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estates without taking any return IRON,
the peasants who benefited. The local
magnates saw their own interests We're
threatened and started boycott When
council of nobility forty-seven of his
fellow mobiles demonStratively left the
hall
Anerier still were the members of the
noble line of Batthyany. In ADDITION TO
sharing in resentment felt by the land
lords, clericals and conservatives. they
We're terrified by the thought that the ir-
responsible count would give away the
family estates. Angrest of all was the
millionaire aunt. She withdrew from
Count Erwin the light of her countenance
and turned it on another Batthyany.
Count Batthyany Janos, who rode. drank.
swore and gambled SO hard that no one
would ever think of doubling his sanity.
Count Erwin persisted. He announced
that he would give the peasant workers
on his lands a share In the profits OF
farming. This overwhelmingly convinced
Hungary that he was mad His relatives.
fifteen indignant counts and counteSseS.
held a family council and resolved to adj
dress a solemn monition TO their erratic
kinsman. Count Erwin thanked them for
their interest and invited them to try
profit sharing with their own peasants.
The council met again. 1t decided that
the mooRstruck relative must enter a
sanatorium for nerve sufferers.
X
This plan failed. Mad as was Count
Erwin I'm the eyes of respectable society.
no doctor could be found who believed he
was insane. Count Erwin replied to his
relatives move by publishing a pamphlet
on THE Shame of Wealth 1t was writ
ten in the spirit of Andrew Carnegie s
aphorism, He who dies rich dies dis
graced' He who lives rich lives dis
graced" was the view of the count.
The newspaper war on Count Erwin
continued. He was declared TO be not
only mad and foolish. but also malignant
and vicious. The mad count" appeared
as the traitor count. the atheist
count +" and so on. Things might have
developed slowly in this direction had
not the reckless Erwin taken q step
which transcribed all his past iniQuities
and inanities. He began campaign in
favor of education for the poor
OF all the prejudices sacred to the Hun
garian magnate hatred of education
for the poor is the chief. 1t is held as
bad to found a school as in England it
is to shoot a fox. The magnates depend
upon illiterate labor for their vast wheat
growing estates. There is a conscious
governmental policy against schooling,
and five or six thousand municipal dis
trictS are without schools at all. Il not
only demand schools, but / shall get
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were sent, and then as fast as coat
went out we sent agents to interview
its owner with the result that we got
the whole story.
"Of course, every man who bought a
coat had to pay duty after ALL and you
can get sample of the amount involved
from the fact that in Chicago alone we
collected duty totaling over $4,000
"Oh. yes! l almost forgot. The Canucls
smuggled the coats in by hiding them
In shipments OF lumber. He ran lum-
Der yard on the American side of the
nne-used II Just as a blind
Wilkie paused. reached in his pocket
and produced a long-stemmed, very old
and very black pipe. This he proceeded
to fill. light and puff leisurely for a mo-
ment.
Perhaps you've noted the fact that a
Boston grand jury has just indicted a
dressmaker. her husband and a couple
Of former employees of the customs Of
flee up there for a little conspiracy to
smuggle In French gowns" said he at
length. Reminds me of the great sleeper
trunk smuggling case up in New York
four years ago. just before l took over
the work of the special agents That
was some case. 1t ended with a whole
flock of ultra fashionable New York
dressmakers, there were about thirty-six
of them in all. paying / don't know how
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board The Cinnamon. mentally wallow-
ing in their coming profits. waited and
Chuckled. But fifteen minutes passed and
there came no signal from the officer no
tifying his confederates that he had
reached the shore. Fifteen minutes more
passed and still there was no signal. Then
half an hour passed. with still no sign
from the swimmer
Wondering what on earth could have
happened. the members of the crew be
gan TO haul in the rope. At the end of
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and somehow or other he managed to
get them all in without paying a cent OF
duty.
After he had been back a few weeks he
began to brag about how easy the Gus
toms We're to beat, and the next thing lie
knew he had been summoned TO Wash
ington. He came and faced the music.
In short, he paid the government duties
and fines, aggregating $4,000. Then he
spent a solid week begging US to tell him
who had informed on him. request
which, of course. we fatty refused.
So he went back home ignorant as TO
the identity of the informer. but de-
termined TO find out. And he did. Think
ing back over the list of people he had
told of his smuggling. he invited each OF
them separately to dinner. Then. after
the various dinners. he took each one
into his library, steered the conversation
around to his smuggling experience, and
then said something like this.
That certainly was a slick piece Of
work the customs people did in catching
me Can't think how they found out
about it But there was one thing they
didn't get-I brought in a diamond
/ sent to a niece Of mine in Kansas City
They didn't get that.
ITO each guest he mentioned q differ
ent article Of jewelry and declared he
had sent it to q different relative. Then
he proceeded to write letter to the
relatives in question, asking each that
he be notified II any Of them were called
on by a man from the customs office
Three weeks later. as a result of this
little scheme. he found his betrayer. and
It was his business partner. the other
half owner Of the department store. and
man who, being a bachelor. dined
