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VOLUME XVII.-NO. 778. ATLANTA, GA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOYMEBER 15, 1890. PRICE: *2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. THE WONDERFUL SOUTH. Narrative of Her Unprecedented Material Progress. The Story that Continues to Astound and Startle the Modern Universe. [In this department of the Sunny j South we each week place before cur j patrons current information relating to ! the almost inconceivable progress which j is being made all over the South. It is ; beyond the ken of the present day to ■ measure up in advance the magnitude of i tbe growth and wealth of this section j when they have developed to their full ( ness, tut the story is always now and ; fresh, even astonishing, and the world is ‘ perusing It with dilated eyes. It gives [ us pleasure to say that in making up our j facts we largely extract from the pages | of the Baltimore Manufacturers' Record, ( conscious of its unabated loyalty to the ; best Interests of the South, no less j than of Its reliability in all matters per ! talcing to her advancemmt. In other l respects, too, that handsome and buc- j eeea'al publication is a credit to itself ■ aud to the whole country.—Ed ' THE WOED’S DESIRE. A STORY OF OLD GREEK AND EGYPTIAN LIFE BY H. RIDER .HAGGARD AND ANDREW LANG. The shipment of a cargo of Pocahontas ! coal to England, which we mentioned ■ several weeks since, did not mean iLat . Southern coals were hereafter to compete j with those of Great Britain In that mar- i ket. While that shipment will undoubt : edly be fo'lowed by many others ail such J cargoes will be for a specific and n^-t for ' general consu■. p- ion, and win h< apprtciabio efitet on the douthern coal trade. Within a fortnight there has been a not.' er event tbat will have conse quences whose greatness cannot be measured. The Philadelphia Natural Gas C mpany, which controls all the sources of supply upon which the manu facturers of Pittsburg depend for fuel, has given notice of its intention to cut off the gas irom them ard to sell it outy for Illuminating and household purposes. The excuse offered for this sudden pro ceeding Is that domestic consumption and the co: sequent profits from that source have become so large that it is considered inadvisable to continue to furnish the gas to manufacturi rs, whose crude methods of U6ing it result in au enormous waste to the Philadelphia Com- ‘A L4ZY SUMMER DAY’ ON SILVER CREEK, ABOVE ROUNSAVILLE’S MILL, FLOYD CO., G : L FEMININE WONDEES. j C., exhaust nczzle; T.W Garbutt, Spann I / Gi, logging truck; C. Gilson, Auirusta. ] Ga , truss pad; John M. Hagert', Fartn- EI.K AND COYOTE FIGHT. paoy. Whether this action means that the natural gas Is giving cut and that therefore the company finds it expedient to economize the supply and to furnish only to those who will make it a contin ual source of profit, we cannot say. One thing is certain. This withdrawal will create an Immense demand for coai at Pittsburg, where tbe daily consumption, MO.OCO.OOO cubic feet of gas, was equiva lent to'25.060 tons a day of coa'. West Virginia miners will be the first to ben efit by this change, and there will be re newed activity in the coal fields of that State because of it. Man has to Hustle to Keep Up '‘"ff'on, w. Va, car coupling; J. Hoff e I , 1..ill,. VIrt M.II! ..I . ,v. O’ 11 Lexington, Va., occupies a central place in the fast developing county of Rockbridge, of which it is the capital. There the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroads form a con nection, giving that place ready access to all points. L- xington is a oeautiful com paet town tbat haa long been prevented from t-xpandit g because surrounded oy old estates that were bonded.by the vil lage streets. An opportunity occurring to purchase some of these outlying prop erties was quokiy improved by a number of enterprising citizens, who, a fortnfgnt or more since, organized the Lexington Development Co. and offered the stock to the public last week. In a few Cays mere than £{400,000 was subscribed, tbe major part by L.xington people. The North river passes through a part of the property secured. On this stream are three dams, and all along its banks are level benches, some feet above possible overflow, suitable for manufacturing sites. The river has a strong, swift cur rent, with ample volume in the driest seasons. The company proposes to en courage the introduction of mauufuctur lug industries that will utilize this un failing water power, and to lay out on the elevated table lands sites for resi dences. Two commodious hotels are pr< jfeted, and many other ent rprises