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VOLUME XVII.—NO. 770.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1890.
PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
l
The Largest Crop of Cotton Ever
Produced.
And the General Prospect Better
Now than at any Pre
vious Peroid.
1TH ONE ACCORD
I and with no variation
of detail come tbe tid-I
• ings from all over tbe
South in attestation
of the wonderful era
of prosperity through
which she is passing
and of the still more
auspicious future to
which her peculiarly
bright destiny obvi
ously is pointing her.
Great as is the
showing she already
makes in every sphere of progress, who
can estimate, or even conceive of, the yet
greater exhibit of thrift she would have
made had her public affairs not been
thrown into a species of disorder by the
machinations of adverse politicians at '
Washington, who view with unaccount
able envy the astonishing advancement
being made ail over the South! We
mean that the high tariff advocates
in Congress, by leveling their unjust
and iniquitous tax extortions more di
rectly against the pro iucts of the
South's agriculture, are forcing the
planters into politics for their own pro
tcctlon, and that this is costing them
va uable time that would have increased
their benefits bad it been al owed peace
fully to b- applied to their legitimate
pursuit. We mean too, that the con
slant effort of tht R-publican politicians
to instill a spirit of discontent in the
negro of the South; to Incite discord be
tween himself and his white co lahorer,
and to embroil him in profitless poiit cii
turmoil, appreciably lessees his quota of
the resulis.
While the Baltimore Manufacturers'
Record makes no allusion to then
drawl), els of the pas; and present, it
distinctly predicates upon apparent re
salts the greater future which, r.ot. iu
cotton alone, but in a'l ner crops, awaits
the South. Say" t,he Record:
It would bo difficult to exaggerate in
tellingof ti e wooder'ul prosperity which
is before the South during the next
twelve months. Cotton may no longer
be king as in olden times, but as a sub
iect it brings to the South an an ount of
wealth that is almost oeyond compre
heubion. For live years the cotton crop
has been sieadiiy increasing, and each
year lias shown a gain over the preced
lng one—a lecjr i which no oth-r live
year period "an exhibit. 1 n 1SS6 S7 t
^umhor’ofpoundswas greater 0 vhau w i 6
the preceding ^ or over , sod the in
about 7 2tx!.0°0 bale 7 500,000 to
dicanons ^ * r Not wuhstand
S 000.100 bales production,
ing the Btea. y ln V d from y ear to year
the l )ric n ° n f'rof the fact that J ihe world’s
on account of toe^ast LU f ow ing the
ccnsumpU ja > r J, h g farm value
production j, eluding cotton
of the last ■ ‘ qaq ^.jq abd thi3
seed, was about dlsas
years crop unless so n noarl y
ter should b.fa.l R. riu dla>r me value
?500 000 000 in value, me.udm^ a
of the seed, wb lc b ‘ in dV e years the
SSiaXSUhesny
‘While’cotton has been to
enormously to the 8 °“^ iBO i ucr eased.
other crops Lave rice, sugar,
Corn, wheat, oats,hies nave made
gra8 t e e 8 ii f ns ind while some of these
fall a lutle short «■ * wUl b0 mere
difference in the corn J ber price3 .
than counterbalance y * been
in fact, the Bouthbrn farme ^ ^ ^ ^
jbobv wonderfuny biesscu ^ b
five years, and t.i > fanners of
financial conditio:, than .
BI)y other m-ctionoftue ǣҨ> ebs ^ ^
enter the new CIO, Bluce the war.
ctats than -t »* 0 ,„ thl habarkers write
From all over the south Vho naaa ^
of the “bfit out OM fo J farmers bet-
arrSLiw® : mk«k
tcr orosp’cis^and other equally as to the Phar
)- rial t^n g mo waole country is mis an
prucedent-d Vjujpniity
.. K , Us' IS,VS, l.'SM, 18‘JO.
•tlKUl OF rKISfll-AI.'Kills r. , • t 1bU0-
known that the mounwAns, v*lley^
Pnarmacentical Era, :“ tb , chemist Lnd
most profitable business^ tb, ■ ji jut .
Statesville, N C. M E. Hvam»-
NORTH AMERICAN DRUGS.
; From London Chemist and Urnggist.
Professor M. E. Hyams, of Statesvill"
North Carolina,
board
THE WAR IS OVER.
But tlie Stories Go On-
a New Oue.
TRADE BUILLING. CHICAGO, ILL.
