The news & observer., 1905-11-05
DETRIE'S ANCIENT EGYPT.
BY Dr.. T. B. Kingsbury.

IzIEE7 &M
revealed, by picture, sculpture, hero
glyph, upon miles of the surviving
| Egyptian monuments. They show
that Pharaoh demanded even from
his chief rulers the most abject and
preposterous fiattery.' These tablets
fixes the seal of Amenhotep III, to be
not later than 400 years before
Christ 1.-The writing is perfect in it's
kind, and very beautiful. 1t reveals
a high degree of literary culture. A
specimen of it is given in the quarter
ly statement of the Palestine Explora-
ton Fund for January, 1893. These
! tablets have upset some theories in
/ Biblical Criticism. In solving anti
quarian and Biblical problems, the
spade has often proved mightier than
| the pen" 1t is clearly shown That the
books of Moses were written as given,
and not as the school of Wellhausen
contends, for it asserts that writing
was not known i'm Palestine till after
the eighth or ninth century before
| Christ" The sceptical theory is fol-
| lowed, overthrown, demolished, for
the Sunday Magazine" shows that it
lis not possible to hold such theory,
as it has been demonstrated that the
Israelites, both in Egypt and Canaan,
were surrounded by literary nations,
! VINO naO Tic dll VI NileAiS ~
a uprising perfection 1t cannot now
be held that the early records of the
| Old Testament must have been de-
rived from mere tradition.
| The anxious sceptics and pertina-
cious undermining diggers under the
! Bible foundations, have been often dls-
turbed by explorers, and their DIS
coVeries among the remains OF anu
ouity The discovered tablets have
| nf
of the doubters and gainsayers'
"Thc spade has often proved mightler
than the pen
i of all States or countries North
| Carolina is the most homogeneous In
/ our State the AnglO-Saxon dominates
I here are fewer foreign-born citizens
! here than in any country or state III
/ IS par excellence the most Thoroughly
| An, erican of all the States. The CEN
sus shows this. | have not at hand
the last census, that of 1900, but 1t
does not alter tho great supremacy
of North Carolina in the matter OF
NATIVE born citizens. In 1891, out OF
LOSE, 200 whites 1t had Dut o,io1
foreign born, or only some so 1oreish
horn in every 10000 of whites. The
other Southern States have larger
proportion of foreigners. noticea-
HE contrast between the South ana
North is conspicuous when the totai
white population in the South had but
3SO. 900. while boastful Massachusetts
had 657,O00 foreign born-nearly
twice as many as the whole South had
in 1890. New York had that year
500. 900, or more than four times
what the South had. 1t is worse now.
1t has published few months ago
that New York city had but 26 per
cent of natives. Pennsylvania had
$4,000. Illinois had $4,000 and other
Northern States q half million and
some less. Even little Connecticut
I; had $4,000 more foreigners than some
| eight Southern States had. RhoGe
Island had nearly as many as all
4Southland omitting three States. The
! voting population is in proportion.
In North Carolina there is but little
more than half foreign vote in the
f0n, In North Carolina in 1900 there
were less than 5000 foreign born. In
some countries you will hardly find one
foreigner.
The New York Times. a paper OF
character and that says it prints ''ali
the news that's fit to print published
a statement in reviewing ''the official
Wor Records contained in the
12O large volumes published by the
United States Government at a cost oil
$365 per volume. so large and full are
they The Times said:
! The heroic valor of the North Caro-
lima troops excites the highest admira-
ticn; and Pennsylvania, which lost
more in killed and wounded, in pro-
portion to the number of its troops,
than any other Northern state, can
| well send greeting to North Carolina,
whose soldiers at Gettysburg did the
hardest fighting on the other side.
The official War Record is the book of
revelations as to both sides of the civil
war On the Confederate side. North
Carolina lost more soldiers killed than
any other Southern State. The follow
ing was the total loss in killed and
mortally wounded of several of the
Southern States: North Carolina
14.522; Virginia. 5,32S; South Caro-
lima, 9,1S7; Georgia. 5,553; Missis-
sippi, 5,307; Louisiana, 9,714. North
Carolina heads the list in the number
that died of wounds, and 20,602 of her
sons died of disease. North Carolina S
military population in 1861 was 115.-
369, but she furnished 1875, 600 to the
Confederate cause. The percentage of
lost killed and wounded was greater
i'm the Confederate armies than in the
Union armies. At Gettysburg the
Twenty y-sixth North Carolina of Pet
tigrew's Brigade, went into action
with over eight hundred. and lost five
hundred and fifty-eight in killed and
wounded. That same regiment had