are under aivlsement. Eilijay, a town in North Georgia on tbe line of the Marrietta A North Georgia Railroad, is beginning to wake up to the natural advantages of the rich country surrounding It. Aside from the fertile lands of all that region there are some 2,0G0 square miles of virgin forests tbat can be drawn upon for timber for every class of Industrie s of which that is the main material. The Evans Land A Lum ber Co., alive to this fact, has esti.b ish- 6d a plant whose building and yards cov er fifteen acres. Ti.ey will employ 200 men in their various operations. A mill to turn out 25,000 spokes dai'y is under construction. A handle, barrel and cof flu factory will soon be started. Ground has been laid off'on which to buiid tne larg* st ebair factory in the South. Twelve thousand acres of as fine timber land as can be found in North Georgia has been purchased. A great wagon-building com pany is projected; also an extensive tan nery. Reiiab’e parties will contract to deliver to it 10,100 cords of bark annual ly for ten years. The Ell jay Land & Im provement Co, will donate the site. A canning factory is pr jected to use the fruits and vegetables that now go to waste for lack of a market. Other .enter prises are under consideration. Evi dently Eilijay has joined the column of Southern pri gress. with the Procession. The young Kansas farmer goes ont into the fields at daylight, and by nightflal has cribbed 150 bushels of corn. The young man’s sister cap play the piano, do the housework, and in bue’sst times gees ont with tbe men amd does so much work as to as tound her beat friends. A pretty Dick inson county girl, aged 15, drove a self- binder over 1,200 acres and took care of the four horses hitched to the machine. During the spring she helped to plant 120 acres of corn, did the housework for a family of seven, went to ten darces, tried twice to elope, taught the most interest ing class in the Sunday school, and now talks of goirg to Africa as a missionary, and says if the Lord speaks up loud enough she will go among tbe lepers. A Brown county girl looked after her father’s grape patch of ten acres, picked the apples on 1 000 trees and when her male parent pocketed $5 000 from the sale of the fruit did notask for any of the money—because she krew she wouHu’t get a penny. She believes in the Alli- O wing's Mil'", Md., thiil-coupi.'Lg; E. G, Tvey, Buena Vista, Ga., flood gate; J. T. Jefferson, Annapolis, Md , reversible scissors. The Most Common Misquotation. “What is tbe mo?t common misquota tion In the English language?” asked the inquisitive raetnbar of the Cogbara C ub this morning as the purist entered. The answer came promptly: “When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.” “Well, what Is the matter with that?” asked the inquisitive member. “That is the most common misquota tion in the English language.” respond ed the purist. “I heard the late Roacoe Conkling say once tbat he won a basket of wine from Clement L Vallandigham on that quota tion. He wagered that Mr. Valiandig- ham could not tell what the correct words were, nor who wrote them, nor when they were Witten. And won on every point. Now put yourselves In Mr Val- landigham’a place. What would you have dottb?” “I should have declined to make the bet,’’ said the inquisitive member. “And I,” came from all parts of the Hard Battling Betwe<. San Francisco u Foes in ■rk. Pete the big elk out in the park, distin guished himself the other night. Not withstanding Pete’s long residence among civilization, he Is always savage at this period of the year. coyote doubtl35S made a snap for its ‘ throat, but only caught the skin. Thesi : animals kill sheep ny cutting the arter ies in the neck and drinking the blood until the sbeop is dead and the coyote thought that in the absence of mnttoc venison would not bs bad—San Francis co Examiner. Delsarte Index to Character. Thoughtful people hibitualiy lower the “1 and eyes. For a week or more K^.been as full| , haalasts the head e!evatod . of fight as a candidate' :!, of promises. ~ - Nor is Pete particular as to the character ance principles, can play tenns, is row a , room boat, or ride the wildst horse in the : “But I should not,” said the purist, county. j ‘“When Greeks joined Greeks, then was Another young woman living in Irvtng the tug of war’is the correct quotation, township worked In the harvest field as , It was written oy Nat- ani«i Lae, an Bag- well as a man, herdtd cattle and sheep lishman, about the year 1700.” for several summers, and this winter will i "Did you ever see It quoted correctly?” teach school She has three young sis aBked the inquisitive member, ters. who are