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Old Egypt
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THE EHEDWE.
Copyright. W0. by Frank Q. Carpenter.
AIRO. (Special ' Correspondence
to the Hee.) liave pist had nn
audence with his roval hlgh
ns'p, the Khedlve of Egvpt.
The meeting was arranged hv
the diplomatic asent of tho
c
Vnlted Slates and it took Rome time to
bilriK It about. The kIWIve Is tho Mo
hammedan ruler of these ten million
fc-gyptlans and the many tribe of the Su- to mosque regularly, and urged the push
dan bow down to him as their chief. Al- Ing of the Mohammedan religion. Abbas la
hough the country Is really ruled by. tho also regular In his mosque attendance, but
English, the khedlve holds the place of I doubt whether he Is doing anything 6ut
klng In the minds of the people. Hp live- lde that und nl Pilgrimage. '
In great state and appreciates the dignity ' ' S
of his position. It was only through letters 'rb Khedlve In 1910.
of Introduction whloh I have from Wash- A" 1 WHS thinking of these things a
Ington that I was able to enter his pies- atately official In dark clothes and red fes
nee. My appointment came from the caD n'el'eil told me nls highness was
grand master of ceremonies of the Abdlne rt'dv to eei me- He ,nen ,ed me out of
palace. The letter from the khedlve was the room and "os the hall Into another
written In French, and It Informed me th. parlor.twhlch was equally large. As we
his royal highness would receive me Tn...
day afternoon.
When I arrived at the palace. I found a
regiment of soldiera drilling in front of It
and a company of fierce looking Arabs on
guard at the door. These men presented
arms aa I entered. I first came Into a hall
where other dark-faced guards In full uni
forms stood, and I parsed between these
to the foot of the grand staircase where
one of the cabinet ministers met me. With
him I wulked up to the second floor of the
palace, and was taken Into a great Dar.
hh where I waited i.n.ii th. , .
for my In!ervtw cam"
Tewftk Pasha's Throne Room.
As I looked about this room I rccoir
nled it as the audience chamber In which
hedlve. Tewflk Pasha
hen he was ruler of
note than twenty-one
tlmo I had a moat re-
me rather of this khedlve, Tewflk Pasha,
had received me w
tne country, now mor
" " ago. At mat tlmo I had a moat re
markable Interview with him. and aa I
looked about me the ma.i and his words
came to mv mind Th. .. , .
a It w. then, all the furniture be In.
EuroDean nniwMh.i.nrfi t.-. . ,.
land of the orient. The sofas and ehslr.
are ,.f , .., . , cjiairs
!,4:V.!uW.J,0d"rk Pa'n,ed WhUe
and plated with gold. They are upholstered
in while brocaded satin, decorated with
flowers and the carpet of European make
i woven In one piece. At one end of th
room is a great brocaded sofa, as wide aa
a Turkish divan. ' It was upon that sofa
that his highness Tewflk sat as he chatted
with me about himself and his country.
He spoke English well, and talked freely
about the then condition of Egpyt and ita
future. He was not averse to speaking of
reiiRion and his Mohammedan sublecta.
us spuae a lime concerning himsel.
$
.Tw,,'t er.ua Abba.,
oince men great chajiges have taken place
in tgypL The present khedlve's father was
h Ih hi j assassination, and when
w..T.n ! i WV ,u,,p, ,hat
..ww u uncu un un oi a uneruvt. lie re
piled:
"I don't like It I am told that manv
people envy me and think that my lot
muet oe a pleasant one. They do not un-
derstand the troubles that surround me. I
have aeen many a time when I should hv.
oeen glad to have laid down all the honors
1 have for rest and peace. My ten years
of reign have been equal to forty years of
worry, and If life were a matter of pleas-
ure I would be a fool to remain on the
throne. I believe, however, that God put
man Into the world for a purpose other
lh" " ' dy that is man .
ehlef end. I am trying to do what 1 can
. vUu..w, aim peopie, ana i am hau-
plcst when I am working the hardest.
ine.e worda were uttered after the Eng
lish had taken hold of the Egyptian situa
tion. As you will remember, they came In
at the end of Araba Pasha's rebellion, and
ener iney nad put down the revolution of
tho Mahdl. Tewflk was ground between
ins upper and nether millstones of the reb
els ajid the English, and his bed was nevt
oneTf roses.
