Show KERBY HOPPERS QUEST FOR FOB VITALITY IN AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY patience and science won lit at last A pair fair egyptian who fell in a 0 trance while reading beading adest a test book during the time I 1 was N as living in the hague said protestor professor kerby hopper in an interval ot of the mandolin u in band was playing at our table W chote ho te that evening when I 1 was living at the hague some gome thirty years ago I 1 was very well acquainted with dr faas van clip who died ast week I 1 saw a passing reference to his death in the commercial advertiser A few lines they were his epitaph th thirty i r deais e ais ago the newspapers would h hive a v e printed ted columns on oil hie death ali ah it Is 13 a great thing to know when to die it Is an art arl unfortunately it Is 13 not an art that Is cultivated to any great e extent 11 but t wh what at did dr fans faa van clip ac eipl bild daj com comp ash h i in n h his 1 lifetime I 1 fe me win what at clip d did d ace h ho do that was worth a thirty column obituary I 1 asked it is not ot a story to be told cippant 1 ly y 1 protessor ro fe s s 0 r X kerby ei b hopper sat said alid between t w e e n a r mandolin n L n do il n w wat itz and a polka it if you really wish ts to inform your yourself set upon one of the most curious discoveries ot of ule the century I 1 shall 1 tie ie to tell you the story atter after the lne coffee 11 As we dined our way to the coffee punctuating the courses with sharp amel ing cigarettes professor kerby hopper discussed the lighter matters ot of the l he hague you have seen been paul potters bellr bull he observed much might have been made mad ot of that young man ile he died too soon as s great a tault fault us as dying too late virtually tie he Is 18 known by that one painting did you ever think ot of the extraordinary number of men who are known by one painting one copy of 0 verses one book or one speech it Is remarkable yes my young friend there axe are very good piet pictures ure in the hague jan steen sleen metsu mierlo wilhelm wilha im I 1 mean are very well represented curtails curious how the cities have preserved the works of different painters now to study van eyck you must go to ghent Is at burgess rubens Is 19 at antwerp french italian english painters are scattered owing to a lack ot of that good dutch parochialism 1 the coffee was served speaking ot of dr caas van clip 8 said aid I 1 to be sure said the professor speaking of dr faas van clip I 1 have not forgotten toy ray promise my young friend the doctor was waa a very great man intellectually physically he was live five feet high and tour four feet broad built for sitting and thinking thirty years ago he lived a few doors door from the tha earlier corner ot of the Kalver markt and the almost opposite theold hotel ot of marshall de turenne which has since I 1 believe been demov removed c it the hotel Is gone I 1 remarked the canal Is filled up and the old bridge which crossed from the Hou straat has been carted away I 1 professor kerby hopper quoted latin dr van clip lie he went on was an illustrious egyptologist he knew the interior 0 ot f the pyramids as well as the interior ot of ills his tobacco pouch the only woman he ever loved was a bituminous fragment of one of the daughters of the house ot of sesostris Sea he used to get drunk on hieroglyphics we all get drunk my young fi filand lend some of us on wine some of us on love it makes no difference caffeine opium literature politics roses religion or women we get drunk on one of them dr van clips tipple was hieroglyphics A dry wine 1 I suggested 1 I was his pupil professor kerby hopper continued and I 1 trust you will permit me to say I 1 was not unworthy of him ali ah th the a wonderful things that I 1 knew in those days names and dates the garbage of knowledge have passed out of my mind lut but the elephantine dynasty the fifth of those mighty ruling families I 1 shall never forget never tears came into the old mans eyes and a sob was in his throat forgive me I 1 lie le said 1 I was thinking of 0 my wife I 1 did not see the connection but made no reply have you on ever heard asked the professor leaning forward and glaring into my eyes ot of mummy wheat of what I 1 asked in astonishment for the change ot of subject was to sa say the least abrupt mummy wheat man mummy wheat of 0 course I 1 have it Is g grain