Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, February 01, 1910, Image 1

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"l I 0KI8TS~80NS, Pnbiithen~ ] I ^amilggHwpaBtr: Jfor lh< fjromotion of th< political, g^ial. agricnltanal an J (Bomwti|tiaI Jwttrwts ojf tht {Tg"?o^y?U"'Uc^A>,!'' wsTA Ri.isHKnTftSfi. YORKVILLE, 8. C., TTJESDALY, FEBRUARY 1, 1910. NO. 9. sg ?U U ?r Synopsis of Prscsding Chap tors. Chapter I?Judith Bartelmy, society woman, goes to the office of the Dally Advance to protest against a story which had severely criticised her father, a Judge of the United States court. She discovers that the author of the article was Wheeler Brand, a brilliant young writer whom she had promised to marry. He refuses to cease attacking her father. II?Judith discards her engagement ring. Dupuy, a lawyer, representing big advertisers, calls and demands Brand's discharge, as his clim ents are friends of Judge Bartelmy. Ill?Brand is discharged by the managing editor, for the paper, long owned by an insurance company, had been friendly to corporations Michael Nolan, who buys the paper, comes in the office and finds Dupuy to be an old a enemy of his. IV?Nolan calls for Brand and makes him managing editor. V?Brand tells Nolan and his socially ambitious family that the dishonest Judge, Bartelmy, and his unsuspecting daughter have taken them up socially so as to try to Induce Nolan not to attack the Judge in his newspaper. VI? Dupuy aids Bartelmy in endeavoring to have Brand and the Advance avoid attacking the Judge regarding a tricky opinion he has rendered in the Lansing Iron case. "Every man has his price, even Brand," says Dupuy. . VII?Nolan says if Brand will trap Bartelmy in the act of offering him a bribe to keep silent that the Advance will print the story in full. VTII?Bartelmy agrees to pay Brand $10,000 to keep quiet about the Lansing Iron case. DC.? * Brand lays the trap for Bartelmy. CHAPTETR X. Brand hung up the telephone receiver with an anxious expression on his face. "Nolan must keep away from this," he muttered tensely. "Let him take a train or go to sleep or bury himself if he wants to. If Bartelmy <jT Dupuy gets hold of him after I've shown my hand there'll be the merry d?1 to pay, and if they find him they might succeed in coaxing?I wonder if Nolan will stick; I wonder if Nolan will stick," he kept repeating over and over to himself. The noise of voices raised in indignation broke in upon him from the * outer hall at his right. "Oh, that's a chestnut," some one cried; "he's always out, always when I come." The editor glanced around and saw Sylvester Nolan leading in his friend ?"uweu, me poei. "You're not out, are you, old man?" asked young Nolan of Brand. "Who's "How xcould you like to be a reporter?* that fly duck that tried to keep me ^ from coming In?" "I'm sorry, Nolan; I'm very busy tonight, and you'll have to excuse me. I'm very busy." "Brandy, old boy, I came In on business. Want to get a Job for my friend Powell here. He's a poet." He dragged the wan eyed rhymester up to Brand's desk. % The editor looked Powell over. "We don't carry poets on the payrolls," he grunted. "But Just look at this one. Powow, let Mr. Brand see your ode to the opening of the Omaha exposition. He ^ went In the competition with this." Powell handed the poem to Brand. "And I see he came out with it," snorted the newspaper man. "Yes, sir," agreed Powell faintly. "People haven't time /or poetry," i commented Brand. "That's what I've been trying to tell Powow," pu In Sylvester. "He was born after his time." "How would you like to be a reporter?" asked the editor. Powell's eyes gleamed with a sickly color that showed that he was en0 thused. "A reporter? Oh, yes, sir!" he said. Brand took down the phone. "Hello! Give me night city editor, please. Hello! That you? I've got a cub here named Powell. Please give him a week's trial. Report to city editor." "Where is he, sir?" asked Powell, bewildered. "You're a reporter now. Find out." "Yes, sir." He started toward the hall door. "Over here, Powow!" cried Sylvester leading him in the opposite direction. ^ Joe Dillon now added to the man aging editors trouDies oy agum turning Into the office. "Thank you, Mr. Brand." he began. "Could you spare me a little car fare?" Brand tossed him a quarter. "Never mind now," he said. "Say. Joe, go out fWRTB Novelized by FREDERICK R. TOOMBS From the Great Play of the Same Name by Joseph Medill Patterson and Harriet Ford. # 0 COPYRIGHT. 1905. BY JOSEPH MEDILL PATTERSON AND HARRIET PORD. with that cub tonight. It will -give i you something to think about, and you can show him as much in a night as 1 he'd learn in a month alone. Mr. Dil- 1 Ion, allow me to present you to Mr. < Slyvester Nolan. Mr. Dillon broke me into the business," said the editor to i the newspaper owner's son. 1 Sylvester drew a ponderous wad of 1 bills from his pocket and offered the S top one to the old "down and outer." < "You want to handle my friend Powow with gloves," advised Sylvester, c "He's just full of temperament" t The old newspaper man indignantly refused the money which young Nolan t held out to him and plunged out of the office. t The poet stood a mute witness to the 1 proceedings. I "Go after him!" commanded Brand. 1 "Thank you, sir," and Powell darted c frightenedly after Dillon. "Who is that old Joker?" asked Syl- a vester of the editor. 