with him regularly at his house three
times a week.
why did he do it? Oh. il seems that
they were boyhood friends. and that
when they were young men both had
loved the same girl. and she had married
the smuggler. The other. chap had never
forgotten, and was taking a belated re-
venge."
There was another long pause. during
which Wilkie looked at his pipe found
1t had gone out again, and signing re-
gretfully, laid 1t away I'm the top drawer
of his desk. Then he leaned back in his
chair.
It's funny some of the schemes these
smugglers think of to beat us out OF the
customs duty he remarked, and it's
still more funny what little totally unfore-
seen things frequently give them away.
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enough opium to put the whole city of
San Francisco to sleep for a week.
ION another occasion when the men
were searching a ship for opium. with
but poor results. or rather. with no re-
suits at all, one of the searchers, wan
dering about the deck. stumbled against
a huge pulley block resting on a raised
hatchway. Immediately the pulley block
fell to the deck with a great clatter. and
the searcher had TO make a quick jump
to escape being struck. Then he began
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pean arlstocracy's history. Sooner than
be a useless drone. sooner than look on
without protest at the social and eco
homie ills that retard Hungary's devei-
opment. ne has fought his family fellow
rairicians and government. and only this
month. after a foBr-year struggle has
peen Obliged to confess himself defeated.
Count Erwin Ratthyauy. a2ed thirty
six. Is head Of the proudest of all Mag
var clans. He traces descent 10 Arpad
the creator OF Hungary. His family,
during the thousand years since Arpad,
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again. there are other times when one
man or woman informs another ont
OF a spirit of revenge. One OF the most
unique cases in my experience was OF
that sort.
The smuggler was a millionaire mer-
chant of the middle west. one OF the
owners OF huge department store. Last
summer he went TO Europe and when he
came back he brought almost a trunkful
OF jewelry as presents for his wife. two
daughters. r.eces and other relatives
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Them said the mad count" And he
decided to found his own schools.
He started the first schools on his
tates near Pesth and near Debreczin. The
schools were to be equal to the best in
Europe. The count took the advice of
Kirschnsteiner, Germanys famous ped
agogy exert. and from Vienna to put up
the school buildings was brought the
school architect, klausens. Four schools
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to think. He rem EN- bered that pulley
block ought to weigh two or three hun
dred pounds, that he had stumbled against
this particular one very lightly. and that
all things considered it had no business
falling He decided to investigate
He did so. and with surprising results.
That pulley block was fake. Instead
of being Of iron. il was OF tin, cleveriy
painted. 1t was hollow, and when it was
cut open it was found to be crammed
full OF tins of opium. On still another
occasion we found ship in which China
men had built a fake drain pipe. running
through two decks, and, of course. filled
with opium.
..All these stunts were devised by China
men alone; but there was one case not
SO very long ago which included both
Cinnamon and white men, and which
ended in pitiable tragedy.
The white men We're two American
soldiers of fortune who had shipped as
third and fourth officers, respectively. on
a ship which sailed from Frisco to Hong
kong. TO Manila. to Honolulu and thence
back to Frisco. The crew Of the vessel
was comprised entirely of Chinese.
Now it is the custom among many
Chinese crews, on leaving their native
land for the states, for each man to club
in much he can toward a common
pool This pool Is invested in opium. If
they are successful in smuggling the
opium into the United States the profits
are divided, each man according to his
investment.
These two Americans knew of this
custom. Also they had couple of hun
dred dollars. and so they joined In the
pool. They bought vast quantities OF
opium in Hongkong, stored 1t away in
the hold of the ship and made ready for
Manila, where the market for the drug is
excellent.
"When they arrived at Manila the
third officer went ashore. hired an auto
mobile and sped down the beach to a GER
tain point where he waited until night
fall. Then he took light and flashed a
signal At that signal the fourth officer
tied one end of several hundred feet of
rope around his body. leaped overheard
and swan ashore. When he got ashore
he jerked the rope three times for a sig
nal. Promptly the Cinnamon on board
the ship tied several score cans of opium
to the rope and threw them overheard.
The men on the beach then quietly pull
ed them ashore. loaded them in the auto.
took them to Manila and sold them. The
scheme worked to perfection, and SO ar
rangements were made to repeat the per-
Torrance the next night.
from the man in the automobile, and. as
before, the waiting fourth officer tied the
rope around his body and leaped over
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AID COUNT BAT
THYANY" = .
abandoned his fam
lily. titles. citizen
ship. estates and
invested millions
and taken refuge II
J. "a sla I'D The
mad count is the
hero OF the Quaint
ct drama OF re-
nuEciation and self
sacrifice I'm Euro
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has played notable role and amassed
vast fortune. With the SZechenyis. the
Batthyanys led in the great campaign
for the revival of Magyar culture in the
early nineteenth century. and in 1919
Count Erwin's grandfather. Count Louis
Batthyany. became Hungarian minister
president. and was barbarously executed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-04

