The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-07
The Peculiar lInnlInieS.

tom P. Morgan in Peoples Home
Iournal7
At / o'clock, young Hamilton Jay, at
tired in a happy smile of anticipation.
slowly assembled the steps of Prof. Potl-
phar Adde'S residence. At two min
utes after one, he began to ask the SCI
enlist for the hand Of his daughter IN
marriage. Less than one minute later
Young Mr.. jay descended the steps af-
ter the fashion Of an acrobatic toad
and sat down on his hat
1.-THE next man who comes fooling
around after my daughter" growled
the professor, viii get kicked hai1-
way to the remote whencei'
The scientist had been interrupted IN
the midst OF a great experiment, hence
his wrath.
Young Hamilton Jay has hardly
limped around the corner before young
the residence Of Prof. Potiphar Addle,
and, like young Mr. Jay, packed q
smile of happy anticipation up the
steps with him Almost before you
could have calculated the name Of
.Rfogstieson,Y he came down the steps
On MS unset price
Prof. Addle silsathed his vengeful foot
and returned to his den. while Sucker
by Iimped off around the corner 70
think a bitter thunk as he lump.
The scientist had long cherished
theory, which, upon the day he had
kicked his daughters suitors complete
" non compositis, he fondly expected
to materialize into something more
than mere theory. 1t was his expecta-
ton to corral fame and fortune almost
with a simple twist of the wrist An
cient history would be denuded of the
misty drapery that for years had en-
shrouded tin short, would have It's
baIbriggan shirt jerked Off over It's
head BY Prof. Adde'S discovery.
Traditions would be SubStanuated or
knocked completely whappy- jawed as
they deserved and Fame would hang
a dark green wreath on the bald pate
of Prof. Potiphar Addle. Briefly, the
scientist believed that he had made a
discovery by means of which he could
restore to life prominent citizens who
had been. embalmed long years ago-F
this purpose he had spent large sums
in perfecting his liquid and electric re-
WRITER'S, and another large sum in inn
porting a pair of mummles Whlch We're
due at the house that very day.
The erudite's great idea Was to re-
store to life these late gentlemen, and
then WOO from them the secrets and
history of the long-gone days when
Egypt was in all it's glory, a good
many years before Edison made his
talking doll. In the days when the
boom was at its height, they had lived
and loafed about among the young pyr-
anids and Sphipxes. and Dragged about
what terrible fellows they used TO De 10
hunt the de1ectable hippopotamus and
to ride the jocose crocodile to water.
And so, after reviving them, Prof.Ad-
die intended to jerk from them the
news and gossip of those other days
making the late deceased act as human
monographs
In order to be able to converse with
the mummies which he had purchased
at great expense. Prof. Addle had, for
several weeks prior to the opening OF
this sketch, been studying the genuine
L fioo n.y. t1nQ1lA under
tutelage of 4 gentleman from Cairo,
Ill.
A little later the mummies arrived.
each in a box by itself, labeled with
whip-cord. They were lugged up to
Prot Adde'S den, and the scientist
locked the door, shucked his coat and
prepared to experiment.
He almost danced with delight as ne
opened the first case and laid one OF the
gentlemen from Egypt on the table
The collapsed face of the mummy wore
such a profoundly non-committai look
that Prof. Addle told himself that ne
must have struck the principal witness
in some ancient divorce trial. In add
ton to his other garments, there chung
around the mummy an air OF allsplce,
resin and North Carolina tar. II the
odor of frankincense and myrrh had
been there il had been stolen
To the pundit, the face of the mummy
seemed strangely familiar, but as Ad-
die had never been a mummy, he felt
that, in all probability, he had never
before met the gentleman from Thebes.
At any rate, he couldn't exactly place
Then. the second mummy was I'm
wrapped and laid on the table beside
the other. This mummy, too, looked
strangely familiar But the scientist
told himself that, having been wrapped
in gloom and neutrality-suspicious. for
twenty-seven hundred years was enough
to make anybody look familiar.
well suppose the first thing in or
der is to give them a dose of the liquid
revivifier," said the professor, address
ing himself
The rnummies seemed to SILVER at the
sound. The man of science pried open
/ the mouth of each and poured down the
rather husky throat nearly a quart OF
/ the LIQUID Then he attached to theiI
feet the wires of the electric mummy
awakener, and proceeded to turn on the
current at first gentle and ther
stronger.
Presently the mummy began to ex'
| hibit signs of termination, and the pro
1 lessor fairly Rugged himself with JOY
/ First the gentlemen from the crypts
I of Tothmes tWitched a little, then they
| jerked, next they squirmed, and, last
! they thrashed about.
Each succeeding stage of the reani-
! nation was hailed by the excited Addl'
with exceeding great joy. He turned OF
! the electric current still harder, and a:
| if with one accord. the mummies gave
a grunt and Topped up at least foo
| from the table
Prof Addle was now assured of tn
successful result of his experiment
| Revelations of vast Importance wer'
| about to be unfOlded to him, and tn
veil that for over twenty hundred cen
turtles had enshrouded the past va
| now to be unveiled
The faces of the mummies looked con
siderably flushed and their eyes wer
beginning to roll ina wabbly fashion
One of the chief ingredients of the re
viVifier was high-prOOf Kentucky alec
hol and it seemed to be making 1t
presence felt in the internal economy 0
the Copts.
what is your name2'' Addle asxe
Of the first mummy DESTROYS of begin
ming his Investigations properly
In his elation. he forgot all about tn
language taught him by the gentlema'
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