Show I cAoMThAs b r b SOLD I 1 j 1 or foRTUNE soA u I I T rw I ti < Ii + Soldlcra of fortuno among men aro j 1F i not uncommon tlioso who wander j i about tho whole wide world scolclng adventure now mining In Africa now I serving In some South American war i now fighting duels In China or India p or where not spurred on by nn lima b liable lust for excitement They may do conulderablo harm or considerable i good and generally end by getting r themsclvca shot and t > o good by Hut I when woman Is cursed with tho same r f oplrlt oho loaves a wako of trouble rw that Involves many other men and woman She must use men to secure r a r those things for her which she herself Is unable to secure Mun must bo her i tools made to do her bidding under t tho Influence of hor fascination In everyday life thswo nro of cowreo I 1 k many minor Mnmplea of thin but now and then a wonmu arises who wnndoru r over tho two oontlnonts Involving In tie her meshes man of International prominence prom-inence strong men generally thought 0 to bo proof against such things In 1 tho old days such women used to > make history today well they make scandal There Is no walk of life no 1 country which tins not furnished Its quota of such magnetic unscrupulous + women Llttlo Gorman peasants J y French drcasumketii English govern ewes and American ahopglrla havo I hud meteoric flights and toppled over it e men who have spent lifetimes of hard c work In making reputations for them I solves I Career of Mary Boozer t A few years ago a South Carolina 1 girl with the unromantic name of t I Boozer Mary Doozor later changed to Countess do Pourtnlcs utlrrcd up 1 trouble In throe nations and finally bad hor head chopped off by tho mikado I mi-kado of Japan In her youth sho was j said to bo n most beautiful typo oft of-t t h tho southern girl Tall blackhaired c Utile of body she had such color as is given to thoso alone who t spend their early days In roaming over tho mountains and riding half broken I horses across tho blue grass country t There was not a swain In tho country who did not fall under tho influence of her sparkling eyes and keen wits Hardly had sho reached maturity i before a dual was fought on her uc i countfought In hor presence It was one of thoso bitter contests of arms 1 whore two men stand before each ocr o-cr shooting till one Is killed Leaning against a tree sho laughed carelessly until ono of the men fell with a bullet j through his heart And tho reward to tho slayer A kiss of tho fingers a flash of bright teeth and that was all lii a week her affections had turned to some other youth only to Inflame him for n few months But finally oho did luarry A young man proudly carrIed car-rIed her off as his bride From that time on ho was unhappy Ho was not i strong enough to hold her In control R and soon thoro was gossip In the neighborhood At the country dances where tho two went sho would pick i out tho handsomest man In tho room 1 and in an hour havo him at hor feet The hotblooded husband was powerless power-less to check hoc and could protect his honor only at the expense of a duel Then one day after a particularly vi > H r b rjT J l 1e 1j I d 1 aoro i t j i rG C l C 7 i DRAWING A REVOLVER SHOT Hlcl DEAD clous story circulated about hor ho returned re-turned to his homo and demanded that she take more care Sho listened to him her head erect hor eyes flashing old then drawing a revolver shot him dead Sho was not arrested nnd lived onto on-to marry again only to secure a divorce di-vorce Sho had some money and finally final-ly resolved to go abroad Tho life of tho south was not lively enough for I her She hungered for a wider Held Going to Paris she at onco became tho center of a throng of ndmlrors Her typo unknown to Parisians fascinated fas-cinated the Count Pourtalcs a liable who Was prominent as a diplomat sly t marrying him sho bounded at ono leap I Into tho atmosphere she craved an atmosphere of Intrigue among men and women of Intellect Her husband was soon after sont to Japan on n mission mis-sion for his government and proudly IlUok his bride with him Ho little rea lized the trouble that was before him At tho court of Japan sho repeated the process of tho little South Carolina dances Man otter man flickered about this hot fame In a few months the foreign colony wan all agog Tho I count toned plenty to do In trying to i protect his own and his wlfos good nnmo It was useless It came to the usual climax a duel Ho was killed executed In Japan The widowed countess lovelier than over returned to Paris In n short while nlio had married another French ofllcor Back again to Japan she wont her husband on a diplomatic mission In a month she had caused so many duels croatod so many dlfllcultleu debt this mikado lost his hand and or dorctl her to be executed Tho act was done nnd strango to say caused no International complication Tho Inside In-side story has never been told but 4 DIr DI-r c r Wpififfli5e SJT HP 1 Vj 4 rff f LAUGHED ARELESSL I ASONE OF THE Meti FELL WITH A BULLET IN HIS HEtmRT that there must bo ono Is proven by tho fact that tho whole matter was hushed up and forgotten Three nations na-tions might have been involved in BO rash an order but were not There was a little shopgirl In Stet tin Germany who having read much In society novels of tho gay lIfo at court longed as many another shop girl has done to taste of It But Anna was different from others of her class Sho was beautiful nnd realized It and had a mind of wonderful versatility Although uneducated she devoted herself her-self to study and In a short whllo had a superficial knowledge of many things with the charm to mako a great deal of it Saving up a little money sho made herself somo dresses and shortly after disappeared from her native town Sho turned up at Buda Pesth and secured rooms in tho beautiful beau-tiful nnd expensive hotel Unter don Linden Hero sho mot a Prussian count who instantly became fascinated fascinat-ed