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the Nile valley every season and that it costs each one of them something like s10 per day for an average stay of two months.
 Cabs, Trans and Automobiles.
 When 1 first visited this country the donkey was the chief means of trans port, and men. women and children went about on long -eared beasts with Arab boys in blue gowns following be- hind and urging the animals along by poking sharp sticks into patches of bare flesh, as big a dollar, Wh ich had been denuded of skin for the purpose The donkey and the donkey boy are here still, but l can get a street car in alexandria that will take me to any part of the town, and 1 have to jump now and then to get out of the way of an automobile. There are cabs every where and Alexandria and Cairo have thousands of them.
 The new hotels are eXtravag gant be- yond description. In this, where l am now writing, the rates are from 80 to 100 piasters per day, and inside the hotel walls I am as far from the old Egypt as 1 would be in the Waldorf at New York The servants ars French speaking Swiss in swallow"caiI coats and their palms itch for foes just as do those of their class our big hotels. In my bedroom there is an electric bell. and I can go out into the hall and talk over the telephone to the consul general at Cairo. The hotel is packed with guests, and on its register l see counts by the score and lords by the dozen. The men come to dinner in steel pen coats and the women in silks with low necks and short sleeves. There is a babel of English, French and German going on in the awine room while the guests drink coffee there after dinner, and the only evidence one perceives of tn land of the Pharaohs Is the tall min arets which here and there reach above the other buildings of the city. and the voices of the muezzins as they stand upon them and call out to tn Mohammedans to come to prayer.
 The changes which l have described are by no means confined to the Christ ians. The natives are growing rich and the Mohammedans are for the first time in the history of Egypt. piling up money. They are investing tn cir sur plus in real estate, and it Is this that has done much to swell all land values.
 Egypt is still a country of the Egyp- tians, notwithstanding the government of the English and the influx of the foreign CTS. 1t has now about 10000. GOO people, and of these 9.000.O00 are either Arabs or descendants of the original Egyptians. The most of them are Mohammed edans, all though there are all told something Ike GOO, GOO Copts. The Copts are the descend ants of the ancient Egyptians. They have rude kind of Christianity, and are as a , body, better educated and wealthier than the Mohammedans. They are noted as clerks and accountants and are also fine workmen in gold and silver and in other
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Alexandria the Ancient.

