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* ISSUED SEMI-WEEKL"^ ^ L. b grist's SONS, Publisher..} % ^amilti Iteaspapcr,: ^or (he promotion of (he political, Social, agricultural and (Tommerrial Interests of the people. J TE""?'N"o"E02oiJ"*J"c/N0""CE' 'x ESTABLISHiD 1855. - YORKVILLE, S. ^ FRIDAY, JANTTAR~Y^7 l 911. NO, -2. t *tf+A H?5?+A *#*A *#+A *?+A ??*A ! .FORTUNE 4 Novelized by Lou | From the Play of 4 by Winch jl Copyright 1910, by Wlnchell Sra ^ **+A ?*+A *>$+A *?*A *?*A *?+A CHAPTER XVII. Probably nothing ever gave rise to more comment in Radville than Betty c Graham's departure to spend the winter at a boarding school near Philadelphia. Hardly any one knew anything ] about it?in fact, the rumor of it was j just being noised about and contempt- t uouslv discredited on all hands?when t Tracey galloped down Main street g Monday morning with the news that r * she had left on the early train. j Radvllle was at first stupefied, then s ^ clamorous, but there was little information to be got out of old Sam. 1 Duncan himself refused to be inter- r viewed. He told everybody who had the Impudence to mention the matter to him that it was Mr. Graham's af- > fair. Mr. Graham was a substantial business man, he said, and if he chose to send his daughter away to school k he had a perfect right to do so. 1 One direct result of it all was to a hasten Josie's own leave taking. It s T, would never do to let the Grahams r eclipse the Lockwoods, you see. Josle t p had been talking of going to a school 1 ' A?<V: A fr.'.RTY QOWN FOR 8TATE OCCASIONS. P in Maryland, but Betty's move to a ^ fashionable center like Philadelphia made her change her mind, and ar- n rangements were made by which Josie ^ was able to go Betty one better. A k young ladies' seminary in New York ^ city itself received Josie. She left us bereaved about a week after Betty vanished from our ken, but promised n to be back for the Christmas holidays. Betty was happy, she protested in every communication, and wholly con- 11 tent. She was getting along. The a other girls liked her, and she liked them, these statements being made in the order of their relative importance. ^ Lots of them, of course, were frightL fully swell (Betty annexed "frightfully" at school, by the bye) and had all r sorts of clothes. The drug store, not to be outdone, supplied her with a party gown for state occasions. Josie kept her promise and came home for Christmas. She was reticent as to her impressions of the New York | i seminary, hut seemed extremely glad L to be home, notwithstanding the fact W that Nat had apparently contracted no ^iofi.rhintr niiinnocs with the other belles of our village. And Roland remained true?a reliable second string ( to Josie's bow. Roland was working hard at the bank, with an application that earned Blinky Lockwnod's regard and outspoken approbation, and his ^ Christmas raiment proved the sensation of the season. In passing I should mention that Betty didn't come home once throughout the entire school term. The Christmas and Easter holidays she spent with a girl friend at her Philadelphia home. Meanwhile life in our town simmered gently. Duncan continued to make progress. For one thing 1 recall that he put In hot soda with whipped cream, which helped a lot to hold the trade regained in the summer from Sothern & Lee. ? * Occasionally Duncan visited some of f the towns in the county to develop the mail order business which he had successfully inaugurated and which increased materially the profits of the firm. There was a certain night along toward the 1st of January when trade was dull, as it always is after Christian ? and there was nobody in the store save Nat and Tracey. Each had their task, whatever it may have been, " and each was busied with it, hut of the a two Tracey seemed the more restless, a Duncan broke a long silence in the store. "What's the trouble, Tracey?" Tracey pulled up with a stare of con- s fusion. "I?I dunno, Mr. Duncan: I > was thinkin', I guess." "Anything gone wrong?" "Not yet." I "Somebody been demonstrating that s your doll's stuffed with sawdust, Tracey ?" f "N'o-o; but, say, Mr. Duncan"? Tra- f cey's confusion became terrific. s "Say on, Mr. Tanner." 1 Tracey struggled perceptibly. The i words when they came were blurted. "Ah, I was only thinkin' 'bout Angie." r "Do you ever think about anything else?" s "Not," Tracey admitted honestly, 1 "not much. But I was wonderin'"? *?*A *?+A *,*+A ?t**A **+A * [ E ... I HUNTER. I M is Joseph Vance $ the Same Name M el Smith ^ I ith and Louis Joseph Vance. ^ *?+A *?*A *?*A ??