following in her footsteps, i “Never In tne newspapers,” said the Tbe bright daughter of a “rquaw” man ! purist —Utica Observer. on tbe reservation wants a white bus-I , band—and she is worthy of one Her sister married an Indian, and her father! TrouwttdOUX ox theOznrks. gave them a farm and a c urse. He thinks ! the unmarried one is too good tor an In j The sun had just broken over the tops dian. She has taught eebool, driven race j of theOzarks one warm morning in Jniy. horses and won, has never been beaten in i qq.g m - a ; that always settles thickly over a trade, equals any man in the county .. ... . , ... .. . , ,, in fleetness of foot, can shoot with the j those haif mountains with the nigntfall The Sequacbee Coa: & Iron Co. ia rap idly developing its new town of Sequa* chee, Tenn. It Is already recognized as a postoffice by the U. S. authorities, and several important industries to employ a large number of operatives have been lo cated and others are under negotiation. Those secured are the Sequachee Agri cultural Works, capital stock {100,000, work on buildings to commence at once; the Sequachee Manufacturing Co., with the same capital stock, organized to manufacture sewing machines and a large line of knitting machinery, haa machinery on the ground, and the fac tory will soon be completed; a furniture factory, also capitalized at {100,000, to begin operations some.time in December end employ from 100 to 125 men, and a P“ n tng mill now in course of erection. The development company is managed pastern parties, and has a capital of The Central Laud Co., of Buchanan, Va., bad an unusually successful sale last week. In two days somewhat less than 160 acres of property, divided into blocks of lots, were dispose d of at auction at prices tbat aggregated {10 000. The com pany holds 2,850 acres (or later develop ment. After the sale the directors met and voted to use a large proportion of tbe money derived from the sale in tbe establishment of varied industries. best of them, and would work bet hands j was going to pieces and disappearing as off for her parents’sake. ! tne sun rose higher, leaving the gri-en A Lincoln county g.rl got her father j and dense verdure heavy and wet with to give her a f arrn and lives on it, look - the dew. In a cosey nook on a log over- lng after eighty acres without help, and hanging tbe wild little stream that dash last year cleared {1,000, besides buying ed down from a gushing spring above, a clothes, machinery, and stock. This year native was seated earnestly playing a she has a girl friend fora companion and jewsharp. He twanged the vibrant met a hired man. | al with his thumb, keeping time by A woman 60 years o.d has farmed near j splashing one of his bare ft-el in the clear water beiow. After ten minutes, during Noiawaka with continuous success. Her I place is small, yet sbe makes money and gives liberally to the needy. She never leaves her farm except to attend the meetings or a woman’s suffrage society. A Hiawatha woman who has a hus band helpless from*rkeumatism has kept him and a large family of children by directing work on an eigbty-aere farm She is a zealous worker in church and Sanday school, and says she owes no one a cent. Her farm and build ngs are in better shape than those of her more fortunate neighbors. There are hundreds of bright women and girls who have taken up claims in the western part of the State and lived on them unt il they got a deed for the land. T'cre are hundreds of women in the State who manage to keep man de pending on them from going hungry; there are hundreds of women who can do anything a man can do. has over done, or ever tried to do, and there are hundreds of women in Kansas who want equal rights with men. The signs aiethat what they ssk will be conceded them. They have taken charge of the public schools, and no State in the Union has better. They are members of school boards, connty and city superintendents, and teachers. They lead in the educa tional and prohibition movements. They are making no noisy or threaten ing clamor for equal rights. They are simply showing by what they do that they are the equals of man, and tbat the ballot in their bands would not only be safe, but wisely used for the develop ment of a State that is oomlng to the front with greater strides than any other in the Union.