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Cecilia's cathedral, Fortieth
and Burt streets, wag placed in
position last Sunday, great
things were evidenced for
Omaha and the diOf?io of
which, this cltjr la the seat of church Gov
ernment. ''There, were In Jeruaah-m devout mon
of every nation under heaven," said the
pottle, and though Jerusalem -.vas a
great religious centeT In ,lta day and a
hrlne for Christians throufihout . Vtv)
world, the big Catholic parade in Oraal a
demonstrated that more nations are rep
resented In Omaha now than wore in
Jerusalem years ago when the apna-
tle recorded that "devout mon of all na
tions made their home In Jerusalem."
Nations were fewer when Jcv-Ubalem
was In Its glory and was tha "hoo city"
of the Christian world. But the parmlo
In Omaha demonstrated that the nations
of the world will "bear the banners of the
cross."
Strange soldiers were many of tho pri
vates In the ranks of the vast army that
marched up the Farnjm street hill, r.s
though to take a fortress by storm aiul
return with victorious eagles. In tha
throng were men from the north, wIktu
gleams of the midnight sun may be seen
as tbey worship In native binds, in mi
from beneath the southern skies, whvre
was born the religion which brought .toe
army together In Omaha. Subjects of
emperors, kings and presidents, whr-se
national life and customs nro as JifTervnt
as tha languages they spoke in their na
tive - lands, Joined In tho great pageant
which witnessed the laying of tho cor
nerstone ,of St. Cecilia's, the cathcdi-il
'f Omaha. Dark-skinned Italians and
laughing Servians addressed In Latin
tongues, the natives of Ireland, Bcotlaid
and England and expressed their pleasure
over the event to those win understand
rmly the . plainest of Anglo-Saxon. Mon
marched side by side who had never een
each other before and' will probably never
meet again, unless It be In the grttat
cathedral, when the bishop of Omaha an
nounces that It Is ready for dedication.
In numbers the men In the Catholic pa
rade were equal to ten or twelve full reg
lnnts of Infantry, exclush-e of the bands
wuch led each division. There were more
men in line than there are Catholic peo
ple In the diocese of Cheyenne, South Caro
Una, Alaska, Bait Lake City or Great Falls.
Three times as many gathered In Omaha a
week ago to march from the old cathedral
to the new as there are In the diocese of
Baker City or the state of North Carolina.
Estimated In the most conservative num-
American
(Copyright. 1907. by Frank G. Carpenter.)
UXOR, Oct, 13 (Special uorre-
Ll spondence ot The ue.e.j All flay
I long I have been wandering
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kings who ruled Egypt 3,000 or
4,000 years ago. I have gone
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down lnto the subterranean chambers
which the Pharaohs, who oppressed Jho
Israelites dug out of the solid rocks for
their burial vaults and have visited the
tombs of other kings, even older than they.
,The last resting place of more than fifty
of these monarchs of early Egypt have
already been discovered, and the work la
till going on. with new finds of historical
value every year.
Some of the beet excavating Is being
done by Americans. This Is the caee al
along the Ntle valley. While at Cairo I
found the money of Harvard college and
the Boston museum uncovering the ceme
teries of the nabobs and paupers who
were burled under the shadow of the great
pyramids of glseh at the time of King
Cheops. The Egyptian exploration fund,
which Is supported by Great Britain, Can
ada and the United States, has a small
army operating nuar Luxor, and a large
part of the valley in which these royal,
tombs lie Is now In the hands of Theodore
M. Davis, a wealthy American, who has
his laborsa bitty all winter long, year after
year, duffing up tho debris and looking
Tor theso wonderful evidences pf Egypt's
past. During my trip of today I met a
young sreheoloKlst, who Is in charge of
the Dav'. excavations, and It was he who
ohowsd me through the tombmof the kings
and explained symbols and pictures on
the walla I went to that part of the val
ley where the excavation la now going
on and took pictures of a gang og 150 Egyp
tian men and boys now working there.