HE big ocean liner
rode slowly up TO
her pier, back from
the other side"
with a pa ssenger
list that included
m m igrants. re-
turning Americans
and foreign tour
lists from Just
about every civil
ized country of
the clohe-most Of
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were built and equipped with every APP
pliance of the most advanced pedagogy.
The enterprise was run practically. mas
much as everything was done In a cheap
way. and so as to prove model to estate
owners elsewhere. When the schools
were opened a flood of professors. not a
few socialists and many other mad
persons came to-see them. The peasants
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-04

SUPERVISING AGENT
JOHN E. WILKIE Tells
Of Interesting Cases-Chinese
Smugglers of Opium on the
Pacific Coast-Their Ingen-
ious Methods to Prevent
Discovery of Opium Tins.
Snnugglers of Precious Stones
Have Many Original Schemes
to Elude Ofhcers-Bringing
in Fur Coats From Canada,
Duty Free-How the Snug
glers Give Themselves Away.
The Sleeper Trunk" Cases
Recently Investigated.
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ERWIN BAT
NTHYANY. Who Has an

OUN1 ERW1N BAT
0THYANY, Who Has an
Income of More Than ST. .ooo,-
900 a Year and Who Traces
His Descent From Arpad.
the Creator of Hungary, Is
Forced Out of the Land of His
Birth by Violent Opposition
to His Attempts to Introduce
Education, Profit Sharing and
Other Advanced Ideas Among
Dependents on His Vast Es-
tates-Declared Insane by
His Fellow Noblemen, and
His Relatives Actually Try
to Have Him Confined in an
Institution-Two Years Ago
Abolished All the Feudal Gus
toms on His Estates.
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by Haynau for his part in the anti
Austrian revolt.
Count Louis is one OF the national
heroes whose memory is embodied in the
Budapest monument In the districts
OF Pesth. PoZsony. Bihar and Debrec-
Yin. and in five other "komitati. Count
Batthyany has vast estates. He has an
income OF q million year, and a mil
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many thousands of dollars in back duties
and also paying fines ranging from Sl,ooC
to 5000 apiece. oh, ii was some case.
Simple. too, after we found out how they
did it. but for a good many months it
was puZZler
The whole thing started with the fact
that some of the dressmakers decided
they weren't making enough profit on the
imported gowns that they sold for five
or six times as much as they We're really
worth. They reasoned it out that II
they could just get out of paying any
duty on those gowns they'd be salts
fled. So they got busy. The first thing
they did was to corrupt a couple OF the
inspectors in the New York customs
house. Then they sent an emssary TO
Paris and corrupted the shipping agent
of one of the big steamship lines running
between Paris and New York. Then they
were ready.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-04

