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supplementary dams and barrages at
Assiout and near Kasheshat, it will in
crease the present cultivated area Of
Egypt by SOC, 900 acres and bring under
constant cultivation the whole of that
proportion of the 10000 600 acres in
Egypt which is now under yearly irri-
CATION only. The supply ~of water
needed for this purpose, according to
Mr.. WillcOck's calculation, is $50, 000,-
600 of cubic centimetreS, flowing at a
maximum rate of $50 metres a second
over the whole line of district affected.
The monetary advantages of the
scheme may be expressed by saying
that the direct annual return TO the
state will be ESQ, 900; that the increas-
ed value of land in Egypt will be e46,-
$4,000; that the increase to annual pro-
dUce will be 1852, 600, and to annual
rent &5, 1890, COO These estimates leave
out of account the increased value of
lands and crops owing to increased IA
cilitieS of navigation. Sir Benjamin
Bakers view is expressed in the words:
THE profit resultant from the works
it is difficult to overestimate, as the
value of the crops Will be increased
about Sc per acre per annum over the
whole area affected"
COST OF THE ENTERPRISE.
The cost of the dam itself was cal
culated by Sir William GarStOn and
Sir Benjamin Baker to be some 81 800
GEO. and this was an estimate that has
been practically accepted by the con-
tractors, Messrs. John Arid. But to this
estimate have to be added the cost Of
supplementary dams and barrages at
Assiout and at the other point which
Sir BENJAMIN Baker has indicated, 231
miles nearer to Cairo. The exact form
of these dams is not yet determined,
but the barrages which will be part Of
them will be similar to that at Kashe-
sheh already existing. The modern
masonry barrages are the substitute
for the old time ''khaleegs" or dams Of
earthwork, which were cut or preached
at the top when the water was high
enough, and which were dangerous and
wasteful. The barrcage at KOshesheh
already existing is 273 yards long and
is practically a wall of masonry run
ming by the side of the river and
pierced with so double arches. Each OF
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or somebody, the way she looked stand
ing there. I want to ask you some
thing she said, just one thing. If Kate
Stilwell is stingy. do you know why
she's stingy? Well, I'm going to tell you
why.
We've always been friends at
home said she. though I'm poor and
she is rich; and so Kate has known all
about me. She knew 1 wanted to be a
teacher. a governess. if L could. and the
academy at Hawley is not considered
very good, and Kate said if l could go
to a fine private school 1 could get
good deal better position as a gov
erness. And she was coming here, and
she brought me with her. Yes. she just
made me come. She said the allowance
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The STINGIEST GIRL,
Or When Kate Was a Freshman.
By EMMA a. OPPEB.


"Hes the stingiest old thing!" said
Becky Purcell.
"Who?" questioned the other three
girls
THAT clerk at Boynton's. I bought a
remnant of silk, it was two yards AID
an eighth ard he charged me for the
eighth"
Laura Hoicomb laughed. When
hear. the word" she said, "stingy,"
think Of Kate Stilwell: and l guess /
always shall
zone Of the girls OF Chase hall?" said
Stella Ward Chase hall was the dis
tant boarding school, which Laura
Holcomb attended, and from which she
had just come home for the summer
YES. The stingiest girl there; or
that was what We called her, said
Laura, smiling q little.
Tell about it, said Becky Purcell.
well, Kate was a freshman last
fall" Laura began. She came from
Hawley, and another girl came at the
same time from the same place-PhOebe
Williams. We didn't think much about
Phoebe Williams, somehow. She was
a nice girl, but she vas quiet and
rather plain, and she didn't care any
thing about clothes, and she studied all
the time. she just dug! and so, you see,
she wasn't exactly popular.
But Kate Stilwell was. She was one
of the girls that are bound to be. She
was pretty and smart; she was the kind
of girl that can 90 things-anything
and before we knew It she was on two
or three of the freshman class commit
tees, and vice president OF the muse
cI,,l,-eba pIaved splendidly-and sub
editor of the Chase Hall Record, aad
no freshman had ever been that before.
And she didn't try for anything, either,
she didn't push herself. There was
something real sweet about Kate Still
wen and we al liked Ter.
.'or we all did for awhile; bur one day
Sara Decker and Louise Northrop aad
j were speaking about her
=" She's one Of the brightest girls IN
school. of course, said Louise; but do
YOU knoY what I Think think s-ie s
the stine5est, TOO
!. I believe it, said Sara Decker. 4 We
noticed it. You know the music CLUB Is
going to buy bust OF List for the
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TEMPLES OF PHY1AE AT SITE OF THE DAM.

