Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-25

"The significance of a part Of the le-
eend had already become apparent when
| dacipher5d it, and gave earnest OF the
importance Of the rest. As we removed
The linen swathings a heavy fragment
fell forth which proved to be OF The
same substance as jhe greater mass-a
chip. or scale. that had been cleft from
is edge, probably by the tremendous
conclusion of The original impact, for l
can conceive Of nothing less as ade-
quate. Thus the words Of the papyrus
were true: What was lost was found.
THE main mass was in form an OBJ
late spheroid, more Gan twelve feet in
diameter and about two feet thick; eX-
cep. in its prodigious size it was like
smooth fiat pebble with rounded edge.
An over the surface, except at The frac-
lure, was a filmy bloom, or blur, which
o5scured its transparency, and near the
middle resembled a light deposit of frost.
Whether this was caused by the inOrdi-
na,e heat Of It's meteor fight through
the air, or whether il had been so from
the beginning, it is impossible to know.
ct was not until the disk was already
erect in The frame which l constructed
to receive il, and my heart was already
big with projects, that l perceived that
a small round hole, about an inch in
diameter, had been drilled through the
very center. I was hOrrOr-striCken,
heart-broken; bitterly did 1 imprecate
the vandal folly of the Egyptian. But
might well have spared my fury; for
when l sought to thrust my finger into
the aperture the attempt was futile. No
opening was there; the precious crystal
was intact. The ancient artisan had but
polished away a small portion of the en-
velOping crust on either side, and the
dawless transparency of the inner sub
stance had occasiOned the illusion. Ny
quenched hopes blaZed up in q c0nsum-
ing flame, and its ardOr which never
since has waned burned from my soul
all o.her thoughts, all former dreams"
Sorrow and eXultatiOn chased each
other across his countenance, like shade
and sunshine under a broken Sky.
Prom that hour have I devoted my
self to this work as an anchorite gives
his life to the quest Of Heaven. Even
when the she.k, my father died, and
the headship Of the tribe devOlved upon
me, l permitted these new duties to
make little interruption. Yet my tribe
has prcspered," he exclaimed, with q
touch of Oriental pride, "and its foes
have not laughed in the face of AmmOn
the Sage. Thrice have I led forth the
war troop OF Ismail, and then the robber
came no more for our hand WIS heavy.
LO! the land is increased, and our Golfers
are not empty, and my people are con-
tent. And all this is good; yet another
might achieve ii, and l deem that no
other might have sight Of the Eye OF
AmmOn Ra. When once the voice Of
destiny has sounded IN thy ear, calling
thee to thy appointed task, all other
VOICES are as the murmur Of the crowded
street, nothing 10 thee.
THE Opaque exterior coating. though
hard. yielded to ordinary processes; a
few weeks suficed to remove it complete
" and unveil the fawless aethrite in its
almost invisible transparency. l then
began q most careful series Of tests of
lis optical qualities, the results of which
filed me with amazement and delight.
You are aware that ii is labor Of
years for the most expert artisans to pro-
duce a disk Of glass that IS even tolerable
for the manufacture of lens of large d.
mensions Streaks of bubbles, unless of
/ inflni,esimal minutueness, are fatal de-
fecJs, yet no glass is wholly free from
/ these. Especially the least inequality
OF tension anywhere in the mass makes
ii utterly worthless. no matter how clear