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THE MOST WICKi QUEEN History Shows That th? Made Record in Crii count of Some < Found! The most wicked old's Queen in history. j I She poisoned, stabbed and drown- ! C ed fully 30 of the members of her j % royal household, from the highest i c " !i ? P/Mirt frtnl j \ aignuanrrs iu wc . . Her record is a bloody one. His-1i torians are finding out a great deal j c about her life these days. She is be-; * ing unfavorably compared with the jc great Cleopatra, who sent more than 0 one good man to his doom through her ambition and beauty. j ^ This Queen is known to posterity ' * as Queen Tiy, wife of Ramses III, | v one of the Pharaohs of Egypt, and ? who ruled over a wealthy kingdom * in the dark centuries before the com- j ? ing of Christ. j ^ "Tiy lived 3,000 years ago and was ? undoubtedly the most wicked Queen who has ever lived," said James Hen- | e t ry Breasted, professor 0/ Egyptology and Oriental history at the Universi-: f *\r nf PhipnPTi j C VI o - Tiy, one of the many wives in King I v Rameses's harem, had at one time t been the favorite of the King. She * -was a woman of rare beauty, with s great long locks of raven black hair! s and large black eyes, with lids that: i: drooped dangerously. She loved the * king, her master, with deep devotion. n Tiy was happy and content in the J King's love until Father Time rob- r bed her of her great beauty and Rameses turned his eager attention o to a younger, fair Queen, who also n had a son. One day while sitting i: in the beautiful garden, which the c King had made for his wives, and b playing with her little son, Pente- a were, a gossiping servant told her e that the King had promised the f' crown to another Prince, the son of t her rival. % s Tiy nearly swooned at the news, and when she fully realized that it t< was a death blow to her ambitions 0 for her son, her love turned to hats. r She made up her mind that she would e get the throne for her son at any t cost, even the cost of Rameses's life, t With Pebekkamen, the "chief of the chamber," and Mesedure, a royal 0 ? ?1 ?3 ? <->r>n_ i f DUtier, liy piamieu a. icm Uig WU : Jj spiracy to kill the old King and to s place hef own son, Pentewere, upon ! t the throne. With Oriental supersti-! p tion, Pebekkamen first bought an 0 outfit of magical waxen figures of, gods and men, by which he believed p he was empowered to evade the peo- j ^ pie of the harem guard, who might j otherwise have discovered and inter-j cepted one of their numerous mes- j j sages necessary to the development j p of the plot. d Pebekkamen and Mesedure then v secured the co-operation of ten harem v officials of various ranks, four royal j ^ butlers, an overseer of the treasury, p a general in the army named Peves.! v three royal scribes in various offices. a Pebekkamen's own assistant and sev- j p eral subordinate officials. As most u of these people were in the personal; a l service of the Pharaoh, Tiy was con- j vinced that the conspirators would 0 succeed. i p Six wives of the officers of the E harem gate were won over to the in- g trigue. They were useful in secur- p ing the transmission of messages |. from inmates of the harem to their relatives and friends outside. Among these ipmates was the sister of the 1 - * ? I commander of tHe archers in ivauw, j who smuggled out a letter to her brother, and so gained his support! c for the enterprise. All was ready and ripe for a revolt ^ j* and revolution outside the palace, intended to accompany the murder of c the King and enable the conspirators c to seize the Government and place 1 their pretender, Pentewere, on the j throne. Tiy worked cautiously but un-1 ceasingly in perfecting the plans for. the King's downfall. It was all she; ( could do to keep from showing her j1 exultation before the King. She kept jc up the enthusiasm of her supporters T by promising them important Gov- j1 ernment offices if they would place i her son on the throne. But her joy was short-lived, for 1 in someway the King's party gained * full information of the conspiracy, j the attempt on the King's life was c ? foiled, the plans for the revolt were ( checkmated, and the people involved in the treason were all seized. When the old Pharaoh heard that 1 Tiy, who had once been his favorite 1 wire, aim tor ?num uc.uuu much, had planned to have him murdered. his heart was broken. He could hardly believe that Tiy cou'd be capable of such ingratitude. With a remarkable sense of justice Rame'ses ordered the Judges to give ' the conspirators impartial trial, on the merits of the case. He gave the following instructions to this special Court: "1 commission the Judges. + . * r ED I EVER KNOWN, i Wife of Ramses III ne.?Intersting Acof Her Deeds. aying: As for the words which the >eople have spoken I know them not xo ye and examine them. When y( ^o and ye%examine them ye shal ause to die by their own hand thos< rho should die, without my knowing t. Ye shall execute punishment up ?n the others likewise without mj mowing it. Give heed and have t are lest ye execute punishment up n any one unjustly. Now I say tc ou in very truth, as for all that has ieen done, and those who have done t, let all that they have done fall ipon their own heads; while I an irotected and defended forever, while am among the just Kings, who are efore Amon Re king of gods, anc efore Osiris, ruler of eternity." As )siris is the god of the dead, the ling's closing words indicate that he xpected his death to occur before he conclusion of the trial. The Court appointed by the King insisted of 14 officials, seven 01 fhom wrere royal butlers. Ever hese Judges were not loyal to the Cing, for some of the women conpirators, led by Gen. Peyes, gained uch a strong influence over the bailffs in charge of the prisoners thai hey went with Peyes ana tne wonen to the houses of two of tin udges, who, with wild indiscretion eceived and- caroused with them. The two indiscreet Judges, with ne of their colleagues, who was inocent, and the two bailiffs, were mmediately put on trial. The innoence of the third Judge was proved; iut the others were found guilty; nd were sentenced to have theii ars and noses cut off. Immediately ollowing the execution of the senence one of the Judges committed uicide. The trials of the unhapy conspiraors continued with regularity, Recrds show that 30 officials of all anks, including the young pretend* r himself, and the audacious Peyes, he general who had compromised he two judges, were convicted. There are no fecords to be found n the trial of Queen Tiy, so that hei ate is unknown, but there is no rea* on to suppose that it was any bettei han the others, who, as ordered by he King, were allowed to take theii wn lives. But the old King, broken and dis* eartened by the disloyalty and infielity of his subjects, died before the xecution of his would-be assassins Some historians believe that Queer Ty committed suicide by drowming hough the public records of that day o not give her exact fate. Many /ho were found to be in company ,-ith her took their lives in many -ays, choosing this form of death tc he public executioner. Queen Tiy ? ? - * ^ *\lAr>+^r rvf rQ CTO /US Liei v>, uau piculj \jl ^ nd it is generally accepted as a faci hat'she did not care to.live longei mder disgrace and foiled in her pel mbitions. Perhaps she plunged into the Nilf n a dark, silent night, and was thu? ost to her people. At any rate,, she lever was heard of again after the ;reat public scandal.?Chicago Triiune. MICROBE COMITTE1) SUICIDE. lisheartened by a Ditty Rendered bj Gen. Rucker, Bug Ends Life. Chicago, Aug. 25.?A lonely mi robe, disheartened and ready to di< lecause the public health service i: apidly putting all his ilk where the: an do humanity no harm, peekee >ver the edge of Assistant Genera lucker's desk to-day and heard th< loctor humming a ditty that wen ike this: "A fly and a flea, mosquito and 5 ouse, all livea togemer in n vei lirty house. The flea spread th< flague, and the skeeter spread th< :hills. All worked together to mak< mdertaker bills. The fly spread ty ;hoid, and the ^ouse spread typhu :oo. Folks in that house were i nighty sickly crew. Along came i nan, he cleaned up the house. H< screened out the skeeter and swattei :he louse. The fly and the flea h< jracked on the