Show IN FAR OFF LAW Our Own Correspondent Flirting With the Sphynx THE OLD WOMAN USES ROUGE 2be Bedouins and their Ancestors The Genesis Gen-esis of iBKcreoll Onr Consulate at Cairo Yiews of Harem Life CAIRO Egypt Jnm 28 16S0Spccial Correspondence of TUB I1ALDI have made today one of the greatest discoveries of modern times I have unearthed THE GENESIS OP HOBEIIT 0 1XGEUSOLL and I am able to prove that in the veins of Infidel Bob flows the most aristocratic blood oa the American continent In the wonderful museum of Boulac at Cairo I find a statue of wood which is tho perfect Jikecess of him and trie records show that this statue is at least six thousand years old It is of life size and its plump proportions pro-portions its smiling faco and bright eyes form a photographic rescmblanco to tho Ingersoll of today and there can be no doubt that in the transmigrations of souls the man who today lectures on the mis I tokos of Moses knows whereof ho speaks and that his data were gathered on the ground for he was hero in Egypt more than two thousand years beforo Moses was born He knows all about Abraham and Jacob for they came down into Egypt early twenty centuries before he watched the building of the pyramids This Bob Ingersoll of the past Jived at tho time that the greatest of pyramids was being built and he was such a prominent man at that time that the artists of the day considered it worth while to copy nIS FORM IN WOOD They did it well too and tho work will compare with that of our best sculptors The elder Bob has a staff in his hand and his brifht eyes of rocic crystal have the same honest look of his great descendant He has short hair and his fat round head seems to be verging on baldness Hismouth is as pleasant as that which utters orations against the doctrine of brimstone damnation and his attire is that of his illustrious great groat or of his one hundred and eightieth fjrcat grandson whcnZlaving read chapter tea his Shakesperian Bible and sung one of Burns ns for a hymn ho disrobes his portly fGiui and clad in his innocence and nightie he gets ready for bed The statue was found in the tombs at Sakahra or old Memphis near Cairo and it stands in corn puny with some odd hundreds of mummies in this greatest museum of Egyptian antiquities an-tiquities Tfli MUSEUM O7 IJOUHO has been greatly increased in size within a few years and there is no place like it in which to study the Egypt of the past There is room after room walled with the coffins of these monarchs of thousands 01 jearsago and in other mummy caskets the bodies embalmed are exposed to view I looked a long time today upon the face of King Ramases who it is supposed went to school with Moses The face though black was wonderfully lifelike and the teeth shone out as white when he brushed them after his morning tub something like four thousand years ago I noted the silky fuzzy hair over his black cars and longed for a lock of it for my collection of relics The dead past became wonderfully rca iu looking at another box in which a mum saied princess of about this time lay with the mummy of her little baby who was not many days old in the coffin beside her and when I taw tho jewelry of gotd Face Jilts of the same patterns which our belles JKW YTOar rin Washington and JJQW XorJz2 ana of vue ear rings wunu arc quite as kcautif til as those made by Tiffany I TUB nay BONKS BECAX TO MOVE i sad the pickled flesh resumed its tints and I could see that human nature was the same six thousands of years ago as it is now and that these people of the past had tho loves i and hater the troubles and tho vanities of I the world of today 11e food shown in another case as takeu from these tombs brought their very stomachs back to life and J wondered what Ramases took for the colio and whether Queen Akhotupu who lived before Moses and who now lies here had the hysterics I noted the flowers which were put in another mummy case beside a king and I could not reconcile the beautiful teeth and the fine intellectual face of King Seti whose daughter is supposed to have found Moses in the bullrushes with the fat bloated fingers which show that ho had the gout There was as good living in the days of the Israelites in Egypt as there is today but it was then as now only THE men UAD THB FANCT COOKS and tho poor ate the scraps In the tomb of Ti near Memphis I saw wall after wall In chambers of granite away down under the sands of tho desert These walls were covered with painted pictures of the life of the time when the tomb was made thous antis of years before Christ and among these pictures I saw that pate de fois gras was one of the dainties of that time The feeding of the geese by stuffing them with food to enlarge the liver is lucre faithfully pictured and the eggs mummied chickens and other dear departed delicacies which arc found in the pyramids and tombs show ms that the people of the past have not suffered suf-fered and that they knew how to enjoy life nntn as well as we do I have paid my second visit to the pyramids pyra-mids during tho past week and I find these great piles of stones unchanged The same gang of Belouins surround them today as preyed upon me when I paid my first call oa the Sphynx eight years ago and TUB ETEUNAL CRT OF HACKSHEESII BiCK siiEEsn nvCKsnEEsnt t still sounds upon the air of the desert in which they are located I climbed to the top assisted by three Arabs and I penetrated pene-trated the gloomy recesses of the interior and attempted to take photographs of the kings and queens chambers by Hash lights The pyramid which I climbed covers thirteen thir-teen acres of ground and it was at onetime one-time higher than the Washington monument monu-ment It has in the past been a quarry from which Cairo has drawn the stones for much of its building and there is still enough left to make more than eight hundred hun-dred Washington monuments The Sphynx U how well pulled out of the sand and there are iron cars at its base ready to be used for further excavations It has put on a new aspect within the last