II IV a.lterent With the nienenl Ll,.ll.
H ha. practically nothing to do with the
actual government, and the English relieve
uarV ruler m''1 ' ,roublt'8 of the ordi-
"sen were to be transmitted any ilia- and . would booii submit hla Invention lo by a ingle driver in the aeropl .ne. The
. M1'""""1" Halera. tance at low pressure It would take a the government. The gun will tire from load would be less than the aeroplane ui
coin lewfik and Abbas have upheld the larx canal to earn- th. r..,i.. . . .. .1,.. .. .,.,. ...
j 1 - m a . ,
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he did not drink because It was against the
laws of life a. laid down ln the Koran. I
understand that the present kbr.liv- r...
louche, tobacco or Intoxicating liquor, and
that he Is almost aa good a Mussulman as
mu.. n. vbik.v . j . . , . .... .
..s leeeniiy gained
. . ....... ...... iimj,ni unuer nign pressure a small
III ami 1 a a fiffr..! .. . .
1 ,1 j . it'tiii -i-Manu ...-...... 1 ...... . ...
th. 11- ,7 . uwnu" irry tfuod many hundra
III at l J IS nlariineaaal illil lnt. tllbraa at . I . ...... .... 4
I refused, ami a moment laTer l asked Vi e T.1 T .Tl i"' th V
khedive If I,, did not .,nl. .7- ,1, th 'tr'-J 'Tent ut
that he neithar ..,k..i frure over a very .mall 1
greai i.vor wnn ins .objects, not only In m-usanu kilowatts In output, and from that an aeroplane will ever drop bombs I. hour Into exact range, and using a pio-i-gypt.
but ui Old Sudau, by uiakiu. a oil- a t thouaaud volt, to 13s.iou Vulu. The a were lamau'a HcUou. It make a powder Jeciila whicii will tear it lo piece"
and the
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grlmage to Mecca, and the tact that he has
increased tho size of his harom will prob
ably be another point in his favor.
Aa to ,TewflU Pnsha, ha told me that r.e
could recite the Koran backward from be
ginning to end. He knw the whole book
by heart, and could commence at any place
and recite back and forth. He raid that he
thought; every man should be faithful to
the beliefs of his fathers, and that he was
In favnr nf r-Hirloufl toleration. He went
.entered a straight, atout young man. with
a fair face and blond mustache, came
forward and offered me hla hand. It was
the young khedlve, whom I had met when
1,'was In Egypt four years ago. He greeted
me with a welcome back to Kgypt. saying
that he Amjldied it a compliment to his
country that the Americans who came
Invarlably returned. Hla highness led the
way to a sofa near the window, and mo
tioned me to a chair at hla aide. When
he aat down himself he put one foot un
der him and aat upon that. I remem-
berA that his father had sat the same
Wajr Th khedWe maJnU,ned this posi-
tion during the half hour of our audience.
As ve talked I had an excellent oppor- He says that draining is quite as 1m
tunlty to study the man. His hlghnei-s Is portant for Egypt as Irrigation, and that
about five feet eight tall, and he weighs there are vast territories here whlc'.i
pernap" 1,0 lx'u" " ,'8 a" "'f" "
TIT' u ?. B? T .
. Wer" m , " h,m look taller-
X Amerlcan" think all of the peo-
pie of this part tr the world have dark
complexions. That of the khedive is fair,
"" ' o no d
a "k Jj0? f"h'?nable
. "
coatume would not have been out of
".Progressive
TraaamK tins Water Power.
