Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-28

had reached her that there was treasure hid in the Great Pyramid that is by On. For, being ever wasteful, she was ever in want of money, and had bethought her of opening the Pyramid. But Ee laughed at her, telling her the Pyramid was the | burying place of the Divine Chufu, and | that naught knew he of It's secrets. Then sho was angered, and swore that so surely as she ruled in Egypt she would tear it down, stone by stone, and discover tho secret at it's heart. Again he laughed, and Tn the words of the proverb which they have here at Alexandria, told her that
 Mountains live longer than Kings" There on she smiled at his ready answer and let nim go. Also my uncle Sepa told me that on tho morrow should see this Cleopatra. For 1t was her birthday Gas, indeed, it was also mine), and, dressed as the Holy Isis, sho would pass in state from her palace on the Lochias to the Serapeum to offer sac rltlce at the shrine of the false God who sits therein. And he said thereafter that the fashion whereby should gain entrance to the household of the Queen should be contrived.
 Then, being very weary, went to rest; but could sleep little for tho strangeness of the place, the noises in the streets, and the thought of the morrow. While 1t was yet dark, l rose, climbed the stair to the roof of sAAS AAooS03 1AAo WoAeCo. A4CoSuGly Cu0 Suu' rays shot out like arrows. ard lit upon tho white wonder of the marble Pharos, where of the light ms tantly sank and died, as though, indeed, the sun had killed it. Now the rays fell upon the marble palaces of tho Lochias where Cleopatra lay, and lit them up till they famed like jewel set on the | dark, cool bosom of the sea. Away the light flew, kissing the Soma's sacred dome, wherein Alexander sleeps, touching the high tops of thousand palaces and tenn pies; past tho porticoes of the great mu- scum that loomed near at hand, striking the lofty shrine where, carven of ivory, is the image of tho false God Serapis, and at last seeming to lose itself in the vast and gloomy Metropolis. Then, as the dawn gathered into day, the great flood of brightness oyerbrimming tho bowl of night flowed into the lower lands and streets, and showed Alexandria red in the sunrise as the mantle of king, and shaped as mantle. The Etesian wind came up from the north and swept away the vapor from the harbors, so that saw their blue waters rocking a thousand ships I saw, too, that mighty mole of the Hepta- stadium; saw the hundreds of streets, the countless houses, the innumerabe wealth and splenGor of Alexandria, set like 8 queen betwlXt Mareotis and the ocean, and dominating both, and 1 was filled with wonder. This, then, was one city in my heritage of lands and citiesl We'll, it was worth the grasping. And having looked my full and fed my heart, as it were, with the sight of splcndor, I communed with tho Holy lsls and came down from the roof.
 In the chamber beneath was my uncle Sepa. I told him that l had been watch ing the sun rise over the city of Alex andria.
 ''So" he said, looking at me from beneath his shaggy eyebrows; ''and what thinlest thou of Alexandria,"
 'I think it is like some eity of the Gods," I answered,
 "Ayl" he replied, ferccly, "a city of the internal Gods a sink of corruption a bub- bling well of iniquity, a home of false faith springing from false hearts would that not one stone of it were left upon another stone, and that it's wealth lay deep beneath yonder watersl Iwould that the guls were screaming across its site, and that the wind, untaiuted by a Grecian breath, swept through it's ruins from ocean to Mareotis 0 Royal Harmachls. let not the luxury and beauty of Alexand iia poison thy sense; for in their deadly air Faith perishes and Rcl- zion can not spread her heavenly wings When tho hour comes for thee to rule. Harmachis, cast down this accursed city, and, as thy fathers did, set up thy throne in the white walls of Memfi, For tell thee that for Egypt Alexandria is but a splendid gate of ruin, and while 1t endures all na. tions of tho earth shall march through it to the plunder of the land, and all false faiths shall nestle in it and breed the overthrow of Egypt's Gods"
 made no answer, for there was truth in his words. And yet to me the city seemed very fair to look on. After we had eaten, my uncle told mo it was now time to set out to view the march of Cleopatra, as she went in triumph to the shine of Scraps. For although she would not pass till with in two hours of the midday, yet these peo- pie of Alexandria have s9 great a love of shows ana idling that had we net presently set forth by na means could we have como through the press of the multitudes who were already gathering along the highways where the Queen must ride So we went out to take our place upon stand, fashioned of timber, that had been built at the side of the great road which pierccs through the city, even to the Canopic Gate. For there in my uncle had purchased right to enter, and that dearly.
 And with much struggle we won our way through the great crowds that were al- ready gathered in the streets, till we reached the scaffolding of timber, which was roofed in with an awning and gaylY nuA Hi'tt SSe'ttSS SlocnS. ACES WE SealeQ ourselves upon 3 bench and waited for some hours, watching the multitude press past, shouting, singing and talking loudly Tn many tongues. At length oame soldiers to clear the road, clad, after the Roman fashion, in coats of chain armor. After them marched heralds enjoining silence (whereat the populace sang and shouted all the more loudly, and crying that Cleo patra, the Queen, was coming. Then fol- lowed thousand Ciliclan skirmishers, thousand Thracians, thousand Macedo- nians, and thousand Gauls, each armed after the fashion of their dwn country. Then passed five hundred men of those who are called the Fenced Horsemen, for bote men and horses were altogether COW cred with armor, Next came youths and maidens sumptuously draped and wearing golden crowns, and wlth them images sym bolizing Day and Night, Morning and Noon, the Heavens and the Earth. After these came many fair women pouring perfumes on the road, and others scattering bloom ing flowers. Now there rose great shout ~E u@~