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. - . j jLL^ sEWi-waaKLi^ L it. aaisrs sons, PobU.h?.. j I ^amitg Hewsjapn: ^or th< promotion of th< politicat. ^oqial, Agricultural and (Commercial Interests of thij peopl<. { TIR'^u'i ,/PJ"^"c^"'Ct ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKyiLLE, 8. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER^^191j. NO. 9fi. ~ ~ - ' ? ?i nitti s I THE SHERIFF I ? ? | By HELEN | John Lorimer was very nervous. He looked backward over his shoulder more than once as he plunged through the gloom of the unlighted street. The word "plunged" Is used advisedly. It was John Lorlmer's way to bolt headlong at any coveted object?usually to miss it in the end. It is possible that his native town had never aDDraised young Lorimer | at his full value. There was a tinge of bitterness in his heart as he thought of this, that brought the smart of childish tears to his eyes. The only girl whom he had ever loved had played fast and loose with him for years. He had gone into business early and with bright prospects, only to fail lamentably at the end of a twelvemonth. Finally he had conceived the brilliant idea of entering politics. "A man who makes a failure in everything else," said the elder Lorimer pessimistically, "is mighty apt to strike it right in politics." So John Lorimer entered the political arena and the race for sheriff of Bradley county at the same time. Somewhat to his own surprise and - thanks to a little of the elder Lorimer's cash discreetly distributed, and the fact that it was an olf year in politics anyway, he carried the county by a good, safe majority. There was some" " *- T rv^tmor'u thing pathetic in Auunn uvi.u.?. reception of the news of his son's election. "I thought we would make it!" he said jubilantly. "I tell you. money is the thing, John. Still?I didn't think It was in you, son." His voice broke oddly. . "And now what am I to do with It?" asked young Lorlmer, looking at his father helplessly, and a little sullenly. "D? with?" The old man's voice righted Itself suddenly. "With the sheriffs office. I have to do something, don't I?" Andrew Lorimer smothered an oath In bis beard. "You can get a deputy, can't you?" he asked coarsely. That was the beginning of trouble for the sheriff of Bradley county. It had not been a very difficult matter to a mfln both able and willing to act a* his deputy. He was near at hand in the person of Richard Hardy, who had been a salesman In the now defunct firm of Hardy & Vaughn. And he had filled the office of deputy well; too well, In fact. He was the ideal officer f the law?prudent, yet fearless; and the crowning act of his official life, when he had swooped with his little posse upon a band of horse thieves and captured the whole gang, had crowned him with laurels and at the same time covered the real sheriff with contumely. "You see." said Agnes Watson a lltftle pityingly, "after all, you are the sheriff whom the people elected, John ?not Hardy. And you ought to take the lead in these things sometimes. Your constituents expect it." "I was out of town!" exclaimed Lorlmer. "I have told you so more than once. Agnes. But you and father are Always finding fault with me. You?" "You are too Indifferent, John," she said bluntly, "and. I think, too Indolent as well." A sudden flame kindled In the young man's swarthy cheeks. "I am not Indifferent to you, Agnes," he said pointedly. "I think that not even you can accuse me of that. I have borne with a hound's treatment?" Her face paled. "We may as well have It out once for all," she said with some spirit. "I am tired of your reproaches, John. I have been kind to you?far kinder to you than I should have been, I dare say. But I mean to marry man, John Lorimer?neither an IdJr- who shirks his duty, nor a coward who hides behind all sorts of clumsy falsehoods while another man (does his work!" "A man!" he repeated. "Like your favorite. Jack Grler. I dare say." She looked at him a little curiously. * 4 J UAA1 ''He Is an oici iriena turn bwuvuimate," she said quietly, "of yours as well as mine." Lorimer laughed bitterly. "You always cared more for him than you ever did for me, Agnes," he said. "Even when you were a little thing with long braids and short skirt's you used to turn away from me and let him walk home with you. He is a vagabond who never draws a sober breath for days together?" "I think it is time for you to go. John." said the girl calmly, although her face was pale and her voice shook a little. "You are tired and out of temper, and so am I. And I think that, for the present, at least, you had better not come back!" "I am sorry, Agnes," he wavered uncertainly, "though, after all. I only told you the simple truth. But I will not offend you again, dear." She gave a half sob. "Oh. John, I am tired?so tired! It is useless to talk to you: you have made too many promises. You always lose your temper. and so do I, and then we both say?(things?and regret them afterward. We might as well end it first as last." Put that had not ended It. He wasj .quite as merciless to her as to himself, and at last stuns beyond endurance, she had told him again to go and never to come back. So this Is how it came about that he was treading the deserted streets of Rosston at midnight on this stormy night. His brain was teeming with plans to assert himself at last. She | had called him cowardly. He would show her?he would show the world j ?how false the charge had been. Why j the plotting and planning to capture the horse thieves had been all his own. and he had only stayed away at the last, because? The rain was falling heavily when he reached a deserted house in the outskirts of the village?a house with a light flaring from one of the windows. He climbed over the broken ' I: OF BRADLEY j ? ? j TOMPKINS. | i fence and knocked roughly at the 1 door. 1 It