few years and it seems bigger more somber and more wonderful than ever Its face is that of a remarkably good looking negro girl and it is said that its complexion was OIUGIXALIT OF A BEAUTIFUL PINK All of this pink has been now ground away by the sands of the desert which have for more than six thousand years been showering their amorous kisses upon it and all that is left is a little red paint just under tho left eye The Sphynx is the oldest woman in the world and it is painful to think that even she is addicted to rouge She is certainly big enough to know better Her head alone is so big that if you would build a vault tho size of a parlor fourteen feet square and run it up to the height of a threestory house it would be Just large enough to contain it and even though you measure six feet in your stockings and had arms as long as those of Abraham Lincoln stood on the tip of this old ladys ear you could bardly touch the crown of her head I I rod on a camel the quarter of a mile between her and the pyramids and the Bedouin who owned the beast grew quite I confidential in telling me of his property and his family affairs He said I HE LIVED JfKA t THE PJTtAMIDS and that he had just married a new wife I who was as beautiful as the sun and as graceful as a camel Ho invited mo to go and see him at his home near by and I saw a Bedouin girl who may have been his wife as I went through this village on my way back to Cairo She was a magnificent looking maiden of perhaps twenty years of age with a gorgeous head dress of white and gold and with four great silver rings as big around as the bottom of a tin cup jEonguig to a string oa each side of her face Her complexion was that of Ethiopian I Ethio-pian blackness buther nose was as straight as that of a Greek and her eyes large dark and lustrouswere fringed with long eyelashes She had a beautiful mouth and her picturesque head was well poised on shapely shoulders Her gown of dark blue fell in graceful folds from shoulder to ankles and her feet were bare She was a noble looking girl and Tue BEDOUINS Aim THE NOBLEsT IN APPEARANCE of the people of Egypt You see them in the bazaars and on the deserts and they have the monopoly of the care of the pyramids pyr-amids They are very proud and they are the descendants of the Arabs of the sands The most of them are Mohammedans and they make the best of soldiers It was under their forefathers that the followers I of Mahomet made such great conquests in North Africa and during the rebellion of Arabi Pasha the bravest the Egyptians were these men I find our consulgeneral very popular in Cairo and that he is on the best of terms with the khedive and with tho leading officials of the Egyptian government His majesty spoke very highly of him during the audience I had with him a few da sago s-ago and during this conversation the contrast con-trast was drawn between him and several of the other consulgenerals who have represented rep-resented America here in the past One consulgeneral who is dead now and who served during the reign of Ismail the father of the present khedive was A NOTORIOUS DPONKAED and during his sprees he went at times to Khedive Ismail and whined about the poor salary his government gave him Tho United States said he do not give me enough to support me and I wish I your highness who has such a vast treasury treas-ury could add a trifle to the amount as a present Khedive Ismail did this again and again and the 4merican government never know how it was being disgraced Another consulgeneral of the United States at Cairo was mixed up in the rebellion re-bellion of Arabi Pasha and when I mentioned men-tioned to the khedive the report I had heard hero to that effect and said that the statement state-ment had been made that this man who is still living iu America had combined with iJI Arabi against the khedive and that the understanding un-derstanding between Arabi and him was that in case of Arabian success he the American might have a place in his cabinet his highness nodded his head in the affirmative affirm-ative of its truth OUR CONSULATE AT CAIRO is now in the most fashionable part of tho city It is a large twostory flat roofed house situated in a beautiful garden in which tho roses bloom and the orange flowers grow The front gate bears a large oval shield on which is painted tho American Amer-ican eagle and over the front door our great American bird looks down on the vis itors as he waves the flag in his talons Passing under this you enter a wide hall at one end of which there is a pair of portieres ieres formed of American flags and at the right is the reception or waiting room of the legation Entering this you arc reminded re-minded of our national capital Pictures of the great buildings at Washington hang upon the walls There is the capitol one of the finest buildings in the world the state war and navy building which has not its peer in size among the granite buildings on the face of the globe and the g gSitn evh1 ifloihe pension building which is the biggest tiling that now exists in brick maize IS THE feOMBEK TKEASUUT looking more tomblike than ever and wonderful won-derful at homo in this land of sarogo phagi and there among them all is the stern face of old George Washington himself him-self with two little American flags peeping out over its frame The flag looks better iere than it ever looked to me before There is nothing like travel to develop ones patriotism and think one needsbut I get away from our petty political fights in order to appreciate our country in its I national beauty and greatness The con suigeneral at this writing is a Texas editor his name is John Cardwell and he is an accomplished man of about forty years of age His wife and family are with him and his home which is in the building occupied by the legation is elegantly fitted I ua with rare Persian rugs with fine cccv togs and with 2JW beautiful Turkish embroideries em-broideries ngs of satin and ° w = AtUOP the j paintings of the house are a number 01 o vhicu show more than ordinary