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The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27

fulness, and is symbolized by the dog star.
 Later she is confused with Hathor, until the two goddesses are merged into one with an infinite variety of names and attributes. Horus becomes in turn a popular god, being accepted as the chief figure in the widely pre- vailing worship of the sun. Temples are erected in various cities to Osiris, Isis and Horus, the human quality is lost sight of in the divine, the gods have lost all similarity to human be- ings.
 This sketches the progress of the idea of divinity as it must have devel- oped in Egypt, now that the tombs of the god kings have been found. It is a natural and simple process, which eX- plains itself and upsets at single blow the numerous theories which have been set down as the science of religion,' or the development of re ligious concepts"
 Volumes have been written upon this subject, evolved from the inner con- sciousness of the writers, often re- gardless of facts. Many of these works have been branded as more fanciful than the myths which they attempted to explain, but nothing could so con- demn their fancies as the discovery of the old stone Sarcophagi Of the gods hard facts too hard to be denied.
 The priori savants, who draw their theories as the spider spins his web, from their own inwardness, will be rather tangled up in this web by M Amelineau's discovery. It is rather difficult to reconcile the tomb of king with the theory that there never was
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tempt was ever made to draw a hearse up it's sides. The village is completed by two struggling lines of houses, painted pure white, with bright scarlet blinds, and set into the base of deep chested mountains whose precipitouS sides end in rock crestS far above the clouds.
 From here to the mine the distance is four miles. In one room lives the hermit-that is, he sleeps there. Most of his waking hours are spent in the mine, where he takes out the gold quartz. The living-room resembles a good-sized junk shop more than any thing else, for 1t is piled with books, I testing tubes, chemicals, electrical ap- | paratuS and all sorts and kinds of l things. The walls also carry out the general idea, for they are hung with pictures, maps and cooking utensils and | strung with small copper wires which now and then peep from behind some | fixtures.
 | It was in this room that a reporter | found the hermit He was lying on a | bunk reading a magazine. He did not seem surprised at the interruption, or particularly pleased, for that matter. Yes" he said, after some hesitation, i T will show the mine"
 | And rising he opened door leading to room on the stiff side of the house. | Directly opposite was a door fastened
 
 out the aid of a key, he pointed to an aperture in the rocks. It was six feet in diameter and leads to the mine hun dreds of feet beyond in the very heart of the cliff. After following the pas- sageway for 200 feet or more MT. Fox
 held up a lantern and with evident
 pride indicated several bits of shining
 metal that ranged in size from a pin head to a pea.
 That's gold, he said. There is a good deal imbedded in the quartz here,
 but beyond"-jerking his thumb in the
 direction of the further end of the pas
 sageway-"there is more of it. Now that you have seen where the metal
 comes from perhaps you would like to
 handed mining"
 IT. room bare of every article of fur
 niture with the exception of an old deal
 table, the hermit led the way. After
 locking the door and laying the key on
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27

