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> . ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLY. l. m grist s sons, publisher.. j 3 D?kw?;: <gor the promotion of (he political, JSocial, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the geoplg. J established 1885. ~ " YORKVILLE, S. C , TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1911. XO. 5. p ***A K$+A ?*+A **+A *$*A * I .FORTUNl A * Novelized by Lc | From the Play o + by Wine Ar t g Copyright 1910, by Winchell S **+A ?H"+A **+A *<->*A *<S*A * >! CHAPTER XX. L "Perhaps I'd better go." Josle, fluttering with alarm and a little pale, went quickly to the door. Duncan followed her a pace or two. "I can't leave just now." he stammered. "I don't mind one bit. I don't want to be in the way. I'll telephone from home. Good night, dearest!" On tiptoes she drew his face down to hers and kissed him. "I'm so happy." Half dazed, N'at stared after her unr ' til her lightly moving figure merged t . with the shadows beneath the trees and was lost. Then, with a sigh, he turned tack to Pete. % The sheriff had undoubtedly suffered at the hands of that militant person, Mrs. Willing. "Great Scott!" L THE MILITANT MBS. WILLING. K) Duncan exclaimed as he examined the two inch gash in his head. That's a * bird, Pete." "M* wife done it," "Willing muttered J huskly. "Sh's threw side 'r th' house at me, I think." wire, en : ine coincidence smote Duncan with redoubled force. He shivered. "Well, she certainly Rave it to you good." He went behind the counter to prepare a dressing for the wound, which, if wide, was neither deep nor serious and gave him little concern for Pete. The latter ruminated on the event, breathing stertorously, while Duncan was fixing up a wash of peroxide. "She'll kill me some day," he announced suddenly, with intense conviction in his tone. "Oh, don't say that." . Opposition roused Pete to a fury of assertion. "Yes she will, sure!" he bawled. Then his emotion quieted. "But I'd 'bout as soon be dead's live with her, anyway." "Hm." Nat got some absorbent cotton and adhesive plaster. "Been drinking again, hadn't you?" "Yesh," Pete admitted with a leer of taJ drunken cunning. "But she druv me ft to it." He was quiet for a moment, ft "Mish'r Duncan," he volunteered ohpprfnllv "von ain't cot no idep how lucky y' are v' ain't married." k "Is that so?" Nat returned with the * dressings. "No idee 'tall." Pete surrendered his head to Nat's ministrations. "'Nd I hope y' won't never have." "But I'm going to be married, Pete." The sheriff assimilated this information and became abruptly intractable. "ONLY KEEP 8INGLE," HE SAID 14 ^ flic hoorl on-or iitul cwiltlf round in his chair to argue the matter. "Oh. no!" he expostulated. "Don't, Mish'r Duncan. Don't never do it. Take warnin' from me." "But I'm encaged, Pe te." "Maksh no diff'rinish?break it off." His voice rose to a howl of alarm. "i"r (law's sake, break it off?now, before it's too late! Do anything rather that. Drink, lie. steal, murder, c'mit suicide?don't care what, only keep single!" "Here," said Duncan, laughing, "sit back there and let me attend to your head." He began to wash trie wound with the peroxide. "There: that'll L sting a bit, but not long. But sup* pose, Pete, I'd get a lot of money by marrying?" "No matter how much y' get ain't enough." A fctf+A M'+A 9t<2+A **+A **+A ?t<3 " HUNTER. I * >uis Joseph Vance $ f the Same Name M hf?l Smith 2 ' I mlth and Louis Joseph Vance. $ A *$+ **+A *?+A ?&*A ?t*+A "I'm inclined to think you're about right, Pete." "You bet I'm right. I'm married, 'nd I know." Nat finished dressing the cut, smoothed down the ends of the adhesive tape and stood back. "That's all right now. Go home, wash your face and sleep it off. Let me see you sober in the morning." "Huh!" Pete chuckled derisively. "Ain't goin home t'night." "You've got to get some sleep?that's the only way for you to straighten up." "Well," agreed Pete, rising, "then I'll go over to the barn 'nd sleep with the horses." "Aren't you afraid he'll step on you?" asked Nat, amused. "Maybe he will," Pete replied fairly, "but I'd ruther risk that 'n m' wife." He swerved and lurched toward the door. "Thanks, doc, 'nd g' night," he mumbled and incontinently collided with Roland Barnette. Roland was working under a full nead or steam apparently, his naturally sangine complexion was several shades darker than the normal, and he was seething with repressed emotion? excitement, anticipated triumph, jealousy, envy and hatred, all centering upon the hapless head of Nat Duncan. Plunging along with his head down, his thoughts wholly preoccupied with his grievance and its remedy, he bumped into Willing and caromed off. recognizing him with an angry growl. The result of this was to stay Pete's departure. He grasped the frame of the door and steadied himself, glaring round at the aggressor. "'Lo, Roland!" he said, focusing his vision. "Whash masser?" Roland disregarded him entirely. "Say. you!" he snorted, catching sight of Nat. "I want to see you." "Oh?" Nat drawled exasperatingly. He had never had much use for Roland, and now, with hidden joy, he read the signs of passion on the boy's inflamed countenance. Happy he would be, thought Nat, if Roland were to be delivered into his hands that night. He owed the world a grudge just then and needed nothing more than an object to wreak his vengeance upon. "Well, I'll stake you to a good long look," he added sweetly. "Ah-h, don't you try to be so funny' You might get hurt." Pete seemed to be suddenly electrified by Roland's manner. "Here!" he interposed. "Whajuh mean by that?" And, relinquishing his grasp on the door, he reeled between the two and thrust his face close to Roland's. "Who're you talkin' to, an'way?" he demanded, truculent. Nat stepped forward quickly and grabbed Pete's arm. "That's all right, Pete," he soothed