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CLOTIIIXO.
TV AIM : ' ' "
;liri-?lnia- 1ms come itinl gene. The old year lias fciscd lti "geed bye " te VJ enil dropped
i.nc-1; into the past, taking if- place among the me-it eventful yea: et liltery.
The Holidays aie ever. Tin- glfty jjiver have ceased tlu-Ir giving, mid tin: time v Inn anv
Uiing and everything would sell -e icailily lias gene.
Tiie "old leg " meiehants ale piepaiingte wear out chair cii-hien-, and tieu-d- by
-tiling themselves down dining 5ii.- months et .l.iuuurv, Fcbruurv and March, te awuit tin;
mining nf.M'IHXt; TKAOK."
The "WIDE AWAKE" .MhllCllAXI", tin- Miiii.vri.e-Xfcver-Ilas-u-lJiill-bea.iOn.-' ile"
i.mii who hie, learned lint trade can be ,uL- in the usually dull month-, l.y vet!.'uvj j'ut it
5- lunching lerih -etfir- new ide.i, some attraction which will dtau tiie people; mid accordingly
keep the trade :i "hoemtn:;' ami lvf- hi-i sh-epv neighbors semr-ihlng e talk about and
ueuy evci.
din uny pci-.i:i lw obstinately 1,11ml as nei te -.-i- (hat tlic "E Kit HI sV ME11CHA.NT "
Ssthe nun u he ltKIM'CK HIS COODS TO COV1' In tlie dull season rather than teie them
uuiiy f..i tin- next -cu-en, whether hi-, neighbor ilk.-, II or net. and Mich a iteie 1 hr-Iiiff
-ought alter l.y t lies win min tlietiq tints el" I.anea-ter eity'-j and eeunty'.s purchasers.
AXH new wi: have en: .sTeith 11.1.1 mixatkd n the ei.kctkic i.uiiir
liy u hieli every tint and color can he -c.'-n as well hv night us 113- day.
I theielore call jour attention that every garment has been MAIilihli !il)W. 'I e ('.-!'
t 01: THE XK.Vr THIUTY OAiS, whereby you will be enabled tebuvan
OVERCOAT Oil SL'IT OF CLOTHES AT A VERY LOW PRICK
Itutii.g -nil a geed a-, .it men j en hand te -elect trem.
My " Custom .Maile. Department" I, tilled with the choicest Woolen, Hk- i.mi..-l iffoi.t iffei.t
1 jictfri-t nt filtitns tftiurtifiteril.
AL. ftOSKJS STEIN,
THE PIONEER OK MODERATE PRICES,
NO. :S7 NORTH QI'KKX STKEET. X. M deer te Shull A Itie.S il.,1 stele
IJCO.
"ICON HITTKJCS.
IRON BITTERS!
A TRUE TONIO. SURE APPETISER.
IIIO.N IHTTKKS au: highlyjtceiiiinen.il-. t tei ull diseases ree.ulilng a tv.itatn and t-:i:- i
cK-ni teiile; especially ,
INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA. INTERMITTENT FEVERS, WANT OF APPB- j
TITE, LOSS OF STRENGTH, LACK OF ENERGY, Ac
It clinches the bleed, stie.iigllieu- the mu.cli:-, and gives new Hiu te the nerve-, u act.
like, a ciiui in en the digestive organs, icineving all dypeplic Hyir.ptemx, such as Tasting tfn
7'bet, Jtrlthuu, Jlcal in the Stomach, Iteartburit,tte. The only Iren Preparation Unit will
net Ml.icknn Mm lotliergive lieatlache. Sold bv all ilruggif.tj. Write ter the Itoelr ;"
pp e! u-i fill and amusing reading stnlftcc.
BROWN CHEMICAL COMPANY,
titijdxwj BALTIMORE, MD.
Fer Sale at COCHRAN'S DRUG STORE. 137 and 139 Werth Queen
Etroel. Lancaster.
IIOUS: FUJiSlSlllXii tlOUlt.S.
171.INN a wi i.i.sex.
