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Tha Trials <>f tba Nerwly Rich U Lot of Mr. Browninj Bftj*. 4^C'C^je Ml] poll Georgia out of the tpod! W need your millions, of course, bu we need even more, a man of you undoubted ability and engaging per sonality to help develop one of Geor gia's beet towns. We can offer you etc, etc." - That is the urgent ant Mattering call an enlei prising chain ber of commerce in a Georgia towi has sent to J. H. Browning of Greens boro, N. C. For though Browninj is an illiterata mill hand, he Is a pros pectlve millionaire. That Is onlm of the scores 01 propositions 231 d offers Browninj has had since it oeCame known, tw< weeks ago, that he expects to re ceive a large share of the estate ol his uncle, Thomas Browning, who is reported to have died in Texas sir years ago, leaving land and oil welk valued at the stnnenHnn* fiomro <>t $160,000,000, "and some cash." Browning, when it first became known that he expects to inherit millions, expressed a desire to bay "a ' nice home." As in the Alladin story, to wish was enough, for during the past two weeks he has been offered homes of every description, in every section of the country. Pictures often accompany the various offers, as was the case with an Atlanta man who has an office building for sale. Another hustling Atlantan wants to be the millionaire's executive: a New York woman has already applied for the position of private sec retary, and a Baltimore woman recently bereft of her husband, asks charity. Even the florists are in the grand rush; one florist wants to supply Browning's new home with flowers daily, and a catalogue is sent along to demonstrate the superiority of 's flowers. So it goes! Long before the mill man lias received his inheritance?while he is it - still an humble cloth carrier In ? cotton mill I The prospective millionaire is receiving from twelve to fifteen proposals daily?more mail than he is accustomed to receive in a year. Will he "fall for" them all? He will not. 'Th?v cet nr-nnf afbinHnn -frnm -T TT Browning:. Why? Well, in the first place, he can neither read nor write. In the second, this man is no fool. Forty years of hard work, deprivation, of the sacrifice necessary to support a large family on a meagre income? forty years filled with these things will, not turn out a man who is soon parted from his money. Henry Browning is level-headed and shrewd But while the man pays little attention to the many offers he is receiving, his wife laboriously spalls out each letter, laughs over R, and jputs it away in an old trunk. "Might want it sometime," she explains. The story Browning tells reads like a fairy tale. It goes something like this: _ . < In 1858, Thomas Browning, a lad of 18, left his home, near Greenville county S. C., to seek his fortune. Like many men of that day, he went west. - In 1860 he entered the Confederate army, and fought for the South four years. The war ow, he returned to Texas, and took up 1,000 acres of government land. From that time until last April nothing more was heard from his by his people, and it was supposed that he had died long since. In April of this year his relatives received startling news. According to the message coming to them, which, they say, was in the form of ran advertisement in a South Carolina newspaper, Thomas Browning, dead rsix years, left an estate of $150,000,<000; and, the message added, he died without children, and with no will. He made his money from oil, discovered on his property years ago. When Browning received news of his uncle's death, and of the estate he had left, he immediately went to Greenville, S. C., where he and hi* cousin, Will Browning of Greenville, employed Hayasworth & Haynsworth, Greenville attorneys, to investigate the matter. The firm of Haynsworth & Haynsworths was lat r released, according to Browning, and the caae was put in the hands of Proctor Bonham, another Greenville . attorney. When the story first became public here, two weeks ago, Browning :said his "attorneys" had assurred him )he would receive his share?approximately $13,000,000?"in October." Other heirs named by Browning acre his sister, Mrs. Margaret Jordan Anderson county; Lewis Browning, Columbia; Will Browning, Greenville; Billie Coker, Beltoir, Johnnie Coker, Bel ton; Mrs. Jeannie Brooks, Anderson county; Mrs. Tex Holllday Greenville county; Mrs. Emma Chesteen, Greenville; Lonzie Coker, Greenville