Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1927, Page 100

BTN f Ed-E Story oF ;THE LAME SCHOOLMASTER L1l WITH THE MESSENIANS, THE SPARTANS, BEFORE GOING INTO BATTLE, 1 CONSULTED AN ORACLE AND WERE TOLD THAT THEY WoulD BE DEFEATED UNLESS THEY WERE LED BY AN ATHENIAN. ==« O ——— @ mesrov SPARYA I'ANCIENT GREECE LAY TIHE COUNTRY OF THE MESSENIANS. THE WARLIKE SPARTANS WANTERD THG RICH FARMING LANDS OF MESSENIA FoR. Bessenia was conouERED anp HER PEOPLE REDUCED TO SLAVERY BY THE INVADERS . AFTER FORTY YEARS OFF BONDAGE, THE MESSENIANS REVOLTED, LED BY APRINCE NAMED AR-ISTOM-E-NES . By 1ucx ARisToMENES DIb NOT STRIKE E JAGGED SIBES OF THE PITAS HE rr.u AND LANDED UNHURT UPON THE PILE OF HIS DEAD SOLDIERS.HOWEVER, HE WAS STILL A PRISONER AND FACED A LINGERING DEATH FROM STARVATION . WHEN THE 4 ATHENIANS SENT THEM A LAME SCHOOL: | THE ATHENIANS BUT THEY BELIEVED IN THE ORACLE'S ‘m ¥ NG FoRA GENERA TO LEAD THEM INTO jsare. —- n ME MESSENIANS AND THE SPARTANS WERE OF THE SAME RACE AND RELIGION . ON THE BORDER SToOD A TEMPLE nue SPARTAN GIRLS WHO CAME To THE TEMPLE WERE VERY BEAUTIFLL AND THE MESSENIANS DESIRED THNEM FOR WINES « ONE DAY SOME OF THESE GIRLS WERE CARRIED OFF BY MESSENIAN YOUTHS. N SPITIS OF MIS GENERALSHIP AND THE VALOR OF THE MESSENIANS,AR!STOMENES RrsmMENES RAISED A SMALL FORCE AND BOLDLY ATTACKED THE SPARTANS. HE WAS vICTORIOUS IN SEVERAL BATTLES, AND DROVE THE ENEMY BACK UNTIL HIS INTREPID/LITILE ARMY WAS ENCAMPED WITHIN SIGMT OF THE CITY O SPARTA. ARMY LED BY TYRTAEUS, AN ATHENIAN. MANY MESSENIANS WERE MADE PRISON- mF‘rER THREE DAYS IN THIS HORRIBLE PREDICAMENT. HE SAW IN THE DIM LIGHT A FOX MOVING ABOUT AMONG THE SLAIN.HE LAY QUITE STILL AND TO HIM HE SEIZED !'TS BUSHY TAIL. \| SPARTANS EITAKING HIS PLA >~ &1 AT THE HEAD OF | FIREDBY wis il MUSIC, THE B3 4= asbucrion oF TuE Mabexs Gave THE SPARTANS THE EXCUSE THEY MAD BEEN LOOKING FOR AND THEY QUICKLY INVADED MESSENIA. THE MESSENIANS RESISTED VALIANTLY, BUT THEY WERE NO MATCH FOR THEIR WELLTRAINED ENEMIES. THEIR CAPTIVES To DEATH BY HURLING THEM DOWN INTO A DEER ROCKY PIT,THE mmfioMENCS SUCCEEDERIN REAGUNG MESSENIA,WHERE HE HAD BEEN MOURNED ASDEAP, LATER |MESSENIA WAS AGAIN CONQUERED BY THE SPARTANS, AND RATHER THAN LIVE A LIFE OF SLAVERY | MANY MESSENIANS MIGRATER TO TTALY, If You Save This Page Each Week You Will Have a Complete Histoxy of Man.