SCARAB ZUS

n : The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar “tumble-bug.” It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day a ure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest. 316