1< "He was the best reporter that the c Advance ever had." t "What's the mater with him?" "Booze." "Too bad! Well, a fellow ought to a learn to control himself," remarked r Sylvester pompously. "Now, Brandy, ii old boy, I want to ask you just one " more favor tonight, in reference to a little actress friend of mine, Miss Gueneviere McKenzie." s "Oh?come?don't"? "Run her picture in a prominent a place, won't you?" Sylvester handed Brand a photo. "Miss Gueneviere McKenzie. Don't you know her? She's in the second row at the Tyroll, and it's a darn shame. I've got a libretto for her later on. Can't you help her out and get her a small part now?" "I'm afraid that is hardly in my line." "You'd be doing a favor to the show, for she's good enough to be a prima donna. She's been kept back by jealousy. Told me so herself. When will you have it In?tomorrow?" "I scarcely think we can do that sort of thing in the Advance. We don't print pictures of chorus girls unless there's some good story about them? lost Jewels, barred from a hotel on account of a dog, divorce or"? Sylvester broke in relievedly, "Oh, she's been divorced!" "Has she! When?" "Last year." "That's dead. Wait till her next. She doesn't go In." "Why?why?won't you do it?" stammered the young man, who, deeply appreciating the fact that he was his ratners son?yes, inaeeu??uru w comprehend how any employee on the Advance could refuse him anything. '"She's the cutest little girl you ever saw, you old gazoot. You stick to me, and I'll give you an interest in this paper some day. Why, she was in"? "That all may be," responded Brand, rising to end the conversation, "but the Advance doesn't Issue passes to the stage entrance." Sylvester's jaw fell in his astonish- t ment at this unexpected blow, and after vainly endeavoring to find appro- ] prlate words for a reply, he went out of the room. 4 Brand was impatient because of the precious time that had been wasted. I He had work to do and little time In e which to do it, and it was the most ( important work he had ever done in his life. \ He sent the office boy to bring the j two reporters, Howard and Jeff, j Speaking to Miss Stowe, the "central" s of the Advance's private telephone system, he said: "Do not put anybody else i on this wire until you hear from me, 1 no matter how long it takes. Under- f stand? Connect this phone with edl- j torial room 4 and have it connected c until I tell you. Now be sure about this. Understand? Again he repeated, j as it concerned the success of his entire scheme, "Don't break the connection until I tell you myself." The two reporters came In. "Now, boys, understand what I want you to do. You've got to take, word for word, a conversation I'm going to have here. Go in room 4. You, Jeff, take the receiver." "Yes, sir." "And you, Howard, take the extension. Thus you will each hear what is said. Keep it glued to your best ear and take down every word you hear tonight between Judge Bartelmy and me. The judge will sit in the chair at the right of my desk. I will be in my own chair. The telephone will thus be midway between us. Whatever words he and I say will be said almost direct I ly over the mouthpiece or tne pnone. Now, you see what I am going to do"? i Brand took a lead pencil from his i pocket and began a proceeding which 1 the two reporters, accustomed as they ! were in their business to ingenious 1 I strategy*, failed at first to understand. | Then the scheme dawned on them, i Brand took the telephone receiver from the hook, and the metal arm immediately snapped upward, establishing the < connection. Then he inserted the point of the lead pencil in the small aperture I under the little metal arm or hook and | deliberately broke it off. The tiny wedge thus held up the hook. Brand now hung up the reeciver, and the pen- ' cil point prevented the weight of the < receiver from bearing the hook down and breaking the connection. The connection was made continuous without the slightest Indication that such was the case. Every word now spoken within a reasonable distance of the ; mouthpiece would be conveyed to the telephone and the extension telephone Estate n editorial room 4, where Howard and left were to be stationed. They had stenographers' pads with them, on which they were each to take down the :onversation in shorthand. "This phone will be open all the time :hat Bartelmy Is here," announced Brand. "Go In there, Howard, and see f you can hear Jeff and me talking. Bit over here, Jeff." He pointed to the :halr at his right. Howard went out. "Now, Jeff, take down this and take lown what you say to me," continued :he editor. Brand turned to Jeff and began to alk in a natural tone of voice. "Jeff, you know I think the dog in he moon was seven times too slow in lis Journey through the paths of men, laving lost 6,749,739,274,480 pounds in its auto northward. Is that your ' pinion ?" "No, not entirely. Hence and hereifter we complain of such a miracuous egotism of generality and sole- , :ism of peaceful garments and cold ! hought." Brand struck a blow on the desk. "O- nnniMPv It wai linnnpstlnn VII ui^ VViifc* M* J t ?? ble and with nasty Justice, miscalled ( lamby-pamby?got it?" cried the ed- ( tor, bending over the mouthpiece. ( Come in, Howard!" Howard hurried into the room. , "Compare your notes, boys," in- ( tructed the managing editor. ( They held the records side by side , nd quickly glanced over them. 