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* ^^^^1 JLiLBI ^WKKKL^ L. M. grist s sons, p?bii.h?r., | % 4amiI8 StarapW 4n 'M f ""notion of <M goliiical, Social, gjrieullura! and Commercial JSntcrests if ih< ftopit. | IER""NO"E0e?pY,7,vE ~ESTABLISHED t8#?. YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 9,1911. NO. 40. ff^Roo m .. wg BY THOM 'JSSST Copyright, 1911, Pub. by Doubloda; BOOK II?THE ROOT. CHAPTER I. An Old Parfume. Stuart sat In his office holding a letter from Nan which was hard to an swer. For nine years he had refused to see or speak to her. He met Bivens as a matter of course, but always down town during business hours or at one of his clubs. For the first year Nan had reeented his attitude in angry pride and remained silent. And then she began to do a curious thing which had grown to be a part of his inmost life. For the past eight years she had written, a brief daily diary recording her doings, thoughts and memories which she mailed to him every Sunday night. She asked no reply and he gave none. No names appeared in its story and no name was signed to the daily sheets of paper which always bore the perfume of wild strawberries. But the man who read them in silence knew and understood. The letter he held today was not an unsigned sheet of her diary?it was a direct, personal appeal?tender and beautiful in its sincerity. She begged him to forget the past, because she needed his friendship and advice, and asked that he come to see her at once. This letter was his first temptation to break the resolution by which he had lived ror years. He rose and paced the room with fury', as he began to realize how desperate was his desire to go. "Have I fought all these years for nothing?" he cried. The thing that drew him with all but resistless power was the deeper meaning between the lines. He knew that each day the incompleteness of her life had been borne in upon her with crushing force. He knew that the mad impulses which had expressed themselves in luxury, dress, extravagance, balls and bizarre entertainments were hut the strangled cries of a sorrowing heart. And he knew that the fatuity of It all had begun at last to terrify her. The more desperately he fought the Impulse to go the keener became his desire to see her again. And yet he must not. He felt, by an instinct deeper than reason, that the day he returned from his exile and touched her hand would mark the beginning of a tragedy for both. ? And yet the desire to go clamoured with increasing madness. The changes that had come into his life counted for nothing?today only a great passion remained?torturing, chaJleriging, tempting. Could he never live it down? He looked about his office, reminded himself of his diamitv and res ponslbillty, and sought refuge in his sense of duty to the people. "I've done some things worth while!" he cried, with brooding pride. And the record confirmed his boast. In the past nine years he had thrown his life away only to find It in greater power. He recalled it now with a renewed sense of gratitude. The first year which he had given of unselfish devotion to the service of the people had been a failure. He saw at the end of it that in reaching an individual here and there he was merely trying to bale out the ocean with a soup ladle. He saw that if he would serve the people he must work through them. He must appeal to the masses, teach, lead, uplift and inspire them to action. And he entered politics. Only organic social action could get anywhere or accomplish anything worth while. He joined the organization of the local Democracy in his district and went to work. It happened that he Joined just before an exciting municipal election, He threw himself into the campaign with the zeal of a crusader. The people who crowded to hear him were not merely thrilled by the eloquence of his impassioned speeches?they felt instinctively that the heart of a real mar was beating back of every word. His advancement was remarkable At the end of four years he was nominated for district attorney, and was swept Into office by a large majority. Under his vigorous administratior of this important and powerful office the enforcement of Justice ceased to be a joke and became a living faith. His work had stirred the state to a nobler and cleaner civic life. During the past year he had become one ol the foremost figures in American Democracy?the best loved and the most hated and feared man in public life In New York. He remained alike Indifferent to the cheers of his friends or the threats o! his enemies. He was the most powerful man who had ever held such an office because he had no ambition beyond the highest service he could render the people. He asked no favorshe sought no preferment. To the men who secured his nomination and election he was an insolvablc mystery. He said he wanted nothing They had taken that as a wise saying of a very shrewd man. When he accepted the nomination, they smilec knowingly. But when they demandec that he use his high office to punisl enemies and reward friends?and he politely refused?they served notice ot him of political death unless he yield d within a given number of hours. His answer was a laugh as he open ed the door and pointed the way bj which the astonished delegation mlgh find a safe and swift way of exit They passed out in speechless astom ishment, and sent their big chief t< browbeat and bully the young upstar into submission. The incrodibh swiftness with which he returned lef the question open as to how he go out of the district attorney's office He claimed to have bowed himself po> Iitely out the door?but. front the con dition of his clothes and the rumplet state of his hair, his comrades cher ished the secret hut sure convictiot that he was kicked down the stairs Tie that as it may, from that cja.i rofSl $ ri4 S DIXON w by Thomas Dixon. ?5SS: y, Pags A Co., N. Y. rej