The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-01-03

around. Before going farther Alex
ander consulted the map his tutor
t had thrust into his pocket just az
he was leaving. He saw that Egypt
land phoenicia had not been con-
onered yet, SO he turned toward
| Phoenica, where he besieged Tyre
t the CAPITAL, for seven months. Ac-
! cording to the paragrapher of the
! Corinth Daily Chronicle, who was
| lynched shortly afterWard by enrag-
ed subscribers, it was the most
! Tyresome siege in history
Then Alexander closed down to
, Egypt, conquered the country and
! founded a city which he named Alex
andria in honor of his fayorite mill
tary hero The conqueror now turn
! ed his face to Syria and entered up
on the serious part of his campaign.
| Darius, King Of Persia, being un-
able to make peace with Alexander,
| decided to defy him, thus setting a
RUOu pFeCtuelit lol bViSia al II "|i %
| to follow. Darius had collected an
| army estimated at 10000 men--~
you can believe this or not. Just as
| you choose-and our young hero
| from Macedon had only so. 200. But
small odds of 20 to ! never dis
couraged Alexander. The night be-
/ fore the battle he called his men to-
! gether.
winter is coming on. boys, he
said, "and we need clothing. There
/ are enough of these guys to give us
! 20 scalps apiece. That will be
enough to make each one a nice coat
Of Persian lamb Hop to it,
Just to show you how effectively
! Trey hoped, it is worth remember
Ting that that battle has gone down
1 into history as the battle OF Arbela,
although the fighting started 60
miles from Arbela. That's how far
/ tie fersians ran
T The next three years We're devoted
Ito conquering the outlying provinces
Of Persia. 1t really gre" monoto-
nous, ii was SO easy. But one day
! when they swooped down on city
lin Bactria wherever that was,
! AleXander's eye lighted upon a very
beautiful girl, who was unchaperon-
! ed. He snatched her up to his sad
| Gle bow, in the pleasantly informal
way which was then in vogue, and
said:
Tag You're my Wifet
The girl, Who seems to have been
! a sensible sort, acquiesced and be
came Queen Of most Of the civilized
world. Her name was RoXana, and
she is said to have been very beau
tiful
After that Alexander led his army
to India, where he defeated a King
named Porus. who, in the very ma
ture of things, couldn't have been
expected to have much backbone.
Then he went back to Persia and
prepared to settle down and live
happily ever after. But ii was not
10 be, His soldiers began to get
homcsick and expressed sentiment
al desire to return to the girls they
left behind them, not stopping to
figure that the girls had all grown
Old and married the stay-athomes
in the time AleXaudcr's expedition
had been away.
Alexander scoffed at the plea of
his soldiery.
Marry the natives. the way do, "
said he. BY this time he had mar
ricd another Of EN-, Barsine. daugh-
ter of that King, Darius, whom
Alexander had chased from one end
Of Persia to the other.
Some of the soldiers followed this
Suggestion but apparently it wasn't
very satisfactory. As soon as the
Persian women felt at home with
their new lords. they began to pirate
about the virtues of their first hus-
bands or frances, and as the Greek
soldiers were directly responsible for
the absence OF these gentlemen, it
Idid not tend to promote domestic
happiness. a.
Also it made the soldiers sore to
see Alexander taking up the airs OF
ledete East.
When any man gets SO he puts
on dress coat every night for din
iner and eats peas with fork" said
one old soldier, hes too high-fa-
lutin' fer me. Why. durn the fel-
Ter, Where would he have been, for
lail his knowledge of geography, il
It hadn't been.for u.s."
\ A riot followed and it took all
4 Alexander's tact to quiet his men.
The eonqueror realized that When
his own soldiers got to calling him
Smart Aleck. il was time something