him. "Don't get nervous. Roly wont hurt anybody." The diminutive stung Roland to exasperation. "Why, curse you!" he screamed and promptly became inarticulate with rage. "Ah, ah, ah!" Nat wagged a reproving forefinger. "Naughty word, Roly! Careful or you'll sour your chewing Sum." "Now, say! Do you think"? At this juncture Pete drowned his words with an incoherent roar, having apparently reached the conclusion that the time had now arrived when it would be his duty and pleasure to eat Roland alive. Nat saved the young man by the barest inch. He grappled with Pete and drew himself aside just in time. steady, fete: ne said quietly. "Steady, old man. Let Roland alone." "Awrh, I ain't 'fraid of him!" spluttered Pete. "Neither am I. Get out, won't you, and leave him to me?" "Aw'right." Pete became more calm. "I'll leave him 'lone, but all the same I wan' it stinctly un'erstood I kin lick any man in town' ceptln' m' wife. G' night, everybody." He gathered himself together and by a supreme effort lunged through the door and into the deepening dusk. "Well, Roly?" Nat asked, turning back. His ironic calm gave Roland pause. For a moment he lost his bearings and stammered in confusion. "I come in to tell you that me and you's apt to have trouble," he concluded. "Oh? And are you thinking of starting it?" "You bet I'll start it. and I'll start it d quick if you don't leave Josie Lockwood alone." "So that's the trouble, is it?" commented Nat thoughtfully. "Yes, that's the trouble. From now on I want you to let her alone, and you'll do it, too, if you know what's best for you." A suggestion of menace in his manner, unconnected with any hint of physical correction, caught Nat's attention. He frowned over it. "Just what do you mean by this line of talk?" he inquired blandly, stepping nearer. "I'll tell you what I mean." Roland clinched both fists and thrust his chin out pugnaciously. "I'd been a'goin' steady with Josie Lockwood for more'n a year before you came here and you thought that on account of her money you could sneak in and cut me out." "Was her money the reason you were after her. Roly?" "What?" The question brought Roland momentarily up in the wind. "'Tain't none of your business if it was!" he snapped, recovering. "Hut here's what I'm gettin' at." He tapped his breast pocket with a sneer off bucolic triumph. "Just about ten months ago," he continued meaningly, "they was a cashier skipped out of the Longacre National bank in Xoo York, and they ain't got no trace of him yet." So this was why Roland had been so assiduous a student of the back fibs in the Citizen office! indeed?" "Yes, indeed. I had my suspicions all along, but didn't say nothin', but just today I got a description of him, and the description just fits. Mr. Mortimer Henry." "Just fits Mr. Mortimer Henry? But what has that"? "Ah, don't you try to seem too darn* 4 innocent," Roland snarled. "You can't fool me!" A light dawned upon Nat. and laugh- ^ ter flooded his being, although outV? n mmoino/1 Imnorturhfllilp? merely mildly curious. But his flugers were itching. "So you think I'm the absconding casheir, eh, Roly?" r "You keep away from Josie 'r you'll r find out what I think." Nat's placidc ity deceived Roland, who drew the wholly erroneous conclusion that he had succeeded in frightening his rival, and consequently dared a few lengths further in his tirade. "Why, if I was ^ h I b i ?i iJHhk m&MBgm?Hh|j|? ; SBHMiPtHP lllllllP I 9 ' HHBIH vp^x* '" ""iv I A S? al 9 i, <? :?m ti -'" ^B ? r l'^^B8^l?';x-^H9>- jj ^Bsi^B^^^^Si^MiHBSI s iS^^WBb''' d?^V?'! 1 9 Hpiy PH^HM 1 Iji Hi jflB Hflja HE KICKED ROLAND OUT INTO THE STREET ? 31 to go to Mr. Lockwood and tell him you're Mortimer Henry, alias Nat s) Duncan"? rr "That will do," icily. "That will be s< all for this evening, thanks." "Are you goin' to quit chasin' after r( Josie?" tc 'Til begin chasing after you if you don't clear out of here." "You better agree"? Just there the storm burst. Ten sec- g| onds later Roland, with a confused tl impression of having been kicked by sr a mule, picked himself up out of the e{ dust in the middle of the street and stared stupidly back at the store. S? "Here's your hat, Roly," called Nat. it Tossing him the hat, Nat turned con- li< temptuously. *?? He paused in the middle of the store and felt of his necktie. It proved to be a little out of place, but otherwise ol he was as immaculate as was his wont. ^ cc He reviewed the encounter and laugh- ^ ed quietly. ai "There's no cure for a fool," he re mused. st The telephone bell roused him from his reverie. He went over to the inpi strument, sat down and put the re- S ceiver to his ear. ju "Hello!" he said. "Oh, hello, Josie! What's that? That's right, but I'm not used to it yet, you know. Well, I'll try again. Now?ready?" He schooled his voice to a key of m heartrending sentiment. "Hello, dar- P( ling. How's that? Told your father? fe a> Told him what? Oh, about the engagement? Was he angry? Oh, he or wasn't, eh? What did he say? Wasn't re .u . t u- ... n< not nu.o of hinv """" " er Conscious of a slight noise in the dj store, he looked up. A young woman had just entered. She paused just in- ~ side the door, smiling at him a little gt timidly. m Without another word to his financee T Nat put down the telephone and hook- Jj* ed up the receiver. di "Betty!" he cried wonderingly. m (To be Continued.) w er ALLIGATORS' NESTS. u< of They Resemble Haystacks and Are ^ Natural Incubators. m "An alligators' nest is an interesting ec thing." said Alligator Joe. "Wild aliigators build their nests on the bank gt of a river or in marshy places. They or are made of mud. saw grass and leaves er and mold. They are sort of natural incubators, for the eggs, which are laid from thirty-live to eighty in a nest at one time, are hatched out by j,, the steam which comes up through m the mud as much as by the sun. rrj Around the nest a pile of grass is laid, sometimes as high as six feet, and jg from a distance resembles a stack of ta hay. The mother "gaitor has her den ^ nearby. She makes it by burrowing gj into a bank of soft mud. and some- to times it is seventy feet or more inland. te The only way to get her out of a den like that is to take a long steel rod of and thrust it down the tunnel, which ov Tl is always slanting. When the 'gaitor feels the prodding she will come out |)( - ?