Delaware County Chieftain (Jay, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 18, 1923 Page: 3 of 8
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THE DELAWARE COUNTY CHIEFTAIN
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
ORD CARNARVON Is
dead Lord Carnarvon
uncovered the tomb of
Tut-Ankh-Amen Pharaoh
of Egypt 8273 years ago
What killed Lord Carnar-
von — was it the curse of
Tut-Ankh-Amen on him
who should disturb bis
sleep?
Egypt very generally
believes in a curse of the
Pharaohs that wreaks
dire vengeance upon those who dfsturb
their last sleep So all Egypt is now
saying what corresponds to the Amer-
ican “I told you so” And all Egypt
does not hesitate to speculate in public
whether this vengeance will be satis-
fied by the death of Lord Carnarvon
or will be wreaked upon others
Modern medical science says that
Lord Carnarvon died of pneumonia
following blood-poisoning caused by
the bite of an Insect during the ex-
oavatlon of Tut-Ankh-Amen’s tomb
And noted physicians ' summoned to
Cairo did all that modern medlca
science knows to save his life Res-
piration was artificially maintained as
iong as possible and his heart action
was stimulated But modern medical
'science could not save him
Tut-Ankh-Amen Pharaoh of Egypt
1358-50 B C master of the ancient
world caused his royal tomb to be cut
into the living rock of the cliff of the
Yailey of the Kings near Luxor He
caused' chambers to be filled with
golden Jewel-studded funerary furni-
ture with preserved food with his
personal apparel and ornaments with
his portrait munnlkin for the trying-on
Of clothing with everything necessary
for the use of his inummy when It
should be laid away in the royal sar-
cophagus After only eight years of
rule he died The sacred college of
cmbalmers was busy over his mummy
for 70 days- Ills mummy was pluced
In the sarcophagus which stood In a
separate chamber elaborately deco-
rated and Inscribed About the sar-
cophagus were built case after case
magnificently decorated until the
chamber would hold no more' The
connections between the several cham-
bers were then walled up and sealed
The passage to the chambers was
filled A wall wus built across Its
cuter end and sealed ’ The stulrwny
of twenty steps In the living rock to
the outer world was filled A wull
was built ut the top step and sealed
This wall was covered with desert
sand and hidden from the eye of man
And the mummy of Tut-Ankh-Amen
Phnrbnh of Egypt was left to He In
peace and safety through the ages
until the shade of Tut-Ankh-Amen
should return to assume mortal shape
for the remainder of his long Journey
through the next world to the final
state of bliss
George Edward Stanhope Molyneux
Herbert fifth earl of Carnarvon n
nobleman of the British empire A D
1923 caused that hidden and sealed
outer entrance to be broken through
lie excavated the stairway He en-
tered through the second sealed wall
He forced Ids way through the pass-
age and: Into the outer chamber lie
stopped not nt the senled wall of ma-
sonry into the chamber containing the
royal catafalque lie laid alien hands
on that ' catafalque lie even opened
the doors of the outer-case And then
he stopppd because of reverence for
the dead pharaoh? Not at all He
stopped because he could not get
farther Into the catafalque without de-
stroying It To take the catafalque
carefully apart It would be necessary
to demolish a wall of the chumber
And that wall was covered with dec-
orations and hieroglyphs which must
be photographed and studied All of
which' would take much time — and
there would be cooler weather for the
work In the fall I
The ordinary everyday American
will naturally say “Why pick on Car-
narvon? Carter the American Is the
man Tut should get after”
Certainly Howard Carter IS the man
most responsible for the opening of
the tomb
Howard Carter was' riding a good
American “hunch” He believed he
was “wise” to the approximate loca-
tion of the hidden tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen
His enthusiasm kept Carnarvon
“bucked up” as the Englishman put It
And Carter’s “hunch” wns “the goods”
Twice he dug In front of the large and
elaborate mrab of Rameses VI an un-
important king of the XX dynasty
which all the tourists visit And twice
he missed It by n few yards only The
third time last fall he hit the exact
spot Then he cabled Carnarvon who
hastened to Luxor It was Carter who
supervised the excavation It wus
