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Of Alva. Higher than the Duke OF Alva
could only be a king,
So. when Eugenie's mother took her
to Paris. what she saw and heard just
thrilled her. In Spain, she had refused
brilliant offers. Deep in her heart, they
say. she loved a dream prince. endowed
by her girlish fancy with every charm
ing attribute. 1t was absurd. Where
here in Paris. all were talking about
the new nce-president of the Napo-
leonic family. France was still under
the republic Of 1913, but rumors OF a
change were in the air.
Eugene and her mother camped in
little fiat Of the Place Vendome, near
where the Hotel Ritz now is. They
had good invitations. on account Of the
self with the old aristocrats by her
friendship with a newspaper man. 1t
was Merimee. art critic and author of
Carmen" on the threshold of his
mother he was only what he had been
to them years before. in Madrid. be-
fore the Count de Montijo died. the
witty. amusing friend and vague tutor
Laughingly. Merimee took up again
his place of tutor to the grown-up
beauty. and she listened to the news
paper man and friend of editors as he
opened her eyes to the plotting second
empire.
The handsome. dark-browed. care
worn man. still young, who was prince
president. became her grand. romantic
figure. Eugenie wished to attend a
said it would make them ridiculous.
But my father was an officer of the
great Napoleon" said Eugenie. and she
had her way. Merimee got them the
Louis Nav oleon. prince president.
weighed down by complicated and
dangerous plotting. was nevertheless
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Measuring Moonlight.

~ HE full moon Is said to give a great
u deal more than twice the light Of
mately as nine to one.
Taking advantage of the extreme
sensitiveness to light OF a selenium
cell. experiments have measured the
amount of light coming from the moon
at different phases, with the result
above mentioned. The reason for the
remarkable difference shown is to be
found in the varying angles Of refiec-
tion presented by the roughened sur.
face Of the moon to the sun. The moon
is brighter between the first quarter
and full than between full and last
in the more highly reflective character
Of that part of the moon that lies west
of its meridian
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better known, however. to Americans
as an ontPost Of missionary aetivity dnnsy
there.
Diarbekr south of Harput. on the
east bank of the Tigris river, is not
from samsun to Bagdad. but is also
on the road running from Aleppo, in
Syria, through Bitlis and Van to Persia.
as distributing center. There are
about $4,000 Inhabitants. The district
has few products that are exported to
gets goatskins and wool from there.
There Is an ancient copper mine be-
tween Harput and Diarbekr which
II they were able to occupy this terri
tory, but the Russians will probably
see to 1t that this source of munitions
manufacture does not fall into their
hands.
In the strategic sense, Diarbekr Is
of greater Importance than Harput in
the present military situation, since 1t
is nearer to Erzerum. and in the Rus
sian advance through the interior
would be the next point of control.
Before the war broke out and under
the stimulus which the Young Turks
were giving to the development of Ash
attic Turkey, there were numerous
sun and Trebizond and for providing
means Of communication to supersede
or supplement the primitive caravan
and highway routes French and Rus
sian firms. backed by their govern
ments, were ready to build railroads
from the Black sea coast to different
points in the interior.
Work had been started by a French
company on line from Samsun to
Sivas, an interior city north of Harput
one of these lines would be pushed
through to junction with the main
line on the Constantnople-B -Bagdad
route. A modern ferry had been in
main road to the Black sea, the postal
facilities had been improved and the
Imperial Ottoman Bank had established
branch banks in many cities of the in
terror. so that the awakening of this
section of Asiatic Turkey was already
something more than a dream.
All these activities, of course. were
suspended by the war and by the
measures taken by the Turks for the
slaughter and exile of the Armenians
Some of the projects for improving the
means of communication probably will
now be carried out by the Russians as
military measures, and will furnish
the basis for further construction
whenever peace shall come
In the meantime, 1t may be that
small portion of the Arm menian popula-
ton will be able to find it's way back,
under Russian protection, and resume
the cultivation of the crops. The
population was entirely agricultural.
and every year a certain proportion of
the people migrated to Rumania and
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worse, If possible. than those at Van
Erzerum and Bitlis. whose horrors
aroused the whole civilized world, except
the Disraeli ministry in England, which
was then in power and was maintaining
the tradition that England was the
natural protector OF the Turk. as the
means of thwarting Russia's ambitions.
The great massacre of the Armenians al
Trebizond occurred in October, 1895.
