Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-07-04
AyIlE EXCtkSI0N.
MINISTER cox OESCRl0e5 SOME IN
TEREoTING EXPERIENCES.
The Inhabitants OF the Valley Of the
Great River Railroad Trip The
Ancient One Handled Plough A Plague
of fiies-Ihp Buffalo.

Great River Railroad Trip The
Ancient One handled Plough A Plague
of fIies-The Buffalo.
The railroad trip I" A~yo"t il not to be
forgotten We had been IA Egypt before
but never beyond Cairo. or the pyramids
ui GhILh, 50 that the Ncrne~ on the railroad
travel were novel. dIv"rting and interest
luE. Having an apartment or carriage To
ourselves, We placed our puTtmanttaus on
the seat and mounted thereon a. IA want
age situation, and for eight hours, from :
II. III. till evening, We gaZed out Of the
/ windows at the strangeness of the panO
rama with its constantly changing COlOT-
and forms. Remember, il is winter
mid February The grain harvest Is
nearly ripe. The cotton Is picked only n
few bOlls remain in the fields The sugar
cane Is being cut and carried on donkey
Camtls and cars to The sugar factories
The long stalks are seen everywhere The
little bi. hellIed Arab boys, in utter max
rdmcs>, are grinding The suCCulent, sac
ChaTInc stalks between their glistenIng
upper and neither teeth Every one on the
route has long sugar cane, carrying one
end in the mouth Tn" flies are settling
thick around the juicy or fees The air i
pregnant with the expression of the cane.
The sugar factories are at work. The
fumes not only add their fragrance, but
the long iron Chimneys give their peCU
liar business look to the landscape.
IHt PEOPI Of The NILE
There were uthrI pcCulIaritieS for which
the car WAS II pom. OF observation. NOl
the costumes of the people, for they
seemed uniformly of "A dark or blue buur
nous. The SEXES are hardly distinguish
able from each other, except by tn,
mustachc, beard ur turban- There Is
much nakednesS, or nearly So. After I'll
eager glance towards the pyramids OF
Sakarrah, near old Memphis. the multi
tudinOuS mud huts and villages appear.
Palms in abundance everywhere plume
themselves in their stately beauty. Thr
soil Is being pluughed in places for the
new crop. The people are said to be in
dustrious, hut every where We see them
sitting under walls. in the shade. ana
covered with tiies-eyes, ears, face, hands,
ieet covered with flies The animal life
serms To move rs slowly rs if it had age~
10 do lifetime of work. The buffalo is
very unlike our almost obsolete big
headed species. 1t is seen in the fields
pluughing with the old one-handled
plough of the time of Sets, or turning the
water-wheel. At distance, and especi
ally when cooling in the water, it look
like Il pachyderm In fact, its brown
black tough hide, ungalnly form and hide
Gus face, to which the horn gives sinister
expression, make him an object Of curious
interest Here and there We observe
shepherds, generally children with shep
hart DOCS RalnI,iuz VII t.., :
of camel hair, black and dirty. They have
iocks of sheep and goats, aud often mixed
tiocks. There are generally donkey and
yellow dog and plenty of naked children
Yellow and white flowers are already be-
decking the meadows.
At various times on the railroad we OBJ
tained glimpses Of the white and yellow
stands; and the peculiar masts of the da
habiehs ii an odd angle, with their still
more quaint sails Ridges and plains ol
sands soon give way 10 villages, which
are the sign and sight of palm groves
On both sides of the valley of the Nile
lone. arid and tawny mountains appear
They are pictures not unlike the desert OF
Moab-Out of whose wilderness the Bap
tist came. They are the shaggy barriers
Of the fruitful valley. For such fences a.
Ire needed to separate the fields, the
cane, interviewer, makes a tOleraOle pre-
text of protection. 1t would not turn a
"resolute' rabbit. Everywhere are seen
stakes. indicating metes and bounds and
pruprietorship, which have to be renewed
when the Nile food disappears. Old well
sweeps are seen, such as were common in
Omio in my boyhOod They lift the water
out of the soft soil to the surface. The
bottom OF the we'll is, Of course, On level
with the river, and, aS said, the river i
everything to Egypt 1t is now quite low,
still, the fields have ponds in them; but
the pond water does not seem stagnant
Indeed the people use the water for
every purpose-cOOking, washing. bath
ing, etc.
A PLAGUE OF FLIES.
After the buffalo, for humber and util-
ity, come the donkey and camel | had
no idea that the donkey WAS such daisy
in Egypt. Bridlrless and saidleless, h
will amble gaily with a family ON his yer
tebrR. He Is as patient and as meek as il
his burden were nothing sometimes you
do not see his legs and only parts Of his
ears when he is loaded down with sugar
cane or grasses. send you with this u
pi :ture of fhim-loaded-witho only his ears
protruding. The camel looks as usual
sinful, and moves i'll a mysterious way.
a. ii he grudged every time he lifted his
foot.
If | should be called on to name the
most vital element of Egyyt it would not
be the buffalo, donkey, camel, ostrich or
man. Ii would be the flies. 1t was win
ter. but they were aS pleutlful as in the
time OF summer or OF the plaques. In The
eighth chapter -! ENu Us 1t Is said that
the Lord did according 10 the word OF
Moses, and he removed the swarms OF flies
from Pharaoh, from his servants, and
from his people; there remained not one. y"
What relief Not one" That was
near 400 years ago. They have accumu
lated since enormously. The infantlle
death rate is due mostly to flies On the
vessel or in the mud hut, in temple or
town-tiies From Thinite. irst dynasty.
27O0 b. {. To the time of the present cOur
teous and unseitish khedive-fiies The
ban, Bubastile, Salte, Ethiopian. Mace
donian. Greek, Loman and Mahometan
dynasties flies From the tinniest
buzzer to the biggest blue-bottle
flies, Touching with dainty foot
and prehensile grip the beauteous eye
lash of Cleopatra; biting with chivalric
iutrepidity through the harness Of God
frey de Bouillon, and pursuing with II
"nipping air" Persian, hermaui, Syrian,
and Room AS they tiit through history
flies 5. 5 Cox's Letter in New York
World.
Eating ,n-ir DInner a".s=:5.-
The people OF Iarkum in central Asia