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AT EvENTIDE.

For The Post.
Amt 1t pleasant Ia tn cyenin' wnen IN
teams 70 trundlin by,
An tn rosy glim'rln' sunset throws It's glories
crost tn sky. .
Ter lean across tn easement while tn mantle
o. tn night .
angles all ter night
An unfolds ter At your dreamin' hazy palaces
an spires
An from out tn velvet dhfkneSS eVry pane
OF m last faint benediction. from tn far
horizon thrown.
An you're 1oatn'. noatin'. noatin'. IN .
dreamland all your ownF
An, tn voice. OF tn twilight thro' tn eyenin'
shadows fall.
An like crunpled rose leaves fallin' comes
tn katydid's sad call.
While tn drew brought by th' breezes fer tn
deckln o. tn flowers,
In their cups distill a perfume that goes
nostin' thro IN hours,
An yer eyes keep closin' closin'. TIL tnsir
lashes brush yer cheek,
An yer mind Is wrapped In visions at no
human tongue can speak;
An a light whose wondrous glory never
hared athwart tn skies.
F1lekers thro' yer active fancy az tn dream
land castles rise.
An YOU tread thro' windin' corridors. Ger
tesselated floors.
Where a softly murmrin' fountain sweetest
pefiuuic1 Uufic pOhfHs
An YOU hear III faintest rustic OF pinion
sweep the air,
An tn maiden o. yer fancy trips along be-
side you there;
An her wondrous ewes shine softly with q
light you'y grown 10 know, a
An her cheeks look most bewitchin' rs tn
dimples come an co. 49, u
while her Inns all curved an smilin' with Q
more than earthly bliss
Seem a-pouun' an a-wRitin' an a-coaxin
fer kiss.
All. III times we've kisssd. in fancy. thos'
poutinx coral lire:
An a. times we've ciaspsd sarsssingiy hel
rosy finger tins;
TIL tn real Ito sits SO arvary an we wal
tn dreamy hours.
when tn lieht O. day has FADED an IN
evepin' shadow lowers. -.
But clock way off across tn dark. will
deep portentous boom
Brings our castle rockin bout our cars an
chpses thru tn gloom
| Ali cur fancy's sweet creations an IN pleas
ures we have known
Scatter thro' tn omen easement an var
Judd Mor.imer Lewis.
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l.. GERSTLE & CO., Chattanooga, Tenn.

darkey cooks have nearly all departed.
and their art in cooking with them. Tho
time wide chimney hearth with It's
heaps OF bright Goals; the great pot hang
Ing by hooks above the blazing logs; the
sklllets filled with such biscuits aud
oornbread as would force an snchorlte
from his seclusion, The frying pan with
sizzling steak, or ham and eggs, radiat-
ing a fragrance, more delightful than
perfumed yiolets. The great coffee pot
with decoction THAI would tempt the
gods. and when all OF these delicious
vlands were dope TO turn, and the Old
black cook yelled TO the pickaninnies to
run up TO de house and Gee II de white
foxes Is ready for brefkes," we knew there
was a meal in store, the likes OF which
has never bscn known since freedom On
the return OF the plckaninnies, always dec
Grated with but a single garment. col
ton sack open at both ends, with holes
for sleeves. But let's dnaw the curtain
while that breakfast is dispatched,
At IL o'clock the old plantation horn
could be heard footing for miles away.
The darkeys, with their tin buckets filled
with, what. to an European laborer or
Northern factory hand. would have been
grand repast. sought shelter under
shady trees, laughing and eating. moss
happy than sprigs OF royalty. Until
U ClOCk tnOSt udIhleS tuJOySu iilc 10 ltf
utmost. AT that hour they theoretically
resumed work, singing in unison while
planting, hoeipg, blowing, picking cotton
or cutting sugar cane, in season.
Let us repair TO the old plantation
home and partalte OF our dinner. It's hog
killing time and beef can be dispensed
with. hence soup Is not one Of the courses.
Every dish 10 taxed to rs utmost capacity,
heaped with lucious vegetables from our
own garden; broiled squirrels, wild ducks.
venison, all from adjoining lakes and
forests. Backbones, spare ribs, etc. It's
not the wonderful variety and quantity.
but the ocolslng that rendered these vlands
so delightful Dslmonico never knew any
thing so dellcionsly appetlzing and
luscious. 'Tta said q French cook can
take an old saddle blanket or ancient
pair OF shoes and coucoct respectable
meal but no Frenchman ever knew the
old Southern darkey's art OF natural and
perfect cookery Have fritters forever dis
appeared? and tho good old-fashioned
f, feathery batter cakes both swimming In
home made syrup! Where are they? Msn
may eat to live, but In those days our
old darlsey cooks offered us inducements
to live to eat. Yes. the DAYS OF true
culinary art have passed, and we cast
sigh at the good old daye OF yore when,
with vigorous rapaclty. perfect digestion,
we deyoured Aunt Lorinda'a incomparapie
cookery. Our old darkies we're rooks by
nature, and took 20 1t like duck does
TO water. But this makes me hungry ana
I desist. Philip II. Fall.
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THE BIBLES NEW BACKGROUND.

