The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-06
KANSAS COMAENT
FOR sHAMEI .RAMEsES II.

| I O1S oE1AM MEL RAME SE<o IL.
NOW certain Egyptologists have de-
fnounced King Rameses II as a fraud.
HIS egotism was so colossal that ne
caused his name to be cut into tenn
pies that had existed a thousand years
before his time, and thus deceived
posterity into believing that he built
them.
1t is an old saying that If a man
tooteth not his own horn, verify his
own horn shall not be footed, and RAJ
meses understood the principle in
volved in the toot. But he overlooked
the Psychologist of the twentieth CEN
tury.
At one fell swoop of the modern
iconoclast, who can not tolerate hy-
pocrisy or fraud in any form, His
Royal Highness. King Rameses II,
famed for more than three millen-
aries. because of his great skill in
architecture, suddenly falls from his
great hight and becomes a mere pre-
tender, a colossal fraud, an egotistical
ass, who deeming himself a demigod,
had his name fraudulently affixed to
vast structures which antedated him
yet another millenary.
Aha! Old Rameses II! You have
Deen caught In your rascally tricks
and posterity will laugh to scorn your
predatory wealth of fame, which has
falsif1ed history for 5000 years and
more.
What is the morali For in a case Of
such tremendous results as must fol-
low the dethronement of this almost
sanctified mummy, there must be a
great lesson, and twentieth century
moralists must signalize the degrada-
ton of this false monarch with a les
son BETTING its! importance.
Were Rameses alive today and his
president of the Ananias club. But his
punishment has fallen 1t is the false
pretenders of today that should take
to heart the lesson
To
somebody will discover that John D.
Rockefeller was not the father of
Standard Oil. Then of what value will
be the billion dollars accumulated by
the great magnate.
Three thousand years hence 1t will
be discovered that Andrew Carnegie
never wrote one-half the books in the
great libraries of today, and his ire
mendous fame, erected on steel rib
bed structures. will disappear and
John and Andrew will join that poor
old discredited Rameses II, the vile
pretender. and egregious egotist.
If you misbehave in any particular,
your sin may find you out and pos
terity after the third millennium may
condemn your weakn ess.-Wichita
Beacon.
HOW THE STORY STARTED.
The farmer told the town man and
the town man told everyone else who
would listen. The farmer told his
neighbor and the neighbor repeated IL
right and left. The miller listened and
looked and then echoed the story.
The grain buyer knew and of course
talked. The travelling man who knows
everything parroted the story all over
the country and wherever he, could
gather one or two or three together
told, THAT the wheat hereabouts was
poor, weak, thin, less than a half crop
and was being plowed up by the hun
dreds of acres" Well, harvesting
and threshing prove it to be more
than an average crop; 1t is heavier
than ever before; the berry is a pref
tier color, plumper and will grade
higher than usual; the price is also
higher than usual by several cents
and no one there is to. acknowledge
ed for an fncredulous chump The
thresher is telling wonderful stories
backed by actual figures, weights and
cash.-Clay Center Times.