Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-06-03

freedom, and when we found it i'm
possible to ascend this great pile
without these miserable holdup
men to guide us and lift us, we pull
ed away from them and did not make
farther attempt to reach the top.
Just beyond Cheops, perhaps half
a mile, is the Sphynx; it's being so
ancient is its great feature of inter-
est From its foundation level it
is about sixty feet high; it was a
lime stone ledge that reared it's self
above the general level, and with
patching in few lacking corners,
made a form that was chisseled into
this great image. Vandals have
pounded it's nose nearly fiat, and it
bears many scars of ill usage. The
drifting sand has number of times
nearly covered it and it requires a
great effort to keep it from being al
most completely covered with drift
sand
Just below is one of the founda-
lions of pyramid that have been en-
tirely hauled away in building the
city, only the granite foundation and
tombs remain. These polished gran
tie brought from far up Assouan
show wonderful work. We went
through the different burial cham
bers, all of Syene granite, fioated
from far south Assouan, and as we
emerged we felt fully convinced that
no marks were being left in our
country that 1000 years hence will
make so formidable an exhibit.
There are a number of these mon
uments still standing and one, the
top still retains the glazed covering
as were all of them at one time
covered.
AS we return to the city, we pass
over that great bridge on either end
guarded by English lions, and as
we pass these red coated English
soldiers, we are reminded that this
country looks to England for it's
civilization and we will see it like all
other English dependencies showing
the marks of civilization.
We go out to see those fanatical,
whirling dervishes; these religious
fanatics are seated around a circu-
lar room; the music, a humdrum
cong Generation starts. AS the music
gets in harmony with fanatical i'm
pulse they first slowly walk around
the circle, then they go faster, turn
ing as they go; finally they spin like
a top, their dresser standing hori-
zontal; they keep this up, this whirl-
ing at a speed that would daze the
the average of humanity; faster
and faster the music plays and fas-
ter they spin, until finally they sink
in exhaustion, to again rise after a
pause and go through the same per-
Torrance
We visit the great Bullock Muse
um, where are trainloads of relics
of the great past reaching away
back in the early dawn. Here we
look upon many mummies; here is
all that remains of Seti, the first
the father of Ramises the second, the
prosecutor Of the Jews, the great
Pharaoh. This Mummy was found
a few years since over in those cata-
combs at Thebes; later we will have
occasion, in writing of upper Egypt,
to speak of this find. Here lies
all that remains, so far as we know,
of this man to whom the world
bowed In stature he was man of
over six feet, thin, rather retreat
ing forehead, bearing on the bru-
fish cast, but showing great decis-
sion. In his time his word was the
law; now we can look upon him
neither with reverence Or fear, his
work is done and that remaining only
an object of curiosity. We only
mention this one; we might go on
indefinitely describing the great ex-
hibit of those that have passed out
leaving only a preserved skeleton fol
the curious to contemplate.
| There is material that one could
fill a book with at Cairo, but we
are going up that great river to
the confines of upper Egypt and we
leave Cairo and in our next will try
and describe this great valley OF
river bed.