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

garlic and onions the laborers had con-
sumed while al work on tho job and
how much these had cost. Hcrodotus put
/ 1t all down in his notebook without bat
| ting an eye
How much did they spend for onions
! and garlIc?" he asked, poising his pencil
The guide waited for a moment, so thae
his imagination could get running start
ents OF silver"
Now, that sum In talents is equivalent.
under modern computation, to 5000 Eng
lish pounds. or N,7So.0oO. Think OF mil
! lion dollars worth of garlic. Try to I'M
agine the bouquet that permeated the
desert when one hundred thousand men men
who had been eating garlic began TO call
for more bricks and mortar,
Herodotus told his story and got away
with II. BY the time the next letter writ
ing traveller came along. good many
centuries later the outer casing OF the
Pyramid had been scraped oil and the In
scrption had disappeared His story has
stood because he was here ahead of the
rest OF us and saw the marks with his
own eyes and had them translated by
a great monarch would devote thirty
years and sacrifice thousands OF lives and
work tho whole male population OF his
Kingdom to skin and bones putting up
colossal sepulchre. and then set aside the
most valuable space on this glorious mon
ument for telling how much onions and
garlic had been fed TO the help?
Marco Polo Mark Twain, and all the
other great travellers of history love TO
tell tall ones once I'm a while but the
garlic story by Herodotus viii doubtless
be regarded as a record performance for
! n long time TO come,
Cheops was possibly the most successful
contractor In history. II lis estimated
that he must have worked one hundred
thousand men In the building OF tho great
Pyramid. as related by Herodotus. and
that he must have devoted at least thirty
years to the big undertaking. During all
that time he never had strike or even
clash with the walking delegate. The
cisht-hour day was unknown and no one
dreamed OF such a thing MS an arbitra-
ton committee. All he had to do was
to give orders and the entire population
obeyed him; Everybody worked but Che
ops He didn't even pay salaries. 1t is
true that in spirit OF generosity he set
out free lunch for the lnborers-about
100000 worth OF garlic and onions. II
he had tried To feed them on quail prob
ably he would have gone broke
Nowadays visitors go out TO the Pyra-
mids by tramcar. For some reason We
had the notion. doubtless shared by many
who have not been there. that to get to
the Pyramids one simply rides through
Cairo and out on the fiat desert AS a
matter of fact, the great Pyramid Of Chi
zeh, It's two smaller companions and tho
Sphinx, are on n rocky plateau Ave miles
TO the west of the city. There is bee
and graded thoroughtare, set with acacia
trees. and as YOU ride out by trolley or
carriage you look up at the Pyramids.
and when you still three miles away
they seem TO be at least half-mlle dis
tant. At the end OF the avenue and at
the foot OF the hill there Is hotel. and
from this point one may climb or else
charter n dumb animal
Not knowing the ropes, We engaged a
carriage Mt 100 plastres TO take US frcm
the city out TO the plateau. This is not
as much lt sounds, but II Is about
twice the US NJ rate. After we struck the
long road leading across the valley and
saw the trolley cars gliding by and lenN-
ing us far behind we decided to send the
carriage bavk TO the city and take TO tho
trolley. where we would feel at homo
The driver informed us that he could not
return TO the city, as the big bridge had
been opened TO permit the passing OF
boats, and that 81 would be three hours
before he could drive back to town 1t
seems that he was right. The big bridge
swings open but once n day. and then IL
stays open for a few hours and the man
who finds himself 'hridged' must either
swim or engage boat.
. II Is a f1ve-minutes climb from the end
OF the drive up TO the rocky plateau on