century ago. as Prof. Ira NJ. Price says
IN 1.-THE Monuments and the Old Testament
the Bible stood alone in the world as tho rec
ord OF past ages. Except for aim and unreal
tradition. ell the knowledge the world pos
sessed OF many Of the nations OF antiquity
was contained in the unsupported assertions
OF the Scriptures. BY reason OF this the at
tack upon SO much assertion. with SO little
support. babe fair TO be a successful one.
What could be more preposterous than that
known world. had died and left no s.gn be-
hind except few stray chapters in book
whose very authority wss made doubtful by
their presence theref The rsmsins Of ancient
Egypt stood fortA IN grandeur thss lett ne
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no knowledge. and in fact. 1t probably did
not exist.
The Egyptians seem chiefly to have wor-
SHIPPED the sun and the highest gods were
but names of that luminary. They were
passing through the stage of what Max
Muller has called henotheism. which is
not exactly monotheism. but the habit of
addressing and worsbiping now one god
and now another as If he were supreme,
especially the sun-god, as there are hymns
that sound like the psalms to Jehovah.
But beyond this henotheistic state of mind
there comes TO light at times a notion Of
the deity quite apart from these nature
gods. Read, for instance. these lines from
a well known hymn:
GOD Is One and Alone, and there Is none
other with Him.
God is Spirit, hidden Spirit, the Spirit
OF Spirits.
God is the Truth. He lives by Truth, Hc
lives upon Truth. He is the King Of
Truth.
God is compassionate to those that fear
Him and hears those who cry unto
Him"
For us this religious literature Of Egypt
has three points OF interest. First, be-
cause many of the customs and rites OF the
Jews as related in the Old Testament were
probably due to Egyptian influence. as,
for example, the custom Of holding swine's
flesh unclean. Secondly, because We
may take encouragement to ourselves In
reading the moral precepts Of this ancient
people, and in finding that as far back as
time goes morality is still the same and
always measure of civilization. Somei
times these precepts were quite separ-
ated from religion and in general we may
say that the Egyptians were more ad-
vanced in their moral than In their relig-
lous ideas. Others of their maxims breathe
true spirituality. as Tor example this:
'rro obey IS to love God. but to disobey is
to hate Him."
And thirdly we may find interest in this
religion because, as Herodotus says, THE
Egyptians were the first to maintain that
the soul of man is immortal" In a GER
tain ssnse this statement is true, although
| 1t is not to be supposed that the other
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us truer notions of ancient religions, and
yet In one respect it has added only con-
fusion to our understanding When our
knowledge depended chiefly on one or
two writer's OF the period who had written
systematically on the subject, 1t was easy
to form clear conception Of the religion
as a consistent unity. but wider informa-
tion shows US that no such unity ever ex-
listed. Religions grew up naturally aud
were the result OF many diverse tenden-
cies, more or less crudely grouped to-
gether. So in Egypt every nome, or PROV
ince, had It's peculiar gods and ceremonies.
and when in the course of time these diff
ferent currents OF belief flowed together
to form what may be called the Egyptian
religion the resulting discrepancies were
never entirely obliterated. We know the
names Of great number OF gods and the
attributes OF many are fairly well defined,
but Of uniform system Of belief we have
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ters BY means OF the Greek gave
u real impulse to the study. But 1t
led for another Frenchman, Cham
to find the key to these strange
He began his study of the Ian
IN 1878, and In nine years had laid
bndation OF all that has since been
Egyptians employed three kinds Of
1.-The hieroglyphic and the heiratic.
specially by the priests, and the de-
LOT latter origin and less Importance,
" the people. The hieroglyphic Is
BED Of pictures and conventional
some OF which represent ideas and
mere sounds. Thus, for instance,
fture OF o vulture Is drawn to sig
e word, and such a picture Is called
Pgraph The phonetic signs. OH tho
hand, form sort of alphabet, and In
Pus. primitive way. Thus the word
4 (as in English) begins with l., and
fngly the picture Of lion Is made
ID for the sound of l.; the word for
begins with o, and the picture OF
2e does duty for that letter. The
c was cursive hand derived from
iroglyphic, and was adopted byIhe
as more readily written than the
fiptions on stone reach back as far
fourth dynasty--that is to about
G. Besides these there are pre-
in the tombs and elsewhere in
Pble writings on wood and manu-
on a sort Of paper made OF strips
inner fiber of the papyrus reed. In
ay the bulk Of Egyptian documents
ave come down to us Is enormous,
ing over period Of about 1000 years
poracing almost every branch Of lit
Perhaps the most interesting OF
documents to us (apart from the
Book Of the Deadly are the short
a considerable number Of which
peen published in easily accessible
lions. For example, Egyptian
edited by w. M. Flinders, Petrie
fumes; Methuen & Co.. 1895.
not be claimed that these stories
great Intrinsic value as literature
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book. The 900 copies represent 2.9sa.5ot
papermaker's sheets each measuring sou by
Il inches
II placed end to end the books would ex-
tend over horizontal route for about nifty
miles. II placed ono upon the other they
would make a tower seven mites high. And
80 the interesting axioms might be multi
piled. But perhaps the greatest achievement
ID the part played by the plates from which
tho book is being printed. only one got
has been used TO print the $4,000 copies.
over a year ago. when certain signs indi-
Gated that David Harum" wns fast winning
an extraordinary popularity. a second set
OF electroypo plates was cast, to be used
ia case OF emergency; but 30 well has the
printer done his work that this set has not
as yet been pressed into service.
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BOOKS AND WRITERS.