>.....KIA io ?,i IU SCC mi..l luc iit.uu.v ... "It takes alligator eggs two months re and six days to hatc h. When the little ones come out the mother calls them of together by a noise which is some- of thitig between a cluck and a grunt. , and they all scramble down from the aj nest of her den. If it is on the edge w of a river the den is filled with min- 81 nows. As the mother enters the den '' she swishes her tail around with terrific* force, killing the- smallest fish, ec and when tliey lloat the little alligast tors nab them up. e(j "A mother alligator will sometimes ce have four or five dens, and she takes >'* her brood from one to another, re- l< peating the swishing process in each one until the young ones have had a si full meal."?Harriet Quimby in I-.esi lie s. . ? at Xr' The greatest of till gifts is time. " iUisccllanrous grading. NEW SCHOOL LAW. ivstem Recommends Important Changes In Present System. Three amendments to the constitulon and important and far-reaching ilterations in the present school law ire recommended in the report made o the general assembly Friday by the commission to examine and revise he school law of .the state and to ecommend changes in the,same," this eport, with the accompanying bill, onstituting perhaps the most imporant document yet presented to the 911-12 legislature. Origin of the Commission. The commission was created by oint resolution of the general >assem>1" onnrnfflrl ITohrn a 95 1 01 fl the I 0^|7IV?^U 4 VW. UM. J - ***v? uggestion for its creation having been nade in the annual report for 1909 of Jr. J. E. Swearingen, state superinendent of education. It was directed 0 "carefully examine and revise the ommon and high school laws of the tate, with power to recommend any hanges in the existing law by bill or therwise," and was required to "reort to the next session of the general ssembly." No compensation was proided, but members were to be reimursed for their annual, necessary exenses. Its Composition. In the resolution, it was specified' hat the following should be members f the commission: "The state superltendent of education, the inspector f high schools, the president of one f the state institutions of higher ?arning, one person familiar with raded and common school systems, nd one person learned in the law." lembers not specifically designated ,'ere to be appointed by the governor. ,s organized for work, the commision was composed of Mr. J. E. Swearigen, state superintendent of educaion; Mr. W. H. Hand, state inspector f high schools; Dr. D. B. Johnson, resident of Winthrop college; Mr. S. t. Edmunds, superintendent of the umter city schools, and Mr. Mendel i. Smith, attorney of Camden. Mr. wearingen was chairman and Mr. land the secretary. Has Done Hard Work. Arduous work has been done by the ammission. Its members have in their omes given to the task in hand much tudy and research and meetings have een held in Columbia as follows: pril 4 and 16, May 14, June 4, August and 31, September 1, 2, 9 and 10; ctober 1, 15 and 22; November 12 and ); December 17 and 31; January 2. n several of these dates three sesons were held. The commission has lade a diligent study of the present ?hoo! law, a careful comparison of the est school legislation of other states, nd has sought to incorporate in Its ?port that which seems best adapted ? the needs and conditions here. Fundamental Changes Fe*^. Comparatively few fuffranftntal langes are recommended. An effort as been made to give unity and rength to the present law, and to add lereto such features as seemed ao>lutely necessary to make the propos1 law effective. Recommendations Unanimous. "The commission does not consider," iys the report, "that the results of s labors are perfect, but it firmly beeves that it has evolved a workable w, which will speedily bring about >me needed improvements in organiition and system, and one which will entually give us an excellent system ' public education. The members of le commission made many individual >ncessions to the better judgment of le majority, and they unanimously id respectfully recommend that this :port become the school law of the ate." Comparison Facilitated. For convenience, the commission "ints on opposite pages to the several L Liuiio ui iiw uiii iia nuico, aiiuwms ist what are ihe changes recommendI and what their effect would be. Summary of Report. The commission thus summarizes s important recommendations: "The commission has endeavored to ake a practical and progressive re>rt. It has sought to retain the best atures of the present law and to oid radical or revolutionary changes, has been conpelled, however, to recnmend some important and faraching alterations in order that the >w school law may help to meet preslt needs and to improve present contions. "1. An amendment to section 2, arcle II, and to section 24, article III, the constitution, will remove the obacle that prevents many of our best en from serving as school trustees hough the constitution forbids the ilding of two offices, this provision is, by common consent, been widely sregarded. This amendment seeks erely to legalize service to education hen rendered in connection with oth service to the state. "2. The state superintendent of ed ation is held responsible for the ads ' the state board of education, and, in le opinion of the commission, he lould have some voice in selecting