+A ***A % "Well?" "Are you stuck on Angle, Mr. Dun:an?" demanded Tracey desperately. "Great snakes! I hope not!" The boy sighed. "Thank you, Mr. Duncan. I was only worry In' because rou and Angie is singin' together in he choir now Josie Lockwood's gone o school an?an? Angie's the purtiest firl in town?an' I was 'fraid 't you night like her best when Josie's away. Vn' I wanted to ask you to pick out I'mother girl." Duncan chuckled silently. "Tracey," le said presently, "it strikes me you nust be in love with Angie." The boy gulped. "I?I am." "And I think she's rather partial to ou." "Do you, really, Mr. Duncan?" "I do. Do you want to marry her?" "Gee! I can't hardly wait! Only," Tracey continued, disconsolate, "it dn't no use, really. She's so purty an' iwell an' old man Tuthill's so rich? tot like the Lockwoods, but rich all he samee?an' I'm only the son of the ivery stable man an' fat an?all that? ,n'"? "Nonsense, Tracey!" Nat interrupted Irmly. "If you really wajit her and rill follow the rules I give you it's a inch." TTAMAni "VT?? "n?mr>Q n 9" nuncai, mt. x/u?vu>? . "I guarantee it, Tracey. Listen to ne." And Duncan expounded Kelogg's rules at length, adapting them o Tracey's circumstances, of course, nd throughout maintained the gravty of a graven image. "You try and ou'll see if I'm not right," he concludd. "Gosh, I b'lieve you are!" Tracey ried admiringly. "I'm just goin' to ee how it works." "Do, if you'd favor me, Tracey." "Say, Mist?Nat, you've treated me omethin' immense." Your mistake, Tracey. I haven't reated anybody since I've been here, m on the wagon." "I mean just now, when we was alkln' 'bout me an' Angie. I'd?I'd ike to help you the same way if I ould." "You would?" Duncan eyed the boy pprehensively, wondering what was oming. "Yes, indeedy, I would. An' p'rhaps kin tell you somethln* that will." "Speak, I beg." "You?er?you're tryin' to court Joie Lockwood, ain't you?" "Oh!" said Nat. "So that was it! 'hat's a secret, Tracey," he averred. "All right. Only if you are she's our'n." "Just how do you figure that out?" "Oh, I kin tell. She was in here to ight with Roland." "Tonight?" "Yes, just afore you come home from rayer meetin'. She was lookin' for ou, an' when she seen you wasn't ere she wouldn't wait for no soda nor othin'; said she had a headache an' as goin' home. Roland went with er, but she didn't want him to. You list missed seein' her." "Heavens, what a blow!" "But Roland's takin' her home eedn't upset you none." "Thank you for those kind words, 'racey." Nat sighed and passed a roubled hand across his brow. "You're true friend." "I'm trvin' to be, Nat, same's you are 3 me." Tracey thought this over. I | ' + ' f w '<<+ |gcX >^V?r yf f%v ^ m^BM {> *%&ui flp^- * ^^Eg ^^BhHr^ ,,. N | \ .... > "I was only think1n' about angie. But you ain't foolin' me, are you?" he isked presently, "I mean 'bout bein* l true friend?" "Why should I?" "Ah, I dunno. You're so cur'us lometimes. I ain't never sure whether ou mean what you're sayin' or not." "Oh, don't say that." "Well, I ain't the only one. Every>ody in town savs they don't underitand you half the time." Duncan moved over to Tracey. His ace was entirely serious. "Tracey," le said, dropping a hand on the boy's ihoulder, "do you know, nothing in ife is harder to bear than not to be inderstood ?" Tracey wrestled with this for a monent, but it was beyond him. "Then why the dickens don't you talk io's folks '11 know what it's about?" ?e demanded heatedly. "Because?hm!" Duncan hesitated, with his enigmatic smile. "Well, because the rules don't require it." "What d' you mean by that?" Tra- cey exploded. I Nat couldn't explain, so he countered neatly. "This is one of your Angle evenings, isn't it, Tracey?" T "Yep, but"? "Well, you hurry along. I'll close up the shop." ni To Duncan, now seated on the edge a, of an upturned box in a corner of the n store, came an idea. He drew a roll of jr bills from his pocket and stripped off the top one. o] "Here's $5," he said to Tracey. "Girls can usually be captured by judicious expenditures. I wish you luck." c< "Ah, thanks, Mr. Duncan." "But, Tracey"? v' The boy paused at the door. "What?" "Remember what I told you. Don't c< ?\v C( c; flnj cc DUNCAN TRAVELED TO THR NEIGHBORING c( TOWNS TO DEVELOP BUSINESS. you make too much love. Let Angle cc do that." "Gosh, that '11 be the hardest rule of t0 all for me!" A shadow clouded Tracey's honest eyes. "But I got to do it cc tViof wou anvu-Qv T pnn't ask her to marry me ylt. I can't afford to get married. "It's a contrary world, Tracey, a contrary world!" sighed Nat In a tone of deepest melancholy. "What makes you say that? You cc kin git married's soon's you want to." "You think so, Tracey?" cc "All you got to do 's ask Josie"? "I'm almost afraid you're right." Fl "Why? Don't you want to git married?" w "Well"?Nat smiled?"no. Don't believe I do, not just now, at any rate." v' "Well, you don't have to if you don't want to. G'd night." vi "Yes, I do," Nat told Tracey's back. "The rules say so. If the girl asks me cc I must." He grimaced ruefully beneath his cc wisp of a mustache. "Anyhow, I've got a few months left." cc ********* So the winter wore away, and as cc spring drew nigh upon our valley Duncan seemed to grow perturbed, even ^ as he had been in the autumn before Betty went away. cc Duncan urged Sam to move his household from over the store to a cc riuust*. nc puuiicu uui men <x oc|miaic residence distinctly befitted the dig- cc nity of a man who was at once a prominent inventor and one of Rad- ^ ville's leading merchants (vide a "Personal" in the late issue of the Radville 'n