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A / I 1\ ^bfl^j/l\ \vwl x *Uir ^ X THE MODERN WAGON x XConstructed of I-beams, channels and |? put in hot. The gear parts and wheel y railway bridge. In the DAVENP0R1 | FIVE THOUSAIN Y Stronger, more durable and of lighter The wheels of steel, with strong, i Y riveted into the tires, do away with the , | ~ NO BRI Lasts a Life Time Oil Without Re , !:! = >\ Hi I'll 111UOI 11C4 > lUi" . v?* of the Nile. The site of Xapata was those little kings who hac peculiarly fitted for a great role in monuments, but in view o t the political and commercial activi- material for comparison ties of ancient times. It lies at the sion may be a century aw head of the navigable stretch of river truth, between the third and fourth catar- Some Interesting Ol acts, at the end of the relatively rich "The most interesting c agricultural area of the province, and red glazed bowls with re' at the junction of five caravan roads red glazed plates, polishe through the desert. opaque variegated glass, A Large City. imitating the Rhodian ii "The extent of the city has not material, a bronze jug been determined but there are traces handles, each ending in a of ruined buildings on both sides of bronze vessels, a piece of X i See the DAVENPC | G. 1 T ' I , X Telephone Number 49 ????????????????????7 ? DIGGING ON ANCIENT SITE. the river. There are at ?? groups of pyramids, thai Important Discoveries Made at Gebel cemeteries in the neighbc Barkal. ithe tw0 distinct groups ai j apart. In this long stre Important discoveries which are may he assumed to conta said to have supplied much of the ?f Papata, it is Gebel Bar hitherto obscure history of ancient! immediate neighborhood Ethiopia were made recently by the, always drawn the attentii Egyptian expedition sent by Harvard ern scholars. Besides th< university and the Boston Museum of j st^nd two groups of pyi Fine Arts under the directorship of j under the perpendicular : Dr. George A. Reisner, well known rock on the river side si as an Egyptologist. " temples have been tracea In an interview with a representa- which was very large, tive of the Associated Press, Dr. Reis- Pies have in past times yi ner said that during excavations at markable series of sculptu Gebel Barkal, material bearing on j scriptions wmcn nave gi the whole period between 1600 B. C. rich the museums of Caii and 100 A. D. had been found and Paris and Berlin and forn that prospects were that further ex- est source of our knowle cavation would bring to light objects history of Ethiopia, of still greater importance. "Our expedition reac Among the more important finds Barkal from Cairo on Ji have been 10 large statues of kings last. We worked there th] of Ethiopia. Five < of these were employing a force of abor nearly complete and five lacked heads workmen, and left just in but it is believed these will be found, cape the hot weather. M The expedition has also uncovered had worked on the pvrai the foundations of temples built by one had yet discovered t Egyptian kings of the 18th dynasty the structures and no one and shown that the sphinxes of Ame- to get into them. Fort nophis III and other monuments of Gebel Barkal there were that period found at Barkal belong pletely ruined pyramids o i to these temples and were not which offered the easiest brought there in later times as some j ty of solving this mystery. historians have assumed. Describ- in the case of each a staii ing the work, Dr. Reisner said: eastern side leading dow "Gebel Barkal. which is in the dis- bers under the pyramid, trict of Papata, lies 250 miles up the hint we attacked the la Nile from Kerma in the province of mids and within a mom Dongola. Papata was the capital of found the entrances of 2 that kingdom of Ethiopia whose and had cleared the burn armies are mentioned in the Old Tes- of all but one. tament as the opponents of Assyria "All the chambers ha in the latter part of the eighth cen- peatedlv plundered in a: tury before Christ. Gebel Barkal is for gold. Nevertheless \ an upstanding table mountain of a mass of material frorr sandstone, visible from a great dis- were able to- reconstruct tance. From the moment it appears and character of the gre< in the Egyptian inscriptions it is the pottery, implements, marked as 'the Holy Mountain.' Its things characteristic of 1 selection was no doiibt due to its This reconstructed