The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-03-13

beast is as good as a patient, vii
ling wife, but the sun that blaze:
overhead. This, you must remem
Der, is the land Of the Sun, where
His Majesty is never sbdieated. Il
may be cool in the evening and 10
the morning, and you will 6nd heavy
coats a comfort. But with the noon
be comes in his power, and you ride
over the desert with the full force
npoL your brow. In the matter oi
head dress we had various plans
The Doctor kept his siif wideawake
Jesse Grant wore 6 light peaked
straw hat, swathed in silk. The
others of Us wore white pointed he'll
NETS made Of pith or of cork, com
ing over the eyes aad over the neck.
Nv helmet was q burden 10 me
when | first wore il, and took q
hint from Sami Bey, remembering
that was his land and be knew bow
to battle with the sun. By the aid
of the Marquis l obtained a coiFe de
chapedH Of heavy silk, orange and
green, about a yard or more square.
This | bound over my Turkish fez SO
that it would drspe nv face and fall
over the shoulders So when ;he
sun came l had only to draw the
web over my brow and throw the
folds over my shoulders and ride on.
Although much heavier than any or
dinary hst, and apparently oppress-
i've from its texture and the tapping
folds, there was no discomfort The
power OF the sun was set at naught
Whatever breeze might be stirring
was sure to creep into the folds and
toy with my cheeks. Then there
was al artistic sense to satisfy. II
lit Up the landscape. You could be
seen from afar, and as the dress was
that of high Bedouin chief-of an
Arab officer Of rank-you knew that
you were more than a pilgrim; that
you were the symbol of authority to
wandering desert eyes far away, who
saw your flaming headdress stream
ing over the sand and felt you were
a great pacha-
THE FOUNTAIN HEAD OF CIvILIZA-
TION.
Here. said Brugsch, as we dismoun.
ted from our doHkevs and followed
him into the ruins Of the temple,
" here we should all take Of GU:
hats, for here is the cradle. the fount.
ain head Of all the civilization of the
world" This was q startling state.
ment, but Brugseh is a serious gen
tlemsn and does not make extrava-
CANT speeches. Then be told us
about Abydos, which Law around us
in ruins. This was the Oldest city
in Egypt. II went back to Menes,
the first of the Egyptian kings, who,
according to Brugsch, reigned 4.5OO
years before Chaist-centuries be-
fore Abraham came TO Egypt 1t is
hard 10 dispute fact ike this, and
one Of the party yeniured to ask
whether the civilization of China and
India sntedate, or claim to antedate,
even Abydos. To be sure it did, but
in China and India you have tradi-
tions; here are monuments. Here,
under the sands that we were crunch.
ing with our feet, here first flowed
forth that civilization which has
streamed over the world. Hebrew,
Indian, Etruscan, Persian, Roman,
Greek, Christian-whatever form
you give it, whatever shape it takes
this is the fountain of it all. Stan
lev had been telling me a few days
ago, as we sat at breakfast at Alex
Of the emotions be felt when
be came to the sources of the Nile,
where tricbling Of water that you
might arrest and imprison within the
goblet's brim set on. on its mighty
journey to the sea. / recalled the
Of my illustrious and in
trepid friend as | thought that here
was the source Of another Nile that
bad been flowing for ages, that had
enriched the world even as the river
enriches these plains with all the arts
and civilization and religion known
to man, and that it was flowing. and
still flowing, with growing volume
and riches. You see | am a believ
er j came to these lands with rev.
erence and have faith in these stones.
| shall never know much about
Egypt; | am afraid / shall never
care enough for it to enter into the
about time and men
that adorn Egyptian literature.
believe in the stones, and here are
the stones on which are written the
names Of the kings from Menes to
SETH |. SETH built this temple some
where about fourteen hundred years
before Christ, and ike a dutiful king
be wrote the names Of his predeces-
sors, seventy-six in all, beginning
with Menes. Here is the very stone
which Brugsch reads as though j,
were the morning lesson, reading as
one who believes Here is the very
stone, beautifully engraved, and,
thanks TO the sand, kept all these cen
turies as fresh as when the sculptor
laid down bis chisel. 1t was only
fund in 1865, and is perhaps the
most valuable Of the monuments. be-
cause it knits up the unraveIled
threads of Egyptian history and
gives you continuous link from
this day to the day Of Moses. You
pass your fingers over the stone and
note how beautiful and clear are the
Ines. And as you see it, you see the
manifest honesty Of the men who did
the work, Of the king who told all be
knew, and Of the truth of what was
written. I believe in the stone and
feel, as | said a moment ago, a little
1f the enthusiasm of Stanley when be
stood al the trickling source of the
Nile.
THE RUINED CITY OF ABYDOs.
So We follow Brugsch out of the
chamber and from ruined wall to
wall. The ruins are on q grand
scale. Abydos is temple which
he Khedive is reseuing from the
sand. The city was in its time of
considerable Importance, but this
was ages ago, ages and ages; so that
It's glory was dead even before Thebes
began to reign. Thebes is an