Citizen), to say nothing of the social position of his daughter?meaning *n Betty. And the house Duncan had his metaphorical eye upon was large cc enough to shelter Nat himself in addition to the Graham family. C<1 Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent. Whatever Nat proposed in Sam's understanding was right and feasible, cc and even if it wasn't really so Nat would make it so. They engaged the cc house and moved. Miss Ann Sophronsiba Wliitmarsh, a maiden lady of for- cc ty-five or thereabouts, popularly known as "Phrony," had been comin in by 0 the day to "do for" old Sam in the room above the shop. She was en- O gaged as resident housekeeper for the new establishment and entered upon bt her duties with all the discreet joy of one whose maternal instinc ts have been cc suppressed throughout her life. She mothered Sam, and she mothered Nat, c< and she panted in expectation of the day when she would have Betty to 'a mother. [To be Continued.] ? Barnwell, December 30; Mr. cr Joshua Ashley, known all over this section as "Shug," Barnwell county's ta champion long distance walker, was found dead in bed at his home, about S| eight miles from Barnwell, yesterday morning. A man of unusual physical ta strength, his powers as a pedestrian were truly marvellous, and many . tales, some of them almost incredible, are told of his endurance. It is said that he walked into Augusta from his ta home, a distance of some forty miles, one mnmincr from there nut into the country ten or twelve miles, danced co all night and returned home the next day. showing very little signs of fatigue. He is also credited with having left Elko one morning and at sundown walked into Charleston, a dis- cc tance of some one hundred miles. At another time he was on his way ^ to Blackville when he was overtaken by a gentleman riding in a buggy. When invited to a "lift" he replied lit that, as he was "in a hurry, he would walk on." Once, while the guest of a friend living twenty miles from his (Ashley's) home, he offered to help his host shingle a house. Leaving co for home to get his hatchet he told his friend that he would be back for dinner. True to his promise, when c'? the noon hour arrived. Mr. Ashley walked in with the hatchet in his hand. Mr. Ashley was 74 years old when he died. c0 ittiscrllancous grading. , HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. wice as Many New as Old Member* Thi* Year. < In the house this year there will be early twice as many new members ' s old members. Some of the new lembers, however, have seen service ' i the house In years gone by. The following shows the line-up of Id and new house members: | New Members. Jas. S. Gilbert, Abbeville, Abbeville aunty. J. Howard Moore, Abbeville, Abbe-j ille county. Frank B. Gray, Abbeville, Abbeville aunty. Calbraith L. Butler, N. Augusta, Iken county. Chas. H. Salley, Salley, Aiken aunty. W. C. R. Turnbull, Graniteville, Aien county. J. Belton Watson, Anderson, No 2, nderson county. Willis W. Scott, Anderson, Anderson aunty. J. A. Hunter. Bamberg, Bamberg aunty. W. C. Vincent, Bluffton, Beaufort aunty. A. M. Hiott, Prltchardville, Beauart county. i nos. ?. peoples, oiacKvuie, uarnell county. R. P. Searson. Jr., Allendale, Barnell county. Jas. E. Davis, Barnwell, Barnwell >unty. M. J. Motte, Monck's Corner, Berke-* y county. Harvey W. Mitchum, Wilson R. F. ., Clarendon county. H. B. Richards, Jr., Plnewood, larendon county. Jas. Reaves, Mayesville, R. F. D., larendon county. G. H. Horlbeck, Charleston, Charles>n county. J. B. W. Bailey. Charleston. Charles* in county. H. L. Erckman, Charleston! imrifsiun county, C. W. Whlsonant, Wilklnsvllle, herokee county. R. A. Dobson, Gaffney, Cherokee junty. W. P. Odum, Chesterfield, Chesterfid county. W. F. Stevenson. Chesterfield, Ches-; rfield county. J. W. Will, Cottageville, Colleton >unty. J. T. Polk, Islandton. Colleton >unty. J. P. Klrvln, Darlington, Darlington >unty. W. E. James, Darlington, Darling m county. ( Clarence D. Lee, Lamar, Darlington >unty. P. L. Bethea, Clio, Dillon county. Cyrus Mlms, Harleyvllle, Dorchesr county. Jerome H. Courtney, Trenton, Edge- s ?ld county. T. H. Ketchin, Winnsboro, Fairfield ( >unty. R. A. Mears, Rldgeway, Fairfield f >unty. R. Keith Charles, Tlmmonsvllle, f lorence county. D. H. Magill, Greenwood, Green- ^ ood county. John M. Daniel, Greenville, Greenlle coutny. wmuii n. jirjiiie, *jrieeiivjiie, ureeulle county. C. D. Smith, Greenville, Greenville unty. C J. \V. Manuel, Hampton, Hampton ^ unty. B. T. Tison, Tillman, Hampton unty. T. J. Kirkland, Camden, Kershaw s unty. Geo. W. Jones, Lancaster No. 2, incaster county. J. H. Miller, Cross Hill, Laurens 1 c unty. t J. Archie Willis, Laurens, Laurens s unty. ? Jas. C. Baskin, Bishopville, Lee unty. W. J. Dubose, Bishopvllle, R. F. . No. 6, Lee county. J. Brooks Wingard, Lexington, Lexgton county. U. L. Shuler, New Brookland, Lexgton county. J. J. Evans. Bennettsville, Marlboro unty. D. McQueen, Dunbar, Marlboro unty. Frank P. B. Pegues, Kollock, Marl>ro county. Geo. S. Mower, Newberry, Newberry unty. John B. Harris. Westminster, Oconee