—N. Y. Sun. Patents Granted To inventors in the Southern States dur ing the past week. Reported for this paper by C. A. Snow A Co., Patent At torneys and Agents for procuring Pat ents, Opp. U. S. Patent Office, Washing ton, D. C: J. P. Anvil, GaudeeviUe, W. Va., swing; H. Casper, New Orleans, La., coin operat ed lock for turnstiles; F. M. Chesney, Ststersville, W. Va., car coupling; R. B. Pace, Ironton, Ala., cotton-cupper; James Powell. Chestnut, Va, car coupling; O. H. Shaw, Tom’s Brook, Va., harness oi.; B B. Farris, Rocky Ford, Ga.. boiler flue . header; R. T. Fitzgerald, Ruffin, N. C, ! tobacco stick; J. Fulmer, Asheville, N. which time the sun had got high enough to shine straight iu his eyes, he took the harp from his mouth, and wiping it.on the- leg of his trousers, exclaimed; “Thar! Ef that don’ settle’e>-, wfcut will? ’ Before he had spoken another word a stranger stepped from behind a big tree and hdJressed him: “That was the best tune I ever heard played on one of those Instruments.” The mountaineer looked at the stran ger a moment, and then, drawing himself up in a knot on the log said: D’ve mean It, mister? ’ “Mean it? Of course. Why do you ask?” “It's like this, mister. Yes see I hev been jest on the aige o’ jinntn’ th’ Simp sod gal, over’n te’ holler, fer more’n er yar, an’when th’ poppln’time rem she up an’ says tbet I kain’t hev’er’ less I air; play ther jews’a’p. I bin practisin’ hyar on this log for nigh a month now, I reckon, ev’ery day in th’ mornin’ ’fore sunup, an’ I waz thinkin’ ez I sot hyar, ez ef I didn’t git th’ hang ’o it purity soon it’d be goodby, Sal. But yer made me feel better, strapger, an ef yer rcun’ these parts nex’ week jest drop over on ther slope ’cros-t th’ way an’ye kin be my best man.” As the stranger moved on down the path the mountaineer struck up his tune again and played with a vim that was evidence that the stranger had been tell ing him the truth. Along with the fiddle the jewsharp still ranks high as a musical instrument in the mountain regions of Arkansas and Missouri. A native who can’t play the jewsharp is looked upon as having very poor prospects.—Anaconda Stan dard. Angusta, Ga., and Chattanooga, Tenn., are probably to be joined together by a long-hoped-for direct line, to De called theAugnsta & Chattanooga Railroad. This proper ed road will ran from Augus ta tc Gaiuesvilie, and thence across North Georgia to Chattanooga. It is said that this enterprise has for backers a wealthy syndicate which is buildiDg a line from Chicago to Chattanooga. Should this belief be well founded, then a new line of communication between the metropo lis of the Northwest and the Sonth Atlan tic ports is something to be expected in the early future, that will inure to the advantage of the entire region throngn which It is to pass. or quality of his combat. As long as it is a fight he is satisfied. He has tried to stir up a muss with some of the deer that share the enclosure with him and his family, but though they have some lively battles among tbemselves they evidently consider tbat Pete is the JohnL.Snllivaa of the cro yd and pay no attention to his challenges. Nor can he force them to a fight. Whenever he charges on them the bucks dodge him in the brush, and, ow ing to their lesser bulk, easily avoid him. Pete’s long-legged offspring, born some months ago, has rather a hard time of it these dajs, but he hides himself among tbe bnshes and so evades his parent's ir ritation Unto night before last the best fight that Pete could getup was with one of tbe fence post'. He butted and pawed away at this until it. looked as if he'd smash ed the fence. Fortunately tbe nig black- tail buck showed up aud took Pete’s at tentfon from the post, and by the time he had chased the buck three or four times around the paddock Pete had for go ten about the post. But night before last Pete got a chance and showid what was in him. Though be is out of temptr with his family, aud indeed all :he other tenants of the deer paddock, he nevertheless considers him- sel ; their guardian and Will always sav agely resent an attack on even his long- legged son. Pete was standing in the moonlight at the eastern end of the paddock when a little doe away off at the other end of the enclosure gave a loud bleat of alarm One oi the park policemen saw her spring out of the brush, and to his astonishment observed that a coyote was clinging to berth-oat He started to her as f. st as he could, but Pete was ahead of him. The elk gave one loud answering call, a round between the roar of a bull ana tbe baa of a goat, with more of the roar than the baa (n it, and then tore off to the rescue oT the doe. According to tne one spectator, Pate laid his horns over against his back, and hardly seemed to touch the ground after the first jump. The coyote held on to the doe’s throat until Pete was within a dozen yards of him. Then he let go, and started for the fence. He reached the palings, but could not get through, and the now thoroughly enrag-d ek