The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-03
WRAPPED IN cEREMENTs.
Old Rameses Is Causing Talk In Giddy
Gotham.

From the New York World.
In the days of old Rameses
Are you on?
It was the same thing, yes, the same
thing.
In the days of old Raneses
Every person had paresis,
Are you on. are you on. are you onf
Rameses of Egypt Is on his way to
this city, travelling incog. That Il, mo-
body really knows which of the thirteen
Rameses he Is. Furthermore al
though on his way. he doesn't know
where he is going, for he is simply con-
signed to the Hamburg-Amertcan Line
and slated for this port on the steam
ship Aragonia of that company, which
is now in Boston.
The case is full of mysteries. The
first mystery is how can Boston allow
anything so cultured as mummy get
by her when she once gets 1t in her
port? The second Is, who is the real con-
signee in New York, for the Metropali-
tan Museum of Art hasn't invited
Rameses and there are no vacancies
among the water supply condemnation
commissions. The only safe bet is that
the visitor is not Rameses the Second,
who will pass the winter at Ghized and
who has not ventured abroad since the
Psychologists discovered that he was
fakir who went around Egypt carving
his name on the monuments that pre-
vious kings had built
According to the report of one of
Rameses fellow passengers on the
Aragonia, there was a remarkable Ital-
ian woman in the second cabin who en-
tertained the other travellers nearly
every evening with q demonstration of
her occult powers. Night after night
she tipped the tables and called up the
spirits of the departed relatives of the
travellers, and on Wednesday evening.
when the ship was buckfng storm Off
the Banks, q passenger who refused to
give his name asked for a talk with
Rameses. The Italian woman went into
a trance and there was great commo-
ton in the cargo hold, and In a few
minutes Rameses appeared before the
astonished passengers, none of whom
had known before that he was aboard
than five minutes.
Are you Rameses the secondT'
asked a passenger who seemed deeply
moved by what he had seen.
Rameses angrily shook his head in
the negative.
Make your books on it," said the
spirit. Twelve to one against the field.
The Second Rameses scratched"
who was the Second Rameses?' per-
sisted the passenger
After moment of deep silence,
broken only by tho roar of tho storm
and the rafting of the cordage and the
straining of the great clouds of belly
ing canvas before the blast, the spirit
replied in deep, low voice: "Rameses
the Second was a -ftusher. He went
down into Africa to shoot sacred cats
for the Museum at Cairo and when he
came back claimed all the credit for
what some other Rameses had done In
his absence
Then the spirit disappeared and there
was another commotion in the cargo hold,
after which all was still.
The noted psychologists and arch
aeoiogists OF Boston do not believe in
this tale OF the traveller. They poinr
out the fact that the Aragonia Is
steam vessel and would not have
enough cordage to make a rafting
noise and certainly would not have
clouds of 'bellying canvas" II that ex-
preston is intended to mean sails. They
also scout the idea that a deep silence
and the roar of the storm could take
place at the same instant. These dis
orepancies, in the opinion of the Boston
scholars, throw extreme improbability
over the account of the appearance of
Rameses which. otherwise, they would
no doubt believe
But whether the story Is true or NOT,
Rameses is 5000 years old and never used
tobacco in any form.