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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-24
AN EGYPTIAN ETON.
fGHOOLS IN WHICH THE RICH BOYS
OF CAIRO ARE EDUCATED.

Difficulties That English Teachers Have &c
Contend with-Pupils Are Boys In Name
Only, For the Egyptians Have No Gen.
uine Youth.
They were training for the sports. III
the sunny playground was row of big,
fat boys-though none of them came
within six inches of the slim, young,
befezzed English head master-hanging
on to rope made fast round tree. The
trained instructor from Aldershot-he
not so yorng or slim as he has been,
but with muscles all india rubber and
steel-was teaching them the tug of
war. His white toothed, black faced,
khaki clad Sudanese assistants wers
helping him.
was in the Egyptian Eton. 1t was
one of three schools originally founded
for training teachers capable of giving
instruction in English or French. But
now it contains primary and secondary
schools and a training college for the
teachers, so that l was in a fair way TO
see at its best a summary of the whole
system of public instruction in Egypt.
It is only in its infancy as yet.
! First we went into, the primary
school. There were not many pupils be-
cause the fees here are high-as much
as $50 and SO a year for day boys
and nobody much comes to the primary
part except those who have failed else
where and whose fathers think the high
fee guarantee of high examining.
The primary course in Egypt takes four
in ha A,al ~ ipf.t.
are taught; after that, English or
French is introduced and gradually OK
tended till in the two last years it takes
13 hours out OF the weekly 33. All the
instruction IL languages is given in the
language itself, but by natives. Only
one-English or French-is taught, but
that is taught thoroughly.
In the lowest class there were just
four boys-absurd little owls with the
gravity Of old men, dressed i'll fez and
They were getting drawing
lesson from an elderly Arab with a
shawl round his heed. When 1 went in,
they all stood up and saluted. In the
highest class they were having an Eng
lish lesson from young native in a
large butterfly tie. Their English was
thick and sloppy; so, if it came to that,
was the masters. Still you could under
stand it. In this class mustaches were
already budding, and it seemed strange
to hear young men reading infantile
stuff about the sparrow.
The great difficulty in schools like
this arises from the fact that Mussul-
man is never a boy. AS soon as he
leaves the harem and is no longer baby
he jumps at bound to being "a man. =
boy will do we'll i'll his classes up to l.,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-24
UNCLE NOSES PRAYER.
He Prayed EIoquently, but Gestured q
Little Too Forcibly.


Little Too ForcibIy.
Uncle Nose came down from the
country to visit his son, who worked in
the livery stable. Uncle Nose was a
deacon in a little country church and
was noted fer his long, fervent prayers,
but when his son Ike took him to the
oolored church in the city and when no
heard the organ and gazed upon the
well dressed darkies he felt as if tho
Lord was long ways off. Uncle Nose
had met the parsoE the day before, and
what was his surprise when that person
said during services "We'll all join in
pra'r wild Brother Nose Smith" Uncle
Nose went down on his knees and threw
his deep voice and soul in prayer
which shook the rafters. AS he came to
the close his old white head was shak-
ing and his voice was bringing each
saint and sinner to the shouting point:
go Lawd, we know dat we is weak
in dy sight an hab been follerin after
things which SAILOR NV de debil, but,
o Lawd, we know dat dow in dy rich
ness of mercy gwine tuw swipe hit often
de big book an say, 'Yo' count is squah.
Huccome we hahn been doin right ez
durin de las month, ner de las week,
swipe hit often de big book-yeah,
swipe hit off. When de pale boss an dc
white rider cum ridin down from de
valley Nv de shadder Nv death, dc pale
rider gwine swing his lef' laig outen de
stirrup, cotch us by de shurt, jerk us
benin him an bar us way to de blazin
sun, an when we put our foot upon do
sans Nv dc sho' fotch de boat up close
to de bank, an ez we gifts in de seat den
waf' US an row us away to de glory
Ian. Amen"
''How did dat pra'r go, Ike?" said he
as he went home.
''Pap, dar wern't but one lection,
specially your gestures. When you
talked bout de pale rider swingin his
lef' laig outen de stirrup, you kicked
Sister Brown right int de side. Louis
Vile Dispatch.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-24