unty. Frank M. Gary, Seneca, Oconee unty. Dr. H. A. Odum, Springfield, rangeburg county. a J. Rutledge Conner, Holly Hill, a rangeburg county. r Jas. F. Hutto, Livingston, Orange- ?] trg county. g E. P. McCravey, Easley, Pickens j. iunty. c \V. E. Hopkins, Hopkins, Richland j unty. t Oeo. R. Rembert, Columbia, Rlchnd county. j P. T. Youmans. Columbia. Richland 8 >unty. t E. F. Bookter, Littleton. Richland ^ unty. t U M Arnnlrl Wnnrt 1-11 ff \'n 1 Sn.ir nburg county. v Gentry K. Osborne. Spartanburg, ^ lartanburg county. j Jesse W. Boyd. Spartanburg. Spar- ^ nburg county. e C. M. Drummond. Woodruff, Spar- s nburg county. Joe Mansfield. Spartanburg. Spar- f nburg county. t R. B. Belser, Sumter. Sumter * unty. p R. W. Hamilton. Jonesville, Union j unty. t _ _ _. .. ? . T B. B. Uhanuier, uome, \\ uuamsourg ~ mnty. r J. C. Graham. Gourdln. Williams- i irg county. a R. H. Kellehan, Kingstree, Wll- ? tmsburg county. t Dr. J. H. Saye. Sharon, York f unty. ;; Thos. F. ..icDow, Yorkville, York c unty. p J. E. Beamgunrd. Clover. York ? unty. h Old Members. a John F. Williams. Aiken, Aiken J unty. p K. J. Smith, Anderson, Andersoi county. J. W. Ashley. Honea Path, Ander son county. Jas. L. Jackson, Anderson No. 7 Anderson county. W. L. Riley, Denmark, Bamberj county. J. M. Lengnick, Beaufort, Beaufor county. L. G. Fultz, Monck's Corner, Berke ley county. C. T. Shuler, St. Stephens, Berke ley county. H. C. Paulding, St. Matthew's, Cal houn county. H. G. Leland, McClellanville Charleston county. F. M. Bryan, Charleston, Charles ton county. A. W. Todd, Charleston, Charlestor :ounty. A. C. Tobias. Jr., Charleston Charleston county. A. Vander Horst, Charleston Charleston county. A. G. Brlce, Chester, Chestei :ounty. S. T. McKeown, Cornwell, Chestei :ounty. J. E. Nunnery, Fort Lawn, Chestei ;ounty. D. L. Smith, Walterboro, Colletor :ounty. W. W. Dixon, Wlnnsboro. Falrflek :ounty. H. M. Ayer, Florence. Florenc* :ounty. ii Dn/vti'n iriArunno T?lnrPDP< ;ounty. M. P. Wells, Edgefield, Edgeflelc :ounty. J. W. Doar. Andrews. Georgetowr :ounty. Olln Sawyer, Georgetown. George' own county. J. B. Bowers, Epworth. Greenwooc :ounty. w. M. Aicnoison, ijreemvouu, uiocir vood county. Dr. Thos. R. League. Greenville Jreenvllle county. John R. Harrison. Fountain Inn Jreenvllle county. L. B. Singleton, Conway. Horn :ounty. M. M. Stanley. LorlR. Horry county M. L. Smith. Camden. Kershaw :ounty. Harry Hlnes, Lancaster, Lancastei :ounty. W. C. Irby, Jr., Laurens, Laureni :ounty. Isaac Edwards, Batesburg. Lexing' on county. L. M. Gasque. Marion. Marlor :ounty. E. C. Edwards, Multlns, Marior :ounty. Arthur Kibler, Xewberry, Xewberrj :ounty. C. T. Wyche, Prosperity, Xewberrj .'ounty. J. S. Bowman, Jr., Orangeburg Orangeburg county. W. G. Mauldin, Xorrls, Plckeni ounty. W. E. Bodie, Saluda. Saluda county W. L. Daniel. Saluda, Saluda county Ben Hill Brown, Spartanburg Spartanburg county. Geo. W. Dick, Sumter, Sumtei :ounty. T. B. Fraser. Sumter, Sumtei ounty. L. J. Browning:, Union No. 2, Unlor ounty. O. L. Sanders, McConnellsvllle fork county. USEFUL SNAKE STONE. Jharmer Who was Bitten by Cobri Got Rid of the Poison. One Sunday morning two Indlar inake-charmers came to my smal mngalow at Hanwella," says a wrltei n a Cingalese newspaper. "They hat hree snakes with them and proceeded to make them dance as usual. ] (topped them and told them I had seer ill that before, and asked them whether they could compel a wild snake tc lance and, If so, whether they coulc atch one for the purpose. One ol hem expressed his willingness to d( 10. Ten days previously I had chasec ? i _ e *.x- ~ onlloH hv thf L CODra OI lilt: tauvu latives a "Tom-tom beater," !. e., the )lack cobra with red spectacle mar* >n Its hood. The Cingalese, I believe hlnk that they are the reincarnatlor >f low caste natives, hence the name t is certainly fiercer and more active han the common brown cobra. "I had noticed at the time it had aken refuge in an ant-hill near th< ;dge of the paddy field which formed >ne boundary of the new clearing upor vhich my bungalow stood, and situatsd about 200 feet from it. I led th( harmer to this ant-hill. When I aslured him that a snake almost certainy occupied the hole he squatted dowr ipposite to it and started blowing intc l reed pipe which gave a sound simlar to that of a bagpipe. After c ong time, and when I had almost givn up the idea of the snake being there itill, the cobra protruded its head ibout an inch out of the hole in ordei >resumably to see what was going on rhe charmer pounced upon it, and leizing the head of the snake between lis tnumn ana two miKei? wen. ?. ould not open its mouth he pulled t out of the white ants' nest and irought it to the bungalow. "He then tried to make it dance by lolding a small piece of white root ibove its head. The snake tried to es:ape several times, but was brought >ack again, and ultimately was induced o dance with its hood extended. "I then asked the charmer what he vould do if he happened to get bitter >y a wild snake. He told me that he lid not mind it, as he had a medicine vhich would certainly prevent