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tians embalmed him and put him away IN
a coffin. Herodotus, who was one OF .le
best travel writer's of all time descrloeS
how embalming was done and tells an
about the making of mummies. He says
the art was carried on by special gulid.
whose members were appointed by tile
government and who had to work at
fixed prices. The bodies were mummi-
fled in three different ways. In the first
and most costly method, the brains were
extracted through the nose by means vi
an iron probe, and the inteStlnes were
taken out through an incision made In
the side. The intestines were then clean
ed and washed In palm wine. They were
covered with aromatic gum and set asloe
in Jars. The cavity of the body was now
filled with spices, including myrrh and
cassia and other fragrant substances. and
it was then sewn up After this the body
was soaked in a solution of natron
kind of carbonate of soda, being allowed
to lie in it for a couple of months or
more. 1t was then taken out and
wrapped in fine linen so smeared over
with gum that it stuck to the skin, when
the mummy was ready for burial.
The second process was cheaper. but it
took about the same time In this the
brains were left in and the body was so
treated in the solution that everything
except the skin and bones was dissolved.
There was a third process which con-
sisted of cleaning the corpse and laying
it down in salt for seventy days. The
first process cost about twelve hundred
dollars, the second one hundred dollars
ard the third considerably less.
Other authorities relate different meth
DDS of mummification. The most of the
mummies discovered, however, have
been preserved by means of gums
of kind or another, and by
pitch and carbonate of soda. The
nlummies with gums are usually
green In color and their skins
look as though they were tanned. They
break when they are unrolled The
and hard. but the features are pre-
served intact, and it is said that such
mummies will last forever. In those pre-
served by soda the skin is hard and
rather loose, and the hair falls OFF when
it is touched. The pitch mummy usually
keeps it's hair and teeth.
There are mummies of children in this
Egyptian Museum. There are some also
in London, but I know of none anywhere
else. The children were embalmed for
the same reason as the grown-ups, the
parents believing that they could have no
union with their little ones without they
met them again after the resurrection i'm
their original bodies. The faces Of some
of these children are giided, and the pic
lures upon the bandages represent the
child Offering sacrifices to the gods. Above
the feet may. be the funeral boat show
ing the little child lying upon it's bier.
and upon other parts of the coffin are
tiny little people who seem to be en-
gagged in propelling the boat. This prob
ably represents the ferry of the dead to
its tombs in the mountains on the banks
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storm. and for half century the govern
ment has recommended the port as a
haven of refuge in bad weather. The
severe winds that beat along the coast
far south Galveston are rarely
felt at Arkansas Pass.
The proposed combination of military
post and naval station is popular with the
men of the army. Fort Sam Houston
is favorite with the grizzled dogs of
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date the shipping that rides in its har-
Dor.
Galveston is also far removed from any
military base. The country surrounding
it is untitled for such a base. Arkansas
Pass is the only deep water between
Galveston and Tampico. Mexico. 1t sup
plies the exact conditions which the gov
eminent has sought, just Fort Sam
Houston supplies the characteristics of an
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was what the humans call i'll. She sat
in me Of evenings only. ad then only for
a little while. because she was i'll. But 1
loved to hear her talk. No word of un-
kindness ever had She And she would
gently chide the utterers of unkindnesses
She had lived long human life, but her
heart had stored no malice. Her heart
had stored only images of sweetness and
hope. Her words made her weight so
light that scarce could feel her rock
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developed conditions indicate what it's
course is to be. Arkansas Pass is I'M
questionably to become for the southern
coast what Newport News is to the At
lantic and Mare Island is to the Pacific
coast Yet the conditions are such and
the development of American interests
is such that it will probably surpass
them all in importance. The big chance
of trouble is to the south. With other
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NV would you like
to own an Egyp-
tan mummy, and
that of a simon
p u r e princess,
perhaps two thou
sand years old?
i was offered one
at the GiZeh Mu-
scum today. The
price was just 800
in cash. and &C
commandment was
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all the rest of the chairs down the long
line, their vanished arms glittering cold
ly as they moved in the chill radiance of
the wan moon. "All gone 'away-all gone
away, and the chorus ended in sort
of dreary sigh.
