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YORKYILLE ENQUIRER. ISSU1ED SSIKX-VSESLT. L. m. geist's sons, PabUthen. ( & 4amiI8 Je1: 40r ikomotion of tfy flotitiqal, ^grienltural and Commercial Interests of $eojl<. } ^ ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE. S. C., FRIDAY, JAISTXJARY 30.1914. JvTO. 9. The Novelized from the Excil BY BERTRAM Copyright, 1912. by Cecil Raleigh ^ with the Drury Lane Companj m lins, managing director of the CHAPTER XIV. I The Whip Wine. 0 It was only a few momenta before the great Two Thousand Guinea race. In the paddock our friends of Falconhurst were listening to the self congratulations of Lord Beverley that, in spite of all that had been done to prevent The Whip's starting, everything was now in readiness. Harry Anson had been weighed in, and The Whip herself was pawing the turf, waiting for the race to be called 1 U. tn onrlnc into the sad . ' auu iui ii?i a j wr.MO \ die. In anticipation of the effect the consul fession of Haslam would have upon the Marquis of Beverley, Lady Diana and the Earl of Brancaster were openly strolling together about the paddock, confident and hopeful, too, that the big race would give Brancaster a war fund against enemies. In the press in the paddock Captain 0 Sartorls, followed at a little distance by two alert featured but fashionably garbed men, met Mrs. D'Aquila. Their greetings were cordial and happy. ^ "It's all right," Sartorls told the woman Joyously. "You're a clever woman, Nora. The magistrate was a dear old person?most obliging?issued a warrant at once?said he would lock him up, too, if he could not find a good bail?of course he will and then release him tomorrow." "I don't particularly care if they bail him tomorrow as long as you take him today," she said. ?* - ?? ? ?oumr.n/1 tVlA "xnars sure cuuugu, auon^. v<. ^ captain confidently. "The detective w inspector and another chap came down with me. Luckily they don't know Anson by sight, so I have come to look for him, and I shall find him at exactly the right moment." Kelly, the "king of the ring," came ^ up to Sartorls at this moment and with him stepped aside. "Anything to tell me?" he asked in a low tone. "Only that you can give me the bill if you like," the other responded with a nonchalant air. ^ Kelly appeared pleased. "You've done your best to earn it," he said, "but the Job isn't finished, you know." "It will be very soon," put in the captain quickly. "I told you what I ^ meant to dfc?the men are here." "Then hurry up, my lad," the bookmaker told him. "They will be mounted in a minute. Time's short and remember, if The Whip loses the bill and the money's yours, Dut lr xne Whip wins it goes to Lady Di. You know what's at stake on the race." The loud call of the clerk of the course for the entrants to take their places sounded throughout the paddock. Harry Anson and Tom Lambert appeared leading The Whip. ^ "We've just saddled, my lady," Lambert said to Lord Beverley's grandaughter. "There goes the bell! Anything to tell Harry?" Lady Diana caressed The Whip while she answered: "Only this: Everything that wickedness could do has been done to stop ^ our horse, but she is safe. Xow, for ^ the honor of the colors. Go and ride your best." With his hand on the jockey's shoulder the young earl added to the spurring speech of Lady Diana: "For you're carrying hearts and ^ hopes today as well as fortunes. All England will cheer you when you win, Harry, and I shall be the first to shake you by the hand. In a few minutes it will all be over." ""Ees, my lord, all over,"?began Harry. But Sartoris had pointed to the Jockey and the two sharp faced men had left the captain and were now at Harry's side. "Is your name Harry Anson?" demanded the first of these. "Yes," said the jockey, one foot in the stirrup. The man held out to him a revolver. "Is that your revolver? Your name's * scratched on it," he said. "My revolver? Yes," said Anson, wonderingly. "Found in the rooms of Captain Sartoris"? "I"? Harry paused while the detective said briskly: "I'm sorry, but I must arrest you on a charge of having threatened the n#** r\t Pontoin Snrtnrifi nt his oham p bers in the Albany on Saturday night. Whatever you say may be used against you later on." "And I'll answer the charge," retorted Harry. "Let the whole world know the truth, after the race." ^ "No, you must come now," said the detective. "Before the race?" asked the agonized Harry. "At once." he was told. Lord Brancaster moved closely up to the two detectives: "I am Lord Brancaster," he said. "I will go bail for anything you like? only let the lad ride. Hang It, officers, you are Englishmen! You are sportsmen! Give us fair play! I'll stake my honor the lad's Innocent. I'll stake my honor he shall answer to the charge. You don't know what this race means to all of us. Let him ride." "I am very sorry, my lord," the detective answered. "Give you my word, my lord. I'd like to, but I can't. We must do our duty." ^ And over the protests of Brancaster, Lord Beverley and Lord Clanmore, one of the stewards of the jockey club, the detectives put heavy hands ^ upon the shoulders of Anson. T Clanmore, who had an official position at the track in addition to being a steward, tried to step into the breech. "But, hang it. Beverley." he said, "we won't stand by and see It done. I'm here?Den ham's here?we are stewards, and if there is another lad Whip ting Play of Same Name. ID BABCOCK and Hamilton by arrangement r of America and Arthur Col Drury Lane tneatre or Lonaon. about who can ride the weight give him the colors. We will waive the weighing