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- ' FEAHE: Gk CARPENTER'S LETTER. ertain Gyres For Chronic Complaints i TRAVELS IN" THE FOOTSTEPS OF JOSEPH AND JACOB. The Home of the Israelites as a Cotton Plantation Its Queer Villages and Odd Farming Scenes A Look at Bubastis, Where They Worshiped the Cat Brick Making in Egypt The Virgin's Tree and Other Tra ditions of Mary's Visit to the Nile Valley Young America at the Obelisk. t AGAZIG. Efcypt Sept. 10, j -with me this bright Sunday " morning- for a look at the old land of Goshen, -where the Is raelites settled -when they first came into Egypt. I am writing this in the center of it, not far from the road down -which Joseph -was carried by the caravan of Ishmaelites, or Bedouins, -who had bought him of his brothers and were on their -way to sell him to Potiphar. It was over that same road that the ten sons of Jacob, Ben jamin having been left at home, came down here to get corn; and it must have been about here that they had their dealings with Joseph, who was. then the chief officer of Pharaoh and the premier, as it were, of his admin istration. You all know how he came into Egypt and came ,to be the greatest man in the country. He was so influential that he was able to give PIMPLES "X tdd U kind of Wood remedies -wfskih failed to do me say good, bet I Bst found tin Tight thing t kt My faoo wm full of plmpiee&nd black-beads. After taking Caftcsrcts tbey all left. I am continuing tbc vat of them and recom mending them to my friends. I feel fine .trhen I rise ia the morning. Hope to hare a chance to recommend Cascarets." &sd C. Wittea, 7S Elm St, Newark, N. J. iat. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. o Good. Never SJckea.Weaken or Gripe. ,25c, Site. Never sold In bulk. Tneirenu tabiet stazroed C C C Guaranteed to bsb or voor siooev back. 922 (Copyright 1910 by Frank G. Carpenter.) Come t Goshen to Jacob and his family; and it was at nis aavice mm mey " link ed here and settled. That was the be ginning of the Israelites in Egypt, and they remained here in Goshen for gen erations before they were finally en slaved and forced to make brictfs by the Pharaohs. Tlie Land of Goshen. The land of Goshen is today one of the finest parts of the Kile valley. I came here from Cairo and my whole way was through rich crops of cotton, sugar cane and clover. There 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 Suez canal goes directly, through Goshen. It strikes the canal at Ismalia and then branches off north and south, running along the line of the canal to Suez on the Red sea, and to Port Said on the iTediterranean. The first section is over the road which led from Arabia to Memphis and Heli opolis, which cities have since been re placed by Cairo, the capital and" me tropolis of Egypt. This town of Zaga zig, where I am stopping, is one f the chief cities in the delta. It is on the fresh water canal and on a big irri gation canal which leads to the Nile. It is famous as a cotton port and today' camels are coming into the town with bales on their backs, and long train loads are starting out for Alexandria and Port Said, from whence the cotton will be shipped off to Europe. This cotton is a feature of the land scape which was absent in the days of the Pharaohs. When Joseph came down into Egypt the only cloth .that the people had was made of flax and wool. The cotton plant was not known "Drinking Men Discharged" "Whisky ias been driven from every place of honor because it is a bar to achievement, and a deadly enemyref happiness, and a menace to physical and mental health. 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Testimonials from Grateful El Paso Patients Given Upon Request. to exist, and it -was as late as the middle ages, -when the people gave credit to a story that cotton of India came from a sheep -which grew on the end of a bush, and -which now. and thenvbent down to eat the grass which grew around. The cotton plant was supposed to thrive in Hindustan, and It was not until centuries later that the real cotton seeds were planted in Egypt. Today Goshen is covered with cotton. There are many plantations near Zagazig, and I have seen thou sands of acres of this crop throughout different parts of the Egyptian delta. It is the chief money crop of the coun try and it will bring in upward of one hundred million dollars this year. A Great Stock Country. This land of Goshen is a fine stock country. Camels, bufaloes and donkeys are staked out in the fields, and flocks of sheep and goats feed there, -watched bsr shepherds. There are, also, dfbves of camels grazing or lying on the ground, chewing their cuds. AH have their hehrdsmen. There are no fences in Egypt, and the fields are bounded by Imaginary lines. Some times the limits may be told by the ditches, or the 'little embankments made for irrigation. . It was as stock