wall. Now the peopl Df that house are never sick at all. "Well," piped the microbe, "that' ill very welk as far as it goes, bu it strikes- me You've been a bit partia in this thing. How about the bed bug? Where does he get off?" " He's going to get off prett juick," returned the doctor. "So fa the bedbug has been able to prove a: iiibi, but I've put the sanitary dc tective oil his trail and I'll get bin ret." Whereupon-the microbe, seeing th jig was up. committed suicide b jumping in the ink well. The Herald is only $1.50 the yeai I \ (kii-L Si"5""i'"wv\VrK!) 1>Y ROiijiKi ! Tevrible Crimes Stirs Little Villa: I I of Northern Italy. * Rome, Aug. 24.?A terrible crin has been committed at Fiesso, a vi [ lage in northern Italy, Renata M soni, the beautiful daughter of a ric gentleman, being found murdered i her room by a servant early in tl morning. Her father, with the re of the family, were away from tl ? village, and during the night tl . murderers broke in a window, pe: i etrated to girl's room, found hi 1 asleep, and attempted to assault he J The resistance she offered frustrate r their purpose, but either in reveng - or for fear of her cries being heai r they suffocated Renata, covering h< i body with a mattress after havir - tied her hands and feet. The mu ) derers then made a search of tl 5 furniture for money and valuable } They also broke open the door of tt I garage, took a motor car belongir i to Renata, and escaped. The fir: i alarm was raised by a maid, wh J when she brought breakfast to h< I young mistress, discovered the mu 5 der. The police believe that they ai i on the right track of the murderer > Meanwhile the maid has been arres ' ed. Rich New York Girl Who Worked i ' a Laundry. E t In the July American Magazin } Ida M. Tarbell tells the life story < Carola Woerishoffer, who absolute I refused to live in luxury on tl . money which was hers by inheritan< and chose to go through the real e: . periences of life which make for tl ? upbuilding of genuine character. Th girl, who was killed in an accidei at the age of 26, achieved a grei ^ work for women's trade unions b fore her death, but earlier in h< , experience she worked for foi ' months in a laundry under precise the conditions that were imposed c the other workers. In fact, tho: | who worked with her had no know r edge of her identity. Of this exper ence in the laundry Miss Tarbe I writes in part: "As she was determined to shii nothing she was regularly at her ti or mangle or feeding machine at 7:2 a. m. and whenever the work d manded it she stayed on into tl night. There were no provisions f< J seating in the long work period, fr quently the rooms were practical unventilated, always more or lei stifling from stekm and damp. 1 some places she found neglect ar * uncleanliness adding to the disagre able features inevitable in the indu try. She worked days over unguan ed machines where the girls told h< cynically: 'You didn't get burnt to-day or yesterday, but you sure wi some time, everyone does.' That si must, have often suffered disgus pain and fatigue is certain, but si 1 makes no record of it. It is only t ' accident, indeed, that one learns thi f . / she was conscious that it was a hi r summer! she is telling in her scrupi lous, restrained way of the ventila ing provisions in the different placi she worked: 'In one place where tl investigator dipped shirts in hi ' starch at a break-neck pace,' si ( says, 'she was first struck when si ' went out to lunch by the coolness i the day. That night she discovert that the thermometer had register* 96 degrees in the shade!' "The entire naturalness of her a * titude toward her fellow-workers, hi apparent unconsciousness that the; were any difference between her ar them; made it possible for her to fa at once into friendly relations. SI was one or tnem. uozens 01 nu 7 comments like the following sho this: 'Upon entering a new pla< the investigator found, as a rule, - spirit of friendly interest and of co ? diality, expressed occasionally in tl 3 accepted formula: "Say, you got 7 feller?" "Sure; ain't you got one' 1 "Sure." ' 1 ''Or take this: 'One of the irone s was eager to tell her