out. He shall mount at once." The parties to the controversy were now surrounded by an eager, excited crowd, many of whose members had bet heavily on The Whip and were interested for that and other reasons of pure sportsmanship to see the pride of the Beverley stables start. Lady Diana pressed herself forward. "Any one we name, Lord Clanmore?" she asked. "Any one, Lady Di," he responded gallantly. "Rules be hanged at a time like this! The Jockey club does what it likes." At this stanch speech the crowd cheered. "Very well, then," said Lady Diana, her little fists clinched. "Please remember only two people can manage our horse. With a strange lad she's no use. You want to see fair play? to see the public, who have backed us, have an honest run for their money. There's only one way. You promise whoever I name you'll let ride?" "Yes," returned Clanmore and Denham, the two stewards. "I name?myself," she said quickly. "Give me my colors." Denham and Clanmore both protested that it was impossible, that it was unsafe, that it had never been done. "A girl has never ridden a race," ended Clanmore. >4^*V j vj:'I \% IP^^W ' , $i{i 9 I | | V\ "Give me my colore." "Then let her now," the girl persisted. In their chivalric mood Clanmore and Denham might have consented to anything, but Kelly put a stop to this emotional mood and recalled to both Brancaster and Lady Diana the solid basis on which they had hoped to set their fortunes. "And if she does ride," he shouted, "the ring won't pay. It isn't racing." For a moment it seemed as though this ultimatum of the ring had indeed ended the whole matter, but Brancaster turned to the crowd of racing enthusiasts. "Then I will tell you what is racing," he shouted in his turn. "You, all of you who have backed the horse?I will tell you what is racing?what is honesty?what is sport, fair play. Will you stand by and see yourselves robbed ?" The crowd was catching fire at his mt'oMivn Thorp u'oro rrlPQ Of "No. no, no!" "I have given my honor," he went on, still in his strong voice, "that the police shall take the lad the minute he's past the post, but they say 'No!' What do you say? There's your jockey, and there's your horse. Let the lad go. Will you lose your money, or will you follow me?" And the young earl hurled himself upon the nearer of the two detectives. He had nearly freed Anson when the mob realized what he was doing. In an instant they were about the two detectives. Despite the assistance of Kelly given to the detectives, they were hustled from the paddock, while the jockey was fairly hurled upon The Whip. The moment he felt the nervous horseflesh between his knees he was off upon the course almost automatically. At the signal from Lord Clanmore, who realized the necessity of haste, the starting signal was given, and they were off. Now it seemed as though the events of the few minutes preceding the actual race had done their work with Anson. He was alive to his finger tips and never did his work better. The Whip, too, had profited by the long delay. Her nerves had been stretched to the breaking point, and she found the greatest relief in furious action just as her rider did. It was with difficulty that Anson prevented his mount from taking the lead at the first moment the race began. but when they were in sight of the post he had passed all save the leader. Then without using spur or whip he simply shook out his reins. In her wonderful stride The Whip passed the leader and. half a length ahead of her, reached the post. Into the paddock rode Anson, the victor, on The Whip. The jockey's face was white, and he was trembling violently. The race had told far more on him than on the splendid Whip, whose respiration was still even and regular, though, of course, considerably quickened. The center of a cheering knot, Lady I Diana and Brancaster pressed toward I The Whip, their arms around one another and their dignity as peer and marquis' heir completely gone for the j moment. Somehow the story of their romance and of what they had at stake on the race had got out, and the rarely sentimental English were || ready to weep or laugh with them? or do both in turn. The two detectives met Lord Bever- | ley near The Whip. The one in authority had an open telegram In his hand. His whole demeanor showed that there was no intention upon his part now of arresting the Jockey. "My lord," he said very humbly to Beverley, "we've just had a wire from Scotland Yard. The warrant on your i application has been issued." Beverley turned sternly upon his j cousin, Captain Sartoris, and Mrs. ] D'Aquila, where they stood in a cor- I ner of the paddock. "Then don't let them slip away," he ( sntri "Arreat them at once." I The detectives seized Sartorls and Mrs. D'Aquila and moved out of the paddock. Then, unmindful of all the crowd, Brancaster again put his arms about Lady Diana. "Now, what's this?" demanded the Marquis of Beverley. Lady Diana raised her blue eyes to her grandfather. "Well, I'll tell you all about it," she said, beginning a quick recital. "Once there was a fine young man who was foolishly called by his people, who didn't know him, the Wicked Earl, but"? The End. WANTS A THOUSAND CHILDREN Oklahoma Millionaire Has Built Or- 1 phans' and Widows' Home. Charles Page, multi-millionaire oil man of Tulsa, Okla., has 70 adopted , children and wants to adopt 1,000. , In addition to 1,000 poor boys and ( girls he is preparing to care for 100 , poor widows. ( for tne care 01 me iu cnuureu ?ic has built a large home on a wooded , hill. It is crowded to its capacity with ( obys and girls. He is getting ready to build this winter another home that , will house 200 children, and when that is finished he will begin to build more homes until he has accommodations for 1,000. ( He has already built eight houses for poor widows, has four more under construction and will have 100 built this winter. The 70 boys and girls have an 80acre park for a playground, a lake of 1 14 acres for swimming and boating, a wading pool for the smaller ones, a hos- J pital, a zoological garden, a kinder- ' garten and a graded school and a 840, 000 high school. 