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Following- the Footsteps of Jacob and Joseph Througrh Land of Goshen
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(Copyright, 1910. by
Frank O. Carpenter.)
1310. (f pedal Curre-
AOAZIG.
ai ondence of The Bee )-Onme
with me this brlgnt SundHy
murning for a look at the old
land cf Uoihen, where the
Jrueliten . set tied, when m
flist
iime Into Egypt. I am writing im.
n me center or It
hot far from lh r..i..l
down which Jonepli was carried by the
caravan of Ishmaelitea. or Bedoulna, who
had bought him of hi. brothera and were
on their way to sell him to Potlpbar. It
" 'r ''t "me road that the ten
ona of Jacob, Benjamin having been left
at 'home, came down here to get corn;
nd It inuat have been about her that
they had their dealing with Joseph, who
wa then the chief officer of Pharaoh and
the premier, an It were, of hit adminis
tration. : You all know how he cume Into
Kgypt and grew to be , the greatest man
of the country. He was ao Influential that
he waa able to give Goshen to Jacob and
hla, family; and it waa at his advice that
they all moved here and settled. That
waa the beginning of the l3raolltea In
Kgypt, and they remained here In Gonhen
for generatlona before they were finally
enslaved and forced to make bricks by the
I'haraoha.
Land of Gioahe
The land of Goshen
today one of the
finest parte of the, Nile ,valley. I came
here fmm Palm . i.l m ,iinta ...,
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mi uugn ncn crops or cotton, sugar cane
no ciover. xnere was green to be seen
everywhere, and I could ride from here
twenty miles more to the eastward before
reaching the desert. The railroad from
Cairo to the Suex cana! goes directly
through Goshen. It strikes the canal at
Ismatla and then branches off north and
south, running along the line of the canal
to Sues on the Red aea, and to Port Said
on the Mediterranean. The first section
Is over the road, which led from Arabia
to Memphis and llellopolis, which cities
have since been replaced by t'alro, the
capital and metropolis of Egypt. Tills
town of Zagazlg, where 1 am stopping, is
one of the chief cities in the delta. It
is on the fresh water canal and on a
big Irrigation canal, which leads to the
Nile. It is famous as a cotton port and
today camels are coming into the town
with balea on their backs, and long' truin
loads are starting out for Alexandria and
Port Said, from v. hence the cotton will be
shipped off to Europe.
This cotton is a feature of the landscape
which was abucnt In the days of the Pha
roalis. When Joseph came down into Egypt
I ..ondence of The Bee.) -Cm. po. d ?o low that the peop.e ,JBt l - ; " ; 'fi, ili ; v i fi U if f ' I I I I' K ' I ' I 'I
4L I 'th me brint Sun.lHy crawl Into them. We know that Abraham 1 Ml ' A ii XiWtKWf Vi ' 'i f ; WW It - X''. 11 A .
the only cloth that the people had was afternoon on the terrace of the Evanatoii family tree. The girl's mother Is of (Jer
made of flax and wool. The cotton plant re,idence of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Bum- man parentage, and her Becond husband,
was not knows to exist, ana it was as late i,am,
as the middle ages when the ppple gave The Kodt who ever have had the repu
credit to a story that cotton of India came taUon of fav0llnK brides. added a gilt or
from a sheep which vrew on the end of a two fqr Ml8 Fuler reporta tne Chicago
bush and which now and then bent down TrlbunV. They gave her a glorious btu
to eat the grass which grew a.l around. tember dtty for an outduor Weddlng-a risk
That cotton plant was supposed to thrive few bHiea Wl)uld have cared tQ have faCeii
In Hindustan, and it was not until centu- .,, -
lies later that the real cotton seeds were
planted in Egypt. Today Goshen la cov
eted with cotton. There are many planta
tions near Zagaxlg, and 1 have seen thou
sands of acres of this crop throughout dif
ferent parts of the Egyptian delta, lt is
the chief money crop of the country, and it
will bring In upward of one hundred million
dollars this year.
t-rrat Stock Coualry.