I 10, 16, and then suddenly the cafes and
hasheesh and lights O. love claim him,
and from bright eyed urchin he be-
comes a sallow, hashy, sodden, stupid,
dissipated man about town. In one pri-
mary school two boys, 10 and II, have
! just been married-not betrothed, you
know, but really married, and living
with their wives. The native master
saw nothing extraordinary in a married
sixth standard boy. Under the former
system a boy took his primary certifi-
cate, which qualities for lower govern
ment posts, at II or SO, then spent six
years getting his secondary certificate,
and then perhaps went on TO the train
ing college or the schools of medicine or
| of law. Consequently he might easily
| be the father of very fair sized family
years before he started to earn a piastre.
Lately, by shortening the secondary
course from five years to three, real
effort has been made to get boys out of
hand and into the world before 90 or so.
| When we got on to the top form of the
secondary school, there was no appreci-
allie difference in the sort of boy-all
befezzed, all overcoated, most mustack-
ed, all grave. es if school were a matter
of life and death.
There is no difficulty in point of dis
cipline with the Egyptian schoolboy.
The French masters have some trouble
sometimes, was told, but in the very,
very rare cases where an English master
finds his classes too much for him he
must go. 1t will not do to bring up the
young in the idea that they may set at
naught the authority of an Englishman.
AM hot
of the Egyptian schoolboy? Does he do
any good in return for the patient, in
telligent, honest care his English mas
tiers bestow on him? Well, he is learn
ing TO play football, and that will be
good for him, only when boy says to
his master, after playing the Egyptian
Sandhurst, 1.-THE ground was too undu-
lating; it recalled to me Hannibal's
passage of the Alps" why, then, you
perceive that even football will not nee
essarily turn a precocious man into a
boy again. He is astonishingly indus
trious. The difficulty is not to make
him work, but 10 prevent him from
overworking. Eight hours home work
after five and a half III school is by no
means an unknown performance. Some
of his work in English literature which
L saw COLipd iu4tO NCiA "4SA tAao u
university extension students at home,
but, like theirs, it reads very textbooky.
He has an astonishing gift for Ian
guages, and he can appreciate play Of
Shakespeare with ghosts or witches in
it and a good allowance of ford meta
phor, no worse-perhaps better-than
an English schoolboy.
But at the end of it all he is parrot
like in his unintelligence, incorrigible
in his inaccuracy, hopelessly fatuous in
his dishonesty. He understands ordi-
nary English, if you ask him questions.
uncommonly well, but he will reel you
off page of textbook, understanding
the meaning of each word, but without
an idea of the connected sense of it.
Will they ever make boy of him?
II skill and trying can do it, they will,
and if he can be made a boy be can be
made man. But it is work against the
collar, and it will not be done today or
tomorrow.-G. w. Stevens in London
Mail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-24
What to Say.

a member Of the house went to
Speaker Reed one day and said that he
had been selected by his delegation to
deliver eulogy on deceased member.
81 did not know the member very
WELL" remarked the congressman,
land so I thought 1 would ask you
what should say
Well said Mr.. Reed, with his IN
imitable drawl, Say anything exceP.
tire truth. Washington Post.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-24

Do you know that we have hundreds of
letters from all parts of the world telling
us OF the wonderful cures these plasters
have made? Do you know that all other
so-called porous plasters were started
after Allcock's had acquired their enor-
nous sales and worldwide reputation?
Do you know that none of them have the
medicinal properties of Allcock's? Just
put them to your nose and compare the
fine aromatic OdOr of Allcock's with the
smell of all others. Don't be deceived
get the genuine article.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-24

