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^tumorous flcpartmrnt.
tir The most dramatic day of the
sixty-third congress was when Champ
Clark, the speaker of the house, took
the floor for his famous speech explaining
why he opposed President
Wilson's policy of repealing the Panama
canal tolls exemption law. Clark
was on the losing side and everybody
knew that the vote would certainly
uphold the president.
While the speaker was delivering
his remarks in his vibrant, booming
voice. Representative Tom Hetlin of
Alabama, walked through the Democratic
cloak room. Even there the
thunder of Clark's voice was audible.
Hefiln, stopped, laughed and said:
"That reminds me of an old colored
man down in my state. He was
working in the middle of a Held on a
hot summer day. It was so hot that
the heat seemed to be simmering vis
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ibly wherever you iookcu. nun ?
while the midday train rushed by
about a half a mile away, whistling
for a crossing and roaring and thundering
as it went.
"Old Tom watched it go by, took
hold of his hoe. and stooped over his
work once more. Then he said, talking
to himself:
"'Boom! Bing! Bum! Hum! But
I's gwine to ride you nex' Sadday
night!"?Popular Magazine.
On the Trail of Trouble.?"John, if I
decided that I wished to divorce you,
would you fight the case?"
"What has put such a silly idea as
that in your head?"
"I just wanted to know whether
you* would try to keep me tied to you.
Supposing I accused you of having
been cruel to me, would you go into
court and deny my accusation?"
"I can't understand why you would
ever want people to think I had been
cruel to you. I have always tried to
be as kind as possible."
"I know: but would you fight back
if I tried to get rid of you in that
way?"
"Certainly not. If I thought you
would be happier free I should not
enter any defense, no matter what
charge you preferred against me."
"There!" she said, giving way to
tears, "you have shown that you do
not care for me. If you did you would
never be willing to let me go, no matter
what happened. I never can believe
in a man again."?Chicago Record-Herald.
Novel Union.?Many unimpeachable
spouses had neglected their Sunday
dinner in order to attend church to
hear the banns read of several ap- ,
proaching weddings. i
imnu-incr \vhisners.
nusuillg auu n?v ? ...o ?
and nods and nudgings prevailed
among the feminine portion of the j
assembly when came the momentous
moment of the announcements.
The old pastor fumbled among his
notes, and found to his dismay that
the all-important paper containing
the names of the contracting parties
was missing. (
However, he desired to trust to
memory.
"I publish the banns." he started,
in a hushed silence, "between?between?or?between
"
There was a shuffling in the aisle
as the old verger hurriedly moved to
the pulpit.
"Between the cushion and the seat,
sir!" he said, in a loud whisper.
Interlocking Directors.?Senator Albert
Cummins was talking about a
notorious interlocking director.
"This interlocking director," he
said, "declares that if we curb his
activities, the poor will suffer terribly.
T ~ mnoolf thnucrh ifi hp rpallv
1 unn 111 j oc 11, viivuq>m ? ?
speaking on behalf of the poor or on
his own behalf? i
"He reminds me of a man who j
stopped in terrific indignation at sight
of a group of boys stoning a bird that ,
was tied to a tree by the leg.
" 'You scoundrels! You pittiless i
scoundrels!' cried the man. I
"And he took the bird up in his <
hand and placed it in his bosom ten- <
derly. i
"The next day at the office he was i
heard to remark with a chuckle: !
"By gosh, you know, broiled robin <
on toast isn't half bad.' "
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Passing It On.?A Sunday school i
teacher, after conducting a lesson on
the story of "Jacob's Ladder," con- i
eluded by saying, "Now, is there any
little girl or boy who would like to
ask a question about the lesson?"
Little Susie looked puzzled for a
moment, and then raised her neau.
"A question, Susie?" asked the
teacher.
"I would like to know," said Susie,
"if the angels have wings, why did
they have to climb the ladder?"
The teacher thought for some moments.
and then looked about the
class, asked:
"Is there any little boy who would
like to answer Susie's question?"?
Everybody's Magazine.
Not Big Enough.?A New Yorker
tells of a visit he made to Coney Island
for the purpose of showing a
friend from Arkansas the sights of
that famous resort. Now. the man
from the southwest had never seen
the ocean. So, as he stood gazing out
over the surf, the New Yorker maintained
a discreet silence while the inlander
should reflect upon the sight.
"Well." said the host, after a suitable
interval, "at last you can say
that you have seen the ocean."
The Arkansas man gave a sigh of
disappointment. "Yes I can," he replied,
"but it isn't anything like as
big as I thought it was."
The very young lady was showin
c hf>r school friend from another
city about her native town. Presently
the pair came to a little square
adorned with a statue of the local
Civil war hero.
"It isn't very much to boast of art,"
said the sophisticated young chit,
"but it's important to know about it
because one usually asks one to meet
one here."
