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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 Saviour.
The children were glad TO pose for me.
but as I snapped the camera they rush.
ed to the front with hands outstretcheo
begging for baksheesh. / was at JOSS
how to fee so many and finally gave %
cents to my coachman and left him 20
fight IT out with the babies. The little
ones mobbed him and he had TO threaten
them with his carriage whip TO Keep theni
away He finally ended the trouoie ny
giving each two children one-han
piastre. so that each received a little
more than one cent
As was about leaving the ooeisk
marty of American tourists drove up:
Among them was smart tweIe-sea,,o.n
hoy who put his hands IN ms po,N
and eazed up at the stone as though no
were ready to buy IT. As he did 80 l
said to him:
American" 90,
come from Chicago in the state OF I'm
nois. You are English. arnt you!
NO. I am an American. and my nom"
is Washington city. -, ,,-
.'Oh. yes said the urchin. Eho~
al, about that place President TAFT lives
there. Say. what is the percentage ~
your ball team. 49,,
Out here under the shadow OF this opehss
4.OOO years old, on the spot where jose pm
was married TO Asenath: where Pia q
nhilosophised and where Moses piaseo
within plain sight of the pyramlds anu
near enough almost to hear the whsper
of the sphinx, he cared nothing for them.
He was a live boy. and he wanted "
things. Therefore the pitchers. cate ners
and shortstops Of the great Amerca
diamond were worth more to him I'M !
siI the stories Of history and all the mum.
mics of the museums. And so then are:
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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CreduIous Mr.. Buckt0SS.

WILBUR WRIGHT, at the Aspury
w Park aviation meeting. said or dare
devil aviators:
These daredevils ought to be hurt
little now and then. 1t teaches them
lesson Otherwise they have too much
faith in their luck. Their faith becomes
as ridiculous as that OF Hiram Bucktoss
of West Carrollton.
Hiram BucktoSs. a west Carroiiton
farmer. used to come into Dayton every
Saturday afternoon to shop, and the oo!s
at the feed store would take many rise
out of him on account of his faith he
believe anything-accede to the tallest
propositions. ,a,.+
shatter Hiram's proverbial faith, Day
ton wit said:
"'Speakin' of buffaioes Mr. bucktoss.
did ever tell you that when was on.
west ] seen a buffalo up tree eath
grapes? ,.,,.
"'Indeed- said Hiram. Eie didn't even
look bit startled. but only interested
and pleased. Indeed.
.'T'hats what l said, repeated the
wit Why, Mr. Bucktcss. didnt you
never see no buffaloes up trees
ono faltered Hiram. No. can
say l ever did Then he frightened up.
But I've often heard, he added, no"
very fond they are OF grapes.
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were piling up the bricks which had been
dried in the sun. The carrying OF the
bricks was largely done by young girls.
who labored under a burly negro with
stick in his hand. At his direction the
girls took the bricks on their heads and
carried them off on the trOt I got pho
tpgraph of this scene by bribing the
negro. and l doubt not my picture was
fair type of that which went on In those
long ago days. when Pharaoh drove the
Israelites to similar work without straw.
1t was down through Goshen that Jo-
seph and Mary came with the infant
Henod who slaughtered the innocents.
This was then the chief highway from
Palestine into Egypt. and there Is no
doubt that they stopped at Bubastis as
they went on to Heliopolis. where the
temple and college still existed at tne
time Christ was born. There Is tree
not far from the Obelisk of Heliopolis un-
der which Mary and Joseph and the
Young Jesus are said to have rested II
is about FIVE miles from Cairo and guide
books speak OF it as one OF the STOCK
sights of Egypt. l doubt the reha DIZZY
Of their statements The tree may be the
of one which stood there In
the time of Christ. 1t is an old sycamore
pnarled with many years and SCARED
with the names of tourists II is on one
of the estates of the khediVe, and II may
be seen through the bars or renee.
which has been built around 1t to Keep
off the relic hunters. During my visit
there I tried TO climb the fence In ordeI
to get a photograph Of it, but some OF
the khedive's servants came up aho
warned me not to go in. The tree is SUR
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throw Of the Zagazig of today. and its
ruins are still to be seen. Its many
buildings of mud brick have crumbled
almost to dust. but here and there the
walls are plainly visible. There are sew
eral hundred acres of such ruins and l
spent an hour or so today driving through
them.
Bubastis dates back to the times when
the pyramids were young. 1t is supposed
to have been built by the Israeltes, and
was a great city until it was captured by
the Persians about 352 B. c. Bubastis
cat-headed goddess. This lady had the
form of lioness with the head of cat
and she held in one hand lotus lear as
a scepter. Herodotus speaks OF her and
this city, saying that the temples were
gorgeous and that the stone road leading
that the people came in CROWDS mere 70
worship and at the annual fesuVals
something like 100000 strangers were
present He relates that many of the
worshipers were women VINO olteH
danced and acted otherwise. in an un-
that they were by no means SO good as
they should be.
Riding out to Bubastis, l found there a
brickyard in full swing. 1t was situated
right on the edge of the ruins ana the
Fellaheen of today were molding the cray
used by the Israelites of the past into
building material for 1910. AS looked az
them my mind went back TO the days OF
fine Pharaohs when Moses was still living
and saw his people laboring under the
lash. These men and women were WORK
ing under taskmasters or oVerseers.
Their half-clad persons were burnt black
nv the TROPICAL sun overhead and they
looked not unlike slaves. Here they were
grinding the mud, there they were mold
ing it into bricks and further over they
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Concerning
We'll Known People.
Where Snubs Abound.

