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Wearing the Veil.

What do you make of this?" he asked.
There. above a neat scar in the lower
right side. appeared a tattooed notice:
Don't cut My appendix has been re-
moved twice"
When the man recovered he explained
he was subject to fits, and that surgeons.
believing him suffering from appendicitis,
had twice made incisions in his side.
If colored man in any of the alleys
receives the most trivial injury, vet
enough to necessitate his removal to hos
pital that is the signal for his friends, en-
emies and acquaintance to troop TO the
hospital. be 1t midnight or dawn. to In
auire as to his welfare. They come. some
in wedding garments" some practically
no garments at all
rs John goin' t. git well?"-even if
John has only nick in the face from
'Rastus' razor. 1t keeps the hospital
force busy answering the bell and steer
ing off the disnterested
The Case of the Jag.
The protracted jag presents a never
ending problem to the hospital physician,
for when q man or a woman-for many
women find their way into the free wards
is recovering from a month-old debauch
self-injury is uppermost in their minds
With the agility of monkeys they Will
succeed in scaling walls, squeezing them
selves through transoms or weasel-llke,
making their way through openings
above the windows of the strong rooms
to cast themselves to the ground 1t re-
quires constant vigilance on the part or
hospital employees to prevent instances
of this character:
The unsuccessful suicides probably pre-
sent the broadcast study of human nature
after it has gaZed long and unfftnching
ly into the eyes of death. And their atti-
tude toward life after the bullet has
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tune in the 'undisputed objects that
have decorated Camden place and Wind
Mill hill for three decades. Then the
hitch came.
Did Eugene claim too much? A judg-
ment of the republics own court Of
February IL. 1879. admitted the repub-
lie owed her-in compensation for
things of historic value and not per-
sonal to Eugene or her husbands fam
ily-some 2,2S7,2O5 francs with ) per
cent interest; and it ordered to be given
up to her all objects of an intimate or
even personal character" She claimed
100000 francs more. and it dragged.
In 1899 she renowned the 1000, 900
francs claim. 1t was agreed the repub-
lie owed her 2,2S7.205 francs capital
and 100000 francs interest. OF this
latter she renounced 100000 francs in
order to facilitate the payment of the
rest. and, in particular. the return of
her collections. art objects and the
things personal and intimate belong
ing to her or her deceased husband.
In 1902, getting nothing. she renounc-
ed another million. Still no result.
Then, in 1907, she at last got judg-
ment for 53S objects held in French
museums-when a certain antiquary,
Nelche, began to estimate their value.
/ give Il few examples:
Item: A clock that belonged to Queen
Hortense. estimated at 100000 francs.
Item: A bureau that belonged to Mary
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France to call down revolution
:: :;
But when a mother thinks that she is
working for her son who blames her?
1t is the French, not the world, that
wait to fall upon Eugenies memoirs with
Napoeon's posthumous accusation The
world waits confidently an old womans
explanation. 1t will not have long to
wait now.
1t knows the cult of the wife and moth
er for her dead.
Did not Eugene give up the palatial
ChiSlehurst seat for Windmill Hill. at
Marlborough, to build their mausoleum?
At Chslehurst she had tried vainly for
years to buy a field west of the Church
of ST. Mary. When it was suggested she
build the commemorative abbey on its
north side the old superstitious ideas of
her youth prevented-tombs to the north
of a church are unhappy.
So she moved to Peterborough thirty
two miles from London, between Sand
hurst. where her son was at school, and
Adershot, the military camp in which he
took such interest.
There French architect built her the
Abbey of st. Michael. Nuns attached to
1t show visitors the superb marbles that
support the altar: stop them before the
tombs of Napoleon III and the prince i'm
perial, and do not neglect to point out the
place that Eugene has chosen for her
sepulchre. beside her SON.
4 bridge thrown between Eugenie's
gardens and the abbey.
From her bedroom window she could
consider the monument.
Al this time her fortune grew immense.
From his death she had all of Napoleon's
private domain. BY a strange fatality
the son. his fathers confidant was dis
inherited. No will could be found but an
old one dated 1860 when the boy prince
was heir to forty millions, civil list. At
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and night are stripping the
masks from the faces and souls of the
unfortunates in the accident wards of
WaShington's hospitals. Sometimes the
removal of the mask reveals tragic lines:
sometimes the uncovered features have
the grotesquerie of clowns. Incidents.
tragic and humorous. give TO the ambu-
lance surgeon unlimited opportunity to
study human nature in the raw.
