The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1900. !\EW u:vnm}:nns. CIVIL SERVICE FOR 1 ALCOHOL AS BRAIN FOOD. CLERKS AND COPYISTS | fessor Arwnter Proves That Al- hol Is the Greatest Brain Food | LaTEe Number of APP“C“IOM Al- own to Science. i ready on File—Places to Be Filled 1 Under the New Charter. Service Commission yesterday afternoon | competitive examina- for clerks, copyi tenographers rs. The examination s will take ce on the ‘even- rch ncoln School. The for stenographers , will be held at the same »ning of March 1 ged for firs L L the ey f e er of ap- already AMUSEMENTS. ogray Lesnineg TREAT = COLUMBIA WE CURE || DISORDERS OF MEN. the Newest Work by Vietor Herbert VlCEROY A QUE —Last Weck of THE BC “TO\XA N3 TE DEVOTED of men. i xtensive in th is §1 e no time tor We make a parti le guara detention We show confidence in our abil- ity by waiting for payment until cure is effected. of at ing with any w nrs plain sealed inform General Debility Loss of Memory Blood Poson Epecial Diceases DR. TALCOTT & CO., 997 Market Street, Corner Sixth. Fhysical Decay Sleep essness Despondency Nervous Debility. ERY ACT OF THE NEW BILL A WINNER! FURNITURE BUYERS ! SWEEPING REDUCTIONS s oF “PHoNE souTH 770. EVERY EVENING AT 8:15 MATI EI DA of eniarging new goods. Try liberal credit THE REAL JEFFRIES-SHARKEY CONTE-T PICTL complete housefurnishing n ever. T BRILLIANT 838-340 POST ST, t and Stockton sts. Powell TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. DIRECTORY : OF RESPONSIBLE HOUSES. Catalogues and Price Lists Malia{ on Appucatlon rogud Him’ m, Nothing's Saf: FIFTH WEEK the Comic Opera, THE 1DOL’S EVE. Matinee Saturday at 2 nd Fusisess Is Larg.r Tham Lver. COAL COKE AND PIG 'RO J.C WILSON & C0-. £ 30, 0 5, LSVA ¢ elephone M C JOSEFH FOX. Supt CW.SKITH. D3P and 18 Wash FRESH AND SALT MEATS JAS BOYFS& 00.. Shicorog Butchers Clay. Tel. Main i FURS. 4 Kesn tyies Evening at § ALCAZAR THEATER. uos: orices. -emodeiing J. N. LGFSTAD, THIS WEEK 20cn ; e rom the Madiscn Square The- !l]_LA\]E]’TE s o l’ill.\‘l'l,\ L ' F.C FUGHES. o oZEBTER, o usanna G 7;TAI‘.0NE) AND PRL\}F?. PARTRIDGE ** i WHITE ASH STEAM COAL. 343" Be Atk MATINE TURDAY AND SUNDAY = — m— “2ex "' THE PRUD'EAL FATHER” awusewsyts GRAND OPERA-HOUSE CHLUTES AND 700. T PHC \I-_ MAIN 22 ERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ,THE CRY IS STIL L THEY COME!' NINY; BLANCHE LE CLATRE SLOAN PAUL | I LA CROIX ); VOLKYRA and ‘.)» EA NEW M TO-NIGHT— Ille Amateurs’ Garden Party! snum’v HIGHT, CAKEWALK ! ---PARK 3 AR PRICE yrehestra at Satarday Phone for Seats WESTERN run‘ ASSOCIATIO\ TANFORA « PARK. FOURTH MEETING, Feb. 12 to 24, inclusive Six high-ciass running races every weeh | day, ruin or shine, beginning at 1:30 p. m. — OF Tie ideai winter racetrack America. Pi ‘rud clr- m(a | VEREIN EINTRACHT . e ; MECHANICS’ PAVILION, | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1900, and 12:15, 12:35, 12: | ADMISSION, ONE DOLLARI GRAND PRIZE MASQUERADE THE — = s.rved for "l-mtfln’lnd their escorts. No smok- b Valencia street, 10 minutes later. an Jose and Way Stations—Arrive at San | Bru'\a ll u& . m. Lesve San Bruno at 4:00 | S can Francisco to Tanoran and re. | turn, including admission to track, $i Prfilfllflt. nager t race at Seats in rear cars rg.l 3. MARTIN, immediately " after | Reserved Seats 50 cents extra. F. H. GREEX, Secrviary and Ma e | feathe | early in the morning preparing to make | the transfer to his successor. He sent | a messenger to Mr. Sullivan to ascertain | | CRCHCHOR COROCICHO O 0 O DCEOICROROD CORRO SO0 O 9 G TORODDON000 o MAHONEY’S SUCCESSOR IS JAMES C. McKINSTRY QH e i e e e e e e e e e e e e e e ] SULLIVAN NOW IN' CHARGE 0 CITY'S POLICE Formal Installation Yesterday. w i BUT FEW CHANGES PROBABLE | Says He Will Be Guided by Their In- structions in His Course Toward Chinatown and Other Evils. i D R S, D e R e S IR R S S S Chief of Police Sullivan assumed the duties of his new office at 1 o'clock yes- terday afternoon.” There was no ‘‘fuss