1THULT a doubt the develop
ment of electrical tranemlsslon
of power was the greatest dis
covery In the history of manu
facturing. The fact that the
w
millions of horse-power,, of dis-
mm umurfaiu ..uirt tu nu.mi,i.i ........
mountains and deserts,, land and water,
to the Industrial centers to turn the
wheels of mills and factories, to light the
.treets and houses, to drive the electric
Lrs and .In all th hrt snrb ih.
vUIm and towns was a great boon to tne
Industrial world. '
shipping facilities make large In-
dustrlal centers and these Industrial points
require vast' quantities' of cheap and (ell-
able power.' Only in a few places was It
possible for! an industry to combine good
- hipping with cheap water-power, iiut
uow -
wnen man has discovered how to
DI"' ll,e distant water-power to any J-
a'rable place, industrial "centers are sprlng-
ln uu all over the country. No longer
it necet-sary for the eoutti to ahlp cot-
ton to the New England water-power
cities to be made Into cloth. Southern
rivers are being harnessed and the work
l being done at home and only the fln-
l.,hed product shipped away.
1. uuu ,h- in..,.i, .1. ,
uevclopment of the electrical transformer
which brought about thia modern miracle.
jne iransiormer Is a device to raise the
p,eii,,ure vt electricity and to force it at
" 1111 uiiagc, or pressure, over a
slender copper wire to great distance, with
little, if any. loss. The generators, driven
by water heels, produce . electricity i
about 1. W0 volts and the transfiu-mar m.
Creases the Vollace or lirnmn 1.. ku.l.
HO.OuO volts for transmission. ,
k"' voltage would lequlre a large trans-
mission line and a heavy lo.. In current.
Hy wy ot explanation. If the water-power
vMunv BliUVUIll,
01 water; out IC the water could be sent
pipe would
horse-power.
llage and
under hign
lire, land so
pressure that thousand, of
""" """' o fitni 10 great d a-
(sent
tance. over .mall wlies
with very little
lo"
10 the last ten years the transformer
n urn w. n r r. ..n a r. u i.ti ... . ..
anuaaii. 10 a lew
THE OMAHA
New Movement Afford a Very Interesting: Study
l,"EJ)EiOOM OTT THE KHEDIVE'S "ZACHT
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place In any American club. Our conversa
tion was carried on In English, which his
highness speaks with a slight German ao
cent, probably from the German pro
fessors who taught him that language. He
was, you know, educated In Vienna, and
It Is said that he speaks French, German,
Kngllsh, Turkish and Arabic with great,
fluency, while he Is conversant with several
other languages. '
A Talk A'ouit KsrnlBK,
Before going to the palace I "had been
warned that hla highness would, not dis-
cul)i pontics, and I, therefore, turned the
conversation to farming. The khedive Is
one of the largest farmers of the Nile
valley. He has stock ranches, cotton
plantations and grain fields r.aloie. He
is a suocexsful developer of real estate
propositions. He take
an(TDV mean. of lrr,t
up encap ian
ion : nd drainage
makes them double and treble In vain.
P'Per drainage might bring Into use. This
" ' f 8me '"k'S nPRr Ale"m,,la- Th
1 J"t as much danger from un oversup-
ply a. from an undersupply of the Nile
waters. The floods contain a certain
amount of salts of one kind or another.
nnicn are injurious to me crops it tne
",er to '" V"n th8 land' and thls
r.as to oe removea. i
During my talk with his highness I
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Activities and
transformer has no moving par. In
shape and outline It looks not unlike a
rarge oval boiler. The interior media. li.sm
consists of large colls of wire insulated
with oil.
It waa but fifteen years ago when the
first 1O0.0OJ vult transmission line in this
I'll 11 n ( r V uram msnl Irt uiiihc I'ullfApniu
transmitting single-phase current from San :
Antonio Canon to light Pomona and San
Bernardino, distant fourteen and twenty-
eight miles. There were two banks of small
transformers, i&lsinir tha nm.nr. from
! to 10.W0 volts. In all. there were forty
six kilowatt transformers the largest, of
that day. A comparison of these lnsUnifi-
ant machine, with the aix monster trans-
former, being con.tructed by the General
Electric company at Schenectady, X. V..
tor the Great Western Power company of
-auiornia tuny demonstrates the wondtr-
u. man tension utiuuui-
sion.
