The Newnan weekly news. (Newnan, Ga.) 189?-1906, August 11, 1905, Image 3

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WATCH THE WHITE STAR BUGGY W 'HVN n'M mu buy n Buggy, try a Whlt« Star A-Grad* B\l« 1J • liKUipal running vthtni* mailt* in the Onitad States. After June 1st. we «■*<• In building t.\e Win TP SI \K UUUUY. none hut the ftnest “ A-t J HADE ” Wheels, Jutt MUo oi.r »* pie In the White, on exhibition by erary ..nr of our Dealer*. \\> will | ay tiVOl >n oath >f anr WHITE ST AH Wheal, baring our private mark, i« not juat like the sample aliown I.OOK FOR OUR PRIVATE ,l A-GRADK ” MARK ATLANTA BUGGY COMPANY, - - Atlanta, Georgia men and the noise of voices in un- erected in pairs) was still 'standing ison. Out of the glaring sun of in the twelth century The in- ! this court, under the roof of thfe scription, the same on each sui\ Liwan, are many groups ot boys rendered somewhat illegible by and men clustered around various mason-bees' work, gives the time teachers. They are mostly seated of the obelisk’s erection by Khe- 'in circles. Some are repeating the per-ka-Ra ( Usertsen I.) The tew Koran some are taking notes, and remains of the temple thereabouts Will .lames ■ - bearing lr - nWMf “ dso the of the liDiversity (if it may be 1 traces of the town walls. From called,) called the Sheikh el-Az- here one has a line view of ancient har, is elected by the other princl- Goshen, stii a land of great tertil pal teachers, who brook no outside : ity and productivity; and not a interference in Ibis matter. The great way off are the mins ot the teaching is not education in the i ancient store-cities of Pithom and modern sense, consisting as it does Raineses, that in their ruin confirm FOR SALE rim National Collection Agency of Washington, D C., dispose,of the following judgments : ; some are only listening. The chief 1 are some granite blocks ■ of all these teachers, the President! the name of Rameses 11 Land of Promise (TO AND FROM) .By Rev. C. O’N. Maktindai.k. ARTICLE LI. and in the line with the compass- M V.V.V.W — W *«, » J l I C* deuce, logic, rhetodc, poetrv, etc., hard bondage. as viewed bv the Moslems. The | The Christian Missions out'noking straig 0 years, and when he has qualified in ; in Cairo star) and its companions in the > ’ t,. » diplo- full of . and along inter, si and the Nne occupied our TURKEY (Nominally) (36). E 0 V P T (Cairo.) the Largest City in Africa and the Capital of Egypt. r : Mip every subject he receives Oizeh gioup ( at ng I The Sheikh el-Azhar receives attention no little, but greatly need ferar card,n,l po,„ Through the _ , 0 ,, o „. but the rrinfsrcmi-m stubbornnes, am ,1 latonnu s o rece ,ve noth,,ng, nor means The and Arab driver and gume, on me . ,, anu nnu ® ,j- do the students pay tees, the mos- --»<•.* (- wav back to Cniro, wc weic (ic > i ' :.i que being considerably endowed The number of students, which the scholarly inclined and other- rose to nearly 10.000 fifteen years wise on our cruise was by all GEORGIA Will .lames Adrian $34.78 L D WhitseM Atlanta :i4.:U) Gilbert & Hewitt Atlanta 4(>.()(» .1 H RotineiM Baxley ID. 1)1) Lewis* Murphy Onllioun i 1.00 M T Lemh Oribb 33.20 I M re A R Smitli Clott’ige Mills 33.14 Sum Hurst Du liliu st 1 1 L l-l Turner Klberten (VI. (lf> K L Brewer Glenn 311 DO 1 Reeves Bros it Oo ( rl'l Dill 10,00 J 8 Gregory .T0I111 44.14 Frank L J : Case .111,Is,III 1)2.45 J S Mills Lindsay 8.25 Watson & Li thin Btneklanil Springs 1)0.05 Cf 1, Monsley Lorliair 78 85 E O Brown Miicoii 70 40 j .T B SHles Meriwether 31.80 U I< Lewis Wnri't'ii & Hull (.Villi Milieu rtS.Oi* Molt'im 58(H) Monroe 21.48 Rochelle 40.01) Savannah 28.6‘J r Savannah 00.25 ALABAMA Autnugavillo 4 42.11 Brockton Oluvtou Florence Good water Gordon Gnm Springs Hiirdnwii.v Huntsville S Tj Darden U I < Clements .T P Hurst B P Lam bee H H Caudle .1 H Klngiy Head & Warren Carr & Co H T Daniel W I' Harrison & Son Killon W .1 Henderson l.nfavette I M Bonev Linden .1 VV Hand Mobile 128.84 85.08 201.95 113.50 357.08 188.70 140.25 12.50 28.