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THE EGYPT OF 1922 A. D. King Fuail succeeds Cleopatra. "When Great Britain abandoned its protectorate over Egypt ^ and the sultan of the Nile coun* try changed his title to king, he became the first king of Egypt since the l'tolemaie regime."says a bulletin of the National Ueogtuphie society. "The old Egypt of millenniums ago is in many ways more familiar to the world at large than the Egypt of today," continues the bulletin. "Pictures of its great pyramids and sphinxes, its cblumned temples and rock-hewn tombs till histories ami encyclopedias. and inevitably the reader's attention is centered, not on the problems of today, but rather on the evidences of a dead civilization. " lint aside from the fact that mummy hunting was for many years one of the leading private industries of the country, anil that convicts today, instead of building roads, excavate tombs and temples for the government, the old monuments are merely a background for life hard enough to center local thoughts mostly on daily bread-winning. " Niipcrticially, Egypt seems a large country. The eye sees its color spread over a considerable pari oi the northeasterti quarter ot the map of Africa, and statistics credit it with an area of more than dot).000 square miles, ltut tin real Egypt?the part that is habitable?is like a cord with a trayed end: the narrow valley ami thiring delta of the Nile. Except u few scattered cases, most ot the rest of the nominal Egypt l< t t 111 >< I i I iiUitld cnn<l i??*u tn?l ui?<l rocky hills. Of its more than a third of a million squAre miles of territory, about 12.000 are estimated to be capable of cultivation. and a considerable part of , Ibis lias not vet been actually tilled. "In comparing the Egypt of it today with that of the dawn of h history one is divided between t wonder at the marked changes on v the surface and the lack of change g hi some fundamentals. The Kgyp- h **"Minn of today does not speak his tl old tongue, but instead, Arabic; tl his old gods are forgotten, and he t has. with the exception of a small n minority, adopted the religion of v Mohammed, lint in spite of nil* h inerous invasions, llie blood of the e great majority of the population g lias been altered hardly at all. t l'raet ieally, the fallahecn, or peas- v ant. might have stepped from the 1 ancient carvings: they are but a fresh generation of the men "who ( dragged the great blocks of stone t into place to build the artificial z mountains of the Pharaohs, or |i who dropped seeds into the mud o of the needing Nile thousands of s years ago, even as they are drop- h ped today. s "Egypt's resources are almost t. wholly agricultural, and in the s agricultural sehenie the fellaheen <1 are the ultimate units. They work t long hours scratching the soil ' with crude implements or tediously raising water in skin buckets attached to pivoted poles that the ji 11.in stream may save their plants 1 from parching. Taxes are heavy, r pud it is the lowly fallaheen who f keeps tli?' treasury supplied. Liv- n in?; conditions are very poor.; and f mud huts house most of Egypt's f Id millions. In the fields they t wear little more than a loin cloth, u and the younger children of the h villages go naked. When the fel- I lali is 'dressed up' he wears a " rough shirt and loose trousers. "There is little cause to marvel at Egypt s checkered history. A simple reason is that she began I early. Here is one of the earliest ii places in which man lived an or- j tiered life and left records of his ^ activities. Some anthropologists, g in fact, look upon central Africa rj as the place of origin of man, and ^ upon Egypt as one of the first j way stations in his diffusion over the other continents. "After the long reign of the ?v Pharaohs, Egypt had its Grecian 8 and Uoiuan regimes, bringing hut few changes. Then in (>41 A. I). = came the invasion of the Saracens, from which time began Egypt's Mohammedan history. For a time the country was a province of the Arabian caliphs; later it was in- * dependent,- though still Mohain medun. under tlif Mamelukes; and finally, in 1516, it became a province of Turkey, which eon- . trolled it first through a governor and later through a sort of hereditary viceroy or khedive. "Fort the third time Europe took a hand in the affairs of Egypt in 1798 when Napoleon 2 won his Bfttle of the Pyramids. 3 The British drove the French out A r ' ; . 9 \ I v , NI f Rugs for every u which are nationally > Rugs in all size down to the cheapest And the variety of which you will be For use where Congoleums. See us today?yo YOU ii 1801 and turned the country ack to Turkey. In I860 came lie building of the Suez canal, rhicb has given Europe an everrowing interest in Egyptian afturs. In 1882 the uprising against lie khedive was suppressed by lie British alone, and after that liev controlled the country's fiances. independent of France, rith whom an agreement had een entered in 1879 for joint ontrol of i the finances. The overnment was in effect Egvpian with Britisli assistance and rith the nominal suzerainty id' 'nrkey acknowledged. "When the World war began Jrcat Britain established a proectorate, abolished Turkey's sir erainty, deposed tlie Uermanoihile khedive, and appointed anther prince of the family to be nltan. The British protectorate s now being withdrawn, but intead of the former Turkish ini rests beiiig restored. Egypt is ct up as an independent kinglorn." 'Found Seven Rats Dead in Bin Next Morning." Robert Woodruff says: "My ircmiscs were infested with rats. tried RAT-SNAP on friend's ('commendation. 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