i?H| Stuart was left to his own devices by the professional politicians, who were loud in their accusations of treachery and ingratitude. HJs political education was given up as hopeless. Yet in spite of their gloomy predic tlons of his speedy ruin, he had steadily grown In power and Influence. The work on which he had just entered was an investigation before an unusually intelligent grand jury of the criminal acts of a group of the most daring and powerful financiers of the world. These men controlled through their position as trustees of the treasuries of great corporations more millions than the combined treasuries of the governments of the Republic?state and national. The act was not only daring, it was extremely dangerous. Under certain conditions it migh produce a panic?so daring and dangerous was the move that its first announcement was received as a joke by the press. The idea of a young upstart questioning the honesty and position of the men who controlled the treasuries of the great insurance and trust companies was ridiculous. When he realized the magnitude of the task he had undertaken, he at once put his house in order for the supreme effort. It was 1 necessary that he give up every outside interest that might distract his attention from the greater task. The one matter of grave importance , to which he was giving his time outside his office was his position as advisory counsel to Dr. Woodman in his suit for damages against the Chemical Trust, which had been dragging its course through the courts for years. To his amazement he had just received an offer from Bivens's attorneys to compromise this suit for a hundred thousand dollars. He would of course advise the doctor to accept it immediately. He had never believed he could win a penny. What could be Bivens's motive in , making such an offer? It was impossible that the shrewd little president of the American Chemical Company had anything to fear personally from j this attack. His fortune was vast and beyond question. His wealth had , grown in the past nine years like ( magic. Everything his smooth little | hand touched had turned to gold. ( Wherever an industry could pay a dividend, his ferret eyes found It. The process was always the same. He 1 brought together its rival houses, capitalized the new combine for ten times its actual value and bound the burden ' Ol cms tHIOriUUUS Ul_m.u>uo >aiuc a. a an interest-bearing debt on the hacks J of the consumers of the goods. The people and their children and their ' children's children would have to pay it. His fortune now could not be less than forty millions and the issue of ' such a suit as the one Woodman had brought and on which he had spent so much of his time and money was to 1 Bivens a mere bagatelle. The more Stuart pondered over this extraordinary offer, the more completely he was puzzled. He sought for outside influences that might move him to such an act. It might be Nan?it , must be! Her letter surely made the explanation reasonable. She knew this suit was an obstacle in the way of their meeting. If she had made up her mind to remove that obstacle, she would do It. Her will had grown in imperious power with each indulg| ence^ During the past winter she had become the sensation of the metropolis. I Her wealth, her beauty, her palaces, . and her entertainments had made her the subject of endless comment. She had set a pace for extravagance which made the old leaders stand aghast. And the one thing which made her letter well nigh resistless was that he ! alone of all the world knew the inner life of this beautiful woman whose name was on a thousand lips. Her , worldly wise mother might have guessed it but she had been dead for the r?n?t fivp vmps and the secret was his alone. He read her letter over again and . looked thoughtfully at the pile of le, gal documents in the case of Woodman against the American Chemical Com, pany lying on his desk. ( "It's her work beyond a doubt!" he ( said at last, "and the doctor will never believe it." He was waiting the arrival of his old friend for a conference over BIvens's offer of compromise and he dreaded the ordeal. If he should refuse this final chance of settlement he would make a mistake that could not be undone. The result was even worse than he could possibly foresee. "So the little weasel has offered to compromise my suit for half the sum we named, eh?" the doctor asked in triumph. "I assure you that if the case comes to its final test you are certain (o lose." "So you have said again and again, my boy"?was the good-natured reply, "hut his sudden terror and this offer shows that we have won already and he knows it. Greater thieves, who i havp ruined their competitors In the 1 same way, are urging him to settle > this suit and prevent others from be? ing brought." i "I don't think so." "It's as plain as daylight." "There's another motive." "Nonsense." persisted the doctor, his r whole being aglow with enthusiasm, t "Bivens has seen the handwriting on . the wall. When the American people are once aroused their wrath will j sweep the trusts into the bottomless t pit." ? "Bivens isn't worrying about the t people or their wrath." t "Then it's time he began!" the doc. tor cried. Mark my word, the day of - the common fieople has dawned. This mudsill of the world has learned to 1 read and write and begun to think. - He has tasted of the tree of knowledge l of good and evil and begins dimly to i. see his own nakedness. He will never : lie content again until he turns the world upside down. My country will lead the way as In the past." "But if In the meantime you and yours go down in ruin?" "I refuse to consider It. The cause of the people and their day has come. I will stand or fall with them. Remember, my boy, that at last the idea has been born that we are all?men! It's new?It's revolutionary. A few centuries ago the people