The Alaska citizen., 1912-12-09
MOST WICKED
 QUEEN 0F ALL
 TIMES IS FOUND

She poisoned. stabbed and drown ed fully thirty of the members of her royal household. from the high est diSnitaries to the court fool.
 Her record is a bloody one. His tortans are finding great deal about her life these days. She is being unfavOrably compared with the great Cleopatra. who sent more than one good man to his doom through her ambition and beauty.
 This queen is known to posterity as Queen Tiy. wife of Ramses III. one of the Pharaohs of Egypt. and who ruled over wealthy kingdom in the dark centuries before the com ing Of Christ
 "Tiy lived three thousand years ago, and was undoubtedly the most wicked queen Who has ever lived. says James H. Breasted professor of Egyptology and Oriental history of the University of Chicago.
 Tiy. one of the many wives in King Ramses's harem. had at one time been the favorite of the king She was a woman of rare beauty. with great. long locks of raven black hair and large black eyes with lids that dropped dangerously She loved the king her master. with deep devotion. When she bore him son her love became even more intense.
 Tiy was happy and content in the kings love until father time robbed her of her great beauty. and Ram ses turned his eager attention to a younger. fairer queen, who also had son. One day while sitting in the beautiful gardens which the king had made for his wives. and playing with her little son. Pente were. a gossiping servant told her that the king had promised the crown 10 another prince. the son of her rival
 lily nearly swOoned at the news and when she fully realized that il was a deathblow to her ambitions tor her son. her love turned to hate She made up her mind that she at any cost. even the cost of Ram ses' life.
 With Pebekkamen, the chief of the chamber. and Mesedure a royal but Ter. Tiy planned terrible conspir, acy to kill the old king and to place her own son. Pentewere, upon the throne With Oriental supersti- tion Pehekkamen first bought an outfit of magical waXen figures of gods and men. by which he believed he was empowered to evade the peo- pie of the harem guard. who might otherwise have discovered and inter cepted one of their numerous mes sages necessary to the development of the plot,
 Pebekkamen and Mesedure then secured the cooperation of ten har- em officials of various ranks, four royal buffers, an overseer of the treasury, general in the army Peyes. three royal scribes in various offices. Pebekkamen's own assistant and several subordinate officials. As most of these people were in the personal service of the Pharaoh Tiy would succeed.
 Six wives of the officers of the harem gate were won over to the
 intrigue They were useful in securing the transmission of mes sages from inmates of the harem to their relatives and friends outside. Among these inmates was the sis ter of the commander of the arch CTS in Nabia. who smuggled out d letter to her brother, and so gained i his support for the enterprise. 1 All was ready and ripe for a re volt and a revolution outside the palace. intended to accompany the murder of the king and enable the ! conspirators to seize the government | and place their pretender, Pente- were. on the throne,
 Tiy worked cautiously. but unceas- ingly in perfecting the plans for the kings downfall. It was all she could do to keep from showing her exultation before the king. She kept up the enthusiasm of her supporters by promising them important gov ernment offices if they would place her son on the throne.
 But her joy was short lived, for in some way the kings party gained full information of the conspiracy the attempt on the kings life was foled. the plans of the revolt were ed in the treason were all seized
 When the old Pharaoh heard tha. Tiy, who had once been his favor ite wife. and for whom he had done
 so much. had planned to have him murdered. his heart was broken. He could hardly believe that Tiy could
 be capable of such ingratitude. With remarkable sense of jus