Returning to Alexandria, sitting here in this 8 d day hotel surrounded by all the luxuries of Paris or New York. I find 1t hard to realize that 1 am in one of the
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now land of banks and stock exchanges. It throngs with civil engineers, irrigation experts %nd men interested in the devel- opment of the country by electricity and steam. The delta or the great fan of land which begins at Cairo and stretches out to the Mediterranean is Sridlroned with iron tracks and railroad trains now carry one almost to the heart of Central Africa. When I was last here about six teen years ago Egypt was importing goods to the amount of twenty-five or thirty million dollars. Sine is now buying more than s100, ,000,00O worth every twelve months and her exports are more than twice what they were at that time. They now amount to $110,00000O a year and are increasing right along.
 In other letters shall describe the won derful banking development that has gone on here and the extraordinary increase in land values throughout the whole valley of the Nile. l am told that in the lower delta farm lands arc selling from $500 tG 5000 an acre, and that espe 'ially good tracts bring even more. All the way up the Nile from Cairo to Assiout for a dis tance of about 300 miles, you cannot buy an acre of cultivable land for less than SzU0, and many a farmer would refuse to sell his little tract for $500 per Rents of lands have gone up in the snpe propor- ton, and I know of farms which are bringing from $20 to $50 an acre per year.
 The same conditions obtain aa to the real estate of the cities. Both Cairo and Alexandria are inflating their values and land is SD high in Cairo itself that a sub urban development has begun. and in the future the poorer of the foreigners will probably have their homes outside the city.
 I find Egypt changing in character. The Mohammedans are being corrupted by the Christians, and the simple living taught by the Koran. hereby the be- liever abstains from strong drink and other vices. has become infected with the gay and glddy pleasures of the French. Cairo. the city of the Arabian nights, is fast becoming city of Parisian nights and the Mohammedan call to prayer is now mingled with the bacchanalian songs of the cafe chant ants. In many cases the system of the harem is being exchanged for some thing worse. The average Moham- medhn has but one wife, but in many cases he has a sweetheart in house around the corner.
 The ghouls of modern science are robbing the graves of those who made the Pyramids. teleph one line has been stretch ed out of Cairo alomst to the ear of the sphinx, and these is a hotel at the base of the Pyramid of Cheops. where English men and wom- en drink brondy and soda between their games of tennis and golf.
 The Egypt of today Is a land of mighty hotels and multiudious tourists. Our consul general estimates that Americans alone spend almost four mil lion dollars h ere every winter, and the English, French and Germans spend al most as much. He estimates that there are ten thousand Americans who visit
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very oldest cities of history. 1 started out today to look up relics of the past. going in cab by mile after mile of mod ern buildings, and travelling over the site of the metropolis which flourished here long before Christ was born. The only object of note still left is Pompey's pill lar. and that is new in comparison with the earliest history of old Egypt It was put up only sixteen hundred years ago. and long after Alexandria had become one of the greatest cities in the world. The monument has been said to stand over the grave of Pompey, but it was really erected by an Egyptian prefect as a land mark for sailors, d burning fire upon it's top being visible for miles about this part ol the Mediterranean sea. The pillar con sists of a massive column of polished granite as big around as the boiler of a railroad locomotive and as high a ten story flat. It was dug out of the quar- ries of Assouan far up the Nile valley and Was brought down the river on rafts and lifted in some way or other to it's pres ent position. An evidence of it's modern origin is HOW to be seen in the eXeaNa- tions which the antiquarians are making about the pedestal. During the past few months they have been digging in the earth far below it's foundation and have taken out several massive stone sphinxcs, the heads of some of which are still wrap ped in cloths in order To protect them
 from injury until they can be taken to the museums of this city and Cairo. I shall send home a photograph which l nave just made of one of these sphinxes
 They date back to the old Alexandria and were chiseled out several hundred years before Joseph and Mary took the little baby Jesus on an ass across the desert into this valley of the Nile, that he might not be killed by Herod the King.
 It was 332 years before Christ was born i that this city was founded by Alex ander the Great, and l venture that it then had more people than 1t has to- day. It was not only a great commercial port hut was a center of learning, re- ligion and art It is said to have had the greatest library of antiquity. Its man. uscripts numbered 100000. and artists and | students came here from everywhere to study At the time of the Caesars it was as big as Boston, and when it was taken by the Arabs, along about 6H A. D., 1t had 400o palaces, 400 public baths. 400 places of amusement and 12,0O0 gardens. When, Alexander the Great founded 1t he brought in a colony of Jews and at the time the Mohammedans came the Jewish quarter had 10000.
 It was at Alexandria that St. Mark
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such trades. They are money makers and money savers and l understand that many of them, especially in upper Egypt, ate now making fortunes. The pure Mohan medans do not as a rule so into banking or money-lending, That is against the Koran and they invest most of their say ings Tn lands.
 Foreigners In Egypt.
 The foreign population in Egypt is less than 100000. The greater part of it is to be found in Alexandria and Cairo, and m the other towns of the Nile valley, as well as in Suez and Port Said. There ale more Greeks than any other. The Greeks have been exploiting the Egyptians and the Nile valley, for more than 2000 years and they are today the sharpest, shrewd- est and most interruptions business men in it. They do much of the banking and money lending, and until the government established banks of it's own and brought down the rate of interest, they demanded an enormous usury from the Egyptian peasants. They loaned money on lands and crops, and their interest rate is said to have averaged i5O per cent per annum.
 This was changed about six years ago by the establishment of the Agricultural bank on the part of the government, that bank lending money to the farmers at 9 per cent to within 50 per cent of the value of their farms. Today the peasants all over Egypt can get money at per cent and the Greeks have had to come down on their rates There are now over forty thousand Greeks in Egypt and they oper- ate as far north as the Soudan.
 The Italians number about twenty-five thousand and the French somewhere be- tween fifteen and twenty thousand. There are many Italian shops here in Alexandria and there are hundreds of Italians doing business in Cairo. They also furnish some of the best mechanics. Many of them are masons and the greater part of the As houan dam and other works of a similar nature nave been constructed by them
 There are also Germans, Austrians and Russians together with few Americans and Belgfans The Germans are largely in evidence as clerks and they carry on mercantile businesses in many of the cities The British community amounts 10 about twenty thousand but a large number of these are soldiers or civil off, cals and among them are something like six thousand Maltese and six hundred British East Indians. Practically the whole government is administered by the British. although many of the subordi- nate officers are native Egyptians. There are some French among the officials who have held over from the time France was powerful in Egypt a few have come here to manage sugar and cotton mills owned by F1enchmen and others are shopkeep- CTS in Alexandria and Cairo.
 Alexandria the Ancient.
 Returning to Alexandria, sitting here in this 8 q day hotel surrounded by all the luxures of Paris or New York, I find 1t hard to realize that l am in one of the
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Natura ally.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 The youngest member of the family had taken enthusiastically to pyrography.
 She had just executed a design repre- senting a little girl playing with the cat in front of an oldfashion fireplace.
 Tt is we'll done Bertha said her mother, inspecting it; but you have man aged somehow to make the little girl look scared
 That's all right, mamma" answered Bertha. "A burnt child dreads the fre.'
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WIT. D00ley's Philosophy 11 E ? P G% D0nnH
BY F. P. DUNNE


said that's what he always fought f'r anyhow, an if it wasn't so ivry day wud be iliction day"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-07-10
Unconscious Humor.