'One can never be too careful about molten o1 thin kind.1' "They are almost exactly the same," hey exclaimed in unison. , A smile of satisfaction spread over brand's face. "All right. Now chase back to room 1, both of you!" The office boy brought Brand a card, ie took it, and as he glanced at it his yes narrowed down into little sparks >f light. "He's on time," he murmured. "Very veil, Durkin," he ordered, "show him n, and, Durkin, remember, don't let iny one else in under any circumstances." A half a minute later Judge Bartelny stood in the doorway. He nodded jrletiy to Brand, and his eyes swept iround the entire room before he stepjed in. Slowly he proceeded in front >f Brand's desk. "Good evening, Judge," said the edtor. "Good evening, Mr. Brand." "Let me take your things. I'll hang hem up," offered Brand. Just as Dujuy had been, Bartelmy was in evenng dress. He took off his white kid floves and put them in his pocket and ;hen handed his hat and coat to the iditor. Brand opened the door of a :loset at the right hand side of the oom and hung the Judge's things herein. He closed the door. Bartelmy stepped to the closet, opened the loor and peered sharply into its four ;orners, even fumbling behind his long :oat, to make sure that no witness was miking there to spy on him. "Oh. that's the way you feel!" commented Brand. "I'll show you over the place. But you shouldn't worry." Bartelmy coughed nervously. "One can never be too careful about matters of his kind, Brand. I should think that you would have learned that much by this time." "This is my first experience of this kind," said Brand. "Of course it is," unswered Bartelmy, with a tinge of sarcasm in his voice. "It always is the first time.' 15UI yi)U UI C ttsauicuij ? <_. j ixvnj ... deed, Brand, to do so very well at your tiist try at?at"? "Come, look over the place, and let's get through with it," put in the editor. He crossed and locked the door through which the judge had entered. Then he led his visitor over to the door on the opposite side of the room opening into a hallway which extended to various rooms. He pointed to the room directly across the hall. It's (|uite dark, you see," he said. "This is where a couple of editorial writers sit. They go home nights, lucky dogs, not being newspaper men." Bartelmy was quick enough to catch the ironical comment of the busy managing editor on the scholarly men who wrote the opinions of the paper. Brand drew the judge back into his office and locked the door behind him. "Now we are alone, absolutely < alone," commented Brand significantly. He led the way to his desk and ( pointed out to the judge the chair at the right hand side. Brand dropped . into his own chair. "Have a seat, , judge," he said. Judge Bartelmy drew the chair In- , dlcated even closer to the managing editor's desk and seated himself in it 1 He leaned forward toward Brand and . rested his elbow on the desk. His face . was within ten or twelve Inches of the , telephone. . To be Continued. ( WHITE BEAR 18 SAFE. i Regarded as Ghost, Pennsylvania Natives Will Not 8hoot. Between the curiosity and the superstition that the appearance of a white, or albino, bear has caused In that section of the county lying north of Karthaus, across the plateau to the hills overlooking Keating, in Clinton county, Pa., this freak animal is the sensation of the season. In all the experiences this Is the first time that the appearance of a white bear in this section of the world has been reported. The rare animal has been seen twice since the opening of the hunting season, but it will require somebody with less superstition than the natives to kill the albino. The superstition is something akin to the old fear of seeing or killing a white deer, and the probability Is that this rare specimen will be permitted to go unmolested. Once last summer this creature was seen near a wayside spring by a teamster, who had stopped to water his horses; but he thought It was a stray white calf, and so reported it. But soon after the bear season opened this fall and while two hunters were tramping the "slashings" beyond the John Rohn place, one of them was startled to see two bears rise from their "wallow" and start off into the thicket, and one of these was as white Ets a dirty bear after a season in the a dust could afford to be. P ' The black bear was killed by a j, shot from the hunter's gun, but the 8 albino, though equally as good a t chance was afforded to hit it, was per- r mitted to hike off into the bushes and to safety. a One day last week while a young 9 fellow of the name of Smoke was in | the woodB in the same general neigh- I borhood he caught sight of the white I bear and ran all the way home, a dls- j tance of nearly three miles, lest the j awful apparition, as he thought it I was, would do' him some terrible * harm. He explained that the bear was aa white as snow and looked for all the world like the ghost of a bear and that it seemed not to be afraid of him, but rather defied him when he 8 g tried to frighten it. It was then that ^ he concluded that he was facing something more than an ordinary denizen ' of the forest, and he hiked for home. Curiously enough, the experience of 0 young Smoke has given rise to a lot * of weird tales recalling the strange .1 disappearance of old and rich John ^ Rohn several years ago, a mystery " that aroused a statewide Interest because of its odd features. The community has in. it several j families of half-breeds, white and ne- I gro mixed, and these are the most su- | perstitlous kind of people imaginable. ?] At the time of the disappearance of C old man Rohn these folks told of the C queerest of sights and sounds and of the flitting of white doves in the night time, and the strange bawling