with hor Sho had registered as tho Countess niglano but naively let It bo known that this was really not hor right name No sho was tho Archduchess Katherlna of Austria Esto and theio fore a near relative of Prlnco Fordl nand of AustrlaHste then heir presumptive pre-sumptive to tho AustroHuugarlan throne Sho had a fortune she said under tho care of tho kings of Saxony and Iio mania Tho Income of 1000 000 marks would come to hor on hor twentyfirst birthday Acted Her Part Well Sho was soon tho hello of a small clrclo of Prussian nobility each of whom had heard tho story under tho oath of secrecy At the theater parties par-ties nnd tens sho curried off tho hon ors of tho brand lady with tho title of soicue highness Outside this prlvi legtd circle she remained plain Countess Count-ess Higlnno preferring sho said to live In retirement until slid should como Into posseslou of her property Of course every unmarried count and baron who know her story instantly fell In love with her Sho selected tho only 1 son of a rich family Tho latter wore only too glad to give their np proval Sho was photographed In a family group which Included every member of tho family That In itself was a loiter of credit to every shop mall lu the kingdom When sho had run up credit to tho sum of many thousand marks so that In spite of hor photograph shopmen hud becomo a bit uneasy she summoned sum-moned her foilllerhm law Sho wished tho loan of 175000 marks for a tow days to settle tho legal costs of managing man-aging hor estate It would ho several days before sho could negotiate this sum Would ho favor hor Surely willingly gladly It was an honor to bo ablo to accommodate tho nrcbduch ess Ho insisted upon making it 200 000 marks The next day sho fell III and tho doctor very kindly advised her to leave at onco for a winter resort Sho paid her hotel bills For all anybody any-body knows sho Is still at that winter resort wherever that is Tho chagrin over tho discovery of her trick was such that tho victims refused to my a word to tho police The story of tho Humberts Is Bill fresh In the public mind but it WitS 111 so extraordinary a swindle that it will doubtlcs become historic A woman Mmo Thereso Uumbort was at tho head of this She was born on a small farm near Toulouse Sho married tho son of a senator who was supposed to inherit a largo fortune On tho strength of this she began to borrow small sums of money whenever sho was In dllllculty But tho story was disproved and she found herself deeply deep-ly In debt It was then that sho Invented In-vented her famous story of the Crawford Craw-ford millions Sho stated that In 1ST there died at Nice a rich Amrelcan by tho name of Ilobcrt Henry Crawford leaving Thorcso his entire fortune of i 20000000 in recognition of tho fact Ii I tWrt n few years before sho had saved I his llfo I Trick Well Played I Shortly after this a nephew appeared ap-peared who said that ho knew of a second will Tho latter put the will In the hands of a Havre lawyer and gave him power to act as his notary As a result tho will was taken into court This was part of tho schema of tho Humberts scheme to legalize the fiction Tho money being tied up It was natural that the Humberts should bo forced to borrow And borrow they did For 10 years whllo one kind of litigation liti-gation after another occupied the attention at-tention of the courts the big safe which was tho depository of tho 20 000000 occupied a position of honor In i the Humbert household When madam wanted to raise tho wind sho talked about tho safe and its contents and explained tho status of tho litigation litiga-tion exhibited a notarys certificate that tho safo actually contained tho bonds said to bo hold thero and protected pro-tected her creditors by her own personal per-sonal noto Indorsed by Maria so that whichever way tho ultimate decision of tho court ran tho lenders would bo secured So long as this ultimate decision de-cision could be deferred so long the game could bo successfully played It seems remarkable that these creditors cred-itors did not ask for tho numbers of these bonds or oxnmlno moro closely Into tho antecedents of tho rich Amor i lean who although the possessor of a > fortune of 20000000 excited no attention at-tention In his native land In fact who boomed to be entirely unknown It may bo that they did investigate and lacking lIufIlcl lIt data to probo the matter to tho bottom wore uuablo to go beyond the records of the French courts or satisfied by the legal steps which had been taken that such a legacy did actually exist they rested lu the secure belief that their loans would bo repaid The End of the Farce Various efforts were made to recov or largo sums loaned tho Humberts but nearly all of these were unsuccess fu When tho creditors resorted to civil process for this puipose they found that their notes wero qualified In various ways tho most common of which was that payment of tho loan should be made after tho Crawford compromise shall tease been settled or payable after the conclusion of actions ac-tions of III wIt w-It became necessary ft proceed along other lines and to raise tho cry of fraud before the bubble could bo pricked This was done by the credItor cred-itor to whom they owned J2COOO He asserted that tho safo did not contain tho 20000000 claimed by tho Hum harts and attested by tho notary and ho asked for an examination and inventory in-ventory To this tho lawyer for tho Crawfords objected but the lawyer for the Humberts innocently believing believ-ing in tho integrity of his clients assented as-sented Tho result Is known to tho world Time safo contained only about 1200 in securities anti a few Insignificant Insig-nificant articles of Jewelry Two das before it was opened tho Humberts had led from France In the end theso adventuresses como to grief In one way or another A few brief years they reign and then thoy fall There Is no recovering after this U Is the logical end and a bitter and |