The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-06

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children and fairly clean ones, boekshesh
men, sons of the desert on camels. peo-
pie shopping On donkeys. .countrymen
come to town with their produce a very
babel of sights and sounds and smells
which fairly bewildered us until We got
to our hotel and thereby escaped the
confusion.
pyramids, a delightful drive of some
5 or 8 miles along a road quilt by the
khedive for the pleasure OF the Rrlnee
of Wales, who wished to see the pyra-
mids, and at the same time enjoy himself
on the way there. The highway is shaded
on both sides by rows of acacia trees,
whose overlapping branches make a sun
shade almost Unnecessary. Crossing the
Nile on a fine stone and iron bridge we
swept through its splendid outer gates
Just in time 10 hear Mr.. Beach of our
town tell his driver that he was a block,
head. He also dubbed hi n with several
other TITLES not to be found in the report
of the last General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church;
the thing that had stirred up the II ire 81 p
conceived the br;lliant idea of dashing
aeross the gra az, ,5 But - ne hi ha 6o falled Ian n
become so S1ed up in q wire fence
which stood an place of a keep off the
further. The broken aces were mended,
the horses extricateG, and the excited Jer-
sey C.styite Gained down and we went into
the museum and stayed there long enough
to look in the mumnified features of the
"Pharaoh Of the Oppression the same
gentleman, by the way, whose antique,
and angular, and gaunt, and lifted fea-
lures decorated the pages Of the Century
magazine some years ago, We saw many
ether things, and could have seen a
thousand more had we had the time. But
life is short and time is fleeting," and
the pyramids We're before US, so We left
the Museum of Gizeh and the hungry face
of the Pharaoh behind us and set our
faces toward the great pile Of granite
which old Cheops gets the credit Of hav-
ing raised some 5000 years ago. But we
didn't get there all at once, as we had to
stop while our driver got out and whipped
another Egyptian who had run into us.
LET THE FIGHT GO ON.
The Good Book says, you know, that he
that passeth by and meddleth with a
quarrel that ~belongeth not to him is like
a man thai taketh a deg by the ears, so l
fight. Richard Harding Davis says that
these people make enough noise to eat
each other up, but that they never come
he is talking about, even if he did take a
trip through the Orient and write book
about it. They did fight. And they make
things lively while they are at it, as the
driver of the carriage can testify, for he
got his lip split and probably would have
been otherwise deformed and disfgured if
the Englishman who owned" him hadn't
come along and separated the coTnbatants.
And now were in, sight of the Great
Pyramid, in fact, we have been in sight Of
it a greater part of the time, for I saw it
looming up in the clear air this morning
as 1 stood on the top of the citadel. But
we are near its foot now. and as we get
within reaching distance of it some eight
or ten Arabs make A dash at each one of
/ us and pull and haul and maui each
| other about, and we unf~crtunates also, in
their efforts to secure US as their victim
who is to be dragged and jerked up the
| $40 feet of stone work and have all the
bocksheesh extorted out of him.
1 went into the crowd boldly and with
high hopes, but l soon had to submit.
The sons of the desert got hold of me-or
rather two got hold of me and the third
one followed along at a good boosting dis
lance. l didn't want them. l could have
get rid of them, and so up I went by
leaps and jerks. and finally on its top |
stood.
Now you might expect that on such a
spot I'd be overcome with emotion. or
that great thoughts would go t~hrobbing
through my brainLbnt I didn't weep and
in history as the utterance of an oracle
or the speculations of a age,
l am, perhaps, TO be excused. The Arabs
who had dragged me up did not give me
time to think and they filled me with an
emotion that would not allow me to weep.
They brought out their antique coins
.scarabs' dug out of the collins of queens
but really made in Germany by the tom,
and pestered me to buy until was too
weak for words.
When it came time for me to go down 1
got upon my dignity and ordered them off,
telling them resolutely that they would
may Sound harsh to your Occidental ears
but you must remember that Mr.. Clark
a paid the Sheik for every man, woman
and child who went out to see the pyra-
mids).
But they weren't to be shook off so
easily. They became more solicitous for
the bones and blood of your associate pas
tor; They said:-You fall and hurt your
peated, with various additions and en-
m~endations and emphizations, but Twas
firm, and though they followed me down
and clambered all round me | got to the
earth again without having received any
serious assistance from them and with all
my bones unbroken.
Arab on the pyramid is a curse instead of
a blessing. 1t can quite easily be climbed.
And as for the dangerIWeli II Isn't to- De
the last six years four people lave fallen
from the pyramid and been killed.
have fallen from off it, I'm tempted to
think tina they were tourists of the kind
who are deathly afraid of the waters Of
the country and so take to it's wines, and
for them. Now 1 may be doing them a
gross wrong, but still I think the epitaph
Should be cut en- the tombstones OF some
of them at least "Died from having be-
come half-seas over"
This water and wine usine is to me
very funny. A great many people are
afraid Of the, water, and I don't blame
them any sfor being a little cautious about
1t. it isn't Always best for ones StOmacnS
sake to follow it up to its origin, but they
give themselves away d~readfully. They
buy the wine, fill a glass half-full of It
their p~alates, fill the glass up with this
typhoid fever, scarlatina baccilli swarm
ing water, and turn it off without a
qualm of conscience or a pang of appre-
henSion.
II / was going off on a crusade, I'd
a k this as my text: Consistency thou
art a jewell, No compromise-aH wine,
or all water"
i Sphinx, we have gone off on such a long
depression discussing the faults and fail
waiting. l say he-for the proper way, il
seems to speak of the Sphinx Is to speak
of it as a he-though many people have
been talking about him in a way that in
dicates that they are just a little off as tc
TO THE SPHINX ON CAMEL.
To the Sphinx we went on a camel. II
is only a little way, but the sand is deep
and camels do not grow in Jersey City
they are not indigenous to the soil. ]
tried to look up into his face, but my
doWn that l was just a little apprehensivt
of some coming calamity, so l did no
take him in as wished. to. I've a pretty
good idea of what he looks like. l wen
back a day or two after and sized hin
in more satisfactorily, and you can have
a like one by looking at his picture
which ] have bought, and will be glad t
exhibit for your delectation when / &c
home.
, thai n mar of the attainments of you
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