Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-16
A LIrrLE MAID on LONG 400.

A LITTLE MAID OF LONG AGO.
Tho Da"shter OF a K,ng who noigped In
Greece Once Upon rin,e.
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Away of IN The beautiful country Of
Greece, . long, long time ago, there lived
a little malden, the daughcr OF a king
lier name was GOrgo-not n very pretty
name, perhaps, t. as who are nsed to
calling little girls Maud and Ethel aud
Helen, but strong name, and
tnettiore quite appropriate TO the
little maid who bore 10, as YOU
shall see. In those old times there used
TO DO many wars, and the country OF
sparta, the part OF Greece where Gorge
lived, was famous for Us brave warriors,
who never Thought for muinent ~ their
own safety when their country was In
danger. Sometimes these were not good
wars, but wars for spite aud revenge, In.
stead OF for freedom and for Loyalty to
beautiful Greece.
| some wicked man would wish 70
svengo an injury he had received, aud In
order to do this he wonldgo abont among
the different Kingdoms and try ana per-
snade the rulers TO Join with him and
try and overcome his enemy; and
then there woOl1 DO terrible blood
shed In order 10 satisfy one wicked mans
revenge. Arlstagoras WAS such man as
this. lie was dissatisfied with his king,
aud wished 10 become the King himself
instead. One day he came TO Sparta on
this evil errand and tried to persuade
! Hinge Cloomenes, the father OF little
Gorgoi TO help his base project He
talked with the Ting long time. lie
promised him power aud honor and
money Il he would do as he wished; more
and more money, aud, as the king
refused, stu more and more money he
offered, and at last the king almost con-
scented.
But II had happened that when Arls,a-
goras had come into the presence Of the
king, the kings little daughter was stand
Ing by his side with her hand IN his.
Arislagorns wanted Cleomenes TO send
her away, for lie knew very well that IL Is
much harder to induce man TO do some
thing wrong when there Is a dear little
child at his side. But the king had said,
"Noi say what you have TO say In her
presence, too,n and so little Gorge had
sat at her fathers feet, looking
up Into his face with her innocent eyes
aud listening ntently TO all that was said.
She felt that something was wrong, and
when she saw her father look troubled
and hesitate, and cast down his eyes,
| she knew thoistrange visitor was trying
to make him DO something he did not
quite want TO do. So she stole her little
hand softly Into her fathers and said
! "Papa, come away, come, or this
strange man win make you do wrongu
This made the king feel strong again,
and clasplng the little maids hand tight
ly In his own, he rose and left the temp
ter, and went away with the child who
had saved him and his country from dis
hoaor. Gorge was only ten years old
then, but abe was worthy 10 be kings
! daughters being good and true herself,
she helped hor father To be good and true
! also.
= When she grew TO be a woman she be.
d came the wife Of king, and then she
A showed herself as noble queen as she
had been prncess. Her husband was
4 that King ieonidas who stood IN the
4 narrow pass OF Thermopylm with his
:, small arms and fought back the great
!. hosts OF the Persians until he and all his
q heroic band were killed. But before this
= happened there was Il time when the Ore
n clans did not know that the great Persian
army was coming 20 try TO destroy
A them, and friend OF theirs who was a
= prisonerin the country where the great
XerXes lived, wishing TO warn the Spar.
p tans Of the coming 1f the Persians 30 they
, might prepare, sent messenger TO King
Leohloas. buI Wneh vac messenger ar
/ riveo all ne hau 10 SNOW LOT ms nnessnge
was pare, Whito WaAeu laplet, me
9 KING ana az tne lofus pu11lea over tDis
stranEe hoiet iohB Iinv, uut ooulu
! gan to think IL was done for Jest and
did not mean anything.
But just then the young Queen Gorge
4 said "Let me take II" and after looking
: Il all over, she exclaimed, "There must
be some writing underneath the waxi''
They scraped away the wax from the
: tablet, and there, sure enough, written
Z on the wood beneath, was tho message OF
the Grecian prisoner and his warning 10