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Seven Keys TO Baldpate CARL] DERR BIGGERS CsmlsAt. 1913. ftf ihm iaSOa Ht/UI "Don't do it r* cried the girl. ' Don't emrsaslso us to him in nny way or tie rosy exercise his right as cook and lee re. Just Ignore us. Well play st being our own bellboys." "Ignore yon!" cried Mr. Magee. "What herculean tasks yon set! I'm not equal to that one!" He picked up ibeir traveling bags '.ml led the way upstairs. "I'm something of a bellboy myself when roused." he said. The blrl selected suit 17. at the far? ther end of the corridor from Magee's apartments. "It's the very one 1 used to hare years and years ago?at least two or three years ago," she said, "isn't It stupid? All the furniture in a bean!" "And cold." ssid Mrs. Norton. "My land, I wish 1 was back by my own fire.* "HI make yon regret your words. Mrs. Norton!" cried Magee. He threw up tho windows, pulled off his coat and set to work on tho furniture. The girl bustled shout, lightening bis work by ber smile. "1 hope yon don't expect s tip." the girl said, laughing. "1 do," be said, coming closer and speaklug lu a voice that was not for the ear of the chaperon. "1 want a tip on this?do jou really set?" ftns looked st him steadily. "Once." she said, "when I was six? teen, I appeared in an amateur plsy at school. It wss my first and last up ftsnrsuce on the stage." "Thank*. Indy." remarked Mr. Magee la Imitation of the bellboy he was sup? posed to be. He sought No. 7. There he made himself again presentable, after which he descended to the office. nhT. Bland sst rending the New York paper before the fire. From the little card room and the parlor, the two rooms to the right and left of the bo jn*n front door, Qulmby bud brought Wfla extra chairs. He stool now by the large chair that held Fmfessor Botton, engaged in con?erastio with ta.it gentlemen. "Tee." he was saying, "1 lived three yesni in (teuton snd five years in New Vera. It took me sight years?eight years to realise the truth." "1 beard about It from Jcbn Bent lay.*' ?"'le profeaaor said gently. "He'ft beeii pretty kind to me. Mr. Bantlcv has." replied Qulmby. "When the mor y wss sil gone he offered me this Jot . Once the Quimbys owned most of the lend around Baldpate mountain It all went In those eight jeers To think that It took all those yearn for mo to find It out!" "It I'm not Impertinent. Qulmby," put In Magee. 'to find what out?" 'That what I wanted, the railroad men didn't want," replied Quimby bit tarty, "snd that was?the safety of the public Tou see, I inveutcc' a new rail joint, one that was a greut 1m pro?ement on the old kind. 1 bad sort of an Ides, when 1 was doing it?un ' idea of service to the world?you know. God. wbst s joke! I sold all the Qulmby lends, und went to Iteu ten, sad then to New York to place it. Not one of the railroad men but ad? mitted thst It wss an improvement, sad s big one?sud not one but fought Ilka mad to keep me from getting It down where the public would see it. They didn't wont the expense of a cssugeM Mr. Qulmby looked out at the sunlit str^sch of snow. "aught y jsrs," he repeated. "I fought and pleaded. No. 1 begged?that was tho word?I begged. You'd be surpris? ed CO know the usmes of some of the men who kept me wsltiLg lu their pri rsta office* and sneered at me over their polished desks. They turned me down?every one. Some of them play ad mo?ss though I'd been a fish. They re'srred me to other ends of the same big game, toughing lu their sleeves, I guess, st the knowledge of how hope? less It was. Oh, they made a tine fool of me." 'You might have put down some of jo*ir Joints at your own expeuse," sug grated the professor. "Didn't I tryr cried Qulmby. "Do you think they'd let me? No. the pub? lic might see them sud demand them > everywhere Once I thought 1 had1 convinced aomebody It was down In Kenten-the Suburban railway." There wss a matte as Mr. Bland let his pnper fall to the floor "Old Henry Thorn hill waa president of the road-ho I? .?et, I gueaa? but young llavdeh and a fellow named Dsvld Kendrh k were running It. Kendrh k was on my side ?he almost had llnyden They were going to let me Isy a stretch of track with my joints Then something bap pened. Maybe you remember Ken