overtook rim. Lifting his front legs with amazing swiftness, Pete brought his sharp hoofs do wnp-quarely on the lntrud-r’s back. It must have broken the coyote’s spine, for he made no far ther attempt to escape, but lay there struggling, yelping, and snapping. He got one hold on Pete’s fore leg, but the elk got fcis big horns to reinforce his hoof, and alter some very lively thrashing around he broke the coyote’s hold. Then Pete went in to finish his adversary. Hoofs and horns worked so quickly that the policeman’s eyes could not follow them. Ouee Pete raised the prowler clean off the ground with his antlers and tossed him ten feet In the air. But the crippled coyote was no coward, for a wonder. He lighted fighting, and somehow got a grip on Pete's haunch. Then there was lively work. The coyote was safe from Pete’s antlers, but the big elk had his kickin apparatus very handy, and It was no time at all before.he had knocked the coyote off him and sent him rolling down the slope to the middle of the paddock. Then the fight was fin ished. Pete gave two bounds down the slope and landed all four feet together on the hapless coyote. That probably killed the marauder, but Pete by no means let up. He pawed and kicked and gored the body until it was cut to pieces. It was half an hoar before the big elk quit mauling the cares as. When he aid he simply sounded anoth er challenge, of whioh there, were, of coarse no takers, and then stalked haugh tily around the paddock making bluffs at the backs. How the coyote got Into the paddock Is a mystery. No break was to be found in the fence, and it was evident that he could not get out when the big elk charg ed him. There has occasionally been seen about the park an old weather-beaten coyote, that ordinarily kept well away from the more traveled localities, though he has been at night drinking from the water trough. This is supposed to be tbe victim of Pete’s hoofs and horns. Tbe doe tbat was attacked, ia a small, weakly crea turn, the feeblest in tbe paddock. The Yl^'Avy. sensuous lips, square, massive jaws and a thick neck indicate a vicious nature. Thin, compressed lips, bony jaws and pointed chin show hardness and cruelty. A nose cast In a heroic mold is rarely found disassociated with some admirable qualities of mind and heart. A pinched, peaked or flat nose Dearly always accompanies a mean, peevish or crafty nature. A brow corrugated with seams and wrinkles is the external evidence of a life of thonght and much care. A brow innocent of line betokens a vacuous mind. Dilated nostrils betoken sensibility and excitablity. Contracted nostrils show contempt and cruelty. A full, high forehead denotes intellect ual superiority. A low, receding brow marks mental density. An elbow turned outward denotes con ceit and self assertion. Inward, It Indicates weakness, humil ity and subordination of self. In repose, it indicates ease, modesty and self-prossession. CHAPTER XXII. Pharaoh Blept heavily in his chamber, for he was wearied with grief and toil. ButMerlamun passed into the chamber, and, standing at the foot of the golden bed, lifted up her hands, and by her ait, called visions down on Pharaoh, false dreams through the Ivory Gate. So Pharaoh creamed, and thus his vision want,: He dreamed that he slept in his bed and that the statue of Ptah, the Creator descended from the pedestal by the temple gate and cause to him, tow erlng over him like a giant. Then ho dreamea that he awoke, aud, prostrating himself before the God, asked the meaning o’ his coining. Thereon the God spoke to him: “Meneptah, my son, whom I love, hearken unto me The Nine bow bar barlans overrun the ancient laud of Khem—nine nations march up against Khem and lay it waste. Htarken unto me, my son, and I will give thee victory. Ayake, awake from sloth, and I will give the9 victory. Thou shait hew do wn the Nine bow barbarians as a contryman hews a dying palm. They shall (aii, at ci thou shait spoil them But hearken unto me, my son, thou shait not thyself go up against them. Low in thy dungeon theic jies a mighiy chief, skilled in the warlare of the barbarians, a wanderer who hatu wandered far. Tuou sha.t release him from biH bonds and set him over thy arxnle", and of the sin that he hath sian ed thoushalt take no heed. Awat.