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YORKVlLLE ENQUIRER. ISgXTgP gKMI-WEKHLT. L m. grist s son. PsUuiun. } & 31r urspape i;: ^or the promotion oj <h< gotitical, Social, agricultural and Commercial Interests of th< feopM. ( ESTABLISHED T855: YORKVILLE, 8. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER lii, 1913. N"Q. 73. . *un 4 lu '?? o?A hird?r *v?rv VMT to convict A M>*4ir>?<Kv?-c>rx?iC?rx?v?r The Mid By CHARLES TE Author of SZhe Day of Souls, (Copyright 1912, The Bobbs-Merrll CHAPTER XX?Continued. The young man was unfolding a paper from his pocket. And suddenly a fear shot through. Curran that it had to do with the hushed story of Ladeau's. They had kept It well quiet, yet it haunted his counsels. But Harlan, his voice oool, spoke of another matter. "Wiley, did you see this from the Chicago papers?" Wiiey took the review of last week's opening of The Girl and The Burglar. He atlued a shout of amazement The woman who had been doing the leading comedy business had been taken ill the first night, and a girl from the chorus, who had understudied the part. had played her role. Aurelle! "Saved the first night!" gasped Curran. "And I've been on the road and never heard a word of it!" The grim young man silently extended other clippings. The reviewers were surprised, felicitous. Cohan A Snitx had "got by" with a musical comedy that had been on its last legs until the Chicago opening. And a new face?a girl with a funny personality had pulled it through. A girl who sang and laughed with a happy audacity. A refreshing person who had no Ingenue tricks, no footlight mannerism?nothing ex cept laughter and ignorance or convention. The reviewers suddenly recalled that this was the newspaper beauty contest winner of?let's see? Was it two years ago? No one csred. Only, to that fact Cohan & Snltx's publicity bureau seized as only a drowning Hebrew manager can seize on a drowning forty-thousand dollar show. They flung it broadside; they screamed it, on every fence. The star roared and resigned. It did her no glory. Cohan & Snitz would have deified their office boy if he could have saved The Girl and The Burglar; and here an unknown western girl of their chorus had all the press with her, and all the public by some hap py-go-lucky verve. Mr. Curran laid down those clippings and wiped his eyes. "Where have I been?" he gasped again. "Asleep!" "Read on." demanded Harlan. Aurelle had been interviewed by the Timea She said she was from Rome. Iowa, but adored a bull-pup and lobster Newburgh. She was interviewed for the Telegraph?Sunday, first page, supplement, specially posed photos and a sketch by "Max" ?and said she liked all the Johnnies and used their notes to stun a pillow for the bull-pup. Next day, declared the veracious publicity bureau, she received eight pups from eight millionaires and fifty mash notes. Wiley laid down the clippings once more. "The dear kid," he murmured. "Eight million pups and eight million millionaires?I'd not care!" He looked up to meet Harlan's eyes. "And two months ago she was living in New York?cooking oatmeal over o <raa.iot! She's a humdinger!" Humdingers are not in the Van Hart genealogy. In 1742, Bbenezer -Van Hart married Agatha Ann Bunker, indentured servant. The Mra Van Harts of today never read the paragraph on page twenty-eight about Agatha Ann, one-time humdinger. Harlan broke out wrathfully. "Wiley! You rejoice at it!" "I reckon! The dear kid?let her go on Just joyously! All she's done! * The money she's sent back to Lindstorm's to pull 'em all through! And now she's got Uncle MlcH's pat< t leg paid for?at last. And Unclt Mich sent Peter in to a;k me 10 cvm? uui, A regular party to christen Mich's leg?that's what Aurelie said we must have?with flowers and laughter and everybody happy!" Young Mr. Van Hart rose. It was no use to quarrel with Wiley when his eyes were shining so! No use to remind him of congress. No use te charge him with making a fool o 1 himself. But Harlan shouted from the door: "Aurelie?you got her into this! And you ought to know how girls get or in these music shows?the only way! No?" he shouted on passionately? "you don't love her?it's a Joke!" The editor stood up and wiped his glasses and looked after Harlan's retreating figure. "Love her? Confound the boy!" He knocked his pipe out on the desk edge. "Hey? O! If I was twenty-one?" he sighed "But when I was twenty-one there was Janet, and I went out to see the tinsel world?" he sighed again. "Anc Aurelie and her tinsel show! Yet ] reckon I'm glad I'm what I am!" After supper he went up the bluf road. Along this trail she had come flying to him in her despair. Above were the hills in whose autumn glorj ah? hud robed her loneliness. There the bleak field about the Llndstorn cottage lay. Out of all this meager neas she had come. And he had lift ed her! Even Llnd8torm, gaunt and silent welcoming him from the ravenini dogs, could not chill his jubilance He waved the papers toward Ob Mich. The household stared at him "Hear this?all of you!" And h began reading the tale of Aurelie' glory. Even John was stilled. A1 bert's pale eyes shone. Old Mlchlgai waved his peg-leg. "Done come!" he crowed. "Jus as Captain Tinkletoes and me said 1 was! Aurelie'd done occupy all th lands and states and countries! An I done got the new leg she's bee: buyin', Mr. Wiley. But I ain't golr to wear It. It's too fine and shlnj and cost a sight o' money fo' an ol whiskey runner like me. Wouldn get that leg out in the rain and mu fo' a pretty! So we hung it up In th parlor!" "But Uncle Mich?" "Finest leg, I reckon. In this yer hull government! And yere's anothe lLANDERS NNEY JACKSON , My Brother'i Keeper. Etc. 1 Company.) man who knows Louisiany where the birds they sin* sweet?'way down river where Aurelle done come from. There was a scurry. Ladeau was out and beaming on