The Daily Reporter,. AN EGYPTIAN ROMANCE. It 1» Told hi the I'apyrus Recently Ac- quired by the Her.in Museum. The Nul'onnl Zcilung gives the fol- ¡owing interesting summary of the papyrus which the Berlin museum re­ oently acquired from the heirs of Rich­ ard Lepsius, and the reading of which has only just been completed. This papyrus, which was written in the vul­ gar tongue, is not only of archeological importance but of much literary inter­ est; being neither more nor less than a historical novel, though lefl in an un­ finished state. Die papyrus dates from the sixteenth < entuiy B. C., and from the eighteenth dynasty; but the story re­ lated in it goes back nearly a thousand iears to the reign of King Cheops, the aided builder of the pyramids. When the story opens King Cheops is seated among his sons and listening to their tales of the miracles said to have been wrought at the court of his prede­ cessors. Prince Chephren, who after­ ward built tlie s<*cond pyramid, related that a magician in the reign of King Nebka had made a waxen crocodile which, if placed m the chamber of a wife untrue to her husband, would seise her aud her paramour and deliver them over to the husband. Another Prince related that King Suefru. the father of Cheops, feeling oppressed and not knowing how to "relieve his heart,” took counsel of a wise man; who ad­ vised him to go to the banks of the lake near the palace and let all the maidens of the oourt row up and down the water. Thia was done, and the monarch's heart was relieved. But all of n sudden one of the maidens began to make lamen­ tations, for she had dropped a jewel in­ to the water, which was forty feet deep. A magician was sent for, and, reciting an incantation, he coaxed the jewel up from the bottom of the lake and re­ turned it to the maiden. King Ch cops was so struck with won­ der at these stories, that he ordered sac­ rifices to be offered to the manes of this sage and of the magicians; but Prince Hardadaf informed him that they were not all dead, and that one of them, named Dedi, dwelt iu the city of Ded Sneirii. Prince Hardadaf described him as being a hundred years old, but ns still able to eat daily five hundred rolls of bread and the inmrter of an ox, and to drink a hundred fiagousof beer. He was able to unite a head to the trunk from which it had been decapitated: to make lions follow him like dogs, and he also knew the place where would be found cei lain precious materials of the house of the god Thoth, which King Cheops wns very anxious to have for building his pyramid. The King sent Prince Hardadaf to fetch the sage Dedi, whom lie found stretched upon his bed. Dedi consented to accompany him into th«- King s presence; and, upon being asaed by his majesty whether it was true that he could reunite a decapitated head to tlie trunk, replied in the atlirinat 1 ve; whereupon the King ordered a prisoner to be bi ought out tor <-x|H«< •age D«-«li asked that an animal might be supplied him and not a man; wliereu| >n a .<>o-v was brought. Its head was < ut off and placed in the east­ ern cot m i- of tiie chamber, with the b»sly in the western corner, and lh-di then pronounced a form of words, im­ mediately atiei winch tlie laid) got up and walked, ilie head wriggling along the pavem -tn until the tw«> met and r««- t»in«se then waddling away, bail lepeated -he same miracle with a duck and a bull, and the King then quest loticd Inm as to the liou-e ot Thoth. Dedi said that the materials winch the K«ug wished for were in a house al Heliopolis; but ttial he hail not the power to make them over to hitu; the ouij one wiio could do ao I mm ng the •Ideal one of tlie three eons whom Red lhsit ahould bear. IL-d Dedt. he add»«!, was the wife of the prieat of the Sun al bacbebu; ami she would bear three aons to a gu«i. ami liiuee three sons would all be King«, th«« eldest being also high prieal of llelioiMilla When th« King beenl those woru» he waa troubled. Then- is a bialua in the papyrue at thia point; and. without lasing to\d what courac King Cheopa baa «leteriuined aye-, we arrive al toe main tncideut oi the story—namely, the birth of the chil­ dren of the Sun. When Red Dedt felt the first pangs of childbirth, the Sun sent for the goddesses 1- s, Nephthys, Mesechent ami H«-kt. as well as the god ( ¡¡num, and said to them: “Deliver Red Dedt of the three children, who will one day be Kings in this land; they will build you tempi s. they will feed vour aitars, they will make you many liba­ tions, and will enrich your sanctuaries. The gods and goddesses assumed the shape of mortal women, and went to the house of the priest and offered to deliver his wife. The priest a- ¡ voted, and R U i)< dt accordingly gave birth to three ' oys an ell long and with lusty arms. Mesechent predicted that tin y would all reign; and tn• \ were, in tact, the 'hree rirst Kingsoftlu fifth dvm stv—Uaerkaf, Sahure, and Kaxar. T.'ie priest, full r * gratitude, gave corn to the suppose«: midwives, win» then to »a their flight in- tu empyrean. But when the divinities got near to the domain of tiie Sun, Isis -.aid, “How is it that we have wrougnt no miracle for the children whom we have delivered from their mother’s womb!” Thereupon, the goddesses stirred up a tempest, and. after having bd - banted the corn, caused the wind to When carry it into th-- priest’s house. Red Dedt. alter two week’s rost suited the management ot her house­ hold. the servant told her that the corn given to tie midwives was > til in the granary. Red Dedt sent her to fetch a little of it; but she returned in terror, saying that she iieard in the granary the sounds ot music and song “as when the birth of a King is being celebrated.” This miracle was nearly being fatal to the children; for. wle n Red Dedt upon one occasion punished her servant, the latter left the bouse in wrath and said to the neighbors: “How dares she to punish me. this woman who has given birth to three Kings! 1 will go and inform King Cheops.” Here the papyrus ends; so that no in­ formation is given as to what King Cheops did to gel rid of these future pretenders, nor how they escaped hie persecution; and this as Herr Lepsius, In his prefatory notice, remarked—is al. the more unfortunate because the papy­ rus evidently hands down a tradition of facts. Thus we may learn from it that Chephren was a eon of Cheops; that the fifth dynasty originated iu the town of Saehebu; that the three first Kings of it were brothers, ami that the eldest was priest nt Heliopolis before ascending to the throne. The papyrus in question is the oldest known document iu the popu­ lar tongue. MoMINNVlLLE Business College, Cor. 3d and 0 Streets, OVER YAMHILL COUNTY BANK, I* Aon Open. Attention is rt*H)s>ulfully invited to this BUSINESS SCHOOL. Its facilities for thorough practioal instrno­ tion; aotuiil business department a s|>eciaHv where ourreuiiy, bank check, drafts, etc., are lists!. Class, or private instruction day or evening. College Journal sent free on ap plication. Crayon Portrait Work a Specialty, r. O. Box 101 G. R. HIGGINS, Urin. ír ». OAB1UHON. A. H. QAUMT ----- AT THE EÜR1SKO MARKE! Where th«' luMt of menta can always I* found an«! at the moat rvaaonable prices, where the loin of beef ia«iivid« OUTE. 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