Publishers announce the twenty-sixth edi-
,ion Of "Richard Carvel." 1t is now in Its
three hundred and fortieth thousand.
Lucas Malets forthcoming novel has the
nueer and suggestive title 1.-THE Gateless Bar
rier,' II is to be published In a few weeks.
Marion Crawford announces that his Life
of Pope Leo" which represents an enor-
nous amount of labor. will not be published
until after the pope's DEATH
THE Toiling Of Felix new volume by
Henry Van Dyke. which is announced TOT
early publication. will consist OF poems.
It is said that f. T. Bullen is writing
novel II 1t Is as good as many OF his sea
sketch~- are. It should attract attention.
In London a literary Journal has offered q
prize for 1.-THE best list Of six old Enghsh
words which might be revived with advant-
age" The winning list contains one word
mournfur-. appropriate in time OF war The
word is "commurient," which signifies dying
together. Another list supplies the old
rhaucerian ycrd 'algate," meaning at any
risk. ITO Dyomedo algate l vol be trewe.'
oliver Cromwell seems Just now to be the
most popular historical parsonage OF the DAY
The Century and Scribner's have serial papers
urcr his life. and. not 10 be behind hand' the
ST Nicholas contains the STORY OF crom-
wells Opportunity" by Ebridge S. Brooks
The book world is constantly being recruit
ed from the ranks Of newspaper men, Harri-
son Robertson. whose novel OF "Red biood
End Blue is nearly ready for publication Is
on the editorial staff Of the Louisville cou-
rier Journal: and Robert shaekleton. whose
volume Of short stories, "Toomey ana oth-
ers," is nov in press has Just accepted an
editorial POSITION on the philadelphia NORTH
American. Mr.. Shackelton has made MS
home for several Years in New YORK III
the crowded districts of which the scenes
OF his pathetic ard humorous stories are
laid whittier he came from Cleveland.
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SUCCESS OF A BOOK.

The 4s5th thousand OF David Harum" Is
announced and ii is reported that the sales
keep steadily on. Under the title Of David
Harum IN Figures the New York Times Sat.
.urday Review has made some. curious caicu-
iatons. based on production at that tina
Of $4,000 copies.
To print that number Of copies 5000 pounds
Of ink have been coasumed. about 1900 miles
OF thread have been used IN the binding And
5ss5 reams 81 paper. WEIGHING eighty -csvsn
.Don1uns- . ram. hAyA hssw nssas1 ~ -
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tIIERoGLYPHICS. WITH HIERATIC
FORM AND EXPLANATION.


