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The Washington times., 1927-06-30
STOLE BABY CARRIAGE

Pleading guilty of stealing baby
carriage valued at $34, Judge Nc
Mahon in Police Court today sent
Joshua Barnes. colored, to Jail for
? days. Grover warneke. the man.
ager of the store. appeared as the
complaining Witness
The Washington times., 1927-06-30

are grateful for the privkage of
making this trip" Maitland re-
marked. There are any number
of other Army pilots who could
have done 1t as well or even better.'i
HONOLULU. June 3o.-Balked By
bad weather in his proposed flight
from the island of Kauai to the
mainland, Richard Grace, 1.-THE avi.
ator with the broken neck" pre-
pared to fly back to Pearl Harbor
today If unfavorabIe forecasts con-
tinue,
The Washington times., 1927-06-30
Gas Supply May Fail

NEW YORK, June S0,-Unless
atmospheric conditions show a vast
change for the better. the America
is going to run close to the end of
her gasoline supply before reaching
Paris. it was stated TODAY by Floyd
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-22

the Cirque, as they call it here. And
this is the circus had been looking
for all my life. It's a circus that
comes right up and sits in your lap.
You cuddle right up to the ringside
and the prancing horses all but kick
you in the face. The clowns hop up
and sit upon your knee and the
pretty lady bareback rider and tight
rope walker exchange sly conf
dences. with you as they prepare to
perform. Slyly you whisper that
you'll meet them over 4 glass Of
beer during the intermission. If,
tor some reason, an act proves tire
some you haye simply to disappear
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through the performers entrance
and there you will find huge cafe
in operation. Tables are scattered
about and two barmaids wait to
take your order.
As you sip your beer the trapezc
lady, the clowns and the strong man
sit at their makeup tables casually
putting on their makeup. If you
wander over they will chat with YOU
and. with easy confidence. tell you
of their trials and tribulations. And
when you tell them you are from
America their eyes will pop wide
open and they will ask you about
the immense sums paid by the
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THIS HAS HAPPENED
NOW BEGIN THE STORY
CHAPTER XXXIV