Tlds land of Goshen Is a fine stock coun
try. Camels, buffaloes and donkeys are
staked out In the fields, and flocks of
aheep and goats feed there, watched by
shepheixU. There are, also, droves of cam
els graslug or lying on the ground, chew
ing their cuds. ' All have their herdsmen.
There are no fences in Egypt, and the
fields are bounded by imaginary lines.
Sometimes the limits may be told by the
ditches or the little embankments made for
irrigation. It was as stock raisers that the Israel
ites came Into Kgypt. They were a pastoral
people, and It may have been for that tea
sou that Joseph had Pharoah give them
this land of Goshen, the eastern part of
which is fringed by the deceit, with places
tit scanty vegetation, where the stock could
I rase.
Today the laud is well cultivated. Mont
of the fields are kept like gardens, and L
fee half-naked men bending over and dig
ging the soil Willi great mattock,. Here
the farmers arc plowing, using the same
or.e-handed plow of the days of the Scrip
tures, borne of them have donkeys aud
buffaloes hitched together, and now aud
then one sees a plow dragged along by a
cow and a camel. There is much artificial
irrigation, and the water is lifted from
level to level by men with buckets and
baskets to which ropes sre slung. In other
places the water is raised by the saklyeh,
a rude wheel which is turned by the cogs
of another wheel, set at rlrht angles to It.
Uq the perpendicular wheel clay Jars are
tautened, and as this moves through the
water these fill and, turning, empty them
selves Into the troughs which lead to the
kittle canals and the fields. The motive
power In thla case is a blindfolded camel,
bullock or donkey, the animal going around
like a horse In an old-fashioned bark mill.
Many of the fields are uuw under
water
and the silvery streams shine out through
the emerald green of the crops.
lllaara of Uoakra,
heu the Israelites first came to Goshen
they probably lived in tents audi as the
iMwlouius use today. These are made of
aheep' wool or goat's hair, rudely woven
by hand. They are upheld by ropes and
poles and are to low that the people nuit
crawl Into them. We know that Abraham
lived In a tent and it Is probable that this
was the case with- Isaac and Jacob.
After coming to Goshen the Israelites
probably copied the '-ouses of the Egypt
ians and built village., of mud huU not un
like those ' I now see. These houses are
rude to an extreme. ; Many of them are
m.t over twenty feet square. .They have
flat .roofs and are often so low that one
can look over them as he rides by on a
camel. There are no gardens or lawns
abqut them. They face the street and -are
huddled together without regard-to beauty
or comfort.
The.. roofs form the woodyards of. the.
people below. . The only fuel used is corn
stalks, straw or the bushes from which
cotton has been picked. This stuff is tied
up In bundles and laid away on- the roofs
.until used..
. There are but few trees to be Been. Now
and then an acacia grows along the road
way, and here and there over the country
re clumps of date palms. There are occa
sional fruit gardens, and one frequently
paHses ah orchard loaded, with oranges.
The roads are usually high above the
rest of the country. They run along the
canals, and consist of the dirt built up
to hold back the waters. The aide roads
are chiefly camel patha or footpaths, and
one aeea everywhere the traffic moving
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the
enter roaaa tnere are very few wagons.
ln most or tne rreight is carried on
donkeys and camels,' and they -form the
chief riding animals as well. Long-legged
Egyptians in turbans and gowns sit on
the rumps of little donkeys, their feet
almost dragging, and fierce looking
Bedouins, their headdresses tied on ' with
Curious and
I'Uaht Troth in Open Air.-
PICTURE a plateau of beau
tiful lawn, kept tumbling over
hillocks Into the sands of
Lake Michigan's shore by a
P
rrr
stone parapet. Its background
the lake, its outlook the gar-
a country estate, and you
setting for the wedding of
iiavc loc
Miss Dorothy
Rothbone Fuller, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Gordon Fuller,
and William Arthur Vawter II, sun of Mr. The entrance of Yamanioto into the Pap
nd Mrs. William A. Vawter of Evanston, paa family brought out the fact that four
which was celebrated at fi o'clock Sunday nationalities are now renresented in the
father from a narrow escape of death.
