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he's sick an nawthin will euro him
or anything will. III TIL old days
befure We an We're born, thu doctor
was tn barber too. He'd shave We, cut
ye'er hair, dye ye'er mustache, give
ye a dhry shampoo and cure We iv s
appindicitis while We were havin' yeer
shoes shned be TIL naygur. Ivry gin
Grafton ~ doctors has had their fav-8G
rite remedies Wanst people were
cured iv fatal maladies be applications
iv blind puppies, hnir firm tn skulls w
dead men an solutions ~ bats wings. *
| just as now they're cured be thrink-
lin a tayspoonful ~ very ordinary
article " booze that's had some kind
| " pizenous weed dissolved In 1t.
Dhrugs, says Dock O'I.eary. are lit
| tie ~ p2en that little more Nv
Wnd kill We. He says that If We look
up amy poplar dhrug in tn dltchnry
| Yell see that 1t Is "a very powerful
| pizen OF great use in medicine T
took calonel at his hands FIR nanny
/ years TIL he told me that it was
about the same thing they put into
. Rough on Rats, Thin i stopped. IL
| I've got to die, want to die on thu
/ premises.
"But, as he tells me. We can't stop
lpeople from takin' dhrngs an ye might
as we'll give them something that will
look Important enough TO be inthro-
Ejuced TO their important an fatalcold
in tn head. II 20 don't, they'll leap
4 IA the patent medicines. Mind We.
j haven't got anything to say again
Ipatent medicines IL a man wud
i rather take thin thin drink at u bar
4 or go down to Hop Lungs fra long
/ dhraw he's within his rights. Nanny
"A man have | known who was Il vie-8
.ltim iv tn tortures liz cigareet cough
!, who Is now livin' comfortahl en- happy
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men of the cotton region turn out by ~
tile thousands to kill the worms under
the superintendent of the officials. The
results have been eXcellent; and as
those who have been forced to work
have Teen we'll paid the farmers are
b. ginning to appreciate what has been
Zone for them.
The government has been helping
the farmers in other ways. 1t has an
stsrricultural department which Is
working much as ours. Last year 1T
sent oft selected seed for planting TO-
OOa acres In cotton. contracting with
each farmer who took 1t that 1t would
buy is seed at 6. price above that OF
tho lnarket The seed, which has come
In from that venture Is enough to. plant
5000 acres this year. and this Is to
| be distributed at cost price to such
farmers as want 1t.
The government is trying to induce
\ the farmers to use artificial fertilizers.
| It began this SIN years ago, when II
4 was able to distribute 100000 worth Of
/ chemical manure The demand had SO
Increased for such fertilizers that more
than ten times as much WAS distributed
i last season.
i With our knowledge of the Nile
4 lands it seems a queer thing to talk
II of their artificial fertilization, but
II there is no soil on earth where
Il arnanuring pays hetter.54O On 1.-THE gram
II LANDS, where this STUFF has been used
Il to the extent of about S5tSper acre,
II the crops have increased from SIS to
$50 per acre. and tile probability is
Il that the demand here for fertilizers
q Will steadily grow. During the past
Il year the government has lent to the
Il Agricultural Department 100000 at q
per cent per annum. with the UNDER
q standing that the money Is to be used
g., in buying and distributing manures.
S In another letter will, describe the
o wonderful fertility of the Nile valley,
S and tell you something of the
+ Abyssinian mud of which it Is made. 1t
t has been farmed for ages with almo IT
e no manure whatever and that the con-
d ditions are such that If manure at
drought In from abroad. AS lis now,
the droppings of cattle are gathered
u up by the women in theirs;bare hands
n and patted into cakes9t o be dried for
fuel, and about the9oulyf manure that
E is saved is that of pigeons which
: are raised by the millions throughout
8 the valley of the Nile
e Another fertilizer Is that afforded
8 by the ruins of the ancient towns,
"a whish were built of uni baked STAY, and
ell which now are mere mounds of earth.
: Out OF these mounds, made Of the
e rubbish Of thousand years, comes
II a kind of earth containing a large
n percentage of Soda an1onta and other
Y salts. This stuff is carried by the
u peasants out to the cotton fields and
d sprinkled over the ground and the
I'll result is an extraordinary increase In
oil the yield
n Copyright. 1907 by Frank G. Car
a penter)
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Thin ha chats f'r two hundred years
with tn polishman on til beat. He
tells him a good story an they laugh
harshly. Whin tn polishman goes
his way tn Dock meets tn good wo-
man at tn dure an they exchange al
few wurruds about TIL weather, tn
bad condition Nv tn sthreets, tn health
Nv Mary Ann since she had tn Group
an ye'ersilf. Ye catch tn wurruds,
Grape Pie.' Canned Salmon 'CastT
iron digestionI Still he doesn't como
lup. He tells a few stories to thu
lchildllcr. He weighs tn youngest In
| his hands an says, That's fine boy
I've have, Mrs. Hinnissy. l. make no
doubt he'll grow up to be a polishman.
