The Newnan weekly news. (Newnan, Ga.) 189?-1906, August 11, 1905, Image 3
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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
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; 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-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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.
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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
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eic , apply to your nearest ticket agent.
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