opened so suddenly that he re- treated a little. "Oh It Is you, Is it!" 1 said an emotionless voice. "You can come In If you like;" and the speaker threw himself IndifTerently back upon the shabby bed from which the knock had roused him. 1 John Lorimer closed the door and ! walked inside a little reluctantly. ( "I was not sure that I should find < you here," he said. 1 "Nor would you?had I known that i you were coming," remarked the other 1 coolly. He closed his eyes, but to a s keener observer than Lorimer his in- ? difference would have seemed slightly 1 exaggerated. "You might come to 1 your business as soon as possible." i "I have something of a plan on \ foot," said the sheriff. "It may come to something, or It may not. If It i does?" "If it does?" t "Nothing." Something in the cool r voice made Lorimer shiver. "Nothing, i Only if it did, it would mean $100 to you." r Grier turned a little, so that the light ' from the lamp no longer fell across his I race. "You are not married yet," he aald, with a constraint In hia voice that would have told his secret to a far duller, less jealous man than Lorlmer, with the memory of his recent interview with Agnes Watson fresh In his mind. "No?not yet," stammered Lorlmer, stirring to make his own voice sound more natural even to his own ears. "The fact is, Grler, 1 thought It best to postpone matters until I got things in the sheriffs office to running a little easier. I can tell, though, that the delay has troubled Agnes some?" He stopped with no apparent cause, and drew his breath sharply; but the fgure upon the bed had not stirred. 'To te'l the truth, Orier," said Lorlmer suddenly. "I am not making the success as sheriff that I ought to make. Hardy is forward and presuming, and ?my term of office Is nearly over, and c I want the nomination again- You may have heard my conduct of late crtyiciz- r ed a little?" a "I have," commented Grler dryly. % The reply was somewhat disconcert- r ing Lorlmer winced, and kicked savagely at the dying embers. "Look here. Lorlmer," burst out Grler, r sharply. "You had better come to the point, do you hear? Say what you are going to say and go to the devil!" 1 Lorlmer drew his chair forward a * little and sat down suddenly. Still he 1 seemed to And it difficult to speak. 8 "I wonder why you came to me tonight, Lorlmer," said Grler, with a cer- c tain wlstfulness in his voice. "I never harmed you in my life, so far as I <3 know!" ' "Nobody means to harm you," re- t turned Lorimer. "You are your own 1 worst enemy and always have been, c Your fondness for liquor?" "Who taught me to drink?" Grler 1 burst out suaaenly, ana so savageiy ^ that Lorimer started. "I never will understand your hold upon me, Lorimer. I have an unutterable contempt for 1 you. I am a better man than you are. T even with?my weakness. But even 8 with the contempt and hatred that I 8 feel for you, I know that I am sure to r do as you gay in the long: run." 8 Lorimer moved restlessly In his * chair. c "You are missing your liquor, drier," ? he said contemptuously, "and your r brain Is full of all sorts of mad fan- 8 cles. If I were not a friend of yours I ' should not be here to-night to give you 8 a last chance to begin life again In a new place and amid new surround- 8 lngg." He leaned forward and hip face * hardened. f "You see, Grler," he said curtly, "I 1 have got to do something to restore t public confidence. The people won't * stand for my acting as I have acted In * the past. I am willing to confess that C I might have paid more attention to business. I was away, you know, when r Thompson and his gang were captur- ? ed?" ? Crier's offensive laugh set Lorlmer i to raging agin, but he calmed himself with an effort. i "There is quite a sum of money in the safe at the courthouse at present," I he said: "in round numbers I should c say about 510,000. No one is supposed s to .know anything about it, of course, but if I were careless enough to drop a letter containing a note of the e amount-^" 1 He paused Irresolutely, but Grier \ cna noi sur. 'The courthouse is unguarded. I am t going to suggest at the next term of > the county court that measures be tak- 1 en to protect the peop'e's money. But i in the meantime it is there, and there i is absolutely no risk?" f "Go on," breathed Grier. "I must say ] however, that I am too dull to see how c all this is going to benefit you unless ] you look to a division of (the spoils, t which Is hardly likely. Go on." "It Is natural, of course," continued < Lorimer, "that having the interests of < the county at heart, I shou'd be rest- < less and uneasy. All this would show < up well?later. And if I caught a man 1 in the act of opening the safe and < single-handed effected his capture?" ^ "So that is your game, is it?" said < Grier slowly. "Of course, I see what | you would gain by it easily enough, but my vision is limited. Will you be good enough to tell me what there Is In this i for me?" i "Of course I was only joking when I poke of a hundred dollars," said Lorimer, in a low voice. His lips were dry. "A thousand would be nearer your share, Grier, of course, and a chance to escape?" "Ah, a chance of escape, of course." Grier spoke, musingly, but he did not i lower his voice. "And granting that I i was inclined to fall in with your views, what assurance have I that you would i ailow me this chance of escape?" "My word?" began the sheriff: but' the other stopped him. "Your word!" he echoed mockingly. He meditated for a time, with his gaze fixed on the celling, while Lorlmer watched him anxiously. "You see, there is nothing dishonest In It," said Lorimer persuasively, at last. "It is simply a play to the gallery, after all. The money will not be touched. And it will help me to square thing-s with the sheriffs office. Ana that, In turn, will help me with Agnes. And?there is another thing, old man. Agnes's