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Show the panther, the tread of a goddess; and , as u:s though ;s dwdt still on the dainty ! tov that hurdiy pressed the ground they rest-d on. the sandal fell from heaven plump at his royal l.rt. Astonished out j ol ail diguuy. he jumped up, stared up j 1 into the sky and down at the tlipper, and ; I then stooped and picked It up, for no 1 l one had dared to touch it. Was it a goddess'? No; it was a lovely little lit-tle shoe, but certainly an earthly one, witli the print of live little toes distinctly marked on it the very little toes he hd jusi been dreaming of. Then of a sudden it became plain to liiin. It was an answer from the gods to t he wishes he had just i been indulging in he had planned a j castle, bere was a mistress for it. "Let f i search be made," cried he, "for her who I ! owns this sandal, and by these signs shall i j you know her: Whomsoever the slave fits, j and who has t lie fellow shoe, and who can j e-Npl'iin the. symlol on the sole, she is the i rightful owner; bring her to me, that I j may make her my queen." To hear was to obey, and ihe meM-nger started on his search. Many days he traveled down the Nile, making proclamation of the will of l'samnietichus as he went, bearing the sandal on a cu-hion. And wherever he came through ihe whole land of Kgypt there was a routing ou", of cupboards and a hunting up of left oil" ?-hocs, in ease by chance there might, he found among them a mutch for the wonderful sandal; but none came to light, and the maidens were left forlorn. At last ho came to Xaucratis, and when tho proclamation reached tho ears of lihodopis she remembered tho rapo of her tsaudal, and knew herself tho one sought for by tho king. The ambassador was admitted to her presence, and then nt last the shoe titled. '"And here," cried Rhod-odis, Rhod-odis, "is tho fellow shoe; and this is why I wear these symbols on the soles as lireece is captive to my beauty, so shall Egypt bo, and Egypt's master." And then she went with hiui to Memphis, and when the king, whose heart was sick with waiting, saw her, he succumbed at onco to the charm of her loveliness; ho did as ho had promised and made her his queen. Ami the rosy cheeked Greek slave sat beside be-side Psammetichus on tho throne of Pharaoh. Pha-raoh. Harper's Bazar. CINDERELLA IN EGYPT. We may find sermons In Btones, but who wotdd look for fairy tales in a sand heap! Nevertheless, in the last tomb of the ln?t king of the twenty-sixth dynasty, lies buried tho original story of Cinderella Cinder-ella and her slipper. There is, indeed, only one variation of nny consequence between the two versions, ver-sions, and the ancient one is certainly the more romantic. Cinderella's princely admirer ad-mirer finds In her lost shoe a clew to his vantshed enchantress, but King Psam-nietichus Psam-nietichus falls over head and ears in love with he knows not whom from only seeing see-ing her snndal. Tho ancient Cinderella was a beautiful Greek; Sappho calls her Doricba, and that was most likely her proper name, but tho Greek people, with whom fairness of skin was ono of the highest qualities of female beauty, named her, frona the loveliness of her complexion, Rhodopis, Rosy Cheeks, and as Rosy Cheeks she is known in history. his-tory. She Is mentioned by several writers, bnt the slipper story tests ou the authority of .Elian. He relates it as having occurred to Psam met ich us. Tiiere were three kings of tho name, nnd he probably meant the third (Psametik III of the Sculptures), the lust of the dynasty of the Suite kings, who was conquered con-quered and deposed by Cambyses the Persian. Khodopis was originally a slave and a fellow bondswoman of jEsop, the writer o fables, in tho house of Iadmon of Samos; and, like the heroine of tho modern tale, a menial and a drudge, so the parallel par-allel holds good from the beginning. Like Cinderella, too, she had a fairy godmother, but a more powerful and lavish ono, and her name was Aphrodite. Tms patroness procured her liberty and heaped upon her richess; and Rhodopis, to make her name immortal by an offering offer-ing such as had never been made before, dedicated with a tenth part of her property prop-erty a quantity of irou spits in the Templo -of Apollo at Delphi, and this extraordinary extraordi-nary gift was still to bo seen there in Herodotus' time. Some also say that she built one of the Pyramids of Egypt; but, as Herodotus remarks, re-marks, those who say so evidently kuow nothing about it; aud however this may be. if Rhodopis was not so simple ns our own Cinderella, sho