The colorcd man who is never able to
overcome his superstitious awe of the
surgeons knife presents most of the
humorous incidents. Not long ago one
was picked up in an alley and rushed
to a hospital nearer dead than alive from
frequent indications of ''zizz," a local
name for gin
He was placed, upon the table i'm the
emergency room and the ambulance physi-
clan prepared his stomach pump and ad-
ministered "a hypodermic injection to
couIftelact the effects of the booze. He
was about To insert the tube Of the pump
In the mans jaws, which were propped
open by Il vise-like arrangement. when
sued from the cavernous throat which
signified that he wished to know his
whereabouts.
you're in the mOrgue." the surgeon
said jokinSiy. you've been dead a week
We We're about to embalm YOU
Jaws still gaping-for once i'm the mouth
the steel contrivance which the physicians
use may not be removed until they wish
1.-THE colorcd man shot from the table.
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DOLLY pain. racking and wrench
ing ut the vitals: fear Of the
touch o death. minute by min
ute. hour by hour through day
and night, are stripping the
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Antolnette. marvel in ebony and lac
quer. carved bronze decorations, one of
the Louvre Museum treasures. valued
at half million. At a sale it would
bring double.
Item: Four magnificent Moorish sad
dies, in pearls and gold embroidery
picked up by Napoleon / after the bat
tie of the Pyramids. valued at $4,000
francs. and worth 100000 francs.
Item: An oriental Scimeter, jeweled.
picked up ditto. valued at 10000 francs.
and worth 100000 francs at auction for
the reason that Eugenie's husband s
uncle was so often painted with it
hanging at his side
Item: The parade saddle of Napoleon
]. flashing with precious stones, esti-
mated at 100000 francs; but what
would not Pierpont Morgan give for it ?
Item: The "redingote girls of the Man
or Destiny; his battle hats. his .'capote
girls his pistols. the whole Legend of
the Eagle. What price? Why. the Bench
of st. Helena, given to her husband by
the English, and which Eugene had
destined to place in her Marlborough
hallway by the hatrack, would bring
half million francs at any advertised
sale!
They are family souvenirs, all init
mate and personal Eugene said
But not your family, madame an
swered the Partisan papers. They forced
the Domains to make new appeal, so
that Eugene. who las certainly a real
claim to vast property, sees herself once
again refused even the cash they acknowl-
edged to be due her,
Her final failure to get the J3S objects
she had almost had her hands on for ST.
Michaels Abbey aand the Windmill Hill
instrumentation finished sourng her on
Marlborough as a residence.
Without the desired objects" il was
far from the refuge. all fragrant of the
past. where she had hoped to calm her
souls unrest Already she had begun on
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In Turkeys centuries of his
tory the women of the country may never
be said to have lived. Here ;. as the con-
finement of the harem. She never could
appear in public with her face exposed
Laws both of religion and of the state.
compelled the sex TO regard itself as the
absolute slave and possession OF man,
and for a Turkish woman 10 have walked
in public without LAYING her face COW
cred in the heavy swathings of tradition
would at one time have been to invite
death and in later years Imprisonment.
But in the coming of the new era the
Turkish woman has played a glorious and
important part.
They rrve torn off their wells, and
marched openly in the streets of Con-
stantinople. shouting the cry of the revo'
lutionists and bearing aloft banners in
scrihed:
Liberty. equality and fraterni- y.
When this sight first presented itself To
the public the sensation was tremendous,
and il is said that the sultan and his
advisers on seeing IT permitted understood
that the world had moved on for Turkey,
and that the only act possible was to con-
cede constitution and get in touch with
the new conditions.
Nor did the demonstration started stop
at the mere abandoning of wells. the wav-
ing of banners and shouting in the
streets
The new woman of Turkey has present
ed to her brother this proposition:
That since she has been his companion
In the revolt. and has borne all the per-
lis of assisting in rebellion. III. would,
In the event of failure, have Deen the
victim of the sultan, she has right to
share fully in the fruits of the victory.
There, she asks that she be elevated
TO plane of complete equality. and be
allowed to take part in politics and have
her vote.