SPECIAL Correspondence Of The Scar.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13

governing all things tends to tine
survival of the fttest and the evo-
luton Of the best, such is the com
Portable philosophy with which Mr..
Carnegie has confronted the world.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer when he
visited Mr.. Carnegie In his domain,
remarked that a month in Pitts
burg would Justify any man in
committing suicide. Mr. Carnegie
does not live in Pittsburg. He
spends half Of the year I'm New
York and the rest Of it at his coun-
try seat. Sldbo Castle, on Dornoch
Firth
Mr.. Carnegie amassed his millions
much more easily than he can give
them away. He started less than
ten years ago on the task Of distri-
button. lie had then $500, 900 900.
which brought him in an annual in
come Of between Sl5,OOO,OOO and
$2O000,OO0. He has succeeded in
giving away S125,OOO,oOO. and the
capital of his fortune is larger than
It was when he started.
The pile won't grow smaller The
more he gives away the more it in
croases. il is the miracle Of the
widows cruise over again In 1911
Mr.. Carnegie said TO me. q shall
find IT a much heavier task giving
IT away than making H. 1t Is so
easy to do harm when you wish to
do good but / intend to apply my
self to the study of the best meth
DDS OF using this vast accumulation
OF wealth"
Mr Carnegie has given away
$1,000 I'm round numbers every daV
for ten years past.
Mr. Carnegie long ago wrote:
THE man who dies rich dies dis
graced.' IL is long odds that he
himself will die disgraced. He is
over 20 years old, and IL he were TO
start now TO give away $50 second
If he lived to be l0O he would still
have a few millions left with which
To keep his daughter from the
workhouse.
Mr.. Carnegie sets his face as a
Hint against helping the helpless.
He is dead against lifting lame docs
over stiles. Talking to my eldest
son, who visited him in his Scotch
retreat, he said he did not believe
IN helping the average man.
The average man was all very
well, but the man who needed help
and assistance was he who was en-
dowed with more than the average
ability Probably the best method
I'm which "a millionaire, who wished
10 help on the advance Of the race
could spend his wealth was by plaC-
ing within the reach of the capable
the opportunities which would en-
able them 10 develop their natural
gittss To him that hath il shall be
given, and from him who hath not
shan be taken away even that
which he hath
When the time comes for writing
his epitaph +, IS Mr. Carnegie's de-
clared belief that the State ought TO
levy a death duty OF 90 per cent
upon whatever fortune he leaves be-
hind
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
Wins Suit for $500
He Bet on Marriage
Bridegroom Wagered He Would Wed
in Year When Taker Backed,
He Resorted to Court

WEIGH W VA, July Zone Of the
most unusual civil suits in the history
OF the State was decided here when Dr.
j l.. Samcth was awarded 500, with in
teregt for a year, against George ID.
Kendrick. During the latter part Of the
year 1871 during "A conversation about
matrimouv. KendriCk told DR. Sameth
he would give him 800 II he married be
fore January.
The men had been friends for fifteen
years Dr. Sameth had previously made
arrangements TO be married in January
and after this proposition was made he
prevailed on his fanCee to be married
before January I. From time TO time
Or Sameth asked Kendrick for the
money. but the latter always declared
1t a joke. DR. Sameth entered suit and
won.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
Ministers Snub
Evangelist Sunday
New Bedford Preachers Decide Not
to Invite the Former Baseball
Player.

NEW BEDFORD. MASS, July IL
Protestant ministers Of New Bedford,
after discussing Billy Sunday the
evangelist, in frank fashion, at their
annual CuftyHuuk outing voted unani-
mously not 20 invite Sunday TO con
duct revivaIs here. as had been planned.
The chief objections advanced were
that Sunday requires Protestant
churches to abandon all but their Sun
Gay School services during his stay. and
that the expense would be very heavy.
But there was also discussion as TO
Sundays prcachinEs and as 10 his mo-
fives Appropriately enOuEh-sinCe Sun
day played big lcag BAH once upon a
time. the ministers took a recess and
played "a game themselves before coming
10 their final decision. A letter from
Sunday was read at the meeting
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
Girl Runs Foundry as
Father Breaks Down
Daughter for Six Years After Par
ents Health Failed Assumed Ex-
ecutlve Duties Of Business.

