Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1922-09-12
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To SEE COMRADES.

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TO SEE COMRADES.
Col. George E. Raum, Who Served
With Mosby's Men, Has Seen Most
Of Civilized Places Of World.
Col. George E. Raum, Of Cali
fornia, on his way to New York,
stopped over in Charles Town few
hours on Sunday to greet his old
friends and comrades. Col Raum
is native Of Charles Town. He
went to California short time after
the Civil War and has been eminent
ly successful in his adopted home.
He joined the Confederate Army
when a mere youth and was gallant
soldier during the entire war.
His many friends and comrades
were glad to see him once more.
Col. Raum came to Charles Town
from Richmond, Va, and of his visit
there the News-Leader on Septem-
Der printed the following article:
Colonel George E. Raum, of
Berkeley, California, world-renown-
ed archaeologist and Psychologist,
member of Mosby's command during
the Civil war and excavator of the
Sphinx, spent Monday and Tuesday
in Richmond to see his old comrades
at the Soldiers Home and view
Battle Abbey. He left this morn
ing for New York.
Colonel Raum has visited practic-
ally every country on the globe, and
has been personally acquainted with
many world-famous characters.
Born at Charlestown, Va, he knew
John Brown and witnessed the hang
ing of John Brown and six of his
men. Entering the war between the
states at the age of ID, he was en-
ployed as scout and was captured
by the Northern troops in 1864.
He was condemned to be hanged,
and the rope had been placed about
his neck when Mosby's men appear
ed and rescued him. 1t was then
that he joined Mosby's command.
At the conclusion of hostilities he
went into archaeological research
and in his own words visited a good
many wild places and practically all
of the civilized ones" Australia
seems to be the only country of any
Importance that Colonel Raum has
not visited at one time or
another. He has valuable collec-
ton in New York city, much sought
after by museums, which he gather
ed within the Arctic circle, in ST.
IBERIA, China, Japan, Africa, the
| deserts and all parts of the globe.
Colonel Raum narrowly escaped
being burned as a sacrificial victim
at the great Dravidian temple OF
Madura in southern India, in 1888
He was accompanied to the temple
! by guide, but the guide deserted
him, and he found himself in the
midst of three or four thousand
natives. The high priest demanded
the sum of $4,000 from him to pro-
mote the worship of the god, but he
was unable to offer this sum. The
natives began decking him with gar
lands for the sacrifice, and he was
led before the golden idol, which
only sacred Brahmins are allowed tc
look on. One of the diamonds which
once served as an eye for the idol is
now the Orloff diamond in the
Russian sceptre. Just before he
was to be delivered up for the sac.
rifice, a native boy, to whom he hao
given two piastres a few days be.
fore, took him aside and showed him
a secret passage-way, used only by
the priests. Through this he escap
ed, and jumping into a bullock cart
made his way to safety.
Accompanied Kitchener to Nubia.
Colonel Raum was personally ac
quainted with Henry M. Stanley
Cecil Rhodes, "Chinese" Gordon anc
Lord Kitchener, not to mention the
khedive of Egypt, the king of Spair
and many other notables. He &C.
companied Kitchener into Nubia or
his expedition to Khartoum to re.
lieve Gordon.
1.-The story of the Pharaoh of the
Exodus being drowned in the Red
sea must be abandoned" said Col
Raum, "for the mummy of Meme.
ptah |, has been found and proves
beyond the question of a doubt. II
is also interesting to note that the
code OF Hammuraoi, found at Susa,
was written at least 200 years be-
fore Moses was born"
In 1882, Colonel Raum began pre-
| urinary Investigations to try and
find the archives of ancient Egypt.
In 1896 he uncovered the Sphinx
and when the mummies of thirty
Pharaohs were discovered in a sub
terranean tomb at Del-el- Baharie.
he, with others, gazed upon the
features of Rameses the Great for
the first time in 5000 years that
human eyes had been set upon them.
Colonel Raum stated that the re-
markable fact that Scipio Africanus
found practically no treasures of anv
KIND when he captured Carthage has
led to the belief that the Carthagin-
lans concealed their gold and other
valuables in an underground pas
sage, which can still be seen in Tunis
on the site of ancient Carthage.
Excavation work will be begun here
IN an effort to discover the hidden
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