The herald., 1896-03-09

city. Entering one by climbing over a
mass of bricks and other debris he found
himself in lofty vault and passing to the
end of it and down one deep step, he found
another chamber containing a huge sarco-
phagus. with it's cover suspended by ropes
almost bleached white from age-from a
sort of wooden crane which was so decayed
that it almost crumbled to powder at the
least touch. Marvelling that the ropes did
not give way and that the cover which
weighed several tons did not fall, he saw
close to the sarcophagus heap OF dust.
few bones and the ring with the scarib.
Taking small lamp from the
satchei he had slung over his
edge of the Sarcophagus to more closely
examine his treasure, but he had no sooner
done so than his legs were dawn back
ward and he barely escaped heavy fall.
His nerves were so upset that he took from
his satchel travellers flask containing
wine and attempted to pour out some in
the cup attached to it, but the wine was
almost as thick as paste, and what he was
able to make run instantly flew out of the
cup and IVES spl ,ttered on the roof OF the
vault. This determined him to make
thorough exploration and to solve the mys-
terry if possible, especially rs he had seen
gigantic reproductions of the scarib in the
vicinity of mountain in the interior OF
Morocco which was said to be SO tremen-
mendously magnetic that anyone approach
ing it, if they escaped the guards who sur
rounded it at a few miles distance, was
whrled away by strong wind and dashed
to pieces against the mountains side.
Standing by the side of the gigantic
cover of the tomb, with his hand
resting upon it, he found that
he could move it with the
greatest ease, with but very slight ex-
penditure of force, and SO it happened that
he soon had it swinging back and forth.
Suddenly the ropes broke and the huge
mass fell with a roar to the ground, turn
ing bottom side up as it did 80. AT the
same moment there was an enormous 1ai!
of debris at the entrance to the vault, ana
he found himself prisoner and in total
darkness, with the dust of some ancient
| Egyptian priest for company. Again light-
| ing his lamp, he found hat the under side
of the cover of the sacophagus, now ex.
posed, was covered with thin sheets of
metal of peculiar color which had al! the
| characteristics of powerful magnets, which
| overcame the attraction Of gravitation and
| thus enabled huge masses to be moved with
| the greatest ease. Acting upon this discovery
| he removed some of the sheets and bound
| them to an enormous mass OF rock that
had fallen at the entrance to the cave, and
was able to remove it easily. When half
| dead with excitement, he fled to his camp,
a short distance away. His theory is that
| the metal was obtained from the mysteri-
GUS mountain in the interior, and that 1t
| great pyramid of Gbizeh we're placed in
position. Should this discovery prove true,
| it would revolutionize motive power all
| over the world and render present appli-
ances useless almost. Col. Turner left
fol Tangers the next day and has not been
heard of since.
j. g. Taft, prominent Republican of
keene. n. H., said that the eastern states
are almost a unit for Thomas B. Reed for
president, add that Mckinley was Begin
ming to see that he had no more possible
chance for the nomination than Alger or
Allison. AS for Manderson of Nebraska,
his long connection with the Union Pacific
and the fact of his being nothing more
| than corporation lawyer precluded any
| idea of his name being seriously mentioned
as candidate. He thought it a great joke
to speak of Colonel Otis as a candidate for
the vice-presidency. Business has been
extremely dull in the eastern states since
the new year opened, but there are now
signs of improvement and better de-
mand for textile fabrics.