"the PORTIA mi THE SOITH.
-Here is
jfo IJiffereue in their Views of
Woim’s Rights.
Gov. rnor Curtis toils thefoUnwing
“Riding over the field jnst after the
bat'lo of Spottsylvanta, I came across a
wounded Pennsylvania soldier H
leaning against a stump, holding a
bloody leg. 1 dismounted and asked
1 him bO‘V bo waP.
1 *“is the bone brokent»I inquired as ue
' explain©*^ Ll3tniurv. ,
.* No’Hflid ho,cheerfully,‘onJy a ballet
through the flesh,’ Still he - was faint
1 yon rathe, have
Cott
lfceS
Bales.
toil 7,L 17,00C
Bales.
B11
Bin.
.70
Bales
Bu
s.ouu.obO
Bus
J.UJ0
0 41 *»f> 17 00$ -
M .VoOJ.OOO 50,000 000
il.Vi.i0 7i’,7H,UUO 76.UUU ll»U
Corn 4'JAntOOOi
Wheat
Oats tel.KJ.UOU
i I->timaLe<L
. x- , - votrq the South has pro-
Thus in tour y~• a ()f co uon,
duced Rbevnt -uliUb W 20J,UOO,iOj
2 t °° h Trwheat and Mo(^0boo b’nsaels
the totH va ne oi Mu*.and other
agricultural prooucw_reacbinff_t
UiOUS ag
rites a ve ry interesting
t lira on the crude
drug industry of the -outheru lP^Hof
the United States. J^lVin business in , .. ‘ W hat woum »■»“ had but ; or ,e
ho was asked j ^ home in
by a wholesale house to collect so ue in ; tbe p e nnsvlv»nU hills. of .
Venous drugs, bo his | -plied, with a I
b ? WhkeBtoroVgh.wilkea County X >rth i smije-^ ^ , g> , j rt , plied extending
MSSof^worldf. |
a second, then pointed at a dying G-n
federate soldier near h y - hs M , d _ . he
reedsTmo-'tbnn I do, ’poor follow
Y “We V rnrm 0 d h [o 1 the latter. For all we
anew it might have been the WJ “»
w",o shot, him But. w.- proPof 'din oP
and attempted to pour s mieof 4 .
down nis oo'chcd tliroat
The Chicago tr Ocean, in a tnought
ful article on tlaction of the Missis
sippi Cousiitutial Convention, sayi:
.owe Sta'o rMisriasippi either must
have povernmc of the people by the
„i , era nonmeat of the people by
^n'av 'govoiu class.’ . . . No State
a 16 he nr. sP 1 d hl the people do
Ca V r?oa. th’ ’ ivfp a!1<1 'W Ihemsclvis,
cocos the off* ho are to Administer
their laws', as d as the men w o are to
u sissippi
f*8tabii8b r
. ft to
ate army.. His duty was to get »np^« _
of 100 different kinds o n ^
herbs, flowers, seeds. Ac., for ^ 08ti .
use of the Confederate army,
Ho heard
s enor
... 'nearly £5*500,000 000
will
tb® Bout- 1 s ag^r ‘ iU-50 00 . 00J or
abou^GUV^^g^gg^to^^wealtn added
saraj^j-astiasr
the South’s gieat probpenty.
THE SOUTH’S BOTANICAL RlCHES,
A Resource Certain to Add Vast Mil
lions to Her Wealth.
tVersoi) «nd
lot 33 a . eaK about his next start at
Marion, N P Cm »nd tneu iu the town
where he is at present.
tate With a grateful look in his eyes «
n.ak<- them
mR^roh/bv itation of th-.- electorni
1 1 t«n' the pie, it wii 1 have labored
rrants o. coma t o naught.
Oligarchy vemt of fashtju a century
“S9-” w , t|[l r Ocean is a stan) oh
friend of qflfthts for women. We
IWIVH ifu' to it for th« space it
u f e a V! ii B \iv clicuiated columns to
K r WomafiiPgdom” department
But Illinois every other Nortuern
state txccpyoming mamtsibB an
niioareby of which is is u- just and
Oiious as a oat can be ertaonsned iu
MiLr.isBlDPi. 8 ts done, too, against
remonsf.ra 11 -eti11nn and entreaty,
r '““ rt r ore than forty years. In
® CSL e'loruiern States disfran
^t-einUdlVmeu. In the other
ba ’e the Soiishts to curtail the Vote
i f ,h « nevrol both cares it is a great
‘.* r . \n are helpless because
they nave <-*»■ Negro men iu Mis
■ haves, but, are at mfioite
a 5 - 8 dvint-g regards education and
ooifition 1 T*rth calls loudly to the
South to’heiie American idea that
O- Ul.i ..It »oa: lnlrm fu in til*.