health is failing. The climate here?we have had more rain than usual this spring, you know?is playing the devil with her. Her mother died with consumption, you remember, and Agnes has never been strong. She aught to spend the winter in southern Texas?" The bedstead creaked under Qrier's weight as he turned over suddenly. "All right," he said curtly. "I guess we will call it settled, Lorimer. Onty >-ou had better not give me too much lime to think about it. We will pull it >ff tomorrow night. And see that you teep your head, Lorimer. And no nonkeying with Hardy?do you hear? 3e is too blamed handy with a gun to luit me. Somebody will have to pump tome lead into him yet before he will earn any sense. And you had better ook to your pistols, Lorimer- I might lelze the opportunity to make a bolt vlth the swag in spite of you." He laughed contemptuously at Loriner's nervous tsart "Qood night," he said. "No, I am not minor tn nnpn mv head asrain. You can neet me at the courthouie tomorrow light at 11 o'clock.' He laughed again recklessly as Loriner left the room, and then a rare tenIcrness transfigured his face. "Poor little girl!" he breathed. "If didn't know that he loved you? It is ( l pleasure to put my head in the noose 'or your sake. And, after all, there is ittle risk. Lorimer could not afford it iny more than I could. If there ever lad been a ghost of a chance that you night care? But there isn't?there lever was." Meanwhile Lorimer trudged home hrough the rain. His mother was siting up awaiting for him. "You are late," she fretted complalnngly?"and wet Why, Johnny, your :oat is dripping!" She drew back with t little tender, maternal gesture. "Leave the boy alone, Eliza!" The 'olce from the sitting room mads Lormer start. "Ypy forget Jphp's a$e, I ;uese. find your owh top, for tn? rearer of that. You'll likely have the rheunatig tomorrow. I guess John has >een out after lawbreakers." The coarse chuckle brought a flicker ?f Irritation to his son's face. "I wish that you wouldn't fuss over ne. mother," he grumbled. "I am not i child, you know?" He was still proeating peevishly when the door of his oom closed between them. Next morning the cloud had parsed. You look troubled, John/' said the old nan, critically, at the breakfast tableIs there anything?" "I am troubled," said the son franky. "You see, father, there Is a lot of noney on hapd now, and I am just a lttle nervous aboyt it. Hardy will be iway for a week, you know." "Have the money guarded/' said the >ld man sententiously. "I don't like to do that. That Is, I lon't like to do anything publicly. It vpuld only call attentipn to the tact hat there was more money on "hand han usual. I will keep watch njyqelf, if course." "Have you any especial reason to ook for trouble?" asked the old man [uietly. The sheriff flushed. "I wrote to Hardy yesterday," he said n a low voice, "giving the amount of noney on hand as a reason why he hould get back home as soon as posilble. I had that letter, with others, in ny hand when I left the courthouse, ind when I reached the postofflce it I i'as missing. I retraced my steps at| >nce, of course, but failed to find It. some one may have picked it up and nailed it since it was sealed, stamped ind addressed; hut ft lg a little strange f they did, that I have heard nothing ibout it." After breakfast was over the restless iheriff drifted aimlessly uptown. He vas not a drinking man, but he went o the Spread Eagle twice?once to see f by chance Grief was to be found in lis old haunts, and fa|ejr because he vas ill at ease and (he time hung >eavy on hl? handg. He 4Jd nof gee 3rier either time. He went back to the court house about loon and met the man who had been ictlng as his deputy in Hardy's ablence. He was Just leaving the build, ng. "Off for the day. Cartwrlght?" Lormer called to him. "Yes, there is nothing doing; and. say jorimer, if anybody wants me they :an come down to the house. I have l beasily headache." Lorimer nodded with some interest. "About that money," he said,, low:ring his voice a little. "There is a ot of it. Cartwrlght. I wish Hardy vere at home." "Hardy can't get back for two or hree days yet," said Cartwrlght, vetghing a sheaf of loosened papers in lis hand as he spoke. "You ought to lave gone with Hardy. Lorimer. There s some talk of trouble a little way out 'rom Little Rock. They say that Big Pill Annerly has been planning a rescue ever since the gang was captured. He and his men will make it hot for he posse." "Pshaw!" said Lorimer, trying to speak easily, but wishing that his colir would not change so under the other's direct gaze. "That is all nonsense. Cartwright. Of course, If there had been any danger of such a thing. I should have gone with Hardy. Put about this money, now. I am worried enough about it, I can tell you. The loss of It would Just about bankrupt Bradley county." Cartwright asked the same question that the elder Lorlmer had asked about It earlier In the day, "Have you any especial reason to be anxious about It?" "No?nothing that I care to talk about just now. I think, though, that I shall keep an eye on things." Lorlmer watched Cartwright go away after that, and he himself spent a very long and tedious afternoon alone. He had absolutely nothing to do. so he alternately dozed in his chair and read from a ponderous tome in the clerk's office. Py and by he roused from a longer period of unconscious ness than usual, to nnd that the sunLg.it was gone and that the room was quite oark and cold. So he went home to supper. "Don t sit up for me tonight, mother," he said as he lett the taoie after tne meal was over. "I shall hardly be nkeiy to come back tonight. Jim Adaman is in town, and I shall probably go over to the hotel with him." His mother only nodded In a spiritless sort of way and went back to her dishwashing. ? It was nearly 11 o' cloofct thai night