Some of them will never come back. =
declared the huge rocker in hoarSely
prophetic tone.
Never. never come back-many of
them never will come back" replied all
Of the rest of the chairs in vague unison.
II am glad some Of them won't be
back,>1 went on the huge rocker. which
the steady play OF the sea wind seemed
to have put into decidedly garruious
humor. There were some of them that
I'll never miss
Some OF them that we'll never miss,
either-and yet. some of them that we
will miss" replied the other rockers In
a chorus that had suggestion of sad
ness In 1t.
Which of them will you miss?" in
quired the huge rocker, in a challenging
tone.
A little low-built green wicker rocker.
swaying more violently than the others
on account Of it's lightness, took up the
challenge.
We'll miss the cheerful. happy hearted
ones said the little lowbuilt rocker eve
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wear one suit of clothes for three thou
sand years? That has been the fate of
the we'll preserved ladies of this Egyp-
tan museum. The most of them are
clad In fine gauZe much like linen or
silk. and in some cases this looks as
fresh as when it was made. 1t was
wrapped around their limbs after having
been properly treated with spices and
pitch, and ii ClngS to them more tightly
than the hobble skirt of today. l no.
tfced one queen with necklace of beads
and another who has shawl around
her head. A third lies at full length in
her coffin with the mummy of her baby
al her feet.
Another princess stands upright
against the side Of the wall. Her face is
plated with gold, and her mummy clothes
are embroidered. She is wrapped round
and round with cloths, and one might
wrap up a girl of today and make a
similar bundle. Another of these mummy
ladies has hair which appears to have
been done up in curl papers, and, strange
to me, the hair is as red as my own.
MANY of the mummy caskets are Splen-
did. They are made of fine woods. paint
cd inside and out with pictures describ-
ing the life of the owner. Some are COW
cred with carvings, and some with heads
which may have been likenesses of those
who lay within. 1t costs much to die
now. 1t must have cost more to die
then. The expense of making a mummy
was twelve hundred dollars, and money
was then worth ten times what it is
now. The caskets were more expensive
than any of the collins we have today.
and they were incased in great sarco-
phagi Of stone or wood, some single ones
of which must have cost fortunes. In
the GiZeh Museum there is one room
CHILLED the Hall of the Caskets. 1t COW
ers, / judge, about one-fourth of an
acre, and it is filled with collins and
caskets. There are enough sarcophagi
in it to form watering trOughs for the
largest of the Chicago stockyards. and
many of them have been cut out of solid
blocks of red or gray granite. the sides
being so smooth that you can see your
face in them. Others are covered with
hieroglyphics, and all are constructed
with an art equal to the finest stone
cutting of today.
1 have asked the Psychologists here as
to how the Egyptians made the mummies
which are now being dug from the earth.
Their reply was that the desire for num-
MITIGATION came from the religion of the
ancient Egyptians, who believed in the
transmigration of souls. They thought
that the spirit wandered about for sew
eral thousand years after death and then
came back to the home 1t had upon earth.
For this reason 1t was desirable to keep
the body intact, and every one looked to
his mummihood as his only chance of
recreation hereafter.
When the art of embalming began nc
one knows, but 1t is supposed to date
back to the time Of the Pyramids. We
know that Joseph, when his father,
Jacob. died down in Egypt, had him en-
balmed and the Bible says 1t took forty
days to properly cure him. 1t also re-
lates that when Joseph died the Esyp-
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tual body was only one. The others re-
lated to the soul and it's transmigration,
and 1t was believed that upon the preser-
walton Of the body depended the bringing
together OF these seven parts In the flu
ture. 1t was on this account that corpses
were mummified. and for the same reason
that they were hidden away in tombs I'M
der the desert and in the great pyramids
which their owners believed would be in
accessible to the men of the future.