its embers. It is, therefore, recommend1 that section 2, article XI, of the institution, be amended so that hencerth the governor shall appoint the ate board ot education, upon the recnmendation of the state superintendit. State Examining Board. "3. The commission recommends the jpointment of a state board of examers for teachers in order that the esent varying standards may be haronized by the establishment of a unirm method in the examination and aduation of applicants to leach. "4. The county board of education given large powers in three impornt respects: a. To levy a special mnty tax. b. To apportion pub'ic hool funds, c. To choose from elible applicants the county superinndent of education to serve for a rm of four years. "5. The right of all special school stricts organized under special acts the general assembly to adopt their vn text-books has been withdrawn, he state superintendent of educaon is empowered to appoint a textink commission. comnosed of five iblic school men, to act concurntly with the state hoard of eduition to adopt a dual list of text>oks and to prescribe unified courses study for all the free public schools the state. "6. The members of the state board examiners for teachers shall serve so us division supervisors of schools, ho, under the direction of the state iperintendent, shall audit school ac unts anu periorm sucn omer auiies i may be assigned. "7. The county superintendent of location is to lie elected by the counhoard of education, in order that rericted <|ualilications may be demandI of all applicants. The term of the unity superintendent is made four ars, and the minimum salary in any lunty is $1,200. High Schools. "S. The state high school law is mplifled and strengthened, and the gh school appropriation increased to 5,000. "9. The state board of education is ithorized to classify under recogzed nomenclature the schools and dleges of the state. "10. County boards of education and school district boards of trustees are made continuing bodies in order that w, a majority of their members may be able, at all times, to form legal contracts. "11. An adequate system of reports ca is provided in order that school sta- . tistics may be reliable. na "12. The state superintendent of wi education is required to keep a correct Fi account of all school bonds and tax ?e levies provided for their retirement. "13. Each county superintendent of ce education is required to submit to the its grrand jury a written report showing, p, by school districts, all receipts and disbursements made by him. "14. All alterations of whatsoever hi kind in school district lines must be ch recorded by the clerk of court. Since ev the school district has been made the unit of taxation for school purposes, it is absolutely necessary that school dis- th trict lines be clearly and definitely es- ch tablished. An Important Change. "15. The most fundamental change rl? recommended in the report is the new en definition of enrollment, which bases j ine apportionment 01 puunc aunooi funds on the average attendance of an pupils. Under this definition the gb teacher, the school, and the district ac lose money every day a pupil is absent, and gain every day he is present. w' "16. An attempt is made to estab- of lish a permanent state school fund and a permanent building fund. "17. The additional expenditures re- a ' quired by this report will be in- ' creased salaries for county superin- hu tendents of education, a small appro- .. priation guaranteeing to each school p district one separate school for three of months for pupils of each race, the to salaries of the division supervisors, all of which will impose only slight expenditures above present appropria- w* tions made either by the several coun- en ties or by the general assembly."?Co- Qf lumbia Record. _ HUNTING IN THE PHILIPPINES. Sportsmen Shoot Where Ducks Have Not Heard Sound of Gun. Not long ago, while stationed in the Province of Albay, P. I., Capt. Burt, ra< 18th Infantry, and myself decided to take a trip to Lake Bato, some forty miles Inland. We packed all our duffie into an army wagon, and with ha four sturdy mules to draw it started ful early one morning for our long drive, ma arriving at the lake that night. The pn next morning we hired two cata- ( marans, threw our baggage aboard and crossed the lake. Then we made ler camp and cooked chow. to Can you Imagine a lake fifteen In miles in diameter literally covered ^cl with fowl? The report of a gun was itS( unknown in the vicinity, and of course adi the fowl were not gun shy. We took Jn life easy until 2 o'clock the following ^ morning, when our guides awakened unj us. Creeping out of our blankets we for got into our baucas, or boats, and ce? started down the lake shore. About i 3 o'clock we reached a rushing stream ma some forty feet wide, and I can safely P^: thf swear that each and every mosquito cee from tip to tip measured the same. he Wow! int We plunged into the marsh, sink- 1 Ing to our knees In many places, and j?? waded some three miles. It was still cle dark and I had visions of horrible be snakes and mammoth lizards, in which lnf? ev? this country abounds. After an hour jm] of this sort of travel we arrived at the ske edge of a little mud pond some hundred yards in diameter. One of the guides motioned for the captain to re- his main with him, and my guide, beck- tub oning to me to follow, jumped into the st^ water to his waist. In I jumped, hai Ugh! I'll never forget it as long as lab I live; soft, slimy mud for the bottom riv< and now and then a snake gliding ha> silently along the water in front of at AM + me. We reached the other side and en- t?ie the tered a little inlet. Passing through so this we came out into another pond prr exactly like the first. The guide took a^e me to a little clump of partly sub- *'n< no merged alders, and we waded in and pc got among them as best we could. 