Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-24

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nerves and overwhelm ones entire
being.
Aitor looking around for while, and
u kodack had pictured the group we de-
scended. The descent was more trying
than the ascent. for in climbing you
need not see the depths beneath, but In
coming down IL was impossible not TO
see the abysms below. But two Arabs
ahead TO help us down, and two behind
, TO hold US back. we were lowered hand
below hand until the earth was invit-
ingly near, and amid the jargon OF the
Arabs we were safely landed. Then
came one OF the most wonderful feats OF
daring and agility. One OF the Arabs
solicited dollar. saying he would run
up and down the pyramids in seven min
utes. We would rather have given him
q dollar not TO go. bat this ascent and
descent in seven minutes he was deter
mined on, and so by the watch In seven
minutes he went TO the Top and was back
again at the base.
said the dominant color OF the pyra-
mids was gray. but in certain lights 1T
seems TO shake of the gray OF centuries
and become a blonde. and the silver
turns TO golden. 1t covers thirteen acres
OF ground. II was ut least 1000 years
old when the baby Christ was carried
within sight OF 1t by his fugitive pa.
rents. Joseph and Mary. The storms OF
forty centuries have drenched and bonn
barded it, but there it stands, ready to
stand another forty centuries OF atmos-
phcric attack If the world should con-
tinue TO exist. The Oldest buildings on
earth are juniors to this great senior OF
the centuries. Heorodotus says that for
ten years preparations were being made
for the building OF this pyramid. 1t has
50. III 900 cubic feet OF masonry.
One hundred thousand workmen
at one time toied in its erection. To
bring the stone from the quarries q
causeway sixty feet wide was built. The
top stones were lifted by machinery
such as the world knows nothing OF to-
day. It is T46 feet each side OF the
square base.
The structure is $50 feet high, high
err than the cathedrals Cologne. Stras-
burg, Rouen, st. Peters and St Pauls.
No surprise to he that it was put at the
head of the seven wonders OF the world.
1t has subterraueouS room OF red
granite called the kings chamber. ="
and another room called the queens
chamber" and the probability Is that
there are other rooms yet unexplored.
The evident design of the architect was
TO make these ROOMS as inQccessible as
possible. After all the work OF explo-
ration and all the digging and blasting,
II You would enter these subterraneous
rooms y on must so through q passage
only three feet, seven inches high and
less than four feet wide. y
sarcophagus of red granite stands down
under this mountain OF masonry. The
sarcophagus could not have been car
ried in after tho pyramid was built. 1t
must have been put there before the
structure was reared. Probably in that
saroophagus once lay q wooden coffin
containing dead king, but time has
DESTROYED the coffin and destroyed the
last vestage of human remains. For
5000 wears this sepulchrai room was
unopened, and would have beea until
to-day. probably unopened, had not a
superstitious impression got abroad
that the heart of the pyramid was
filled with silver and gold and dia-
monds, and under Al Mamoun, an eX-
cavating party went to work and hav-
ING bored aud blasted through 100
feet OF rock they found no opening
ahead, and were about to give UP the
attempt when tie workmen heard a
stone roll down into seemingly hollow
place and encouraged by that they re-
sumed their work and came into the
underground rooms. The disappoint-
ment OF the workncn in finding the
sarcophagus empty OF silver and gold
and precious stones was SD great that
they would have assascinated AL
Mamoun. 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 ordinary 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 seen the
fascination OF scholars, scientists and
Christians OF all ages. Sir John Her
schel, the astronomer, said he thought
it had astronomical significance. The
wise men who accompanied Napoleon's
army into Egypt went into profound
study OF the pyramids. Man came
through thousands Of years TO fine arch
itecture, to music, to painting, but this
was perfect at the start, and God must
have directed 1t. All astronomers and
geometricians and scientists say that it
was scientifically constructed before
science and mathematics we're born.
From the inscriptions on the pyramid,
from its proportions, from the points OF
the compass recognized in its structure,
from the directions in which its tun-
ncls run, from the relative position
OF the blocks which compose il, ecien-
lists, Christians and infldels have DEM
Onstrated that the being who planned
this pyramid must have known the
worlds sphericity, and how many miles
1t was in diameter and circumference,
and how many tons the world weighs.
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