BARGAINS!
FLIII & WILLSOI,
ARE OFFERING THEIR IMMENSE STOCK OF
TINWARE, BUCKETS, &C,
iieuuiir at xew vei;k Arenas
AT LESS THAN HALF THEIR VAIttK,
Lamest and most Complete Lin.) of lli'l'SK-.-ViTRE CnOJ),-. i.i Ccntial l)enn.-i
vani:i. ALL, AT VERY LOW PRICES.
FUN2ST & WILL80N-
1-1. UJUJl iill'S
J
DUN I.. AttNOI.n.
PATENT COLD-CASE HEATERS,
BEST PORTABLE IN USE.
SLATE HOOFER AND ROOFS REPAIRED,
PLUMBING AND GAS PITTING,
Step and Valves for Water, Gas and Steam.
JOHN 1, ARNOLD,
tfes. 11, 13 & 15 EAST ORANGE STREET. LANCASTER, PA.
t api-J-1 1. 1
HJXliS -1X1) LIOUUHS.
jiKiOAKT'S OI.O WINK sTIIKK.
ESTABLISHED 1785.
REIGARTS OLD WINE STOR E
NO. 29 EAST KING STREET.
UEIOAlif'S OI.O WliXES )F1SQ0. 1812, 1817. 1818 AXD 18!i1. J-'IXJi lil.li lilt V
DIES AXD WHISKIES. U1XS, IRISH A XI) SCOTCH WHISKIES. ' "
All tne lea.imjj brands et uilAMPARNE, "
UUOW.N jrei1, btOlXll 1I.K-, Ac
' Mineral Watcis, A'lpellinails, Vichy, t'l'ledrlchslmll, Hun'adi.laues. laratOTi and .iii".-i
' Ale. Alse Une Olive Oils. '-
H. E. SLAYMAKER,
S. CLAY MILLER,
Wines, Branflies, Bins, OW Rye Wliisldes, &c,
Ne. 33 PEN SQUARE, LANCASTER, PA.
GIBSON'S WHISKY BOTTLED A SPECIALTY.
CAIIKIAUES, JtC.
s
ji.i:iuus:
MI.I.KiUa
EDGERLEY Ce.,
Market Street, rear Market Houses
I.AXCASTEU, PA.
H'; havca Laije and Splendid ii-eitiii.;nt e!
reKTI.ANU, ALBANY and DOUItl.K;
SLEIGHS.
Tl.ey arc made et Ihehe.st "elected woodworks
the bet ironed, best trinuncd. and tins llne-t
painted and ornamented SLKUiHS ever otter etter
ed ler sale, in the city.
KenHMiiuer we pay cash ter our material aim
ullew no one te undciscll us. Our Motte :
" ynici: Sales and Small 1'uefits.'
It ce-ts nothing te call and examine e.:i
work. We aNe have en hand it lull line et
UNKCAKKIAOK WORK, in which we d.:ty
competition.
All work uairantee. Kepalrlng et all kind
promptly ai (ended te. I nS-ttdA;v
LIOUOKS, JCV.
"pi"C WALT'S"
WINE, LIQUOR, ALCOHOL AND
GROCERY STORE,
Ne. 20.i West King Street. telilii ly
KOUSKAL. CO'S
NEW LIQUOR STORE,
Se. 43 North Oueen street, Inncaster, I'a.
The vciTlC3t and tlnest qualities of Korci-n
and Demestic WINES and l.lljreKS. con
-lantiv ter sale at wholesale nd retail
StinislitOld llj'e WhNky of the distillation
ei 1S75. l'nre unndnlterated Cii-lem Heuse
lliamly. warranted et the vintage et 180
Kept especially ter medicinal purposes. Pure
.i Helland Gin, ami ether Whi-kie, Jti-an-!
i - iiul Wines te '-uit Hie trade.
.ib:;-2nid IIOl'SEAI. Jc CO.
JtlTTKBS.
I
ICON IJITTKK3.
SUl'l'LlIiS.
teiix i.. ai:nei.i.
jiiirii-lyii
JtVVKN AM) tf'iU lIONJilti .