xsU DUNG ARMSTRONG DREAEl-
who broke the worlds height
record, doesn't go in for society, SAID
Philade phian. Mr.. Drexel lives with
his father in London. in the handsomest
house in Grosyenor. sQuare-a house SO
huge that il looks like a museum or art
gallery-.but the only upper circles Mr..
Drexol moves in are aerial ones.
''Condemnng society at dinner IN
London last month. he told me that he
thought society had been well hit of in
q dialogue between two Newport wom-
en-.
After ALL said the first woman. what
real satisfaction Is there in social sue
cess?'
why my dear said the other woman.
is it possible you've never been IN
position TO snub any one?
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Popularity of That's.

xxEVERY other young actress Is calling
Il herself That's" said Henry +. Dixey
at a dinner at Mouquin's. That's McGin-
MIS- That's Endicott, That's Schmidt-the
thing is universal.
Universal and ridiculous, for they who
have read Anatole Frances story of
That's know that she was a very naughty
little girl indeed 1 am quite sure that no
real reader of That's would ever, under
any circumstances, consent to be called
such a name.
1T makes me think of man who. tax
ing his infant daughter to be baptized,
told the clergyman to call her Venus.
.Rut refuse to call her Venus, said
the clergyman Indignantly. Venus is the
same OF a pagan goddess.
well how about your own girl,
DianaT" said the man.
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Not a Clean Sweep.

NEWPORT was amused last month
over a story that j. Pierpont Morgan
told at a luncheon at the Fishing Club.
They talk OF the high cost of living,
Mr.. Morgan said but It's just as bad
abroad You all know what Trouville 10
like in the season.
IAN American took in Trouvilles
crande semaine last Year. When his bill
was sent up he paused in his breakfast
and studied it with sarcastic smile.
Then he sent for the hotel clerk.
See here, he said, you've made .
mistake in this bill.
oh, no. monsieur. on, no! cried ths
clerk.
Yes. you have said the American.
and with a sneer he pointed to the total
I've got more money than that he said.
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Back f1AKrx9 IK PzARAoH5 LAND

