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Study of Cheops Proves a Fascinating Riddle For the Scientists. : The great Pyramid of Khufu (Che- ops) has, for Reatly ten years, been the objéct of special study and inves- tigation by Dow Covington, the Am- srican Egyptologist and explorer, snd his latest excavation there is of con- siderable interest. Last season, with the 'suthorization of Sir Gaston Maspero, director gen- eral of the Egyptian Bervice of An- tiquities, and thro the generosity of Frederick 8. Phillips, an English- . man, Mr. Covington excavated more than 100 feet at the north base of the pyramid, west of the centre, exposing nineteen finely cut and perfectly join- ed Sasing stones, such as formerly covered all the faces of the great work. The first three had been discovered and partly cleared in 1837 b; again exposed in 1882 by Prof. Petrie; and fully discussed by him. Last ~ iseason, however, Mr. Covington dis- one occasion I spent two or three days on a farm in Ontario. rs--and never slept sound- " r plenty of blankets and Jiilia, but in the morning found snow rifted in streaks all over the attic or loft. Arising at daylight, I learned fhat the farmer had left, two hours earlier, for the bush, to haul a load of 0 town. Long before daylight, in zero weather, he had arisen, waded theo deep snowbanks, to his sta- ble, roused his sleeping horses and cows, and fed them a mea! which na- re never meant them to have. Why wid a horse or a.cow want to be up in the night to eat? It is doubtful whether a hog ever could be fatten if disturbed in its slumber to t swill in the night. When I ar- aed with the farmer about this, he said that he had to get up early that way to feed the stock, and, although, I claimed 'that the stock didn't want fo be fed so early, unless where they bad the habit forced on them by ir owner, he took refuge in the re- ly that he fed his stock no earlier than his neighbors, While he 'was out at the stable, his wife arose in the dark and prepared his breakfast, and the whole family was astir long before the sun. The man had gone to town with a load of stove-wood, but there was no sup- ply for his own house. A log buried under the snow was scraped into view by the oldest boy, and from it he hacked enough wet and green chunks or chips to meet the momentary de- ands of Wether. There was a up anywhere, althdagh the Sous OO within three hundred yards of a cedar swamp, from whence on a day in mid-summer a year's sup- ply for that house could have been secured. Except for taking out an occasional load of wood to sell 'in r dragging a log from the bush to the house, for cut wood was too 'valuable for home use--there was no work done in winter, except in feed- ing the stock. Yet the whole famil arose two hours bufore daylight prove 4 morning, and thereby lengthened the idle day, utterly devoid of interest, ex- cept w some sleigh passed along road. As a rule, there was in the stove. a stick of wood too to permit the door to shut, and, as the wood was green, a certain amount of interest attached to watch: ing the end of the stick from svhich the sap bubbled and hissed. There Appeared Ww be 10 books wn the house, no newspaper was subscribed for. The- family, cooped up in a small house with snow yards deep, with mo intercourse with ncighbors, with no- thing to read, without music of any kind, engaged in no domestic indus- try, except preparing meals and clear- ing up the muss--what could these really excellent people do with time and their ¢ ts, except cultivate a great wear i { each othe The head having started befora darlight to. deliver his load of wood at a Louse in town where be had agreed to deliver it, was home again by noon, and performed no oth- er work that day. In that case, why was i necessary to arise in the night in order to do that day's work? Having said that this family seem- ed to spend the day with nothing to interest them except when drove along the distant road in a sleigh, let me add that at such times everybody ran to the window, and be- gan guessing whose turnout it was. Very seldom could they all agree as 0 ihe identity of the horses and the driver. Each was willing--even anx- ious--to argue at length in support of his or her contention. Even after the subject had been wrung dry and drop- ped, somebody, would remember some. thing, and revive the dispute, some- what after this fashion: . = "Say, Took here, if that was Sam "Yes, where was his dog? You know as well as 1 do, that Sam Keller has- 't been seen for two years, winter or , without that dog tearing ahead or behind him." "He could leave the dog at home, couldn't he?" I . surface of covered and fully cleared sixteen more {of these interesting stones, and a strip : 100 feet long and some 15 feet wide of the well-finished pavement on which they rest; and he has dust a further authorization from the Egyp- tian Government to extend this first course examination right out to the northwest socket. The first four casing stones, being at the centre of the great movement (which dates back about 3,700 B.C.), were perfectly preserved by the debris which came down when tha preamid was forced open in 818 A.D. y the Caliph Mamoun. The remain. ing 15, however, owing to centuries of exposure, have greatly and pic turesquely aged. But Mr. Covington firmly believes that the Great Pyramid was opened and then closed both in remote ancient and Roman times. A few years ago, in the pockets of the natural rock in the well-shaft above the grotto, he found many clear and colored fragments of delicate, well- made Roman glassware; and firmly wedged in at the east end of a loose stone extendi sczoss the entrance passage (used by Prof. Piazzi-Smyth as an astronomical instrument stand) he found the right femur of an adut male mummy. The Caliph Mamoun, as we know, found the sarcophagus both lidless and empty. . The joinings of the casing stones, and those of the super-pavement on which they rest, are almost invisible -appeating at places like a mere pin- scratch; yet every joint contains a web-like film of an almost white cement. The few defective parts in the top the casing (or facing) stones, which, of course, were intend- ed to be forever concealed by the over- lying courses, had been carefully chiseled out and - replaced by a neatly fitted let-in stone. The masonry throughout the structure is practica ly faultless. Several writers have erroneously stated that the Great Pyramid va covered by marble, by granite, or \ by alabaster. The facing ston: wore in faet, quarried out of a wh : pact limestone (prince tam). The 'imestone | still "in situ," the tons of ! chips and dust which cn: to say nothing of the trem nd 'of workmen's limestone ri ering the face of the pyramid teau (but not placed thes en it), leave no doubt or Mr. Covington, however, Lei Prof. Smyth that the vreat of diorite chips--some «f dressed faces--found on ur surface of the embanked yr: workmen's rubbish, justifies u lieving that somewhere far uj. mysterious structure there cxi<t: a fairly large diorite chamber. -- Wiss the sealed entrance to it may be, au what it contains, are thrilling things for future explorers to solve With a height of almost 59 inci (58.75), the average length of th , facing stones now uncovored is - 5 inches; the first stone, how measured at its base on the east (exposed) almost 10 feet 1 inch, i almost 10 feet 11 inches on the wit Across the east face of this first cus ing stone there is a 2-5 inch vertical shoulder, on which the adjoining core stone fits. They Agree to Differ. A striking instance of a heuse di. vided against itself on questions of politics is furnished by the case of the Ear! and Countess of Carlisle and their family. The earl has been le- scribed as an "unswerving and rigid" Tory, while his wife has always been a staunch supporter of the Liberal cause. Their son, the Hon. Geoffrey Howard, is also a keen Liberal, while th. eldest son of the family, Viscount Morpeth, has been elected again for South Birmin "o% & Unionist. A story of Viscount Morpeth's can- didature for South Birmingham is to the effect that Mr. Chamberlain re- marked at one contest to Lord Mor- peth, "If women were allowed to stand for election, I suppose we should have your mother down here running against you as a Liberal candidate? "1 have not a doubt of it," the vis count is said to have replied, "and a poor figure I or any other man would cut beside her. She is one of the best of mothers, but for the good of the country, as she sees it, my defeat would cause her unbounded satisfac. tion." To Hoaxing the Latinists. One or the best sham | the .college was ; movements of the Dean and the por | ters were carefully followed { searchlight, "SOME CAMBRIDGE CAPERS. Leaves From the Life of an Unruly Undergrad. There are occeasions in the life of the undergraduate when he goes tem. porarily cff his head. The writer has seen the Market Square at Cambridga full of wild voune. manises, demolish, ing everything they could lay the hands on--shufier: of shéps. fencing. wooden doors--anything. that would burn. . There was an occasion when the Dean thought he had quelled some riot, and rétired upstairs to his rooms. To make quite sure that he did nd leave them again. the nndergraduatea got hatchets and tore the wooden sfairs down. Then everything avail able was burnt in one gigantic bon- fire- in the middle of the court, and all because the college boat had gone up a place in the races On one occasion, when a was expected. the authorities were surprised to find the eourts ahsolutely deserted. Then the awful truth was realized. Every wndergraduate in on the roof! The with a An attempt to surprise the citadel! by means of ladders waa met by gently shaking the ladders from the top. Then, from their se- cure position, the undergraduates { threw squibs and crackers into the courts, and fired off rockets. In the writer's first year, the .au- thorities of the college raised much feeling by enforcing the regulation that no undergraduate was to walk on the grass plots in the centre of the college courts, and, after some hard thinking. a few original sparks hit on a brilliant plan. One night, in the small hours, a certain tutor at- tacked with inssmnia was prowling round the courts. when he was sur- prised fo notice that the grass in one court was covered with men, appar ently searching for something. He came forward to inguire, but as soon as his presence was realized there was a caneral stampede. The truth came out a few weeks after. The quality of the grass seem- ed to decline. and, on examining it, the gardeners were horrified to find that it was full of tiny carrots snd turnips! ' Carrie Nation, the famgus saloon- smasher of Ameri¢a, was' announced one day to speak at the debating so- ciety of a certain college: Everyone was on tenterhooks at the thought of such a terrible feminine tub-thumper within the sacred precincts of a col lege. The debate was crowded, and then a heavily-veiled, sombre-gowned female, carrying the emblem of her cause--a hatchet--entered the room. Five minutes after, everything was pandemonium, the. hoax was dis- covered, and the undergraduate im. personator had gathered up his skirts and run. The dread summons from the Dean of the college to his presence comes-- wher it does come--in a gently-word- ed missive, something like this: "Mr. ---- is requested to call upon the Dean between 7 and 7.15 p.m." An ignocent young freshman, in pure ignorance of some inadvertent crime, mistook it for a kind invita- tion, and replied in the following terms: . "Mr ---=---- is very. much obliged to the Dean for his kind invitation to dinner this evening, which he is, un- fortunately, unable to accept, owing to_a previous engagement." Dean's next ' summon was rather more peremptory. Gallantry Among the Wounded. Army doctors have not 'as much chance to fistinguish themselves on the field i of batt "rag" | i 1911, "MAKING OF A BRITISH SEAMAN' How 'Jack-Tars Are Educated For Their Lite Work The making girs with the s parentage and of age. Whil ity of comin ng « to rise from an or 'tain, this possibility has prast {died out so far as off r are concerned. The would-be navizs 1Wor must go through hi: deep water training'of thies or four years before Pag eligiblé to bé"examined for a second mate's certificate, and the as § Beit Gi 8 Brits ars of A ------_ A s---- ual procedure is for a boy to become a premium bound apprentice to a sai ing ship firm. Indentures are signed for four years, and the boy's parents | jor guardians pay a premi ' $150 10 $500. as the case Once he has joined his prentice after a few davs ¥ be hip. the ap iz expects' ito find his 'way aloft and perform any little odd jobs which do nov eal for much experience, and after the i softness has been knocked out of t the boys really enjoy the battli with the elements, as it gives t .a feeling that they are doing = grown : man's work. 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