1 I was sitting in mud and water up to estl my waist. But the air was simply alive with ducks, as we knew from pot the whir of their wings. Daylight came, and I shall never forget the sight. Flock after flock 0ffl came dropping down into the pond, to i I heard the captain's rifle and knew not ser .he shooting was on. It seemed like sajj deliberate murder. Flocks of ducks fori numbering 500 would fly within twen- F y yards, and after being shot at would ' circle and come right back. At about his ) o'clock, gathering our kill, we went Agi back to the first pond. Eetween us we ^oa had ducks enough to give the battalion gm! a Thanksgiving dinner. We shot cou them all with our rifles. sou Since leaving that station my field of labor has been changed to Allinda- the nao, and while stationed on a hill on Th< .he shores of Lake Lanoa I have been able to shoot wild hogs by moonlight atlI from the guard house. T One night while returning from a as Sev small scrap with Moros, in the Taraca ?Qr valley, I shot several ducks, feeding gec in the rice paddies, the full tropical em! moon making it as light as day. At my present station, Misamis, I have enc good snipe shooting. There are plal monkeys everywhere, but they are too human to kill. If they are wounded * they cry and sob like small children. jshi The natives eat them and use their bee hides to make drum heads. For the big game we have the water whj buffalo, which, if wounded, will put imr up a pretty stiff fight, and in a good the many cases it is the hunter hunted if ^ he is not an excellent shot. The hit woods are full of deer, but they are hen very small, being about the size of a hound or shepherd dog. They are hett easily tamed and almost every Amerl- She can in the province keeps one or two if10' r, .< tie tame deer.?Recreation J,av ? tific _ . set Japanese Dentists.? A newspaper fro, here presents to its readers an account Fir! of ihe methods employed by the Ja- hav panese dentist, which although per- ium haps not quite new is of sufficient in- was terest to warrant its publication. out The dentist draws teeth with his fin- and gers without the aid of any instru- has ments. He takes the head of the pa- A tient in such a way that the mouth littl must remain open. Putting the thumb spei and index finger into the patient's star mouth the Jap draws five, six, or Mm seven teeth in a minute, as the case catt may be, the patient during this pro- can cess being unable to close his mouth, afte This remarkable prowess in ex- littl trading teeth is attributed to the or i training the dentist undergoes in early imp youth. To strengthen the fingers for O .heir later work the tyro commences exp by practicing on nails which are lars driven into a plank placed on the thei ground. He has to pull out the nails wer without moving the board. At the doit beginning of this nail-pulling a soft foui wood is used, and then harder wood the up to oak or something still harder. the< An apprentice is not considered pro- flati flclent in his art until he can draw call the nails from the hardest wood with- mu< out moving it. thai MME. CURIE. onderful Little Woman Who Put the Scientific World to Guessing. A body of men, serious, erudite, and .utious, to whose ranks no woman is ever been admitted, is debating Ithin itself, but with all Paris, all ance, and all the world awaiting the cision, the wisdom of admitting a rtain Polish woman to the honor of ) membership. This body is the ench Academy of Sciences and the >man is Mme. Sklodowska Curie, the imble wife of an humble professor of emistry who discovered radium and olved the whole science of radio acuity which threatens to overturn the eories of a hundred physicists and emists dead and living. There is no evidence that Mme. Cus wants to be admitted to the Acadly of Sciences. She has persistently fused all honors and favors thus far, d certainly the academy has little to re her. She is already fuller of hievements than any member of the stere society. Her name is now more dely familiar than those of any ten the men who are now debating about r eligibility. Certainly it would be conventional honor for Mme. Curie. The prestige of the academy is great 1 t the prestige of enormous accom- . shment is greater, and the scientists . the world in this era are beginning : believe that Mme. Curie stands at 1 i turning point In science?the point lere all the fundamental theories of . ergy, light, and the chemical system elements will have to be discarded d remolded. New Element Discovered In 19G0. In 1900 the Curies discovered the ele- , ;nt that takes the world back to , (Wton's corpuscular theory of light, ] i metal with the incomprehensible ' liations which seem to burn forever I d are yet not fire, which have the , irdest medicinal qualities and yet i poison to the flesh, which seem to : itain the secret of eternal youth and 1 ve led scientists to doubt the use- ! ness of all their classifications of ' itter and to wonder vaguely if the * tcome of it all will be a proof of the ' jto-atomic theory. Certainly this mother of two children ! 10 came to Paris a few years back d lived in poverty in the Latin quarhas been the greatest contributor the chemical and physical sciences ' this generation, and the Academy or ' lences, whose membership spells dis ction, hesitates and debates within elf as to whether a woman shall be ' mitted to Its ranks, while the woman J question lectures, experiments, and 1 es for her children, indifferent to 1 fir decision. When one is solving J Iversal problems honors that will be 1 gotten long before one's name has s ised to be a thing to conjure with { ! lightly considered. dme. Curie is by birth a Polish wo- J n. Her father was a professor of * i'sics in a college in Warsaw. Like 1 > traditional instructor, he was exidingly poor, and every spare cfent 1 could save from his salary went J 0 apparatus for his laboratory. ^of. Sklodowskl could not afford an J listant, therefore, and the college re- t icd to allow hijjn a man to help him * an up after his classes. He had to f in his laboratories all day prepar- c ; fofrtts work, ahd then stayed "Taw "J >ry night to clean up and wash his ' alements. When the little Sklodow- * 1 could scarcely read she was press- ' into service as a test tube washer, 1 spent long days with her father f his classes doing the rough work in r experiments and scouring the J ies, heakers, and crucibles as the 1 dents finished with them. 