Curran, terrierwise. "01' Mich"?he cried?"we struck up, talkln' dem oi' days! And I come offer my legal knowledge to dis case, Wiley!" "Legal knowledge?" Curran had put the unpleasing fact of Ladeah away weeks ago?and had paid him pittances of money. Now he was reminded. "I study dat correspondence school of Pittsburgh when I was in Kansas. Ah, dat law?it hurt my health. So I carry bats fo' Rube. But dat law, I know heem. I advise M'sieu in dis trouble." "The Lord will direct me." John's deep voice had the majesty with which martyrs walked the stake. The iron was in his soul. Curran felt the vanity of argument. But Ladeau sniffed of some compromise he was about to make. He went on with a great harangue of terms and rights and settlements, while the Dane sat in his Cromwelllan faith in the right and grimly listened. On the table was a shotgun, and hanging on the wall, a repeating rifle. Outside his lean hounds watched the road with Instant warning of approach. "But here's your family, John? What can you hope, if you get into trouble, for them?" "God will answer. So I told the sheriff, Mr. Curran, when he came to see me. 'An eye for an eye ,a tooth for a tooth.' So I told him, and he went away. The Holiness Brethren have prayed with me, Mr. Curran, and they tell me God will see my cause Just" Wiley reasoned cnariteDiy inai mu was to be expected of a university that had no windows open to the sunny side. "John, I'd think twice?" Ladeau beamed ingratiatingly. "I have t'ought for M'sieu. My legal knowledge. T'ree t'ousand dollars we demand. I stand by M'sieu to get hees right. Name of God?no? Den we fight!" Curran turned sharply on him. "Now, you keep still in this, Ladeau! Grafting on John and Uncle Mich now, are you?" The Cajun shrugged. "I eat I sleep. Up in dat loft with Uncle Mich," he sighed, "an here is dls room unused. It wait fo' mam'selle who run off to' de stage." He sighed again depreciating such foolish amusement. But Curran looked past him. It was Aurelie's room. Mrs. Lindstorm was by his side at the door. "Not a thing changed, sir? just waiting for her." She glanced at John. "My man. I think he's sorry. Aurelle was always a good girl? kind as could be." Her toll-weary J eyes lightened meeting Curran's own. The boys crowded nearer. Old Michigan lifted his shaggy head. Albert the pitiful pedler-agent, raised his glance from the catalogues he was everlastingly at. Even John listened imperturbably. Word of Aurelie! Aurelle off In the world doing some sort of marvel! Aurelie, their defiant protector, the red-coated champion of old days when she fought the town boys for her ragged little brothers! Never would one of them forget. ,,T*?" """"in' Vinmoi" muttered 1/UUC vumtii uv?.v. Michigan?"some day." "And she won't be stuck up, either!" said Peter. "She wrote Knute she was goln' huntin' with us up Eagle Point?when Nellie's pups grew big." They looked in the tiny room. Spotless, the bed hung in pink and white chintz, contrasting with the squalor of the kitchen room without her. Her love of cleanness, of pretty things; her buoyant hopefuli ness and nicety spoke in every line. On the dresser was her latest photoi graph in a frame made of a walnut tree burl which the boys had found in the slough and which Michigan had dressed from its roughness. In I a pitcher was a spray of late cosmos i which Mrs. Lindstorm had saved from the last frost. Some way, for Aurelie they would shyly bring whatever of sentiment their hard lives t held. Unseen, some grace of love she had left for them still hovered. They were waiting?the little white ? room held the air of a shrine. And Curran, who knew of the . clothes and food mysteriously carried s into this house, for which Albert'f s piteous earnings and Mich's illicit 1 trade had never sufficed, since Johr I was crippled, felt the throb of theli love. It had done more than give t food, it had held them up with hope i with laughter and with joy. In spite i of all; and even John no longer helc f her the devil's agent. But he woulc i not speak of her. i Peter pulled open the drawer to hei ' "TT - littlp rnsarv - dresser. n?c o ?.v? ....? . - Mr. Curran. We found it under th< clapboards, when the dogs chewec through after a rabbit." The boy'i 5 voice lowered tragically. "Paw, h< !. throwed it there the night he madi 3 her run off?he said it was Catholic u And we hid it to wait till she come! e home again, Mr. Curran." 8 Wiley took the bronzed chain an< - silver cross. A crude and simpl n piece of work such as a child migh wear. But it was the only reminde it of her vagabond life down-river t Michigan touched it in Curran' e hands. d "Done wore it 'round her neci n when I stole her for Old Man Captain i' Yes, sir, he done wanted a littl r. child to lead 'em!" e Ladeau slipped his oily fingers un 't der the chain as Wiley laid it back, d "Eh? Dat strange work, M e Wiley!" He peered closer. "Onl one man ever make dat. Francois o Chartres street?look, he mark all hi e silver so!" he turned the crucifix. O ir the under side were crude letter) Ladeau put the trinket down and sighed: "Ehu! Dat bisque I have eat in dat ol' silversmith shop!" He rubbed his stomach?"Dat bisque?" But they had turned away to listen to Wiley Curran. "That crucifix, Mrs. Llndstorm? Might I take it and have it cleaned and send it to Aurelle? For a present from all of you?with love from all of you? She's such a great lady now!" She looked at Uncle Mich. His face grew tender. "I reckon. I wouldn't let anybody but you take it, Mr. Wiley. She loved that little cross and chain. But you?I reckon you can, Mr. Wiley!" Wiley turned back to the table. The chain lay there. But when he lifted it the silver cross was missing. He looked about; then on the floor. "It's gone? The crucifix!" The boys were searching in the rag-carpet rugs. Curran looked about again, at all of them?then at