The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-03-22

the hume Of the bride. Here a l2-
year-oid girl, wrapped in robes that
made her appear a large bundle OF
rather than a human being,
with a pasteboard cap on her head,
was placed upon the camel reserved
for her, the formalities as at the
groom S house were repeated and the
wedding procession wended its way,
with the addition of several veiled
women, back to the starting point.
This was kept up for two nights. On
one night the feast is furnished by
the briden father and on another by
The grooms. After, the marriage
festival lasts longer,
Marriages are arranged by match
makers. The bridegroom pays about
sl25 for wife-half of which goes
to her as a wedding dowry and half
to the matchmaker. Widows can be
had for about one-thlrd as much.
We saw another wedding process
ion afterward of a cheaper variety.
With it, to save expense went a cir
cumcision procession as we'll. The
boy being decked out in the bright
of a girl and wearing all the
orn aments his family could muster.
Christians are not permitted to go
near Moslm burial but we went as
near as possible. Six blind men
in front, chanting from the
Koran, the Mohammedan creed.
"There is no God, but God; Moham-
med is the ambassador of God; God
be gracious to him and preserve himlN
Then came relations OF the deceased,
a half dozen dervishes. several school
boys and, finally, the body of the
carried head foremost, upon
a bier by six friends. Then came the
women relatives aud at the last the
hired professional mourners weeping
and wailiDg, The procession went
to the mosque, where prayers were
offered and then to the cemetery.
where the body was buried with its
face toward the sacred shrine Of
Mecca.
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We have climbed the great Pyra-
mid of Cheops at Glzeh--that is the
Kodaker has actually and the Scribe
has, in part, vicariously. The camel
Is not used to climb the Pyramid but
three alert and active Bedulns from
the desert are. They fairly drag the
pilgrim up and down.
KNOW Mark Twain-Mr. Clim-
bing ?" our particular pet Reduin
inquired. "Mr Climbing paid me
ten plastles TO go up and down two
pl ramids in eight minutes All the
Beduins know Mark Twain but they
think his name is "Mr. Climbing,
and that he is called that because OF
his climbing the Pyramids.
The view from the Pyramids is be
wildering and beautiful beyond
description. Cairo lies at ones feet
a forest Of minarets. To the left il
the Liblyn desert, a vast and pathles
solitude, a striking symbol Of death
The melancholy Nile moves yonde
toward the sea and along its banks
are green and fertile fields Nowher,
upon earth possibly is the contras
between life and death more striking
aud the separation sharper The de
sert does not fade into the fields o
green bat is severed as by a sharl
knife; on the one side desert ant
death, on the other life and livinI
green. The visitor maryels, as tn
Ancient Roman traveller did, at tn
colossal proportions OF these anclen
monuments. This single pyramid
upon which we stand, contains 1900,
oOe stones each Of cnbic feet Ye
everi more marvellous than the enoT
nous size is the great age, wondrous
not wholly unexplained, meaning 0
the tremendous pile. There was n
America when these blocks wer
lplaced the one upon another Grea
Britain was a barb8rous land. Re
Imulus bad eot lounded Rome, D
record had been made OF Europe an
lyeb Ia that Sat OF mysterious ag
these monuments, the greatest g
llhan,an Industry we're erected by ma
lchinery which modera science has no
been able TO surpass or even duplicate
4 We look into the face Of the disfp