1 Mr. Page will build this winter a 1 hospital that win be in charge of great ' surgeons and specialists. He plans ' this hospital to be as good in every way and as famous as that of the 1 Mayo brothers in Rochester. Minn. 1 And who is this man Page who has 1 more adopted children than any other - man in the world? Forty-five years ago, when Charles Page was a boy of 10, his father died, 1 leaving a widow and seven children. 1 His father had been in the tanning ' business in Stevens Point, Wis. The i widow, with the house full of small 1 children, had a hard time of it. 1 One day while she was doing the i washing for a neighboring family, and had stopped a minute to rest, the boy ' who is now a millionaire, stood before her and watched the tears running i down her cheeks. i "You just wait, mamma, till I get i to be a big man, and rich, and you I won't have to wash any more, nor any . other woman won't either. I'll take ' care of all the poor widows and or- 1 phans," the little fellow said. i Edward Page, brother of Charles, < says he remembers well that incident, and of how his mother grabbed Charles : in her arms and hugged him to her i and wept all the more. < When he had grown big enough l Charles became a messenger boy for i tho Wisconsin Central railway, and then he became a brakeman and later , a railroad fireman. Every dollar he i earned above living expenses in those i days went to his widowed mother and her fatherless children. 1 Charles drifted west to the Pacific I coast, worked in the gold mines in i Idaho, was hungry many a time, and < penniless for weeks. He drifted east- i ward to the oil fields of Colorado and i seven years ago, came to Chandler, | Okla., with $5,000 in cash, which he i soon lost in the oil fields near Chand- i ler. ] Then oil was discovered in the famous Gleen Pool field, south of Tulsa, i and Page went to the spot near there with $3,000 he raised by mortgaging a i piece of property in Colorado. He got j an oinease on a small tract of Indian ] land in what is known now as the Taneba field, and put down a well. When he struck oil he spent the next few 1 weeks in getting oil leases on the land | surrounding his well in all directions. That first was a wonderful well. It flowed 2,000 barrels of oil a day and . every barrel of it was worth 35 cents ] in cash at the well, an income of $700 a day for Page, minus one-eighth of the product, which went to the owner ( of the land as his share. He drilled other wells on the land he had leased and they were good pro- ' ducers, too, and one day a syndicate of financiers of New York, led by Commodore Benedict, James King Duffy and Clifford B. Harmon, offered him $1,000,000 in cash for his leases. Page : asked $500,000 more and the sale was finally made for $1,250,000 cash, which was paid to Page. The State's Liquor Bill.?Three million dollars was spent with the dispensaries in this state last year. This is a fearful waste of money. In order to give our readers an idea of the vastness of this waste we will say it took 60,000 bales of cotton?or as much as three counties the size of Cherokee made?to pay our whisky bill. It is not only a waste but it is an expenditure that brings want and misery and crime to our door. Our people should stop and ponder.?Gaffney Ledger. XiVCleveland. O.. has a city hall complaint bureau. More than 10,000 complaints were registered there in the last twelve months. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS Is Traced In Early Files of The Yorkvillc Enquirer YEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first installment or rne noieo appearing under this heading was published in our Issue of November 14, 1913. The notes are being prepared ?>y the editor as lime and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring Into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the plder people and for the entertainment and instruction of the present generation. Having commenced with the rear 1856. it is the desire of the editor to present from the records, a truthful and accurate picture of conditions as they existed immediately preceedlng the Civil war. This will be followed py a review of the war period, including the names of Yorlc county soldiers who went to the war singly and in companies, and then will follow the ivents of the re-corstructlon period and the doings of the Ku-Klux. All along the editor will keep in mind incidents of personal interest, marriages and deaths of well known people weather events and general happenngs out of the ordinary. In the meantime persons who may desire further information about matters that may have been only briefly mentioned arc Invited to call at the office of the edi? ?J tho oriiHnal records. LUI auu CAaiiiuiv ??v ?