drlck dbaippcured in the night-he's never l>een seen since " "t do remember." anld the professor softly "Harden turned me down." went on Qulmby "The money was all gone 8o 1 cams bark to Upper A .nine-van caretaker of an Inn that overlooks the property my father owned the prop erty I squandered for n chance to save human lives." He L oved away, nnd tho men sat. In silence for a time. Then the professor spoke very gently: "Poor devll-to have had his dream of servlce-and then grow old on Hsild pate." "Well, everything's shipshape In the kitchen," announced the hermit cheer fully, hurrying into the room. "1 couldn't go without seeing to that. 1 wish you the best of luck, gentlemen, and Rood by." "QoodbyV" cried the professor. "By the gods, he's leaviug us!" al? most wept Mr. Bland. "It can't he." said Mr. Mugee. "It has to be." suld the hermit of Raldpate, solemnly shaking his head. "I'd like to stay with you. and 1 would If they hndn't come. But here they are, and when women come in the door I fly out of the window, as the saying is." (To be Continued.) THE LEO FRANK CASK. .Bulge HUI hi Charge to Jury De? nounces Detmive Burns und Ills Methods Atlanta. May 18.?Judge Hill to? day in charging the grand jury laid particular stress on the perjury und bribery charges in connection with the! Frank case. With burning de? nunciation of Detective Burns and the methods employed by Burns' agency, Judge Hill declared that Burns, "an alleged great detective," was a menace t?> the peace of the community and the State and to the administration of justice. Judge Hill demanded a most thorough probe of every activity the agents for the de? fense and prosecution engaged in dur? ing the investigation of the Frank case. Referring to private detective agencies, Judge Hill declared "they don't detect crime, they encourage it and we don't want them in Georgia." EPIDEMIC IS DEADLY. Many Infants are Victim* at Gran to vllle. Aikcn, May 17.?The mill town of Granitevllle in Alken county Is in ihe grip of a deadly epidemic of spring dysentery. There lave been 13 fun? erals there within the past three days and deaths caused by the malady hiivo been occurring on the average of ono a day for the past month. While most of those who have suc? cumbed have been children, several adults have been claimed victims, and there aro at present at Granite? vllle, at Langlcy and other places In Horso Creek valley as well as In Alken patients enough to keep the physicians busy. Tho acute dysentery is a treacher? ous disease, suddenly gripping Its vic? tims und taking them off quickly. At Granitevllle, where, so far, the only deaths have occurred, it is said that insanitary conditions are to a great extent responsible for the spread of the disease, for while Granitevllle is, in fact, much cleaner than tho aver? age mill village, the Graniteville Man? ufacturing company offering prizes as inducements for the people to keep their \ar<ls clean, there Is no sewor age, the houses are not screened und Interior conditions aiv said t,o be bad In many instances. It is probable, too, that delay in calling in physicians has been respon? sible, lor some of the deaths. The doaJly house fly is supposed to have ilM been u contributing cause. In Ai\en there are at present a number of children and a few adults suffer? ing from tho malady which seems to be rapidly spreading both here and through the Horso Creek valley. KILLED AT CHARLESTON. Joseph ri.illlp* Loses Life at Navy Yard l'owcr House. Charleston, May 17.?Andrew Mc Cormlck, a painter, is alleged to have shot and killed Joseph Phillips, a pipe litter, in the power house at the navy yard this afternoon, iioth men were employes of the yard. It is reported that McCormick will plead the un? written law as justification of his aet. Ihough he has ret used to make a statement. - 1 Detroit, May 15.?Thlrt) work* nu n are known to be dead and seven ???< n injured In an explosion at the Mexican ('rude RubhOT < ?0 The ?as oven exploded, demolishing the build? ing. Kleves, bodies have been re eoi tretf. Washington, May 11 ?The follow iiiK smith Carolinians will be admit? ted to the Cnlted stairs military acad? emy at Wesl Point on July |ft; J, a si ms? Ii. L a. Freeman, w. n Flen nlken und Joseph I, Cohen, Washington, May Is, Hccrclarj Houston of I he department of a^ii , dime hoi before him today I he res I ittori oi i ?r. Bateri) t. ?lallowuj, Ihe aasestanl seerelaryi who has ?i? rlded In leave Ihe government service t,, Ihn ome dear, ol Ihe ugrlenitural r?