Markham had listened attentively
to Vance's summary. He now sat in
rapt silence gazing down at the desk
"How about little chat with
Pfyfc before you make any final
move aginst the Captain :" suggest
ed Vance.
II think Ill take your ADVICE an
swered Markham slowly, after sew.
eral minutes reflection. Then he
picked up the telephone. II wonder
if he's at the hotel now"
"Oh, he's there" said Vance
"Watchful waitin' and all that"
Pfyfe was in; and Markham re-
quested him to come at once to the
office.
There's another thing I wish
you'd do for me-" said Vance, when
the other had finished telephoning,
The fact is, I'm longing to know
what everyone was doing during the
hour of Benson's dissolutiop-that is,
between midnight and l a. nj. on the
night Of the thirteenth, or to speak
pedantically, the morning Of the
fourteenth"
Markham looked at him in amaze
ment.
Seems silly, doesn't it," Vance
went on blithely. but you put such
faith in alibis-though they do
prove disappointin' at times, what
There's Leacock, for instance. II
that hall-boy had told Heath to tod
die along and sell his violets, you
couldn't do q blessed thing to the
Captain. Which shows, d. We see
that you're too trustin'. Why
not find out where everyone was?
"Pfyfe and the Captain were at
Benson's; and they're about the only
ones whose whereabouts you've
looked into. Maybe there were
others lowering around Alvin that
night. There may have been crush
Of friends and acquaintance or
hand-a regular soiree, y know
Then again, checking up or
all these people will supply the
desolate Captain with something te
take his mind off his sorrows"
Markham knew, as well as /, that
Vance would not have made q sug.
gestion of this kind unless actuated
by some serious motive; and fol
several moments he studied the
others face intently, as if trying to
reed his reason for this unexpected
request.
Who, specifically" he asked, 4,
included in your everyone Z" HI
took up his pencil and held it poiset
above 4 sheet Of paper.
No one is to be left out" replied
Vance. "Put down Miss st. Clai
Captain Leacock - the Major
Pfyfe-Miss Hoffman,"
Miss Hoffman,
Everyone! Have you Mis-
Hoffman? Now jot down Colone
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vaudeville circuits. Recalling your
own reactions to acrobatic acts a,
the opening of Broadway vaudeville
bills, you hesitate. You have al
ways felt that they should pay fol
taking up space, but since they
have suddenly become SO charming
in this intimate new atmosphere you
advise them to stay in Europe.
In the intcrmission little boys and
girls rush back stage to gaze shyly
at the clowns.
The prancing welcome they re-
ceivc brings out every grain of
envy. What wouldn't l have given
as a kid to find four such gro
tesqucs capering in a circle about
me?
A few feet away Il man will sell
you pocket full of sugar for a
few pennies and you can feed the
ponies. Or for few more cents
you can get little can Of fish for
the seals.
The Cirque Medrano is tho old.
est and most historic of the Paris
circuses. Its home is a rough,
domed building and its seats are
built around the arena, the more ex-
pcnsivc being directly around the
ring and on Il level with the sawdust.
For IA francs-56 cents-you can
SID in the lap Of the circus gods and
for - cents you can be just above
with the mobs of working folk.
For, rs u clown told me over
stein Of beer, "old man Medrano
built his circus for the poor folk"
When he died, number of years
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ago, he left will which stipulated
that the prices should never T.
raised above the purse limitations
Of the worker. He stipulated the
sort Of entertainment that must 70
on.
And around the old place has
grown a tradition. Here some Of
Europe's most celebrated acts are
discovered, though the income does
not warrant the salaries Of more
elaborate and ornate circuses. Here
the famous Fratalleni clowns were
found and made famous.
"One night they had to leave.
Another circus had offered them
more money-s0 much more they
could not refuse. And with my own
eyes / saw their leader weep !.
right here where we sit in this room,
my friend"
Outside the band blared aud the
clown hurriedly finished his beer and
rushed out. Through the curtains
came the laughter and applause q
the crowd. Over the place cFept Z
sense Of unreality. ! slipped through
q back way and walked long and late
through the twisted by.ways Of the
Montmartre.
GILBERT SWAN.
Copyright 1927, NEA Service, Inc.)
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dNew Yorker
&oA Paris go

Paris, Oct. 22.-I found the small
boys paradise on q side street in
Montemartre, well off the beaten
Paris tracks.
If yoA're looking for q trail back
to youthful dreams, here's the place
to pick it up; if you're looking for
fellow tourists don't wander away
from the sidewalk cafes.
For this is the Circus Medrano, or
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MISCELLANEOUS

FOR SALE-Registered Oxford
rams and ewes all Of good size,
we'll boned and dense fleece, pa
pers furnished. Duroc Jersey
boars and gifts, long and heavy
boned, papers furnished. Regis
tered polled milking shorthorn
bulls. These are Of good milking
strain. Come and see them, three
miles north of Bismarck. Nagel
& Strutz, Bismarck, N. D. Box q.
DIAMONDS set in very latest
mountings. Engagement, we'd
ding, dinner cluster, two and three
stone rings, brooches, bracelets,
pins, earrings, combination lava
Heres and brooches, $25 and up.
Cash or credit. Buy now for
Xmas. James w. Marek, exclu-
sive diamond dealer. Office at
lO8 Third street, Bismarck. N. D.
FOR SALE-Fancy large solid cab
bage. one cent per ID. Large
dry onions, two cents per ID. Or
ders must be 100 lbs. or more.
Cash with order. Prices +. O. B.
aonDu,H' o@cAo LIZ. ei'Sc
n4rg, y asnDurn, n. lax.
FOh oALE-brand new owe I've drap
overcoaI: size 90, Tor Si1;OU; Dai,
tom ,AdQlng Macnlne with stand
I'll =, Lawn sa+ - fla+ ;rors ~
49, =. er.sa 1912 ~ Iss - Zoo c.,,a rl
street.
FOR Enthusiastically equipped
. blacksmith shop, in live town of
GOO. Only shop in town. Bar
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Rebuilt Automobiles
AGENTS