He examines tn phottygraft album an
Easks If that isn't so-an'-so. An all
this time We lay writhin' In mortal
agony an sayln to ye'ersilf: Inhu-
man monstherf to lave me perish here
while he chats with callous woman
that / haven't said anything but
'What?' to FIR twinty years
"Ye begin to think there's a con-
spiracy against We to get ye'er money
befure he saunters into tn room an
says in gay tone: Well. what dye
name be tyin' up wan Nv tn gr-reat
4 away firm wurruk fra day.? DOCK
i says ye in feeble voice, I have a
Il turable pain In me abdumdum 1t
reaches firm here to here, maxim a
!, rough sketch " tn burned district
| undher tn blanket. ~ felt IT comm
, on last night but didn't say amy
Thing FIR fear Nv alarmin Inc WIFE SO
> Isimply groaned,' says ye. While ye
J ar-re describin ye'er pangs, he walks
around TIL room lookin at tn pic
t lures. Afther ye've got through lie
. comes overan' says: Lave me look al
9 ye'er tongue. Hum he says, holdin
$ ye'er wrist an bowln' through tn
J. window to frind Nv his on a sthreet
. car Does that hurt2 he says, stab.
( hin We with his thumbs in III suburbs
|iv tn pain. 'Ye knowi does says
g We with n groan, "Ioon't do that again
q Te scratched me- lie hurls yeer whis
Q back at We an stands at tn window
: lookin' out at tn fireman acrost tn
:, sthreet playin' dominoes. lie say
Y nawthin' to ye an We feel like tn
II prisoner while tn foreman Nv tn jur,
= is fumblnl' in his inside pocket f'r tn
q verdict Ye can stand 1t no longer
t Dock says ye rs 1t anything fla
It, tai? I'm not tit to die, but tell me tn
II worst an Il will .thry to bear Il
It'll Well, says he, We have al. slight an
IS l.terioritis vtith1left follumDular duck
d. But this prescription ought to 8lAe y
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double the amount of our cotton. 1t is.
In fact, the best cotton of the world
with the exception OF the Sea Island
cotton, which grows on the islands off
the coats of Georgia and South Caro-
Ira. The Sea Island cotton has d little
longer fibre than the Egyptian. The
,alter is for the most part brown in
Gonr and is noted for rs sickness,
which makes 1t valuable for manu-
FEATURING ne:ceri2cd cotton. We i'm
Port an enormous quantity of Egyptian
cotton TO mix with our cotton. j hear
Of cotton here selling for 20 and %
cents a pound. and am told that there
IA great difference in the varieties
raised, and also as to the parts of the
sile valley in which each kind, is
raised.
The very best cotton grows in the
delta. and that region is now produc
ing more than fourfifths of the crop.
Less than a quarter OF million acres
arc now in cotton in the valley of the
Nile above Cairo. and the yield is
neither so large nor SO good as that
o. the della.
] wish could take you with me or
va trip. through the cotton fields of the
l'Nila valley. The scenes there are moth
1 ing like those off our Southern States
4 Much Of tlsc cotton is raised on sinai
4 farms, ana every neId Is marked. GU
1 with little canals into which the watel
/ is introduced from time to time. There
| arc no great farmhouses scattered Over
! the landscape, and no barns. The PEG
\ pie all live in mud villages and 81
| cut to work in the field. They use
animals for blowing and narrowing
4 and the crop is handled in4a differen
way. Let me give you a few picture.
4 as have made them while trayclinq
| through the country:
Take a look over the Delta. It is &
] wide cXpanse of green spotted her,
! and there with white patches TIL.
/ green consists of alfalfa, Indian corn
4 or beans. The white is the cotton.
Eltcan see it stretching out before m.
/ as far as my eye can reach.
/ Here is n field where the lint ha
besn satherr! rho lend IL black, an
4 1t has w.a,lrows Of cotton stalks run
Mig across ~. Every stalk has bee
i pulled o;t hy the roots and piled III
i Further ON we see another field i
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Now watch the camels getup. Each
rises back end first, the bags sway
ing to and fro as he does so. How
angry he is. He goes off with his lower
lip hanging. grumbling and grooming
like spoiled child. How odd the
camels look as they travel, The bags
on their backs reach almost to the
ground, and each ungainly beast seems
to be walking on SIX legs.
