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houses such as would not be out Of place
III any city of Europe or of the United
States. He does his shopping. in modern
stores and gradually comes to the conclu-
sion that the Arab city Is fast passing
away. This is not 80. Cairo is a city of.
the Egyptians. Not one-tenth of it's nhab-
itants are Christians. and 1t Is the eight or
nine hundred thousand natives who make
up the life blood of this municipality
They are people of a different world from
ours. as we can see If we go down and
stroll through the city. They do business
In different ways. and they trade much
the same now as they have been trading
for generations back. Their stores are
crowded along narrow streets which
wind this way and that, SO that one
might lose himself in them. Every branch
of business has It's own section. In one
place there are nothing but saddlers, in
another only shoemakers, and in another
the workers in copper, silver ami brass
street of their own: and so have the
clothiers and tailors Nearly every store
is a factory as well, and most Of the
goods offered you are made in the shops
have been In most of the great ba-
Zaars of the world, and know Of none
more interesting than those of Cairo. In
them thousands are buying and selling,
and each narrow street has stream Of
color which flows back and forth all day
long. From the top of ones donkey this
stream Is red and white upon he'd of
black and blue. The red is the fez caps
and the white Is the turbans. while the
blacks and blues are the gowns of the
people below them. The sides of the
out of each little shop. and the whole is
like wandering through worlds fair in
which the exhibitors are darA-faced.
turbaned. long gowned men. who sit
cross-legged carpets, with all the
treasures of the orient piled about them.
Although the foreigner and his innova-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
ing gratuitous vocal and instrumental music
lessons.
All Sor Ak por Weak

I say gratuitous. but I ought to say in
elusive. In all these girls clubs board and
loding, including washing, begins at So
per week; and as washing is included. so
are the afternoon teas, the dispensaries, the
drawing and painting ateliers. the music
lessons and the use of bath tubs.
Do not sneer at this last detail. Learn that
elsewhere. in all Paris. bath tubs are ex-
elusive. extra. A girl student who wants to
keep clean must learn to take a bath in her
wash basin-or go out with a hand satchel
to public bathhouse and follow, perhaps.
the last French party who took bath on
a doctors order.
Five dollars per week for everything in
Paris. Here We strike the, question of a
student girls expenses
l will tell you how a girl kept house during
two years. cultivating her voice and taking
stage lessons. She is now somebody in
American operette
She had two scarcely furnished rooms and
a kitchen for $50 per year. Smartening
them up with odds and ends. she rented out
one room to a girl friend for So per month
So she almost rent free.
Her expenses for provisions, which she
cooked herself. with her coal and petro-
leum, did not exceed So or SO per week. She
did her own washing In the kitchen. But
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
Nothing Doing.

Harrison Grey Fiske discussed at din-
ner In New York the art of acting.
II believe" said Mr.. Fiske. 'in subtlety,
and restraint. nod. shake of the head,
silent pause-these things are often more
effective than the most violent yelling and
ranting
Life is like that. subtle and silent
What for instance. could be more express
sive than this scene. scene without a
spoken word. that l once witnessed in the
country?
AN undertaken stood on n corner near
a noble mansion. He elevated his brows
hopefully and inquiringly as a physician
came from the house. The physician, COM
pressing his lips. shook his head decidedly
and~hurried to his carriage. Then the UNI
dertaker with a sigh passed on"
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have modern cab for 10 cents a ride. or
you may jump on the electric street cars
and go "a long distance for from 2k to
cents. or you may even hire an auto
streets of the native city are too narrow
for such things, and you are crowded to
the wall, again and again for fear that
the spongy feet Of the camels may tread
upon you. You are grazed by loaded
donkeys, carrying grain, bricks or bags
on their backs; and the donkey boy who
is trotting behind an animal ridden by
some rich Egyptian or his wife calls upon
you to get out of the way. The donkey
Is the best means Of getting around
through the native city and the cheapest.
You may hire one for two hours for 20
cents, for a half day for so or go cents, and
all day for dollar. Every riding animal
is numbered. My donkey Of today was
named California" and the number on
his saddle was 977.
Some Queer Citizens
The characters Of these bazaars are odd
to an extreme and one must have an edu-
Gated eye to know who they are. Take
that man in green turban. he is looked
up to by his fellows. Your dragoman will
tell you that he has a sure passport to
heaven, and that the turban Is a sign that
he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca and
thus earned the right to the colors of the
prophet. Behind him comes flne-featured
yellow-faced man in a blue gown wearing
a turban of blue. You ask your guide who
he may be and are told, with a sneer, that
he is Copt. He is one of the Christians
of modern Egypt. and has descended from
the fanatical band which Charles Kingsley
describes in his novel ''Hypatia." Like all
of his class he is intelligent and like most
of them well dressed. The Copts are among
the shrewdest of the business Egyptians,
and with the prosperity now common In
the valley of the Nile, they are growing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
Hannibal's Mean Man.

