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__ _ ^ ^ " ISSUED gSIKI-WEEIKI^?^ ^ ^ ^ ^ i. ii. okist's sohs. Publishers, j %<Jfamilg Ufurcjaptit: Jfor ih{ promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural nnd Commercial Jntercsts of (he |3fopl^. ( ESTABLISHED 1855. TORKVILLE, S. P., FRIDAY. MAY 33, 1913. ^ N"Q.4-l7 ? ' - *-a aaa ?- - ? ??? iuk?...u I BDAUIBITIAkl U 1/ AklfiAO THURSDAY By DAVID GRAF Soon after Fenlmore Dayton became ? a reporter his city editor sent him to < Interview James Mountain. That fa- i mous financier was then approaching ^ ?. \ the zenith of his power over wan * street an.l Lombard street It had I Just been announced that he had "ab- a sorbed" the Greet Eastern and Wed- t te.Ti railway "ystem?of course, by the I methods which have made some men c and some nev*papers habitually speak 1 of him as "the xvoyal Bandit" The city 1 editor had two reasons for sending I Dayton?first, because he did not like t him; second, because any other man on the staff would walk about for an d hour and come back with the report 8 that Mountain had refused to receive * him, while Dayton would make an hon- > est effort. Seeing Dayton saunter down Nassau ^ street?tall, slender, calm and cheerful?you would never have thought that F he was on his way to Interview one of 1 the worst-tempered men in New York, v for a newspaper which that man peculi- ? arly detested, and on a subject which he did not care to discuss with the pub- * lie. Dayton turned in at the Equitable building and went up to the floor occupied by Mountain, Ranger and * ninkehiH He nodded to the attendant at the door of Mountain's own suite of a offices, strolled tranquilly down the a aisle between the several rows of desks q at which sat Mountain's personal clerks, and knocked at the glass door on which was printed "Mr. Mountain" in small gilt letters. "Come!" It was an angry voice? a Mountain's at its worst. 1 Dayton opened the door. Mountain glanced up from the mass of papers u bore him. His red forehead became a ' network of wrinkles and his scant * white eyebrows bristled. "And who 1 are you?" he snarled. "My name is Dayton?Fenimore 8 Dayton," replied the reporter with a 1 gracefully polite bow. "Mr. Mountain, ^ I believe?" 1 It was impossible for Mr. Mountain altogether to resist the impulse to bow In return. Dayton's manner was compelling. "And what the dev?what can I do ^ for you ?" r "I'm a reporter from the?" ^ "What!" roared Mountain, leaping to ^ his feet in a purple, swollen-veined a fury. The short hair on the nape of * his flery neck rose; his eye-teeth F ?--? -? VI. 1< gleamed tnrougn uie mura ui ms drooping, ragged mustache. Dayton re- ^ turned his blazing gaze calmly?he had ^ a curious power of remaining calm be- 8 fore storms of anger without exasper- ' atlng the stormer. "How dare you enter here?" Moun- * tain's voice was low. All its force was going into Intensity, leaving none for r loudness. h "But?why not?" Dayton looked surprised. "No one tried to stop me." "Impudence!" p "Pardon me?not impudence." Day- 8 ton smiled agreeably. "Impudence Is unsuccessful audacity. For example, if c you had failed to get the Great Eas- 8 tern and Western, they'd have said f you were Impudent to try. As it is. men call It audacity. Now, If I'd failed c to get here perhaps?" * Mountain listened with a grim smile. v He saw in young Dayton the signs of a quality he especially admired?he 1 couldn't help softening toward him. "I 8 stand corrected," he said gruffly. Then c he laid his hand on the young man's snouiaer ana poiniea iowu.ru iue ioibc *room. "Do you see those clerks?" he r demanded. t "I do," said Dayton. "There are thirty-seven of them? and that big numskull at the door e makes thirty-eight. I employ those r thirty-eight men to save me from?au- ? daclty such as yours. Yet here you f are?In my private office! How do you a explain It?" Dayton laughed?his laugh was very t contagious. "I don't know, I'm sure," r he said. "Perhaps If they were the sort " of men who could outwit me, they'd be 1 doing my work and I'd be doing theirs." Mountain's eye smiled. The longer he looked at Dayton's refined yet reso- g lute face, the better he liked 1' "Sit down," he said In an Ironic >ne of mock resignation. "But be quick, and ( be careful not to Irritate me with ques- j tlons that are?audacious. My dlges- , tlon Is poor, and therefore my temper j le. nfKo if mlcrht ho " io IIUI n >i(*v s > ?I*?0 ~v. * * * That is the first recorded story of i Dayton's "colossal cheek." Now for i the last one?the one since which his \ "cheek" has been thought of and spoken i of, admired and envied, as "Napoleonic i daring." 1 He soon rose to a notable special t correspondent. One winter afternoon \ at a musicale in the studio of his I friend, Brownlee the artist, he met a girl with whom he straightway fell in ] love. She was Elsie Grant, the only 1 HftiiErhtpr of Mrs. James Wickford ( Grant. She had spent most of her life < abroad, and her mother was even then 1 negotiating for an Italian prince who 1 thought well of Elsie and also of her i large dot. As for Elsie, she had been ! brought up to the fate of marrying a < nobleman, educated for it, convinced 1 that any other marriage would be a 1 failure. But her winter in New York 1 she had mingled with a "mixed crowd" ] ?Mrs. Grant was a patron of arts and letters, as became a grande dame who < a freak of fate had condemned to one ] earthly pilgrimage as a common American woman. Elsie had a quick : mind and a latent streak of American- < ism?unsuspected by her mother, and i at first shamefacedly concealed by her- | self, even from herself. And then Day- ] ton had come?and he was never the man to shy at obstacles. < He beguiled her mother into not see- ] ing what was going on. He made love i to her daughter in a straightforward i way. To Elsie, who then could think > only in terms of the Almanach de Go- 1 tha, it seemed the way of a Rudolph of Hapsburg Issuing from his barren rMMMa AT THREE IAM PHILLIPS nountain farm in Switzerland to conluer men with his word and