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CHAPTER m.
THE MESSENGER.
OIIE next day Menin was bend?
ing over fresh sheets of papy?
rus, and wi? ci* his son entered
and stood beside him he raised
Ids head defiantly.
"I have- another royal obelisk to deco?
rate,* he said, fixing the youn?* man
.with a steady eye, "of a surety--with?
out doubt-inevitably-for the thing is
aH but ready to be set up at On."
Before Kenkenes could ask for en?
lightenment a female slave bowed in
the doorway.
"The Lady Senci sends thee greeting
.and would speak with thee. She is at
the outer portal in her curricle," she
?aid, addressing Mentu.
vine great man sprang to his feet
glanced hurriedly at his ink stained
fingers, at his robe, and then fled across
the court into the door he had entered
to change his dress the day before.
Kenkenes smiled, for Mentu had been
. a widower these ten Nile floods.
The slave still lingered.
"Also is there a messenger ror mee,
.master," she said, bowing again.
."&>? Let him enter."
The man whom the slave ushered in
a few minutes later was old, spare and
bent but he was alert and restless.
His eyes were brilliant and over them
arched eyebrows that were almost
white. He made a jerky obeisance.
"Greeting, son of Mentn. Dost thou
remember mei"
The young man looked at his visitor
JPor a moment '
""I remember," he paid at last "Thou
-art Ranas, courier to Snofru, priest of
On."
.'Mine errand is urgent I am come
?rom Asar-Mut to thee. He bids thee
prepare for a journey before present?
ing thyself to him."
"Mine uncle is gracious. Salute him
?br me and tell him I obey."
The old man withdrew.
_When Kenkenes crossed the_court a
.-Ut?eT?mel?t?r," ne mTFliis father": '
- "The Lady Senci brings me news
mat makes me envious," Mentu began j
-at once, "and shames me because of j
. thee:" j
Kenkenes lifted an expressive brow ;
at this unexpected onslaught "Nay,
-aow, what have 1 done?"
^Nothing!" Mentu asserted emphat?
ically, "and for that reason am I
wroth. The Lady Senci's nephew, Ho>
tep, is the new chief of the royal
-?cribes."
call that good tidings," Kenkenes
replied, a cheerful note in his voice,
*^and worth greeting with a health to
Hotep."
The artist regarded his son scornfully
for a moment
"I have this moment been summoned
ty my holy uncle, Asar-Mut, to go on
a journey, and I know not when I re
ton," said Kenkenes.
..Humph!" the elder sculptor re?
marked. "Asar-Mut has kingly tastes.
The couriers of priests are.not usually
?rf the nobility. But get thee gone."
Tile pair separated, and the young
man passed into the house.
When, half an hour later, Kenker.es
'entered a cross avenue leading to a
great square in which the temple stood,
"he found the roadway filled with
people, crowding about a group of di?
sheveled women. These were shrieking,
wildly tearing their hair, beating them?
selves and throwing dust upon their
"beads. Kenkenes immediately sur?
mised that the^e was something more
tnan the usual death wail in this.
He touched a man near him on the
-shoulder.
"Who may these distracted women '
"tie?" he asked.
"The ni others of Khafra and Sigur ?
and their women."
."Nay! Are these men dead? I knew '
3hem once."
"They are by this time. They were !
to be hanged in the dungeon of the
"nocse of the governor of police at this i
"nour," the man answered, with mor- j
3>ld relish in his tone. Kenkenes look?
ed at him in horror.
"What had they done?"" he asked.
The man plunged eagerly into the nar- !
lari ve. j
.They were tomb robbers and robbed j
independently of the brotherhood of !
thieves. They refused to pay the cus- I
tomary tribute from their spoil to the ;
chief of robbers, and whatsoever booty ?
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they got they kept, every jot of it In?
numerable mummies were found rifled
of their gold and gems, and, although
the chief of robbers and the governor
of police sought and burrowed into ev?
ery den in the middle country, they
could not find the missing treasure.
Then they knew that the looting was
not done by any of the licensed rob?
bers. So all the professional thieves
and all the police set themselves to
seek out the lawless plunderers."
"Humph!" interpolated Kenkenesex
I pressiveiy.