Coming home on the Minnetonka," said
q St. Joseph girl. we took up a collection
for the widows and orphans of sailors, and
Mark Twain prefaced this collection with
u talk on meanness. He urged US to be
generous in our offerings-not 10 be like
a certain mean old man from Hannibal.
The meanest man I ever knew. he
said, lived in Hannibal. He sold his SON
in-law the half OF a very fine COW. and then
refused to share the milk with the young
fellow, on the ground that he had only sold
him the front half. The son-in-law was also
compelled to provide all the cows fodder
and TO carry water to her twice day
Finally the cow butted the old man through
a barbed-wire fence. and he sued his SON
in-law for 500 damages "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
The Frogs.
From Life.

From Life.
Proceeding with my studies of nature,
I could not help but be struck with the
idiocy of the frogs. They were much
alarmed by my approach, and leaped fran
tically, but instead of leaping away from
me, they leaped toward me, many of them,
and even against me.
There was one frog, especially, who. in
the most fatuous manner. hurled himself
against my legs repeatedly.
why are you such fool?" I asked, at
length.
THAT is easily answered." replied the
frog, with admirable courtesy. You are
perhaps not aware of what is nevertheless
a fact, that American frogs, with the ex-
ception ola few old families in New Jer-
sey, are descended from the frog who
would a-wooing go, whether his mother
would let him or no. In other words, our
idiocy is hereditary"
Is it not singular?
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candles and take you down to dream of
bygone things.
Dietetic Repartee.
If there seems much cake and tea, remem-
Der IT is free. When the Rue de Chew
reuse began giving hot mullins, the Rue de
Turin replied with waff1es.
The parish house went them one better
with transcendental species of jam-puffs.
And the Students Hotel took up the
gauntlet by offering cocoanut layer cake
from Margarets.
Next Holy Trinity Lodge astonished them
all by opening a dispensary with trained
nurses. Let any English-speaking girl fall
sick in Paris-and Sc need but notify Holy
Trinity Lodge.
Now. you do not know Mrs. Whitney
Hoff if you imagine she would not have
some prompt answer to the dispensary.
What. my girls be forced to traverse
half Paris to beg for hottie of pare
goric?" she exclaimed And within thirty
days the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation was endowed with a visiting doc
tor, and the Students Hotel set up one of
the best-equipped dispensaries in all Paris
Indeed. Mrs. Quimby, of Frank Leslie's
who is something of an expert on these
matters, declares there is not smarter
little hospital even in New York.
Mrs. Reid was naturally bound ID fol-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
Institutions For Protection OF
Young Girl Students
Supported by Rich
Society Women.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
PARIS, August %, 1907.
A American girl can study in
"a Paris without danger.
~ The perfected means exist. -Four
4 \ great concerns, called American
girls clubs, will take the lamb,
house her, feed her. tend her, watch her'
lock her up at 10 pm, nurse her Wheh
sick. enliven her with teas, cultivate her
voice teach her to draw, and Keep her
fresh and sweet and neat in almost 100
dainty surroundings.
II is done for a lump weekly sum so
moderate-for what is given-that there
must be sustaining wealth behind II. Why'
the every-afternoon high teas alone would
dissipate the profits of a business enter
prise.
The old-established Girls Club Of the Rue
de Cheyreuse has always been sustained
by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. It's present man
ageress Miss Moffett delightful maiden
lady from New England Is her sole repre-
sentative When the garden is photo-
sraphed, she sends a copy to Mrs. Reid
Would Mrs. Reid like thisf Mrs Reld
would not approve Of that The Rue de
Chevreuse is a perfect realization OF Mrs.
Reds ideas.
once II WAS great HOtcI. 1ou oOo iio"
two wings form a court. Beneath old trees
behind two stone pillars and high iron
grille give entrance to an oidworld garden.
Here the lambs sport of afternoons. to the
perfume of buttered toast. samovar tea,
waffles. layer cake-what do I know? Tea
strong enough to make them go out saucy!
Latin Quarter Clubs.
Mrs Whitney Hon-daughter of the late
Detroit millionaire and wife Of a Standard
OIL magnate In Paris-dominates in the
same way both the Young Women's Chris
tian Association of the Rue de Turin and
the Students Hotel of the Boulevard st.
Michel Both the Rue de Chevreuse and
the Boulevard st. h.Ichel are in the Latin
Quarter, but the Rue de Turin can count as
Montmartre. the graduation quarter or art
| students become painters. very upto-date
| locality.
The fourth of these great concerns Is
Holy Trinity Lodge, in the Rue pierre Nj
| cole, beyond the Pantheon-again the Latin
| Quarter-conducted by the Holy Trinity
| (Episcopalan) Church OF the Avenue de
| rAlma.
The Rev. DR.. Morgan. cousin of the fnan-
! cier. years ago gave up banking for the
| priesthood, and as Mrs Reid and Mrs. HofY
| dominate their respective girls clubs. so
! DR.. Morgan dominates his church and
| lambfod. Indeed. the latter is called a
| parish house and has something of a con-
! ventual touch. Recently they rented from
| the French republic confscated shady
| garden that until the nuns expulsion, had
| belonged to the Carmelites of the Rue VAL
! de-Grace. In one corner beneath lordly
trees, is a mysterious stone trap. 1t gives
| entrance by shivery winding stairs. down
| down into the earth. to ancient under
| ground chapel dating from the time of ST
| Denis. When the girls have filed their
visitors with cake and tea, they will light
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
An Oath's Value.