when Lorlmer entered thd court housp. He carried no light, for the moon hod risen, and until he entered the offlfe he would not need one. He fitted ?k key in the lock and the door swung open. A dark lantern stood upon the table near the center of the room, and a man with a scrap of black muslin about his face was sorting small, nettt packages of bills in a businesslike way. He turned with a start that was not all assumed as the door opened and the sheriff entered. "I am glad that you have come," he said in an odd, confused way. "I don't know how to account for it, but I feel blamed nervous over the whole layout, somehow. Give me the money and open up the gallery business right awayr Hush!" He leaned forward, listening, his eyes glowing behind the bit of black. I John Lorlmer heard tl>e sound that | had so startled Gfler at the san^e jrvstant?the faint crunching Qf gravel and the Jpw murmur of approaching voices. The eyes behind the scrap ojf ; black hardened suddenly and viciously , like the eyes of a trapped animal, and J ~ " - AUI liner, muttering Bomeimnn mnuuiuio, , sprang forward. Under the Impetui of his spring the table was overturned and the office plunged Into total darkness. Lorimer, too terrified by the sudden onslaught to resist the Impulse, called sharply for help. He was answered by a flare of light and the vicious spit of a pistol ball that grazed his cheek. The sting of the bullet completed his unreasoning terror. He uttered some inarticulate words, made one more , frantic effort to snatch the pistol from ] Grier, and then called again for help. < He was conscious of running feet on | the pavement outside, and the door j was thrown open. Some one had fired , again?so close to him that the pow- j der burned his face. One of the men who entered tyad carried a lantern, but the light was extinguished almost in- , stantly, and th? we9j 99 ln 1 the darkness. He was the center of a , confused mass of struggling men. and , was battling in sheer desperation for , his life. And he fought as only a cor- < nered coward can fight After a long < time he heard again the malicious zip ] of a bullet, a dark cloud enveloped him and he knew no more. Consciousness came back to him slowly. "It was as fine a thing as I ever saw!" Cartwrlght was saying, enthusiastically. "I knew that he was a little nervous about the money, so I walked back dotyntqwq tp haye ? lpqk around. And by George, sir, he had nailed him as sure as you were born. I didn't think that Lorlmer had it in htm." "Hush, he's cpming |TQ\)ndl" The sheriff opened his eyes slowly and looked about him. One or two lamps had been lighted, and there were several men In the room who had been drawn from the Spread Eagle saloon over the way by the shots. On the floor, bound hand apd fopt, lay Jack Grief. His face was powderstained and his upper Up cat and bleeding. As lyorlmer raised himself to his knees, the gaze of the prisoner met his own. "I say, you fellows, what is the matter?" stammered the sheriff. "My hao/1 onhao Hlraa tho f\1 " "You got a nasty crack on the skull < In the fracas, someway," said Cart- i wrlght. "I say, Lorimer, you have I fixed yourself by this night's work. We 1 will make the man who runs against you for sheriff of Bradley this year I look like 30 cents. It was as fine a 1 thing as I ever saw, but foolhardy? i Lord, yes!" i Lorimer looked at Grler again, and < there was pleading In his eyes. He < spoke to Cartwright. "How did you fellows come to drop on to this?" he < asked. i "I came down here because what you said about the money stuck in my mipd," remarked Cartwright, "and Allen p^me with me. The others ran oyer fpom the saloon a'tef the shooting began," Grier wiped the blood from his lips and tried to speak, "J was on my way to bed," said one of the other men, shortly. "I haye been down to Jonas Watson's, His daughter is sick." The expression died out of Grier's face, I "Take him over to the Jail, will you, Carson?" asked Lorimer, His face was white as he turned and whispered to the doctor. "Anything serious?" he asked. "I didn't say that It was Agnes Watson, you fool," said the doctor, good- r humoredly. "One of the younger girls had a severe attack of croup." Grier had not caught either question or answer. He raised himself on his elbow, "I say, you fellows," he said, sarcastically. "let your circus begin, will you? I am tired of waiting." Carson and Cartwrlght carried him over to the jail. They asked him sev- j eral questions on the way, but he was as dumb as the proverbial oyster. So they became disgusted at last and left him alone. As for Lorimer, he awoke next morning to find himself famous. Men who had not spoken to him for years sought him out. Others who had ostentatiously .voted against him in the last election buttonholed him to tell him why they had done so, and to congratulate him on his heroism the night before. Incidentally, and more to the purpose, they assured him of their support during the coming convention. it was growing late wnen Anarew Lorimer heard the news. "You're all right. John," he said, wringing his hand. There were tears in his eyes. "Why, you can have anything In Bradley county you want after this. I'm proud of you, John, and so Is Eliza." It was late before the sheriff found an opportunity to see Grler privately. Jack laughed mockingly as Lorimer entered the cell, but there was a nasty ring in his merriment, (To be Concluded.) JttisffUanfous tfradittj). HORRORS OF A CHOLERA CAMP Depicted by Correspondent at Constantinople. Scenes of suffering and misery are to be witnessed dally at the Turkish cholera camp at San Stefano. A correspondent of the Associated Press paid a visit there last Thursday, Much scepticism had prevailed In Pera, the foreign quarter of Constantinople, both among members of the dlnlnmntle enmi ana fnraia^i roiMonts l No one there believed the