THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE- 9, 1S09.
LIGHT SHINES
1
1 :
' FROM WEST
Of) EGYPT
American Mission the Lit
tle Leaven That Has Al
ready Leavened a Good
sized Lump Astonishing
Enlightenment Effected.
Harney County a Mecca for Stockmen
BY ADDISON BEXXETT.
Of the wonders of the Nile
Mr. Haskln will discourse in hl
next article. H .will tell of the
mystery U wa to the anclenta
and the marvelous state of . af
fair -at Its aource that modern
travel has disclosed. The geology
of the NlleYvalley Is shown as
one of the miracles that have
most blessed, mankind. The
meaning of "Kile green"' Is also
explained. ' .
By FREDERIC J. IIASKIX.
mnnvrirht lfos by Frederic J. Haskln.)
Washington, June '. In Egypt the
Tm. "American Mission" is synony
mm., with enlightenment. The people
have come to look upon the American
mission as the fountain head of ecluca
.r.a nhvxica.1 betterment, lens
of thousands of young Egyptians i are
being taugnt in -sjnercaii
teren along the banks of the Nile from
Ethiopia to the Mediterranean. 'Amer
ican teachers are giving instruction, in
the "three R's" and in the English lan-
uage language. American pnysician
are revealing the blessings of modern
iiiHii ju..inr-a to the suffering ana
i.F.crhjri imirlrnn nre&chers are in
culcatlng morals by precept and exam
ple. And all the Americans are preach
ing the gospel of cleanliness, that thing
most needed for the physical regenera
tion of oriental peoples.
The "American Mission" in Egypt
Is under the direction of the board of
foreign missions of the United Pres
byterian church la North America. Thst
denomination is one of the smaller
J'resbyterlan bodies, but its congrega
tions are orten quite wesunjr .nu
iih.Mi TVi rrmrA of the work
in Erypt is one of which Americans of
very iaim anc creea xny
Ttroud. for the work has been done
along American lines. "
, . . Only One Woman Oonld Bead.
The mission was established In 1854.
At that ttmn there was no such thing
as evangelical Christian work in the
country. There were no schools worthy
of the name, and there was only one
woman In Egypt who could read and
write. - She was a member of 'the ruling
prlncelv family and a native of Tur
key. - The American mission now main
tains 180 common schools, three girls'
-boarding schools, one college and. one
theological seminary. There are 12,000
boys and 6000 girls now attending these
Schools. -
In addition to these direct benefits
the activity of the Americana has caused
the establishment of numerous Coptlo
and Moslem schools, many of them for
girls, an unprecedented tning in me
history of either of the. old, religious
bodies of Egypt .
' School System on the Way.
Fearing to touch the religion of Islam
with ever so light a hand, the British
'rulers of Egypt for many years did not
take any active steps toward fostering
- public education. There were, so many
other greater problems to be solved,
that Lord Cromer purposely delayed the
educational business in order to pre
vent jealousy on the part of the Mo-
: hammedan leaders and the possible pre
cipitation of a holy war.
Andrews, Or.. Mar II. (To the Editor
of The Journal.) I am at the Andrews
postoffice, but. this entire Immediate
eountry Is usually poken of as Wild
Horse, for the reason that the stream
coming out of the mountains stx or sev
en miles to the north from here Is
known as Wild Horse creek.
I think to give a good idea of the
country r had better take the the reader
back, to the Alvord ranch, which place
is about Is miles from here, nearly
north. I left there a little before 6 this
morning and reached here at 10. I men
tioned in my letter of yesterday that I
" ftoPPo at the Mann's Iske ranch,
and then came on.-to Mlrandl's and to
Devlne's, - But I did not make It plain,
perhaps, that Mann's lake Is the center
of one of the sinks or valleys, and In
coming down to Devlne's I crossed a
low divide and came into what is known
as the Alvord desert, or Alvord flat. At
the ranch this flat Is perhaps seven or
eight miles wide: on the west lies the
ranch and fine land, on the east Is a
large body of shallow water and a bar
ren flat some 10 or 12 miles long by
two or- three miles wide.
Perfect Bond In Desert.
