it does get is flung into it's face,
 like bone to dog, the donor is not bene-
 fited by the gift, and the receiver Is not, and
 certainly should not be, grateful. It is in
 suited.
 Victor Hugo the Jews.
 From Cialf1uani1