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pME EDITION VOLUME XIX. No. 165. EGYPTOLOGIST IELLSJF TRIP Professor Edward Naville Be lieves He Has Penetrated Death Chamber of Egyptian King-God. Paris. —Professor Edward Neville, the Egyptologist who has been direct ing six hundred men and boys in ex cavations to unearth the temple and tomb of Osiris, has returned to his chair at the University of Geneva elated with the belief that he has penetrated to the actual funeral chamber of the ancient Egyptian king-god, and that another winter's work which is already assured under auspices of the Anglo-American Egyptian Exploration Company, will bring to light important details bear ing upon the history of Osiris. The legend is that Osiris, a wise and beneficient King who reclaimed the Egyptians from savagery, met a sudden and premature death by the scheming of his wicked brother Seth, who, with seventy-two fellow con spirators, invited Osiris to a banquet and induced him to enter a cunningly wrought coffin. They shut down the lid and cast the chest and its body into the Nile. Isis, faithful wife of the beloved king, recovered the body. The legend continues that Seth and his fellow conspirators then cut the body into fourteen pieces, and scat tered the parts all over Egypt—each piece being entombed by worshippers of Osiris —which accounts for the numerous tombs to him. The faith ful Isis, however, regathered the pieces and brought them back to the Temple of Abydos. This, temple, where Prof. Neville has been conducting the excavations, is, he is sure, the true burial place of Osiris. The place is about equidis tant between Cairo and Assouan, in the desert about eight miles west ward from the Nile. Prof. Neville believes this temple is older than the Pyramide. Relati ing some details of his work to The Associated Press correspondent at Geneva, he said: “We worked from December 24, 1913, to March 11, 1914, and during the eleven weeks we experienced some anxiety and excitement. At nine yards under the soil we found a large building constructed of granite and verv hard red sandstone. This edifice is divided into three naves, which are surrounded by sixteen large cells and identical in size and shape. They have no inscriptions on the walls whatever. This proves that the building is very ancient as the walls of mere modem edifices in Egypt are covered with inscriptions. “In front of the cells in a stone platform supported by ten huge blocks of granite. Skirting this plat form we came upon the reservoir or well o' Osiris, which undoubtedly is that mentioned by the Roman histo rian Strabo. While the reservoir has not yet been explored, it is probable that its waters had been popular at tne time for their supposed curative virtues. ... , “On the opposite side of the temple to that where we entered we found the burial place of Osiris, as the Book of the Dead and the inscription on the walls of the funeral chamber, twenty yards by five, proved to us beyond all doubt. You can imagine tihat we were greatly delighted at the discovedy. “We found also that in some re mote past Egyptian thieves had been at work there. They had entered the funeral chamber by piercing a hole in the wall, but of course it will never be known what the thieves car ried away. Did they take the sarco phagus of Osiris? All Egyptologists in the course of their research in the ruins of Egypt have come across traces of thieves who were consider ed to be the cleverest in the then known world. They formed them selves into associations and gangs with the special object of robbing tombs as it was the anicent custom among Egyptians to bury valuables with their dead.. There was a super vision of the tombs, but this the thieves seem to have avoided easily, judging by their exploits. “The whole of the vast edifice we discovered is in a bad state of ruins, because it and its surroundings were used as a quarry in the time ot Ramses, II.” . , .. Professor Neville, who is an elder ly man, insisted upon paying honor to his "brave assihtants.” Messrs. Wain wright and Gibson of London, and Thomas Wittemore, of Tufts College, Massachusetts. "0. IJ. Trustworthy" Correspondent at ’Frisco London—The “Times” has Just been informed by a "trustworthy cor respondent recently returned from San Francisco,” that everybody there connected with the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 is mystified, as well as mortified, at the atitude or Great‘Britain in view of the German preparations that are being made. He went over the Golden Gate Park grounds with the archietct who is re ?l onslble for the buildings of the Exhibition, and discovered from him, that, unless an immediate application were made, there would be great dif ficulty now in allotting any position for a British Pavilion, should the government at the late hour modify its decision not to be represented On the other hand, though, Germany, in accordance with his engagement to Great Britain, officially holds aloof an excellent site has been given for n Gorman building, to contain an im portant exhibit of German industries and manufactures, which will be one of the most prominent features of the Exhibition. The money for or ganizing it has been subscribed In Germany. The Informant was surprised that this fact was not known in England, and that the British government should still be hesitating as to Its policy. „„ THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES. : THE AUGUSTA HERALD Our Housefurnishing Club Plan Is a dignified one. It enables you to buy the same as for cash, with a small fee for carrying, and pay monthly in small payments. Everything marked in plain figures, one price to all, cash or club. A 3.00 fee is charged on every SIOO club. You can get $5.00 back on every SIOO by paying cash before noon, or $2.50 after 12 o'clock. Purple Stamps given on monthly club payments. Buy Furniture J\fow While Our June Clearance Sale Is On If you will need furniture this Fall, you cannot afford to miss this opportunity, for you will have to pay anywhere from 10 to 33 1-3 Per Cent more then than now. Many have taken advantage of this sale and furnished their homes complete. 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