Clarence S. Darrow. the lawyer and es-
sayist discussing the Haywood trial, In
which he played a prominent part said the
other day:
Some Of the evidence in that trial was
so transparently false that il reminds me
Of case that came off in Alabama a few
years back.
zone Of the witnesses in this case was
an extremely ignorant man. As his testi-
mUny progressed his ignorance became so
sirockngly evident that the judge looking
strrny down al him. said
Look here sir. are YOU acquainted with
the value OF an oath?
The witness answered anXiously:
ledge. | hope l am That thar lawyer
on yer left hand gimme six dollars to sw ar
agin the other side. Thets the cOrreck
value of oath, amt il. jedge?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
A Cool One.

Senator Albert ]. Hopkins was praisng
the imperturbable coolress of a young CHI
cago politician.
The boy reminds me- said Senator Hop
kins. of one of the great Disraelfs col
leagues.
This man. In the course of his maiden
speech in parliament. paused to yawn
He il do said DisraeT. chuckling"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
Anecdotes Concerning
Well-Known People
The Burden.

THE late Senator Pettus." said a Selma
man. came to view with a little alarm In
his latter years the immense and unre-
stricted immigration to our shores.
Walking one evening with him. point
ed to a foreigner marching along at the
head OF his family. The man was TALL
erect, robust. a superbly handsome fellow
There l said. is a fine figure of an
Immigrant. See how he carries himself.
Senator Pettus laughed bitterly.
Yes. he said, and see how he let's
his wife carry everything else"
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If I Were President.
he Broadway Magazine.

Prom The BrOadWhE MhgHZIHt.
"If / were President of the United
States" said the Politician as he button
hoed the Idiot on Broadway and tried to
involve him in discussion of the affairs of
the nation, do you know what l would
do?'
NO I don't" returned the Idiot But
for the good of the country / hope you'd
resign"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
Billiards Defined.