Looking down the road, we can see
long caravans of camels loaded Will.
bales, and on the other side of that
little canal is a small drove of dom
keys bringing in cotton. Each donkey
is hidden by a bag which covers its
back and all but it's little legs. It
looks like a bedticll walking off upon
legs.
In this way the cotton is brought
to the railroad station and to the boats.
| The latter go out of one little water
way into another until >they get into
| the Mahmudiveh Canal and thence to
Alexandra. The railroads are filled
! with cotton trains during the harvest
ling season. and just now there are
/ long strings of cars loaded with cot
lNton coming into this city. Some of this
Itcotton has been ginned and bnled upon
plantations; other is sent in in the
i seed and ginned here. There are also
4 ginning establishments at the larger
4 cotton markets of the interior, many
i ofaWhich are run by steam, and which
). have as up-to-date machinery as we
q have. Al these gins the seed is care
4 fully saved and shipped to Alexandra
by ritilrcad or by boat.
4 How They Plant Cotton in Egypt.
Il These Egyptians spend more work
on their crops than our Southern
farmers. In the first place, the lant
has to be plowed with canes or buf-
faiccs and prepared for the planting
Il 1t must be divided into basins, each
walled around SO that~it will hold
water. end have little canals inside
each basin SO arranged that the water
| will run in and out through every
J rcw. The whole field is cut UP into beds
). OF this description, ranging in size
{ from Iwenty-four feet to seventy five
; feet square.
], The cotton is planted in rows thirty
/ fiHr inches. apart, the plants being
.ifrom fourteen to twenty inches apar
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which the stalks laYe been tied into
hurdles. They will be sold as fuel
and viii produce u fun ton Of dry
wood To the acre. There arc no forests
In Egypt, and all sorts of fuel are
scarce The stalks from one acre will
sell for So or more. The cotton stalks
ara used for cooking, for the farm
engines on the larger plantations and
exon for running the ginning estab-
.llsltMents, In that village over there
you may sec great bundles OF stalks
stored away on the tops of the flat
rooted houses. Corn fodder Is piled up
beside them, the leaves of the fodder
having been torn off for stock feed.
Is not this a queer country where the
people keep their wood piles on their
'roofs
Cotton Picking.
Here is 81 field where they are pick
ing cotton. There nre scores of little
Isgyptian bows and girls working away
among the white boIls. They have
dark brown faces Tho bows wear h,ue
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.(Copyriight, 1907, BY II. II. Mcclure & Co

tn chemist. laying down his spoon,
that's his old cure FIR tn bellyache.
Ye'll find bucket iv 1t In TIL back
room next to TIL coal scutte.
ITS a great medicine he give ye
It will do We good no matther What
de do with It. l wud first thry poor
In some iv it in ne hair. IT that don't
bottle into TIN river. Ye feel betther
already. Ye ought to write to TIL
medical journals about TIL case. IT Is
a remarkable cures M------ Fl -------
was stricken with circulating tor
lures In tn gastric regions followin'
an unusually severe outing In tn
country. For a time it looked as
though It might be nicissory TO saw
out tn infected area, but as this wud
lave an ugly space between lees an
chin it was determined to apply Jam.
Gin, q VIII. TIL remedy acted IN
stantly. Afther carryin tn bottle UNI
corked f'r five minyitls In his inside
pocket tn patient showed signs " re-
covery an is now again In his accus-
| toned llealth3s
Yes sir, II was a doctor I'd he
/ ayether laughin"or crSln all TIL time.
! I'd be luughin' over til cases that !
was called into when ] wasn't needed
/ an cryln' over tn cases whore | cud
do no good. An that wud be most IL
/ me cases.
Dock o'LearY comes in here often
/ an talks medicine to me, Yeers Is
la very thrying pro-tissyon' says
/ 1T Isl says he. I'm tired out says
i he, Have We had good NANNY des-
prit cases to-day" says l, III isn't
4 that says he, but I'm not a very
muscular man he says. AN some ~
tn windows In these old frame houses
A.