* "Women must consider it a dreadful
fate to be an old maid." mused
Mr. Chugwater.
"They do. Josiah," said Mrs. ('hugwater.
"What terrible sticks they
sometimes marry to escape it!"
And Josiah rubbed his chin and
said nothing.
Obeyed Directions.?"Pat," said the
manager of the foundry, severely,
"what are you doing here at work?
1 thought I had discharged you?"
"Yes." said Pat, "ye did discharge
me on the inside of the note ye sent.
But on the outside ye said. 'In five
days return to Camp Co.,"
iWisrrllancous ^ratling.
COMPLAINTS OF WAR NEWS
Newspapers are Getting All the Information
Available.
Our German friends who complain
that the war news in the American
newspapers is colored find fault with
conditions for which there is no remedy.
The German newspapers here have to
print the same news that the American
newspapers print. There is no other
news. All of us have to rely upon
the news sources that are open. every
great American newspaper is bending
all its energies to obtain the facts regardless
of nationalities, and that is
the best that anybody can do. Our
friend, the Staats-Zeitung, for example,
which professes to deplore the
news printed in the other New York
papers, has to depend upon the very
Associated Press reports that it regards
as so untrustworthy when published
in English.
Most of the news necessarily comes
from British and French sources. They
furnish the only channels of news
communication that are left open, but
even in France and England the strictest
kind of a censorship is maintained.
No European government is letting
any news out except the news that it
wants to let out. Nobody can know at
this distance how much is suppressed
and how much is deliberately colored
by governmental decree.
Complete and impartial news reports
are impossible where the censorship
intervenes and the correspondents are
subjected to military law. Military law
and a free press have nothing in common.
In the circumstances and knowing
the difficulties which all of them .have
encountered, we think the New York
newspapers, with one or two conspicuous
and incorrigible exceptions, have
shown great sense and sanity in handling
the news. They print rumors as
rumors. They print unofficial reports
as unofficial reports. They print unconfirmed
statements as unconfirmed
statements. What more can be done?
If our excellent German friends are
prepared to tell the World how to get
authentic war news out of Germany
and how to get the German view of the
military events that are now taking
place, there is no price within reason
that we are not prepared to pay. When
the chancellor of the German embassy
in Washington says he has been baffled
in every attempt to communicate
with Berlin how can it be expected
that New York newspapers will obtain
war news from Berlin'.'
The astonishing thins is that, in
spite of the almost insurmountable obstacles
that belligerent governments
have placed in the way of the press
the American newspapers have been
able to do so well.?New York World.
THE VOTE OF MR. RICHARDS
Messrs. Irby and Simms Want to
Know Who He Was For Two Years
Ago.
Greenville News.
Union, S. C., Aug. 11.?Whether
John G. Richards voted for Jones or
Blease in 1912, and his refusal to tell,
played a prominent part in a terrific
attack made on him this morning by
W. C. Irby, who told 1,200 Union county
people that he would be "horrified" if
the Blease men voted for Richards.
Mr. Richards for the first time assumed
the defensive and made it plain that
he is not going to tell how he voted
two years ago, saying that he does not
propose to be put on the defensive.
Mr. Simms also added his daily excoriation
of Mr. Richards' Bleaseism.
"They will use him again if they
need him." said Irby, adding "that's
why some people are trying to ram
Richards down the throats of my cotton
mill friends." He made a bitter
attack on mill mergers.
Mr. Irby launched a severe attack on
John G. Richards saying:
"A word to you Hlease men, and I
mean those who stand by him because
they believe that Governor Blease
stands for the rights and best interests
i)f the working white people of this
state. Mr. Richards seems very anxious
to tell you how he will vote on the
i5th," and over in Spartanburg, Saturday
night Mr. Simms stated that he
had asked Mr. Richards how he voted
two, four and six years ago. Mr. Richards'
friends called out 'He will tell us
tonight.' When Mr. Richards was introduced
his friends said "Now tell us
how you voted," or words to that effect.
At this Mr. Richards seemed irritated
and said that who he voted for
was a sacred right and secret of his
and no candidate or coterie of papers
could force him to divulge it now. He
also complained that he thought we
had come there for a love feast and
that the other candidates were attacking
him. Now if how he voted in the
past is such a sacred secret why has
he been so anxious to tell how he intends
to vote on the 2f?th? Isn't it just
as sacred to him. I do not know, but 1
am told that Mr. Richards told Hlease
men last year that he was going to
vote for Hlease and Jones men that he
was going to vote for Jones. I am also
told that he told several men a fewweeks
before this campaign opened
that he had never voted for Hlease.
and never expected to. If these statements
be true it is easy to see why he
refuses to state who he voted for two
years ago. I considered the meeting
open to all candidates for state offices,
and the asking a question of a candidate
only proper. My record for ten
years is open to criticism, and if anyone
can show where I have ever voted
against the interest and welfare of the
working white people of this state, I
will get out of this race. If you Blease
men vote for Simms or Mullally, I will
be satisfied, if you vote for me I will
be gratified, but if you vote for a man
who has suddenly deserted his own
crowd to come into our ranks without
first letting him sit upon the stool of
repentence and prove his loyalty I will
be horrified."