John Morgan. the champion pool player
told at a dinner in st. Louis billiard
story.
Billiards is a tame amusement beside
pool Mr.. Morgan began. Two Hindoos
were once discussing the game in Calcutta
and l think that their idea of il was pretty
near the right one.
What is this white mans game of
billiards that 1 hear SO much about said
the first IIindoo
Don't you know said the second.
No. Tell me
Well said the second Hindoo, bill
lizards is a very simple game. Two men
armed with long sticks poke at bal On
green table. and one says D" while
the other says Hard lines. "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07

- TAND with me on the Hill OF the
citadel and take q look over Cairo.
We are high above the River Nile,
~ and far above the minarets OF
Ynnsnnea which rise out OF the
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candles and take you down to dream of
bygone things.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-01-09

The suggestion made by the News
and Courier that series Of automo-
bile races be held at the Isle OF
Palms meets with hearty second
from tom" jenkins, who made the
run to Summerville last Saturday and
with his 20-horse REQ beat every
thing on the road for style and speed.
He would like to devote the gate re-
ceipts, however, to the purchase Of
car for the Hon. James Cosgrove SO
that he might keep a closer eye on
the condition of the highways in this
county. 1t would probably be better
to have the legislature pass special
act requiring Mr. Cosgrove to walk
over the roads at least once a guar
ter so that he might know more about
them than he would find out riding
in a well-cushioned machine. What
ever shall be done with the gate
money the races at the Isle OF
Palms ought to be held, and we would
suggest that Mr.. Philip H. Gadsden
arrange for the events.-News and
Courier.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-01-09
PARDON BOARD RULE.

Columbia, Jan. 4.-Governor Hey
ward yesterday granted John Shelton,
the spartanburg negro who was to
have been hanged, a respite until
March /. Shelton was convicted Of
the murder of a5S father-in-law and
tie p&pe1s 1o- IA appeal TO tie su-
prenae court were rot fled il ulnae,
according to the rules. Mr.. c. p. Sims
OF spartanburg afterwards took up
the case and he asked for the respite
in order 10 give the pardon board
time to lock into the evideace.
TIE board decided yesterday that
no petition of any nature would be
considered hereafter unless they
should have been fled two weeks in
Advance of the meeting. In both the
Adams and Shelton cases the papers
came in at the last mome.:t and al
though the board does net state that
the attorneys are to blame in either
case they felt that some time limit
must be set as in all other legal pro-
ceedings.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-01-09
Compulsory Vaccination.

Acting under orders from the State
board of health and from the local
health authorities and the city coun-
ell. Health officer Readon began on
Saturday to vaccinate in the mills,
factories, schools and other places
where other crowds Of people
are congregated. A systematic
census was taken just before
the Christmas holidays in most
of. the factories and mills, but the
closing down of these places and the
schools for Christmas holidays inter
rupted the work.
DR.. George r. Dean of the State
board of health is in charge of the
compulsory vaccination crusade over
the entire State. He personally
comes to any place and with the as
sistance of prosecuting attorney,
looks after the prosecution Of all who
resist vaccination. In Greenvilie
county a few days ago two mill ope-
ratives were arrested, fined and vacci-
mated before a magistrate for resist
ing vaccination. DR.. Dean and a pros
ecuting attorney OF the State beins
present to see that the law was en-
forced. no opposition to vaccination
has been met with in Sumter, and the
census OF the various places where
labor is congregated shows, SO far,
that over so per cent of sumter's
population has been successfully vac
cinated within seven years.
A number were vaccinated before
Christmas, about $50 people in all.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-01-09
NEGRO MILLIONAIRE"
He Says the President Did Right in
Dismissing Negro Troops.