T7"AI.KXTINKS.
Valentines and Valentine
Cards.
In limn Variety at
L. M. fc'LYNN'S,
HOOK AND STATIONERY STORE,
Ne. '4 WEST KINO .STKKKT.
"fJ"A!.ENTI.Ni: SIJASO.N.
Valentines !
m GREAT VARIETY.
VALENTINE CARDS
-A:p-
! NOVELTIES,
i
I At the i:oel:toiecf
I
Jehn Baer's Sens,
i
: Nes. 15 &17 North Queen Street.
IOX OP THE BOOK.
(JLOUlIXd.
y.v.N,i.ii.iii,:i: i r.itew.s.
Clothing that
"Wears Well.
Yiar afu.r e.ir our I'ltstetiu-in
ii'tmn Iicimhn:: tlu-y are net ilis
:ii.iiii;tiil i:i t!n; kind til Cleth
iti .Ve i,iij..I ihf-isi. Willi all
out iiiM"'i!ahh' jii-ies-S we insist
en Uii'. uihiiw.i of tlic .iKileiials.
Tim iwi rd" Men's r.1.1! Heys'
tUpienafs anl St'.iis i-: Mill iitiie
(".iinjilett'.
va:;a.maiclr .t hrewn
i,-.i: il.i.i, .-ixth and Maiket slieSt-J
I'hila.l'dplii-.
A
iiAKK Cil.iNf! .
A -( 1 . !
HIE CLOTHES
m: .
! OVHROOAT
Made Up te Grdci at Cost Priea.
In tic.iei in leiiuee my Iiimvv -tecl; 01
FINK WOOLEXR
I -I1.1II uuike tl'.cin iip tneiili v ler tiin XKi'
TIUUTY !A S ter Cash only at cot price.
ductien ev
1 111- is wiiiieui ejrceiiuen me greate-l 10-
cer mane 111 l' l. K (JJ.OTll K and
1-: .lone te niai
for eui hrav
K,
pring Importations,
U
allien ve expect !. have in -loci., by the early
part et iYbruaiy. We have the sample cards
01 the-e geed- all. -ady 111 store, and anyone
de.sii-ieus et seen: ing liist choice ter Sl'KINU
WKAIt c.ui de - . new, and the irredi will he
liiine.l ler him.
it.Mii"iiibcr He' .dove u.lut'ti.iu i- ter
Heavy V7eiifhts and Cash Only.
H. GERHART,
TAILOR,
fri i) Ea?.t Kiug direst,
u.'.i:'l!iNi; : ; te i ii;-,; "
V '
A- viv - f t I" t i On I II.. !-.i! inc.- in en I
WiNTEK
OLOTHLTSTG !
I li r. M '.!!.
SWEEPING REDUCTIONS
ThioiiMhein our H !-:. ! i-l. ie liav. en
hand a lar:re -loci- el
HEAVY SIjj'IH mill OVERCOATS,
.MAi.'M.li At M t II i.OU I'ltlCKS
- II ! -T II llh liV s , r
Wtti' nnl. .i-l: Hi il j n.i .- ill him v inniic
onr-declc anil be cm vincul or hat wi -ay
D. b: Hustetter I Sed
Tailors :md Clothiers,
24 CENTRE SQUARE,
2- i:
I A WASTr..!:. I'.
it:u.i. riciiKii.un it. tss--.
.-. sal iii : i Aiii.i: is eiii
r -
BOYS' and CHILDREN'S
CLOTHING
I'llMlNii IS AT THK
ONH-PKin: heusi: te-iu v.
'i'tle-e i ivitij;-, n'.i.ui Cieiitln.. ale vei til your
reir.emh. rin. Ki when you are lead v te
buy we will Imve the iti.e-t a--ni'tiiient we
have ever -hewn
EACH SEASON
wi: auk Deixit i:i:-rij.u am ui-tiku.
Huyintj only tinn cl.is- el i;..e.ls that fjive
entire -at intact ion. mid making Improve
ment ter the convenience et our eu-temer-.
