Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-01-26
EMPRESS EUGENIE's JEWELS.
How They Were Carried Through
India and Sold to a Native Prince.

india and sold TO Native Prince.
The story Of the Servian jewels must
recall to the ex-Empress Eugene her
own experiences when the waves first
began to dash about her throne. She
determined to sell the greater part Of
her jewels in hope to do something
to save the dynasty. Publicity had to
be avoided, and a market was not to
be found in Europe, newly thrilled by
the horrors of Sedan. The empress
looked to the east for a market. An
Englishman was on his way home for
a holiday. A telegram at Bombay
awaited him from one of the greatest
European financial houses and inform
ed him of the determination Of the en-
press. The difficulty had been to find
man with sufficient influence to be
able to approach the princes Of India
in secret with a view to selling them
the jewels. Not less hard was it to lay
hands on the man who had moral
strength sufficient to carry with him
surreptitiously hundreds Of thousands
of pounds worth of jewels in lands
where the queens writ did not run,
and where the protection Of the consta-
BILE is not Immediately available.
Every care had been taken to insure
secrecy. The jewels had been taken to
pieces; the gems removed from their
settings the latter "jointed" to admit
Of their holding and being worn around
the waist Of their bearer in belt OF
soft leather. The Englishman put on
the belt, armed himself with a trusty re-
volver, engaged a trusty servant, and
set forth on his mission. For three
months he wandered over road, rail
and river. The responsibility Of his
trust, the constant danger Of discovery,
the difficulty of disposing of his bur-
den were worries that combined almost
to kill him. At last he was successful.
The jewels were sold to prince who
esteemed them the more for that they
were property Of distressed empress
There would have been trouble, no
doubt, had the matter been known at
the India Office, but the man who dis
charged the undertaking afforded an
example Of courage and solid worth
in trying conditions which merit a
place in the story Of commercial in
tegrity and disregard Of personal dan
ger. Far less exciting enterprises have
served to make popular novels before
now.-St. James Gazette.
How INDIANS DUN.-We have all
heard the phrase, AFTER him with
sharp stick" but it may not have oc-
Cured to many Of US that the stick re-
ferred to Is the much feared January
bill. Such, however, is the meaning
that the saying conveys to the Nush.
imam Indians Of California, who haze
seen the disagreeable habit prevalent
among us Of sending bills When one
Indian owes another 1t Is considered
bad taste for the creditor to dun the
iebtor. He proceeds with more deli
cacy. He procures a certain number OF
sticks, according to the amount OF the
lebt, and paints a ring around the enc
of each. These he carries and tosses
into the debtors wigwam and ther
goes away without a word. The debtor
invariably pays the debt and destroys
| the sticks, as 1t Is considered re-
oroach to have the January dunning
| stick thrown into the wigwam. In
| Iced, the creditor never uses them ex-
cept with hard customers.-New York
Press.