'he time came when she had ex- c isted the possibilities of her father's a oratory, and it was decided that ? should go to Paris. When she ar- * ed there she found that she did not f ,'e enough money to pay the tuition the university, so she was forced to c er a little technical school where i expenses were almost nothing and c prospects for her advancement not f promising either. Her tutor was r >f. Curie, a man of almost middle 0 !, with some slight scientific dis- t ;tion but no salary to speak of and t general recognition. e iwer of Analysis Almost Intuition. q 'he instructor marveled at the earn- c ness of his little Polish pupil and j n discovered that she had a facul- e for absorbing everything he pro- v inded and a keen sense of analysis <3 ich amounted almost to intuition. a i soon outstripped all her fellow stu- q its and Prof. Pierre Curie appealed t cially to his faculty for the power / make her his assistant. They would t grant her salary, however, so she g ved as a helper once more at no s iry, working constantly with her p mer tutor at his experiments. c ierre Curie found new employment the Mechanics* institute in the des- e te quarter back of the Pantheon and a serious little helper went with him. c lin she was unable to get a salaried a ition arid continued to work unpaid c Curie himself. Curie's income was q ill enough but they thought they n Id do better if they united their re- f, fr.no on tlioir tvprA n.nrripfl Thpv ^ it to live in the old Latin quarter p students' anartments and continued c ir work under better circumstances, p ;y did not live any better, however; t was not the object. But they were a e to spend so much more on appar- a s and chemicals. tl hen Mme. Curie secured a position P a lecturer in the normal schools at p res. Again there was more money y scientific work. In 1896 Henri e, querel accidentally discovered the t mation of light from uranium, te made an exposure of a plate hout sufficient sunHght in the prese of uranium, and, believing that the te was still good because so little it had reached it, he put it away to g lsed at a later date. For some reason h developed it and found to his astonnent that a clear impression had n made?as clear as it could have b n done in bright sunlight. He renbered the circumstances under js eh his plate had been exposed and . nediately set to work on his study of "Becquerel" rays. e( Ime. Curie Makes Good "Guess." tl /hen Mme. Curie was first shown a of this uranium extracted from Bolian pitchblende she jumped to the a elusion that there were other sub- bi ices in the compound which could tl [er account for these emanations. ! told Prof. Curie about it, and, ugh her belief was founded on lit- d more than intuition, he had come to w e considerable faith in this scien- aj guessing of Mme. Curie, so they to work on pitchblende, the waste s* n the Bohemian uranium mines. 3t of all, they isolated polonium, n itig the iridescent qualities of urani and so named because Mme. Curie i from Poland. The next to come >*' of the melting pot was actinium, o| then came radium, the metal which revolutionized science, t the Paris exposition of 1900 on a w e shelf in the department of retro- tl ?tive science visitors found a sub- w ice marked "Radium; Pierre and e. Curie." There was nothing in the ilogue about it and no descriptive 1, for the discovery had been made rr t the catalogue was printed, and so a e was known about the discovery the discoverers that it was almost w ossible to say anything about it. al n this last discovery the Curies had ei ended more than a thousand doli, which meant a great deal to u. They had found few people who c>( e curious to know what they were tl ig, and when a few real scientists s( id their way from the exposition to little laboratory behind the Panin, Pierre Curie was immensely tered and thought it gracious of his ,: ers that they should pay him so ih attention. They did not realize S{! t their discovery really amounted to in Your excuse for your failure will ever make it anything else than n hat it is?failure; your excuse for 0 esterday, lost, is an abuse of today's 0 pportunity. n Idleness must be the great curse, if ork be the greatest blessing of life; lere is nothi. g noble or divine in the asting of the golden minutes which g lake up time. S1 When you return evil for evil you t} lust expect to get back for yourself P fuller measure than you give; you * ill get your own downfall when you a ttempt to take a "fall" out of your F lemy. Flowery speech and saintly look may >ver up the show of error and change t| le color of vice to that of virtue; h ?eming truth is a sham that good c' len will not believe in long. C( ? o ("Tomatoes packed in peat and ' iwdust go from Toronto to London C) i good order. 