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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1925-08-06, Page 2tz • bb s k SIXTY CENTURIES ON THE NILE What ba!s• Africa contributed to the I seraue antra Pride and with all the weed's. ):slat cion Of j �as'�1a1' and e0'C�nent'10 tendencies 0 A the huge con to -dray's world, tineet of Africa with its' 11,282,0001 In some features of natiouai life square miles of )alar) discloses a mis.' 15gypt is well to titre fore, lee tradecellaneime ceI1a lulus ealleotion of European,balance is favorable, its production in- co1•anies. controlled by Great Britain,' creasing, its national debt extremely France, Italy, Belgium, Spain and Por -I s,ma11, its budget balances and its cur. tngial Both the French and the Bre' renoy is practically art par. Few other tilt posses•sdone in .Africa are larger' countries' can boast of such conditions than the United States, to -day. There are only three independent! 't'houg'h Egypt, exclusive of the statee in Africa, Egypt, Abyssinia and Anglo-IOgy:intia:n Sudan, cover's about Iiberle, repa?esen ting ores -fifteenth of ; 348,000 square miles, the real Egypt the total area of the continent, But is in the Nile Valley and Deilita. In Egypt, with an area of arable land thie, the heart of Egypt, campirisdng less than the estate of Maryland, has • 15,000 square miles, are her industries; held a conspicuous place hi history 99 per cent. of her popteation, and her throughout recorded time. agriculture. The rest of the country is For aixty centuries Illgypt has been composed mainly of the Libyan, Are- a, land of art and culture. bion and Sinai deserts. And for sixty centuries irrigation The Nile, eeoond longest river in the has •been praotdoed continuously in the world, continues to be Egypt's. fertile Nile Valley. source of life and wealth. Running More than sixty centuries ago EMT- 8500 miles from Viotoria Nyanza Lake bans established a calendar, which: to 41es,audria, the NJIe measures out with a slight modification that was in- 960 miles of its length in Egypt, tra,• troduced in 1582 still serves to mask veining the country from end to end, the passage of time. receiving no tributaries in this stretch And sixty centuries ago the Nile of 960 miles • but irrigating 5,400,000 basin was the hone of Egyptian at•.cbl acres, of arable land. About 4,000,000 tectore, glase making, pottery, spin- acres of this irrigation empire are ring weaving, dyeing, metal industries, watered eerenrixtly by canals, where t: riculture, astronomy, mathematics,as the remaining 1,400,000 sores are Lad literature. irrigated once ayear by the basin eys Egypt is African in origin and de- tem established by King Mene.s sixty vel_opm;ent. The dea'cendants of the centuries ago. pyramid builders still live along the Turning now to the commerce of Nile. There are about 1,000,000 of Egypt we find that her total exports them, commonly known to -clay as Copts•, and they together with. 13,000,- 000 Arabs and 100,000 Europeans make up the poptvlation of modern Egypt Nor is Egypt noted alone for the length of its. recorded history. Per- haps no other country has had so long a s(txuggle for liberty. From about 1000 B.C. to 1922 AD. Egypt was ruled in swocessiou by the Libyans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Moslems, Tutks and English. Thus after thirty ,centuries of strug- gling, Egypt, on March 10, 1922, again became an independent kingdom. And the present king,. Fuad I, is the ninth of the line founded by Mohammed Ali, who on July 9, 1805, was appointed • governor of Egypt by the Sultan of Turkey, and. who at once started a re- vival of the industries which had de- clined under Ottoman rule. The Real Egypt. And traversing in these few sen- ten•oee the 6000 years or more of Egyp- tian history from King Manes in the hazy past, 4000 years or more before for 1923 .were worth. $280,843,000 and her imports $212,445,000, showing a favorable balance of about $68,400,000. On account cf the preemmineinee of cotton in the eoanomic life of Egypt, any discussion of Egyptian trade may well begin with that commodity. On an average the cotton plantings cover 1,500,000 acres and the annual produc- tion ranges from 575,000,000 to 725,- 000,000 25;000,000 pounds'. There is a tendency to increase the ootton acreage. And every effort is being made to control the insect pests and diseases which