these arches is fitted with an upper
and lower iron gate. and without gong
into detail we may say that they per-
NIT the rising Nile to overflow into a
reservoir which is 500, 900 acres in ex-
tent, and has a depth of three feet.
This lake feeds the irrigation canals
This, in brief, gives a birds eye view
of the great scheme which is to give
new birth to Egypt. Its cost alto
gether will not be far short of e5,OOO,-
600. which is to be paid by the Egyptian
government in yearly installments ex-
tending over 80 years, and not begin
ming to be paid until the receipts from
the reservoir afford a margin of profit
II is a novel arrangement, but the
financiers have risen manfully to meet
II and the days are now numbered
when the Nile will be able TO run riot
in IFS disastrous freedom.
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Diapers history of the Kings mountain
campaign. he tells of how the execution
was suddenly and effectively interrupted
by boy.
A convenient tree. afterwards known as
the Gallows Oak. had been selected on
the roadside near the camp. The con-
demned prisoners were brought out and
the troops formed four deep around them.
old woods illumined by the wild glare of
hundreds of pine torches. the hard. I'M
fiinching countenances of the soldiers. and
the group of hopeless, defiant men wait
ing their turn to die. They were swung
from the limbs of the tree. three at a
time. and left hanging. When nine had
been executed and three more were pin
Toned and about to follow, the brother
of one of them. mere lad. approached
to take his final leave. He threw his
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arms round his brother and set up most
piteous screaming and lamentation, as If
his heart would break of sorrow, or he
would go into commissions. But while he
was screaming and every one was watch
ing him in sympathy. he managed to
cut the cords which bound his brother
arms, and his brother darted through the
lines of soldiers and escaped into the
darkness and the surrounding forest. Al
though he had to make his way through
over a thousand of the best marksmen
in the worli. rot one lifted a hand TO
stop him. and all the other men who were
to have been executed We're hardened.
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MANILA AND THE PHILIPPINES

The Herald has arranged for distrib-
utirg some very interesting views of
scenery in the Philippine islands, as
will be noted by the advertisement in
another part of the paper.
These views were made from photo
graphs taken by the secretary of the
American consul at Manila, just be-
fore the war with Spain broke out
The following letter to the publishers
from Secretary Long shows how we'll
the books are appreciated:
Navy Department, Washington,
June IS 1898.
Gentlemen-I am in receipt, with your
compliments. of the pamphlets contain
ing photographs of Manila and the
Philippine islands. The photographs
are the best / have seen, and L have
been much interested in looking them
over Please accept my cordial thanks
for your courtesy in sending them to
me. Very truly yours,
JOHN D. LONG.
The j. Dewing Company, sos Market
street. San Francisco. Cal.
Readers of The Herald can procure
any one of these books by presenting
coupon cut from the paper and 10
cents, at the business office, or they
will be mailed to out-of-town patrons
for a coupon and II cents. There are
five books in the set, averaging 16
views to the book
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prisoners. and so no little excitement
was occaSiOned among thoughtless
readers in the north and south at what
was conceived to be the brutality of the
officers who had charge of the Dry Tor
tugas prison.
Meanwhile the great shark, IN reality
a timid and utterly demoralized crea-
ture was swimming about, refusing the
daintiesg morsels of fish which were
offered it, finally becoming so tame
that it could be touched by its boy
captors, who followed it about on RATS,
While the naturalist watched it's method
of swimming and made many sketches
of it and the singular fishes which
clung TO its sides. The shark lived six
months, finally dying Of starvation. Its
jaws may now be seen in the American
museum Of Natural History, Central
park, New York City.
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prevent the attempted escapes; not be-
cause there was any danger of the men
getting away, as the transports We're
always searched. but to prevent casual
ties
just then it happened THAI the sur
geon of the post was making a study
of the large sharks thereab5uts and
they put bis man eater in the mOat
where it could be watched. lie said to
General Meigs, who was stationed at
Fort jefferson at that time. 1t viii
prevent the men from swimming the
one day his young son suggested that
inoat and SO be the means Of saving
their lives
The proposition was put into imme-
diate effect. The surgeons son, with
the boys OF another officer went out
fishing and soon captured a shark,
which the surgeons 12-oared barge
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bilities which it presents, but in ITS
situation and surroundings.
OUARRIED 5000 YEARS AGO.

