The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-07-11

followers are seeking new home;
rest here! Carthage welcomes all
gallant men within her walls!
Here there shall be no distinc-
ton between Carthaginian and Trojan.
Your people shall be my people, and
my people shall be yours. Abide in
Carthage and find here the fulfillment
of your ambition
/ And then the queen ordered a great
feast prepared in honor of her guests;
! but before the feast there were athletic
/ games, such as the people of that age
| INDUCED in, at which the men Of Garth
/ age and the followers of Aeneas con-
! tended on equal terms. The whole city
gave itself up to festivity, and the
STORM beaten Trojans were led to for
get their distress.
In the evening the feast was spread
in the great hall Of the palace, and
! Queen Dido made Aeneas sit beside her
on her throne. Then, while the festivi-
ties went on around them, she bade him
| tell her the story of his escape from
Troy and his adventures before the
storm drove him to Carthage.
This, most noble queen" said
Aeneas, lis how it happened. For ten
| years had the Greeks, led by Agamem-
non, Menelaus Achilles and the rest,
sought in vain to capture Troy. Many
a great and glorious struggle had TAX
en- place upon the plains before the city,
and many brilliant deed of arms had
been done by warriors on both sides.
"But strategy accomplished what
valor had failed to do, and when our
people hauled within the gates great
wooden horse that the Greeks had left
upon the plain our doom was sealed.
That wooden horse was filed with some
of the bravest of our enemies, and at
night a traitor opened it's side and
turned the warriors loose upon our I'M
suspecting people
"Straightway these warriors opened
the city gates to their soldiers and Troy
was taken. Then followed all the hor-
rors of fire, pillage and massacre, in
the midst of which I managed to find
my way out Of the city, bearing my
father, Anchises, upon my shoulders,
and leading my little son by the hand.
! Close after me followed my wife, but
she, alas! was soon swept away in the
confusion and utterly lost.
''Some others escaped, also, and when
I encountered them some distance from
the city, they placed themselves under
my guidance and command. The fugi-
! tives, as you see, were men, women and
children, and determined to seek a
new country and establish a colony,
! perhaps build city that might rival
fair Troy
''In time we secured ships and set
sail, meeting with various adventures
on our way. We first landed on the
shores of Thrace, but the gods sent me
| a warning, and we took ship again.
Then sighting Delos, I sailed into it's
harbor, and having gone ashore, con-
suited the oracle of Apollo for guidance.
1.-THE oracle answered me in ambigu-
Gus phrase, as oracleS always do: Seek
| your ancient mother; there the race Of
Aeneas shall dwell, and reduce all 9TH
er nations to their sway
81 knew not where to find my an
cient mother but Anchises, my father,
remembered that Crete was the reputed
home Of my ancestors. To Crete, there
fore, we sailed, and having landed, we
began to build a city, but sickness
broke out among my people, our crops
utterly failed, and I had dream in
which L was warned to seek Hesperia,
| in the west, whence Dardanus, the, real
founder of the Trojan race, had mi
grated.
Leaving Crete, therefore, we turned
our ships toward the west. Having
touched at various points, and met with
many strange adventures, we at last
reached the coast of Sicily, over against
your own good city of Carthage.
with fair winds, clear Skies smooth
water and hopeful hearts, we were
speeding away prosperously toward our
destination, when Juno, whose resent
ment against Paris for awarding the
! Golden Apple to Venice extends to the
whole Trojan race, sent for AeoluS, the
ruler of the winds, and ordered him to
! turn loose a gale upon our ships and
wreck them.
ct was that storm, queen, through
which we struggled as we neared this
| hospitable shore. No doubt you mar
veled at the suddenness with which it
subsidized; but know you that it was
great Neptune that quoted the waves.
Hearing the storm raging, and know
! ing that he had not ordered one, he
| looked from under the water and babe
/ the winds go back to their keeper.
'"Then it was that we sailed through
smooth water to your fair city, where
you and your people have so royalty
| received u.s."
"And here you shall remain, noble
! Aeneas, if it please you, for whatever
you ask you shall have, even to the half
of my kingdom. / beg you to seek not
that unknown country, Hesperia; be
content with Carthage, for here you
shall have riches, luxury and power"
Who will wonder that Aeneas accept
ed the generous queens offer? And
when she gave him her hand and made
him her royal consort, he ceased to
think of Hesperia and the mysterious
warning he had received in his dream.
But the hands of the gods were upon
this noble Trojan, for it had been de-
creed that his race should found the
| city of Rome, in Hesperia, or Italy, as
it is now called, and Jupiter sent Mer-
curry to remind him of the great destiny
that had been predicted for him.
Surrounded by luxury, wealth, power,
/ love and all the allurements that en-
snare a mans ambition, he was content
/ to remain in Carthage with his beauti-
full queen. But command from the