The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-11-21

After looking around for awhile, and
kodak had pictured the group. we de-
seconded. The descent was more trying
than the ascent for climb bling you need
not see the depths beneath, but COM
ing down IT was impossible not to
sec the abSyms below. But two Arabs
ahead to help us down. and two Arabs
ID hold us back, we were lowered, hand
below hand, until the ground was in
willingly near and amid the iargons of
the Arabs we were safely landed. Then
came one of the most wonderful feats
of daring and agility. One of the Arabs
solicited a dollar, saying he would run
up and down the pyramids in seven
minutes We would rather have given
him dollar not to go, but this ascent
and descent in seven minutes he was
determined on, and so by the watch in
seven minutes he went to the top and
was back again at the base. 1t was n
bloodcurdling spectacle.
said the dominant color of the pyra.
mid was gray, but in certain lights it
seems to shake off the gray of centuries
and become n blonde. and the silver
turns to the golden. 1t covers thirteen
acres of ground. What an antiquity!
1t was at least .. 900 years old when the
Uaby Christ was carried within sight of
it by his fugitive parents, Joseph and
Mary. The storms of forty centuries
have drenched it, bombardcd it, shad-
owed it. flashed upon it, but there it
stands ready to take another forty cen.
turtles of atmospheric attack If the
world should continue to exist. The
oldest buildings Of the earth arc juniors
to this great senior of the centuries.
Herodotus says that for ten years prep
arations were being made for tho build
ing of this pyramid. 1t has 81, Ill 200
cubic feet of masonry. One hundred
thousand workmen at one time toiled
in its erection. To bring the stones
from the quarries causeway sixty feet
wide was built The top stones were
lifted by machinery such as the world
knows nothing of to-day. 1t is 7i6 feet
each side of the square base. The
structure is $50 feet high, higher than
the Cathedrals of Cologne, Strasburg,
Rouen, st. Peter and ST. Paul. No
surprise to me that it was put at the
head of the Seven Wonders of the
world 1t has a subterrancous room of
red granite called the kings cham
her," and another room called the
Queens chamber" and the probabil.
ity is that there are other rooms yet
UNEMPLOYED. The evident design of the
architect was to make these rooms rs
inaccessible as possible. After all the
work of exploration and all the digging
and blasting, if you would enter these
subterraneous rooms you must go
through a passage only three feet
eleven inches high and less than four
feet wide. A sarcophagus of red gran
tie stands down under this mountain OF
masonry. The sarcophagus could not
have been carried in after the pyramids
were built. 1t must have been put
there before the structure was reared.
Probably in that sarcophagus once lay
a wooden coffin containing Il dead king,
but time has destroyed the coffin and
destroyed the last vestige of human
remains. For three thousand years this
sepuichral room was unopened and
would have been until to-day, probably
unopened, had not a superstitious i'm
preston got abroad that the heart of
the pyramid was filled with silver and
gold and diamonds, and under Al Ma
noun, an cxcavating party went to
work and having bored and blasted
through hundred feet of rock they
found no opening ahead, and were
about to give up the attempt when the
= L. - Ill Il N In
a seemingly hollow place, and encour-
aged by that they resumed their work
and came into the underground rooms.
The disappointment of the workmen
in finding the sarcophagus empty OF all
silver and gold and precious stones was
so great that they would have assassin
ated AL Mamoup, who employed them,
had he not hid in another part of the
pyramid as much silver and gold as
would pay them for their work at ordia-
airy rate of wages, and induced them
there to dig till they, to their surprise,
came upon adequate compensation.
| | wonder not that this mountain OF
limestone and red granite has been the
fascination of scholars, OF scientists OF
intelligent Christians in all ages SIR
John Herschel, the astronomer, said he
thought it had astronomical signih.
canoe. The wise men who accompanied
Napoleon's army into Egypt went into
profound study of the pyramid. In
| 1865 Prof. Smyth and his wife lived In
the empty tombs near by the pyramid
that they might be as continuously as
possible close to the pyramid when
they were investigating. The pyramid
built more than 1000 years ago. being
a complete geometrical figure wise met
have concluded IL must have osen al
yinely constructed. Men came through