slept In ignorance. Of the twenty-six barons who signed the Magna Charta only tlhree could write thefir names?the rest could only make their mark. The average workingman of today is more cultured than the titled nobleman of| yesterday?the people once thoroughly aroused?let fools find shelter!" "But you and I have both agreed, doctor," Stuart Interrupted with a frown, "that Mr. Jno. C. Calhoun Blvens is not a fool. You must consider this offer. You have too much at stake. Your factory has been closed for five yeara Your store has been sold?your business ruined and you are fighting to pay the Interest on your debts. I've seen you growing poorer dally until you have turned your home Into a lodging house and filled it with strangers." "I've enjoyed knowing them. My sympathies have been made larger." "Yes, you won't even collect your rents." "Still I've always managed to get along," was the cheerful answer. "I've yet a roof over my head." "But is this battle yours alone, doctor? You are but one among millions. You are trying to bear the burden of all?have you counted the cost? Harriet's course in music will continue two years longer?the last year she mnot anonH nhrnad Her exDenses will he great. This settlement is a generous one, no matter what Bivens's motive." "I cAn't compromise with a man who has crushed my business by a conspiracy of organized blackmail." "Oh, come, come, doctor, talk common sense. The American Chemical Company has simply dispensed v/ltli the services of the .lobber, and the retailer. They manufacture the goods and sell them direct to the consumer through their own stores. The day of the jobber and retailer is done. They had to go. You were not ruined by blackmail, you were crushed by a law of progress as resistless as the law of gravity." The doctor's gray eyes flashed with sudden inspiration. "If the law of gravity is unjust it will be abolished. If civilization is unjust It must be put down. There can be no contradiction in life when once we know the truth. I can't compromise with Bivens?I refuse his generosity. I'll take only what the last tribunal of the people shall give me?Justice." "The last tribunal of the people will give you nothing," the lawyer said, emphatically. "I'll stand or fall with It. I make common cause with the people. I know that Bivens is a power now. He chooses judges, defies the law, bribes legislatures and city councils and imagines that he rules the nation. But the Napoleons of finance today will be wearing stripes In Sing Sing tomorrow. We are merely passing through a period of transition which brings suffering and confusion. The end is sure, because evil carries within itself the seed of death. A despotism of money cannot he fastened on the people of America." "But, doctor," Stuart interrupted persuasively, "he is not trying to fasten a depotism on America, on you. or anybody else in this offer." The older man ignored the Interruption and continued with a dreamy look: "Only a few years ago a great millionaire who lived in a palace on Fifth Avenue boldly said to a newspaper reporter: 'The public be d?d!' Times have changed. The millionaires have begun to buy the newspapers and beg for public favor. We are walking on the crust of a volcano of public wrath." "But how long must we wait for this volcanic outburst of public wrath?" "It's of no importance. The big thing is that in America a new force has appeared In the world, the common consciousness of a passion for justice in the hearts of millions of enlightened freemen clothed with power! Never before has manhood had this supreme opportunity. Under its influence this insane passion for go1.! must slowly but surely be transformed into a desire for real wealth of mind and soul. The evils of our time are not so great as those of our fathers. We merely feel them more keenly. The trouble is our faith grows dim in these moments of stress. As for me I lift up my head and believe in my fellow-man. We are just entering a new and wonderful era?the era of electricity and mystery, of struggle, aspiration, the passion for the eternal. I am content to live and fight for tl riaht, win or lose, and nlav m.v little part In this mighty drama!" "I had hoped you were tired of fighting a losing battle." "Tired of fighting a losing battle? You've forgotten, perhaps, that I'm a veteran of the civil war. You know we were defeated year after year, hattie after battle, until It looked as rt Lee was invincible. And then a si lent dark man with a big black cigar in his thoughtful mouth came slowly out of the west and we commenced t?". move forward under his leadership inch bv inch. It was slow, and the dead lay ever In piles around us?but still we moved?always forward, never backward. And when at last the men saw It, they began to laugh at Death. Their eyes had seen the first flash of the coming glory of the Lord!" The doctor paused a moment and looked at Stuart with a curious expression of pity shining through his gray eyes. "What a wonderful old world this is, if we only lift up our heads and see it. Across its fields and valleys armies have marched and counter-marched for four thousand years, a world of tears and blood, of tyranny and oppression, of envy and hate, of passion and sin?and yet it has always been growing better, brighter and more beautiful. Wooden shoes have always been ringing on stairs of gold as men from the depths have climbed higher and higher. I fight this battle to a finish and I'll win. If God lives I'll win?I'm so sure of it, my boy." The doctor paused and his eyes flashed. "I'm so sure of It, that I'm not only going to refuse this bribe from Bivens, but my answer will be a harder blow. I'm going to begin another bigger and more Important suit for the dissolution of the American Chemical Trust." "You can't mean this!" "I do!" was the firm response. Stuart slipped his arm around the older man with