(5 320.00 250.00 02.25 layed for over two hours after mid " I day by the open draw of the Kasr Masrel-Kabira | en-Nil bridge. One cannot de of laborers and The Esb-.kiyi G.i lens are Cairo’s natural beauty spot, que being considerably endowed. But the place that most inletested en-NU bridge. has much decreased since the the im scribe the tedium and the worry ot » ’ oiw i i UL liiv. vvv i> U iiomT'i F i n i I HVR K n m ii f) mense New E. )dds yptian Muse waititi boats pass in through of time, when British occupation. The Liwans urn, near the K.isr en-Nil bridge re passing north and south of the court are and barracks; the history leading passing am " divided into apartments for the 1 up to the establishment of which the breach for that length _ , . ^ interest and and watching the Nile and re passing Send Bids to THE NATIONAL COLLECTION AGENCY, Washington,, O. C. To Publishers mi Printers. so much else re students from the various parts of is full of absorbing mained to be seen, and no could be made to visit any point I ie re- , ° r , , move Mohammedan world who come 1 importance, but Cannot be enteied earn here. The mosque pos- j upon in the small space to us avail- to sesses a fine collection of Korans, able. The collection was for which may be seen.’’ ( Macmillan.) j long while housed at the Gizeh for the time being. Yet there was much to be seen even hereabouts. From the east bank of the Niloj Here you see students ot all one can get a pole ferry-boat to j ages and sizes and in all sorts ot visit the nearby Isle of Roda, | postures, reading or writing, hs- where Moses is said to have been tenmg or speaking, eating or sleep- found m the bullrushes by Phara- ing. lockers being visible in the oil’s daughter, and where may be walls. The Koran is the chief ob- seeii an ancient Nilometer, as well, ject of attention here. The stu- as wonder-working tree, etc. The I dents sit'cross-legged on the floor, Nilometer is a circular building en- ! rock their bodies back and forth. Who could look upon the Sphinx with human head and lion body without getting the idea of intelli gence combined with strength? It is “the silent witness of the great est fortunes and the greatest cal amities of time crouching in si lence by the sea of sand, as if to guard the royal mausoleums. * * * It is the antiquity of the Sphinx which thrills us as we look upon it, for in itself it has no charms. The desert’s waves have risen to its, i„iuitnin.. *<>“''■■ o , breast as if to wrap the monster closing a well with octagonal pillar | and recite aloud to themselves in a winding sheet of gold. * - * j in the middle marking 17 cubits j fust as children m our country of- This relic of Egyptian antiquity (each about 21 1-3 inches long,) at | ten do in memorizing lessons. e stands solemn and silent in the j low water the Nile covering the stranger may expect hisses from presence of the awful desert-sym-1 seventh cubit, at high water reach the students, too, not to intimate bol of eternity Here it disputes ing 1 23 cubits above the top of'silence and deference desired but with Time the emuire of the past; j the column. Whenever the height | to express utter contempt for -the forever -razing on and on into a fu- of the river reaches 15 2 3 cubits, foreign dog of an infi lei as they ture which will still be distant I there is proclaimed the wefa, or j style every foreigner. One never when we, like ail who have pre- time for cutting the canals, a cere-! forgets the looks, though no deed ceded us and looked upon its face,; mony accompanied by festivities have lived our little lives and dis [and about the middle of August, After a hurried bath and lunch who graph-[at our hotel, on our return we took ; carriages and drove direct to the We Im.vo an nid i roly in ing, wliiTeliv wo tuin ivlat'r t>l and l hi'dinr and make I Item miHigli(I v kindm or lent- mi Mi w process, on which patents arc pend- 1 It mss ( o 111 inn and Head Ruins, 4 pt. .'ally as guts! as nnsv mid without any e lint til III appeared.’’ Dr. John 1 ica.lly adds So suggestively says Stoddard Palace, nigh to the Pyramids, tin til in 1902, when the new buildings in Cairo were finished, and, under the indefatigable care of Prof. Mas- pero, removed thither in live months’ time. The buildings cov er an area allowing an interior floor space of 15.050 square metres, cost 189,220 English pounds, and its ground floor is capable of up holding masses to 6 metric tons per square metre, while a crane is attached equal to the task ot lift ing 1,000 kilogrammes up to the first floor. Here are Egyptian sarcophagi, stelae, statues of stone and bronze ami glazed false gods, mummies, coffins, and cartouches of mum mies, royal chariots, vases and or naments and jewels, scarabs and papyri, models and moulds and beads, terra cottas, palettes and weights and measures, and multi de PRICES. Rehiciiig (uiliimn “ L. S. “ A tiainjilc nf refuoei fill I y aim l <m a ppl ica.l ion . •ad Halloa, regular lengths 20cf« each. 14,11 low, lengths “in. and over 40ctiM. per lb. I Rule with full particulars, will be chger- s’ Supply Co. MAM IFACTF RKRS OK Type and High Grade Printing Material, N. NINTH ST.. PMIIAOIEIPHIA, PA. of violence is offered. Britain s mailed hand is upon things in this land, and it is respected to the ut most by all. From here one proceeds by the 1 antique and imposing Mosque of Rue Neuve into the Muski section ; tU( lcs o monument,, 0 -Y Sultan Hasanthen. undergoing re-j with its highly interesting native j ptron, 10m aiwt.i /■ ’' .hiftimr I pairs; with itsv^So-feethigh mina-i Bazaars arid narrow streets, riding I - UP*-' -X.vp'-- i^Ti '.'i!”'" Yet on the south, quaint interior, on donkey or walking as the per . | ^ d.onte red and black granite, land curiously wrought mural deco-[son chooses, but leaving carriages j ?° • 3lon/ ' 1 ;' ,Vf)r ^’ ® a [’’ I rations. Opposite thereto we saw I for careful inspection. The Ba-j P ,,l:rer Y’ can oi- ),c h| r ' s ' e c “ e ' ’ 2 aar 5 of Ca, roar, perhaps the most That wh, cl, .b. 0 rb«d o U r . Mt, on interesting in the world. We tried “() sleepless Spinas! Tli v satlly patient eyes, 'I'liun niotely gnvaug o’ei the r sauils, Have watched earth s t;ouiitless dynob- ru-K arise, Stall. fortlMike speotres waving «ory, ^ unfinjshef] (but promising) 1'hcn fade away with scarce a lasting 1 mosque Rifaiya with the burial trace ! vault of Khedive Ismail. Thence To mark the secret ot their dwelliupr-1 we ff0 by the Place Rumela place: O sleepless Sphinx! I ws go by 1 ( whence starts the Mecca Pilgrim age and the Holy Carpet on a cam O clmugeleBs Sphinx! | e |j anc ) the long Place Mohammed r.11 the fair dawn of time ^ tQ t he Citadel with its fine and SO nrnudly scnlptured. from the living. . , r . h rock . notable outlook (on the Lybian Slit) lien id thy fate its primal Look | Desert and the Pyramids, the sublime, ! Nile’s' banks, and especially Old Surviving all the hoary affes’ shock Cairo-Masr ei-Atika), dating back to the time when Saladin had stones brought from the small py ramids at Gizeh to build it, but it self commanded by the heights of the Mokattam Hills. It was not far from here that Mohammed Ali Still art tliou royal ui thy proud repose Ah when the suu oil tuneful Memnon . rose: () changeless Sphinx! O voiceless Sphinx! Thy silent lips are dumb; Time’s awful secrets lioLd’st thou in thy breast; 1 treacherously trapped and massa- A*o follows a«e; revering PiUjnma but one of the 460 Marne- come j . i-'rom every clime to urge the same re-dulces. Prom hence we pass to quest— ] the Alabaster Mosque of Moham- Tl.af tliou wilt speak. Poor creatures mef j Ali with its striking dome and of a day, ^ ^ 'slender minarets, alabaster foun- O voiceless SyilnQ - | tain and columns and walls (to a Majestic Sphinx' | certain height) encased in alabas- L'hon croucliest by a sea ; ter co ] ore d glass windows and ■Whose fawn-hued wavelets clasp thy - “ Nr f buried feet. [ pretty hanging limps. Not far off Whose desert surface, petrified like are the Tombs of the Mamelukes. thee, ; The Tombs of the Khalifs next en- j Gezireh. Gleams white with sails of many au £aS r e our attention, and are well', Arab fleet, both plans, and found it better to go afoot. Here you can buy sca rab or mummy, a blade or brass- work, as you like. Besides the Khedivial Palace, the Arab Museum and Khedivial Library, there is the Coptic Church, of special interest and quaint as the place where tradi tion says Joseph and Mary stayed with the child Jesus while on their sojourn for safety in the land of Egypt. In Old Cairo is the inter esting old “Fortress of Babylon,’’ (“Babylon” being a former name of Cairo,) originally founded by Babylonians having a grant of land from the then Egyptian kmg; the “Church of Babylon,’’ (t Pet. 5 113 ) possibly referring to a Christian community there existing. This