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French philosopher. morahZlng OH
the great influence Of little matters re-
marked that a fraction of an inch more
nm the end of Cleopatra's nose would
have changed the history Of Rome and
Egypt. AS it was, her unblemished
beauty. her wit and her audacity dis
armed two of the greatest generals Rome
ever sent into Egypt. Not until third
remained oblivious to the charms she
temptingly displayed to him did she
abandon her effort to rule the world by
beauty and seek refuge in self-infiicted
death.
CIeopatra was Joint heir to the throne
If Egypt with her younger brother
PtoIemy. In accordance with the mon
strous custom of the Alexanderine dy-
sty she was expected not merely to
divide regal authority with her brother.
hut 70 marry him as we'll. Against this
she revolted-although whether 1t was
against the marriage or the division or
power is not very clear AT this tlme
julius Caesar. after overthrowing Pom.
pey on the plains OF Pharsaha, arrived
with the mere remnant of an army at
Alexandria, Here he found governmental
chaos. The adherents of Ptolemy and Of
Cleopatra were rioting daily in the streets.
In the name of the Roman senate, then
all powerful. Caesar sought to compose
both Ptolemy and Cleopatra before him.
Cleopatra might have responded with
a brilliant retinue or sent distinguished
advocates to represent her. instead,
with single companion, Apollodorus,
she embarked in fragile skiff and made
a tempestuous voyage to Alexandria.
Arrived there the question Of how she
should gain audience with Caesar became
all-important. That queen should ap-
near bedraggled from a sea voyage and
ACCOMPANIED by but one attendant was
Cleopatra. whose dramatic
instinct, no less than her personal charms.
would be invaluable In the comic opera
field today, solved the problem. Clad in
raiment Of which the least said the most
she lay upon rich oriental
rug and was wrapped up by the faithful
Apollodorus into a neat bundle. which
he thereupon shouldered and carried to
the palace Upon the plea of bringing
to the Roman general tribute from the
absent queen of Egypt, he found prompt
admission to the audience hall. There
he laid his burden on the floor before
Caesar. undid the fastenings. and from
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BUILDINGS NEARLY FINISHED.
Work Being Pushed on Engraving
Bureau and Engineers Office.

Within the next two or three weeks the
Dig new marble building at the foot of
18th street southwest. i'm which the bureau
OF engraving and printing will have its
future home. will be entirely under roof,
80 rapidly is the work progressing on
tee structure. The marble work on the
front and the four wings of the building
is practically completed, and three of the
wings are under roof. Workmen also
are employed in putting in the cement
doors, the room partitions. the metal
window frames and in doing other work
on the interior OF the building as the
work of building the roof progresses.
Another government building, the new
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FAMOUS WOMEN OF HISTORY.
Copyright y J.
CLEOPATRA, 50 B. Go B. c.