"Aye, and it was not *ong with all
I these upon the scent until Khafra and
Sigur were discovered coming forth
from a tomb laden with spoil, and in
the struggle which ensued they did
murder. But the constabulary have
net found the rest of the booty, though
they made great search for it and may
have put the thieves to torture. TVho
knows? They do dark things in the
dungeon under the house of the gov?
ernor of police."
Kenkenes stalked off toward the tem?
ple, his shoulde.-s lifted high with dis?
gust.
Presently the avenue opened into the
temple square. The shadow of the
great structure darkened its approaches
before it was clearly visible through
the grove. The devotee entered a long
avenue of sphinxes-fifty pairs lining
a broad highway paved with polished
granite flagging.
Within the overarching portals Ken?
kenes was met by a novice, a priest of
the lowest orders, to whom he stated
his mission. With a sign to the young
i man to folLvw, the priest led the way
into the tepflple.
In a moment, Asar-Mut, high priest
to Ptah, appeared. He wore the priest?
ly habiliments of spotless linen, and,
like a loose mantle, a magnificent leop?
ard skin, which hung by a claw over
the right shoulder and, passing under
the left arm; was fastened at the
breast hy a medallion of gold and to?
paz. He was a typical Egyptian, but
thinner bf "Dp and "severer *?i counte
j nance than the laity.
"Kenkenes, I would have thee carry j
a message for the brotherhood. 3e thy j
i journey as quick as thy perception. I ?
ask thy pardon for laying the work of .
a temple courier upon thy shoulders, j
but the message is of such import that
I would carry it myself were I as
young and unburdened with duty as
thou."
"I am thy servant, holy father."
'T know, and therefore have I cho?
sen thee. My trusted courier is dead;
the others are light minded, and Tape
is in the height of festivity. They
might delay-they might be lured into
forgetting duty, and," the pontiff low?
ered his voice and drew nearer to Ken?
kenes, "and there are those that may
be watching for this letter. A noble?
man would not be thought a messen?
ger."
"I understand," Kenkenes said.
"Go, then, by private boat at sunset,
and Ptah be with thee." He put a
doubly wrapped scroll into Kenkenes'
hands. -"This is to be delivered to our
holy superior, Loi, priest of Amen."
Kenkenes bowed and withdrew.
CHAPTER IT..
THE PROCESSION OF A1TEN.
mHEBES DIOSPOLIS, the hun?
dred gated, was in holiday at?
tire. The great suburb to the
west of the Nile had emptied
her multitudes into the solemn commu?
nity of the gods. Besides her own in?
habitants there were thousands from
the entire extent of the Thebaid and
visitors even from faraway Syene and
Philae. It was au occasion for more
than ordinary pomp. The great god
Amen was to be taken for an outing in
his ark.
For once the magnificence of the
wondroti-j city of the gods was set
down from its usual pre-eminence In
the eyes of the wondering spectator,
and the vastness of the multitude
usurped its placa The bari of Ken?
kenes, seeking to round the island of
Band lying near the eastern shore op?
posite the village of Karnak, met a
solid pack of boats. The young sculp?
tor took In the situation at once and,
putting about, found a landing farther
to the north. There he made a portage
a?-ross the fiat bar of sand to the arm
of quiet water that separated the is?
land from the eastern shore. Crossing,
he dismissed his eager and excited
boatmen and struck across the noon
heated valley toward the temple. The
route of the pageant could be seen
from afar, cleanly outlined by hu?
manity. It extended from Karnak to
Luxor and, turning In a vast loop at
the Nile front, countermarched over
tho dromos and ended at the* tremen?
dous white walled temple of Amen.
Between tho double ranks of sight?
seers there was but chariot room. The
side Kenkenes approached sloped
sharply from tho dromos toward the
river, and the rearmost spectators had
small opportunity to behold the pag?
eant. The multitude hore was less
densely packed. Kenkenes joined the
crowd at this point.
Here was the canaille of Thebes.
Kenkenes slackened his paco when
he recognized the character of these !
spectators, and, after hesitating a ino- ?
mont, he huug the fiat wallet contain- j
fog the message around Iiis neck inside j
bis ka mis and pushed on. Every foot
of progress he essayed was snarlingly
- diluted .ur''* KHrfc of-?rc ?-!
sive stranger was guessed by bis si
perior dress, when ho was given
moody and ungracious path. But 1
finally met ah immovable obstacle i
the shape of a quarrel.