The disposition OF the young Turkish
party is to grant this request. They I'M
derstand that the women of the nation
are bound TO WELD a powerful influence
in the events of the next few years and
that policy no less than justice would die
tate giving them place OF fullest part
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!, Most Astounding of All ,
4VA Developments in Con-
nection With the Arising of
, a New Turkey Is the Part
Played by Women of the
Sultan's Realm-They Have
Issued From the Harem-
!: They Have Torn From Their
Faces Those Wells, Which
Once to Remove Was to In
: cur Death-They Are De-
5 handing Perfect Equality
With the Men and a Share
:: in the Conduct of the Gov
, eminent An Aroused Ma
!: ton Has Welcomed Their
5 Uprising and a Noted Mos
, lem Priest Has Come to
/: Their Aid With the Assur-
ance That No Law of the
.. Koran Compels Them to
: Wear Wells.
+ $50 49,
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connected with the uprising in
Turkey. is the coming to life Of
the women of the realm.
In Tl1rkeN'S centuries of his
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Then suddenly ten years ago old Mar
seille real estate left to her by her father,
Count Montijo, on which she had wisely
paid the taxes a full generation, became
valuable to millions.
With such great resources it had been
Eugenie's wish to make ST. Michaels Alb
hey and the Marlborough seat d Weritable
museum of the Bonapartes and herself.
The great entrance hail. one wall of
which is hung with Winterhalter's life
size painting of Eugene in the midst of
her guests at the Tuileries. became gal
lery of paintings picturing her former
brilliant court life.
The salons of the ground floor contain
vast quantities OF Bonaparte portraits.
battles treaties, triumphs of the great
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that time it naturally left Eugene all
Napoleon's private fortune.
But in 1873 Napoleon had no more to
leave. When the young prince came of
age he told his mother she ought not
claim everything by that old will. and a
council of former ministers judged it
should be annuled. But 1t changed MOTH
ing. for Eugene put the papers In a
drawer and kept the entire millions. And
the prince, saying nothing, quilted Eng
land to meet death in Africa.
When her son died Eugene, as his next
of kin, took the vast Florence real estate
willed to him by the Princess Bacchiechi.
The young prince had not even drawn its
revenues, persuaded they were needed for
improvements.
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Special Correspondence of The star.
PARIS, September I, 1905
- HE is failing.
This autumn on her trip from
Marlborough to Cape Martin, she
~ did not stop at Paris for her usual
work and lawsuits.
Who An aged lady all in black-once
the worlds fashion leader.
Her work? The mystery of an empire.
Two Americans. working in a private
room OF the Paris National Library. mis-
took their door once and intruded on her,
at table covered with methodic piles
of books and manuscripts. And once again
they saw her. walking with a cane: and
to the man behind her she complained of
rheumatism.
He was Francheschini Pietri, and the
aged lady was none other than she who
had been the youthful, beautiful, roman
tic. brilliant empress of the Frencll-Eu-
genie.
An attendant told them how she labored
with impressive patience. taking notes
from second empire dispatches. council
minutes. parliamentary debates and
bound volumes of reports and letters six
hours daily. TO emerge from the dust of q
bygone world at the same hour each
evening. tranquil, severe, self-contained-
and Self-content
Each spring and autumn going through
Paris she has dug out more material for
those memoirs that the world awaits that
can be published only at her death. that
are to justify the party of the empress"
for its acts before the empire fell
Because from 1865 there was party
of the empress" in the Tuileries. 1t pushed
the war with Prussia and insisted that
Napoleon take the field in person. They
say that Eugene had it in her head that
the imperial dynasty-the future of her
son-could be consolidated only by a sue
Cessful war, while for the rest the party
of the empress was reactionary. convinced
farming the young princes interests. The
idea was to possess the regency keep
the emperor in the field and profit by the
first victory to set up again the old Bona
parte autocracy.
In the material at the National Library
Eugene sometimes is startled by a light
ming flash from this dark past such as
the following note, written after the war
by the hand of Napoleon III and touching
close the mystery of the empire. What
will she say of it in her memoirs? 1t
reads.
