The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-19

priestess-queen and was warned off the premises.
 Among the Americans who went.to Leb anon to join the court of Queen Hester was one the women who. like Margaret Fuller, afterward threw in her lot witl the late Charles A. Dana of the Sun, tn, late Dr. George Ripley of the Tribune Emerson and Hawthorne, when they started the celebrated Brook Farm expe riment. She was the same woman who is alluded to by Whittier in his Snow. bound" as having awed his fathers house. hold when she visited the family in hel youth and as having startled the crazy queen of Lebanon with dreams fantastic as her own" This woman went to Syria and presented herself to Queen Hester. The American and Lord Rose bery's aunt got along we'll together for a time, but when both began to prophecy there was trouble. Each agreed that al a certain time troop of beautiful Arat horses was to appear to take them tc heaven. They both had seen the horses in a vision. One day they were talking 1t over when Queen Hester said:
 Did you notice the splendid mare oi pure white which led all the rest of the troop?"
 "Oh, yes." replied the American woman
 AhAI ID bAAo OilC As thlA NO AluSs
 Ride that one, indeed!" angrily ex. claimed the queen. That mare is mine!'
 Iris not! It's mine!" retorted the yan- kee woman.
 And then the row began. The palace attendants had to interfere to prevent the two women from doing personal violence to each other, for both were mighty high strung" After the fight the Amer ican woman departed from Lebanon leaving a trail of anathemas behind her
 Once Queen Hester's profuse expendi- ture of money got her into debt to such an extent that the British government felt called upon to interfere. The nearest British consel was ordered to pay the most pressing of the queens obligations and charge the amount against her Eng fish estate Thereupon Lady Hester wrote several letters of indignant remonstrance to Queen Victoria. whom she addressed as her royal cousin.
 Leads her Army in Person.
 When Mehemit Ali invaded Syria with his Egyptian army Queen Hester sum- moned to her banner the. wandering hordes of the desert and the mountain eers of Lebanon. Clad in her gorgeous Arabian costume and mounted on su perb horse, she took the field at the head of strong force, which she declared hei intention of leading to battle in person It had been revealed to her in visions that legions of angels would fight on hei side and invisible powers blast her enc mics. Her followers believed her and fol lowed her fanatically Nothing is more romantic than the picture of this nine teenth century prophecies queen, once the leader of London fashion, the cut oi whose gowns was copied by the womer and whose smiles were fought for by the dandies, sweeping in with her wild hores- men from Fadmon in the wilderness anC pouring her mountaineers down the slopes of Lebanon. She rode astride. man fash ion clad in mems clothes, her Jewelec scimitar flashing in the air and plume of marabout feathers waving above hel jeweled turban. Lady Hester's teas used to be the swellest social functions 1T London; now she actually held the bal. ance of power in Syria, and Mehemit All was obliged to secure her neutrality be- fore he could continue the prosecution o1 his operations against the Turks.
 Lord Rosebery's remarkable aunt dieC in her palace on Mount Lebanon quite alone, except for her native attendants The British consul at the nearest DOT heard that she was desperately i'll anC started at once for DJoun. When he ar rived with his escort at the palace l found it entire deserted. They passed from hall to hall of oriental and barbari' splendor, from which the gorgeous fur niture had been stripped. At last the! came to the throneroom, and there, oI the steps of the throne. lay the dead bod. of a weazoned old woman clad in gor geous robes of state. It was all that re mained of Lady Hester Stanhope. A she felt death approaching she ha caused herself to be dressed in her roya attire and had dragged herself to he throne, there to await the sound of tn stamping at the palace gate of the whit horse over which she had quarreled wit the American woman. When the breat left her body her native attendants heC