county; Thomas Coker, Greenville county; Jim Coker, Hones Path; Charlie Coker, Anderson conn^ ty; Jim Smith, Suggs Smith, Bob '.Smith and Linwood Smith, all of Aniftarann o.mintv: and tlu> ten children tof Mrs. Joshia Chsndier, of GreenWills county. The past two weeks have brought many new and puzzling developments. . The first thing that set folks by r, the. ear was the statement of \ Proctor Bonham, afligsd attorney for tht varione Brownings, denying say connection with the estate, and ever hew ing been employed by the Brownings. Mm. Bnehim (whs 9twroh| eayi Is dead) ie nspogted to have Tisesl ? stetement to the effect that the had received a letter Item Bi iiesilag, whc can neither read nor *fft?r th^Hrieh she was informed that her husband, than in Greenville, was in Texas, I looking after the Browning interests. Mr, . Bonham. according to the attorgny's wtflfc fes qpver bpen ip. Tp* i as, and Mm. Bonham expresses tork self as puzzled to know the meaning of the letter. _ L. L. Browning of CofcuoMa, (tiki only Browning hated in the city directory of that -town whose name bej gins with L, and hence supposed to be Lewis Browning, the heir) was } the next to complicate the puzzle. When called over the telephone early on the morning of August 18, he professed total ignorance of the estate, and, strangely enough, did not inf terest himself in the matter sufficiently to go to the office of the Co) lumbia State to see the dispatch naming* him an heir. But J. H. Brown, 1ng declares that Lewis Browning's j brother has been to Texas to inves, tigate the estate, and that Lewis j Browning must know of its existence. , The third interesting development is the fact-that Mary Ann and Mar tha I'ikc of Greenville county, are reported to have heard of the estate some six months ago, and to have employed Haynsworth & Haynsworth of Greenville, to investigate; the lawyers never made a report, however, it is asserted. These two women are not members of the Thomas Browning family, according to J. H. Browning, who says he has never heard of them before. Finally J. C. Parker of Atlanta, comes to Greensboro, to see Browning. Parker, after talking to Browning, claims that the Greensboro man is not an heir. But, he says, he would not want Browning to know that he (Parker) doubts Browning's kin to Thomas Browning! Parker, who claims to represent his father-in-law, Gorris Edwards, of Stockbridge, Ga., names another set of heirs, all descendants of Mrs. Mnry Lou Browning Edwards, sole sister of Thomas Browning, according to Parker. The Atlanta man says that neither of Thomas Browning's three brothers, whom he names as Perry, William and James, had no children, the only heirs of Thomn3 Browning, therefore, being the descendants of Mrs. Edwards. Besides his father-in-law, Parker names as heirs Mary Ann and Martha Pike (above referred to); Hanes Edwards of Travellers Rest, S. C.; Mrs. Frances Bishop of Greenville county and Henry Edwards of Floydada, Texas. Parker and his father-in-law's attorneys, whom he names as Howard & Branch of Atlanta, have been working on the case two years. But, according to J. H. Browning, nothing was known about the estate un til last April; and, according to Mary . Aim and Martha Pike, it was not investigated by them until six months ago. And so the tangle weaves itself, In and crat, around one family after another. And, while many a man ' knffta his UVow afcfl avers "softly'that "there's something darn funny about this thing," J. H. Browning, expecting 13 millions ss hie lawful inheritance, calmly goes his way. Early in the morning he goes to work in the mill, where he remains all day; hie evenings he spends quietly at his home, 50 Nineteenth street, White Oak. Serene, unperturbed, confident, he shows no animosity toward other claimants. "If they can prove they are heirs," he says, "why they'll get their part I aint going to worry. We can prove our claims, and we'll get all that's ours?and that's all we want." Faces The face you wear was Nature's gift; and it may be, perhaps, that people who before you drift may have more handsome maps. But let this not disturb your rest, don't dope your face with drugs; for Nature knows just what is best when she distributes* mugs. My frontisuiece I thought too fierce; inspire^ by foolish hopje, I 1 sent and got a tierce of Johnson's Beauty Dope. I spread the mixture on my brow, and on my cheeks and chin; "I