Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, September 05, 1913, Image 1

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* Jz- ' - OT " t't' "7- 7 t?1wttjh * *' t ? . * .* ; V> ' ;>' *3 */ >?? V'*-* hiISS^ED SEMI.WKKHX,^ ' L M. geist'8 sois. PibUihtn. } 3 #milg JJratspapen: Jfor thq jiromofion of tti< ?olitii;al, gonial, ^griqultat and Comtnti[ciaI Jntmsts of ft* } T?"ro/cmi* "" E9TABLI8HED1855. YORKVILLE, S. O., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1913. NO. 71. _ _ The Mie By CHARLES Tf Atdhor of Vhe Day of Soali (Copyright 1912, The Bobbs-Merri CHAPTER XIX The Way of Hit Cast*. The day after the autumn primaries state politics was conscious of a distinct shock. The "Insurgent" governor had triumphed again, but that was ex pected. But what at once was tne sensation, attracting even national attention, was the defeat of James S. Hall, chairman of the most powerful committee in congress, confidant of the president?beaten in his home constituency, the sober cautious counties of the Iowa Reserve, by an obscure country editor! The pre88 bussed with explanations. It marked the temper of the rural west it meant the downfall of traditional control; it was revolutionary, dema goglc. Curran was a socialist, anarchist, freethinker, what not! Nobody knew exactly. Down in bis home county folk said: "Well, we always did'sort of like Wiley Curran out our way." In the other precincts of the district they said: "That editor put up a slashing flght?he come over here and give us facts!" Anyhow, Curran was the regular party nominee. In Rome the beet people could not have been more Indignant if one of the billiard-hall idlers had gone Into the First National bank and " * Ooi Rii>p on the ueiiDeraiei)' iwi-?y<tvi v.. ? shin. It was rumored that Thaddeus Tanner, county chairman, who had complacently promised his bailiwick against the governor's league, was enraged beyond reason. He swore he would not support CXtrran; the old-line men would vote for the democratic candidate, whoever that spindling county organization put up, eevn If It was a yellow dog. The county talked so much of Curran's spectacular victory that it forgot the local ticket But all the old-line county officers were nominated?a Tanner slate clean. Toung Mr. Van Hart, nominated without opposition, was the only new face to be in the Rome court house. Every one approved of young Mr. Van Hart a quiet, re served, altogether likable chap?he would have no opponent from the other j party camp. The Honorable Thaddeus Tanner met young Mr. Van Hart the day after the primary. "Well, young man, what the devil did you mean by allowing this crazy anarchist to beat your father's old friend for congress?" "I had nothing to do with Mr. Hall's Mr Tanner." The county boss bared his yellow teeth and snorted. "That's what they all say. It's these young: fellers did It ?fellers like them cow-college students whom Jake Vance and Purcell sent Into every district to work for Curran. And these damned labor people over In Earlvllle?but I notice they all voted for you. Harlan; this McBride, hey??and his cattle!" "Conditions are changing." The boss eyed his nominee with a shrewd doubt. "Young man, did your father ever talk much to you?" "Father has no use for politics. He'd hardly presume to influence me." Thad snorted again. These Van Harts always did irritate him with their ideas of the proper thing. Still they were useful, because their ideas of the proper thing did not allow them to oppose him either. "Well, Harlan, I hope you understand you didn't even have to make a flght. People knew your dad?and they could just figure on you. It's a good thing you're our man." Mr. Van Hart smiled Impersonally. "I am not your man." The county boss stared at him. Then he bit the end off a cigar. Then he spat on the sidewalk against the ordinances made and provided. "Well, I'm a son-of-a-gun!" he murmured. "Curious I never stopped to talk with you before!" Then he rubbed his goldheaded cane against Harlan's sleeve, "Young man, you're mighty young? you'll get over this." " A *T ?"?Ma Tonnol BUI ine nunuiauic auouuw sidled into Judge Van Hart's chambers, after court that day, and had a talk of a number of things, but mostly of Harlan and what a brilliant careei he had opened for Harlan. And th< next day the Earlville Mercury -Journal ?controlled through the stock whict Cal Rice's wife owned in it?came oul with a fulsome forecast of young Mr Van Hart's career. Harlan met Arne Vance reading thai column to his sister when he left th< office that night. The farmer-studeni fixed his black eyes on the nominee "Trying to rope and brand you, eh See here?Mike McBride and I suppos ed we had something to do with you; big vote." Harlan smiled. "I think so, Arne You surely put Wiley over!" Arne grimaced, nodding his head to ward Janet. "I know," continued Har lan. "Every one says she did it!" H put out his hand to Janet in the bug gy. She appeared tired and distrait "It has been a strain, hasn't it? Bu Wiley?it'll be the making of him, Ja net." She smiled a rare gratefulness. "H can't fail of election now. Only"?sh paused and Harlan lifted his seriou eyes to here, "I have sort of a feelln Harlan, he?he'll do some of the er ratic audacious things that have al ways wrecked him!" "Like taking up the cause of thes Pocket squatters whom the county i going to evict for the new creek damLindstrom?" muttered Ame. "Old yo see the News? He's already pleadin some right of theirs." Janet looked away. "Well, I hopeI trust?but it's like Wiley!" Then sh smiled upon them. "Well, I am tire out. I'm going away." "Away?" Harlan's tone lifted. "T rest?" "To work. I feel as if?well, m work was done here, Harlan. And have chances. To speak, to writewell, for all the fine things we used t 1LANDERS iNNEY JACKSON i. My Brother'* Keeper. Etc. 11 Company.) discuss in the old News office you remember. The child-labor laws?the women's movement?my old ambitions Harlan." He nodded sympathetically. Then