New Orleans Republican., 1875-10-10
EGYPTIAN INITIATION.


A Doeumeut Feund I'm she wrappangs Of d
Mummy Three Thousand Years Ago.
And it came to pass in these days that
Pharaoh dreamed q dream, and behold Q
famine was In the land of Egypt and
throughout all its borders.
Joseph, young man of tine Hebrews, and
skilled in dreams and the Interpretation
thereof, said unto Pharaoh:
go to- now; let Pharaoh appoint 0ficevs
over the land, aud gather ali the food Of
these good years, and bid the people lay up
corn that shall be for store to the land
against the seven years of famine that shall
the land perish not through famine. And
in the famine, 10 it shall be returned unto
them"
Aud the thing seemed good in the sight of
Pharaoh, and he made Joseph ruler OF
Egypt.
Aud in the seven plenteous years the
earth brought forth by handfuis, and he
gathered up all the food of the seven years
which was in the land of Egypt, and laid
up the food in the cities.
And Joseph gathered corn as the sands
OF the sea, very much, until he LETT number
ing; for it was without number.
Aud the seven years of righteousness,
that was in the land of Egypt, were ended,
and the seven years of dearth began to
come, according as Joseph had said, and
the dearth was in all lands; but in the land
OF Egypt there was bread in Pharaoh's
granaries.
And joseph thought to open the granaries
for the people.
Then there arose man of the Sap -Heds,
whose name was Bill Allen, who said unto
Pharaoh:
go to, now. Shall Pharaoh's granaries
be opened unto the people and the wealth
of Pharaoh be made common thing. And
who knoweth this Hebrew Joseph, and how
long the years of death shall rage in Egypt
until Pharaoh starveP ~
And PharaOh's heart was hardened, and
he cast Joseph into prison, and made Bill
Allen ruler in his stead. And the people
murmured.
But Bill Allen was a Dem Magog, and be
other"
But the people said: "Where with shall we
buy corn for men buy corn with cattle,
and sheep, and oxen, and asses, but we
have none of these. and 10 thou hast all
the corn. Give US q sign"
So Bill Allen gave them a kigo, whereon
was writ:
The government of Egypt will pay the
bearer five or ten or fifty ephods of corn,
accord ding to the denomination thereof.
And some of the great men of Egypt,
who in the years of dearth had garnered
corn of their own, said:
"Lo the people starve; let US sell them
of our corn for money, which is Pharaoh's
promise to pay corn even unto the holder
therto and hath corn basis. This shall
be our money also, wherewith we shall buy
horses and iaiment, purple and fine linen"
So the great men of Egypt sold their
corn.
And it came to pass that when their corn
was well nigh gone they came unto Bill
Allen, the Chief Treasurer, and said unto
him: "Lo! here now is Pharaohs promise
to pay US corn; give, therefore, unto thy
servants fool in five or twenty ephOds, ac-
cording to the denomination which is hereOn
writ"
Aud Bill Allen said: "Have We not little
cornl Go to, now: Ike We Pharaoh's prom
Use for naught!' And he gave them more
promises to pay, ten for one.
But corn was scarce, and that which had
bought ten ephods would now buy but
hundredth part of an ephod. And the peo-
pie murmured for money wherewith to
buy it.
So Bill Allen issued more promises to nav,
a thousand for one; and corn went up one
hundred thousand for one. And even the
| granaries of the great men were empty, and
| the people murmured.
And the great men filed their empty
barns with promises to pay cora, even the
| promises that Pharaoh had made unto
| them.
And sandal cost a million and grain of
| corn ten million, until the people did burn
the promises to pay for fuel.
| So they went unto Bill Allen and said
| "Lo! thy servants starve; give unto US the
corn that thou didst promise"
| And he lifted up his voice until it filed
| sll the land of Egypt, and the land of AS
syria. and the land of Gath and Peleg-
| Ether, and said:
| ''Ye will not take the promises of Pha-
roah among yourselves nor sell therefor.
DO ye bring worthless money unto Pharoah
the King of of Assyria and of Moab, will
they give corn for what ye offer unto Pha-
roah Lo blind are ye and FOOLS"
Then the people of the North and the
South and the West bumped themselves,
and they broke open the granaries of Pha-
| raoh and slew him and his household, his
man servants and maid servants
Aud they prepared gallows ninety cubts
high whereon to hang Bill Allen, but the
noise of his roaring SO terrified the people
that they fell on their faces, and Bill Allen
sloped away in the land of the Sap-Heds
and Dem -Magogs, where he liveth even
| unto this day.-Graphic.