figures given by railroad employees and others in contact with the Turkish troops, who declared that many thousands were stricken with cholera. The camp Is situated at the side of a railway embankment thirty feet In height A large open space like a village green stretches away for some distance. This is surrounded by better class houses two or three stories, high, built In European style, for San Stefano is the summer resort of many of the wealthy residents of Constantinople. Two Ottoman soldiers were standing on guard to the entrance to the camp, but they made no motion. Their duty was to prevent those within the cordon from escaping and not to hinder other people from entering. Bodies Scattered Along Track*. A nauseatfng picture was witnessed ^.t the fide of |he railroad. Qodjef wji|ch |iad h?eB thrown trains lay aa they had fallen, Seme atuck on top of the embankment, but others had rolled part of the way down. Around a ons-story stable at the foot of the embankment was a group of sixty dead and dying, lying close to* gether apparently for warmth, on the slopes of a manure pile, which the sick men had found softer than the hard ground. One man on top of the pile was digging with his Angers a sort of trough In which to He. The trough soon became his grave. As visitors came near, the sick men raised their heads and cried In the hearing of the attendants that they were given no bread or water. Walking halfway across the Aeld the visitors passed dead and dying men, sometimes from twenty to thirty yards ipart. Dead in Groups. A 4^.4. .4??J |m 4 V, n a group 01 iciiib aiuuu in tnc ucuijc, where four or Ave Turkish qoldiqrq wearing {hp npuplecg of the Red Gpes.:ent stood on guard. Inside the sick ind dead lay in groups. The dootoron iuty counted twenty-two patients in jne tent, while double that number lay lust outside sheltered from the wind to leeward of the canvas. Some of the stricken found difficulty in getting into the Moslem position lor prayer, looking toward the east. One praying victim was so weak that lie could .not replace his blanket iround his head whep t^e wind blew it off, The Red Crescent attendants made no attempt to assist any of these suffering soldiers, not even placing stones which were plentiful, u^ef {heir heads to permit them to lie easier. A number of these attendants gathered around to watch while the visitors were inspecting the camp. One of them became insolent and was ordered jflf by the doctor. A water tank, dr^wn by q. donkey; passed along fjie rq^d. TbP*e of fha v-lctfrrm wfto w*FP nblP to rlae to thpfr Feet went unassiated toward It and struggled feebly for a drink. Those unible to rise got none, Few Qet Bread, In a similar way what appeared to be army bread waa distributed to those able to reach the place of distribution. Several of the sick men raisJd themselves with difficulty and stumbled toward a well, from which they tried to dip water with their long sashes. There were hundreds of dead and thousands of sick in this camp, many lying on the open ground and great numbers supporting their backs igainst the houses bordering on the jpen fields, mosf of whjch are tjeserfsd. The comparatively few Turkish soltilers brought to the hospitals, bar racks and mosques at Constantinople ire more fortunate, although most of them die after reaching their destination. Spmp few qf them are given becjs to lie iq anf] water to drink, and all if them, if they do not get warmth, are provided with shelter from the rains *nd the wind. San Stefano is not the worat oholera :amp, That at Hademkeui, near the rchatalja lines, Is ntore extensive, RURAL 0R5OIT9, President Barrett of Farmers' Union Endorses Them Highly. President Charles 8. Barrett of the Farmers' Union is in favor of some form of modified rural credits. He thinks this will be a move in one direction of getting rid of landlordism, which he considers an unqualified ?vil. He favors no particular plan, thinking it of more importance that right men be selected in each community to handle the matter. Important parts of his open letter to the officers nf the union follow: Discussion the country over is raging around the subject of rural credits. At the outset I want to say I have made some investigation of the matter, that I believe a modified system of rural credits feasible in America, that I am convinced the time has come for action and not merely talk, and that rural credits may be used to stem the tendency toward landlordism which I Af fYyrx orov'oot mOnQPPI rvuyw uicv 1/1 v..vi r>. <? ..,.,m.vj facing this nationThere Js little use for me to dwell upon the various plans offered whereby some system of rural credits can be made effectual. It is only essential to say that the RalfTerisen and other plans have been followed In Germany and other Old World countries with signal success for more than a century. It is possible, under one of these plans, for a number of farmers in a given community to become mutually responsible for loans extended to their respective members. It is also possible for rural credits to be materia!i7ed by constituting the land itself the basis of loans?and that is meritorious and economically sound for the simple reason that ln the last analysis the soil Is the source of all wealth, The International Institute of Agrl culture In Rome under the directior of David Lubln, has made thorough Inquiry into all theae plans, and if any American farmer desires detailed Information, Mr. Lubln will be glad to furnish It. I want to stress right now to every farmer In this country who Is talking excitedly about "plans" and who thinks that all that Is necessary to succeed with rural oredlts or anything else Is to find "plans"?that there are pimis gtuure, wnai is neeaea ngni now Is men bold and with sufficient initiative In every community to carry these plans Into execution, and to do It In the face of