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WATCH C WHITE STAR THE BUGGY r . -vj • - ■: ■<> -y '•&' •"srfVtr^ v3BL‘i&. -p 3* ? j V . f:rRN !.».■ w - -■>— • • wir. \ f TVhlt- '’’!ar A- 1.00u von ocn rnr. ati: •• a-cuah ATLANTA BUGGY COMPANY. 5 Land of Promise (TO AND FROM) ]iy Rk,, C. O’N. Mautixuai.k. ARTICLE L. TURKEY’ (Nominally 1. ! jng toward the morning light and I the river of life. One who sees its immobile taco will ne\er fo - cet it. Carved out of the solid rock and added to where neces sary to h'.l up the contoui, the Sphinx lies largely imbedded in the sand save at front and rear, its length of body 150 feet, length of paws 50 feet, length of head 3° (35). EGYPT: In Cairo, over thej feet, width of face 14 feet, width Nile, at the Pyramids and night, when the sun-god has gone to the underworld, ami is making his journe\ tl rough its twelve stages. As one stands 1 'trie this god of rising sun, this uptn-eyetj prophet i.f the ilovn, amt ror.ieift- hgrs its mute witness ott e un clouded morning toi 11 e..•.y tour thousand years, am! sees its calm, perpetual ga.:v\ still m expectation ot another sunt iso and yet another, he makes for himself a new meas ure of eternity.” Excavations have revealed a kind of protected temple between the massive forepaws, reached by ascending steps, and having me morial tablets to Phothmes IV and Ramses II, besides a car touche ot Kafra on the broken part of a granite tablet. The desert sands encroach greatly on this monument, and it has been no. little mu'ilated by human hands; parts ot the representation of th« linen head covering and of the emblem of royalty on the tore- head and colouring traces (but not of the beard) being now pre served in tlie British Museum in London. Its age we cannot de- •m mutilated red granite sarcophagus 7 1-2 feet by 3 feet, 3 inches by 3 feet, 4 Irenes. Above this chain bei are live other small ones, for reasons unknown is vet, unless it be for th;. sepulture of other mem- will ’he Natioiml Coiled ion At lispose of the following jin Mey of Wiisliington, I ? C., : 1 n e n t: hr is of the 1 have explaim 1 ill p\ ramids who; ev< when we have s.t; Toi .bs, “final res begun amt comph Egvptian, .-con; plan. The size of to. mas be gu igo.i It its height 011 rim at present red 11: and tiie length 1 lamily b'or we ie eho.iacterot the •a t uml in Egypt d t ey are Royal ting i'.ku'es," each oteiil.s a reigning ;n ■ to an 01 initial GEORGIA (treat Pyramid m the fact that \ was 4S t feet d to 4S1 feet) each s' le 755 feet, its solid contents 85 000,00a cubic feet, area of original Ixsebj,- 444 squ ire yards (over 13 acres > and r iei il incline 51 deg., 50 min. Climb to the top of the pyramid and walk the distance of a side and you’ll think, as we do, that il is quite a tremendous pi’o. Any one with good lung p over and of medi um build can ascend outside and inside, but we would not advise any lady to undertake the inner Will tfnums r, l> Whilst>tr Gilbert A Hewitt .1 II Rodgers Lewis W Murphy M l' Lamb 'I rs A U Smith Sum Hurst I. II Turner K L Brewer Keeves Urns \ ( \ .1 S Gregory Krnnil IV Ouse .1 S Mills Wills 11 ,V BtrioUlund O I, Moasley 12 0 Brown .1 B Stiles Mills Adrian Atlanta Atlanta Baxley l ’ dlioun Or llib Ootti rtahlin Klheitoit Glenn Gridin ■Volm ■ladsou Lindsay Litliia Springs Lot hair Maeon Meriwether tit. (in 1 it im T1.00 hh.w sin 11 mu I! I.(la :ti) no 10.00 14.14 to. I!) 00 or, ;s h.-> in 10 111 so K L Lewis \V T Ooeku'U Gallowav Bros Warren iA ! I alt' O II 1/ van M-s j; itaer Mill Mol M,i, 1 ■ annah ALABAMA S L Hurd 11 Auraugavilli! U L l Uemepts Bie ktou ,) P Hurst 1 Uavtou B P Lamhee Kloreiiee H II Oaudle Goad water .1 II Kingly Gordon Uendot Warren Gum Springs Carr it Oo Hardaway II T Daniel Huntsville W T Hiimson it Son Killen W .1 Henderson Lafayette 1 M Ihmev Linden .1 W Hand Mobile to 03 r.H no a i.48 40 bO •’H (14 I O.M.i $ 44.11 ias.04 s;; 08 301.DO 11:1.20 :t.-)7 08 l ss 70 110.25 • 13.no 38.15 320.00 2.