While on his way to take the train to
his north shore residence on Friday even-.
iug, Dr. Fyller was knocked down by a
cat. In front of the Northwestern station
and waa picked up unconscious by a pass
ing friend. He was revived and taken to
his residence and when ho walked down
to tne great tree which formed his daugh- people were attracted to one another. When
ter's outdoor bridal altar, his head ban- Yamamoto began to make regular visits to
daged and In his left hand a vane, he wils the house the mother was Inclined to dls
quite the hero of the occasion. Botn Dr. courage the match, but finally she con
Fuller and the bride were determined he eluded her efforts, to separate the pair were
should enact his part On the program, useless.
however. Immediately after the ceremony Several weeks ago the young couple an
Dr. Fuller retired to the Burnham real- nounced their engagement to Mrs. Pappas.
dence, where he saw only the close men Mrs. Pappas was Influenced by friends nut
friend -who sought him out.
The wedding was one of the most attract
ive Chicago or its suburbs has been given.
A single tall tree down at the turn of the
terrace, with the lake In view from all
points, was chosen tor the altar. About
this corner the guests gathered luforiually,
waiting for the laige wedding parly.
The appearance of Mrs. Fuller, Mr. and
Mrs. Vawter and Mr. and Mrs. Burnham
through the long grape arbor which divides
the flower and the vegetable gardens, an-
nounced the approach of 6 o'clock, and
shortly after chimes and stringed Instru- '-Very well," capitulated Mrs. Pappas, "if
nents sounded the "Lohengiin" wedding yuU are go certain about It as that. 1 sup
march and the ushers appeared and took poae the best I can do is to surrender."
their places down either side of the space 'as the marriage laws of Missouri will
abeut the tree.
The Rev. Dr. J. G. K
McClure, wearing
clerical rubes of black silk, banded in wlaek
velvet, a stole of scarlet velvet lined with
royal blue satin thrown about his throat,
took his place beneath the tree. Then came
the bridegroom and his best man in pure
white serge sack suits (the ushers wore
blue sack coats with white flannel trousers)
snd the brldemalds, all In white, followed.
Each isrrled in one arm a large bouquet
of swansonla and white clematis and in the
other long ropes of smllax, which formed
the aisle through which came the maid of
honor and the bride and her father.
The maid of honor was Miss Elisabeth
Fuller, the young sister of the bride, and
she wore a short gown of white net. a net
tunic falling in close about the full ruffle
of the undergown, csaght with a band of
filet lace. The neck was Dutch and the
sleeves, scarce reached- the elbow.'-where
they were edged with the . lace. . Her bat
waa a. Miss Muffet shape of the set over
white lace, a' duplicate of those worn by
the brldemalds.
A reception on the terrace followed and
later an old fashioned "infar" dlnucr was
ropes, bob up and down as they ride on
i..eir camels, their heads apparent y bow-
uH m oeijr ttiepoi, me oeaui. 'i nert lire
cajtiela loaded with ulralfa, the pass so
coveting them that they look like minia
ture . haystacks walking 'along. Tnere
are donkeys With boxes and bags and
mules and bullocks carrying treight of
one kind or other. Out 'In the rielus one
now and then aees a butfalo with a liali
naked boy sitting on it, and at nightfall
tne patha are lined with men coming
irom tne nelds riding these ungulnly
beasts,
and balancing their one-handled
plows In front
of tlfem as they move
slowly on
fltjr of the Cat.
It, was here in Goshen that the Israel-
ltes worked after they were enblaved by
the Egyptians. They went from here also
. . i i . . .1 . . .
. to build cities and towns In varloua purls
,. of the Nilevatley. .'1 he archeologlsts who
. .. .
re now exoavating in Egypt tell me they
frequently find Uilcks which were prob-
ably made by them,, and assert that the
sun-dried bricks of today are practically
tne same as those' which the children of
Israel - molded under the lash of their
taskmasters.' '
Romantic Incidents of Courtships arid Marriages
given by Mr. and Mrs. Vawter as a wel- Miss Conroy said. She adclo.i o.oi .1,. . . .
come to their new daughter-in-law.
g
At. Uul Girl Weda Japuiirae.