women vith his sm'ie and to found an empire. EVhen the Grants went abroad in March ie succeeded in getting a roving Euro /etui vuiiiiuiooiwu Aii/iii ikio acn ofa^i j, md went In the same steamer. He put e he issue squarely before her the day >efore they landed?he did not speak t >f love until she had given him the 1ght, not only by enc.iuraging him, h >ut also by making it plain that she k >assionately wished to h.ear the words t hat lay behind his looks and tones, c Don't answer me now," he Bald. "I lon't want you on the impulse. You're poing down into the country for a u reek. When you come up to London, e 'ou will know." t He went on to London and began to a ast about for something out of the orllnary to send his paper. In a Times re- a ?ort of the meeting of the Royal Socle- e y he found the hint he was seeking. The a rorld renowned philosopher and sci- v ntlst. Lord Frampton (Hubert Foss), n lad addressed the society on "The Des- c iny of Democracy." Incidentally* he t: lad said of America that in his opin- y on the swift segrega ion of wealth d here meant "a cruel and conscience- e ess despotism in the near future, with i , bloody, but probably futile attempt c ,t revolution as an immediate conse- F luence." Til interview Foss," said he to b veagh, the London correspondent of lis naner. "Elvervbodv in America h mows his name. And what he'll say t long those lines will make a lot of a alk over there Just now." b "But"?Iveagh was an Englishman, t' inusued to and abhorrent of American c rays?"you can't do It, Mr. Dayton, y x>rd Frampton," with emphasis on he title, "is a very old man?almost g 0. He lives as quietly as possible; a ees no one. He wouldn't thinl: of in- a erviewing. He's very old-fashioned, iisllkes even our newspapers. And he's " een a sort of recluse all his life." "No harm in trying,' said Dayton. 1 ril just drop him a line." g Iveagh went away with an expreslon of Irritated amusement?irritation ecause Dayton did not accept his Judgnent as Anal, amusement because he new what a blow Dayton's 'damned rankee cheek" would get. Dayton sat tl t his desk for two hours preparing d he "line" he was to "Just drop" Lord" *rampton. "I've got to hit the old feldw between the eyes." he muttered, as a ie struggled with the thirtieth draft of h lis note. "I must reach his vanity, A tlr his curiosity, mak < him feel how f mportant and valuable what I'm ask- a ng him to do would be." The letter h hat resulted from this travail was not v ong, but Dayton felt that It was a i< nasterplece. "He'll bite at that bait If ie's human," he said to himself. ti In the mail two mornings later came he answer. Dayton opened It in the t resence of Iveagli. It was a printed a lip which read: e Lord FTampton appreciates your ourtesy. He regrets that age and the 11 tate of his health make it impossible or him personally to thank you. v "I thought so," said Iveagh, not con- v ealing his delight at Dayton's discom- r Iture. "He sends that to everybody vho tries to intrude upon him." g Dayton mechanically turned the >rinted slip over. "What's that?" he t aid. There was writing in a feeble, g ramped hand: My dear sir?I am lunching at the n Ltheneum club the day after tomor- t ow (Thursday), and shall be pleased C o see you there afterward?at three. c FRAMPTON. d Dayton thrust the note into his pockt, concealing his feeling of triumph. "I n nay cable what he says?If it's wortn ? vhlle. It might make a good feature or the mon Sunday." And he went 15 .way. * Iveagh looked after him, dazed. "Yet 1 here are some people who say there's * io such thing as luck.' he grumbled. ^ Whn'o hnvo thmicht old Framoton s lad gone stark mad?" s At the Carleton, Dayton found a tel- v gram: ' Shall be at Clarldgit's tomorrow. Be lure to come at three, precisely. ETLSIE GRANT. "Whatever shall I do?" he said af- ^ er he had re-read the telegram and L?ord Frampton's note, to make sure. 'Both for Thursday. Both at the same ^ lour. I can't put either of them off. iVhat shall I do with Foss?" No, Foss could not be put off. He nust be seen at the time he had apjointed or the great Sunday feature Z vould be lost. "I must send some one n my place. But who? It must be a tewspaper man, a man with the news- 13 juper instinct and training; it must be i man of the best possible address, and v ip in philosophy and sociology and h'oss. Where can I get him?" It seemed absurd to think on such a problem. Yet after nArly an hour, Dayton jumped up and said. "Why, of :ourse?Just the man?better than I :ould possibly do it myself," and began fumbling in a compartment of the ^ front that was full of letters, papers md cards. He soon found what he was searching for?a card bearing the ad- c dress of Henry Carpenter. A common r friend In New York had given it to 8 tiim, saying: "Look Carpenter up, and 1 If you can, put something in his way. c ? 1 hear he's badly off " As Dayton said to himself, Henry Darpenter was probably the best-equipped man in the world for an interview 1 with Foss for an American newspaper. He was a Yale man with a Ph.D from ? Goettlngen, and a writer on economic subjects who had won some fame. But philosophy is not profitable, and Carpenter made his living as a newspaper r reporter. He had been one of the clev- ^ prest in the profession, then had mar- c ried, had taken to drink, had gone to t the bottom. Discredited, harried by * debt, humiliated, he carried his family * off to England, there to try to recover a himself. ? The address on the card was In the J far end of Pimlico. Dayton set out, ^ calling at the Victoria. There wei leveral New York newspaper men I he lounge. He asked them If they ha teen Carpenter. "Just left him," sa! >ne. "He was bound for the Criterion Dayton drove to the Criterion and hi ran a search of the crowded rooms. E toon saw Carpenter wandering aboi he bar, noting each face as if he wei ooklng for an acquaintance. H dothes, his very expression, proclaln (d poverty and failure. And Dayto mowing his habits, was particular mpressed by the weakness of his chi 3ut in spite of the air of "hard luck Carpenter looked the gentleman, tl nan of superior Intelligence. He gree d Dayton effusively, and as soon t he business was disclosed eagerly o: ered his serv*ces. "There's only one difficulty?wl >ord Frampton receive you when he xpecting me?" "We'll have to take our chances c hat," said Carpenter. "But I never take chances if I ca lelp it, I've been thinking?he doesn ;now me and he doesn't know yoi Vhy shouldn't you send in one of m ards-Mmpersonate me?" Carpenter's face brightened. "Yes?that is the best plan," contlni] led Dayton. "With your special know! dge you'll do the interview far bett? han I could. He'll really profit by h eceptlon." It was so agreed and Carpenter wer way, Dayton advancing him two so\ reigns. When he returned the nei fternoon his appearance was in ever fay satisfactory, and Dayton's iai ilsglvlngs disappeared. He went wit tarpenter to the Atheneum. 