or about his introduction as the of San Francisco’s Police Depart- He just took his seat at the chlef's commenced to issue orders as to the manner born. Ex-Acting Chief Biggy was in the afflceg | head ment. desk a; if he should remain in the office until the | tter was ready to take possession. Chief allivan advised Mr. Biggy that he could nsuit his own convenience in the mat- ter. He was not certain as to the hour when he would assume charge of the de- partment and for that reason suggested that Mr. Biggy turn everything over to Captain Wittman. Mr. Biggy retired at once and for several hours the captain was in charge of the department. It was D e i o SR S SRS DS S SO . JAMES C. McKINSTRY, the New Fire Commissioner. @ nearly 1 o'ciock in the afternoon before | AYOR PHELAN yesterday announced the appointme s ¢ ¥ oy hiven :“‘;l;,’{:{.\‘,’ R’thL’«r‘}fi"lfS McKinstry as a member of the Fira ‘-.,mm,sqfé"fi"‘(é'“!.licffa J;T\':d (; ¢ « 5,00 bond as Chiet of Police. The | Mahoney. wWho was transferred to the Police Commission to fill the va- ¢ Pacific Guarantee Company is his surety. | cancy made by the retirement of Commissioner W. J. Biggy. Mr. Mec- Py When he entered his new office a large Kinstry is a Democrat in polities and a lawyer of high standing and ability. 7 v of his friends awaited him and His appointment will doubtless prove highly satisfactory to all who are in- ¢ °d their hearty congratylations. | % terested. z Py - Jmhq‘;‘j et ey The Mayor's latest appointee is a son of ex-Justice of the Supreme Court any radical changes that may be found | ¢ E. W. McKinstry, and with his father is a partner in the law firm of Stan- [ | necessary in the department. It is his | Iy, McKinstry, Bradley & McKinstry. He is a native of San Francisco and a ention to map out a_complete policy | [ graduate of § . Ignatius College and the Hastings College of Law, from which ¢ | with relation to Chinatown, the Nymphia | % institution he received his diploma in 18%. He then went to Spokane Falls, @ | -~ .Jnrx"‘ix:.:.?{?;;:“ a‘r:l a‘l'l, l\:eeseni:nk:ll‘ég; ‘Wash., where he began the practice of his profession as a partner with George 4 he proposes to work in harmony with the Turner, now representing the State of Washington In the United States Sen- Police Commission. He will make no ate. After five years in the north he returned to this and entered the | move without consulting the members and firm with which he is at present associated. ) will be 2 d entirely by their advice. In an interview vesterday afternoon Mr. McKinstry said that the appoint- ® | “It will take some time." said Chief Sul- ment tendered him by the Mayor came as a surprise, as he had not been ¢ | me famillar ;‘.“,';‘g.rfl?“::‘ consulted until his name had been announced. *I had as lieve try my hand, 4 | ‘“. _Shler, but L wit'fo 5o S S iy = sh,” nd will take up my new duties with a determination to | n to say anyt thing about probable fulfill them to the letter." the department. There has | P talk about the detectlve force @44+ 9+ 4406020000 siedsiedoeisdedeie@® zed, but I can see no neces ing 4 new man at its heac nt. The charter provides for a detective force nearly double in size to Warshauer and G |in the school. other charges, G. Donovan, teaeh Brann alleges further *hat filed against Kilpatrick | SCHOOL BOARD that now employed, but the Supervisors August 11, 1839, will be renewed by G. G. | ade no provisions for paying the | Donovan, R. Hooe and John Prescott. | additional men, which pre- | State Superintendent’ of Public Instruc. possibility of appointing them. | on . Kirk notified the board 2 Siate Educational Convention would | heid in this ecity on Thursday, A rll 12, 1300. The invitation of the board t the Convention of County iu'mr[nundenh of Schools also be held in this city was | noted th thanks in the communication, map out a complete policy of | 1 will pursue toward China- town, the Nymphia and the nickel-in-the- slot machines. Previous to taking any ction 1 awill