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Show Eugenie's Tatar In Cholera Times. The cholera scare that has afflicted Europe to a degree has recalled an incident inci-dent of the time when Napoleon HI was at the height of his power. The oholera prevailed to a frightful extent at Amiens, yet never a day passed that the empress did not visit the hospitals to superintend so far as she could the noble work of allaying al-laying the sufferings of the stricken. One morning a cure rushed into the ward where the empress was consoling a dying man. "Oh, your majesty," cried the cure, "two hours ago my vicar was breakfasting with me, and now he is deadl" Eugenie smiled placidly. "That is well." "Well?" echoed the cure, in amazement amaze-ment "Yes, it is well," she answered. "When once cholera becomes as violent as that it ceases." The empress was right From that day the plague abated. Eugenie's valor did much to fortify the people against the epidemio to which very many, I am told fell victims through sheer fright alone. Chicago News. |