Valley of the Klugs.
But first let me tell you something about
the place which these ancient Egyptian
monarchs selected for their burials. They
wanted to hide their remains In such a way
( that posterity could never find them, and
f to cover them so that future generations
would not imagine . that they and their
treasures lay beneath. Our cemeteries are
chosen to" the beauty of their surround
ings We like to turn our toe to the daisies
and to have the green trees whtsoer a
requiem over our heads. The old Egyptian
kings wanted the dry. thirsty desert, anj
they chose this region, about as far up the
Nile valley as Cleveland Is Inland from the
Atlantic and fully six miles back f-om the
green strip on which their people lived. I
can Imagine no place more dreary. At this
point the Nile la walled on the west by
thirsty limestone mountains. As far as tha
waters reach the valley Is the greenest of
green; but beyond them lies a desert as
drear as any part of the Sahara. There Is
not a blade of grass; not a sprig of vegeta
tion of any kind. There Is nothing but sand
and dry mountains, the latter almost as
rarged as the wildest parts of the Rockies.
Some of the stones are built up In great
precipices. In other places there are fort
Uke bluffs and other convulsions ot nature.
To vUtlt this valley one first comes to
p-sor, wblcb U just About on the lt
Exercises
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hers, alrnost one man for every Catholie
family in Nebraska marched in the parade.
Such a line of marching men was a surprlsa
elike to the prelates who gathered to wit
ness the ceremonies, the members of Cath
olic organizations and laymen of the church.
BeRldns the throng which marched In the
parade, archbishops, bishops and priests re
viewed the parade from a stand In the ca
thedral, who represented 1,595.290 Catholics
In the west and northwest. Among those
who galhi-rod In Omaha were Uiree of the
distinguished archbishops of the United
Etatcs, Including Most Rev. John Ireland of
Pt. Paul. Most Rev. John J. Keane of Du
buque, and Most Rev. James Edward Qulg
ley, archbishop of Chicago. Archbishop
Christie of Oregon and Archbishop Glennon
of St. Louis were unable to attend the cer
emonies of the laying of the cornerstone,
but Archbishop J. J. Glennon of St. Luula
arrived luring the werk to spend some
time as the guest of Bishop Richard Scan
nell of Omaha.
Among the bishops present were Right
Rev. Lawrence Seanlan, bishop of Salt
Lnke City, who was the choice of the priests)
of the diocese of Omaha for bishop, but who
was sent to Salt' Lake City when It waa
dotermlned that neither the candidate of
the archbishop ot St. Louis nor the candi
date of the priests of northern Nebraska
should pule over the great diocese of which
Richard Pcannell. bishop of Concordia, wa
appointed the heod. Bishop Seanlan went
to Salt Lake City and has made the
church there ruler of a Catholio population
Of 10,000 and a territory of 153,000 squa.
miles bus been placed under him.
Other bishops present were Right. Itew.
Philip J. Gurrlgan of Bioux City, vice rec
tor of the Catholio university at Washing
ton and now a bishop who leads in the
west In the prohibition movement; Bishop
Matz of Denver, Eluhop Burke of St.
Joseph and Bishop Bonacum of Lincoln
Mro among others who reviewed the
, great parade In Omaha ond the laying of
the cornerstone of St. Cecilia's church.
Many of the bishops, who attended the
ceremonies Sunday secured their territory
from tho great vlcarate of Nebraska, over
which ruled auch men as Father O'Gorman.
' Bishop Lenlhan ot Great. Falls,, formerly
of Fort Dodge, la., was among the pre
lates who stood beside - the bishop of
Omaha when the cornerstone was laid.
Others were Right Rev. James McGoldrtck
of Duluth, Right Rev. John Shanley, bishop
of Fargo; Right Rv. Joseph B. Cotter,
bishop of Winona; .Right Rev. John
Jannsen, bishop of Belleville; Right Rev.