(lUARRlED 0,UUU <AoOs
Assouari is the site of quarries which
furnished stone for many temples IN
the days of the PtOlmieS. The granite
which will form the masonry work OF
the new dam was cut out of the hills
thousands of years ago and has stood
there ever since. The same quarry
which supplied the material for the
temples OF Philae, now, 5000 years
later. furnishes granite for a new goth
century wonder.
These temples of Philae, by the way,
have formed one of the chief difficulties,
though not an engineering difficulty. in
respect of the dams construction. The
first cataract consists of a scattered
mass of small islands and rocks, and
it is across this scattered stone heap
that the dam, a mile and a quarter
wide, 40 feet broad and 20 feet high, is
to be constructed. This is modifi-
cation of the original plan, which would
have made the top of the dam SO feet
higher. The effect of the dam as at
present conceived will be to submerge
the nearer islands only, but as origin
ally planned it would at flood time or
high Nile" have submerged the island
Of Philae. a mile UP stream, and the
temples on the island of Philae are Of
immense interest to the architect and
the archaeologiSt. They are splendid
examples of the Ptolemaic temple. No
Gothic architect in his widest mo-
ments ever played so freely with his
lines and his dimensions as the for
gotten designer of Philae. and none
ever produced anything more pictur-
esquely beautiful. 1t contains all the
play of light and shade. all the variety
of Gothic art with the masSiveneSS
and grandeur of the Egyptian style.
There is no building out of Thebes that
gives so favorable an impression of
Egyptian art as this. 1t would have
been a great pity if the reservoir which
is to water Egypt had demanded such
a sacrifice. At one time it appeared
inevitable, and Sir Benjamin Baker
suggested that the whole groundwork
of the temples should be raised. The
cost of this would have been e200, 000
which was rather too much for the
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THEY DID NOT SHOOT. =

Americans have always been known as
quick at expedient. and they never had
more cause to be than in the southern At
lantic states during the revolutionary
war. The people were so evenly divided
between Wings and Tories. the feeling be-
tween them was so bitter, and the war
fare so irregular and INSCRIPTIONS that
violence and retaliation were constant
After the decisive victory of Kings
mountain, the Wing leaders found that
there were many noted Tory murderers
and plunderers among the prisoners they
had taken. and they decided to execute
them, both for revenge and as the begin
ninG of the establishment of order. In
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Doofness Cannot Be Cured

nv local applications, as they cannot
zach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inf1amed
condition of the mucous lining of the
E,,-stachian Tube. When this tube is
inflamed you have rumbling sound
or imperfect. hearing, and when it is
entirely closed, Deafness is the result.
and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to
its normal condition, hearing will be
DESTROYED forever; nine cases out Of
ten arc caused by Catarrh, which is
nothing but an infiamed condition Of
the mucous surfaces
We viii give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by ca
tarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
r. H CHENEY & CO. Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, 75c-
Halls Family Pills are the best
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