01 anything. The honors that the world heaped upon them were all In the future, and Mme. Curie, who could scent radium In waste from Bohemian mines, had no premonition of the laurels that were coming, and when they came the Curies were modest, almost resentful of the attention that was heaped upon them. Radium was found to have the value In medicine of the X-rays. It was discovered that it was the most certain test for diamonds, that it would burn the skin through a metal box and all sorts of insulation; that the rays or emanations were of a gaseous nature like helium gas, which could be bottled; that they penetrated any substance and gave any substance the qualities of radium, but at that time the quantity of radium in the world was infinitesimal; it had not been isolated and the scientists had not learned enough of it to bring its properties into juxtaposition to their time honored principles. Still it was interesting, wonderfully lasrinaimg, iiuu rrui. t^urie was aaitcu to lecture on Its properties before the Sorbonne. After that lecture honors came rapidly. The fact that It cost over $2,000.000 to produce a pound of It from 2,500 tons of pitchblende deterred the poor chemistry instructor from putting great quantities of it before scientific bodies for their study. The announcement that there was more gold in s^a water tban radium in pitchblende led the general public to believe that It was such a rare and unattainable substance that It would neve#*?e of much practical service. They did not know how little of It would work miracles and how little it would take to set the scientists to revising their chemical axioms. Tn 1905 the Roval Society of ("treat Britain presented the Curies with medals In recognition of their contributions to science. They received the Nobel prize and a short time after Prof. Curie was given a chair In the ?orbonne. True Disciole of Science. Then in 1906 when Curie was riding his bicycle he was run over and carried home dead, Mme. Curie, the impassive woman of science, made no demonstration of sorrow. She shed no tears. She silently prepared for the obsequies, attended to her two little children, and in all ways in her grief was the same modest, quiet little woman she had been in her scientific triumph. After the funeral there was 3ome talk of giving her her husband's place in tl\e faculty of the university of the Sorbonne. She expressed no enthusiasm about this. Honors had been roroffered her before and she had consistently refused them. When she was unanimously elected to take Pierre Curie's chair all France half suspected she would refuse it, though no woman had ever been offer ?d a place in the faculty or a university before. It was an unprecedented lonor, and after much persuaaion Vfme. Curie did accept It. Thousands >f people turned out to hear her first ecture, and the people who crowded he lecture room were surprised to see in emaciated little woman with a porcentous brow but not the slightest lymptom of Parisian chic in her appearance. She is not beautiful. Hers s a plain Polish countenance with the ligh cheekbone and round chin, and he only feature that impresses one Is he high, rounded forehead. One woman only had ever occupied he position which Mme. Curie had occupied. and she did not hold it officialy. That woman was Novella, the >eautiful daughter of Jean d'Andre of he University of Bologna. When Jean vas ill his daughter lectured eloquently >n canonic law, but Petrarch and some ither youthful students paid so much Mention to -the fair face that they ailed to take notes, so the city fathxs forced her to lecture behind a curain. Mme. Curie is not a sensationalist, lowever, either in appearance or manler. Her modesty is the first thing hat impresses you and her symplicity he nwnnd. She is a mother of two hildren, and a mother primarily. Secindarlly she is a scientist and last of ill a lecturer, recipient of honors and andidate for membership in the French Academy of Sciences. Jew Revolution In Chemical Theories? If they admit her it will not be beause she is a woman, that is certain, t will be because she has been the hief experimenter in a field which has orced the chemists to put a question nark at the end of their long catalogue f elements and has led many of them o consider the proto-atomic theory? hat is, the theory that all matter is ssentlally one and that the division nto elements is simply an arbitrary onvenience not based upon chemical act. Moreover, does not radium manate light which penetrates objects ^hich light has never penetrated? And oes not this emanation appear to have n actual corpuscular character as if t were made up of fine particles hrown off from the body of the metal? ill this is opposed to the vibratory heory of light which has long been in ood scientific standing and takes cience back to the days of Newton, the hysicist, who propounded the corpusular theories of light. vfmn Curio la fhd tt'nmnn who hns rected the turning post at which t clence in its progress must stop and f onsider whether it is on the right road . fter all. Her intuition about the . haracter of pitchblende, has grown c ito a erreat question mark which now t laterlalizes in tantalizing fashion be- j ore the men who have been working ut theories?books of them?on basic rinciples of which none of them is r ertain since radium remains inexiicable. v They debate her eligibility to the . cademy. She is a woman, of course, J nd she never made any demands upon F lie academy?yet they cannot afford to i, xcept her; she has meant too much to . "ranee and to science at large. And et she is a woman. And so the learn- t d assemblage puzzles itself.?Chicago t 'ribune. j, ? I Bits of Philosophy. t Man shows his good behavior and ets his good looks by the sunshine H e scatters along the pathway of the e ?rrowing; man approaches perfection r y giving peace and not pain. c Troubles always grow if much ado i made of them when coming, when 0 ere or when gone; troubles are limit- ? d in force and number by curtailing J le number of people we tell them to. P Man's mind is modeled after God's v nd made subject to his laws; man's ^ ody is made to look as his mind f links and is therefore subject unto it. v Man to be happy in his work, must h o the kind of work that does not H orry him; when man's soul doesn't ing while his hands and head work, d imptmdv or sompthini? is out of tune, a YORK GAINS 7,000 BALES. Gotton Ginned to December 13 as Compared With Last Year. A bulletin Just issued by the census department showing1 the amount of cotton ginned in South Carolina counties up to December 13, is as follows: Counties. 