the richly colored convolutions OF the
oriental fabrics rose the delicate and
ravishing form of the most beautiful
woman Of the eastern world, even
Venus rose all dripping from the sea.
Caesar was then above fifty years of
age. His life, though that of soldier
who really fought, had not been marked
by any austerity. In a lax age MS
morals had been those of his fellows.
But the surprising beauty of this
Egyptian girl of twenty summers en-
thralled him on the moment. He was
at once her slave. and the next morn
ing proclaimed that she should share
equally with Ptolemy the royal pre-
missed that Cleopatra plus Caesar would
hardly divide equally power with Ptol-
envy alone There followed plots, con-
spiracies, and suffering of war In
which the military genius of Caesar and
the discipline of his Roman legiouaries
overthrow the vastly superior forces of
the Egyptians.
Thereafter for time Cleopatra ruled
supreme-alike over Egypt and her
lover. That Caesar would have married
her had he not already possessed a living
wife there is no doubt. But ugly rumors
about the life of effeminate and volup-
tous luxury which the great Julius was
leading in Alexandria reached Rome,
and his friends besought him to come
home. He returned. Cleopatra presently
followed MIN, hoping IHdt some lucky
chance in Rome might enable him to
marry her. But the fates We're unpro-
pitious. Caesar fell before the daggers
of Brutus and his fellow consiprators,
and the Queen of Egypt and Beauty was
forced to flee again into her own land.
For three years Cleopatra reigned with
little trouble in Egypt. so secure We're the
foundations Caesar had laid. Then the
disordered conditions in Rome began to
affect her realm. Brutus and Cassius
warred with Antony for supremacy, and
met disaster and death at Philippi. Curl
ously enough Cleopatra. in her effort to
be diplomatic. had shown friendship for
Brutus, who dealt to Caesar the last
fatal stab. Now Antony was i'm power
and sent a curt summons to her to come
and answer the charges against her.
Again the seemingly illimitable power of
that SURPRISING beauty was brought into
action. All the world knows how in a
gilded barge. with sails Of purple silk,
the oars welded by naked girls. the
course directed by chosen beauties, she
bore down to meet Mark Antony's war
galley. The queen herself reclined in
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huge shell-shaped couch on the elevated
quarter deck, and neither her garb nor
her beauty was permitted to suffer by
comparison with the crew of hours who
directed the ships course. Antony sent
her an invitation to dine with him upon
his ship. ut is more fitting that your
master should dine with me-" she told
the messenger. Antony came To phara-
phrase Caesars most famous dispatch
He came. he saw. she conquered
For Antony now were al the amorous
balances which had kept Caesar In
Alexandria when Rome needed him.
For him the bacchanalian feasts. the
dancing girls. all .the luxurious disspa-
ton which the voluptuous imagination
Of Cleopatra could devise and his own
coarsely sensual nature relish. When
every other device to stir faded passions
had been exhausted they fell to striving
as to which could give the most costly
entertainments. 1t was in the course OF
this contest that Cleopatra is said to nave
dissolved pearl of great price in vinegar
and drunk it. The story is hallowed by
centuries of repetition. but l doubt IT,
Pearls dissolve but slowly in any acid,
and vinegar is not a palatable beverage
However, the anecdote is characteristic
of the stories that reached Rome. where
the people began to clamor for Antony's
overthrow. Octavius Caesar was sent to
attack him, and after an uninterrupted
succession of victories appeared before
the walls of Alexandria, compelled the
surrender of Cleopatras fleet and made
the city his own.
Cleopatra took refuge in a massive
mausoleum which she had built some
years before. Antony came laundering
to its doors firm in the belief that the
surrender of her fleet meant that she had
treacherously deserted. Her guards. fear
ing that in his wrath he would do the
queen an injury, told him that she had
slain herself. Instantly his wrath gave
way before great wave of love and con-
triton Rushing madly to his own quar-
tiers he threw himself repeatedly on his
sword, inf1icting fatal wounds. The news
being taken to Cleopatra, she had her
dying lover conveyed to her retreat,
bound up his hurts and nursed him ten
derby until he died Sentimental tradition
has it that she died with him, but the
historical evidence seems to show that
after his death she sought to win over
Octavius with the same charms that had
proved so effective with Caesar and with
Antony.
But Octavius was cold and ambitious.
His desire was to save Cleopatra that
She might walk in chains a captive be-
hind his chariot at the triumph which
he knew Rome would decree him. Once
he detected her about to commit suicide
and with his own hands wrested from
her the dagger she. was about to plunge
into her bosom. But her determination
never to be displayed to the Roman pop
ulace as a slave was indomnitable. and
finally. persuading a serving woman to
smugele an asp into the tomb which
yenomous serpent to her breast and died
while Octavius and his lectors were
laundering at the gates In an EFFORT to
seize her.
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GOING ON ARCTIC EXPEDITION
Ensign Fitzhugh Green to Be Mem.
Der of Croker Land Party.

Ensign Fitzhugh Green, U. S N, has
been detailed to accompany the arctic
expedition which sets out next July. and
will act as topographer and physiogra-
pher. The organizers of the expedition
are anxious to obtain a volunteer from
the Medical Corps of the army as MEM
Der of the party.
This latest arctic enterprise is known
as the "Crocker Land expedition" and it's
purpose is to establish the existence of,
and to survey. the body OF land commonly
called Croker Island, which was seen by
Peary in 1906 from Cape Thomas Hub
bard. Adjoining territory also will be ex-
plored and mapped.
The expedition will be a joint undertake
ing, under the auspices Of the American
Museum of Natural History, the Ameri-
can Geographical Society and Yale Uni
versity. 1t will be under the leadership
of Donald Mcmillan, who was with Peary
in the trip which eliminated in the dis
covery of the north pole in 1909.
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CHURCH CELEBRATION
CLOSED BY RECEPTION
Event Held in Recognition of
Conservation of st.
Thomas Edifice.