a movement of Instinctive tenderness. "Look here, doctor, I've lived In your home for fourteen years and I've grown to love you as my own father." "I know, my boy." "You must listen to me now!" the younger man insisted with deep emotion. "I can give no time to your suit. I am Just entering on a great struggle for the people. Tremendous issues are at stake." "And your own career hangs on the outcome, too?" the doctor Interrupted. res. "You'll go down a wreck If you fall." "Perhaps." "And you're going to risk all without a moment's hesitation?" "Yes." "Why?" "It's my duty." "Good boy!" the older man cried, seizing Stuart's hand. "You can't fall. That's why I'm going to risk all in my fight." "But the cases are not the same." "No, I'm old and played out?my life's sands are nearly run, I haven't much to risk?hut such as I have I offer It freely to God and my country. I envy you the opportunity to make a greater sacrifice?and you advise me to compromise for a paltry sum of money a righteous cause merely to save my own skin while you tell me In the same breath that you are just entering the list against the one unconquerable group of financial buccaneers in America and that you've set your life on the Issue." The doctor seized Stuart's hand, wrung It and laughed. "Congratulations, my boy?I'm proud of you?proud that you live in my house, proud that I've known and loved you, and tried to teach you the Joy and the foolishness of throwing your life away!" With a wave of his hand the stalwart figure of the old man passed out and left him brooding In sorrowful silence. "If the doctor and Harriet were only out of this!" he exclaimed. "It makes me sick to think of the future!" He picked up Nan's unanswered letter and read It again and the faint perfume of the delicate paper stole into his heart with a thousand aching memories. He seized his pen at last, set his face like flint and resolutely wrote his answer: Dear Nan: Your letter is very kind. I'll be honaat onH toil von that it has stirred memories I've tried to kill and can't. I hate to say no, but I must. Sincerely, Jim. As he> drew down the door of the letter box on the corner to post this reply he paused a moment. A wave of desperate longing swept his heart. "My God! I must see her!" he cried iu anguish. And then the strong square jaw came together and the struggle was over. He dropped the letter in the box, turned and walked slowly home. (To Be Continued.) Dream Discoveries. Freud's insight into the mystery of dreams came as a logical result of his novel mode of attacking them. He did not seek, like his predecessors, to read a meaning directly from that confused and oftentimes irrational mass of impressions that the dreamer retains upon waking. Rather he strove to lay bare and to decipher the sources of the dream. As a practicing physician he was impelled by a motive stronger than any abstract love of science, the very practical and urgent need of bringing relief to patients suffering from mental diseases. He devised a very ingenious method, but it is unlikely that he would have succeeded had he not been fortunate in encountering dreams of remarkable significance. Basing his Judgment upon a great many such revelations, he has become convinced that every dream is a wish; the typical dream is the dis? 1 *"> J fi?lflll?v?ftMt r\f anmo ronroQQoH guibcu 1 ii1111111ici11 ui owiiiv iv|?vodvu wish. If the reader doubts the presence of repressed reminiscences in his own mind he should submit a few of his own dreams to the test. He may verify for himself many of Freud's assertions if he will keep a dream diary, and will adopt the habit of picking the skeletons of his dreams immediately upon waking in the morning. The wealth of his own dream life will probably astonish him at first; then he will come to know himself as the proprietor of a busy theater?owner, spectator and critic in one. The dreams he witnesses may seem like nothing that ever happened on land or sea. yet by psycho-analysis he will be able to resolve them Into a mosaic of details, all borrowed from his past experiences, though assembled seemingly by the four winds of heaven. He will find that no dream actor Is ever a new creation, all are fabrications made up of old stage properties from out of the mental storehouse of the dreamer. A face may be that of an acquaintance or it may be a comLThation of separate features of different real persons, so that there lurk under one disguise several real characters; or again, it may be composed like the photographs produced by taking the portraits of several persons, one over another, on the same photographic plate. Add to this that one actor may be replaced by another in the twinkling of an eye, the second continuing the action begun by the first. Then, too. the scraps of dream conversations may be identified, frequently word for word, although in the dream they may be spoken by a character that did not originally utter them, and although their meaning may be strangely twisted by the context of the dream to signify something wholly different from that which they meant in waking.? Forum. >Xv Most of us are too busy looking for tomorrow's possibilities to see those of today. J*' Some people look on the bright side of things so persistently that they wind up the proud possessors of a gold brick. piscfUanrous fkadittj). BOARD EXCEEDS AUTHORITY. Supreme Court Says the Old Commission May Keep Vouchers. The State, Wednesday: The supreme court yesterday handed down Its written decision declaring the new dispensary investigating committee to be in excess of its jurisdiction In adjudging Dr. W. J. Murray, chairman of the old commission, guilty of contempt because of his refusal to relinquish possession of the vouchers ui iii8 uoara ana turn mem over 10 ine present commission. The decision also confirms the verbal decree of the court pronounced at the hearing