- .0 TWENTY-FIR8T INSTALLMENT Thursday, August 6, 1858.?There was a largely attended meeting of citizens In the court house on Monday to ?ive a hearing to candidates to the legislature. Dr. R. T. Allison was called to the chair. In response to the interrogatories propounded in regard to the legislation last winter on the bank question, Messrs. Moore, Wallace and Williams presented their opinions in opposition to the act remitting the penalty against the banks, and Mr. Smith in support of the measure. The discussion was made !.n proper spirit? an earnest we trust, of the tone which will mark the canvass throughout. Thursday, August 12, 1858.?The Carolina Spartan of a late date contains a nomination of the Hon. W. H. Gist for the next governor. * The Atlantic Telegraph. Our readers will learn with delight? a delight shared with the civilized world?that the great telegraph enterprise has been consummated! The ends of the cable were landed on the 5th of August?signalizing the union of the continents, and well nigh the grand est era yet known to our race, ui me Influences to be-exerted by this mighty achievement, It would be vain to write?affecting as ttiey must every department of civilized life ar.d labor, and working revolution after revolution in the scheme of human progress. \ dispatch from Cyrus W. Field, the chief engineer, who has been prominent in every stage of the enterprise, conveys the most reliable intelligence. The arrangements lor transmitting dispatches have not yet been made and may be delayed for several weeks; but knowing that it is an accomplished fact, we shall await patiently the exhibition of this eighth wonder of the world. Mr. Field says under date at Trinity Bay. Newfoundland, August 5: "The telegraph fleet sailed from Queenstown on the 17th of July, and met at mid ocean and made the splice at 1 o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th. The vessels then separated, the Agamenon and Valorous bound for Valencia, and the Niagara and Gorgon for this place, where they arrived yes terday. The cable will be landed toJay. "The cable laid is 1,698 nautical and 1,950 statute miles long from the telegraph house at Bull's Bay to the head af Valencia harbor, and for more than Iwo-thirds that distance in water two miles deep. "The cable was paid out from the Agamemnon at the same speed as from the Niagara, and the electrical 3ignals sent and received through the whole length of the cable are perfect. The machinery worked most satisfactorily and was not stopped for a single moment. Capt. Hudson, Messrs. Everett and Woodhouse, the engineers, electricians and officers of the ship and in fact every man or board the fleet, exerted themselves to the utmost to make the expedition successful, and by the blessings of Divine Providence they succeeded. "After the cable is landed and connected with the land lines, the Niagara will discharge her ct.rgo, belonging to the Telegraph company, and will go to St. John's for coal, whence she will proceed to Halifax. * * * Payments have been made for subscriptions to The Enquirer since the 101 h of June, by the following persons to the dates attached to each name. Persons interested will please promptly inform us of any errors or omissions: r. C. Burris, McConnellsville, Oct. 7, '59 S. W. McNeel, McConnellsville, March 4, '59 Dr. S. E. Bratton, McConnellsville, Jan. 1, *59 John Cairnes, McCormellsville, Oct. 14, '59 John U. Zurcher, Yorkville, Mch. 18, '59 James Stewart, Yorkville, Dec. 16. '58 Lieut. R, K. Thomas, Yorkville, July 1, '59 Lieut. R M. Law, Yorkville, June 10, '59 W. L. Brown, Yorkville, Jan. 1, '59 Ds.vid Wallace, Yorkville, Sept. 9, '58 Rev. J. M. Anderson, Yorkville, Jan. 1, '59 Thomas H. Smith, Yarkville, Jan. 1, *59 John G. Templeton, Yorkville, Feb. 18, '59 G. W. Jacobs, Yorkville, Jan. 1. *59 Ltander Dobson, Yorkville, Jan. 1, '59 W. B. Allison, Allison Creek, Nov. 25, '58 James O. Moore, Allison Creek, June 30, '59 Daniel Currence, Allison Creek, July 8, '59 J. D. Spence, Laurensville, Ga. Jan. 21. '59 W. Pegram, Dallas, N. C. Jan. 7, '59 Dr. J. A. Barnett, Clay Hill, Jan. 1, '59 M A. Bigger, Clay Hill, Jan. 1, '59 Duncan McCallum, ('lay Hill, Aug. 12, '58 Jcseph Wallace, Clay Hill, Jan. 1, '59 T. T. Youngblood, Ciay Hill, Feb. 11. '59 Thomas S. Wallace, Clay Hill, Feb. 6, '58 S. H. Pressley, Society Hill, May 27, '59 Cap. A. Moore, Smith's Turn Out, Jan. 1, '59 Miss L. L. Featherston, Macon, Miss., June 17, '59 J. M. Smith, Macon, Miss., Jan. 1, '59 S. G. Poag, Guthriesvllle, June 17, '59 R. Mendenhall, Guthriesvllle, Nov. 18, '58 S. R Goudelock, Goudeysville, Sept. 16, '58 Li. Fowler, Island Ford, N. C. Jan. 1, '59 W. G. Fowler, Hlcksville, N. C. Jan. 1, '59 William Smarr, Yorkville, Ala., Jan. 1, '59 W. B. Daniels, Coates' Tavern, June 24, '58 D. J. Rice, Coates' Tavern, Jan. 1, '59 John Jones, Coates' Tavern, July 8, '59 George Lw Riddle, Zeno June 3, *59 H. B. Wallace, Zeno, June 3, '59 J. N. McCall, Zeno, June 3, '59 W. R. Glenn, Zeno, June 3, '59 D. A. McCallum, Zeno, June 3, '59 L, P. Brannon, Zeno, June 3, '59 D. U. McKenzie, Dardenelle, Ark. June 3, '59 John C. Feaster, Buckhead, June 24, *59 J. A. F. Coleman, Buckhead, July 22, '59 David A. Coleman, BucKneaa, July 22, '59 H. A. Coleman, Sr., Buckhead, July 22, *59 D. R Feaster, Buckhead, July 22, '59 Henry Lyles, Buckhead, Aug. 1, '59 A. A. Timberlake, Micanopy, Fla., June 3, '59 S. Leroy Adams, Bethel, Jan. 1, '59 J. T. Patrick, Marvril, Texas, July 1, '59 W. G. Suggs, Grey Rock, Texas, July 15, *68 W. N. Bewly, Warrensburg, Tenn, July 8, '69 J. M. Harris. Fori; Mill, June 17, '59 Dr. B. M. Cobb, Fort Mill, Jan. 1. '59 J. D. Johnson, Fort Mill, April 22, *58 R Stewart, Fort Mill, t Sept. 25, '59 H._ Whisenant, New House, Feb. 11, '58 James Bell, New House, March 11, '59 Peter Seapock, New House, April 8, '59 H. Wilson, New House, July 15, '58 O. R Guntharp, Boydton, Mch. 