The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-24

Halicarnnssus. They thought the time
had come to get Artemisia and That's out
Of the hands Of the enemy. The one salts
factory incident here was the shifting Of
Phradates by Chares. Chares, who had
remained in the angle OF shadow, sprang
forward with a cry Of rage. He reached
Phradates before the soldiers could stop
him and dealt the Tyrian blow that sent
him down in heap ten yards away. 1t
Is good deal Of knock that will propel
a man thirty feet. They had to call a
physician for Phradates. It required
scientific treatment to bring him hack to
consciousness. His life had been saved
by the fact that he threw up his right hand
to protect himself from Chares's terrible
blow. The bones of his wrist had teen
broken and splintered so BADLY that the
physician doubted whether he would ever
be able to use his hand again" II speaks
for his powers Of recovery that he was able
to lie about very much az usual the next
morning.
There Ia fine chapter about Alexander
at that point in his career where he cut the
Gordian knot Mounted on Bucephalus. he
rode slowly along the ranks OF his army,
splendid in his armor his double plume OF
white brushing his shoulders on either
aide, just az he had done before the charge
at the Granicus The chief priest read to
him the conditions concerning the knot by
which the cart Of King Gordius had been
made fast to the porphyry column in the
temple. Alexander regarded the knot.
He saw that King Gordius had left no ends.
His strong common sense assisted him.
1t must be that he asked himself what
was the use trying to save the rope. He
whipped out his sword and cut the knot.
The chief priest hailed him lord Of Asia 4.
The army acclaimed him with joyous cries.
Halcarnassus had already fallen. Issus
was to follow. and the fall Of Tyre.
Two Of our companions, Clearchus, the
Athenian. and the gigantic Chares Of Thebes
were taken captive at Halicarnassrs and sent
as prisoners to Babylon. Men Of ample
experience that they were, they still gazed
with wonder at the mighty walls of the city
by the Euphrates, They had occasion
little later to escape over those walls. They
were TO have been put to the torture. Ac-
cording to the merry jailer who had them
in charge. they were to have been smeared
with honey and left to be devoured slowly
by the flies and ants. Nathan. the Israelite,
helped them to escape. Cnares throttled
the merry jailer. The Theban and Nathan
let themselves down ,fhe wall by rope.
but Clearchus Invested himself of his chiffon
and his sandals and diyed from the top Of
the wall into the Euphrates. He was taken
for & god by those who saw his white form
fash through the darkness. They would
have thought the same thing of Steve
Brodie.
"Down from the Phrygan plateau,
through land that glowed with touch Of
autumn, marched the Macedonian host
with Alexander at its head Darius, in
our present day phrase, was about to re-
ceive what was coming to him. There is
an admirable account here Of the battle Of
Issus. Chares spoke of hot work" in the
course OF the action, and his words were
not extravagant. We behold the great
King Darius descending in haste at last from
his golden chariot with it's four white
steeds, whose jeweled brides were held
by slaves" and escaping on the back Of a
fleet chestnut mare. 1t makes one think
Of the Equitable assets to read what this
mighty Persian left behind,
The story carries us to Tyre. where the
iron god Moloch. full Of hot Goals, is kro2l7ed
over by a stone cast from q Ma cedonian
ballista Just as he is about to take the hero
inc in his dreadful embrace An eventful.
stirring. we'll told tale. We recommend it