**
The strategic Importance of the occu-
patton of Trebizond by the Russians as
a sequel to their occupation Of Erzerum.
may be passed over for the present with
the statement that it gives them a
strong naval base
Looking beyond the present situation
something may be written of the sig
nificance in the way of trade and terri
toria1 control. Trebizond and the other
south coast ports of the Black sea have
an annual commerce approximately of
$35,O00.000 in normal times. with the inn
ports slightly overba1ancing the exports.
The export products vary somewhat in
which heretofore has constituted Turk
ish Armenia. but the principal ones have
been tobacco, opium, sheepskins. goat
skno1tea skns and The nsr
amounted to $1.0oo.000 annually. The
poppy grows in many sections, but most
Of the opium exports go out through
other ports. The tobacco exports amount
to about $1,000. 900 yearly.
Samsun. the tributary port. has an
annual commerce of between $4,000, 900
and $15. 100000. which goes to make the
total Of $34.000.000 for the Trebizond
district. Poppy seeds to the value of
$1.000,000 annually are exported through
this port. The leaf tobacco exports in
some years exceed $5.000,00O.
Trebizond and Samsun and the smaller
ports import miscellaneous merchan-
disc, of which cotton goods constitute
the leading article, although there are
many food products, such as flour and
sugar, imported.
Until the war closed the means of
communication. the United States did
a fair amount of business with Turkish
direct shipping lines. 1t imported to-
bacco and skins and exchanged cotton
goods and miscellaneous products. The
commerce. however, was largely an in
direct one, since some of it was cred
tied to Constantinople.
Whenever peace is restored the pos-
session Of Trezibond and Samsun by
Russia will mean the opening up Of
the Armenian hinterland and con-
sequent increase OF trade with the out
side world. Samsun may become more
the port than Trebizond. since it al
ready is the gateway for the great
highway from Turkish Armenia through
Harput. Diarbekr and other stations on
the way to Bagdad.
Harput is an important interior city.
1t lies on mountain overlooking two
great plains, on which there are two
hundred small villages. 1t is the CEN
ter of a local silk industry. 1t is
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name beside that of the chosen
scratched off corresponding letters, OF
added up the letters value, to compare
them. idle playing with beloved names
in dreaming? Eugenie's mother caught
her writing down "Eugenie" and the
emperor's initials, Il. N. B." (for Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte) to add up their
equivalents in order Of the alphabet:
NH. b.. They added "a.
What of it?" inquired the mother.
"The gypsy said 100 years, POGO mas O
menos." blushed Eugenie. MY name
POGO menos!"
Bah" exclaimed the mother.
Without word. in the same way,
the infatuated girl wrote his name.
Louis" and her own initials, ''E M"
OILS. U-21, I-9, S-19, E-5, Nib.
Again. the addition came out "a. lust
like the other.
That's queer" said the mother
with the family names it wouldn't"
They added up the family names,
ma apoleon Montijo" -N-14, Al. P-16,
OILS. Liz. E-5, OILS, MIA, Nib, OILS.
MA, T-20, I-9, J-10, OILS. The sum
was 1SS-exactly the double of "a.
That's queer" said the mother, but
his family name is Bonaparte, not
Almost trembling. they wrote Bon
aparte eMontijo"-B-2. OILS, MIA, Al,
P-16, Al, R-1S, T-20, E-5, Nib. OLE
MIA. T-20, I-9, J-10. OILS. Again the
addition came 1873!
'.Twice "a again. whispered the awe
struck mother. "It makes "a come out
six times. no matter how you add
them!'
The subject. so the tale runs, was
never mentioned again between them.
Only of late years-Eugenie going on
to be ninety-does the queer addition
gain confirming interest. Certainly
Napoleon did not live to be ninety
four. SO that for him the cabaiistic
figure could be only dynastic. It is
curious in this connection. that exactly
years after the death of
the dynasty's great founder, at st.
Helena. in 1921. France started to win
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millet and alfalfa. The barley and al
falfa serve for the sustenance of the
camels and horses used for transport
along the road from the interior to the
sea.
While Turkish Armenia has a future
more hopeful for the Armenians than
appeared before the Russian advance
began, the larger aspect of this move
ment is not to be forgotten. When
the Germans crashed their way through
Serbia to Constantinople, as much sig
nificance was given to their economic
gain as to their success as military
strategists.