AGENTS
$3.50 WEEKLY SELLING GAS Sc
A GALLON. No fake. Guaran-
teed product. Your address on
cans. Equals gasoline &c q gal.
lon. Free particulars and proof.
LEFERVRE MFG. CO., Alexan-
dria. Ont, Canada.
,AGENTS-WE START YOU in bus.
mess. No capital or experience
needed to earn $50 to 500 week.
" selling shirts direct to wearer.
Spare or full time. Write for
FREE SAMPLES, Madison Shirts.
562 Broadway, New York.
AGENTS-Grcatest metal speciality
ever invented! Merchants amazed,
.ensation wherever shown! Large
commissions. Exclusive territory.
Write quick! Print-O- Graph. 126
East Third Street, Flint, Michigan.
MAKE Big Money selling Christmas
Greeting cards. Beautiful order
getting sample book Free. Highest
commission. Everybody buys.
Write Rochester Art Co., Roches-
ter, N. Y.
DISTRIBUTOR. for 100 store route
this county. Experience unneces-
sary. No selling, distribute and
collect. Should net $1,000 weekly.
PERKS MFG. CO., Florin, Pa.
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CHARACTERS OF THE STORY
PHILO VANCE
JOHN FIX. MARKHAM District
Attorney of New York Count,
ALVIN H. BENSON. WELL
known Wall Street broker and
man-about-town. who was mys-
teriously murdered in his home
MAJOR ANTHONY BENSON :.
Brother Of the murdered man
MRS. ANNA PLATE ......,..
Housekeeper for Alvin Benson
MURlEL ST. CLAIR ..........
cAprAiiN' ; PHILIP H { EzSS9e singer
.......... Miss St. Glars fianel
LEANDER PFYFE ............
49,. Intimate Of Alvin Benson's
MRS. PAULA BANNING ......
............ A friend Of Pfyfe'a
ELSIE HOFFMAN Secretary OF
the firm of Benson and Benson
COLONEL BIGSBY OSTRANDER
$1,000. A retired army offices
WILLIAM II. MORIARTY 49,.
An alderman
GEORGE G. STITT ............
........ OF the firm Of Stitt
and Mccoy. Public Accountants
MAURICE DINWIDDIE ........
". Assistant District Attorney
ERNEST HEATE ........ Ser
geant Of the Homicide Bureau
BURKE. SN1TKIN, EMERY -.
Detectives Of Homicide Bureau
BEN HANLON $500. Command
ing Officer Of Detectives as
signed to District Attorneys office
PHELPS, TRACY, SPRINGER.
HIGGINBOTHAM ...........
............ Detective as
signed to District Attorneys office
CAPTAIN CARL HAGEDORN :.
Firearms expert
FRANK sWAcEER :. Sec
rotary to the District Attorney
S. S. vAJ DINE i. The Narratos
THIS HAS HAPPENED
Suspicion attaches in turn to
Miss st. Clair. Pfyfc and Lea
cock. Vance eliminates Miss st.
Clair, and when Pfyfe's testi-
mony strengthens the case
against Leacock he interviews to
keep Markham from arresting
the captain. Miss Hoffman is
brought in by Major Benson and
relates that Pfyfe and Alvin
Benson had quarreled in the lat
ter's office.
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APARTMENTS