Henry Mcclellan, of Hamilton,
Ill, is veteran OF the 10Th Illi-
nois Infantry. He said:
For more than fifteen years
was sufferer from gastritis in its
worst form. 1 was much reduced
in flesh and strength and unable
to attend to business. Finally my
wife persuaded me to try DR.. Will
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People
and to my surprise I began to get
better. Three boxes effected a
cure that has been permanent. ]
When I began to, take the pills I
weighed 1876 pounds now weigh
1853. These pills did me more
good than all the other medicines
I have ever taken.
H. K. MCCLELLAN.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this second day of December,
1897.
R. R. WALLACE,
= Notary Public.
From the Press, Hamilton, III.
DR.. WilliamSs pink Pills for Pale People
contain, in IA condensed form, all the ele-
ments necessary 10 give new life and rich
ness to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. They are an unfailing specific for
such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial
paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neural
gia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the
after-effects of the grip, palpitation of the
heart, pale and sallow compile xions, and all Z
forms of weakness either in male or female.
Or. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People never
sold by the dozen or hundred. but always in pack
ages. At all druggists. or direct from the Or. VIII
Iiams Medicine Company. Schenectady, N. T.. 90 [
cents per box. boxes $3.50.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05
A FREE HAND IN THE PHILIPPINES.

The President is now free 90 prosecute
the war in the Philippines in accordance
with his own ideas of what should be
done. From what he has said. and what
he has already done, the conclusion is that
the war will be prosecuted with all the
vigOr that the most enthusiastic expan-
sionist could desire. Gen. Otis and Ad-
miraI Dewey can have all the reinforce
ments they want They have but to ask
TO receive. The understanding is that the
President believes that if the war s
prosecuted vigorously It will soon be
brought to an end.
Six thousand regulars have just been
ordered to Manila to reinforce Gen. Otis
and Admiral Dewey has called for a
number of light draught gunboats, which
will be sent to him at once. No doubt it
viii be the effort of the President to bring
the war to a close before the assembling
of Congress next December If he can
prevent Aguinaldo from getting arms and
ammunition 1t will not be long before the
insurgents will have to abandon HOSTILE
ties In the vicinity of Manila, and when
the Filipino chief withdraws from that
city his followers will understand that the
end of the instruction is close at hand
With that knowledge win come the desire
to make terms with the Americans. In
deed, according to the Geographic ac-
counts, a great many of the insurgents
have already announced their desire TO
come into the American lines and return
90 their homes.
An aggressive campaign against the IN
surgents has not yet been undertaken for
the reason that the treaty with Spain has
not been signed. Our forces have simply
been engaged in keeping the insurgents
from taking possession of Manila 1t is
not known whether or not is the pur-
pose of the President to depart from that
programme before the signing of the
he is getting ready to prosecute vigor-
Gus campaign as soon as the cession OF
the Philippines is complete.
If we are to wage a war against the
Filipinos it is better not only for them.
but also for our troops that the campaign
for the pacification of the islands should
be a vigorous one. The greater the show
of strength we make the sooner will the
Filipinos acknowledge our authority. We
don't want to lose any more of our SOL
diers in the swamps and jungles of those
PARKWAY islands than is absolutely nee
essary to accomplish our purpose. Let
the campaign for the establishment of our
authority therefore be short and sharp
one.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05
PERSONAL.

Capt John H. Surratt, whose mother
was hanged for the murder of President
Lincoln, is a trusted employe of a Balti-
more steamship line, though still out on
SIS 600 bail as the result of a jury's dis
agreement in his own trial, which lasted
104 days in 1867.
quite a number Of the Jones family are
prominent these days. Long Jones" is
credited with having had a great deal to
do with eiecting Mr. Quarles senator in
the neighboring state of Wisconsin. The
Governor of Arkansas, the lieutenant gov
errors of Mississippi and Ohio, and the
attorney general of Nevada are other
Joneses who readily come to mind.
Mr.. Boroyski, a student of Warsaw, has
just obtained his diploma at the age of IS.
This persevering son of Aescufapius began
his studies at the age of q, but funds failed
him and he took a spell Of twenty years
as a tax collector. returning then to his
first love with a modest competence. Just
then Polish rising occurred and he be-
came implicated In it, with the result that
he was sent for life to Siberia. For tive
and thirty years he worked in the silver
mines, obtaining at last In 1895, a remis-
sion of his sentence. Losing no time. he
hurried back to Warsaw, resumed the
thread of his educational discourse and is
now qualified for practice.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05
BRIGHT BITS.