of cows t far into the night, flames leaping from the fireplace in the Rohn mill at mid- j night, and a lot of other trash that j made of the story one that sounded ^ much like a tale from the days of witchcraft, as indeed it might be, for these people are firm believers in what dream-books say and in the occult, j The white bear Incident has stirred up the old sensation of the Rohn dis- ( appearance with a lot of new theories, and the little settlement Is wrought up over the strange thing. But the white bear runs little chance of being kill- 1 ed. Rather does it stand for making b little short of a panic among the half- t breeds.?Philadelphia Record. t , m , t FOUR BOXES. c t An Effective Quartet of Great Govern- * ing Powers. a "The world Is governed by three c boxes," said an American wit of a cen- * tury ago, "the cartridge box, the bal- c lot box and the bandbox." n Dafmoon fho flrut turn of thPQP PTPAt governing powers no one questioned the natural alliance, but that the sex whose box was the bandbox should also claim a right to use the ballot box was in his day undreamed of. Half a century later, during the civil war, Horace Greeley, the famous editor, held the old opinion. "Madam," he said bluntly at a public meeting to the pioneer suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "the bullet and the ballot go together. If you want to vote, are you ready to fight?" "Certainly, sir," replied the quick witted lady, to the delight of the audience. "I am ready to fight Just as you have fought?with my pen." Not all the early women suffragists would so readily have countenanced warfare, even in jest, for a notable number of them were Quakers or of Quaker ancestry, to whom force was abhorrent. In the Society of Friends the rights of men and women have been always absolutely equal, so that, as Lucretia Mott declared, it seemed but natural to wish to counsel and act with men everywhere on even terms, as she had always done In Nantucket. One Quaker philanthropist, Abby Hopper Gibbons, who had never been identified with the "woman's rights" women, yet acknowledged with demure humor that, although she talked little about her rights, she had "been in the habit of always taking them" when she could. Once however, she failed to take a very Important one when she was summoned to do so. She had a singular^ bold and firm handwriting, easily mistaken for a man's, and often signed knelnooo oAmmnrilootlnno olmnlv A H. * Gibbons, so that she one day found herself, as a citizen and a taxpayer, Imperatively required, in the name of the law, to furnish reasons why she should not serve as a Juror. "I know of none," she wrote serenely at the foot of this formidable document and sent It back. But the official who read this apparently impertinent response must have Investigated the record of his correspondent and found a reason, for A. H. Gibbons, householder of New York, was excused from service in that fourth box, so important in civilized communities?the Jury box.?Youth's companion. piscctlaneius grading. PRICES OUT OF SIGHT. Commodities of All Kinds Highest on Record. Charlotte Observer, Saturday. A compilation of figures by BradJtreet's in regard to the exceedingly tilgh prices obtaining on the oeceswry commodities of life is interesting m at this time when Federal ex>e|rts in Washington have Just begun a novement looking into the tremendous naeaarAo iipKIaIi V* n ipa Kaaa mo/ln an oil I??IDOOCD n iiiuii uavc uccu uiouc uu an JeedstufTs. Bradstreet's bulletin enters nito an elaboration of the cost on 96 ^commodities that enter Into daily and ijyect consumption by the people and t (shows that an absolutely new record m high prices was reached during this n >nth, exceeding that of March, 1907, v ten in anticipation of the Impending )?hlc, prices on all commodities went ilferward at a fierce rate of speed. A Stupendous Increase. *The following extensive explanation >f the bulletin issued by this firm is ri 'en in yesterday's issue of the Qreenrl le News and Is altogether worth -e iding by those who have Interested h smselves in a study of this problem >fWonomlcs. It is as follows: me new 'number' surpasses the )revious high record of March 1, 1907, >91,293 by 1.1 per cent This ratio also neasures the advance that was made the 96 commodities In December a4t At the same time, the present ndex number reflects a gain of 11.7 >ver Janaury 1, 1909, which means that rfoes of the 96 articles rose approximately 97 cents within a year's time. lowest point for commodity prices Or which Bradstreet's have any rec?rd was touched on July 1, 1896, when hdl index number was .357,019. The a test figure shows a gain of more than 1 jper cent over this number, indlcatngi of course, that for every dollar you p^nt then for living expenses you are Hi 31.61 cents now. new Index number mirrors an of 19.5 per cent over the comtatatively low point reached on June , |.908, but it is only 3.5 per cent over h4t of January 1, 1907, also a time of spending prices as forerunners of the TVift .mIm Aim** Tonuarv 1 1QHR itiniu ? lie gain u?u uaiiiuu/ A, AVW, b |0.8 per cent while the rise over the aide date In 1905 la 14.2 per cent and he Increase over January, 1904, Is 15.5 >er cent. Here 1b a table showing the import,n< swings of the index number on the 6 commodities since Jan. 1, 1892: Itfh Jan. 1, 1892 $8.1382 />w July 1, 1896 5.7019 Il$h Feb. 1, 1900 8.2307 xrv June 1, 1909 7.4181 11$ h Dec. 1. 1902 8.1413 July 1, 1904 7.6318 11$ h Mar. 1, 1907 9.1293 A>: June 1, 1908 ....... 