The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24
ANINTERESTiNGLE LETTER.
A GIst of News Worth Your Reading
The Modes and Customs Briefly
Told by Greenvillian. The
Paris Exposition and Other
Features.

Il fedIuTeSs
January Goth, 1900.
On board Steamer Puritan,
, Near Luxor Egypt
, Mr.. Chas. NJ. Williams.
Dear Mr.. Williams.
Yours of first inst, reached m
at Luxor, one of the few place
at which this boat receives mail
on yesterday. Indeed, very muc
pleased to note its contents. Th'
references regarding myself, know
ing and feeling they are prompted
by the very best Of intentions anc
what is still more based upon you
own personal expressions, notec
carefully.
For your kind thoughtfulness il
giving some of the news, beg
to assure my appreciation. l dc
hope Z and S cent cotton will con
tinue for some years. In connec
ton with this subject hand you
enclosed clippings from Egyp
tian Gazette at Cairo. 1t may in
terest you and your friends.
As you will have noted from the
''heading" of this, am now on the
Nile. A three weeks tour on the
Nile seems to be the fad or proper
thing. This being our fifteenth
day; hope to return to Cairo il
January Both.
The various ruins Of temples,
tombs, ETC., along this river, forcI'
bly, impresses upon ones mind the
magnitude of undertakings to-
gether with the great works archi-
lecture achieved in those days,
5000 years ago. The sights of
the ruins of the great temple of
Karnak are never to be forgotten,
and some of the best writer's adj
nit any attempt at description
would result in failure.
You, however, will want to
know something of the people,
their habits, etc. Can you i'm
aglne people today Ginning to
habits and customs over 5000 years
old! Such is the case here. The
farmer uses the implements and
appliances of those days. The
"shadoof" is still in use to water
or irrigate the lands from the
Nile. Houses of Nile mud, close
and on top of each other, having
neither doors nor windows, the
same inclosure: you could not call
it room-barren of any articles
of comforts, is occupied by the en-
tire family and frequently accom-
modates at the same time the house
animals, including the donkey,
which seems to be at home here.
| have seen very little of the Delta
land on which most of the cotton
is raised. Now for Cairo itself.
1t offers much in the way of ORR
entail life, such strange sights;
women covering their faces but
showing their lower extremities
without any regard for female
sensitiveness. Mothers usually |
carry their infant sons on their
shoulder; girls are taken no notice
Of, and such strange dress, the
colors of the rainbow would not
all of them. Near Cairo
are the great Pyramids of Gizeh,
Of course visited them and climbed
Or rather had myself pulled to the
OPP OF the highest. You neither
Gould, nor are you allowed to
limb by yourself. 1t requires
hree Bediums, real sons of the
Desert, one pulling on each hand
md the third pushing from be
lind. A little difficult to reach
he top, but the view enioyed
here can be obtained at no other
'Iace in the world. TO use
Saedekirs expressions: There
perhaps. no other prospect in
he world IN which life and death,
and desolatlon, are seen /,
SO close juXtaposition and in
lch marked contrast" I have
lken quite a number of pictures,
specially groups of natives and
n my return shall take pleasure
gong over my trip with you.
fter leaving Cairo, expect to
sit Jerusalem and Palestine. a
amaskus and Syria, Smyrna, i
onstantinople and Athen, and h
turn for trip through Italy. =
You see | am IN way follow I
g your good advice. al
Now returning to the "Parisean
Dvelty," like to have some little
ore definite idea. During a ten
US stay at Paris, about two
)nths ago, found unlike the man
10 had gone West and discover +
that the only good Indians were
adj ones. The only Partisan
u novelties are live ones, espe- OF
lily during the wee small hours in
the morning. Let me hear as
lin on the subject. Expect to su
in Paris first part of August an
It. Neither the buildings nor sill
grounds of the Exposition will en-
any way compare to the Che fro
, buildings and site. dil
will thank you to kindly re- on
mber me to all friends and ac- ma
Intances, ana with hearty por
etings, So