John G. Richards said he was b<fing
misrepresented and fought hard hut
had always stood with the people. "I
do not propose to he detoured from the
tight I am making for the people, no
matter what charges are made," he
said explaining his refusal to declare
as between Jones and Mease in 1912
on the ground that he was running for
an administration office, hut did this
year because the governor is head of
his faction or party and the people are
entitled to know how he stands. "I
have not declared how I voted in 1912,
and no coterie of newspapers and candidates
are going to make me tell," he
exclaimed.
Mr. Richards said this was the first
time he had paid any attention to the
charges against him and was on the
defensive. He denied as false the
charge that he had flirted with both
Hlease and Jones men in 1 !# 12, and
nailed as false, the charge that he was
a traitor in the Blease camp.
He said that he did not propose to
allow these men to pull him on the defensive.
His customary announcement
that he was going to vote for Blease
and his prediction that Blease will be
elected on the first ballot drew cheers
of "hurrah for Blease."
DOOM OF THE ARISTOCRACY
One of the Promised Results of Great
War in Europe.
Speculation as to the effect of the
war upon the European monarchies is
most fascinating, especially to Americans
who have an ingrained suspicion
of every form of government save theix
own. There are many who maintain
that it is a war of dynasties, entered
upon for territorial greed or because
of animosities of the reigning houses.
The Hapsburgs are fighting to extend
their boundaries toward the Aegean, the
Hohenzollerns have dreams of world
dominion and the greater glory of their
name; the Romanoffs are seeking to
maintain their hold upon the loyalty of
the Slavs outside of their empire and
to bind them more closely to St. Petersburg
so that the ultimate extension
of the Russian frontier to the Mediterranean
may be facilitated.
There is no doubt that these are
among the potential reasons for the
conflict. Hut they are not all the reasons.
The German army is not merely
the kaiser's lighting machine. It is
Germany in arms. When 5,000,000 men
respond to the call to the colors, or
stand ready to respond, to carry out
the plans of the kaiser, it is pretty safe
to assume that the cause of the kaiser
is the cause of Germany, and that national
as well as dynastic reasons lie
behind the great enterprise. The same
reasoning will apply to Russia and to
Austria only to a lesser degree. Germany
and Austria are in alliance because
of their common interests. They
both seek an outlet to the Aegean and
to the markets of the east. The dynastic
policies are supported by the
commercial interests of the two em
|J1IC8( (IIIU 111 ? i(u^r iavuoc iuv aiuii* i.
zollerns and the Hapsburgs art- the
spokesmen for and leaders of their
people and are leading in the direction
in which they would go.
There is no dynasty in France to be
glorified, but the French people have
been arming for forty-four years for
this great conflict. The Frenchmen
who took their hoardings from their
stockings to help their government pay
the indemnity to Germany in 1870 have
been waiting for the opportunity to get
it back again, and their children have
inherited the same relentless purpose.
They have watched and waited nearly
half a century for this one great,
over-whelming, all-absorbing opportunity
of "revanche!"
Despite the fact that the ambitions
of the people and the dynasties are in
accord, the effect of the war upon monarchical
institutions will be momentous.
The spirit of democracy is
abroad. It has practically abolished
the British house of lords. It has forced
the establishment of a parliament
in Russia. It is so active and alert in
Germany that the Social Democratic
party is the largest and most powerful
political organization in the empire.
In France it overturned the monarchy
nearly half a century ago, and is now
so firmly established that only the
wildest dreamers ever imagine that republican
institutions can be displaced.
It is regnant in Portugal and nearly so
in Spain. A nation in arms, as Germany
now is, will not long be content
to remain a nation without a ministry
responsible to its parliament. The
democratization of German institutions
is inevitable after the war, whatever
the result. The people, even in Russia
are no longer driven serfs. They think
they reason and a demonstration ot
the power of 5,000,000 men on the battlefield
will not be lost on the patriots
who wish also to demonstrate the power
of the same number of millions in
deciding at first hand the causes for
which they will take up arms. Whether
the kings and the emperors remain
on their thrones matters little. Great
Britain, though it retains the fiction of
a monarchy, is as democratic as the
United States, and its parliament responds
with greater precision to popular
sentiment than the American congress.
The war means the end of autocracy
whether the kings remain or
not ?Philadelphia Ledger.