'It's a lit le early, old man, but you can send i our, or rather my card, and wait. An on't forget?you're both under assum d names. If you are calling yourse )ayton when you're Carpenter, Isn't h ailing himself Frampton when he 'oss?" "You may rely on me?I'll do m est," said Carpenter. He saw Carpenter enter the club ouse, saw him give his card to the al endant. Not until then did he drlv way. His heart was light. Fate ha >een kind to him. On the stroke c hrete he was in the writing room a Harldge's. Elsie did :not keep hii raiting. "Mother has changed her plans," sh aid, hurrying in. "I thought we'd hav clear hour. But she may be back a ny moment." He was looking at her steadil] Well," he asked. She flushed and cast down her eyei 'hen she lifted them and returned hi aze steadfastly. "Yes," she said. He gave a long sigh. They were silent for a few minutei "What about mother?" he asked. "She will not consent?" "It's no use to ask her. You knoi liat." He nodded cheerfully. "But w on't need her consent. You're of age. "What do you suggest?" "Well, I had arranged?In case yo ccepted and your mother wouldn ave it?that we should marry at th .merlcan consul-general's. He's an ol rlend of mine, and has promised t ttend to everything for me. All w ave to do is to let him know whe /e're coming. He's even got an Amer ?an preacher at hand." She laughed, "And when did you dar o do this?* "Yesterday?as soon as I had you elegram. It wasn't daring, was It, t saume that you meant what your tel gram Implied?" "Whatever It was or was not, I Ilk L" "I thought," he continued, "that w /ould better marry In some way the rould leave her a chance to com ound quietly afterward. "Yes?that Is better than going t Scotland," said Elsie reflectively. Dayton laughed. "And who dared t hlnk out an elopement away off t icotland?" he said. Elsie was still blushing when he aother came In. Dayton Invited thei o dinner and the theater and Mri Irant accepted. Mrs. Grant was gra ious to Dayton; she had often told he aughter that she regarded him as very worthy person In his way." The lght, when she and Elsie were alom lisle tried to draw her to talk of Day on. But Mrs. Grant's suspicions ha een aroused; during the evening some hlng?perhaps a kind of electric die urbance in the air between her daugh er and the "worthy person"?had st >er to thinking that she had not bee o prudent as she might. "Of course, he said to herself "Elsie has been to irell brought up to think of him for a nstant. Still?" (To be Continued). QUEER KINO OF DRUNKARD. Jsed Ether In Port Wine to Get Quic Action. A bartender, writing an article er Itled "What a Man Will Do for )rink," In the American Magazlm ells the following story: "I had one customer who was a pua le to me. "He w.'.s a whisky drinker?a har ne. Recently he began to call fc iort wine. The change made me cur us. He came In one day cold sobe " 'Jim,' he said, 'I'm dead broke, irant a drink. I may never pay yo or it, but can I have It?' "I looked at him in surprise. H k'as clean, well dressed, close shave .nd sober. "'Sure, what'll it be?' I Inquired. " 'Port wine.' "Tf hp had asked for whisky, brai ly, anything else, I would not ha\ riven It a thought. But I could n< onceive of any one begging for a >er cent alcoholic drink which wt rweet. He took the glass of wine, sli >ed a little from it, took a small vii >f ether from his pocket, floated th ither on the wine, and gulped it dowi n a few minutes he was mauldin, pi fully drunk. He recovered in a shoi ime, and went for a walk, returnlr nslde of an hour to beg for anothi flass of port. The fumes of the eth< lad cleared away, and he was sobe asked him why he took that stuff. "The confession he made amaze ne, in spite of my long associatlo vlth drunkards. He loved to get drun ind drank with the set purpose of b< oming drunk. He loved whisky, bi he firm that employed him gave hii lis choice of quitting whisky or the mploy. He quit whisky. On his da >ff he wanted to get drunk as quick! is possible, and, as he said 'enjoy hirr self:* so he had evolved the eth< hunk. He died about two months If er. and the coroner kindly said hea lisease." ". vice?as a special officer, with spec power to enforce this dispensary if In order to try to correct the very e . Daniels speaks of. "This shows what I am doing In i k efforts to enforce the whisky law Beaufort county, and there Is no J> it tlce In Mr. Daniels' criticism, I m shows his weakness In being led to ^ unwarranted attack upon my admin ly tratlon through the trickery of my I >- lltlcal enemies. ?r "Now, If you will look at the Code Laws of South Carolina, you will i that congress has power to pass su jpittettancous $cadin{ 'J LIQUOR AT PORT ROYAL 5[e Governor Blease Makes Hot Reply nt Secretary Daniels. re Columbia, May 22.?Whrm asked Is be had anything to say in reply to i- statement of Secretary of the Ni n, Josephus Daniels, In regard to the |y leged sale of blind tiger liquor aroi n. the navy yard at Port Royal, Govei or Blease replied In a vigorous sta ie ment In which he recited the efforts t- enforce the liquor laws In Be&uf is county, mentioning the recent muri f- of Constable Cooler and the appol: ment and work