The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-03-24
Letter from Mr.. George w. Yeiser.


TCorrespondence of the Democratic Advocate
CAIRO, EGYPT, March l, 1900
DEAR READERS When our party arrived at
Alexandria the first thing that met us was grand
carnival raraIe which attracted thousands of pcO-
pie to the city.
II is very interesting for tourist, used 10 Western
customs and civilization, to be ushered into an
Eastern city The Eastern costume Tue streets
filed with donkcys the camel with his burden the
women with their water pitchers or other burdens
on their heads the harem women with their faces
yeiled the wealthy Arabs attired in costly silk
GOWNS moyius through the streets harefonted, pen-
nIe lvip,, about in streets half naked and filthy the
blacksmith tinsmith and others sitting "n the floor
to work Instead of standing. But when these peo-
pie try to be interesting and come out in a street
parade for that purpose and streets filled with an
aggomcration or mixture of Arabs, English Scotch,
Armenians Dutch, Greek, French and Italians, al
attire in costumes and colors peculiar 10 their
tons customs and fncies it presents street scene
that shall not attempt to describe
Alexandria is a large and interesting city. There
are manufactures controlled by English capitalists.
There are few bcggars, and the people seem to be
prosperous There are many things To interest the
tourist in this ancient city. But the reader is not
interested in Pompeys Pillar the site of Cleopa-
tra's Needle We will leave the city and see what
interest we can hud in the environs. All around
the city are the gardens of the wealthy, open 10
tourists Those who never visited a tropical cline
can form no conception how beautiful they are.
Thousands Of acres are set apart in Date Palm and
Banana farms A date palm tree yields nearly
bushel Of dates annually banana stalk one bunch.
Wages paid for labor in this community isahont six
Pilstres or SIC In L. :. Currency.
From Alexandria to Cairo we 20 by nail 1870 miles
over the nelta Of the Nile the most fertile spo. Of
baud in the world
The farmers all live in villages. The dwellings
an, all made of mud about feet high have hole
about two by four feet for door and nearly all are
covered with straw weeds. The huiS are sell
dom more than by 10 feet. ThiSiS the home % the
Egyptian farmer. lie is now busy cutting the
clover and vegetables and taxing them 70 market
Farms are s,Vssr,tt-i BY shallow burrows, which
serve AS a land marx This Is the only fence saw
in Egypt thus far When the farmer soss out o.
work on his farm. which IS seldom murr than one
o. two acres he lakes hi wife all his children, all
his goats. donkey, aui camels along ami believe
his chickens follow hlm sometimes IN passing
from Alexandra 20 Cairo the hetls were practically
coyercd with people and animals The Egyptian
people are the slowe~t pcoPle in ia warii They
sit down 10 NOV tbe Ersss TO rake the Eulss they
ma k th,. camel 'ie dosn and he si;s iown 60 load
him then &c sit on top ef thc o 90 So to market
The animals seem 81 ~. just slow aaa the camel
would stand hi ,itr 81 she land marx Sr'd ,aTFe
before he would reach aesyrs th' line
The writer c,ant-i 80 raInsls Epus into Cairo ia
Is minutes The camel viii carry half with
ea4. quite number e Farmers live un,ier canvass
tents and an pillow viih the wos-leu pillow p aA
Jarsb anl BIZ SONS ihF O ua ~ Goshen -" ycsfs
agu.
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custom. mixed with inoisrn improvement, sud
80. r..r.s an IH.5- BORN
and drStcls~s 4 tourist can tuyei tao days .n
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muddy bat arg l.,i wtgh lbe du~,' weave OF oti-
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