any illffects. I then, more as a joke than inything else, promised him five upees if he would allow himself to be itten by the snake he had just caught, ully believing that he would not atl * \ T r? r\ 111 rl strm him le had seized the snake by the neck .nd had thrust the forefinger of his ight hand deep in its mouth, and when le withdrew it there were two puncures on each side of the second joint, loth punctures were bleeding slightly. "He handed the cobra to his com anion, who immediately shut him up n the snake basket, and the charmer ,t once took out from his waist-cloth . piece of charred bone, well known as he snake stone, which he applied to he two punctures. He then waited or some minutes, and I could see the eins on the back of his hands standng out like knotted strings. After a ouple of minutes or so the stone drop>ed down, and he told me that he had xtracted all the poison; and calling or a small cocoanut shell full of milk le put the stone into it. In a moment, fter a considerable amount of bubling, there came to the surface a cerain amount of an oily-looking liquid ale straw in color."?New York World. i ROOSEVELT LIBEL SUIT. Supreme Court Saye Action Against Press Publishing Co. Will Not Lie. By unanimous decision, the supreme ; court of the United States on last Tuesday decided that the Federal govt ernment could not maintain the socalled "Panama canal libel suit" . against the Press Publishing company of New York, in the Federal courts or rsew xorn. in so noiaing, tne courr affirmed the decision of the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York, which had quashed the famous indictment. In effect the decision was that the Federal court had no Jurisdiction over the alleged offense, because the case j might have been brought in a state court. The Press Publishing company, publishers of the New York World, was indicted in March, 1909, in the circuit court of the United States for p the southern district of New York on a charge of libel. . In effect the alleged libel was the publication of articles, stating that . Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robinson, and Wm. Nelson Cromwell, with J. , P. Morgan and others, obtained control of the Panama route for about j $3,000,000 and by the co-operation of Theodore Roosevelt, then president of , the United States, and brother-in-law of Mr. Robinson, and Wm. H. Taft, j the secretary of war, and brother of Mr. Taft, were enabled to effect the I sale of the Panama canal to the United States at a profit of $36,, 000,000. The United States claimed Jurisdiction to punish the alleged libel on the theory that the publisher had I committed a crime upon Federal ter rltory at West Point, X. Y., and in the postofflce building in New York city. It was argued that wherever the papers containing the alleged libel articles might have been printed that they were technically "published" upon these Federal reservations, and that the Federal government had the power to punish such publishing. The indictment was quashed on the ground that the court was without jurisdiction of the crime of libel charged in the Indictment. The United States appealed from this construction of the statute .under which it claimed the indictment was authorized. The ceclsion of the court today dealt entirely with the act of congress in 1898, under which the indictment was brought. The effect of this act was to incorporate the criminal laws of the several states in force on July 1, 1898, into the Federal statute and to make them applicable to Federal reservations within the various states. Among these state laws } was a New York libel law. The court, through Chief Justice White, stated that while the statute left no doubt where acts were done on reservations which were expressly prohibited and punished as crimes by a law of the United States, that law was dominant and controlling, yet, on the other hand, where no law of the United States had expressly provided for the punishment of offenses committed on reservations, all acts done on such reservations which were made criminal by the laws of the several states were left to be punished under the applicable state statutes. Chief Justice White said that investigation plainly established: "First that arieniiats means were afforded for punishing the circulation I of a libel on a United States reservation by the state law, and in the r j state courts, without the necessity of resorting to the courts of the United j States for redress. "Second, that resort could not be had to the courts of the United States } to punish the act of publishing a . newspaper libel by circulating a copy f of the newspaper on the reservation } upon the theory that such publication , was an independent offense, separate 4 and distinct from the primary print[ ing and publishing of the libelous art ticle within the state of New York, without disregarding the laws of that | state and frustrating the plain purpose of such law, which was that there [ should be but a single prosecution and conviction. I "These propositions being true, it , follows in the llghj