The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-04

metropolis OF the African continent
is alluring. Since expOsitions became
the fashion, one Of their standard at
fractions has been the Streets of
Cairo" This may consist merely Of a
NANCY camel, a few disreputable
dancing girls (frOm the bowery or
elsewhere), and some leather-lunger
Arab musicians, but the minute their
ear~spitting music" begins its siren
cali the crowd gathers. As an attrac-
ton Cairo is a winner both at home
and abroad. It has that peculiar
quality which professional shewmen
call drawing power, Although II Is
a long way from the United States to
Egypt, fully half the winter throng
OF tourists to the Nile country are
Americans,
No traveller considers that he Is a
graduate in sightseeing until he has
seen the broken-nosed Sphinx staring
across the desert In its age-long vigil.
or look upon the -wrinkled faces of
Rameses and tbs tOrder Pharaohs.
brought from their ancient tombs to
preside over the . stinguished COM
pa1y of mummies lin the national
musem- II is SO ething TO say
that you have beer 10 the vicinity
where Moses was : ind in the bull
PUSHES, and that VI have seen the
ruins of Memphis, the most ancient
city OF the world Cairo is the scene
ul IfAIil events described IN #IlE
n Bible, and characters similar to those
,u read about in the Scriptures may
Se seen in its streets every day.
Parade of Bible Characters,
There are old men dressed IN the
attire OF Abraham, scribes with reed
pens in their girdles, types of scowl-
ing Pharisees, and outcast Jews. A
drive in the suburbs IS like looking
through a book Of old Bible prints
One sees the shepherd tending his
hOcSs, and desert chieftainS mounted
on swaying camels, like the Wise men
who journeyed to Bethlehem to gee the
infant Christ. Straight, graceful wo-
men wearing loose gowns and black
wells go down to the watering places
with earthen jars upon their heads;
and the stranger wonders # unknOw-
ingly he is to pass the way that Joseph
and Mary went in their memorable
flight from the wrath Of Herod.
A chair on one of the hotel verandas
is like a reserved seat for a review OF
a congress Of nations. In half an hour
representatives of q score OF races will
pass, babbling in their myriad tongues
and Haunting most all the gaFbs that
men have ever worn There are
chattering FTenChmen, savage looking
Turks, and lOTdly BedOuins who carry
themselves with much disdain There
and the eveT-impOrtant Englishman.
Moslem. Jew. GentiIe-aH are here. It
is a professional Of all types and all
creeds. Where else is there such
blending of the children of the earth?
Tansle in the Law.
The presence of so many different
natiOnalities in Egypt has created
legal situation so unusual that it is
the cause of both amusement and per-
plexity to the most profound students
Of international law. Thirteen Euro
pean powers and the United States
maintain what is known as the inter
national courts. for the purpose of
adjudicating actions which involve
the property rights or well-being of
the citizens Of any of these countries
This extraordinary procedure re-
moves the foreigner from all respou-
sibility. TO Egyptian law, and gives
him greater rights in the country
than the inhabitan-thereof. No
agent of the Egyptian government is
permitted TO enter any foreigners
door unless requested to do 80. if
an Italian entices an Egyptian into his
back yard and murders him he is
responsible only to the Italian Con-
sui. The Egyptian police cannot ar
rest an English smuggler nor raid a
gambling house conducted by
Egypt is A nominal province of the
Ottoman Empire. and therein lies
the explanation for this anomaly in
the law. According to Mohammedan
reckoning the people Of the world
are divided into two parts: the
superior element being those who be
long to the house Of Islam. the in
ferior portion including all those out
side of it. From the earliest time
Mohammedan policy has been to con-
quer or collect tribute frfom all IN
believers. Finding he could neither
convert nor subdue the whole mass of
infdels, the Turk astutely recognized
that he must do business with them.
MosIem Wants to Trade.
He could not make treaties because /
these agreements are in the nature /
. Of covenant between equals. and no
Moslim ruler could possibly deal /
with a Christian on basis of 1
8 equality, so there he was astride the
horns Of the dilemma. How could he
\ enter into relations with the Christ i