on Wednesday, May 31, discharging Dr. Murray from custody. The new commission, at a former meeting, ordered Dr. Murray, as chairman of the deposed commission, to appear before them and deliver into their possession all the vouchers of his Commission. He appeared before them, but while expressing his willingness to afford the commission every opportunity for an Investigation of the vouchers in his presence, refused to yield the possession of them. He was adjudged guilty of contempt and placed In the custody of J. S. Wilson, sergeant-at-arms of the commission, and remained nominally under arrest until his discharge as ordered by the court. The Decree. The following is a copy of the decision in full: "Ex parte W. J. Murray, petitioner In re the State vs. W. J. Murray: "The state dispensary commission adjudged W. J. Murray guilty of contempt In refusing to deliver to it certain vouchers for disbursement of money taken over by the former state dispensary commission, of which he was chairman, and In default of purging himself of such contempt he was committed to jail. He now brings this proceeding In habeas corpus, claiming tlfiat his imprisonment is illegal and that the judgment of the commission Is in excess of its powers and void. | "feectlon 8 of the act of February 9i, 1908, provides that 'the commission shall have full power and authority to investigate the past conduct of the officers of the dispensary and all the power and authority conferred upon the committee appointed to investigate the affairs as prescribed by the act to provide for the investigation of the A larvonaamr annrnvoH Tnmiarv 9R 1 Qrtfi be and hereby is conferred upon the commission provided for under this act,' etc. Section 3 of the act of January 24, 1906, provides: 'The said committee be, and the same is hereby, authorized to send for and require the production of any and all books, papers or other documents or writings which may be deemed relevant to any investigation and to require said person or persons in custody or possession .of, such papers to produce the same before the said commission. Any person or persons who shall refuse to act on the order or notice of said committee to produce said books, papers, or other documents or writings, shall be deemed guilty of contempt of said committee and be punished as provided In section 2.' "Under this statute It Is clear thnt the commission has power to compel the production before It of papers relevant to any investigation it is authorized to make; and to punish for contemnt In ease of disobedience of the order to produce. "The commission's order to produce must he In the nature of a subpoena duces tecum and can not operate so as to deprive the owner or custodian of his possession of control except for the temporary examination and use in a particular Investigation by the commission wherein the owner's or custodian's possession and control are properly guarded. "The order of the commission In this case was not to produce for examination In a particular investigation but to deliver and turn over to the commission the vouchers In question, thereby permanently depriving the petitioner of the custody and control. This was in excess of the power of the commission. If the commission was seeking possession of the vouchers claiming the right to them as the successors in office of the former co itmission, the remedy was not a proceeding in contempt. "The vouchers in question relate to the disbursement of dispensary funds by the old commission, the members of which are under bond and claim the right to control these vouchers for the protection of themselves and their bondsmen until their accounts ate settled after investigation by the proper authority. "In the opinion of the court these vniioh^ro nro ho far nrivatp nronertv that the members of the commission can not be deprived of their possession and control in the manner attempted. "The judgment in contempt, being in excess of jurisdiction, is void and the petitioner is entitled to be discharged from custody, and it is so ordered. "Ira B. Jones, "Chief Justice." SANITARY MILK. Professor Burgess of Clemson, Tells How to Make It So. Very few of the consumers of milk give much thought as to where the milk they drink comes from or under what conditions it was produced. So long as it has no bad color, taste, or smell they drink and are satisfied. If the purity of milk could be Judged by the above standard, the milk inhaw nn work and there ?F*-V ?"M.U . - would be no such office. It Is a sad fact, however, that such a standard will not hold Rood, as milk may have no bad taste, color, or odor and yet be very dangerous to the health. Many of the outbreaks of typhoid fever, scarlet fever, dysentery, and other diseases can be traced to the milk supply. What then is sanitary milk? It is milk that is produced by he thy cows, and which is handled in a cleanly manner from the time it is drawn until it is consumed. To be healthy the cow should not only show no outward signs of disease, but should give no reaction when tested for tuberculosis. She should be kept clean and her udder should be washed well before each milking. The milker should milk with dry hands and not follow the bad practice of dipping the fingers into the milk while milking. The milker should not he allowed to handle the milk at all if there should be a case of contagious disease in his home. As soon as the milking is finished the milk should be removed from the barn and at once strained through a good grade of cheese cloth. If it is to be sold at retail. It should he cooled and bottled. If it is to be kept for home use, it should be put aside in as cool a place as possible and away from anything that has much odor. Milk will very quickly absorb the odor of meat, vegetables, etc., If kept near such. Especial care should be given at this season to the milk that is fed to babies