The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-10-28
EGYPTIAN IMITATION.
A Document Pound in the Wrappings
of a Mummy 5000 Years Old.
New York Graphic.

Now the time of plenty was at hand,
and Joseph, a young man of the He
brews, and skilled in dreams and the
Interpretation thereof, said unto Phara-
oh
$50 to, now let Pharaoh appoint of
ficers over the land, and gather all 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 surely come upon the
land of Egypt that the land perish not
through famine.
Andthe thing seemed good in the sight
of Pharoah, and he made Joseph a
ruler of Egypt.
And in the seven plenteous years the
earth brought forth by handfuls, and he
gathered up all the food for 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 left
numbering; for it was without number.
And the seven years of righteousness
that was in the land of Egypt were end
ed. and the seven years of death was in
all lands but in the land of Egypt
there was bread in Pharaoh's granaries.
And Joseph thought to open the gran
aries for the people
Then arose man of the Sap-Heads
whose name was Bill-Allen, who said
unto Pharaoh:
$50 to, now. Shall Pharaoh's gran
aries 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
starve p
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 he said unto the people, Buy We
corn of each other.
But the people said "Wherewith
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 MS sign"
So Bill-Allen gave them sign, where
on was writ
The Government of Egypt will pay
the bearer five or ten or fifty ephods of
corn, according 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:
10, the people starve; let us sell
them of our corn for money, which is
Pharaoh's promise to pay corn even I'M
to the holder thereof, and hath corn
basis. This shall be our money also,
wherewith we shall buy horses and raj
ment, purple and fine linen
SO the great men of Egypt sold their
corn.
And it came to pass that when their
corn was we'll nigh gone they came unto
Bill-Allen, the Chief Treasurer, and
said unto him. "Lo here now is
Pharaoh's promise to pay us corn, give,
therefore, unto thy servants food III five
or ten or twenty ephods, according to
the denomination which is hereon writ. !"
And Bill-Allen said ''Have We not a
little corn? Go to, now take We Pha-
roah's promises for naught % And he
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for one.
But the corn was scare, al d that which
had bought ten ephods would now buy
but hundreth pars OF an ephod. And
the people murmured for money where
with to buy it.
SO Bill Allen issued more promises to
pay, Thousand for one. And even the
granaries of the greatmen were empty,
and the people murmered.
And the great men filled their empty
barns with promises to buy corn, even
the promises that Pharoch had made
unto them.
And a sandal crost million and a
grain of corn ten million, until the
people did burn the promises to pay for
fuel
So they went unto Bill-Allen and said
10 thy servants starve give unto us
the corn that thou did'st promise
And he lifted up his voice until it
filed all the land of Egypt, and the
land of Assyria, and the land Of Gath
and Peleg-Ether, and said
I'VE will not take the promises of
Pharaoh among yourselves norsell there
for. Do We bring worthless money unto
Pharaoh the King of Assyria and of
Moab, will they give corn for what We
offer unto Pharaoh? Lo. blind are We
and fools"
Then the people of the North and of
the South and Of the West bumped
themselves, and they broke open the
cranaries of Pharaoh and slew him and
his household, his man servants and his
maid servants.
And they PREF AIRED a gallows ninety
eubits high wherein to hang Bill Allen,
but the noise of his roaring terrified the
people so that they fell on their faces,
and Bill-Allen sloped away in the land
of the Sap Heads and Dem Macoes,
where he iyeth even unto this day.
A TeLth- Warder, rather under the in
fiuence of liquor, approached an &C
quaintance the other day and remarked :
'sShe here, Bill, they say you called me