Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-14

govern herself. The Egyptians, he
sayr, would hold material prosperity
to be dearly bought at the expense of
national life. and as a proof that there
is a Vitality In the nations blood he
shows that sat the present moment,
two important state departments are
Administered by P~naraonlc Egyptians
Sultan Pashs, a distinguished person
age of fellah descent, is president Ct
the chamber of notables and holds a
position of great influence In the
country. Most Of the judges and all
the religious digpitaries are pure Egyp-
tan, as also are the majority of
the large landed proprietors and a
host of public servants" If the
beams of the new dawn are to
kindle this nationality, Lord DAT
FERN warns the government that 'the
valley of the Nile cannot be admin
istered from London" The chamber
OF notables being a failure, he pro.
poses to revive the old arrangement
OF communities, allowing each vii
lsge to elect q representative Tnese
representatives would then choose q
provincial council which, when com.
plete, would be composed as follows:
Village representatives, 46; ministers,
8; legislative council, 26. The latter
would be partly nominated by the
khedive and partly by the provincial
council, and would be a continual
check upon the ministers, and In this
respect more serviceable than the gen
eral assembly, which only remained
in session for a fsw weeks at q time.
The hearts Of Poles still beat for
Poland, notwithstanding a hundred
years of enforced union with Prussia
A striking evidence Of this was given
In the reichstag the other day, when
DR.. Ssablewski made a passionate ap
peal for the rights Of his %subjugated
compatriots to speak and teach their
own tongue In the public schools.
Prussia has for q hundred years car.
ried out the policy In Poland that has
been adopted In Alsace. Lorraine. The
nationality of the people has been at.
tackled by laws compelling the Poles
to use the German tongue. But they
have never succeeded. Hatred of
Prussia Ia as hot to-day as 1t was after
the plllage of the dismembered king.
dom. The incident served to bring
ont very remarkable utter.
ance from the official press, which,
discussing the Polish deputy's pas
sionate plea for the restoration of Pc
land to lis own people, remarked that,
while Austria was so situated as to be
able, without danger, to surrender
her part of the spoil of Poland, as her
frontiers are guarded by the Carpa.
THAN mountain chain, Prussia could
not venture upon such q rectifi %,ation,
because her eastern frontier would be
left d~efenceless, were she to undo the
wrong of a hundred years ago. The
French have seized this significant
sdmini.tration, and contrast 1t with
the platitudes INDUCED By the Ger.
man press In 1871, when Alsaoe.
Lorraine was reclaimed, because,
during certain centuries, they had
been under German dominion. Nor
are the Austrians pleased at the sug.
g~estion that Germany sees no reason
why the Hspsburgs should not give up
their i'll. gotten gains.
Russia IL now almost % near to
India Is England. If she chooses to
construct q road from tie Ural to the
! cities of DurkestaD, or by way of her
lately acquired territory In Persia to
HerAt, she will be right at the north.
ern doors OF Hindostan. To Offset
this advantage, Euglsnd, or Eoglish
,apital, has been contemplating the
construction of . railway from the
Mediterranean to the headwaters OF
the Tigris and down the valley OF
that river to the Persian gulf, which
would give her an Influence In Persis
equal to that Of r lssia, which now
rules the Shah from The Caspian. She
would also be in q better situation to
defend india from Russian aggression,
though, with her Egyptian oomplics'
lions and her troLb es In South Africa
and Ireland, it would seem as il she
would be very slow to get into trouble
with any powerful foreign nation.
Daring the Fl ,ods In November and
December last along the Rhine, when
thousands of people were made home.
less, Q movement was started In the
United States to raise mon for
their relief, and about 5000 COO was
sent to the president of the German
reichstsg. He placed the fund in the
hands of the central relief committee,
at DArmstadt. Mr.. Vollmer, one o.
the members of the reiohst q, recent.
Iy made inquiry regardi g the dispo.
sition Of this fund, ard found, HI
says, that up to the % of March
not n sufferer of the food had re-
ceived penny from the fund. Voll
mer then addressed an open letter t.
the president of the reiohstsg, and tn,
only answer he received, 1t Is said,
was the oonfiscation of the letter b,
the police.
Mr.. Vollmar writes to the Nev
York Volks z ,ltung a. folio VS.: 'Tt
get ct the facts of the case, / went II
person to the localities In question
the towns Of Laubenheim, Boden
helm and Nackenheim. The result o
i my Investigations and the fact
. CLEANED from the reports Of the re-
I speotive magistrates, show that tn
= sufferers have reoei, cd some pro
. Visions, old clothes, coal and so on
. but nom Of the American money, an,
t I may add that the before mentioned
= articles were such a. had been col
lected In the immediate neighborhood
I of the localities Affected" Vollma
Gays that In consequence Of the slow
ness of the Bek urocratio mact iner,
the suff srers may perhaps got some o