region is almost wholly peopled by Kopts, and its chief interest lies in its ancient Christian Churches. The beautiful and once fashionable drive to Shubra has been super- ceded by the beautiful drive round The Gezireh Palace, now a hotel, is beautiful and splendid And, if one has the time later, they the most, however, were the well preserved mummies and coffins of Meneptah, the Pharaoh of the Ex odus, and’Rameses II.,the Pharaoh of the Oppression of the’Israelites, the monuments ot the ancient Hy- ksos or “shepherd” kings, and tne large granite "Israel .Stele,” dis covered hy Prof. Petrie at Thebes. As to this last we observe "on one face, an inscription of. Amenhetep HI.; on the other, one by IVTenep- tah, recounting his campaign in t Continued t>u page V.) Georgia Stale Fair ATLANTA, OCT. 9th to 2b(. (ImtbPHb ever held One fare for the round trip. !J0 County ei.hibita Mammoth Agricultural display* Groat variety agricultural implements, machinery, hides, etc. Finest live stock and poultry show ever seen i South. Prizes for woman’s work and for hoys and girls Sensational attractions. Racing every day. #!4!i,. r ><)(> in premiums. the 11 M. W6HE1 President Georgia State Agricultural Society,. W-. R. JOYNER, President Atlanta Fair Association. For information and premium lists write to Frank Weldon, GEWfiHAL MANAGI’ll, ATLANTA, GA. Or wlieu'wUd storms its waveB to fury i worthy of a visit. , gweeP) This brings us in the vicinity of i should not miss the delightful ex- Higb o’er thy form the t-awuy billows; j. be famous Mosque el-Azhar,! cursions to the Zoological Gar- leap: turned into a University A. D. 988,! dens, to Matariyu, Heliopolis and Majestic Sphinx! j itg court Offering trom all mos- j Ostrich Farm, to Helwan, Turn land it proves two Eternal Sphinx! 1 ques, with its several little cisterns ■ and Masara Quarries, to the Nile i sively Thy pyramids are thine; j Liwan. with its 140 marble [ Dam or Barrage, and to the Petri-! First: The .Southern School of Then: giant ~ts k-rd thee night; ^ ? ^ ^ ^ fie( , Foregt . The mo8t notable of Telegraphy is a large institution On thee they look when itars insplen- ; reading of parts of the Koran, and these, of course, is that to Helio-; as is evidenced hy the tons of a< M9 0nl«ir tor Pirmtmfj.. The Southern School of Telegra pby, N'ewnan, Ga., is the largest school of its kind in the South —ir. (aft, is larger than alJ other tele graph schools in the South com (lined. This institution probably has the largest advertising and printing bills made hy any concern in the city; and the greater part ol its priqtiug is dope in Tlje News’- job office. This pfhitsbop.ba/) completed for the Southern School of Telegraphy, a folder job requir ing nearly a ton of a good grade of book paper. This is probably the largest job of printing ever done in Newnan, things conclu (>r while dor shine, sacred niche behind it in the east j polls, “City ot the bun, tne “un” [ vertisjng matter it use» annual y. around, their crests the sou- wall _ the Liwan occupying 36,000 of Scripture, (Gen, 41:45) with its Second: The News’job printing teams play ; square yards, and the colonnade i famous priestly university in which j office has the facilities for turning Thine own coevals, who wit-k the '; a J ches of pointed horseshoe style. Arab tradition says Moses was a! out printing- whether orders are Colossal Ruiniof the boundless plain: 1 Here spreads out before us “the professor of literature, with its now j large or small—and big orders are Eternal Sphinx University of Cairo.” “Instead of solitary obelisk of red granite . a delight m this shop, especially From the Great Pyramid (with the usual emptiness and silence of about 66 feet high. Its com- the kind no other printing plant in its well in the aog'e of descent the mosques, is a crowd of young'panion (for they always were' Coweta County can handle Snowier Excursion Kates via Central of Georgia Railway Bummer excursion tickets at greatly reduced rated are now on sale at all coupon ticket offices, to Mountain and seashore resorts in the North, Ea«t and South, via all -rail routes and via 8a- vannaii and steamship lines. For rates, scheduled, routed, descriptive matter, eic , apply to your nearest ticket agent. J. C. HAILE, General Passenger Agent. Savannah, Ga.