The sun., 1908-04-19

DUBLIN, April s.-Riohard Croker, who
has we'll earned the distinction a beng tne
most retioent political leader Of Ah day
has found a subject upon which he Is able
to disoourSe with some volubility and with
decided interest. Egypt and the Sphinx
have unsealed his lips.
He has returned In splendid health from
his trip Of Uoveral weeks In the land oil the
Pharaohs and he has been good enough TO
evote considerable time TO telling THE
Suns correspondent all about 1t This u
what he said about Egypt and about some
other things
Il have no desire to 60 back TO Egypt,
he began. 1T is very interesting. but one
trip ia enough. NeIt fall make another
rp--ths time TO America
The climate Of Egypt ia fine, but ! vii
find better at home. Southern California
cannot he beaten, and intend to go around
10 Nassau aud Los Angeles, which are
beautiful places and are to be preferred
by those who have to 60 away for the winter
Ia search Of health.
Same time Egypt is we'll worth seeing
With lis ruins and religions, and the mighty
River Nile that the people ought to worship
because II they had no Nile they would have
no Egypt. The place is full OF ruins and
useless works. It makes you tired to see
The pyramids and other useless things.
DO you know, those stup endous worth
a.. " orks make mo believe that the Pha
.raohs we're Of no account They en-
ployed thousands and thousands OF men
10 erect these pyramids that only stand
in the desert as sights Why didn't they
think Of doing what England has done Tor
lhs land? The Assuan Dam has made
4 country Of Egypt, but the Ramsses feI'
Iows never thought Of such a dam.
They thought Of nothing but erecting
pyramids and such things, and as useful
men they we're Of no account. II they
lived now they would not be At 10 be drago-
rrans to guide people around.
AMERICANS kiEP THE PLACE GOING.
Prom what saw Of II, American money
seems to be keeping the place going. Two.
thirds oi the visitors at Sheppards Hotel
and tWo-thirds OF the tourists | met all
around came from America, and they rep
resented all parts Of the States They
provide the people with living not only
in the hotels but in the streets.
Il never saw such people for begging
Is soon az an Egyptian child 's born It
seems 10 ask for backsheosh, and the Egyp-
tians are looking for money all the time
Ny experience 10 that they are people
A.. IL
They look on the white man as their
enemy, and yet they beg from him. They |
belavs the white man is insane because
be travels all around. Only for the British
Government uO~ white man could safely
visit Egypt,
They told me that twenty-five years
ago ii wasn't safe TO 60 from Cairo to the
pyramids. The Egyptian robbers used
10 sit up In ths trees 20 watch for the white
man coming, and when be came they slid |
down aud held him up and robbed him.
Vow the section 10 safe and you can 60
from Cairo to the pyramids 10y electric
ar. wonder what old Rameses would
AZ II he came back and saw thatl
ONE coop THING MoHAMMED DID.
Nearly all the people in Egypt are Mo-
,nmedans. Mohammed the prophet never
III anything TO become the great recog-
oiled leader Of religion He dreamed one
p ght that he had received a revelation
from heaven that God had selected him as
his prophet, and he just sailed in right /
there and made himself boss Of the Moham-
Incdans
He did one solid good when he taught
hem to be temperate. He banished in
oXicating liquor and told them to 60 away
nd drink coffee and sherbet. Conse-
,uently you see little sign Of drunkenness
nd the people drink quantities OF coffee.
guess they're the soberest people | ever
net. and think Il would be good II some
her Mohammed went around and preached
IN such a ticket around the world.
But think the Mohammedsns are
,rong the way they treat their women
folk They are kept in ignorance, and In
iat are not allowed TO come in contact
v th the other SCI at all except their hus-
lands Their faces are all covered up
Nth thick wells and they are only allowed
'p look through a small slit in the veil
hat Cts the eyes
American women would not stand that
,ind Of nonsense. and guess IL shows
hat Mohammedans can't trust their wives
much. Even in the Copt religion the women
,'e set aside in church They are showed
MO the top galleries behind lattice windows,
where they worship.
THE ooPrs AND THEIR WILD MAN.
The Copts are numerous too, and there
seems TO be some solid sense in their religion.
I was ln one big Copt church in Cairo
There they have poor old wild man from
be mountains as their head. He stands
FOR the Copts same as the Pope Of Rome
does for the Roman Catholics, and the Copt
religion as far a. saw II 10 the same as
he Roman Catholic and the English High
Church, only they do not recognize the
POPE Of Rome.
Well. they wanted boss for the church
nd they went out TO the mountains 10
nd one. Tbey found the man they wanted
lasting and praying out there on the noun
'las In the desert, and they knew that no
al been praying day and night all his
me from he was young, and they just
nrought him in because they knew he was
q real good man who prayed to God aud
eeVed in his prayers.
He has long white hair and long white
card. and they can't understand the LAM
-laEe be speaks because he had been away
ON the world 90 long and forgotten his
m guaEe and made one Of his own. They
II him up a. head Of the church, and