It'ts-this barren patch that Is called
the desert, and It is well named. My
road brought me across It for two or
three' miles, and it is about as perfect a
road a could.be built. It is a sort of
dobte, clay or hardpan I scarcely know
what to oall It. It Is about the color of
putty, Is traversed by cracks, say to
of an Inch wide, which cut the sur
face Into a sort of mosaic. It is lust
about as hard as lead, and there is a
coating like ashes about H of an Inch
thick. The entire flat of course is as
level as a floor, and from the extreme
southwestern to the extreme northeast
ern corners a straightaway path could
be traversed which would make one of
the finest automobile tracks In this
country. .
At the southwestern corner the road
comes off of this flat and winds over a
low range of hills to the Wild Horse
country; but one could drive on down
the Alvord flat and connept with Wild
Horse southeast of here five or six
miles.
As to the country farther down, I will
write In my next letter, although I
could see it for miles as-I crossed the
divide and know In a- general way what
It la like.
I am afraid I have not given a very
fair description of the character of thel
country from Mahon a here that is,
from the standpoint of a homeseeker. I
know a good many will reed these let
ters who are looking for a homestead or
desert claim, and in some cases I sup
pose these people will be guided or In
fluenced, by my words In The Journal.
Bncoess Xies with Entryman.
, It Is assuming a great responsibility
to advise, a person to take a piece of
land here or there or anywhere, for the
reason that success lies In the entry
man more than In the character of the
land. Many homesteaders would fall on
the best of lands with the best of sur
roundings; others would succeed on the
poorest
Let the landaeeker remember that the
country I have been driving through for
the last few days is very Inaccessible. I
am now (at Andrews) 16(Kmlles from a
railway in any direction Winnemucca
to the south or Vale to the northeast
Hence let the homeseeker weigh those
conditions well and have fixed Ideas as
to what he Is going to do, that is, what
line he is going to follow.
If he is going into agriculture, or If
he wants to prove up on a claim and
then sell It let him spend no money
coming here, or even Into any portion of
Harney county, unless he can secure a
water supply for Irrigating.
Mecca Tor Stockmen.
If he wants to go Into the cattle
or sheen or horse business, no mat
ter on how small a scale or how large,
then he will find no better country than
can be found In Harney. The reader
may ask why this Is not as good a
country for wheat or barley as the
wheat belt In Sherman-, Gilliam. Mor
row and 1'matllla counties; and It must
be admitted the soil- here Is In most
cases better for cereals than In the
counties mentioned, the rainfall fully
as much and. all conditions as good or
better.
But whereabouts in Harney county
can you raise wheat and deliver it to
the nearest railway for shipment at a
profit, when the freight to the railway
would be all the way from 75 cents
to 1. 25 per bushel?.
Wheat ror '3,000,000 People.
In Harney, and I suppose In "Lake,
Crook. Klamath and Malheur, there is
as good wheat land as there - is " In
this country. I have driven through a
lot of it since I left Burns. If there
were transportation facilities adequate
facilities, at fair freight rates Harney
county could raise wheat enough to sup
ply the 8,000.000 of people living In
Massachusetts; we could furnish the
barlev to make all the beer drunk in
Massachusetts; we could furnish that'
state all of the mutton and beef they
could consume, could equip them with
all of their horses and give every man,
woman and child a quart of beans each
Sunday the year round.
. With such resources and possibilities,
do you wonder that we are trying to
move heaven and earth to get a rail
way? Day of Free land Blip Boy.
To get back to the, homeseeker.' 1
will say that the days of free land are
fast slipping by. In a few years home
stead lajid will be a memory. In the
coves, in the foothills, .in the valley
of Harney, there are thousands of fine
claims to be had for the asking. Many
of thera are here in the Juniper and
Wild Horse countries. Some of them
have streams on them, nearly all of
them are contiguous adjacent at the
very doors of as fine a free range for
sheep, cattle and horses, as Ilea out . of
doors.
Andrews, where I am now stopping,
Is In a .fine valley. The Alonna lake
lies off to the south, the Wild Horse
creek meanders down the valley a little
to the east There are. a number of
prosperous settlers In the valley, many
of whom are In the sheep business, and
many fine ranch locations are still ly
ing open.
