The daily Alaskan., 1905-11-03

 .....BEAUTY

IOriEtnaLl
 There was once king whose queen had been so vuIu of her beauty that ho directed that their only child, a daugh- ter, should be kept from seeing he: own features as long as possible. The queen died when the little princes Henrietta was an infant, and the kinS placed her in one of his palaces, whcra she was brought up in charge Of the Duchess Margaret, her aunt Not mirror was permitted In the palace, and the king ordered the water in tho artificial lakes auI basins with which the spacious grounds ubouudrd to bo drawn off for fear the princess should catch the reelection Of hor flcc From time to time the Gunhoss was required to make reports to tha king concerning her charge.
 "The princess is g.oviug to le very beautiful" ,Le Gu.-.ass reported when Henrietta was s.NJ.gu years old, "and Is absolutely unconscious of her charms"
 Tell her." replied the king, that she is very howcly.'
 The order was UUpyod. The princess, who up to this time hai not thought of her own app,orHuon was seized with a desire 10 s,r what sh' looked like, anu t-r duchess was obliged to double the uJStu.t.on- sha had thrown In the way Of her doing so. But in time she began lo consider that the sight of her u-.t..-s vsaI ualy dis tress her, auI s1, ma.n yuw ncycr to see q reflection oI un" lauc.
 When she was twenty her father died suddenly. aHl s'.n hnrJwn queen Those near her at vave nrahu the sc. cret of her beauty to hrr. hgr she would not believe them. "No" that ] am queen you wt @J Gis-n"l to flat ter me" she said, ".NI. .aruai l br uglier than Nolusa. va1 wnuI make me believe l am beautiful as Venus. Her first cdict was rIGt "vy a.u being Instrumental in slowing her l.r fea lures should at once 1n 1phna3al.
 Many ncighn1v.ag princes proposed for the hand of thn 4"ugu but she, be. Ievlng in her Ug.uv~s, feared that when they came to s.r nor they would be shocked. and she would listen to none of them.
 Now. the Queen Henrietta. hninG 9 woman with no strong minister .o sup port her in governing Ic~ raou.'. sooa became the prey of several @aH no tlons, whose rulers planned au a.llontr to invade her kingdom. conquer it am. divide It among them. G"..H lienr" ettu did the best she caa.. H... u iaa tide that set in against lar. '".. having no general on whom sln .a r..N- h.. forces were beaten, and t.."' ".'t gN cry prospect that her king ."u wgul soon belong to her eav,.a-s ,.-.Ihors. For some time a young aGj.n". Thco dorus, had been rising through merit alone from our cuum8ul to another, and at last the queen decided to up- point him her general in chief. Shr had never seen him. Indeed, she knew nothing of him except what Inc had ac complishcd in her service.
 Meanwhile she was SD troubled about her affairs that no olc dared risk being instrumental in showing her that shr was beautiful instead of ugly, for h her present mood even the discovery that she had been mistaken might lead her to deal uumcrriCu.ly with her ia former. This as well as the success cE her foreign enemy showed how i0ckin" In bravery were her own mou.
 No sooner had tue young genera come to the supreme c.--a.d that tue tables were turned against th. queens enemies. In a series Of JJtt.cr in which he displayed not only g~ea. yigor and general Air. Lut r.rsvna bravery. he routed '-' .--.er ol hi" foes, laid waste their countries ar. annexed them to the kingdom of h'. sovereign.
 When the war was over grgat propa ratious were made at jhe capital to re cclvc the victorious E, Eg'orc his arrival the queen had male Iaa'.orus l prince. but this was ua.y tho begin ming of the houors that "r.e ty he E.v. en him. He marc.eI hone with that portion of his army not needed to con. trOl the newly acquired ca.uw.es and rode at its head on it's entry into the capital. The queen had directed that a Lt,r.,,n I,n .rnnEnL u -r--L U -.. MML-