John Joseph Hennessy, bishop of Wichita;
Archaeologists Digging Up
of Old Thebes, the capital of Egypt In the
days of Its most brilliant past. The city lay
on both sides of the Nile, but Luxor la on
the east bank, and I had to cross the river
In a ferryboat and ride for an hour ot so
through the desert before I came Into the
valley of the kings. However, my donkey
boy was a good one and his donkeys were
young. His name ,wns Jereph, and the
brute I bestrode was called "Gingerbread."
Gingerbread had a slice of i'.cin about ss
big as a dollar removed from his rump, and
Joscpn pricked this spot from time to time
to hurry him .onward. We crereed the
green fields, winding our way In and out
along the canals, imtll w came to the
desert and entered a wl'.d .-rrge walled
with rocks of yellow llmontouo and with a
conglomerate mixture of P'nt and lime
stone of curious formation. The gorge
shows evidence of having beeti cut out by
some mighty stream of the paL There are
masses of debris along tha si les, and tha
way Is rough except on the ro d which has
been made by the explorers.
Looking at the valley from :he Nile one
would not suppose that It was anything
other than a desert Gorge, ami It was not
until X was right In It that I realised It
was a cemetery. There are no gravestones
or monuments, and the klngn obliterated
every sign that might Indicate their burial
places. They dug out great cuambers un
der the bed of this 6led-up liver and ar
ranged'eisterns for their proijer drainage,
but when they hail finished th 'y loft every,
thing as It was In nature; and for this
reason their toirrhs remained for ages un
touched and unknown.
lai the Tomba.
From time to time, however, one or an
other was discovered by future genera
tions. Btrabo, the Greek geographer, who
was alive when Christ was bort , speaks
of forty of them as being worthy of a
visit, and othere are mentioned by writers
later on. During our generation nost of
them were again lost, and It vas not
until some Arab grave robbers bgan to
sell curious antiquities that It wa i found
that the tomba had again been discovered
and were being; rifled by thes vandals.
The archeologists then went to woik, and
their explorations have resulted n the .
opening up of tomb after tomb, ur til wa
now have what might be called i. sub
terranean city of the dead here In the
heart of the Libyan desert.
The tombs are nothing like our burial
vaults. They are large rooms cut c ut of
the solid rock, with walls as straight and
as smooth as those of a mason. They are
reached by many slips, going down In
clined planes until they bring you far
below tho surface ot the valley and away
down under the mountains. Each kin j had
bis own to;nb. and he decorated It with
sketches and paintings representing the
life ot his time. The ceilings are bea uiful.
From some ot them the figures of goes and
goddusses look down upon you. (Khars
are colored in geometric lines, and In some
men and women are carved In bas-reliefs
out of the solid rock aud then pointed.
Many of the scenes are religious, and froro
them the egyptcloglst la able to tell us
what tt ptepl ot that ty believed, Thtj
at Laying'
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Right Rev. James O'Gorman, bishop of Bishop O'Gorman presided as first vicar ., ords placed In It under the' Airection - of
Sioux Falls: Right Rev. John. Francis 4apostollo of Nebraska. .Bishop Scannell and Chancellor Monsignor
Cunningham, blsnop of Conoordla; Right Waving his cap at the societies as they Colaneri. "With solemn' pomp and ceremony
Rev. James J. Keane, bishop. of Cheyenne; passed, as he stood beside Archbishop Ire- the cornerstone was cemented In the north
Right Rev. John Starlha, bishop of Lead, land of St. Paul. It was a proud moment W68t corner of the cathedral. It contains
Right Rev. James Davis, bishop of Daven- fQr Right Rev. Richard Scannell when the ,th- f,i-,ln hUfnrt! record-
Port; Right Rev. John P Carroll, bishop
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Ltllls, bishop of Leavenworth.
These prelates represented 1MB0 Cath-
olics In the west and northweBt, and re-
viewed the great parade ' In Omaha of
Omaha and South Omaha diocese Catholic
societies from tno stana taai Hunaay.