(||ege of Cornell university. He bad nt i 0 ? hi ????? led with Ihe department of aarh*lilture in various rapneltles I I 111 WHAT MANNING ADVOCATES. C1T1BE3 points OUT HOME OF THE PROURENBIYE IDEA* am? aims or Tin: sr.u TER CANDIDATE* Retter tarnt Conditions?Ruml Crc*l? it*?Protection Against tVautluiont ^fertilisers?sound Business Ad? ministration?Roll tilling Um De? niocracy. Editor Daily Rent. In reading political articles and listening to political talk it strikes me that the merits and demerits of the various candidates are founded too much on polities, und not enough on tho men themselves and what they have done or are doing, and what they stand for. It is. therefore, a source of satisfaction to the fi tends of Hon. Kich'd. 1. Manning, that there ia behind him something solider than an ability to shake hands, to honey talk, and to pull w'-es. Mr. Manning stands for progress and advance, and Mr. Manning stands for honesty. The two must .go to? gether. Honesty with stupidity, idleness or backwardness is wasted Progress, accomplishment, or business ability without honesty arc good qualities but on a foundation that will soon crumble. Hand in hand they must go if they expect to go tar. Hund in hand they go with Mr. Man? ning conducting them. Mr. Manning stands for honett election laws, though his opponents arc doing all in their power to distort his views and words and to fool those .vho are not so well posted into be? lieving he is trying to deprive some of the people of their vote. He has said time and again that he wants every! Democrat to vote once and only oneo; does any honest man want more? He has not and does not favor registra? tion for primary voting ,or any other form of restriction. His opponents arc trying to make people believe he does, but they know they arc dis? honest in their efforts. Mr. Manning stands lor a more cquul assessment of property, between man and man. between township and township, and between county and county. Are you satisfied with how tax matters stand in this State, or are you with him in this? Mr. Man? ning is a practical farmer; he has al? ways been a farmer, not merely a farm owner?there's a big difference; he manages his own farm. He is well posted, therefore, on all matters that are of vital interest to the out-of town dwellers; the preserving of peace and good order in the coun? try; tho founding of a system of ru? ral credits, something like the build? ing and loan association of the towns; j the standardizing of cotton grades, j which will mean better prices; an adequate and safe system of ware-1 housing; the improvement of rural' conditions, und all things that will help make country life more profitable and more pleasant. Another matter he understands perfectly and knows the importance of is protection against dishonest fertilizers. Our present laws require that fertilizers! shall show their analyses, and shall; measure up to them; but there is; matter, known in the fertilizer world as "worthless llller" which will give; the analyses all right, but which is: without value as plant food. The1 farmer must be protected against: this, so must the honest nianulac- j turer, and to enact the legislation that will accomplish this without falling short or without going too far is going to require skill, and an in-j tricate knowledge of a difficult sub-' jeet. j . Mr. Manning believes of course in pushing educational advantages and facilities as much as possible; he be lieves in law and order, and law en- < forcement, ho believes in supporting the constitution of South Carolina, and in government along constitution? al lines. Last, but by no means least, he is Striving to put down the feeling of factionalism in this Slate; he is trying to keep men on the opposite sides of the road from being bitter to? ward each other because they do not happen to vote alike; be is endeavor-' ing to make former friends once more friends, and to reunite the Democracy of South Carolina again into