rain found in the folds of the cloth which wraps a mummy naturally it Is old as the mummy but it wont salo ut you know the london times said so BO the other day the london times pout pour for the london times dr sullivan says it will and does and has but my young filand the kerty kerby hopper ila has 9 eaten the broad bread made flom wheat g grown rown bom the seed found in the garments garment 3 of a mummy laid away lit in the this dynasty years before christ 1 I beg your pardon n granted my young friend said professor E kerby erby hopper 1 I hope you wit will I 1 riot not fall into that error again it Is very simple wrapped in these emenes hidden from light and change of torn temperature pera ture the gral grain n preserves all its capability ot of growing its vital principle it if I 1 may put lut it so merely sleeps the years go by hundreds ot of years thousands of 0 years a cons ot of years shut in that narrow seed the principle of 0 life sleeps perchance to dream all who can tell drought brought again into the sunlight it wakens to life have I 1 made this clear my your young ig fi filand lend quite clear but dr faas van clip and his pupil not unworthy of him went a step farther they argued together over their pipes it if the glain of 0 coin comes to life after eight thousand years of mummified minified existence why the professor paused his pur purple le face glowed behind lite hla two pairs 0 spectacles ills his eyes named famed triumphantly there was triumph too in ills his voice why should not a mummy return t to 0 life why sl should it not walk about as once in thebes Is a grain of corn better fitted to hold the vital principle than man answer me man answer in me C vell you see I 1 replied rather w weakly the wheat was vaa always alive tie the case was one of suspended animation but the like man was dead the Egypt egyptians lans never emba embalm lined ed a man until lie ho was dead ah ah my young friend ill make of yet but liow do you know they never embalmed embalm ed a man until lie he was dead how do you know do we never bury a man alive have you read history have you read the newspapers burled alive why not it hap happens pelis now why should it riot not have happened then A man fell in a state of 0 lethargy in a cataleptic trance and was suddenly embalmed embalm ed or the unfortunate dunate mummy was the victim of a crime embalmed embalmer embalm ed in secret after atti r hav in r received a blow which stunned and relve elve d it did not till kill why not can Y you on riot not irmagine imagine the scene the fair egyptian shamber chamber th amber the lover enters with wit h a cry of jealous Jea louii rase rage the husband hlin him down in falling failing his licad hits the stone feet of 0 the ilia bed sho she la Is sobbing robbing among unions the pillows lie ile will ner nener ne r so bob b again me he is senseless they think him dead whit Is to bedone be done bury him of course but as was usual 11 in those days the murderer embalms lit him lie he wraps the body in fit the prepared clothes after ha haeng ing made the hie ordinary preparations such as taking gout out the brain arid and removing the viscera and at dead of night bides blics the mummy in a chamber ot of the 11 pyramids and all I 1 the ie while the victim Is n not 6 1 dead dead j nol 0 I 1 le ie was wa a only 81 tinned F bior eight 1 thou s land and years ear lie he midy 7 have I 1 lain aill there stunned and unable to move but alive and nd it may be in his hl pagan way dreaming of bevc revenge lige how many cases t t this h sort there must have been I 1 orp i 0 lofessor kerby hopper smiled with t he air or of one who has baa disposed ot of a difficult problem so we argued dr FOSS van clip a nd ind L I 1 the coverings which could pr preserve c e r v c f from r 0 m e or i u p tl 0 n tile the body might nv veil e 1 1 p preserve r e se rv c t the h e v vital i t at spark dimmed but lut unquenched but D ut to prove it I 1 ventured to say Is a dill difficult matter indeed it was waa a difficult matter said professor Kerby hopper you may remember that about thirty years ag ago the ume lima of chica I 1 speak a 3 great many mummies were sent seni to europe from rom egypt we examined them nil ill those which went to london paris mater dam every one ona thil that was sont ami from rom its native home we rushed from institute to private dealer and from private dealer to institute