of the construcI tion which we have given the act of , 1898 that the court was right in quashing the indictment as not auth, orized by that act. No other conclu . sion, we think, was possible, as the , court could not have sustained the in, dlctment without giving to the stat, ute a meaning directly conllicting with . the construction which we have affixL ed to it." > THE HECKLER. I Habits of the Individual Who Breaks I Up Meetings. i The heckler is a necessary comple; ment to every political meeting, so I much so that he is now dignified with I the title of The Voice. He bobs up in the most surprising places with the most surprising questions and thougii ; he is the fly in the ointment so far as the candidate is concerned, to the ; man in the street he figures a wel| come relief to the arid atmosphere of politics. There are candidates who > proudly boast that they welcome the i heckler as conducive to the success ! of a meeting. But a candidate must > needs be a versatile and resourceful individual if he is to come out of the i encounter with flying colors, for the 1 average heckler sets out with the express object of "upsetting the apple cart," and he is at some pains to bring about the result. The member who has served his constituency faithfully and well in the pasi nas iu run uic same *-n ocu ? more fierce fire of criticism than the aspiring tyro. A minute account of i his stewardship is demanded, and he has to justify his existence. "What have members been doing in London during the last few weeks," demanded a heckler of Col. Sir George Kemp when the latter was contesting a constituency. Before the colonel had time to reply a woman in the crowd called out, "there's no telling." a reply which convulsed the meeting for the rest of the evening. On one occasion Col. Lockwood, who in the defunct parliament had been chairman of the kitchen committee of the house of commons, was wooing tne electorate. A prominent supporter of the colonel was furthering his candidature when a free and Independent voter declared with a fine show of scorn: "I ain't going to vote for a man who Is only the kitchen. I want a man who is the "ouse." Quickly came the retort: "Oh, you don't want a man In the kitchen, don't you? Well, If your man gets returned, they will put him In the boot hole, where he will have to clean the other members' boots." But this reply was eclipsed by an ancestor of Lord Wemyss, who at the time was contesting Fife. This candidate did not believe in truckling to the electorate, and was noted for the freedom with which he gave his opinion. Speaking from a window of the town hall he was persistently heckled, and a strong lunged voter demanded: "Will you vote for the tax on news papers." "No," the candidate bellowed back, "but I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll vote to take the tax off soap and let you dirty devils get your faces washed.' A more conciliatory attitude was adopted by the late James Lowther when he was addressing a meeting in Yorkshire. The meeting was not going well, and the audience was decidedly restive until a sportsman yelled: "VVhat'U win the Great Yorkshire Handicap?" This was drawing a red herring across the track with a vengeance, but Mr. Lowther had the wit to perceive his opportunity. "Here's a good double for you," he replied. "Back Mr. (the candidate in whom he was interested) for the seat, and King Monmouth, (his own horse that had been entered) for the race." Happily the double came off and Mr. Lowther's stock went up with a bound. Another candidate was asked by a farmer at a Scottish meeting, "Who owns the grouse?" He was somewhat puzzled by the question, and replied that he presumed they belonged to the owners of the various shooting rights. "No," replied the heckler, "I will tell you who does?the Lord." And he quoted the passage In the Psalms which runs: "I know all the fowls of the mountains, and the wild beasts are mine." It chanced that the candidate was as well versed In the Scriptures as In economic writings and he promptly replied: "I think, my friend, you have forgotten the preceding verse. I will tell you what it Is: 'Every beast In the forest Is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.' " It so happened that heckler was a big owner of cattle and the shaft struck home. The late Sir Charles Hammond, who won a seat at Newcastle in 1892 when he was returned as junior member with Lord Morley, scored neatly off a heckler who ventured to Interrupt his discourse. "Get yer 'air cut, Charlie," cried the Interrupter. Sir Charles, who happened to be a magistrate, adjusted his glasses, and calmly scrutinizing his interrupter, remarked, "My friend, if I am not mistaken I have been the means of having your hair cut before today." It was at Newcastle that a candidate was persistently heckled by an individual who occupied a front seat and shouted, "Wrong, Jimmy," to every statement that was made. The candidate got tired of this and apropos of a point in his address he fixed his Interrupter and declared "their grievances are as numerous as the hairs on your head." "Wrong again, Jimmy," cried the heckler, uncovering and displaying a head totally denuded of hair. The personal appearance of the speaker Is always regarded as fair game by the heckler. A socialist who was pleading his cause at a Huddersfleld election thrilled the crowd by a vivid picture of the glorious conditions that would prevail when socialism was established. He was going full steam ahead when a voice cried out: 'E's a fine trade unionist, 'e Is. 