IS RUSSIA'S REAL RULER
Illiterate Siberian Monk Said to be
Power Behind the Throne in Czar's
Realm.
While Rasputin was visiting his
family recently in his native town of
Krekovksy, province of Tobolsk, Si
beria, a woman named Guseva plunged
a dagger into his abdomen. She wished,
she said, to put an end to the awful
evil wrought by this man in Russia by
his impostures and intrigues under the
guise of prophet.
Rut Rasputin will recover. And when
lie does, woe to his enemies! He
blames it all on Heliodorus, abbot of
Esaritsyn, whom Rasputin, by his inlluence,
drove from the imperial court.
Rasputin will live, he declares, in spite
of Heliodorus; and he will take a terrible
reckoning.
Since the spring of this year keenest
watchers of the Russian skies have
taken a second long look at Gregori
Rasputlin. This strange, quiet personality,
unobtrusive and yet conspicuous,
used to be the target mainly for scandal
mongers and for the vast number
of Russians who are disgusted at the
character of the dominant intluence
in the czar's household. Rut recently
people of harder liber?ambitious men
high in the councils of the empire?
who are struggling and scheming
against one another, and the ablest
members of the foreign embassies, who
are seeking to trace the motive springs
for the working of the czar's will, tind
in Rasputin their most absorbing problem
The politically ambitious ay him
court by sending their wives to the
receptions arrangi d by his devoted followers.
The diplomats must glean
what they can from the outside, for he
does not cultivate the acquaintance oi
foreigners. None of them but would
admit that the half illiterate Siberian
peasant exercises greater sway over
the mind of the czar and his sovereign
decisions than did the austere and exalted
l'obedonostzoff, procurator of the
Holy Synod, over the stern policy of
Alexander III.
Middle sized, middle aged?he is
about 48 years old?of spare, wiry
frame, letting his light brown hair and
beard grow freely in peasant fashion,
Cregori Rasputin holds attention til
lirst sight by his remarkable nose and
eyes. His gait and his dress are those
of the devout, humble lay brother and
Scripture reader, which is the Russian
social type to which lie approximates.
Rut his large, strong, well-set nose is
that of a man of commanding will and
authority, and he has the large, bluegray
eyes of the seer who will not be
drawn into discourse on the plane of
ordinary mundane affairs.
Some men have a kind of magnetism
other than that which manifests itself
on the intellectual or spiritual side of
the personality. It may be exerted,
physically, in the form of animal magnetism,
in the "laying on of hands" to
allay nervous torture, and even in such
healing processes as osteopathy or
bone setting. The most competent objective
psychologists who have studied
Rasputin declare that he possesses this
animal magnetism to quite an amazing
degree, and that as a dynamic human
organism he is a phenomenon.
Much in Russian tradition favors the
periodic appearance of some such wizard
and soothsayer. These may be
charlatans for the most part, but now
and again they prove to be something
more. To say that the world has outgrown
them is quite erroneous as regards
Russia.
Among the scattered pastoral villages
around Tomsk, where Rasputin
lirst began to exercise his strange
power nearly twenty years ago, the
conditions of daily life and the vocabulary
in which the people exchange their
thoughts are not essentially different
from what they were two or three centuries
ago, nor so very different from
the early ages when a Peter the Hermit
could inspire a crusade.
None of Rasputin's followers thus
far, whether dupe or devotee, has come
fooiirnivl in hie hniir of L'rcnlnpsS to de
nounce him as an impostor. Such a
one would assuredly run no risk if he
did, for Rasputin is most cordially
hated both by the police and the press
censorship. To people familiar with the
habits of Russian life it would have
sounded incredible a year ago had they
been told that the government bureaucracy
and the radical intelligence
would ever agree on anything. Yet today
they are as one in their antagonism
to Rasputin.
In a recent Duma debate a much-respected
leader of the Liberals, Mr.
ICphremoff, declared "that the highest
affairs are settled in the highest
spheres by an obscene charlatan." The
press censorship allowed this to be
published broadcast, and the crown
prosecutor has taken no action. The
campaign against Rasputin is allowed
to proceed publicly on lines which
among decent Russians are far more
Biilnrarolvn i,f povepencp fur t h*> throne
than anything that is secretly circulated
from the revolutionary printing
presses.
The political hatred directed against
Rasputin is based on the fact that he
is the incarnation of irresponsible, oneman
power, the result being the absolute
repudiation not only of constitutionalism.
but of the actual administration
and bureaucratic system, or indeed
of any system at all. He has
checked, nonplussed and baffled the
clever men in the governmental machine
and the wily men in the Holy
Synod. In the duma, some weeks ago,
Mr. HilinkofT read a letter of the present
procurator of the Holy Synod, Mr.
Tabler, in which the latter thanked
Rasputin for allowing him to retain his
high office! Tabler denounced this as
malicious tattle, but he did not deny
the specific allegation.
