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REAT �U4D MINESREAT GOLD MINES
MnAoneJ Mi��es of Nile CounMy ro he RoopeneC—VelusDleCon.'easiona An Urente0 to tngllsM1 ComOenles.ifsiile�6'.f`iiliif�i.fibandoned Mines of Nile Country to be Reopened—ValuableConcessions Are Uranted to English Companies.meansaCte.i�.zerwfie. 111 pitisllwaNILIRanlRerik.i�
"The California of the Old Civiliza-
tion of the t .,L" is the happy
phrase employed by an etnlnont
Egyptologist In describing the land
of the Nile in the proud days of
the nineteenth and twentieth dyna-
sties. The history of Its gold-teln-
Ing industry is lost In antiquity,
but evidence is overwhelming that
It flourished In very early days and
on a most extensive scale.
The letters discovered a few years
ago at Tel -el -A mama, give some Idea
of what the output of gold from
Egypt nrust hatn been at the time
of the Ierael}tish captivity. The
King of Babylonia wanted gold for
a newtemple, nod It WWI to Phar-
aoh that he wrote to ask for It.
The King of Assyrht ',milted letters
to the Egyptian court, pointing out
that not only hie father, but even
the King of Cappadocia, had ro-
caved twenty talents of gold and
asked that at least 1114 mach should
be sent to himself. Two centuries
later, when Egypt had lost her em-
pire aid been devastated by bar-
barians from the north, the amount
of gokl yielded by the desert mines
woe still enormous,
At n still later date, the evenrde
tell us, the second Ptolemy had art
arnual revenue amounting to 14,-
800 talents, or more than £4,000,-
000, a large pert of which wee de-
rived from the gold mines. Not only
aro precise records of the manner expedition. This started in Sep -
of mining preserved In the papyri tember hat, and mining has now
and In the wrltinge of Greek his- been in repesntint for nom" three
torlans, but amid the mine of Beal_ months, tnrllitatetl by the ddeeov-
gassan and Thebes sculptures have cry of a constant supply of writer,
been found representing the art of etriek at a depth of 1::0 feet.
the goldsmiths and illustrating the
processes of reducing and workltlg
the gold. The historian D1odo•ns,
Nile nixed mete ay between tit
first and second cataracts and ix
travelwod by the famous Wady re
fermi to In the Turin p:tpyruv
About sixty miles along the Wady
Allnki from the Nile alt about 140
miles south of Assuan the, first ex-
ploring party of the Nile Valley
Company creme fifteen months ago
came upon Figns of extensive an-
cient workings at a place known
as Um Garoiart. These oil work-
ings aro about 801) feet long by
sixty feet broad, and present every
appearance of some 2011,000 tone of
stone having been innovrr) by the
ancients. Tilly discovery In regard-
ed, as the moat Important yet made
In the direction of locating the an-
cient gold minas of Egypt. Mr. ►Veba,
who was 1n command of the Nile
Valley Company's expedition, re-
garding as significant the abrupt
ending off of the old workings at
Um Garnlart—as though they had
been hurriedly abandoned by the
miners, probably before the attack
of barbarian marauders— selected
ilii point and annk a prospecting
shaft to a depth of about 110 feet.
lila judgment Woe rewarded, for he
quickly name upon a reef o( eurprls-
log wealth, the quartz being liter-
ally held together with gold. About
(1,180 worth of epecimed ore wag
obtained to two days, when the
workings were sealed down anti Mr.
Wella returned to England to pre-
pare for the equipment of a larger
"01000 WILL TELL " of Its own impurity.
when blotches and Incrustations mark the
who "pent many year° in EgYPL witke short 7r1;' :17 btu iramles,)nrtruubk
oompiling a laborious record of its
people and their industries, goes In-
to conalderabte detail with regard HOW BOB (10T HIS PARDON.
to the workers at the mince of :)kite, —
located In the old river coule) known Negro's Release Front Prison Was
as the Wady Aliaki. Tho eamo MUMS Not Otte 10 Hie "Busting Out."
are mentioned by Agatlgardddes, who
wrote some hundred and fatty years Ex -Governor dfodg° Tyner, of Vir-
before Christ. ginin, whose term expired to Decem•
Find a Map 3,000 Years Old, leer last, says the Now York PIMPS,
Ent even more precise testimony was especially generous In granting
N forthcoming front a papiieue pre- pardons. Prow many of them be do-
served at Turin, which was dieeov-
sred In the ruins of Thebes. Tide
unlgno document, supposed to have
been written in the thirteenth
century before Christ, contains a
rived much pleasure In the gratitude
of the unfortunate, 'and often re-
ceived material for an amusing story.
