The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-10-22

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terrific, and at last 1T tho tip top we
found ourselves on icvel space os /
about thirty feet squars
Through the elearest atmosphere We |
looked OF upon the desert. and OF |
upon the winding Nile. and OF upon |
the Sphinx with Its features ot ever !
lasting stone. End yonder upon thu |
mlnarets Of Cairo rsittering In tha sun.
aIni yonder upon Memphis In rulns. |
and OF upon the wreck Of empires aud !
the hattletields Of ages. a radius Of !
view enough 10 fill the mind and shock |
the nerves and ovcrwheln ones entire |
being
After iapking around for awhile, and
kodak had pictured the group we
descended. The descent was more
trying than the ascent, for climbing you
need not see the depths beneath, bat
coming down it was impossible not 10
see the abysms below. But, two Arabs
ahead TO help us down and two Arabs
to hold us back, we were lowered hand
bs.pw hand until the ground was In
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the Arabs we were safely landed Then
camo one of the most wonderful feats
of daring and agility. One Of the Arabs
solicited o dollar, saying he would run
up and down the pyramid In seven
minutes. We would rather have given
| and descent In seven minutes he was
determined on and 40 by the watch In
seven minutes he went TO the top and
was back again at the base. IL was
bloodcgrdling spectacle.
/ said the dominant color Of the pyra-
mid was gray, but in certain lights 1t
seems to shake oil the gray OF centuries
and become blond and the silver
turns TO the golden. 1t covers thirteen
acres Of ground. What an antiquity!
1t was at least two thousand years old
when the baby Christ was carried with
In sight of it by his fugitive parents,
Joseph and Mary. Tho storms OF forty
centuries have drenched it, bombarded
| it, shadowed it, flashed upon it, but
! there it stands ready To take another
forty centuries of atmospheric attack If
/ the world should continue to exist.
The oldest buildings of the earth are
Juniors to this great senior OF the cen
/ taries. Herodotus says that for ten
| years preparations were being made
for the building of this pyramid. Ii
has eighty-two million one hundred
and eleven thousand cubic feet of ma
sonry One hundred thousand work
men at one. time toiled in its erection.
To bring the stone from the quarries a
| causeway sixty feet wide was built.
The top stones were lifted by machin-
cry such as the world knows nothing
of today. 1t is seven hundred and
forty-six feet each side of the square
base The structure Is four hundred
and fifty feet high. higher than the
cathedrals of Cologne, Strasburg,
Rouen, st. Peters and st. Paul's.
No surpriser to me that 1t was put at
the head of ahe Seven Wonders of the
World. 1t has subterraneous room Of
red granite called the ''king's chamber, "
and another room called the queens
chamber" and the probability Is that
there are other rooms yet unexplored.
The evident design of tho architect
was to make these roomsas inacces-
sible as possible. After aEyhe work OF
exploration and all the digging and
blasting, If you would enter these sub,
terraneous rooms you Inust go through
a passage only three feet eleven inches
high and less than four feet wide.
THE GREAT KING TURNED TO DUST.
4 sarcophagus of red granite stands
down ander this mountain of masonry.
The sarcophagus could not have beer
carried in after the pyramid was built.
1t must have been put there befoae the
structure was reared, Probably In tha'
sarcophagus once lay n wooden cofiir
containing dead king, but time ha.
destroyed the coffin and destroyed tia
last vesti6e of human remains.
For three thousand years this sepul
chral room WAS unopened, and woult
have been until today probably un
opened had not superstitious impres
, sion got abroad that the heart of tn
pyramid was filed with silver and golt
and diamonds, and under Al Mamoui
, an excavating party went 10 work, an'
{ having bored and blasted through
hundred feet of rock they found n
: opening ahead, and were about to Civ
, ap the attempt when the WORKINGS
r heard a stone roll down into seeming
!, / ly hollow place, and encouraged b
, that they resumed their work and cam
{ into the underground rooais.
The disappointment of the workme
in finding the sarcophagus empty OF a
3 silver and gold and precious stones wa
a so great that, they would have ASA
! sinated Al Mamoun, who employe
/ them, had he not hid In another pal
! of the pyramid rs much silver and gol
q as would pay them for their work 8
- ordinary rate of wages and induce
them there to dig till they, to their 81
Q prise, calne upon adequate compens'
: tion.
Il wonder not that this m2untain {
. Limestone and red granite has been Il
= fascination of scholars, of scientists,
- intelligent Christians In all ages. 5
= John Herschel, the astronomer, Ea'd
:, thought it had Astronomical signii
eaace. The wise men who acconnp
= MED Napoieon's army into Egypt wei
. into profound study Of the ayramit
a In 1865, Professor Smyth and his wi
= lived in the empty tornbs near by q
a pyramid that they might be as conti
Il uousIy as possible close to the pyraini
: which they were investigating
The pyramid built more than To-
If thousand years ago, being cempie
a Egeometrical figure, wise men have co
a. cluded 1t must have been divinely CO
- structed. Man came through tho
II sands of years 70 fine architecture,
. music, to painting, but this WIS perte
90 at the worlds start, and God mu