Show THE WORLDS GREAT AT EVENTS PAYSON TERHUNE J 0 S o hy by add mcd A C py p y pyrrhus 1 luler of tl areck kin ains il 1 1 of I 1 11 ilius lim lilt tilt ii it a altin 1 inn more it thirlie arit g dun thin i it born in tit it 11 C oni H after the tile death of his ou ln iii the breut nit kiil I 1 while tile thi the hitter hitters e mine aas fresh fr sh in tl if t f it ing inen I 1 us rein lithen led to fillow kle timple ix nil I 1 con liter tl it e P world orld aul unluckily tor for his hi hup ess if to derided to work west war warl I 1 instead 4 if f emt now w from earliest dat power and nd progress tufu tuvu Is ie alwia aiwas rt II 11 d Ne westward stward tin I 1 it it his is ow noldi adi tit ct cie ne well ell with ill the tat raster erncr nir win ht hit tried to check them ild not realize thin this but will t ti learn it grew greece hii hid fur for teen I 1 pen the foremost I 1 of th it barbarism of alei luire craty y against despotism hut flat of into a 4 newer power had prune sprung up in the western world this power wa was 1 the cit citi nn an I 1 aati r aarli the of home rome rome anally vin as a divall town coert ng but OIK or two of the feen en bill tills over ars which C it aatu bardt wardt spread it was wa at cirit ruled by king kings nho lio were elected by the people then when these thet king wax I 1 I 1 ran it tie a people distl the klicin and formel a re public that endured tor for A ia year years the tile little city grew conquering all iti its bolat hors mid slid becoming at last just the th virtual mistress of italy in after yeam yean it was to rule the whole hole world brute strength subtlety and superiority were making its faint gamoua areece on the other han hani I 1 had lied passed the acme of her Golt ivri age abil blanki to luxury an civic dissensions was as on the wane it was wa in TL C that thebe two mighty powers of at the chili zed world first clashed clae hed and that clash did much lunch to mold the future trend of the earth 1 destiny k lor or byrrh is beban his hi real attempt at t universal 4 conquest by bronning cro nning the adriatic ail ani I 1 declaring cufr u on llon rone lie fie ill did thin this on oil the pretense of hell ling the greek caties 1 in southern italy that resented resent pd roman rule uth SWO men nud and a herd of tr alneil war tit clel hants lerhu beehn I 1 ii 14 march match against home the sight eight of nn tin clel delimit lunt was unknown in italy and the great beasts pretice pret pres nce itice truck struck moral everywhere elery eiery where shere the people were with fear hone ilu IH all 11 her old lery und and va u etli and I 1 at iteration noar the ault of Taren tun it otts a iq battle an ani the ital lana lens fought gallantly in defense ot of their laud put the elephants hante un hem item and their horses tl TI fir tit closest rani ranks could dot not withstand tao tl charges of the maddened madden sed asiatic brutes rome a array army wa was at tit length forced to retreat but pyrrhus ruu forces were so 0 o battered shattered and crippled by the battle that they could not pursue arue their advantage they bail had on a victory was costlier than a defeat the tera term a pyrrhic victory need used in designating some worse than barren triumph had if its rise from thia this incident the following year pyrrhus again met and defeated the itoman legion legions at tit As culum but was once more 0 to o weakened by tb the conflict that be he de do rived DO no gain from it lie ile fell back on sicily a it greek province 1 and there so offended by his hi ideas of despotism tit the peoples joy lore for liberty that he lout lost all chance of aid from them la in it 11 C he gain again invaded italy bat but by till this limb rome wai was prepared against his coming at a battle near he waa was utterly routed and retreat retreated cd to alfrus he ile never aftin again a to conquer rome I 1 ah dream of vi world orld empire had been a imply it was civill katlun out not barbarism that he had attacked A beaten bar barbarian barlan la Is s pank pent creature ready to fawn and izriel 1 before his conqueror an all educated civilized nation la Is never wholly beaten alexander by the very fame tame of hie his deeds etrick str ick terror to the heart be of the I 1 lerR lans the tame and armies of pyrrhus backed by the we war elephant elephants creatures crea turea as an terrible and an usual aua of aspect to the italians allana It of old as a the dinosaur would be to modern men could only temporarily baffle the roman republic where there I 1 to a it true republic there must be thought where there la Is thought there can be no real or permanent defeat pyrrhus a year or so after his re to treat was WB killed tn in a it street fight in ario arlos a woman dropping a root tle tile tm I 1 Is I 1 cu oil I 1 from train a window as he was ri laying her son lion to die dle at the hand of a woman wits tn in those days the rtin dire at ht possible degrace dlf frace for a warrior so fr centuries thereafter the fate t I 1 at pointed out as a warn in ln to be world conquerors alexander living at tin in earlier day an ail I 1 having all conditions in I 1 Is favor had for the time made hi master of the known lorld but he lie had not attacks tacked 1 a fee fe more civilized than thin I 1 1 in 11 he e hal tin I 1 mon it lidid 1 the demany of the earth to 1 his 13 whim hut but lit tit I 1 Is death dent the bonds jad flown 1 irom rom time to time in his lory tory some one man lias has risen rigen above his hi felloes dominated item and bont bent abern I 1 his will but only momen tartly there can be no ona one man or one nation rule the only permanent ns as all altori shows in count less w in stances ts Is the free of the people |