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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25

These stories seem vivid as one travels
through Egypt. l went down the other day
TO the banks of the Nile where the little
baby Moses is said to have lain In the bul-
rushes IN his boat OF papyrus, and as
stood by the Obelisk at Heliopolis / was re-
minded Of the virgin and the Saviour by q
young girl who had a babe I'm h6r arms
she must have been about the si9me age
that Mary was then, and the ligtle one
laughed and crowcd She rested there un-
der the tropical sun At the same time
score OF other children, ranging in age FROM
to II years, gathered around me and posed
Tor my camera with the obelisk behind The
obelisk was undoubtedly there When our
saviour was carried through Egypt and il
was erected long before Moses was found in
the FURNISHES over there on the bsQks of
the Nile not far away. The great stone
seemed to tie the past and the present 10.
sether' and the little ones of today brought
BACK those OF the times OF the Saviour
The children were glad to pose for me-
out as snapped the camera they rushed
to the front with hands outstretchG beg
slng Tor baksheesh. / was at a loss now
to fee SO many and finally gave Is cents
TO my coachman and left him 10 fght IL
out with the babies. The little ones mobbed
MIN and he had to threaten them NTH Ids
carriage whip to keep them away. A G. nm
ally ended the trouble by giving osch iva
children one-half piastre, so that each 70
ceived a little more than one cent.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25
Curious courtships and Marriages

given by MIR. and Mrs. Vawter as a well
come to their new daughter-in-law.
.
st. Louis Girl WEEDS Japanese.
Although many young Americans called
often at the house and one young man. the
son of st. Louis pastor. offered his hand
In marriage, Miss Frieda CAST of 919 Soutn
Taylor avenue, st. Louis married Yakinube
Yamamoto dapper little Japanese con-
cessionaire at Delmar garden.
The entrance of Yamamoto into the Pap
pas family brought out the fact that four
nationalities are now represented in the
family tree. The girls mother is of Ger
man parentage, and her second husband,
Peter Pappas is Greek Miss Frieda or
Mrs. Yamamoto, was born in the United
States.
Mrs. Yamamoto is very attractive bru-
nette, while her husband has been known
among his friends the handsomest young
Japanese in ST. Louis. He is the son of "A
wealthy merchant in Toxic, Japan. Yama-
motto came to America to exhibit Japanese
goods at the Worlds fair. After the expo
sition he had become so charmed with the
country that he concluded TO make his
home here.
Two years ago Yamamoto and Miss Cast
-
according to the girls mother, the young
people were attracted TO one another. When
Hamamoto began to make regular visits to
the house the mother was inclined to dis
courage the match, but finally she con-
cluded her efforts. to separate the pair were
useless.
Several weeks ago the young couple an
nounced their engagement to Mrs. Pappas,
Mrs. Pappas was influenced by friends not
TO permit her daughter to wed the Jap.
Meantime Yamamoto and his fiancee
quietly made arrangements for the mar
riage.
When Thursday, the day set for the we'd
ding. came. Mrs. Psppas had not changed
her mind She was determined that Yama-
motto should not have her daughter. 1t was
then that the girl asserted her independ-
ence. according to Mrs. Pappas. The girl
reminded her mother that she was 10 years
old and that she would marry regardless OF
her mothers objections
Every well" capitulated Mrs. Pappas, IF
you are so certain about II as that, sup
pose the best can do is to surrender"
As the marriage laws of Missouri will
not permit the intermarrage of japanese
and Caucasians. the couple went to Spring
field. Ill. They were accompanied by Mrs.
Pappas. They were married in the Illinois
capital by justice of the peace and re-
turned to st, Louis in the evening,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25
Mud Mork to Wed.