When. in starting to the war; the en-
peror instituted a regency he imagined
that the march of affairs could still be di-
rected from the imperial quarters. Ac-
cording to first empire precedents the
regency should function only from the
emperor's quitting French territory. Such
was the case in 1889, but in 1870 the re-
gency took the reins of government the
moment that the emperor left Paris. and
although by her letter patent the empress
had only restricted powers. there came.
nevertheless to be two governments-one
with the army and the other in Paris!
The chambers were convened without the
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Dots from Fall Creek.

Salem, March 31.-Special: A
great many Of the people Of this sec
tion attended the Ministers Confer
ence at Mount Carmel last Saturday
and Sunday.
James Fendley and little Miss
Maud Billingsley, his niece, visited at
the home of James Whitmire, last
week. fH
Miss Alice Whitmire, of Jocassee,
and Miss Florence Whitmire, of In
dianapolis, Ind, visited Misses ,Addie
and Clara Grogan Sunday and Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fendley, Misses
Allie and Maud Billingsley visited at
The home of James r. Grogan re-
Gently.
Misses Addie and Clara Grogan at
tended a singing given at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Elisha Smith, at
Stamp Greek, last Saturday.
: Newt. Gfogan, OF the High Falls
section, Is visiting J.. r. Grogan A.
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James G. Smith Dead.

Madison, March 28.-Special: las
sC.Smith came to his death by hisown
act. He had been in declining health
for some time, and was under treat.
ment Of physicians, and was watched
after by The family, as 1t was bellev-
ed his mind was giving way. He was
lost sight Of on Sunday morning.
March %, at o'clock. When found
at 8 o'clock by his brother, Charlie
II. Smith, his body was hanging in a
close built stall in the barn yard. He
was dead and was hanging With a
wire around his neck.
James Clark Smith was born Jan
uary 18th, 1878, in Banks county,
Georgia, and raised on Tugaloo river.
Oconee county, South Carolina. His
body was buried at Unity Baptist
church, on March "a, 1908. in the
presence Of large congregation of
sorrowing relatives and friends. Flu
neral services were conducted at his
home and at the church by Rev. d.
r. Carter. He was member Of Lib
erty Baptist church and had been "a
member for several years. He was
honest and upright and had many
friends throughout adjoining coun-
ties. He had never married. He
leaves father and mother, two bro
theirs and three sisters and many rel
atives and friends to mourn his un-
timely death. A good man has gone.
Friend
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Bank of Waltlalla,
ocoNEE FARMERS UNION MET.
Splendid Gathering OF Members from
All Over the County.
Walhala, s. O.

The Oconee County Farmers Tn
ion held a largely attended and en-
thusiastic meeting last Friday at Con-
HsTuss school mouse. Every local un-
Ion in the county was represented
and the gathering taxed the capacity
of the school house. The members
were enthusiastic, and the meeting
was harmonious throughout.
e j. @. Stribling, of Pendleton, was
present and made q practical address
on live topics He was heartily well
coined by his audience, which gave
him an attentive hearing. His talk
was on practical business lines and
was full Of sound argument.
NS{ The meeting was opened at 10
O'Clock in the morning and lasted un
TIL well up in the afternoon, with an
intermission for dinner, which was
served in great abundance.
The farmers Of Oconee are on a
firm basis, individually and as an or
ganization, and they are, SO to speak,
sitting steady in the boat" "sawing q
wood and saying nothing" and are
testing the sound advice, Learn to
labor and to wait"
They are in the fight for fair
prices for cotton, and are determined
to win, even If they have to work
overtime on short rations. And
that's the very pole that always
knocks the persimmon.
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Gillette Pays Penalty in Chair.

Auburn, N. Y, March 3O.-In the
electric chair at Auburn State prison
this morning at 6.1S o'clock Chester
Gillette died for the murder of his
sweetheart, Grace Brown, OF South
Otselic, at Big Moose Lake, on July
IL, 1906. Gillette avowed to the last
he was innocent of shedding her
blood. His spiritual adviser, Rev.
Henry McIlvray, however, made pub
lie a statement which leads to the
conclusion that Gillette had acknowl-
edged to him that he was guilty. The
statement was:
"BecaGse our relationship to Ches-
ter Gillette was privileged, We do not
deem 1t wise to make any statement,
and simply wish to say that no legal
mistake was made in his electrocu-
tion."