-awake, Meaeptah—with this bow which X give thee shait thou smite the Nine bow oar- barians.” Then Meriamun laid tbe bow of the Wanderer, even the black bowof Euryius, on the bed biside Pnaraoh, and passed thence to her own Chamber, aud the de ceitful dieam, too, pass d away. Early in tbe morning a wauingwoman came to the Quean, saying that Puaraou would speak with her. She went into the ante chamber aud found him there, and in his hand was the black bow Of Eurjtus. “Dost thou know this weapon?” he asked. “Yea, I know it,” she answered, “and thou shouldst know it also, for surely it Bat el us from the fury of the people ou the night of the first born It is tue bow of the Wanderer, who lies in the place of torment and waits his doom because of the wrong he would have wrought upon Hoping a Tigei\ A tiger of considerable size had control of the east end of the E. T., V. and G. switching yards last night. It ran af fairs in that locality from about 11:30 last night until 7 o’clock this morning. The Forepiugh circus wagons were being loaded on the cars east of Crozler street. A switch engine was shoving some cars about, when one of them became derail ed,colliding violently with two cage wag- oos, and the cage containing three ti gers was badly damag-.d. The wood work was crashed In, leaving a hole of sufficient si zs for the tigers to get out. One of the animals leaped from tbe cage on to the flat cur, and from there to the ground. The two! remaining ones were about to follow suit when the train er and several other employees of tie cir cus rushed up to the cage ana preven csd the exit. But one of the tigers was at large, and as soon as the fact became generally known a stampede of the peo ple in that vicinity occurred. Even the circus men struck out for tall timber, aud rushed to inform the managers. Preparations for the capture of the ti ger were made. One of the Texas cow boys, and the one must perfect in hand ling a lasso, was detailed to make the at tempt. The man handling the tiger was also instructed to assist in the daugeronr duty, and the pair went to work. They located the tiger about a stone's throw from the cage in which he had been con fined. The hugs brute was crouched un dera box car, between the rails. His eyes shone brightly, and looked to his captors as large as two fall moons. A large dry goods box was procured, a hole, bored in tne bottom, and the box placed on its side convenient to the animal. One end of the lasso was shoved through the hole, and about 4 o’clock this morning the Texan threw the rope. His judge ment was perfect, and the lariot dropped over the neck and left foreleg of the brute to a nicety. The the work of landing the animal in the box began. He was pulled up to it slowly, and although he resisted considerably was at safely lodged in the box, but not until he had torn off one glove worn by the cowboy and lacer ated his hand badly. The box was nailed up. and the tiger, with the men as guards, left for Morris town on the North Carolina train this morning.—Knoxville Sentinel. The grading of the Egyt Railroad, a nine miles feeder of the Seaboard Air Line eyetem in North Carolina, has been completed, and the rails are to be laid at once. Thie roadie to extend from the Egypt coal mine to a point on the trank line some three miles from the town of Sanford, at which place the Cape Fear A Yadkin Valley Road crosses the Sea board Air-Line. Mr. Samuel A. Henezsy, president of the Egypt Coal Mine Co., is the promoter of this railroad, which will carry the output of that mine to the two trank lines for distribution to customers at all points. It will also transport the output of a brown stone quarry which the coal company haa opened. “If he hath wronged tbte, yet V is he who shall save Khem from the baroar ians,” said the Pharaoh. “Listen now to the dream that I have dreamed,” and he told all the vision. “It is indeed evil that he who wonid have wrought such wickedness upon me should go forth honored, the first of the host of Pnaraoh,” quoth Meriamun. “Yet as the God hath spoken, so let it be. Send now and bid them loose him from the place of torment and put his armor on him and bring him to tnee.” So Pharaoh went out, and the Wander er was loosed from his oed of stone and ciothed again in his golden harness and came forth glorious to see, and stood be fore Pharoah. But no arms were given him. Then Pharaoh told him all his dream, and why he had caused him to be released from the grip of the tormentors. The Wanderer hearkened, saying no word. “Now choose, thou Wanderer,” said Pharaoh; “choose if thou wilt be borne back to the bed of torment, there to die beneath the hands of the tormentors, or if thou wilt go forth as the captain of my host to do battle with the Nme-bow bar barians who waste the land of Khem. It seems there is little faith in thine oaths, therefore I ask no more oaths from thee. But this I swear, that if thou art false to my trust 1 will yet bring thee back to that chamber whence thou wast led but now.” Then the Wanderer spoke: “Of that charge, Pharaoh, which