The stage of hostilities was suificien
ly advanced to be menacing, and ti
young sculptor hesitated to ponder, c
the advisability of pressing on. "WM
he waited several deputies of the coi
stabulary, methodically silencing ti
crowd, came upon these belligerenl
in turn and belabored the foremost in1
silence. The act decided the youn
man. The feelings of the rabble wei
now in a state sufficiently warlike 1
make them forget their ancient respe<
for class and turn savagely upon hh
should he show any desire to force hi
way through their lines. Therefore h
gave up his attempt to reach the ten
pie and made up his mind to remai
where he was.
At that moment several gorgeous li?
ters of the belated wealthy rammed
path to the very front and were S?
down before the rabble. Kenkene
seized upon their advance to prccee
also and, dropping between the firs
and second litter, made his way wit
little difficulty to the front With th
complacency of a man that has ran
and authority on his side, he turne
up the roadway and continued towar
the temple. He was halted before h
had proceeded ten steps. A litter rici
ly gilded and borne by four men cam
pushing through the crowd and was di
posited directly in his path.
But for the unusual appearance o
the bearers Kenkenes might hav
passed around the conveyance and COE
tinued. Instead he caught the COE
tagious curiosity of the crowd an<
stood to marvel. * The men were sta]
wart, black bearded and strong of fea
ture and robed in no Egyptian gart
They were draped voluminously h
long habits of brown linen fringed a
the hem, belted by a yellow cord wit]
tasseled ends. The sleeves were wid*
and showed the wristbands of a whit
undergarment. The headdress was i
brown kerchief bound about the brov
with a cord, also yellow.
While Kenkenes examined them ii
detail a long, indrawn breath of won
der from the circle of spectators caused
him to look at the alighting owner o:
the litter.
He took a backward step and halted
amazed.
Before him was a woman of heroic
proportions, taller, with the exceptioi
of himself, than any man in the crowd
Upon her, at first glance, was to be dis
cerned the stamp of great age, yet sh<
r-was as straight as a column and hei
hair was heavy and midnight black
Hers was the Semite cast of conn
tenance, the features sharply chiseled
but without that aggressiveness thal
emphasizes the outline of a withered
face. Every passing year had left its
rjark on her, but she had grown old
not as others do. Here was flesh com?
promising with age - accepting its
majesty, defying its decay-a sublunai
assumption of immortality. There was
no longer any suggestion of femininity;
the idea was dread power and unearth?
ly grace. Of such nature might the
sexless archangels partake.
"Holy Amen!" one of the awed by?
standers exclaimed in a whisper to his
neighbor. "Who Is this?"
"A princess from Punt [Arabia]," the
neighbor surmised.
"A priestess from Babylon," another
hazarded.
"Nay, ye are all wrong," quavered an
old man who had been looking at the
newcomers under the elbows of the
crowd. "She is an Israelite."
"Thou hast a cataract old man," was
the scornful reply from some one near
by. "She is no slave."
"Aye," went on the unsteady voice,
"I know her. She was the favorite wo?
man of Queen Neferari Thermuthis.
She has not been out of the delta
where her people live since the good
queen died forty years ago. She must
be well nigh a hundred years old. Aye,
I should know her by her stature. It is
of a truth tbe Lady Miriam."
At the sound of his mistress* name
one of the bearers turned and shot a
sharp glance at the speaker. Instantly
the old man fell back, saying, as a
sneer of contempt ran through the rab?
ble at the intelligence his words con?
veyed: "Anger them not They have
the evil eye!"
Kenkenes had guessed the national?
ity of the strangers immediately, but
had doubted the correctness of his sur?
mise because of their noble mien. If
he suffered any disappointment in hear?
ing proof of their identity it was imme?
diately nullified by the joy his artist
soul took in the stately Hebrew wom?
an. He forgot the mission that urged
him to the temple, and, permitting the
shifting, restless crowd to surround
him, he lingered, thinking. This proud
disdain must mark his goddess of stone
in the Arabian hills, this majesty and
power, but there must be youth and
fire in the place of this ancient calm.
A porter that stood beside him, em?
boldened by barley beer and the grow?
ing disapproval among the onlookers,
cried:
"Ha, by the rags of my fathers, she
outshines her masters, the brickmaking
hag!"