peoples of the world borrowed the doctrine
of immortality from the jewellers on the
Nile.
The Egyptian notions concerning the
future are the result of conglomeration
of various views and are so confused that
It is impossible to give any clear account
of them. Everybody knows how careful
the people were in hewing and building
tombs-the pyramids stand as witness
TO this-and in embaming the dead.
'"rhese tombs," Diodorus informs US,
"they called eternal habitations and
spared no magniticence in their construc-
ton; but they called the houses of the
living inns, to be habitated only for lit
tie while, and took small care to adorn
them" We do not quite understand why
the Egyptians were so careful in building
their tombs and in preserving the dead.
They seem to have had some notion OF
the resurrection Of the body. They also bo-
lieyed in a sort of double OF the man,
called his KA, which lowered near his
dead body. and received nourishment from
the KA OF the food which was offered
up by the mans relatives in the TOMB.
All this while the actual soul OF the man
was supposed to be going a journey down
a mysterious river that flowed through the
region OF death as the Nile flowed through
Egypt. On the way he had to encoun-
ter all sorts OF devils and monsters. who
attempted to seize him, and to escape
these II was necessary to repeat certain
magic formulate. These formulate were
collected in the eo-called Book of thu
Dead" a copy OF which was commonly
buried with the corpse to refresh its mem
nrv during the Journey, and which, though
NJ little philosophic or intrinsic interest
is much the best known work OF Egyptian
literature. At the end Of the Journey ths
soul entered the great hall OF Judgment
where before Osiris and forty two judges
he must give an account OF MS ire III
and the law Of righteousness In the other
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where In some way he became forevc
more Identified with the goo osiris.
tx & A.s..
THE RtvtLRY OF THE DYING.

Harvard University.

To the Editor OF The Post.
Houston. Texas. April io.--on page 10 Of
The Sunday Post OF April /. nrst column.
you give wcrld-renowned poem. 1t was
CONFESSED by Bartholow Bowling. not by
Alfred Donnett and under substantially the
circumstances you state. but l am Inclined to
tnink that the poem as you give 1t is in
correct In several important features. The
song or poem is not entitled "Reveiry in
inaia, but The Reyelry OF the Dying" I
gamer my information from q copy bre-
served in the records OF the Thirteen club OF
New York. a COPY OF which was presented to
me when ] was there last | send you n
Cody attached and hope that you will sec at
70 publish It with this In next Sundays Post.
LID.
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Th. oIa-Ttme southern cooks.


TO inc EuIIOr OF luv FupIF
Houston. Texas. April s--rhe South
may have improved in the arts and
sciences and made rapid strides IN wealth
and population. but the art Of arts, the
one more conducive 70 comfort ard Ioas-
-syity than all camhinsd. has become lest
,seisnD -11nnsa, Vhp elxpt1ne GentAar1
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Bartholow bowling was lieutenant in the
BRUSH army. While serving his country IN
an English province OF the midas. a terrible
seourge carried on the soldiers like leaves
before n gale. II claimed victim at every
stroke o, tie clock and some times dozen
or more. Tho brave heroes took to strong
urlnk TO drown their fears and tried to make
NE most Of the short life before them. In
the very heat of the devastation Bowling
wrote the following lines. which will live
long There is an extremely pathetic vein in
these. verses. And perhaps additional zest is
added since the author expired with the last
stroke CT his pen that made these wonderful
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We meet meath the sounding rarter,
And the walls around are bare;
AS they echo our shouts of laughter.
II se.ms that the dead are there.
But stand to your glasses, Steady
We drink to orr comrades eyes.
ouan cup to the dead already.
And hurrah. Tor the next that diesl
Not here are the goblets glowing.
Not here is the vintage sweet.
| It's cold our hearts are growing
AND dark as the doom we meet
But stand to your glassesl Steadyt
And soon shall our pulses rise;
cup to the dead already!
And hurrah. for the next that diesI
Not sigh for the lot that darkles.
Not tear for the friends that sink;
Wen fall meath the wine that spargfcs.
AS mute as the wine we drink.
SO stand to your slassesl Steady!
It's in this our respite lies; ny
One cup to the dead already
And hurrah. for the next that diesi
Time was when We frowned at others,
And thought we were wiser thenl
Hal Ha! let them think Of their mothers
Who hope TO sec them again.
Now. stand to your glasses! Steady:
The tncugn1ess are here and the wisei
cup to the dead already!
And hurrah. for the next that dies!
There's many hand that shaking
There's many cheek that's sunki
But soca. though our hearts are breaking.
They'll burn with the wine We've drunk
So stand to your glassesi Steady!
'ris here the revival lies
cup to the dead already!
| And hurrah for the next that dlesi
! There's n mist on the glass congealing.
| 'Tis the Hurricanes fiery breath
! And thus does She warmth OF feeling
| Turn to ice in the grasp Of death.
| Ho stand TO your glasses Steadyl
| For q moment the vapor fies;
Gun 10 the dead already!
| And hurrah. for the next that diesI
Cut off from the land that bore us.
| Betrayed by the land we md.
Tho brightest all gone before US.
| The dullsst remain behind.
| Stand stand. to your slassesl steadyl
| iris oil We have left to prize:
| A cup to the dead already,
| And hurrah. for the next that diesi
| Who breads 20 the dust returning,
| Who shrinks from the sable shore;
| Where the hirh and naughty yearning.
| OF the soul shall sting no more!
| Ifa stand TO your glasses! Steady!
This world Is world OF lies:
| A Gun to the dead already!
And hurrah. for the next that diesI
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Posts Popular Reading Course.
IF PYRAMIDS, oBELIsKs AND TEMPLES.

