Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-26

quite muscular, with brown faces ana
rather thin WhiSkers struggling to
point. Their uniform consists of the
regulation loose trousers and blue shirt,
but the open front of the shirt discloses
red and white stripes and the collar is
striped in the same way. Each sailor
cap has a red knot on top, and there is
also little leather cord to tuck under
the chin. The marines are beginning
to understand English a little, but they
make mess of it when they try to
answer questions.
! During the Illumination Saturday
evening, while the crowds were drift
ing through the manufactures building,
people stopped to look at Frances IN
finished show. They could not pass in
between the white goddesses under the
arches, for the little marine stood in
the way. Accordingly they asked him
questions.
''IS this Frances section"
The Frenchman smiled, shrugged
his shoulders and said "Oui."
Flows that?
Get ees'."
ooh, well, why amt it OPEN"
The marine could only spread his
hands in a gesture imploring pity and
then shake his head.
''You don't speak United States, eh?'
"Not fe-e-ry we'll"
''Thats too bad, but you'll catch on"
The only answer was smile. When
one of the marines can do nothing else
he smiles, simply to show that his in
tentions are all right. Last evening a
dozen of them went along Stony Is
land avenue in a crowd singing "Ta-ra-
IA boom de-aye." They had not learn
ed the words but they put Partisan
emphasis on the BOOM
PARKWAY Moses walked along the
sunny plaisance yesterday afternoon
singing softly to himself He wore a
high red fez with a black band around
it, plain jacket of blue and the seat of
,, his dark trousers tapped around his
heels. PARKWAY Moses would have
made a charming picture Of oriental
dignity with his gray beard and patri
, archal figure if he had not carried an
umbrella. 1t was a Clark street UNI
brella with a big yellow handle and
stiff ribs He trailed the umbrella be-
hind him as he tramped solemnly
,, along, paying no attention to all the
people who stopped to look a him.
When he was opposite the doorway
Of the streets of Cairo he saw Ben
Ahmoud coming out Ahmoud is the
second old man of the oriental stripe.
He resembles PARKWAY Moses some
what, having a heavy, round face with
closc-cropped mustache and whiskers
fast turning to white. He has also be-
Most of the time he wears his Cairo
clothes with the gown around his legs
, ana the white robe floating behind,
but yesterday, because it was Sunday
: and there was no need of impressing
visitors, he had put on store suit. 1t
was of gray cloth. The coat was of
the sack pattern, and the trousers bad
been pulled up over the ankles and
fastened around the waist with red
sash. He still chung to his turban and
sandals.
When PARKWAY Moses sighted the old
man of Cairo he stopped and yelled
Hi vi. It might have been some
/; thing else, but it sounded like that.
Ben Ahmoud started toward him, at
the same time bowling and making a
graceful wave of the hand. Mr.. Moses
bowed in return and waved his hand
also, after which he proffered cigar
cites and the two fatherly gentlemen
Strolled away together converslng.
| Their talk sounded like a man trying to
get a fish bone out of his throat. AL
though the Turks hate the Egyptians
and the Egyptians think it would be a
j favor to Allah to kill all the Turks,
| these two wise men are great friends.
They are past the days of quarreling,
and when the younger residents Of the
rival villages get drunk and want to
5, fight with the Columbian guards they
/ simply moan and shake their heads.
! It's dull hour in the Cairo settle
/. ment when they don't have some kind
/ of a row. The people from upper
/ Egypt have no liking for those of lower
j Egypt. Both think they are little
! better than the Nubians, because they
! are not quite so black, while the Sou
+, danese keep to themselves, except
when there is a chance to argue and
/ threaten to carve some one. If they
! fought half as much as they quarreled
Midway plaisance would be wet with
blood all the time.
| The Egyptian who tends the door has
| become overbearilg since he was given
| the job. He wears red trousers and
wakes his mIlstache. Yesterday morn
ing a son Of the desert asked permits
sion to go outside. He was refused
and so he expostuated-that is, he hop
ped around on one leg and shrieked
his Indignation The door-keeper with
red trousers picked up a stake about as
large as ball bat and chased him the
/ entire length of the street and into the
sacred temple. ''They are very play
full" remarked the manager.
/ 1t was shortly after the noon hour
that a very slim and sallow man from
Cairo fell over a Nubian baby. The
baby had string of beads around each
ankle, and in addition to these wore
i few clothes. The slim Egyptian seem