Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-11

benefit Of the coroners' inquest sitting
on Tut.
Through chamber after chamber we
passed, down two flights of steps cut
in the solid rock over a modern bridge
that SPAWNED a shaft that yawned to
trap tomb robbers. then through a
hole pierced in the apparently blank
wall.
Strange shapes of gods and god
desses now seemed to spring from the
walls, HORRIBLE figures of the monsters
of the underworld. Above my head
were stars everywhere. painted yellow
on a blue ground; the dead king in his
eternal solitude should be comforted
by a similitude of those soft Theban
nights that he had loved.
My guide stopped. He bent over,
held the candle down. and l was look
ing into the stern, strong face of a
great conqueror, goldman Of an
tiquity. who still lay there in his mas
sive granite sarcophagus where the
priests had left him 500 years before
Achilles and Hector fought under the
walls of Troy.
Stripped by Tomb Robbers.
I remembered afterward. but not
then, that Amenhotep ii was not
news. There was no copy" in this
back in 1898. He had no thrones. no
statues, no shrines of gold. no jewels
about him, like Tut up there. He had
had them once, but tomb robbers had
| stripped him of all but the funeral
garlands that still lie in the coffin
| long before Romulus and Remus came
to Rome.
They left him his bow, and there II
| was found in 1893, the bow that his ir
| scriptions vaunt no man in his EN-
| pire could draw, the bow that passed
into legend, so that Herodotus. writing
a thousand years later, told how
| Cambyses, the great Persian con
queror who came up the Nile tc
| Thebes 700 years after AmenhoteI
| had been laid here, was unable &c
draw the bow of the King of Ethiopia
But Herodotus. as many journalists
have been since, was misinformed
| Here all the time was the bow, not
| tipped with gold like little Tut's bows
and so scorned by the thieves who
took almost everything else. And or
| 1t is this inscription: "Smiter of the
Troglodytes, overthrower of Kush
hacking up their cities. the Grea1
Wall Of Egypt, Protector of his Sol
diers."
Mummy's LifeIike Face.
No idle boasts, like those bound
prisoners in gold work whom little
Tut trod under his feet in his mag
nificent chariot-Tut, who never coult
have seen an arrow shot off in anger
| looked into the naughty visage o
the second of the world conquerors
His father was the first.
Dim and menacing in the waverine
| shadows the face seemed, as the can
die shook, not the face Of a mummy
| but the face OF man. An electric
| light. not now working, has beer
| placed above Amentotep's head by
| fools with q sense of dramatic effec
as inferior as their taste.
Here lies q man who led his armies
| through Asia to the Orontes and VI
| the Euphrates, and returned Il
| Memphis driving before him 500 lords
| Of his enemies and their captured
| chariots; who, after a triumpha
march through Egypt came int
sacred Thebes in his great barge OF
cedars Of Lebanon plated with gold
seven kings of Asia hanging head
| downward from the prov. Before
the great image of Ammon in Karnuh
he slew them all with his own hands
! He conquered his Asian enemies, anC
| he hung the bodies of six kings or
the walls of Thebes. The seventh he
| sent far to the south, escorted by ar
army, into Nubia, where he caused