muttered: "But your place here?it's hard to fill, Janet. The school system you've made a model for the state!" Then he was silent. Janet was think ing of the long years' fight. And the best people had not been with her until of late. She was too practical, too busily efficient, to be about the Shakespeare club teas at Mrs. Van Hart's. Harlan sharply differentiated her from the tabby affairs of High street. He told his mother that night that Janet Vance would resign her next term and go east. The lady elevated her brows wisely. The teas had heard something of the kind. "I suppose that will end the affair between her and Mr. Curran." "The affair" was a matter of years' gossip. Harlan said nothing; he had never, after a man's fashion, bothered his head about it. "I imagine it's true, then, that that LJndstrom girl had come between them." He looked attentively at her with a trace of suspicion of her subtlety. Aurelie's name had never been mentioned hatwoen them except in the lady's ami able satire on her "career." But that was common to the town. And Harlan had never looked upon Aurelle's appeal to the erratic romanticism In Mr. Curran in that light. It seemed preposterous. Mrs. Van Hart went on with the cool impersonality, humanized by her sense of amusement, with which she looked on the affairs of her neighbors, even the ladies bemused In the Shakespeare afternoons: "I think It would be quite fit Those two?Mr. Curran in congress!?and Imagine a person who goes along High street whistling to all the dogs on his way to the poetofflce, in his shirt-sleeves, in James Hall's seat!" Harlan looked at her In imperturbable silence. The judge smoked his dinner cigar with his deprecating assent "His nomination, my dear, is more than amusing. He?and all the rabble of demagogism?take it as an indorsement by the people of the rant that is subvening our political theory. Our public men, our financiers, persistently yelped at by Curran's sheet, and our sober constituency applaud!" He looked mildly over his glasses. "My boy, I wish you had stayed out of it all!" "I do not!" The mother was incisive. "It is time he was in the battle. It is the parting of the ways, and there is enough common sense in the county to make Harlan's career. It is the day of the young men." And to Harlan's mind there came the memory of a phrase. A vision? Arne Vance and the tramp of his young men up the hill. He became conscious of a conflict within him here in the dear familiar home. Here were his people?the best people, ever clinging to fixed forms, righteous, worthy, leisurely developing but needing Inherent privilege?this was the good. But here was another good out In the world a new, hungry, lustful good, eager to seize, to make place, to break down forms and privilege?this was the eternal battle. There was no ground under a man's feet?he was with one or with the other. And slowly It came to him that, In the eyes of his parents, the eyes of his world?a world rigid with caste, resistant with Ideals, however much It might assent to the babble of democracy?Aurelie was the symbol of the lower standards. It was for him to choose, and his love was the crux of it all. a sign post at the parting of the ways. He might fight to win her, try to bear her from the vulgar and common mode, but his social sense told him exactly what that would mean to his people, the "best people" who, with a Nietzschean ruthlessness, must set their faces against the trampling onward marching forces that would level or destroy. Even now his mother touched on the heart of it. "I see that Mr. Curran's 1 News is insisting that the county, or the benefitted landholders, should pay those squatters in the Pocket whose ! patches will be flooded by the new ' dam. He insists they have a moral ' title to that no-man's land." c "And acting on that anarchistic the ory," went on the judge amiably, "Lindstrom drove away the workmen 1 whom the contractor sent there. I call 1 that an excellent example?Curran does 1 not hesitate to Dut the law aside in his cryings for what he terms justice. To announce outlawry." "If Lindstrom Is an outlaw, father," r Harlan said quietly," "the law made him one." s. The judge looked up. He reddened, Nothing In his kindly life, his right eous world, hurt as did the gossip thai - he had crushed Lindstrom's manhood e And his son spoke as one who had - brushed aside glib phrases and easy t. precedents and had stared at the sou t of the man crushed. The judge frown ed, to forbid discussion. "The law car not take account of a man's degenerae tion under punishment. But you, my e son? You are going Into office as a s public prosecutor?where did you gel g these ideas?" "Thinking. A fellow can't help it - And the new things, father?the spiri of inquiry, fearless, reasoning, weigh' e ing values?" s The Judge had shaken his head. I - always annoyed him to have to con u sider that it was not enough to be vir g tuous. It was comfortable to be!iev< that everything was honest, decent - wholesome. God-fearing a \d comfort ie able to the constitution -everythini d except the men who passed before hin at the bench. They were another orde 'o of beings; he deprecated their exist ence, and sent them to jail. When Har y lan had gone up-town the father sigh I ed. It was well enough to sit behin< - the impersonality of the law, but th :o one-armed quarryman standing guari over his wretched patch against all society, mute, imbruted, hostile! Men had talked of It: "Judge Van Hart sent him to Jail two years ago and he's | hardly spoken to a soul since; just to kept to his shanty, took his children out of school and become a sort of religious fanatic and anarchist." i The Judge spoke to his wife at bedtime. "My dear, do you suppose that extraordinary affair he had with that girl two years ago had anything to do with It?" "With It?" She looked ud in sur prise. "Llndstrom?" "Yes. The girl has been back, you know, and Is?I'm told?extraordinarily pretty." (: The lady sniffed. "I told you how she nearly upset my trap!" "But Harlan?" 