El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-15
Wins By Strategy
c1sooafra. Hidden in Roll OF Car
net. CaDtivRtes Caesar BY
Her Great Beauty.
BY MADISON C. PETERS.

! CLEOPATRA. the most renowned
IL among several Egyptian princesse,
~ hearing that name was born So p
e and in accordance with Egvptiar
custom. became the wife Of Ptolemv's
s15est son. her younger brother with
Svbom she shared the throne at the aye
oF17 deprived by her guardians of All
| roval authority, when they found tbev
| coiiId not use her to their enrichment
| and expelled from the city, she collected
an army in Syria, from the dependencies
( Of Ara ia and Palestine. and fought for
| her rights by force of arms.
| julius Caesar had just overthrown
! Pompey and was pursuing him to Alex
| s1dria Captivated by CleoDa+rasa
/ charms. he seconded her claims and nro-
! cured to her her share of the throne To
| osin Caesars notice, this brilliant. beau
| tifuI. self-willed creature who could
! sneak seven languages, had herself
| smuggled into the great warriors pres-
/ ence in a roll of carpet carried nv her
slaves. When the carpet was unrolIed.
the great Caesar was captivated By her
/ charms-
Her brother Ptolemy. being killed in
a battle on the Nile, Cleopatra was Civ
en- to her youngest brother. then IL years
old. as a husband, by Caesar. Caesar
continued some time at Cleopatra's
court and had son by her. After
Caesars departure she governed unmo-
Tested. With her son by Caesar, she
went to Rome and lived in a palace near
the Tiber as Caesars wife to the great
disgust Of the blue-b looded profIigates
of Rome, disgust not due to the fact
that they were purer. but because Cleo
patra was a foreigner. When her boy
husband demanded at IA his share in
the government she poisoned him.
Enslaves Antony.
Caesars assassination, B. c. a, com
PEELED Cleopatra to return to Egypt
Subsequently during the civil trouble at
Rome, she took Antony's part, on whom
she had already made an impression in
her earlier years. when he was cam
paigning Egypt When Antony was in
Cilicia she sailed up to the Cydnus in a
Eorgeously decked galley. arrayed in
all that oriental splendor depicted by
Shakspere. She was now %, in the
fullness OF her Greek beauty. Antony
became at once her slave and followed
her to Alexandria, where the winter Of
B. c. 40-41 was spent in the widest rev
elry and most wanton luxury. the couple
claiming to be the gods Osiris and Isis.
She followed Antony in his march
against the Parthians and when he
parted from her on the Eurphrates he
bestowed Cyrine, Cyprus, Coelosyria,
Phoenecia. Cilicia and Crete on her, to
which at her request he added part Of
Judea and Arabia, which brought on
the war between Augustus and Antony.
After divOrcing himself from Octavia
and being with Cleopatra at Ephesus.
Samos and Athens. for a year. Antony
at last determined to decide the contest
BY a naval battle at Actium. Cleopatra,
who had brought Antony a reinforce
ment Of so vessels suddenly took flight |
and Antony followed her to Egypt and |
declared to Augustus that il Egypt |
were left 10 Cleopatra's children. she |
would live in retirement but the charms |
which had succeeded so easily with Ju-
Illus and Antony failed to move thu /
younger Caesar. and though he granted |
her an interview. he marched upon |
Alexandria, which Antony defended. |
Antony, supposing Augustus's private |
Of qualification to be treacher- |
GUS sought to avenge himself by her !
death. Escaping to the mausoleum |
which she had erected near the temple |
Of Iris. she caused the report Of her sui !
eide TO spread. whereupon Antony |
threw himself upon his sword, and upon /
learning that Cleopatra was still liv-
ing. he was at his request carried into |
her presence and died in her arms.
Death Rather Than Slavery.
Augustus succeeded in getting Cleo |
pstra in his power, who still hoped to 1
subdue him by her charms. but her art 1
availed not and realizing that her life /
was spared only that she might grace I
the Conqueror's victory. and rather than /
submit to be carried as a prisoner to I
celebrate a Roman triumph" she