of other constabl 111 charged that the statement of Sec Is tary Daniels was Inspired by a poll cal enemy of the governor, who i in eompanled the secretary on his Bei fort trip, and said the United Sta in government had the right, in the ter 't tory over which It had Jurisdiction, u. eluding the naval station in quest! iy to enact such laws, rules and regu tlons as the "grape-Juice" administi lion, as characterized by Goven i- Blease, of which Secretary Daniels I- a part, sees lit. ?r The statement of Secretary Danl Is v as carried In a Washington dlspat ? to the Columbia State. The followl it le ft quotation from the Washing! d Ispatch: it "The secretary said that he was mi y hopeful of making of that place (Pi it Royal station), the equal of what h ha''! once been, in Its best days wli workshop; were running full bla n wVen the laland upon which it is loci d ? i was alive with officers and th i- families, and when everything seen If to indicate a long and prosperous I ie ture. He depicted what once had b? 's done there and said that he saw lit reason why the same things or e\ y better things could not be accompli! ed In the future. Then, turning st denly to those who had called up t- him, he said that there was one thl e that would have to be done before d would move a peg: 'Stop the sale >f "blind tiger" liquor to the men at 1 it barracks, he said, and you will i n Port Royal blossom like the rose springtime.' The statement was fi e ther to the effect that the liquor la e must be enforced before he would it anything. When asked for a statement In i /. gard to the Interview of Secreta Daniels, of the navy, Governor Blei b. said, in regard to the Interview: s "In my opinion it simply shows wt I have heard a good many people b ?some of them North Carollniani s. viz., that Josephus Daniels is a v? small man and is not of the men caliber to All the position to which iv has been appointed. If he had go e on a little further and looked into 1 matter he would have seen that 1 United States government has cont u of Its own affairs and own territc "t down there, and the state officii e would be very reluctant to go upon i d territory absolutely controlled by 1 o Federal government for naval px e poses, as It Is presumed that theUn n ed States marshal and his deputies a the commissioners, along with those charge for the government and perni e nently stationed at these places, v do their duty and see that the laws ir the United States and of the state x o obeyed, where the Federal authorlt I- have full control and jurisdiction. A I have no doubt if Mr. Daniels had i ;e ported the matter to United Sta' Marshal Adams, who is a true a e faithful official, he would Immedlati it have had the matter looked Into a ie ordered his deputies there to see tl the laws were properly enforced, a ,o violators of the law arrested and ct rled before the commissioner, o "However, I am satisfied that Dai o els made this slap to please his frie Gonzales, who was with him on 1 sr Beaufort trip, to try to make It app? n that I was not doing my duty In 1 s. enforcement of the laws of this sta But the people of my state know >r ter, and Mr. Daniels will find that if a will attend to his own business a it try to make a success of his admin e, tration he will have enough to do wll - out trying to run the affairs of 1 d state of South Carolina, i- "As for his helping the port do' i- there, so far as I am concerned I wx i- him distinctly to understand that 11 it not asking for any of his Yankee mc n ey, never have pandered for it, a would not bow to him or any otl o man to get It, and If the condition n his giving It Is for me to beg for it, can keep It In the United States tref ury, and I believe this is the sentlmt of the people of this state?either k it in the treasury, or stick it In 1 ears, as may best suit him. k "Beaufort county has one of the b' sheriffs in the state. He is faithful the discharge of his duties, and a does everything within his power e> enforce the law, but everybody South Carolina who is acquainted w conditions knows that in Beauf county, where the negroes are abc d ten to one, and with its Iktle islar >r which are almost entirely Inhabited )_ negroes (I believe in Beaufort, thoui r there are a few Yankee soldi* j around), that it is a very difficult mi u ter to enforce the whisky laws, a such criticisms as that of Daniels v [e not injure Sheriff White in the lea n in the eyes of pure-blooded America and for the Cuban mixed-breeds care nothing. "In addition to the sheriff, I recen j. had in the county one of the best m re I have ever had in the constabula )t and he was ambushed and murdei 5 while trying to do his duty in thisv* us section of the country. I now have f of the best constables in the st. al there?a man who has been hlg! (e praised by the people of that coun for the good work that he is doing. / addition, I have appointed Albert rt Abbott, who is an enlisted man of l company of marines?one of Danl< ^ men, who is in the United States si I laws and to make such rules and regu|? latlons aa It may see fit In the territory over which It has control, and Mr. Daniels will see that If the laws and the enforcement of the laws of South Carolina do not suit him, his 'grapeto juice administration' can make more laws and enforce them, as It Is Its duty if to do." the wy ALIEN OWNERSHIP al ind South Carolina Limits Outsiders to rn* 500 Acres. t?