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ALEXANDRIA.
y HAVE spent the whole Of to-day
wandering about the cotton
Mhary YES Of Ales =. q they . ex
the Malimudlyeh Canal, which
Joins this city to the Nle, and are
thanked on the other side ny railroads
filled with cotton trains from every
part of Egypt These wharves lie under
the shadow OF Pompey's Pillar, and
they extend all along the canal almost
to the harbor. Upon them are great
warehouses filled with bales and bags
There are cotton presses nearby, and
In the city itself is n great cotton ex-
change, where the people buy and sell,
just as they do at Liverpool, from the,
samples of lint which represent the
bales brought in from the plantations.
The Alexandria Cotton Market.
Indeed. cotton is as big II factor here
as it is in New Orleans. and the banks
Of this canal make one think of the
great cotton market of that city. The
warehouses are of vast extent. and
the road between them and this water
way is covered With bales OF lint and
great bags Of cotton seed, Skull
capped, blue gowned Egyptians sit
high upon the bales on long beddcd
wagons hauled by mules. other EgYp-
tians are unloading the cars and boats
ana others arc carrying tile cotton TO
the warehouses. They tote the bales
and bags on their backs, and now and
then man may be seen carrying Il
bag OF loose cotton weighing a couple
Of hundred pounds upon his head. The
cotton seed is taken from the boats
In the same way. seed TO the amount OF
900 pounds often forming. load for
one man.
Late in the afternoon | went down
to the harborIto see the cotton steam.
ers. They were taking on cargoes for
Great Britain. Russia France Germany
and the United States. Cotton forne
three-fourths Of the exports OF thi;
country, and something like 100000
worth of It Is annually shipped TO the
United states. This is 80 notwithstanu.
ing we raise more than two-thirds o
all the cotton of the world. The tota
product of 1905 was almost $4,000. OOC
bales, of which we raised over 10000
600. Egypt then produced little less
than 100000. and its product brough,
more perbale by far than ours. There is
always big demand for Egyptian col
ton 1t Is worth more OH the averag,
than that OF any other country, ant
It is. in fact, the chief money make
OF tho Nile valley.
Cotton is the great white Phara OF
which the Egyptians worship. lie La
the majority Of the Nile farmers ii
his employ. and he pays them royalty
He has rolled UP. a wave Of prosperit,
which Is now engulfing the Nile vale
from the Mediterranean to the catar
acts, and tho prospects arc that h
Will make his country grow richie
from year to year.
Cotton Is now pouring about $50
100000 Of new. clean money into til
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kEYW THAT ails ye?" asked Mr.
M pooley Of Mr.. Hsnnes-
wv sey, who looked de-

H : Z u
TIN sick man" said Mr. Hennessy.
since tn picnic?" Mr.. Dooley sug-
gested.
Now that come TO think IL it. 1T
did begin tn day afthcr tn picnic"
said Mr.. Henncssy. "l've been to sec
Dock o'Leary He give me this (pro-
dncing bottle of dark and sinister
looking liquid) an these here pills an
some powders besides. An dye
know, though have't taken amy "
thin yet, ! feel Bother already"
Well sir said Mr.. DooIcy, "tis a
grand thine to be a doctor. A man
that's a doctor don't have to buy amy
funny papers to enjye life. TIL likes
Nv We goes TO a picnic an has pleas
ant, peaceful day in TIL country dane
IN breakdowns an kckin a football
In TIL sun an ivry fifteen minyits Or
go washn' down a couple Of dll-pickles
with a bottle Of white pop. TIL next
day We get what's comins to We in TIL
right place an bein' a sthrong, hearty
man that cuddent be kilt be amy
thing less thin a safe fallin' on We
firm a twenty-story buildln' ye know
We ar-re goin' to die TIL good wo-
man advises a mustard plasther, but
We scorn tn suggestion. What good
wud "a mustard plasther be again this
fatal epidemic that is ragin' inside "
we? Besides mustard pasther wut
hurt. So tn good woman, frivilous
rather that she Is, goes back to her
worruk singin' light chune. She
knows she's goin' to have to put M
with ye fr some time to come. A mus
tard plasther Hinnissy, is tn real tes
~ whether pain is goin to xiii "
or not. II tho 'plasther is onbearabl'
we can bet tn pain underneath 1T u
not. Ills TIL same thing through life
Nv known nanny a broken heart Il
be- cured be toothache or Il whacl
on tn funny bone.