Although ntany" young Americans called
oiten at (tie aouse, and one young man, the
von of a St. Louis pastor, offered his hand
-n marriage, Miss Frieda Gast of 919 Kout.i
Taylor avenue, St. Louis, mar.ied Yaklnube
lamamoto, a dapper little Jupanese con-
cesslonalre at Delmar garden.
Peter Pappas, is a Greek. Miss Frieda, or
Mrs. Yamumoto. was born In the United
States. .
Mrs. Yamamoto Is a very attractive bru
nette, while her husband has been known
among his friends as the handsomest young
Japanese In St. Louis. He is the son of a
wealthy merchant in Toklo, Japan. Yama
moto came to America to exhibit Japanese
goods at the World's fair. After the expo
sition he had become so charmed with the
country that he concluded io make his
home here.
Two years ago Yamamoto and Miss Gast
were Introduced by friends. From the first,
according to the girl's mother, the young'
to permit her daughter to wed the Jap.
Meantime Yamamoto and his fiancee
quietly made arrangements for the mar
riage. When Thursday, the day set for the wed-
djnKi came, Mrs. Pappas had not 'changed
her mind. She was determined that Yama
moto should not have her daughter. It was
then that the girl asserted her independ
ence, according to Mrs. Pappas. The girl
reminded her mother that she was 19 years
0d and that she would marry regardless of
i,.r mother's objections.
not permit the Intermarriage of Japanese
and Caucasians, the couple went to Spring
field, III. They were accompanied by Mrs.
Pappas. They were married In the Illinois
capital by a Justice of the peace and re
turned to St. Louis in the evening.
Two uttora iiet l.leenses.
Miss - Isabel le Conroy of Philadel
phia is facing the most serious prob
lem' of her -career, inasmuch as both
Edward Billings- and Arthur Dennis
are carrying marriage licenses, on each ot
which Is Inscribed her name. Both have
shown the licenses to Miss Conroy, but
she haa.not yet as announced her inten
tions, telling both suitors she Is going to
consult a lawyer and act upon hla advice.
Miss Conroy admits that she cares a
whole lot for both young men, but says
her affections for. them are equally di
vided. She Intimates that she would
make no objection to marrying one of
them. - but 'says she -does not think lt
would be proper to take both.
"I like both the boys snd they came to
see rue frequently, but 1 arranged their
visits so that they -would uot meet,"
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."RKEMAKiNci m Pbaraohs Lan5 I n ' ' ,"l.....,t'
y ' lH; 4 5o5E,Pii or i9io
This fa the case in
bastic, or the city of
the ruins o,' Bu
.c worship of the
cat. This tov n
was situated wluln a
stone's throw of. the Zagazig of today,
anl Its ruins are still to be seen. Its
many building of mud brick have
crumbled ulni.st to dust, but here und
there the wans ore plainly visible. There
are several hundred acres of such ruins
and I spent an hour or so today driving
through them.
Bubastis dales back to the time when the
pyramms were young, u Is suppooed to
have been built by the Israelites, and was
a great city until ll was captured by the
f'eralans,. about 332 B. C. Buba.stix was
noted for Its temples devoted to the cat
headed goddess. This lady had the form
of a lioness with the head of a cat, and she
Herodotus Rraks of her and this citv av
. J
neiu in one nana a lotus leaf as a scenter.
inn that the iemples were itoraeoiis , ,1
that the stone road leadina to them w-
1 ,c -oaa leauillg IO mem Was
1.S00 feet long. He says that the- oeoule
came In crowd.s here to worship, and at the
annual v festivals something like 700,000
strangers wtre present. " He relates that
many of the worshipers were women, w ho
often danced and acted otherwise, "In an
unseemly manner," leading us to believe
miss conroy said. She added that she
thought one of them would propose, but
says she lidd) no idea that both would
rush off and get marriage licenses with
out consulting her. Billings declares that
he has courted Miss Conroy for Bix
months and took it for granted that he
was the only one.. "Why, the night before
I got the license," lie said toduy, "we
talked as though everything was 'ar
ranged; she kissed tne and told me that
Hhe did not caro if I did not have a big
income."