acceptance of the tenet of the Mormon
church, which provides that no man shall
live in idlcRess nor on the wealth accum-
ulated by his father, or his fathers father.
is the price Daniel Palmer of New York.
sen of mulumillionaire, today decided 10
pay for The hand of Miss A. Pearl Weller
OF Salt Lake City. Miss Weller is the
daughter OF AID. Weller. ward bishop Of
the Mormon church.
Young Palmet announced that he had de-
eided upon this. course, which means the
breaking OF his tentative engagement with
Miss Marjorie Curtis a society woman Of
the younger set In New York who was one
OF the oridemaids al the Gould-Drexel
wedding last spring.
Palmer il in San Francisco to meet his
father, ID. IA. Palmer. a coal magnste of
New York. Father and son will go TO salt
Lake, where they will meet Bishop Wgler
and the engagement, will be discussed.
PalmeTs plans may niean the giving up Of
his inheritage and possibly his social posi-
ton in New York, whore he is a member
OF the Knickerbocker, 1.-The Princeton and
other clubs.
Palmer said he and Miss Curtis had been
friends since childhood and that society
and hiS friends had taken IL as a matter
OF course that they would be married. He
admitted that his father. until very re-
Gently. had been determined that he should
marry Miss CURTIS.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25

sheeps wool or goats hair, rudely woven
by hand Tley are upheld by ropes and
poles and are so low that the people mast
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 Nouses of the Egypt
ians and built village of mud huts not UNI
like those ] now see. These houses are
rude to an extreme. Many of them are
not over twenty feet square They nave
flat roofs and are often so low that one
can took over them as he rides by on a
camel. There are no gardens or lawns
about them. They face the street and are
huddled together without regard to beauty
or comfort
H. The roofs form the woodyards of the
people below The only fuel used is corn
stalks, straw or the bushes from which
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 road
way, and here and there over the country
are clumps of date palms. There are occa-
sional 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
to hold back the waters. The side roads
are chiefly camel paths or footpaths, and
one sees everywhere the traffic moving
along through the fields. Even on the
chief roads there are very few wagons.
The most of the freight is carried on
dopkeys and camels and they form the
chief riding animals as well. Long-legged
Egyptians in turbans and gowns sit on
the rumps of little donkeys. their feet
almost dragging, and fierce looking
Bedouins, their headdresses tied on with
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25
clone. to VIZ poIInr Ret.

Joseph b. Frost, grandson of Brigadier
General Daniel M. Frost, the confederate
spy and "a nephew of three ST Louis wo-
men who married into the English nobil-
lily, eioped to Clayton, Mo-, today and
married Mrs. Hattie Geers, widow two
years his senior, to win 81 bet
The loser of the wager is Roland Van
Hoeten, son Of Or. Samuel Van Hoefen,
and brother of the bride. The brother
ventured his dollar with the remark that
his sitter and Frost were already married
Just to show you that we We're not
wed and to win this money, wen go out
to Clayton and have it DONE" said MI.
Frost.
Roland Van Hoefen was the only men,
Der of the two families taken into their
confidence. He paid the dollar immedi-
ately after a justice of the peace had
performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Geers was accompanied by Mrs
Pearl Kappel. She gave her age as "a
years, Mr.. Frost said he was 80. we
became engaged when Hattie's brother
suspected us Of being married already"
explained Mr. Frost.
Mrs. Geers' first husband was killed
in motorcycle accident at the Louisiana
Purchase exposition. He was a motor
cycle manufacturer
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25
Twe suitor. Coo LIcenses.

Miss Isabelle COnroy of Philadel-
phia is facing the most serious prob
lem OF her career. inasmuch as both
Edward Billings- and Arthur Dennis
are carrying marriage licenses, on each of
which is inscribed her name. Both have
shown the licenses TO Miss Conroy, but
she has not yet as announced her inten-
lions, telling both suitors she is going to
consult lawyer and act upon his advice.
Miss Conroy admits that she cares a
whole lot for both young men, but says
her affections for them are equally di-
vided She intimates that she would
make no objection to marrying one OF
them but says she does not think Il
would be proper 10 take both.
II like both the boys and they came to
see me frequently, hut ! arranged their
visits 50 that they would not meet"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25

