The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

tribunal ana demdnded that the Pnd- raoh decree his death, for death was the penalty for killing one of those sacred animals, the cat But Amasis aroused himself. He would not suffer his old companion in arms, his faith ful friend, the general who had given him dominion over Cyprus, to be killed. He agreed with the chief priest that Phanes should be banished and that the building of the Greek Temple of Nau- chatis should be stopped. This was the condition of affairs when the Persian Embassy came to Sais.
 Right royalty were the envoys of the Persian King entertained, and when Amasis selected Nitetis as the daughter whom ho would send back with them to be the wife of Cambyses all were struck with her beauty and her intelligence-she would, indeed, be fitting consort of the son of Cyrus. Nitetis was tail, dark and of full figure. Her black eyes sparkled with intel ligence, and her every movement showed that she had come of royal blood. Her putative sister, Tanchot, was small, fair and blue-eyed. Her form was delicately but exquisitely molded, and she seemed a lily beside rose when in the presence of Nitetis At the great feast given by the Pha- raoh to the ambassadors Tanchot saw the Prince Darius-and loved him. Da- rius was taken by her delicate beauty and paid Tanchot many compliments tba+ el,o be returned. But, alas, Darius was not in love with Tanchot, and when the embassy sailed away for home with Nitetis, the lily of the Nile, left behind, dropped and faded, signing for the vanished prince who had so sud- denly and completely captured her heart
 Prince Bartjas however, left his heart by the banks of the Nile. At the country house of the learned Greek widow, Rho- dopls, whose husband had been brother of that Sappho whose poetry had made her name immortal, he had met the grand daughter of his hostess, also called Sappho and the two had secretly plighted their troth. At the house of Rhodopis oS 5cs idu iidd all OppOi tttilly tO SdNc the life of Phanes Prince Psamtik had learned that Phanes had not yet left the country, and that he was to dine on certain night at the house of the Greek widow. He sent body of Ethiopian sol diers to intercept him and kill him. Gyges, who was present as a guest changed clothes with Phanes. mounted him on his
 
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 When Ntetis, after a journey of seven weeks, approached the great city of Baby lon, seated in a gilded carriage and sur rounded by princely retinue, the King, Cambyses, came out to meet her. First the city The cloud came nearer and nearer. Now bright sunbeams were re- fiected on the weapons of the approaching host and darted from the cloud of dust like lightning from cloudy sky. Now the cloud divided and figures could be dis tinguished; now the approaching process sion vanished behind the thick bushes at turn of the road and now, a hundred feet away the galloping riders could be seen distincly as they approached nearer and nearer The whole procession seemed to consist of gay crowd of horses, men, purple, gold, silver and jewels More than two hundred riders, all on snow white steeds whose brides and caparisons glittered with gold bells and buckles, feathered tassels and embroidery, were followed by man who, often carried away by the powerful coal-black horse which he rode, yet managed to show the foaming steed that he was strong enough to tame it's wildness
 The rider, whose knees pressed the horse So that it trembled and panted, wore a garment with scarlet and white pattern on which were embroidered silver eagles and falcons. His trousers were of purple, his boots were of yellow leather He wore golden belt around his waist in which was stuck golden sheathed dagger in CT usted with gems. His tiara was wound with the blue and white fillet worn by the Achaemenidae, the royal cult of Per- sia. Thick jet-black hair streamed from it. thick beard of black covered the whole lower part of his pale, rigid face. His eyes were black and glittered with a fire that burned instead of warming. On