1 "Harlan did not glance at her?her scandalous behavior around the square! ' The dust of that machine was thrown Into every one's face! And that affair 1 ?a mere boy's infatuation?for a month. And her career since?the Impossible stories they tell of her! As If it were possible with Harlan!" She had a Roman matron's pride In this square-Jawed serious son. A century of American democracy was needed for him, the sober sturdy sort of which 1 they had sprung. The Judge sighed again. "Somehow, he has never been quite the same to me since?he has seemed to look at us ' now and then so measuringly?and ' there has been something almost ab- 1 normal In his desire for work as if he 1 were trying to forget!" Harlan was in his office two hours on that same Indomitable application. At eight he closed the desk and went across to Wiley's shop, for a light was there, and he felt like bantering the editor as in the old days. It would be a relief after the curious sense of strain he had come to feel at home. Yet he could not bring back exactly the old 1 open comradeship with Wiley; and that, also, was curious. He had felt ' oddly alone, conscious as he was of a furtive and friendly interest in him. 1 When he dropped in the court house 1 the other candidates were cordial, but there was a hushing of conversation. He began to "mix with the county crowd," as he said, under an idea that 1 it was what a young man, and the only new face on the ticket, should do. But somehow he was treated with respect and passed by in the chaffing fellowship of the local politicians. He spoke of it to Curran as they sat in the dusk. Curran was complacent -V . Ua ly at ease since ma inuiupu, ?? nau discovered a pleasant vanity in this new regard of men. "Perhaps," he suggested, "they're rather afraid of you, Harlan. You've laid aside your bulldog pipe, and the college clothes do not stick out so conspicuously, but all the same you're different." He eyed the young man Intently. "And besides, you'll be the district attorney, the first one whom they are unable to size up." "I don't see what any honest man'' has to fear in that." Curran smiled enigmatically. "Exactly! But there are Dan Boydston and Curry, the two men who put through Tanner's contracts on the board?all friends of your father's, but you?well, the old crowd wonders about you." Harlan looked away. Boydston's daughter was one of the two or three town girls under his mother's especial social chaperonage, who met their eastern connections. "Well, they all supposed that the son of your father was safe!" Harlan watched him silently. The ? ~ olnnrlv **TtVq eiuer nia.ii wcik uu "?u?^ u?v.?*j . .??. just that things have come too easy for you, boy. Never had a rough and tumble fight in your life?clean, strong, sheltered! That's why I?I loved you, son! And why I?I envy you. I wasted so many years, oh, so many years!" And while they sat in the dusk the eyes of both went to the street, to four men who were crossing from the courtyard. One was Rube Van Hart. Rube and autumn were here once more. Another was Arne Vance. Another was T. P. Purcell, the dapper young lawyer-manager of Mr. Curran's campaign. And the fourth was a little, cheap-arrayed, fast-talking man at sight of whom Curran started with a smothered cry. Rube greeted them all with his laconic shyness. "Finished with the Cotton Belt league, Wiley. They canned me when the pennant rush came. And here's a guy that used to know you, he says. Shagged up the line with me from Memphis. I happened to mention you, and he sure was delighted to find his old friend, Wiley! Ladeau, that's his name." Curran was staring. "Maurice," he muttered at last. The newcomer's small coffee-colored face wrinkled amiably. He held out his hand. Arne Vance and T. P. Purcell appeared noting, with merciless intentness, Curran's greeting. Curran, the most democratic of men, to whom even the lame dogs came for sympathy appeared not honored by Ladeau's ac-' quaintance. "Curran," muttered Mr. Purcell, "Arne and I came on this man in front 1 of the billiard hall. He was saying something?telling some crazy yarn. But we?we heard a bit, and we took 1 him away!" Curran glanced at his friend's face. Arae was grim. The newcomer went on with reminiscent pleasure: "Yaas, : I sho' remember dat Wiley man! I say, when dis Rube tell me he is here: 'Our ' ol* Wiley? Name o' God?dat same ' Wiley of dem ol' scalawag days! How ' we laugh?him an' me, and Gambling ' Gawge, when we all get run out of As1 cenclon fo' dem games we run!"' The candidate was staring, listening. ' Ladeau beamed on: "And at Plaque1 mine we was all broke. Name o' God, 1 we all come down 10 ax ui man duuvler fo' feesh heads to make a cou' bouillon under de bridge." 1 Wiley raised a deprecating hand. He smiled wanly. "Maurice, I?I?never touched a card since." He smiled still I on his political backers: "Never since?" "Since dat leetle Adrienne made you p promise when you tak her to N'Aw lyns. Eheu, dem oP Creole days!" He " sighed?"Dat leetle Adrienne of Butte ? La Rose!" II The dapper Mr. Purcell coughed. r Arne stirred. "Wiley, were you ever married ?" The chuckle of the stranger broke the pause. "Married? Dem Cajun ^ girls, when dey love?Nom de Dieu! ? e dey don't stop fo' marriage!' (To be Continued.) REGISTRATION OF UNO. Comprehensive Explanation of Torrens System. DOES AVAY WITH USELESS EXPENSE. Plan Devised to Take Place of More Cumbersome Methods?State Guarantees All Titles?Simplicity is the Rule. The system to registering title to land was introduced first in the prov-' Ince of South Australia by Robert R. rorrens, a member of the first colonial ministry of that province. The method of dealing with land provided tor the act which was passed by the colonial parliament in 1858, became known as the "Torrens system." Its purpose was to simplify all dealings with land so as to facilitate its transfer or its use as a basis of credit. Against the present system of dealing with land are urged these objections: 1. Expense?The cost of the abstract of title and the opinion of counsel thereon upon every transfer of land and the costs of copying and recording the necessary paper. 