discouragement difficulties and sacrifice of time and health, If that is necessary. It is Just as well, therefore, to stop worrying so much about "plans" and think more about how we are going to find the men to execute the plans, not Just for one week, but right on to the end of the chapter. It Is necessary to remember, however, that Germany Is a country of thickly settled, small communities, and that the plans which have proved advisable there may have to be altered to take Into account separation of agricultural units In America. This pro cess resolves Itself, however, Into a matter of detail, and the main portion of the task Is, as I have stated, the locating: and training: of men to carry into effect any systems of rural credits that iq^y be devised, whether under governmental or private supervision. Now, to the second feature, that of landlordism in Anqerfc^. I believe that a perfected system of rural credits can do much to overoome or at least lessen this evil. If you doubt that It exists I only ask that you investigate in your own neighborhood as to the number of men who own thplr farms, and as to the number of acres, wild or cultivated, owned by an absentee landlord. After all is said, It remains that America Is a land the prosperity and progress of which are founded on agriculture. If we allow to form In this country a class of controlling land owners and a corresponding class of tenants subject to these landlords, we create a system that is the direct op- i posite of democratic government and that will eventually lead to a condition of land monopoly beside which the problems of the so-called high cost of living and other much agitated issues will dwindle down to insignificance. I was astonished when, in conversation fepentjy wi{h Prof. B. C. Br^qson of Athens, ?a!, he gave me figures relating to Georgia alone of absentee ownership which are almost incredible. Had not the figures been based on conditions of which I am personally aware I would have doubted them. Unless it is checked, ownership of the land by a few in each community is going to strangle initiative ag$ pal; lectlve prosperity In America. If every farmer, every American who reads these lines and who Is genuinely concerned for his indivdual welfare, and that of the country, will deliberately study these conditions I have otytliqeg, he will be convinced as \o the need aqd the duty of securing leaders who will materialize rural credits or any other sound, proven agency that will prove a remedy for the drift toward landlordism. Finally, don't fret so ete^nhUv hh?Ut the plans. The meg tp execute them constitute the rea! PFPblem?the men and the SPiFt of eo.operation in every community. HI8 EXPERIENCE QRUEtOMB Birds und Animals Waited to Devour the Hunter. Stewart Edward White, who has been In Africa for a year on a hunting trip, writes about the rhinoceros in the November American Magazine. Following is one of his stories. "In the Nairobi club I met a gentleman with one arm gone at the shoulder. He told his story In a slightly bored and drawling voice, picking his words very carefully, and evidently mnnt npmmled with neither understat lng nor ovepstatlpg {he case. It seems he had been out, apd had killed lome sort of a buck. While his men were occupied with this, he strolled on a'one to see what he could find. He found a rhinoceros that charge*? vjolously, and Into wh|cp pe emptied his gun. "When I came tp,'< he said, "it was Just cppijng en dusk, apd the U.ns were beginning to grunt. My arm was completely crushed, and I was badly brulqed and knocked about. As near as I could remember I was fully ten miles from camp. A circle of carrion birds stood all about me not more than ten feet away, and a great many others were flapping over me and fighting In the air. These last were so close that I could feel the wind from their wings. It was 'rawther gruesome.' He paused and thought a moment, as though weighing his words, 'In fact,' ne aaaea, wun an air ui uuu tlon, 'it was quite gruesome!'" Such Tim?s We Live In.?In obsolete old Turkey, a Bulgarian aeroplane flies over the walls of Adrlanople and drops calls for surrender into the beleaguered city. A ragamuffin arrives in Los Angeles, California, by stealing rides on the rear end of transcontinental automobiles all the way from his home in Indiana. Pulmotors are at work in every big city of the land, putting the breath of life back into the bodies of people who have been drowned, poisoned, or asphyxiated by gases. The government's new wireless station at Arlington, Virginia, hears the naval wireless station at Mare Island. California talking to the station at ICey >Vest, Florida. Arljngton and Mare Island are twenty-two hundred miles apart, The Arlington station has followed the American warships into near eastern waters. Reviewing which, it Is brought to mind that a certain old lady lovea to tell of dreaming, when a girl, that a flock of flying machines flapped their way across the horizon above her father's fields. Also, it adds Just so much more Interest to another Item in the day's news?that Thomas A. Watson, a pioneer who worked with Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone, and who was the first man to hear spoken words over the telephone, attended the annual meeting in New York the other day of the Teleohone Pioneers of America. Mr. Bell himself spoke at the society's organization meeting last year. Truly, we live In a time when novelties become commonplace overnight.? Atlanta Journal. PIAN08 GIVEN AWAY. "8quare" Models Ars Not Wanted Any More. A sign in the window said: "Square pianos given away. Come In and get one." A man who read this didn't really want a piano, but giving away pianos waa aomethlnar new to him and It in terrsted him; no he went in to ask about it And It seems that they do actually give away square pianos, that Is, some square