a happy family. Citizen. Boys Kill Puch other. Islington, K>\, May 15.? Hub bard Malnlnrdi aged seventeen and Joe Hensley, aged eighteen, members of prominent families were killed and. .Mrs.. Daisy Adams, a widow, was wounded during a duel between the boys at Coons Creek, four miles from Hydeu last night. The boys uuurrcl led o\ er the woman, i_ The se< ond preliminary survey fm Ihe proposed railroad between Humlei" and < Mania by way of Turbc\ illo hut been completed a profile leap of I 111 proposed route is being prepared bj ihe Burveyor( Mr. II. P. McClclhin. I Mr. McClellan bus Iwlce gone over the course which is,mainly Hal mum Iry ami will need little grading fol i lite proposed railroad line. FARMERS* UNION NEWS Practical Thought* for Practical Furmcrs. (Conducted by E. W. Dabbs, Pres? ident S. C. Farmers Union.) Some Itundoni Thoughts. I do not think T can do better ibis week, and next week, than to re? produce from The Progressive Farm? er some striking comments on the I trend of the times both agriculturally and politically, as politics apply 1.0 the farmers' problems. * * * First 1 would call attention to the comments of J. Z. Green, organizer, lecturer of the North Carolina Farm? ers' Union on "Absentee Landlordism, the South's Greatest Menace.'* Whatever may be your Individual opinion of this question Mr. Header, it is a live question today in every assemblage of farmers that i hive been in outside of South Carolina. We j havo so much of it in this State, es? pecially in Sumtcr County, and it comes so near home to so many of us who are laboring for better marketing, better credits, etc., that .we arc shy about discussing it. Besides we usually think of the absentee land? lord as one who lives in ano'hor State, when in fact it applies to our many landowners who have gone to the cities, towns and villages to llv<? because of the better schools or so? cial surroundings, as well as the lawyer, banker, merchant-i'a?mer who live in town?leaving to a few of us to keep up our schools and churches and battle for a white man's civilization. www There are many men among us who arc thinking about these things, and in a quiet way talk about them, who would never write a line or make public comments on them. There i* a strong current to exempt from tax? ation for a term of years the small farmer so strong that some candidates will put such a plank in their plat? forms, and there is another strong sentiment to tax large landholdings, and especially absentee holdings. These will be live questions in the coming years and it behooves all good citizens to Study these matters and endeavor to lind a right solution. s a s Clarence Poe devotes a page to the undue proportion of lawyers in the councils of the nation States and party machinery. I hope the printer can lind,.space for the extracts which I have marked; they arc a temperate discussion of this phase of our poll' tics, and the matters touched on by J. Z. Green can only be settled in the arena of politics unless a public sen? timent can bo created so strong as to cause men voluntarily to correct these evils. We know this is not probable, lor men to live in town ami rent their lands they will do so re? gardless of the results to their lands I or their former neighbors. But a few words of comment on 1 Mr. Foe's statement: "It is slgnfi-j cant that even in South Carolina. Where the farmer revolution in poll* tics is supposed to have gone farthest, the handful of lawyers in the State' have exactly twice as many members of the party executive committee asl all the 175,000 farmers have." The j revolution might have gone farthest in South Carolina in '7li and '1*0 for *j seem to remember that it was said at] one time about '78 that there was need of lawyers in the legislature to keep the farmers from passing laws so imperfectly drawn that they would not stand. But by HU there were so many lawyers that there was a dis? tinct farmers revolt. Bines then the pendulum has swung to the extreme noted by Mr. Foe. j Now, who are responsible for this'.' In Sumtcr county, ask A. K. San? ders, Marlon Dorn, .1. K. McBlveen, Dr. Dwight, J. K. DuPre and others, las well as the writer. The returns ' will show that it was farmer clubs [that defeated each