Maurice Ladeau. He was rubbing his hands with his old slovenly cardsharp trick, and smiling. "Maurice, it was there when I laid it down!" He came nearer. The Cajun shrugged. "It was there when you picked it up!" "Mercl! I been a thief den? Fo' a picayune bit or sliver: x sno never see dat!" They looked about, under the bed and the dresser. But nothing was found. Michigan stumped out and crawled under the house to make sure it had not gone through some crack. "Done been curious!" He came back and set his shaggy brows hard on John and then Ladeau. "But you take the chain, Mr. Wiley. Mebbe we'll find the little cross." Curran was annoyed. "I'll get a new crucifix put on, Uncle Mich. Then I'll write Aurelle. But it's curious!" He went home and, sitting in the shop, took out the chain to muse over it. "Done come up-river!" He smiled and held it off toward the light? "God bless you, Uncle Mich! You and your little girl! Done come upriver to occupy the land. To find the land of Joy!" And as he stood up later, closing the door to go to the cottage, he heard a roaring oft to the west. At first faint, then growing as the train sped through the uplands' cut and reached the Earlvllle yards. In the News shop door, Mr. Curran listened, holding still the rosary against his cheek where her own baby lips had kissed it. Then with his old fancy he waved it toward the east. "Because you're there, Aurelie?just because you're there!" And a sudden impulse seized him. He was wont to do thlngB on unconsidered impulses. He had an appointment with the Honorable T. P. Purcell, his political manager, the next day at ten o'clock. But he suddenly growled: "Congress be damned!" -I Then he whirled and dashed through the shop, up to his cottage and into his bedroom. Aunt Abby was snoring:, as he crammed conars and brushes and ties and slippers into a suit case, and then dashed out again and over the fence with the lightness of a boy. He forgot to close the door. He scattered toilet articles from High street to the Junction. But one thing he did not lose and that was Aurelie's rosary! And by one of those curious chances of destiny which make or mar a man's life, the Chicago train was three minutes late, and he made it. (To be Continued.) Description of Christ.?The following beautiful description of our Savior is said to have been found in a manuscript written by Lucius Lentulus, president of Judea, to the Roman senate, and is well worthy of preservation by those who are His followers at the present time: "There is at present a man in Judea of a singular character, whose name is Jesus Christ. The Barbarians esteem him as a prophet, but his followers adore him as the immediate offspring of the immortal God. Hi is endowed with such unparalleled virtue as to call back the dead from the grave and heal every kind of disease with a word or touch. His person is tall and elegantly shaped, his aspect mild and reserved. The hair flows in those beautiful shades which no united colors can match, falling into graceful curls below his ears, agreeably touching on his shoulders and parting on the crown of his head like the head-dress of the Nazarines. ' **'- ?' J art/) lnrpp' nis loreneuu is nuiuum , his cheeks, without spot, are of a lovely red; his mouth and nose are finished with exquisite symmetry; his beard is thick and suitable to the color of his hair, reaching a little below his chin and parting In the middle like a fork; his eyes ar6 large, bright an<3 serene. He rebukes with mildness I and Invites with the most persuasive f language. t "His whole address, whether ir word or deeds, being elegant, grave and strictly characteristic of an ex alted being. No man has ever seer him laugh, but the whole world be> | held him weep and so persuasive are | his tears that one cannot refrain fron I joining in sympathy with him. He li modest, temperate and wise; ant r whatever the phenomenon may tun out in the end, he seems a being o ^ excellent beauty and Divine perfec | tion?in every respect surpassing th< children of men." a 1 j This Ship's Cat Was Saved.?Abou ? twenty years ago, when I was residen s in north China, the British squadroi then in far-eastern waters was steam j Ing out of the port of Chefoo when i e little black cat fell overboard fro:: " *? ? woniioMr tt'pltes a rorres ? n. m. ts. ?? v.., .....? _ r pondent of the London Spectator. A , once the ship stopped, signaled to he consorts "Cat overboard," and the en tire squadron came to a standstill, j boat put off from the Wanderer an ^ rescued puss, who was swimming fo ^ dear life after the ship. The officer who told me the stor said the officers would have been furl ous if the little cat had not been save< for not only was she a great pet, bu they firmly believed that disaste y would follow if a black cat was allow n ed to drown. 8 , m , 'tr Honest labor is the grave-diggf ' for most worries. Miscellaneous Reading. THE STATE COLLEGES Too Much for Higher and Not Enough for Lower. The Yorkville Enquirer, the Herald and News of Newberry, and the Greenwood Journal, judging from their recent utterances, do not seem to be too friendly towards the state colleges. The Journal and the Herald and News even go so far as to say "that It Is no part of the duty of the state to furnish higher education." The Yorkvllle paper chimes in with this, "When some strong, capable leader takes up this question in the right kind of way he Is going to revolutionise our whole educational system, with the result that the higher institutions will lose their present strong grip." While we are strong advocates of the common schools and would like to see them get every dollar the state can afford to give them, we do not want to see the state colleges lose "their present strong grip," whatever that expression may mean. Better give both common schools and colleges a better grip than to loosen