Mi ai Win Bap
"Cfeiii milky when .m come letdiip ilitin. Uut
they arc packed one in the ether te -ave -pate
We think a- many a-j
.1 CAU-LOAJJ A UK COMIXO,
And the PRICKS will he a-, little us 'J riinka
can he sold ler
WILLIAMSON
AND-
FOSTER,
36-38 East King Street,
LANCASTER, PA.
LANCASTER, PA., SATURDAY FEBRUARY IS. 1882.
Hancastcr Jntelligrncrr.
SATURDAY EVENING, FB. 18, 1882.
CRADLE OF THE WORLD
WHAT SAMUEL S. COX SAW IN
l.ANO OT TilK PIIAKAOUS.
:m:
ui
Visit te the Sphinx and the Creat J'vra-
nii'.ls el Clieep.
5. d. Cox. in X. Y. Sun.
Aleug tbe read te the pyramids, as in ail
tLese het ceuutries, we see bundles of rags
lying in the sun. Under them, complete
ly concealed from flies, are the weary de
scendants of the Pharaohs taking their
siesta. Let them rest. They were het n
tiud. Our guide points out Memphis.
We are disappointed. It is under water,
as the Xile is ever forty feet deep. But
there is net much new te see in Memphis
when there is no inundation. It has been
tided te built' Caire and ether places.
There are intervening sand hills and water
en either side of the acacia avenue. The
water broadens into a vast lake. We are
out of the range of the noisy dtivera and
venders en the read. We are approaching
the pyramids, and become naturally and
silently eager for the firat glimpse. Shall
we be disappointed:' A range of trees
intervenes, and then sonic mad camels en
the route distract our attention. The
sugar cane in tfie adjacent fields, with its
tops above the water of the lake ; bamboo
hedges, which line the read, and a bee
hive looking tomb of a sheik an passed,
and then le ! the pyramids ! They de
net leek large at the first glance, bat they
de leek as large far off as near. That is a
curious optical illusion ; but se it is. Yeu
cannot, however, estimate their immense
sense by being cither far off or very near.
If you stand by them or at their corners
they de net seem se lefty and huge as
when you are 100 yards away.
But what a desert beyond ! It seems
far oft' te Algiers, through Tunis, and noth
ing but sand, tawny .sand ! As we come
nearer, some lock en the edge of the sand
shows white, for it is of limestone. Tlic
lake of water the overflow of the Xile
enlarges en either side of the read ; and
when it subsides, as it will in Decern
bcr, the alluvial soil temains, and, with
repetitions, richness remains perennial.
The Xileeinetcr is a stone column. It
marks the height of the water. If it reaches
2 feet, a famine is imminent ; if 10 feet,
it is all right ; if 43, it means devasta
tien. Twe villages like these of all the .
Eastern ceuutries. ate seen across the lake
under the rocky rise en which the pyra-'
mids stand. Twe houses are built square, !
and some of stone out of the ruins of old '
ETt. Indian corn of peculiar kind, the
" corn of Egypt '" in the Bible, is seen j
growing like our own maize only that or.e
ear at the top grows here. Between l)c-'
comber aud May two crops are made, and '
another in June or July.
The people we meet are like the Arab-, j
in their long robes, but they generally ,
wear the white turban. We see some of
them at prayer along the read. The lSgyp- I
tiansare much devoted te Mahammed. '
They send our caravans and pilgrims te j
Mecca every year with much ostentation. '
These carry a new carpet for the holy '
place and bring back the old one, which is
eut into shreds and divided iiiueiijr tlie !
faithful. The children en the route te the
pyramids, are geed afoot. They run alter
us clamoring for backsheesh.
The SiiiTemidinv "t tlie 1'v iv.Illid-.