Manv of them now preside over Catholio
dlvlslons which were formerly a part of
the vlcarate of Nebraska, over which
also chow how they worked and lived
when our remotest ancestors were savages
in the wilds of Europe and Asia.
In some of the tombs I saw the massive
Btone boxes In which the mummies of the
dead kingH lay. I measured one which
was ten feet long, six feet wide and eight
feet high. It was hollowed out of a solid
block of granite, and It weighs many tons.
That mighty burial casket was cut out of
the- quarries of Assouan, far above here,
on the banks of the Nile. It must have
been broyght down the river on a barge
and carried to this place. When it was on
the ground It had to be lowered down
Into the vault, ajid that without modem
machinery. As I went through the tombs
I saw several such caskets, and the sr
sheeloglst who guided me showed me the
holes In the stone walls of the entrance
ways where beams had been put across
in order that ropes mltht be used to pre
vent these Stone masses sliding too far
when let down. It Is a difficult Job for us
to handle Iron sates ot even four-feet cube.;
One of these stone boxes would welsh as
much as several such safes, and the old
Egyptians carried them where they pleased.
Indeed, I venture the civil engineers of
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great parade swung around from Fortieth
,reei io xne catrssnrai on ..run , .nc. .
"Drum beat and heart beat" as the great
procession passed by. It required, more
than one hour for the line to pass the re-
viewing stand, after which Bishop Scannell
placed the cornerstone In- the cement
wnicn win prouaDiy uom il ior an mo
years to come, and no one has ever dared
,to predict whose hand will remove the
double copper box, which contains the rec-
the Pharaohs could teach our , poople
much, v All about this region there rre
enormous monuments wh(oh it would, pua
sle the engineers of today to ban He. Talte
the Colossi of Memnon, the two mighty
stone figures In the Nile valley within
a few miles of 'where I am now' writing.
Each Is as high' as a slx-atory bouse, and
the stone pedestals upon which they sit
rise thirteen feet above the ground. I
rode by them as I came borne from the
alley of the kings, and climbed up ar.d
ran the tape measure over . their leg.
The legs measure nineteen fiet from sole
to knee. The feet are each ten. feet Id
length, so long that one would fill the
box of a farm wagon from end to end,
and ee wide that it could hardly.be fitted
within it. The arms, from finger tips
to nbow, each measure fifteen feet, and
the middle finger of each bund la a yavd
and a half long.
. As I stood beside the pedestal, with my
feet on Gingerbread's saddle, I could rot
reach to the top, and 1 ilnd It difficult to
give any comparative idea of . tha
enormous weight of the structures.
These two mighty figures' sit side by
Ids on the edge ot the Nile valley. ' They
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VMrf our lj0rd , ori(, thousand . nine hnn-'
ijrd and seven, In the fifth year of the
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id()re Roosevelt being president of the
' I'nited States of America; Oeorge J.awson
'Xi' mmyL
;COnietBtone t this rathidrL lo be built
for the worship of God, under the Invoca-
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bishop of Omaha.' The sermon was preached
the Kings
were erected in honor of an Egyptian
.'king who lived thirty-five hundred edd
years ago; and the temple, which he con
structed behind them, has now entirely
! disappeared. They are right on the edge
of the valley, with the desert mouatalna
!in the rear. My way was through green
'fields, and ss I looked at them I thought
I of how thy had watched the people sow.
jing and reciplng for more than 8,600 years.
' Not far from these monuments are the
ruins of tho temple of Rameses II, the
Ifharoob who oppressed the Jsralltes and
would not let thorn go. Among them I
'saw the remains of a statue of that old
king, which show that they belccg to a
; structure at least sixty feej high. Thero
is no granite nearer here than In the qunr.
rles of Assouan, and this mighty statue
must have been cut out there and brought
down the Nile to Thebes, a distance of 13S
mlhs.
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' Toting" the Obelisks.