ludicrouS, than sympathy for prospec- tive soldier boys, coached the appl1- cants and their families with names for imaginary diseases which came near being the death of the entire board on more than one occasion.
 Among the first to appear were the mothers and wives, with now and then sweetheart, of drafted men.
 Our surgeon, Dr. Rotherick, was one of the best men in the world; tender in his sympathies as girl, and stern in discharge of duty as the Roman sentinel at Pompeii. But he bubbled over with humor, and had appreciation of the ridiculous, which enabled him to meet every attempt at deception With witty reply and a laughable exposure
 We had to withstand, almost daily earnest efforts to swerve us from the strait and narrow way, so that frightened husband son or best young man might go free of Uncle Sans uni form and hard tack. One elderly Dutch woman adroitly secured Dr. Rotherick's s attention and gravely offered him "a barrel of blue-black apple butter" to pronounce her son, who looked able to safely fall from a balloon, physical wreck.
 "Dat's my boy,'' she said over and over again, adding now and then. Hes goot to me" The physician was forced to order the boy to report at head quarters to be mustered into service.
 One old lady came with her son and family Bible to prove him under 21. We had been informed that he had voted a year before. The birth record in the Bible plainly showed the original date to have been erased and a new one entered of recent date. and in ink of a different shade He was requested to report for a suit of blue
 A broad -shouldered woodchopper of 43 fell into the hands of wag of a doctor, who after pretending to diagnose his complaint, had told him what to say to the surgeon, and had put the words upon paper lest the applicant should forget them. When the surgeon asked what was the matter with him he said he had "morus multifiorus-bad, very bad, sir
 Whats that?" almost shouted Dr. Rotherick, What is it you've got?' The man handed him the paper.
 "Who gave you this?"
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Wilkinson Is considered anticipated In many respects, but in his view Of the god-kings he has had many imftators among the most recent writers on the subject.
 The broad effect of NJ Amelineau's discovery will be revision and rewrit- ing of the history of ancient Egypt, es- pecially of it's earliest section. There will be a still greater result in max ing the scholars of the world more tol- erant and open minded toward the most ancient legends.
 It has been a favorite idea with some late students of the Old Testa- ment to suggest that such men as AD- raham, Isaac and Jacob and the twelve sons of the last patriarch were pureS mythical. devised by the fancy of the people many centuries after the date at which they were stated to have lived. But research in Babylonia and Arabia, especially during the last few years, tends in the opposite direction.
 The very name Abraham has been found in Assyrian inscriptions, show ing that such a name was current at that time The names of the kings mentioned in Genesis xiv. have been found on the monuments of clay tab let's all tending to establish much of the truth of the Biblical statements. The discovery of the tombS of the god kings has no direct bearing upon those other questions, but indirectly it must affect the tendency of modern thought on all allied subjects.
 M. Amelineau has startled the world by the mere announcement of his dis covery The particulars and subse- quent developments will be awaited with interest by every man who would like to know what happened in the world ten thousand years ago, what men and women lived and ruled then and what they did.
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Invite the Marshal and Commissioner in here''
 MT Marshal and Mir. Commission er,' he said as we entered ms room T am 56 years old, been Tn practice thirty-two years, but may l go to the d-l on skates if 1 ever saw or heard of anything like this. Heres father who claims to have lnherlteo disease from his forefathers, ana to have transmitted it to the six sons, SIX feet in height and 200 pounds in weight, disease, gentlemen, vouched TOT Dy Dr. c. over his own signature
 They call it 1ashes-1n-your-e = not understanding pr. C., who says they are suffering with chronic cases, of what might affect the daughters Of Eve, but never has till now affected mortal man."
 Cant you examine them Tor your- self?" asked the Commissioners
 ''Why-yes-of course can. rorgot that in my surprise. Old man, you may retire. I don't care what you've got, and, though you fellows are hit pretty hard, I am thankful have only to deal with two of you. The two answering to these names remain-the rest retire. Step up here, you two lucky ones; Now, is this trouble which Dr. C.. told you about all that's the matter with your"
 They said Yes"
 You work every day at hard labor?"
 "Yes.'
 Let me see your teeth-that's all. Go fix yourselves up and come back, and my clerk will have something ready for you"
 They each received an order to re- port for muster into the service Of the United States, and did not have any more "lashes-i -in-your-eye. Not long after these events Provost Marshals appeared in the various dis tricts, and the stern demands of mili- tary law took hold of drafting affairs. pushing aside exemption claims under State regulations. Few were exempted now. Counties were paid-in many cases more than once. Bounty agents and bounty jumping became as well known as Alaska outfitting establish ments on Market street to-day. !. The war went on. Thousands laid down their lives; many more were dis abled, and by and by the angel of peace spread her wings over our land. We became a national family again and all gave thanks. P. T. DICKINSON.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27
MASTERING IN THE SOLDIERS IN '61.
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 ''Dr. Where in this town He ex- l amined me an hour and said had this 1 disease bad. sir"
 'See here, my good man, TOT you l look like one, do you know what this paper says is the matter with you! NO, sir.''
 Well, 'morus multiflorus' is :, flow ering mulberry tree. He has fooled | you.'
 For a moment the victim looked as- | founded; then with @ "d--n him ne | bolted and we saw him no more-'tii.. l a soldier in camp.
 | There was in one of the country sub- districts family of McCs-the father 6 feet high, a blacksmith and 1 farmer, and six stalWart sons' each one over 6 feet, with one excep- l tion, who made up in rotundity for his | little loss in height. Three or these sons were blacksmiths. two canal boat | men, and the fat one a quarry hand. | These disability applicants were di- rected to appear for examination. "clothed in their fears only" 1 As the jovial pr. Rotherick looked up from his record book he saw seven as | large, strong and healthy men as his | eyes ever rested upon. Well" said he, what in thunder | is all-say, what are you doing here?'' looking the old man in the eye. You're
 
 business standing there. What did you come for, and why did you bring all of | these fellows with you?' The old man at last got his breath and said, My sons here claim exemp- tion for physical disability. Their trouble is one tEat has been in our | family for several generations. It came to me from my father and my sons have got 1t. It's lashes-in-your- eye, sir"
 What did you say? Say it again. Lashes-in-your -eye-What in Moses name is that? Repeat it again, same as before, eh? | don't make it out''
 "Show him Dr. C.'s paper said | Fatty from the other end of the line, for he saw it peeking out of his father S hand Dr. Rotherick gave one glance at the paper, and the next instant, with a start that sent him halfway over his tables, he said between his teeth Great Heavensl Oh, mercy, this will kill mel" Turning to his attendant,
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27
KING SET PRESENTS A SACRIFICE OF WINE.

