The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-12-09

For the Leader: Strange q Is that We
should find the first recorded triumphs
OF civilization IN that part Of the world
that seems the least adopted 10 it's
progress. Africa alone remains the most
unenlightcncd hmong the nations OF the
world. scorched under torrid sun. its
greater cart. the upheavcd bed Of "a sea
remains moro impassabic than the track
less deep, and beyond tins barren vase
arc miles and miles OF thick Jungle.
abounding in fierce wild animals. echo
ing with the cries OF gorgeotsly plumed
lropca. birds and the chatter OF the
monkeys az they sport among It's tangled
biauShes. Here the hideous cannibal
tribes vie with one another Tor tho SUI
premacy Of this comparatively unknown
region. Winding ia and out among the
thlcket listless river flows. and sprawl
ing on the banks. or anon sliding with
a lazy plunge into its tepid waters. huge
reptiles live unmolested by man. Thus
is the major portion OF the country that
fostered 1he young civilization. the mon
uments Of which exist today IN nearly as
perfect condition as they did when the
naughty Phataohs ruled. monarchs Of all
they surveyed. Egypt embraces long.
narrow strip Of territory known as the
Nile vaney--the most productive spot on
the globe. Ilorodoius in a happy thought
calls It the gift Of the Nile" And
truly it is to The river that the coun-
Try owes its very existence for every
autumn. swollen by tropical rains OF the
interior and filed TO overlooking with
foaming torrents from melting glaciers.
the river spreads film OF rich. black
alluFium over the valley and in No
vembcr when TIE stream has returned
20 its bed, the farmAr scatters his grain
over the newly covered fields and drives
flock OF sheep or goats across them to
tread in the seed. and IN few weeks
the COUNTRY so lately ,turbid sea is
oversprcad with wealth Of waving YER
dure This fact that the land yields
largely accounts for the oppression to
which the people were subjected Since
the greater part Of the year they would
be in idleaess, the rulers set them TO
building those imperishable monuments
which tell us today OF the virtues and
noble deeds Of the Pharaoh that ruled
five thousand years ago. But in between
those lines Of marvelously wrought hior-
oglyphics, we may read Of the suffering
and oppression OF those who labored to
erect those mountains Of stone.
The origin OF the Egyptians is veiled
in the same obscurity that hovers over
the beginning OF most other nations, and
their motives for coming into north
eastern Africa were probably the same
as those which usually induce the migra-
tion OF other peoples. namely the over
crowding OF khe original places OF habi
tation and restless spirit within which
ever draws the race with the animal
and vegetable life toward to west. This
laws appears TO be worldwide in It's ope-
ration.
The Egyptians were so nearly perfect
in many Of their acts that We OF the
present century are unable TO improve
upon them. The manufacture of glass
was pTacticed In Egypt more than four
thousand years ago In making imita-
tlon jewels the ancient glass blowers re-
main unsurpassed, and they also imi-
i.ated with marvellous success the varie-
gated hues OF insects and stones. These
antquated artists appear to have been
as well versed IN the laws OF color har-
mony as the painters Of our times Fore
most among the sciences known to the
Egyptians were astronomy and geome-
try. No doubt the brilliant. clcjsdless
skies early invited the Inhabitants to