gro proximity to Xapata, the great city clearly to the first cent ?loin nn hnth aiflea Phriat aa the time in \\'hi( Constructec eS?9| Fifty years ago, 1 Bridges were built of llllmt and maple. Now we i (HP] and use the stronges I good steel, and build 1 |&jgg\ytoJ| heaviest lifetime servi( THE DAVENPORT P.I 1 BEARING STE I angles, solidly riveted together with Is are braced and trussed like the 1 * you have a wagon of ID POUNDS CAPACIT draft than any other wagon of equal ound spokes, forged solidly into the 1 resetting of tires, loose spokes, and en AK-DOWNS moving Wheel No Repair Bills ti ( >RT ROLLER BEARING Frank a^AA^AAAAA AAAAAA ^fVVVvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv iany peopie nid but no this restoration had been carried out r an he plan of and thrown into this place. The j success > knew how ; names of four kings were found?the jrebu unately at i Biblical Tirhaka, Amonanal, his son,! name b > two com- i Espalta and a later king named Sen- the clif f small size ka-amon-seken. Only the statue of back p opportuni-: Espalta was complete. It seemed, otber 1 We found therefore, that there must be another t?r' rej way on the dump in which the fragments of j his da* n to cham-! these statues had been thrown, but: stood I I R O With this ! in so vast an area the chance of find-1 rger pyra-! ing the other dump without excavat- stood' 2 th we had i ing the whole seemed too small for carve^ 5 pyramids consideration. scriptic il chambers! "This find forces us to plan somei Tt1 I ,, . . , : Itlaner i other way of attacking the excava-s . . ^ u L. * x,_ xx , j r . small 1 d been re- tion of the great temple and I turned: roitic s ncient days to the area next to the mountain, . i ly enoi ve gathered thinking to clear up the rubbish i statu i which we strewn ground and pile the refuse be-! the forms side the back part of the temple. Inj m ? iter part of; the course of this work we come on ^bou^ and other j the foundation walls of two smaller V0^Ve the period, j temples and while clearing these,' wo1 Iin nninfprl with nn thnneht nf fl.nvt.hine hilt arch- Pei ury before aeologica! results, we suddenly came P?slts ?h had lived on the other ancient dump, over 100 { temP*e I built these meters from the first dump where we uas ne f the scanty ; had found the statues. Here was the can on this eonclu-1 head of the Tirhaka statue, the crown ! "Onl ay from the and basis of the Amon-anal statue ^eg {the body belonging to the head ofjfew ro [>jects. : the Senka-amon-seken statue and the an(* th )bjects were bodies of two statues of Tanut-amon, sive te lief pattern,! successor of Tirhaka. It was the {the gr< d vessels of; most astonishing freak of chance in tion ai amphorae,' my whole experience as an excavatior. i times 1 i form and As result we had 10 statues of kings, few da with two I of Ethiopia of the time of Tirhakaj to the mask, four and later, all broken but five of them j where wood carv-> practically complete with portrait { weathe i I > least four! ed in relief and a wonderful gold headst is, royal j bracelet with a lacquer decoration in ship, irhood, and j Egypto-Meroitic style. chances re 20 miles 1 "Towards the end of February the parts o itch, which | full force was turned on the excava- ?t0 ,in the city tion of the temple area. ~ The back the sea kal and its part of the great temple and almost ground which has the whole of the other temples were prepara on of mod- in a seemingly hopeless state of de- great b 5 mountain struction. Half a dozen expeditions ered fo amids and had dug desultory trenches in these sjte of < face of the, and natives had used them as quar- of cons x or seven; ries for centuries. In hunting for a temple ble, one of suitable place to throw the refuse, named These tern- we cleared a space besides the first an(^ elded a re- we clared a space beside the first fnrta n ires and in-: ever, inside the temple enclosure and ,, . _ , mass ol one to en- on the living floor of the Meroitic , upon it 'o, London,: period (about 100 B. C.). To our infinite l the great- great surprise, in a hole in this floor, . j t * v. * stone 1 dge of the we came on the edge of a pile of . j fragments of large royal statues of feerg wj hed Gebel i the Ethiopian period. Investigation jtjaner< muary 24,1 showed that there had been a great tem ree months, restoration of the temple after a pe- ^ it 300 local riod