- In view of the present International t01 controversy over the passing of an ort alien land bill by the California legisder lature, it may be interesting to some to nt" know that on the statute books of this state there is a law prohibiting aliens re" from owning over 500 acres of land. Iti- The California law is directed prlnIC" Olpally against the acquiring of agriIU" Cultural lands by foreigners, particutes jarjy th.we of the Mongolian race, ri" though incorporated in the act, which in- jvaa recently passed, is the treaty be'on jween the United States and Japan, in to- which it is stated for what purposes to- knds may be acquired and owned, and i?r farm land does not, it seems, come to Within the treaty rights. However, to allow foreigners to engage for awhile, e'B at least, in agriculture in California tah there is a provision that agricultural lands may be leased for a period of ton three years. The law as to the owning of real estate in South Carolina by aliens is very ort plain, and there is a provision that If to more than 500 acres should be acqulrien eg by foreclosure of mortgages, or un der other legal proceedings, aliens shall not be entitled to hold over that e,r amount for more than five years unless ie<* the comptroller general of the state fu" certifies that It would be very detrimental to sell it sooner when It may be t,fl kept for five years longer. 'en . Under the laws of this state any ,h" alien person, or corporation owned by ,d" aliens, can have the right to acquire, 100 sell or inherit real estate within the n* prescribed limit of 600 acres the same he as naturalized American citizens. ot As the law itself may be of Interest ;he we publish herewith thp full text of it: 166 Section 1895 of Civil Code of 1902: *n No alien, or corporation controlled by ir" aliens, either in his or its own right, or ws as trustee, cestui que trust, or agent, do shall own or control, within the limits of this state, more than five hundred re~ acres of land: Provided, this section iry shall not apply to land purchased un186 der proceedings, either by action or power of sale, to foreclose any mortiat gage hereafter acquired by any alien ^ or corporation controlled by aliens, 1 purchasing the same, but in such cases 5ry such alien, or corporation controlled by 181 aliens shall not be entitled to hold said be ???? .J thon flvA vfinn w ?XCeBB Ul ItUiU UlUIQ limia t?f v ^ ? 'ne without sale of same, unless the comp;he troller general shall certify that a sale he during that time would be materially ro1 detrimental to the Interest of such >ry alien or corporation controlled by 118 ?ilens, may hold the land for five years longer upon the same conditions. :Ile Nothing In this section shall apply to ir" lands already owned or controlled by the persons or corporations referred to n(i In this section nor to lands already l*n mortgaged to such persons or corporia" atlons. Section 2360. Real and personal prop?r erty of every description may be taken ire acquired, held, and disposed of by an les alien, subject to the provisions of Secn(* tlon 1795, In the same manner, in all re" respects, as by a natural born citizen; tes and a title to real and personal p?opnd erty of every description may be de^ rived through, from, or In succession to .an alien, In the same manner In all 141 respects, as through, from or In sucnd cession to a natural born citizen. For""" eign corporations shall have and exercise all rights granted to aliens In this 1 section. nc* Section 2469. Real and personal k? property of every description may be !?r taken, acquired, held and disposed of, by an alien In the same manner In all *e* respects as by a natural born citizen; and a title to real and personal property of every description may be den<1 rived from, through or In succession to 8* an alien, In the same manner, In all k" respects, as through, from, or In succession to a natural born citizen. 8ection 2470. If any citizen of the wn United States shall die seized possessint ed of, or Interested In any land or real im property situated and being within this ,n" state, and leave a widow born without n(* the limits of the United States, and * A "-"-1 BllrtVl ,c* who has not Deen naiuianwu, buv.. widow shall be entitled to all the same he rights. Interest and estate In and to ls" such land and real property, and be jnt possessed of all the same powers, prlv|?p lieges, and capacities to hold, enjoy, convey and transmit the same as If she were naturalized.?Union Progress, est _ Mr. Underwood's Threat.?Both the Sun and the Times profess great indlgln nation because of Representative Unlth derwood'B remark that the bureau ol ort fore,^n aml domestic commerce might )Ut be called on to Inquire Into the facts of ids ca8e w^ere manufacturers make by the revlson of the tariff an excuse for reducing wages. sr8 To quote Representative Underwood's * exact words: nd "When great manufacturing lnstitu *1 A 1A_ I /ill *'ons are reaay IO linemen uiou io.st borers with a reduction of wages bens' cause they say there has been adverse Wg action and legislation In congress, or to reflect on the action of the governtly ment of the United States, that bureau ien has the power to walk Into their ofry> flees and ascertain whether there is .e(j real reason for their cutting the rates jry of wages of their labor or whether It is )ne merely a selfish attempt to put money ate into their own pockets." Pjjy What is there to complain of in this? try Manufacturers who protest against jn any changes in the tariff should be the M first to welcome the opportunity to Lhe Prove to the proper government offing cials that their grievances are Justified. er_ If they are not justified certainly the ,jaj public has a right to know it when a IW> campaign for lower wnges is set on ,VU foot by special Interests that have resisted an equitable system of taxation, rny Manufacturing Industries and Inter?Btn thnt for manv vears have fre jg. quented congressional committee rooms jut and maintained lobbies In Washington ^ to secure the legislation they wanted jg. can have no honest objection to showing how and when they are hurt by )0" tariff revision. If they attempt to deceive the country by dishonest clamor of against acts of congress and to rob their workmen by reducing wages, on false pretenses, they deserve to be ex'c" posed.?New York World. AMERICAN LIGHTHOUSES ai oh Uncle Ssm's Beacon Service is the eai Most Extensive of its Kind. m< The sea coast line under the JurlB- re] diction of the United States is 48,881 sk; statute miles, measured in three-mile 1 steps. The general government pro- tin vldes lighthouses and other aids to av< navigation along all this coast, with ml the exception of the Philippine Is- em lands, 11,511 miles, and Panama, nu where the marking of the coasts is via maintained by the local governments. 