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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER

In This Week In The Past:-

The Great Plague

Struck

IN this week, 278 years

ago-that is, 1664--the Great Plague was just begin- ning in London, to end only in 1666, after 110,000 had died.

Its familiarity in history has probably dulled most people's minds to its frightful, drawnout, all-pervading horror.

The known hopelessness of recovery added despair to each

man's sickness.

First there was an unnatural feel, ing of horror, then a shaking and trembling, then vomiling, then coma or delirium-then death.

Houses Locked

What I was really like fu a plague-stricken household has only been recently known by the publish- ing of old documents,

From the first a tragic mistake multiplled the death roll If was believed that the plague was in the air itself, 'And so the houses were locked

ked up tight and the wretches within stewed phera

in a fetidalton-

They might not come out,

Some were quarrelsome in the last stages of the plague and raved at one another over trifles until death settled their contention.

The passers

saw the little

faces

of children who were dying behind locked doors peering in wonderment out of the windows,

There were and cases of mothers murdering their own children.

Rooms Plundered

To earh Ittle shut-in hell-and this was one of the most terrible features abandoned women, the acourings of the streets, were sent to act as nurses. Their services might not be refused.

SAW

These hugs, to whom men their loved ones entrusted, stole the household goods and actufilly infect-. ed healthy members of the family they preyed on with the plague, so that when the whole household was dead they could plunder the rooms.

It was a plague of the poor. The rich had

fled. The enllousness of the authorities was shocking.

You can still read in the antique writing of parish accounts how men were paid sixpence to carry, away n person of plague in the street and dump him in the next parlah!

Facts which оге almost beller unrecorded are known about the plague.

It is a fact that in matice those dying of the plague leaned out of

windows to their

breathe their contagion on to a passer-by:

The plague would not have been so bad it had not been for the people's incradicable love of funerals.

Pompous Funerals

Again and again the City forbade -pompous-funerals, but-as-often--the people would not be deprived of a spectacular burial and gathered to follow the corpso and ipfect one an- other.

Modern research has made the plogue as clear as if a newspaper of to-day were recording it..

All

the documents of the time are

preserved.

You can even see the ink-splashed page of the burial clerk who tell dead, pen in hand, while writing down the deaths.

Also in

*

London-

armoury, would have daunted any conqueror but Cories.

&

Marching Through History

with

C. A. LYON

butchery of human victims on the 'pointed Cortes, "who has given you top.

more provinces than your ancestors left you clles,"

Chiefs Burned

Beyond the palace fiselt were the zoo of wild animals and reptiles, Before the altars of the temple the emperor's aviary with 300 at Cortes saw eight human hearts. tendants, and his collection of human monsters and dwarfs, some said to surmounted with the skulls of 'sucri-

Beside it was a smaller pyramid have been deformed by their parents ficed persons strung on a wooden expressly to qualify them for a place framework. There were 130,000 of

them.

in the royal muscum.

Montezuma ate off plate which

And I was this teeming capital Was only used once and then of wealth, magnificence, and horrors thrown

that Cortes secretly away. to drank only n.

planned to kind of cocoa out of a vold goblet conquer. with a tortoiseshell spoon.

He first professed friendship, and

He smoked an intoxicating weed was hospitably received. called "tabaco."

As soon as opportunity offered, Ile changed bis clothes four and with daring that would be times a day, never wore the same too extravagant for any romancer's garments twice,

tale, the Tiny band seized the emperor, loaded him with chains, His great temple was a pyramid and burned sixteen of his chiefs nhundred yards square. Up Its before his eyes this though he was "The houses were locked up tight sides a sloping pathway carried surrounded by tens of thousands of and the wretches stewed within." priests to their diabolical rite the subjects who trembled at his nod.

-Spain Heard Of Of Conqueror

Cortes' victory over the Aztecs at Otumba

TELEGRAPH'S NEW SERIAL

WILLIAM. SHAKESPEARE'S

Romeo

NOVELIZED FROM

al Maro Gattuyn Mayer MeTURE

THE FAREWELL

CHAPTER EIGHT

The Death Cortes-

Juliet

GERTRUDE GELBIN

"There is no world without Ve-

walls,' ronn's

answered Romeo. "Only purgatory, torture und hell Itself"

mercy," ex- thou

"But this is dear

Juliet leaned against the open balcony window of her bedchamber claimed his confessor, "and and looked out Into the twilight. see'st it not." "Come, gentle night," she pleaded. "Come, loving, black-brow'd night.erled Romeo. "Heaven is where Give me my Romeo."