skill Chese are the work of Mr Cardwells daughter who is still in her teens but who promises to make an artist Her mother intends to take her to Italy upon her de parturo from Egypt and she will there study under tho Italian masters of today I CONSULGBXFKAL CAUDWELL has some striking ideas about the harem as 1 it exists in Egypt today He pronounces the word as though it were spelt hareem and this is the pronunciation I hear everywhere every-where in the land of the Mohammedans Colonel Cardwell says the harem is not the vicious institution it is painted It means says he simply the womens apartments of the household in Egypt and I believe it is a great elemos Dar institution Its members are often merely the servants of the true wife of the husband They are taken into it as children and are raised there and are better cared for than they could possibly be elsewhere They are not necessarily the mistresses of the man and the khedive though his wife has a large harem is true to her The harem is tiere in Egypt managed by the women The husband has very limited rights within it and there was an instance here in Cairo not long ago of a princess who was displeased dis-pleased with tho actions of her husband who by the way was also of royal blood ordering her servants to wnir HIM IN TUB IIAISEM They obeyed her too and the man was soundly flogged Another case was that of a lady of high rank who not long ago brought a divorce suit against her husband and got a divorco from him This fact will be surprising to the people of America who largely believe that the rights ae here altogether on the husbands side This woman when divorced took the harem with her and she is now living with the rest of her establishment here in Cairo Monogamy continued Colonel Cardwell is in fact growing in favor in Cairo The khedive has set the example and the upper tendom shows a disposition to follow it One of the princesses said the other day that a good Moslem could accordingto tho Koran have but one wife And how is that she was asked The Koran states that he may have four and Mahommet himself said there are two things in this world which delight me these are women and perfumes These two things rejoice my eyes and render me more fervent in devotion The great prophet had something like a dozen wives and he especially gives all devout men the right to four I assert however sstl the princess should that the Koran intends that man shoulc have only one wife And this is because he cannot be good and have more The Koran says that you must not love one wife more than another and that is impossible if you have more than one I drove out this afternoon pastA past-A AL PALACE which was for years occupied by one of the widows of 11ehamet Ali who it is whispered whis-pered here at Cairo was one of the worst women Egypt has ever known including in the list the long number of bad beautiful dames extending even back to Cleopatra herself This woman had a large incOme and she kept up a grand establishment here in Cairo with her eunuchs by the score and her servants by the dozens Her palace was on the banks of the Nile and it had many secret chambers From time to time such men as this royal lady fancied were invited by this ladys slaves to come into the harem and it is stated hero that such as went in were never seen to come out Her ladyship received their attentions atten-tions until she was tired of them and then got rid of them by having them quietly strangled and thrown into the Nile There was a dark passage leading down from the palace tb the river and tho lover awoke from elysium dreams to find a silken cord around his throat being twisted by two blackfaced eunuchs and a force standing around large enough to make him submit if ho struggled unduly THE FATHER OF THE PKESENT KHEDIVE is Ismail Pasha who is now living in Constantinople Con-stantinople and who receives a pension from Egypt of 200000 a year He holds a different theory from his son in regard to monogamy and his harem is a large one He took it with him when he went Naples to live but a young Italian if I remember correctly ran away with one of his prettiest pret-tiest wives and he moved his establishment to Constantinople where his harem would i I be more sacred and where he can if he chooses drop a faithless wife into tho Bosphorus without comment of courts Mehamet All had also a number of wives and I went out this afternoon to Shoubra palace in which the old man spent some of the last days of his life The guides here show you a beautiful garden and in a summer sum-mer palace a lake about four feet deep with a marble resting place in the center It was upon this seat that the Napoleon of Egypt used to sit with his ladies in boats on the water about him The boatmen were posted by him at the crook of his finger they would overturn the fair Circas sians into the pool and Mehamet would laugh in his old cracked voice as watched their terrified struggles in trying to get out Year by year however THE KEEPING UP OF TIlE HAREM in the Mohammedan countries becomes more expensive The introduction of the western civilization is inspiring new wants in the minds of the hour and the noblest of them want French kid slippers and their dresses from Worth They want diamonds I and modern jewelry and if they have children chil-dren they must have French and English governesses for them The majority of the Mohammedans of Egypt are too poor to J keep more than one wife under the new customs and this number is being reduced by the increased cost of living Even the ordinary wealthy women of Cairo now have some European dresses in their wardrobes ward-robes and the veils which they wear when out driving grow thinner and thinner each year The wife of the khedive wears a veil of thin gauze through which her features can be plainly seen when she goes out driving driv-ing for the windows of her carriage aro open and an American tells me he could seethe see-the sparkle of her magnificent diamonds I through this veil when he passed her a few days ago FKANK G CAUPENTEK |