81 - - AyA A-AS -
FOR .RENT-Very nicely furnished
modern apartment including piano
and electric washing machine
Clean, warm and always hot wa
ter. Call at SO7 Fourth street.
FOR RENT-Furnishcd or unfur-
nished apartment in modern home,
on ground floor. private entrance,
lights, heat and water furnished.
Ais Mandan street. Phone S58.
FOR RENT-A beautifully fur
nished sleeping apartment, COM
Portable summer and winter, suit
able tor one or two persons. Phone
948.
FOR RENT-One three room un-
furnished front apartment in Rue
apartments, all modern. Phone
697-J or call at I'll Ave. A.
FOR RENT-Three room modern
furnished apartment with private
bath. I'll Third street. Phone
678-R.
FOR RENT-Furnished apartment
with bath. Guaranteed good and
warm. Call at $50 Fourth street.
FOR RENT-Furnished small apart
ment in modern home. 618 Sixth
street. Phone 568-W.
FOR RENT-Apartment in Trib-
une Bldg. Apply Tribune office.
Occupancy Nov. LIST.
FOR RENT-A two and a three
room apartment. The Laurain
AIS. Phone 1903.
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statesmen
WANTED SALESMAN

HAVE OPENING FOR SALES.
MAN LIVING IN BIS.
MARCk to cover Southwest
part Of state. Well known
line. Salesman making from
five to fifteen thousand dol
lars per year. Call Mr.. Acker
at Hotel Patterson for inter-
view.
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A census Of Ill horses and mules
on farms the first Of this year show.
ed q total Of 2l,013,00 head, . de-
cline Of II per cent siuce 1890. Tho
next five years are expected 70 show
a reduction Of the present number
by 80 or 10 per cent.
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Tribune Classified Advertisements
PHONE 90
MALE HELP WANTED

W.lNTED-Exper,enced salesman
TO- Western half Of North Dako.
Is local. on retail grocery trade
win d we'll established line Of
macaron; products. Mus. have his
:.wn car an1 = clean past record.
Give 81. details ~ g past exper-
,ancs in your frs. letter and
write iegihly with ink to be con-
sidsrcd. To the right man this
means ! we'll paying permanent
nos!tioa. Address sales manager,
Quality Brand Macaroni Company,
Minneapolis.
EXCLUSIVE SALES AGENCY
"!nE-swake hustler, grocery and
ccng specially man, can get terri
toria' rights or sale Of DR.. Sci.
gcr.'s ANGOSTURA, old-time
tome fiavoring, same formula
since 1924. Applicant must have
car. Address with references An
gostura Bitters Agency, Inc, IA
East 46th St. n. Y.
II YOU want to be successful and
prosperous, get into the Automo-
tive Industry, Electricity or Avia-
ton. Write for FREE catalog.
STATE AUTO ELECTRICAL &
AVIATION SCHOOL, Aberdeen.
5. D.
WANTED-Farmer or farmers son
or man to travel in country.
Steady work, good profits. Nc
COMMON & COMPANY, Dept.
C252, Winona, MINI.
PLEASANT paying work for your
spare time. No canvassing. Write
for free details of a splendid op-
portunity. Star Service, Taylor,
No. Oak. Box 1O3.
WANTED-Men for driving team
and cutting brush. Good wages.
Apply ! mile north of city water
plant. G. w. Scott.
WANTED--Girl for general house
work and companion. Call at GIG
Afandan. Phone 13O4-W.
MANUFACTURER with mechan-
ical experience. Interstate Trans
portation Co.
LEARN barber trade. Cataiox free.
Moler Barber College, Fargo.
N. D.
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acknowledgements for an
aggressive salesman for Bismarck,
North Dakota and vicinity selling
the original Murphy line of high.
grade art advertising. A very
successful season makes possible
a more elaborate line than ever,
including exclusive copyrighted
art calendars, indoor billboards,
holiday greetings, art blotters,
fans, direct-by-mail service, ad-
vertlsing pencils and other special.
ICED items. Possible earnings
$5OO0.OO a year and upward. En-
perience in our line not necessary.
We want a reliable, full time man.
Year around work. Liberal COM
missions, bonus and prizes. Ex-
penses advanced. List Of custom.
ers furnished. New season opens
latter part Of December. Write
the pioneers in this line. The
Thos. D. Murphy Co., Red Oak,
Iowa.
ATTENTION SALESMEN-Manu-
facturers selling direct. Suits,
topcoats, overcoats, any two for
$3.50; your commission $500 in
advance. Beautiful colors, Fifth
Avenue models. Fit guaranteed,
6 day delivery. Unusual bonus
plan to producers. Restricted ter
ritory to real workers. Large at
tractive selling outfit with 1-3
yard swatches FREE. Write To-
DAY. MASTERCRAFT TAIL
ORS, 632 Broadway, N. y.
PUNCHBOARD Statesmen
TAKE NOTICE
NEW fascinating game EXCITE
MENT. Can be used all states.
5000 weekly easy. One minute
sales talk. Pay daily. CIGAR
STORES NOVELTY CO., Peoria,
III.
POWERFUL money maker, electric
advertising cigar lighter, flashing
multi-color art movie ads; sells
easily; make 1855 weekly. FED
ERAL MFG. CO., St. Paul, Min
nesota.
FUNCHBOARD SALESMEN-One
sale daily nets you sos weekly.
Big season now. X. & S. Co, 1902
Ravenswood, Chicago.
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FEMALE HELP WANTED


