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Th» Daily Reporter. AN EGYPTIAN ICOH a NCE. It Is Told in the Papyrus Kei-eutly Ac. qulred by the Berlin Museum. Entered in the Postoffloe at McMinnville for The National Zeitung gives the fol- Transmission Through the Mails as Sec : lowing interesting summary of the ond Class Matter. papyrus which the Berlin museum re- I oently acquired from the heirs of Rich- ------------- O------------- I ard Lepsitis. and the reading of which D. C. IRELAND. E. L. E. WHITE. j has only just been completed. This papyrus, which was written in the vui- D. C. IRELAND A Co., ! | gar tongue, is not only of archieologieal importance but of much literary inter PUBLISHERS. est; being neither more nor less than a historical novel, though left in an un T he D aily R eporter is issued every day finished state. The papyrus dates from in the week exoept Sundays, and is delivered j the sixteenth centuiy B. C., and from in the oity at 10 cents per week. By mail, 40 the eighteenth dynasty; but the story re cents per month in advanoe. Rates for ad lated in it goes back nearly a thousand vertising same as for T he W eekly R eporter . J ears to the reign of King Cheops, the abled builder of the pyramids. When the story opens King Cheops is among his sons and listening to Book <fc Job Printing. I i seated their tales of the miracles said to have We beg leave to annuunoe to the public been wrought at the court of his prede that we have just added a large stook of new cessors. Prince Chepbren, who after- novelties to our business, and make a special ■ ward built the second pyramid, related ty of Letter Heads. Bill Heads, Note Heads, , that a magician in the reign of King Statements, Business Cards, Ladies Calling Nebka had made a waxen crocodile Cards, Ball Invitations (new designs) Pro which, if placed m the chamber of a grammes, Posters, and all descriptions of wife untrue to her husband, would seize her and her paramour and deliver work. Terms favorable. Call and be oon- them over to the husband. Another yinoed. D. C. IRELAND & CO. Prince related that King Suefru. the father of Cheops, feeling oppressed and G W. GOUCHER. E. E. GOUCHER. not knowing how to “relieve his heart,” took counsel of a wise man; who ad Coucher & Coucher. vised him to go to the banks of the lake near the palace and let all the maidens PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. of the court row up and down the water. M c M xwnville - - - - _ O regon . This was done, and the monarch’s heart was relieved. But all of a sudden one Offioe and residence, comer of Third and of the maidens began to make lamen tations, for she had dropped a jewel in D. streets, next to the postoffioe to the water, which was forty feet deep. A magician was sent for, and, reciting an incantation, he coaxed the jewel up --------o------- from the bottom of the lake and re Late of New Orleans, La., turned it to the maiden. Cheops was so struck with won Piles and Fistula a Spe der King at these stories, that he ordered sac ciality Consultation rifices to be offered to the manes of this iYee. No Cure sage and of the magicians; but Prince Hardadaf informed him that they were No Pay. not all dead, and that one of them, fy Offioe with H. V. V. Johnson, M D^ named Dedi, dwelt in the city of Ded Sneirii. Prince Hardadaf described him MoMinnville, Oregon. as being a hundred years old, but as still able to eat daily five hundred rolls fka. M’OAIN. • H. HURLEY. of bread and the quarter of an ox, and to drink a hundred tlagons of beer. He McCain & Hurley, was able to unite a head to the trunk ATTORiiEYS.AT.LAW from which it had been decapitated; to j AND NOTARIES PUBLIO, make lions follow him like dogs, and he also knew the place where would be Lafayette, Oregon, found certain precious materials of the Especial attention paid to abstracts of title house of the god Thoth, which King I and settlement of estates in probate. Cheops was very anxious to have for Office—Jail buiding, up stairs. building his pyramid. The King sent Prince Hardadaf to fetch the sage Dedi, whom he found stretched upon bis bed. Dedi consented to accompany him into the King's presence; and, upon being Fashionable Dressmaker« asked by his majesty whether it was true fyThe Taylor System of Cutting and Fit that he could reunite a decapitated head to the trunk, replied in the affirmative; ting employed. whereupon the King ordered a prisoner Third street, Next to Bishop A Kay’s store, to be brought out for experiment. But MoMinnville. Or. the sage Dedi asked that an animal might be supplied him and not a man; whereupon a goose was brought. Its head was cut off and placed in the east ern corner of the chamber, with the Hair Cutting, Shnvlng and * tiara. body in the western corner, and Dedi then pronounced a form of words, im pooing Parlor. mediately after which the body got up and walked, the head wriggling along the pavement until the two met and re C. H. FLEMING, Proprietor. tained, the goose then waddling away. Dedi repeated the same miracle with a (Snooeseor to A. 0. Wyndham.) duck and a bull, and the King then Ladies and children's work a specialty. questioned him as to the house of Thoth. I have just added to my parlor the Dedi said that the materials which the largest and finest st<>ok of cigars ever in this King wished for were in a house at •itv. Try them. Heliopolis; but that he had not the power to make them over to him; the D C. IRELAND A CO., only one who could do so being the eldest one of the three eons whom R> <1 Dedt should bear. Red Dedt, he added, was the wife of the priest of the Sun at Bochebu; and she would bear three sons MclHiBBTille, Oreg«». to a rod. agd these three sons would all DR. I. C. TAYLOR. Mrs. M. Shadden. 15c SHAVING 15c. Fine Job Printers, Klugs, the eldest being also high Eriest of Heliopolis. When the King eard those wort's he was troubled. There is a hiatus in the papyrus at this point; and, without being told what course King Cheops has determined upon, we arrive at the main incident of 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 Isis, Nephthys, Mesechent and Hekt. as well as the god Chnum, and said to them: “Deliver Red Dedt of the three children, who will one day be Kings in this land; they will build you temples, they will feed your altars, 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 accepted, and Red Dedt accordingly gave birth to three boys an ell long and with lusty arms. Mesechent predicted that they would all reign; and they were, in fact, the three first Kings of the fifth dvnaaty—Userkaf, Suhure, and Kaxar. The priest, full of gratitude, gave corn to the supposed midwives, who then took their flight in to empyrean. But when the divinities got near to the domain of the Sun, Isis said, “How is it that we have wrought no miracle for the children whom we have delivered from their mother's womb!” Thereupon, the goddesses stirred up r tempest, and, after having enchanted the corn, caused the wind to carry it into the priest's house. When Red Dedt. after two week's rest, re sumed the management of ber house hold, the servant told her'that the corn given to the midwives was still in the Eanarv. Red Dedt sent her to fetch a tie of it; but she returned in terror, saying that she heard in the granary the sounds of music and song “as when the birth of a King is bein^ celebrated.” This miracle was nearly bein<r fatal to the Children; for, when Red Dedt upon one occasion punished her servant, the latter left the house 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 anti inform King Cheops." Here the papyrus ends; so that no in formation is given as to what I^ing Cheops did to get rid of these future pretenders, nor how they escaped his persecution; and this—as Herr Lepsius, in his prefatory notice, remarked—is all the more unfortunate because the papy rus evidently bauds down a tradition of facts. Thus we may learn from it that Chephren was a son of ('heops; that the fifth dynasty originated in the town of Bachebu; that the three first Kings of it were brothers, and that the eldest was priest at Heliopolis before ascending to the throne. The papyrus in question is the oldest known document in the popu lar tongue. The somewhat harsh provision of English law which gives almost every thing to the eldest son is curiously illus trated by the case of the Earl of Dur ham, who is now in this country, and bis brother. The two are twins, but one was born two minutes earlier than the other. The one is ealled the eldest son ' and inherits a princely income. 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