2. Delay?Prom a week to several months may be spent in procuring an abstract on account of the necessity of examining deeds, liens, etc., of filling gaps in the chain of title, and of negotiating as to defects found by the attorney making the examination. 3. Insecurity?Errors often exist in the abstract and in the opinion of counsel thereon. There is a constant danger of loss to owners through claims undi8coverable by any lnves Ligation. 4. The vast amount of useless labor expended upon the repeated examination of the same chain of titles upon every transaction. 5. The constantly lengthening chain of deeds to be examined Increases the expense, delay and insecurity. These defects operate as a perpetual tax upon the holder of land and make It notoriously a "slow" asset. Fixes the Ownership. The distinctive feature of the Torrens system is that instead of registering instruments as evidence of title, it determines and fixes the ownership of the title to land. The state, through a court of competent jurisdiction, makes a public examination of the title, and votes and certifies to an indefeasible title to an estate or interest In land. After the land is once registered all past transactions need not be further investigated, .and the constant examination of the title from the crown grant down, which is necessary now every time the property is dealt with, becomes unnecessary. To register a title under the Torrens system a petition is made to the court by the person claiming to own the land. The court may be one of the existing courts of the state or a court specially created to determine cases of this kind. In Massachusetts, for example, a specially constituted land court, with headquarters in Boston, hears and determines Torrens cases for the state of Massachusetts. The petition to the court is accompanied by an abstract showing the condition of the title and must contain a full description of the land to be registered. The names and addresses of all persons who may be Interested In the land, including adjoining owners and occupants, must be given. In each county where the system is in force the court appoints one or more examiners of title. The petition with the accompanying papers, is referred by the court to this official and the actual examination of the title is made by him. After investigation he reports to the court whether the title is good in the applicant or not, and subject to what encumbrances, if any. If the title appears to be good, a summary is issued to all parties appearing to have an interest in the property, and if, after proper notice, no objections are filed, the court determines if the applicant has good title and orders a certificate or title to De issued Dy ine clerk of the court in the name of the owner. To Secure Title. If, however, objections are filed, the procedure Is the same as in actions to quiet title at the present time. A certificate is Issued or denied according to the facts presented. Following is the form of certificate used: State of South Carolina, County of Richland. Date of First Registration I, , registrar of titles In and for said county. In the state aforesaid, do hereby certify that (owner's name) is an owner of an estate in fee simple in the following described land, situated In the countj of Richland and state of South Carolina, to wit: (Here follows descrlptlor of the land as determined by the decree of the court.) witness mv hand and official sea this day of A. D. ( Registrar's signature.) Registrar of Titles, Richland County S. C. In Massachusetts the original cer tifleate of title contains a copy of th< decree of the court and subsequen transfer certificates refer to th< original. On each certificate of title Is a spac< for columns with proper heading fo memoranda of encumbrances of th land: Document number; kind; re newlng in favor of; date of Instru ment; date of registration; slgnatur of registrar; discharge. Certificates are numbered consecu tlvely and the numbers are retainer as long as the boundaries remain un changed. Duplicates Issued. The original certificate of title 1 filed by the registrar of titles In hi office and he Issues to the owner , "duplicate owner's certificate." whlc! i Is an exact copy of the original. Th issuance of this certificate complete the registration. Upon the receipt c this certificate the applicant contrlt utes to an Indemnity or Insurance fun . one-tenth of one per cent or $1 o ( each $1,000. This fee Is payable onl . upon first registration. The fund thv created may be Invested In state c federal bonds or other securities b the official who has it in charge, and it is to.be used to Indemnify any person who sustains loss or damage by reason .of mistake or defects in the registration. After the expiration of a certain period, usually two years, from the date of the first registration, no person, whatever may. be his claim, mow nnnoHnn ihn voHHItv ftf t h A tltlfi. In other words, any person who may have been Interested but who was not notified of the application for regis- i tratlon may, within this time, have an i opportunity to establish the validity j of his claim. Failure to establish an i adverse claim within this time for- I ever bars it In dealings subsequent to reglstra- i tlon it is provided in the acts in this : country that any forms of deeds, < mortgages, leases or other instruments I which are sufficient under existing < laws for the purpose intended may be I used in dealing with registered land. 1 The acts provide that leases for a cer- i tain number of years, usually three i years or less, in Massachusetts seven i or less, shall not be the subject of i registration. ji If the owner desires to sell the land, i he draws a deed conveying it in the 1 usual form. The deed Is filed