How Darius Was Made King

In the year four hundrcil and nlnety-tbree- The (late sufflxed with a large B. C - Cambyses, the klng of Persla. was dead, Leu ving no son to refgn in Min stead. Then even young men of high degree, The noblest orall llie noblIUy, Bald, "One of us rlghtly the klng must be," One wns Iiar.us of royal stock, Whoafterward wasion the Behlstun rock. Carved hls explolts In a way, no doubt, Wind and weather wlll never rub out- Carved ihem in true Assyrlan style, Angular men ranged in singlo tile. Hui whieh of the seven the crowu should wear. Was a very undetermined afTalr. Hnwever, then, the same as to-day, Wliere there'e a will there's ever a way, And thls was the plan they flxed upon : To mouut their horses at break ofdawn And ride tnward the rlslng sun. And the tlrst that nelglied, the rider, he Was the one predestlned the klne to be. 3o at break of dawa, llke seven Fat es, rtu-st' noblemen at the palace gates Mounted thelr horses, one by one. And Rlowly rode toward the rising sun. As they passcd along In flne array, Uprose the uun, the god of day, And ene of the horses stopped to nelgh. A well-bred horse, "good mornlng" to say. Darius lurned palé, a natural thlng, Kor the neigh of hls liorsc had made hiin the klng:. Mary Wager-Fisher, In Wlde Awnke.