As 1 was about leaving the obeiisR .
party of American tourists drove UP.
Among them WAS n smart l2-year-old hoy
who put his HANDS in his pocket and gazed
up at the stone as though he thought he
were ready to buy 1t. AS he did so ! 5aid
to him
Hello, my little man are you not An
American"
You bet | am" he promptly replied. -
come from Chicago in the state OF HI
nois. You are English, aren't yop?
No, 1 am an American, and my home
Is Washington city,
"Oh, yes" said the urchin. / know al
about that place. President Taft lNes
there. Say, what is the name OF your -
team?"
That was the interesting thing e.
out here under the shadow OF the ob@@--
1000 years old, on the spot where Joseph
was married to Asenath; where Plato
philosophical and where Moses piaSed
within plain sight Of the pyramids and near
enough almost to hear the whisper Of the
sphinx. he cared nothing for them " was
live boy. and he wanted live t1mfF
Therefore the pitchers. catchers and RofI
stops Of the great American diamond NYfe1
worth more TO him than all the rstpr- ~
history and all the mummies % ~
se"ms. And so they are. =
FRANK q. CARRkNEER.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25

old and not in robust health. The sweet
heart OF his youth came back to his
thoughts and the old longing to wed the
woman whom he had left and who had
become widow came to him.
The wedding was arranged. and on
July .. 1901 the couple, both more than
80 years old were married at Blue Earth.
The happiness was short lived, however,
Tor the bride lived a little more than a
year. The body was taken to Cleveland
and since that event life i'm the old pio-
neer has been slowly ebbing away. His
last wish was to be buried beside the
sweetheart of his youth.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25

This land of Goshen is a fine stock coun-
try. Cames, buffaloes and donkeys are
staked out in the fields, and flocks OF
sheep and goats feed there, watched by
shepherds. There are, also, droves of cam
els grazing or lying on the ground, chew
ing their cuds. All have their herdsmen.
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 entertainments made for
irrigation.
IL was as stock raisers that the Israel
ties came into Egypt, They were a pastoral
people, and IL may have been for that rea-
son, that Joseph had Pharoah give them
this land of Goshen, the eastern part of
which is fringed by the desert with places
VI sesnty vegetation, where the stock could
Craze.
Today the land is well cultivated Most
of the fields are kept like gardens and [
see half-naked men bending over and dig
gins the soil with great mattocks. Here
the farmers are blowing, using the same
one-handed pillow OF the days OF the Scrip
lures, Some OF them have donkeys aud
buffaloes hitched together, and now and
then one sees pillow dragged along by a
COW and a 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 il.
OF the perpendicular wheel clay jars are
fastened and as this moves through the
water these fin and, turning, empty them
selves into the troughs which lead TO the
~ittle canals and the fields The motive
power In this case is a blindfolded camel,
bullock or donkey, the animal going around
like horse in an old-fashioned bark mill.
Many of the fields are now under water
and the silVery streams shine out through
the emerald green Of the crops.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25


The land Of Goshen is today one OF the
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 i could ride from here
twenty miles more to the eastward before
reaching the desert. The railroad from
Cairo to the Suez cana, goes directly
through Goshen. 1t strikes the canal at
Ismalia and then branches off north and
south, running along the line of the canal
20 Suez on the Red sea. and to Port Said
on the Mediterranean. The first section
is over the road. which led from Arabia
TO Memphis and Heliopols, which cities
have since been replaced by Cairo, the
capital and metropolis of Egypt. This
town of Zagazig, where | 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
Nile. 1t is famous as 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 feature of the landscape
which was absent in the days Of the Pha-
roGhs 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 1t was as late
as the middle ages when the people gave
credit to a story that cotton of India came
from a sheep which grew ON the end of
bush and which now and then bent down
to eat the grass which grew all around
That cotton plant was supposed to thrive
In Hindustan, and 1t was not until centu-
ries later that the real cotton seeds We're
planted in Egypt. Today Goshen is COW
cred with cotton. There are many planta-
tons near Zagazig. and L have seen thou
sands of acres Of this crop throughout diff
ferent parts of the Egyptian delta. 1t is
the chief money crop of the country, and 1t
will bring in upward Of one hundred million
dollars this year.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25
A SoSbPH OF 1910 y

