The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1895-05-25

waste OF the Libyan desert. More
objects Of absorbing interest in a
single landscape, it were hard to
find.
We visited Of course the great
Mohammedan University, to
which resort thousands of students
each year from all parts Of the
Mohammedan world. 1t was a
great sight, the vast pillared hall
with hundreds Of classes squatting
on mats on the floor, the teacher
in the center. receiving instruction,
chiefly in the Koran. Something
like 20, 900 students are yearly en-
rolled, and 60 out from these
walls to carry and propagate the
knowledge Of the Moslem faith
here received. This University
may be reckoned as an element of
great power in upholding and
spreading that intolerant religion.
And time would fail me to tell
Of our visit to the Coptic convent
where we were shown the crypt in
which the Holy Family resided
while in Egypt; or of the bowling
dervishes, the Nilometer, the
spot where Moses was found in
his "bulrush, as Ibrahim puts it,
or Of the procession Of the holy
carpet which set all Cairo agog,
and provided one of the most
brilliant pageants ever saw; or Of
our trip to Helopolis Tor On)
where Joseph got his wife, and
where we found beautiful
obelsk farm; or of our ascent OF
the great Pyramid and our first
glimpse of the SPHINX, and the
group OF our party taken by a
photographer right under the
SPHINX nose Gf it had one) with
Cheops in the back ground; or
of dozen other things, each
Of which would Of itself suffice for
an entire letter. But l must con-
tent myself with this mere allusion
and finish this letter by referring
briefly to the Museum Of Egyptian
Antiquities, by all odd the noblest
collection of its kind in the world.
Five or six years ago it was re-
moved from Boulak to the Palace
Of Gizeh. on the opposite side of
the river, which though building
that cost S24, 900, 900. is not fire.
proof. 1t yet needs new and
perfectly safe building within the
city. and is soon to have it.
Here you find the royal mum
mics that came from the Tombs Of
the Kings at Thebes, sleeping
away in their collins just as peace
fully as if still in their own chosen
and rock-hewn sepulchers in the
Libyan mountains. No flush of
anger comes to Sethi's black cheek
because the curious eyes of all
nations stare at him. And Raame-
SEES big Roman nose doesn't curl
a particle at the ceaseless invasion
Of his privacy. Nor does Tutmes
seem to feel it any indignity what
ever that the most vulgar tongues
make free and easy remarks about
his personal appearance. If there
are human mummies here, so are
there cat mummies Ind dog mum
mics and monkey mummies and
goat mummies and ibis mummies
and crocodile mummies and rab-
bit mummies and fish mummies,
an dear knows how many other
kinds. Look at them and wonder
all you please.
l confess that nothing held me
longer than the sculptured head of
Queen Tai, who is said to have
exerted an influence on the
eighteenth dynasty which kept
Israel in royal favor and postponed
by hundred years or so the day Of
Israel's oppression. Her beauti-
full face as it looked down from
its lofty place in the wall seemed
to me eminently fitted to be an
instrument of God in carrying out
his great designs. One of the
m ost life like statues in the museum
is that of the Wooden man which
was found at Memphis. and is