7.7227 ? h Jan. 1, 1910 9.2310 j The Commodities Classified, ^he 96 commodities included in the Mplntion ere divided into thirteen feneral groups as follows: Breadtuffs, live stock, provisions, fruits, tides and provisions and drugs and niscellaneous. While all of these ener into the cost of living to a greater >r less extent the higher cost is more tronounced when the groups are seected that enter more directly into tersonal consumption. Take these even groups, embracing 59 commodlies: July 1, Mar. 1, Jan. 1, ISQft 1Q07 1Q1H Ireadstuff .. ..$0.0524 $0.0817 $0.1050 jive stock ... 0.1855 0.3315 0.4010 'rovisions .. . 1.3619 2.1049 2.3577 lides & leather 0.8250 1.1975 1.2850 textiles 1.6799 2.7369 2.7333 ?oal and coke. 0.0048 0.0080 0.0069 )ils .. ... ... 0.2082 0.3428 0.3728 Total $4.2177 $6.8033 $7.2617 "In other words, a man who would tuy a pound each of the commodities embraced in this list would have paid 4.2177 on July 1, 1896; $6.8033 on darch 1, 1907, the former high record late, and $7,261 on January 1 of the iresent year. Declines In general prices is between the high of 1907 and that if January 1 last, have occurred In the tem of fruits, which is more or less of i luxury, chemicals and drugs, buildng materials and naval stores. The Movement For Reform. "This week will see some Interestng developments In the movement igalnst the high cost of living. Next o the action of the Federal authoriies against the beef trust, the invesIgation by the District of Columbia jommitee of the house of representaives promises to yield the most satisactory results. That committee is cheduled to begin its investigation tolay into the high prices prevailing in he district. While the inquiry will be !onflned to conditions in Washington hey will apply throughout the country. The announcement has been made that he committee will summon experts rom all parts of the country. "One of the first to testify before the (ommlttee will be Secretary Wilson of he department of agriculture. He teems to be the only person who has eally made an investigation into the tondltions and who will be able to prelent hard and cold facts. The secretay has had his men at work all over the tountry collecting information and he ilready has formed some pretty deflnte conclusions which he has expressed iff and on recently. The secretary already Is satisfied that the farmer is not jetting the exorbitant profits out of the >eef that he raises, and it is said that l bulletin will be issued by the departnent of agriculture this week setting orth the fact. '"T,i 1 1* In nroH Intorl Will "me uuiieuii, u 10 f/ivu.v.vv., ihow not only that the number of anlnals used for food has Increased In he last year, but that the Increase has >een greater In proportion to the previous supply than the increase in population. The secretary of agriculture ias little doubt that the excessive profts on other farm products also are gong into somebody's else pocket. In he secretary's opinion there is some ixcuse for a certain increase in the cost if living, because the farm area has lot been keeping pace with the increase n the population, but this condition ioes not explain the present prices. Farmers Are Responsible. "One cause for high prices as the delartment of agriculture views the sltjation, is the decline of the neighbor iood farmer. Fifteen or twenty years igo farmers living near small cities jsed to have their family customers. The families arranged regularly with the farmers for their supply of pork, butter, eggs, fruits, vegetables, potatoes and sometimes lamb and othei meats. The neighborhood farmer be gan his decline with the appearance of the refrigerator cars. The little farmers dropp -d out under the hard condition of the refrigerator business and the big ones took to disposing of their ( products only to the commission men or shippers. Thus cities that formerly supplied their demand with homegrown products now depend absolutely upon products shipped in refrigerator cars. The service that the extravagant , American demands of his butcher and hla rrnppr la another thine that the department of agriculture finds figures | in the cost. The American today wants quick delivery by his butcher; some( times he even wants his butcher and grocer to call at his house and take his orders. All that adds to the cost in the end. "The figures that the secretary of agriculture has collected thus far show that on January 1, 1!>09, the price of beef was 22.6 per cent higher than the average level of price in the live years from 1896 to 1900 Inclusive. The price that the farmer got for his beef before they were fattened was only a little higher than the average price he had received in the 1896-1900 period. The increase in price that he got for his cattle on corn was not equal to the rise in the price of corn. Prom this the secretary decided that the farmer was not getting all that was coming to him. "The increase In the retail price of meat, according to the department's information, also has been much greater relatively than the Increase In the wholesale price. When the packer has raised on the retailer the retailer has passed the raise along to the consumer with a litle more tacked on for good measure." "CONTEMPT OF COURT." Brazen Effrontery of Some of the Big* ger Criminate. Read the Colorado supreme court reports, volume 35, page 326. Tou will And It charged that the Colorado & Southern Railway company, the Denver & Rio Grande railway company and the public service corporations of Denver had an agreement