seph and Mary came with the infant
Savior when they fled from the ho1fd
Herod who slaughtered the innoccnTs.
This was then the chief highway from
Palestine into Egypt and there is 90
doubt that they stopped at BuhGAS W.
they went on to Heliopolis. W..
temple and college stil existed at'N I
Christ was born. There is a tree ny ..
from the Obelisk OF Heliopolis under which
Mary and Joseph and the young Jesus are
said to have rested 1t is about five miles
from Cairo and guide books speak Of 1t
as one of the stock sights of Egypt.
doubt the reliability of their statements.
The tree may be the descendant OF one
which stood there in the time OF Christ.
1t is an old sycamore gnarled with many
years and SCARED with the names OF tours
lists. 1t is one of the estates Of the
khedive, and it may be seen through tho
bars of fence which has been built
around ii to keep off the relic hunters.
During my visit there l tried to climb the
fence in order TO get a photograph of 1t,
but some of the khedive's servants came I'm
and warned me not to go in. The tree ia
surrounded by orange orchards, which ara
irrigated by sakyehs drawn by wafer buf-
faloes with blankets over their eyes.
AS l went by 1 stopped at one OF these
sakiyehs and the men brought me some
oranges from the khedive's orchard and
sold them at the rate of eight for ~ cents
They were wonderfully refreshing, and as
l 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 1900 years ago
Any resting place must have been Welcome
after the long ride through the coag1fy to1
the edge of the great city of the sur"
In addition to this there are other stories
told of the stay Of the holy family in Egypt
One is that Joseph and Mary took our Saw
Jour out to the pyramids and from there to
the sphinx. 1t is said that Mary Wa Him
in the lap of the sphinx, and thatIHe slept
for night on the paws of that mighty
some beast, half lion, half human being.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25

port, Conn and Jacksonville, ria, who
asserts that he is son of James Monroe,
fifth president of the United States today
announced mis- intention of marrying at the
age of a. having outlived three wives and
twelve children and having survived three
wars
Major Monroes a serton that he is
son of the famous president, during whose
administration the Monroe doctrine was
promulgated, Is nothing new to his ac-
quaintances in this city, in which he has
been summer resident for more than
sixty seasons. lie has never been called
upon to prove mis- assertion, although no
biography of James Monroe mentions the
TACT OF mis- having had son.
This apparent oversight on the part OF
the historians is due, says Major Monroe,
to the fact that little was ever known of
the personal life of his father. Major
Monroe says he is a son by a second mar
rlage his mothers family name being
Lauder. Here there is another seeming
oversight by the historians, as only one
marriage is mentioned In the biographies
Of President Monroe, and that was to Miss
kourtwright of New York
Major Monroe says he was born in Rich
mond, Va, on July 4, 1876 Upon the
death Of his father. in 1881, he says, he
passed into the hands OF a guardian by
whom he was taken TO South Africa, where
he remained several years.
Returning TO America before the out
break OF the civil war he served as major
i'm an artillery regiment from Richmond
After the war he served as a private in
the French army during the Franco
PIussian war and was wounded at the
siege of Paris. Later he wandered about
IN many countries and finally entered the
Boer army in the war with England serv-
Ing under General Kronje and General
Dewet After this he returned to Amer
lea and has since lived in this country in
retirement He says one Of his sons is
alVe, but he does not know where he is
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25

that they were by no means so good as
they should be.
Riding out to Bubasts, | found there
brickyard i'm full swing. 1t was situated
right on the edge of the ruins and the
Fellaheen of today were molding the clay
used by the Israelites of the past into
building material for 1910. AS l looked a
them my mind went back to the days of
the Pharoahs, when Moses was still living
and saw his people laboring under the lash.
These men and women were working under
taskmasters or overseers. Their half-clad
persons were burnt black by the tropical
sun overhead and they looked not unlike
slaves, Here they were grinding the mud,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25

