Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-31

| treacherously slain. l have not made
| fraudulent gains. 1 have not siezed upon
any fields. I have not used a false
weight in the balance. I have not taken
| the milk from the mouth of stockings.
l am clean! am clean! / am clean! I
am clean! o, We judges, in this day Of
the judgment grant to the defunct that
he may come to you, he who has not
| sinned, who has not lied nor done any
| evil, who has committed no crime, who
| has not rendered false witness, who has
done nothing against himself but who
| lives upon truth and is nourished upon
\ justice. What he has done, men speak
of it, and the gods rejoice over it, He
| has given bread to the hungry water to
the thirsty, clothes to the naked: he has
offered sacrifices to the gods and funeral
posts to the dead. His mouth is clean,
his two hands are clean"
The mummies of the Pharoahs attract
paramount interest. looked on the face
and form of Seti. He was the pharoah
when Moses was baby and 1 saw the
lips that pronounced the decree that all
the male offspring of the Hebrews should
be slain. 1t was his daughter Thermatls
who found Moses on the Nile and saved
lbim from death. The mummy of Seti is IN
a good state of preservation and the fea-
lures are clear and distinct.
Near the body of seti is that of his
son, Rameses II. This is the Rameses
the Great, who was the oppressor of the
children of Egypt. On his breast were the
Egyptian cartouches drawn in ink, of
Uasimariya Satpuanisya Rameses III Mai
manu-. The mummy was unwrapped on
June l, 1886. in the presence of Khedive
Tewfik The features are distinct. 1t is
impossible to describe the sensations I
felt as 1 looked on the face of the men
who saw Moses more than 5000 years ago
TO think of Rameses the Great as the
star exhibit in a museuml The mighty
pharoah! In life he was ''worshiped as
a God" But now his shrivelled arms are
folded across his shrunken body. and ali
who will may gaze upon the remains OF
his lifeless form.
1t has been estimated that there have
been over 100000 buried under the
sands and the soil of Egypt. The govern
ment gives provision for excavations and
searches to be made by certain expIora-
ton parties on the condition that they
give to the government half of all that is
found.
Even on the day of my visit to the pyra-
mids, a mummy was taken out of one
of the temples or tombs near the pyra-
mid The excavations were being made by
an American university For weeks men
had been digging away the sands. When
the mummy was discovered, 1t was found
enclose in a sarcophagus and wrapped in
mummy clothes. Jewels. necklaces, and
bracelet were found on the body. Every
movement was made with the utmost
caution, and repeated photographs were
taken. Even the sand within the folds Of
the mummy clothes was slowly and care
fully removed by small bellows.
The scene was dramatic. Thousands Of
years ago the body had been perfectly
embalmed, and II had been carefully and
tenderly laid away in the temple of stone
with the hope that nothing would dis
turb it's final reunion with the soul. But
ages passed, and finally the body is dug
up by an alien race, and prepared for
shipment to a foreign shore. where in
glass case, the body is to become an
ATTRACTIONS for the curious, and a sub
ject for scientific investigation for schoi-
airs. OF course, this is all right, but some
how one can't help being little shocked
at the apparent dissertation of the dead.