This discovery must affect the history of all nations, more or less, Tor the
 same tendency of elevating the king first to the position of a hero, then
 of demi-god and finally of full and
 complete divinity has gone on among all the peoples of the earth from China to Scandinavia The Chinese show us precisely how much of this process of apotheosis must have begun in cult or ancestor worship. Horus avenges the death of his father Osiris by dethroning the usurping Set. The sufferings of the great king who had given Egypt art. science and law made his memory all the more sacred He is first reVerenced and then it is an easy, short step to worship. Isis, his devoted wire, be comes the name for wisdom and faith
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such being, and that the personalities Osiris, Isis, Set and Horus are nothing but personificatio~s of the forces of na- ture This is the way the theorists went to work. They took all the le- gends of the Egyptian gods and noted that one divinity is spoken of as God of the Nile" another is the Sun God, '" another is the Dog Star" and they jumped to the conclusion that all of the traditions were pure myths, based upon nature worship. They forgot that the great cemeteries, the metropolis at Abydos, for example, had as their cen tral idea the burial of a great god king, and could not see that there must have been some great facts behind the myths-not merely the facts of sun, star and river, but the more concrete facts of a human king.
 If we could go to Luxor and see the massive ruins of the temple, if we could dig beneath the sands of Abydos and see the hundreds and thousands or tombs of great men and small clus- tered around the tombs of the god kings, we might be convinced that these kings were once upon the earth. Here are the countless maStababS, or truncated pyramids, built for the re ceDtion of the ancient dWellerS In Egypt. Some of the less wealthy were satisfied with mere wells, into which their coffins were lowered. Others had their mausoleums built in the shape of grottos, where whole families were buried. In later times the tombs at Abydos took the shape Of small pyra- mids, with more elaborate interior arrangement. A stele from Abydos, now in the Leyden Museum, belonged to "the hereditary prince. and the prince, the nearest friend of the king, the high priest, with the right to wear the royal apron the judge and prophet
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27
GOLD MINE GUARDED BY 4 HERMIT.


y " " " " " " " VI " " " VI " VI V V w the table he called the attention of his visitor to a cascade in view of the one window that broke the monotony of the walls. As he ceased speaking there was a sharp click which caused the reporter to turn. The hermit had vanished but the key still,lay on the table. Suddenly
 there was second click and MT. Fox stood on the spot where he had last
 been seen. In his hands he held an old
 hat filled to the brim with nuggets and virgin gold. These he tossed out upon the table and disappeared second time. When he again stood in the room he held in his hand a Neighty object. This he said, "is one of the things | you must not tell about. Come, I'll show you something else" ! A quarter of mile from the house in l a part of the ravine filled with loose
 rocks and prolific in caves he entered a | well-concealed passageway, which led | to a chamber of some size Pulling to
 one side a rock which seemed to form l part of one side of the wall he touched
 a spring or button and held up his lan- 1 tern.
 Pretty good, eh?" And he smiled.
 .'But the contents of that pocket must | not be told of
 l s'But aren't you afraid you will be
 robbed?"
 The hermit looked sharply at his vis-
 itor, pointing to a small copper wire at | the entrance to the chamber, shrugged 1 his shoulders and laughed.
 That laugh was one of confidence.
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StS C V " " " " " " " " V " " V " V ~ UMMIT, Vt, March 17.-Henry Fox,
 Oxford graduate, owner of the
 famous Tyson gold mine and the o most remarkable hermit New
 England has ever known, has re- fused an offer for his "claim," and will under no circumstances quit the State for the Klondike, as was generally SUD- posed. The account of the offer is not made public, but that 1t was a fabu- lous one nobody doubts, as previous at- tempts at a deal were based on high figure.
 The story of Fox is as remarkable as that of his mine. He was born in Eng land so long ago that he can hardly re- member the date, and after his gradu- ation began a tour of the world. He was shipwrecked twice, and somehow landed in the Central American mines, where he made a little money and learned a good deal about mining. On his return to New York he became the junior partner in the firm of Richard & Fox, assayers, 45 Gold street.
 When the finding of few pockets of gold in Bridgewater brought that town into prominence he began prospecting in the Green Mountains at point where geologists claim vein of gold bearing quartz, extending from Nova Scotia to South Carolina, comes near to the surface.
 Fox had been in the State less than 6 year when he turned up at Ludlow and organized a company with capi- tai stock of $1OO,O0 to develop ledge he had discovered in Tyson. When $500, ,00O had been realized Fox in some way got hold of the mine. stopped the machinery, turned off the miners and established himself in an old house al the entrance to the main shaft. How much gold he has actually succeeded in taking out is a matter for con- lecture.
 Tyson Village lies between Echo Lake and Adsulule, in a valley just wide enough for a fence and a road At the Four Corners, where two high. ways meet, level ground is furnished for g. store, a blacksmith-shop and z meeting-h house, the latter backed by z graveyard on a hill so steep that no at
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27

