The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-15
gone quite mad, such admonitions as these will get a serious and prayerful hearing. Washington Post.
BOAT FORTY-FIVE HUNDRED
 YEARS OLD.
Brought From Sands of Egypt to the
 Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg.

oped within the last five decades ha
 most powerfully reinforced the labors 0
 the student of classic antiquity Afte
 the revival of learning in western Flu
 rope the knowledge of scholars In ref
 erence to the manners and customs O
 the ancients whose writings had sur,
 yived was founded largely upon the ref
 erences contained in these writings tC
 usages and customs which had pre-.
 vailed. But the spirit of modern soien.
 tific inquiry not satisfied with mere
 verbal references, has addressed itself
 to the attempt, if possible, to acquire
 knowledge of things, and with pick and shovel the sites of historic towns and of ancient burial places have been care
 fully explored
 The result has been the bringing to light of vast mass of material, the
 fotsam and jetsam of centuries, which
 serves wildly to bring before the stu dent of modern times the life of past
 ages. The student of to-day can
 scarcely express an excess of gratitude
 for the labors of such men as Layard,
 Botta, Schliemann, Brugsch, Petrie and
 a host of others, who, with consummate
 carefulness. have delved into the bosom
 of mother earth to recover the story of
 her children, whom she wrapped close
 to herself, as if to hide them forever. l One of the most interesting discover ies recently made in Egypt was that of | five ancient boats buried at Dahshur in a subterranean crypt beneath the hot sands of the desert, where in the dry atmosphere kept from the attacks of wood destroying insects, they had rest
 ed while forty-five centuries had taken their flight. One of these five boats,
 through the kindness of Andrew Carne-
 gie and the intervention of Edward F.
 Aver, of Chicago, was recently secured
 for the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg,
 and forms one among the hundreds of
 most interesting and important objects
 obtained by the latter institution from
 Egypt. With it's fellows this boat re- mains as probably one of the most an- cient examples of naval architecture in existence. Inscriptions and objects as- cociated with the boat in it's burial place go to show that it was probably Intentionally preserved in connection with the funeral rites attending the burial of an officer of the government who stood high in esteem as master of naval affairs.
 It marks the beginning of the story of sea power The art of navigating the waters when this boat was built was in it's infancy, and yet had already ad- vanced among the Egyptians to point far ahead that reached by many prlln- ittve races found upon the earth to-day The boat is built from timbers of cedar which have been laporiously heWn into shape by an adze. The marks of the tool employed are still plainly visible in places There is no evidence that saw was used They were mortised to- gether, and where the ends of timbers required to be held together the open Ing pieces were perforated by openings through which thongs, probably of { leather, were drawn, and the blanks were thus lashed one to the other and { the whole bound together. The seams [ and joints were filled with bitumen, so { as to make the craft water-tight. The 1 sides were painted white above the wa ter line, the white paint being set off [ above and below by double black lines The skill with which, the painter picked f JuE HIS iilGS NOuld to VI ChtI NJ '" 'iAN@ l arn craftsman. There Is evidence also hat the boat had received coat of red paint before the white and black lines were laid on. This color is visible un- Ter the white and black paint, but most # 1t has scaled off from the body of the boat.
 The boat is thirty feet in length. eight eet in beam and about five feet in lepth. It was partially decked over nd the boards of the deck and the sup ,ortingg cross beams still remain With it was short mast showing that , sail was used. the form of which must be left to conjecture. There were ,Iso found with the boat the remnants f oars. showing that this method of propulsion was also employed. The { hes are graceful and calculated to de- elop speed, both prov and stern rising rom the region of the keel in graceful urves and taperng to a narrow point. ] he gunwales amidship are lower than he prov and stern, in this respect not r eviating from the lines of vessels that ave been built in all the centuries -hich have passed since the timbers of ( his boat were laid down. There Is no C eel and the art of navigation by sail I rainst the wind is not illustrated in ' lis specimen; possibly it had not yet r cen discovered. \ As to the age of this interesting me- orial of antiquity, it may be said that rugsch Bey asserts in unqualified rms that the latest date which can be ,signed to the vessel makes it's con- W ruoton to have taken place two thou- c lnd five hundred years before Christ. g
 was therefore built, according to the IT ,ronology which is given in our com D on English Bibles, at least seven O lndred years before the days when Jo- F ph was viceroy in Egypt and thou jt nd years before Moses, the lawgiver, a saved to lead his kinsmen out of bon sl lge. It takes us back into the dim, u storic past, as far antedating Abra- b Lm as the time of the Crusades ante sl tes the present day. sl An uniformed writer, ignorant of tf e facts, has foolshly given to this of at the title of Moses and Aaron" te had been for thousand years sleep eN P in it's silent resting place before cses and Aaron appeared upon the III age of human history. Still another gi lorant writer announced that the ves- CT
 was "Cleopatra's barge" He was VI tx,yo tboi1Sa11a five hundred wears in