The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-07-20

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taking off; and II he is
not dead, he may shortly DO so.
His existence is an impeachment
to the interests OF syndioates more
powerful and less scrupulous than is
England, and the hours of his life are
doubtless narrowly numbered.
In 1879 GENERAL Il. Il. CoLsToN paid
25 cents per bucket for water at Ell
Obeld, and 1t is desrer now than then
In the Kordoian district 30 cents per
bucket is being paid. And this is
Nile water, brought 200 miles
in ox-hide bottles, or rain
water gathered in those great
vegetable reservlors-the giant bao-
bads, the hollow trunk of enc OF these
Adsnsonias, holding 10000 gsllons-or
it is water from those doep wells of the
atmoors, so often called moosh tsyid
mot good by tho Bishsreen BedOuins,
who pronounce bitter fluids that an
American mulo would perish in pref
erence TO drinking "moya helwaw
(swest water),
If then tho new ministry will prove
that it is better than the old, let IL turn
SIR. GARNET back again to his duty,
which he has evidently forgotten.
On the 2lst ultimo the Nile began to
rise. That night tho register at Khsr-
toum showed several inches higher.
On the I'd instant the Munadien- nil OF
Cairo and at Rhodda began the chant:
"God has upon our fields graciously
Looked"
Response: "oh, day of glad ii.
dings?"
"To.morrow begins the announce
ment!"
Response: "May it be followed with
succesg?u
This informing means that the Nile
is flushing. 1t means that the
fellaheen tax Is collectable. 1t means
tho ever recurring birth of new life in
Egypt, and now Is the time for SIR
GARNET WoLsRLEY to clear from his
fame tho smirch Of last years cam.
paign by avenging GORDON, whom he
failed to save. For every hair in the
head of that apostle of right, honor
and liberty, let a thousand Arabs
perish. Gather up his bones and can
onizo him. Lst England prove that
sentiment 10 not dead in the kingd om.
The Nile Is rising. Let memory arise
and lot avengers march toward
Khartoun. Much has been written
In behalf OF the Arabs fighting under
tho banner of El Mahdi. Mr.. ROBERT
Lows, NJ. r., slludes to them as pa
triots and to their cause as Just. Az
well might the ssvsges of the Ameri-
Can wilderness be called patriots and
just men-those devils who reward
the patient tenderness of the govern
meat with the rad hand Of treachory
whenoyer opportunity offers. Con
DON was known 70 them. Ho had
oponed his purse to them. He Was a
liborat0r in their behalf. He had
abolished the usanceE of Turkey. He
mad substituted for the bashi ba2ouks
q considerate system OF mod
crate taxation. His first move
on his installation as gov.
ornor-gonoral was tho burning
up OF the old rolls of the assessors and
also tho scourges. His salary won't to
tho poor in backs hsesh. On his palace
door 1T Hhartoum, no nailed a 'lion's
mouth" in which suppllants placed
their complaints and grievances, and
for tho first time in the history OF
B8lodos Soudan a Court of Appeals
was instituted with the actual princl-
pies Of Justice tempered with morcv
figured in its code. GORDON deserved
TO be saved. That is too late,
Ho deserves now to DO avenged,
and at Khartoum, England ought
to establish commission 10 cit until
that very Arab is hanged wholo fell
deed deprived the world OF this great
life.
Gordon did not antagonist tho true
Islam. To JoHANNIs, OF Abysinia, he
said: 81 am Mussulmau, the envoy
of the Khedive-not now al English
man IL your majesty ploases. am here
on business of Egypt" His abolition
Of Bashi-Bazoukery, of the stick, the
lash, aud his moderation OF taxation
made HMM the eyes Of thousands of
bedouins-a figure divine, and when
he passed from the Mudirieh TO the
palace his progress had It's prototype
in that progress tho Saviour made to
jerusalem when his path WAS oarpeted
with olive boushs and the garments of
worshippers.
The Chicago Tim said editorially
when the news Of Coupons death
came; "He died of obstinaey."
The fact is that GORDON had
in his zeal in the service of
the Khodive established garrisous
in chain as far rs the Great Lakes of
equatorial Africa, aud when it was do
tormiued TO dolimit Egypt to it's origi-
nal southern frontier, at the First Cat.
arsct, GoRDoN won't back TO relieve
those garrisons and bring them safely
back 10 their homes in upper Egypt.
Lsmbat, Ratachambe, Bohr LsGo,
Rsgeef, Tatiko, Duflll, Makraue, Kas.
sAlu and Gondokoro, arc the names Of
tho important ports-each garrisoned
with copts and loyal blacks OF
the Southland GoRDoN's great
heart was sore because OF
The supposed danger OF those troops
that he had appointed. But they be.
.rAyed him TO death, at last.
After the massacre OF the column of
Hicks PASTA and after the resigns.
ion Of tho CherlfI ministry, NUBAK
pAsHA having succeeded CHERIrP,
with GRANVILLE In the ex-
,edient Of abandonment. II was then