The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-02

cot here all we had to do was to
battle the dirt off in layers.
1t takes nine baths to get down 10
American epidernis, and the last batn
has a jackplane to go with 1t, and
thing they scale fish with. But We
are all right now, with rooms IN the
hotel. and rested and when We go
home we are going to be sailed down
and given cloroform and shipped as
mummies Dad insists that he Will
never cross a desert or an ocean again,
and 7 don't know what is to become
of us. Anyway. we are going to en-
joy ourselves until we are killed off.
The first two days we just looked
about Cairo, and saw the congress Of
nations. for there is nothing just like
this town anywhere. There are peo-
ple from all quarters of the globe, the
most outlandish and the most up-to-
date. This place is an asylum Tor
fakirs and robbers, place where de-
faulterS bribers, murderers, sWlndlers
and clippers are safe, as there seems
to be no extradition treaty that can
not be overcome by paying money TO
the officials I found that out the first
day. and told dad we should have no
standing in the society of Egypt I'M
less the people thought he had COM
mitted some gigantic crime and ned
his country.
Dad wanted to know how it would
strike me if it was noised about the
hotel that he had robbed national
bank, but / told him there would be
nothing uncommon or noticeable
about robbing a bank, as half the
tourists were bank defaulters, SO ne
would have to be accused OF some
thing startling, so we decided that dad
should be charged with being the
principal thing in the Standard on
~ L lNsa6 dG0T
ground pipe lines running under sew
eral States, gathering oil away from
the people who owned it, and that at
the present time he was worth bill
lion dollars, and his income was So
O00, 900 every little while, and, by
ginger, you ought to see the people
bow down to him. Say, common bank
robbers and defaulters just fell over
themselves to get acquainted with dad
and to carry out the joke, l put some
kerosene oil on dads handkerchief
and that clinched it, for everybody
loves the smell of q perfume that rep
resents billion dollars.
All the women wanted to dance with
dad in the hotel dance, and because
they thought / must be heir to all the
oil billions they wanted to hold me
on their laps, and stroke my hair, as
though | was it. l guess We are going
to have everything our own way here
and if dad does not get eloped with by
some Egyptian princess. l shall be
mistaken. The Egyptians are pretty
near being negroes, and wear bangles
in their ears, and earrings on their
arms You take it in the dark, and
let a princess put her arm around
you, and sort of squeeze you, and you
can't tell but what she is white, only
there is an odor about them like
"Araby the blessed" but in the light
they are only negroes, a little bleach
ed with red paint on their cheeks If
l was going to marry an Egyptian wo-
man, | would take her to Norway, or
UP toward the north pole, where it is
night all day, and you wouldn't real
ize that you were married to colored
woman. To be around among these
Egyptians is a good deal like having
a pass behind the scenes at the play
of Ben Hur in New York, only here
the dark and dangerous women are
the real thing, instead of being white
girls with black paint on.
We have just got back from the
pyramids, and dad is being treated for