is laid against me, I wtl! say nothing, though perchance i" I stood upon my trial for the sin that is laid againg' me I might find words to say. Tnou aaketh no oath from me. and no oath 1 swear, yet I tell thee that if thou givest me ten thousand sol diers and a hundred chariots I will smite th tea foes of thine so that they shall come no more to Khem, ay, though they ba of mine own people, yet will I smite them, and if I fail, then may those who go with me slay me aud send me down to heli.” Thus he spoke, and as he spoke search ed the hall with his eyes For be desired to see Rei, the Priest, and cha-ga him with a message to He en. But besought in vain, for Rei had fled, and hid from the anger of Meriamun. Then Pharaoh bade his officers take the Wanderer and set him in a chariot and bear him to the city of On, where Pha- roah's host was gathering. Their charge was to watch him night and day with up lifted swords, and if he so much as turned his facd from the fos toward Memphis then they should slay him But when the host of Pharaoh marched from On to do battle on the foe, then they shou d give the Wanderer his own sword and the great black bow, and obey him in every thing. But if he turned his back upon the foe, then they should slay him, or if the host of Pharoah were driven back by tbe foe. then they should slay him. The Wauderer heard and smiled as a wolf smiles, but spoke no word, Thereon the great officers of Pharaoh took him and led him forth. They set him in a chariot and with the ctariot went a thou sand horsemen, and soon Meriamnn, Watching from the walls of Memphis, saw the long line of desert dust that marked the passing of the Wanderer from Memphis, which he should see no more. The Wanderer also looked back upon Memphis with a heavy heart. There, far away, he could see the shrine of Hathor gleaming like crystal above the tawny flood of Sihor. And he must go down to death, leaving no word for her who sat in the shrine and deemed him faithless and forsworn. Evil was the lot that the gods had laid upon him, and bitter was his guerdon. Sad enough were his thoughts while the chariot rolled toward the city of On, where the host of Pharaoh was gather ing, and the thunder of the feet of hones echoed in his ean, when, as he thought, It chanoed that he looked np. There on a knoll of sand before him, a bow-shot from the chariot, stood a camel, and on the camel a man sat as though he waited tbe oomlng of the host. Idly the Wan derer wondered who this might bo, and, as hs wondered, the men urged the camel towsrd the chariot, and, halting before it, cried: “Hold!” in a loud voioe. “Who art thon?” cried the captain of the chariot. “Who darest cry ‘Hold!’ to the host of Pharaoh?” “I am one who has tidings of the bar- bariana’’ the man made answer. The Wanderer looked on him. He was wondrous little, withered, and old; more • over, hie skin was black ai though with, the heat of the euu, and his clothing w&e as a beggar’s rags, though the trappings o the camel were of purple ieathe: and bossed with silver. Again tne Wanderer looked; he kne v him not, and yet there vsas that in his face which seemed famil iar. Now the c ptaln of the chariot haco the driver halt the horBes. and cried: “Draw near and teii thy tidings.” “To none will I tell my tidings save to him who shall lead the host of Pharaoh. Let him Mas from the chariot aud speak with me.” “That may not be,” said the '’aptain . for he w; s charged that the Wa^derev should have p eon with none. “As thou wi t,” atis xered the aged mart upon the catneh ‘ Go, then Go on to iioom—thou art not the first who hatn turned aside a messenger from the gods.” “I am minded to bid the soldiers shcoh thee with arross,” cried the Captain in anger. * So shall mj wisdom sink in the sane! with my biood.acd oe lost with my breath, Snoot on. thou fool.” Now the Captain was perplexed, far from the asps it of the man he deemed, that he was sent by the Goes. He looked •it the Wand iier, who took but little, heed, or so it seemed. But In his crafty heart he knew that t:,is was the best way to win speech with the man on the camel, Then the Captain took counsel with tta Captain of the horsemen, and ta tho end they said to the Wanderer: “Descend from the char ot, Lord, and. walk twelve paces forward, and there noid speech «i.h the man. But if them goest one pace lurther forward, then we will shoot thee and the man with ar rows." And this he cried out also to him who sat upon the caceel. Then t -,e man on the camsl descended, and walked twelve paces forward, and the Wander descended also from the chariot and walked twelve paces forward but as one who heeds little what he