The only minister of the czar who
showed open enmity to Rasputin was
Kokovtzoff, and Kokovtzoff had to go.
Wandering about the corridors of
Tsarkoe-Selo palace in felt slippers,
like the most intimate member of the
household, Rasputin waited for Prime
Minister Kokovtzoff to come out from
an audience in the czar's cabinet, and
said to him quietly:
"Well, how much hast thou stolen
today?"
KokovtzefT flushed angrily and moved
off, but he could neither say nor do
anything.
A few weeks ago a governess of the
czar's youngest daughters was standing
at their chamber door at bedtime.
Their father had gone into bid them
good night. Rasputin was about to
follow when the governess barred his
way, saying that the young grand
duchesses were retiring for the night.
Rasputin made no reply, but forbore to
enter. The czar, when he came out,
thanked the governess for her watchfulness
over his daughters, but in less
than a week she was given notice that
her services were no longer required.
Each step of Rasputin's progress has
been taken with the help of women
devotees. He has a quiet, well-modu
luted, "warm" voice, and uses at all
times the archaic "thee," "thou"
phraseology of the Bible?which sacred
book, except for a few simple devotional
works of the old Orthodox
church, is the only literature he has
ever read. First in western Siberia,
and later along the Volga, he used to
sojourn as Scripture reader in the
houses of the provincial merchants*
and others of the peasant class who
had prospered in a worldly way. These
men would often have money enough
to be able to indulge their wives in any
luxury, but the simple elementary
life in those remote districts provided
no means of relaxation. The women
would frequently drop into the state of
nervous depression which is the common
malady of idle rich womankind
the world over.
'I'lw.n frnm htillsolinli] til household
spread the rum<?r that Gregori Rasputin.
the Scripture reader, had the marvelous
secret of dispelling this restless,
nervous feeling. Kastward from Moscow
he attained some fame as a "healer"
anion? bourgeois religious circles.
It was part of Rasputin's practice to
use absolute patriarchial directness in
his talk with his women followers, no
matter what the subject discussed
might be. The simple words he used
in relation to the elementary facts in
human life would sound coarse to cultured
ears. He believed, moreover, in
the "laying on of hands," and practiced
it literally. This reputation proved
nothing in his disfavor, and he advanced
into the more select circles as
the center of religious assemblages.
A lady of the Karnovitch family,
whose sister is now Countess Hohenfelsen,
murgantic wife of the Grand
Duke Paul, first brought Rasputin to
St. Petersburg. There was not much
pretense of religious pietj about her
salon, but the "healer" was cultivated
as a new diversion in a blase existence.
In fact, the guests looked on
him somewhat in the light of a spiritual
medium, although Rasputin has
always repudiated any suggestion of
"seances" or of hypnotism. His absolute
sway over many people, especially
women, and notably the empress,
and their passiveness under the spell of
his personality undoubtedly partake in
the broad sense, of hypnotism. Hut
Rasputin practices none of the hocuspocus
of the craft.
Rasputin's enemies charge that he
holds and makes silent use of certain
ambiguous messages from the empress
indicating his complete dominion at
the palace of the czar. He was introduced
there by iMme. Vyrbova, the wife
of a naval officer and the most intimate
of the empress' ladies-in-wait
ing. He goes two or three times a week
to the palace, remaining from morning
till night, and is sent for by telegram
whenever the court moves from one
place to another. In every direction
his influence is felt. The dowager em
press, however, is an avowed antlRasputinite,
and since the "monk's"
sway set in she has rarely seen her son
the czar, or her daughter-in-law except
at public ceremonies.
The crowning miracle of Rasputin is
this: He has moved the empress, who
for nearly twenty years that she has
shared the Russian throne has cared
for nothing outside of her domestic affairs
and who has not shown the
slightest intellectual curiosity about
anything, into an ardor of political interest
sympathetic to that in which the
czar is acting and working, neither
through his ministers nor the people,
hut through a Siberian peasant who
can scarcely write his own name?an
avowed mystery man who represents
absolutism incarnate. Neither the imperial
bureaucracy nor the elected legislature
has been able as yet to bring
Nicholas II., into definite light as a
reigning sovereign. And now, under
the will of a human enigma, behold
this same sovereign autocrat emerging
and asserting the authority that bewilders
alike the defenders and the
enemies of his throne!
HISTORIC WAR TREASURE
Germany Has $30,000,000 in the Tower
at Spandau.
The German government has 120,000,000
marks (about $20,000,000) stored
away in its "war chest" in the famous
Julius Tower at Spandau, an island
at the confluence of the Spree
!inu navei rivers, auya nit- rvcw iuii\
Sun. It is a secret hoard, known in
Baedeker as "the imperial military reserve
fund of ?6,000,000." Early last
year it was reported from Berlin which
is only eight miles from Spandau, that
the German war programme contemplated
tripling the treasure, but if
such a move was made it has not been
announced.