I confess that the surroundings of the
pyramids aic net my preconception. My
ideal was rather tee romantic. Never
theless, after we pass several bridges and
:ec some evidence of the read having been
inundated and tern up, we peiccive in the
lake aud en the right as ws pass 'the last
biidge, and a mile from the pyramids,
some green isles, quite pretty, with palms
and cultivation. When the water falls
.-- ., t
they will be isles no mero.
seems te be nearly up te the
upon which the pyramids
lather te the sand hills which
The water
white clills,
repose, or
almost liide
the clilis. Buffaloes are cooling and feed
ing in the water, and naked men are wad
ing aud camels tiudging through it. The
buffaloes leek like hippopotami with their
big black ugly heads pretrudiug from the
water. Although a mile away from the
cliffs, the sand begins te show in ridges
and paths. We approach the monumen
tal wonders ; and as wc arc seen, a race
takes place between a dozen or mero na
tives, who expect te aid our archieologi archieelogi archieolegi
cal lescarchcs. Mere camels arc seen
across the lake, for this is the read te the
desert which the caravans take, aud their
heavy lead and tawny color are .s'dheuctteri
under the cliff against the rock and sand.
New we see that the water is very
high aud spreads ever a vast space, for
wells arc being used and houses appear
in the midst of the lake. Many of the
people we meet ate very black, and, being
dressed in a white robe, are qnite a pic
ture. We steal glauces at the paramids.
and see birds circling round their tops.
This gives mero seeming elevation te' the
solid structures.
"What is that white object en the fur
ther shore en the right'."' wc inquire of
our Greek.
" Pelicans" by tiie bundled. We see
two lets of them, enough te furnish riiet riiet
eric for Louisiana orators for a half cen
tury. There is a smaller pyramid, net far
from the two large ones, ou the horizon
toward Memphis. We cannot as yet
arouse the romantic sentiment which sur
rounds our own picture of ihem at home,
with the palm group in the foreground
and the pink and saffron haze of the Egyp
tian sunset en them and the sky.
Turning te practical matters, I inquire :
"Hew de people knew their own farms
when the watter settles; Dees net its sub
sidence destroy the landmarks'.'"
The guide an.swer.-j that the laud is sj
valuable that it is well marked with
metes and bounds, Monuments are one
of the specialties of Egypt. There are
villages in aud sometimes under the water.
They are left full of rich mud, and that is
a comfort te the inundated.
As we approach the hill my wife sees
some mere pelicans in the distance. She
is willing te take affidavit that pelicans
are domestic and tame. As wc approach
she sees a fleck feeding in or near one of
the little towns. They turn out te be
geese. It is ever thus. We discuss no
mere birds, but proceed straight toward
the pyramids, and mount the donkeys in
waiting, for the half-hour's jaunt te the
Sphinx before we enter the pyramids.
Tlie Sphinx as It .Veir I-..
Much has been written as te this mystic
god of the ancient cradle of civilization,
the Sphinx which is the name for Egypt.
I am puzzled te express my idea of it aud
its temple. We alight amid the sandy
heaps, and leek down into the rock-cut
caverns and up te the half-hid genius of
the Unknown.
The temple of the Sphinx i.s huge red
granite columns supporting huge granite
blocks. It is thirty feet beneath the level
of the sand. Frem it a roadway, paved
with white flagstones, leads up te the
pyramids. They seem te have been con cen
nected, religiously. The nose of the
Sphinx is shaded or worn off. It detracts
from her dignity. Her headdress is par
tially demolished, but her feet and form
remain for solution. Let its JEdipus
stand forth ! There is no satisfactory
guess yet as te any of these gods of Egypt.
The pyramids are resolvable into tombs,
or if you please, by a sketch of fancy, into
astronomical edifices; but this Sphinx
has been fiem the earliest davs as much
of a dumb puzzle as the protoplasm. An
intelligent and metaphysical writer, who
was here, regards the Sphinx as mere
wonderful than the pyramids, because se
awful and lonely. The pyramids are awful
in anetuer sense, awful big ; but th ay have
companions. He even finds comeliness in
the thick lips of the Sphinx, and regards
her or it as a forgotten mould of beauty.
Te my thinking, she or it is simply a mon
ster, begotten of th wild imagination of a
sunny people, who, alter running out of
the animal creation for their deities,
frame this miscreant. It is tain te be an
image of the Detty, because unchangeable,
having the same will and intent forever !