A reception in the parish hall of st.
Thomas Church last night, brought to a
close a day of celebration that began
with the conservation of the church yes
terday morning. The reception was held
in recognition of the final conservation
of the church edifice and in honor of Rt
Rev. Frederick Courtney, rector of ST
James parish, New York, and former
Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia, and was
attended by several hundred members of
the congregation of st. Thomas and
friends of the church. the parish hall be-
ing filled between the hours of and 10
clock.
Heads Receiving Line.
Rev Dr. c. Ernest Smith, rector of the
church. headed the receiving line He
was assisted by Rev c. Herbert Reese
curate Of the parish; Rev. DR.. w. NJ
Pettis. curate; the wardens, Brig. Gen.
George A. Woodward. U. S. A.. and Mel
vile Church; and the following vestry-
men: John c. Davidson, Chief Justice
Harry NJ. Clabaugh, Theodore w. Noyes,
Brig. Gen. John A. Johnston. A. p. Cren-
shaw, Charles j. Bell and Joseph +.
Thropp. Brig. Gen. John NJ. Wilson, u.
S. A, who is vestryman of the church,
was unable to be present.
Several women OF the church assisted in
the reception of the guests. Mrs. H. E.
Copenhaver was chairman of this COM
mittee, being assisted by Mrs John Da-
wilson, Mrs. A. A. Birney and Mrs. w.
Ellis, The list of young women of the
church who aided in entertaining the
guests and serving the refreshments in
Guided Misses Sturtevant, True, Martha
Kean, Dorothy LIE Due. Pattie Morris.
Ruth Jones, Dorothy Copenhaver, Isabel
Johnson and Ruth Rice
Among those who attended the reception
was Henry Aspinwall, son of Rev. ]. A.
Aspinwall, the first rector of the church,
who was unable to be present on account
of illness.
Palms and other greens were used in
decorating the hall
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TRUST CASE TO BE ARGUED.
Supreme Court Gets Action Against
Shoe Machinery Company Tomorrow.

The legal battle over the question of
the validity of the indictments against
the United Shoe Machinery Company,
under the Sherman antitrust law. will
begin in the United States Supreme Court
tomorrow. when Solicitor General Bullitt
will file a brief to support the govern
ment's contentious in appealing from the
decision of Judge Putnam, at Boston. dis
missing four Of the five counts in two in
dictmentS returned against the alleged
trust.
The defendants will follow with replies
and the argument of the case will begin
early in January. Pending the court 8
decision the trial on the one remaining
count has been suspended.
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PLEADS GUILTY BY MAIL.
Chicago Autoist Who Broke Law
Also Pays Fine Same Way.

CHICAGO, December 21.-Pleading
guilty by mail and paying the fine for
the offense by the same method was an
innovation which surprised Judge Hop
k,ns today when he opened his mail. The
note was among his letters:
Your honor: I plead guilty to the alb
sence Of tail light owing to the fact that
connecting wires were loose without my
knowledge. inclose So. specified amount
Of fine. Most cordially,
II. O. ROWE"
"Mr. Rowe's method is unique i'm my
experience" commented the judge, be-
fore whom there were docketed 1Ss cas-
involving violations of the vehicle ordl-
nance and for which the usual fine is s.,
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ADVISED TO TAKE REST TRIP.
Representative Underwood May Not
Attend the Tariff Hearings.

