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CAIRO: ANCIENT CAPITAL
ATTAINS NEW POLITI
CAL IMPORTANCE
Egypt's cupltul attains now political
Importance as tlio administration scat
of the moro liberal riornc nilu granted
Uio nnclent empire by Great Britain.
Cnlro, "Queen of tlio Nile Valloy,"
the "l.-aris of the Levant," or "the dia
mond Html on the handle of the fan
of the Delta," as your Imagination pre
fers, litis ii limit the population of Bos
ton, a record of disorders that makes
bolshovism a nouvonu-unnrehy, and a
pleturesqueness all its own.
From the citadel ramparts the visit
or receives the host Introduction to
Cairo, that unforgettable view the an
cient city ut his feet, a vast panorama
of houses and palaces and hovels,
lleeked with cupolas, minarets nnd tow
ers; the Island-dotted river nnd the
verdant Nile valley ever widening to
ward the north, yellow cliffs to the
east, and beyond them the desert. The
sen of sand suggests Illimitable space
until the faint outlines of the pyramids
against the horizon turn one's thoughts
from space to time. ,
Descend to the streets of Cairo and
encounter bedlam. "City of the Ara
bian Nights," porhnps, hut certainly
the days loose a thousand and one
noises. There nre the rattle of carts,
cries of the wnter bearers, moaning of
camels, untying of donkeys, whirring
of taxlcabs, Jangling of coins In the
open bazaars, continual shouts from
pilots of tills tralllc medley, such ns
"thy foot, sir" or "to thy loft, Oh
chief," all in tlio native tongue, of
course.
Gorgeous colors of every huo and
shiUlo assail tlio eye a post-lmpres-Bionlstlc
fanfare of prehistoric color
Hchcmes. Tlio poorer the Egyptian
the moro ragged; the more ruga tlio
moro colors. Then again the Arabs
denote tliolr families and dynasties by
turbans of distinctive colors. To tell
n prophet's scion from n prlewt of to
day, or ono dervish .order from an
other, or any of the countless dynas
ties and sects npart, requires a study
of turban lore as complicated as tho
numerous Insignia worn by American
soldiers returned from France.
Tlio richer women, attended by serv
ants, may bo seen in cnrrlages, faces
veiled to their eyes, eye lashes and
lids, lingers nnd exposed toes darkened
With henna, and bedecked with ear
rings, anklets, beads and bracelets.
Poorer women go afoot, also veiled,
garbed In plain robes highly sugges
tlvo of "Mother Ilublmrds."
In tho street crowds, too, are the
beggars whose baboons serve the pur
pose of the monkeys of our organ
grlndcrjt; snake charmers, vendors of
tho ubiquitous scarabs and tiny gruven
images, and the norherino bead boys.
! ST. PAUL'S xACHURCH
' WITH A STORY
Slnco post-war building needs al
ready lmvo robbed Loudon of ninny
historic churches nnd threaten tho ex
istence of others, those that remain
will bo enhnnccd in historic vnlue. Ono
of those which will stand, barring
Homo natural calamity, is St. Paul's ca
thedral. This famous church, llko tlio
JCngllsli constitution, represents u
growth of centuries rather than n defi
nite period of construction. Indeed,
n request for funds "to complete St.
Puul's" was made during tho war. And
England's esteem for tho historic edl
llco was shown by tho continuation of
restoration work throughout tho war
despite tho interruption to practically
all other building.
Still fresh In public memory is tlio
notnblo Bervice of consecration attend
ed by royalty and distinguished Amer
leans then in London, held In St. Paul's
April 20, 1017, to cominemorato tho
entry of the United States Into tho
,war.
St. Paul's Is tho largest Protestant
church in tlio world. Its dome Is ono
of tho most beautiful. The church
embodies architectural Ideas of many
periods, becuuso It Is not tho product
of a generation, or even a century.
True, Sir Christopher Wren is credited
Avlth the structure as It stands to--lay,
hut ho embodied many features
of tho famous "Old St. Paul's," razed
in tlio great London tiro of 1000. Wren
did not wish the restoration to bo after
Iho "aothlclc Rudeness of the old De
Klgn," Hut ho was compelled to mod
ify his own plans to a consldornblo
extent. Said ho, of the balustrade
ndded over his veto: "Ladles think
nothing well without nnd edging."