and children. Much of the stomach troubles could be avoided if only clean milk was given them to drink. A FORGOTTEN CONSPIRACY. Wh?n Burr Tried to Make Himeelf Emperor of America le an Interesting Bit of History. His Imperial majesty, Aaron I., emperor of the west! But for a twist of fate this title might have been borne by a little American politician. And the United States might have been split in two. It was a conspiracy beside which the secession of the south would perhaps have paled into insignificance. The genius in whose clever brain the great western project awoke was an undersized, dapper man, strikingly handsome, with a pair of snake-like, hypnotic black eyes, and a magnetic charm of manner that almost no man or woman could resist. Incidentally, he was utterly without conscience or scruples, and was fired with a boundless ambition. ? Hp u'fiq Aarnn Rnrr Hp hna hppn called a man of bad morals. This is not true. He was simply a man of no morals at all. Burr sought for military honors in the Revolutionary war. A clash with Washington hampered him. Then he turned to law and politics, and in 1800 was Thomas Jefferson's opponent for the presidency. The electoral vote resulted in a tie. Largely through Alexander Hamilton's fefforts congress gave the high office to Jefferson. Burr was made vice president, and raged at what he deemed the trickery that had robbed him of the presidency. For this and other causes in 1904 he challenged Hamilton to a duel and killed him. A wave of popular hatred on account of this duel smashed forever all of Burr's political hopes. His eager ambition turned to wilder and more lawless schemes. Here, In brief, was the plot he formed, so far as its purposes are known or surmised. (Some of the exact details will always remain a mystery.) The vast western portion of the United States waa sparsely settled or else was a wilderness. Louisiana and the great additional tract of land that went under that, name had Just been purchased from France. Its inhabitants had not yet become reconciled to United States rule. Mexico (including Texas) was still a Spanish province, uiiu mere was umei ieenug in nuicilea against the Spaniards. Our government was- young and weak, nor well fitted to protect Itself against any general uprising within Its own borders. Such was the situation as Burr found It. There were also many old Revolutionary soldiers and swarms of other adventurers all over the country who were eager for excitement and for new conquests. According to the accusation made later, Burr planned to combine these malcontents and pioneers into a filibustering army, swoop down upon Texas and Mexico, capture the whole Louisiana tract (making New Orleans the rebellion's headquarters), induce the western states to leave the Union, and to carve out a huge southern and western empire with himself as Its ruler. This domain would have stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and from the Mississippi to the Pacific. Such a plot today would be laughable. But at that time It stood some chance of success. Many Americans still longed for a monarchy. The young republic had not fulfilled the ideals of many grumblers. From documents and testimony it seems certain that Burr succeeded in interesting a portion of the army, and more than one famous statesman in so much of his conspiracy he dared reveal. He was also shrewd enough to mask the pilot's earlier movements by pretending he was on a purely legitimate western mission of some sort. In this supposed mission he managed to interest President Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Gen. Wilkinson and other men of note. Using this as a blind, he set to work with an almost diabolical cunning to recruit his filibustering army and to prepare a temporary headquarters for the rising. He bought thousands of acres of land on the Wichita river as a nucleus for the empire. His magnetic personality enabled him to raise enormous sums of money and to enlist hundreds of volunteers. He even claimed (rightly or otherwise) that an English fleet had agreed to co-operate with him. The plan was nearly ripe and the first decisive blow was about to be struck when General Wilkinson (who was either Burr's dupe or partial accomplice) became alarn ed and sent secret word of the whole project, as he understood it, to President Jefferson. The president took quick measures to crush the insurrection. Burr was arrested before he could consolidate his schemes far enough to defy the government, and in May, 1807, was put upon trial for high treason. Through his own crafty wit, and aided by AnTaolranti nnd (trime of the best legal talent In America, the accused man fought the charge against him so brilliantly during a six months' trial that the jury brought in at last a reluctant "not guilty" verdict. But Burr was forced to leave America at once and was forbidden to return. It was many years before he ventured back, in disgust, to New York. He died In lonely poverty in 18.16, hated by most of those who still remembered him as one of the greatest "Might Have-Beens" of history.?New York Evening World. <?'A man Is never old enough to know enough not to marry a girl who Is young enough to be his granddaughter. THIRTY YEARS OF EXPANSION. Growth of the South's Wealth Moat Marvelous In History. The marvel of the growth and material progress of the south Is understood In a general way, but the wonder is increased when the concrete figures are produced, as In the following article from a recent Issue of the Manufacturers' Record, printed at Baltimore: Announcement that on July 1 Capt. J. P. Merry will retire from active service with the Illinois Central railroad, In which capacity he has been so Influential for the material advancement of the south, emphasizes the progress which that section has made in the past thirty years. When he entered upon that