The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-03-09


The next snove made ~ cambyses
wux 10 send a. army o. $1,000 Into
the heart or Africa TO seize the tenn
pie OF Jupiter Amnon- This wuz
nothin' bat folly for the temple cosld
not aid him ii biz then desperate
situation. This army wux not pre-
pared for such . long March IN that
climate an cambyses lost fully half
cy hfz men When he nnslIy re-
turned To Memphis bit .ax darin' .
great festival an Cambyses coneiud-
ed that the people were ceiebassn' on
account ov hin mIsfortuneA u ear.
though there wuz no proof o. that
beln' . fact However. he became
very angry an had the priests scour-
aged. put awl ov the magistrates 10
death. and with hiz own hand slew
the god Aphis. whose festival the
Egyptians were observin'. But he
didn't last long after this; for hayin'
returned 10 Persia 70 put down an
Instruction in fiz own kingdom he
IL said 10 hev bin assasinated. He
WYE cordially hated. not only By the
Egyptians but by most ov hiz own
people.
Egypt remained subject to Persia
until the time ov Alexander the
Great. Returnin' from Persia, he
passed az conqueror through Syria.
took Sidon and compelled Tyre TO
surrender. Continuin' hiz march. he
wuz received in Egypt az friend;
but hiz vanity led him to the temple
ov Jupiter Ammon where some one
horse crank proclaimed Alexander
the Great to be son OF Jupiter Am
mon, though Jupiter Ammon wuz
nothin' but wooden idol. But the
idol didn't seem to care and Alevan-
der the Great wuz too busy tryin' TO
Conquer the world to give much at
tention to side issues. BY the way.
Alexander the Great finally did lit
tie for Egypt in a peaceful manner
before hiz departure. He founded
the city ov Alexandria and HE be-
came one ov the greatest comemrcial
cities ov Egypt. He awlso connected
the city with the River Nile by a sys-
tenn of canals, and these improve
ments air still visible, though hit liz
likely that many changes hev taken
place, for Alexander the Great lived
more three hundred years before
Christ. He died 323 years before
the birth of Christ
After the passin' ov Alexander the
Great, Perdiccas became ruler ov
Egypt. Alexander the Great seemed
to be partial to this young man and
he became regent. But the gener-
ais who had fought under Alexander
did not take much stock in Perdiccas
an he finally gave up hiz claims to
the Egyptian throne.
In the year 36S Ptolemy became
king ov Egypt. He did not actually
hev supreme authority but he wuz
given plenty ov rope and gnally wuz
crowned. He wuz quite popular.
Egypt grew rapidly under his ad-
ministration, az compared to some
ov the former rulers. He added Pal
estine, Syria and Phonicia to hiz do
minions. Later he took in Cyprus,
but failed to get antigonus, whose
capital wuz Babylon. Later still, he
became war-like and involved and
subdued GAIA, Joppa and Tyre. Pto-
lemy finally slew Antigonus. Pto-
lemy wuZ a sort ov literary charac-
ter. He wrote the first history ov
Alexander the Great. This produc-
ton wuz finally lost to literature,
but the old authorities claimed much
or would now be termed a college,
probably one ov the very first insti-
buttons opened for higher education.
To this he added a museum and
placed many curious things in hit.
Perhaps this wuz the first great mu-
scum. The college awlso had very
good library for that period and hit
became an attractive place for awl
who had made any progress in an
educational way. This included DEM
etrius Phalerius, the celebrated
Athenian.
When Athens wuZ taken by Anti
genus, the people ov that city re-
ceived him joy, though he wuz and
had been an enemy. They banished
Demitrius. He fed to the court ov
Ptolemy and that ruler, KNOWN that
he had advanced further than most
men in educational matters, received
him kindly and placed him in charge
ov his library and museum and gave
him another chance in life.
Az ever,
ZEKE BILKINS.
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