-,0.00 03.35 Sphinx, on the Lybian Desert. In Cairo one is in a city of teet. width oi luce 14 inci.* "iv.un c * . . , c of mouth 7 and a half feet, heigftt fine; suffice it to say ’us very an- climb; it is bad enough for a man of ear 4 and a half feet, while cient and lonely, imposing and im- to have two or three Arabs pulling pressive to the beholder. Close by (southeast of) the Sphinx we nro shown what is called now "The Temple o( the Send Bids to THE NATIONAL COLLECTION AGENCY, Washington, D. C. To Publishers and Printers. I from crown to base 7 1 ’ feet. ()nce j it stood for MystCiy; nowit has no secret save for the ignorant. Mrny years ago a distinguished nd on gs. No and pushing, one behiiu either side of arms and I. weakling or heavy weight should go up at all. On the outside the \V< about 570.oco inhabitants ( 35.OOO ! American artist (Mr. \ odder) of whom are Europeans), the ! painted a very lovely picture ca” Sphinx,",constructed ot red gran- height of the stones to he clam- i e and alabaster, the interior of i beretl over iue steps varies Irom 3 oi whom are Europeans), cne painted a very lovtiy pumc ‘ Q mrlvm, huv m Arabat largest in Africa, made pictures-1 e d “The Secret of the Sphinx, , which has been excavated, allow-: 5 • > ‘ ’ • 1 qua as a military centre by the ! which the talented Amelia H lid-; mg entrance but requiring m some 1 each elbow o. nanc and one at the 1 y - English sol .| wauls (in her book “A Thousand j parts lighted candles. It is a fine back to lift and uplift, a great as- mi4, win 1111(1 t hie uusigllt have an entirely new process, on which pntents arc pend- >bv wo cun rofunc old Brass Column and Head Ruins, 4 pt. •rand make them fully ns good as new and without any knolis or feel on t ho In it t mil. PRICES. varied uniforms of l dicity and Egyptian cavalry, Arab j Miies Up the Nile thm de-| example of exactness of ancient lancers and Soudanese infantry. Its Arab name is Masr-el-Kahira, commonly shortened by the peo ple into Masr, and is located on the east bank of the Nile, about 80 miles west of Suez, and 12 miles above the delta’s apex. It seemed fitting that the morn ing of our first day in Cairo after mystery lying 'far back early breakfast we should take past. He has, perhaps carriages and drive by the noted Egyptian Museum to and across the great Nile Bridge, called the Kasr eh-Nil stone lion scribes: “In the picture we see a brown, half-naked, toil worn fel lah laying his ear to the stone lips of a colossal sphinx, buried to the neck in the sand. Some in stinct of the old Egyptian blood tells him that the creature is god like. He is conscious of a great the a dim, contused notion that the Big Head knows it all, whatever it may be. He has never heard ot ! construction, its splendid walls of immense stones being so skillful ly cut out and put together as require no cement, not even a p or hair being insertable between its joints. A causeway connects it with the temple of the Second Pyramid. There are many tombs ot interest in the vicinity also, some of which we visit. Aftoi making a wide detour,and getting very hot and dusty, we come back to the Great Pyramid ot Cheops. With, a small party with its majestic j the morning-song of Monition; but ,,, . .. ,— proaches at either'he fancies, somehow, that those .the W fiter climbed to the opening .... V l* d.ntu Virirl..^ 1 nlnfa.l I i t , a m i trK t StYl'fik 11 (ill intn f h g* ni’T'imiil fl hot I f A Z t CC? t sistance or nuisance, according as one goes slowly or rapidly and governs or submits readily to his would he upheavers or persecu tors for bakhshish. Pay when you get through is the best and the' most for your money. It cost the author #i 25 in bakshish atone, but he had the worth of his money in-, side and outside and upside, every way. The view from the < approx imately) 3^ feet square space at the summit is a never-to-bc forgot- . ten one of the silvery Nile, in its j setting of emerald, of the yellow anti brownish desert exr.anae, of Unfiicing Column mid I loud Rules, regular “ L. S. “ and “ Rules, lengths “ii A Humph* of rot’aced Rule with full fully sent, on npplieation. eligl 11 a, ItOctu each. Jin, and over lOcts. per lb. particulars, will be cheer- Philadelphia Printers’ Supply Co. OK MANUFACTURER! Type and High Grade Printing Material, 39 N. NINTH ST.. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Hi might speak if qu: i tinned. Fellah and sphinx are j alone together in tne desert. It side and end (with draw bridge j closed section, for the passage of boats with tall sails, called dahabiyahs), and the south end of the Gezira,: is night and the stars are shining, and sti I another bridge over the! Has he chosen the right lioui 5 other arm of the river, and along What does he seek to know? a highly eLvalei a: d 1 e utiful I What does he hope to hear? lhe. avenue (above tne overflow level; picture tells its own tale; or rather and surrounding swampy region)., it tells as much of its own tale as lined on either s ; de with lebbek : the artist choosers.” and acacia trees, for six miles on a| In striking contrast with the stretch, until we come in sight of j foregoing is the flippant and the Oizsh Pyramids just beyond equally untrue view presented in the edge of the Great Lybian Des- j James Whitcomb Riley’s little ram ids and Sphinx, and ot Cairo, "the greatest winter resort in the world.” The Great Pyramid is jymg TO a ^ — / IV1U31 ui mum aic c/i mum., get along | “ l * ie evon one-thousand-billionth , | ater one8 ar e of crude brick, . n:irt of the whole eartll-ball of 1: or.,1 part land of the wh and sea;” earth-ball Miracle into the pyramid, about 45 feet from the ground on tire northward side. Here the Arab guides are most clamorous and annoying to a stranger, yet one cannot utterly wiihout their assistance either inside or outside. But it is ,, good and wise policy not to givej^e, as Dr. J A. Se.ss calls it any too much bakhshish before K Ha. «9-i9 20; Job 38:17. etc,) they have done all vou desire 0 fj bui lt6oo years before Moses be- them. We thought we were get^;K»n to write the l^ntateuch, and ting out of the heat into the cool “ the vastest a,ld h, « hcst st,,,ie when we got to the entrance, but j building ever erected by human or fifty miles from the Eayyunion 1 the south to Aba Roash in the expanse, of nor th ( the building of a pyramid the adjacent second and third py beginning immediately a kintc com- Cewltim. mm,I mI ( uirn . mcnced to rule, at death his em balmed body being placed in them. Most of them are of stone, but with Not only there this fine rhyme: “t know ali about the Sphinx: avenue over which to drive thither 11 know even what she thinks, from Cairo, but one can take trolley car and ride the same route. Staring with her stony eyes Up forever at the skies, b'or last night f dreamed that she limestone passages and chambers, secret tomb chamber, and the Py ramid closed up to everyone. The most notable ones besides the Gizeh group are the eleven at 1 Sakkara, five at Abousir, five at 1 Dahshur. The Sakkara group is I about twenty miles above Cairo and across the Nile, reach-d part ly by steamer or rail as far as Bed- j rash in, thence traveling the bal- lance of the way by donkey, a very 1 [juiuiui y j popular, but hot ride for tourists. ; less remarkable and elaborate than . , I hands." Herodotus gathered Egyptians themselves from that the ten just think of.it! On the way we ; Told llie a q t he mystery Why, for aeons mute she sat — pass heavily-laden camels and donkeys fresh from or on the road j She was just, cur, out for that to the desert, some with a curious- look r.g three-cornered pouch on either side filled with fresh forage . S ji en t and look mysterious. j pretty soon we found the exercise together with the temperature 1(79 degrees) within and our heat- — ed guides sufficient to bring 0 n ■ y ea r s were s P ent " ln budding pre j the perspiration with a rush. ! P^atory works, which