The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-05-22
THE ROYALCADAvERS
KINGS AND a QUEEN SOLD AT
AUCTION.
Fetched oaly ss9Ass Mummie. Of
Alpiaa. Antiaehus softer aud PtSieny
philadelphia IN Meaazerls-w Wonders
OF = Lonaoa Nuseam.

They say the lion ana the lizari keep.
The halls where Jamshid gloricd and
drank deep.
Three Iaishty monarchs-Alp.na.
Queen q Babylon. Anilochus Softer.
King Of AssyrIa. and Pto.emy Phila-
delphus. King Of Egypt -reigned with
power and sp.caior. and died Their
great cities are waste places their
palaces have crumhled 10 ruins and
their bodies are exhibited rs en- annex
10 a wild animal show In Liverpool.
having been bought b. the proprie-
tor at auction for the sum OF S3s3.75.
These mummiss had long belonged 10 a
private collection. the owner OF which
found Il nece sary TO raile funds and
30 sold out his royal oadavers. They
we're sold In London. the auctioneer
making a little joke about two kings
aad a queen being a good haad as he
put them up. The FIRST bid for tho
royal eersOnages was $50. made BY The
auctloneer himself. and Il took all his
persuasive powers to get the price mp
to s393.75 for the lot. The meanest
slave In the palace Of any one Of them
would have brought more than that
in the market In the days when they
gloried In their power and held com
munion with their gods. Selucus was
a general OF Alexander the Great
When to the sound Of "Trumpets
that tore the night In Babylon" Al
pima and her husband stood surround
ed by great armies. while tributary
princes came 10 do them homage. sup
pose some vision had flashed across
her mind OF the day when she would
form a part OF a sideshOw TO Liver
pool mcnagcrie On the royal lady's
left IL the mummy Of Ptolemy Phila-
delphus. the brother Of the man who
assassinated her husband. and on her
right the body Of her son Antiochu5
Softer. King OF Syria. who inherited the
domains Of his father selucus Antioch.
us had love affair In his time which
was the talk OF the world. His father
took TO himself q young wife. Stra-
tonice. and Antiochus fell In love with
her. lie brooded over his love for his
stepmother until he fell sick. where
upon bis father gave him Stntonice
for a wife and Upper Asia for o king
dom. And all his loves and kingdoms
have come to this. and you may gaz,
upon the king and lover for a small
admission fee. Ptolemy Philadelphus
the other mummy. was the son Of that
great general Of Alexander's who be
came king OF Egypt. and whose rae,
roigned there until II went out with th,
death Of Cleopatra. That man whose
mummled body Is now a part OF peer
show was n great and powerful mon.
arch and scholar, and patron OF learn
Ing and the arts 10 whom the world
owes much today. and yet Il refuse.
him even a grave. He encouraged
commerce. science and the arts. ant
brought the Alexandrlan library ant
museum. founded by his father. to i'm
portanoe Some man Of many millloni
who realizes what Ptolomy Philadel
phus did for the progress Of the worl'
ought to rescue his wlthered old car
cass from the menagerle side show an'
place It In "A suitable mausoleum Tn
genulneness Of t..cse mummies Is cert
tod TO By DR.. Birch OF the British Mu
scum and Professor Bonomi OF Sir Johi
soane's Museum.