The morning news., 1898-10-18

stamp. With such bricks he built the
treasure cities OF Plthom aud Rameses.
the latter bearing his name. 1t IS believed
that Naville has discovered Pithom. IL Is
Very near the battlefield of Tel-el-KhebIr,
where the British defeated Arab Pasha
The buildings were all of brick with an
opening only on the roof through which
the grain was poured They must have
been sranaries and magazines like these
which are sculptured on the monuments.
Iney were on the frontier, and would
nns serve for the supply of the army.
or the bricks found at Pithom. Navile
says: Many of them are made with
straw or with fragments of reeds of which
traces are stiil 20 be seen; and some are of
Nile mud without any straw at all. In the
lowest courses the bricks are we'll made ,
in the higher coarse, rough straw and
rushes are in the bricks: in the last
courses neither. One can find sermons and
illustrations in these bricks. and can ap-
preciate what Ebers calls the "Egyptcity"
of Genesis and Exodus
The character OF Rameses II IS as clearly
defined as that of Hamlet or Falstaff. He
reached the ne plus ultra of self-intoxl-
Gated arrogance. His palace was a town +;
an army of musicians stood behind the
trees in his garden. a staff of gardeners
constantly watered the grass; clouds of
incense arose from his table as from the
altar his magnihcence went far beyond all
our dreams. His Titanic pride was fos-
tered in many ways. His father had per-
ted him, and made him co-regent when
mere boy. His land was the richest un
der the sum- yielding every year a three
fold harvest, and IL seemed TO owe no de-
pendence on God or man. The cataracts,
the sea and the deserts were bulwarks
worth hundred armies; and the Nile
seemed to guarantee eternal abundance
and dominion. From the cradle to the
grave his soul had been filed with the ar
rogance of all the Pharaohs His cour-
tiers never approached him except with
gestures OF alteration. as IL before a pres
ent deity. They never addressed him with
out reciting hymn which contained all
his divine titles and ascribed to him mirac-
ulous powers. Etiquette required the sub
1ect in his presence TO be awestruck and
overwhelmed. His subjects seem fully to
have believed in his divine powers Nor
does this fact defy analogy or explanation.
for fragments of this Egyptian king-wor-
ship have come down to our own times.
Religious instincts. misdirected, naturally
give TO the earthly king what is meant
only for God
Rameses II has broken the worlds re-
cord for collaboration and self-advertis-
ing. His life, like Brahmas was absorb
ed In the contemplation of his own excel
lence. There is not a ruin In Egypt or
Nuba that does not bear his name" SAYS
Mariette. His name is met with at almost
every step in Egypt. He was also a stu
pendous plagiarist and liar. He usurped
and appropriated many Of the documents
erected by his predecessors. He often chis-
eled out his fathers name and put his
own in Its place; and Rameses. In his
turn, did the same
The irony of history has terribly aveng-
of Pharaohism. Proud Egypt, like proud
Rome. fell victim 20 its own prosperity
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OF Holy Writ: Thou hast broken Rahab
in pieces as one that is slain" All
Egypts proud capitals are now dust Pha-
raoh's chief aim was to have his mummy
well preserved.
TO keep II out OF reach of tomb rob-
bers the mummy of Rameses II was put
INTO an allen coffin, moved from place TO
place, and at last cast pell-mel. with 9TH
ers, into hole. where they were discov-
cred and partly stripped by robbers The
tombs of his chief men have been used
by the Arabs for houses and byres. and
their collins and mummy cloths have sun
pied fuel. The Arab huts have often been
perfumed with the costly spices which
embalmed the mummes. But a sterner
irony has overtaken Pharaoh's mighty
men. Al Memphis the traveller NAV seq
in March the Arabs manurng the ground
with colored earth taken from the tombs
II is composed of the dust of crumbling
pOhVS anu DiickS. on may distinguish
an old writer says, men by their tombs
but not by their dust" In the middle
ages the Jews of Alexandria sold mummy
as medicine Miss Gordon Cumming in
her Via Cornwall to Egypt" tells that
she saw the people carrying In baskets
mummy dust from the more famous tombs
and putting ID into the hold Of the Nile
boats, by which 1t was carried down to the
sea.
There 1t was transferred 20 English
steamers, sold In London at s3f per ton
mixed with guano, and used as a fertiliz-
er. Laurence Oliphant. in bis Land OF
khemi." informs Us that Napoleon trans
ported boatloads OF mummies to Paris
After the novelty had worn off they were
packed In the garrets of the Louvre Mu-
scum. As the odor was offensive the sa-
wants wished 10 get rid of them When
graves were dug near the museum for
those who fell during the revolution of
1890, they secretly buried the mummies
az night along with the revolutionists In
1S4S the bones Of these mummies were un-
earthed, carried in triumph through the
streets of Paris, and. after much patriotic
eioquence, we're buried under the Column
of July.
He who nowadays visits Egypt usually
visits Palestine also All the ruins now
In Egypt represents buildings devoted to
religion, and an the powers In Eastern
Egypt guaranteed permaneuce to the
Egyptian religion and yet no one man
on earth processes IL to-day In Pales-
tine you do not find one single material
memorial Of the religion OF Christ. and
yet it now fills the earth. All the powers
of the world were In favor Of one religion
and leagued against the other The re-
ligion that seemed invincibe has perish
ed, while the religion that seemed doomed
beyond all hope has won over countless
millions. After all, Il is the meek, not
the proud. who inherit the earth
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