are hardly A word now as to what we ! found within the Pyramid, which : *he pyramid itself, and that every- J is built of nummulitic limestone | thing was organized on an im- I from the quarries of Tura and j‘^nse scale, keeping 100,000 men The Sphinx is „l n r than many, j Masara beyond the river. Wc go continually at work relaying (hem if it does nothing else than keep in tty a passageway 3 feet ,, tn. every three month,-everything It is . ches high and 3 feet 5 inches wide i arguing one continuous and tore euner s:uc mint 1-^^“ ‘“'“a" i suent anu juuh. luyaiuivua, u j j- . , r-irrietl or stone or sand or bearing lum-1 a m j s t a ke to regard it as either be- and descend at an angle of 26.41 a ' , t ’ , .. 'ber gr other things needful in : ing a feminine figure or having a j degrees and more or less slick un- j 1 roug r< ’ r1 ' JL S in,ur 'k .J building or moving or teeding. we ll-guarded secret. Archaeology j deifoot for about 125 feet, then we umao s reng n am • • ..... a„-n rnmnmDr:, ^ «rpnH fur ran feet a vcrv slio- and ropes, movable sands, com- to account for th For you had as well remember j b as revealed its masculinity and, ascend for 129 feet a very s!ip- that, aside from what carriage of ( mean ing, for, as Dr. Wm. E. Bar-j pery and difficult passage to the : DlIlL " ” ,l -“ goods the trams and boats do in; ton has finely said (in “the Old entrance to the great hall, where ,are sufficient the towns and cities, the carrying ; World in the New Century"): ; three passages join, laking the i pHc'ng an 1 mg 0 s > of farm products and luggage of j .(The popular error concerning the j first one, stooping all the way, we . Iui aru cnaS31ve Inab °n r - V . 1 i *-U A . 1? r* . . r*. i_ i I « o h r\riT/.r, tcJ t\ i rf*rt inn fnr T 27 To t he SOUth Of the 11 all :arm piuuubta mm ul | M ine popular crrui cuuccimug kut,ui d . wuv, -wvv r ... h —j » sorts beyond their confines is secre t of the Sphinx grows out of! go in a horizontal direction for 127 1 wl n A M el 1 ■ ^ 1 e-v el r. L I . e- • C i l_ 1 ! lL 4 L P .e/kt- b f R /I f Vi D T“^ U I ( i To the south of the third pyra mid are three small ones- “The Beside that of Unas and the anci ent Apis (Sacred Bull) Mauso leum or Serapium, the great Step Pyramid, one sees—after a wide detour the ruins of ancient Mem phis, i "beautiful dwelling" or the i 1 ,<),C ' "good place’-’) the former capital of Lower Egypt, with its remains or the Temple of Ptah, built by Ram-! ses 11 , and the two colossal pros-: trate statues of Ramses IL. one! s aves, j k e jng 12 feet high and the] c other 42 feet high, of fine and J hard limestone. All are very well worthy a visit of a day. We wish to say two things more to the Gizeh group and the' Lemons as Medicine Their Wonderful Effect on the Liver, Stomach, Bowels, Sidneys and Wood. Lemon • largely Used l>y Tim Mozley Lent tii Blixir Company, in i.'onmntitidillg l.lietr Lamon UliJcir, .1 pleaiuu'-. r.emou Laxative and Tonic— 1 substitute for all Cathartic and Liver Bills Lemon Ktixir posi tively cures all Biliousness, Consti pation, Indigestion or Dyspepsia, Heatluclie, Malaria, Kidney Disease, Dizziness, Colds, Loss of Appctile, 1'evers, Chills, Ulotehes, Pimples, all Impurities of the IJlood, Pain in llie Chest or Ha. U, nitl all other di(t- ■ases caused by t disordered liver and kidneys, thn first Groat Causa •; all Fatal Diseases, WOMEN, for all Female Irreg ularities, tAi11 find Lemon Elljctr :% pleasant and tlioroughly reliable remedy, without Hie least !ange;”of possible Ii.irm to them in any condi tion peculiar to themselvea. 500 and $i..ou per fwttle at ^ ALL DRUG STOKES L One # Dose Convinces.’’ all done by camels and little donk- i [fig confusion of this with the feet to the centre of the I yramid as iu me va./.ci gtoup u,,,, v...^ evs. while dark-blue skinned and! uure |y n iythical Grecian sphinx.! to “the Queen’s Chamber ( 19 by smooth casing of part of the top o ^ Sphimc. “as much greater than all * . •• s 1 * ' ' I r < r . 