will be fairly dazzling now," I said, ard rubbed it in. I spread ; the ointment on my ears, and put some on my nose, and dreamed of 1 going down the years as lovely as a rose. But al! my dreams were doomed to smash, they died upon a day; the Beauty Dope brought out a rash 1 that will nnt cm mow An ?ld Wiui/t viewed my faoe with grief; their gibes I've long endured; "You're looking like e side of beef that wasn't rightly cured." My skin has an unwholesome shine, and scaly is my ; crown; my nose is. slightly out of 1 line, ray month is upside down. ' Could I but have the useful face I > had on that bright day, before I ' vainly tried to chase its blemishes away I I would not tench it up with > grease, or paint it pink or white, ' but let it be, and live in peace, and ' hare sweet dreams at night.?Oreen' ville News. Slight Mistake Jim was very much in love, but held 1 back his proposal from sheer besh' fulness. At last he decided to pop the question by telephone. ' "liable, I love yout" he gasped, his heart thumping. "Will you mar1 ry me?" There was a moment's hesitation ' befete the answer came. ? "6f course I will, Artfanr. Why 1 didn't you oome and ask me yourr ffcan Um shouted back: > "Toull have to break the news to i Arthur yuniuilf. Pit be banned if T ?wuir Big Jobs for the League Tha <rf capital froto MMtries it is Uvtt i wm, loaded rrlfh doable taita#on, and otherwise placed' at a dlsadvpup^agp, presents ptppfrima which the Genoa ' conference asked the technical com' mittee of the League of Nations to study. In June the Financial Com1 mittee of the League set to work, 1 hoping to have at least an outline of ja plan by August. At the June meeting the Financial Committee had a lively debate over the respective merits of a policy of deflation of currency in Central European countries and a policy of devaluation of currencies. Apparently this debate reached no conclusion* but there was a determination to start inquiries into the best method to avoiding the difftcultfles of too rapid deflation while stabilizing currencies. The financial and economic part of the league's machinery has before it a pretty big program in addition to the subjects of fleeing capital and inflated currencies, quite enough to constitute a program in themselvese. Other questions are equitable treatment of commerce in all countries, unfair competition, and the plans for arbitration of international commercial disputes now in operation by business men.?The Nation's Business. Harrim&n's Son is A Real Power (Edward A. Ruhfel in tho Brooklyn Eagle.) Wall street hears the rumblings of a great steamship combine, rivaling in capital and resources the huge International Mercantile Marine Company, with world-wide ramification and service. Stories are going the rounds that it is inspired bv Prea-I ident Harding's attitude on the ship subsidy and that the plan is to operate an enormous fleet of the Unit ed States shipping board and compete with British and other foreign shipping interests on all the seven seas. Names have not yet been mentioned, but the report is that the United American lines headed by W. Averell Harriman, son and heir presumptive to the fortune and genius of E. H. Harriman, will be found on the pinnacle of the organization. The United American lines, owned by the American Ship and Commerce Company, is the greatest of the American shipping organizations privately conducted. It controls or operates freight services to west coast ports, to Hamburg, Morocco, Beirut and various other ports in the Levant, to South America and between South American ports and Hamburg, to Singapore and the Dutch East Indies, and also various passenger services. It also acts as managing director of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. >' - The American Ship and Commerce Company entered into an agreement with the Hamburg-American line, the great freight and passenger company of pre-war Germany, whereby the former obtained the right to operate its ships on any of the HamburgAmerican trade routes and also the benefit of the remarkable network of agencies and bureaus of solicitation in many parts of the world. Due provision was made in the contracts so that the controlling company woold be American-owned, but this ia a double-edged safeguard, intended on the part of the Americans to prevent German control of the company on the - part of the German to prevent British absorption