consult the commissio and will look to them for instruction CONSOLIDATES FIVE CLASSES w new chief expressed a determina- | but as the former organization had pre- treat all of the attaches of ‘the | sumed that the board would provide a office with the utmost fairness. suitable hall for its convention, it was »es not contemplate making any thought that it would be tres| assmg to ges in the p,",v,“&,o] of :r;.nctxn h\lx; D ‘hr:‘lrrl’ the two conventions in z?nx city. ;und necess: © would 'he Civil Service Commission was LT G AT e suerr Attendance Deemed | ant, G W2, Lm0 T2 men to the vacancies. | e | Lincoln School for examinations. < Bohen, the present captain of Insufficient. | "The board ratified the action of Chair- wants less than two months Mark in renting additional premses | the x);rwa arsh "‘t‘,?\l;i'{' ‘unntaler\ . at 4040%s Twenty-fourth street for school ed condition in the chart n- purposes. 1im t fit of the increased The b ¢ an es on'tetiring. Thers ix o pronaviity | TEACHERS ARE TRANSFERRED |, q"Siorhitndr were¥atorred o Birectes hanges being made in that brancl = Casserly for investigation. i ent until then sterday appointed Charles vate secretary to succeed P. Sullivan appointed It is understood that is a tem; | The California Chapter of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution submit- | ted a prepared list of topies relating to revolutionary ard eolonial history for the seventh, eighth and ninth grades, which was taken under advisement. Petition for Decrease of Home Study ‘Will Be Considered at Next Meet- ing—XLeaves of Absence e s appointment orary | [ \ | of racter, but it e quite likely that it | The board decided to take action at the will be made permanent. | Granted. next meeting on the resolutions of the ] S | Wi -n;rn Adrglt!nn Im)\;v-\'rment Club ad- vocating a decrease of home study for PHILHISTORIANS TO DEBATE.| Th. poard of Education at its meeting | pupils. : 5 5 PEaD = vesterday persevered in its announced| The Superinterdent's report that the ap- Will Discuss the Pros and Cons of | 1 W50 Co) ™ asses in the public | Elication of Principal 8. A. Miles of e the Philippine Question. Sehaals a result five schools will | Sberidan School for an extra teac her be ; . 8 Fes hools will | jenjed was approved and the classiflea- | t Tuesday evening the members historian Debating Society of College will commemorate the in the future on the dafly attenda 33 have one teacher le ground that the average does not warrant the employment tion will remain as at present. The application of Miss Ella Mansfleld | as teacher of physical cuiture was placed | on file and a similar action was taken | > venth anniversary of thelr or- | many pedagogues as are now in the de- with appropriate exercises &t | partment. The resolution providing for | Ntk & st of twenty other Wk o | ege Hall, Van Ness avenue and | fhe consolldation state that the efficiency | & 3 A feature of the exercises street. Department will not in REV. B. FAY MILLS TO Tl o8 Pt the retention ““:"‘Yfi?"p{m solved. That the aaon. 2 MIT | ber of teacher: pin Islands by the Cnited States s Just | °5, I, e das puge SPEAK HERE NEXT SUNDAY & Imse: nst the —_— » me of the most entertaining and c. icing members of the soclety have be cted pres. the affirmative a In addition to the a musical and literary programme Sc tion of classes tak: stand on the qu.mnn of t ing impaired, but consoli less goes merrily teachers oppos efficienc, Arrangements have been made for Rev. Benjamin Fay Mills to deliver in Metro- politan Temple next Sunday at 4 p. m. the be- ation neverthe- on and will go on until | ne ‘,.m~ & argum: deba find themselves arranged as follows: st st ;fr‘f-"h Seachers I jnemselves | address which attracted the largest con- | (Offenbach): remarks ol ons. ollc soli- i bor dnbeimbled tnv the Tnt o e gt > - | gregation that ever assembled in the Un L. ‘Fltapatrick: reading, | dations were ordered to take effect im- | STeRRHOD AR SVEE ErtiO O L dite mediately: rium, Sunday school room, parlors, dining | se who W e deba Rincon School, one teacher, Miss M. A. Mul- Zhoey Wi 80 take part In the debate | Rincon Bonoo omgol. one ieacher. teacher to | Foom, galicries and vestibules. The sub- | i be consolidated out hot yet selected; Sutro | ject was “The Claims of Liberal Religion | First affirmative, Daniel C. Deasy: first nes- | School, one teacher, Miss M. L. Folsom: Park | on the Modern World,” and it was one of | t; second atfirmative. | School, one teacher, Miss Lucy Wade; Han- | Mr. Mills' finest efforts. He is said to | negative, Frank L. | cock’ School, class consolidated and substitute kave lost none of his evangelical fervor recallod It was also resolved that the outside cl-n‘ rooms in the Richmond and Sutro schools be abolished and that the rent of said class rooms and magnetic power which ne had when | he attracted audiences of several thou- sand night after night during five weeks to the Mechanics’ Pavilion eight years Music and an essay by Willlam Weyund wiil bring the affair t6 a close. R i e £ - B Sl | cease March 1: that the fil; ago. ; Insurance. and it ETades o e ey ehoer | In 1575 Mr. Mills was a_clerk in a real Equitable’s annual statement for the | "0T "IN G0 AL can accommodate the | estate office in this city, When he was 20 ng December 31, 1899, furnishes | said pupils: that Miss M. L. Folsom, heinx‘\enr\ of age he passea his theological ex-.| alundant food for thought. The me consolidated from the Sutro b0l be assigned | amination and was ordained to the Con- prominent features are: Outstanding as- | 1o the Rintor hool during the leave of mu‘ gregational mimistry. He was a promi- pros g Morton: that Miss Lucy Wade. being consoll: | Ront cvangelist for several years, Holding . $1,054,416.422 (notwithstanding the be ‘assigned to the suran dated from the Park School, ViV a v 3 fact that more than thirty-four millions | Rincon School, vice Miss G. B. Chalmers, re- | §{_“;R‘ ?fiffzm:fir:'gl::-fififih"°w'?,..'°1“‘.‘,,‘,“’; pplied for was declined on examination); | SiEned: that, Mise Asnge, MoLScssn 0% % | Seven years ago he delivered an address | urance issued 3 £ned to the Jefferson choo ¥ jew hasurance lesisd 5”03“1“‘209'*2 L assets. | Hamill, dece that o leave of absence be | at the Parliament of Religions on the | S .19 3 éfll dN’D IS, | granted to Mies E. A. Keating, Miss g“,,mm‘ topie, “Christ the Bavior of the World #1117 47 disburse- | MDonald and Miss Margaret Cu | He gradually changed his theological ents - e _| views un: € announce himself as a | come § povalter 8. Bramn, 4 teacor I e ™" | minister of the Unitarian denomination, | I'nrrnv = and for two years he preached to large | unprofessional conduct and _unfit ally for A com petency, a = ¢ bebrs ?Lr‘ fortieth ‘annunl statoment. The | ness for teaching against E. C. Kilpat- | Sonstegations in Music Hal}l{par:lorii;gnsl‘ re than tweatv-four millions | Fick. principal of the Business Evening B TRt By vt & | ras paid to uitable’s | School, on January 29, 1599, filed a request for him to take a rest that the board take up the charges. He |, 2 | sald that the Judiciary Committee of the | 214 a change of climate. He came to Sac- | old board had ordered an investigatic | ramento upon private business, ‘and the Oate. Ae stigation. | pagtorate of the Unitarian church, Oak- | Dolicy holders dufing the year—an average D¢ more than two millions a month—illus- irates the immense good accomplished by fnhurfu\ and sound life assurance soci- | {A‘l(x)tn'h“h.ia(r}r‘tré:u;(‘l':u;:ng;; :‘lngiosl;‘hrL I !ln,z)‘,'; g:l‘r? :Mi":um was ';?.med to @il | e e | nary 29, 189. A declston adverse to Kil- | i o™ Sunday mornings for three months | Lecture on the Social Question. | patrick w »‘w';:“’l’;{"'}n{""‘ge{;ge A the | He has had large congregations and has s no awakened a great interest In religious | A. H. Sanborn will deliver a free lecture | case. A copy of the charges has been filel | of Sciences | with Chairman Mark and reclites that