'E's got nine penn'orth of 'air on."?London Globe. FARMING IN ARABIA. Primitive Agricultural Tools Used In Tilling the Soil. For many centuries the Yemen has been famed throughout Arabia for Its .'.f ?Vi? onll Thniieh ftarrlcul ture is the chief industry of the country, it has never been improved, and the system of land cultivation today is the same as it was a thousand years, ago. Practically the tools of the Yemen farmer are but four in number?the plow, the thrashing flail, a pick with a short handle, but a long curved steel point very strong and sharp, and the broad bladed powerful knife which every Arab carries in his belt. The plow is drawn by one or two bullocks, sometimes by a bullock and a woman. It has a single handle of wood and a wooden beam, but the share is of iron, about a foot in length and sharp. It does not turn the soil under, but cuts a very good furrow i four or five inches deep, and no American plowboy can run a straighter furrow or break up the surface of the soil better than the Yemen farmer can ] with this simple implement. The flail is the usual long and short cudgel fas- ] tened together with leather thongs, but | the Yemen farmer grasps the short < cudgel in his hands and flays out his 1 grain with the long one. Everything , done on an American farm with hoes, < rakes, harrows, etc., is done in the Ye- 1 men field with the long pronged pick, , and it is a most effective though slm- i pie farming tool. The knife is used to < cut the standing grain; hands do the 1 work of shovels and baskets the work of barrows.?Consular Report. < ' ! --That cats spread tuberculosis and , are a menace to the family was de- I elared recently by Dr. W. I. Ensor ' of Lakewood, Ohio, who within the ' last six months has dissected more than a hundred of the animals. Among Dr. Ensor's patients was the head of a family who was afflicted with tuberculosis. From the history i of the case the doctor was convinced 1 that the family cat had brought the i disease to the house. As a result he made an investigation. He offered i money for cats and a hundred or more < were killed and examined. "I found l in all of them germs of tuberculosis," i the doctor said. "Of course not all | the cats were in the last stages of .? the disease, although at least thirty ! per cent were in a serious condition. ] I venture to say that enough of the i germs were present to make any of 1 them a danger to a household. Cats i prowl around in various places and j thus carry the germs with them. 1 The household pets are a menace." 1 int 9rT M IMLV>t33ll T. His Methods Vary, But He Has Al\AJ awe CIaii ?Saha/J a rt rl ^ Iti/awa \A/ all The spy has been a general, if not an Inevitable, military institution almost since the beginning of armies and the practice of war. Jo*vua, it will be remembered, sent out spies into the Holy Land before the Iraelites crossed the Jordan. The Roman army always had its spies; and, as an early Instance of the utility of spying' one may quote the example of King Alfred the Great, who went in disguise into the enemy's lines and discovered his secrets. In the Middle Ages spies were everywhere; and in the middle of the 18th century the French army possessed a "chief of spies," and this post continued In existence at the ministry of war until the Revolution. In our own times, practically every foreign power has military spies in its pay, says the London Express. There are continual Incidents on the FrancoGerman frontier?the arrest of spies and the consequent international irritation?and more than once since 1870 such Incidents have nearly led to the outbreak of another war. Similarly it is notorious that the German army In this respect, as It Is in every other, wonderfully well served, has Innumerable military agents in Great Britain, and that the lay of the country, the condition of roads and the details of such fortifications as it possesses are all known quite as completely In Berlin as they are in London. Military spies are naturally divided into two classes. On the one hand there are the men who are willing to betray their own country for money payments, and who are rightly regarded as infinitely despicable. On the other hand there are the men who, for purely patriotic reasons, risk their lives and face the possibility of an ignominious death in order to render invaluable service to their country. This second class is naturally regarded with admiration and esteem. Of the patriotic spies, the most famous is John Andre, who, during the American Revolutionary war, obtained from Gen. Benedict Arnold the plans for the betrayal of West Point to the British. Arnold was a