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GAINESVILLE, GEOEGIA, WEDNESDAY, APEIL 15, 1908.
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THE NILE COUNTRY.
i ( iers Sees Cairo, The Pyramids and
Other Interesting Places.
On Board Ship, March 22,
Yearing Alexandria, Egypt
L we approach Alexandria, a city
people and the scenes of Na-
battle with the English in
where Lord Nelson, with the En-
EhDavy. struck the great Napoleon
U a blow and where Pompeii, the
*Bt Roman general, met his terrible
[eat by Julius Caesar on the plains
Pharsilla and fleeing before his con-
Ercr , v as stabbed by Septemius on
• shores of Egypt, his pillar of red
ite marking the place. The Ro-
i n poet sang “everywhere Pompeii
,Great touched foreign lands a mon-
L should be erected to him,” I
[oght of our own immortal General
, w ith a monument more lasting
In bronze crowned in the affections,
[imbedded in the hearts of his own
loved South should live when all
monuments were crumbled
[o dust aDd in after years when the
bple of the old world should visit
.shores they, too, should know as
by traveled over the historic fields
[Virginia that a greater than Pompeii
ICaesar bad lived there in the person
Lee. We have landed and have
in Alexandria, which, under thepro-
itorate of England, as well as all
lypt and the Nile country, is begin-
[ig to prosper.
> St have passed over the river Nile,
1th its many streams at differ-
I: points, flowing from this main
hr, fertilize the land yearly with
Bch sediment and deposits of the
Ice thought to be sacred river,
pis river Nile heads two degrees be-
pnd the equator, and is over 4,000
tiles long, and has to do with mankind
bd human history more than any other
per. I would say the delta (the low
pds) of Egypt were at least, in extent
pe-fourth of Georgia, and its rich-
ss of made earth is unsurpassed in
jvcountry. Thousands upon thou-
pds of acres have been reclaimed
pee 1SS2 by English capital and are
rcvteemiDg with the ripening oats,
teat, barley, rye and every vegetable
(own to man. The sugar cane is
pnderfuliy fine. The harvest is on,
siand in many places is being plant-
pn cotton. Four to five crops yearly
! raised and only one of cotton, and
f ea I tell you that five to six hun-
r dollars per acre is often given for
16 acre of land near Alexandria,
pere five crops are gathered every
a M it does not sound plausible. On
tending the Nile river to Cairo, 120
Ms.it seemed that every acre of land
f s nn der cultivation, presenting a
' rarel y ever seen elsewhere. The
nds are
easily irrigated from
^ile by a system of canals
w ind mills
system
lifting the water on
en needed, and giving an opportun-
f to see the country.
jn * r iand has reduced taxation in
|. t Pl 20 P er cent in 25 years. Only
P e ‘ cent of the taxes goes to the
^ninent, it furnishing water from
* He free of all cost to the farmers,
pierly the greater part lay idle be-
[f e Turkish government robbed
People, taking bribes from the tax
1 aerer s often one half or more of
Cro P* The government officials
' P a y the government so much and
; w fcre allowed to rob the peo-
a °d no questions asked. For in-
blel' revenue officers would esti-
JLi 0vv mu ch 5 say 10 acres of land,
tn ma ke and then m the fall col-
cco.dingly, whether or not the
produced it, as the U. S. estimates
ike° UC ^ a °t corn ought to
iPre ln a g ° Vernment distillery. This
I essiQQ ls now happily discontinued
I gypt under English rule.
U ? v at ^ a ^ ro » the capital of
Pated^ lar ^ est cit Y’ with an es-
r Population of 600,000 people,
U of st range sights. The En-
tensit°? le are lnvestin & largely and
Cairo - “ ‘he way of
Mki manufactures of var-
d w building some of the finest
krd raiir 8i ? th ® W ° rld ’ P ushin »
railroads, introducing new
cra agricultural implements, <
and new improvements. The largest
winter resort upon the earth is here in
Cairo. It seems that one might almost
live here in paradise during December,
January, February and March.