Travelers nro apt to pass by an In
ocrlptlon on tho south porch pedi
ment, "Itcsurgnm" (I shall rise again)
as a religious reference to the resur
rection. When tho architect wns sur
veying tlio ruins lio wished to mark
the center of tlio projected dome. Ho
asked a workman to bund him a slone.
The workman chanced to pick up a
clnp from nn old tomb hearing tho In
errlptlon, which Sir Christopher
adopted.
The motto wns appropriate. Somo
.hlMorlnns believe tho cramped LUd-
Kate IIIII site originally was that of
u Itouinu shrine of Dlann, A Christina
I'lmri'h Is known to lmvo been built
th.M' 'i. 'u early nvventh century, It
was burned two decodes after William
tlio Conqueror enmo to England. From
tho ruins emerged "Old St. Paul's."
Flro destroyed that building, too, but
It wns restored on nn even more pre
tentious scale.
At the "Old St. Paul's" John Wy
cliff o faced the clinrge of heresy, Tyn
dale's New Testament wns burned,
Wolsey heard the reading of the papal
condemnation of Luther, nnd under
"Powle's Cross." now marked by a me
morial, heretics were forced to recant
and witches to confess.
KIEV: THE MART AND THE
SHRINE OF RUSSIA
Kiev, which became a battle center
once unro during the Pole-Bolshevik
lighting, already has changed hands
ten times In three years with Its oc
cupation by the Poles earlier this year.
.Mother of Kussiati cities, nlso the
Jerusalem of Kussla, Kiev did not live
In the past, even before Hw recent ka
leidoscopic adventures, though It was
sulliclently significant a thousand
years ago to give Its numo to u three
century period of Htmslan history.
Both tho Wall street nnd the Ply
mouth Hock of Husslii, each February
found thousands of merchants crowd;
Ing Its fair to contract for merchan
dise and produce, especially beet sugar,
and other seasons found hundreds of
thousands of pilgrims thronging Its
unique shrine, the Convent of tlio
Caves.
Few cities offer such nn agglomera
tion of the old and the new. Kiev
lies upon the muddy Dnieper, the Ohio
river of Kussla, formerly carrier of
some $(50,000,000 worth of freight an
nually for the 14,000,000 people within
Its hasln. Near Its site Prince Vladi
mir herded his people, for wholesale
baptism, after he had forsaken his pa
gan gods and thousand wives for
Christianity.
Kusslnns embraced the new religion
with all the fvrvor with which they
hud offered human sacrifices to tho
abandoned Idol, Perun. While Vladi
mir held political sway at Kiev there
mine a lowly monk, Anthony, who took
up his abode In a cave. Other devout
men followed his example. Archaeolo
gists slnco have recognized In these
eaves the homes of dwellers of tho
stono age.
Tho caves constitute but one fenturo
of the famous monastery which, with
Its streets of churches, cells, Inns and
schools, is n small city In Itself.
Among the mummies that formerly lay
In open cofllns, enveloped In costly
robes, wns that of Nestor, the Itusshm
Herodotus, whose chronicles are re
sponsible for the tradition that Kiev
wns founded by' three brothers In the
ninth century.
From tho "Cave Town" quarter of
the city ono emerges suddenly Into the
Podol, or trading quarter, suggesting
a New Knglnnd factory city, with Its
mills and shops, for paper, machinery,
tohncco, chemicals nnd hardware. Kiev
not only wns the chief sent of the Hus
sion beet sugar trade, but also dealt
heavily In timber, live stock and grain,
Its recent growth has been rapid. In
18SI) Is had Ies3 than 200,000 'peo
ple, nnd In 1011 moro than (300,000.
Oldest of tho better known cities of
Kussla, Kiev gave Russia her first
Christian church, first library, first
Christian school, and today It boasts
tho oldest cathedral of the former em
pire, that of St. Sophia. Therein Is
tho so-called "Virgin of tho Unbreak
able Wall." Hecause the figure re
sisted tho vandal frenzy of tho Ta
tars when they smnsheil other price
less treasures of tho church.
Kiev Is the seat of government of
tho new republic of Ukrnlne. It Is
(121 miles southwest of Moscow nnd
270 miles north of Odessn.
EARTHQUAKE PLAYED
PING-PONG WITH
MAN-OF-WAR
Earthquakes play queer pranks.