1 In addition, the United States pro- 1* vldes lights along the American shore ce] of the Great Lakes, 4,020 miles and on to interior and coastal rivers, 5,478 miles, for The United States lighthouse ser- lig vice thus maintains lights and other or aids to navigation along 46,828 miles In of coast line and river channels, a Su length equal to nearly twice the cir- est cumference of the earth. In this dls- 1 tance It has 12,824 aids to navigation flat of all classes, sufficient to place one sib every two miles around the equator. cle In respect to territory covered and ?I aids maintained, says George R. Putnam, commlslsoner of lighthouses In the National Geographical Magazine, It Is much the moat extensive service pQ of Its king under a single management There are 1,462 lights above the order of river post lights, and ' there are 762 lights having resident log keepers, 61 light vessel stations and *tu 438 lighted buoys. The total lighted pla aids of all kinds is 4,616. tin There are In all 933 fog signals, of P" which 610 are for signal stations, 43 7 submarine bells, 124 whistling buoys poi and 266 bell buoys. There are 6,281 en< unllghted buoys and 1,474 day marks, out or unlighted beacons. There are also the 616 private aids to navigation, main- wh talned at private expense, but under tic government supervision. tht This service Is carried on through floi an organization of nineteen districts, pre under a central office in Washington, tlci Each district Is In charge of a light- om house Inspector and has a local office fln< and one or more supply depots and 1 Hc-hthouse tenders. In all there are 46 cla of these small vessels which carry the rel supplies to the stations and place and mt maintain the buoys and light vessels. In About 5,500 men are required for In the lighthouse work, of whom 211 are sp< In the executive, engineering and cler- ref leal force, 1,733 are keepers of lights gy. and depots, 1,570 care for post lights, og; 1,516 are on vessels and 489 are in the tur construction and repair forces. the The entire personnel Is under the cer civil service rules, and appointments ln<3 and promotions are on a strictly mer- str It system. This is of great Importance tor for the maintenance of good organization and rigid discipline in a purely technical service, on the efficient conduct of which Is directly dependent the safety of all the lives and all the Fa property carried on the seas and the navigable waters of this country. ^ The annual maintenance cost of the entire service is close to 185,000,000, cqi and in addition in recent years there has been expended about $1,000,000 a to year on new lighthouse works and rjs vessels. , gtfl At all Important light stations there ^ are from two to five kepers, who maintain a continuous watch of the A , t?Lk light all night and at the approach of fog at all times. At less important are from two to five keepers, who en sometimes a single keeper cares for several lights. The first lighthouse on this conti- * nent was built by the province of Massachusetts In 1715-1716, on an is- " land in the entrance to Boston harbor. a Although candles and even coal fires rea ? ....j <_ itakt cor appear to nave Deen uwu iu ngmhouse illumination In England to a ma much later date, Boston light was ke< probably Illuminated from the first by cai oil lhmps. In 1789 the light was pro- Th duced by sixteen lamps in groups of four. Crude lenses and reflectors were fitted In 1811, and also revolving mechanism, It having previously been a Ho fixed light Several other lighthouses were built and maintained by the co- ^ lonlal governments, mo For New York harbor and lmmedi- not ate approaches alone 268 aids to navi- >sh gation are required, Including 46 ant shore lights, two light vessels and 36 ab< lighted buoys; there are 192 buoys of tha all classes and 37 for signals, includ- pie Ing sounding buoys. rat Among the lighthouses of the coun- mil try may be found examples of great ma engineering skill and of dignified and fre simple design. nai Various materials have been em- tha ployed in lighthouse construction, ruj stone, brick, iron, steel, concrete, re- lea lnforced concrete and wood; in new the work, however, the latter is now little dis used because of the desirability of ant permanency. cor Numerous tVDes of construction on have been used. Where the founda- one tlon Is exposed, even at the lowest uit; tides, masonry towers have been with for grreat labor and often danger, fitted to not the bed-rock; otherwise the structure cer has been erected on iron piles driven, poi screwed or pumped into the sand or lesi coral, or on caissons floated to the to sight and set on the bottom or sunk is 1 deeper by the pneumatic process, or Om by the use of cofferdams, within to which the masonry tower has been on erected; smaller structures have been ual placed on riprap foundations. adl The earliest example now existing woi of a sea-swept lighthouse is the beau- sue tiful tower of Cordouan, built in 1584 Thl to 1611 on a rock in the sea at the imj mouth of the Qlronde, on the west pre coast of France. This lighthouse has ant since been altered and raised in ha^ height. The original structure was tali elaborately decorated and one floor the was occupied by a chapel. per The most famous of the sea-swept lighthouses is the Eddystone, 13 miles from Plymouth harbor, England. This was completed in 1690, after four years of work. During the first ?