Desert R at” Is
Victor in Fight
T w enty-Y ear B attle o f Poor
Inventor Ends W ith Su
prem e Court A w ard.
Washington.—George Caaipbell Car-
son, “desert rat" miner, lias won his
lone fight against a big. powerful cor
poration and Is to receive the millions
his inventive genius has brought him.
The United States Supreme court
lias denied the American Smelting and
Refining company a review in its ac
tion to have Carson's patent infringe
ment claim set aside. Twenty years
ago he Invented a process for the re
duction of copper ore.
Adopted by the big smelters, the
process brought about a ten-year
tangle of legal warfare.
Court after court lias heard the
case. Time and again a favorable de
cision lias put sums ranging from $2,-
tNNi.tXX) to $20.00(>.INN) within the reach
of the sixty-year-old Western miner
ns royalties, but always a further le
gal coinbat postponed realization of
Ids dreams. Now, however, the classic
struggle in all probability Is over with
Carson assured of the fortune he has
pursued with such persistence. The
days of living In a sailor's lodging
house on the Sun Francisco water
front have drifted Into the past and
the one-time “desert rat” stands on
the threshold of a new life. Without
money or friends he waged for years
a single-handed battle against corpo
ration officials and lawyers until in
the end tie obtained the assistance of
ltndolph Spreckels and Robert Hayes
Smith, San Francisco capitalists.
And now that Carson lias won, what
w ill he do with the millions? That Is
a question which he has been asked
before and he has answered It char
acteristically. For the “desert rat”
millionaire through ten years of cease
less litigation lias proved himself a
philosopher. Last year when the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
awarded him the royalties a swarm of
quest loners descended upon tilui in
his waterfront lodging.
To Work in a Laboratory.
“What am 1 going to do with the
fortune?” he Is qnote 1 as saying.
“Tve been simply swamped by piles
of letters from people who want to
■ell me everything imaginable. I sup
pose It happens to everybody when
they come into money. What I have
really always wanted Is a workshop
and a laboratory, and now I don't see
what Is to prevent me from having
them."
Dozens of women have proposed to
the new millionaire, who, with a pa
tient smile, dropped tlielr correspond
ence In the waste basket. “Even if
I'm rich now I don't believe any wom
an Is going to get me," he Informed
an Interviewer. “If I ever decided to
get married, though, I'd look for the
domestic, settled type of woman. A
man, to my way of thinking, ought to
marry a woman about his own age. A
young woman makes tilings too darned
Interesting for an old husband. What
do I think of the flapper? There never
was a Jazz-mad flapper who didn’t
have her wings burned In the end."
Perhaps his time spent In the lonely
desert lias made Carson yearn for the
Might of greenery. At all events hp
has aaid that he would like to attempt
something along the lines of tree cul
He would construct a smelting fur
nace which could be charged from the
side. The dream remained with him
for years while he wandered here and
there In the deserts and the mining
settlements, but It was not until 1808
that he was able to perfect his plans.
While working ns a chemist and
metallurgist ill Denver he invented Ids
famous “reverberatory furnace" for
smelting copper. The next move was
to get it patented, hut for nine years
this protection was not forthcoming.
In the meantime, filled with the cer
tainty that lie had Invented something
that would revolutionize the process
of copper reduction. he went from
smelter to smelter, Interviewing of
ficials ami mining engineers and plac
ing before them sketches and plans.
Carson was frank about the inven
tion, for which no patent had yet been
granted, although his application was
in Washington. He told its Inmost
secrets and explained its workings.
And still he was turned away from the
smelters, unable to Interest anyone In
purchasing his rights.
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Moberly, Mo, — Returning to
Ids home here two weeks after
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five years old. had difficulty In
convincing his family that he
isn't a ghost.
A man had been found dying
of exhaustion on a road near
Columbia, Mo. Turned over to
the police, he died in Jail after
saying his name was O’Neill and
tliat he l i v e d In Moberly.
O'Neill's son identified the body,
recognizing his father's clothiug
and possessions.
O’Neill explained to surprised
relatives tliat his clothing hud
been stolen while he was away.
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Spreckels and Smith.