We saw the Pyramids, eight miles
off, appearing as if only two or three
miles, lifting their hoary heads high
into the ether blue, presenting an in
spiring sight never to be erased. Next
morning they were visited in carriages
drawn by blooded Arab steeds over a
smooth graded road, shaded by lovely
tropical trees and through a contin
uous garden of everything that man or
beast might desire to eat, with gentle
zephyrs playing through the boughs of
the trees, giving ozone and health and
pleasure to the rider, as well as joy to
the laborer. I have a picture of the
driye through this paradise to the
pyramids. As the pyramids were be
ing approached nearer and nearer, the
grander the scene became, until we
anxiously alighted, to look at one of
the seven wonders of the world—the
Pyramids of Egypt. We lingered here
for many hours.
Nearby, the Sphinx, cut out of gran
ite rock, has stood sentinel over
the valley of father Nile ior many
thousands of years, standing the shock
of the battles of time, and seeing em
pires rise and fall, and kingdoms come
and go the way of all the earth. She
has held immovable post, though she
has lost part of her immense ears and
part of her arms, still she is here to
stay as it would take a part of an army
an indefinite time to move her. I have
my picture taken at her feet..
Shall I tell you of the land of Goshen,
the home of the children of Israel, and
where Mary and Joseph fled from Pal
estine with the young child, Jesus,to es
cape the murderous King Herod, and
where they rested under the tree; and
of Heliopilis, where Moses went to
school, graduating from its great
university ; of the obelisk now
standing as it did when he was a
boy at school, and where he no doubt
played around its base with the
Egyptian boys and girls. He married
the first time one of the noble Egyptian
girls. This obelisk was seen by the
children of Israel, by Aaron and
Miriam, bis sister, who lived an old
maid, and composed the beautiful song
of triumph after crossing the Dead sea,
leaving Pharaoh and his hosts drown
ing in the waters of the sea. Shall I
tell you of the land of Goshen, how it
looked, as level as a floor, as rich as
the earth could be, teeming with ripen
ing grain and song and music of the
happy farmer. I know one is seldom
permitted to see such a picture in life.
Imagine one’s self in a valley stretch
ing out as far as the eye could see,
covered with wheat, oats, barley and
rye, with the breeze of the gentle wind
waving the ripening head as if the
waves of a gentle lake were rolling over
its bosom, one would have a faint idea
of the richness and beauty of the land
of Goshen. And think of yourself
riding through its golden gram with
the zephyrs playing through the
branches of the tropical trees, watered
by the fresh waters of the Nile, run
ning in streams on either side of the
smooth shaded road, passing along by
the traditional temporary home
of our Savior and his
mother Mary, and Joseph, with
a cloudless sky, and a pleasant temper
ature, and you have a temporary para
dise on earth. And then enter the
great city of Cairo to a comfortable
lodging, surrounded by beauty and
grandeur, then you would be prepared
to say the half has never yet been
told.
I am now in Luxor, Africa, hard by
Carnak and near Thebes, the ancient
capital of the middle empire of Egypt,
the home of the mighty rulers of the
Nile. To tell of the temple of Luxor
would take hours; and to give a faint
idea of the temple Carnak would con
sume much time; then of the wonder
ful temples of Thebes would be days,
and quite a while for the world re
nowned Colossus,standing in the fertile
valley of the Nile. The tombs of the
kings, away down in the hills of solid
granite, are now lighted by electricity
as light as day. Here
coffin of Rameses III., that was being
exposed, said to have been opened but
a few years. Overlaid in pure gold, it
is estimated to be worth fabulous
sums. His wife and child lay in an
adjoining chamber. These wer<* far
removed from the temples, and discon^
neeted from the idol temples.
I cannot mail this letter so as to
reach America any sooner than to take
it with me on down the trip of the Nile
and mail it at Alexandria or Naples.
Now, back from far up the Nile to
Cairo again. The Libian bills run
along the west bank of the Nile and
mark the boundaries of the Libian
desert, and the Arabian hills of rock
bounding the east side of the river and
shadowing the Arabian desert. All
Egypt is a desert except the lands on
each side of the river Nile, varying
from ten to fifteen miles, as well as I
could judge from the eye. Luxor and
Carnak are in the midst of the Sahara
desert and far out in this desert, where
armies have perished for want of
water and food and where
man cannot live, except in occasional
places, small springs bubble up and
soon are lost in the desert sands.
These are few and far between, and
are called oases. The landscape of the
Nile, with its broad acres of luxurious
grain, one never tires in looking at.
It is the home of the donkey and the
dwelling place of the camel. The
weather is warm m day time, and cool
(Continued on page 8, 4th column.)
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