one ol the above. The city of Bumter gave each of these 'men a better vote than some of the country Clubs. Lei any farmer in the count/ now offer for the legislature ' (and 1 could mention the names of a I dosen farmers who would be safe rep? resentatives ot the whole people as well as of the farmers). And un? less be can secure sm h a pull as l<? poll an almost unanimous vote in the city of Bumter, be will have bis nice for bis compensation. ? ? ? But some one will say "Behold poli? tics in the Farmers' Union." if such ;t one can show any good reason why polities should not be in the Fanners' Union, when tin gnat i|UCH tions of civil government for which the Union stands uro political ami cull only be settle*! through polities I will forever alter hold my peace The trouble is to get enough politic* into the union to get results, with out boosting some unworthy chrotih I office-seeker. 1:. w. i>. AND ?0 OF P HLJSIC CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA A High Grade College For Women lias an established reputation for thorough work and t:ood tu alt!) Boarding student* intentionally limited to eighty. 1} Beautifully shaded campus of S) acres. ?J 21 experienced teacher* from noted American and European univeisUc sand conservatories ?I Klro>proof Dormitory. <J DEPARTMENTS? A. B. Course, Music, Art, Expression, Pedagogy, Domestic Science. ?J Coat very moderate contitferiai tbr advantages ottered. Catalogue and Booklet of Views tent on request. CHAS. B. KING, President. UFT OH TOB. NO POPULAR CLAMOR FOR MILI? T?R V POLICY' is PELT. ________ i Policy Of Wilson Should l>o Support - etl Says William II. la ft in Ad dross at Free synagogue tclohra tion of Peace Sunday. Now York, May 17.?Former Pros-; i ident William H. Taft gave his views ; on the Mexican situation today in an i address at the Free Synagogue's eelc j bration of peace Sunday. While he j expressed little hope that the pending mediation conference would accom? plish its immediate purpose he de-j Glared the offer of mediation and the ? United States' acceptance was an lm I portant step towards the future set? tlement of internat lonal difficulties in j the Western hemisphere. ; The former president asserted that 'there was no popular pressure for a ! military policy which the administra? tion can not resist. He said that the ! people were determined to do their duty, even should that duty involve war. But for war, he added, the peo-: i pie at present have little enthusiasm. Mr. Taft criticised the Wilson ad? ministration for aid which, he said, j the administration had gven to the Mexcan constitutionalists. "'It is m> judgment," he said, "that it . in our! course toward Mexico during the past year, we had not exert* d such direct iniluence as we have to aid one of the I contending parties, we should not now ! bo so near general intervention and 1 war." Mr. Taft called on all Americans to aid the president in bis effort t(> ( fmd peace. Mr. Taft took the place today of| Secretary Bryan, whose duties at Washington prevented him from fulfilling an engagement to ad? dress the congregation on 'Intema I I tional Peace.' Oscar Straus als*? spoke. He pointed out that the Bus-! I slan-Japanese war was settled through mediation and that interfer? ence by an outside power in an in j ternational dispute was no longer re? garded as an unfriendly act. _ CATTLE FED IN OPEX. I'rollt on Them as Great as on T!to*c Kept I nder Shed. j Washington, May is.? President Harrison of the Southern Railway Company has received from Messrs. Iii. s. Curtis and L. W. Shook, 'Ani? mal Husbandmen in charge of beef cattle and sheep investigations at the North Carolina Agricultural Experi? ment Station, a report of un experi? ment in feeding two l"ts of beef cat-| tie on the farm of Mr. R. A. Derby in Richmond County, North Carolina, .which will be of interest to those who contemplate feeding beef cattle in the South and are deterred by the assumption that a large initial invest* ! mint is necessary in the way o? barnsi and sheds. One lot of sixteen ste ns was fed In an open shed and i_;i\ <-ii a run ol ill i space sixteen feet by thirty feet. An? other lot of sixteen steers was fed in; Ja five-acre Held. The report shows! that the cattle fed outside madt SI.j pounds more gain per head than j those fed inside and their linal murko! j condition was equally us good as \ those fed under cover. The feed for each lot of cattle con slated of l Mn pounds cottonseed. ->' pounds oi' cotton seed hulls. 