Editor Sonny Sooth: Many persons
in your State are unaware of the large
1 nantity of botantic herbs that were
boughtTn the city of Charlotte, N. C., for
l*he use of tbe Confederate army during
the war. Tne supplies were drawn from
th . sections of the South, which,
Va n n rec»lved, were manufactured into
a !TJd dried extracts, and otherwise
u ‘ in various ways to suit its actual
P ds That was as a drop in the ocean,
needs. e xtonsivo amount now
camper ab Statesville, N. C.
bought a ; f brugB of the Southern States,
Tne crude ar g larKe amoU nt daily
notwithstandln„ tt | arglo t, a mex
collected Bn (piaat ,titH of loese valuable
haustimo. Q«‘ e lrora your State;
to begin
gt,h of that
deed to an enemy an - i tm Hp I nres
dorsed him for a su n of money. Hep
oered He now owns two mills and
conpln of farms, and he deserves all be
has "-New York Tribune.
fair idea of the extent to «^ c exa , , 0plu
bit. medi lnes are us • a , y kno wn
Liyuslicum -dctofoiiun , 750 oo lo 100,-
r,wenty years ago, furnmn ^ gtr (in
000 lbs. annualiy, and uuot bundre d
sishhs
more cotton root last sea
al °ne hadl as well as many
son. Most of thl d altogether in
--“SF3r B =r r rtTo s r
and herns Doing ui* w viciesitudes of
~z2rt*t&2£>
r»^ i ?vEasS'i.Tr„r.‘&"
fresh witch h 823 * „ to be inexhanst
fm^Sometougs are becoming scarce,
^•evramon^ them
sasssa’^^^sssJsssr
seeding time. The state 01 r. go
Con >i LU . . . , . ,
Ar a ueoiial! participate in thb
govern comnwtatc in which the ma
?° “ f are disfranchised is
Ite worst hi an ai ornlay with ns.”
n T. its wi rebave little force, since
N„ r t.n aiime doi s to the v Oman
Ct what tbth wishes to do to the
negro. Tbe is the plty.-Boston
Woman s Ji-
ispS^ii
1=
and, strange to say f th' 8 is
The pear growers ot Thomas County,
Oa., are feeling good over Thatthe
the pear crop. It is estimate
near crop has brought over f60 into
the county this season. Captain E
Smith void fl 200 worth of P ear3 p"
orchard that he last year offered f. r
$2 oon, and for which he would nave ta
fl 600.
It is generally estimated that it will
cost 132*000 n ore for Wilkes County, Ga.,
wrao her cot Lon crop in cDtton d g
ging than it would cost if |ute were ®’ ^
cut the farmers have a mst grievance
against the Jute trust and they pr p
to leave the trust to its fate.
nr Vassev United States Botanist
from the Department of
Washington arrived in 0 ^‘“ a ^ rlcu l
stations in the South.
Richland is one of lbe bboniing^owns
a're S go^upo^aIf sides and the people
aro fn a prosperous condition.
conecte.. “'ooantlties of t«ese vaiuauw aDd , strange to say, this .»
Sand hmrbs XafThiclfkoe 3 not meet with sale la
arT* muchjnore u «^ lv thoroughly | this country.”
North Carolina's
crops are the hnest that
had for maDy years.
..llME 1IEAU.”
Iiitcrcstirti ,, i ,, ' sceMces «f a
Noted tier and Poet.
An article Constitution, asking
the authorsiBosin the Bean,” has
heon wideljreuted on. Speaking
of it, Dr- ' ck WUson 8a J 8:
“I was nutested in reading tbe
anicle in «*° the question, ‘Is it
Rosin the tfn ls « 1 nretthean
tit or of tbfuowo song known as
•Rosin the In Crawfordville, Ga.