GREAT FALLS, MONT, July 70
The directing force Of the Great Falls
Iron Works is a woman-Miss y. Ce-
rula Woodbury. on the Company's
official roster she is designated as sec
rotary trea surer but as the daughter
Of L. S. Woodbury., president of the
company. she has for six years as
sumed the duties and responsibilities
of her father who has been in failing
health and has passed most of his
time in travel
Miss Woodbury. is at the office each
day and keeps i'm close touch with all
departments Of the business.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
Singing Fish Keep
Town From Sleep
Poetess Thinks Lonely Pout Are
Calling Their Mates, but 9th
ers Call II Nuisance.

BELLEVUE. OHIO. July 12-This
town Is all excited over certain sing
ing fish which keep the villagers
awake o. nights. These fish. a varie-
~ Of bull pout. live in the subterran-
can streams which flow under the
place, and possibly becoming lone
some, come TO the surface and sing.
Anyway. they gather at the surface
OF cisterns and quiet pools in the
gathering dusk and chant in chorus
what a prominent poetess Of Bellevue
calls a sweet, sad, haunting melody.
which she liken5 to the moaning Of
night winds through lonely. broodlng
pines. But the citizens who are kept
awake are beginning TO cuss the gosh
blamed noise
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
BY W. 7. STEAD.

mr.. Carnegie IS r millionaire who
laughs. He is one Of the greatest
Of miltionaires and yet he 10 at the
same time one OF the heartiest OF
laughers He says:
Beyond a competence for old age.
wealth lessons rather than in
ereases human happiness. The most
miserable Of men. as old age ap-
proaches. are those who have made
money making their God, Ike flies
bound 10 the wheel those unfortu-
mates fondly believed they were
really driving A. only TO find when
tired and craving rest that It as i'm
possible for them 10 get of and
they are lost-passng into moth
ingness. leaving their money behind
for heirs 10 quarrel over. only be
cause they can not take Il with
them-a melancholy end much less
euviable then that OF their poorer
fellows
How is II. then. that MT Carnegie
hiss escaped the common doom Of
the limited but unfortunate class TO
which he belongs2 How is 1t that
inntead of being a careworn Gus
to6ian OF wealth beyond the dreams
a. avarics he is still a millionaire
w7o lsuEhs?
he has passed the three score
years and ten. the prcvcrbial span
Of human lie But old age has
neither saddered him nor soured
him
A.r. Metchnikon recently pro-
pounded the theory based largely
upon a study of the life OF Goethe,
that youth is the period OF pessi-
misu and that it is only in old age
man ripens into optimism. Andrew
Carnegie is certainly not less an
optimist in his seventy second year
than he was when he was Il.
It is difficult for strangers 10
realize the youthful enthusiasm
which makes this man, laden with
the care of millions, as light
hearted as a boy OF 16 without a
penny in his pocket.
Some Of the Reasons
Why He Laughs.
The oontributory causes OF this
desirable and rare equipoise are
many. To begin with. he inherited
a good constitution. He came Of
splendid old Scottish stock. and was
brought up on porrldge and the
Book Of Proverbs,
He honored his father and his
mother. and his days have been
long according TO the promise. for
he eschewed all the vices Of youth
and devoted himself from the first
decade to helping his parents TO
meet the household expenses.
He has never smoked, and. II he
is not an absolute teetotaler. he is
certainly extremely abstemious in
the matter OF alcohol
To look habitually upon the
bright side of things, always to
take short views and To encounter
the future with a cheerful conf
denCe that the tendency is upward
and onward, and that the law
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
Berry Growers Seek
To Ship Crop by Post
Farmers of Ozark Say That Express
Companies Have Been Getting
Half Their Revenue.

SPRINGDALE, ARK. July ~.
Moving the strawberry crop by parcel
post may be undertaken by the grow
ers of this and other berry growing
districts next season. Efforts to obtain
a special rate from the Government
may he undertaken by the berry asso-
Citations within a very short time.
II Ia asserted by association man
ayers OF the Southern Ozarks, whence
formerly 1000 to 1900 cars of berries
were marketed annually, the express
companies and the commission houses
have taken more than 80 per cent of
tho revenue from the berry crop.