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Show LAIXDOFTIIK SWILNtfj fJCYf'T.AOOUNTnYOP8TltANaJ ,0ONTHA3T, f ttlirre Itio IniplMiirnta of l'lianautA Time 1 lle(keii from a Mml.rS Train'. Hlnilux Ilia I nulla of tM lll.otloo. 3 I'roliAbly the avernge Amerlcnj look upon A trim na a dark ronllnenl In everything eren In railway., mn A relifYiied viMatnar. Vet thn fact U, that I lie Hnyptlan railway nro ltl tun than many Amvrlravn nn. Thf railway ibtit rtma front Alexandria tS tipper Rgpl la one after which innaf American railway might patllfu. II I a double-track road It ha haftrf teel rallf. Yhe track It wll ImlLtn eal It haa an elaborate ytem tit ila mil loera and pnetimallr awltchMg Much of It roadway la lined - wlt heavy ettt at me maaonry ivtritiet. Ill tnlloii platform, ntn aim built of cot atone iniaonry It atntlon btilldlnxt nrn of atone. Ita bridge and other lduet nro of itrel. Ita tralm run (monthly nml awlttly. averaging rnltra nn hour. There ar inn'lij etinf Inga In which the railway la rnrrleaf titer the ro.nlway on alvel lailiictai tho few lUHile iroaalnga are gunrdM by italea. with galekeepera. Hlgnal men with liana Hand at all twitches, tla-llona tla-llona and rroavlnga AltBr.etliecth equipment mid operation of tho road nro ndmlrnble Kor bitnilrnli of mlloji thi modern rnllnny Nooa thrmipti the fertile field of Kg) pt -moat Incongrn-oua Incongrn-oua nmld Ihe primitive nii-thoda of huibandry lo be noted there Kor at the etpreaa tralna whirl and ahrlek wat thn lolling fellnheen In lb fields yoit aeo.tlut they nro tialng the aamo primitive Implcnionta that Ihelr forefnthern tited when I'lmrauh reigned. reign-ed. ThiiyMlll plow with n ilmplt wooden wood-en Implement, hanleil by tlent buffalo buf-falo oien. They tllll labarluiitly lift water with n aweep to the head level of irrigating illicitae They ttlll ue the alrkle. at they did In tho dna when Ituth foltoMeil thn reaper of Hint And they ttlll carry their bundle of fodder upon the bark of patient Rate.. or, in default of imet' liack. tiion thtlr own Ot course, nil agrlrilturo In l!g)pt It not on inch rudimentary line lllch men nnd corporation, own land n well n fellaheen peuaaut. and lu.nir tall chimney tettlfy to the eiltence of pumping work. Then too. the Kgyptlnn government haa dammed the Nile nt nn enormiiut mat nnd It engaged en-gaged In oilier witter ttuniKC acfieme. that will enlarge the nairnw atrip of Irrigated land on either bank of the great river nnd thereby enlargo the ro-ourcut ro-ourcut of thlt wondorfiil country To talk of lit templet. It pyrnmldt. -Hi rulna aiid.lt dendicltlr would be telling twlco-iold talc.' Hut no man can gaio on thJa fl.it and fertile, river valley without being nimzed nt Hi prodiictlvrneia. I have been ihowli la Virginia worthlc land which tin wasteful Anglo-Saxon had vxtiauatnj by two centurion of tobarro-rnlilni Hut hero In I!gypt I toe field ttlll ai fertile nt when the tint dynittty be-gan. be-gan. nUhntiiih they have been tilled for 4,000 yearn Homo lilelorlant bellevo lhat Hgypt v,a thn cradle of our Ary'nn rlvlliui-tlon. rlvlliui-tlon. Ilere. llity tiy, nom'adlc mm paitacd nt the great Uyeivwhcn wandering wan-dering from Arnblt-KijIUntu Africa (Iradtially thbte tlrrd of wandering settled set-tled upon thn fat and Juicy bnnkt of tho Nil" river and began a fitful lnia-hatidry lnia-hatidry of the toll. (Iradunlly village grow up nnd thrift brought peace and proapcrlty. The rich land were ill-Yldcd ill-Yldcd among the villagers Thlt wa' tho beginning of real properly. The property boundaries were annually obliterated ob-literated by tho rlia of the Nile, reflations ref-lations wero made to tittle dliputei concerning them; thlt wat the beginning begin-ning of law. Wlto men among the villagers vil-lagers nb.ened that thn tun, moon and ttnrt hud much to do with the volume vol-ume nt the Nile flood; thlt vv-ni tho bc-g?Anlug bc-g?Anlug of astronomy. Tin- simpler villagers lookcil with av upon these wise, men who tpent I -e tune communing com-muning with tho ttnrt, thlt was the beginning of the priesthood. The prlotta toon claimed tuper- rintnral knovlelgo of the clritlav oille tnd Imposed rule regjtdlm; the ninnnert and conduct of men anil orjernl the tlllaBcra to follow them and lo ere i temple vtlxrsin tlieav in i . itfemild bt etrontined, thlt wat tb. laiglnnlng of religion, Hut th Aerie nomad of the deaert found profit In hurrving and pi. nderlng the weak- r villagera by ihe rlvcreldV Therefore There-fore the priest, ihone from among the villager, thuae who weie not only brave but crafty running and leaders or mnii Theee bald and running 11-ligirt 11-ligirt tucieeiled In defeating the here er nontatla by atnbntcade and tlr.itt-gun tlr.itt-gun Hit was the beginning of tha sclrnie of war. To protect their cities ihey vrutrd mighty walla and fnr-tu.aea fnr-tu.aea ibua grow up engineering nun unhlltitiire And at last a bolder Under auuiiig fie bold parleyed with the prlrtthnod, terrified the mutt ot emmon men and mad himself lord over all. prleata and rommon And thus aim up monarchy and thut there r. .lilted church at ire nnd king. 'I Inac lung-forgotten setup of reading read-ing ctnir to ray mind at from a limtrl-nut limtrl-nut iniiipirtnient In an expreta train hetwicn A exandrltand Cairo I looked out upon Ihe valley of the Nile It. wn tuvrnrd evet Ing nnd the cat-ant, cat-ant, were leturnlng from the fields to lliilr hiinut IMrturetqttely rind, Ihey reminded one Irretlttlhly of old lllble pliturea ou would tea) what wna evidently evi-dently a family-lather, mother, grown rhllitrm and 111 tie onet, torn-mounted, torn-mounted, tome on foot, and with moat nondescript colli i tlon of nnlmnlt nil biirden-betrlng In one (troup I nnleil i rintcl tevernl nstes n buffalo bull tnd a lock of aheep, all placidly pursuing pur-suing their- homeward ny, cart) Ing their fodder for their atipper on their btrkl- except the eheep And the mltil-eyed fellaheen looked up with much the tame gaie aa did their animals ani-mals as the expri. train whirled by. Kor the expreni train w.ia 1900 ear after Christ and they were 1.900 bo-fore |