1... l..:. .Li. »L/> Cu/sAn/l m i/l o n/l f hd tn II f f - .... .. • 1 1 II T.. V- 'Z 4, " ” r j almost hairless and sluggish andjgh e had the body of a winged j 17 feet and 20 feet centre height, the Second Pyramid, amUhc mag big-boned buffaloes with horns j i lone9S ar >d the head and breast of with air holes to the north and’ like those of sheep lying curled _ flat on the back of their necks are 1 cou id no t answer her riddl used largely in plowing and irrigat-1 r ifi,ji e waS) -a being with woman, and devoured all whojsoutn faces of the pyramid.) Re- The ! turning to the junction point of l the mag- othcr sphinxes as the Pyramids nificent granite blocks which , grcat(jr tha n all other temples or four ’ the passages, and, going on past ing work. A horse is a rare thing j f eet has two feet, and three feet, j the shaft that descends 192 teet out of town. land only only one voice, but its On first sight the pyramids seem j feet vary, and when it has most it made up of insignificant-looking dirty little bricks, but on leaving our carriages and near approach they show up in large blocks ot hardest and whitest marbly stone, especially apparent on the inter ior where not smoked-up by guides and others. From the foot of the Great Pyramid called Cheops, as is the custom (some on camels, some on. donkeys, some a-walking but paying dearly for it in energy), all wend their way over the hot desert sands to the Great Sphinx, th?* great couchant lion like body with man like head in stone fac- ‘ . «, - —- -- is weakest.’ Anyone who could not guess this riddle deserved to be eaten; for of course the answer was ‘man, who creeps in infancy and carries a staff in old age.’ The Egyptian Sphinx looks far too wise to indulge in so frivolous a conundrum, and too benevolent to eat anyone * * * The Sphinx has no secret; its meaning is well un derstood. It is the image of Harm- aker, or Horus, the sun-god—the god of the dead sun come to life. It is the image of the morning,the symbol of hope. It stands ex pectant of a new day after each the lower stages of the third, serve tombs to show what they must have beon If, as is likely. the to show what they must have been , Sph . nx , ay couched at the en . all, from top to bottom, the trance, now deep in sand, of the to the subterranean chamber (it self connected in a straight line with the descending passages from the entrance) we enter the ascent in the Great Gallery at the same angle (151 feet long, 7 f eet wide and 28 feet high,; pass along a horizontal passage 22 leet long with ante-chamber attached, and go into “the King’s Chamber" (the principal one of the pyramid, somewhat to the south* and east of centre, 35 by 17 by 19 feet in di mension, with roofing of same con sisting of nine granite slabs, each 18 1 2 feet long, and air-shafts north and south,) in the upper end of which is an uninscribed, lidless, and second, brilliant white or yel low limestone, smooth from top to bottom, instead of those rude, 4 1s ' | f orm an essential part of this im- jointed masses which their stripped menge still mor e, if, as vast approach to the second, that is the Central Pyramid, so as to sides (for building purposes in arid about Cairo) now third all glowing with the red I granite from the First Cataract." j We must not think of “the Py-; ramids,” however, as confined to; those at Gizeh, for there are no less than seventy Pyramids, or “ Everlasting Resting Places, ” each having its own name, gener ally applying to rest in the future mense group; still more, if, as arKj seems possible, there was once in present, t ie ten( j ec j to de —according to the usual arrangements which never left a solitary Sphinx any more than a solitary obelisk—a brother , Sphinx on the northern side, as this on the southern side of the approach, its situation and mag- nificance was worthy of its gran- And if, further, the Sphinx Chamberlain's COLIC. 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