The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-03

Contlnue0 ITOTH rage lWtiNc.D because all of the familiar records are known to have been under censorships that the papyrus discovered by me at Luxor possesses a most startling in terest
 As a cold matter of fact. discovered this manuscript by proxy That is, bought it from the man who said he had found 1t concealed in the funeral vestments of mummy uprooted near Thebes in the month of February I cannot give the name of this Egyptian for the reason that all valuable anti auities discovered in Egypt are sup posed to belong to the government, ana any one concealing Sn art treasure or some document of rare value may be severely punished. can say this much however-the native from whom bought the papyrus assured me that he was an honorable and truthful guide, and he gave me his personal guarantee that he had removed the document from the mummy's undergarment with his own hands and had been waiting for an opportunity to offer it to a traveller who was really a connoisseur of anti auities and a reverent student of an eient languages. All this he told me while we were out on the desert to- gether, and after looking apprehen- sively in, all directions to make sure that no human being was within three miles of us he pulled tin cylinder from under his robe and carefully re- moved from it the time stained but still intact roll of papyrus. l must say that I never saw more convincing document in all my life. The hiero- glyphs looked as Egyptian as any thing could be, and as soon as I saw them had burning curiosity to know what message to the world beyond this l. ~tKaa- kna hts bosom through all these centuries. l asked regarding the mummy on which the papyrus had been found and learned that the inscription on his out CT coffin indicated that he had been an officer assigned to the royal palace of Rameses IL, the type of courier who must bend the supple knee and wear the smiling face, at all times conceal ing his real opinion of things in gen. eral
 The guarantee which accompanied the papyrus was so heartfelt and altogeth- CT emphatic that I made the purchase. The price was large, but felt justi- fled in paying it, for the native assur- ed me that could sell it to the British Museum at any time for twice as much. I promised faithfully that I would nev- CT mention his name in connection with the deal. and this. promise was easily kept, because he had a name that no one could have rememberd for two minutes.
 For obvious reasons I did not show the document to my travelling compan- ions. I knew that if people heard of my discovery and got talking about 1t l might not be permitted to take 1t out of the country.
 When we arrived at Cairo I went to MT. Ralph Blanchard, an American who is noted as an antiquarian, Egyptolo- gist and mummy collector, and after few cautious preliminaries told him that had a document in hieroglyphics of which desired a translation. l beg ged him not to inquire where or how I had obtained the papyrus. All wanted him to do was tell me what the blamed thing meant.
 Blanchard wasstartled as soon as he looked at the document. I could see that. He said he had deciphered good many acres of hieroglyphics. but this record was unique and the most interesting that had ever come under his observation. He spent two days on the translation, so as to be absolutely accurate regarding every fine point and get not only the cold words but al- so the literary style and the real spir- it of the original communications.
 Let the translation speak for Itself. I must confess that when it was hand ed me I was overwhelmed. Not only had a flood of light been let in upon a most important epoch, but there were also surprising revelations as to the origin of valued words and phrases Here is the translation:--
 Rameses Second Is a Smooth Citizen His Foxy Scheme Is to bunko Posteri ty His Soldiers go out and put up a hard Scrap and do up the enemy and he hires a stonecutter to give an Ac- count of 1t on a Granite Rock and hand all the Bouquets to Rameses. He is building many Temples. The Archi- tects draw the Plans, The Laborers do the Work. The Public foots the Bill Rameses and the Local Deities are the only ones who butt into the Inscrip- tions. He has the future doped out as follows Three thousand years from now, when Cooks Tourists see my Pic lures all over the Shops. they will conclude that I must have beer the Works and they will call mo Rameses the Great
 This revelation in regard to the self advertising proclivities of the great monarch, coming, as 1t did, from one who had been intimately associated with him, was so vastly important that MT. Blanchard thought 1t better to verify the translation. He took copy of the document to several eminent
 
 him on every point They said there was no getting away from scraps" and "butt in" and dope out" and oth- CT characters which seemed to me to have somewhat of a modern flavor.
 After man has been universally re- spected for nearly three thousand two hundred years it does seem low down trick to show him up. And. possibly. the anonymous writer was prejudiced because he had failed to secure an ap- pointment Did the papyrus really come from the bosom of the mummy? Who knows? Sometimes 1t Is the duty of the traveller to record facts as they come under his observation and not to draw nasty conclusions
 The documentary evidence is sub mitted herewith-first a copy of the original papyrus and then the transIa- tion. word by word and phrase by by phrase. The testimony should con- vince any who are disposed to be scep- tical. My only hope is that 1t will not entirely blast the reputation of Ram eses.