The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-05-05
ION HOMNE COUNTY, s. d. THURSDAY. NAY s., 1910. u

wants, antiquarians and students, Z
q very varied and fascinating city.
We had in it great opportunity
to study Oriental life amid fine
hotels and luxurious appointments.
OF the hotels our company passed
around the following jingle:
The Shepperd for notoriety,
The D'Englestine for propriety,
The Continental for variety,
The Semeramis for sobriety,
The Palace for society.
Soldiers abound. English, Arab,
Sudanese and Egyptian, all in va
ried and attractive uniform. Bridg.
es over branches of tile Nile on
which the city is situated, numer-
GUS carriages, automobiles and
electric street cars facilitate seeing
the sights. Street cars extend up
the Nile for ten miles and west six
miles to the great Pyramids. But
farm produce and freight Of al
most every kind are carried on
camels and donkeys. The most
frequent large load we noted was
49, t M
green alfalfa tied in numerous
small bundles, quite hiding camel
or donkey.
The walls of Cairo are at least
eight miles in circumference and
include 400 mo. ques, not few of
which, however, are dilapidated,
while the chief one in the highest
location, is perhaps the most ex-
qnisitely elegant in all Moslemdon.
We visited the great Moslem nni-
versity, where the 1900 young men
were seated on the ground about
their teachers aud studying in un-
dertones but so as to be heard.
We were shown the place where
Joseph and Mary staid with the
infant Jesus, the tree under which
they resled and the place where
Moses prayed for Israel. Crossing
the branch of the Nile in fiat
scow to the island and bank of the
Nile proper we We're shown the
place where Pharaoh's daughter
discovered Moses among the thetbI bulI-=
rusfles. But we saw neither tle
bulrushes nor the basket. 1t oc
Cured to me that if the Billie had
not expressly stated ihat no man
knoweth the place Of Nose burial
surely some one wonl! have unilel-.
taken to show US the tomb al Mos
es
The really sensational sight at
Cairo is the great Pyramids and
tne sphinx Not a few, including
some women Of our party, climbed
to the top of The highest Pyramid,
aided by eager Arabs who took
every opportunity to demand "bak-
shesh. Almost every one rode
the camels about and were thus
pictured in front of either the Py-
ramids or the Sphinx or both. The
greatest Pyramid covers Is acres
and is 45l feet high, built skillfully
in solid masonry OF great square or
rectangular stones. Herodotus says
it took the labor of 100000 men
for 20 years. While the Pyramids
are among the oldest and greatest
monuments and attest the dignity
and power of the ancient Egyytian
kings, the Sphinx was built before
the Pyramids, was hewn out of SOL
id rock but is only 66 feet high.
Some of US also visited old Heliop-
oils, the On of the Bible, and walk
ed about that lone obelisk there
which was built in Abraham's day
and about which Joseph and Ase-
NTH most probably walked, since
they resided there. 1t is on the
border of the land of Goshen, the
region occupied by the children of
Israel while in Egypt. We visited
the National Museum, one OF the
most interesting in the world, and
looked upon the mummies OF the
Egyptian kings that oppressed Is
rael. we looked in npon tha vary