Kil- atrick attempted to blackmail W _W. avidson, John Daniells, Miss Nora subjects. The church people desire tha he should centinue his services. but he is undecided In regard to his future fleld of work. His many friends in this city want him | to speak here before he leaves the coast. | He has signified his willingness to do so if | Sunday _afternoon will be acceptable. | Those who have charge of the meeting | assured Mr. Mills that he will have a | | warm greeting by very appreciative hear- | | ers. They also assure those who differ from him that they will be pleased with | the presentation of his opinions and ad- | mire his spirit of tolerance and charity. | All are cordially invited. —————— | Petition to Open Public Streets. The Board of Public Works yesterday | referred a petition from residents of the Fairmount tract, west of the Southern Pacific Railroad, to C“tl’ Engineer | Grunsky for investigation. The petition | | contained a request that St. Mary's ave- | nue be opened across the railroad t and through private property, the depth of one lot, to Arlington street. The City Engincer the extension desired would be dangerous, and suggested that an overhead crossing a block to the north be constructed. The board denied the request of Mau- rice Case: bulld an additional story on the b Idlug at 130 Ellis street, on the ground that it would conflict with the fire w‘ld'hn‘"c!:-ll Park d Missl S e Holly Park an ission St Improvement Club petitioned the bonm:; to open Richmond avenue and East Parl street to Andover street, thereby mnm it possible to have the streets graded .ns sewered. The City Engineer was in- structed to lnvelug-teA —_——————— A Young Bride ‘Was planning to furnish a house last week and came to us because she had heard we carried c: weaves and designs Misston-street low pr! Furniture Company. evening at the Academy . $19 Market street, on the subject, vey of the Social Question.” i | 1 Sur I am closing out my stock of these Beits at the very lib- eral reduction of HALF PRICE. These are the Beits with a 380 years’ reputation as the greatest remedy in the world for all pains and 2 weakness of man and woman. Call and exam- 2 ine and test these Belts, or write for the tree book, “Three Classes of Men,” mailed free. DR. E, P. H AL LION DRUG CO., Cor. Stoekton and Market Btroets, OO CHOCHOROHOR O O ACRRORENH g | SAN FRANCISCO. BOHOHO 01 QO DROICHOROIOROIRONO: | brought | they | all_that has si | ered my face and I saw that the serpen AGE OF PYRAMIDS, OBELISKS AND TEMPLES. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. GOLDEN AGES OF LITERATURE. 1. BY PROF. PAUL ELMER MORE, Harvard University Even to the men of anclent Greece and | | Rome. land of dar something of the Esgypt and to us of old mystery and allurement still to the dwellers on the Nile. Heradot away admiration for this peo- ple, whom he v did everything exactly opposite to the rest of the world. And Plato declared the Greeks were but children, ignorant of was a day al | life, in comparison with the riper civiliza- tion of Egypt. From a careful study of inscriptions and papyrus manuseripts wa | have come to know many things ahout the land that were dark to the wise me: of *!hr'n‘ We not lea. from the priests of tk that Herodotus religion is in quite false, but we have still m discover. Yet in one respect our toward the iand has not changed that of Plato and his contemporaries. civilization is indeed old. and gives authentic records that go farther probably than any others of the tro and a strange immutability possess the land. It s this antiquity and immutability’ that more than anything else lend » mystery to the peapie of the Nile. The vast pyramids. the solemn temples, the placid reiterated forms of sculpture, the Sphinx staring out upen all these affect us with the sama time awe of magnitude and long enduring that aroused the wonder of anci the written I:"‘z\nxfl s us in the same no more romantic cha; -Pr in the tory of scholarship than the deciphering