" RESE are ante bellum days in
 the opinion of many. The war
 clouds which, with the surrender
 of Kirby Smith on the 26th of May.
 A 1866, were in the deep bosom of
 the ocean buried seem to have rearisen and to be near.
 To the young men, who, if necessity arise. must bear the shock of arms as their fathers once did, and, possi- bfy, to others, it may be profitable 10 recall some of the incidents connected with the first general draft of soldiers in America
 On the 18th of April, 1861, Sumter sur. rendered to the Confederacy. Two days afterward the President called for 75,- 900 ninety-day volunteers. In eight cen days more he called for 42,000 ad- ditional volunteers for three years. In September, 1862, a draft for 4OOO0 was ordered in New York to fill up it's quota which had fallen behind, owing to political animosities. On the first of February, 1864, the first general draft that our eagle had even looked upon was ordered by Abraham Lin- coin.
 The writer was one of the Deputy Tinted States Marshals for an interior county in the old Keystone State, and it seems to him even now, that it never entered into the mind of man to pre- conceive that which then came to his notice.
 Tn the hands of the civil authorities claims for exemption were allowable under State laws.
 More ways than can now be recalled and some which could not be mention ed were employed to favor drafted rnen. who were to present their exemp- tion claims at certain places.
 When assembled for work we had each a room and there was common reception room. Only residents Of that particular sub-district could pre- sent themselves there.
 Under this general draft of 5O00O0 men. substitutes were allowable. and many who put in claims, honest or oth- erwise, for exemption, had eyes open to the bounties of from $500 to 5000, possibly to be obtained as substitutes. Unfortunately for some of these poor frightened fellows, certain medical wags, actuated more by love for the
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An act of Parliament was passed in the reign of Edward III prohibiting any one with more than two courses, except upon some great holidays therein specified, on which he might be served with three. This act has never been repealed, and is, therefore, still in force
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27

On piece of land in old Lyme. Conn.,. is a rocking stone of the following di-s mensions: Around the stone, north and south, 27 feet ' inches; east and west, 24 feet 10 inches. This immense stone is so delicately poised that one man can rock 1t from four to six inches
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27

The owls wise look is the result of physiological oddity, his eyes being fixed immovably in their sockets; so whenever he passes his eyes from one object to an- other he must move his head.
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Electro-magnets, capable of picking up five tons, are used by an Illinois steel company to transfer steel beams or plates from one part of the shop to another
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-09
WHEN MOTHER LOOKS.

| member such a lot OF things
That happened long ago.
When me an Jim was six weeks Old
An now we're ten or So
But those I remember best
The ones | most can see
Are the things that used TO happen
When mother looked a; me.
One time IN church. when me an Jim
Was snlckerin' out loud
The minister was prayin' an
The peoples heads was bowed
We had the biggest kind OF joke
About a bumb,ebee.
Bat things got quiet pretty quick
When mother looked a. ne.
And then there's sometimes when think
I've had Just lots OF fun
A-g0iu' in a-swtmn,n' with the boys
Down there by Jones' run.
Bur just when I get back home gain
Just bout n time for tea
There's a kind OF different feelIn' comes
When mother looks az me-
That time when was awful sick
An TIE doctor shook his head
AT every time "a come around
Ills eyes was wet an red;
me mher her hands on nv taca
How soft they used 70 be-
Somehow the pain seemed easier
When mother looked at me.
It's funny how e makes vol, feel
I sir't afraid Of her
Shes about the incest rerxon
You'd fra most anywhere:
Hut the uueerest sort Of feeling
i q queer sS queer can -.
Makes everything seem dtMeren.
When mother looks at me-
Lockwood Smith
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-09

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-09

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
transactions Since January i nm
for Yesterday.

Real estate transactions since January
]. ISIS, are 6, $50 i5 There were filed for
record yesterday three deeds. aggregat-
ing $Sa52.3a. Following is the HIST:
Samuel Sanderson to Ruby Esteila
Smith. lots 10 and Il. block T. Buckin's add
10 Seattle. his love and affection for his
daughter. November Il. 81.
Lake View Cemetery Association to
Grace Hooper. nei4 OF lot tbs Lake View
Cemetery. October. 3. 1897. $50.
G.. G.. Perkins 20 j. G. Mc6Innis lot T.
block 4. Easter add to Seattle December
- 1897, s. SO
Eben Smith master In chancery, 10 the
Low Guarantee & Trust Society OF Lon
don. lot 2, block IL, A. a. Denny add. Octo-
Der 10 81 90. I'll.
Eben Smith 10 the Low Guarantee &
Trust Co, lot 3. block ia; A. A. Denny
add October !s 1857 s6il33a