raisers that the Is raelites came into Egypt. They were a pastoral people and it may have been for that reason that Joseph had Pha raoh give them this land of Goshen, the eastern part of which is fringed by the desert, w.ith places of scanty veg etation, where the stock could graze. Today the land Is well cultivated. Most of the fields are kept like gar dens, and I see half naked men bend ing over and digging the soil with great mattocks. Here the farmers are plowing, using tthe same one-handed plow of the days of the scriptures. Some of them have donkeys and buffa loes hitched together, and now and then , one sees a pVow dragged along by a' cow and a cameL There is much artificial irrigation, and the water Is lifted from level tp. level by menwith buckets attd baskets to which ropes are slung." In other places the water is raised by the sakiyeh, a rude wheel which is turned ' by the cogs of another wheel, set at right angles to it. On the perpendicular wheel clay jars are fastened, and as this moves through the water these fill and turn ing empty themselves into the troughs which lead to the little ca nals and the fields. The motive power in this case is a blindfolded camel, bul lock or donkey, the animal going around like a horse In an old-fashioned bark mill. Many of the fields are now under water and "the silvery streams shine out through the emerald green of the crops. The Villages, of Goshen. When the Israelites first came to Goshen ithey probably lived m tents such as the Bedouins use today. These are made of sheep's -wool or goat's hair,, rudely woven by hand. They are up-" held by ropes and poles and are so low that the neonle must crawl into thm. Wf knnw tTiitt ihroh-iTn Hvod in I which the 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 seen. Now and then an acacia grows along the roadway, and here and there over the country are clumps of date palms. lnere are occasional fruit gardens, I and one frequently passes an 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 side roads are chiefly camel paths or foot paths, and one sees everywhere the traffic moving along through the fields. Even on the chief roads there are very few wagons. The most of the freight is carried on donkeys and cam els, and they form the chief riding animals as well. Iiong-legged Egyp tians in turbans and gowns sit on the rumps of little donkeys, their feet al most dragging; fierce looking i Be douins, their headdresses tied on with ropes, bob up and doyi'n as they ride on their camels, their heads apparent ly bowing at every step of the beast. There are camels loaded with alfalfa, the grass so covering them that they look like miniature haystacks walking along. There are donkeys with boxes and bags and mules and bullocks car rying freight of one kind or other. Out in the fields one now and then sees a buffalo with a half-naked boy sitting on it, and at nightfall the paths are lined with men coming from the fields rid ing these ungainly beasts, and balanc ing their one-handled plows in front of them as they move slowly on. The City of the Cat. i It was here in Goshen !hat the Is raelites worked after they were ,, en slaved by the Egyptians. They went from here also to build cities and towns in various parts of the Nile val ley. The archeologists who are now excavating in Egypt tell me that they ifoquenuy una Dricks which were probably made by them, and assert that the sun-dried bricks of today are practically the same as those which the children of Israel molded under the lash of their taskmasters. This Is the case in the ruins of the Bubastis, or the city of the worship of the cat. This town was situated within a stone's throw of the Zagazig of to day, and its buildings of mud brick have crumbled almost to dust; but here and there the walls are plainly visible. Bubastis dates back to the time -nen tne pyramids were young. It is supposed to have been built by the Israelites, and was a great city until it was captured by the Persians about 352 B. C. Bubastis was noted for its temples devoted to the ca-h.-:i!el goddess. This lady had the form of a lioness with the head of a cat and she held in one hand a lotus leaf as a scepter. 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Egyptian Brickmakers of 1910. ' Hiding out to Bubastis, I found there a brickyard in full swing. It was situ ated right on the edge of the ruins and the Fellaheen of today were mold ing the clav used by the Israelites of tho past into building material for 1910. As I looked at them my mind went back to the days of the Pharaohs when Moses was still living and saw his people laboring under the lash. These men and women are working un der taskmasters or overseers. Their half-clad persons were burnt black by the tropical sun overhead and they looked not unlike slaves. Here they were grinding the mud, there they were molding it into bricks and further mighty stone beast, half lion, half hu man being. , The Children of Egypt. These stories seem vivid as one trav els through Egypt. 