task the south was just beginning to take heart again, after an awful experience that had been the lot of no other like section in human history. It was then producing from its farms to the value of S660.000.000. from Its factories, $458,000,000, from its mines, $12,000,000, and from its forests, $39,000,000,000, a total of $1,169,000,000. The capital In its cotton mills was $21,000,000, and in its cotton-oil mills $3,800,000. Its furnaces were making 397,000 tons of pig iron, and in minerals it was producing 6,000,000 tons of coal, 843,000 tons of Iron ore, 179,000 barrels of petroleum and 191,000 tons of phosphate rock. It had 21,000 miles of railroad, and the value of its exports was $265,000,000. Deposits in- all its banks aggregated less than $150,000,000. Its wealth amounted to $7,505.000,000. Stirrings of reviving energies of the south thirty years ago and notable indications of what the situation of the south today would be appeared in an expansion at that period at Atlanta of manufacturing capital within five years from $2,582,113 to $8,765,330; an increase in its output in one year of a I company In the Pocahontas coal fields from 99,871 tons to 283,253 tons; marked growth of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Dallas, Tex., as manufacturing and trade centers; expectation of competition at New Orleans of Alabama coal with coal from Pennsylvania and West Virginia; discussion of possibilities in a yield of 8,000,000 or 8,500,000 bales of cotton; beginning of "liberal" purchases of southern pig iron for northern points, Including 5,000 tons of Alabama charcoal iron; plans made in one week for the building of four furnaces In Alabama; talk of steel works for Birmingham; efforts to revive sugar refining industry at Baltimore; sale of 60,000 acres of fine timber land in Swain county, N. C., for $1 an acre; discovery of natural gas near the Pratt mines in Alabama; proposal to hold an agricultural field contest and to gfive fzuu.uuu in premiums ror ine oesi crop and machinery; the hope of paper manufacturing; in the south; advocacy of the Improvement of southern waterways, especially South Atlantic harbors and the Warrior and Coosa river system, and the systematic publication Of reviews of Industrial , growth In their respective localities with vigorous advocacy for general southern progress by dally newspapers in such centers as Augusta, Qa.; Lynchburg, Va.; Charlotte, N. C.; Memphis, Tenn.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; New Orleans, La.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, S. C.; Dallas, Tex., and Birmingham, Ala. In those early days the establishment of 1800 industries in one year In the fourteen southern states, representing an aggregate capitalization of less than $70,000,000, was held to be something of a marvel. In the first two months of 1911 plans were announced for southern industrial and other developmental enterprises, none having less than $250,000, with an aggregate capitalization of more than $300,000,000. In thirty years production on four crrna* llnas In iho nniith hnx Increased nearly six times, to an aggregate of < more than $6,000,000,000?from its factories, $2,690,000,000; from its farms. $2,600,000,000; from its forest, $440,000,000, and from its mines, $280,000,000. Capital In Its cotton mills, $290,000,000, Is fourteen times as great as in 1880; it is making 3,500,000 tons of pig iron, or nine times as much as thirty years ago; it is cutting 24,000,000,000 feet of lumber, 6,000,000,000 feet more than the whole cut out of the country In 1880; it is raising $1,000,000,000 worth of cotton, with seed, 1,104,000,000 bushels of cereals worth $730,000,000, $200,000,000 of live stock, $170,000,000 of dairy products, $170,- | 000,000 of poultry, $150,000,000 of fruits and vegetables, $69,000,000 of tobacco and $50,000,000 of sugar. It is mining ( 109,000,000 tons of coal, 7,000,000 tons i of Iron ore, 2,400,000 tons of phosphate < rock and 300,000 tons of sulphur. The t last session of congress appropriated t more than $13,000,000 for the improve- j ment of southern rivers and harbors, ? and the value of exports from south- t em ports In the last calendar year was c $678,000,000. In the thirty years the t railroad mileage has more than trebled ^ to a total of 73,000. Bank deposits now j aggregate $1,460,000,000, and the wealth f of the south is close upon $22,000,000,- j 000, or $6,000,000,000 greater than the ] wealth of the whole country fifty years j ago. r ? ? c A MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS. r In Which a Confederate Veteran Pays Tribute to Abraham Lincoln. The following is an address delivered by the Rev. J. C. Edmonson, an old Confederate soldier who lost a leg at . on * Vt ck Anpaalnn nf MP* ueu^auuifi, vn uiv j morial Day exercises held at Gainesvllle, Ga., on May 30, the Federal Memorial Day: "Ladies, Fellow Americans ai.d School Children: The white rose of ( York and the red rose of Lancaster are ^ today the common glory of the empire ^ that honors alike all her sons who added to the distinction of British arms in the War of the Roses. So, in the s spirit of this nobler day, we of the young American republic, look back through the mists and tears of the ? slow-moving years, to a struggle that was half a century ago and recognize ^ that the contending armies, whether they wore the blue or gray, were Americans, pouring their i>atriot blood j, into the bosom of the land that gave them birth, for the right, as God gave them to know the right?heritage for all Americans. "As the years go by, we of the south should dwell more and more upon the c high destiny of the nation that survlv- 1 ed the struggle of the civil war, and less upon the pathos of the great "lost .e :ause" of American history; to the md that we may view the civil war as :he birth throes of the grander repub1c?that we may see the guiding jrovldence that shaped the decree of \ppomattox even as a brilliant son of he south who has told the story of the greatest actor In the cruel war drama n words that 'dame and sing:' 'Born is lowly as the Son of God, In a hovel; eared in penury, squalor, with no tleam of light or fair surrounding; vlthout graces actual or acquired; vlthont name or fame or official tralnng; it was reserved for this strange >eing, late in life, to be snatched from >bscurlty, raised to supreme command it a supreme moment, and Intrusted vlth the destiny of a nation; the great eaders of his party, the most expertmeed and accomplished public men of he day, were made to stand aside, vere sent to the rear, while this fanastic flffnro n'oo 1^ k,. ? ?? ?