by the registrar in his office, the duplicate 1 owner's certificate is surrendered and ] canceled and a new certificate issued to the purchaser with notes or memo randa on it showing the exact state j of the title. If the property is to be mortgaged. I a mortgage is executed in the usual form, is filed in the registrar's office and a memorandum of it is made up- i on the original certificates and upon i the owner's duplicate certificate in the columns provided for that purpose and another copy of the certificate plainly marked "mortgage duplicate" may be issued to the mort- i gagee. When the mortgage is paid, the mortgagee's duplicate is surrendered and canceled and proper entries showing this are made upon the mortgage, upon the original, and upon the owner's duplicate certificate. i Must Be On File. All matters affecting the title must, under this system, be filed in the office of the registrar and be noted upon the original and duplicate certificates, both of which will thus show at any time the exact state of the title and all the liens against It The Torrens acts provide that "all Instruments, notices and papers required by this act to be filed in the office of the registrar shall be retained and kept in such office." They are retained and kept as a perpetual deposit Deeds, mortgages and other papers affecting the title may be executed In duplicate and a copy, marked <4duplicate" may be kept by the person to whom each Is given. Under rules in England and Ontario Instruments may be destroyed when they have become superseded by entries in the register or have ceased to have any effect The details of any paper, the abstract of which Is given on the certificate of title, may be learned from an examination of the Instrument on file in the registrar's office. The costs of registration vary somewhat in the different states. In Massachusetts the cost to the petitioner is $2 each $1,000 of the value of the land on the basis of the last assessment for taxation and about $25 more. After original registration, a deed transaction costs $2.50 and a mortgage transaction *l.5u, regardless of any assessed value. The statutory fees for registering titles in Illinois are as follows: Clerk of court on filing application $ 5 Registrar, examination of title .. 15 Publication Notice 2 Registrar on issue of certificate of title 2 i $24 If there are parties defendant upon whom summons is to be served, there will be a sheriff's fee of the usual amount for such service. Where the ! defendants consent to the registration. this expense may be avoided. Cutting Down Fee*. 1 In a bill proposed by a committee 1 of the North Carolina Bar association in 1912, the fees allowed were very much less than the above and the i total cost of an original registration, exclusive of fees to sheriffs and clerks, which were to be the same as allowed In other special proceedings, would not exceed $6.50 for a piece of prop> erty assessed at less than $5,000. This does not include the payment of the insurance fund of one-tenth of one per cent of the value of the property. - In most states the cost of registration I Is about the same as the minimum charge now made by attorneys for making each abstract of title. The fees for registering subsequent trans' fers, mortgages, etc., are from $1 to r $3. As stated before the Torrens sysi tern was adopted in South Australia In 1858. Torrens himself carried the act into operation and more than 1 1,000 titles were registered during the - first two years. The prospects of - the system were so promising that other colonies soon adopted similar acts?Queensland in 1861, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania In 1862, - New Zealand in 1870, Western Ause tralia in 1874, Flzi in 1876, and Brltt ish New Guinea in 1889. e In England a land registry act was passed In 1862, but the results ace complished under It were unsatlsr factory, so that It was repealed In e 1875 and Its place taken by the "land - transfer act of 1875," commonly - known as L<ord Calm's act, which was e similar In nature to the Torrens system. This act was amended In 1897 and registration In England Is now d conducted under these two acts. - These acts apply to England and Wales, and registration Is voluntary except In the county of London, In,s eluding the city of London, where is since 1902 registration of title upon a sale has been compulsory. In Ireland h registration Is compulsory, as to all e property sold under the "purchase of !S land acts" and voluntary as to all ?f other property. - Used on Continent, d In continental Europe systems of n registration of title essentially similar y to the Torrens system have been In is operation for a long time?in some >r of the Austrian provinces for upwards y of 90 years. The Torrens system has been introduced in practically all of the Canadian provinces and in nearly all of them registration is compulsory as to all lands sold by the crown and voluntary as to all other lands. In Borne districts more than 90 per cent of all lands are registered. In the United States the state of Illinois was the first to adopt the system by the passage of the Torrens 1 title bill In 1895. This act was de- 1 clared unconstitutional by the su?? ft- oTnnnd that It picnic WUU VU VtiV o? WV...V. ... , conferred judicial powers on the reg-1 Istrar, who Is a ministerial officer. It was amended In 1897 In such a way as to remove the constitutional ob- ( lections and under the county local l option provision of the bill has been ' In force In Cook county, which includes Chicago, ever since. The hold- , Ing of the court In this Illinois case | has made It necessary in this country < that the procedure in initial registra- ' tlon should be had in court, though ( several cases have held that sub- j sequent registration may be made by 1 the registrar. In any questionable | act, however, he must report the mat- , ter to the court for its decision. Other states which have adopted ! the system are California (1897), Massachusetts (1898), Minnesota i (1901), Colorado (1903), Washington 1 (1907), New York (1908). Ex-PresIdept Taft, when governor of the Philippines. Introduced the system in the islands in 1902, following largely the i Massachusetts law, making it com- 1 pulsory as to all public lands sold by 1 the government and voluntary as to i lonHo Tho Hvnfpm was in troduced in Hawaii in 190S. The acts which have been adopted i in this country generally contain a local option provision by which the act becomes operative in a county or district only upon a favorable vote )f the people of the county at an election in which the question is submitted. In all the states the system exists side by side with the present system and registration is, so far, voluntary as to all lands, i. e., the owner may have his land registered or not as he sees fit. What progress has been made by the system has been ' made on its merits, and in spite of the organized and strenuous opposition of abstract and title guarantee companies.?Prof. Oeorge McCutcheon. 8TORIE8 OF BAD WRITING. 8om*tim?s Brings About Funny Comnlieatians. Sheridan's writing was a scandal to his school and puzzled the town. He once wrote a "pass" to Drury Lane, and the doorkeeper stopped Us bearer and immediately pronounced It to be a forgery, because he could decipher it! To make matters worse, Sheridan was alio uncertain In his spelling. A "which," a "where," and a "whether" in his his hands, for instance, were as often as not deprived of their "alches," and o "thing" was to him always a "think" and nothing more. The atrocious writing of celebrities recalls the claim once made on behalf of Baron Bramwell that he wrote three " ??-?-W i -1 nanus: "one which uc aiunc cuu<u another which his clerk could read and he couldn't, and a third which nobody could read," and the last named was his usual style.' Lord Curzon, when a young man at college, once found his bad handwriting stand him in good stead. Writing two letters, one to a relative, the other to a chum, he enclosed them in the wrong envelopes. It chanced that in the second letter he made some uncomplimentary reference to his relative, and on discovering the mistake he had madfe he awaited developments with anxiety. There presently came a letter from the uncle. "I have tried to decipher your epistle," it ran, "but your writing is so atrocious that I cannot make head or tall of It. However, I guess the drift of it to be that you need some money, you rogue, so I enclose a cheque." Bad handwriting is not always a handicap in life. The late Lord Ooschen once said that his father attributed the foundation of his fortune to the fact 41 4 aKIIamwI fnnnH a flrm hA IIULI XIC WtLS UUI15CU vvr ivuiiu ?* cause he wrote such a bad hand that no one would take him for a clerk. Of Goschen himself, Arthur Elliot records that "his handwriting- grot steadily worse, and in his later years he might have spelt as he chose. At length his script became undecipherable even by himself. He could not, when speaking in parliament, make out what it was that he had put on paper, and he thus came in later days to abandon almost entirely his old practice of making notes." Prof. Blackie had a peculiar "fist." An elderly compositor on the Scotsman, however, knew nearly all about the professor. One night there was a particularly difficult manuscript from the professor. It was put before the expert, with an inquiry as to whether or not he could set it. "I could not do that," said the veteran from Inverary; "but If I'd ma pipes here I could play her." Another instance of the usefulness to) other people of illegible handwriting is included in the vast collection of anecdote and fable that deals with the writing of Horace Greeley. One compositor could never get used to his appalling scrawl, and, In rage at the continued "typographical errors," Greeley sent a note to the foreman to discharge the man at once, as he was too Inefficient a workman to be any longer employed on the Tribune. The foreman did it, but the compositor got hold of me noie unu tuun u iv where the foreman, after much puzzling', finally read it: "Good and efficient workman, and long employed on the Tribune," and promptly took him In. Joaquin Miller, the "Poet of the Sierras," who died a few months since, has been put forward as the worst writer that ever lived. The secretary of a literary society once Invited him to attend a banquet, and received an answer, of which no one could decipher a word. He wrote again to .the poet, stating the difficulty, and suggested that, In replying, he should make a cross at r the foot of his letter If he were coming, and a circle If he could not be present. Miller complied with the request, but i nobody could decide whether the mark i he made was intended for a circle or a cross!?Philadelphia Ledger. piswllanwus grading. RECEIPT8 FOR TOMATOE8. How to Mako Catsup, Pickles, Prosorvoa and the Liko. The following cornea to The Enquirer from Mlsa Minnie Garrison, organizer of the Girl's Canning Clubs in York county: Catsup. 24 ripe tomatoes. 6 green peppers, 1-4 cup sugar, b cups vinegar, o onions, peeled; 1-4 cup salt, 2 tb. each of ginger, cinnamon and mustard. Peel tomatoes and cook all ingredients until thick, stirring often. Put Into bottles; seal hot.?Miss Annie Lou Tappan, Greensboro, Ga. Boll 24 ripe tomatoes, t onions, 2 green peppers, until thoroughly done. Strain through a sieve or colander, getting all the pulp without seeds. To one-half gallon of Juice, add 3 cups of vinegar, 2-8 of a oup of sugar, 1 tb. of Bait. 1 t each of mustard and ground ginger, 4 drops each of oil of cloves, oil of cinnamon, and celery- extract or Bait. To give a rich color, add a few drops of red coloring like that used for cakes, cream, etc. No definite amount can be directed for the coloring, as Bome tomatoes are redder than others. Use only a few drops and test when mixed to see if it is the desired color. Cook until thick, stirring often. Bottle while