11, '59 W. C. Caveny, Boydton, Jan. 28, '59 F. Blalock, Boydton, July 8, '59 Lt H. Caveny, Clark's Fork, Apr. 22, '59 W. H. Carroll, Antioch, April 15, '59 P. P. Chambers, Columbia, Jan. 1, '59 John G. Rawls, Columbia, July 22, '59 R. J. H. Ried, South Point, N. C., July IB, '59 E. McCarter, Mt. Enterprise, Texas. Jan. 14, '59 John T. Schenck, Chester, May 20, '58 T. M. Simons, Stedman's, July 22, '59 Maj. A. C. Feaster, Shelton, July 22, *59 F. W. Clarke, Croabyville, July 22, '59 J. C. C. Feaster, Feasterville, July 22, '59 Andrew Feaster, Feasterville, July 22, '59 R. H. Coleman, Feasterville, Aug. 1, '59 James W. Younge, Bell's Store, Aug. 1, '59 John Smith, Smith's Ford, Jan. 1, '59 Wm. Stewart, Moaticello, Ark. Oct. 21, *59 T. N. Campbell, Smithland, Texas, July 22, '59 J. G. Lowry, Lowi*ysvllle, Oct. 7, '58 R. T. Bigger. Alpl;ie, Ga., July 22, *59 Dr. T. A. Elliott, Orangeburg, July 29, '5? J. B. Alston, Charleston, Jan. 1, '59 Rev. P. E. Bishop, Bennettsvllle, July 1, '59 J. & T. S. Farrow Spartanburg, July 29, '59 W. B. Pressly, Stony Point, N. C., April 22, |59 W. W. .aast, Due west, Jan. 1. t>u John Cain. Sharon Valley, Mch. 11, '59 W. M. Galloway, Norrlstown, Ark., June 16, '59 Dr. T. T. Barron, Long View, Ark. Feb. 11, '59 C. W. Rawlinson, Gadsden, Jan. 1, '59 (To be Continued.) RADIUM AND CANCER The New Cure in Still Largely a Mat* ter of Experiment. Radium as a cure for cancer still is in an experimental stage and Its use in the treatment of internal cancer results fatally In a large per centage of cases, according to the testimony before the house mines committee of Dr. William Hi Campbell, director of the radium clinic of Pennsylvania. Dr. Campbell a few days ago told the committee that, so :?ar as the deeper cancer are concerned, "we cannot tell today what the outcome of the radium treatment will be." "We can tell," he said, "that there is a difiappearance of the tumdr; that the radium causes the disintegration of the tissues of the cancer, but something is created in that disappearance which is absorbed by the blood and which kills my patients. I cannot tell, nobody can tell, for lour or five years, just what the result will be." "How many of your patients have died as a result of your treatment?" asked Representative Byrnes of South Carolina. Dr. Campbell demurred at this, but finally said that two out of five of the cases treated ended fatally. He added that all were in cases where the disease would have resulted in death in a few months without treatment Dr. Campbell said that at the present price of radium the cost to patients ought not to be prohibitive. "I can treat patients at four cents per miligram of radium per hour, on an investment of $3,000 and double my money in a year," he declared. Dr. F*rancis B. Donoghue, of Boston, urged that the committee include, in any legislation for protecting the radium supply, "substitutes for radium." He said that mesothorium, a much cheaper product than radium, was equally effective. James C. Gray, general counsel for the Radium Chemical company, told the committee that radium treatment had relievd him of cancer after several ineffective operations. He opposed government interference with the production of radium. Dr. J'. T. Anderson, director of the hygienic laboratory of the United States public health service, declared that the put lie health service was in a position to take charge of the production of radium for the benefit of the entire country. Secretary of the Interior Lane told the committee that congress should break up "the monopoly that keeps radium at a fabulously prohibitive price," and enact legislation to put the curative mineral on the market cheaply for larg? numbers of sufferers. He said there was no intention to lock up the mineral or lands indefinitely but simply to get radium out for public use where it would not be in the hands of a monopoly. Secretary Lane's proposal was to divide a certain area into tracts of 360 acres, allow exclusive licenses to prospect and if a prospector found radium, to allow him all the usual rights except that the government would take 20 to 25 per cent of the radium obtained. He would give the government absolute control over a certain definite area for the development of radium on its own initiative. "I believe that we should not be confined to developing the ores on any single withdrawal area," said Secretary Lane. We should say to all the prospectors in the west go out and find these ores, the government will buy the ore from you at a reasonable compensatory price and will reduce the ores ourselves." piscfUanrous grading. GOVERNOR ON PENSIONS Believes in Liberal Provision for Confederate Soldiers. In a special message to the general assembly last week, Governor Blease set forth his position on the question of pensions, and discussed at some length the Confederate home in Columbia. The message followed a conference between Governor Blease and a committee of veterans appointed at the reunion in Aiken to confer with the governor. The message follows: Message No. 12. Gentlemen of the General Assembly: I tried to make thr^e messages cover everything I had to say to you dur ing this session. utner matters nave come before me, however, which 1 have had to transmit to you, which probably could not be considered messages, but only letters of transmittal. Matters have taken place which were not expected, and I have had to burden you with more messages than I had intended. Now comes this one, at the request and as the result of a conference with a committee apoplnted by the Confederate veterans of this