One of three he tells was of a negro
LLap of the mines of Akita and weeks Iran Richmond convicted or some
the position not only of the mdnot slight offence who had convinced the
tbetrnselv'es, but also of tiro miners' Governor that he had been sutfl-
hoasns, the wells from which they ciently punished and was accord -
drew their water and tip' roads ingty granted a .pardon. The par -
leading to the vlutfte. The papyrus Honed prisoner's young brother
r f
Mates that the mins a Akita wet•o learned of his release before the ex -
first exploited by the Pharaoh i„‘. convict could reach home and rushed
tilos I., who also sank a well in to tell his mother tho good news.
e of lending the desert In the holo i. "Oh, mammies" he cried, "Bob's
water, Tills task he abandoned, dun got mit nal 'e Dios' heap now."
but It was resumed by hie son Rn- " Bless de Lod," exclaimed the
metes II., who rerttlnucd the liar- mother: "but 110w'1 he git out?llo
!Ing for a further twelve feet, when WWI dun busted out, Is h^?"
he fund an abundant and triclinia', "Naw, Lonnnle; de g'uvnor ;lot
spring. Along the Wady Aliaki nu- slot clown au' axed his pardln and
fC eron9 remains of old villn.g"9 ex told him to go home."
'that ate on time the countrysha ,
lit ; their burial grounds, with steno.
a large mining population. Watch -
slabs
tower" on the hilly show that the ,
obey bad Llteir regular guard In
So h days, but rate inns tell Elevators
OS thatt on two separate rr�ensionx ' '
the miners were driven from their
O
work by invading hordes. Arline eeee
'writers mention the revival of the
Industry about 1,000 years ago, hat
' In modern times, until within the
last four or rive years, gold -arming
In Egypt had fallen into dl.aate. AC,
however, the country became set-
tled under British occupation, end
the napitaliet and speculator be-
gan to cast about for fresh (nettle
ot industry, reminders of the for-
gotten Industry In the altar of
extensive 0'd workings tllro'tghnat
the eastern desert led to the or-
ganization of exploratory expodl-
ttont.
Concessions to MInIngCompanies,
The Egyptian Government has
`ranted concessions over large
Usoto ot country, the prospecting
And development of which are in
tips handle of several of the lead-
lAg firsts of English mining engl-
Deere. One area of Some 8,009 square
sales was apportioned In 11101 to
• the Nile Valley Company, which has
Its headquarters in London. This
area 1a bordered on the west by the
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON NO. 1.
JULY 5, 1003.
Commentary. -1. The Israelites de-
sire a king (so. 11). 1. Stimuel was
both a prophet and it judge In Is-
rael. IIe was brought to the tab-
ernacle when vert' young and put
under the Imre of tali, tan high
priest. Samuel was the Met and
best at Otte Hebrew, Jadges. "When
be stemmed charge of Israel, the
twelve tribes were in u low condi-
tion both morally and politically.
lie Induced them to abandon their
Idolatry, freed them front the Phil-
istine • yoke, administered Justice
with vigor and impartiality, pro-
moted education and true religion
(II. Chron. xxuv. 181, united the
tribes and raised them higher in
the scale of civilization."
"'. Joel—The meaning of the names
of 8amarl'e sons may be taken rte
Indications of the father's pious
feelinge. .noel, "Jehovah Is God."
Abia1, "Jehovah is father." Boer-
eheha—"Thep' rifer seat was there,
as Seuuucl'e was at Remelt."
8. Not in his ways—Samuel's sons
did not follow in the footsteps of
their godly father, but were bad
mon, who disgraped 10 name by
dishonest proceedings. After lucre,
Egypt were agsinest ('lint Unto thee
—Samuel wax tering uo 1001•01' than
Gail 111wself. This he speaks for the
purperso of comforting and xdnd)-
eating Suneel. Protest solemnly -11
they pe1144is0e41 in their rebellious
('011101) they must do so with their
cyus wide open 10 the conecprences.
(nal still warns elnnere, bat they
have It in their power to persist In
their wickedness and go to deotnu'-
tion,
III. Tho righter of a king.—vs. 10-18.
10. Wotvt9 of the Lorrl—Samuel diel
not epIo k iia own woroto or give 1110
Own opinion. Ile told 111e people
platbd,' what they might expect if
they persisted In their determina-
tlan to have a king similar to the
nanous (11vund 1110(0.
IV. The reply of the people (ye. 10-
:221. The people refused to listen to
tato voice of ,-anetri. They were de-
termined to 1p like the e tinny
around them, and were willing to
submit to the demands which a
king might make inset thm. Sam-
uel then Leek the hatter again to
the Lord. after which "he sorrow -
1 nay dicm1+eed them to their homes,
that Ito night lotto time to take
the lilceaeary measures for ef-
fecting tads great change;'
Tcacltingn —Tho most godly par -
vete cannot trap+nut thnir godli-
nes9 to their cltildren. hien gen-
erally prefer Lha chibin to the in-
visible --the material to the spirit-
ual, end lima aro easily led to for-
got God.