According to the Norfolk Land
mark, three distinguished citizens of
Charleston, S. c., no less personages
in fact than Mayor R. Goodwin Rhett,
Col. Thomas r. Waring, Of the
Charleston Post, and Speaker Rich
ard S. Whaley, Of the South Carolina
house of representatives, met at the
Jamestown Exposition on South Caro-
lima day and definitely decided that
Maj. j. C. Hempfill, the veteran edi-
tor OF the Charleston News and Cou-
rier, should be elected as Senator Till
mans colleague to the United States
senate from South Carolina. This was
certainly a laudable step on the part
of the three distinguished Charleston
ianS, and touching tribute to the
distinguished editor Of the News and
Courier, but the remarkable feature
of the incident is that the esteemed
Landmark perpetrated piece Of hu-
NOR eaual to the nine tailors of Too
lev street" in all seriousness and With
out the slightest inclination or inspl-
ration to persihage.-Macon Tele-
graph.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-07-10
KILLED WITH A BRICKBAT.
Another Homicide is Added to Spar
tanburg's List.

spartanburg, July ID. K. Gun
ningham, who killed G. B. Hunsinger
by striking him in the head with a
brickbat, has surrendered to the sher-
iff.
Hunsinger was hit in the head last
Saturday afternoon and sent to his
home, four miles from town. He
failed to receive medical attention up
on his arrival at home, though sever
al efforts were made to secure physi-
clans, and death followed within IS
hours after he was wounded. The half
dead man was allowed to lie on the
ground here for more than an hour
before he was sent home. When
Cunningham learned of the death Of
Hunsinger he came in and surrender
ed. Cunningham struck Hunsinge,
while the latter was advancing on
him with a drawn knife.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-07-10

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Nearly a quarter Of a million dol
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-07-10
Legend of a ,Iusket.

Mark Twain tells the following
story, related by a fellow passenger,
who. being bantered about his tim
idity, said he had never been scared
since he loaded an old Queen Anne's
n1usket for his father once, where
upon he gives the following:
You see the old man was trying to
learn me to shoot blackbirds and
beasts that tore up the young corn
and such things, so could be OF
some use about the farm, because l
wasn't big enough to do much My
gun was a single barreled shotgun
and the old man carried an old
Queen Anne 1ausket that weighed
ton, made a report like a thunder
clap, and kicked like mule. The
old man wanted me to shoot the
rnusket sometimes, but was afraid.
One day. though, I got her down and
so I took her to the hired man, and
asked him how to load her, because
it was out in the field. Hiram,
said he, do you see those marks on
the stock, an x and .. V, on each
side of the Queens crown? Well,
that means ten balls and five slugs-
that's her load"
"Rut how much POWDER"
oh" says he, cit don't matter;
put in three or four handfuls.''
So I loaded her up that way, and
it was an awful charge had sense
enough to see that, and started out
I levelled her on a good many black
birds; but every time I went to pull
the trigger I shut my eyes and wink
ed; 1 was afraid of her kick. To-
wards sundown I fetched up at the
house, and there was the old man
resting on the porch.
"Deen out hunting, have ye?'
eyes, sir" said I.
What did you kill?"
Didn't kill anything-didn''t shoot
her off-was afraid she would kick,
Q knew blame well she would.)"
Gimme that gum" the old man
said, as mad as SIN
And he took aim at sapling on
the other side of the road, and be-
gan to drop back out of danger.
And the next moment heard the
earthquake, and heard the Queen
Anne whirling end over end in the
air. and father spinned around on
one heel with one leg up and both
hands on his jaw, and the bark flying
from that old sapling like there
was a hail storm. The old mans
shoulder was sot back three inches
and his jaw turned black and blue,
and he had to lay up for three days.
Cholera nor nothing else can scare
me the way I was scared that time.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-07-10
TO RACE IN GLIDpEN TOUR.
MT. Il. B. jenkins Sent by REQ Motor
Car Company to Canada to Race.

