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Show 'WHAT THEY DID IN EGYPT CENTURIES CEN-TURIES AGO. There is nothing new In the world, says Goodwin's Weekly, after considering consid-ering Professor Navllie's discoveries at Abydos, Egypt. In front of tho burial chamber of Osiris, Naville lias been oxcavating to ascertain the nature na-ture of an extraordinary structure which the drifting sands of the ages had already concealed. He first supposed sup-posed it would be found to bo a sanctuary, sanc-tuary, but says: "We found it to bo ft gigantic structure of about 100 feet in length by CO feet in width, built of tho most enormous stones which may be seen In Egypt. One of the blocks is more than twentj'-fivo feet long; and weighs something like eighty tons." Those blocks were quarried high upon the Nile, floated down, then .moved from the rafts that brought them.;' to their" place in this structure which turns out to be, not a temple, not a sanctuary, but an Immense pool "without a floor. Tho natural Inference Is that old Osiris had he wanted columus for a colonnade around hlw capltol, ho would have used monoliths though ho had neither stream nor electricity to help him. But there is another inter-' csting feature about this, "says Goodwin's Good-win's Weekly." Wc, in Utah, aro rather proud of the fact that our fathers fath-ers were the first civilized people in our country to introduce Irrigation. But this account shows that Osiris, who lived so far back that he would be held as a myth, save for the works he wrought, built this pool, tho bottom of which is not paved, that, In the freshets of tho Nile, the great river would fill it by Infllteratlon and thus keep a supply of water for use until the next freshet. One of Wendell Phillips' lecture themes was "The Lost Arts," and in the lecture he came very nearly proving prov-ing that there Is nothing now In the ,world, that our best thoughts are bor- rowed, our best works ;aro borrowed I from tho original thinkers who, om-ersing om-ersing from barbarism enlightened jnariklndfjbv buildinVJmperl3hablo sirucluroB; -taught how-to, quicken tho element's in the soli by -water that It might produce food, organized and trained armies and traced out the processions pro-cessions of the worlds that float through space. Goodwin's Weekly refers to Osiris as a certain ruler. The term moro often Is used as referring to the dead, or the risen dead, in tho legendary lore of Egypt, Osirlo is the god of the underworld. |