Dennis also admits that he never asked
Miss Conroy to be his wife, but he avers,
"I waa so sure of her after taking out
the marriage license In regular form 1
engaged a minister and paid him his fee
in udvance."
The first time,tiie suitors met at the
Conroy house was; when they went to
present Aiiiss Conroy witli their respective
marriage licenses. She tainted -when both
exhibited the documents.
Elopes to Mi, Dollar Bet.
Joseph B. Frost, grandjon of Brigadier
General Daniel M. Froat, the confederate
spy, and a nephew of three St. Louij wo
men who married into the English nobil
ity, eioped to Clayton, Mo., today and
married Mrs. Hattie
lleers, a widow two
years his senior, to win a $1 bet.
The -loser of the wager is Roland Van
Hoeien, son of Dr. Samuel Van Hoefen,
and brother of the bride. The brother
ventured his dollar with the remark that
his slier and Froat were, already married
"Just to how you that we were not
Wed and to win this money, we'll go out
to Clayton and have It done," suid Mr.
Frost.
Roland Van Hoefen was the only mem
ber of the tp-o families taken Into their
confidence. He paid the dollar Immedi
ately after a Justice of the peace hud
performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Ueers was accompanied by Mrs.
l'eurl Kappel. She gave her uge as 34
years. Mr. Frost said he was 32. "We
became, engaged when llattie's brother
suspected us of being married already,"
explained Mr. Frost.
Mrs. Geers,' flist husband was killed
In a motorcycle accident ut tiie Luulslana
Purchase exposition. He was a motor
cycle manufacturer.
Marries Nnee-t heart of loath.
With the death of Lieutenant Gov
ernor James B. Wakefield at Blue Earth.
Minn., comes lo light a romance seldom
heard of except In fiction, and as a fit
ting climax the body of the pioneer will
be burled Monday beside the sweetheart,
of hla youth in a1 little cemetey ut Cleve
land. Many years ago, when the man who
later became lieutenant governor of Min
nesota was a youth of ;o years, he .met
and fell In love with the. belle of Paynes
V J t le. O. Although he fas an ardent ad
mirer, he lacked the courage to tell of
his love and left Ohio to make his for
tune In the west.
In 1815 he landed in Shakopee, where
he lived and worked until February, 185t,
when he went to Blue Earth.
As the years paased and he heard of
the . marriage of the sweetheart of his .
youth, Mr. Wakefield married an esti
mable woman of Blue Earth.
y few years after hla election to con
gress In 1884, his wife died, and hla life
waa u lonely one until about three years
ago. He was then more than 80 years
CWjttfr.: r ..tyN doubt that they mopped at "ulV,
1f jSfy'g ;n Ty"- they went on to JlellopoIiH. wpV f
- -m it i'iiivjVr - temple and college xtill eximted ( ) I j
that they were by no means so good as
iin'y siiouia oe.
.tiding out to Buha.HtiH, I found there a
brickyard lnfull swing. It was situated
right on the edge of the ruins and the
Fellaheen of today were molding the clay
y lhe ,srael"e!' of the P8t lnto
bu''UnK material for 110. As I looked at
1hPm mv mlnH n I.0..1, ... . A
iiitrni my inula went dbck to tne days or
the Pharoahs, when Moses was still living
and saw his people laboring under the lash.
These men and women were working under
taskmanters or overseers. Their half-clad
persons were burnt black by the tropical
sun overhead1 and they looked not unlike
slaves.' Here they were grinding the mud,
old and not in robust health. The sweet
heart of his youth came back to his
thoughts and the old lunging to wed the
woman whom he had left and who had
become a widow came to him.