of the hierogiyphs. Tn 170 one of N leon’'s officers discovered at Roset stone containing an inscription in roglyphic and demotic wiiting with Greek translation, and the attempt to de- THE ROSETTA STONE. cipher the Egyptian characters by mes of the Greek gave the first real imp to the_ stud But it remained for other Fre imdn. Champ the key to these strange s gan his study of the language in 18 in nine years had laid the foundation’ The ptians »m writing—the hierc ic, used espec demotic, of L ance, used eople. Tt glyphic iz com; pictures an ventional sig tdeas and others mere sounds. instance, the picture of a vulture is to signify the word, and such a pict called an ulvflgra?b The phonetic signs. on the other hand, form a sort of 1lpha- bet, and in a_ curious, primitive way Thus the word for lion (as in English) be- gins with L, and accordingly the picture of a lion is made to stand L; the woru for noose begins with O, the picture of a noose does duty for as a cursive arawn for the =:nn:! r letter. The hieratic derived from the hieroglyphic, and was adopted by the priests as more readily written than the other. Inscriptions on stone reach back as far as the fourth dynasty—that is, to about %M B. C. Besides these there are pre- served in the tombs and elsewhere innu- merable writings on wood and manu- seripts on a sort of paper made of drl? of the inner fiber of the papyrus reed. n | this way the bulk of Egyptian documents that have come down to us is enormous, extending over a period of about 4000 and embracing almost every branch literature. Perhaps the most interesting of these documents to us (apart from the famous *“Book of the Dead") are the short stories, a considerable number of which | have been published in easily accessible translations. For__example, “Egyptian Tales,” edited by W. M. Flinders Petrie, two lumes; Methuen & Co.. 13%. It cannot be claimed that these stories have great intrinsic value as literature. | a PTOLEMY II AN™ PTOLEMY I AND BERNICE. ARSINOE cotn struck to announce the deification of Ptolemy I and his wife.) But, on the other hand, they do posse: what commonly forms the chief interes: of exotic works; they enable us to trans- port ourselves to slranse lands and past times, and so to extend our sympathies. To read these stories in chronological or- der would show us that in Egypt fiction passed through stages very similar to the growth of the modern novel, and as Mr. Flinders Petrie obsérves: “It would not be difficult from these papyrus tales to start an_historical dictionary of the ele- ments of fiction.” The best of the tales are “The Ship- wrecked Sailor” and “Anpu and Bata.™ (Gold | The former is the story of a sallor cast a | strange _adventure with a monstrous ser- | upon a magic island, where he has pent. “‘Suddenly,” the tale goes, “I heard a noise as of thunder, which I thought to be that of a wave of the sea. The trees shook and the earth was moved. I unco! drew near. He was thirty cubits long and his beard greater than two cubits; his body was as overiaid with gold and his color as that of true lazull.” The other story, that of the two brothers, acd Bata,” tells in simple, beautiful lan- guage the well-known incident of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, and this is the more | interesting to us because it ‘was probabiy enough written about the time of Jo-| seph’s sojourn in Egypt. There is, too. real delineation of character in the story, and the picture of the young Bata leading the cattle to the pasture in the morning and bringi them back in the evening, with its quaint touches of old world com- munion with nature, forms an idyl of genuine and permnnen( value. Careful study of documents and inscrip- tions the world over has of course give: 1 thess- AL X i » @Pz INSCRIPTION ON A ROCK, ISLAND OF = ELEPHANTINE. us truer notions o! ancient religions, in one respect it has added only md_ t fi.m To our understanding. When edge ‘depended chiefly on one of two THE LITERATURE