He was recd>y all to te the author
rV the sods tson, and was better
known as Wilson than by his
Pnristlan iia^rence. I am not
aware that known by any other
name than or Lawrence, and I
!innk that Clark is mistaken in
MoliUiag bin the middle with an
L As 10 iifr/i8eif, though he was
a proftspoiler, he wan very re-
date, quietitlemanly, of a studi
ous and po'of mind, with a great
penchant ing vers* s oa amiost
every subje attracted his atten
tion. 1 saMuch impromptu pro
ductions which he submitted to my in
spection during his sojourn of several
we ks in Crawfordville, where I then re
sided. A’i thefe effusions were very
much on the order of ‘Rosin the Beau;’
aad, knowing the author of this, one
could hardly fail to rtcognize the emana
tions of th* same mind in those.
‘ Judge Clsrk is correct as to his early
manhood, hiR place of biith, his 1 esideuce
in August-*, Ga., bis reputable business
-iiid social po -itio* ; and as to his respect
a’ne relati«)LS* in Montgomery, Ale.,Gai
vosfon, Tex., etc.
‘•Judge Clark then tells us ihat- 'during
the war Benu Wilson disappeared, and
has never been heard of, except that
Stiioe time within tne four years, ne died
at Shrbtff port, La.’ In ttiis I am dis-
p )oed to think the judge has been misin
formed. In ihoye«rlS63 or 64, while on
duty as surgeon n Win- er hospital, Rich
mood Va . I irtquently visited Iloilv
wood cemetery, which joined the hospi
tal gr- unds, and there on a neaiiy
painied hqi! plainly lettered headboard 1
read tn^se words: ‘Lawrence Wilson,
Da.ion, Ga ’ There was nothing to indi
cate that he belonged to t he army, though
t- e grave was in the midst of the soi-
ditra 7 graves, and near where the Confed
erate monument now stands. lie raav,
however, have b'ien one of tno thousands
who fell id defense of the lost cause,’ or
in his wanderings he may have found his
wt-y to Richmond, and died in one oi the
hospitals or hotels of that, cny. Instead
of being huriea as a soldier, with com
pany ar»d iegiment at his ‘Lead and his
toe,' aim with the inscription written for
the grave of the old tiddler found dead on
the counier of a t*a.oon, ‘Here Lies OIg
K,piu toe Beau,’ come iriend may have
marked Um board at his head with the
simple recurd ef his real name Lawrence
Wilson—and the place of his tempprary
sojourn—DAlton, Ga—for he had no per
mauent home. He led a wandering life,
and died, or ‘disappeared,’ no one knows
when aud where.
‘ Thus passed away a man of culture
and rt liniment, and of many noble traits
of character, but alas! wrecked in morals
aad in fortune by evil influences in early
life. ’—Atlanta Constitution.
The Charleston News and Courier's an
nual review of trade and commerce dur
ing the past year contains a most grati
fyiug showing cf the conditions and pro
ducts of tne city. Business has been
prosperous in nearly all branches. The
total trade amounted tof80,000 6b, an in
crease on the ou&iness of tue preceding
year of $39,662 93.
The Mobile Register published its fif
tieth annual review of the trade and
commerce of Mobile. It is a full and com
prehensive statement of the past year’s
business, and shows a marked increase
in neany all branches ot trade. The total
volume of business transacted will reach
$30 000.000.
The sales of leaf tobacco at Danville,
Va., in August were 1,118,820 pounds, or
a Lout ha f the sales ot August last year.
The sales for eleven months of the to
baccoyear were 22.927.OCO pounds, a de
crease cornpar-.d -villi tne same period of
last j ear ot 326.010 pounds.
Fully a thousand bales of cotton were
received Baturdsy in Albany, Ga. Re
ceipts up to date are 5,060 bales. Al
bauy s trade is becoming enormous.
Winiton, N. C., tobacco manufacturers
shipped 1,023,100 pounds of plug tobacco
, iu August.
THE WORLD’S DESIRE.
A STORY OF OLD GREEK AND EGYPTIAN LIFE.
BY
H. RIDER HAGGARD, AND ANDREW LANG.
CHAPTER IX.
The feast dragged slowly on, for Fear
was of tbe company. The men and wo
men were silent, and when they drank It
was as if one bad poured a little oil on a
dying fire. Life flamed np in them for a
moment, their laughter came like the
crackling of thorns, and then they were
silent again. Meanwhile tbe Wanderer
drank little, waiting to see what should
come. But the Qaeen was watching him
whom already her heart desired, and she
only of all the company had pleasure in
this banq et Suddenly a side door
opened bedind the dt i', there was a stir
in the hall, each guest turning his head
fearfully, for all expected some evil tid
ings. But it was only the entrance of
those who hear about in the feasts of
Egyptsn t fligy |of the Dead, the likeness
or a young mummy carved in wood, and
who cry: ‘ Drink, O King, aLd be glad,
thou shalt soon be even as he! Drink
and be glad.” The stiff, swathed figure,
with its folded bands and gilded face,
was brought before the Ki g, and Menep
tab, who had sat. lcDg In sullen brooding
silence, started when be looked on it.