Carter who cut through the walls to
the catafalque chamber with Ills own
hands
Why Carter’s persistence In his hunt
for Tut-Ankh-Amen’s tomb? Every
Egyptologist wns keen to find this par-
ticular tomb which wns believed to
be the Inst of Importance In the Valley
of the Kings For Tut-Ankh-Amen wns
the son-in-law and successor of Akh-n-nton
the famous “Heretic King" of
the XVIII dynasty (1587-1378 B C)
This “Heretic King” renounced poly-
theism ns conducted by the priests of
Abion declared for “one god” refused
to mnke war abandoned his capital at
Thebes built a- new rapltnl city not
fa u away nt Tel-el-Amnrnn wrote
hymns to Aton his new “god of love”
and “comforter of them that weep’’
nnd Instructed his court artists to quit
conventional Egyptian art und to pic-
ture things as they appeared to the
eye In short he was an all-around
reformer who established an Egyptian
Utopia Carter found his rilled tomb
In ffi07 Ills city Is now being exca-
vated Tut-Ankh-Amen at first called him-
self Tut-Ankh-Aton and accepted the
god of his futher-ln-lnw Then he
abandoned the new capital went hack
to Thebes restored the Ainon priests
with added privileges and changed his
name to Tut-Ankh-Amen Truth to
tell the Egyptologists were keen to
find his tomb largely tn the hope ot
getting dnta nbout Akh-n-aton who U
believed to be the ’fifst mail In history
to declare a “one-god” religion Does
Tut-Ankh-Amen’s tomh contain this
much-desired data? Nobody knows
The contents have-been examined ouly
m tiB ari
'SHOWS WB&fUZ (
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In part The hieroglyphics on the
walls have not been read The cata-
falque has not been opened There
may be other chambers Incidentally
the archaeological value of the objects
examined to date Is estimated at
$15000000 Lord Carnarvon thought
the total might run to $60000000 It
Is the greatest archaeological “find”
In all the years of Egyptian explora-
tion True It Is that the ancient Pharaohs
did lots of “cursing” They posted
many a curse on stone and tablet iff
public building and temple These
curses however were mainly directed
against those who should fall to carry
out the Pharaoh’s will In respect to
those buildings and temples As to
their tombs the Pharaohs relied upon
the care with which they were hidden
and the skill with which entrance was
blocked rather than upon curses upon
possible disturbers ol their last sleep
The use of poison In ancient Egypt
was an old story but there seems to
be no record of the poisoning of
funerary furniture
Nevertheless superstitious Egyp-
tians express fear for the safety of the
Immediate family of the dead man—
his widow his son Lord Portchester
who succeeds him — his countess Is an
American woman formerly Miss Cath-
erine T Wendell of New York his
daughter Lady Evelyn Herbert They
also think It quite within the possibili-
ties that all who participated In the
opening of the catafalque chamber are
In danger
At the actual opening of the chnnv
her there were present several Amer-
icans of note: Howard Carter Pro-
fessor Charles Breasted' of the Uni-
versity of Chicago Director VVInlock
of the Egyptian expedition of the Met-
ropolitan Museum of Art New York
and Curator Lythgoe Lord Carnarvon
of course was there and Lady Evelyn
Herbert Among the others were Sir
William Garstln and Dr Allan II
Gnrdlner British Egyptologist At the
public opening of the chamber three
days later others present Included the
Dowager Sultana Malak of Egypt
Morton Howell Amer(can minister to
Egypt nnd his wife Queen of the
Belgians and Prince Leopold Viscount
nnd Viscountess’ Allenby
Some of the more superstitious of
the Egyptians assume that the curse
will even fall upon nil who have re-
ceived from Li rd Carnarvon gifts of
objects from the tomb This list Is
said to Include Lady Ellznbeth Bowes-
Lyon fiancee of the Duke of York
Lord Carnarvon was born In 1806
and succeeded his father In 1800 He
wns educated at Cambridge and mar-
ried in 1805 Aimlna Wumbwell a Ches-
terfield and a god-daughter of one of
the Rothschilds He was very rich
owned about 36000 acres and had a
racing stnhle He war a collector of
books and prints and a noted photographer
ESNtOVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
T Lesson T
(By REV P B FITZ WATER D IX
Teacher of English Bible In the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago)
Copyright 1923 Western Newspaper Union
LESSON FOR APRIL 22
MOSES LIBERATOR AND LAW-