Copyright. 1900 by Seymour Eaton)
k,rsroN POSTS BY PROT sEY-
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tom struck to announce the deifica-
r Oh Ptolemy /. and his wife,
" me other hand. they do possess
eommonly forms the chief interest
llc works; they enable us to trans
..seiVes TO strange lands and past
anu SO to extend our sympathies.
tnese stories in chronological or
Y.a snow us that in Egypt fiction
through stages very similar to the
=, tne modern novel, and as Mr..
~ reirie observes: ut would not
usu,l from these papyrus tales to
sn nistoriacl dictionary of the ele-
Of hetlon."
1ssl OF the tales are 1.-THE Ship
- sailor and "Anpu and Bata."
'smer Is a story of a sailor cast
magic island. where he has a
Ssasenture with a monstrous ser
suddenly" the tale goes, II heard
Oh thunder, which l thought Ia
" 4 wave Of the sea. The trees
NV me earth was moved. Il uncov..
iace and l saw that a serpent
ssrs ne was thirty cubits long and
"A, was greater than two cubits;
w. VAS overlaid with gold and his
mat OF true lazuli." The other
OF the two brothers. "Anpu
ths tells In simple. beautiful Ian
otsnA wen known incident OF Joseph
s,lnp. wife. and this ls the more
- US because it was probably
\ s.en about the time OF Joseph'e
Ion ,lsypt. There is, too, real de-
ct,, character In the story, and
NJ y the young Bata leading the
ar NJ pasture in the morning and
Ant I'm I'm back in the evening. wish
hstn.sVv ucnes OF old-world communion
nm LOT. iorns An idyl Of genuine snd
81 soay OF documents ana inscrip-
~" over has Of course giver
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In Thy book, Lord, are written all tnoss
that do what they can. though they can not 20
what they would.-St. Augustine
He who, in poverty. or sickness, or soil
,ude. can preserve merry heart and eneeT-
full countenance is benefactor to society,
Testimony to his God, and the best OF ~ p's
sibie friends TO himself,-Bshop Ihosoiu'
No man nor woman OF the humole't sort
can really be strong, pure and good. witnou.
,ha world being the better for II. Tilhops
some body being helped and ecmforted by tn ne
very existence of this goodness-fhiiiips
Brooks.
We shall never be sorry Afterwards ~.
thinking twice before no speak, for counting
The cost before entering upon any new e Vuise,
for sleeping over stings and injuries pelo ,
saying or doing anything in answer OF Loa
carefully considering any business senens
presented 10 US before putting money or nans
Into IT. II will save US from muen resi- ~
loss. and sorrow always to vsmemper 70 a0
nothing rashly.
A life spent IN hushing clothes and wasnin
crockery and sweeping foors-a his VIZ w.
the proud OF the earth would have uea'ss 3,
rs the dust under their feet; me spsn. o =
tho clerks desk: life spent In me nA, = az
shop; q life spent In the laporers nut ~ J
| yet be . fife 50 snnobied ~ ooas ,u ,sn,
mercy that for the sake Of II = klna uns-
gladly yield HE ercvu--canen ssA"
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THOUGHTS FOR THE THoueHrTuL

In Thy book. Lord, are written all tnos'
that do what they can. though they can nol "
what they would.-St Augustine.
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What are the veldts which We hear so much
about now in the Transvaal7 X.z.
ycldt is Dutch word sometimes spelled
without the final 81" 1t means an un-
forested or thinly forested tract OF land. what
cowboys would call grass country" The
highest tracts, entirely destitute of timber.
are called the high veldt; areas thinly covered
with scrub or bush are known as bushveldt.
The great yedt of the Transvaal is the Hooge
of the Dralsenbcrg range. whose edge attains
a height at the summit named Mauch, or
S725 feet.