. Consider the obelisks whteh the Egyp
tians made at those quarries and carried
down the Nile to Thebes and also to Cairo
and Alexandria. There are two obelisks
still at this place. You may see them In
the great temple at Karnak, Which is not
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bv the Most Reverend John Ireland, arch
b'shno of St. Paul. The architect was
Thomas Rogers Kimball and the con
t minus William paxion Deverell, Albert
Shall and Albert Foil.
Besides this the records placed in the
cornerstone of the great cathedral con
sisted of three clippings from The Omaha
Bee, one article published In 1SS2, a com
plete history of the parish and church of
St. Mary's; the second published In Tho
Bee In 1W3 at the time of the silver Jubilee
of St. Phllomena's cathedral, and tho third
which appeared In The tee during the Inst
week of September, 1U07, telling ot the
effort and study made by Bishop Richard
Scannell to round St. Cecilia's, ce of the
fourth largest cathedrals of the tnlted
States. Photographs of Pope Plus Tenth.
Rt. Rev. Richard Scannell, bishop of
Omaha. William Kelly, pastor of the ca
thedral, and Father McGovcrn were sealed
with the articles from Tho Bee and a
copy ot The True Voice, In the copper
box of the coiner stone,, which may bo
sealed for all time for all that any person
attending the ceremonies may know.
About the cornerstone gathered priests
and laymen, and on the platform, from
which Archbishop Ireland delivered his
masterful sermon, were representatives of
every community of men and women In
Omaha. Priests who were present were as
follows: .
Rev. C. Mugnn, South Omaha.
Rev. M. M. Bronseest. S. J . Omaha.
Rev. P. A. McOovern, Omaha.
Rev. J. W. Ptenson. Onuinn.
Hev. John Fitspatrick, umaha.
Hev. E. M. Gleeson, Omaha.
Rev. J. C. Buckley, Omaha.
Rev. P. C. Gunnon. Qmaha.
Kev. P. A. Flanagan. Benson.
Hev. D. V.. Morlarity, Benson.
Rev. M. J. Barrett, Florence.
Kev. J. V. YVahHce, Gretna.
Rev. W. W. Kroupa, Spencer.
. Key. I). P. Harrington, Omaha.
Rev. P. J. Manning. Omaha.
Rev. P. McDaid, Omaha.
Hev. W P. VYhelan !. J.. Omaha.
Rev, T. O'Cnllahan, Souvh Omaha.
Rev. J. Burke. Emerson.
Rev. William Feld, p. .1., Omaha.
Rev. J. J. Hennessy, Manlcy.
Rev. M. A. O Boyle, Colon.
Rev. T. Driscoll, Blair.
Rev. W. J. Iee, Beaumont, Tex- ' n
Rev. Bernard Slnno, Omaha.
Rev. J. B.'Frlgge, Petersburg.-
Rev. Abeud, Omaha.
Rev. John Dallal. Syria.
Rev. Henry Behoof, Monterey.
Rey. B F. ;.Glv!n- Spalding. . . . . -.
Rev. A. R. . Wise, 8. J.. Omaha. .
Rev. Geerge A gins, Lincoln.
Rev. S. L. Dowd, South Omaha.
Revr James Chundeiak, South Omaha.
Rev. Ferdinand Schuuettgen, Howells.
Rev. J. M. Walsh, Council Bluffs.
Rev. W. M. Mulligan, South Omaha.
Rev. Michael O'Donaghmue, Bancroft.
Rev. John Vranek, Omaha.
Rev. J. B. Hummert, Earling, la.
Rev. T. J. Mullen, Missouri Valley, la.
Rev. J. Bros, Dodge.
of Pharaoh's Time
more than a twenty-minute walk from
Luxor. They weigh something like 400
tons each, and it would take 1,600 horses
to haul them, if they were broken up and
loaded upon wagons. Each is one solid
block ot granite, and each was carried In
that shspe to this place. There are in
scriptions on the Der al Baharl temple
which show that these two obelisks were
dug out of tho quarries, covered with
hieroglyphic carvings, brought bore and
put up all in the space ot seven montha,
I doubt wtiether our engineers could do the
job as quick or as well.