GIVER LESSON TEXT— Exodus 14:10 13-22
GOLDEN TEXT — Fear ye not Stand
still and see the salvation of the Lord
— Exodus 14:13"
REFERENCE MATERIAL — Deuter-
onomy 3:23-28 Psalm 115:23-45 Matthew
17:3 Acts 7:17-44 Hebrews 11:23-29
PRIMARY TOPIC — Moses the Boy
Whom God Saved
JUNIOR TOPIC— Moses Leads Israel
Through the Red Sea
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP-
IC — Moses the Great Leader
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP-
IC — The Character of Moses
I The Birth Preservation and Edu-
cation of Moses (Exodus 8:1-8)
1 His Birth (vv 1-2) His parents
were of the tribe of Levi
2 His Preservation (w 3-8) The
faith of his parents caused them to ig-
nore the command of the king and
they hid him for three months (He-
brews 11:23) His mother discerned in
him a proper child or a child fair to
God (Acts 7:20) and believed him to
be the deliverer of his people Perhaps
led by the story of Noah’s ark she
made him an ark of bulrushes and
placed Moses in It and left it at the
fclace where Pharaoh’s daughter would
be attracted when she came down to
bathe Miriam his sister was placed
where she could watch the affair and
at the opportune moment she came
with a suggestion of a nurse £pr the
baby securing her consent Miriam
brought the child’s mother
3 Ills Education (vv 9-10) He was
educated first at his mother’s knee the
place where his character was formed
He was also educated at the Egyptian
court where he became acquainted
with the wisdom of Egypt (Acts 7 r22)
II The Call of Moses (Exodus 8)
L The Lord Speaks From the Bush
(vV 1-6) In the desert the Lord ap-
peared In the vision ot the burning
bush When Moses stepped aside to
behold this strange thing God taught
him the lesson of proper approach un-
to himself
2 The Lord Commissions Moses (w
7-10) God assured him of his active
interest In his people having seen their
affliction heard their cry and known
their sorrows and that he had come
down to deliver them from the hand
of the Egyptian through Moses as His
agent
III Moses' Contest With Pharaoh
(Exodns 5-12) The ten plagues reveal
the contest carried on between Moses
and Pharaoh before the people were
set free The tenth stroke from the
strong hand of the Almighty made
Pharaoh willing to let Israel go
IV Israel Crossing the Red Sea (Ex-
odus 14:10 13-22)
1 Israel’s Straitened Circumstances
(v 10) At the Lord’s direction
they changed from tlielr first course
and were apparently In great difficulty
The Red - sea was before them the
mountains on either side I’haraoh
with his chariots of war was closing
In upon them In their distress they
cried to the Lord
2 Israel’s' Miraculous Escape (vv
13-2?) (1) Moses’ words (o the people
(vv 13-14) (a) “Fear not’’ Since God
was leading them by day and by night
with the plllnr of cloud and fire they
had no need of fear even If they were
In straitened circumstances (b)
“Stand still” Standing still In such a
trial 'is faith taking hold of Goa’s prom-
ise (c) “See the salvation of the
Lord’’ “The Lord shall fight for you”
(2) God’s words to Moses (vv 15-18)
(a) “Go forwurd” No use to pray
longer when God snys “Move forward”
(b) “Lift up thy rod” This served ns
something tangible upon which their
faith could rest They were to go
through the sea on dry ground But
the symbol of God’s presence now
passed to the rear to hqld the enemy
at bay (3) The divided sea (vv 21-
22) As they went forwnrd the very
thing which they feared became a wall
of protection on either side
3 Overthrow of the Egyptians (vv
22-27) Iluvlng seen the Israelites gj
across dry shod the Egyptians Immedi-
ately pursued them Insanely thinking
that they could follow In the wnke of
God’s children That which was a pro-
tection to God’s children became un In-
strument of destruction to the Egyp-
tians 4 Israel’s Song of Triumph (15:1-
21) They attributed their deliverance
and the overwhelming defeat of their
enemies to God They could well sing
their song of triumph for they were
on the other shore
V The Law Given (Exodus 20:1-17)
God gave through Moses to the world a
complete code of laws setting forth
duties to God and man
! MRS EARLS
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Tweedie, Guy A. Delaware County Chieftain (Jay, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 18, 1923, newspaper, April 18, 1923; Jay, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1779601/m1/3/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.