When these world's largest transformers
slood on the test floor ready for shipment
to California, each unit weighed more than
Shooting Iron
VDSON MAXjM, the Inventor of
H
niaxlmlte, and a brother of Sir
Hiram Maxim, whose jiamo ha.
long been associated with long-
tern
range guns, declared that the
, aeroplane waa fully developed
. purposes, and that he had been at
umk f.ir mnrt lhan a vm i- ncrru.-lltiir tho
kind of gun necessary to fight the aero-
Plane In the air.
He said he had hit upon the right kind
of gun necessary and also the projectile,
. J JOI l V va 1 1 1 V VUlll(ail IlllUUil n 11a I,
ilr. Maxlia called "the celestial concave -
Mr. Maxim drove down from his home on
lke Hopatcong to aee the V right av ta
tors In flight. ll was waichlng Hoxney In
a 3,M-foot flight when the Times Col
respondent found him silting In his auto-
mobile along the parkway east of the field.
"The world little realizes." he .aid. "how
far aeroplane development ha. progressed
toward a point where it may be utilised aa
an actual fighting machine, and by this I
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uo 1101 iiican lor aropping Domus. 1 ne idea
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SUNDAY IJKK: SEPTEMBER IS, li10.
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'XHE XEIIER IROX1 TELE. KHEDIVE TA$ IirrBENCH
;slie(1 hlm as t0 hlH Urmlng and whether
he really gave It his personal attention,
He replied that he did so. and that he was
in telephonic conm-ctlon with fwch of his
estates and received daily reports from
all of them.
We talked of the fertilization of the Kile
valley. The khedlve aid that the Und
was exceedingly rich, but that It could
be Improved by adding protphatcs and that
:
Developments in the Electrical World
twenty-eiijht tons. Each tratibfurmer oc
cupied a floor space of nine by five feet
and stood seventeen feet high1. The core of
each device contains more than four miles
of heavy copper wire by mi-ans of which
o.tvO-horsepow er of electrical energy is
raised to a pressure of 1&.50U volts, tletore
shipment each machine was testtd with a
pressure of 2MMUU olts to prove the safety
of the insulation.
Without the transformer the millions of
hoie-pjer uhicn are now being duve.oped
from the various rivers und siiua.i.K und
ud in Ihe cities and Villages for iiiaiiuiac-
luring and railroad work, us well us lor
healing and lighting, would be impossible,
The current could be generated, but it
could not be transmitted very far. It is
the big tiansformers which make it pos-
sible to turn the water power of Niagara
into electricity and to send it over mo
slender wirea as tar as Syracuse, Toronto
and Km neuter with a trifling cot.
Among the larger cities, which receive a
greater portion of their tlectrcliy from
Designed to Fight
man want to laugh. Hut 1 mean an urro-
plane to fight another aeroplane.
"Why, I, or any government ar.-enal, for
that mailer, would make this Wriyiit ma-
chine here into a fighting craft In almost
a single day. Here's the equipment needed;
One light one-pounder gun, many of which
aie now in existence weighing less than
100 pounds, plus 100 one-pound shells, thut
making a total fighting equipment weigh
ing less than 200 pounds and capable of
adjustment 00 that the firing could be done
IVU V I 11 t I UHV JU at- I 1 1 I I .
"Aeroplanes can be built in numbers in
nil Khty short time, and their ait. Her
equipment can be put on them in equally
short time. The next warfare is going to
be a'oft, and 10 tne speediest aeroplane
will belong the greatest power to effect
a victory.