Then he broke into an angry laugh.
“We have little Deed ot tbee tonight,”
be cried as he saluted the symbol of
Osiris. “Death 1b near enough; we want
not thy silent preaching. Death, Death
is near!”
He fell back in his gilded chair, and let
the cup drop from his hand, gnawlDg bis
beard.
• Art thou a man?” spoke Meriam un, in
a low clear voice, “Rre you men and yet
afraid of what conus to us all? It is on
ly ton-got that we first hear the name of
Death? Remember the great Men-kau ra,
remembtr the old Pharaoh who built the
Pyramid of Hir. He was Juhi. aud kind,
and he fear,d tbe Goes, and for his re
ward they showed him Do»th, coming on
him iu six short years. Did he scowl
and tremble, like all of you tonight, who
are scared by the t breats of slav< s? Nay,
he outwitted the Gods, he m,de night
into day, he lived out twice his years,
with revel and love and wine in the lamp
lit gloves of the persea trees. Coine, my
guests, let. us oe merrv, If but for an hour.
Drink, and be brave.”
“For once thou speak*st well,” said the
King. “Drink and forget: the Gods who
give death give wine,” and his angry
eyts ranged through the hall to set a
some occasion of mirth and scorn.
“Thou Wanderer,” he said, suddenly.
“Tnou drinkest not; I have watched trice
as the cups go round. What, man, thou
earnest irom the Noith! The sun of thy
..ai- land,!.as r,nt hear, enough to footer
cup ot Pashii Uu Cllth -J O.iO;. ...
waited, “bring forth tne cup of Pashl,
the King drinks.”
Then lha chief butler of Pharaoh w« nt
to tne treasure house, and came again,
beariug a huge gulden cup, fashioned In
the form of a non s head, and holding
twelve measures of wine, it was an an
cient cup, sacred to l’asht, and a gift o
the Rutounu to'fhothmts the greatest of
that name.
‘ Fill It full of unmixed wine!” cried
tne King. “Dost thou grow pale at the
sight of the cup, thou Wanderer from the
Nmthr I pledge thee, pledge thou me! ’
“Nay, King,” said the Wanderer, ‘ I
have tasted wine of Iemarus before to
day, and I have drunk wito a wild host,
the Man E.ter!” For his heart was an
gered by the King, aud he forgot his wis
doin, but tue Queen marked the saying.
“Then pl*dge me in the cup ot Pasht! ’
quoth the King.
“I pray thee, pardon me,” said the
Wandc-rer. “for wine makes wise men
fuolleh and strong men weak, and to
night mt thinks we shall need our wits
ar,d our strength.”
“Craven!” cried the King, “give me the
bowl. I drink to thy better courage,
Wanderer,” and litiiug the great golden
cup, he stood up aud drank it, and then
dropped, sta^gtring, into his chair, his
head fallen on his Dieast.
“I may not refuse a king’s challenge,
though it is ill to contend with our
hosts,” s«id the Wanderer, turning some
what pale, f r he was iu anger. “Give
me the bowl 1”
He took the cap and held it high; then
pouring a little forte to his gods, he said
in a clear voice, for he was siirrtd to an
ger beyond ins wont:
“I drink to the Strange Hathor!”
He spoke, and drained tue mighty cup,
and seo it down on the board, aud even
us he laid oown the cup, and as the
Queen looked at him with eyes of wratu,
mere came from the Bow beside his seat,
a faint shrill sound, a ringing and a sing
ing of the Bow, a noise of running
strings, and a sound as of rushing ar
rows.
The warrior heard it, and his eyes
burned with the light of battle, for he
well knew that the swlit shafts should
sooa fly to the hearts of the doomed.
Pnaraoa awoke and heard it, and heard
it- the Lady Meriamuu the Queen, aud
she loosed on the Wanderer astonished,
and look, d on the Bow that sang.
“Tne minstrel’s ttle was true! This is
nono other but the Bow of Odysseus, tht
sacker of cities,” said Meriamuu. “Heark
tn thou, Eperitus, thy great bow sings
aloud. How comes it that thy bow
sings?”