finest parts Of the Nile valley. | came
here from Cairo and my whole way was
through rich crops of cotton. sugar cane
and clover There was green to be seen
everywhere, and l could ride from here
twenty miles more to the eastward before
reaching the desert. The railroad from
Cairo to the Suez canal goes directly
through Goshen. 1t strikes the canal at
Ismalia and then branches off north and
south. running along the line Of the canal
to Suez on the Red sea, and to Port Said
the Mediterranean. The first section
is over the road which led from Arabia
to Memphis and Heliopolis. which cities
have since been replaced by Cairo the
capital and metropolis of Egypt. Thls
town of Ia gaZig, where l am stopping, Is
one of the chief cities In the delta. 1t
is on the fresh water canal and on a
big irrigation canal which leads to the
Me. 1t is famous a cotton port and
today camels are coming into the town
with bales on their backs. and long train
loads are starting out for Alexandria and
Port Said. from whence the cotton will be
shipped off to Europe.
This cotton is a feature OF the land
scape which was absent in the days OF
the Pharaohs When Joseph came down
into Egypt the only cloth that the people
had was made of flax and wool. The
cotton plant was not known to exist, and
it was as late as the middle ages. Wien
the people gave credit to story that
cotton of India came from sheep which
grew on the end of a bush and which
now and then bent down to eat the
grass which grew all around. That cot
ton plant was supposed to thrive in Hin
dustan, and It was not until centuries
later that the real cotton seeds were
planted in Egypt. Today Goshen is COW
cred with cotton. There are many plan
tatiens near Zagazig. and / have seen
thousands of acres of this crop through
out different parts of the Egyptian delta.
1t is the chief money crop of the coun-
try, and it will bring in upward of one
hundred million dollars this year.
This land Of Goshen is a fine stock
country. CaE1els, buffaloes and donkeys
are staked out in the fields, and focks Of
sheep and goats feed there. watched by
shepherds. There are, also. droves Of
camels grazing or lying on the ground,
chewing their cuds. All have their herds
men. There are no fences in Egypt, and
the fields are bounded by imaginary lines.
Sometimes the limits may be told by the
bitches. or the little embankments made
for irrigation.
1t was as stock raisers that the Is
raelites came into Egypt. They were a
pastoral people. ard it may have been for
that reason that Joseph had Pharaoh give
them this land of Goshen. the eastern
part of which is fringed by the desert,
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of the two empires. 1t is for this reason
that their attempt to substitute feudal
high finance based on land Tor parVehu
high finance based on credit Is Dy no
means the impracticable undertaking II
seems The political and family back
ing which the three princes possess IS
their great asset. 1t has brought tnem
from success to success, and mas this
year made it possible for them TO attach
directly the mighty Rothschilds, en- whom
they had already inflicted an indirect de-
feat in the matter of the Berliner Omnl-
bus Company
This attack took place in Austria. wheTe
the Rothschilds were held to be partlcu-
larly strong and believed themselves I'M
pregnable. The trust began to undermine
in Vienna the long-rooted theory that
without the Rothschilds Austria could
carry through no credit transaction. Iheir
friends succeeded in proving TO austria
finance minister DR.. Won BlllnsRl. tndl
it would be better business if the Rotns-
childs were no longer intrusted with the
issuing of state loans, and II the WORK
were done instead by the post office say
ings banks Thereupon last January BIZ
jnski suddenly deposed the Rothschilds
from their century-old place as state
bankers. 49,,
The Germany Discontogesellsthaft, the
Darmstadt Bank, Bleichroder and Mendeil-
sohn. all of which are allies of the Roths-
childs and foes of the princes trust. were
hit: and the Rothschilds had the NOR
LITIGATION of seeing the Deutsche Bank.
the partner in the Princes Trust. appointed
To work with the savings banks. The
Eothschild group threatened that the
credit operations would fail. but they
succeeded brilliantly. 4 second Austrian
loan also stood the test. Baron Albert
Rothschild took the challenge like
gentleman. made no protest, but announc-
ed to DR.. Won Bilinski that the firm OF
Rothschild had done with the migrate
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The Usual Compromise.

