National Republican., 1885-07-16

As every lady in America will be inter
ested in knowing the dress of the first gem
tleman in Egypt, may be permitted to
describe It. His highness, who is some
what short and stout In person, wore a
black frock coat, white vest, and trousers
Of grayish hue, and uncommonly neat
morocco shoes. His linen was spotless aud
his broad expanse of shirt front was orna-
mented with three simple damond-shaped
gold. studs. His other jewelry was not
conspicuous. His dark luxuriant hair
was carefully arranged and his full
beard closely trimmed. Altogether, with
his rich brown complexion, his dark ex-
pressive eyes, and his features, which IL
not Of the highest type Of beauty were not
displeasing, he seemed rs well dressed and
handsome gentleman as one could meet
on a summers day. His countenance
changed frequently, according to the char
actor Of the conversation. His gestures were
simple and energetic-a movement Of the
thumb Of his right hand with the fore
fingers closed, and an occasional thrusting
out Of the fore6nger of the left hand toward
the auditor or into space to emphasize his
remarks, which were often, and not always
in royal fashion, in dead earnest. He spoke
English fiuently and, wnen not carried
away by the rapid rush Of his thoughts and
feelings, with creditable correctness Oc-
oasionally, when most In earnest, he slipped
half off his chair to bring himself little
nearer to his auditor. Now aud then he
drew his legs (Which are not OF the longest)
up under him on the heavily upholstered
chair, showing that something Of the
Oriental habits were still instructive with
him.
He began the conversation without delay
by a reference to my nationality. "America
is great natlon," he said.
"Not in antiquities" / ventured to inter
polate.
lie smiled and said: "But you have an
antiquity of ours, an obelisk, which am
glad to know your people admire and ap-
preciate. But you have other things
equally as good, public works, great invep-
tions, long railways. / do not know that
/ shall ever go to America myself, but
shall send my children there when they
have finished their education. Two OF them
are now In Switzerland. They will remain
there awhile, and WIN then continue their
studies in some other country Of Europe,
after which they will visit you. l shall
never forget how your people have SYM
pathized with Egypt in her afilictions. And
the American officers who have been with
us will always be kindly remembered.
They were Of great service to the Egyptian
army, and Gen. Stone was a great favorite
with our officers, especially with the etat-
major Cstaff.) He was good man and an
excellent officer. Have you been long away
from Americap
"About ten months, in China, Formosa,
and Tonquin.n
"Then you saw something OF the war In
the east. The Chinese, | believe, fought
well +; at least they had numbers on their
side, and made the French great deal of
trouble. But that is all finished, hope,
now, and IL Is very sad that Admiral Cour-
bet should die just as peace was rendered
eertain.''
"This is an old palace in which you are
now liyingS"
eyes, about seventy years old. 1t was
built by my great grandfather, Mehemet
All. like TO come here when am worn
out with business. There is always u sea
breeze, and am very quiet and retired here
as compared with Cairo"
"You doubtless have great deal TO oc-
cupy your attention
81 certainly haven
bed Of roses W
mo, not bed of roses (using the French
term). 1t has especially not been so during
the past year. Until few days since was
constantly busy with one trouble or another
growing out of the situation In Egypt.
How do you like Egypt ?"
every much. But l could only remain
at Cairo ten days, when would have liked
to remain three or four months. There is
so much that is interesting to see and study
Egypt is beautiful country.n
NYpg Ith0uuhtfn11vl tna nnuntry ia varv
interesting, and 1t is so very fertile and rich
and we were getting on so well when the re-
bellion came. Five years ago everything
was 30 prosperous. Our demands were
paid and we had f500,000 In the treasury
Land could hardly be bought then for f50C
an acre. Now the same land can be bought
for f40 or ESQ. There was then an abund.
ance Of everything. 1t was the rebellion Of
Arab that caused this change.n
~ had the fortune few weeks since TO
meet Arab at Colombon
The khedive's brow darkened. "Yes
And how does he speak English Y'
Every imperfectly, He knows but n few
words of the language. | was unprepared
for that, as had reason to believe that he
spoke both French and English"
Sand yet the books and newspapers will
tell you that he is very intelligent-a gen.
tleman, q genius; that he is making rapid
learning. The fact is that he is very igno
rant. He has no education whatever Ev
erybody In Egypt is perfectly well aware Of
that. / shall never forget one incident that
occurred while he was secretary of war. II
was at the time of the excitement about tht
Italians taking Asab in the Red sea. 1t wai
at a meeting of the council where
presided. Arab said: 'Italy must not bC
allowed to do this. We will prevent it by
destroying the Suez canal SO that they can
not get to the Red sea- i said, 'What dc
nal Why, the Suez canal is national
highway, and you would not be permitted
to do 1t. Besides, IL you did, you
would not prevent the Italians sending
their ships around by the Cape of Good
Hope and entering the Red sea from the
SOUTH what said Arab, lis there an
another way Of getting to the Red sea thar
by way Of the canalY' The fact was that
his geography being very defective, he had
d'etre of the Red sea, though 1t Is body SC
intimately connected with Egypt that II
may almost be said to be Egyptian. But he
was an Egyptian, and some people thought
him a patriot lie was made colonel the
first Egyptian who had ever held that i'm
portant rank. He made the people thin,
he was their friend. He told the fellaheen
that he would take off their taxes; that hC
would drive the foreigners away, and ther
take their land and distribute 1t among
them. Then the fellaheen said, This is .
good man, patriot We shall be rich to
tomorrow Theoretically and with vigor-
GUS and expressive gestures.l How could
this man drive the foreigners out of Egypt
They had property in Egypt that they had
bought and,paid for. There wnre among
them French, English, Italians, Greeks
posed that the respective nations would
stand by and see their people robbedp Ger
tainly not. Never was there more prepos
terous idean
"Was Arab personally brave ~
"Braye Quite the contrary. He was {
ldche. How could he be brave when a
Tel-el-Kebir, where he had 10000 men, h'
Wls the first tn RIM AWAY and his soldier