with Governor Peabody whereby these corporations were to be allowed to select the judges to be appointed to the supreme bench; that Luther M. Goddard had been selected as a proper judge by the public utility corporations, but that the two railroad companies objected to him as "too closely allied with the interests of the Denver City Tramway company and the Denver Union Water company." "As a last resort," the statement continues, "the agent and representative of the said Colorado & Southern Railway company was Induced to, and did, after midnight on Sunday, the 8th day of January, and at about 1 o'clock in the morning on Monday, the 9th day of January, repair to the home of the said Luther M. Goddard, calling him out of bed, having then and there such conversation with the said Goddard that the said railway corporations, through their agents, withdrew their opposition to his confirmation, and they did on said morning <it about 3 o'clock thereof announce to the remainder of the said corporations through their said agents and representatives, that their opposition had been withdrawn, and the withdrawal of the said opposition having been announced, the assembly did, almost Immediately upon its convening on the morning of Monday, the 9th day of January, confirm the said nomina tlon of the said Goddard." The brief containing these charges is signed by Henry M. Teller, United States senator, and by ex-Governor Thomas, acting as counsel for Senator T. M. Patterson, who had made the charges in his paper, the Rocky Mountain News. These gentlemen offered to prove the charges before the court, but the court in a most amazing decision, refused the offer, held that no matter how true such charges might be, it was "contempt of court" to make them, and fined Senator Patterson $1,000. Senator Patterson, rising to receive his sentence, protested against it to the court. "If constructive contempt," he ended, "is to be maintained as it has been maintained by this court, it can simply mean . . . that we have in each of the states of the union a chosen body of men who may falsify Justice, who may defy the constitution and spit upon the laws, and yet no man dare make known the facts . . . From this time forward I will devote myself ... to deprive every man and every body of men of such tyrannical power, of such unjust and dangerous prerogative."?"The Beast and the Jungle," in Everybody's. The Farm of the Future. Just as there has been a revolution in the business world in the last hundred years, so it is almost certain that there is going to be a revolution in farming during the twentieth century. We are going to learn to manage the land better. We are going to learn how to save the fertility of the ?oil. We are going to learn how to breed plants of greater productiveness and profit. We are going to learn to manage new lines of farming in sections wnere tnese new jjnea may piuapci, and going to get twice as much from the land as we have ever gotten before. All kinds of modern conveniences and comforts are going to the country. Farm homes are going to be more beautiful. Good roads are coming through all our rural sections. The telephone will put the farmer in communication with all the outside world. Rural free delivery will be extended until practically every farmer in the country has the advantages of dally mail. Better organization of the farmers Is going to result In better methods of marketing and greater stability in prices. Our public schools are going to be made to train for farm life, and we are going to have thousands of boys In the agricultural colleges where there are now only scores. The men who work on the farms are going to have a new spirit; and instead of finding their daily work mere drudgery, education will give such new meaning to their tasks and such a zest to their life that every one will go about his daily work with an eager and joyous spirit such i as the factory employe or the city laborer can never know. Improved machinery, too, will lighten the work on the farm and more horse power will double a man's earning capacity so that greater profits will go hand in , hand with greater interest in the work itself.?Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer and Farm Gazette. "THE NEXT WEST." The Time of the South Is Now at Hand. All through the cotton states there Is an enthusiasm for agricultural progress which seems at once contagious and infectious. "I wish I could live to see what modern scientific agricultural methods will do for our country In the next ten years," an old Union county farmer observed the other day; and he went on to sav: "Whv. a vounsr fellow In my neighborhood makes as much I corn on an acre as his father used tol make on a whole two-horse farm, and he makes it on sandy land that we used to think was not fit for corn at all." Again, there was all the pathos of Markham's "Man with the Hoe" in the remark another old toilworn, whitehaired farmer made to me last spring; this old man has passed his three-score years and ten and unable to work longer: "I sometimes think it is not fair," he said sadly, "that I did not know the things they know today about how to enrich the land and improve the seed and manage crops and save the wastes. With this knowledge thirty years ago my whole life would have been different!" Get your conception from these incidents of how genuine Is the agricultural revolution in the south; our young men athrill with new Inspiration and our old men regretful that they can not live