~ year all that was accomplished was 11 1 drilling twelve holes In the rock and ,ng fastening Irons In them. This light- cor house, with the kepers and the engl- the neer who built It, disappeared In the ^ great storm of November, 1703, and rpc since that time three other lighthouses ,, car have been erected on Eddystone. Electric lights are used at a few jg f light stations only. The expense Is ing too great to warrant the employment thli of electricity at many Important stutlons. dar The electric light at Naveslnk on the the highlands Just south of New York na't harbor Is the most powerful coast cau light In the United States. This light dre shows each five seconds a flash of ^hl one-tenth second duration, estimated epe uo.uuu.uuu cunuie puwer. Ajuiuugu account of the curvature of the rth the light Itself cannot be seen >re than 2 miles, its beam has been jorted to have been observed in the y at a distance of 70 nautical miles, [t is Important that lights be so dlsguished from each other as to old the possibility of the mariner staking one for another. To this 3 lights are distinguished by their mbers, colors, Intensity or time of Ability. Lighthouse construction on the land usually comparatively simple, ex?t when there is difficulty of access the site. > But often it is important the protection of shipping that hthouses be erected either on rocks reefs exposed to the' sea or actually the water, on sand or rock bottom, ch work has called forth the greatskMl of engineers. RMth the system now available of shing and occulting lights it Is posle to obtain a great variety of arly distinguishable characteristica 3oston Transcript EARLY WORLD RECORD8 ssil Animals and Plants Constitute the Geologist's Key. rhe work of the United States geoIcal survey in paleontology?the idy of fossil remains of animals and ints that lived ages ago?has a dlsct bearing on some of the very tctical economic problems of today, rhe descriptive paleontologlc repf j q rn nftnn All *'niirA inU :e," yet instructive, striking or tedii as may be these delineations of ) groups of animal or plant life ich lived on the globe in some parular epoch there is not one of ise papers describing the fauna or ra of a formation that does not >ve sooner or later to possess praca.1 value and to be essential to geol/ in its constantly increasing reement of study and results. Without paleontology the geologic ssiflcation of formations, their coratlon and the determination of their itual relations would be Impossible, fact, real and symmetrical progress geology is impossible without corre>nding Interrelated development and inement of its handmaid paleontoloThe study of the economic geolV of any region of complicated struc e is blind and Inconsequent unless ) time relations of the strata conned are known. These,relations are Heated by the fossils which the ata contain.?Annual Report DirecUnited States Geological Survey. THE LOWER LIMB rmer Green 8ays si's 80 and It Ain't?The Philcso >hy of It. Prees grow by sections, say a foot :h year. When the cold weather nes along in the fall and the foliage killed by the rrost, tne tree ceases grow until spring:. When the sap es and growth b< gins again, It rts right where it a opped in the I and the lower part of the tree isn't grow at all, except that it ;es on a new ring on the outside, Just does the top to take on another gth. Therefore, we say trees grow rings, each ring representing one ir of the tree's age. It a limb is near i top of a tree, it therefore g^ows up :h that year's growth of the tree, t when the top leaves it standing in ast year's growth of the tree, it has .ched its limit and another limb nea out to take its place. And it y possibly be that eevrgreen limbs ;p on going higher every year, beise the tree doesn't stop growing, erefore, the limbs on small trees do tw higher from the ground, while se on large ones remain the same tance from gravitation.?Marshvllle me. Vhy Leaves Fail From Trees.?To st people the fail of the leaves does :, apparently, excite much astonment or curiosity. The leaves die, 1 hence fall; that is all there is >ut it. But the scientist knows .t the proceeding is a highly comx one. In the first place ,prepalons for the leaf-fall begin the nute the leaf is formed, and In ny cases the leaf falls while yet sh and green. In 1868 a botanist ned Duhamel advanced the theory t tho rhanee was caused by the >ture of a thin texture between the f and the stem. In the middle of i nineteenth century there was covered, traversing the leaf stalk 1 touching the stem, a layer of k tissue analogous to that of bark the tree. It was recognised at :e as Interfering with the contlny between stem and leaf. The matlon of this l?|fer, however, is ; general, and is sot observed in tain ferns, in the beech-tree, the )lar, and many others. Neverthej, this discovery furnished the key the phenomenon. The leaf stalk formed of strata of cellular tissue, e of these strata hardeas and tends being absorbed, and consequently one side or both, the strata gradly grow together. The leaf then teres to the stem only by fibrous, ody tissue?that is to say, by a tisto all intents and purposes dead. Is Is broken mechanically on the pulse of the wind or under the ssure or rne weigni ui ui mc mc>i>, i makes the leaf fall. These organs re not In them the strength to susi the cold during the winter, and tree dispenses with them.?liar's Weekly. Atlanta high school girls who were bidden to dance the turkey trot in i school halls at recess, have named he "chicken flip" and are now danc the same dance to their heart's itent, under the new name. When school authorities decided to exer? supervision over the kind of dance girls danced among themselves at ess, two graceful young ladles were led Into the principal's office to give exhibition. The principal, of course, i lady. "Well," she said, after seethe girls take a step or so, "I don't nk It Is as graceful or dignified as old way of dancing, but I don't see 'thing sinful In it. What kind of jce do you call that?" Now It was turkey trot that the girls had dancbut they were afraid to call It by its ne, so one of them piped up, "It Is led the chicken flip." "Well, chil-| n, you can go ahead and dance the cken flip, but take care not to dance turkey trot," admonished the teach-1 rnvniDi i ivii 1 i ?? i WH?r? Men are Behind the Law, It Worka to Perfection. Hon. John S. Dawson, attorney general of Kansas, delivered an address at Chicago April 1912, on "What Prohlbli tlon Has Done for Kansas." The con1 stltutlonal amendment prohibiting the, i manufacture and sale In