pianos, and first and last they give away a good many of them. The dealer took his inquiring visitor into the elevator and up to the first loft in which there were many second hand pianos of various sorts, and there they stopped at the first instrument they came to, an old-fashioned square piano which bore a name long familiar to the trade. The viator touched the keys of this piano and the sounds it gave forth were still musical. "For that piano," said the deialer, "we shall get $35. Now." he added, "try this one;" and as he spoke he turned to one directly across the aisle. This was a square piano, smaller than the other and bearing a name that at least to the visitor, was wholly unfamiliar. The visitor touched the key of the instrument and smiled involuntarily at the answer; it was decidedly and distinctly tlnpanny. Certainly you could play a tune on It but still nobody woqld b\?y It "This piano," said the dealer, "we will give away." Second hand pianos are taken in exchange in part payment for new ones. There was a time when even second hand square pianos. If they were o< highly accredited make sand In evcellent condition, would bring food prices; but now the styles have changed and few people want a square piano at any , price, A good second hand square may bring $35. or perhaps more, but many are sold for lees and many are given away. They can't be sent out Into the country and disposed of there for the ] modern styles the uprights and the i grands with their various modifications , and the various mechanically operated pianos are now so!d everywhere. The i old time square piano has had Its day. < Then who takes these old square pianos, the ones that are given away 9 i People of moderate or of limited i means, who want a plane foe a child i to practice upon, perhaps to see If < the child really has a taste for music, ] permanent and worth developing, for I which purpose the old square piano may serve. < The sign in the window says, "Come < In and get one; and they will actually i give you one; but a piano |? not exactly i a thing that apybgdy can pick up and carry fcpm* with him as one would a small paroel. It has to be carted. The piano they give you is not aenverea free; they charge you for cartage, hut this at precisely the sarpe prlee that would be char^eg fop any similar service; \b% plane remains a free gip. This gift may later prove of b neflt to the giver; for the person to whom it le given may some time want to buy a piano and then he is likely to qq to the dealer from whom h^ received a piano as a gift; but the dealer glvee aw$y pianos just the same, whether he ever expects to hear from them again or not. After all the old squares that can be have been sold or given away there remain some that can't be disposed of in any way. and those finally are brok- { n up, There is no salvage, except for the wood in them, which goes to feed ( the fires under the boilers of the piano ( factory.?New York Sun. SEED CORN 8ELECTI0N .. I Farm Expert Tslls How it 8hould be ' Done. Some Idea regarding the economic , importance of corn may be bad by a realization that Jn the United States it exceeds in acreage, yield and value, wheat, oats, barley, flax ,rye buck- , wheat and potatoes combined. An increased value of 1 per cent per bushel would mean an additional income to the farmers of the United States of 923,6000,000, while an increased production of but one bushel per acre at 50 cents per bushel would add , 950,000,000 annually to the national j wealth, In addition to its magnitude, the 1 crop is Important bemuse of the wide range of industries In which some portion of the corn plant plays a more or less Important part In fact, it i may almost be said that there is no Industry into which some product or of th? corn Dlant. does not -|/. . enter. Therefore, any condition* which i effect the production of this king of i crops are of Interest to every citizen of the United States. Each spring many farmers discover < ?when it is too late?thai their seed < corn either falls to germinate or produces but a weak growth. They mu?t either pay high prices for viable seed, which may or may not be acclimated and adapted to their conditions or by means of laborious tests they may pick out such of their seed as will at least "come up." The corn crop of 1912 IS no wpractically made and the time for selecting sred for 1913 has arrived in the south* ern sections and reached even the latest sections of the United States some time in October. Unless sufficient seed corn is selcoted at the right time in the right way there iwl be the same deplorable situation next springagain when it is too late, as there has Hoon ot oaoh nrAviniia nl&ntlnar time. With very few exceptions the best possible seed may be selected on the farm on which it is to be planted, and by carrying out the following instructions issued by the office of corn investigations of the United States department of agriculture .each farmer may provide himself with an abundance of seed of the highest productivity for planting in 1913. The process of seed selection is of too great importance to be conducted Incidentally while husking, and ip many localities if selection is delayed until husking time the vitality of the seed will have already been Injured by ! an early freeze, As soon, therefore, as the crop ripens, go through the field i w|th bags and husk the ears from those stalks which have produced best without having had any special advantages, such ag space, moisture or fertility. Late maturing plants with ] ears which are heavy because of an excessive amount of sap should be Ignored. In the central and southern states, other things being equal, short, thick stalks are preferable. These permit of thicker planting, are not so easily blown down and are usually more productive than slender ones. The tendency to sucker is hereditary. Other