- ..ivu uj unseen nanos o the front and given the rein* of xiwer. It Is immaterial whether we vere for him or against him; wholly mmaterlal. That, during four years, ?rrying with them such a weight of esponslbllity as the world never witnessed before, he filled the vast space illotted him In the eyes and actions of nanklnd, is to say that he was Iniplred by God, for nowhere else could le have acquired the wisdom and the Mrtue. Where did Shakespeare get lis genius? Where did Mozart get lis music? Whose hand smote the yre of the Scottish plowman? God, 3od and God alone, and as surely as hese were raised up by God, inspired >y Him, was Abraham Lincoln, and a housand years hence, no drama, no ragedy, no epic poem, will be filled vlth greater wonder or be followed by nanklnd with deeper feeling than that vhich tells the story of his life and leath.' In these matchless words Hen y Watterson has given us a masterpiece for all times. "Wherever in the splendid land louiu or me fotomac patriots come ogether to recount the colossal deeds >f the nation's crucial hour, that they nay realize more truly the travail hrough which our country struggled :o stronger life, they should read again Lnd again that classic for all ages and tall It with our country's flag just beleath the cross?undying words spok>n by the greatest one who has walked lpon this earth since Christ came to ihow the world how good It was to die 'or men?spoken on the decisive Held >f the greatest war men have fought, jy 'one born as lowly as the Son of 3od, In a hovel.' 'Pour score and leven years ago our fathers brought torth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to :he proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a p-eat civil war, testing whether that ration or any nation so conceived and 10 dedicated can long endure. We are net on a great fleid of that war. We lave come to dedicate a portion of :hat field as a final resting place for ihose who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether flttinsr and nmncr that w? should do this. But, in a larger sense, ve can not dedicate?we can not conlecrate?we can not hallow this pround. The brave men living and lead who struggled here have consecrated It, far above our power to add >r detract. The world will little note lor longer remember what we say here. 3ut it can never forget what they did fere. It Is for us, the living, rather to >e dedicated to the great task remalnng before us?that from these honored dead we take Increased devotion to hat cause for which they gave the ast full measure of devotion?that we lere highly resolve that these dead ihall not have died in vain?that this latlon, under God, shall have a new )irth of freedom?and that governnent of the people, by the people, for he people, shall not perish from the earth.' "My countrymen, I have spoken the lentlments of my heart, and If any imong you object to what I have said, [ will be glad to see you down the street a little later, but I will have no ipologies to make. We have lived long enough after the civil war to put belind us all the bitterness of It. I want ny children and grandchildren to enow that this Is our country, and the lag which floats above this building s our flag." TALE OF GRAFT IN NEW YORK. Man Demanded $500 and Might Hava Had $15,000. This Is a little story of New York rraft, according to the New York cor-espondent of the Cincinnati TimesStar. Unfortunately, the names may lot be used. But It has been the cusom of a corporation in this city to >ay a sort of retaining fee to the holder of a certain political office, Just to >e let alone. The corporation heads lid not ask anything else from the ifflceholder. They merely did not vant to be prodded by crusades which iresumably had an origin In a desire or reform. The graft payment for ears had been $10,000. "We'll likely lave to pay more, now that So-and-so s in office," said they, when a certain nan was elected. "He has the name >f being very grasping." So they sent an intermediary to the lewly elected officeholder, with power o negotiate. They were willing to iay $15,000, if necessary, but not a >enny more. The usual preliminaries vere gone through. "Your company vlll have to come over," said the oficeholder. "I'm no cheap man. I enow you've been paying right along, inH vnn'll hove to nav me more than -ou have been giving up to this office n the past. When I go grafting I go ight." And he swelled up and ooked very Important. The lntermellary was frightened. Hie asked very tumbly how much the officeholder vould demand. "Not a penny less than 1500 a year," iaid the officeholder, sternly. The sum was paid, and it was not intil the officeholder had been out of ifflce for months that he learned the icale on which previous payments had ?een made. The information actually ent him into a decline. He grieved o over it that he really lost his lealth. If one mentions a large sum if money in his presence nowadays le's apt to burst into tears. Most of the free advice Is handed tut by people who want to get rid of t. Itit There is said to be happiness imong some savage tribes where mon y Is unknown.