Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-03-07

have a hearth Could you ever soften,
great Rameses nth the stony face
Now your eyelids look as il they could
roll mp again; those full lip. too. look
as IL they might stiIl have message 10
give Are they impatient Of tile barrier
which close them? Tie very muscles
are relaxing. HalSi
What Is that peculiar sound. as if
something were being wound upf
~Where is itf
In the glass case with this same
Pharaohl Ia the air around himI l
see nothing-that sound comes from in
side the mummy itself
Now a voice. that Of a man, but re-
pressed. resches Frau Won Meyers ears:
1t gives her a. q, uble impression, SEEM
ing 10 proceed from some near point and
also to come to her frorh a long way
back-centuries upon centuries;
Il am not dead, daughter OF Israeli"
This metallic, thin tone resembles the
human voice about as the phonograph
does; il holds the listener in trance
like attitude; size catches every word,
ceases TO reason, aud only gasps out
mot deadl Whatl After all this
fu s made over you, the money spent on
you-not Pharaoh's mummy at all?
What kind of fraud are you?"
The Voice speaks on through her in
terruption-
"There is no death. Where can man
go to get rid of universal life? There
have been no ears to hear, no eyes to
see me. Woman, it is fearful doom
TO be alive and to be thought dead.
Now, revisiting my ka On which there
is ever a latent humanity find for
once mortal in the right aura to hear
Newell do know why-chiId Of those
Hebrews who were once the slaves of
Pharaoh. Shall / tell thee my post
mortem history?"
The frau stammers a word Of assent,
curiosity outweigning every other emo
ton; the ka does not pause an instant;
bis tone indicates that after being bot
tied up for ages he is glad to be released
The court physician examined my
body and said was dead; they gave 1t
over to the embalmcrs; then was there
great show Of mourning throughout
the land for 20 days, the temples were
closed, no sacrifices offered. all festivals
suspended; men and women forebore to
drink wine and to eat choice viands,
they formed long professions, throwing
dust on their head, rending their gar
ments; many gated Thebes shut herself
in like a stricken widow and cried as
with one voice of woe TO the gods.
Hypocritesl-shall tell thee, woman,
nRat 81.
Not so many as the fingers on these
withered hands. The secret exultation
in the heart of Menepthah at reigning
in my stead disgusted me; it was a pain
full surprise, for he was my son. Was it
this shock which paralyzed my facul-
ties? / know not. / sank into q leth-
argy, and when l again became con-
scious it was in the midst of an awful,
thick darkness Iaroped about blindly
II, Rameses the Great-in a horrible
loneliness of spirit; no one came near
to attend me to the judgment hall of
Osiris, where the god awaited my COM
ing, with the Egyptian cross, the en-
blem of ct rual life, and the hagellum
of justice. the AZ assessors by his side.
Mine was to be the fullest union with
the divinity; was to reign With him
forever. Still there came no sign out
of the darkness Then it dawned upon
my intelligence, which was SO keenly
alive that my former existence was
death in comparison, that was spared
the common lot Of mortals; being far
above them, as Pentaur had often sung,
was to escape the scene of judgment
in the Hall of Truth, and would sbe
allowed to enter at once the abode of
the justified in the fields Of Aalu.
Though forsaken by all, yet did I
sense other beings in the air near me.
passing me by, all unmindful Of my
royal presence. Then terrible convic.
tion bore in on me that ! was ushered
into a world that was as thickly popu-
lated as the one / had left, but for
which my previous life had so i'll pre-
paredsme that my senses were not at
tuned even to its ordinary sights and
sounds; my mind was outside Of its
conditions, my spirit impervious to its
sympathies Annihilation, this. OF which
Inever dreamed. 1t was maddeningi
@fDo you not know meT cried Wild
". the representative on earth OF the
great sun god. Raj What, minions I
silent still? Show me the royal road
to the fields Of Aalu. command
you'll Where are the gatekeepers Of the
Hall OF Tnth9 Surely they will know
Pharaoh. The shadows fitted by; when
strove 10 grasp one, my hand closed on
empty air. Sometimes deep sigh, q
groan. mocking laugh answered me-
no more. can not say how long this
lasted An instinct told me that the
connection between my wandering spirit
and its late tenement was not severed
would return, then. unto the mummy
and rest me. There, at least in the
mortuary chamber surrounded by every
tribute to my sovereign state, should
BE- again king. All record Of time was
gone.
"A long period Of Inconsistencies In
my ka must have followed Now and
then comes to me some glimmer Of re.
membrance of another body that / ami
mated on another planet, but it is very
faint 1t may be that this was dream
while slept in my ka, until the hunger
for life awoke the higher principle to
action. had not changed. Still was
/ Rameses, who shifted the mastery
OF nations One day, after going
forth from my tomb and encountering
the same darkness as before, / bethought
me of Ammon. II there was q