This Book of the Dead contains also
some of the Egyptian ideals OF right liv-
ing. reminding one of the Psalm which,
according to RouseS version, begins:
That man hath perfect bIessedness
Who walketh not astray
In counsel Of ungodly men.
Nor stands in sinners way.
Nor stitch In the scorner's chair:
But plareth his delight
Upon Gods law and medtates
On that law day and night
The Book of the Dead reads:
II am not a plunderer: not a niggard:
nor the cause of others tears. I am not
unchaste: nor hot In speech. l am not
fraudulent. / do not take away the cakes
of child, or profane the gods Of my To-
cality.' --.--..
There Is no doubt that the Egyptians be-
lieved in the Immortality of the soul. They
thought man would live again. and gave
the soul the name Of Ba. representing 1t
in the form of a human-headed hawk
They had their own ideas Of heaven. and
represents 1T as follows:
I'm heaven the dead eat bread which
never grows stale and drink wine which
is never musty. They wear white ap-
parel and sit upon thrones among the
gods who cluster around the tree of life
near the lake in the field Of peace. They
wear the crowns which the gods give
them and no evil being or thing has any
power to harm them in their new abode,
where they will live with God forever.
According to one opinion, the Egyptian
heaven was situated above the sky 1t
was separated from the earth by a great
iron plate, to which lamps were fastened.
these lamps being the stars. According
to another theory, the heaven was in the
delta, or in one of the GASES, and third
idea was that the sky was in the form OF
a COW. and another in that of a woman.
the legs Of the cow and head and feet OF
the woman being the cardinal points.
AS to creation, that began with the ris-
ing Of the SUM- which was brought about
by god, and men and women came from
that god. This is somewhat better than
the old Chinese tradition OF the worlds
making. According to the latter the god
PWanku chiseled out the universe. and
was 1900 years on the job. At the end
Of that time he died, and his head turned
into mountains. his breath became wind
and his voice the thunder From his flesh
came the fields. from his beard the stars
and from his skin and hair the trees. All
minerals originated from his teeth and
bones. The rain is his sweat, and. lastly.
stuck to his body.
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came across the dunes from the placid
dark sea. 49,
II am afraid that my old human lady
never will come back whispered a COM
Portable looking basket-work rocker that
swayed nearer the huge wicker one. "She
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a certificate showing it was not made in
Germany. The excavations which are
now going on in the valley of the Nile
are such that the museum has mummieS
and relics to sell. Hundreds of the an
cient dead have been shipped to all parts
of the world. and the ghoul-like officials
are now adding to their revenues by dis
posing of their surplus bodies of mobiles
who lived and ruled ages ago. In con-
nection with the mummy offered me
was certificate giving its probable age.
The lady lay in the clothes I'm which she
was buried. She was wrapped around
with linen as yellow as saffron, and her
black face appeared to smile as 1 looked.
She had been put up In spices. and 1t
seemed to me that I could almost smell
the perfumes with which she was cured
During my stay In the museum I heard
much OF the thousands OF mummies
which have already been found, and of
those which are now being dug from the
desert. A vast number have been dis
covered in addition to those Of the Pha-
raohs, and the actual bodies of the
greatest rulers of ancient Egypt are now
on view Many of these we're so treated
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WI DIRK Has Been Going

I" DIRK Has Been Going
w On Quietly for Five
Years at an Expenditure of
Some Six Millions of Dollars
With the Completion of
Work Near Hand of Govern
nent Is Shown-Fort Sam
Houston Massing Point for
Army and Arkansas Pass. on
Gulf of Mexico, for Navy
Building and Dredging to
Make These Posts Ideal
Strategic Points.
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manner of human YOUTH" put in a big
yellow rocker that hitherto had not joined
in the chorus They were not bitterly
trivial or foolish There was no guile in
their frivolity 1t was that their human
spirits were high. You forget the ex-
uberance of human youth"
''Oh. yes. I know-but they spoke often
in derision one of the other, the young
Ones" persisted the huge wicker rocker
1.-The derision was not deeply meant"
replied the big yellow rocker. Many, oh.
many. of the young humans shall miss.
l shall be hoping that they come back.