But it has changed. It is net inexorable.
It is a dead rock, aud subject te mutilation
and wear like any ether piece of lime
stone. I have seen in Corsica forms
almost as whimsical, bearing resemblance
te birds, beasts and creeping things and te
men anil tieviis. 'i he impression, however,
which the Sphinx and his problem pro
duce here, en this lonely, shifting edge of
the unknown desert, -sewing as much te
its age aud insolubility as te its monstros
ity. I cannot connect with it the ide i of
Diety or of immortality. Xer can I leel
the same sense of vague nightmareish her
ter in contemplating its sifter monuments.
Remounting our animals, wc return te
the base of the pyramids. We are pointed
out, in a hole in the sand a red efl", the old
comers before they weic .stripped. We
leek up te the apex of the large one, that
of Cheeps. New its massiveness and
height are felt. It is simply enormous. It
is specific aud general gravity. Ne room
for levity of any kind. Made en a square
aud with angles geometrical, and with im
mense itencs and these piled by the aid
likely of mutinds of earth, or, as seme
suppose, built from the in? ide the im
pression deepans till the head is dizzy and
top-heavy with solid substance, acres of
stenincss. One feels, in a finite way, a
sense of the labor and the lead by which
they were made. Shall we go in, or en
top? We resolve first te enter. It is no
holiday work, especially for a lady. My
wife essays it, and I foliev.-. Three Arabs
for each, but Dionysius, the (Sieek guide.
fails of he.ut. lie has been in once. Once
is enough for him. These brenzsil Arabs
dance about, with fragments of bad Etig-
nsu ou ineir tongues, and are rather tee
lemiv te liole n nn f,. t.n
opening.
The
day is het. It leeks cool inside : but te
reach the northern entrance is net te be
done in a hurry. I'efere diving into these
acres of piled .stone we rest for a farewell
glance at the country around. Caire
leeks as though half under the yellow
water. The majestic liver, in reddish yel
low, swings through its giceu banks en,
en te the sea. Forty centuries yes,
likely forty times forty have looked down
from these cliffs, half hid iu sands, upon
this stupendous stream. Hew beautiful
are the green fields of corn aud sugar com
pared with the tawny inlluite upon the
west !
Insiile tlie Orcat I'yraiiiiil.
The siippery path inward slopes down
ward until it meets a grcater gallery,
whieli l-mi.: inupii-il .if- .i.i e.ir.l.. .it IV...4-..-
fir.-. .!..,-,., ' ti, '., .. l.L.fi :
- "-( "- . ltt. VMl fc 1UYU1, w i. UU1 ,J
the Queen's chamber
Queen's chamber. Returning en this
level and at the same angle, and about
half way up the inside, you enter the
King's chamber. But it is no time for
photographing this pictmc in the Suit,
nor, il 1 were a poet, could I
I I s.:t a .single
airy sentiment :utimc, unii
er ine yawning
cavernous gap which open- te our feet as
we enter.
"Take caie, head '." I hear the Arabs
.say te my wife. Sin; bows te Cheeps. I
de the same. We go up and down, slid
ing en polished s-tencs, ami in peiil of
tumbliug into dark vaults : Our tapers
give a sort of "clear eb-cure," Rom Rem
brandish ii-p.-;ct t-i the stony honor about
us. After much lifting, pushing, and
tugging, relying upon the prehensile grip
of the naked Arab feet, and the grasp of
the steady Arab hand, new being earned
and new pulled, new groping along peril
ous and slippery edges, we cotne
te the Queen s chamber. Its sarcophagus
ha.s been leineved. But where is the Queen'.'