the state, of intoxicating liquors except for medical, ' scientific and mechanical purposes was adopted in November, 1880. It has therefbre been in operation long enough to afford a reasonable test of the effects of state-wide prohibition. Mr. Dawson acknowledges that for quite a number of years the law was openly defied in. many of the larger towns and cities. It took a long and hitter fight for the people of Kansas to convince the law defying liquor interests that they were really in earnest about banishing the l??dn tkAla a4a Aa O..A iiucuiiuuo uauiu iiuui iucii uiauj. dui they are convinced at laat and for some time the prohibition laws of the state have been as consistently enforced as those against other common forms of criminal conduct. In estimating the results of prohibition, however, allowance must be made for the delay occasioned by this protracted battle against anarchy, and yet, in spite of this, these results, as summed up by the attorney general, are thoroughly convincing. Here are a few of the more important of them. 1. Illiteracy has been reduced from 49 per cent to less than 2 per cent and this is confined almost entirely to the foreign element in the southeastern portion of the state. 2. Eighty seven of the one hundred and five counties of the state have no insane, fifty-four have no feeble minded, and ninety-six have no Inebriates. There la only one pauper in every three thousand population. Thirtyeight poor farms have no Inmates. In July 1911, fifty-three county Jails were empty, and sixty-five counties had no prisoner serving sentence; some counties have not called a jury to try a criminal case In ten years, and a grand Jury is so uncommon that half the people would not know what It is. j I. In 1880 the bank savings deposits In Kansas were 180,000,000; today they are 8200,000,000. The state is now the richest per capita in the Union, the average wealth being 81,700, whereas the average for the nation is only 21,200. , Missouri, which adjoins Kansas and Is rich in natural resources, has an average of less than $800. During the panic of 1807 Kansas sent $50,000,000 to New York to relieve the money market, while Missouri sent nothing. 4. In 1880 the death rate in Michigan, Wisconsin. Iowa and Kansas wa? practically the same, seventeen to the thousand. Since then the death rate of Kansas has gradually fallen tlti it Is now only seven and one-half, while that of the other states has slightly Increased. 6. The per capita cost of lntoxlcatjing liquors in Missouri is $20; in Kansas is $1.48. 0. It has demonstrated that the saloon is not a business, but a parasite on businesa 7. It has taken politics out of the saloons and the saloons out of politics. Every political party In Kansas now stands for prohibition, and keeping joints, dives, and brothels out of cities is as much the business policy of the average city as keeping the streets clean, water pure and the public perks attractive. ?- ?- it. .....tin. mm ?VlA in answer ui ujc i^ucanvu w w relative value of prohibition and high license as a means of abolishing the evils of intoxicating liquors, Mr. Dawson says: "There is no relative value. High license is not a mc-s of abolishing the evils of intoxicating liquors. The only solution of the liquor problem is its total suppression. High license is first of all a confession that the liquor business is a bad business. It is a bad business, and a tax upon a bad business, a cruel, vicious, and wicked business means that the state says to the rum seller: *Tou are corrupting the morals of my people, you are undermining the manhood of my young men, you are robbing the cheeks of my young women of their bloom, you are poisoning the blood of my babes, you are wrecking my homes, filling my jails and furnishing a spawn for the brothel. Tou are at the back of all the villainies of the age, and are turning my people into drunkards, lunatics, and suicides, and you make a very ? - ? mnnav rttlt ftf thl? In I til |$ D amuuiiv uk iiivuv/ - famous business, and I shall require you to stand and deliver to me a very considerable portion of this dirty money which you are making this villainous fashion.'" Does prohibition prohibit? "Of course not," answers Mr. Dawson. "Neither does a gun shoot nor a ship sail nor a piano make music of Its own accord. It takes a man behind the gun to make it shoot, a sailor to sail the ship, and an artist to play the piano, so, too, with the prohibition law. It will sleep away the years in the musty tomes of a law book and never prohibit anything unless there are faithful executives behind it." It has been shown in Kansas, he declares, that it can be enforced even in a community where popular sentiment is against it "It takes Just three men," he says, "to do It, a Judge, a sheriff, and a prosecuting attorney. These three and no more, who fear God and nobody else, and determined to enforce the law?not all the saloon keepers and brewers and all their followers and sympathizers can prevail against them. Most Important of these three Is the Judge, and (hat Is the officer to whom the liquor Interests give the most attention and the temperance people the least Tou must have a judge, or your law enforcement Is bound to be inefficient" Duncan Opposes Wood and Gonzales. ?John T. Duncan, of Columbia, on last Saturday protested before the subcommittee of the senate Judlcary committee, which has nothing to do with the matter, against the nomination of William EL Gonzales as minister to Cuba, which nomination has not been made. The subcommittee heard Mr. Duncan's objections to the nomination of Justice Charles A. Woods to be United States Judge of the Fourth circuit and in this connection Mr. Duncan expressed his opinion as to the appointment of Mr. Gonzales to the Cuban post, which is regarded as probable. Duncan's charges against Justice Woods were roundabout and indefinite and to a degree irrelevant. The allegations are understood to have Included uncomplimentary references to a large number of men in South Carolina, prominent and otherwise.?Spartanburg Herald.