the "grip" of either. Such institutions as| the Citadel, South Carolina College, Clemson and Winthrop are doing too great a work in educating, enlightening and broadening the rising generation for any of us to wish to cripple them. God knows South Carolina is woefully In need of all the colleges,! both state and denominational, as well as all the common schools she can get ?Lancaster News. The Lancaster News does the Herald and News an injustice in not quoting the position of the Herald and News in full. We do not think it is in the province of the state to furnish higher education, but we said also that we did not intend to butt our head against a brick wall. The policy of this state for a hundred years, and of every other state has been to furnish higher Institutions of learning, ?nd the historv of education shows that no country ever had a flourishing system of common schools that did not nourish and maintain higher Institutions of learning, and we do not oppose these institutlona We did say and repeat that we think the free scholarships should be cut out and that these higher Institutions should be more economically run. We think South Carolina is spending too much money on higher education In proportion to what she is spending for the common schools. You know that more than ninety lier cent of the children of the state never go to college, and yet the state Is spending about fifty per cent as much money on the less than ten per cent as she is spending on the more than ninety per cent for education. There Is where the "revolution" about which The Enquirer talks will come, if it comes at all. The great problem hefnre the American DeoDle today is the problem of rural schools. If the members of our legislature would take a trip to some of our country schools, Instead of one of these trips to Winthrop or the Citadel or Clemson and see conditions as they exist, we believe they would provide more generously for the country school and be Just a little bit more careful in some of the expenditures of the colleges. That Is the point we were trying to impress.?Newberry Herald and News. WILSON TARIFF BILL. Democratic Measure Goe? Through b> a Vote of 44 to 37. Washington, Sept 9.?The Democratic tariff revision bill passed the senate at 5.43 o'clock this afternoor ?1 -1 ~ L.i a# n nnlo nan that BtCPnl CLII11U a uuioi VI V..WV .f.?r down from crowded galleries anc found its echo on the crowded flooi of the senate. Its passage was attended with surprises in the final moments of the voting when Senator Lt Follette (Republican) cast his vot< with the Democrats and was joined f few moments later by Senator Polndexter (Progressive). Until the names of Senators La Follette and Poindexter were called n< one knew definitely the stand thej | would take and their votes wen greeted with applause. President Wilson tonight expressec , great gratification over the end of th< long struggle in the senate. Senatoi | Simmons, chairman of the flnanci ^ committee, who piloted the bil through the finance committee, thi Democratic caucus and the senate predicted its passage would bring im mediate stimulus to the commercia life of the country. As it passed the senate, the tarif r bill represents an average reductloi % of more than 4 per cent from tin | rates of the original bill that passe< i the house and nearly 28 per cen 4 from the rates of existing laws. In many important places the sen t ate has changed the bill that passe< the house and a conference commit tee of the two houses will begin work ing Wednesday or Thursday to adjus differences. Leaders of both house s predict that the conference will con ' sume less than two weeks' time. The senate named its members o . the conference committee as soon a the bill passed. . Vice President Marshall appointe Senators Simmons, Stone, William B and Johnson (Democrats) and Sena tors Penrose, Lodge and La Follett (Republicans). Senator Stone withdrew from th committee and Senator Shively wa I appointed in his place. The house cor II ferees, it was reported tonight, wi be Representatives Underwood, Kltch in and Ralney (Democrats) and Payn 11 and Fordney (Republicans). The final struggle began at 4 o'cloc when, under a previous agreemen votes began on the pending amenc ^ ments. During the closing hours < ^ debate Senator La Follette had b< come the centre of interest, proposln final amendments on the cotton an agricultural schedules and discussln some features of the bill he deeme ^ favorable. It was nearly 6.30 o'cloc j when the vice president put the bl r upon Its passage. The roll call proceeded deliberate! until the clerk called "La Follette The Wisconsin senator seated in tl >r front row, hesitated a moment. H head was bowed and resting on h hand. He leaned forward a trifle and vigorously answered, "Aye." Instantly applause broke from the galleries and senators on the Democratic side joined In hand clapping. When the name of Senator Polndexter, the Progressive senator, was reached and he had contributed his vote for the bill the applause was renewed. Tonight Senator La Follette had a few words to say of his vote, after many Democratic senators visited his desk and shook his hand. ! "I realize what I did was a political iacrlflce, but that something within me compelled me to vote for the bill. The tariff act of 1909 was but little short of a crime; the bill passed today is not a Democratic measure, but is a protective measure. Give the Democrats time and they will put everything on a free trade basis, but they have not done it in this bill." Senator Poindexter said of his vote: "I voted for the senate tariff bill because it is as a whole a better bill than the Pdyne-Aldrlch law now in force. Furthermore, it contains an income tax which we have been trying A o-of fnr on vwu*" When the vote had been announced, Senator Oalllnger of New Hampshire, leader of the minority, congratulated Senator Simmons "for his courteous, kindly and considerate manner," in the conduct of the debate. 