Smyth Brothers have a large store
here, there is a saloon, a good hotel
and a feed stable. It is a prosperous
little place.
Two Mails Saob Week.
There are two malls each week, com
ing trom Diamond, 80 miles north. The
mail leaves here Monday and Thurs
day mornings and goes through to "Jim"
Mahon's that night. The following day
it goes to Diamond and returns to Ma
hon's and comes through here the fol
lowing day.
And from MInnemucca the mail ar
rives in the same day and departs at
the same time. This is practically the
dividing line between Nevada and Cali
fornia and Oregon. But the trade most
ly now goes to San Francisco via
MInnemucca. Smyth Brothers buy chief
ly In Ban Francisco for the reason that
they can get freight from the Nevada
point at any season of the year, but
from Vale only in the spring. If the
Portland merchan- saw fit they could
stock such stores up In the spring and
early summer for the season, for the
freight rates from Portland to . Vale
are a little lower than from Frisco to
Winnemucca and during the wool ship
ping season freight costs less from
vale than from Winnemucca. But the
Portland merchants do not seem to be
making any bid for tne trade.
Tomorrow I will drive down to the
borax works. Thence I will go-ever Into
the Catalo valley and up to the P
ranch, where I hope to arrive Thurs
are members of the board of regents,
the faculty, the alumni or the student
body.". The club was organised about
a year ago. and has made rapid progress
chapter nouse wiu.. be
built
graduate
since. . a
next year - where, the under,
members will live. . "
Following are the names of the mem
bers; - FJoyd Booth, John F. Bovard,
Darwin Bristow, Chauncey Cunning,
James Cunning, James Curry, Frederic
S. Dunn, Willis L. Dunton, Sampson H.
Friendly, F. O. Frlnk, B. J. Hawthorne.
Webster Klncald, H. B. Leonard, C. W.
Lowe, RalDh MeCowen, Charles Oster
holm, E.i O. Potter, Onrtond Rankin.
Ward Bay, S. S. Spencer, John Straub,
A. R. Tiffany, Lee Travis. F. O. Tonng,
Charles Zacharlaa. .; . .
"Night Trains During Rose
Festiyal Week." ; .
The Oregon Flectrle v Railway "com
pany will have special ears leaving
Portland for Salem, and Intermediate
stations at 11 o'clock and for Hills
boro and forest "Grove at 11:30 each
evening during the Rose - Festival
week. : ..:.,' , s:.
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If you are wise buy i home and stop
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MEXICAN DEVELOPS Z
- CASE OF LEPROSY
. TJalted Prea Leased "Wlie.i " "
Los Angeles. June I.- Adelaide Agn
Irre,' 14 years of age, is in the pest
house in this city, with a well developed
case of leprosy.. He haa suffered from
the disease for two years,' and has been
living in the crowded Mexican section
of the city. ; ' . :
Yesterday tr. H. B. Tebbetts, assist
ant health officer, was called to Agu
lrre's home to look into a ease of
measles that had been-reported to the
health office. He found that Augirre,
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sorry state from . the ravages- of the
loathsome Asiatic disease. "...
Aguirre told the physicians that for
two years he had been unable to work
because of hie sufferings. He was not.
ware of the nature of his disease. The
case will be watched carefully. ,
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pavilion, Sixteenth and Washington
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is one condition, however and that is that . you act and investigate now.
WHY is iir
That more people are looking toward the Columbia River early fruit belt at
Richland than all other fruit districts combined?
branches is In English, and the pupil the cause of bringing many people Into
who rms iccn wuuuku m nmonuiui ivucn wun tne educational and re.llelon
school In Egypt speaks the same lan
guage as the young European Immi
grant who has been through the public
schools of New,. York City.
Me Coeducation There.