The wedding was arranged, and on
July 5, 1907, the couple, both more than
80 years old, were married at Blue Earth.
The happlners was short lived, however,
for the bride lived a little more than a
year. The body was taken to Cleveland
and sinc e that event life in the old pio-,
neer has been slowlv ehM., wv. hi,
last wish was to be burled
sweetheart of his youth.
z - - -
beside the
MakiiiK (he Weddlus; aPy.
From a hall over a Polish saloon cafe
In Chicago, came such shouts and laugh-
ter und squeaking of fiddles that 1 went
up the Sleep nlairs and entered, relates
a writer In Everybody's Alaguiine.
".list a Wcddin'," suid the stout Irish
policeman, who stood in one corner com
placently tuking It In. Around the walls
stood and sat some -i'O of all ages, irom
the whiie-heuded old woman across the
room to the wee, chubby grandchild that
stolidly slept In Iter lap. On the floor
were a dozen coup.es whirling and stamp
ing', some laughing, others as though
'heir very lives depended on the power
of each stamp. From the platform the
little orchestra was playing fast and
hard, repeating the same short, rythmic
squeak over and over.
Tho week's long grind In the stock In
yams, the worne.s, the anxious planning After the war he served as a private In
to save up for a cottage home all were the French army during the Franco
forgotten. Each time the fiddles resumed piusslan war and was wounded at tha
their frenzy the whirling aud stamping ieg of Pane. Laier he wandered about
und laughing bgan us though lt were in many countries and finally entered the
o'clock Instead of l. Only the babies Boer army In. the war with England scrv
were sljent and dignl fied aound asleep. Ing under General Kronje and General
Over In one coiner stood the bride.' Dewet. After this be returned to Amer
husky young girl of perhaps 18, dressedi lea and has since lived In this country In
... iiBuiuiriiBi Miiiio wiiu a nieasci -u
cheerfully doing its best to flutter and
flow in the breeze from the window.
She sat by her mother. Her broad, rather
dull face was rosy, now and glowing. She
breathed deep, smiling to hersellf, now
glancing at the coarse while roses In
her lap, now ut the dancers, nuw at her
brand new husband, a tall, thin Pole, who
stood stiff and uwkward, but grinning
with delight. When a loan cuipe over and
sejed her hand, she boune-cd up with u.
quick laugh. And then came new excite
ment, lor every male guest is expected to ask
the bride to dance; and, to dc.fruy their
wedding expenses, the price of each dance
is SI. on the floor Is u thick white plate.
upon which the guest may throw his coin
Willi all his force, and if lie breuks it
his money Is returned. But whether from
the generous caution of the guests or the
thickness of the plate provided by the
bride's discreet muiiimu. this accident
rarely happens. And often. If the bride
is a belle and the. groom a good feiloiv.
the sum amounts to I; 00 or even $300
with enough left over
to furnish the
new American home which ia to begin cn
the marrow.
New homes, new iniislu and dancing,
new energy, new vital hopes are here.
For It Is the lustiest youth, the very
bone snd sinew of Poland, that Is now
crowding In, to help make the new race
of the future.
T Marry at "i laelyfoar.
Major Edward James Monroe of Uridge-
there they were molding it Into bricks and
.1.... ii uvrr ...ey e.e pmn up w.e o..." doubt Ule reliability of their statementa.
which had been dried In the sun. The Tie tre(J may be U)e de.cenjt o( ,
carrying of the brirl.s was largely done by wlli..h Mlood thla , tn8 tlm8 of ch,t
young girls, who labored under
negro with a stick In his hand.
bUrly
At his
anecuon tne gins took tne dhcks on tneir
heads and carried them off on the trot. I
to a nh,llntrrnli nt till. ,.no hv l.rlhlnir
imuiugmpn 01 mis scene. Dy uiiouih
the negro, and I doubt not my picture was
'"'r type of that which went on In those
long ago days, when Pharoah drove the
Israelites to similar work without straw
With the Virgin Mary In Egypt.