The Julius Tower has been shrouded
in mystery. It was first used by Frederick
the Great as the Prussian "war
chest" and then turned over to the
empire for the storage of the $30,000,000
which was a part of the J 1,000,000,000
indemnity paid by France, after the
Franco-German war. Although it has
been estimated that the money would
be exhausted in a day and a half in
case of actual war, the fund has been
reserved for the expenses of a quick
mobilization of the German army, to
pay for horses and supplies nlready
contracted for an emergency.
The tower of Spandau stands in the
midst of a citadel surrounded by barracks
and officers' quarters, not far
from the great German arsenals and
manufactories of war implements. It
is cylindrical, built of heavy, massive
masonry, about 40 feet high and almost
as thick. The tower is guarded by
three steel doors at its only entrance,
each opened by a system of simultaneous
keys held by different persons. The
chancellor of the empire holds one set
and the president of the committee of
debts of the empire another. The treasure
is protected by constantly changing
sentries, under a guardian, who
was made curator by a decree in 1874.
The treasure itself, made up of 20franc
gold pieces, the same that was
paid by the French, is stored in bags in
a dozen small cabinets built in the
walls in various levels reached by a
spiral stairway. The guard is usually
made up of twenty-four men, eight
of them on duty constantly, changing
every two hours. A patrol is made
about the base of the tower, inside
and top. Once a year the gold is
weighed in bulk for an official count.
The amount of the treasure never
changes.
There was one attempt at robbery
on the part of a drunken cobbler, who
got into the tower in some mysterious
fashion, but fell when he was half
way up the staircase and broke his
neck. Only one American has been
known to have had a glimpse of the
interior of the Julius tower. He was
Robert W. Poindexter, according to
the story, asked the sentinel to see
the commander, and then slipped into
the tower when the sentry turned his
back. He got into serious trouble
with the Spandau authorities for going
too near the treasure, but finally convinced
them of the innocence of his
purpose. The tower has excited great
curiosity on the part of German tourists,
but sightseers are not welcomed
on the Island of Spandau.
Other nations have considered it a
waste of money for Germany to keep
the treasure stored at Spandau, because
it was known that it could last
only about a day and a half if used in
case of war. It was often said that if
Germany had invested the money at
r> per cent she could have increased the
principal so that the aggregate fund
might last as long as a week in time
of war.
WAS A MAN'S JOB.
Why the Colorado Dam is One of the
World's Wonders.
Word came to Tucson in the still of
the winter of 1!K)7, that the Colorado
river was keeping an old threat and
was sweeping into the dry Salton Sink
of Lower California at the rate of 44.000
cubic feet to the second. Already
there was a lake fifty miles in length.
Iff miles wide, 10 feet deep in the center.
Washington was alarmed. It looked
as if the entire Imperial valley?a Holland
in America, below the level of the
sea and one of the richest farming
spots in all the west?was to be inundated.
Theodore Roosevelt buried his
pride and asked K. H. Harriman for
help. Harriman did not have to bury
any pride when he turned to Randolph
and ordered him to do the Job. Randolph
was having one of his "bad
turns" at that time. Rut he is enough
of a soldier to obey orders. And he
went to the Salton Sink Hat on his
back in his private car.
From that lied Kpes Randolph huikled
one of the world's great dams. In
this day, when there are many huge
impoundings, that may seem a broad
statement. Men may think of the
dam across the Nile or the Mississippi,
the mighty structures of Panama
and of the New York City waterworks,
but not one of these was budded under
pressure. Kpes Randolph's dam was
built under a stop wateh and in 14
days and 21 hours. In 14 days and 21
hours he had placed 250,000 cubic feet
of rock and gravel in the gap. all at
a cost of something like $1,000,000. Hut
the Colorado had been stopped, and,
like a naughty child, forced back into
its own bed.
once during the work Roosevelt by
wire had asked Harriman how the job
was getting on. The railroader replied
that if the darn was not completed
within live more days it never would
be, and 000,ooo acres of fine, new farms
would be forever lost. And when the
president of the United States asked
the then president of the Southern Pacific
if the work would be done within
five days Harriman replied that he had
Epes Randolph on the Job and that
Epes Randolph had not yet know
failure.
Epes Randolph was Indeed on the
job. He lay on his bed at the edge of
the muddy flood and gave orders?
thousands and thousands of orders in
a single day. In the first place, the
rock and gravel had to be brought a
long way, and it was Epes Randolph
who gave the directions under which
the hundreds of gravel trains moved.
