The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-22

ingly innocent purchase was merely a ruse to get her out of tbe way. This was about o'clock, for the girl remembers that the whistles down in the stoclSyardi district were blowing at the time.
 Heard Scream
 As the maid opened the door of ths servants entrance or her return from the drugstore she heard a scream. She immediately dropped the cyanide, spilling it in barrel of flour, end rushed to her mistress room. The Goor was locked and her knocks brought no answer. Being an expert at keyholes through six years of domestic service, tho maid applied her eye to the small aperture. She could see Cleopatra reclining oE tLe davenport clad in her pink lowered yvTa pper and Japan csc slippers. She seemed to be asleep
 Madam, madam, the girl called loudly
 She received no answer and the figure on the couch did not move. The maid at once became alarmed and phoned to the Pyramid Park police station. An ambu- lance was sent and Patrolman MilSelos assisted the surgeon in breaking in tho door. There were still some signs of life, and Cleopatra was rushed to the emer- gency ward of the Isis hospital on Man street, where she died an hour later with out regaining consciousness. The snake escaped and IS Sllll al large.
 On the dead girls dressing table were found two farewell notes. These were weighted down by tte picture of Mark Antony in evening clothes and an onyy rouge box. One of the missves was ad- dressed to near relative and was delv- cred without being opened The other , was in a plain unsealee envelope, and read:
 Tired of Life
 To Whom It May Concern: I am tired of living. When you get tired of living there is but one thing to do-shuffle off. In a very few minutes I will have so shuffled Pay Cleo, U e Ethiopian washer woman, the $l.35 that I owe her for last weeks wash Get my blue silk from the cleaners-I want to be buried in it. You will find my will in the old teapot on the kitchen shelf. l am so unhappy and mis erabe that I haven't heart to take the trouble of breathing day longer. Fare we'll forever. CLEO.
 The letter was written with a lead pen cil on the back of charge check.
 The body was taken to the Osiris under taking and en;balming parlors Burinl will be from the home at ? oclock tomor- row afternoon. Rev. Ajax. priest in the Temple of Isis, will ,officiate. Interment will be at Oak View cemetery near the grave of Antony.
 Cleopatra would have been % years old on her next birthday. She was a member of one of the oldest Egyptian families, being the oldest child of the late Ptolemy Athletes and Mrs. Auletes. Some years ago she was subjected to a good deal of harsh criticism by old-fashoned people because she poisoned her 14-year-od brother, whom she caught looking at her throne. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Servants had occasion to remonstrate with her several times be. cause of her fad for poisoning her ser wants to while away the idle hours. Cleopatra will be especially mourned by manufacturers of deadly drugs and vendors of Paris millinery. She is sur vived by four children and choice col lection of scandals tbat will insure her memory a firm and prominent place il impolite history.