"society" standards on the sandy soil watered by the Nile, and
were busily engaged in the work of reducing the city, formerly
called Al Kahira or The Victorious, to a more deplorable condition
of subjection and slavery than any old-world conqueror could ever
have done. For the heavy yoke of modern fashion has been flung on
the neck of Al Kahira, and the irresistible, tyrannic dominion of
"swagger" vulgarity has laid The Victorious low. The swarthy
children of the desert might, and possibly would, be ready and
willing to go forth and fight men with men's weapons for the
freedom to live and die unmolested in their own native land; but
against the blandly-smiling, white-helmeted, sun-spectacled,
perspiring horde of Cook's "cheap trippers," what can they do save
remain inert and well-nigh speechless? For nothing like the cheap
tripper was ever seen in the world till our present enlightened
and glorious day of progress; he is a new-grafted type of nomad,
like and yet unlike a man. The Darwin theory asserts itself
proudly and prominently in bristles of truth all over him--in his
restlessness, his ape-like agility and curiosity, his shameless
inquisitiveness, his careful cleansing of himself from foreign
fleas, his general attention to minutiae, and his always voracious
appetite; and where the ape ends and the man begins is somewhat
difficult to discover. The "image of God" wherewith he, together
with his fellows, was originally supposed to be impressed in the
first fresh days of Creation, seems fairly blotted out, for there
is no touch of the Divine in his mortal composition. Nor does the
second created phase-the copy of the Divineo--namely, the Heroic,-
-dignify his form or ennoble his countenance. There is nothing of
the heroic in the wandering biped who swings through the streets
of Cairo in white flannels, laughing at the staid composure of the
Arabs, flicking thumb and finger at the patient noses of the small