Heccnt seismic disturbances In Italy
have attracted renewed attention to
this phenomenon, and recall an amaz
ing Incident In the annals of tho Amer
ican navy in which a United States
man-of-wur was carried on tho crest
of a tidal wave three miles up tho
const, two miles Inland, nnd sot down,
entirely unharmed, within n hundred
feet of the Andes.
This thrilling Incident Ib recounted
in a communication to the National
Geographic society by one of the par
ticipants, Hear Admiral L. 0. fillings,
U. S. N retired, as follows:
"In 18(58 I was attached to the U. S.
S. Watoree, then on duty In tho
South Pacific ono of a class of
boats built at tho close of tho Civil
war to nscend the narrow, tortuous riv
ers of the South; she was termed
a 'double ender,' having a rudder at
each end, and was qulto flat-bottomed,
a conformation which, whllo It did not
add to her sea-going worthiness, on
abled her to enrry n large battery and
crow, and eventunlly saved our lives
In tho catastrophe which was soon to
come upon us.
"August, 180S, found us qulotly nt
anchor off tho pretty Peruvian town of
Arlca, whither wo had towed the old
United Stntes storeshlp Fredonln to
escape tho ravages of yellow fever,
then desolating Cnllao and Limn.
"It was August 8 that tho nwful ca
lamlty came upon us, liko a storm,
from a cloudless sky,, overwhelming us
all In ono common rum,
"I wns sitting In tho cabin with our
commanding olllcer, about 4 p. m.,
when wo wero stnrtlod by a violent
trembling of tho ship, slmilnr to the
effect produced by letting go tlio
anchor. Knowing It could, not ho that,
we ran on dock, Looking ahorownrd,
our attention was Instantly nrrested
by a great cloud of dust rapidly ap
proaching from the southeast, whllo n
terrible rumbling grew In Intensity,
nnd before our astonished eyes the
hills seemed to nod, and the ground
swayed like the short, choppy 'wnves
of n troubled sen.
"Tho clouds enveloped Arlcn. In
stantly through Its Impenetrable veil
arose tho cries for help, the crash of
falling houses nnd the thousand com
mingled noises of n great calamity,
while the ship was shaken ns If
grasped by a giant hntid; then tho
cloud passed on.
"Hut our troubles then commenced.
We wore stnrtled by a terrible noise
on shore) as of- u tremendous roar of
musketry, histln several minutes.
Again the trembling earth wnved to
and fro, and this time tlio sea receded
until the shipping wns left stranded,
while as far to seaward as our vision
could reach, we saw tho rocky bottom
of tho son, never before exposed to hu
man gaze, with struggling fish nnd
monsters of the deep left high nnd
dry. The round-bottomed ships keeled
over on their beam ends, while the
Wateree rested easily on her floor
llko bottom; and when the returning
sea, not like n wave, but rather an
enormous tide, enmc sweeping back,
rolling our unfortunnte companion
ships over and over, lenving some bot
tom up nnd others mnsses of wreck
age, the Wateree rose easily over the
tossing wnters, unharmed.
"From this moment tho sen seemed
to defy tho laws of nature. Currents
ran 'in contrary directions, nnd wo
were borne here nnd there with a speed
we could not have equaled had we
been steaming for our lives. At Irreg
ular Intervals the earthqunke shocks
recurred, but none of them so violent
or long continued as the first.
"About 8::t() p. m. the lookout hnlled
the deck and reported a breaker ap
proaching. Looking seaward, wo saw,
first, a thin line of phosphorescent
light, which loomed higher nnd higher
until it seemed to touch the sky; Its
crest, crowned with the denth light of
phosphorescent glow, showing tho sul
len masses of water below.
"With n crash our gallant ship was
overwhelmed and burled deep benenth
n seml-solld muss of sand and wa
ter. For a breathless eternity we' were
submerged, groaning in every timber,
the stanch old Wnteree struggled again
to tho surface, with her gasping crow
still clinging to the life-lines -some
few seriously wounded, bruised and
bnttered; none killed; not one even
missing. A miracle It seemed to us
then, nnd as I look back through tho
years It seems doubly miraculous now.
