Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-31
SUCCESSOR TO CLEOPATRA
The New King IS Such Only In
& ~. Name. -
EGYPT IS NOW RULED BY MORTGAGE
WohderfuT Land Of tie Nile Where
the Pyramids, and the Sphinx Bear
Witness of Mysteries That Have
Never Been Explained. ....- 90,


Witness of Mysteries That Have
Never Been Explained. ,.-. .,,
Kansas City Star, 1T,
Fuad lis now king Of Egypt. Great
Britain recently ended her protectorate
and only few days ago proclama-
o ton of independence was issued in
Cairo. The Egyptians have the right
tosrun their country as they please, SO
long as the British empires commu-
Dicationsi are secured and foreigners
and the Sudan protected And the
y Egyptians are guaranteed the defense
Of their land by the nation which,
since 1914, has "fathered" them.
Fuad is the first Independent ruler
the land OF. the Nile has had since the
death, almost two thousand years ago
of Cleopatra. One would like to think
that, with his accession to the
throne the spzeranity that was the
vampire queens had been recovered;
one would like to think that the place
where the sphinx and the pyramids
abide with their mysteries had found a
new son of the sun and that he would
shed over it something of the spirit
that the inimitable liver, as Cleopatra
chose to be called, shed over her own
Alexandria. But such thoughts can be
only fantastic, cuad Is termed sue
cessor" only because q. niisnomer is
applied so easily and with such
picturesque effect. Her suzerainty has
been defiled by Persian, Turk. Saracen
and others for almost twenty centuries.
Even now with the economic and poli-
tical shackles upon, the king, it is still
defiled as compared with the freedom
which her leadership knew before Oc-
,tavian entered her Kingdom from
Rome. "y'
~ An Adopted Child Future.
s. What would Cleopatra's feelings
have been IL she had known that, after
her death, her glorious Egypt was to
become an adopted child among the
nations of the earth. entered by men in
fun greed for power and riches, its
ideals and its character scattered up
on the sands, under the sun in whose
rays the Inimitable Liver basked to the
great delight Of her lovers? She
would have been sad; there is no tell
ing what measures she might have
taken TO prevent such catastrophe.
She was a sensitive woman; her emo
;tions. were well defined; the, pride in
Sher power and in her Ptolemaic an
cestry was great even though she was
so busy with the business Of living
that she let the pride take care Of
itself. But IL CLEOPATRA could have
had advance knowledge of the fate Of
her country, the pride would have been
ksArred into glowing fire. -,
Plutarch relates an incident that
typifies the spirit of Cleopatra, in his
= Lives After, the passing of her own
Mark Antony and the conquest of
Egypt Of Octavian, nephew Of julius
Caesar, she learned from a young
man in Octavian's forces, who turned
informant as a tribute to the queens
beauty and ie.' wiles, that she was
to be sent out Of the country with
nher children. She made her last obla-
tions to Antony, at his tomb, and
WROTE letter. to octayian asking
that she be buried with. Antony.
Messengers to Her Rooms.
r. Octavian suspected that the queen
might commit rash act, and sent
messengers to her quarters. The door
broken down, Cleopatra was found on
her bed of gold, dead.l At her feet
was Iris, one Of her faithful women.
Attempting to adjust the queens
diadem was Charmion, another at
,tendant, who was on the verge of
death. One of the messengers, on
seeing the sight, asked Charmion:
"Charmion, was this we'll done?"
And the reply was:
Perfectly well, and worthy a des-
cendant of the kings of Egypt
While it seems 'unquestionable that
Cleopatra would have been unhappy
madly so-to know that her country
was to pass out of her dynastic super
vision yet she was to blame. in part,
for it's passing out. In the fourteen
years that she and Antony We're, asso-
ciated they planned for the union Of
Rome and Egypt. She was intent, no
doubt, in maintaining her sovereign
prestige: she wanted to remain
queen. But she wanted to remain the
wife also of Antony, with him and her
ruling not only her own kingdom, but
Rome as WELL And that, in part, came.
TO be after her death. Octavian made
a Roman protectorate of her land
after Antony died, after She killed
herself, the union which she long had
struggled for was effected.
A Contrast Of Ways
1t remains only fantasy to think Of
Faad as a successor of Cleopatra for.
another reason, setting aside the facts
that there is no dynastic or other di-
I.