state. I want to put myself on record, so there can be no mistake. First, and above all, let me say I think that the state of South Carolina should see that no Confederate veteran suffers for the necessities of life. They most assuredly should not be treated as paupers. If you want to treat them as paupers, let them go to the homes for the poor, and let them be treated as paupers, which would be a disgrace upon every citizen of South Carolina. But I want to call your attention to the fact that there are on your pension rolls the names of men who are getting money who are not entitled to it, and there are names which are not on these rolls which should be there. XT T am 1 11UW, UilUClDiailU UIO UiOUUVHJ i A in favor of giving every man who fought in the Confederate army a sufficient amount of money to buy tho necessities of life?that is, plenty of good food, plenty of good clothes to keep his body warm and comfortable, and to buy medicines, etc., when necessary. The state of South Carolina should do this, if it takes an extra tax to do it, rather than to see one of these old men suffer for the necessities of life. I think this makes my record clear, so that it cannot be misconstrued. I am fully satisfied that the establishment of the home for the old soldiers was a matter of sentiment more than of good business judgment, and that the general assembly at that time probably took this action more as a compliment to one of its members and as a matter of sentiment than for the real good they thought It would do the Confederate veterans. I think the Confederate "home has been managedT a a ii'al 1 oca if />Aiil/i Ho mono cruH O n/i UQ TT vli 00 AW VVUIU VV HiOilOJj 'Ay OiiUf in view of the dirty fight that has been made against its management by some people merely for political prejudice and spite, 1 think that the institution has been ably managed, and the inmates well cared for and particularly well protected. There is in charge of it Major H. W. Richardson, who has held positions of honor and trust in his state, who was himself a gallant Confederate soldier, and who, as everyobdy who knows him well knows, is honest in his private dealings, as he is in his public dealings. On the board with him is Col. D. A. Dickert, an honest man and one of the most gallant and daring Confederate soldiers that the south produced. Then there is Hon. James T. Crews, a worthy son of "the noblest Roman of them all," Thomas Bissell Crews, one of God's noblemen; Hon. I. McD. Hood, for many years auditor of Chester county; the Hon. H. C. Paulling, wno nas represented nis county 01 Calhoun for several terms In the general assembly; and its chairman, the Hon. James G. Long, who served the county of Union for many terms as her sheriff. Therefore, it will readily be seen that this institution is in the hands of good, clean, honest men and they have done and are doing everything within their power to give to the old soldiers there all the conveniences and necessities that the appropriation made will provide for. However, I think there are men in that home who should not be there. I do not think any man should be allowed there who draws a pension from his home county, or, at least, when he is admitted there the pension from his county should cease and go to some one who is not in the home. 1 do not think any one should be admitted to the home who has property enough at home to give him a support. I do not think any one should be admitted to the home who carries on a trade or business which will give him sufficient means to support himself without the aid of the home. In other words, gentlemen, I think only those should be admitted to the home who have no home elsewhere and have no other support, and who are entirely dependent for a living. Those men should be put in the home, and the home should be given money enough to take good, first-class care of them, and the rules of the home should be strengthnnnH hv ant r\t tha laaUlfltnrA art that viivu wj ul wiiv ?vQiu*utvu? v uv v*?v?w those who are there can be kept, not in prison, not under duress, but under sufficient restraint to give order and discipline there. I do not think it is much credit to the home or to the inmates for some of them to come on the streets of Columbia drunk and staggering around and sometimes having to be carried?or are carried?to police headquarters, and the management of the home notified that they are there and asked please to send for them. Yet when anything of this kind happens, or any serious breach of discipline takes place at the home and the management attempts to correct it, they are dragged into the court by some one for political spite, or in order to try to injure some one politically, and made to go through proceedings which cost lawyers' fees and other expenses, which come out of the appropriation ma^e for the home, thus depriving the old soldier, the inmates, of that much of their money. Now, another thing: I think there are too many people between the old soldier and his appropriation; that is I do not think any county board ought to receive any pay, or that any state board ought to receive any pay, or that any county or state official ought to receive any pay for the services that they render in disbursing: the fund of these veterans. It ought to be a labor of love, and every man engaged In It ought to see that every dollar that is appropriated by your body should go direct to the old soldier, and have no middle or stopping point until it reaches there. At the home I think the commandant and his wife should be sufficient to manage it and take care of