It was down through Goshen that Jo-
port. Conn.,
and Jacksonville, lia., who
asserts that he is a son of James Monroe,
tifth president of the United States, today
announced his intention of marrying at tne
age of W, having outlived three wives and
twelve children and having survived three
wais.
Major Monroe's a sertlon that he is a
son of the famous president, during whose
administration the Monroe
uui'.iuie was
piomuigatea, is nothing new to his ac-
quainlances
In thin i'ifv In u.' h . r H h m hou
V - " "-
uct ii at.
summer resident for more than
bixty seasons. He has never been called
upon to piove his assertion, although no
biography of Jamej Monroe mentions the
tact of his having had a eon.
This apparent oversight on the part of
the historians is due, says Major Monroe,
to the fact that Utile was ever known of
the personal life of his father. Major
Monroe says he Is a son by a second mar
riage, his mother's family name , being
Lauder. Here there la another seeming
ovtrsight by the historians, as only one
marriage is mentioned hi the biographies
of President Monroe, and that was to Miss
Kourtwrlght of New York
Major Monroe says he was born In Rich
mond, Va., on July 4, lsio,
death of his father, Tn ls.11.
Upon tho
he says, he
passed into the hands of a guardlaa-. by
whom he was taken to South Africa, where
he remained several years.
Returning to America before the out-
break of tne civil war. he served as major
an aruuery regiment irom Richmond,
retirement Ma
says one of his sons is
alive, but he does not know where he Is.
Mmnt Work to Wed.
Acceptance of the tenet of the Mormon
church, wliii.ii provides that no man shall
live In idleness nor on tho wealth accum
ulated by his father, or his father's father,
is -the price Daniel Palmer of New York,
Son of a multimillionaire, today decided u
Pay for the hand of Miss A. Pearl Weller
or Walt Lake City. Miss Wller Is the
daughter of AJ. Weller, ward bishop of
the Mormon ehurch.
Young Palmer announced that lie had de
cided upon this, course, which means the
be--'" ot ''' tentative engagement with
ailss Marjorle Curtis, a society woman of
the younger set In New York, who was one
of the oiidemalda. ai the Gould-Drexel
wedding last spring.
Palmer is In San ' Francisco to meet Ills
father, D. 11. Paliucr, a coal magnate of
New York. Father and son will go to Salt
Lake, where Ihey will meet Bishop Wirier
and the engagement' will be discussed.
ilmer' Plana may mt-an the giving up of
his lnherltage and possibly his suclal posi
tion in New Yuik, where he is a member
of the Knickerbocker, Hhe Princeton and
other clubs.
Palmer said he and Miss Curtis had been
friends since childhood and that society
and hla friends had taken it as a matter
of couiYe that they would be married. He
admitted that his fathfr, until very re
cently, had been determined that he should
marry Miss Curtis. ..
the
the
in Tant
lnMiii
lit rod who slaughtered the inniui n.
This was then the hlrf hlghnuy linn)
Palestine Into Egypt, and there la no
doubt that they mopped at liuhjpi, v
iiit'y Weill un iu jienopuiiH, w
temple and college still existed at
ciiiini nan uuiii. 1111.-1 in m, live III..
from the obelik o( lieliopulis under whiCU.
Mary'iind Joepli and the young JextiK me
said to have rested. It Is about five miles
from Cairo and guide books Bpeak of It
as one of l(le Htot.R Hifclits of Egypt. ' I
I f u a allil Hl'iH ,lln.u u liui lu.l u.jth numl
year, and scarred with the n-mcs of lonr
BtB u lg on Qne of ,he e(jUtos of A
kheulve ftnd lt may be 8eeI1 througU
t . . .... . . TT
Dur8 of a fence, which has been built
lround lt to k(H,n ott ,h. ri, hnl--
dui1k my v(sit tnere 1 tried t0 ollmb ,4
fence in order to gel a photograph of it.
but some of the khedive's servants came on
and warned me not to go In. The tree is
surrounded by orange orchards, which ir
Iri'llluloil l.7 Lalrivali. . 1 - u . n 1. . . 1. . .
lames wiui oiaiiKeis over ineir eye.