their lives over in the new era into which they have now come! No one force is responsible for this change, but a dozen distinct forces, most of which have sprung into activity within four or five years, and which together are doing a work little less than marvelous. Most notable of all perhaps is the Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration work of the United Q+a+ao ^Anni4mont nf Qffrioill hiro lift. maiuo viiiciib vt UQ> ivuivu?v| der the direction of Dr. S. A. Knapp, In which 300 men scattered throughout I the south are now regularly employed. Boys' Corn Club. The plan is to get the most successful and progressive tanner in every county or district to visit all the farmers in his territory and give practical instruction in all lines of Improved agriculture from the best methods of seed selection to the best methods of harvesting the finished crop. A few weeks ago I was at a round-up meeting of all the demonstration agents of my state, and their reports made one think of them as the heroes of a new Crusade, and their enthusiasm was hardly Jess than that of the old Crusaders themselves. Most recently of all we have the Boys' Corn Club work, In which 12,000 southern boys are now enrolled, and which is doing more than anything else yet conceived of to solve the hoary problem of "how to keep the boys on the farm." In each county prises are offered?bankers, merchants, newspapers, everybody, contributing?for the boys and the adult farmers whg make the biggest yields, and after harvest come "corn judging days," In which the prize-ears are brought for exhibition and the successful contestants honored as If they were victors in the Olympian games, A 13-year-old Granville county boy, weighing seventy-six and a half pounds made seventy-six and a quarter bushels of corn on an acre last year. A Rowan county boy with improved methods made ninety bushels per acre on part of a field in another part of which a tenant, using old methods, made only ten bushels per acre. Steadily increasing, too, Is the inter est in agriculture as a puouc scnooi study, and the old misfit list of textbooks and scheme of Instruction?made by city people for city people, "its i arithmetic, its geography, its penman- < ship, its bookkeeping, its reading books, j all dominated by clerk and trade point , of view," as Dr. John Qraham Brooks ] has well said?is at last giving way to a curriculum suited to the needs of the < country people and athrob with the , new spirit in rural life. j "Go west, young man," said Horace Greeley a half century ego, "Go south, t young man," would be his message if ] he were alive today, and with even | more reason than that on which his | former advice was based. For in the south today are pioneer opportunities , without pioneer privations. It is a land old enough to have all the advantages of a well-rounded civilization, and yet without industrial possibilities as daz- ; zling as those of the golden west to which Greeley called attention. The average acre of land in the south today sells for only one-third as much | as land of the same fertility in the west, and as surely as water seeks its : own level, so surely will these land ( values also adjust themselves. Only this week there has come to me the j complaint of an Indiana man who is < making only thirty bushels of corn on land worth $300 an acre. A few weeks | ago I rode from my office to see a field j of North Carolina corn which produced i 226 bushels per acre?and It was bought within a decade for $10.53! Within j four miles of my office Mr. W. A. i Simpklns made two and one-half bales ] of cotton per acre last year (the seed < and lint from this quantity is now worth about $250) on land he bought a , few years ago for less than $20 per ( acre, if the value of buildings are con- j sidered. The world's record for corn' yield is held by South Carolina; the next high- . est record is that of the North Caroll- , na farmer to whom I have Just refer- ( red, and I have before me now a pho- ( tograph of a Virginia boy in knee breeches who made 122 bushels per acre this year at a cost of 14| cents a bushel. So we are finding out at last that the south can compete with the , corn belt Itself growing corn; with the extermination of the cattle tick we . shall find that we can compete with , ? -? ? -I . any otner section ui nmeiiv? o : stock. LowPriced Land. I With a milder climate and a longer I growing season than any other section 1 enjoys, we are able to grow every crop of the north and west?on my home i farm corn, wheat, oats, cotton, peanuts i and tobacco all are cultivated?and In 1 addition to all this, the south has a 1 monopoly of what Is today the most 1 profitable staple crop on earth, the southern farmer's pockets now bulging with nearly a billion dollars received 1 for his 1909 cotton alone. '"With prop- 1 er attention to stock raising and legume growing you can in six or seven years make your southern lands worth $100 per acre," declared Secretary of Agriculture Wilson to me last spring, and there Is no more alluring agricultural opportunity In America than that of taking $10 or $20 southern land and Increasing its value five or ten-fold In a decade, besides making good profits while doing It This is what the south, with only two-fifths of its land cleared and under cultivation, offers to northern and western farmers, and It Is small wonder that thousands of them are coming to Texas and Florida, whlla nthar states will soon get their quota of this best class of