of the American Ship and Commerce company. Young Harriman, who is only 31 years old, is intent on becoming in the shipping world what his father was in American railroading. He has the backing of his own fortune and his connections, ^needless to say, are of the best. The money is there. His company is excellently connected with powerful financial interests, too. It is a virtual partner of this dominating shipping company of pre-war and present day Germany, with its contract acquired a valuable system of business getters, obtainable in no other way, and a very strong factor iirkon U /inmna t a /ia?m vna^Im m ?wtiU ik* nilVII If VUIIICO l>V vvmyvi/iu? W1UI IUC experienced shipping magnates of Britain and Holland. W. Averell Hsrrimsr. is likely to be a greater figure in the steamship world. Much has been made of the fact that he is his father's son, and that he has his father's fortune to back his enterprise. But neither name or wealth has ever been sufficient to assure dominance in a competitive industry. It is quite true that a young man with 100 million dollars to back him is very advantageously situated in making a success of whatever he sets his hand to do in business. But it is the carrying trade of the world's greatest commercial nation that is in the balance and Americana with grandiose plans for high place in the Mnnlnft WawM hatiA Is ? nvi IU IWTV UVV VWU WilUV ing. Her Wonder From the Saturday Evening Post. There are questions that have puzzled the thinking world fdr agas? Who waa the man in the iron mask? Who struck Billy Patterson T Who wrate Shakespeare's plays? Who killed Cook Robin? And, of all things, who dragged whom how many times areahd the walls of what? But the answers to all these she weald willingly forego could she knew who was the man who telephoned last night and didnt leave his name! . * ?5SBraii21fls6wii A N?w TXmynnracy Industry is ijpMpiiiji from the ' ttw#y eff exeWNh to theory of inclttfljpjp, write* Vlpe JYt?si4ant Cklvin Coplidge id The Nation's Business. It* no longer is content with one small part of the individual, it seeks to enlist all hie powers, to recognize all his rights as well as re- | quire the performance of all his ob- | ligations. In the ideal industry, each individual would become an owner, an operator, and a manager, a master and a servant, a ruler and a subject. Thus there would be established a system of true industrial democracy. In very many industries this is already taking place. Employees are encouraged to purchase stock in the < corporation and are provided with | credit facilities for such purpose. This gives them ownership. They arc encouraged to make suggestions | for the better conduct of the business. They are requested to apply their inventive ability in the various mechanical operations. . Through trade unions and shop committees they have a large share in the determination of wages and conditions of labor. By the introduction of the sliding scale and pi$oe work they share in the general prosperity of the concern. This gives them management. Thus industrial democracy is being gradually developed. Economy Wave Hits Royal Household Tokio, Sept. 5.?Even the royal household of Japan is being affected by the wave of economy which is passing over the country as a result of the economical depression. Vis- . count Makino, minister of the Im- ( perial Household, has decided to re- t duce the number of ladies-in-waiting, J who it is alleged, exceed in number | the requirements of the Empress and j Imnerial Princesses. The svstem t of court ladies now in vogue was es- J tablished in the early years of the ! Meiji era, and never has been chang- j ed. There are 18 high class ladies, 30 > ladies of han-nin rank, 10 ladies accorded han-nin privileges, and alto- \ gether about 140 employees. These women rank as follows: The shoki, of the shin-nin rank-Imperial appointment, tenji, gon tenki, ehoki, gon, shoki, myobu, gon myobu, all of whom are high-class ladies of the Imperial court; the joju and gon joju, who are of the han-nin rank. I Bach of these ladies has from one to ' sevei-al women employed as servants. I These formidable court ladies have ( held sway in the section of the Im- . perial Household where men are not | permitted to control. The majority came from the families of titled nobil- * ity, the priests of Kamo, the Sumi- ' yoshi and other notable Shinto J shrines or other distinguished fami- J lies. The ladies .