'The bill Itself Is bad," he said, "but ita management has been in every way creditable to the majority and eminently fair to the minority." Just before the voting on amendments began, Senator La Follette yielded a few minutes of his time to Senator Thornton of ' Louisiana, who was about to desert his colleagues on the roll call "It is hard for me to vote against this bill," said the Louisiana senator. *"It Is made a party measure by the party with which I cast allegiance 46 years ago. It is harder still that I am forced to vote against it because my own party seeks now to strike a vital blow against the great sugar industry of my state." aalH ha wn> 1UC ocuaiui DU?u MW ? ? with a duty from his state higher than any duty owed to the Democratic party and voting against the bill, he continued, was keeping his pledge. Income tax amendments by Senatot's Brlstow and La Follette, similar to those they introduced several days ago, were defeated. An amendment by Senator Oallinger that proposed to send the whole tariff question over until December, 1914, and submit the bill to a popular referendum next fall, was also defeated. One Important change made on the recommendation of the finance committee gives the secretary of the treasury power to censor all imported moving picture Alms. Senator James, acting for the finance committee obtained the adoption of an amendment modifying the provision of the bill that authorizes conratorv nf th? treasury and col lector of internal revenue to employ Income tax officials witnout regard tc i the civil service laws. Following was the roll call: Teas: Ashurst, Bacon, Chamberlain, Chilton, Clarke of Arkansas Fletcher, Qore, Hitchcock, Hoi lis Hughes, James, Johnson, Kern, Lane > Lewis, Martin, Martine, Myers, New< lands, O' Gorman, Overman, Owen i Plttman, Pomerene, Robinson, Saulsbury, Shafroth, Sheppard, Shields Shively, Simmons, Smith of Arizona Smith of Georgia, Smith of Maryland Smith of South Carolina, Stone, Swan son, Thompson, Tillman, Vardaman Walsh, Williams, Democrats; La Fol lette, Republican, and Polndexter Progressive. Total?44. 1 Nays: Borah, Bradley, Brady ' Brandegee, Brlstow, Carton, uiapp 1 Clark of Wyoming, Colt, Cummlni ' Dillingham, Fall, Gallinger, Jackson Jones, Kenyon, Llppett, Lodge, Mc Cumber, McLean, Nelson, Norrls Oliver, Page, Penrose, Perkins, Rool 1 Sherman, Smoot, Stephenson, Sterling 3 Sutherland, Warren, Weeks an< 1 Works, Republicans; Ransdell am Thornton, Democrats. Total?37. Paired and not voting: Townsend Burton, Crawford, Goff, Dupont ant 1 Smith of Michigan, Republicans f Bankhead, Bryan, Culberson, Les 3 Thomas and Reed, Democrats. Tots ?12. ' Absent and not paired: Burlelg! 8 and Gronna, Republicans. Total?1 r Vacancy: Alabama, 1. 8 1 ' * ' a THE NEW TARIFF BILL. . Some of the More Important Change 1 That Have Been Made. The tariff bill as It passed the senat r last Tuesday, retained the prlnclpe i house provisions, Including free su - tfaa mw wool but revise B 6"? tw.v. 3 other rates still further downwarc t The average ad valorem rate In th bill now Is approximately 20 per cen . a decrease of 28 per cent for ex 3 istlng rates and nearly four per cer - lower than the rates of the hous - bill. t The senate's additions to the hous s free list with 1912 as a basis wi - cost the government more than $44 000,000, but adding a tax of one-tent if of one cent a pound on cotton fc s future delivery, a tax on bananas ( one-tenth of a cent a pound; r< d storing the requirement of a full ir s ternal revenue tax of $1.10 a gallo .- on brandies used to fortify wines an e by increasing the sur-tax rates o large incomes, senate leaders belie\ e they have provided an actual increas .s That is a point disputed by Majorll i- Leader Underwood of the house. Th 11 senate made these other importai i- changes: e Lowered the normal exemptlc from the 1 per cent income tax fro: k $4,000 to $3,000 for single person uritvi ovAmntlnna for wives and d< If " ?V?* ? 1- pendent children; exempted the li >f comes of mutual Insurance companl* i- which revert to the benefit of stocl g holders; Increased graduated sur-tf d on large Incomes to a maximum of ig per cent on those more than $50,00* d exempted Incomes of municipality k derived from the operation of publ 11 utilities and changed the date fro which the tax shall be computed fi ly flr*t year from January 1, to Marc 1, 1913. ie Free list cattle and other llve-stoc Is wheat, hair of the angora goat ai is some other agricultural products; r stored oat meal and rolled oats to the dutiable list and provided an elaborate Inspection of meat Imports. Reduced house rates on woolen manufactures to become effective January 1, 1914. Provided in the sugar schedule for Immediate abolishment of the Dutch standard test; postponed operation of proposed reduced rates until March 1. 1914, leaving the provision unchanged for free sugar in May, 1916. Slightly Increased rates on finer cotton goods, reclassifying the whole cotton schedule and changing the slllc schedule from an ad valorem to a [specific basis. Provided lor an aaminiBmuve force to handle Income tax collections without regard to requirements of the civil service. Struck out countervailing duty on wood pulp. Greatly reduced rates of the metal schedule. Struck out many reform provisions In the administrative section; rejected the anti-dumping clause, the 5 per cent tariff reduction on imports in American vessels and requirement for Inspection of books of foreign manufacturers in undervaluation cases, but added a provision giving the president authority to retaliate against nations which discriminate against American goods by proclaiming Increased rates on certain goods, adopted a provision excluding goods