was, at all events, mure lucky; and if her coachman, aud horses, aud chariots were realiy rats, and mice, and pumpkins, they never resumed their proper shape; and no disenchanting clock sent her hurrying back to her scullery, scul-lery, one shoe off and one shoe on. Midnight Mid-night never struck for her, and she lost her shoe in quite another way. At the time I speak of she was said to lie the most beautiful woman in Egypt and sho lived at Naucratis, a port ou tho Canopic branch of the Nile, founded in tho preceding reign by colonists from Miletus; and though a born Greek, living iu a Greek city, it pleased her now and then to play the Egyptian, and to adopt tho manners and fashions of hor new country. And so it came about that ono morning, before the sun was yet high, sho went down, just as did Pharaoh's daughter, daugh-ter, with her maidens to bathe in the Nile. At a short distance from the bank sho left her litter, and sought a secluded creek, where, screened in by tho feathering feather-ing papyrus, she would bo undisturbed and unseen from the busy river, and thero her girls unmade her toilet. Now the banks of the father of rivers are hard in places a mixture of sand and clay baked by the scorching sun, and rough to delicate feet. So Rhodopis did not quit her sandals until the moment when she stepped down into tho still, cool water, herself as white and rosy as the lotuses arouud her. There, half wading and half swimming, she played aud frolicked, happy in tho pure joy of living, like tiio gay butterflies that fluttered about tho rushes. She gathered handfnls of lotuses, and threw them awny again; and then, iu a lazy fit, she floated on her back, and gave herself up to thoughts on things in general, and ou herself lu particular. But to return to her sanduls, which she had kicked off on tho river's brink. They lay as sho had left them, a pair of dainty shoes fit for such dainty feet They were embroidered em-broidered in gold and brilliant colors with a quaint pattern, and with tho ever present lotus, and most curious of all, the upper surface of the sole, on which her foot rested, bore the figure of a captive cap-tive with bound nrms, ou one sandal an Egyptian, on the other a Greek a fanciful fan-ciful way of suggesting the dominion of their owner over the hearts of two nations. na-tions. Now It chanced that just above, sailing round iu his vast circle, a mere speck in the dancing blue sky, wns an eagle, and as tho sandals glittered by tho water's edge they caught his eye. Now, whether he thought they were good to eat or whether he wns a bird of cultivated taste, I know not, but straightway he swooped and seized one. j Rhodopis, roused from her reverie by the rush of wings, caught sight of tho ' great bird as it flew off, and, frightened, set to screaming and then ducked. By the time she had recovered herself and taken in what bad happened the eagle and h;r sandal were in the next parish. Of course, directly it was uH over, her girls, who had been busy telling ono another secrets, began in their alarm to hide everything away in a place of safety, as if they expected a whole phalanx of eagles were coming to carry off their mistress' mis-tress' clothes. And no doubt they had some reason for their concern, for ancient ladies had a variety of amiable little ways of producing sympathy in their slaves when things went wrong; and lihodopis, sweet as she was to look at, was like the rest. But after all it was not a very serious matter, for Rosy Cheeks had cupboards cup-boards full of sandals at home, and he-sides, he-sides, her litter was only round the corner, so, after her first astonishment and fright were over, she thought little more about it. Now, this event was, in reality, the turning point of her life, for what ditl this unsterious bird do but fly straight away with his prey over the Delta, far up the long river to Memphis, nnd there, as if bis mission ended, he dropped the sandal before the judgment seat of King Psam-metichus. Psam-metichus. The king was sitting In the open air, close to the city gate, dispensing justice to his subjects. The sun was hot, aud the imaginations of plaintiff and defendant equally inventive and inexhaustible, so Psammetichus was bored, his thoughts wandered far away aud he fell to building build-ing castles in the air. Now, no Oriental could ever buid a castle in the air, or otherwise, without iriring it a mistreca; so he pleased himself by imatiiniiig for his ideal palace an ideal beauty. He pictured pict-ured her with vb-- ees of the gazelle, toe voice of the ui.Lule, ihe luuenesi of |