"Tea years ago I began experimenting
with a gun to fire at any angle in the
celestial concave, and 1 hae now the gun
that will fire swinging on a pivot, equipped
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10 ormg an aeroplane masmg iwi mites an
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farming was Improving throughout Evpt.
and that the aurtcultural department' U
teaching the people the value of good
e-na and of mten-tvo cultivation
X abked him what would be the effect
of the raisin of the dam at Assouan.
He answered that it would double tho
quantity of water that la now being held
back and that If will add millions of acres
to cultivated Egypt. He says that the gov-
transmitted water-puwt-r, are the following:
Miles
Ciiy.
Buffalo
Montreal
Water-Power. HorBe-
to City.
Power.
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g'oTo
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37
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40
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112
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20
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Man Franciso
Minneapolis
St. Paul
L s Angeles
Albany
liarrford
S" iiiKf leld. Mass ,
Manchester. X. 11.
Suit L...I.K City ...
Portl tnU, Me.
Seattle
Itutle . ,
llakliUHl
Lew Utou, Me
Concord, N. H. ...
licit im. Alonl. ...
Quebec
HiiJeH, Ore
Ill uildition tlier.
lioo)
could also be named
Urn binalhr cltk-s und several hundred vil-
ages, which secuie tneir electricity irom
Mniilar sources.
street tlshtluK Nnvrlt),
Why hhould sober minded citizens' who
Aeroplanes
in explaining why the aeroplane could
not dmii bombs on battleships, Mr. Maxim
said it would move forward from the aero-
plane's momentum while dropping down-
ward and wuuld be affected by the wind.
lie also said that explosives don't do the
work for which they are famous when set
off freely In the
surface.
ir or loosely against a
"Now. a twelve-inch gun, firing at l.vnt
ari'.a.
will send a l.Ooo-pound projectile
into a foot of armor plate tiiat will shatter
the plate if it explodes after entering It," Pittsburg has started a campaign asainnt j he Khedlve's l'auill.
said Mr. Maxim. "To get the same effect 'epn eleclrlflcauon of all Th(J khedve waa marI.,.j ytal, ago. d
from an aeroplane It would be necessary to ru" c" ,"' "a w . . . . has five children, all by that wife. Accord
carry 1.000 pounds of metal to a height of ,;H"nPh?b ?he wea ,t r'l' m ln- lu Kt"n' he ha. the right to four
twenty mile, aid drop It for that distance 'J.JVharge by askng central wve and any number of concubines, and
througha perfect vacuum."-New York r;)w.trt y w, be dev,,ed a, P.rlain a alory Is current hat he has Increased
Tunes. C(, inlni-K In Texaa and the current din- his harem within the past two mouth.. 11
-TliHiik lm'."
The man who is not thankful for the
lesson, he learned in adversity ddn't learn
any.
lliere would be plenty or tnankiuineiis in
the world if thos who have loved and lost
nl know juki wriai iney nave nwi.
Why are you giving thanks? They took
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tl"i from you
wan bireei a mile
while ago. didn t n.ey ?"
"Iw; I'Ji 1 gor out with 20 they dido t
know I had. '-Jud.o.
Av.1t
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EDLY CAEPEX "WHICH.
eminent lias otl'er schemes umler way
which will materially Increate the farming
possibilitif s of hla country.
'the Khedive's Ilia Farm.
I.,irg ha ,over,atlon 1.1. highness
spoke at length as to some of hi, farms.
sugteutln.; that I n,3ht find It liu-restlng
to visit them, lie has redeemed 'over 2.000
ncres not far from Cairo. The land was
poor-and swampy and some of it was des-
ert." His highness drained and Irrigated It
and .now It brings In an enormous revenue.