manufactured chiefly by child labor and provided for the creation of a commission to revise the customs laws. Additions to the free list included: Asphalt, fabrics of jute yarns, wool blankets valued at less than 40 cents a pound, text books, sugar machinery, cast iron pipe, cement, creosote oil, denatured alchohol,. flax and hemp, furs and fur skins, gunpowder, photographic moving picture films, cattle and other livestock, wheat, sawed cedar, angora goat and alpaca wool and paper twine for binding wool. A C0L088AL EXPERIMENT British National Workman's Insurance Plan Big Undertaking. The crowning work of the career of Lloyd George, the British national workmen's insurance plan, has been completely reported on in a volume of <60 pages in the shape of a blue book, says the New York Commercial. It shows that 14,000,000 peojle are entitled to its benefits after a year of operation. Societies sanctioned to operate under the law number 2,212. During tne iweive mgaina juai jwst 20,000 persons obtained free hospital treatment and the enormous sum of $26,000,000 went to workers as Indemnity. To operate a system which will assemble 14,000,000 out of a population of 47,000,000 people is a fact of tremendous import It either means an Industrial revolution or national "bankruptcy. The report states that k practically every form of organisation ! previously engaged In Industrial life and accident Insurance Is now repre, sented in the administration of the ( act These include the "State club," covering a single village and the Industrial insurance company with representatives throughout the United Kingdom. The scope of the benefits under the law Is indicated by the report Up to March 31 of this year, 284 societies had been given permission to sell the Insurance in the United Kingdom, and 1,918 were allowed to operate in England. More than 20,000 branches are covered by the approval. [ In England alone there are 10,326,000 Insured in societies. Of these about 4.618.000 are in friendly socle , ties and 3,825,000 are taking state benefits through societies formed by , industrial assurance companies; 1,? 190,000 are in trade unions, 630,00C in collecting societies and 62,000 ir other approved organizations. During the first three months of th? , year, under a membership of 4,300,000 approximately 12,000,000 was expended in sickness and $380,000 ir maternity benefits. Up to May 31 3 there had been paid in premiums t( societies a total of $20,000,000. I In England alone, during the flrsi 3 four months after July 15, 1912, 2,r 865 applicants were admitted to sanlL" tarlums under the law. There wen j 1,467 in residential institutions, 507 it or through a tuberculosis dispensary h were treated and 891 at home. By > April 30, 1913, the number in reslden tial institutions had Increased to 7,464 while 2,167 had received treatment ii or through a dispensary, and 4,993 a home?in all 14,624. At present it England alone over 200 residential In * stitutlons have been approved, thea A?1 - 1 on/tnmtnnriatlonil ffl sanatoria imvius e some 8,000 cases. d The subject of medical benefit 1; - dealt with in considerable detail. Th< d agreements with the doctors were li 1- the first Instance entered into for i e period of three months only. "It li t, significant," says the report, "as ai > indication of the general attitude o it the profession, that on the expiratloi ie of this period these agreements weri voluntarily extended by practically al >e the doctors who had previously ac 11 cepted service." On January 15, th ,- names of 17,996 doctors were on th h lists; on April 14 the number was 18, ?r 584. between 80 and 90 per cent of th >f total number of doctors engaged in in i- dustrial practice being therefore avail i- able to treat the Insured populatior n The report says that compliance oi d the part of industrial employers in in n dustrial centers is generally satlsfac 'e tory, while in the agricultural district e. prosecutions have been necessary. :y Upon the ultimate success or fallur ie of this national insurance act and li it its development, students believ< rests England's industrial future. 1 >n is still too early to predict how th m enormous tax upon the producin s. classes will affect her struggle to kee i- her place among the manufacturin nations. es Her Insurance fund covering sick t- ness and accident was launched at ix time of great trade prosperity, an 6 the report says that this helped launc 0; the measure. Great Britain's grea es competitor, Germany, has been sad lc died with a paternal indemnity syster m for years and, while it is said to hav or worked out well, the taxpayers ar :h complaining of the cost. England's experiment is to b k, watched closely and with both undei id standing and fear of half-dlgeste e- imitations. LAW TCno nnu inc unn Woeful Lack of Confidonco Continue* to Grow 8t*sdily. One of the moat remarkable addresses delivered at the meeting of the American Bar association, in Montreal, was that of Mr. Moorfleld Storey, a leader of the Boston Bar, who declared to his brother lawyers that "our profession is today more discredited than ever before," and urged them not to delay the reforms which the people are demanding. "There Is no profession." said Mr. Storey, "which has suffered more from superstition, none in which tradition has exercised and still exercises a more baleful influence than our own. The common law whieh In theo ry 'broadens down irom precedent to precedent,' has almost Invariably been influenced too much by the past, and has been very slow to change its methods with the changing needs of soclJ ety." The result has been that Instead of protecting the community against crime by making It dangerous and unprofitable to the criminal, the methods of criminal procedure have been allowed to become so cumbersome that society, "though anxious to free Itself -from