-Parent-"So you really want to marry
my daughter" Suitor-"Well, I can
hardly say that; but there doesn't seem
TO be any other way to come in for any
of her money, you know."-Boston Trans
cript.
-Self-Denial.-"Di you hear Puffer' S
grafton on George Washington" asked
Mrs Corntossel. YES" answered her hus-
band. "Was he as egotistlc as usual?'
mo. He was right modest, fur him. OF
course, he talked about hisself a good deal.
But he gave you to understand that when
it come right down to a pinch, he was
willin' to take a back seat to Washing
ton. w Arlington Star.
-Exaltation.-Of these two, one was a
daughter of the Orient the other a daugh-
ter of the Occident; but they were both
women, and, as the Dutch prettily have
1t, the weibllche is largely ewig. And
men don't buy their wives in your coun-
try?" the daughter of the Orient repeated
incredulously. No answered the daugh-
ter of the Occident proudly. why, some
times they don't even buy their own neck
ties. Detroit Journal.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05
AN ExTRAvAGANT CONGRESS.

The Fffty-fifth Congress. which came &c
an end at noon yesterday, was the most
extravagant Congress that ever assembled
in Washington. It will be a week or more
before It Is known what the amount of its
appropriations Is. It's certain, however
that It will be large enough to startle
the country. Representative Maddox OF
this state tried to protect the treasury
and was laughed at for his efforts. Sc
outrageous were the demands of the CON-
binatlons which were formed for footing
the treasury that Senator Morgan protest
ed against the "log-rolling' combinations,
saying that bills carrying appropriations
for public buildings were passed so rapidly
that the names of many Of the towns in
which the buildings were to be located
could not be understood by senators.
The Republican party will be called to
account for the extravaganza of the Fifty
fifth Congress. There is no doubt about
that. The people hoped that, owing to
the necessity for extraordinary expendl-
lures on account of the war, there would
be economy in other directions. Instead
of economy there was a grand scramble
to get appropriations for all sorts of claims
and demands. And these claims and de-
mands were forced through the House
and Senate by means of combinations,
which must have been formed early in the
session.
The Republicans may think the extrava-
gance of the Fifty-ffth Congress will be
forgotten before the election next year.
They will find themselves mistaken. The
war taxes will keep the memory of the
extravaganza of that Congress fresh, and
when the time comes for them to express
themselves at the ballot box they will take
care that the Republican party is made
to feel the weight Of their condemnation.
The Democratic party needs no better
campaign capital than IS furnished by the
extravaganza of the Congress that has
just expired. 1t will give it more votes
than any other issre which 1t can present
classes of people can understand and ap-
preciate, because 1t is brought home to
all classes daily by the war taxes. 1t is
a better issue than free silver or impe-
rialism, and the Democratic party will
not be slow to take advantage of 1t.
The war taxes are not nearly so heavy
now as they are going to be. In the next
fiscal year there will be big deficit and
then there will come bond issues and
heavier taxes. The people will want to
get rid of a party that organizes combl-
sufficient reason, puts heavier burdens on
the people.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05
How the Cook Burned Her Nose.

There was company for dinner, and the
platter in front of the host contained a
fine roast of beef, says the London Tele-
graph. He drew the sharp carving knife
across the ringing steel for a few times,
just because that is way carvers have,
drove the fork deep into the steaming beef,
described a scalping knife flourish in the
air and gracefully began operations. Two
nice marble-sized slices clear across the
roast had resulted, and he was turning
off the third when the blade struck a
skewer, made a side-long motion, and
came out at the top, with the result that
the proposed slice looked like a frostbitten
leaf curled by the sun.
The man could not say intense things in
the presence of his guests. but he froze
his wife with a look, made a grim Joke
about the indigestibility of roasted hard
wood, inquired whether the butcher also
ran wood yard, dug the skewer out vic
iously and ordered little Willie, who had
made several attempts to say something,
to keep still or leave the table. His evil
dent temper led to an embarrassing silence
and Willie saw an opening that he could
not resist.
Cook has burned her nose orful," he
announced.
ITO bad" said the father, whose good
humor was coming back, How did she
do it?'
Trying ter pull them skewers out with
her teeth
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05
Two Wild Excnses.

