The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15

ohh"ShCl ho1d huOChSu Oue eye
little out of line, and some vii
famous Arab had extracted th,
radium stud set from your bosom
which was intended to furnisl
perpetual light for your tomb
and inserted a common Soutl
African diamond in its stead
otherwise you were apparently
in as good condition as the day
you shook your shell and was
gathered to your fathers in tn,
tomb prepared for the Pharaohs
P.-Glad to hear it, for the
Egyptians were a proud people
and wished to look well even il
death.
kidd the Pharaohs invent
the Pharo bank that so many
people try to "buck" and &c
broke on it :?
P.-We had no bank; only a
Corn Exchange, and during years
of famine cornered the corn crop.
K.-Again; there is one hun
dred and fifty million dollars in
wait for the person who can
learn, beyond doubt, who built
the pyramids and for what pur-
pose. Can you give the valuable
information ?
P.-Certainly. The pyramids
were built by all of us and for
various purposes; first. to house
our corn and to keep our money
and jewels in during the over
flow of the Nile, and to deposit
the embalmed bodies of the rul-
ers and the rich for safe keep
ing; second, that we might go up
on them to worship the sun every
Sunday morning. The Egyp-
tians were Sun worshippers, as
you may know Without the sun
we would be in darkness and in
the cold anu corn would not
grow, neither would there be
flowers or any green thing.
Hence the sun was our god and
we built pyramids that we might
go up and worship him at his
rising. Third, those who had no
employment were put to work on
the pyramids, and all our CON
victs and captives of war were
thus employed. Every we'll reg
ulated city had one or more
pyramids.
K.-That's right And now,
if it is fair question, I would
like to know how you manage to
to occupy yourself all these 1000
years so that time will not hang
YEARLY on your hands 1t
would seem that if you are over
there for ever and ever, aud
eternity too, things would be-
come little monotonous along
toward the last.
P.-We are busy building pyr-
amids, cutting out obelisks on
which to perpetuate our history,
dlgglng lrrlgating canals and
corn. 1t is all in our
mind over here, like your new
machine, and we do
pretty much as we did while on
earth; we must keep the mind
occupied, for that is all we have
left now, you know. [ am en-
gagged to lay the corner stone of
a new pyramid this afternoon,
near the Sphinx, and you must
excuse me for the present.
K.-Thanks If l have any
thing further will call you up
later.
P.-All right. You will find
me here or hereabouts, but not
IN the bottom of the Red Sea.
K.-Hold +! One word more.
How about the Sphinx !? Who
Quilt the statue and for what ?
There is another one hundred
md fifty million dollars waiting
10 be turned over to the person
who can explain beyond doubt
whose handiwork it is and what
The object.
P.-The Sphinx antedates the
pyramids and obelisks. It is a
statue of Labor-representing
Strength, Power, and all the
aboring classes aided in it's con
'truction. by Industry We
rhrive," was the National Egyp-
ian motto. The Sphinx was rec
'gnized as the god of Labor, and
'eceived due homage from all
both great and small.
K.-That's another great mys-
cry solved and money secured.
Thanks again.