How long the hours seemed since slic and he had knelt in marriage. Her nurse burst in upon her, weeping and wringing her hands.

Julel wheeled about in fright, this week of 1547-the-What news, nurse," she cried, "that news was spreading through Spain thou dost wring thy hunds."

of the death of "Ah, well-a-day!" wept the nurse.

ne of her "He's dead. He's dead.". greatest adven- Juliet's face grew aahen white. turers, Hernan- do Cortes.

Cortes,

One Of Spain's

Greatest

Figures

wool

"We

""Tls torture and not mercy!"

Juliet lives, and every eat and dog and little mouse every unworthy thing that live in heaven may, look on her, but Romeo may noti" He stared about him desperately. "Todst thau no poisen mixed," he begged. "No sharp-ground knife, no sudden means of death

to kill me?"

"Art thou a man?" demanded Laurence. "Thy wild acts denote the unreasonable fury of a beast!

nurse"re undone, Judy," sobbed the Thou amaze me. By my holy order

What a man] The girl seized her shoulder and ulls Cortes shook her violently. Why were they undanc? Who was, dead? What Mexico, a bad happened?

"Tybalt is gone" began the vast new land, with a civilisa- nurse. tion of its own At the mention of Tybalt's me relief parallel to, but Jullet

different What ever had happened had over- quite

taken Tybalt-but at the next words from, that of

her eyes grew wide with: horror- Europe, hud

Romeo bunished" sob covered.

Cortes set out to conquer it. He

ment!

esty

and

almost fainted with

I thought thy disposition better tem- perd. Inst thou slain Tybolt?, Wilt thou slay thyself? And slay thy lady that in thy life lives?"

Romeo bowed his head and

Cortes then forced Montezuma to acknowledge the Spanish rule and ransom himself at a fantastic cost.

The whole country was searched for this ransom, and the greedy conquerors saw load after load of treasure pour into the city.

It made three great heaps of gold atensils, ornaments, collars, such, It was said, as no European

*

This week in 1701

born Marie Louise, daughter of the Em- peror of Auto-

the

bave a doa. strange tiny.

Her true love

was duke, but when sho vas

tria. Sho

was

'to

Strange

Destiny

Of

Maric

Louise

proudest Christendom.

eighteen

jumped - up corporal, world

- con- needed querer, an heir, and aspired to the hand of tho daughter of house

In

ruling

There was no courtship. Marie Louise was voted for at a French Privy Council like some public health measure. Four volcu for her, four for a Saxon bride, and three for a Russian, Napoleon sum- ining up.

Was

celebrated

The marriage with

dummy bridegroom

Iry

Vienna Marle Louise was willing to marry. the conqueror whom she had never sean. She bore him a son, and the unexpected thing was that Napoleon fell madly in love with her.

But not she with him.

When Napoleon's star waned, when he was in despair at his bagishment, when he was trying to end his life with a phial of oplum, but only made

-And The Girl Who Was

To Be Voted Napoleon's

Wife

Was Born

monarch could boast, and its value. himself slek, Marie Louise did not was nearly £1,500,000,

The country was conquered after a long campaign, but owing to intrigues Cories was coldly received on his return to Europe. He was sald to have forord his way into the presence of the King of Spain.

"Who are you?" said the King

come to see him.

She went off to Vienna and con- soled herself with a count.

Napoleon begged her to share his exile, even threatened to abduct her, but she would not go.

“It la only we women who love with constancy," she wrote in her

"I am the man," said the disap- diary.

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covered his eyes with his hands. "It was the nightingale," shely through the door. "Your Indy

sho

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.she

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mother is coming to your chamber. The day is broke. Be wary."

pleaded "ond not the lark that "Wanu". shouted the Frlar. "Rouse

thee man! Thy Jullets pierced the fearful hollow of thine

car. Believe me, love. It

The lovers clasped each other in alive. Co-get thee to thy love as nightingale."

a last embrace. "Window," cried was decreed. Ascend her cham- Romeo kissed her sadly. "It was Juliet, "let day in and let life out." ber and comfort her; but look thou the lark. The herald of the morn;

"Farewell, farewell,"

murmured stay not till the watch be set, for no nightingale." He threw open the Romeo and kissed her

long. just been dis-bed the nurse. "Romeo that killed then thou canst not pass to Mun- window. "Look, love, what envi-

With arms entwined they walked lua. At Mantua thou shalt live un- ous streaks do laca the severing out onto lum-he is banished."

til we find time to blaze your clouds in yonder cast. Night's can quickly, as if to tear himself away the balcony, And then Juliet felt the room sway before took 600 men, or, about one regi-her. "O God!" she moaned. "Did beg pardon of the prince, and call stands tiptoe on the misty mountain he seized the ladder and began his

to reconcile friends; todles are burnt out and joeund day marringe

before the pain became too greal, Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?" thee back with He marched to Mexico City

twenty thousand tops." He turned to her in descent. (population 300,000) without defcati

"It did. Alas the day; it did. times more joy than thou went'st tenderness. I must be gone and There's no trust, no falth, no hon- forth in limentation!" He was astonished at its wonders.