He Saws the President Did Right in
Dis1nissing Negro Troops.
Larchmount, y. Y, Dec. 31.-Thos.
Harris, of Larchmount, widely known
as the negro millionaire" who has
received at least 200 letters from col
ored societies throughout the United
States, asking his opinion as to Pres
ident Roosevelt's recent action in dis
missing the three companies Of color
ed infantry an1L requesting his sigma
ture to a pet: have the dis
missed soldier r.. ss;-ted, announced
today that, a., ling the testimo-
ny of both sides, he is compelled to
stand by the president.
'I was born in the south" said
Harris, understand the southern ne
gro question and despite this, be-
lieve Mr.. Roosevelt exercised good
Judgment and did what I would have
done under similar circumstances. I
have refused to sign the petition for
reinstatement"
Harris is forty years old, and is
conservatively estimated to be worth
5000, 900, which he made in business
and real estate speculation in aristo-
1-o+;o o,oI,r,o,,,+
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-01-09
incoming and Outgoing Governors 10
Recommend Additional Funds for
Building at Jamestown.

South Carolina may after all have
"a State building at the jamestown eA-
position. The last session of the Pal
metto State Legislature appropriated
$4,000 for participation in the ter
centennial. This sum is not sufh-
cient TO erect. a State building and
defray the expenses Of assembling an
exhibit. Now movement has been
launched in South Carolina for an ad-
ditional appropriation to erect State
building.
superintendent Robert Hicks, of
the freight and passenger traffic bu-
reau of the exposition, whose home
is in Columbia, returned from there
yesterday, and brings the good news
that Gov. Heyward will. in his last
message to the legislature which con-
7enes Jan. s, recommend an addition
al appropriation, and that the incom-
ing governor, Mr.. Ansel, of Greenville,
VIII also do the same thing in his
first message to the lsyv-nlaking
body.
Besides the two governors, many
prominent and influential men of
South Carolina are also behind the
movement for State building at
Jamestown -virginian Pilot
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-01-09
BETHHEL,s PASTOR.
Rev. William Haynsworth Accepts
Can 10 Bethel and Nedgeield.

Rev. William Hayllswort':, for a
number Of years pastor of the Second
Baptist caurca2 of Darlington has re-
cesxed and accepted call from
Rethel and wedgeheld churches and
WI remove this week = Bethel,
where the parsonage is situated Since
the death of Rev. 2. Iide these
eurches have been without a pastor,
and they are fortunate in being able
to secure the services Of Mr: Eayns-
worth. Mr.. Haynsworrh is a native
of this city, but has never been the
pastor of a church in this county. HIS
many friends in this city and county
win be glad to extend cordial vel
come home.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-01-09

@Nearly every person who is sub
i4ct to attacks from the stomach SUI
fers from morbid dread Of a 6ietic
treatment for relief, that is three
fourths starvation, and one-fourth
toast and milk. On the other hand
you can eat as YOU please and digest
the food by the aid of good digest
ant, thus giving the tired stomach
equally as much rest. Eat what you
please and take little Kodol for in
digestion after your meals. It digests
what you eat. Sold by all druggists.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-01-09
Coming to Shoot Ducks.
Ey-president Grover Cleveland

Ex-President Grover Cleveland ex-
poets to visit the Santee club at Nc
Clellanville early in January to shoot
ducks. He will be accompanied. by
E. c. Benedict of New York, president
of the Atlantic Coast Lumber cor
poration. Ducks are unusually ple.1-
tiful on the South Carolina coast t-.iS
year and hunting is fine. The ex-
president makes an annual visit south
to shoot ducks, which is MS favorite
sport, and he always stops in tnls
State.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-01-09

Mai Gen. Thomas w. Carwile,
commanding the South Carolina di-
5ision. United Confederate Veterans,
has written Gov. Hayward urging that
he recommend in his message the ap-
preparation of small sum, $500, to
aid the old soldiers in making their
reunions as representative as possible
of the small and fast, lessening num-
Der of survivors.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-01-09
ANOTHER CARNEGIE GIFT.

Washington, Jan. At was an
nounced at the White House today
that Andrew Carnegie has given
$3.50, 600 for the erection here of a,
building for the bureau Of American
republics. The United States govern
raent and the various branches Of the
South American republic have
agreed to purchase a site.