immigrant*. The grandsons of the southerners who went toward the setting sun?so many went from my own state to Indiana that it was once proposed to call that state "New Carolina"?are now coming back home to play a part in another development no less notable than the winning of the west itself. But rapid a* has been the growth of property values in the south, amaslng as has been the increase in agricultural wealth, and remarkable as the gain in the number of our factories, there Is another thing that In almost every state and county has grown taster yet ?the public school fund. If North Carolina's manufacturing growth has been so rapid that in 29 years' time we have put 30 spindles where one was before, her educational growth has been so much more rapid that in only eight years' time she has put 30 local tax school districts where one was before. And Tennessee seems to have tone a bowshot beyond any other stats bv dlrectlnar that 25 ner cent of her gross revenue shall hereafter be spent ran for public education In addition to the 13.000,000 raised by the counties themselves, while only the other day It-was announced that three cities in the state have pledged an average of $1,000,000 each for normal schools. To Him That Hath." It is in such.facts as these, after all, that we have the surest promise of a great future for the southern states. It is true that for us the tides of population are now changing from emigration to immigration, but without a single Immigrant the south would reach the heights suggested in this article, because henceforth she will develop her own people and keep her own strong men at home. Heretofore the double burden of poverty and Illiteracy has produced such results as this: that while the Carolines and Virginia have suffered a net loss of one-seventh their total native population of the men of such distinction as to be noted In "Who's Who in America," they have within their borders only 52 per cent eus many as they have given birth to. Until now it has been a case of "From him that hath not;" hereafter It will be a case of "To him that hath." With an educated population, rapid growing wealth, and even more rapidly growing Industrial opportunities, we shall not only keep our strong leaders with us, k..? .kail ntkan, ?a nil. hnp. I/Ul ITU BIUUI U??IT VUiVAO W VU? ww?dera. And to the strength of material a'chlevemenf~ the south will add the " beauty of a broad and varloua culture, enriching the world with the perfect fruitage of a civilization which not In train hae known sorrow and struggle? md triumph after trial. For our people, In reaching out for the progress and prosperity of the newer day, still bold fast to the south's ancient Ideal Ism, and It is a symmetrical and complete civilisation toward which they . ire striving.?Article written by Clarance H. Poe for Colller'a CHILDREN OF LONG AGO. The Etiquette They Were Taught In the Eighteenth Century. A volume on politeness and manners which was published in the eighteenth :entury does not confine itself to purely ethical considerations. The minutsat directions are given as to polite behavior under all sorts of circumstances: "Take salt with a saltspoon or else with a clean knife, not with that you axe eating with, for that will foul the rest "Do not laugh at table, much less sneeze, cough or yawn. But if you can. not avoid It hold up the napkin or tablecloth before your face and turn aside from the table. "When you drink bow to some one of the company and say sir or madam. "Never regard what another has on his plate. It looks as if you wanted it "If you have occasion to laugh turn from the company. "Always look pleased, but not merry unless there is occasion." Now as to the deportment of a young master: "Put one hand easy and free into the bosom of your waistcoat and the other under the flap of it "Do not button more than the three lowest buttons of your waistcoat that your hand may not be raised too high. "Do not thrust your hand into your breeches as vulgar boys do, but let it fall with ease under the flap of your waistcoat" To face this page there is a beautiful "copper cut" of a young master in the easy and elegant attitude recommended, and truly "there is a great leal of sweetness in his looks." This delightful volume was published by R. Baldwin at the Rose in Paternoster row and B. Collins in Salisbury 1765.?London Strand Magazine. 8keleton In the Closet,?The origl nal of the singular saying "A skeleton in the closet," which Is found In almost every language In Europe, Is found in :>ne of those curious collections of stories that have come down from the middle ages. In one of these collections, compiled by an unknown hand ibout the middle of the tenth century, there Is a story of a wealthy lady who, having a secret grief, confided it to a friend who was apparently a perfectly happy woman. She was the wife of a nobleman who lived in his castle in the Bouth of Prance. She and her husband were outwardly on the most loving terms. Not a care cloud seemed to cast a shadow on her path. After healing the story of her afflicted friend the noble lady took her by the hand and led her to a secret chamber adjoining her bedroom, there opened the door of a closet and exposed a skeleton. "Know, my friend," she said, "no one is happy. Every day I am forced by my husband to kiss this grinning death head, which is that of a gentleman who was my husband's rival and whom I would have married had not my parents willed otherwise." XV A dog has lived thirty-nine days without food.