Doubtless the soothsayers told her, 3,000
years age, that she would be sale forever
in this grand mausoleum. Her fear of
death may have been thus seethed. When
she was wrapped up in her mummy cloths,
embalmed, with her papyri biography in
her hand, she bade fair ler a long, long
survival of the millions of the human
race, who seen lning.c.'l their dust with
the common soil. New she is in some
museum. A brass band perhaps plays for
her dead car iu some caiavan, where she
is a part of a show. Her chamber is by
low that of the King. But wc must go
further and up te the King's chamber,
lit iu wc arc, surrounded by seven Arabs,
with lighted tapers, which make the
gloom wni.se and worse.
Then began the diabolism of these
fiendish-looking Arab genii of this centie
of tlic largest tomb ever made. Cut off
fiem the world by hundicds of tens and
thousands of square feet of solid stone, we
began te feel that wc, and net Chcepx et
uxer, wetc the entombed. The Arabs new
began te coax, threaten, grimace, and jab
ber for mere money. I say te them :
" We have contracted for se much. If
mere is te be paid, it will bu paid outside
net here."
Fireworks lu the Great Pyramid.
I thought of our situation, and hinted
that if they were ever se geed as te get us
out safely we would consider the matter
in the .q.en air, net in cemmittee of the
hole ! One of these gentle genii said that
he would touch off some fireworks if I
paid him two francs.
"Ge it ! and let us see."
Wheieupen he lit a match, .mil whi.s !
off went a magnesia light ! It gave ,t j
ghastly loon te the King's chamber, j
Sparks flew around like miniature stars ; l
and I knew what Prof. Procter meant j
when he proved inSteinway hall that the
pyramids were built for astronomical ob
servations ! Cheeps did net get up from
his saicephagus. He had emigrated te a
fereigu museum.
Ou our way te the large chamber of the
king we stepped te leek down the well as
best we could in the terrible daikness,
only illuminated by a caudle. One of the
venturesome Arabs, with a taper, crawled
down the black void some live feet, aud
another held my wife as she looked down.
I shuddered and called a prompt retreat.
The man in the well lest his held and
slipped. His light went out. Just then
my footing gave way, and but for a pre
hensile grip en the voluminous trousers
of my Arab there would have bceu
trouble. I took in a dozen yards of
fragile blue nankeen slack, " as some men
count slackness." Had that cotton given
way a yard or se mere them would
have been a vacancy in the Sixth congres
sional district of New Yerk. But I am
pleased te say I survive Cheeps and
helped te organize the Congress, though
it may be en a basis as dark as the
cavernous depths of the Cbeeps pyramid
When we reached the outside seme
twenty Arab3 were en hand, although
only seven went in with us, te claim their
reward. The fireworks man was the me;t
importunate. Twe francs did net satisfy
his greed. Water was brought te us in
classic urns, and money asked. The lanie
aud blind were pushed forward te us for
eharity. Our guide was powerless in the
hubbub. It looked like prepense highway
robbery. Pulling me one way and mv
companion auether. and with all the infer
nal cries of which the Arabic tongue is ca
pable, these Arabs kept it up, until a tall,
gray-haired sheik appeared. In a hearse
voice he howled them all down. The
stipulated piice was paid te this Sheik.
Wncreupen a dozen cried out : " Sheik
never pay us. He keeps all the money.
He don't divide nothing."
1 endeavored te sing the " Star Span
gled Banner" te drown the clatter, but
my breathiug was all tee shett after our
extreme exertion iu entering the pyramid.
i tern tliem I would leave thorn all a hun
dred francs apiece wheu I died. This
was tee lemote. One fellow said.
"Yankee Deedle Come te Town."
Where he get the phruse we did net step
te impure. Our horses started iu a ter-
ruie ueiii ier mere money, we loon re
fuge and coffee in a heuse near by, erect
ed, it was said, for the Prince of Wales
when here ; but when we emerged the
same crowd ras thcre. The man
who came near going down into the well
seemed te be loudest new, and considering
his real peril, we compensated him. We
had te buy some antiques from the pyre-
leenntst. men we turned our laces Cairo Caire
w.ird, wondering that out of the geed
sense prevalent even here iu K.ypt they
could net provide a decent police system
for the meuumental wonders.
i'he Three Groups of I'yramld-i.