FEMALE HELP WANTED
A WOMAN OF REFINEMENT
HIGH school education and pleasing
personality, between age Of Is and
10. who is entirely unincumbercd
and free to travel extensively. de-
sired by nationally known organi-
cation. .Salary, bonus and transpor-
tation. Give full information first
letter. F. E. COMPTON & CO..
1000 N. Dearborn, Chicago.
WANTED AT ONCE-Fifty attrac-
tive girls II to "a for Smiths
Greater Bismarck Ladies Band.
cts snap into it, girls, and give
this town a real band. Apply
Melody Shop, Bismarck. Ask for
Mr.. Smith.
WoMEN-Earn SIS dozen sewing
dresses. Absolutely no selling.
Experience unnecessary. Mater
lals cut; instructions. Stamped
envelope brings particulars. Art
Dress, 800 Atlantic, Stamford,
Conn.
LADIEs-We pay 81 hundred color
ing cards home; absolutely no sell
ing; opportunity beginners; exper-
ienee unnecessary. Addressed en-
velope brings particulars. Art
craft 32l Broadway, N. Y.
REPRESENTATIVES-Sell : well
known line ladies' and children's
hats. Fast sellers. Good commits
sons. Write for information.
faller-Farker Sales Company, 178
4. Jackson, Chicago.
N0NAN-Care for invalid, fine
Bismarck home. $2l weekly if
willing to take home training
course in nursing. WINTHROP
NURSE SERVICE, G2O8 VIM
throp, Chicago.
ADDRESS Envelopes, $25-S35 week.
" in your spare time. Everything
furnished. Stamp for particulars.
Junell Co, Hammond. Ind.
WANTED-A lady about thirty
years Of age to keep house on
farm. Scandinavian custodian
Write Tribune Ad. No. q.
WANTED-Girl to do general
housework. Good wages to right
party. Mrs. c. C. Larsen, 500 W.,
Thayer. Phone 632.
WANTED-School gill to work for
board and room. Call at Mohawk,
401 Fifth street.
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FOR RENT-A garage with cement
floor at 40 Third street. Phone
1901.
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FOR RENT-A garage. Call al
104 Thayer Ave. West.
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FOR RENT-A large new garage
with cement floor. Inquire at SIC
Fourteenth street.
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Each year there are $4,000 applica-
tions for patents in Washington, d.
6. Many are not granted, but about
$4,000 Are issued.
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FUNCHBOARD SALESMEN-One
sale daily nets you sos weekly.
Big season now. X. & S. Co., 1902
RavenSWood, Chicago.
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REAL RADIO BUY-Six tube Con-
sole. Writing desk type. See Mr.
Mitchell. Annex Hotel,
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FOR RENT-Garage opposite post
office. Call at 208 Third street,
Phone 1856.
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POWERFUL money maker, electric
advertising cigar lighter, flashing
multi-color art movie ads; sells
easily; make 1855 weekly. FED
ERAL MFG. CO., St. Paul, Min
nnSnf1
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HOUSES AND FLATS