FACTS AND FIGURES.
AS to the Importance of the work,
from the engineers point OF view, Sir
Benjamin says:
THE colossal character OF the great
dam will be apparent when it is stated
that the flood discharge of a river a
mile wide and 80 feet deep, flowing at
high velocity, must pass through the
dams sluices at the rate of $4,000 tons
of water per seconds, eco, 900 tons a
minute-more than 50,OOO,OOO tons OK
water an hour. At times the water VIII
be damned back 66 feet above its
pressed level and for distance OF 144
miles above the dam.
APPEARANCE OF THE DAM.
THE Nile, at Assouan, by no means
fulfills the popular conception of a cat
aract. The river is broken UP by innu-
merable islandS-Some of them of con-
siderable acreage, but the great major
ity mere rocks, which are submerged
in flood time-into myriad shallow
watercourses. At one or two points the
water runs deep and fast between the
islands. but for the greater part of the
width of the river the channels be-
tween the islands carry only a trickle
Of water during the dry season. 1t is
upon this foundation of small islands
that the dam will be built So far as
strength and economy of foundation
are concerned, the site leaves nothing
TO be desired. The rock throughout is
hard, compact syenite or quartz dlolite
and the section of the river is so vide
and shallow that the foundations of the
larger part of the dam can be put IN
dry. The under sluices will be built
upon reefs projecting over. the water
surface both in summer and winter, so
that the foundations will be open to an
nual inspection-a most important adj
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All good housewives desire nice,
light cakes and biscuits. If U. S.
Baking Powder is used, their wishes
will be gratified.
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Go to Lagoon Sunday,
and get your moneys worth.
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era club. Kate had a camera, and Eva
Payne asked her to join the club, but
when Eva told her it was S. for the
initiation fee, she said o! And she
didn't join. Then there was a grind in
the Record: K. S.-Kan't SPEND Miss
Chase didn't allow grinds in the paper,
either. but that got in somehow. Kate
Stilwell didn't pay any attention to it,
but Phoebe Williams did. She thought
Louise had put it in, and she went to
her, as hot as could be, and asked her
if she had; but Louise hadn't. 1 think
it was Eva Payne.
Kate had plenty of nice clothes
when she came to school, but she didn't
get anything more. Sara Decker said
she hadn't had so much as a new col
lar button since she came to the hall
And I'm just waiting to see,' said she,
whether she'll wear that same old
white swansdown to the generals re-
ception.'
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Experience is the best Teacher. Use
Acker's English Remedy in any case
of coughs, colds or Group. Should it
fail to give Immediate relief, money
refunded. % cts. and so cts. F., sale
by u. G. NJ. l. Drug Dept
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/
1--WE were all wild about the general
reception. The general was a friend OF
Miss Chase, an old school friend, and
he was going to pass through town on
his way TO Washington, and he had
promised Miss Chase he would stop
| over night at the hall, and shake hands
with US girls, and tell us some war
stories; and. of course, Miss Chase was
going to make fine affair of it. 1t was
in the winter, when the talk about the
war was growing all the time, and the
girls were all crazy about meeting the
general.
Almost every girl was going to have
something new for that reception. Sara
Decker had a beautiful pink silk waist,
and 1 had a new dress, and lots of the
girls did. Sara was determined to know
what Kate Stilwell was going to do
about it, and finally she asked her.
Sara and l were in the gymnasium, and
Kate came in.
What about the reception, Kate?
said Sara. What are you going to
wear?
MY white DRESS, said Kate; the
one with the rosettes; you've seen it,
and she picked up her dumb.bells as
cool and unconcerned as anything.
Sara didn't say anything; she just
looked at me.
Chase to make it a lovely affair. There
was a great big committee on arrange
ments, about Is of us. L was in it, and
Sara and Louise, and Kate Stilwell and
a lot of others. Oh, yeS-and Phoebe
Williams; Ruth Morrill, nominated her.
Louise and Sara roomed together,
and a week before the reception they
invited the whole committee to their
room to talk things over and to have a
Id -
had cake and olives and oranges, and
we made fudge. They borrowed tables
and chairs, and every girl had a plate,
and just for fun they had a favor for
every girl. They were paragraphs and
verses that they'd cut out of old news
papers and books and we read them
cut loud, in turn. They were hits,
mostly; Ruth Morrill, is great chatter
box, and hers was a verse about a gem
tie, quiet child that never talked any.
She didn't care, nor any of u.s.. we
laughed and had g great time-tiIl it
got around to Kate Stilwell
"Well-Kate read hers right out, like
the rest of US. She looked at Sara and
Louise a minute, and her cheeks got a
little redder, and then she read it; and
this was her verse:
80. yes. I am kinder savin' and clus;
Wal, yes, | know ] be,
But l tell We I'd suffer consider Bile wuss
To spend my good money" says he.
"One or two girls laughed, but I
think we felt scared a little; I did, l
know, and l tried to think of something
to say to smooth it over if l could. But
l didn't have time to say anything.
Somebody jumped UP all at once, and
looked round and saw Phoebe Will
liams standing up. She didn't look
warm, like Kate; she looked pale and
we all knew something vas going to
happen, and it was as still as It
could be-
I'm going to speak out said she.
7 can't bear it any longer. You girls
have thrown out hints like this before,
hints about Kate Stilwell being stingy,
and I've stood il as long as 1 can. No,
don't stop me, Kate-I must and 1
Will said she.
She made me think of Spartacus to
the gladiators or Horatio a the bridge,
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Even ones pet cook book, supplement
ted with handed down recipes, sug-
gests little variety in preparing clans.
shell fish that are. cheap and available
at this time Of the year. Here are re-
liable directions for ringing a few well
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Egyptian taxpayer, who, in Sir Benja-
minis words, does not care a piastre
for the temples except as means OF
attracting tourists to AssOuan.
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Sunday at Lagoon.
Big programme. New attractions.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-24
PATHS Young Eyes.