"But ye know We are going to al
an ye'ra not sure whether yen sen
f'r Father Kelly. or tn doctor. Y
finally decide to save up Father kel
ley f'r III last an ye sind III TIN Dock
Havin rescued We firm tn Jaws !
death two or three times before Will
we had a sick headache tn Dock take
his time. about COMMIT, but just as y
are beginnin' to throw ye'er boots a
tn clock an show other signs Nv wha
he calls rigem mortar he rides up !
his fine horse an buggy He gets on
slowly, one foot at a times bitches NJ
horse an ties a nose bag on his hea'
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a pestle. An it's good thing ye
can't read it. If we cud, ye'd say: III
not cash this in at no dhrug store.
I'll 60 over to Dooey's an get tn rale
thing So, afther thrying' to declpher
this here corner ~ dhress Datthern,
We climb into ye'er clothes Fl what
may be- ye'er last walk up Ar-rchy
Road AS We go along We begin to
think that maybe TIL Dock knows we
have TIL Aslatic cholerY an,6Was only
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up all right. Ye'd betthcr take It
over to tn dhrug store an have it
filled ye'ersilf In TIL manetime I'd ad-
wise ye to be careful Nv yeer dite. I
wudden't ate anything with glass or
a large percentage Nv plasther Nv Paris
in It, An he goes away to write his
bill.
II wondher why We can always read
a doctors bill an ye nver can read
his prescription. F'r all We know, it
may be a short note to tn druggist
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thryin to jolly. ye with his manner Nv
dealin' With We. As We get near TIL
dhrug store ye feel sure " it, an It's
with til air iv q man without hope,
that We hand tn paper toYa young
pharmycist who is miNin' a two-cent
stamp Fir lady customer He hands
1t over to a promising scientist who
is compoundin' an ice-cream soda FIR
child. with tn remark: 'O'Learys
writing is getting worse an worse.
can't make this out at all oh says
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while Dabner rained blows upon q
with the fish-plate. One OF these blows.
nervously aimed, cut open Slemsena
finger. But the jeweler fought like a
wildcat, and before he could be dis
posed Of his little daughter, Bessie,
rushed into the store from the rear
followed by her mother. Siemsen and
Dabner darted from the place.
Siemsen got away, but Dabner was
knocked down and captured by viii
Brown, fireman. A frenzied crowd
surrounded captor and captive, rope
was produced, and the boy flend
would surely have been lynched but
for the opportune arrival of squad
Of police, who were scarcely able to
fight their way to the station with
their prisoner.
In the meantime Siemsen had called
for bis wife and taken ber home,
Learning Of Dabners capture. with
marvellous effrontery he decided to
visit police headquarters and spread
the trail for his own escape. There
he told story Of being held up and
robbed Of 5000 in greenbacks. He
showed the detectives SIS which he
had taken from the jewelers. cash box.
and declared It was all the footpada
had missed.
He overplayed the part, however,
giving his true address and placing
the scene OF the hold-up Behrend's
store. That night he was arrested at
his home.
Dabner weeps wildly and bitterly
cursing the day he ever met the
clever cruel but at present sympathet
10 Kanaka. Siemsen continues to
smoke, smile and draw little pictures
The chief Of police has given orders
that when either Is shaved he shall
be bound hand and foot In the chain
for fear he may get possession Of the
razos Ard alash way to libArsM
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coroner of the city and county. This
mans name was James Dowdall, and
the police arrested him in refugee
camp, apparently for no other reason
than that he had a bad record. He
protested his innocence, but the detec-
tives dragged him through the prelim-
mary examination, where DR.. Leland
positively identified him as one Of his
assailants.
Tragedy at japanese Bank.
But while the trial of Dowdall was
In progress the two felons for whom
he suffered, one of them an ex-convlct
like himself, were busily planning their
boldest venture. This was the robbery
of the Kimmon Ginko, or Japanese
bank.
The day before the robbery Siemsen
drove up In buggy which he had pur-
chased with the proceeds Of his other
robberies. He entered and interviewed
the manager, NJ. Munakata, declaring
that he intended to become deposi.
tor. At first Munakata was suspicious,
but by the time Slemsen had left, the
well dressed. smooth-spoken stranger
had allayed all doubts, to say nothing
Of having obtained an excellent idea
Of the arrangement of the bank.
The following day Siemsen and Dab
ner, each armed with a paper-covered
gas pipe, waited outside until all save
one Of the clerks, 4. Sasaki, had gone
to luncheon. Then they went in.
Siemsen nodded to the clerk at the
counter and with Dabner strobe back
to the managers Office. They found
Munakata writing, and before he could
greet them siemsen struck him blow
over the skull which killed him in.
stantly. Then, according to arrange
ment, they called SasakI to the rear.
As soon as the plucky little Japanese
saw his employer lying In pool Of
blood be started to fight, but Slemsan