hot and cork tightly.?Miss Annie Lou Tapp&n, Greensboro, Ga. Lemon Tomato Catsup. Use well-ripened tomatoes; wipe tomatoes, cut into pieces, put into preserving kettle, bring to the boiling point and let simmer until soft, then force through a hair-sieve. There Bhould be four quarts of the puree. To this add, 2 cups of lemon Juice with the grated rinds of the lemons; 1 cup of sugar, 2 1-2 tb. salt, 1 tb. mustard, 3-4 tb. white pepper, 1-2 tb. cayenne, and 1 tb. whole cloves, allspice, mace, stick cinnamon and celery seed, Mori in a muslin bag. Bring to the boiling point &nd simmer until reduced one-half. Pour into bottles and seal.? Mrs. Fannie H. Neely, Perry, Ark. Preserves?Ripe. .To each pound of peeled tomatoes allow 3-4 pound of sugar Let tomatoes stand covered with sugar an hour, then heat gradually to boiling point, and simmer gently until tomatoes are clear and tender. Keep sides of kettle carefully wiped down, to prevent crystals of sugar forming. Just before cooking is finished, add 2 t. lemon juice for each pound of tomato. Fill sterilised jars and seal. If a more tender preserve is desired, make syrup by boiling .the sugar with a little water, 1 cup to a pound. Then drop In the freshly prepared tomatoes. The yellow tomato makes a clev. bright preserve.?Miss Carrie Belle Hyde, Rock Hill, S. C. Use seven pounds of tomatoes, peel-j. n ryf auaroi** lat lhl? atanri CU f I (A^UIIUO V? BW0?M , >v? , over night in a Jar. Next morning, drain off syrup, boll in agate kettle until clear; skim well, drop in tomatoes, boll 20 minutes longer. Remove tomatoes with a perforated skimmer, continue boiling until .thick, add strained Juice of S lemons, boil slowly and stir often. Put into Jars and do not seal until cold.?Miss Eula D. Atkinson, Jacksonville, Ala. 1 lb. tomatoes, 1 lb. sugar, 2 ounces ginger, 2 lemons. Wipe tomatoes, cover with boiling water and let stand until skins may be easily removed. Add sugar, cover and let stand over night In the morning, pour off syrup and boll until quite thick; skim, then add tomatoes, ginger, and lemons which have been sliced and seeds removed. Cook until tomatoes have a clarified appearance.?Miss Evelyn Maddo*. McCariey, Miss. Preserves?Green. To each pound of tomato, peeled and quartered, allow 3-4 pound sugar, 11-2 tb. lemon Juice, 8 or 10 cloves, 1-4 t ginger, 1-4 t. cinnamon, 1-8 t mace Let tomatoes stand covered with sugar for an hour. Add spices and bring orro^naiiv to the bollinsr noint Cbok slowly until fruit Is clear and tender keeping sides of vessel carefully wiped down. Put into sterilized jars and seal ?Miss CarTle Belle Hyde, Rock Hill S. C. Quarter green tomatoes. To 1 pound tomatoes, allow 3-4 pound sugar, 1-J lemon. Slice lemon and put betweer layers of tomatoes. Add a little ginger-root and cook until thick.?Misi Minnie Lee Garrison, Edgmoor, S. C. Four quarts green tomatoes, 4 lem ons, 4 pounds sugar, a small piece ginger, 1-2 cup cold water. Wash tomatoes and cut into slices, add sliced lem. ons, water and ginger. Simmer 2 hours cool, and then simmer 2 hours more Put into jars and seal hot.?Miss Annie Lou Tappan, Greensboro. Ga. Dutch Mixture. Two quarts green tomatoes (youni and solid), 1 quart cabbage and 1 quar of onion, chopped fine. Cover with coU water, boll until vegetables are clear J ? *? " oHH 1.5 run an If an( urttm wen, hum - ?- , following dressing; 2 quarts vinegar, ; cups sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 box mustan (dry), 1 tb tumeric. Mix dry ingredl ents thoroughly; add vinegar, boil un til consistence of cream. Add vegeta bles with 1 quart of cucumber picklei cut flne; boil three minutes longer an< seal hot.?Mrs. Julia L. Simmons, Mag nolia, Miss. Pickles?Green. 4 qts. chopped green tomatoes, 4 smal onions finely chopped, 4 green pep pers chopped, 3-4 cup salt, 1 tb each of pepper, mustard seed, eel ery seed, cloves, allspice and cln namon. Prepare vegetables, add salt, ant let stand over night. Heat vinega and spices to boiling point, add veg etables drained from the brine, am cook about 20 minutes after boilini point Is reached. Fill jars, seal, am keep in cool place. This pickle ma; be kept in a stone jar, if carefu about cover.?Miss Carrie Bell Hyde Rock Hill, S. C. Slice 3 quarts of tomatoes, put int a bowl, layer at a time, and sprinkl each with salt Let them stand 1 hours. Then take from water am pour over them 1 quart of good vln egar, 1-2 pound sugar, 4 sliced oniom 3 red peppers, 1 t. cloves, mustar seed, also dry mustard. Put upoi stove and simmer slowly until to matoes are soft. Seal while hot.Mlss Eula D. Atkinson, Jacksonvillt Ala. One-half gal. unpeeled green toma toes, 1 pint vinegar, 1-2 tb. each sal pepper, mustard seed, 1-4 tb. groun allspice and cloves, 3 large onion: 1-2 cup sugar. Slice tomatoes and onions, add vln egar, sugar and spices. Mix well an stew until tomatoes are very tendei Put into glasses and seal.?Miss Mln nie Lee Garrison, Edgmoor, S. C. One-half peck green tomatoes (un peeled), 1 pint sugar, 1 1-2 pint vlr egar, 1 tb. cinnamon, 1 tb. who! allspice, handful whole cloves, littl nutmeg and dry mustard, 2 or 3 sma green peppers. 3 large onions. Bo half an hour until tender.?Miss Mir nle Lee Garrison, Edgmoor, S. C. Pickles?Green (8weet). 1 peck tomatoes, sliced 1 cup salt, lbs. sugar, 3 red pepr Nr pods, cut 1 strips, 1 cup stick cinnamon, 2 tl ginger root, 6 large onions, slice< 4 qts. vinegar, 1 cup salt, 2 tl white mustard seed, 2 tb. cloves, 1 cayenne pepper. Slice tomatoes, sprinkle with sal also sprinkle peppers and onions wll salt; let stand over night. Coc with 2 qts. water and 1 qt vinegar at boiling point 16 minutes. Drain. Cook together remaining vinegar, spices (which should be tied (n cheese cloth bag), 10 minutes. Add tomatoes and simmer gently 1 hour, stirring occasionally to prevent burning. Pack in cans. Seal.?Miss Lottie Henderson, Fitsgerald, Ga. One peck tomatoes, chopped fine, 1 qt onions, chopped. Soak in salt water 1 hour, squeese dry; place In preserving kettle to which add 1 qt white wine vinegar. 