Kenkenes, Tho towered over the ruf?
fian, became possessed of a sudden and
uncontrollable indignation, He picked
the man on the head with the knuckle
of his forefinger, saying in colloquial
Egyptian:
"Hold thy tongue, brawler, nor pre?
sume to flout thy betters!"
The stately Israelite, who had taken
no notice of any word against her, now
turned her head toward Kenkenes and
slowly inspected him. Ile had no op?
portunity to guess whether her gaze
was approving, for the crowd about
him, grown wean of waiting, had be
come quarrelsome and was loudly re?
senting his defense of the Hebrews.
The porter, supported by several of his
brethren, was already menacing the
young sculptor when some one shouted
that the procession was in sight
Kenkenes once more turned toward
*un ^wfttkfRg between the
! crowds and the marching soldiers, in?
different to the shouts of the spectators,
lost in contemplation. But the proces?
sion moved more swiftly than he, and
the last rank passed him with half his
journey yet to complete. Instantly the
vast throng poured out into the way
behind the rearmost soldier and swal?
lowed up the sculptor in a shifting mul?
titude. For an hour he was hurried
and halted and pushed, progressing lit?
tle and moving much. Before he could
extricate himself the runners preced?
ing the pageant, returning the great
god to his shrine, beat the multitude
back from the dromos, and once again
Kenkenes was imprisoned by the hosts,
and once again after the procession had
passed he did fruitless battle with a
tossing human sea. But when the
street had become freer he stood before
the closed portal of the great temple.
The solemn porter . scrutinized the
young sculptor sharply, but the display
of the linen wrapped roll was efficient
passport In a little space he was con?
ducted across the ringing pavements,
under the vaulted shadows, into the
presence of Loi, high priest to Amen.
He spelled The lileraTTc writings upqn
the outer covering of the roll which
the young man presented to him and
asked with some eagerness in his voice:
"Hast thou traveled with all speed?"
"Scarce eight days have I been on
the way. Only have I been delayed a
few hours by the crowds of the festi?
val."
"It is well," replied the pontiff.
"Wait here while I see what says my
brother at On."
He motioned Kenkenes to a seat of
i?la?d ebony and retired into a curtain?
ed recess.
In a few moments the old priest
darted into the apartment, his wither?
ed face working with excitement.
"Go! G?r he cried. "Eat and pre-t
pare to rotura to Memphis with all
speed. ? Thine answer will await thee
here tonight at the end of the first
watch, and Set be upon tlj.ee if thou
delayest!"
Kenkenes, startled out of speech, did
obeisance and hastened from the temple.
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Take Hall's Family Pills for con?
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A hearing will be held before the
State supreme court on April 27 on
the constitutionality of the income
tax law. The hearing will come up
on petition of J. O. C. Fleming, a
prominent merchant and banker of
Laurens, whose attorenys Wednesday
secured a temporary injunction from
Chief Justice Pope restraining A. C.
Power, county auditor of Laurens
county, from taking any further steps
toward enforcing the terms of the said
act against the petitioner until the
question of its constitutionality has
been determined.
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W. A. Schr?ck," of Camden, has won
a damage suit against the Western
Union Telegraph Company for non?
delivery of a telegram under the
mental anguish act. He receives
$225.
A Woman Tells How to Relieve
Rheumatic Pains.
*I have been a very great sufferer
from the dreadful disease, rheuma?
tism, for a number of years. I have
tried many medicines, but never got
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two years ago, when I bought a bot?
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STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
i
Annual Meeting to Occur April 16,
17, 18. at Bennettsrille.
The annual meeting of the State |
Medica! Association will be held at
Bennettsville on April 16, 17 and IS,
and promises to be the largest gath?
ering of the association within its"
history. A number of distin?
guished physicians from other States
will be present, among whom are
Prof. Deaver, of Philadelphia, who
will deliver a lecture on gall stones;
Dr. Chetwood, of Xew York, and Dr.
Bettom Massey, of Philadelphia, both
of whom will address the meeting.
As delegates from Sumter, Dr. C.
P. Osteen, of Sumter, and Dr. F. M.
Dwight, of Wedgefield, will attend
the meeting and by reason of the fact
that Dr. S. C. Baker is a member of
the State board and Dr. "Walter
Cheyne, secretary of the county as?
sociation, both of these gentlemen
will be in attendance.
The scientific programme of the
meeting is said to be also the largest
one prepared for any previous meet?
ing and embraces 44 distinct papers.