"The morning sun broke on n scene
of desolation seldom witnessed. We
found ourselves high nnd dry in a little
cove, or rather Indentation, In the
const line. Wo hnd been carried somo
three miles up tho const and nearly
two miles lnlnnd. The wave had car
ried us over tho 3and dunes bordering
tho ocean, across n valloy and over the
railroad track, leaving us at the foot
of the sencoast range of the Andes. On
tho nearly perpendlculnr front of tho
mountain our navigator discovered tho
marks of the tidal wave, and, by meas
urements, found It to hnve been 47 feet
high, not Including tho comb. Hnd tho
wave carried us 200 feet farther we
would Inevitably have been dnshed to
pieces against tho mountainside.''
CHINA'S HOLY PLACES
China's shrines, Including those In
the much discussed Shantung, are do
scribed In the following communica
tion to tho National Geographic society
by Frederick McCormlck:
'Colerldgo could not hnve selected
n phraso more apt than 'stntely pleas
ure dome' had he Intended to call at
tention to the best-known form in Chi
nese architecture. Like so much of
tho wrought beauty of Clilnn, such ns
Is still seon In parks and gardens, pa
godas are tho work of tho Huddhlst
church almost exclusively.
"Tho most beautiful specimens nro
in tho Yangtse valley, where pagodas
are most numerous. Every Important
Chinese and Mnnchurlnn cjty is gar
landed willi them. From tho walls of Pe
king a dozen pagodns and towers may
ho counted within tho city, und with a
good glass half a dozen famous ones
muy bo seen rising from the surround
ing plain.
"Pagodas rango In height from 20
to more than 200 feet, and nre of va
rious shapes round, square, hexag
onal, octagonnl, etc. They always have
an odd number of stories, ranging usu
ally from seven to nine, nnd some
times possessing 11 and even 111.
"The Chinese havo appropriated tho
pagoda as a counterpoise to evil, and
used It, subject to their rales of ge
ometry. "At the city of Tung, In tho Peking
plain, n region In past years visited
by earthquakes, there Is a 'prominent
pngoda which nt ono time hnd moro
than 1,000 bronzo bolls suspended
from Its cornices, most of which nro
still In plnco. Tho people have this
story as to its construction : A
wnter fowl lives underground nt
this plnco and when ho shakes his tall
It causes earthquakes. Geomancers lo
cated the end of his tall, nnd tho pa
goda was built on It to hold It down.
At the samo time this did not prevent
tho wnter fowl from winking his eye;
but, ns his eyelids havo not been ac
curately located, a second pagoda has
not yet been built. As n result, trem
blings of the earth still occur.
"Tho wondor Inspired In tho breast
of the traveler who visits China's vast
remains of abandoned capitals, exten
sive temples ranged In successive
courts nnd on terraces of mountains,
Its pagodas, p'nl-lous. bridges, and
canals, Is equaled by tho awe Inspired
by tho silent splendor of tho tombs
of China's emperors. Tho tombs of
ihu kings of tho 'Six Kingdoms' in'
Shantung, though now only earthen
pyramids terraced with little fields,'
huve the nlr of tho pyramids of Egypt." I
Parade of
View of the parade of 20.000 members of tho American Legion through tlio
the second nnnual convention.
New Religious Sect on Pilgrimage
Six men and 12 young women nre
.vll I tako them to Palestine In time for the second coming of the Lord. They
travel in three large nutomobllcs nnd sleep In tents.
Girl Strikers of
Girl employees of the Stuchl metal works of Milan, atop the barricades
erected by their co-working soviet members In front of the plant to bar the
government troops from tuklng possession. The girls, us shown by the pho
tograph ure "armed to the teeth."
Russian Family
A typical nnd smiling Russian family at Bills Island waiting to enter this
country. Kills Island. Is experiencing Its greatest rush of Immigrants, and ap
peals have been sent to Washington for mora help.
the American Legion
W tint Jr
encamped at Banuor. Me., readv to
Milan on Guard
on Ellis Island
in Cleveland
decorated streets of Cleveland, during
to Palestine
start n nllirrimiurn whinh n..v hniin
hnve severed all homo ties. They
PUSSY GOES SHOPPING
When Mllpdy shops, puss mtends
her. This pretty Washington fclrl has
solved to her own satisfaction and to
that of Kitty's the dreadful problem
of commuting for n very dlifhutlvo
cat. Now kitty can go anywhere,
though we are wondering what would
hnppen if her mistress decided to shop
ut the llsh market.
VETERAN FIGHTER AT 13
John Dolocinski, aged thirteen, who
has Just arrived In America from Po
land, where ho spent two and a half
years In tho Polish army. Ho bus
been In more than a dozen battles.
