The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-14
Over Tie Nuts and Wine ]:
By FRANCES oURTENAY BAYLOR

BAYLOR
Its eight towers rising one above tile
other, seyenty-tive feet high, with I'm
outside winding stair UP to tho Temple
den image, forty, feet high, valued at a
Sis. You might have been invited
to drive In the subterraneous banquet
ing hall under the Euphrates, lined.
with brass. You would Certainly have
Built BY the King to crafty Anytis.j
IFS lovely Median wife, who loved her
native hill country. They were 400
feet square. They were raised $50
deet g one S
feet wide The terraces were support
ed by large yaultings, resting upon
curb shaped pillars. and they were
hollow and filled with earth, to allow,
tie # the be hgess
bricks and asphalt. The entire struc-
ture was strengthened by avail tWen.i
ty-two feet in thickness: The ,ley I, Is
stones. Over this was a bed Of $rusEes.S
Then came thick layer OF asphalt.
Then two courses. OF bricks. likewise
cemented with asphalt. Finally, plates
earth was heaped on the platform and
terrace, and large trees were planted,
and all the shrubs and flowers known
to the world. At a distance the whole
cent woods, overhanging mountains
s lis mtg Su sst hs saty S bvs
through one Of its 10 GATES # o shn
ng slas srueIty idolasry eu and every
abominationFth the curse Of God came.
hiz E,o5{ ID ING
t has become rubbish heap. "a desc,
heed did they pay 70 the solitary
Israelite In his haircloth robe, who
stood in their streets and proclaimed,
Babylon Is fallen! Babylon is fall
she gr asSylGn fh e Gods A ns a
broken to the ground" Upon the fine
cement Of the Kings palace hand
had written: "Mane. meme tekel uphar-
sin. They had built magnihcently:
quered Syria and Palestine and pene.
Alexander and Seieucus successively
conquered her. And in the time OF
augustus tho city was entirely desert
great canals OF the Euphrates were
choked up3in tile fifth century Babylon
became marsh. The river changed
its course and the second curse OF
Mighty Babylon should be but pools
of water; that the sen should come
upon her and. she should be covered
with the multitude OF the waves there
Of came literally true.
Street In Thebcs.
Thebes has been called ..'the most
hand Of man." unchallenged proof OF
the ancient civilization Of Egypt and
the high degree OF power they had
reached and the extent Of their hnowl:-
tlon known In Egypt. and It filled the
was crowded with people. Diodorus
says: 1.-THE sun, itself. never saw arv-
thing so magnificent" Champollion
tempt to describe Thebes; my descrip-
; ton would not express the thousandth
part OF what have seen and what
ought to be said, and If l drew n faint
sketch should be deemed either an
enthusiast or a mailman" n
It seems to have been built by q
race of giants. No people, ancient OF
!, ture on SO sublime, 50 grand, n scale
us the Egyptians. You can, then q
i gallopinE around the temple or pal
J, restoration was complete. and 1t wa
rededicated by Pharaoh Amenophi
( nearly 1000 years ago, now the mos
!, marvellous and stupendous ruins agall
utes to do 1t. You would then ente
/ an avenue a mile and O half long. hay
ing on the eight and the left colossa
+ figures Of sphinxs. one Of several ave
and sometimes that OF a bull or ran,
You would then enter a series OF col
umned alsles (the columns seventy
feet high, not counting the plinth ant
corridors, pass on through wonderful
gates into open squares, with obelisk!
a. hundred feet high. cut from one
block, pass on into hall whose are;
umns-a perfect forest OF them, sculp
tured from top to bottom with battles
professions. triumphs, offerings. sac
rihces--and behold the red grant
ing before It In colossal majesty. "Yo,
are nothing" religion taught. go,
is mighty and terrible, the Maker o
the universe. the Creator OF all things
the Latins. the Ammon Of the Egyp
tians: and Pharaohis Ills representativ
on earth" You would have seen all tn
material splendor Of Egypt theSe tina
trate before one se Of the Pharaohs, Will Will
he and the priests OF Memphis offere,
anew the Temple Of Ammon. and yo1
would have Termed s0me idea Of II
obeyed Gods 60. say unto Pharaoh
whom art thou like inathy greatness?
OF his II am Pharaoh; in reply "B.
the life OF Phara OH" And then II 70
you, as for Belzoni, ''the whole da.
had gone by like q fash of lightning.
you left the temple and rode out int,
the city again. you would have seel
then what you sec now-mud hut!
lining muddy lanes, with parties O.
Egyptians all the way long eating
and drinking on the benches in from
of each house. a man hurrying by Will
a new "shadoof' (pole and bucket)
still bound to his irrigating task sine.
for him there was never public holl,
day. funeral procession, troops Of
soldiery, multitudes Of animated, in.
terested. Joyous folk talking ofEathe
great days feast Of dedication and o.
Baalbec, a greater Karnak. and of thei,
kindred. friends, affairs, aches, pains
plans-O, but 1t is an old. old ole
: / world. this world OF ours
~ sl8 Tehcrnn.
4 Perhaps YOU have already seen
street In Teheran or Cairo; for Ions
n distances nothing but high. blanl
walls; then double row OF hazaars
a dozen races flowing like river
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