Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-03
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SKETCH OF KHEDIVE
MAN OF MENTAL WEIGHT AND
GOOD CONSCIENCE.
Attentive to the Wants of His People
Pleasant Looking and Of
Agreeable Address.
SKETCH OF KHEDIVE
MAN OF MENTAL WEIGHT AMI
GOOD CONSCIENCE.

From the London Leader.
This is not the first visit which the Khc-
dive Abbas II has made to England. AS
long ago as 1900 he made his impression on
London as man and ruler. and years before
that he came among US. an immature youth.
in fact as well as in feeling, neither sure
Of his position nor what he meant to make
of 1t.
The khedive we know now Is man Of
weight mentally; sagacious. painstaking
and conscientious. He is solid in appear
ance, of middle height and of fresh and
wholesome complexion; quite un-eastern IN
this and quite unlike his smart Paris
loving brother, Prince Mohammed All; quite
unlike also his most MISUNDERSTANDING
slender-built uncle Prince Hussein. who
has, with his high-caste features and his
bronZed skin, an expression OF gentle mel
ancholy
Abbas II is, before everything. a we'll
conditioned, Notwithstanding, and yet very
alert young man. His earnest nature Is
Immediately apparent in his talk After
the manner Of the east, he gesticulates. OF
course But in public he does not laugh
or even smile much. His greetings to his
people as he passes among them are the
most attentive and surely the most dignifed
of any sovereign. He gives the utmost de-
yotion to all his duties, and there Is let
ter-box in the wall of the palace into which
any Egyptian may deposit a written griev-
ance
Business and Pleasure.
Twice or thrice in the week he whirls
along the Mohammed All boulevard OF
Cairo with his couple of outriders and small
escort 1t Is not often later than o'clock
when he reaches Abdeen for the business
Of state which Is always transacted at the
palace in the capital.
The khedive's country seat Of Koubbeh
lies seven miles out. In it's exquisitely kept
gardens and avenues the early morning
hours are beautiful beyond description.
The khedive has no more absorbing interest
than the cultivation of his estates. AS
horticulturist he Is less ardent than ms
uncle Prince Hussein, but arborculture and
agriculture on the most scientific lines ne
has made his own. The Khedival Agrical-
tural Society (Which for some years past
has had its permanent and very handsome
buildings and Enclosures at Gizeh) he never
misses And, in particular, he takes keen
interest in the farm implements and sheds.
A sportsman Abbas II Is not. The horses
that take him into Cairo on his heeting
missions of state are handsome and very
fast But amid the cleaning green bersim
fields of Koubbeh 1 have several times met
the khedive quite alone, driving limself at
a jog-trot. and looking, as jehu does, not
bet his horses ears, but on either hand
at his crops, after the fashion OF the hus-
bandman.
A Boomerang Joke
In his youth, however he was not above
a practical Joke. story, indeed, is told OF
one which recoiled somewhat awkwardly
on his own head. 1t happened on one oc-
casion that he came into Alexandria with
number Of courtiers, the whole party
disguised In dervish costume, and as II
from the desert side of the town. They en-
tered the bar of a sharp Greek, who. un-
luckily for them, recognized them, and
charged for their entertainment accord
ingly.
The party stood upon their rights and
were forthwith hailed before the karakol
people (polce), with the inevitable dis
closure to the intense delight of the ra-
pa ciouS Greek.
But those were the days before the khe-
dives court had acquired the dignity which
now distinguishes 1t, and before the khe-
dive himself had entered on the intimacy
which now exists between himself and Lord
Cromer. They were diplomatic relations
in those days. Today they are friends
vox Populi.
That good results of this friendship are
recognized by the fellaheen may be learned
among any Of the 'ianeurs'' who sit in
the Egyptian cafes, smoking their hubble
bubbles or taking hashish or absinthe on
the divans and chairs at the numerous
small tables upon the pavement. not fifty
yards from Shepherds, upon the opposite
side of the way
Quite recently heard a gray-haired Arab
himself in retort to some of the
criticisms of the Arab organ, the Moay-
yad
mo, no. my children he said: "the Eng
fish have been our friends, and the friends
of our khedive-our God being with the
patient! and they have done good deeds
more, and our rulers are no more corrupt.
Moreover. the corvee and kourbash and
heavy usury are all of them banished like
a dream in the morning. My cotton patch.
too Is well watered now. for that the great
Pasha Ards new river Nile runs over to
make it fruitful, and In these our times
Allah gives every day good day.
Of the True Religion.
Perhaps 1t was a touch of the "old
Adam" that the speakers religion in
creased with the speakers prosperity. But
the Egyptians are nstinctively a religious
race, and Abbas himself is a deeply relig
ioys man, scrupulously attentive to all
Moslem observances.
He is always the central figure at the
ceremony Of the Mammal" when the holy
carpet arrives and the fresh one departs for
Mecca. During the Ramadan, the month of
fasting the khedive goes to prayers at the
and at his highnesses' levee in Ramadan It
is noticeable that he neither takes coffee
nor offers 1t to his guests, as Is otherwise
the invariable custom.
A few of the gray-haired among his SUBJ
Jects look back with regret to the tinsel
days of Ismail when trickery. corruption
and lax morality walked unchecked and
unashamed. and when society was almost
exclusively official. But nowadays increas-
ing commerce and extending industry are
the prominent signs In Egypt. For the
honest merchant, the hardworking fellah
and for the general community no less
there have never been better times than