They closed the main line of the Southern
Pacific and all its branches to
travelers; they took the engines ofT
freight trains up and down the lines
wherever they could tind them. They
sent north to San Francisco and east
to Houston and New Orleans for more
engines and for Hat cars by the mile.
This Hood tide of gravel traffic a master
mind operated with his left hand;
with his right he hullded the dam.
Before his car moved back to Tuscon
again he got out of bed and went
out upon the work. Out toward the
end of the embankment, steadily advancing
across the path of the truant
river, a group of men were struggling
with a fine new steel car that had become
derailed at the end of the temporary
track.
"How long have you been trying to
save that car?" asked Randolph.
"Twelve minutes," replied the foreman.
"Let it go," came the order from the
chief. "Twelve minutes' time on this
job is worth more than a hundred
cars."
And so the car went down under
some thousands of tons or roes anu
gravel that went to hold hack the
mighty Colorado from the haven that
it coveted.?.Metropolitan Magazine.
YOU CAN GET
MOST ANYTHING YOU
WANT TO EAT AT THIS
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SEE ME FOR?
CHEWING TOBACCO
SMOKING TOBACCO
CIGARS
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COFFEE AND TEAS
I. W. JOHNSON
THE COFFEE AND TEA STORE.
Indigestion and Nervousness
are overcome by Mrs. Joe Person's
Remedy, which purifies the blood and
tones up the system. Mrs. Mary
Amanda Nash, Lumberton, N. C., was
a severe sufferer from acute indigestion.
which brought on extreme nervousness,
suffering daily with catarrhal
headache. Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy
relieved all these ills and she endorses
it as the best medicine in the
world.
GIVE NATURE A CHANCE
Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy purifies
the blood and permits nature to repair
the damage of the ills brought on
by .impure blood?indigestion, rheumatism.
scrofula, eczema. Get the
blood right and most ills are cured.
Your druggist should have Mrs. Joe
Person's Remedy. If he hasn't, send
us his name and one dollar for a large
bottle.
RKMEDY SALES CORPORATION,
Charlotte, NT. C.
Mrs. Joe Person's Wash should |
j be used in connection with the t
Remedy for the cure of sores and
the relief of inflamed and congested
surfaces. It is especially valuable
for women, and should al|
ways be used for ulcerations. I
professional (Tards.
Geo. W. S. Hart Jos. E. Hart
HART & HART
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Yorkville - S. C.
Witherspoon Big., Second Floor, Front.
'Phone (Office) No. 58.
D. E. Finley J. A. Marion
FINLEY & MARION
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Opposite Court House Yorkville, S. C.
Dr. B. G. BLACK,
Surgeon Dentist.
Office second floor of the New McNeel
Building. At Clover Tuesday and
Friday of each week.
JOHN R. HART
ATTORNEY AT LAW
No. 3 Law Range
YORKVILLE. 8. C.
A Big Cleat
YORK B
YO
BEGINNING FRII
Don't Miss This Oppor
Money will go further I
Must Go. Cost Will 1
$3,000.00. Therefore
seasonable merchandis
This Sale Is N(
Us that it a go<
Prices. You i
..The Yoi
"Gets-It" For Corns
Sure as Sunrise.
New Plan. Corns Shrivel, Vanish.
Until "GETS-IT" was born nobody
was ever sure of getting rid of a
corn. Corn treatments nearly all conVankee
Doodle V '^
H* bid to rid*
y He put tome
/ Jj on hie corn,
f , M And called it,
h / "Oyouonljr
taincd the same ingredients, only
some were liquid, some plasters,
some "wrappers" and some in salve
form. Now comes "GETS-IT" with
a newly discovered formula?the corn
cure on a new principle and a simple
plan that never fails. This is why
"GETS-IT" has grown in three years
to be the biggest selling corn cure the
world has ever known.
There's no more need of fussing
with corns, no more digging or cutting.
There's nothing to press down
on the corn, nothing to inflame the
flesh, to "pull" the corn or cause
pain. Put two drops of "GETS-IT"
on in two seconds. That's all. For
any corn, callus, wart or bunion.
"GETS-IT" is sold by druggists
everywhere. 25c a bottle, or sent direct
by E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago.
YORK COUNTY FAIR
AT Rock Hill on October 14, 15, 16,
1914. Two Aeroplane Flights
daily. Ralloon ascensions and numerous
other fine attractions. Horse
Races and Liberal Prizes in all Departments.
YORK COUNTY FAIR ASSO.
f.t 3 mo.
8 THE TRINIDA
Realty]
The natural oils
nhnlt p-ive life to Gei
r"?" o - ?
Get Genasco for all your roofs, ar
We have it?several different w
Wilkerson Mercantile Co., (i
McGill Bros., Yorkvill
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE
CHARLES
DEPARTMENT OF >IEI)
Owned and Contr
8<?TII SESSION OPENS OCTOBE
Fine New Building ready for
vantageously located opposite Rc
Hospitals in the South, where abi
Hospital contains 218 beds.
