The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15
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whether he forded while the low
tide was all out, as some would
have it, and you were drowned
trying to ford it when the high
tide was all in, as some believe
P.-If your history gives it
thusly, it is all wrong, for I was
there and ought to know. We
didn't pursue the Necessities. We
let them go and furnished them
with grub and things for the
trip. They got SO homesick al
last they wouldn't work any
more; couldn't make mortar when
the sand and water was set be-
fore them. l gave them the OBJ
portunity and they got up and
got out between two days.
K.-That is all right, and your
story is taken for what it is
worth, but how did Moses get
over the Red Sea is the informa-
tion desired by an anxious world
PIE went around it, of
course; couldn't get over any 9th
er way.
K.-Good enough ! That point
is settled to the entire satisfac-
ton of all concerned, and the
treasury of my company is one
hundred million dollars heavier
than it was a few minutes ago.
Take something
P.-Thanks Have no in
clination.
K.-There is something furth-
er that has money in it. A purse
of one hundred and fifty million
dollars is in the bank awaiting
the person who can satisfactorily
explain why Moses was 40 years
crossing the desert that Mark
Twain said he could cross on a
% year old camel between sup
per and breakfast ? Was it a
myth, miracle, mirage or a plain
case of getting bewildered and
wandered round and round and
at night brought up at the same
camp, as lost people do
2. Never heard of Mark
Twain, and as for Moses I can't
answer. Heard he got lost and
was a long time getting out of
the wilderness. Will mention
it to Moses first time [ see him.
He comes down here once in a
while to look over the stamping
grounds.
K.-We will let that pass for
the present for there is some
thing greater to take up. There
is a cash offer of two billion dol
lars for the recovery of the lost
art of embalming. If you can
give it, it will be a great help in
declaring dividends for com
pany.
PIT is a great secret, of
course, but no particular use over
here. Embalming was a source
OF great revenue to the Egypt
ians. 1t was a government sec.
ret. People were brought from
all countries to be embalmed.
But as you are the first to inter
view me since I left my dear old
Egypt never to return to flesh.
| will give it to you as we used
it, but don't foolish it away. This
is how the material is prepared
and applied y \ i \ y \
y y = $50
XII have it o. K. Much OBJ
liged ! Is it fire proof /?
P.-Fire- proof, and warranted
to keep in any climate ten thous-
and 100000 years, and then
some.
K.-And this reminds me that
| once saw you in the curio de
partment of travelling menag-
erie. The proprietor of the es-
tablishment said il was the body
of Pharaoh who was drowned in
the Red Sea; that the body was
recovered and embalmed about
1000 years ago, and was found
in a tomb in one of the pyramids.
Can that be possible, for I wish
to deal entirely in facts I?
PIT is true in certain points.
| was embalmed, of course, but
not drowned. | had lived too
long near the Red Sea to attempt
to cross il in a chariot. But how
did, look ? I was warranted to
keep natural for 10000 years and
longer.
K.-You looked quite natural.
Your shirtfront was a little soil
ed by Nile dust; baggage