it unless possibly it be necessary for them to have one or two assistant helpers. I do not think too many should be employed at the soldiers' home who are to receive salaries thereby eating up the appropriation before it reaches the veterans for whom it la intended. Now I am not saying these things gentlemen by way of criticism of anybody, and this message Is not intended to criticise anybody but only to call your attention to these matters as I have been requested to do by this committee and as I called these matters to their attention. Take for instance the number of Inmates in this home and then take the amount appropriated by your body and divide this amount by the number of inmates and see what the pro rata share per man would be if he were at his own home; then take your pension law and see what the pro rata share is which the veteran at home la now getting, and, in my opinion you will see an inequality which should not exist Certainly the man at home who is struggling and trying to make a living by work is entitled to as much as the man who absolutely gives up and is willing to go to the home, sit down in idleness and do absolutely nothing and let the state support him. I think 1 have made myself clear. I do not propose to go on and pay any great eulogy to the Confederate veteran. That is unnecessary. He built his own monument by his deeds, and it is a monument more glorious than all the brass and granite which can be erected until Gabriel blows his horn and when the buglers of the Confederate army shall take up the sound and call the soldiers to meet once again. One more thing, gentlemen, and I am through. As you know, I speak plainly. I do not think any woman ought to have a pension on the ground aha la a njiHnw t\t ft frmfftdprfttft veteran, who has married that Confederate veteran for the purpose of sharing in his little pension, and of having her name placed on the pension rolls after he is gone. The good woman who was his wife during the war, and suffered the hardships and trials, and who displayed the greatest heroism that the world has ever known, deserves everything at your hands that her husband deserves. But the young woman who married the old man after he had come back from the war, or the young woman who has since married some old soldier to get his nronertv. and has helped him or who has married hfmTlis I have just stated, merely to help share his pension and get her name put on the pension roll when he is dead, is not entitled to a cent, and should not have it, but the amount which she is drawing should be taken from her and given to the Confederate soldier or his widow who needs it Of course I do not know what effect this message will have. Some of you may laugh at it. Others of you may pay absolutely no attention to it But it sets forth my position and carries out a request made of me by these gentlemen who came here as a committee sent by the Confederate Veterans' association, under a resolution adopted at their Aiken meeting. I repeat: Make a sufficient appropriation to give every Confederate veteran a pension sufficient to take care of him, to make him comfortable, and to make his last days on earth pleasant; but strike off of your pension rolls the unmnrfhv! strike off of vour salary lists those whom you can do without, and let the money go direct from the state treasurer into the hands of the deserving Confederate veteran. If it be necessary to put an extra tax on to do this, I do not believe there is a man in South Carolina who will complain. But if you put on this extra tax, and continue to give it to unworthy people, and deprive those who are entitled to it of it, you will continue to have dissatisfaction and complaint. Whatever effect this message may have, I have done what I conceived to be my duty to the Confederate veterans, and to obey the request of their committee. If there is anything else that I can do for the Confederate veterans, as the son of a Confederate veteran myself I stand ready in my individual or official capacity to answer any call that he may make upon me. Very respectfully, (Signed) Cole L. Blease, Governor. Columbia, 8. C., Jan. 23, 1914. IT LOOKS VERY MODERN Chinese Declaration of Principles 900 Year* Old. More than 900 years ago a statesman In China set up the following declaration of principles: 1. It Is the duty of the government to secure plenty and relaxation for the common people. 2. The state should take possession of all Important resources and become the main and dictating employer in commerce, industry and transportation, with the view of preventing the working classes being ground to the dust by the monopolizing truth. 3. Government tribunals should fix prices of provisions and merchandise. 4. The rich should pay all the taxes; the small owner should pay nothing as long as he remains small. 5. Old-age pensions. 6. The state to insure work for workingmen. 7. The state to assign land, distribute seed and direct sowing, so that there shall neither be cornering of food by the rich nor the lack of food for the poor. 8. Destruction of usurers. 