The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-23

The VeSSeL moves SLOWLY, IlOl OFSl AoNi
 miles an hour, for the banks are not far
 away and swift steaming would quick
 ly bring them down. In about nine
 hours you are at Semaila, where you
 debark and take the rail for Cairo.
 Cairo is in many particulars an inn
 mense humbug. Where you live, shop and move about is European. The beg
 gars are African; so is the dirt, the
 donkeys and the camels, Everything
 offered for sale you nave seen before
 in Paris, New York, Saratoga and New
 port; and at half the price. You rec
 ognize the same old shopkeepers and
 they pretend not to recognZe you. The
 same old shawls, faces and embroldef-
 es are hung out and the same broken
 English remarks are made about them
 accompanied by the same gestures.
 The mosquitoes are imported. If you
 walk into the Arab quarter to see hlm
 in his native haunt you won't stay
 long. The smells and the beggars will
 soon drive you out. If you drive about
 where the Egyptian aristoerats are said
 to live you won't see a single house. or
 villa, in the slightest degree attractive.
 Succeed brick is the material Every
 thing is dirty, defaced, dilapidated.
 Garden rails are tumbling down; gar
 den gates are unhung; garden foliage
 uncared for. The inhabitants like
 things so and let them stay so. You
 are very soon driven back to the Euro
 pean quarter and stay there It IS
 neither Paris, London, Berlin nor
 Rome; but a miserable second-class
 hodg- -podge of them all Better mil
 nitely a week a piece of each capital than a month of this sorry compound.
 The hotels are filled with all sorts of
 people who apparently come to see one another and to provoke one another to
 wiekedness Why will people do dirty things and see dirty sights in CairoE Change of locality doesn't make the thing less filthy. If a woman be With
 out shame it is none the less shame to
 witness her nude posturfng and dan cing. What is shameful in New Haven is equally shameful in Cairo. The
 shame is in the rbeholding. The fact
 that all, or nearly all, women, too, go
 to see such things Is no excuse for the individual. Let him at least confess
 his desires frankly and be honest about it. Obligations are the same here as
 elsewhere and can neither be sh1fked nor altered. Man takes himself with him wherever he goes.
 It's cold; about hfty-five degrees.
 When at midday the sun poured right down on the temperature the mercury
 may struggle up to sixty degrees, but 1t takes an effort, and the point can only be held for an hour at the outside.
 The fire appurtenances are conical.
 The grate in this room holds about handful of coal. It took three Arabs and two hours to start fire yesterday. It stopped as soon as the Arabs stopped blowing. The dead coals are there still. The Arabs must have
 thought the sight of them would be cheering this chilly morning. No Arao is capable of two efforts within the same fortnight. He will squat or ms
 launches and walt a month for some
 thing to happen; but he won't extend hand to grasp it. The race Is hopeless and utterly weak against the clVillza- tion of the European.
 Egypt, and especially Cairo, is just now enjoying a delicious bit of news. A short time ago a bouncing boy baby appeared in that part of the royal pal ace which the Khedive alone may en- ter. According to Egyptian laws and
 usaees which anti-date Moses and his bulrushes, the ma of the boy can claim not only that her boy be recognized as heir to the throne but also that she herself be legally and religiously we'd ded to the Khedive and be crowned as queen. According to the very best au- thority the Khedive Is quite willing, romantic passion for the beautiful Cir cassian having filled his seventy year old bosom. But now comes the rup.
 His ma, the royal mother, is an old fa shioned ma of the Boadicea Pentesi- lia. Maria. Theresa and "Sady Jane" or der, and has already pledged his hand,
 heart and throne to a daughter of the Sultan. who, pious young woman, has been constantly fed with the informa-
 tion that her plighted lord was very Sunday schooly youth, extremely shy
 and as ignorant as Dickey bird ot the
 wicked ways of wicked Khedives. Inn agine the shock to her tender virg1nlty! Imagine the rage of her pa, the father of all the faithful; and try to imagine | the frenzied ire of the royal mother!
 Egypt is with the lovers and the brat
 to a man. But Egypt is in the hands of foreigners, and all the signatory
 powers are bound to have a finger in so interesting and delicate pie. What
 will be the result? Will true love tri- umph? Will diplomacy interfere and
 spoil things? Will the Sultan come on l with his armies to uphold the imperiled honor and the assaulted rights of his darling daughter? How stands the | American eagle? Have we representa- lives here for nothing? and so on. For
 sequel see our next.
 l All the world and his wife are here. l MT. Meredith Reid, of the Tribune, :" and of many lesser things, is here re- covering his health and spirits. Secre- tary Whitney is here, and hundreds of
 others whose names flourish in social registers, but not In these pages. l One has hired an entire steamboat for himself and suite and starts up the Nile in a day or two. How happy to be
 in the suite of an American millionaire!
 It requires the most skillful, the most constant and the most self-sacrificing of toadying. The American is new at toadying, but he is already distin-
 guishing himself And the American millionaire is beginning to find follow ing of toadies quite indispensable to his comfort and happiness. Now for up