1t was assumed that Germany was
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.cial Correspondence of The Star.

PARIS. February 20, 1916.
~ X-EMPRESS EUGENE will be
In ninety years old next May-go-
IT. ing on for a hundred. Whereby
hangs the tale of the girl of two
splendid wishes Will Eugenie COM
plets the gypsy story? For forty-six
years she has been the most unhappy
woman Of Europe.
1t begins with gypsy at Madrid, in
the year 1889.
Eugene. aged thirteen, was a TOM
boy. Sliding down the banister. she
slid too strong. banged against the fly
screen of the front door and fell in
animate. A gypsy woman. passing, took
the girls head in her lap and brought
her to.
mo danger" she said to the fright
ened mother. who came running. "the
senorita will live to be a hundred
years old"
The senorita." she continued, was
battle"
1t impressed the mother. Truly, thir-
teen years before. May 5. 1926, at Gra-
nada. an earthquake had forced them
to camp one night in the garden and
Eugene was there prematurely born.
Not rejecting that the gypsy might
know it from servants gossip, she ask
ed, credulously:
What will be her future?'
She will be queen" replied the
gypsy.
Such is the story. There is no cer-
tainty of its truth. We know how
stories grow in families and out of
them. In old fairy tales to become
queen and live to be hundred repre-
sent the height of splendid wishing for
a poor girl. So, IL is curious to see Eu-
genie growing up in a kind of family
tradition that wonderful fortune wait
ed for her.
Beauty had, already. done much for
the family. Eugenies mother had been
really poor girl. daughter of q Brit
ish subject who had failed In business
at Malaga His name was Kirkpatrick
and he had long been American vice
consul. He had married one of two
beautiful sisters. yet still poorer-see
how hereditary loveliness forces it's
way through four generations. The
first was a lowIy Spanish girl, GAL
legros. with just her beauty and her
smock. Grevigne. French wine mer-
chant Of Malaga. married her and had
two daughters: and two foreign con-
suls. French de Lesseps and Scotch
kirkpatrick. lifted them to fair posi-
tion by marriage. From the de Les
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ARAB WOMEN WITH THEIR WATER JARS.

tai of his kingdom of Pontas. After the
Romans drove out the Greeks and the
city was taken by Pompey the Great, it
had a period of Roman prosperity.
Trojan made it the capital of Cappa-
docia. Hadrian built haroor works and
fortif1cations and enhanced it's CONNER
cial Importance as the great station on
the route to the east. Justinian erected
there his splendid capital.
The period of Roman prosperity. how
ever, had long ended before Trebizond
was captured by the Moslems in the
middle of the fifteepth century. They
marked their conquest by changing the
Christian churches into mosques. but
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IN of Russia Opens the Back Door to Turkey

for the last five centuries has been tho
spoil of the Turk.
Trebizond. the ancient Trapezus. is
older than Rome. 1t was founded by
Xenophon and his 10000 Greeks. in
their retreat from Persia, over what
still constitutes the caravan routes,
found safety when they reached Trebi-
xond. Xenophon was the foremost of
Greek reporters in the ages before the
newspapers were known. and his ac-
count of the retreat may now be read
as good piece of reporting in recall
ing the history of Trebizond.
Mithridates made Trebizond the capi-
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seps alliance came the grand Fran
cais' of SueZ and Panama; but Kirk
patrick's wife gave him a daughter of
such rare charms that a Spanish gran
dee. with place at court, married her
for love. 1t was Eugenie's mother.
The grandee. Eugenie's father. was a
duke. a marquis. viscount and baron.
but the title by which he has been
known to the world was Count de
Montijo. He had two daughters. fairer
yet than mother, grandmother or great
grandmother, and he died. Eugenie
was one, and her sister Pacca was the
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Christian architecture still

much of the Christian architecture still
survives.
Modern Trebizond, while under Turk
ish rule. has been far from a Turkish
city. The population has been a mixed
one, with many nationalities mingling. 1t
has been called the international city Of
the Black sea. Shipping lines from Eng
land and France and Germany have made
1t their headquarters, and its trade has
been the prize that all have sought for
Trebizond. in the Armenian calendar,
has its years of horror. for it was the
scene Of some Of the most hideous mas
sacres. In the period from 1894 to 1896
it was the theater Of constant slaughters,
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more than struck by the girls beauty.