Last week late in the afternoon, says
the Rochester Herald, a case was called
by Judge Sutherland in County Court.
II would like to ask, your honor, that
this case go over until tomorrow" said
one of the attorneys.
ION what ground" said the judge. ''Too
tired?"
Yes, your honor, I have been arguing
a case all day in Part H. and l am really
too fatigued to go on with this trial"
Very well. let the case go over. Call
the next case"
The next case was called and another
attorney arose:
May 1t please your honor, 1 would like
to ask that this case go over"
For what reason?"
II am too tired.
you, too? What makes you tired?"
II have been listening all day to my
learned friend in Part IL"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05
An Artists Wife.

Il heard this story on the Rialto to-day
and it is at least, worth repeating" says
the New York correspondent of the Pitts
burg Dispatch. An artist of more than
national fame chose the most beautiful girl
in Gotham for a mate: My dear you are
almost perfect. You lack but two things:
Your mouth is a little too small and you
are little too thin. I wish that before
we are married you would correct those
two and become absolute perfection" For
six months the poor girl wore a brass fix
ture in her mouth to stretch her jaw and
ate fattening food. Then she was mar
ried. To an Intimate friend she has since
confessed that the agony of that six
months jaw-stretching was not worth all
she since has enjoyed as the wife of a
distinguished artist.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05
THE "EMBALMED BEEF" INQUIR,

The evidence in the ''embalmed beef''
inquiry Is cumulative. Not a new point
has been brought out In regard to the "em-
balmed beef charge made by Gen Miles
since the commission appointed to investi-
gate the conduct of the war closed its in
quiry. There appears to be ample ground
for saying that the inquiry now being made
will amount to nothing.
1t is undoubtedly true that a great deal
of the meat that was delivered TO the army
was in bad condition when il reached the
soldiers. This statement applies to both
refrigerated beef and to canned roast
beef. Many officers and privates testify
that the beef was bad But what the gov
eminent and the people want to know is,
was the beef bad when it was delivered
by the beef packing companies to the gov
eminent? If it was not the govern
ment Is wasting money in hearing testi-
mony that the meat was bad when 1t
reached the camps of the soldiers.
Why not accept It as a fact that a great
deal of the meat was bad when 1t reached
the soldiers. and try to find out what its
condition was when II passed from the
beef packing establishments to the pos
session of the agents of the government?
AT first 1t was asserted that the meat was
treated with chemicals of some sort for
the purpose of preserving it. That asser-
ton has been abandoned apparently. At
least nothing more is heard of it. Those
who were depended upon to prove Il have
signally failed to do so.
But it Is admitted that a great deal Of
the meat was spoiled when it reaced the
soldiers. The only question which thus
far presents itself therefore is, was the
meat spoiled by the climate of Cuba and
Porto Rico. or was il spoiled when 1t left
the packing houses of the beef packing
companies? That is the question to which
the court Of inquiry ought to give its at
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05
General Advised to cling to His Job

Among the recently returned Second
Tennessee Regiment boys there are five
on whom a good story is told, says the
Memphis Scimitar While in Camp Meade
these soldier boys got a furlough and
went to Harrisburg, Pa, and proceeded
to take in the town. They were walking
down one of the principal thoroughfares,
after reducing the supply of mint juleps,
and passed one of the commanding Off
GERS. They failed to salute, and the Off
Ger wheeled on his horse, and, after call
ing them to attention, inquired If they
were soldiers. One of the boys replied:
Some people think we are"
We'll, am Gen. So-and-So, command
ing this corps"
THE h-ll you are" said the spokesman
of the squad. you've got a good job;
you'd better hang on to It."
That was too much for the officer and
he rode off.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05

Ambassador ChOate. in an address at
southampton the other day. in a very
striking manner brought out the great pro-
gress that has been made since the Pill
grim Fathers landed upon Plymouth Rock.
In 1870 the pioneer Americans crossed the
Atlantic in a fran little craft of 100 tons.
the voyage requiring four months. In
less than three hundred years from that
time representative Of their descendants
the ambassador of one of the earth's great
est nations, recrossed the ocean in a mag
nificent ocean greyhound, the st. Paul, in
single week. The Mayfower and the st.
Paul, Nj choate said. furnished a sym
Dol of the marvellous changes which time
has wrought.