ME-. Il. B. jenkins Sent by REQ Motor
Car Company to Canada to Race.
Mr.. T. B. jenkins, agent in this
city for the REQ, leaves ohis afternoon
for Canada where he will drive REQ
car in the Glidden Tour.
The GliGden Tour is an annual
event of national interest from the
American stock ears. carrying a full
quota Of passengers, over several
hundred miles of roads Of all kinds.
The course is selected with the pur-
pose in view Of testing the cars in all
respects, and offers to the contestants
hills, sand, rocks and water.
It is quite feather in Mr.. jenkins,
cab to be sent by the REQ Motor Car
Company to handle the car which
they have in readiness for this event,
the result Of which means so much.
Here's good luck to you, Mr.. jenkins.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-07-10
Bradstreet's Review.
New York, July 5.-Bradstreet's to

New York, July 5.-Rradstreet's to-
morrow will say:
Continued favorable weather con-
ditions have made for further crop
development, expansion in retail trade
in light summer goods and notable
stimulation of hitherto tagging reor-
der business. One of the most favor
able developments Of the week has
been the Improvement noted in col
lection at many markets, a sure sign
that retail stocks are moving, though
the number Of cities reporting reduc-
ton sales or slow trade is sufficiently
large to show that trade in summer
wear has not in all cases been salts
factory The usual measures OF busl-
ness, such as clearings and failures,
point to irregular conditions. Desire
to await a clearer view Of crop out
turn limits future commitments, but
the situation in cottons is very strong
on uncertain crop outlook as to prices
cf goods is now having the attention
Of manufacturers and wholesalers.
Holiday quiet rules in the shoe trade,
but recent warm weather has helped
retailers and jobbers and the outlook
for the coming half year is hopeful.
Eastern shipments for the first six
months Of 1897 aggregate 2,465,34o
cases, a decrease of 3.S per cent. from.
t. same period Of 1906.
considerably more activity is re-
ported at leading wool markets and
all staple wools have sold Well at
Boston and at leading interior mar
kets.
"Pig iron continues quiet and
prices are easier at some markets.
Premiums fer spot iron have practi-
cally disappointed.
While buyers of copper are still
holding off in the hope Of obtaining
lower prices, quotations are unchang-
ed from last week
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-07-10
Some Examination Humor.

Queer mistakes are made by appli-
cants on civil service examination
papers, says the Baltimore Sun. Such
papers are not for public isspection.
yet occasionally the examiners are
struck so forcibly by errors made as
to recall them years after there is any
chance for the person most interested
to discover that it is his blunder
which is the subject Of comment.
A negro girl, taking the eSamina-
ton for teacher in the Indian service,
in reply to the question on her appli-
cation, "How long do you expect to
remain in the government service ?"
replied, 1Till death takes hold this
mortal fraim.''
Another applicant for position as
teacher in the Indian service was ask
ed to name three or four standard
American works of literature and
their authors. The reply, painfully
penned, was, t.I will name Whitcomb
Riley and his When the Fodder and
the Punkin is Ripe"
butcher being examined for po-
sition as government meat Inspector
was given an exercise in copying
from plain copy which is merely an
exercise to prove that a man can re-
produce, properly spelled and puct-
uated, printed paragraph set down
before him. 1t seems also an exercise
in common sense and accurate obser-
vation Of spelling and punctuating.
This applicant wrote is the space pro-
vided for the copy from plain copy.
81 am "a weigh $50 pounds and no
awl about meet"
Here are some answers from pri-
mary school examination papers:
3'In austria the principal occupa-
ton is gathering Austrich feathers.
"The Bay Of Biscuit is on the coast
of France
"The principal industries Of Ger
many are manufacturing, agriculture
and the cultivation of the intellect.
Russia is very cold and tyrannical.
''The Great Desert of Sarah was
fermerl, discovered in Africa.
"The two most famous volcanoes Of
Europe are Sodom and Gonaorrah.
"One Of the chief exports Of Eu-
rope is live meat, which grows in
great quantities.
'"The north tempered zone is the
best one.
"The frigia zone is the most hot
test.
Latitude is thing by which we
can tell where country is on the
globe. like Africa.
'Pineapples grow on pine trees.
"Climate lasts all the time and
weather only few days
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-07-10
The Doctor Away From Home When
Most Needed.

*People are often very much dis
arpointed to find that their family
physician is away from home when
thev most need his services. Diseases
like cramp colo and cholera morbus
REQUIRE prompt treatment, and have
in many instances proven fatal before
medicine could be procured or ply
sician summoned The right way is
to. keep at hand bottle OF Chamber
lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. No physician can prescribe
better medicine for these diseases
Rv having it in the house you escape
much pain and suffering and all risk.
Buy it now; it may save life. For sale
by LeLorme's Pharmacy.
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