That evening he sought her out a sec
ond time. Eugene stuck in his head.
and. later, he said that he knew that
he should meet her again.
X x
Eugene felt the same mysterious at
traction. would that ! could help
him." she murmured, thinking of the
lonely prince and his risky ambitions.
which were laughed about in the
streets of Paris. Just before the coup
d'etat she fairly burned with romantic
anxiety. She dashed about the little
fiat like a tigress. being Spanish. What
can I do?" she asked herself. What
can 1 do to help him?"
That night Louis Napoleon received
a letter. 1t was from a romantic, in
experienced girl. but 1T was ardent and
sincere. 1t gave him her good wishes
and audaciousIy offered him all she
possessed. should his projects require
ready money. Il have 5000 francs in
bank 1t said, the proceeds of a
legacy" She was bitterly sorry that
he did not need them.
After December 2 1t was the empire
in fact. if not in name. Louis Napo-
Fontainebleau and Compiegne. At
these he met again the beautiful Span
ish girl, fearless horsewoman and tire
less dancer. He remembered all about
her letter, written in that dark hour
of his wavering chances.
His love at first sight was soon no.
ticed. showing itself full blown in the
most open attentions. Eugene and her
mother had continual invitations to
Compiegne and the Tuileries. 1t was
told that Mile. de Montijo. walking with
Napoleon. found four-leafed clover
and that. four days later. she was
wear Wsaring y; a msgnifcsnt naaa cen Jewel in the
waxed floor at Compiegne and Napo-
Eugenie.
The women were against her. One
evening. going in to dinner on the arm
of Col de Toulongeon, a slight confu-
sion permitted him to whisk Eugenie
ahead of Nine. Fortoul. wife of the
minister Of that name. How" she ex-
creature to push past me?"
~
The next morning Mile. de Montijo
with tears in her eyes. stood on the
terrace of Compiegne, apart from the
others. 1t was not ruse to attract
Napoleon's sympathy, because, in truth,
the girl saw her prince hero disappear
ing in nightmare of bad gossip. To
Napoleon. who came asking the cause
Of her sorrow. she just faltered, "I
must go!" Little by little, Napoleon
drew from her an idea of the sights
and insults.
The emperor, listening. meditatine.
tore a string of green ivy from a park
tree. as they slowly promenaded. Deft-
ly he twisted it into a crown and. as
they neared a group. said loudly. SO
that all might hear him: Wear this
one MEANWHILE"
It Is a twice-told anecdote, but as IL
was Napoleon's proposal of marriage,
there 10 no way to omit 1t. He never
really asked for her hand-he took 1t,
Not another murmur rose from the
court ladies'. At once they focked
round Eugene.
At that moment. so the tale runs, the
girl dabbled in the cabala, but not in
Hebrew. Just plain French or English.
What girl has not written down her
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WILL She Complete the Gypsy Story
W and Live to Be One Hundred?-The
Girl of Two Splendid Wshes-The Loss Of
Alsace-L e-Lonaine-Tragedy of the Empires
Last Chance and a Black Riding Habit.
Beautiful Spanish Girl Who Desired to
Marry Acknowledgements Appearance
at British Court.
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Since the time of DR.. Osier's famous
remarks the battle between the cham
pions of the young man and the man
who has passed out of his youth toward
age has gone on. OF course. no hnal
decision has been reached and none
ever will be reached. So many young
men are mediocre. so many oldish men
are great. SO many old men are remark
able. and many young men of talent
or genius do not fulnll the promise
OF their youth until they have travelled
good way along life's course.
Not long ago President Lowell Of
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It's Possible.

~ EoRGE ADE. answering . toast al
VI . policemen's banquet in Chicago
said:
Even . policeman can't arrest the
flight Of time. though now ana then
he may enter side door and stop Q
few minutes."
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back Alsace-Lorraine, in 1S15-lost. at
the French often claim, very much
through Eugenie's being empress.
AS queen she lacked dignity. Only
1855, did Eugene succeed in establish
ing at the Tuileries a ceremonial which
should finally silence criticism. Even
at Windsor. where they were received
carelessness all but ruined her Queenly
reputation-by a ball dress
A quarter of an hour before they
were to be received by Victoria and
consort in the throne room, 1t was dis
covered that among the hundreds of
trunks of the French visitors Eugenie's
alone had not arrived. The emperor
was deeply mortified that the discovery
should have come SO late. as showing
lack of discipline and serene order;
and on his advice. Eugenie had already
begun to pretext a headache due to
seasickness. when one of her ladies
ventured to offer her a gown.
