Evening star., 1923-05-07

was detained III Geruany a~ - - i.~-
oner of war throughout the greater
part of the conflict.
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When Lady Seafov'h dies the entire
landed property Of her husband, in
Guiding Brahan Castle. will go to his
grandnephew, the Hon Francis Alan
Broderick. now thirteen years Of age,
and son OF the Earl Of Middleton.
recently In this country-by his sec
ond marriage. His present wife. tile
former Madeline Stanley, is the only
daughter of Lady st. Heller. sister OF
the late Lord Seaforth. The property
is left to the boy on the condition
that on attaining his majority he as
sumes the name and the arms of the
Mac X kenZies of Seaforth, and it Is
probable that then the peerage nf
his granduncie. the late Lord Sea
forth, will be revived in his favor
not only for the sake of perpetuatirE
this historic title. and its conneotioR
with Brahan Castle and tho broad
lands associated there with, but also
IN reconGition of the great services 70
the state rendered by his father, tn"
present Lord Middleton. who has held
many cabinet Offices, and who played
an important role in tn" negotiations
that have brought about the legis-
ldllFe lDOpptnnencc OF Ireland.
Lord Middleton'S eldest son is Wis
count Dunsford, recently in America.
and whose actress wife, the former
Peggy Rush. is now making a theatri
cal tour of the United States.
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So great is the difficulty which has
been experienced in relatively modern
times in erecting the various Egyp-
York. the square of St Peters
Rasilica in Rome. on the Place d.
Coucorde in Paris and on the Thames
e embankment in London. even with
the most up-to-date and highly dc
veloped mechanical contrivances by
modern science. that speculation has
long been rife as to how the Egyp-
tians of the days of the Pharaohs.
managed to set these so-called Needles
of Cleopatra up in their place i'll the
land of the Nile--one of tho finest
ones being the obelisk in the lTeliopo-
lis suburb of Cairo.
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These obelisks are. as most p"oplr
know. great columns of granite.
weighing 500 tons or more. and tho
strain of raising a shaft of THIS
weight from horizontal into AZ
standing position is something tor
a
into an upright position the obelisils'
now in Europe and America has been
so ticklish that when the Needle o.
Cleopatra was elevated to its site OH
the square of St. Peters at Rome. the
pontif of the day gave orders for ab-
solute silence, decreeing death 70"
for any one--man. woman or child
who raised his or her voice while the
shaft was being lifted. At the most
critical moment, when the ropes
seemed to be slipping and the obelisL
in danger of falling in such manner
as to break itself into fragments by
its own weight, a sailor from Ostia
yelled out, wet the ropes" This
was done and the shaft was saved
and successfully raised. The sailor
was brought before the Pope. But
instead of being turned over to the
the papal commands, received by way
Of a reward. a title of nobility and
the hereditary prerogative of furnish
ing all the sacred palms that are used
by the Vatican OH Palm Sunday.
The riddle has now been solved by
Richard Engelbach, the learned in
spector of antiquities IN upper Egypt.
who shows that the method adopted
by the Egyptians of three and four
thousand years ago, was to build an
'embankment OF brick and then to roll
up the obelisk on rollers until a fun
mel like shaft was reached a the end
Of the embankment, where the gran
ite monolith, instead. of being raiseti
up, was let down into the funnel-like
shaft that had been prepared for its
reception. That is how il was put
into place.