1910 1909 Abbeville 31,547 27,727 Aiken 32,554 35,671 Anderson 60,375 46,097 Bamberg 15,280 20,599 Barnwell 39,750 41,865 Beaufort 7,527 6,530 Berkeley 11,861 11,943 Calhoun 18,353 21,140 Charleston 11,194 10,331 Cherokee 13,903 11,644 Chester 27,153 20,388 Chesterfield 25.833 22.418 Clarendon 32,'50 30,162 Colleton 14.257 15.981 Darlington 36,'75 41.708 Dillon 35.918 38,207 Dorchester .. .. .. 11.645 ll.*53 Edgefield 24.715 25.*94 Fairfield 24,599 19.897 Florence 31,407 35,7*8 Cleorgetown 3,272 3.716 rtreenville 33.767 25.903 Oreenwood 28.055 25.718 Hamnton 15.113 18.605 Horrv 7.652 7.800 Kershaw 20.661 17.449 Lancaster 22.546 18.591 Laurens 40.*86 30.1 *2 Lee 25 622 30.441 Tiexinsrton 21.886 21.*79 Marion 1 .... 16.7*0 17.'0l Marlboro 58.752 64.719 Newberry 31.763 27.6ft7 Oconee 12.677 12.577 Orangeburg 51.880 58.8*3 Pickers 12 471 11 Seo Richland 14.476 15.580 Saluda 17.9*2 18.9*9 Snartanburg 54.970 41.9*2 Sumter 30.6*8 27.4*2 TTrinn 17.7*9 1*.**l Williamsburg 22.766 29.o?* York 39.215 32,335 Totals 1,107.556 1,064.819 LONELY IN BAGDAD. Full of Historical Interest, But tha American Consul Prefers Missouri. "Marriage cures the wanderlust," said United States Consul Frederick Slmplch, who represents the majesty of Uncle Sam at Bagdad, Turkey, at the Southern Hotel, according to the St. Louis Republic. Slmplch and his wife, the only Americans in that part of the world, felt so blue over the idea of spending another Christmas 17,000 miles from home that he asked and obtained leave of absence to eat Christmas dinner at New Franklin, Howard county, Mo. This is the town In which both the consul and his wife were born, and It seemed a fairy spot In their Imaginations, while the only thing they ever saw to remind them of home was the Stars and Stripes waving above the consulate. "Bagdad Is one of the most Interesting places in all the earth," said Mr. Slmplch, "and we found much there to Interest us, but It Is good to be back' in Missouri again. My wife and [ were the only Americans In that part of Asia, and but for the presence if a number of Britishers, a few Germans, and fewer French, we would bave felt more homesick than we were. . \ "It ought to be of interest to Missourians and to all others who would like to see the Missouri river made navigacle the year around to know that the sresent navigation or tne ngriB, ine llstoric stream beside which ancient 3abylon stood and where modern Baglad stands now, was made possible by i study of the boats In use on the riv>r at St. Louis. A big company formid for the purpose of navigating the rigrls sent an Englishman on tour to earn the methods employed on rivers >f other countries. "This man came quietly to St. Louis, ook a trip down the Mississippi, and nade a careful study of boats of light Iraft and heavy tonnage. He reported o his employers in favor of the Mlsilsslppi boats, and now they are the lort which carry the travelers to and rom the place we used to read about vhen we were children, the home of Vli Baba and the host of characters nteresting to Juvenile minds. "Bulbul, carpets, dates, and wool arc he chief imports from Bagdad to the Jnited States. The duties of the coniu! are not very exacting, and I have mployed much of my spare time do ng special newspaper work. Then, oo, we learned polo and tennis, and rot so we could play either In a heat hat sent the thermometer up to 120 legrees. This is the way Old Sol reats us from May to October, and It s some sizzling. St. Louis feels to my vife and me now like the arctic circle nust feel to the north pole hunters. "Some of the greatest scholars of the I'orld have Journeyed to Bagdad as the rfohammedan8 journeyed to Mecca, tawlinson, Laird and George Smith, earned -men, whose labors have enightened the human race, spent years here, digging for cuneiform characers, studying Assyriology, reading the lieroglyphics they found as we read Sngjish, and making all people profit ?y their labors. "For 23 years Dr. Koldeway of BerIn, representative of the German Orintal Research society, has been earying on the work Rawlinson and his olleaeues beiran. "Bagdad Is now a city of some 200,00 people. Forty thousand of them re Jews. Near the city is the tomb of !zra, shrine of ail Hebrews in that art of the world. Nearby is Nineveh b'ith its million historical associations, it Kirkouk, only three days by ass rom Bagdad, is the tomb of Ananias, rho gave the world an exhibition of is ability to transform the truth into reverse meaning. "Th?.n there are the hanging garens, the ruins of Belshazzar's palace, nd memories of the feast that ended 1 death, and the ruins of Nebuchadezzar's palace, and many other spots f mighty interest almost too numerus to mention. We feel that God is ear in all that section of the earth." A Typhoid Vaccine. Typhoid can be guarded against as ffectually as we now guard against mallpox. That method Is known as uphold inoculation. It is most imortant and interesting as well. Two ears ago typhoid innoculatfon was dopted by the medical corps of the rmy, under the direction of Major 'rederick F. Russell. Quietly and aK lost unknown to the general public le inoculation has been going on un1 today a very large percentage of le ofHeers and men have been inocuited. In the United States army, acurding to the report of the first year's ork. recently published, 1,400 others and men were inoculated and nly one of them had the fever. Durig the same first year, when one case ccurred among 1,400 Inoculated, 135 ases occurred among 75,000 not Inrulated.?Metropolitan Magazine.