HOUSES AND FLATS
FOR SALE-Six room modern house
with excellent bath room and
sleeping porch. Splendid location
lawn and trees. Built in features
Convenient all around. Very rea.
son"ble. Write Tribune Ad. No
%
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LOST--A grey Angora kitten about
!: months ole. Phone 901 or re-
turn t. sic Ninth street for re-
ward.
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broken here and there, but human
enough nevertheless to make some
students believe it portrait OF King
Chephren.
1.-THE world classes the Pyra-
II mids as art; but of course
they are merely tombs, built
not for beauty but for duration;
fashioned not to please the eye but
to conceal a carcass and perhaps
to impress people.
The honest traveller feels little
cheated when he comes up(m them
today; photography can catch every
thing but dirt, and ennobles objects
with vistas of land and sky.
One stands humbly where Caesar
babe his legions realize that cen
turtles looked down upon them; one
feels the centuries and acknowledges
the persiStency of the Pyramids.
But it is the memory and the i'm
agination of the beholder that make
these monuments great; in them
selves they are trivial heaps of
stones.
There is some science in them,
but little art; a simple geometrical
figure, like child's house of stocks
or cards; rocks heaped upon rocks
in dull precision and array, but with
no design, no adult sense of beauty
only a primitive fetichism Of num-
Der and size. 1t is not civilization
yet; it is barbarism.
What the Pyramids reveal is the
solid organization of a state that
could command a hundred thou
sand workmen to carry stones for
twenty years; savage power reach
ing for its ends through blood and
suffering without a qualm.
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-=JHO these people of Egypt
lXt~ were, or whence they came
" no nan can say. The Semi
&c structure of their language in
ticates an Asiatic origin; but Ian
Guage and race are not always one;
: I'D perhaps it was an alien inva-
sion that left a Semitic stamp upon
Egyptian speech.
Very probably the people of the
File, like most traces" were of COM
pick origin; some of them were of
Semitic descent, some came from
Iiibya, on Egypt's west; some were
blacks from Ethiopia, on the south;
some perhaps had come in from
Central Asia before ethnographers
I'd begun to divide the human
race.
Gradually they became a people,
alike in speech and feature, capable
CT one order and one state.
Most of them, it seems, were serfs
or slaves; men and women per-
sonally controlled by baronial lords,
or bound for debt, or captured in
battle.
The development of agriculture
made slavery profitable, and put an
end to the slaughter of the con-
quered in war.
An old relief in the Museum at
Leyden pictures a long procession
CT Asiatic captives passing gloomily
into Egyptian bondage; one sees
them still alive on that vivid slab,
their hands tied behind their backs
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tinguishable joints. 1t was a mir
acle of Masonry.
have marvelled
III at the mechanical skill, the
economic organization, the
royal wealth and power revealed by
this monstrous mausoleum; and
philosophers have marvelled at the
patience of the hundred thousand
laborerS who remained tied to this
heavy task for twenty years.
HereodotuS has preserved for us
an inscription which he found on
one of the Pyramids. recording the
quantity of radishes, onions and
garlic consumed by the workmen
who built it. Strong food was neces-
sary for such toll.
That is all we know of Cheops;
and of Chephren Cor Khafre), who
followed him and Dedefre on the
throne, we know again only the
story of his Pyramid.
1t stands near Cheops', just
smaller than that colossal tomb;
and part of the granite casing which
once adorned it survives at the top
to suggest how the Pyramids looked
in their primeval glory.
Smaller still is the Pyramid OF
Chephren's successor, Mycerinus;
and its cover is no longer Of proud
granite but of proSaic brick-as if
the flood of wealth that had poured
into Egypt with the copper of Sinai
had trickled into a thinner stream.
Near by the Sphinx looks calmly
at the inquisitive visitor and the
eternal plain.
1t is a savage monument, as OF
some towering centaur seen in fear
full dreams, the body of a lion pass
ing into the head and face of man.
The body was once 1913 feet long;
but most of it has been destroyed
by time and the mortality of stone.
The great feet remain, dug out
from the encompaSsing sand in our
own day; and, rising to the height
of ten men, the gigantic head,