He has another big farm pear Alexandria
and another at Koubbeh. The latter es
tate Is a model plantation of 800 acres. It
is equipped with the most scientific ma-
chinery and Implements and its buildings
comprise a inudel village, with which in
fifinnnftflrl u m hnnl olnK a mrivriiia nntl An
up-to-date fire station. The khedlve has " "trenuous ex-president can wear out
breeding establishments there, and he im-, lmoBt ,nun of U ,ulu'
ports the finest cattle and poultry. He Is
noted as a horee lover, and has recently Th Pitlacra of the Khedlve.
inaugurated a company to Improve the The khedlve has a half doaen palaces,
blood of tho Egyptian horse. Hla position is The Abdlne Palace, where I'waa received,
such that he can get the finest of the Is his chief official residence. It la a
Arabian sires and the best pure-blooded straggling pink and white building with a
stallions from Nejd, Arabia, are si nt to him grand staircase, enormous rooms and gor
by the L'edouln shellis. He in also Inter- genus furniture. It Is lighted with electric
ested In camel and mule breeding, and has llghia and carpeted with ruga, mostly from
some of the swiftest of dromedaries. Some Europe. The furniture is European,
of his camels can travel seventy-five miles The khedlve's bedroom has a marble
a day, and are worth as much as the finest bathroom attached, with special arrange
horse. His highness exhibits at many of merits for shower and douche, but there
the agricultural shows and Is often among Is no Turkish bath, as In the homes of
the prize winners there. most oriental rulers. Hla study looks like a
During our talk 1 asked the khedive as workroom. It haa a big library table In the
to his daily life, lie replied that he had center, and his highness has a telephone al
all he could do from daylight to dark, but ways at hand. Tho bathroom of this palace
all he could do fron
that he believed In Y
upon It. In addition
which are manv, he
hard work and thrived
to his official duties,
he haa the management
of his own estates and various enterprises,
He tiaid that many of his days from
o'clock In the morning until o'clock at
night were taken up at the palace.
From other sources I learned that the
khedlve Is almost as strenuous as Theo-
are in their-home and af in beti by 10
o clock at night pay lighting taxes for
others who, being of a Jovial turn of mind,
P'eier 10 stay in 1 tt.es, ciuds or ears uniu
,j , j , j . . ,
midnight and do not, return homo until tho
early hour. f the ma, nl,.g?
Man.festly It Is unfair, but in Germany
this quewtlon has now been answered In a
Way whk-1 wl" pleas' ,ne earn,,t tax-
payer., and probably prove a terror to the
late nigh birds. To the village of Zarkau,
near Glogau. In Silesia, must be given the
honor of installing a system of automatic
cltclrlc lighting for the streets. The electric
lights burn every night from the outskirts
"f u,,u through tfie village of Zarkau, a
dlt,tunt'e of about a kilometer, until 10
S.ikiO o'clock at a mutual cost to the community bine, and three screws. It can make sev
I.Sd'J In general. Then they are switched off. .i,.n kniiiH un hour, ami tins averaaed
At each end of this kilometer stretch, on
an iron pillar, stands a small Iron cupboard
lighted by a tiny electric light. Those per-
sons who are out after 10 o'clock wishing
to have their way lighted must Insert a.
ten pfennig piece Into a slot In the side of
the Iron cupboard. Then the nine lamp
placed along this stretch burst forth Into a
twelve-minute life, thus enabling the pas-
scnger to find his way in lightness to his
or her houbc.
The scheme is working in a satisfactory
way and -it seems quite probable that other
Gei man village, and towns will follow the
example of Zarkau and install the auto-
maUc lighting system to be put Into opera-
tion after 10 o'clock.
Klrrtrlcnl .oe.
Tha ffovernment nf AiiMtiallu urwl KT.u.
Zealand are planning to establish a system
of wireless Intercommunication among the
Hrlll,,h islands in the South seas.
Manitoba has 5.1S0 mllea of long distance
leieimouu wires, mere are over Jw.ino muij
scrlhers to the sysiem. and 7.UM farmers
in the province have rural telephones.
A Jud-.'e In Warsaw. Ind., recently held
a session of court over the telephone.
tnjuted Inst, ad 01 coal, screening, will
fi-rnh fuel for the .team boiler..
