Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-04-18
EGYPT AND
 SOUTHERN ITALY
Foreigu Letter Gives Interesting Notes of Scenes and lncideh's Along the Nile. Etc.

much so as the Holy Lana. dlh afraid have not caught the s!amor of the East yet, there is too much dirt and poverty. Cairo is a most cosmopoIitan city, almost every race can he seen on the streets here. This afternoon at one time l saw man riding camel, one riding a don- key, handsome carriage full of peo- nle. also an automobile and an cleo tric car. Wasn't that from ancient to modern times? Many things are so entirely different in Egypt from any country We have been in. We landed at Alexandria in really lux nrious tender, floor covered with TIES, many comfortable chairs in rows. I though of Cleopatra's barge upon the Nile, though we were still in the Mediterranean. The first thing visible at Alexandria was the light house of Phare, the descendant of the earliest light house in the world, the Pharos. We next saw Pompeys Pillar, and a palace of the Khedive. We took train here at once for Cairo, giving Alexandria a wide berth, for the buihonic plague is there. The trip through the country was most interesting. so different from Palestine, extremely level, date palms in groups around, the very fertile soil and the peasants working like busy bees.
 Here we saw the camel and the OK working together, The latter is part buffalo his horns slope back around his head above the ears These peo pie have the system of irrigation down to a fine point. I was very much interested in the Chadouf, the ancient we'll The apparatus is very primftive-a long pole about sixty feet high connected with the top of the we'll curb on one end of this is the rope and bucket, on the other end heavy stone, used as weight. An other kind of chadouf is worked by around in a circle. turning wheel, which works into another upright wheel; this is connected by pole with a separate upright wheel to which are tied by ropes tWenty-four jugs, these are turned around and dipped Into the water and they empty as they reach the trough; thus the water is brought from the we'll for irrigating. instead of by pump very primitive, is it not?
 We drove out to Heltopolis this af ternoon. It is the On" of the Bible, where Joseph married his wife. We saw an obelisk there, the companion of Cleopatra $ Needle in Central Park it has, been there since 2,500 B. c. Someone suggested that maybe Jos eph courted his wife under the shad- ow of the obelisk. X very ancient looking sycamore tree was pointed out to ns as place where the Holy Family rested while in Egypt. It is said to be at least 900 years old anu to have sprung from the root of the old tree. We passed by the khed- ives palace and gardens. He has an extensive farm. We walked for some distance between rows of orange trees in bull bloom. We went at { o'clock to the Presbyterian Mission Church. They are doing a fine work in Cairo and in many parts of Egypt We had fine trip up the Nile though the first day vas hot enougt to cook anything, and We learned ( our great discomfort that the plagut of flies has returned to Egypt I now can thoroughly appreciate the plague could not imagine flies SO bad. This vas at Luxor. We had to wear wells We went and came back at night, bu got the view about two hours at eacs end of the trip. There were five h. 1 sleepers were called "wagon-Iits'- we suppose Tit" means bed. Tn, hotel in Luxor has beautiful grounds trees covered with the mganvilla, z beautiful purple lowered vine. Ther. were palms of all varieties and sizes Little Egyptian boys met us at tn. door of the hotel. They, as we'll as all the men servants, were attired ir long white robes with red sashes un
 der their arms and red fez-ver, picturesque. We soon went to tn, Luxor Temple with an Egyptian guide magnificent in a long robe of raw silk, tan shoes. white turban with silk scarf wound around it of blue red and yellow. His English con Vu1cod ITa c1 J:~~3eol