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Salve. That is what twenty years of
usage has proven. Get the original.
Sold by all druggists.
Lucy Lipsey, the negro woman who
shot Dr. Linder at Union, has jump?
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Bitten by a Spider.
?Through blood poisoning caused
by a spider bite, John Washington,
of Bosqueville, Tex., would have lost
his leg, which became a mass of run?
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to try Bucklen's Arnica Salve. He
writes: "The> first application reliev?
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ORGANIZING A LYCEUM.
Movement to Have a Series of Lec?
tures by Distinguished Speakers
Next Winter.
Mr. J. F. Entzminger, representing
the Alkahest Lyceum Bureau of At?
lanta, is in the city for the purpose
of organizing a local lyceum and ar?
ranging fer a course of lyceum lec?
tures during the fall and winter sea?
son. He has made only a partial
canvas of the business section of the
town, but the hearty encouragement
he has received guarantees that the
lyceum will be organized with a mem?
bership sufficiently large to defray
the cost of the entire course.
The following are the attractions
proposed:
October-The Temple Male Quar?
tette.
November--John Temple Graves.
January-Maro, the Magician, and
Saxophone Quartette.
February-Edwin R. Weeks Co.,
Impersonator with Violinist and Pi?
anist.
March-George R. Wendburg or
Champ Clark.
Of course, the Alkahest Bureau has
on its list many other lecturers and
attractions and if the executive com?
mittee of the local lyceum, when or?
ganized, should desire other attrac?
tions than those above named, a
change can be made.
The cost of the entire series of at?
tractions to lyceum members will be
$4 for a double ticket admitting two
persons to each lecture or entertain?
ment.
The organization of the lyceum
will be an excellent thing for Sumter
and it is to be hoped that a sufficient
number of members may be en?
rolled to fill the Opera House.
PAY OF R. F. D. CARRIERS.
Statement as to the Recent Increase
and an Explanation of the System
of Carrying Packages and Solicit- .
ing Orders. *
Washington, April 7.-The fact
that there seems to be a general im?
pression that^the rural carriers of
the mail are 'badly underpaid, as well
as prohibited from earning something
on the side, led Fourth Assistant Post?
master General DeGraw to make the
following statement:
"Realizing that it would be just to
increase the pay of the rural carriers,
and at the same time protect the
mails from being padded with matter
upon which no postage was paid, the
postoffice department increased the
salaries of the men from $600, which ?
they were then receiving, to $720.
In my recent report I recommended
that there should be a further in?
crease of salary to $900, the begin?
ning of the fiscal year, July 1.
"This should enable the carriers to !
be fairly paid 'and to have the means ~
necessary to pay for the maintenance
of their horses and vehicles, but the
question of carrying packages and of
soliciting orders required careful
thought and discrimination necessary
to make it agreeable to the general
public, as well as to have such pro-^p
cedure conform with the postal re?
quirements.
"A carrier is entitled to carry any
package in bulk larger than that
which the postoffice department will
take, but he is not allowed to receive
remuneration for his services ;:rom *
the person who sends the package. In
all cases he must collect for services
from the recipient of such package.
"There was great complaint on
the part of the various newspapers
in certain localities against the carrier >
favoring one newspaper more than ?
the other and thereby increasing the
circulatorr of the favored one to the
detriment of the other one, and inasr
muc as the carrier was in a position,
to solicit and deliver newspapers as a
side issue it is reasonable to believe
that he could readily incraese the cir-\
culation of any newspaper in his ter?
ritory.
"Also if a carrier were allowed to
collect from a merchant who desired
to ship goods to local patrons by
means of the carrier would inflfiuence
the carrier to try to increase the bus
:n-=s of the merchant having such
facilities for delivering and at any
rate vould cause people to buy at the .
store if ^uch merchant, because it
would ce convenient.
"This would necessarily work a ^
hardship with the merchant who did."*
not employ the carrier as a delivery
agent, and for that reasn it is best
that all packages carried by the car?
rier which do not conflfiict nor com?
pete with his regular mail business
be collected for at their destination.
"During the early part of the win?
ter carriers resigned in great num?
bers because the pay was deemedVoy
them inadequate, but since the latest
increase has been assured by Con?
gress there have been no more resig?
nations than are usual, that is, of the
37,000 carriers there ^re usually an
average of 60 resignations per week."
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