past pamperc t life as a cook "off Fifth Avenue "Sure, and it was a fine time I hi * there, but," she added with a sig 7 "it was there I met my misfortune e "And what was that," some one as 3 ed. "Me husband," she said, ai s then explained how it was throuj - his illness that she had been broug s upon her present arduous da> a "Standing on your feet nine hours a day five days in the week when yc e are well on in life is no joke." i "Her straight control of herse! e the easy terms she fell into with tl e girls, gave her a reasonableness t " ward the work and an understands s of how and why they, as a rule, a t cept cheerfully and as a matter 1 course its hard conditions. That - understanding and not emotion rul< j her investigation." r A young preacher in New Englan n wishing to address the young ladi : of the congregation after the mornii i services, remarked from the pull ! that he would be glad if the fenia i e brethren of the congregation wou y| remain after they had gone home ! SIS.00 suits now $13.25, all wo< perfect fit. 'Write F. G. MERTIN Augusta, Ga. \l. ! FCl'Xi) EXS*-:XSH3LK SX ( Ail. ?C j Prominent Delaware Lu.nberman is1 Shot and Beaten by Bobbers. ie Seaford, Del., Aug. 22.?Shot and j 1- beaten into insensibility Jno. J. Per- j a- ry, a wealthy lumber man and head ;h of the Houston-Perry Manufacturing in company, was found in his automobile ie along the roadside not far from his st mill near here to-day. ie It is believed that robbery was the ie motive for the crime, although Mr. a- Perry has not gained sufficient con2r sciousness to tell anything. The supr. position is that Perry was driving ;d along to the mill and was-attacked je from behind as the back of his head d is badly crushed and holes were ir found in the back curtain of the auig tomobile. r- Doctors say Perry's skull is fracle tured and a bullet wound was found s. in the back of his head. State auie thorities, assisted by local police, are ig scouring this section of the country st for the assailants, o, Mr. Perry is about 50 years old and 1- ? ? ^ /vn /va/3 i*-. ^ V> ? lurrtKAt* Vv n n l lias ueeu cugageu m LJLH; IUUIUCI UUJIr ness for the last 30 years, operating -e plants in Delaware, Maryland, Virs. ginia and North Carolina. t JOHN KERNER SHOT. Member of American Hosiery Mills of Kernersville is Attacked. e, Greensboro, Aug. 25.?Jno. J. Ker[v ner, a member of the firm of the ie American hosiery mills of Kerners;e ville, N. C., ai^d one of the most j. prominent men in this section of the ie State, was shot and probably fatally iS injured this afternoon by a young man named Claude Dickens. Mr. en or Viar? crrmo tn hie mill nlant 11 U5,uw ^ ? e. for some purpose and found several Jr young men drinking and carousing. ir He intervened, when, it is said, Dickly ens became insulted, ran into his ,n house and picking up a shotgun emp3e tied the entire load into Mr. Kerner's 1_ arm and side at a range of 20 to 30 i_ feet. The left arm was practically II shot away while many shot found lodgment in Kerner's body. Dickens was arrested and lodged in jail at Winston-Salem to await the outcome ;0 of Kerner's injuries. It was'reporte. ed to-night he has slim chances for ie recovery. )r """^^7 e_ Queer Things About Animals. ly ???? There are many strange facts about SB ^ animals which no one has ever seemed able to understand. A fly, for instance, will crawl to e~ the top of a window pane, fly back ~ to the bottom and crawl up again. Hardly ever does it fly up and crawl 3r ~ ^ down. Hens scratch for food always with the sun behind them, so that 1 its rays will reflect on the tiny par18 tides. Yet a blind hen, for whom ' ' this reason does not hold, always 10 manages to get the sun behind her >v , wnen sne scraiuues. Cats hardly ever lie with their feet to the fire. In most cases they lie u" instead with their left side turned towards it. Dogs, however, invariably lie with their forepaws to the 10 fire. A mouse overlooks a perfectly safe food supply to enjoy the peril10 ous pleasures of an unlimited store. 