Am X U'Pllt hr 1 MtnntifA a & nt (ki
saklyehs and the then brought me soma
llianir.B fr.,.1,1 1 1 n Ifkuilti..'. W A & .J
jj
t
sold them at the rate of eight tor ID coals.'
They were wonderfluly refreshing, and as
sat in the sluide of the trees outs)ds the
fence I wondered whether Mary und Joseoh
had not perhaps thus quenched their thirst
eph and Mary tame with
Savior wlieii they fled from
in that same place, now over 1900 JJears "Ho.
Any resting place must have been, welcome
after the long ride through the cOiiCy lu.jiV,
the edge of the great city of the aurt ;
i addition to this thPr r. ...h.r .... re
told of the stay of the holy family In Kgypt.
vno is uui josepn anu Mary took our Sv-
lour out to the pyramids and frorji tlieie to
tne sphinx, it is khM ilmt M.rwU.i in...
in the lap of the suhinx. and thaiA i.t
- - - , w . . . ......
i..u&
i paws or mat migniy.
sone beast, half liou. half human i,..im...
.
Children of lOgyit.
These stories seem vivid as One travail
through Egypt. 1 went down the other (My
lo the banks of the Nile where the little
baby Moses is said to have lain in tin. lull
rushes in las boat oi papyrus, and as i
stood by the Obelisk at lieliopulis 'a was re
minded of the virgin and the Saviour by a
young girl who had a babe in h,r anus.
She must have been about the ) MW'
that Mary was then, and the ill:H una
laughtd and crowed us she rested 'there un
der the tropical sun. At tho sum time
score of other children, rajiglug in age fivm
2 to 12 years, gathered mound ma dnd imMSd
for my camera with the obelisk buillnd. The"
obelisk was inwli,nhi.iii-
Saviour was carried through Egypt and it
Was erected long before Moses wui found in
the bulrushes over there on Uie b. ks of
the Nilo not far away. Tho areai slena
seemed to tie the puat and the present to-
gemer, una tho little ones of todav broutlil
..!. uione oi me limes or tho Saviour.
The children were glad to pose, for me,
but us 1 snapped the camera they niMito'
to thu front with hands outstretch. beg- 4j
glng for baksheesh. 1 was at a loss how
to fee so many and finally gave ;'." rents
to my coachman and left him to fight it
out with the babl :. The little ones mohkea
him and he had to threaten them Wltli Mi
carriage whip lo keep them away. vAli'osV
ally ended the trouble by giving cri tug '
children one-half a piastre, so that each re
celved a little more than one cent. - 1
Vouusj America In Egypt.
As 1 was about leaving the obclifli
party of American tourists drove up
Among them was a smart l.'-y cur-olil I'Oy
who put his hand.i in his pocket and v-iad
up at the Btone as though lie thout;)ii He
were ready to buy it. As he did so I "Id
to him:
"Hello, my little man, are you not so
American?"
"You bet I am," he promptly replied "1
come from Chicago In the slate of Illi
nois. You are EngHHh, aren't yop?"
"No, 1 am an American, and my hunts
Is Washington city.''
"Oh, yes," said lh urchin. I know '
about that place. President Tsft liei
there. Say, what is the name of 'otu, ""X
team?"
iiiut was the Interesting thing ti ' ,
Out here under the shadow of the uLm'
4,000 ycuis old, on the spot wheie Jonrpb
was married to Aseuatli; whtic I'lato
philosophised and where Moses p!a ed
within plain sight of the py ramids sn l n sr
enough almost to hear the whlxpei of IBs
sphinx, ho cured nothing for therm
a live boy, and he wanted live lit in
Therefore the pitchers, catcher snd
stops of the great American diacnoi d i
worm more io into man an un -siui i
i.i... i -.i .... ..
nanny biiu an me muiiimicn tv
B.iitnB Anil u ll..... . .
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FRANK U. CAlil'jtNTKR.