Representative Oscar Underwood, who
is confined to his home suffering from
severe cold. has been urged to take an
extended trip for his health. If he fol-
lows this advice there is a possibility
that his absence will affect the coming
tariff revisions Representative Choice B.
Randell of Texas will be the ranking
member of the ways and means commit
tee in charge. and his constituents favor
a high tariff on hides, leather and similar
products. Mr.. Underwood Is known to
favor a reduction in that schedule.
Whether or not Mr. Underwood will
leave the city for a trip that would ex-
tend beyond the time set for tariff hear
ings next month has not been settled.
Personally, he is said to be under the
impression that all he needs is short
rest, and that he will be able to preside at
the first hearing, set for Janury u.
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storehouse for the United States engi-

storehouse for the United States engi-
neers' office, which has been in process Of
erection on Potomac PARK opposite the
foot of 18th street for several months,
also is rapidly approaching completion.
All the exterior work on the building has
been finished and only some minor work
remains to be done to the interior OF -she
building. 1t will be ready for use about
the first of the year.
The structure has a cement exterior
and is two stories high. 1t faces directly
on the little wharf used by the engineers
office. so that cement and other stores
can be unloaded from vessels and taken
into the building without much labor.
The building is to be, used as a place in
which to store material and tools.
Since the engineers Office moved it's
headquarters from the foot of 18th stree:
to its present location on the harbor side
of Potomac Park. near the steam railroad
embankment. quite little settlement
has grown up. Located there now are
the dwelling of the superintendent in
charge. the new and old warehouses, a
Toulouse and several smaller buildings.
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Women Sell Eggs at "A Cents.

BOSTON. December 21-Eggs at -
cents a dozen We're on sale at twenty
stations i'm Greater Boston today. Vacant
stores. polling booths and wagons were
used for the purpose by women and 9TH
ers conducting the campaign. Nearly
Loo dozen eggs We're sold at six sta.
lions yesterday.
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118. Eight room dwelling Ia acres
or land, tenant houses On East Main
St. in the City of Laurens. The loca-
tion is fine and tho price Is right.
Come and see.
49, One hundred and forty four
acres Of land In Ave miles Of Laurens
G. II. with six room dwelling, three
tenant houses, good barn and out
buildings. bounded by lands OF ]. l..
Neighbors and Charlie Robertson.
This Is fine farm with fine loca-
tion. Level and productive. See me
for prices and terms.
226. One hundred and sixty acres
of land close to New Harmony church
with new seven room dwelling, fine
barn and out buildings, three tenant
houses with good we'll OF water at each
building. Here is a bargain for the
hustling man. Mid way between ow-
ings and Fountain Inn.
116 acres OF land, 8-room dwelling,
tenant houses, good barn and out
building, bound by lands of ]. w. Du-
pree, r. j. Stoddard, near New Har-
mony church, $4,000 per acre.
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Buy Land and Save Rent.
'me More of These Leak Bargains i'm
Real Estate, Houses and Lots.

