Cochise review., 1900-09-21
KHEDIVE OF EGYPT.
Mode of Life and Characteristics
 of AbbaS.
His Tastes and Habits Are More Those of an English C0uAtry Gsntlsman Than of an ORA-
 OAtal sovsrOAWa.

The life of his highnessis very differ
 ent from that which in the westerl
 world is usually associated with g,
 eastern sovereign. To begin with, tho
 khediye has recsiyed splendid Euro pean education. He learned English d,
 child under tutors specially selected
 and sent to Cairo for his benefit anc
 thai of his brother, Prince Mehemet
 When IF years of age he entered the
 celebrated Haxius school, at Geneva
 and afterward continued his sch stic
 career at the Theresianum, at Vienna
 from which he was called by the sud
 len death of his father, Ktedive
 Tewfik, 10 ascend the throne of Egy pt
 at the age of IS, in 1892 Al Vienna he
 was something of favorite wirh the
 Austrian emperor, who also saw that
 the prince was given a military train
 ing in addition 10 his ordinary school
 work. Naturally highly intel!. gent, Alb.
 bas proved himself both industrious
 and capable. He has the gift of
 tongues, and can talk in at least six
 languagesr-English, French, German,
 Italian, Turkish and Arabic, the Ia st
 being in common use fhron ghout
 Egypt. Every official day of his life he
 will most probably converse in at least
 four of these languages.
 His highress, says the London Chronicle, has prodigious memory and great capacity for mastering de- . tail. He is hard worker, and every
 moment of his time is parceIled ou, with eNactness. He usually rises al 5:3O m the morning, and then goes out
 riding, an. exercise of which he is pas siouately fond till about eight, when he has breakfast. Soon afterward ht is busily engaged in state affairs witt his secretaries and ministers. and this fills up the forenoon till luncheon; but, that meal over, heTis at work again with his staff until his public reception hour comes around, when he meet $ a Ii those who have the right to call upon him and good number who haven't. In the evening there are dinners. balls, receptions, the opera and the theater. All this gives one the impression, per fectly correct one, that Abbas is nc Ian guid oriental, hst prince of high abil- ity and remarkable energy.
 Nor is he less interesting from the purely domestic point of view. As a sovereign he has to be great deal at the state palaces of Abdin, al Cairo, and Ras-elTin at Alexandria. the for. mer being the winter, the latter the summer capital of Egypt. but he likes nothing better than to leave these for his more private palaces of Koubbeh or MoTtazah, his seaside place Koubbeh is some five miles from Cairo, and here his highness lives after much the same fashion as might a great English land owner of the most modern type. He keeps splendid stud, and his beautiful horses, English bred as well asaArabs, are his special pride. On the estate it. self he has brought into use the latest things in American agricultural ma chinery, and he takes an active part in the supervision of his numerous farms and cotton plantations in the Niie val ley-from which. indeed he derives the larger part of his vast private wealth. His official income is l0O.cG0 year, and an equal amount is paid to the other members of the Khedivial family. Besides his pronounced taste for the life of country gentleman, Abbashas a taste, or rather a passion. which is not generally shared by country gen. tiemen He is a skilled musician, and is devoted to music. He keeps private | band of about 50 performers. who find [ in him generous patron but relent- ess critic. Woe betide the man who | makes false note!
 His highness is strict Mahometan, md as such eschews both wines sind pirits. His abstinence goes even fur. ther, for in country where everybody | smokes he will have nothing to do with the fragrant weed. Like, his father le is monogamistE although his re- igion allows him four wives---if he wants them. He is known to be great. y attached to his consort, who was
 Circassian lady of the khediyial Iousehold before her marriage They rave several daughters and one son, he heir apparent, who was born in < bruary of last year. By special ecree of the sultan. who is still suzer- in of Egypt, the khediyiate de cends directly from father to son in he western manner The domestic ntourage of the khediye is pre- esided yer by the dowager khedivah. or hedivah mere, as the princess is alled This is in accordance with sual oriental custom, which aecords recedence to mans mother over is wife. I