The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-03
Fred Lindsey, ks'

latter work was not a hard PROPOSE
tion Is the dam Is located at the
head of a cataract and there are
plenty of good rocks below 10 use as
braces The English government has
done this just as the United 5tates
did things for Cuba. I find thar the
English have been here for twenty-
seven years and have had an army
OF occupation" mere all that time ana
administer the laws now in Anglo
Saxon style, much TO the benefit OF
the country and to the satisfaction Of
the business interests and to the dis
satisfaction OF the tax collectors and
grafters of the old regime In this
matter Of dams, our government
would do well to follow the lead taken
here, and store the wat RS OF our riv-
ers in the food season and loose
them In the dry time; would save
damage in the spring and provide wa
ter for irrigation and navigation lat
or.
We have also been interested in see
ing what the people did here from
1000 to 1900 years B. c., and even
$500 to 1000 years B. C. However.
the latter works were only pyramids
and great piles Of immense and
smaller stones. But the temples were
built about the time the Israelites
were down here and for 200 to 400
years afterward and / tell yo7 they
we're great structures. At Karrak we
we're in one not yet fully excayated,
one hall alone Of which is 170x33S feet
inside, and in this hail there are 134
columns, two rows of which are larger
than others, II being II 3-5 feet in
diameter, 50 feet high, and the other
122 feet high. and they all have fine
is only one of many such in the same
temple. nut this particular hall is the
besG preserved. and the temple solidly
built up was about 370-..1.150 feet, in
addition 10 which there were courts
and chapelg, etc, all about It. ard
this temple IS only one OF hundreds,
some nearly if not quite as big. can
rust nov recall at least six big ones
within FIVE miles of the one just men
toned. No wonder the Jews had 70
work They are all built Of stone
Immense blocks. mostly
The inscriptions. formerly before
they could be read, e-i!ed hieroglyph-
icsl and carvings are very interesting.
Excavation is going on AL the time
and on Thursday last they made a
noteworthy find at Karrak, 50 IT was
reported. bat We could not learn what
II was. The temples have been thrown
down by earthquakes and filed up by
blowing sand and soil and by people
building inside BY Romans, Persians
occupying them and have cen defac.
ed By Romans and Christians. and an
parently evergbody has taken wnack
al something as they occupied the
country. The Romans and Persians
defaced the Egyptian kings statues,
the Christians (the Copts) defaced
the Egyptian gods statues principal
II by breaking off their noses and
hands and feet, and 50 the work went.
on from age 70 age, but lately the
work Of restoration has been going
on and wonderful discoveries have
been made At one place Ia Karrak
we saw the story In a wall that is
told in ! Kings f4:25-26 and III Chron-
icIes f2:2-4 9 we could not read it,
but when It vas shown 10 Us and ex-
piained We could ser the story The
king'a name % written on the wall
vas "sheshonk
We VIII land At Cairo on Wednes,
day and Win visit the museum there
which wifi be moro interesting now
since We have seen many of the
Diaces from which the exhibits have
been taken
This country is about The same AS
i alwaya vas. They irrigate BY LIT.