46 acres Of land, dwelling and. out
building. bounded by land of Omar
Armstrong. j. A. Mcbraerty and 9TH
ers. Price $1,SOOOO.
60 acres Of land. dwelling and out
building, bound by lands OF Stokes
Garrett and j. A. Burdette Price ST.
900.
144 acres Of land, with dwelling and
three tenant houses, good barn and
odtbuildings, bounded by land Of S. j.
Davis and Herbert Martin. Price SIS
per acre.
Six room cottage, good barn and
outbuilding, with store room 1Sx3S,
blacksmith shop in the forks Of the
road leading to Enoree and Pooltown,
near the Watts Mill. Price $4,000.
102 acres of land, 7-room dwelling,
6-stall barn, Joining lands of j. H.
Sullivan, B. M. Burdette, and others,
being the home portion of the Mrs.
Mary Simpson home place, $2250.00.
Terms made as easy as desired.
5room dwelling and one acre of
wards, in town of Fountain Inn. Price
100000
II. One hundred and fifty acres of
land, beautiful residence, three miles
southwest of Gray Court in half mile
Of Dials church. Three tenant houses.
This is the home of Capt. j. r. Hell
lams, known as Mountain View. This
is one of the best of bargains Come
early If you want this bargain.
296. Eight room dwelling and four
acres OF land in City of Laurens on
West Main st. This has all modern
improvements. This also Is perfect
location and beautiful dwelling. The
price Is right. Here Is tho chance to
get the very best home cheap. See me
for prices.
36. Nlnety-five acres OF land, near
Riddell's Old Field School House: six
room dwelling, barn and out buildings.
Mid way between Gray Court and Ian
ford Station. This is fine piece of
property and prices will be mado right
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per and great influence was enlisted
against Blease and pulling for Jones
the humble masses are wide awake
and silently watching the line-ups. To
our mind, 1t was Tillman who deserted
the wool-at, one-gallus boys. and
not they who deserted Tillman. The
people judge man by the company
he keeps, and when Tillman gave his
once-powerful aid to an element that
had SO vindictively, yea venomously,
fought him in the past, and left as
ne thought and every outsider believl
ed, his former adherents and their
gallant young standard-bearer they
had chosen to go down in defeat, he
that moment lost the confidence and
support Of the common people in his
State, and to whom he owed much
In fact the lifting up Of Tillman from
poverty and obscurity into distinction
and affluence, if not into great riches
for a Southerner.
A PrOfitless Movement.
Now, let us look upon the other
side Of the shield and see what the
wool-hat, onegallus farmers, who had
made Tillman what he now is, have
gained by the bitter political warfare
and strife that has been waved in their
state for some two decades? 1t is
true that they have been educated as
to their political power and rights
lblif rillDoon NJ oil
1t for this for with the establishment
Of the rural postal system the farmers
have made wonderful strides of late.
n other states than SouthI Carolina
they have thrown off the shackles of
political servitude and are now set
Ting their differences at the ballot.
Rural voters are getting better in
formed and better educated every year,
and they would have broken the
chains of bondage, placed upon them
by ring-rule politicians, had Ben Till
man never been born.
But for the sake of argument, we
will give Tillman credit for all that
he claims. Is there another man in
South Carolina who has reaped a rich
er harvest from the political crop he
planted than Tillman himself? And
what has those woof-hat one-gallus
boys gained? Did that reform move
ment put one red copper into a single
farmers pocket? Did 1t take one sec
ond's work from his daily toll? Did
it relieve his poor, hard-working wife
of one of the thousands OF tasks that
she must discharge during the day?
Did it put another crumb upon his
table or add one fagot to the kitchen
fire? Did it enable him to buy one
speck more Of -four for his money or
extend for one instant the day of
grace on that crop lien or note? What
did the farmer receive in return for
quitting his fields to repair to the
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424. One hundred and twenty sew
en- acres of land In Youngs township.
bounded by lands of j. M. Gray, w. p.
Harris and school grounds. Has two
buildings. Fine farming land, close to
church. This is bargain. Will be
sub-divided IL not sold as whole.
Get busy II you desire to make a pur-
chase.
g. Three hundred and fifty acres
In Sumter County with 1--WE room cot
tage, three tenant houses and good out
buildings. Forty acres of fine bottom
land. one hundred and thirty acres In
cultivation. Bounded by lands of Hen
ry White and Press Edwards, In three
miles of Sumter court house. Here Is
bargain. Terms made easy.
1O7. Fifty acres of land near Barks-
dale Station with four room cottage,
barn and out buildings. Nice location,
In good farming section, convenient
to schools and churches. Look after
this bargain.
129. Six room cottage, barn and
out buildings, four and thirty one-hun-
dreth acres Of land in prosperous
town of Cross Hill. You will be sur
prised to hear prices.
93. $50 acres OF land, Q tenant
houses, 125 acres in cultivation
Bounded by lands of Wesley and Lee
Madden, Ed Corbett and others. See
me for prices.
100 acres of land, two dwellings and
outbuildings, bounded by lands of Geo
Little, Claude Martin. Price $4,000.
One nice home for rent In the town
Of Gray Court.
Sc. 142 acres, near Barksdale sta
tion, with dwelling and tenant keuse
Price $3.50 per acre. $500 cash and
your own good time to pay the remain-'
der. Get here quick II you want thss
property.
6-room dwelling, good barn and out
building, fronting North Harper St,
Joining lands of tho Watts Mill Co.
Very desirable piece OF property. Can
be bought for the sum Of $4,000.
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ballot box and vote for Tillman, and
the other reform candidates. save the
empty privilege Of hurrahing over his
victory when the returns were receiv-
ed?
"The farmer then returned to his
field and ploughed on, ploughed on,
while Ben Tillman and the politicians
proceeded to reap every grain Of the
political arvest. Tillman's arraign-
ment of his people for ingratitude is
like farmer abusing the faithful mule
ence is the farmer did feed and stable
that mule, while those Tillman voters
worked for nothing and boarded them
selves.