afflict cotton. In every feasible way the Egyptian Government is encouraging the use of better cottonseed and better fertilizers in order to meet the increasing de- mand for ootton. Last year the chief buyers of cotton stood in the order England, Prance, United States Italy and Germany. Wheat is another important crop. Egypt also pradu•cea substantial quan- tities of ecru, barley, rice, millet, beans, lentils,, peanuts, onions, cane the Christian era, to Tang Fred .1 in i sugar, flax, sesame, henna, tobacco, 1925, we find a modern Egypt with ( forage orops and fruits. '• into Ontario's Little Known Areas. "1 am expecting to make a trip up ,;, the Skekak river, going north on that into the Naga.•gane, and then to Little Current, Drowning or Ogaki river, and want to get as good maps as possible of the • ateatr'y." The above is a portion of a reque'at Pur information received from 'a gen- poi$it of ma ting n al fr1ends;tthe' pos eesrdon of Which is a valuable asset to a man or to a country: Mother o' Mine: If I were.hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, 0 mother o' nine!' I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine, 0 mother o' mine! tlremvan in one of the Middle States, by if I were drowned in the deepest sea the Department of the In'terioe. Should Mother o' mine, 0 mother o' mine! this request be ad'dreseed to ninety- I know whose tears would come down mute one of every hundred Canadians to me, they would, without doubt, he unable Mother o' mine, 0 mother o' mine! to answer it. The rivers are all bran•oheo of the Albany river, which If I were damned of body and soul, flow's into James Bay. Such an the I know whose prayers would make me quiry, h'owevar, is a sample of many whole, hundredis that have been received by Mother o' mine, 0 the above branch from American tour- izits, who this year seem to be piarticue Lary interested in canoeing and camp - mother o' mine) —Rudyard Kipling. New Gas Mg in Ontario, especially the northern Prof. Frederick Slocum, director` of ant north-western grortionn. Much of the Venleck Observatory at Wesleyan, this, area is as' yet unserveyed, which falls of the discovery of a new gas as aanditian sem to have a fascination the result of observations. made during for the more adventurous spirits the recent eclipse of the sun. He says among the 4merican business and pro - the vapors around the sun are visible f;relonse men. Some of these enquirers �ee s+o enthusiastic -about their pro- „ only at the time of a total eclipse and Seated triple that they appear harly of eleir itists have concluded as theya shave aieta to wait far the time to start, d'ls�oovered a new avis,. that have! while many, who have previcusly pier. Slocum said they are not yet or,mpe3 in Canada, or have ped'd'led and ready to announce wir.ait the gas is or , peened .along her litutle known to discuss the probable qualities. Meat Eating In Britain. The per capita consumption. of meat wonderful opportunity, not only from In Great Britain has risen from 116% a financial etsn2poinit, but Item the p(ounde in 1923.24 to 131% pounds in equally if not more important stand- 1924-25. in the Suri. streams and lakes are keenly Looking forward to a repetition of their experi- ence. In thus bouriet traille Canada has a MUTT AND JEFF—By Bud. Fisher. Yarmou, frac ! �e.•� '� A fiA ,„•.• • ' I44.111 ON THE MAIN MOTOR ROUTE The number of American` tourists from westein points seen on our streets recently is substaertial evidence of the value of the good roade system o"f Ontario, which has placed this, city on the route -covered by motorists in tra- velling between Chicago and the Maritime Provinces, says an Ottawa correspondent. The map shown berewith,is a portion of a new roadmap leered by the Natural Resources Intelligence Service, which shows some of the main roads of Canada, together wiidf :,the connecting roads in the 'United States. The fact that a direct route is now avail- able, over the best of roads, from Chicago to Charlottetown, and that it is being used so extenfively, is encouraging to the many aggressive organizations that axe co-operating in the promotion of touring; and particularly to the No. tural Resources Intelligence Service, which has become a ole•aring-housie for tourist information in Canada. The Flag. An old subject has been given a new dress in a prize poem on "The. Flag," for which The London Morning