The birth certificate of Adelina Patti
recently found at Madrid, places tn
time Of birth of the prima donna a
1S43.
So Patti at 55 is still the admired O
all the world. Patti is still youthful
with eyes that areas described by
Berlin absolutely young
When in New York, not many sea
sons ago, Patti told the writer the secre
OF her young eyes.
II never read at night, said che, "ii
can help it. It does not hurt the eyes
to cry If you sleep afterward. I battle
my eyes in hot and cold water, as feel.
best. do a great many things I am
told never to do. But also observe GER
tain rules. never read at twilight OF
when hungry. I sleep fully nine hours,
more if need it. I eat lightly many
times a day. keep my eyes free by not
making them tired. That is ALL
PATHS eyes are the sort that shine.
They are almost dazzling. Her lashes
are abundant, fact which she attrib-
utes to her habit Of nightly amounting
them with a cream.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-24

sewer bonus, Q8CeO July 1st.,
1887, payable in 20 years,
per cent. inter est. .....$ 1900. OC
Funded indebtedness bonds,
payable in 80 years, per
cent. interest. ........... ZO,OOO.UU
Public school bonds, dated
April 1st, 1890, payable in
est. ....'... ~ ...... 10000. 90
Ell Paso city hall and Jail
bonds, dated July 1st, 1898,
cent. interest. .......... 10000. 90
Ell Paso sewer extension
bonds, dated July LIST, 1898,
payable in 40 years, 6 per
cent. interest. ........... 1o,OOO.OO
Ell Paso city school house
sue. ..................... 10000. 90
Supplemental CITY hall and
Jail bonds, included in this
issue 1O,VOO.OV
Ell Paso city water works
compromise bonds, iuclud-
ed in this issue. ......... 1000. 90
Total bonded Indebtedness,
including this issue of
sol, OOO, ID. 1o5,OOO.VO
but not yet redeemed. ..... $4,000
Total. .................$ LAG, SOC. 90
The above constitutes the entire
bonded indebtedness of the city of Ell
i'aso.
There is floating debt in the nature
of outstanding city warrants against
the city treasurer amounting, on the
18th day of November, to $50, 544, 90.
This amount, however, is Offset by $751;
600. 90 due on delinquent taxes, which
no doup will be collected very shortly,
over so per cent of which will 60 to the
payment of the floating debt.
There is on hand in the several sink
ing funds on the 18th day of November,
1898, as follows:
Sewer Bonds Sinking and In
terest Fund. ...............$ 7,912.40
Funded Indebtedness Bonds
Sinking and Interest Fund. 2,774 IS
School bonds Sinking and In
terest Fund. -. 2Os5.25
City Hall and Fire Depart
ment Bonds Sinking and In
terest Fund. ..........." 10000
Sewer Extension and I'm
provement Bonds Sinking
and Interest Fund. ..... 1900
Total. ...........$1 2, 9S7 so
The city of Ell Paso owns in the ma.