"Art thou gone so?" Juliet cried. live,

he whispered. "Or stay and Love, lord ay husband, friend!" In Romeo. Shame come to

A dawn of hope lighted Romeo's die Romeo A Vast Palace s

Hor tears fell fast, "I must hear face. "Go hence,"

continued the

She threw her arms about him. from thee every day in the hour," "Blistered be thy tongue for such Friar, "but," he warned, "be gone "Yon light. a wish," cried Julfet fiercely.

not daylight." He saw its surrounding lakes with

she begged, "In a minute there are by break of day. Sojourn in Man- pleaded." "I know "Will you speak well of him that

many days-O, by this count.I shall their

tun. I'll and cut your man, and faltered as her eyes filled with tears, be much in years.ere I again behold archipelagoes of wandering killed your cousin?" demanded the he shall signify from time to time "It is some meteor that the sun ex- Islands, each a hundred yards-long other.

my Romeo She leaned far out rende of datached pieces of land and Shall I speak ill of him that is here, dive me thy hund, farewell." "Some meteor to be thee this might, think's tony to see him more. made

every good hap to you that chances

over balcony by the naves from reoda and sed husband? Ah, pool my Lord.

Romeo sped through the darkness a torch-beater and light thee on thy again?" she waited. ment.

word to Juliet's garden By a banished bath slain ten thousand hung therefrom he

ladder way to Mantua." She held him

"I doubt it not" he " These islands were strong enough Tybalts Romeo is banished. To balcony and called to her.

denfor the close.

comforted. Stay yet. Thou need'st not "All these wo

shall serva, for to bear trees, flowers and market speak the word is father, mother,

Rone.".

sweat discourses in our time to She raised her: Industrious husbandmen who passed dead. A

With a cry, he whispered. "So thou wilt have it sorrow, drinks our blood. - Adieu - Ilves on them

She threw herselt upon the bed They held cach

sho arose and ran to meet him so 'ny nor that is not the

"I'll yon,

is not the Adieu. He saw the well-paved, gymme and wept with such obandon that

other close, and

and morning's

He turned quickly and trically-planned

had the nurse, frightened, ran to find streets which

then, with a long drawn sigh, she lark whose notes do beat the vaulty the garden wall.

to sped their thousand people employed in Friar Laurence. Now was the time

led the way into her chamber. heaven so high above our heads." "Oh fortune, fortune," she wept. keeping them clean daily,

when the churchly man alone might the day too long now sped on more card to stay than will to go fortune. For then, I hope, thou wilt And the hours, which had made He lifted her face to his "I have "All men call thee fickle. Be fickle Emperor, Montezuma, Ilved, In

help vast, palace built without a single In Friar Laurence's cell lay Ro- light filtered through the

wings. Too soon the early morning haicrled: "CONTAINE

death, and

not

him long. but send him keep nail:

meo, desperate with grief and an- curtains. Romeo khow he must

› drawn come!" Ful

back xiety.

She watched Romeo disappear We the day he wept and oboy the Friar's warning or all shuddered in his arma. Hle frhea; over the wall. He was gone now. from Verona art thou would be lost. Tenderly he released be une It is the lark that sings When would he come back to hert "Hence banished," said the Friar gravely,

himself from Juliet's embrace. the world is broad and wide.”

Romeo beat bis hands in despair. "And wilt thou be gone?" she She looked fearfully out the window binded with tears found her way so out of fune. O now be gone. She turfied from the balcony and, "Be patient," soothed the Friar, asked. "It is not yet near day." "More light and luht it grows back to her chamber.

"Madame called her, nurse soft

That

*banished that

bus

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gardens, and even houses for the Tybalt-Romeo, Jullet, ali slain.' All the bed and stone-face fromHe kned her." "I nm content," come." He tried to smllc. "Dry..

their

Emperor's Plate

The sweet-smelling woode fountains, the rich hangings, Incense, the armies of, retainers,"

As bled sang outside her window.

(To be Continued.)

1938.

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34 Has made in confusion and is

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DOWN

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