things being equal, seed should be taken from stalks having no suckers. ine same amy mat tne seea corn is gathered, the huaked ears should be put In a dry place where there la good circulation of air, and pilaced In suci' a manner that the ears do not touch each other. If no previous arrangements for caring for the seed have been made, the ears may be suspended with binder twine, tying them about two inches apart The twine will support fifteen or twenty ears. If this method can not convenient! v be followed tables may be improvised b yplacing boards across boxes or barrels. These boards should be dry and not too wide, and should be spaced 1| inches apart The seed earc can Input on these tables, using care to have them spread out to insure circulation of air among them. It will be advisable to move the ears a couple of times at intervals of about two days, when first put on the tables. Whichever method is used, the seed should be placed in a shed or building having a good circulation of air, and where It will be protected from rain and excessive cold, as well as from rats and mice. Do not store the seed In a cellar. T e driest cellars are too damp and do not afford a free circulation of air. Do not store the seed In a room In which thoM ?II1 Ks t? V n III w vapvi wv vvuucuo^ uii i v , and prevent Its drying u In t barn over stock, or In an outhouse, used for wash In v, etc. ' If seed corn is stored property ft should be thoroughly dry In from three weeks In the south to eight weeks In the north, and If kept dry It will be safe from Injuiy except by Insects and vermin. In the north the ears may be left where they dried. In regions where seed corn Is damaged by weevils or grain moths, It should be packed In boxes and treated as described In farmers' bulletin 411. entitled "8eed Corn." By the proper selection and care of seed corn, as outlined above, the yield may be greatly Increased with but a light*additional expense. Increases of eighteen bushels per acre, due to properly preserving the seed .have been obtained. In every phase of present-day agriculture the tendency is toward efficiency. The days of large profits under profligate methods have passed, and there la no cheaper of easier way of Increasing the profits from the farm wan by properly electing- ana caring for your geed corn.?Physiologist in charge of Corn Investigations, United States department of agriculture. BOYS' DAY AT CORN SHOW It Will Furnifh Brest Opportunity for Those Who Will Take Advantage of it Columbia, November 25.?Calling attention to the National Education Day and Boys' Day at the Fifth National Corn Exposition here next January , Mr. J, E. Swearingen, state superintendent of Education, has addressed a letter to all county superintendents of education and county rural school supervisors, recommending a holiday in the county schools to allow teachers, pupils and trustees to attend the exposition on these two days. National Education Day has bpeenflxed for Friday, January 31, the day following being Boys' Day, the latter marking the close of the exposition school for prlz? winners which will be attended by a thousand boys from all parts of the south. Prominent educators will deliver addresses on National Education Day en subjects pertinent to school improvement problems, and a series of exhibits demonstrating methods and results of improvement in the rural schools la being prepared under the direction of President D. B, Johnson and other members of the Wlnthrop faculty. Dr. S. C, Mitchell, president of the University of South Carolina, is in active charge of programme arrangement* (or National Education Day. Superintendent Swearingen opens bis letter with the statement that "The Fifth National Corn Exposition to be held in Columbia the last week In January and the first week in February, offers a rare educational opportunity not only to the farmers, but also to the teachers, patrons and pupils of South Carolina." After speaking of the value of industrial education, and its demonstration in the boys' and girls' clubs. Mr. Swearingen says: "It is highly desirable that the people of every county, of every school district, and of every community, should profit by this practical demonstration of the worth, methods and accomplishments of Industrial education. The teachers, trustees, patrons and pupils cf e veryschool in your county should he Invited to take part in the exercise* of Educational Day," Concluding Mr. Swearingen says: "The programme for these two days will furnish you a message to take home. I recommend that every school In your county be given a holiday Friday, January 31, on condition that the teacher and trustees bring at least six / pupils to the exposition on Educational Day and Boys' Day." To Provide for Ex-presidents.?Future ex-presidents of the United States are to be pensioned In the sum of $25,000 each annually, by action of the Carnegie corporation of New York yes. TtliA lo rvrAirMn/1 nr UK tha U?*?> . BIMH ?o pivfiutu Idea of enabling former executives to devote their unique knowledge gained In public affairs to the public good* free from pecuniary care. A similar amount is to be paid widows of expresidents as long as they remain unmarried. The pensions are to be promptly offered to the ex-presldenta or their widows, ?q that no application will be required from them. Payment is to b?* continued so long as the recipients "remain unprovided for by the government" The announcement followed the second annual meeting of the corporation held at the residence of Andrew Carnegie and attended by the corporation's eight trustees. The trustees announced that a toW of 1125.000.000 in securities has thus far been transferred to the corporation, which will carry on the various work* in which Mr. Carnegie has been engaged, and such others as he may from time to time think It advisable to establish.