“For this cause, Queen,” said the Wan
derer, “because oirus gather on tne Bridge
oi War. Soon shall suafts be flying aud
ghosts go down to doom. Summon thy
GuardB. i bid thee, for foes are near.”
Terror conquered the drunkenness of
Pharoab; he bade the Guards who stood
uehind ins chair summon all thtir com
pany. Taey went forth and a great hush
fell again upon the Hall of Banquets and
upon tuose who sat at meats therein.
Tne silence grew deadly still, like air be
fore the thunder, and men’s hearts sank
within them, and turned to water in their
breasts. Only Odysseus wondered and
thought on the battle to be, though
whence the foe might come he knew not,
and Merlamun sat erect in her ivory
chair and looked down the glorious hall.
Deeper grew the silence and deeper
yet, aud more and more tbe cloud of fear
gathered in tbe hearts of men. Then
suddenly through all the hall there was
a rush like the rush of mighty wings. The
deep foundations of the palace rocked,
and to the sight of men tne roof above
seemed to burst asunder, and lc! above
tnem, against tbe inky blackness of the
sky, there swept a shape of Fear, and the
stars shone through the raiment.
Then tbe roof closed in again, and for
a moment’s space once more there was si
lence, whilst men looked with white
faces, each on each, and even the stoat
heart of the Wanderer stood still.
Then suddenly all adown the hall,
from this place and from that, men rose
np and with one great cry fell down
dead, this one across the board and that
one on the floor. The Wanderer grasped
uis bow and counted. From among those
who sat at meat twenty and one had
fallen dead. Yet those who lived sat
gazing emptily, for so stricken with fear
were they that scarce did each one know
if it was he himself who lay dead or his
brother who had sat by his side.
But Merlamun looked down the hall
I with cold eyes, for she feared neither
death nor life, nor God norman.
And while she looked and while lie
Wanderer counted, there rcs9 a faint
, murmui ing tound from the city without,.
| a sound t .^t grew an i grew, the tn under
I of myriad feet lhat run before the death
of kings. Then tne doors burst asunder
and a woman sped through them in her
night robes, and in her arms Bhe boi
the naked body of a boy.
“PharHoh!” she cried, 1 Pharaoh, and
thou, O Queen, look upon iny son —thy
first born son—dead is ti y syn, O Pha-
laoh. Dead .8 thy son, O Q .een! In my
a. ms he die 1 as I lulled him to his rest,”
and she la.d the body of the child dowa
on the ooard among tue vessels of gold.,
beakers • f rose rod wine.
Then Pharaoh rose and rent h s nur>-
ple robes and wept aloud, ai d Mtnamuit
rose too, and her eyes were terrible with
wrath and gritf.
“See now the curse this evil woman,
this false Hat or, hath brought upon
ns.” she said.
But the very eues’s sprang np, rylng:
“It is not the Hathor whom we worship,
it is not the hoiy Hathor, it is the Gods
of those dark Apura whom thon, O Qnee^,
wilt not let go. Oa thy head aud the
head of Pnaraoh be it. And even as they
cried the mummur without grew to w.
shriek of woe, a shriek so wild and terri
ble that the Palace wails rang. Again
that shriek rose, and yet a tnird time.
Never was such a cry heard iu Egypt.
And now for the first lime n ail his days
the face of tbe Wanderer grew white
with fear, and in fear of heart he prayed
lor sucerr to his Goddess.—to Aphrodite,
the daughter of Dione.
Again the doors behind them burst
open and the guards fl rcued in—mighty
men of many foreign lands, out now tueir
faces were wan, tl.eir eyes Btared wide,
and their jaws hung own But at the-
sound of the clanging of their harness,
the s.reugth of the Wami- rncame back:
to him Kgaiu, for the Gods aud thel>7
vengeance ue feared, but not the swore,
of man. And now on •*- more the Bow
sang aloud. He grasp, d it, he bent it
with his mighty knee, and strung ,t.
crying:
“Awake, Pharaoh, awake! Foes draw
on. Say, be these all themeu? ’
Then the Captain answertd:
“T ese be a l of the guard who are left
living in the Palace. The rest are stark,
smitten by the angry Gods.”
Now as the Captain spake one came
running up the nail, heading neither the
dead nor the living it was the old
Priest Rei, tne Commander of the Legion
of Amen, who had been the Wanaertr’s
guide, and his iooks were wild with Sear.