A steam electric locomotive na neen pro-
duced In Glasaow. The locomotive It driven
by four electric motor, receiving this cur-
lent from a steam turblno-drlven genera-
tor.
The electric Iron srnelter at lleroult. Cnl.,
ha. been pronounced a su cecal. The nut-
put Is twenty ton. of pig iron a day ahd
five aJdil.onal furnace, will soon be
erected.
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THE. SENT .IX) HE CCA
dore Roosevelt. He rises at 5 o'clock in
the morning, and. after dressing and at-
tending prayers at a mos(TJ, he takes a
lonir drive In a carriage or motor car
through one of his farms. Sometimes he
on parade and attend, a review of
e is usually back for breakfast
t . or rather for hi. cup of coffee, for
he takes little else. After this he look, over
his official papers until noon, when he ha.
lunch, or breakfast, as It . called here,
After breakfast he chats with hla visitor.
and gives receptions of one kind or an
other, and then reads or works away until
sunset, when he again goea to hla farms.
At 7 or 8 o'clock he la baok In the paiara
for dinner, and his evenings are apent
i OH KlieUlVC IB b BlIUl IBUlWk AM
well and shoots straight, and, like our
is large, and It Is especially gay every win-
ter on the occasion of the khedlve's annual
ball, to which l.buu guests are inviiea. t-on-
neciec wiwi una iv..i mB" "
w'ora mrougn wiucii ...o c..u "
the royal harem can peep down and watch
tlla dancers wtyle they listen to the strains
01 tne nana.
Another official palace Is that of Raa-
el-Teen at Alexandria. This lies right on
tha h wKh a beautlful outlook oVer
r:
the Mediterranean a. His favorite resi
dence near Alexandria Is at Montaxa. which
Ithin a mile of Aboukir bay. made fa
mous by Nelson's victory over the French
lMW, UK'l "' ntUr
r.uiBio uau rAi'Inlmcd from tn desert only
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a few years since.
quick growing trees and parks which have
, . . . ,., p,.,a ti,.
been stocked with game from Euroe. 1 ne
hag a th- and
-he starts out from there with Bedouin
rtders U( make ,ong excuralons Into the
tmj khedlve.. yaoht u often seen there at
de8t.rt Xhe place ne. right on the sea and
ani.hor-
JUa r'oya, nlKhne., has a turbine yacht
w(l,cn , sal(1 lo be one of the finest on the
Mediterranean, 't was originally a two-
fuIleied paddle steamer of about eleven
jjiiola, built forty or more years ao. This
waa B'ent dba to Glasgow and rearranged
throughout. The ship haa now Parson tur-
.,rani..n and thr-fYurtha knots for a
long distance. The yacht Is beautifully
furnished In European style, and Its ap-
poinlmenU are those of a millionaire.
H Itlt-h Ituler.
As to the wealth of the khedlve, he has,
1 doubt not. millions and to spare. He Is
a money maker aa well as a money saver,
and the English government allows him out
of the revenues of the country IjOO.OUO a
year. He has single estates which will, 1
venture, approximate a million dollars
each In actual value, and stocks and bonds
many of the best institutions of Egypt.
H wm apartment house. In Cairo, cotton
plantations In the delta and much land
which would sell ut auction for from fcjoo to
$1,000 per acre.
His highness has good business Judg
ment, and everything he touches seems to
turn into money. Ills subjects often crit
icise the simplicity of his living, and say it
would Jie better for the country If he spent,
as his old grandfather Ismail did. I'm of
Ihouvamls of dollars a month on entertain-
menu of one kind or other.
l. not polite to ask a Mohammedan as to
,,, of nd faniflyi amJ p,aclkally
nothing I. known of what goes on In the
..... . , ... , . .. . ....
royul 1"l,em' The khedlve a children con-
l"t of four girls and a boy, the latter
being the heir to the throne. In addition
1 these he ha. a brother, the Prince Mo-
hammed All; two uncles and an aunt, all
ot whom ,. lrmnent feature, of this city
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