A blue dress of the simplest descrip-
tion seemed the only one At to be has
tily adapted. Ladies and maids fell on
it deftly, and in twenty minutes the
blue gown was readjusted to the en-
press. In it Eugenie. without jewels.
appeared before the British court in
her own dazzling beauty. She made an
immense success.
She loved Napoleon sincerely and
was regularly jealous. He had warned
her that he would be courted. but the
high-spirited Spanish girl could not
get used to 1t.
"Prince," said Napoleon one day to
Plon-Plon. docs your wife ever make
scenes? I love Eugenie tenderly, but
the moment l give audience to another
woman 1 risk a violent quarrel"
"Chastise her." replied the amiable
old reprobate.
you don't know Eugeniew said the
emperor "She would open a window
of the Tuileries and cry: Police!"
To the end, women took advantage Of
Eugenie's breezy independence, exu-
traps for her. Among others. Nine. dc
Metternich, wife Of the Austrian am.
bassador. seemed to have vowed her
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far-reaching conquest of the mind
which has not been given to the world
by a man on whose back the sun was
still shining. The effective. moving, vi
talizing work of the world is done be-
tween the ages of twenty-five and
forty"
Following the Osler opinion came the
opinions of very many other men. and
there was a great divergence of views
but the facts as marshaled seemed to
indicate that the distinguished doctor
had talked nonsense as other distin-
guished men have been known to do
at ttmes Homer mods, and great men
have their lapses from intellectual
heights. II is notorious that men who
have earned distinction in one sphere
of endeavor will often. while discussing
matters relating to another sphere, de-
liver themselves of arrant nonsense.
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MEMA Rear Enhancehat May Result From Occupation Black
and Turkish Amenusin Claims Constannope the Final Settlement
Has Been Turkish
Highway
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pretty certain, with the consent of her
Turkish ally, to occupy Mesopotamia
and the adjoining sections of Asia
Minor. The completion of the railway
from Constantinople to Bagdad, by fill-
ing in the gaps. was thought to be as
sured, and the alliterative jingle of
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other Balkan states for the harvest
and then returned to cultivate their
own fields.
Primitive as the agriculture is, it
supplies sustenance enough for the
people, with the exception of wheat.
The principal crops of the interior
around Harput are wheat, barley, rye,
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Should British arms gain control OF
the famous city of the caliphs. un-
doubtedly it would help to restore
British influence. But the AnSlo-ln-
dian troops failed in their first bold
stroke and 1t is now more likely that
il Bagdad is occupied it will be by a
Russian army. which will also rescue
the Anglo-Indian troops from their
present peril. This, however, is not an
immediate view. since there are still
many difficulties to be overcome in the
military occupation of the country be-
tween Erzerum and the Tigris and
Euphrates.
For Americans the sentimental inter-
est is in the knowledge that Armenia
is no longer under Turkish control.
Armenian inhabitants left, since the
reports of the wholesale depopulation
by slaughter and by exile seem to be
confirmed, but though Armenia never
was recognized as territorial division
by Turkey, its existence and the exist
ence of the people is one of the stub
born facts of history.
Turkish Armenia really constitutes
desert. where the Bedouns roam, to
Persia and Mesopotamfa. The area ap-
proximately is $4,000 square miles, and
out of 100000 Armenians 100000
were dwellers within this territory.
Notwithstanding the massacres the
people were fecund. and 1t was never
possible entirely to exterminate the
whole population.
Erzerum. in the military and STRAIT
egic sense, may be said to command all
Armenia. With the Russians firmly es-
tablished there, 1t Is. therefore, no ex-
aggeration to say that Armenia the
martyr nation. has passed out of Turk
ish control and further martyrdom,
whatever future may be reserved for it,
More attention now is likely to be
given Trebizond. for with the control
OF Trebizond goes the possession of
Samsun and other ports on the south
shore of the Black sea Trebizond has
a history. 1t has changed masters
many times through the centuries, but
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All this being in the family. a gypsy's
idle words might well have impressed
Eugene. AS she grew up she saw
her elder sister. Pacca, make an
astounding match. even in that family.
Pacca caught the rich and mighty Duke