we examined every mummy sent bent from egypt or r from fr in the mummy manufactories manu factories of connecticut conno 0 in vain for r or a long time it was I 1 in n vain they were e U useless mummies as aj far as we were concerned though ground up they made excellent sepia or van dyck brown at last one mummy seemed to be a 0 hopeful a subject u abject gently we undid the tightly wound coverings it waa the mummy of a fair young girl serl wrinkled m now v a and n d b brown ro w n i tout bu t very v ery be beautiful a u t it L tl th the e h hair a lr 1 in n a all 1 it its s b black m c k and g shining h 1 n I 1 n g lengths fell aagut her slim body 1 lii I one of the little hands was held a papyrus scroll it was the of atall hosep who was the MI bill nye of 0 the ilia rol rolan agn of assa oddly enough they use the same jokes it was dull reading but on one corner the fair maid had painted her name 1 I am the book ot of the daughter of assa the king poor child I 1 again the old did man wept and again he excused himself by the illogical remark that he was thinking of lite his wife very gently we laid her slim brown body in a prepared bath through which wandered pale little currents of electricity tri city gradually we increased the intensity of of the electric current in tn days the eyelids moved in fifteen days day I 1 the lips opened she breathed her little hands and aim feet stirred the fluid of the bath her flesh filled out and grew brighter and rosier she stepped from the bath at last pale and weak but alive in every alber r we blushed and covered her with a r red ed and yellow bathrobe which was in the room alive I 1 exclaimed she lived said the professor she stepped from the bath september 3 1863 hers was a sad story it seems she had been reading atah book one sunny afternoon when she tell fell into a trance the foolish physicians of the court thought she was dead she was wag embalmed embalm ed and laid away in the tombs of f her ancestors poor child she came to life almost in my arms was not that worth waiting years for I 1 do not know but in those days I 1 was a handsome fellow tall and straight with a slender mender waist and eyes eye a of commanding power that n night I 1 after she had retired dr falls faas van clip said to me my boy you must mairy her 1 starry farry the mummy I 1 exclaimed yes said dr van clip 1 I can see she loves lovea you and think think my son of what a magnificent experiment it will be 1 I saw he was right she loved me and it would be a glorious experiment I 1 have always been curious in matrimony she was poor to be sure her entire posse possessions consisted of a strip of yellow linen but was she not a pi I 1 ancess ot of the house of assa of the elephantine dynasty she was I 1 hesitated no longer we va were married by dominie gils van duijn at the church in the Nicu markt dear little she was my third wife but first in my heart I 1 thought she might have given me an heir worthy of the kerby hopper name dear child she pined away night after night when I 1 would return from rny my scientific which often kept me out very late I 1 would find her ive weeping over atah hoops book her little eyes red with the saline effluvia I 1 think that book was responsible tor for her unhappy end one night when I 1 returned I 1 noticed she was lying on the bed I 1 noticed that her eyes were unusually lull dull and her face seemed peaked and dark it was an interesting phenomenon which I 1 thought dr van clip would like to observe I 1 summoned him he looked at her lying there so peacefully and at last whispered to me my boy I 1 le lieve have she Is in a trance it was too true she had fallen into a lethargy with the jest book in her hand as she had once years before our faces cices wt wet with tears we watched her my lly god dr van clip cried after a moment she Is mummifying mummify ing again quick prepare the bath 1 I stayed him with ray my hand band yes tes I 1 said poor child she sh Is mummifying mummify ing again in a few all will be over 11 put but the bath dr van clip shouted we can save her poor man I 1 never saw him so excited I 1 sympathized with him I 1 knew how his hopes were set upon we this experiment peri perl ment but it was I 1 who was married to her no I 1 said firmly let us not attempt ter ampt to 0 thwart the lie inscrutable de ts lCT of an all wise providence vance thompson 11 in new york commercial commercii ad |