10 Why does a dog always turn round two or three times before he lies \ down? It is because his remote ancestors had to scratch around in the leaves or long grass for a bed before they could find a convenient place on 3r which to lie.?Answers, re ^ li* Saw Strange Sight. ie About 45 people, of whom 10 were le adults, who had never before ridden w on a train, seen a street car, a telece phone, automobile, bathtub, watera works, or any of the modern invenr tions, spent the day in the city yesie terday. The children were from the a Willard Industriaf School which is " situated in the most obscure part of the Dark Corner, near Glassy Rock rs and Hog Back mountains, N. C. They 3d were under the charge of the Rev. ." R. Roy Brown and Mrs. E. J. Shankid lin. who have charge of the school.? h, Spartanburg Journal. ^ k- Killed by English Sparrow. id . One of the most peculiar deaths ever chronicled ocurred .recently in rg Huron, W. Va. A prosperous farma er, who owned and operated a farm )U of 117 acres near that place, was the victim and two fighting English sparrows were the unusual cause of his death. The man was sitting, 0_ asleep, in a large old-fashioned hicklg ory rocking chair on the front porch c_ of his house with his head tilted of back. Suddenly the sparrows, which IS had been fighting in midair, swoopg(j ed violently across the porch and either a beak or a talon of one caught in the flesh of the- sleeping man's fj} neck, tearing a large, jagged wound es and cutting the jugular vein. By ag the time the unfortunate man's wife )it came to the porch from the kitchen her husband lay unconscious on the Id floor. Efforts to check the flow of blood were futile. i)l, Write for the shirt we are selling IS, for 79c and $1.15, F. G. MERTINS, Augusta, Ga. \ ; : Do You Know How This Tea Came to Be? fj First a price was fixed, below which no really GOOD tea can be sold. ^ Next all teas selling at this price were cupped and tested for quality. tj Finally, a blend was perfected, at least 25 per cent better than the best of these tested teas, and the result was called :7_1 VotanTea to match the superb coffee by that name. q It is now offered to you with every assurance that it is, Indeed, a really fine tea at quite a moderate price and you can get it as well as VOTAN COFFEE of only one dealer in this town; vis. * V :i ??^?i^^^I \ ' | H i < . ? r '/ i ' 1 : | / " JDONT FAIL- M * * When you have use for a gun or pistol you want ??* one that will not fail to fire when you want it to do ..v^ 4 l| so, one that you can feel satisfied that it is working a' I ^0, "just right." Bring your gun or pistol to me to be ,L i 3. repaired and you can then have that "satisfied feel- t ? ing" when you have use for them. I also repair ?S* Bicycles, Automobiles, Locks, etc., at reasonable V * prices. All work guaranteed. "a* Jj. B. BRICKLEf I ?g. The Repair Man jl .. ni iopoopoi "-j i Screen Doors and Windows n /'?? In order to make room for other goods, we will sell all of the 1 remainder of our stock of Screen Doors and Windows at V.; i I ABSOLUTE COST || 'IS 0 O -ft' We have in stock a large lot of Mason and E. ,Z. Seal Fruit tog Jars in all sizes, also quantities of Jar Caps and Rings, and . * Economy Jar Tops, and a general line of Hardware and Building Material. - . 1 A. HUNTER II | M THE HARDWARE MAN. BAMBERG. S. C. M ' ^ ??IQBOOBO^??' iniiiuALiuj.il httxtk . . . \r*. A Constant ! Protection ] A telephone on the Farm affords the Farmer'? family freedom -\J from isolation as well as protection in the absence of the men. Mr. S. S. Lee, of Blanch, N. C., writes: "Some time ago one j of our friends' husband was compelled to be off until ten o clock at ! ? t-\ .ttoo in t-Vto house but his Wife. , nignt. inuring tns time no unc wao m mv v?wV ?? _ _ She talked to us all up and down the line, and each family was I ready to go to her at a minute's notice. She said she was so glad i she had a phone, as she would not feel at all lonely." 0 < Write for our free booklet and see how little it costs to have a telephone on your Farm. Address Farmers Line Department SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE f m\ j & TELEGRAPH COMPANY f , 108 South Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. I ' M?mB??a??3?BSJWJUfji.JM?' i ^wuHwwni ^ * X ' '