Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-24
TR AVELS IN THE FOOTSTEPS
OF JOSEPH AND JACOB.

, sycamore gnarled with many years and
SCARED with the names OF tourists It
Is on one of the estates of the lNhedive,
and Il may be seen through the bars
Of a fence, which has been built around
Il to keep of the relic hunters. During
my visit there / tried to climb the
fence In order to get photograph OF
IT, but some Of the khedive's servants
came up and warned me not 10 go In.
The tree is surrounded by orange or
chards, which are irrigated by sakiyehs
drawn by water buffaioes with blankets
over their eyes.
AZ I went by | stopped at one of
these saldychs and the men brought me
some oranges from the khediVe's or
chard and sold them at the rate Of
eight for 10 cents. They were wonder
fully refreshing. and az | sat in the
shade of the trees outside the fence ]
wondered whether Mary and Joseph had
not perhaps thus quenched their thirst
in that same place, now over nineteen
hundred years ago Any resting place
must have been welcome after the
long ride through the country to the
edge OF the great city OF the sun.
In addition TO this there are other
stories told Of the stay Of the holy fam
fly in Egypt. one Is that Joseph and
Mary took our Savior out To the pyra-
mids. and from there to the sphinx. 1t
is said that MARY laid him in the lap OF
the Sphinx. and that he slept for
night on the paws OF that mighty stone
beast, half lion. half human being.
THE CHILDREN OF EGYPT.
These stories seem vivid as one tray
els through Egypt. / went down the
other day to the banks OF the Nile
where the little baby Moses Is said TO
have lain in the bulrushes in his boat of
papyrus. and as I stood by the Obelisk
at HcliopOlis | was reminded Of the Nir-
gin and the Savior by a young girl who
had a babe I'm her arms. She must have
been about the same age that Mary
was then, and the little one laughed
ana crowed as she rested there under
score OF other children. ranging In age
from to ~ years, gathered around
me and posed for my camera with the
obclisk behind. The obelisk was un-
doubleday there when our Savior was
carried through Egypt. and 1t was
erected long before Moses was found In
the FURNISHES over there on the banks
of the Nile not far away. The great
stone seemed TO tie the past and the
present together, and the little ones OF
today brought back those OF the times
OF the Savior.
The children were glad to pose for
me, hut as I snapped the camera they
rushed 10 the 'front.' with nahdS out
stretched begging for hnksheesh / was
at a loss how to fec so many and final
ly gave 25 cents 20 my coachman and
left him 10 fight Il out with the babies
The little ones mobbed him and he
had to threaten them with his carriage
whip 10 keep them away. He finally
ended the trouble by giving each two
children one-half n piastre. 50 that each
a little more than one cent.
YOUNG AMERICA IN EGYPT
As / was about leaving the obelisk a
party Of American tourists drove up.
Among them was a smart 12year-old
boy who put his hands in his pockets
and gazed up al the stone as though no
were ready 70 buy 1t. AS he did so
/ said to him:
Hello, my little man. are you not
an American"
you bet I am he promptly replied. |
IT come from Chicago In the state Of |
Illinois You are English. aren't your"
mo. I am an American, and my /
homo IL Washington city"
ooh. yes" said the urchtn. II know /
all about that place. President Taft |
lives there. say. what is the name OF |
your ball team?"
That was the interesting thing to him. 4
Out here under the shadow Of this ODE
isk 1000 years old on the spot whore