Q ENATOR CRANE, at a luncheon in
~ Dalton, praised compromise.
Compromise is a good thing, ne SAID.
Take the case Of a young Dalton builder.
He got married about year ago, and
after the marriage he and his wife mad
an intermirable dispute as TO whether
they should buy two motorcycles or
five-horsepower runabout suitable to their
means He said the other day:
MY wife and / wrangled for months
and months. but. thank goodness, we've
compromised at last
What have YOU compromised on
asked.
"A baby carriage he answered, with
a proud, glad smile
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houses which the Germanic diet in
August. 1929, proclaimed to be of equal
birth with the reigning European SOW
ereignS." He is Roman Catholic, is
more Austrian than German. has town
houses at Prague and Vienna. and is
a member of the houses of lords of AUS
tria, Prussia. Wurttemberg and Baden.
AS a strong clerical. he is supposed to
aim at playing political role, and he has
more than once been nominated by ire
sponsible friends to the imperial chancel-
lorship.
Fuerstenberg's chief seat is at Don
aueschingen in Baden, and it was here
that his entertainment of Wilhelm ii in
November. 1893 caused talk among seri-
Gus Germans. This was in the middle of
the Kaiser crisis" caused by his majes-
tvs revelations TO a London newspaper
In the midst of the crisis, which all Ger
many demanded should be taken serious
ly the kaiser left for Donaueschingen.
and kilograms soon afterward arrived de-
scribing him as laughing heartily at the
entertainment supplied by his host, Max
Egon, who had thoughtfully imported
Berlin variety artists to sing.
The second prince in the trust Is
Henckel Won Donnersmarck, owner of
countless estates. mines and metailurgl-
cal works. His domains are in Prussia.
Austria and Russian Poland. Alone of
the three. he is not 'even- birthy," being
as a prince brand-new, but his other
titles are old.
The last and financially most important
of the princely trinity is his serene high
ness Prince Christian Kraft Won Hohen-
lohe-Oehringen. Duke of Ujest, head OF
the house of Observation-Disclosures. He
is not only "even-birthy'' with the kaiser
but is not q remote relative. Hohenlohe is
the originator of the trust. He is an
elderly bachelor.
All three magnates are tremendously
influential at both the German and Aus.
trian courts, and their family relations
comprehend half the higher, .aristocrac,
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LLOYD C. GRISCOM in an interview In
- New York said Of party dissensions:
They are animated by nasty spirit
a tit-for-tat spirit. and they go from bad
to worse.
ITS like the case of the engaged couple
at the seaside dance. The young man, .
little Jealous said. coldly. to his hancee
at supper: =;
ct me see-was il you I kissed IN
the conservatory!
About what time? the young gira
answered, with a little laugh
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Prince Max EROn Zu FuerstenberE,
Who Spent Some Of the Trust Money
in Entertaining the Kaiser. He Inn
ported Variety Artists From Berlin
when the German Monarch Visited
His Castle In Baden.
was so successful that
Hohenlohe turned his mines into joint
stock company. and reaped some million
of dollars profit. The Austrian and Ger
man estates Of Prince Fuerstenberg came
in next From mines the trust spread to
factories and breweries. and farming,
until finally 1t ended up In retail depart
ment stores and 1t only needed the prop
critics and enterprises Of the multi-mil-
lionaire Silesian Prince Henckel Won Don
nersr arck to make the picture complete.
Leaving out of account Frau Bertha
Krupp and possibly one or two others,
the three princes fortunes represent the
greatest private wealth existing In Ger
many But at first much OF this wealth.
was undeveloped land Capital was need
ed The trust therefore, entered into
alliance with the Deutsche Bank. Ger
many's biggest and most enterprising
runs railway concessions in China. in
trieues for them in Persia, and Is the
most powerful interest at the back of the
BaRdad railroad scheme Armed win
the vast security of It's own landed
wealth. and with the aid OF the bank
capital the trust was able to launch
more and more into colossal and multi
farious enterprises. Today 1t runs mines
and metallurgical works in four PrussiaI
provinces and is about to open up Goa
mines in Bohemia.
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It Gives a ZeSt.

<{KHISS MARY GARDEN, said
4V4 Philadelphia woman, was the
life and soul OF luncheon that ! gave IN
Paris, in the open-air restaurant of Ar
menonville, in the Bots de Boulogne.
Miss Garden talked in an illuminating
way at this luncheon about the artistic
temperament.
II have temperament she said, and 1t
gives zest to everything. For example
when 1 attend christening, l think m
the baby, IL I go to a wedding. L oeem
myself the groom. and at funeral am
always the corpse.
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Up to James.