'We thought it a wonderful work to bring
the Alexandria obelisk from Egypt to New
York. It was carried there in the hold
of a steamer, and to load it the bow of
tho vessel had to be cut and the obelisk
dragged In. The obelisk at Paris was car
ried across the Mediterranean on a barge,
and that which now stands In London
was brought here in sn Iron watertight
Cylinder, which wss carried to Alexandria
In pieces and built around the obelisk as
It lay upon the shore. When the great
stone was thoroughly encased, the whole
was rolled Into the sea and thus sewed to
London. After landing, the modern en
gineers had great trouble to get tha obllaks
where tht y wanted them. That ot New
York was rolled along upon iron balls
whch ran In Iron grooves, laid down for
the purpose, and that ot London was slid
over greased ways to the place where it
now stands on the banks of the Thames.
Unearthing- the Oldest of Temples.
Tha'oldest temple of Egypt by 1,000 years
is now being unearthed here by the agents
of the Egyptian exploration fund. This
lies near the famous temple of Der al
Baharl, and In a branch valley from where
the tomb of the kings sre. When I visited
it the excavators were at work, and the
men in charge told me they had great
hopes of making valuable discoveries. It
was with James Teackle Dennis, the Amer
ican representative of the excavation fund,
that I went over the temple,. I met him at
the littfe one-story house which forms the
laboratory and home ot the foreign ex
plorers, and had a chat with the other
menibeu as to the progress of the work.
The fund Is now supporting here a number
of specialists from Canada. England and
the United ElaUs, who are superintending
the Egyptian laborers. They have quits
an army of men at work and bave been
successful. Of what they find one-half goes
to the museum at Cairo and the balujice
to the countries which subscribe to the
fund, in proportion to the amount of their
subscriptions. The chief money from
Amerl. i has come from Boston, New Tork,
Bsltimore and Washington, and our share
of what is now being unearthed will go
to the museums of those cities. Last year
the only ' subscriber from Baltimore was
Mr. Dennis, and his subscription was $100.
Ths finds were so many, however, that
he was sbie to send to Johns Hopkins
museum articles which at auction would
bave brought at least tl.560.
Mr. Dennis tells me that the present out
look fur the work of the fund la exceed
ingly hopeful. He expects that another
greit stone cow, like that which has been
discovered, and Is cow la tb Cairo to use wa
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Rev. J. J. Curran8. J., Omaha.
Rev. M. K. Norton, Webster City,
la.
Rev. IT. L. Zak, Howells.
The ceremony of blessing and laylrg tha
corner stone of the great catliedrsl was
preformed by tt. Rev. Richard Sc.nncll,
bishop of Omaha, who sixteen years ago
was transferred from the dloceso ot Con
cordia to presldo over tho dloceso of
Omaha. The ceremony was nn Impressive
one. Tho bishop, Accompanied by the
deacon and suhdeacon. cross bearer and.
acolytes, first knelt lie fore ft cvoss erected
over the place where "the main altar of
the cathedral Will be placed, then passed
to tho northwest coiner of the cathedral
where the corner stone had been placed
In waiting. After blesalng It, tho solemn
procession passed around the walls, bless
ing tha foundation, and concluded by re
turning to the corner stonu and placing it
in post ion
The ceremonies of lust week will go
down In the hlBtory ot the Catholio church
and tho growing diocese of Omaha, which :
Is now promised nn archdiocese, as soon
as the archbishops of the l.'nlted State
agree upon tho establishment of see cities,
which Rome Is expecting before tho ex
pansion Is made, which will make Omaha w
the sent of an archbishop. It Is expected
that tho Catholic census of the dloccBa
which is now being preparod by Mon
signor Colaneri. chancellor to the bishop,
will show lncreuses In membertihlp over
the diocese of Nebraska, and hiaUlrv
growth In oyery department. Of tho 1J
churches In the dloeefe, the cities of
Omaha, and South Omalm, claim evi
teen, While practically all tho larger in
stitutions of the church ore located In
Omaha, Including frelchton university.
