The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-06
His Sixth Grand Triumpllal
Entry Into His Fa-
vorite City.
On Which Occasion Tie Treats His
Audience to Vision or the
Celebrated Women of
History.

InNIa ba no REoWHIfN " " atFeet 1Amln
eIanoea. III hs Wild desire TO look down the
etreet. to place himself upon ones foot. and
eyen atep IN tho gutter Is received in 30
quiet and undemonatrative manner that II
looks na II the unlueky man was pleased with
hs lmpfumptu bath What is Il TO be2'
Where is II oo'utng2f are the questions
That have become painfully monotono,ls.
People look up thestroet and down the street,
i'm vain search for light. n rising star that
signals Momuss approach. A druggists col
ored lamp down Royal IN mistaken for the
coming procession. and there is a sudden
rush IN that direction. hut tho error Ia soon
discovered. and the crowd ruallas back with
equal fervor. with no other casualties than two
mon smed and six small boys missing.
hut hark The oars o. everybody have
been attentive for tho last half hour 10 every
noise. A ruatlin9 sound can be heard far
down Canal street. ana than a long snake Of
iire aeelna to curl itself slowly from out some
slide street There Ia a moments quiet to
drink In tho sight. and then everybody rushes
and hlstles forward to secure good placo
from which to see the sight. Elbows become
useful appendages. and umbrelas luxury,
anee, iudiolousy administered they will so
Ing for place. The crowd snrges to and fro,
and those who tlntter themselves that they arc
IL front soon find themselves pushe, far back
| In the reat ranks. The procession IL nearer:
its lights and transparencles are now plainly
Visible but what they mean or what these
giants tottering along. high In the air. are, is
more than any ono can tell. Tho enthusiastic
| "obs and "ahs' which are heard muttered
far down the line showing one thing that the
procession Ia n pretty ono excite the gamin
to tho brink of frenzy. and even disturb the
eauanimity of that stolid old party who has
pretended all along TO look upon the process
slon as only for women and children.
| The policemen are here; they beat back the
crowd with difficulty as they press forward to
got u close and thorough View Of the sights
before them. And now the main transparency
Ia plainly visible. aud the crowd knows that
Momus proposes to treat them to
"A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN.
/. QUEEN sEMIRhMIs.
| When lived the first queen and heroine
/ You must count back by centuries to the day
when tho world was young. u mere child III
point Of years, when Rome was still un-l
droamt Of, tho Greek unborn, and ancient
/ Troy shepherds village on tda's summit.
An unsexed woman WIS She, the first great
queen. snmiramis. A poisoner Of her own.
| husband, IL slayer OF mon and devastatOr OF.
cities. she wa. but mere girl only twenty
when she came to the throne, but shO.
grasped the soeptre with SO firm aud sure q.
hand that none could wrest II from her. And.
u great queen was she, one who built canals
and palaces, founded tho city OF Babylon and
erected It's famous wallis Nor did she spare
hor eromies In war, but marched against the
Perslans, Mede@. Llhyans, Ethopans aud
Indians, and subiugated all Of them. We
sec tho queen settling out on one OF her trl-
umphal marches She has issued from an
| AssyIian arch Of triumph, whose solid walls
rest upon tho winged lions Of Assyria. Its
summit IL clothed with the famous hanging
self built and planted. and Its sides are
painted with pictures Of Assyrihn warfare.
lhequesn Is mounted on u awar-ehartot drawn
by two black horses. II helmet on her head, q
sCeptre waved In her hand. A driver stands
near cracking his whip Mt her atsetis. aud In
| front march two Assyran soldiers, clad In
nrmor aud carrying spears.
An unhappy woman WAS this Queen of Ba-
bylen and SineVeh, with all asr pDmp and
glory. Sho gained her throne by poisoning
her husband lost II by murder, for her son
klllsd her. But though unhappy, she has
LETT nm uadying monument behind In the
midst OF tho deseation where once was BR-
bylon, waere tho earth. as II cursed, refuses
to give forth n blade Of grass the traveller Ia
shown t2-day by some half naked Arab boy
aigh mound OF GrumbIing masonry the only
|
ramis built thousands of years ago. and
| which has deted Nature itself.
/ z. ptDo.
And mounts tho fnnral pile with furious hastea
Unsheathed tho sword. tho Troan left behind.
Fox not so dire mn enterprise designed).
And struck: deep entered In her side
| The pierclnR stee with reekine purple dyed.
/ Jhrice DIDO tried to raise her dropping mead.
hnd faniing thrice, fell growing on the bed:
1 Thrice oD1 her weary and the iQ.
But, having found It, siekena Mt tho sight
And closed her lids at last In endless nighs.
SO far true, but when Virgil goes step fur
ther and makes tho fair Ellsa- whose name
has been lost In her title "Dido" (the valiant
woman, bestowed on her only after death.
commt this suicide from love OF Ills vaga-
bond hero, that Trojan tramp EaeaS. he al.
lows poetry and patriotism to overcome alGrf
to woman and to love. Elisa never sighed
+ yor nor died for Ineas-if for ra other ree~
son, because he left this worA 327 yearn
, before ghs entered II.
fable, n libel upon the fair Tysian, who WAS
widow, 1t is true, buta widow TO be- proud Of.
such widow rs every fna.l would like bis
: wife to prove. But on incident In all
vlrgll's dozen OF canto't--the story OF her
, death--contans one ge I'm OF truth, and we
@ should doubt even th'8 vera we not SUD-
g ported in It by honest Molnus. The Queen
0 OF Carthage dld mopnt the funeral pile and
. thare take her lie 10. bhe presence OF her peo-
8 pie We see her IN tha very act OK suicide
+ Upon the high fnr,eral pyre stands her wal
! Gnariot, Its Sides carved into the dogs heads
OF Carthage, It's wheels armed with long
9 sharpened knives and scythes. The Queen ss
mounted ell this chariot. dressed In her robes
OF STATE. long purple cloak hangs around
her, ard froln theburnished helmet that con.
:. lines her raven locks floats q long white
+ deserts There stands she. undlsmayet
y a'mid sea OF fire. Around the pyro are