a pest," finds Itself handicapped at almost every stage of the proceedings and the criminal enjoys an advantage to which he Is entitled upon no conceivable grounds. Justice is easy to defeat, and the courts which have been established for its administration are brought Into disrepute. Mr. btorey has no patience with the barriers which have been raised against the swift and sure discovery and punishment of crime. He denounces the practice which permits appeals to be taken again anu again anu upon all sorts of technicalities. He undertakes to expose the folly of the rule which protects a person arrested for crime from being questioned with a view to finding out whether - I- .lUw TJT~ lM.Ur. thn ur uui lit? 10 6 unij uc mpiBw vnt*v ?? ? custom of allowing counsel to spend a ays In the empaneling of a jury, wasting the time of the court in the effort to gain some unfair advantage tor their client, should be stopped. The views voiced by Mr. Storey are shared by Increasing numbers of the people. The enactment by Minnesota of a statute vesting ten members of a Jury with the authority to render a verdict is a recognition of the fact that the unanimous verdict rests only upon precedent and unsupported by common sense. There are many other theories of the criminal law which are equally Indefensible and which help to defeat the efforts of society to protect Itself against those who are not properly mindful of the rights of others, so many, in fact, that even Mr. Taft, one of the most conservative of men, declares that "the administration of criminal law In this country Is a disgrace to our civilisation." It Is for the lawyers of the country to act If they would save their profession and preserve the courts against the contempt Into which they are falling. The people do not know what It la wrong but they lack confidence in the power of the law to protect them against acts of aggression, they are convinced that the law as It Is generally administered, discriminates against the man without mlfems In favor of the man who has money, and there is bred In the land a feeling of hostility to law from the vicious consequences of which all of us suffer. The Mississippi Judges who recently met and adopted recommendations for changing the law so as to make it more responsive to Justice, had the right idea. They recognize that if ' courts would be trusted, they must prove themselves trustworthy.?News and Courier. THE RICH AND CRIME Pay No Penalty if They are Willinfl to Pay Lawyers. No age nor Btation is without its heroes, and none without its criminals, i One reason crime is more to be deplored among the rich than among the i poor is that it costs so much more. If ?Ha.iIH Ha a cr-raat Hani nf prima 111C1 C OIIVUIU WW MI SaVM? www. w. - - among the rich, I mean of the sort I that la taken into oourt, the states i would be bankrupted In trying them. To try a rich man costs thousands of i dollars to the county in which the trial . takes place. Any sort of a trial Is an expensive proposition; but when a det fendant has lots of money it Is a big , undertaking. His money buys hlgh> priced lawyers, who know every trick and turn of legal procedure, making t it very hard to convict In the plainest - sort of cases. They know how to "pull the wool over the eyes" of jurors and j to divert tho attention from the main i Issue, which Is the guilt or Innocence r of the defendant, and bring In all sorts r of side Issues which are really of no consequence except to befuddle the , Jury. Hundreds of witnesses are sworn 1 and testify to things that, to the avert see lav mind, do not seem to have the i slightest bearing on the case. And yet - the judge on the bench seems to be b helpless and sits like a knot on a log r while the lawyers wander all over creation. Hundreds of witnesses are s sworn and volumes of alleged testib mony are taken In cases where It i would look to the common mind that i half a day would suffice to sift the enh tire matter from top to bottom and to i arrive at the absolute truth of the f matter; and it would In the case of a i poor fellow on trial. Days and weeks e and sometimes months, are required 1 to try a case, the expense to the peo pie piling up tremendously all the e while; and the minds of the Jurors get e so befogged with side Issues and tech nlcalltles that they hardly know theli e own names. Lawyers abuse witnessee - and sometimes one another?but "In e - Pickwickian sense generally," and the i. lawyers for the defense lambast the n prosecution. Contests of wit take - place between opposing counsel; and - so the case drags Its slow length along 8 till the enormity of the crime is forgotten in the great mass of extrane* " ' * ? ?- intn thf e OU8 ruooisn mm is uiuuB?. ?? ? n case. Cases are spun out so long thai ?. a man of business often suffers verj t serious loss when he has to sit on th? e Jury; hence business men, who wouk g make the best Jurors, resort to even P means possible to get excused front g Jury duty, and thus often leave th< most important cases to men who an glad to serve for the sake of the pei a diem. d But why does the Judge allow It' h Why, Indeed. Chiefly because back 01 it him sits a supreme court ready to trii - him up and send back the case ben cause of some small deviation front e the strict legal technicality of the pro e ceedlngs, and give the defendant i new trial, with all the horrible detail to be rehearsed again In a "new trial.' And there have been so many caset d reversed or sent back for new trial bj supreme courts that it is getting hard defendant so It will stand. It costs a lot of money to convict a rich criminal, even when the case is plain; so much that It may some day before lone become a question for serious consideration whether it Is "worth the money." Hence it Is a fortunate thing, from one point of view at least, that the majority