Catholic Instltu"'- ' m Omaha. a
given by the census of 1(K)7 are tho Con
vent of the Lady til' Mercy; 61. Joseph's
Hospital; Academy of St. Catherine;
Monastery of St. Clare; Convent of Ht.
Rose; Convent and Academy of the Sacred
Heart; St. Berctmian's academy; Ml. BU
Mary's Seminary for Young Ladles; House
of the Good Shepard; St James Orphan
age, besides a large number of parinb, -schools.
In the diocese of which St: Cecilia's
cathedral will be the church home, there
are 63,175 members of the church, making
it larger than any in the west, except two,
which give an approlTPte of 70 eon rimJ
bers each. Some 14,075 famlles are rearing;
children In the faith of tho Catholio
church, the record showing that mora
than 8,000 were baptised during the past
year. For the children of the diocese, tha
church maintains seventy-one schools, and,
the attendance Is more than 8,000.
will be unearthed, as such things are usu
ally found In couples. He expects much
from the soil under the temple, to which I
have already referred, and says that the
people of 6,000 years ago usually stored
their relics in such places far below ground.
There was a pyramid In the center of ths
temple, and itUs believed that there Is a
tomb below this in which may be pictures,
articles and Implements of times far back
ot any yet represented. We may have tha
actual paintings of the customs of 4,7is)
years ago, drawings of the mon at work
and pictures of the Implements used by
them. If this Is so, America will have her
share of all things discovered. ,
la tha Footsteps of Pharaoh.
I have always thought of the Pharaoh
who oppressed the Israelites and forced
them to make brlckr. without straw as liv
ing at "Memphis, r.f ar where Cairo now
stands. The .truth j, he had a great city
there, but bis cspitol snd favorite home
was about 450 rdles farther up the Nil
valley, at the v-jry spot where I now ant.
It was known is Thebes, and it was one
of tha greatest cities of antiquity, it
sovered almost as much ground ss Paris,
and it is said to have had mete than a,
million people. The city had walls so
thick that chariots drawn by a half dosen
horses abreast could easily pass as they
'galloped along them. It had 100 gates and
Hs temples and private houses were th
wonder of the world. Borne of the resi
dences were five stories high, the shy
scrapers of those days. Thebes was .-.iitud
for Its wealth, and its riches were a!4e4
to by the successful wars which the kings
waged with other nations. The mi: r. an. lis
of that day had mighty armies cf both
Infantry and cavalry. Borne ot tha kings
had as many as 20,000 war chariots, and
ancient writers say that there Wfete pat
tered along the Nile from here to 1 li?u.j..is
100 stone stables, each . large eno.-gh i
accommodate 200 war horses.
'
How P ha roan, Loocked.
It brings one close to the days of the
scriptures when one can put Ms lirnia on
the very same things that wero touched
by old Pha-aoh; when one can van the
temples In which he worshiped; can sit on
the statues erected In his honor, and can
look at the tomb In which his royal bons
were laid sway. One feels closer SM1I whn
he can look at the mummy Itself and
actually see the, hard-hearted old heuthco
almost as he was when alive.
I have gone thrpugn ll these experiences.
I saw here today the temple In which tl:
king's mummy was found, aiui 1 have inuila
notes of old Pharaoh lyiusdf as ho lay be
fore mo in his casket in ti.u muueurn at
Cairo. The oppressor of the Herrews was
a good-looking si an. His mummified fae
shows a broad forehead, a ttrong Roman
nose, a long chin and a firm, iron Jaw,
He had big ears set close to the head, lux
uriant brown hair and an Aduns arile
. which rose and tell as he swallowed, b -m,
of his teeth, notwithstanding tho'r lltX-) oii I
years, are still sound, and they khow
plainly out of a pair of thlu lips. He was
a tall man, as can be Judged from Lis
mummy, and the records show he had
kingly air.
Continued ea rags rive,)
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