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The gFeat stone seemed to tie the past and the present together, and the little ones of today brought back those of the times of the Saviour. The children were" glad to pose for me, but as I snapped the camera they rushed to the front with hands out stretched for baksheesh. I was at a loss how to fee so many, and fmally gave 25 cents to my coachman and left him to fight it out with the babies. The little ones mobed him and he had to threaten them with his carriage whip to keep them away. He fmally ended the trouble by giving each two children one-half a piastre, so that each received a little more than one cent. Young: America In EffJ-pt. As I was about leaving the obelisk a party of American tourists drove up. Among them was a smart twelve year old boy who put his hands in his pockets and gazed up4at the stone as though he were ready to buy it. As he did so I said to him: "Hello, my little man, are you not an American?" "You bet I am," he promptly repli ed. "I come from Chicago, in the state which had been dried in the sun. carrying oi tne bricks was largely done by young girls, who labored un der a burly negro with a stick in his hand. At his direction, the girls took the bricks on their heads and carried them off on the' trot. I got a photo graph of this scene by bribing the negro; and I doubt not my picture was a fair type of that which went on in those long ago days, when Pharaoh drove the Israelites to similar work without straw. With the Virgin 3Iary In Egrypt. It was down through Goshen that Joseph and Mary came with the infant Saviour when they fled from the horrid Herod who slaughtered the Innocents This was then the chief highway from Palestine to Egypt, and there is no doubt that they stopped at Bubastis as they went on to Heliopolis, whce the temple and college still existed at the time Christ was born. There is a tree not far from the Qbelisk .of Heliopolis under which Mary and Joseph and the young Jesus are sajd to have rested It is about five miles from Cairo and guide books speak of it as one of the stock sights of Egypt. I doubt the reliability of their statements. The tree may be the descendant of one which stood there in the time of Christ. It is an old sycamore, gnarled with many years and scarred with the names of tourists. It is on one of the estates of the khedive, and it may be seen through the bars of a fence, which has been built around it to keep off the relic hunters. During my visit there I tried to climb the fence in order to "-et a photograph of it. but some of the khedive's servants came up and warn ed me not to go in. The tree is sur rounded by orange orchards, which are rrigated by sakiyehs drawn by water buffaloes with blankets over their eyes. 'As I went by I stopped at one of these sakiyehs and the men brought me some oranges from the khedive's orchard and sold them .at the rate or eight for 10 cents. They were won derfully refreshing, and as T sat in the shade of the trees outside the fence I wondered whether Mary and Joseph had not perhaps thus quenched their thirst in that same place, now over nineteen hundred years p-n a ing place must have been welcome af- I w tx.c xong nae through the country sun reat City of tne In addition to this there are other S f the stay of the holy ? Z m EgrypL ne ls that Joseph and Mary took our Saviour out to the pyramids, and from there to? the SJntw" ,S, that Mary laid hf m the lap of the Sphinx, and that He slept for a night on the paws of that TRY DR. 'JiiE HOK'S VEGETABLE COHPOOD. A1.EDICIXES for hereditary debil ity or weakness tf men, women an d children. Chronic Blood Poison. 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"No, I am an American, and my home is in Washington city." "Oh, yes," said the urchin. "I know all about that place. President Taft lives there. Say, what is the name or your ball team?" That was the interesting thing to him. Out here under the shadow of i this obelisk 4000 years old, on the spot where Joseph was married to ASenath; where Plato philosophised and where Moses played; within plain sight of the pyramids and near enough almost to hear the whisper of the sphinx, he car ed nothing for them. He was a live boy, and he wanted live things. There fore the pitchers, catchers and short stops of the great American diamond were worth more to him than all the stories of history and all the mummies of the museums. And so they are. FRANK G. CARPENTER. FIRSTCLASS ATJTOMOBrLE REPAIRING. Cars Cnlled For aad Delivered. Our blotto: "PROMPT SERVICE AND REASONABLE CHARGES." Give Us a Trial. DELAXEY & ALK3RE. G1S 3InsofflH. Bell 127. Dr. T. W. 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