^tove the rank of ( Myobu were givOw-'Tfie~~names of f Genji, while ladies coming from titled | nobility were given the names of two i characters and those from the samu- ' rai families names of one character. The salary of the first class teni is 5,000 yen a year and that of the sec- f ond class 4,000 yen, which is larger 4 Ik.. ?.?. Tm. iiiaii many ux tuc uuiviaio ui. tuo xnt- 4 perial Household department. ( As the Prince Regent aims at econ- t omy of his household, the minister of 1 the Imperial House is reported to * have drafted a new system of court ladies. It is understood that the number of ladies will be limited to 5 or 6. The choice of the ladies to serve the Imperial court has been entrusted to Baron Omori and Count Chinda, the two chief attendants on the Empress and the Prince Regent respectively. Medical Scientist* To Visit U. S. Tokio, Sept. 6.?The minister of education on behalf of the Japanese government has accepted an invitation from Doctor George E. Vincent, President of the Rockefeller Foundation of New York, to name and send a commission of Japanese medical scientists to visit the medical institutions of the United States and Canada as the guests of the Rockefeller foundation. The Hea originated with Dr. Vincent who wa. in the Par East some time ago in connection with the activities of the Rockefeller Foundation in China and was prompted partly by the success that attended the visits to America of similar commissions from Great Britain, Brazil and Belgium. The invitation, transmitted by Baron Shidehare, Japanese Ambassador in Washington suggests that the commission should consist of four or five men, well-known as representative of the important branches of medical science and of the principal medical universities and institutes of the country; that this commission would be the guests of the Rockefeller Foundation from the time it leaves Japan until it returns again to these shores; and that the spring of 1928 would be the most suitable time for this visit, which should last for about three months. The minister of education, in accepting the invitation, expressed his approval of the suggestions and un^Pff/wvir tn talanf an/) nnmmloslnn fket could clahn to be truly representative of Japanese medical science. J Enemy of Beetle Sought 1 Tokio, Sept. B.?J. L. King, of ' the United Statee Department of < Agriculture, In Japan searching for t a natural enemy of a beetle accident- \ ly introduced into the United States i and which has proved very destruc-11 v. - it' South Caroline riM Faith M. taifia (1), born oc m .om? dorlnc bfT Ajnartoan rocldanoa alaaioaaff Work: H. EL Itmfts (I), b ruo has Won edueatad &x South Oar f"rk at Pakhoi, 6oath China; Rot. y taa; Mra. John T. lAttlaJohn (4), x wton (6), Oraeavilla, UkBwlse bon o do aduoaUonal >-ork at hwang Bi rko win sail In the aarty tall for mil nperriaa all tha architectural wot* < rho will do Sunday School wot* tn 1 la ganawfl ml?lohary work at Parna or unent Mpima nron Seattle Sept rwrlTH the sending out this NMon YY of fifty now missionaries by the Foreign 'Mission Board of tho louihern Baptist Convention, 250 new workers bars boon sont to foreign lcldo during tho 71 Million Campaign, ir one-half tho goal that was set in he number of workers to be provided luring that movement. It Is anticipated tho remaining 250 will go out luring tho remainder of tho Campaign terloi that will expire In December, .124. The workers going out this seaen will enter the fields of China, Japn, Africa, Palestine, Brazil, Argenina, Uruguay, Chile and Mexico. Inasmuch as ths largest missionary rffort of tho denomination Is oentered n the Orient, the larger portion of tho rorkers sailed from Seattle Saturday, Uptember S, on the Admiral Liner hresident Jackson for stations In 3hlna and Japan. The missionaries Or fields en other continent a sail hom New York on various lines and pome of thorn will not dspart until keptemher SO. Varlsd Types Workers dent Included In tho list of missionaries ire preachers and evangelists, teachers, doctors, nurses, one architect, one pxpert in domestic science, and speKal workers among women and chllIren. William Barle Hines of Spartanburg, S. O., who goes to Shanghai to lupervlse the construction of all misItonary buildings in China, enjoys the ~-i !?SJ?."