The labor world., 1899-12-09

some $50 in number, the contents Of
| which go back at Ieast 5000 years.
Fortunately for us who feel curiosity
: as to the doings Of those distant ages
and the men who liven in them, the
Egyptians had the notion that death
| was but the bridge from this life to
| the next. which would resemble this
one so closely that the very food and
furniture used here would be useful
there. On this account they furnished
! the tombs as they would furnish homes.
Therefore, in them have been found
the very food and utensils with the
en- and women Of that time used
while alive. It is to this fortunate
| accident THAT is due the exactness
with which nineteenth century ex-
| cavator can say precisely how those
who died 5000 years B. G. lived, what
they ate, how they dressed, and what
was the range and civilization in that
ancient time.
| In the jars and Vases of these old
| tombs Amelineau has found various
cereals, like wheat and rye, proving
the agricultural tastes of those people.
Date stones are excellent evidence that
the date palm was even then appreciat-
:thes prehistoric people vegetarians, for
ed for it's food products. Nor were
if they were why should there be the
bones Of oxen and the horns Of the
gazelle in their tombs? Amelineau has
actually taken us back to the stone
age and the beginning of the use of
metals in Egypt, for he has found in
Vulnerable arrow heads cunningly chip
ped out Of flint, and knives, scrapers,
and saws made of the same hard ma
terial. The decorative instinct was az
ready alive, or why should these old
wuorkrnen have spent days on polish
ing and chipping stone bracelets?
. 1t is almost possible to trace the
development Of civilization step by
step through these remains, for here
are 1earthen plates so. rudelyt shaped
as to prove that the potter's wheel,
one Of the first inventions Of primitive
man the world over. was not yet
known. Then come other plates ana
pots and jugs just as, surely turned on
that very useful machine, showing
the next step upward. The follow
ing evolution Of inventive genius
shows itself in the more elaborate pot
terry, and the use Of metals for making
rude tools. Hard stone was now cut
and shaped, diorite, onyx, and rock
crystal Jars and vases were made with
so much art that their highly polished
surfaces astonish the modern discov-
erer. It seems as If the use of the
diamond; or some other hard substance
must have been known by the people
who followed out some Of these vases,
%tn~ ~,es1 10s 80 {11, e$S To faN
seen the marks of the. cutting imple-
5me1lts. It was found that some of the
tombs were paved with kind Of rose
colored marble, not native to Egypt,
and, therefore, TINS must nave been
5lfporteu from ~ solne 'lp7 olstaht countiy'
showing showing 5ue cnat tne M Anen - t.at 'lIle
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goods tfnuch as We 40 ~, = .;-s9 ..$sf:
From stage to stage the perfection
of the workmanship and the care dis
played in ornamentations increase con-
stantly. The primitive geometrlcal de-
signs on the earliest pottery give way
to drawings from life, and there are
representations Of ostriches so lifelike
as to be easily recognized; a carving
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