TTORNEY GENERAL WICKER
"A SHAM was describing. at dinner
in Washington. an unfair law.
The people. under this law. he said
"are very much in the poslton OF
young Washington attache
LAS the attache was breakfastlng the
other morning. his servant said to him:
You are out of whisky. sir Shall l
get bottle?
Yes. l think you might. James, 'he
other replied. It's your turn
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4ie1 by the caravan Of Ishmaelltes, OF
Beaeuins, who had bought him Of his
brothers and were On their way to Sell
him to Potiphar. 1t was over that same
road that the ten sons of Jacob. Ben
jamin having been left at home. came
down here to get corn: and 1t must have
been about here that they had their deal
ings with Joseph, who was then the chief
officer CT Pharaoh and the premier as 1t
were Of his administration. You all know
how he came into Egypt and grew to be
the greatest man Of the country. He was
so influential that he was able to give
Goshen to Jacob and his family; and it
was at his advice that they all moved
here and settled. That was the begin
ming of the Israelites in Egypt, and they
remained here in Goshen for generations
before they were finally enslaved and
forced to make bricks by the Pharaons.
he land of Goshen is.today one of the
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with places of scanty vegetation, where
the stock could Craze
Today the land is we'll cultivated. Most
Of the fields are kept like gardens, and I
digging the soil with great mattocks
Here the farmers are blowing. using the
same one-handed pillow Of the days Of the
Scriptures Some of them have donkeys
and buffaloes hitched together. and now
and then one sees plow dragged along
by cow and camel. There Is much
artificial irrigation, and the water is
lifted from level to level by men with
buckets and baskets to which ropes are
slung. In other places the water is
raised by the sakiyeh. a rude wheel
which is turned by the cogs of another
wheel, set at right angles to it. On the
perpendicular wheel clay jars are fasten-
ed, and as this moves through the water
into the troughs which lead to the little
canals and the fields. The motive power
In this case is a blindfolded camel. bull
lock or donkey. the animal going around
like a horse in an Old-faShioned bark
mill. Many of the fields are now under
through the emerald green of the crops.
when the lsraelites first came to
Goshen they probably lived In tents such
as the Bedouins use today. These are
Iy woven by hand. They are upheld by
ropes and poles and are SO low that the
people must crawl into them. We know
that Abraham lived in tent and it is
probable that this was the case with
Isaac and Jacob.
After coming to Goshen the Israelites
probably copied the houses Of the Egyp-
tians and built villages of mud huts not
unlike those I now see. These houses are
rude to an extreme. Many of them are
not over twenty feet square: they have
fiat roofs and are often SO low that one
can look over them as he rides by on
camel There are no gardens or lawns
about them They face the street and
are huddled together without regard to
beauty or comfort.
The roofs form the woodward OF the
people below The only fuel used is
cornstalks, straw or the bushes from
which the cotton has been picked. This
stuff is tied up in bundles and laid away
on the roofs until used
There are but few trees to be seen.
Now and then an acacia grows along the
roadway. and here and there over the
country are clumps of date palms. There
are occasional fruit gardens. and one
frequently passes an orchard loaded with
oranges.
The roads are usually high above the
rest of the country. They run along the
canals, and consist of the dirt built up
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He Probably Is.

YAMES A. PATTEN, returning from MS
J European tour on the Adriatic, SAID
one day Of speculation:
Speculation isn't inevitably wicked.
Spectators aren't inevitably villains: NO
body, not even the SPECTATOR, should be
too hastily judged.
Mr.. Patten smiled
Even a man with a library Of uncut
books" he said, isn't inevitably an iEno-
ramus. He may be. you know. literary
critic"
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most formidable is the combine or the
three princes and of the Deutsche Bank.
For the further course OF the Struggle
Germany is watching with consideraoie
interest.
,(opyr,ypr III the United States and Great Britain
by Curt, Brown. All rights strictly rescrveo)
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taken from the coat-of-arms Of one of its
princely chiefs, is. .'All the world is mine,
This is not the only respect in which 1t
differs from an American trust. 1t is
at bottom a feudal combination. The
original idea was merely to develop the
vast estates and mines of Prince Hohen-
lohe and of his partners, particularly the
Hohenlohe mines in Upper Silesia This
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ONE with me this
bright S u n d a y
morning for a look
at the old land OF
Goshen, where the
Israelites settled
when they first
came into Egypt.
l am writing this
in the center of 1t
not far from the
road down which
Joseph was car
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the landed magnate families which were
dominant before the beginning of the IN,
dustrial era. Others suspect 1t of polltlcal
scheming. The personality of all OF It's
chiefs does not inspire confidence. far
ticularlv is this SO with the best known of
them, Prince Max Egon zu Fuerstenberg
His serene highness Prince Max Egon Is
head of one of those mediatized royal