Post has awarded £50. These lines will make the Englishman's blood course a little faster and perhaps help him better to counteract the propaganda of '"Phe . Red Flag.” The first verse is as follows: Unfurl the banner of Engnend; Tell to the heavens her story. A thousand years she has 'helditfast, A thousand years of a mighty past, • The tale of a nation's glory. Red for the nation's heart, White for the stainless brand, Blue for the girdling sea That for ever guards the. land. Natives of Papua are, in most cases, very, superstitious, and go in fear of the witch -doctors. • A Junior "Sherlock" Little Les'ides mother had taken him to church, and together they sat in the second row of the gallery. Leslie seemed particularly interest- ed in a family who sat in the front row. Every now and: again he would crane hie neck forwarul in an attempt to See the faces of the two girls,. When the sermon had aliment reach- ed its:. conclusion, Leslie turned and whispered to les, mother: "Mother,' I` have never seen thosa people in front before, but I know their naives." "Hush, dear!" whispered hie mother. "But I do!" persisted Leslie, "Their name's Hill." "How do you know?" casae the in- quiry. "Well, every time the young clergy man says his text: `i will lift up inure eyes to the hills,' 'those two big girls look at each. other and smile." CROSS -WORD PUZZLE ©THE INTERNAT ONAL SYNDICATE SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you : a clue to other words crossing them, and they°in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both. HORIZONTAL 1—Tortures 4—Circles 7—Springy i0—To pierce 11 --To make level 13—To pucker ' 15—Petition 18—LIttle child 19—A ditch 21—Recess In a church 23—Organ of body 24—Disputant over trifles 25—Hard fat 27 -Donated °29—Small barrels 30—Regaled 83—Culinary herb 34—The Jury 36—Belonging to you 38 -:To scrutinize 40—Destroyer 41—Hereafter 42—Fairy VERTICAL 1 --Dowdyish woman 2—St!!l 3—Sudden blow 4—To spilt asunder 5- =Frozen dessert fi•--Slope S-LTo border upon 9—Trial 10—To fix a mast 12—Midday 14 --To make rough 16—To pass by degrees 17 -The waste from burning 19—Placed on. a wall 20—To coincide 22—To corrode 23—Sailing distance In racy 26--Unbeautiful 28 --Outlet 29—Hillock 30—Dlet 31—A table 33—Two-masted vessel 34—Low murmuring sound 35—Fabrications 37—Tote under. obligation 39 -Swarm of young fish, WtiSRG'D You Go! -Rim CoPFes GRINDER, JCFF? WHAT b'Ye MeAr..), Coe GlettPbG-R'? Tete BoAT'S The laAsTosT THING' Wei wNee-5: n AIN'T LoST A iAcc Yc-T f� LOOK AT -N Tt1C Foot_ TeiNG Go; MISTER MUTT, Tttstes's A CALL FfeoM THS NoSPITAL FoR. Youtr IT'S AllouT Hugh Ancient .Lawsuit. Legal battles. over trifles to land are notoriously long drawn out, but even the most stubborn of them seldom beet a thousand yeans. The .tribunal sof the little republic of Andorra, hoover, ie trying a case that goes back to the year 790. When. Charlemagne return- ed from. an expedition to Spain he left a thousand of his solddera on the south slope of the Pyrenees, as a rear guard to prevent the Moors teem entering France. To each of thenn he gave an allotment of Land,—one hundred and fifty square miles fe all. That lend is the greater part of the present terri- tory of the little free republic of An- dorra. The litigation conoerna, one of those original grants .and has been in the ,©founts for a thousand' years. Value of Education. A man ;and his wife who had both been brought up in a country village decided to spend their summer in Lon- don, where, according to rumor, the sibreets were paved with gold. Having spent an enjoyable day in nipecting London's interesting sightly they repaired to a theatre, of which they had heard a great deal. In the interval the firepa'oof curtain was let down. In the centre was writ- ten the word "Asbestos." "Now what does that mean, Willie?" -asked the wife, pointing to the curtain, 'Oh, that's a Latin word," replied William blandly. "It means 'wet - come,' " Fond of.F!ction, He—"So you're fond of fiction?" She—"Don't I listen very attentively to you?" Weighing Up Winnie. Winnie was a wi,ns'ome youaig thing, and it was iter ambition to become a lobrarlan. She w<ens quite friendly with the local librarian, and often she would talk to him on her favorite subject— books. One day site was telling him how Passionately fond she was of the Wav- erley Novels. "Then you've read Scutt?" he tusked. "Naturally; they were all written by frim, wereri't they?" • "Did you ')lite the 'Lady of the Lake'?" he inquired. "Perfectly lovely! came the reply, "I have read it four.times.. And 'Mar- mion,' and 'Peveril of the Peak,' I simply dote on bath." 