A visit to one of these schools Is In
tensely interesting. There is one in
Cairo, less than a block distant from
Shepheard's hotel. It comprises all
grades, from the primary class through
the high school, and is attended by 800
pupils. The boys and girls are taught
In separate classes, and only once dur
ing the dav do they gather In the same
room. That is at tne morning cimpm
exercises, and even then the girls' por
tion of the chapel Is screened off by a
hlKh curtain of red silk. If this Amer-
Throueh alt . lean school permitted the girls to go
that period of more than 20 years the , where the boys could see tneir unveuea
English -overnment depended largely
upon the AmgrJcan missions to aid In
keeping peace In the country. The
Americans had no political entangle
ments and were free to preach and to
teach as they chose. The English
were glad to have them in Egypt In
. the last few years the government has
taken up the educational work with
more vigor, and within a few years
"Egypt will have a public school sys
tem, the excellence of which will be
due In a laree measure to the Ameri
can pioneers. The publto schools, how
ever, sre thoroughly Mohammedan in
very respect except that of devoting
some attention to reading, writing and
arithmetic
English Tongue Everywhere.
Of the 17,000 pupils in the American
chools, about one half are Copts and
fine fourth are Moslems. The others
are native Protestants or representa
tives of other religions. The teachers
In these schools are nearly all native
Eryptians who were educated In the
American schools of the earlier days
or tne mission, in addition to the In
struction in the ordinary public school
courses, Arab sheiks are employed to
teacn the Arabic language and lltera
ture. The instruction In most of the
- 1 ' IN
- Be sure to have an extra
pair of cool Oxfords to help
out the many long standing
demands on your feet during
thC KOSe ShOW. We Sell 1 tz,d about ISO moslems in the -past few
UiV. iwofc u"uw- "c &ca years, but the progress is very slow.
solid shoe comfort, with
faces, the building would be torn down,
stone by stone, before nightfall. Both
vinaioma and fonts share In this In-
tnnfi, allnfr. Jin d it must be respected.
. The exercises begin with the singing
of a hymn In English, one of the
adapted psalms sung In United Presby
terian cliurcnes in Amcncn. nm .b
lns; Is conducted by an American woman
teacher, and she has taught her charges
to sing wen. i nen mere " '
in English, and then a brief address on
some subject of morals or sanitation,
Lwi-v. i. .iiv ilollvored in Arabic.
After another eong. the boys and girls
troop out in different directions to their
classes. .. ,, -
Costumes of the synplia.
Nine tenths of the boys wear the red
tarboosh, or fez. In the true oriental
fashion. Indoors and out Four hun
dred of them in a schoolroom having
every other appearance of a school in
Kansas City present striking specta
cle The boys are nearly all dreseed in
the conventional European costume,
save for . the red tarboosh.. The
on the other siae 01 um .... -
dressed in every conceivable variety of
"ostume known to 20 centuries of the
motley east from the simple one piece
Hip of the ancients to a copy of the
latest Parisian mode for young gills.
They are not veiled in school, and there
isn't the sllKhtest objection, apparently,
to foreigners nd men teachers seeing
their faces.
Education in the Harem.
There are fewer Mohammedans among
the girls than among the boys, the pre
judice against the education of women
being stronger in the ranks pf Islam.
But in the past lew years
rth trl have been coming In stronger
force, and the Americans, have suc
ceeded in inducing many wealthy Mos
lems to send their daughters to board
Ins: school. This Is probably the most
radical departure in costume forced by
the American-Invasion of Egypt.
There are many teachers and native
workers in the employ of . tlio mission
who devote their time to mo jibicuio
nnin nnt knnH to another, teach
ing the women of the harem to read,
and of course giving them the Bible and
, rk,i,n.n ntrtnre. The women
An rnt Hf.irf fmanclDStlon from the
harem, a life which would be worse than
death to an American woman, but they
w, in the education which
gives them a stronger hold upon their
hushanriE. For that reason ioe unrcm
work is quite prosperous.
progress In Proselyting.
v,n vaw converts to Christianity
inmA from the body of Islam. The
(American mission ministers have bap-
departments. Five honn1fnl ara main.
lauiuu in various narts or tha Mnnirv
trained physicians and nurses are in
cnarge, visits are maria n tha ham..
and villages, and free clinics are hwld
ror the treatment of the milder dis
eases. The national curse of Egypt is
opthalmla, and the American hospitals
5? ew sPec'al'y of treating sore eyes,
l he Moslem women are so much In
- aruf.wt,V ?vU Ey that they will not
?Lasi,.the,r balIe8' faces or brush off
the files, for fear the children will be
come so beautiful that they will attract
the Evil Eye. Therefore, half the peo
ple In the street have but one eye each,
and the totally blind are legion.