The CHEEKY, chattery girls, with their con-
fdences and their joy Of living and their
high sense of well-being and their I'M
fetteredness and their happiness In their
inexperience-what rocker would not hope
to hear all of these gleeful girls again
What rocker would not long to have them
all come back? Their prattle was not in
furious. Their little jealousies contained
no sting. They but followed the whim-
steal human path. But I hope all of my
merry-hearted girls will come backbone
back
Eyes, and the boys" put in a deep
rocker in the middle of the long huddle
of chairs. II shall want to see and to
rock my eager. keen boys again-all of
them, even to the violent, headstrong
ones. The violent, headstrong ones meant
we'll. but were misguided They all
change. All humans change. Most of
the boys whose burdens ! bore were glad
Of soul and fine OF vision and In the
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ideal post sufficiently inland to be i'm
mune from attack, yet easily connected
with the transport service.
The government has not definitely
stated its plans with reference to Aran-
sas Pass. 1t is not the custom Of the
government to state its plans in such
matters. But its actions and the newly
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How would you American girls like to
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NLD Rameses and His
~ Queens-Travels Among
the Mummies-What It Cost
to Be Mumrnihed - Some
Three Thousand : Year Old
Babies" THE Book of the
Dead"-The Origin of the
Golden Calf Discovered in
the Sacred Cow Recently Dug
Up at Thebes-Ancient Jew
elry and How the Israelites
Spoiled the Egyptians"
Copyright. 1910. by Frank G. Carpenter,
Special Correspondence of The Star.
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex. October l. 1910
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came from the tombs II is easy to see
where the Israelites got their idea % the
golden calf. Their oppressors from whom
they were fleeing revered certain animals.
They looked upon hawks aa enhlems OF
the sun. moon and stars, and at. their
death often turned them to- rntliifhies.
The cat was sacred to one OF their gods.
They had also statues OF cows, and tho
cow was considered emblematic of Ha-
thor. the goddess Of beauty. love and 10y
You may see her statues scattered up and
down the Nile valley. Sometimes -she IL
depicted as a cow, and at others as q
woman wearing COW horns with the sun
hung between them. There is a carving
Of Queen Cleopatra dressed up In that
way.
In 1905 remarkable COW goddess was
excavated from the tomb Of Deir-el- Ba hr.
not far from Thebes. / saw the place
whence ii came and talked to the men
who dug 1t out of the earth. The COW is
of white limestone about four feet in
height and perhaps six feet in length. II
has red tail. a black face. and its head
is crowned with lotus flowers and lotus
stalks hang down each side its neck al
most to the ground. There is king
kneellng under the COW, in the attitude Of
prayer. That statue was probably wor-
working in the valley OF the Nile, and 1t
may have been from one like her that
they nodded their calf of gold.
And this brings me to the jewels of
which that calf was made! If you Will
look up the Bible records in Exodus you
will see that Moses advised the Israelites
that every man should borrow of his
Egyptian neighbor and every woman OF
her neighbor jewels of silver and jewels
of gold; and, a little farther on, II Is
stated that they did SO. the paragraph
concluding as follows:
in the sight Of the Egyptians, SO that
they lent unto them. And they spoiled
the Egyptians"
In these museums here in Cairo you
may see pints and quarts of jewelry such
as the Israelites borrowed and took with
them into the wilderness to melt down
to make that golden calf. There are many
such in the museum Of Gizeh. In a room
known as the Hall of the Jewels. This
place Is filled with great cases containing
ornaments OF gold and silver taken from
the tombs. Some date back almost to the
time Of the pyramids, and many were I'm
use before the Israelites left Egypt.
Among them are bracelets Of gold much
the same as our girls are now wearing.
Some are golden snakes with spring
coils so that they will fit any arm. and
others are solid rings of massive gold.
/ saw aTmlets to be worn above the
elbow, golden girdles for the waist and
chain Of gold with a goose head at either
end. Some of the finest OF these orna-
ments were owned by q queen who lived
1900 B. c., and whose mummy came
from a tomb not far from. Thebes.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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CAIRO.

