The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-25

feet. It Is estimated that the Great Py- ramid contains, all told. almost ninety million cube feet of limestone. ms is so much that if 1t could be split into flags four inches thick it would furnish enough to make a pavement two feet wide reaching over sea and land clear around the globe.
 A Quarry for Ages.
 When Cheops completed this great structure he coated the outside with lime stone and granite slabs. The sides were as smooth as glass; they met in point at the top and the length of each side was eighteen feet longer than it is now. The Pyramid was a great deal higher, and as the bright sun played upon It's polished surface it must have formed a magnih- cent sight
 The outside coating has been long since torn away. Throughout the ages the peo- pie of the Nile valley have been getting their building stone from 1t. Many of the mosques of Cairo contain pieces of old Cheops and it has been the quarry of this part of the world for generation after generation these thousands of years.
 As it is today when one views it from afar, the great Pyramid still looks like smooth block of stone. It is only when he comes closer that one sees it is made of many blocks, and only when he stands beside it or attempts to climb it that he appreciates the enormous size of these blocks. The Pyramid Is built of yellow limestone and conglomerate. The stones are piled one on the other in regular lay CTS. There is no cement between them, but they are chinclted with a rough nor tar which has withstood the weather for more than four thousand years. I dug at some of this mortar with my knife, but could not loosen it, and went from tt.z ctr fff on the side facing the western desert finding the mortar everywhere solid.
 Not So Old After All.
 And this great structure was built over 4000 years ago. It seems a long time but when you figure out how many lives it means 1t is not so old after all Every one of us knows 100 men who have reached forty years Their aggregate lives if patched together, would go back to the beginning of this great structure It other words, If man at forty scould have a child and that child should live to be forty and then have a child, and the programme of life should continue, 1t would take only one hundred such gen. erations to reach tu the days when tEe breath from the garlic and onions eatene b ythose 100000 meh polluted this desert air.
 Indeed. the world is not old and it is not hard to realize that those people of the past had the same troubles, the same worries and the same tastes as we, l can take you through tombs not far from Cairo upon whose walls are painted the life work of the men of ancient Egypt You may see them using the same tarm tools that the fellahs use now. They blow, they reap and thresh. They drink wine and gorge themselves with food In one of the tombs l saw the picture or a woman milking q COW while her daugh- ter held the calf back by the knees to prevent it from sucking. In another pant ing I saw the method of cooking, and Tn another observed those old Egyptians stufflng live geese with food to enlarge l their llvers They were making pate de sole gras, just as the Germans stun geese for the same purpose today.