PR.ACTI((AT, SURVEY.
When Gori called Abraham and
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Honed cannot be too sttougly re-
probated in a judge.
4. Elders of Israel—Before the
exodus Israel 1400eessed an organi-
zation or elders to whom Moses
wan directed to deliver ids message
(Ex, lin. 16). The title gradually ac-
quired an °1(1111) significateon; in
the wilderness Moses appointed a
council of seventy to repreeent the
W11014. body. after the occupation
of Canaan 40' find m''ntion of (1)
elders of cities who acted as civil
maglstrate0 (2) elders of tribes, or
districts; (;t) the elders of Israel,
or united body of the elders of
the tribes."—Cambridge Bible.
1, 'Phos e i'l old—Although not so
errantly advanced in yeat'a, yet
tituuuel appears to have been worn
out, braving spent Ida strength in
the cares and burdens of public
business. Make us a king — What
h)ghah' tribute of esteem and con-
fidence could a people show their
governor than to eubmit entlrelY
to his bands th•t reorganization of
their government, and the selec-
tion and appointment of a king?
Il. Hod's answer to the request.—
ve. 0-9. 0. DispleaetxfSamuel— Be-
catuo, 1. Samuel saw that they were
about to reject the divine Govern-
ment of deft.2. 11 woman affront to
Memel, their aged lender, who had
spent his life In untiring devotion
to their interests. 8. It was a dis-
appointment to Samuel that the
p,.,pl• eauuld reject (nod and choose
another leader.
7. Hearken—tied wag displeased
with them, but allowed them to
have their way. "God grants that
In Ilia dispIlu sure lxvItich He with-
holds in Hie mercy."—Clarke. Not
rejected thee—From title we judge
that Memel in his prayer had corn-
pletned that the people had rejected
him, and were dissatisfied with baa
administration. But... ...me—They had
not merely rejecters Samuel, but
they had rejected God and their ruler.
"They failed to tree that their mis-
fortunes came not from lack of
came on the part of Jehovah, but
because of their otvn sins.
8, 9. Have forsaken me—All the sins
they had committed since they left
but they have rejected Me, that I
should not reign over them.' To
turn away from Go! who hail so
signally fought l'or them aria canoed
chem to triumph over 'invert mittens
greater and mightier than t ;ry," nad
Who bad fulfilled every promise --'tad
"there failed not plight of any gots}
which the Lord had 0p5>1en unto the
ileus! of (areal; n11 came to lugs"—
was indeed a grievous sin.
Aia,v the (bit of nil grace pre"^eve
us from sural a sad ending, ant) may
we be finally presented to hint a pure
church. "not hexing opot nr wrinkle,
or any snrh thing."-- M. K. f'heslrra
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An lmpeceehly Itemised gentleman
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pocket, and clapping his ems there-
to seized the wrist of the thief.
Ile drew forth the erring member,
and, looking at it with supreme
disgust, he released it, saving witty
a grimace of (lisped l : "Par Ilea-
1'(fn'a sake, toy geed man, go and
wash your hands before you put
them in a gentleman's pooket
again."
Wild *0 hint, "Get ileo out of thy
country, turd from Ihy kindred,
and from thy father's Molise, unto
0 hind tint I will siloty 1110k', rind
1 will make of dune a great codon,"
it to evident that hl; design was
to raise up a 'peculiar people," a
people to be "his peculiar tree -
Sere"
Slowly yet surely IIIc wondrous
plan was carried out. He had de
-
tiered to Abraham, 'Thy seed shall
he a stranger 1n ra trued that was
not theirs, and shall serve them ;
and they shall afflict them four
hundred years.' Vet duriog these
years "in all their afflictions 110 was
a((lieted, and the angel of Ills pres-
ence waved them ; in Ills love and In
Ws pity He redeemed them.'' He de-
clared again: "For thou art an holy
people unto the Lord thy God; the
Loral thy God has chosen 'thee to be
a special people unto himself, above
all people that aro upon the Ince
of the earth."
It may be asked why did God say
to Moses when giving the statutes,
commandments, ordinances, lata,
"When titres art come unto the tars}
which the Lord thy God givettt thee,
and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell
therein, anti shalt say, I will set a
king over Mr, like all the natlone
that are about me ; thou shalt M
any wise set him king over thee,
whom the Lord thy God shall
choose'; then condemn them When
nearly tear hundred years later they
asked Samuel to make a king over
them ? I answer, God's foreknowl-
edge dill not neeessnrlly foreordain
this rejection of bis kingship. "God
often grants that In Ills displeasure
which Ile withholds in Ills merry."
The tearful sin, "And the Lord said
unto Samuel, hearken unto the volt() 1
of the people in nil they say tanto
thee ; for they have not rept-led thee,
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