The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10

put nephew into a remote back seat
and ran things to suit herself, waging
wars, building temples and organizing
expeditions To far distant lands. Also,
according to ancient customs she had
her portrait and the record OF her
accomplishments carved on the obe-
lisks and painted all over the walls
of her private temple, which is still
standing, about three miles west. OF
the present city of Luxor.
She reigned for thirty-five years,
and then Thutmes Third, gray bearded
and worn with much waiting, emerged
from the nursery and took UP the reins
of government. According to the judg-
ment of later historians. his reign Was
about the most glorious in the whole
history of Egypt. He was possessed of
military genius, and under his direc-
ton Syria was recaptured and the in
fluence of Egypt was firmly establish
ed in Western Asia. But no matter
how many battles he won or how many
captives he brought back to Thebes
to exhibit in the court house square,
the old timers around the court wag-
ged their heads and said, Yes, he's
doing fairly we'll for a beginner, but
he'll never come up to the mark set
by his Aunt Hattie" Hatasoo was her
full name, but those who had known
her for a long time called her Hat
tie" and to a few of her intimates
she was known as Hat"
Thutmes was merely human. For
years his domineering aunt had kept
him out of the running, and now that
he was on the throne the glory of her
achievements was constantly being
dinged into him. Every time he rode
out in his chariot, standing up and
saving away at four horses, just as
they do in Ringling's circus at the
present time, he saw her name and
picture on all the public buildings,
and, of course, two or three years af-
! ter her departure everybody Dragged
about her good deal harder than
they had while she was alive. Even
the English newspapers speak in kind
~ terms of an American statesman
who is safely deceased.
Thutmes stood it as long as he could
and then he broke over. He ordered
The stonecutters to go forth and gouge
cut all the inscriptions relating to his
superior aunt. The temple which she
had built as a special memorial he
appropriated to himself and put his
name over the main entrance. 1t may
have been pretty spiteful, but the
whole proceeding somehow seems to
establish a sympathetic link between
those remote heather days and the
unselfsh. Utopian civilization that we
now enjoy in Chicago. Omaha, West
Superior and other centers of broth
erly love.
After Thutmes had put in years
erasing and chiselling out all compli-
mentary references to Hatasoo he
passed away and was carried to
winding subterranean tomb in the
valley to the west For two hundred
years the great monuments which he
had erected in his own honor, or
quietly borrowed from his aunt, re-
manned intact. Then along came Ra-
mese Second, to whom we have al
ready referred as the best little adj
vertiser of ancient times. He had
the name of Thutmes removed from
all the temples, obelisks and public
/ buildings and put his own glaring
label on everything in sight. In the
language of Mr.. Peasley the Kings
seemed to spend most of their time in
knocking their predecessors" and
boosting" themselves.
Here are a few instances: Tut-enlxIl-
Anon erected in the fore court of the
temple of Ammon at Karnak two colos-
sal statues of Ammen and Amonet and
dedicated them to himself. He wished