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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-
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interesting summary of the
ond Class Matter.
papyrus which the Berlin museum re-
I oently acquired from the heirs of Rich-
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I ard Lepsitis. and the reading of which
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papyrus, which was written in the vui-
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tongue, is not only of archieologieal
importance but of much literary inter­
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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
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their tales of the miracles said to have
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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
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Prince related that King Suefru. the
father of Cheops, feeling oppressed and
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not knowing how to “relieve his heart,”
took counsel of a wise man; who ad­
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near the palace and let all the maidens
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of the court row up and down the water.
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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
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from the bottom of the lake and re­
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turned it to the maiden.
Cheops was so struck with won­
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at these stories, that he ordered sac­
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rifices to be offered to the manes of this
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sage and of the magicians; but Prince
Hardadaf informed him that they were
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not all dead, and that one of them,
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Sneirii. Prince Hardadaf described him
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as being a hundred years old, but as
still able to eat daily five hundred rolls
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of bread and the quarter of an ox, and
to drink a hundred tlagons of beer. He
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was able to unite a head to the trunk
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from which it had been decapitated; to j
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also knew the place where would be
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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
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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
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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
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tained, the goose then waddling away.
Dedi repeated the same miracle with a
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duck and a bull, and the King then
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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
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Heliopolis; but that he had not the
power to make them over to him; the
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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
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to a rod. agd these three sons would all
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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.
His
twin-brother has an income about one-
tenth as large.
John O'Malley, of Dallas County,
Iowa, is 113 years old, and is still vigor­
ous, with mental faculties all bright.
He remem oers distinctly the Irish re­
volution of 1798, when the French land­
ed an army on the coast of Ireland at
Cal ala to aid the Irish in their struggle
against their English oppressors.
Mr.
O'Malley worked at the same forge in
Ireland sixty years, and left it nearly as
vigorous as when he began.
There are several towns in Montana
without a single unmarried woman, and
the local papers tell piteous flee of the
neb and eligible bachelors who are
traveling about from town to town loote-
taw far a wile.
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