The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-21

maids to a stream near where 1t ran into
the sea, saw the exhausted and Ship
kreclzed man, gave him clothing and di-
rected him to repair to her fathers court,
there to tell his mournful story and re-
ceive the assistance he required. When
the King found that the shipwrecked
stranger was the famous hero of the
Trojan war, Ulysses, he asked relation
of all his adventures. entertained him for
some time with great splendor, and then
sent him in a ship to Ithaca.
Ulysses was asleep when the Phaeacian
ship reached the shores of Ithaca. The
sailors took him ashore so careful that
they did not awaken him, laid him on
the ground near the city and sailed away.
When Ulysses awoke and looked around
he did not see a single familiar object A
dense mist. was over everything, which
may account for 1t. He thought he had
again been abandoned on some strange
! coast and began to bewail his fate. But,
the mist clearing, the King saw with
rapture that he trod once more his ma
were going with his family and his king
dom before he revealed himself, he went,
disguised as a beggar. to the house of
Eumaeus, his faster of the swine. The
swineherd received him Hospitality, and,
not recognizing him, but seeing that he
was in want, kept him for some time as
a guest
Ulysses learned that his son Telemachus
had gone to visit the courts of Sparta and
Pylos to try to get t.dings of the fate
of his father, and that the suitors of
Penelope were more riotous and greedy
than ever. The suitors had laid plot to
intercept Telemachus on his return voy-
age, but the youth eluded the snare, and,
landing upon the coast, went to the house
of Eumaeus. Taking the young man
aside Ulysses revealed himself to his son.
and together they planned for the de-
structon of the suitors. Still disguised as
a beggar Ulysses went to the palace,
where he was insuted and even beaten
by the insolent sutors. But he bded his
time. By his direction Telemachus res
moved the arms from the walls of the
banquet hall. They took Eumaeus and
two others upon whom they could de-
pend into their confidence and waited un-
til the feast of Apollo, when the suitors
INDUCED in grand carouse. Secretly
Ulysses. Teemachus and their friends
had provided themselves with arms.
At the feast Penelope appeared bearing
the bow of Ulysses, mighty bow which
he had left behind when he went to the
Trojan war. Weary Of the struggle
against fate, the Queen showed the bow
and said she would marry the man who
could bend it and shoot through a series
of rings which were arranged in a line.
No man could bend the bow, but Ulysses,
seizing it, bent it easily and sent the
arrow singing through the rings AS
tonished at this feat of a supposedly fee
BILE beggar, the suitors began to make
an uproar Ulysses gave the signal. He
and his friends, standing in the door,
way, began the slaughter. The door OF
the armory having been carelessly left
open some one of the suitors ran there
and brought back arms for his compan-
ions. The fight which ensued was furi-
Gus, but when it was over every ono
of the suitors lay dead. Then Ulysses,
clad in gorgeous robes and in his proper
person, revealed himself to his faithful
wife, who received her returned lord with
rapturous kisses.
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