Gillette died as he had lived, an
absolute stole. He was the coolest
man in the death chamber and watch-
ed the strapping of the electrodes
with seeming interest. Twice he
shifted his bare legs to aid the as
sistants In adjusting the apparatus.
Just before the cap was placed upon
his eyes he gave a farewell nod to
the group about him and closed his
eyes. The total time OF the execu-
ton was one minute three seconds
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DANCING UNDER THE GRAY.
Capt. and Mrs. s. X. Dendy Agaiu
LEADERS of the Younger Set"

(Mexia, Texas, Weekly Enterprise
That elderly people grow young
again in Mexia, and age shakes off
It's gray hairs aui cares when her
people meet in social intercourse, no
one can doubt who has attended the
recent old-time dances in this city.
a few evenings ago party of
friends met for social game of
''forty-two" at the residence of Judge
W.. 10. Doyle, who Is enjoying q visit
by mis- twin-hrother James Doyle, of
Granbury, and his wife, and his un-
Gle, Capt. S. K. Dendy, wife and son
Julian, and his cousin, Mr.. Thomp-
son, his wife and son Alf, all of
South Carolina. Geo. A. Bell and
wife, Mrs. e. d. Dunlap, Mrs. Alice
Mitchell, Misses Mizell, York, .Doss.
Gary, Doyle and little Hortense
ties above named, constituted the
dance.
For a while the game of forty
two" was played. and all was serene
and quiet on the Potomac. but finally
Capt. Dendy, who Is a fine violinist,
commenced. playing "Arkansaw Tray
eler." At once the inspiration of
the "long ago" struck the 'sforty-
two" players and Judge Doyle yelled
out, Partners for q cotillion.'' All
scores In the game Of ..forty-two"
were quickly forgotten, the dominoes
were stacked on the tables and the
dance opened in old-fashioned ante
bellum fashion.
Judge Doyle called the set, and to
have heard him call the old familiar
figures, "Honor your partners
Swing YOUR corners" Swing your
partners and all promenade" ETC..
would have filled one with thou
sand happy dreams of youth ana
of younger and happier days. Mr..
Bell aid Mrs. Mitchell were school
mateSSSof Judge Doyle and his bro
ther at Tehuacana away back in the
7O'S, and in those years they had
dsnced together in a thousand sets
and heard Judge Doyle call them.
A night or two later the same dan
GERS opened the ball at the residence
Of George A. Bell, and 1.-THE sound of
revelry" did not cease until mid
night Well, who says such dancing
and social merriment Is wrong?
don't.
"Then on with the dance; let JOY be
unconfined;
No sleep till morn when youth and
pleasure meet
To chase the fleeing hours with fly
ing feet"
Let Mexia "swing her corners and
all promenade" the old as we'll as
the young.
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LAWSON FLOATS YUKON GOLD.
Brokers Fight to Trade in Shares of
New Company.

New York, March 2S.-Wild ex-
citement prevailed in Wall street to-
day when Thomas W. Lawsons Yu-
kon gold was formally introduced to
the curb market.
Lawson brokers refused to let
share go until the clock struck 10,
but at least 90 900 shares had chang
ed hands before that hour. Several
additional mounted police were nee
essary to handle the crowds. All
other stocks on the curb were neg
lected and by 10 o'clock at least 500
brokers were struggling to make
transactions In Yukon gold, while
several thousand spectators lined the
streets, crowded into windows, stood
on cornices, on house tops. The ex-
citement exceeded even the extrava-
CANT market on Nipissing. The COM
pany is capitalized at $17,O0O,0OO.
The stock was offered by Lawson
at 8 1s in lots of 500 shares. 1t rose
to s and by 1870 o'clock 1T declined
to 8. The small trade had no chance
whatever. A broker said that at
least 100000 shares had been traded
in before the close of the market.
Every share was paid for in cash, as
brokers would not accept orders un-
less cash accompanied.
Yukon gold is controlled by the
Guggenheimer Exploration Company.
1t owns placer mines in Alaska that
| are estimated to have $15,0OO,00O
net Of gold in them. The company
has expended about $12,000,000 and
has produced nothing yet.
OF this amount S8,000,000 was ex-
pended for machinery, which has
proven not exactly adapted for the
purpose for, which 1t was designed.
1t Will have to be removed to other
mines.