Practical work for Senior St'
a Special Feature. Large and '
Schools. Department of Physiolc
ton Museum. Nine full time tei
Six graduated appointments each
For Catalogue, address:
OSCAlt W. SCHLEETEK,
Insurance A
Too many of us are inclin
and then "holler for help." ?
security and ignore the warnln
of financial loss, which can b?
So co-operate with your neigh
ERS' MUTUAL Insurance Com
throughout. The TIME to lnsu
D.E.B0NEY, I
f ?
Anderson Collegi
For Women
Faculty of Christian men an
women of experience.
Courses leading' to degree of A. 1
and A. M.
Diplomas in Music, Art and ]
Science and Art.
Equipment modern and convenie
tennis, basket ball.
Situation ideal for health and
For Catalog
JAMES P. KINAHD, ]
i-Up and Cle
argHn
RKVILLE - - - - S.
m, AUGUST 7,
tunity to visit a Clean-U
than it ever did before.
8e No Object, on accou
we place before you a
e at unusually Low Pr
>w On?You can Ta
od time buy Staple
may Pay War pric
'k Bargaii
FOR SALE
136 Acres?The Wells Place, the
property of R. N. Plaxco, a very fine
farm. High state of cultivation. t
I have had many inquiries about the ~
County Home Land*?First Tract: 90
acres, on Rock Hill road; also 137 acres
join J. L. Moss. I must sell this land
At Once. .If You want it, see Me at
Once?It is a good money maker.
County Home Farm?90 Acres, Joining
T. L. Carroll, $25.00 Acre.
140 Acres?Joining R. R. Love, J. L.
Moss and others. Magnificent bottom
land in this tract. See me.
Cottage Home?Of W. C. Miller, on
Charlotte road, near Ancona Mill. ^
300 Acres?Property of D. A. Whislonant,
Joins J. W. Quinn and others
Price $16.00
40 Acres?Property of John Barnett, ^
Joining farm of J. R. Connolly and Wm.
Harrison Est lands.
100 Acres?Known as the Dorster
place, about 1 1-2 miles from Philadelphia
church and school. If sold
during February, I will take the small
sum of $20.00 an acre for it.
409 Acres?Near Lowryville, $25.00
per acre.
I desire to say to my friends that I
have property that I can cut up in
small tracts and sell on long terms. *
The Quinn estate land?On King's
Mt. road, adjoining Frank Riddle's
Nell place and others, am willing to
cut this into smaller farms to suit the
purchaser.
The residence of the late Dr. J. B.
Allison, Joining the new Presbyterian ^
Manse. Can be cut into two beautiful
building lots.
The property of Dr. Mack White on
King's Mountain Street, also 2 dwellings,
property of Quinn Wallace, et al,
on Klnr's Mountain Street. This property
will be sold quickly and if you
want it, see me.
I have for sale three of the Finest
Farms in York county, and they are ^
very cheap at the price; to wit: ^
The John Black?Henry Massey
homestead.
600 Acres?The R. M. Anderson
Farm.
410 Acres?Of the S. M. Jones-Ware
Farm, about 4 miles from Rock Hill.
Also 18 acres, and a nice cottage, f
beautifully located within the Incorporate
limits of Yorkville. Read my
list of Farms and send me some offers.
Two Go"d Hwusee?On King's
Mountain Street.
J. C. WILBORN
J
D-LAKE-ASPHALT
RoqftgBl
in Trinidad Lake aslasco
and make it last.
id lay it with the Kant-leak Kleet.
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6, S. C., R. F. D. No. 1
STATE OF SOUTH CAROUNA \
ITOX, S. C.
ICIXK AND PHARMACY
oiled by the State.
Ill 1, 1914, CLOSES JUNE 3, 1915
occupancy October 1st, 1914. Ad>per
Hospital, one of the largest
Jndant clinical material is offered.
Lidents in Medicine and Pharmacy
well-equipped Laboratory in both
>gy in affiliation with the Charles- V
ichers in Laboratory Branches,
year in medicine.
Registrar, Charleston, S. C.
?i'
fter the Fire
0
ied to wait until trouble comes,
!ome feel a sense of apparent
gs, while others see the danger
? avoided only by co-operation.
bor by insuring In the FARM- ^
ipany?mutual and co-operative
ire is NOW BEFORE the Fire.
Igent, Yorkviile.
s. a ,ug
Expression. Courses in Domestic <
nt. 32 acre campus. Gymnasium, ^
comfort.
ue Address, ^
Ph. D., Anderson, S. C. j
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p Sale at which Your
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nt of having to raise <
in opportunity to buy
ices. Come and See.
ike a Tip from
Goods at Low
es later on.
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