9. Confiscation of large and criminally won estates, that is, retroactive laws and restitution instead of "Go, and sin no more, but keep what you got by former sins." Seems to me that some such doctrines have been proclaimed as new by some still-living publicists in America. Maybe a case of reincarnation like.?J. W. Mackey in St. Louis Republic. NEGRO TEACHER8 Color Question Precipitates Hot Fight in the House. The hottest fight of the present session was precipitated in the house this morning on the passage of the Fortner bill prohibiting white people from teaching In negro schools or negroes from teaching In white schools under penalty of a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment for not more than 12 months, says a Columbia special of Tuesday, . to the Spartanburg Herald. The bill was passed to third reading after a battle royal led by the Charleston delegation. The measure was amended without a dissenting vote to make the same penalty applicable to "the intimacy of the races in houses of ill repute." Another amendment was passed prohibiting white nurses from working In negro hospitals. A third amendment made the bill Inapplicable to the teaching of the Bible to negroes by white people. By a vote of 59 to 38, the house refused to strike out the -enacting words of the Fortner bill. The vote was as follows: Ayes?Atkinson, Barnwell, Bethea, Bolt, Boyd, Brtce, Busbee, Charles, Clement, Courtney, Dantsler, DeLaughter, Evans, Greer, Hunter, Johnston, Kirk, Lee, Liles, Lumpkin. Meld aster, McQueen, Means, Melfl, Nicholson, Pegues, Riddle, Rittenberg, W. M. Scott, Senseney, Shirley, Smiley. Thomson, Tindal, Vanderhorst, C. T. Wyche, Toumans, Zeigler?38. Nays?Speaker Smith, Addy, J. W. Ashley, M. J. Ashley, Blackwell, Bowers, Browning, Burgess, Cross, Daniel, Fortner, Friday, Casque, Goodwin, Gray. Haile, Hall. Hardin, Harrelson, Harvey, Holley, Hutson, Irby, James, Jones, Kelly, Kennedy, Klrby, Ly-' brand, McDonald, MUey, Miller, Mlxson, Moore, Moseley, Murray, Nelson, Odom, Pyatt, Ready, Riley, Robertson, W. S. Rogers, Jr., Sapp, W. W. 8cott, Sherwood, Stanley, Strickland, Sturkle, Summers, Walker, Warren, Welch, White, Whitehead, Wllburn, C. C. Wyche?68. The fight over the passage of the Fortner bill, taken up out of Its order yesterday at 11 o'clock, was opened by speeches from Mr. Fortner, Mr. J. W. Ashley, and Mr. James, all of whom urged the passage of the bill rhieflv on the grounds that white teachers In negro schools made for social equality. Mr. Liles of Orangeburg, opposed the poaasge of the bill on the grounds that white men should be allowed to manage negroes In their schools just as they managed them in the fle' -s. He said, however, that he would be In favor of the bill if 11 prohibited white women from teaching in negro schools. Mr. Barnwell of Charleston, in whoee county about SO white women teach in negro public schools, said that he attributed the lack of friction between the races In the low country to the fact that the negroes Were taught by white people early in life to respect the white race. Mr. Barnwell opposed the passage of the Fortner bill. Mr. Wyche, of Newberry, spoke J against the passage of the bill. Who | but the white, he asked, snaii ieacn the negro his proper posltlQP? .. Mr. White of Clarendon, advocated the passage of the bill, and Mr. Vanderhorst of Charleston, opposed it By a vote of 59 to 38, the house refused to strike out the enacting words of the bill. . The house refused by a vote of 40 to 40 to agree to the amendment exempting Charleston county from the provision of the bill. Then the Charleston delegation started a flllibuster to obstruct the passage of the bill. The delegation was ably seconded by several members of the house, and the bill hung Are for about an hour before It Anally passed to third reading. By a vote of 65 to 34 the house refused to adopt the amendment offered by Mr. Stanley, of Horry, an advocate of the bill, to make the measure apply to negro waiters, negro nurses in private houses, negro servants in hospitals and negroes working in the same establishment in which white women are employed. By a vote of 41 to 41 the house re* J ?- tKo mntlnn wherebv IU3CU IU CUIIOIUVI %MV ? It refused to exempt Charleston county. Mr. Hunter of Bamberg, wanted the bill to apply to negro chauffeurs, but the house refused by a vote of 60 to 43 to allow It to do so. To reduce the bill to an absurdity, Mr. Rlttenberg of Charleston, offered an amendment prohibiting farmers to hire negro laborers, which the house voted down. The Lee amendment providing "that the provisions of this bill shall also apply to the Intimacy of the races in houses of 111 repute" was passed by a vote of 100 to 0. By a vote of 53 to 46 the house refused to agree to the Llles amendment prohibiting only white women, and not white men, from teaohlng In negro schools. The house adopted the amendment offered by Mr. Wiley prohibiting white nurses from acting in this capacity In negro hospitals. Then the bill was passed to third reading, after which the house adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow. ? WorK, says a uanuuii uisiuiuh iuw been commenced on another great scheme to reclaim by irrigation vast tracts of desert in the Soudan. It is believed it can be made to add enormously to the cotton output of the British empire. The tract which is to be watered is known as the Gixra territory. It lies between the Blue and White Niles, below Khartoum, and consists of 1,500,000 acres. The force and flow of the two rivers is sufflclen. to water the entire district when properly harnessed. The proposal is to build two dams south of Khartoum, one over each of the rivers. Thus the tract between the streams will be irrigated, while at the same time the force of the water flowing into Egypt will be controlled. At present the Blue Nile comes down in a raging flow, and the White Nile, flowing in steadier fashion, combines with it to make a huge overflow. The building of the two dams will enable the flow to be properly regulated and will practically mean the final harnessing of the Nile.