The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-29

ten years for the building If ut the end
OF ten years he was still feeling in good
physical condition and confident OF last
ing while longer. he would widen the
foundation and put on additional layers
up to the summit Labor was free and
materials were cheap. and he kept every
body working on his tomb as long as he
lived, Finally. when the court physicians
began to warn him that his time was
limited, he would begin putting on the
outer coating OF dressed stone and ar
range for the inscriptions The ruler VINO
lasted only three OF four years was buried
In a squatty little Pyramid which soon
became hidden under the drifting sands
OF the desert: Cheops kept piling up the
why his Pyramid holds the record, II
Methuselah had been Pyramid builder
he would have been compelled TO put up
tomb probably mile and half high
and about eleven miles around the base.
In a revolutionary South American re-
public the ruler would probably got no
further than laying tho corner stone.
We did not climb tho Pyramids Mr..
Pcasley said he would postpone going up
until they inaugurated a ilft service The
Gee guide book, but those who are
boosted and lugged and hauled up over
! the angular blocks OF stone are so ex-
they cannot SEQ anything We decided to
go to the interior and look at the tomb
sort Of erotto entrance, and We thought
that going in TO see these chambers
would be something like strolling into a
own words, that the reader may gain
some Idea of the horrible experience
awaiting any one who undertakes the
Three men with bushy whiskcrs and
white Mother t Hub1ards E0t hold hd Of me me
at the dinner table. "I told 'cm didn't
need any help. but they kept hold of mo.
and the next thing I knew We were In
center ter of ' the 'as earth. % The mann man in 20 front
had hold Of my, leg, pulling me alongi
tho third one kind of slid along with the
rest OF US and kept up q running conver-
sation In some foreign Language; After
milo, as near as / could guess It off In
the dark. we struck a. lnrge bowlder. and
embrace OF Arabs. Somebody lit candle.
and I found myself sitting on the cdgc
of bark hole that looked like the orig
inal bottomless pit I never saw hole
that yawned moro successfully. They
hoisted me over this and then wo began
to climb up through long passage about
the size of an ordinary smokestack. The
rock had been worn as smooth glass.
had to double up like a Jackknife TO keep
from humping my brains out. The man
ahead dragged me; the one behind kept
pushing and the third ono somewhere in
the rear carried my hat and did the talk
Ing. don't know how far we went, but
IL seemed to me about q quarter OF a
mile Finally we came to a landing l
fell on my face and said / had enough.
The man with the candle turned me over.
and all three squatted beside me- there
in the deathlke gloom OF that Internal
hole far from the police. and they want
ed TO know II I would give them a liberal
tip when we got outside. I didn't know
what they'd do II / said No 30 / said
Yes Then they said they were going
to show me the queens chamber. They
grabbed me again. and this tmo we be-
gan to work our way through a passage
that seemed to be just about as big as
the Inside OF n stovepipe, fully ns hot
and a good deal darker. l don't know
how far they hauled me. but when they
Strengthened me out and proppcd mo up
] was In the famous queens chamber
They said II l wanted to look at IL they
would burn piece Of magnesium and II
would cost only one shilling. They
touched OF the red light and found my
self in a beautiful apartment, which re-