Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-19
GUARDING THE KHEDIyE.
official Precautions AO0tTIst the 4sSGsS'n0-
tom of Tesgtsk PGsh0.
New York Herald

CA1Ro, Dec. 1O.-The khedive lives in
palace surrounded by whole regiment OF
British soldiers. Extraordinary precau-
tions are taken, to prevent his assassination.
He sleeps in room the only access to
which is by means of passageway barred
by four doors, each door having differnt
combination lock, and each key being IN
trustd to a separate guardian. The count
ensign of the soldiers in the palace is often
changed two or three times during the
same night. Secret service agents are
charged with the task of keeping watch
full eye upon the palace officials as well as
upon each other.
Whenever the khedive drives out the
roads through which he passes are lined
with gendarmes on foot and on horse
back. His carriage-usually an open VIC
toria- is surrounded by adozen Circassian
outriders; and in short all those precau-
tons are taken by Mohammed Tewfk that
are usually taken by ruler who finds him
self in the melancholy position of being
hated or despised by his subjects. 1t was
only last week that, as the khedive drove
by the guard of the new Egyptian gend-
armerie, one of the gallant gendarmes,
after presenting arms to his sovereign"
dashed his rifle violently to the ground and
predicted of Mohammed Tewfik an epithet
that decency here forbids me to reproduce.
And, what is far more significant, the Off
Ger in command of the detachment didnot
deem it wise or discreat to even notice this
act of gross INSTRUMENTATION. have even
seen donkey boys in the streets of Cairo
turn their backs on the khedive when driv-
ing by, and make vilifying noises with
their mouths.
A curious incident happened the other
day in the garden of the Ghezereh palace,
where the khedive is in the habit of stroll
ing about after lunch. The garden is sur
rounded by the Nile and by very high walls,
and is vigilantly guarded by both High
landers and and Circassians. The khedive
was walking in the shade of some palm
trees unattended and dressed as an ordi-
nary Egyptian official -tarboush, black,
clerically cut coat, tweed trousers, and pat
ent leather shoes. Nothing about him in
dictated his rank. Passing by narrow
gateway theekhedive noticed tall High
lander pacing to and fro on sentry duty.
His highness, who speaks English quite
fuently, asked the sentry ''How do you like
Egypt?" The Highlander soldier of
the gallant Forty second (the Black Watch
who afterward recounted to me the CONVEX
sation that ensued-repied, SCOT to like it
pretty we'll now that we are in the bar
racks;H and glad to find any one who
could talk English, and not dreaming who
his interlocutor was, the Scotchman con-
tinued the conversation by asking, What
sort of a berth have you got here?" The
khedive replied go not bad one, am at
tached to the palace" The Highlander
then continued, 'What sort of chap is
this ERE khedive? He must be a rum 'un
from all hear The khedive, whose good
nature is proverbial, asked, What do you
hear about him?" The!Scot replied: "Well,
as near as I can make out, this khedive is
about the worst man out of the,.whole lot of
'em. He amt got no sort O courage nor
manhood about him, and, as soon as we
get out of this, old Arabi's beggars will
make a sort of s'haggis' out of him." The
conversation at this interesting point was
interrupted by the appearance Of the
guard relief, who presented arms to the
khedive, and then revealed to the High
lander, now utterly discounted and red as
a lobster. the fact that he had been talking
to no less a parsonage than the successor
of the Pharaohs