of destruction, subsequent to . ,.f time to es-; 600 B- C., and that the statues of the ms C 1 1. ! TT'thinnitin L-infrc frmnd hrnken durinffi Almost ,,,, Wagons and ja ij&| oak, hickory know better, lubs and 'hot THE MOD n Pav Gears nf Steel j before purchasing an Bambe Bamber A 4+a A A A 4+4 A A A A A A A a a a a a a "VVVVVvVVVVVVVVV^rVVVv^ in royal Egyptian workman- A Million Dollars I believe that there are good ??? > of our finding the remaining -A- million dollars is a sun f the other statues. ' which few are able to appr shorten the story, the rest of we t^ink of it in a vague J son was spent in clearing the 33 connected with Rockef south of the-great temple in negie and men of corporal ition for the excavation of the of that claas" Yet al1 ar0,J emple itself. Here we unc'ov- lions 0( dollars are spent ur small temples each on the in such a way ttlat the av older temples and one of them passes without noticing' iderable interest. This was a generally known that it c. built by a king of Ethiopia. lion a day t0 pay\the caI Itlanersa, about 600 B. C? the American nation. It costs a million a day d been preserved from the ef- movjng pjcture shows f previous excavators by a ? cosU a mmjon a day r huge blocks which had fallen the automoblle lndustry. t from the cliff. When with u costs a minion a day labor these blocks of sand- scjj00js tad been broken up and car- u costs a mfflion a day ,t. there lay the inner Cham- tea> co?fee> and cocoa acc0 th their contents just as they ,t cost3 three m?Iions !a completing the history of pay the |iquor accounts. Itlanersa had foolishly built It costs seyen mlllions a pie right under the overhang- the steam railroads. f. but much to our advantage. u costs three mjl]ions immediately the cliff had fal- keep the government goinj J 4>Vtsv 4- a rv^ rvl A TJlC T i _ _ _j__ _ 11 i ^ ^ ^ U u usucu mo icmj/ic. n COSIS a Illlliiuu it uav or, Senka-amon-seken, pious- terest on deposits in tin Lit the broken walls and set his bank3 eside that of Itlanersa. Again cost3 a million a day f dropped a huge flake on the churches and the mission art of the temple; again an jzations. :ing, nearly four centuries la- jj. costs fifteen millions stored the sanctuary. But in run the farms. the writing of heiroglyphics jt costs a million a day ivhen the cliff fell about 100 the doctors and lawyers. In the next to the last room jt costs nearly a millio: i great altar of black granite keep up the army and na with offering scenes and in- 0f peace. >ns in hieroglyphics showing jt costs half a million e altar had been dedicated by meet the pensions of sol sa to Amon of Zapata. In the sailors' widows loly of holies, were there Me- it costs a million a day statues of the god and curios- interest on railroad bonds igh by some ancient mistake costs nearly a millio: ette of Amenophis III, a great take care of the failures f Egypt in the 18th dynasty. ruptcies. ' these statuettes lay the last It costs six millions a < offerings placed in the shrine for the exports from tl shippers of the Meroitic age. States, and four and a ha letrated to the foundation de- a day to pay for the imi under the back wall of the change. and found the small tablets of ;arly a lost art and his name ^ Pugli Made I'resi ly be surmised. y at the very end could work Columbia, Oct. 27. Col un on the great temple. A leSe trustees have eIected oms at the back were cleared Pu?h Permanent president e foundations of five succes- stitutfon Dr. Pugh has ;mples were laid bare. But nected with the college years and has been acting jat temple still awaits excava- . . . since the resignation of id an area perhaps twenty , ? , , _ . . _ last year. The college is that already excavated. In a direction of the two Metl ys the expedition will return , . _ ., ~ .. 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Harmon, deceased, you Griffith T.; are hereby summoned and required : of the in- to show cause before me, if any you hppn rnn.1 can? at my offire at Bamberg, S. C., at I 10 in the forenoon of the 4th day of tor eleven,' Xovember, 1916, why the said letters r, president of administration should not be Dr. Daniel granted. under the J* D- COPELAND, JR., unuer me Acting Judge of Probate. lodist con-1 Da^ed October 24, 1916. 2t. 1 I Grimes's Golden Apples; best aplighting in pie grown; at G. A. Ducker & Bro.? r a place. !adv. 10-26. I r : 't :? ' -4 .4;V .w;