1 '-' pounds of corn, 1-.i.'. pounds >?,' , corn Btover( and i u.7 7?pounds ?d I silage. ^__ St'MTFR HOY I'OMFS FIRST. Mr. Herbert F. i.. liultman of >his city, the s<?n "i Mi. and Mra. K. IV, \. Bultinun, has won ur^t honors at Xcwberry College, ibis fact having been annouiieod at ;( fucult> meeting on Friday afternoon following the completion of. the linal examinations. Mr. Hultmun will bo one of the ora tors at comniciicoiiient on vYcdn?*sda>. MIsh Kthol ,l*ui*s *u dewberry, He onl) co-ed of the class was iward second honors. I .exttigton, K\.. Ma> l i. Allen < !ar roll, a wealth) distiller, was slioi and killed liy his son Ueorgo al 10 o'clock last night, tin r ret t was heating his wife when his son interfered. MARRIAGE M WEDGEFIELD. Miss IJosie T. A. cock. Daughter of Mr. and Mis. \. K. Aycock, Ho rontrw Bride of C. J. Gaeejve of Florence. Wedgefield. May 14.?On yester? day afternoon at toe residence of the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Aycock, their only daughter. Mis.'* Bessie F. Aycock. ind Mr. J. C. CJas que, of Florence, were united in mar? riage. The ceremony, which was performed by Dr. R. C Reld, of Co? lumbia, was witnessed only by the immediate amity and a few invited guests. The bride was one of Wcdgcficld s most popular young lades; the groom is one of Florence county's rising attorneys an 1 represents his county in the legislature. The bride and groom left on the? afternoon train for Washngton and other points of interest at the north. FOR RESERVE HANK. Columbia Representative Joins in Or? ganization at Richmond. Richmond, Va? M v 17.?Represen? tatives of the Me,' hunts-Mechanics* National bank of > iltimore, Md.; Murchison National Hi ak of Wilming? ton, N. C, Palmetti ; itional bank of Columbia, S. C. Fi $' National bank of Roanoke, Va., $ cl the Citizen's National bank of ClKrieston, W. Va., will meet here tome Wow to begin the organization of the bank of Richmond trict in the new i Melton C. Elliott, federal Organisation committee, make an address. Two hundred and member banks will in the evening there fill be a ban? quet at which Congressman Carter Class, Gov. Henry ' . Stuart and others will speak. deral reserve the Fifth dis rreney system. eretary of th? will Q delegates from be present and Marriage License Record. Two licenses to marry have been Issued to colored couples: Thomas Rembert and Ida set even. Dnlsell; and Willie Dicks and Lizzie Bradford. Sumter. Real 1 Ntatc Transfers. Virginia Et Christmas to H. Drano Tindal. Mi a res on Pi atallgo Swamp $1,000. H. Drane Tindal to Henry Frank Geddings, 86 acres on Poeataligo Swamp, $2,500. Merry F. Christ m: ^ to H. Drane Tindal. 86 acres on Pj itallgo Svamp $?00. Don't m a Ti After Thirty Years' ExperioBOt I Have Produced An Appliance for Men, Women or Children That Cures Rupture. I lend It On Trial. if yon i>tr-(< tried most everytnlai eist, com'* o> i. .-. vviirrc otUei fat! U where I bare say greatest uccces. Send attachedcoapou to lS| and Iwlilaeul The nbove it C. E. Brook?, <*rventor of ths Appliance, who ru-ed himself ?u**d who is now llrinj other* the benefit of h ? experience. If ruptured, ?sritc hii today, nt Marshnll. M?*h. yon free, tny Illustrated hook os Rafters snd its ci re, s-ti- ?ins n v Appliance end Rtvlag you priro? and semes of man* people tio Save triod tt ?mt ?? re win d. It sfvei laetsnl rebel when all sthsts fail. Remember, 1 ?" WS SSt*es,aoaseOSSS, OS Sat I Rend on trial i ? prove what I say Is true. You ?reibe pidiw si <i noes bsvtag sees my Illustrated bonk Rod r< ad H yon srftl be u* ? leostssttS as mv hundreds ot prtleate srbaas le t a you eta al*o read. r ;M out frca eoapoa bates and mall today It's well worth four tituo whether.' you try my Ar? pltaace er not. FREE INFORMATION COUPON Mr C. ?. Brooks. 2023A State St.. Masvlaal, Mich. Pleeec send me i>> Hail, ?o plah irvappei. ywse illustrated i*vk and full tnformstioa abeas your si idiaace tor tLo ?. uro of ra| tan . N ii.ic. aSdssai . City. State