?LL - ive, left early in August for Kore/ vhere such an enemy has been dis sovered. Mr. King will study th? ipecie in preparation for furthei vork next year. In 1928, a largi lumber of the puparia will be ship >ed to New Jersey where the beeth ?k :4v* r V; yfztf* ::-7v'V l Sends Ten You Missionaries to ! | distinction of being the first a. hitect I ever sent out by the Foreign Mission Board, and his appointment indicates the vast extent of the Southern Baptist work in that country. More than half of the total number of missionaries In the employ of this board are located In China, where the results of their labors are very gratifying to the officers of the Board. Largo interest centers, also, in the | launching of an Intensive missionary work in Palestine, to which country there go Rev. and Mrs. Fred Bunyan Pearson of Moulton, Ala., and Rev. and Mrs. J. Wash Watts, of Laurens, S. C. ; Some native missionaries are already > at work in Palestine, and the outlook ; there is considered very encouraging,! despite the present complicated polltioal and racial controversies. Campaign Brings Enlargement In addition to the sending out of 250 [ new workers to foreign fields the 75 I Million Campaign has made It possible ' ! to increase the number of native ; workers from 771 to 1172, to practical-; ! ly doublo the missionary equipment in ; ihe older fields of China, Japan, Africa, Italy, Brazil, Argentine, Chile. ' Uruguay and Mexico, and to enter the I ! new fields of Spain, Jugo-Sl&vla, Hungary, Roumania, Southern Rnssla, PaV ' estlne and Siberia. Southern Baptists now have a practically unbroken string of mission fields encircling the , globe, and a possible mission audience 1 S5S31IB ){i C j If,* y+LSJ U J l\ :f^i mmmmmmMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i is doing much damage. C. P. Clausen, an associate of Mr. i King, is now in Hokkaido, carrying r on similar work, while another Ami erican entomologist, Dr. John Sum mera, also is in Japan searching foi i parasite for the gypsy moth. tssiouary parents la Hong Kong, China, While obtaining her education, who nc orn of missionary parents on the Island olina, and who leaves Batley Military Ii John T. Littlejohn (S>, Bcreston, who ' Scran ton. who will be associated with i ot missionary parents in China, but c Uen, China; Mr. and Mrs. J. Wash Wi isltraarjr work in Pal--stipe; William Ea ?f the Foreign Mission Board in China; tracll, with headquarters at Rio; Rev. . mbuco, Brazil; Admiral Liner President . 2. - ' Foreign Fields jB| 7^^B\ v \ IT^M^^^H| ^A but who has mad* Greenville, 1. 0., beg )w goes to Pakhot, South Chink, fat of Singapore, Straite Settlement, but istltute, Greenwood, to do educational will do eTADgelUtio work at 'tat ninlr, s>-. ** her husband In China; Miee Mary "> iduoated In this country, who return* stts and young son (8), of Lauraag. rl Hlnee (7), Spartanburg, who will Rev. T. b. Stover (8), Heath Springe* I. A. Tumblln ( ), Laurens, who wilt .. .tackeon (10), on whloh missionaries - ' A -.3 of 900,000,000 people, or one-half dU total population of the globe. And the reeulta on the field has* kept pace with the larger Investment in the work and number of workern, . Since the outset of the Campaign the Foreign Mission Board reports the or ganlzatlon of 117 new churches, 11,711 baptisms, 111 new Sunday schools with a gain of 17,676 popUs, native contributions to Baptist work of $1^ 008,890.68, and 611,642 treatments a4* ' ml&Utered by missionary physicians. Churches on the foreign fields, east* nive of the new territory In Burope and the Near Bast, now number 6ft with 64,261 members. There are alee 971 Sunday oohoola with 68,661 pupils, and 694 mission schools of all grades with 26,607 stndeats. Expanse Rate Is Lew More than $6,260,000 net has |HSS y from the Campaign into foreign nle t?' slom work, and so economically havt these funds been handled, the Board resorts, that 06.24 cents out of every dollar has actually reaobed the fop elgn fields, only 1.74 cents out of eadt dollar being iwRrsJ to oars for OK total cost of administration. But w$4l these larger reselpts and economies I administration the Board Is tlnable to meet the demands upon It, and at ttf last annual meeting It was oompslled to reduce the requests of the missionarlee on tbe fleM for hpffoprhBltag by mora than $1,060,000. 'Good to the Least Drop" ml With to many * autoi and porch ,twingt it it a wondar anybody it aingla.?Exchange. 1 ^ r i When money talki, no ona ttopt ta Advartiae in The Timet.