The pyramids have three groups and arc
about sixty'in number. They are all within
a circuit of twenty miles. I heard Prof.
Procter declare that they wete astronemi
cal observatories or stony telescope.-,.
This has just this much truth, viz., that
the opening is en the north side, and out
of the dark tunnel in day-time, the polar
star can be seen. Others regard the large
pyramid as a standard of measurement ;
that the angles of its passage indicate lat
itude, based ou the circumference of the
earth, and the seasons and time. This is
absolutenonseu.se. The angles were made
for rest for these who buried the king and
queen, and who visited them after burial.
The truth is that the pyramids are tombs
and nothing mere. There were two places
for ventilation. They are new closed.
After seeing these six pyramids in a
gieup, and the ether three groups in sight,
you beeome silent and thoughtful as the
sphinx seems te be. The immensity of
the larger ones would net seem se great if
they were Alps or Atlas or Lebanon moun meun moun
tainseod's handiwork. The largest one
the ene wc entered, is only 780 feet high
and Tfil feet .-quaie- It employed 100,000
men ten years te make the causeway te
tianspeit the material for building, and te
build it 300,000 men twenty years! It
docs net, however, compate with "Netd
Cap," even, lierjnitli the Cathedral Deme
in the Yoscmite. But the pyramids aie
man's work. Ged works geometrically in
the petals of the flower, in the lam
inated feldings of the pearl, in the
strata of the mountains, aud in the
evolution of constellations ; but here this
simple big square or triangle, set en its
larger end, new rough with rugged stones
though ence glossy and smoothed by the
same manual dexterity which lifted them
in their geometric order because man made
it, becomes sublime by its work and by
its permanency. Ne demigods, no giants,
piled up these honors te dead levaltv : but
the ambition te be lemciubercd made the
kings of Egxpt confiscate and press the
iauer el hundreds et theusii
thousands of slaves
for a score or mere of years, and all that
their mummies might be handed down for
transportation among subsequent nations.
A t'lmrcli Trial.
Sei, eik Sun.
A church trial that premises te be of
interest was begun in the Washington
street Methodist Episcopal church in West
Trey en Tuesday, and is new in pi egress.
It i.s that of Lewis N. Ireland, for twelve
years a class leader iu that church, who is
chaigcd with immoral conduct. In the
complaint Brether Ireland is charged with
" horse racing or hoise trotting en the
Sabbath;" with attempting surreptitious
ly and fiauduleutly" te acquire a piece of
property ; with attempting " violently and
forcibly" te gain possession of the same
property without any right of ewnciship;
with falsehood and lying ; with evil speak
ing, in saying of a member of the church,
"She's a damned liar ;" in saying te
another member, " You're a damned
liar ;" and of saying of ether members of
the church, " They are a sat of hypo
crites," and with violating the church dis
cipline in vaiieus ways. These are horti herti
ble charges. If true, Brether Ireland
ought te give up his class in the Wash
ington sheet church at once and seek by
repentance forgiveness for his sins against
the brethren and against a higher power
than the church. If he is iuueccnt, then
the statement of his lawyer that the
charges are "trumped up" will appear te
be founded en fact. We shall watch the
outcome of this trial.
The ltell et Hener. Tlsu program- et many a
ljrk;ht and premising scholar in often arrested
and discouragement brought en by absence
trein -choel caused in se many ca3es by a
eeugh. cold or sere, thre.it. Give Or. Hull's
Cough Syrup and let your children answer
"pre-cnt" when the roll 1-, called.
It is the height et felly te wait until you
aie in bed with disease that may last months,
when you can be cured by a timely nsoet
I'arker'.s Ginger Tonic. We. have known
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laceb .Mart.eir, et Lancaster, X. Y., says
your Spring Itle e:n works well ter every
thing you recommend it; myseir, wife. and
children have all u-ed it, and yen can't find a
healthier family in New Yerk State October
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We must tell some men a great deal te teach
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ick headache, indigestion, and bllieii-nct is
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A Itaptlftt Minister' Kxperlence.
1 am a .Baptist Minister, and belcre 1 even
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