Miss Conroy said She added that she
thought one of them would propose, but
says she naG no idea that both would
rush off and get marriage licenses with
out consulting her, Billings declares that
he has courted Miss Conroy for six
months and took it for granted that he
was the only one. why, the night before
got the license" he said today, we
talked as though everything was |ar-
ranged; she kissed me and told me that
she did not care if l did not have big
income"
Dennis also admits that he never asked
Miss Conroy to be his wife, but he AYERS,
Il was so sure of her after taking OUT
the marriage license in regular form /
engaged minister and paid him his fee
in advance"
The first time ,the suitors met at the
ConrOy house was when they went to
present Miss Conroy with their respective
marriage licenses. She tainted when both
exhibited the documents
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25

tCopyrEht, 1910 by FRANK u carpenter
AGAZIG. 19lO.--tspecial Corre-
spondence of The Bee )-Come
I'll with me this bright Sunday
morning for look al the old
tNeJiS%k land Of Goshen, where the
49, Israelltes settled, when they
frst came into Egypt. l am writing this
IN the center Of it not far from the road
u0wn which Joseph was carried by the
caravan Of 1shmaelites. or Bedouins WIN
had bought him OF his brothers and were
on their way TO sell him to Potiphar II
was oser that same road that the ten
sons OF Jacob, Benjamin having been left
at nome, came down here to get corn
ana 1t must have been about here that
they had their dealings with Joseph. who
was then the chief officer OF Pharaoh and
the premier, as IT were, of his admins
tration. 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
MS family; and IL was at his advice that
they all moved here and settled. That
was the beginning of the Israeites in
Egypt and they remained here in Goshen
for generations before they were finally
enslaved and forced to make bricks by the
Pharaohs.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25

there they were molding it into bricks and
further over they 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 a stick in his hand At his
direction the girls took the bricks on their
heads and carried them off on the trot l
got photograph of this scene. by bribng
the negro, and | doubt not my picture was
a fair type of that which went on in those
long ago days, when Pharoah drove the
Israelites to similar work without straw.
with the Virgin Mary In Egypt.
1t was down through Goshen that Jo-
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Plight Troth In Open Air.

PICTURE plateau of beau
tlful lawn, kept tumbling over
hillocks into the sands of
Lake Michigan's shore by
stone parapet, its background
the lake, its outlook the gar
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25
- y ORIGINATING IN PHkRAoHS LAND

ropes, bob up and down as they ride on
'eir camels, their heads apparent bow
Ing at every step of, the beast There are
camels loaded with alfalfa, the grass so
covering them that they look like minia-
ture haystacks walking along. mere
are donkeys with boxes and bags and
mules and bullocks carrying freight of
one kind or other. out in the fields one
now and then sees buffalo with half
naked boy sitting on it, and at nightfan
the paths are lined with men coming
from the fields riding these ungainly
beasts, and balancing their one-handled
plows in front OF item as they move
slowly on.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25

When the lsraelites first came to Goshen
they probably lived in tents such as the
Bedouins use today. These are made OF
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-25

To Marry at NIhety-FOur.
Major Edward James Monroe of Bridge
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city of the Cat.

1t was here i'm Goshen that the Israel
ties worked after they were enslaved by
the Egyptians They went from here also
to build cities and towns in various parts
OF the Nile valley. 4 he psychologists who
are now excavating in Egypt tell me they
frequently find bricks which were prob
ably made by them, and assert that the
sun-dried bricks of today are practically
the same as those which the children of
Israel nodded under the lash of their
taskmasters.
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given by Mr.. and Mrs. Vawter as a well
come to their new daughter-in-law.
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CHILDREN AT TIE OBELISK

Copyright 1910, by Frank G. Carpenter.