12 teacups sugar, 1 grated nutmeg, 1 heaping t powdered cinnamon, 1 t tumeric. Boll SO minutes.?Mrs. Dora Dee Walker, Appleton, S. C. * * * 3 qts. sliced tomatoes, 1 qt cat cabbare. 2 tb. white mustard seed, 1 tb. black pepper, I large onions, 1 1-2 qts. apple vinegar, 1 1-2 lbs. sugar, 2 tb. salt, 1 tb. celery seed, ginger, cloves and mace. Boll about one hour.?Mrs. Margaret K. Scott, Haw River, N. C. 5 pounds fresh picked green tomatoes, 1-2 small cup mixed spices, 1 1-2 lbs. sugar, vinegar to cover. Boll 6 minutes. Seal in cans for future use.?Miss Rosamond Clark, Paris, Tenn. 4 qts. chopped green tomatoes, S-4 cup salt, 3 t allspice, 2 t cloves, 2 t pepper, 2 t mustard, 3 t cinnamon, 2 qts. vinegar, 1-2 cup white mustard seed, 4 green peppers, sliced, 2 chopped onions. Add salt to tomatoes; cover, let stand 20 hours and drain. Add spice to vinegar and heat to boiling point; then add tomatoes, peppers and onions; bring to boiling point and cook 16 minutes. Pack In a stone Jar and keep In cool place.?Miss UoCurlav VI lu V1J ** ? I " Pickles?Rip*, (Uncooked). Two qts. tomatoes, peeled and chopped, 1 cup chopped celery or 1 cup finely chopped cabbage, 1 tb. celery seed, 4 red peppers, finely chopped, or 6 green peppers; 9 tb. chopped onion, 5 tb. salt, 1-2 cup sugar, 1-2 cup mustard seed, 2 1-2 ctfps vinegar, 3-4 t cloves, 2-4 t cinnamon, 3-4 t grated nutmeg, 1 t ginger. Mix Ingredients, <put Into stone Jar and cover. Let stand a week before using. May be kept a year.?Miss Carrie Belle Hyde, Rock Hill, S. C. Pickles?Ripe (8west). Seven lb. ripe tomatoes scalded, peeled and sliced; 2* 1-2 lb. brown sugar, 1 tb. each, ground cloves, ground cinnamon; 1 L each, mace, salt, 1 good sized red pepper, chopped fine, 2-2 quart good vinegar. Tie spices In a thin muslin bag; boil pickle mixture for 1 hour. Seal In jars. (This Is very fine.)?Miss Minnie Lee Garrison, Edgmoor, 8. C. * k Two qts. green tomatoes, 2 tb. salt, 1L each, cloves, mostard, cinnamon, 2 cups sugar, 2 sliced onlohs, 2 cups water, 1 pinch red pepper, 1 cup vln?Mr Slice tomatoes, add onions and salt Let stand over night Drain. Add water, vinegar, sugar and spices and boil 1 boar slowly. Seal hot? Miss Annie Lou Tappaa, Greensboro, Ga. Delicious Pickles. ! Use 1 peck green tomatoes, 1-2 peck ripe tomatoes, 1 dos. green pep. pers, 1-2 dos. onions, 4 heads cabbage, 1 bunch celery (1 dos. small bunches). Chop peppers and onions ' together; the remainder chop separately. Sprinkle each with salt Let stand over night In the morning, drain all the water from It and add , 3 lbs. brown sugar, 2 stalks horseradish chopped fine, 1 tb. white mustard seed, 1 os. tumeric, 1 tb. ground cinnamon. Mix together thoroughly, boll enough vinegar to 1 mix it well; let it get cool; pour over pickles; add small quantity of celery 1 seed If you wish. Can and seaL This ' will make about 2 gallons.?Miss Mln nie j_?ee uarrisuu, niugjuuvt, s>. v. PiokM. Two lb. well-grown green tomato es, 1 I lb. brown sugar, l pint vlaugar. I 8cald tomatoes well In strong . ginger tea. Remore and put Into the . syrup made by boiling brown sugar and vinegar. Add'butmeg, cinnamon, ; and mace in muslin bag. Cook un; til syrup Is clear.?Miss Minnie Lee , Garrison, Kdgmoor, 8. C. I . CO-OPERATION IN TEXAS. How 8erious Agricultural Problems Are Being Solved. , Never In modern history have there been so many movements organised 1 in the United States to help the farmer as at present, says a Fort Worth, . Tex., letter. There are many "curw. alls" with free samples for every 111 ' that besets agriculture. No farmer should put out a "No Help Wanted" ' sign, but It Is Important that he em ploy only the kind of help he needs. A great many persons appear to believe that, because a farmer pulls off ? his coat when he thinks, he is not j capable of understanding his problems. Men can sit in libraries entire9 a l? Kv hnnkfl And naMfl | and concoct schemes to cover the valleys with grain fields and the hills . with flocks and herds, and honestly - believe they can make the farmer * enough wealth to ransom a king, but _ the farmer knows better than to exchange magic for common sense. Men skilled in trading may feel capable of 1 instructing the farmer in the art of ' cheating nature, but the farmer knows ^ that Mother Eearth will not be deceiv. ed. The problems of agriculture are as serious as the multiplication table, 3 and they cannot be solved by agrlcul. tural magicians, making miracles to i order, or by seeking marketing S through faith, hope and charity. It 3 Is a cold business proposition, j The farmer can be helped only t, through common sense and co-operation. The farmer Is able to get about on the farm, but he loses his way in ? the market places, and it is there he " o Dalatfl npp_ 2 IliUOi d The nation can learn many lessons ' of Importance In co-operation from d the people of Texas. Texas Is the n first state In the Union to approprl" ate money exclusively for the study 7 of marketing plans. It is the only state where the bankers are financing the distress cotton at low rate of in terest; its legislature has passed a ^ warehouse bill making cotton certifl3> cates negotiable and as good as government bonds, the first of its kind " to be placed on any statute book. It p is the first to arrange to use the ex7 press companies as a medium of distribution between the producer and consumer. Texas has organised co-operative 'e grin companies, owned exclusively by le farmers and operated in their lnH terests, and has established a central selling agency for cotton with facilities for handling the 1913 crop, und otherwise afforded assistance to the 2 producer in the sale of his products, n These results have been brought about, in the main, by the business b' interests co-operating with Farmers' t. Union in its work. The farmer cannot be helped until he organises, and the government cannot help the farmik er except through organisation.