The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-03-23

rarv charge OF matters. After xet-l
tin > few on the sklnks out ov the
yafn." be retarnea 70 Ronns seat
ArIstomens. vsTy prudent Roman
citizen 20 continue 20 act ~ adviser
10 the young Egyptian. Whsis slfns-I
lar steps hev bin sakea NJ various
periods in the History OF the wursd
when eountry WIZ about 20 become
ruierIaas. IL / may coin Dew word
for special use. ! hardly taInk that
history gives al exactly similar case
For a number OF years about this
time the history oy Egypt made IN
pleasant readIn'. War. war. war...
At times hit really appears that y
state Of advanced civilization IL real
~ an truly . dangerous thing. An
hit IL. But the other way In prob
ably worse. Egypt had her share ov
civil war At any rate. Ptolemy d.
DIVISIONS wuz now on the throne. an
bein' rather young, the Roman Sen
ate assisted him. an Rome really
had charge ov Egypt for time. but
the folks didn't suspect hit
The young king last mentioned
awlso had another assistant, hiz sis
ter, the world-famous beauty. This
young lady created much talk about
that time an mite hev gotten mar
ried every month or so. for awl the
bachelors an widowers were at
least two-thirds crazy about the
beautiful queen. An hit wouldn't be
safe TO hev the country filled up with
such beauties, for she wuz q high
stopper. Now I suppose each reader
hez gotten hiz or her curiosity sorter
worked up. so I'll simply say that
Cleopatra wuZ the name ov the beau
tiful assistant queen, an il she wuz
the most beautiful woman In the
world, az the authorities claim, re-
greet that I didn't get glimpse ov
her. But her beauty spelled trouble
an hit wuz not long till she an her
brother fell out an each havin'
friends, the country wuZ plunged into /
civil war. Durin' the occurrence ov
these events Rome got into trouble. |
A civil war had broken out an the |
forces were led on one side by POM
pey, a famous orator an politician,
an on the other by julius Caesar, a /
smart but somewhat brutal citizen /
The first great battle between these /
two leaders wuz fought at Pharsalia /
Christ. Caesar wuz victorious an
Pompey, the eloquent wuZ put to a /
test ov speed. | am not writin' Ro- t
man history now, but the history ov t
Egypt and Rome just will mix at .
times. Julius Caesar pursued Pom
pey an hiZ army an that gentleman t
headed for the Egyptian capital,
where he hoped to gain a generous /
Notwithstanding hiz defeat
an downfall. The councillors ov the /
young king ov Egypt thought hit un-
wise to oppose julius Caesar in the
flush ov his victory over Pompey an
at the same time, they preferred to /
curry favor with Pompey, for they
did not regard him az down an out,
even though hit appeared that such /
wuz the case. They were like Josh
Billings who said that when he went I
to a mule funeral he ANYWAYS did !
hiz weepin' at he head ov the grave
In order to avoid possible kicks from
the dead mule. However, Pompey
wuz soon assassinated, this occurring
at Alexandria. But when julius
Caesar reached Alexandria and he
found that hiz former enemy had
been killed he wuz much affected.
When the head ov Pompey wuz pre-
sented to him he wept bitterly, and
f he could hev given life he doubtless
would hev restored hiz former enc
my at once.
Az ever,
ZEKE BILKINS.
(To be continued)