of persons brought before the courts for trial are poor men, and therefore unable to spin out their trials to such length and at so much expense to the suffering public. It may be a question whether the poorer class is more criminal than -J-*- v..? I. nn-??lnn U1C ilVUQI , UUV UIV* V SO HV that this is a lucky fact, considering; the matter solely from the standpoint of public expense. Just think of the cost to Pulton county, Georgia, of the trial of Leo Frank. It looks like a plain case; by which I mean, if looks like a case in which all testimony that could possibly bear on it could be presented in the course of a single day at furthest; but it has been going on for weeka The case of Harry K. Thaw, according to the estimate of the New Tork district attorney, cost the oounty of Kings a million dollars; and the end is not yet It costs lots of money to try any rich man; and when he is tried the chances are that he finally goes free. ?E. T. O., in Newberry Observer. 80CIETY AND GOVERNMENT If Latter Is Cheap and Vulgar, Former Must Fail Its Highest Mission. Last Sunday Vice President Marshall preached a sermon on the last day of the Southern Methodist campmeeting, near Washington, writes J. C. H., in Philadelphia Ledger. He did not choose any particular text but he said a good many things about the relation of true religion to good government and hammered some of the idiocies and shortcomings of the pros ent day Into a truly halpleaa condition. Hen are not made good by legislation. Conscience cannot b? purified and established by statutory enactment The state cannot take the place of the family. The old-fashioned American home was the Inspiration of the great system of government which has come down to this generation a little frayed at the edges because of the departures that have been made In the living and thinking and praying of the people. There were doubtless many wicked people la "the good old days"?Pharisees, hypocrites, the Idle, the vicious, the criminal appear to be from everlasting to everlasting; but there was at least an enviable regard for appearances, a modesty of demeanor which made the women more attractive and a shamefacedness In the prevailing wickedness of typical periods which gave the men the appearance, at least, of being respectable; and these virtues, even If not Infrequently assumed, impressed themselves upon the common Ufa and found their Interpretation In the better forms of legislation provided for the public care. noted writer sr", 200 years ago: "When modesty ceases to b# the chief ornament of one sex, and integ rlty of the other, society Is upon a wrong basis, and we shall be ever after without rules to guide our Judgment In what Is really becoming and ornamental." Seneca, we are told, "thought modesty too great a check to vice, that he prescribes to us the practice of It In secret, and advises us to raise it In ourselves and upon imaginary occasions, when such as are real do not offer themselves; for this Is the meaning of his precept, that when we are by ourselves, and in our greatest solitude, we should fancy that Cato stands before us and sees everything we do. In short, if you banish Mod esty out of the world she carries away with her half the virtue that ia la It" In his discourse, the vice president laid the turkey trot the tango and the slit skirt to the charge of the mothers of the country, because, speaking of them as a class, they do not bestow that care upon the training and conduct of their daughters which would best fit them for the place they should hold in the social sphere upon the purity of which the strength and fitness of government depend. -That has always been the way. In the beginning, "the woman beguiled me and I did eat," and it will be the same old excuse when the end cornea It is true that the vice president said that "it is high time for American fathers and mothers to have opinions on religion;" but he did not dwell particularly on the very trifling character of many, if not most, American ratners. Why should there be an Inequality of moral measurement In fixing the statues of men and women? There was > something graceful and lovely in the old dances; there is nothing beautiful : or elevating in the tango and turkey : trot. There was a special charm when "Meh Lady" dancing, "her feet be> neath her petticoat like the little mice, i stole in and out, as if they feared . the light of day"; there Is nothing In i the slit skirt which the vice president > preached against, except vulgar display. This sort of thing the mothers ) might correct If they were not so often : themselves given to the adoption of the least beautiful of the latest fash* Ions, the wearing of clothes which bei come neither their years nor their t build. ) One of the most impressive of the ) passages in the Scriptures Is the i charge of David to his son Solomon: I "I go the way of all the earth; be ; thou strong, therefore, and show thy' self a man; and keep the charge of the Lord thy Ood, to walk in his ways, to s keep his statutes and his commanat ments, and his Judgments, and his tes' Mmonlals." And it Is recorded that i when Bath-sheba, Solomon's mother, 1 went to him, "the King rose up to r meet her, and bowed himself unto her, > and sat down on his throne, and caus) ed a seat to be set for the King's j mother; and she sat on his right r hand." There Is a great lesson In that for all ? mankind. Every mother In this land f is entitled to the same sort of constd> eratlon Solomon showed to his moth er. but the vice president thinks that i the turkey-trotting, tango-dancing, - 8llt-*kirt wearing woman does not i make the most Impressive mother. i Good government Is good society; If ' the latter Is cheap and vulgar the fors mer must fall In Its highest mission, f the cultivation of that spirit of right* - eousness which exalteth a nation.