Copyright. 1910. by Frank G. Carpenter.)
Special Correspondence of The Star.
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Il think" unused the huge wicker rock
err in it's hoarse whisper. that you are
right The humans mean well. There are
more dear ones than ones that are not
kind in spirit. I, too. hope with the rest
Of you that they all come backbone
backw
That all of them. through the bitter
days soon TO come, may remain we'll
and happy and high in purpose and
noble in thought. and come BACKBONE
backbone back"' whispered all of the
rockers in their sibilant chorus.
Then the night Waterman OF the great
deserted hosiery, smoking a glowing
pipe. trudged slowly around a corner of
the porch, his hands held behind him,
and a sudden hush fell upon the rockers,
and the pale moon OF autumn looked
wanly down upon the FLASHING sea and
the nodding brown plumes on the sand
dunes, and the starry night embodied all
CLARENCE l. CULLEN.
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Such words Of flame. It's sad that rock
ers have no such words to employ. But
rockers may love to listen to such words.
I shall be eager to see the marSied boys
and girls when they come back-to see
the illumination OF their faces and 10
hear the repetition of their vows And
/ shall walt through the long, bitter
weather, when we are covered with the
snow Of the seastorms. to see the boys
and girls come back, that | may hear
their pulsating words of love-it is music
for a rocker to listen to! Oh, that they
may all come backbone back.
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Copyright. 1910. Icy W. \. purayl
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In examining these gods Of the ancient
Egyptians as shown in the relics which
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21
Blacksburg

4 Special TO The Richmond Nirginian.)
BLACKSBURG, VA, May I'll
The ladies' OF the Methodist church
gave a reception Thursday night IN
the church parors, the guests Of
honor being the cadets who are MEM
bers of the Sunday school. There
we're several pleasant features on the
evenings program, including musical
Numbers. vocal and instrumental, and
an address of welcome Refresh
ments were served by q committee
of the young ladies of the denoinina-
ton.
Mrs. Charles l., Pedigo was hostess
at an informal reception Wednesday
as a compliment to Miss Hattie FISH
err. OF Rural Retreat, who has been
the house guest OF Miss Beulah Evans
for the week. The guests were
number of the younger set of the
town and college. A salad. ice and
fruit eourse Mas served in the predi-
~ decorated dining room.
Ar.-and Mrs. William y. Paxton.
w. =. Paxton. Jr.. and Miss Louise
Paxton arrived at the yellow sui
phur Springs from Washington this
week The first named has recently
acquired the yellow from the Holts
aud viii make many improvements
ana repairs NbtTt ttals ti"Htn pAapf 1"
the opening Of the we'll known resort
June J.
Mir. Harvey r. Hall. OF Roanoke,
whose appointment as general conn-
eel of the Virginian railway has been
made public, is a native, of this place
a graduate of the v. 2. /. and, With
mis- family. is well known here.
Rev. r. p. Sewers preached his
first sermon as pastor Of the Luther
Memorial church here last Sunday,
Mr. Sewers comes from Salisbury. !
G. and succeeds Rev. J. NJ. Killian.
who resigned as pastor Of this group
OF churches several months ago
Miss Emma Hannas, Of Orange, n.
J., is visiting her sister. Miss A. q,
Hannas. at the institute hospital.
Mrs j. H Wcolwine Is at home
from a visit to her sister, Mrs. Car
ter osterblnd. in Richmond, and reia-
tives in Lynchburg and Roanoke,
Rev. Robert Nelson has been
spending this week in baltimore with
his wife and children, who are visit
ing there.
Misses Virginia and Pickett Heth
are at their country home, White
Thorne," near here, after spending
the winter in Washington.
Mrs, Katnelsle Belts is at home
from the Jefferson Hospital IN Roa-
nok, where she has been Under treat
ment for several weeks.
Mrs. Thamas Fain returned to hcr
home in Bristol Friday, after visit
here to her daughter. Mrs. c NJ. New
man.