New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-23
TL[OTHNES TILE TILED.

Anybody more thoroughly unknown to the New
York public meandering up ard down our New-1ork
avenues, than his Majesty Thothmes the 1hlrI, IL
would he impossible to mention. When lie died, so
many Noes ago that the comparative faculty be-
comes dizzy in considering them, we know pretty
well what the servants of the llciopolls palace dld
for him. Dear old Hcrolotus tells lis exactly what
il was. The professional embalmerS were sent Tor.
They took out the brains OF our royal friend, ard
they filled his body full Of pounded gums-myrIh,
frankincens,. all manner of aromatics. Then they
mn away Thothmes the Third to pickle Tor sew
enty DAYS. Doubtless they laid him upon shelf or
locked him mp in some convenient closet linen
they swathed him in bandages and smoarcd these all
nver with gum Then they deposited him i'll
sepulchral chamber. standing bolt upright upon his
most inefficient legs and that was the end of
Tbothmcs the Third whose monument has just been
brought over to Ncw-YOrk in steamer. III the poor
creature could do it, Lac would undoubtedly get up
and protest. lie might say If speech were once
more accorded to him: "Why have you taken my
memorial from the place where L wished to be re-
mcmbercd! Why does that pillar, which was to
make me immortal no longer look down upon the
sands which knew me the great temples In which
| worshipped; the palaces in which / was adored
as a demgodi Why should it no loncer see the
waters of the Nile rising and washing the whole dry
land into frrtilityi Why should you replace it
where there will no longer be irrigation creeping
lazily about its base and the green shoot OF fruits
of flowers. of vegetables full of life which would
have followedl Why have you brought it where
there is no cameli no crocodile no hippopota-
mus.i !, Thothmes the Third, did not bargain Tor
monument in these regions"
Undoubtedly he did not. The priest who said
over him the funeral rites thought of such a
thing The mourners who howled i'll the boats, as
his inanimate form was rowed the sacred lake.
never dreamed that the hieroglyphio shaft which
would soon BIO erected to his memory, and upon
which the workmen were already busy, would be
pulled down and transported by steam-what did
they know, with all their knowledge, of steamboats,
to far Western shore Tkothmes little thought Of
savants spectacles nose, spelling out those
sacred inscriptions. His mourners who howled
Justify in the funeral barge had no dream of the
Port of New-York. 1t is hardly pleasant to think
of such undoubting faith, of such religious trust,
of such solemn confidence i'll the future so ruuely
disturbed.
But 1t is not worth while, after Belzoni and
Champollion to DO sensitive about such matters.
The visitor in London who goes to the South Ken
sington Museum may look upon the mummes OF
many king and queen and prince and princess OF
| the hne Of the first great Rameses There were
| Americans in plenty who saw, not long ago. set up
| on the Thames Embankment another obelisk
| sacred to the memory of some Egyptian king. As
our countryman stroled up toward Westminster
| Abbey where so many different monuments are
carefully preserved, possibly upon some sweet Sum
mer evening doubtless lie thought of the sky under
which the shaft first reared its head. With oper
mouth the British mechanic redolent OF the XXX
/, of Bass or of Barclay, was gazing upon the apex
which was all that the boarding disclosed. The
British matrvn wondered why she had been brought
there, irstead of being taken to Kew or to Hamp
ton. The British child YEARLY waited in utter ig
norance of what it was all about. Such Is the fas
cinatlon of antianity. Such is the respect whicl