does Now the two stood face to face, but out of earshot of the multitude who watched them with arrows set upon the strings. * Greeting, Odysseus of Ithaca, son o? Laertes,”he said who was clad in beggars weeds. The Wanderer looked upon him hard and kne w him through nis disguise. * Greeting, Rei the Priest, Commander of tne Legiou ot Amen, Chief of the Treasury of Amen.” ■Rci the Priest I am indeed,’’ he answered; “the rest I am no more, for Meriamun the Queen has stripped me of my wealth and offices—because of thee, thou Wanderer, and the Immortal whose love thou hast, won, and by whom thou ha8t dealt so ill. Hearken—I learned by arts known to me of the dream of Pha raoh, and of thy sending forth to do bat tle with the ba.-barisns, Then I disguised myself as thou seest, and took the swift est camel in Memphis and am come hith er by another way to meet thee. Now I womd ask thee one thing. How came It that thou didst- olay the immortal false that night? Knowest thou that she waited for thee there by the pylon gate? Aye, there I found her and led her to the. palace, and for that I am stripped of my rank and goods by Meriamun, and now the Lady of Beauty is returned to aer .Shrine grieving bitterly for thy faithless ness—though how she passed thither 1 know not.” “Methought I heard her voice as those knaves bore me to my dungeon,” said the Wanderer. “And she deemed me faithless! Say, Rei, dost thou know the magic of Meriamun? Dost thou know how she won me to her.eif in the shape of Argive Helen?” And then In a3 few words as might be he told RH aii how he tad been led away by the magic of Meriamun, how he who should have sworn by tne Stir had sworn by tne Snake. When Rei heard that the Wanderer had sworn by the Snake he shuddered “Now, 1 knew all,” he said. ,-Fear not, thou Wanderer, act ou thee sh&u all th^ evil fall, not on that Immortal whom thou dost love, the Snake that beguiled thee snau avenge thee also.” “Rei,” the Wanderer said, “one thing I charge thee, i know that I go down to my death. Therefore I pray thee seek out her whom thou nearest the Hathor and tell her aii tire tale of how I was be trayed. So suail I die happi y. Tell her also that I crave herforgivencss,and that I love her and neroniy.” “This I will do if I may,” Rei ana werec And now the soldiers murmur and I must be gone. Lisle.! T^e migatof the Nine how barbarians rolls up the Eastern branch oi Siher. Bat one day’s march from On tne mountains run down to the edge of the river, and taose mountain; are pierced by a rocky pass, through which the foe will sorely corns, set thou thy ambush there, Wan.ierer, there at Prosopis—so shait thou smite them. Farewell. I will seek out the Hathor, if in any way I can come at her, ana tell her all. Buc o' this I warn thee, the hoar is Dig with Fate, aud soon will spawn a monstrous birth. Strange visions of doom and death passed before mine eye even as I slept last night. Fare- we! ! ’ Then he went back to the camel and climbed it, ard, passing round the armv, vanished swiftly in a cioud of dust. The Wanderer also went back to hit chariot, where the captains murmured because of the bait, and mounted it Bat he would tell nothing of what the man had said to him save that he was surely a messenger from the Under World to instruct nim in the waging ot the war. Then the chariot and the horsemen passed on again, till at nightfall they came to tbe city of On and found the host of Pharaoh gathering in the space that is before the Temple. CHAPTER XXIII. When Meriamun the Queen had watched the chariot of the Wanderer till it was lost in the dust of the desert, she passed down from the palace room to the solitude cf her chamber. Here she sat in her chamber till the darkness gathered, as the evil thoughts gathered in her heart, that was rent with love of him whom she had won bat to lose. Things had gone ill with her; to little purpose she had sinned after such a fashion as may not be forgiven. Yet there was hope. He had aworn that he would wed her when Pharaoh was dead, and when Argive Helen had followed Pharaoh to the shade*. Should she shrink, then, from the deed of blood? Nay, from evil to evil she would go. She laid her hand upon the doable-headed snake that wound her about, and spake into the gloom: “Osiris waits thee, Meneptah—Osiris waits thee. The shades of those who have died for thy love, Helen, are gath ered at the gates. It shall be done. Pha - raoh, thou dhst tonight. Tomorrow night, thou Goddess Helen, shall ad tby tale he told. Man may not harm thee, indeed, but shall Fire refuse to kiss thy loveliness? Are there no women’s hands to light tby funeral pile?” Then she rose, and, calling her women,