Arizona republican., 1912-12-09
EGYPT OF TODAY
(By C. r. A. PAHL.O

Africa IS called the Dark COnti- ncnt" Its inhabitants are darkskin- ned and its history has been one Of dark and bloody crimes Of the general country, little has been ] known until within d comparatively late period. The great Cape toCairo railway which IS nearly finished will open much of its interior.
 Yet, there is no people in the world whose history is traceable to such a remote period of antiquity as the Egyptians. In Egypt there was ci- NiliZation before the patriarchal age The sons of Ham. the children Of | the flesh populated Africa and that undoubtedly accounts for the present unciviliZ"d condition of the continent as d whole
 l was in Assouan. Luxur. Assiut i Cairo. DcmInhour. Alexandria, Ton | sa, Port Said, i'll fact in most of the ! towns and cities of Egypt working at my trade of sign writing for l three years and l found everywhere
 d great mixture of Asiatic and Eur opean blood, the population being ! composed of as many as ten elo- ments. While their skin is dark. N44'AA i4eAii i' sAS JlsiNA slI4tt slS straight as that of an American Indian 1, Cairo is fascinating. l lived there 1 for nearly two years and I found its l civilized and haIf civilized scenes
 most interesting. The people are of 1 an unemOtional character. The city 1 may be compared to a mosaic of the
 most fantastic description It is a | living museum of all imaginable and unimaginable phases of existence, of refinement, of organism, Christianity and Monamm-danism. l never ap- precilicd the bible more than after
 l came 10 see Cairo and observed so many different kinds of peop,o and their religions.
 The Mohammcdan mosques with | their minarets are imposing struc-
 tures of granite and marble. The SGltan Hassan mosque in front O: ] the Citadel was constructed in 1857. l The dome is l50 feet high IL cost g 000 and Was lately reconstruct
 ed at a cost of $7500O0 In the courts of the mosque the people meet five times a day. There are no seats or other pieces of furniture whatever to give ease or comfort
 Before daylight every morning you are awakened by piouS Moslem l calling the people to prayer. He does 1 that while walking around outside of the tower of the mosque The devil knows as well IS evcrwy Christian that the morning Is the best time to l pray and if he can approprlat" the hours which the people ought to be 1 giving to the lord in pure worship
 hc has accomplished much in the ad- 1 ~ancement of his kingdom
 Cairo has many suburbs. There is
 Abbassia. Boulac and Gizeh where
 the geological gardens are also tho l Citadel where the English fort is 1 There is the new Heliopolis and the l palace of the khcdive, Abbas Hylm IT, the present ruler of the Egyptians. Near there is the Great Pyramid 1 which is 500 feet square and 450 feet 1 high. It is said that if the stones
 Of the pyramid were converted into | q wall fou rfeet high and one foot
 thick it would be long enough to 1 enclose the whole of France.
 Egypt with its remote civilization 1 furnishes the student q wider scope for historical research than any other | country on the globe Through the l discoveries in Egypt it has been proved that God could write a book
 that time could not destroy, the pages of which are often found three
 hundred feet below the surface of the arth
 The great museums of Cairo are | nl!ed with relics of antiquity. It
 would take volumes to describe what have seen there. I looked in the
 face of the great Rameses as he lay
 s glass case in an open square. His features were remarkably dis
 tinct and one would have thought that he lived only few years ago.
 Providentially the Egyptian art of
 embalminG the human body has been lost to the world. God is teaching
 the world that the earth in it's pre-
 sent sinful condition cannot stand
 and that those who have been ere
 ated of dust must return to dust.
 The Moslem religion has controlled
 thn people of Egypt for the past
 1900 years and keeps them in a
 semi civilized state. The Moslem be-
 leves women have no souls and that
 in no sense are they the equal of
 man.
 Women occupy the place of slaves and are not permitted to enter the mosques. They are compelled to mourn for the dead and on funeral : occasions they are conducted through
 the streets in black, their heads and faces covered. No man is allowed to look into the face of a woman except their brothers and husbands.
 Some of the women of the Wealthicr 5 class are richly dressed and ride
 about the city in carriages securely ? guarded.
 l Women seldom accompany the men | on the street except those of the 1 1.ar1r tnnnr tha mon riding aAn-