OF EGYPT. | = attach | ted, because, as he said, | .u» have no X bab | god and | of | “Anpu | who had written e subject. it was easy onception of the religion t wider informa~ h unity ever ex- p naturally and diverse tenden- grouped t every nome, or prov- tHar KmL and ceremont of time these dif- f flowed together orm what may be called the Egyptian glon the resulting ¢ never entirely obliterated names of a great attributes of many | defined, but of a uniform tion isted. were the res repancies w We | know , and the m are fairly well tem of bellef PHARAOH'S BED. and, in fact, it ping now he were su- pramo especiall from these stance, th for example flesh as seives in read : moral precepts of | this ancient people, and in finding that as far back as time goe: rality is still the same and always re « zation. Sometimes recepts quite separated from eral we may say t yptians wers more ad moral than in their re: iglou ers of their max ims breath rituality, as, for ex- eligion because were tl of man is immo: In a cer- tain sense this stateme rue, aithough to be & other peo- borrowed the doetri dwellers on the ples -4\’ the of immortality s stand as the dead. rms us, and apiro(l no this tombs. f called eternal habitation: magnificence fn_their construc they called the houses of the living inns to be inhabited only for a little while, and | took small care to adorn them.” We do not quite unde: the Egyptians ng their tombs d. They seem of the resurrec ved In a { the man, called his KA which hovered near his dead body and re- | ceived nourishment from the KA of the food which was offered up by the man's relatives in the tomb. All this while the actual soul of the man was supposed to be going a journey down a mysterious river that flowed through the region of death, as the Nile flowed through Egypt. On the way he had to encounter all sorts of devils and monsters w attemp to seize him nd to escape these it was necessary to | repeat certain magic formulae. ese | tormulae were collected in the so-called “Book of the Dead.” a copy of which was commonly buried with the corpse to re- fresh his memory during the journey,anrd which, though of little philosophie or in- trinsic interest, is much the best kmown work of Egyptian literature. At the end of the journey the soul entered the great kall of judgment. where before Osiris and forty-two judges he must give an ac- cour” of his life. His heart was weighed in c.e arm of the scales and the law of righteousness in the other. If his heart | were so caref and in pr to have had some tion of the body sort of double | THE SPHINX. weighed the balance he was allowed ts ass on Into the heavenly realm, where n some way he became forever more identified with the god Osiris. PAUL E. MORE. Harvard University. Board of Equalization Inspects Pre. liminary Work. Two members of the State Board of | Equalization—T. O. Toland and Alex Brown—accompanied by State Controller | Colgan and Secretary C. M. Coglan, yes- | terday paid an informal visit to Assessor ™ | Dodge for the purpose of ascertaining what progress had been made In the pre- | liminary work of making up the city's assessment roll. The members of the board inspected the books and expressed themseives as satisfled with the result. An informal discussion was held regard- ing what the law contemplates in the methods to be followed in assessing cor- ponuons other than rallroads, that own | dpeny in various counties of the State and whose place of incorporation is in the city. There appears to be a differ- ence of opinion as to whether the city or State has power to assess. No con- clusion was arrived at and the matter w" postponed for future consideration. The assessment roll of the city and coun- {y was not mentioned in the discussion, ugh Assessor Dodge took oemdon lo deny that he had ever ug member of the board with the objoet o! rllll;‘ the assessed valuation ut this city $100,000,000. Dodge stated th: n he had no preconceived ideas as to as- would A-m:-l o sessment