‘ Hearken, Puaraoh! ’ he cried, “thy
_ - bjL thousands in the
err. _ ‘sea b 6v „ t
“The tine e h dead also.”
Queen. The soJdieis abe u.-e ,
a id with the sight or deal , aud siay
tneir Captains; barely have 1 escaped
from those in my command of the Legion
of Amen. For thi y svvtar tnat this death,
has bean brought upon the land because
Pharaoh would not let the Aoura go.
Hither, then, they come to slay Pnaraoh,
and tnee also, O Queen, and with mem
coma many thousands of people catch
ing up such arms as lie lo their Hands.”
Nowi Pharaoh sank down, groaning,
but the Q ueen spake to the Wanderer:
“Anon thy weapon sang of war, Eperi-
tus; now war is at the gaies.”
“Little I rear the rusn of battle and the
blows man deal iu anger, Ladyhe made
answer, ‘ though a man may fear the
Gods without shame. Ho, Guards! close
up, close crp around mt! Look not so
pale faced now death from the GodB is
done with and we have but to fear the
s word of men.”
So great was his mien and so glorious
his face as he cried thus, and one by one
drew his long arrows forth and laid them
on the board, that tne tremnliug Guards
ti ck heart, and to the number of fifty
aud one arranged tnamseivea on the -. dge
of the d: id in a double line. Then they
also made ready their bows and loosened
the arrows in their quivers.
Now from witnout there came a roar of
mon, and anon, while tho.e i.i the house
o Pharaoh, and of theguesls and no.ks.
who sat at the feast and yet lived, lied
behind tue soldieis, the brazm, do-rs
were burst in with mighty blows, and
through tnem a great armed multitude:
surged a long the hall. There time sol
dlers broken from their ranks. Tat re
came the embaimtrs of tbedo-ac; their
hands were overfui of work tonight, out
they left thtir work undone. Death had
smitten some even of ihtse, and their
le.lows did not shrink back from them,
now. Tuere came the smith, blacs from
the forge; d tae scribe bowed with end
less writing; a.rd the dyer with his purple
hands; aud the fisher from the stream
aud the stunied weaver from the ,oom:
and the leptr from the Tsmp.e gates.
Tuey were mad wi'.h lust of life, a starve
ling life that foe king had taxed, when
he let not tue Apura go. They were mad
vvitn fear of death; their women followed
thon with dead children in their arms.
Tuey smote down the golden furnishings,
they tore the silken nangrngs, they cast
tne empty cups of the feast at the faces
of trembling ladies, and critd aloud for
the blood of the king
• Wutre is ifharaon? ’they yelled; ‘ show
us Pnaroan and the Q uteri Meriamun,
tnat we may si&y them. Dead are our
first borr ; they lie in heaps as the fish
lay when dihor ran red wliu blood. Dead
are they because of the curse that has
been brought upon us by the propuets of
the Apura, whom Pbaroah ana Pharaoh’e
Queen yet hold in Khein.”
Now, as they cried they saw Pharaoh
Menepiah cowering behind the double
line or Guards, ana they saw the Queen.
Meriamun, who cowered not, but stood
silent above the die. Then she thrust
her way through the Guards, and yet
holding the naked body of the coy to her
breast, stood before them with eyes that
flashed more brightly than the Uraeus
crown upon her brow.
“Back,” she cried, “back. It is not
Pbaraob, it is not I, who have brought
this d.ath upon you. For |«e, too, have
dcatn here!” and she held up the body of
her dead son. “It is that False Hathor
whom ye worship, that Witcb of many a
voice and many a face who turns yonr
hearts faint with love. For her sake ye
endure ti ese woes, on her head is all this
death. Go, tear her temple stone from
stone, and rend her beauty limb from
limb, and be avenged and free the land
lrom curses.”
A moment the people stood and heark
ened, muttering, as stands the lion that
is about to spring, while those who press
ed without cnea: ‘ Forward! Forward!
Stay them! Slay them!” Then as with
one voice they screamed:
“The Hathor we love, but yon we hate,
for ye have brought these woes upon us.
and ye shall die.”
They cried, they brawled, they cast
footstools and stones at tne Guaros, and
toen a certain tall man among them drew
a bow. Straight at the Queen's fair
oreast he aimed his arrow, aud swift and
true it sped toward ner. She saw the
light gleam upon its shining barb, ard
then she did what no woman but Meria
mun would have done, no, not to say e