traitor; Andre was a patriot He was arrested and sentenced by Washington to be hanged. There can be no quarrel with the sentence, since the custom of all na*1 I- A UUU9 is luai ucaia cuiu a ouauiciui death?must be the lot of the captured military spy. But Great Britain showed its appreciation of Andre's motives by the erection of a monument to his memory in Westminster Abbey, where his remains are now interred. The late Cyrus Field, the projector of the Atlantic cable, and a patriotic American, erected a statue to Andre at Tarrytown, where he was hanged. Generally, a military spy captured during a time of peace Is not tried by a court-martial, but by the ordinary civil tribunals. The German law against spies was passed in July, 1903, the French law in 1866, and under this French law the penalty Is comparatively light?from two to five years' imprisonment, with a fine of from $200 to $1,000. Incidentally, one may note that Europe was covered with Pitt's spies at the end of the 18th century, and that every calamity in France, from the defeat of an army to a tenement fire, was popularly ascribed to them. In addition to the spy engaged in the more or less honorable service, of discovering military secrets, there is the police spy, whose business it is to discover Internal plots against the existence of governments. Such spies have always been employed by the police of every nation, and they are most necessary and most numerous when the government is autocratic and opposition is underground. During the unrest that followed the reformation In England, the spy became, probably for the first time, a national Institution. Burghley had an army of spies smelling out Jesuits. The laws against the Puritans brought the inevitable squadron of traitors and informers, and spying reached its most infamous depth with the exploits of Titus Oates and his associates in the reign of Charles II. In France, Richlieu and Louvois employed spies in all stations of life, and under Louis XIV, and Louis XV, spying was vastly extended, particularly while Sartines and Berryer were the lieutenants of the Paris police. ?The Revolution, with its fury against aristocrats, found ample em pioyment ror tne spy, ana *oucne, me notorious minister of police to Napoleon, found a congenial task In using them to the full. In more recent times the police spy has been generally employed to watch the movements of anarchists and revolutionists. Bismarck had a particularly well equipped corps engaged in this work. The Russian spy Is the government's chief weapon against nihilism, and the many Irish conspiracies during the 19th century made it necessary for the English police to rely largely on the use of the spy. The amazing exploits of the Russian secret police have been, of course, enormously exaggerated by imaginative writers, but the service is farreaching and complete, and the revolutionists in every foreign city are regularly and thoroughly watched. In nearly every instance the plans of the Irish dynamiters were foiled either by the greed of a traitor or by the ingenuity of a spy. It is not, perhaps, attractive to the normal man to gain the confidence of conspirators, to discover their secrets and promptly to give them away; but it cannot be denied that such a man as Major Le Caron, who time after time enabled Scotland Yard to checkmate the Clan-na-Gael, was a patriot in a very real sense, and an exceedingly useful police servant. Such a man carries his life in his hand, and the paymcn* he receives is little enough in comparison with the risk. Here, again, there is a great difference between such a man as Le Caron and the pitiful creatures wno in nearly every conspiracy are found willing to save their own necks by the betrayal of their comrades. The evil that accompanies the Institution of secret police Is the tendency to create conspiracies In order that they may be discovered. There Is no question that the agent provocator Is regularly employed In Russia, and is not unknown elsewhere. Un3er Bismarck there was little secret that he was regularly used by the police. The policy that It is better to bring conspiracies to a head and to give facilities to the would-be revolutionary to carry out his dreams?and to be arrested. But the whole scheme is Fundamentally wrong, and undoubtedly frequently leads to the punishment of innocent persons. Expensive Food. Canvosback ducks at 18 a pair, terrapin at $80 a dozen and hothouse grapes at J 1.50 a pound do not head the list of high priced foods. Rouen ducks are imported at $7 a piece, and Le Mans hens, fattened in a box, at only a dollar less, while French quail rost $1.50 each. Sole?the real thing from France?is half a dollar more than the quail. When peaches and plums raised in South Africa can be sold in New York for 25 cents a piece $1 seems a great deal for a French apple, but the Caluille kind bring that much. These juicy green apples are wall grown, and they are embellished with sun etchings, made by placing i tissue paper design on the growing fruit. Belgian asparagus has sold as high as $8 a bunch.?New York Press.