Materia Medic and Soap.
The women physicians and nurses are
taking the gospel of sanitation into the
harems, where a man physician might
hL'?!'. Ani ,wh8ro verr "Iness has
been treated only according to the dic
tates of some ancient superstition. And
y1 time these medical missionaries
are urging the people to wash th rhi.
mens faces and warning them of the
dangers of dirt. It eoms a hopeless
frS t0a"empt to divorce these Top"
from squalor and filth, but the Effort
is being bravely made by these devoted
It does not take much of a head for a man to see that When he can combine
the real early crops of this district with our splendid climatic conditions,
free from mud and slush, on the banks of America's greatest river, and
railroad transportation that has no equal in any other fruit district, he must
admit Richland, with her 16,000 acres undera perfect gravity ditch, and only
10 miles from Kennewick, a country already famous, must be right, too.
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$100 to $250 Per Acre
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Young boys
from the American
h??niar Prefe;-ed In employment by
Amir?n;fn1-a.nd young elrls from the
$R J. Mh?ols ft.re earerly sought for
en 'r?m th American college
6ldy emPlyment with the govern-
Egypt recognl.es thTgon1
American mission. In Ha t. trJtl .
the
alumni of tha a "'..
Africans of wlmterrr faith o? reTll
lous belief cannot fall to be proud of
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ACACIA FRAT WILL BE
INSTALLED AT U. OF 0.
(Special Dispatch to The JonrnaLk
University of nnrnn rn. t
Tne Masonic club of the university
received word today that It has been
granted membership to the Acacia fra
ternity. The club will be installed annn
probably some time during eommence-
It has 25 members, all of whom
ment
style thrown" in.
fords at
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CIiOTliIERS
K5-17Q THIRD ST.
Mohammedanism is the only eastern re.
llgion which has not yielded to the ef
forts of evannellcal Christian mission
aries to any marked extent.
Among the Copts and other.rellglous
bodies, the church work of the Ameri
can Mission has succeeded wonderfully.
There are 60 organised Presbyterian
congregations, and 84 preaching sta
tions. There are 10.00 native mem
bers of Presbyterian churches and 4S
rntlve ordained ministers. The native
Presbyterians contributed 137.008 . last
year to the support of the mission
work. The church work has been much
more successful In Upper Egypt than
In tbe Delta. Many wealthy men In Up
per Kgypt have allied themselves with
the missions, and there is one native
Presbyterian millionaire who makes lib
eral donations each year to both church
and educational work. .. Within a few
years tbe Presbyterian church in Egypt
win be1 entirely self-supporting.
, Bore Eyes Universal.'
.The medical work of the mission U
Don't Swallow Drugs to Cure
Catarrh
Hyomel fpronouneed Hlgh-o-me) is a
germ killing vapor of air which. when
breathed either through the mouth or
nose-will kill catarrh germs and sooth
and heal the inflamed and mutilated
membrane.
Hyomel Is such a powerful cerm de
stroyer that It penetrates every fold and
crevice of the mucous membrane of the
nose and throat. And it kills the ca
tarrn germs Because it gets where those
health destroyers are.
Hyomei Is pleasant to use;1 It Is made
from concentrated extract of pine and
eucalyptus laKen rrom trees I Inland
Australia where catarrh was never
known.
Broathe In this pleasant, healing vet
germ killing air (you'll like to use Hy-
vjjiw turuuKu a. Email nara ruDDer in
haler that comes with each outfit and
relief will come quickly.
Hyomel Is guaranteed by Woodard.
Clarke & Co. to cure catarrh or money
back: it gives most wonderful relief to
consumptives. A complete outfit which
Includes an Inhaler, a bottle of Hyomel
and simple instructions for use costs
11.00, and extra bottles, if afterward
needed costs SO cents. Leading drug
gists everywhere sell Hyomel.
Cures Indfccstfcn
It relieve! stomach misery, boot atom
ach. belching, and cures all stomach dis
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leu &0 . centa. Druggist! in all towna. )
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