'And 'Scott's Emulsion'?t' he ques- tioned, growing tired, "Oh, I think that is the most won- derful thing Scott ever wrote!" A Cow for Missions. When contributions far °missionary Work were aelted for at the• Primitive Methodist Conference et Scarborough, England, recently, one delegate pro - Wised a cow. Accountability, Sometimes moan who batalce t epv,, selves to what ai,e etriod the open, amens'af.Da;rrtie that n;o law belle Where, they now eho oe to be and that what • Faaneie Thoures'ott eal'led the hound of Heaven oareaot fellow them so far, T't is a coneen!l.'ent th'eor'y for those eto seek their own• pkrasure and belie'va" that in eeilf-i:n4uIgence .i<hey will find 1t, They hays given an opiate to con,, science,, aed over the dddtr nae there will carry no accusing voices of their , friendv who oared for them and wished th•ean well and were concerned for their rtrisffo'rtwne or felieety. They are out ori from any responsibility for •busi. nose. None shall pall them to acoouui, None shall present then with a damn. Ing tally of expectations unfulfilled; Henceforth 'they ere .carefree; theles is the true and perfect liberty that even eiaints' and angedis--since these are bound to gond!nesls(—never know. But only .in. the myth created by their own imaginations are they uttere. ly emancipated, to follow heedlessly their own devices. They still Live un- der the law, for the (law is, not so mucin a .statute operative in a given place as it is an enveloping atmosphere. The , law goes everywhere, like the air we breathe; it enters like the light, by the minutest crevice. In fact, no man's life, for all his effort, can exclude it, He can put a ni,ileege between himself and any place, any person; Sre cannot separate himself from the operation of principles that acre universally and int, periisihably true, no matter who puts, his fingers in his ears and runs away from theca, as Bunyan'a hero in that first epic scene of "Pilgrim'e Progress" renis from the City of Deetruction. The first and the last aim of human government Is to' hold .nten accouava able. The will of the people le not translated by the highhanded 'sed- aiafllciency of an absolute autocracy. 'Phe will of an overruling Power for the fins to ldfetimelof a niau 10 not carried ' out by one wito says -he does not care what any one 'thinks, what any one suffers,.=so long are he has, what the callls a good time. A public ,office or a pri- vate rivate life, whatever its .tenure, must conform, to law, and in that conformity, • will discover not a 'harsh oonsteaint but the generous latitude of the spirit that finds his. joy'ful$reedom in obeli- emee. Mount Logan. Mount Logan, highest peak in the Canadian Rockies and second in height to Mount McKinley, alone among the peaks of North America, with an alti- tude in excess of 19,000 feet, has been scaled for tilie first time by a party of six headed by Captain A. Ii. McCarthy. So formidable are the obstacles on the 'trail to the peak, as well a,s on the rock and ice of the !fust ascent, . that it will be a long time before this. grand mioun- tain is included in the tourist itiner- ary. Meanwhile, it will remain shroud- ed mast of the time in lbs veil of drift- ing fog and cloud, inhospitable and re- pellent In its, contours to the, wthiete but not the esthete. Edward Whynt- per, conqueror of the atterhorn, who climbed in the Canadian Rookies a gen. oration ago, said that the region is' "fifteen Switzerlauds rolled into ons." `Whatever the ecientitie value of the latest traverse of the mountain wilder. neer iu the Yukon, it opens a new vista' to the explorer, as when the Duke of the Abruzzi conquered th vast gla- cier of Mount St. •Elias, or Hudson Stuck finally achieved the summit of Mount McKinley, Answer to last week's puzzle. OLIO _ it --'AMER 51131111 111,R14, ®© i 0131$14c1051vumenliatmaiimmew .` n Riamenala. a Gl®®n0®ia rAUnlit emagrAErLUr'ilbi0 --1:111201111013-- -,1111z' 10-'! ®®0121®®®"®®®0®14 Essentials of Home Construction, Economy, durability, :pertnianencre, .. beauty are the four essentials to strive for when building your home. 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