When they
heard ills story, they announced that
they would stand buck of him with
tlie financial aid tliat was so necessary
to a protracted legal combat. John
H. Miller, his attorney, will receive
a third of Carson's fortune In royal
ties and Spreckels and Smith will now
tie repaid for their confidence In the
quiet inventor who never lost faith or
courage.
Because of Israel's sin, God per
mitted them to be brought under the
cruel yoke of bouduge at the hands
of the Midinuites. So grievous was
this affliction that they hid In dans,
caves and strongholds (Judg. 6.2).
In tlielr distress tiiey cried unto tlie
Lord and He sent deliverance to them
through the Judgeship of Gideon. The
j ungel of the Lord appeared to him
. while at the post of duly. Gideon
Failed to Shake Him.
hesitated. Ills hesitancy was not due
His Patent Granted.
The adverse decision in Tacoma was
to unbelief but to modesty aud cau
In 1915 Ills patent was finally the first blow at Carson's hopes, but
tiousness. He came from an obscure
granted and a short time nfterward it failed to shake him. There ean.e
and uninfluentlnl family (Judg 6:15).
Carson found himself in New York at tlie day when the United States Cir
Draft Oxen of Rural Transylvania.
Before going forward lu (his enter
tending a meeting of the American cuit Court of Appeals awarded hltn
prise he wished to be doubly sure that
(>*i » p a r e d b y t h e N a t io n a l G e o r r a p h lo
ress
on
the
borders
of
Europe,
has
Society of Mining Engineers. Here $5,000,000 in royalties on Ills patent,
S o c ie ty , W a s h in g to n , I>. C .)
been semi-independent from early God hud called him (Judg. 8:30 40).
his fortunes took an upward turn. with possibly $15,000,000 more to fol
UMANIA ulwii.vs was a land of times, and was recognized nmong tlie The tangible evidence was furnished
Some one was reading a paper on a low. The “desert rat" and his story
contrast, geographically, so titles of the king of Hungary as a ’ hy means of the fleece. Gideou begau
new process for the reduction of cop appeared on the front pages of the
cially, and historically, but grand principality. However, admin his reformatory work at once (Judg.
Callers (locked to bis
per ore. Carson stirred in his seat on newspapers.
since the great uccretlons to istratively, It bad been since 1868 an 6:25-27). He not only begau at once,
the instant, all his interest aroused. lodging und such a welter of mall de
but began at home. This Is God's
her territory that have come Hbout integral part of Hungary.
The process described as already In scended on him that he was unable to
order.
as a result of the World wur tlie con
In this status the country remained
alteration in the big smelters wag the read it. All the luxuries of the world
I. The Opposing Armies (v. 1).
tradictory elements within her bor
until 1918, though not without certain
Invention which he had perfected nnd lay before him. Then abruptly they
Gideon and Ids army arose early on
ders are even more striking.
uprisings among the Bumantun popu
unsuccessfully tried to sell for years. were thrust over the horizon once
the eventful day of his victory aud
She contains an epitome of the his
latlon which was dented muny of th» j encamped by the spring of Herrod.
The moneyless, friendless inventor more, for tlie company petitioned for
tory of Europe from Roman times to
went out ahd found that everywhere a retrial of the ease. Carson stayed
political rights enjoyed by tlie other ' Over against them was the host of
| tlie present, and people and places
three nationalities. As a result of the Mldlanltes in battle array. Gldeou'g
his furnace was being used.
The on in the sailors' lodging house.
' illustrative of each stage are found
peace treaties following the World army was quite Insignificant In com
companies refused to recognise his
When the news came to Carson that side,by side within her confines.
claim for patent infringements.
A tlie petition for a retrial had been de
war, and on tlie basis of the fact that
parison with the Mldlanltes.
One may see on the same day a
court in Tsittma ruled against him nied by tlie Circuit court he was flat
a'larger portion of the inhabitants of
II. The Sifting of Gideon’s Army
aheplierd
In
a
long
fleece
cape,
mov
when he brought salt for royalties. on his hack in a hospital. It was the
this region were Rumanliui in racn | (vv. 2-8).
ing across the pluius toward the moun
Cgfson only smiled quietly and pre best medicine for him. and to the In
and language, the province became «
At Gideon's call, 32.000 men re
tains like a quaint survival of an an
pared for the next battle.
numerable questions that onee more cient civilization; a fiery nomadic part of Rumania.
sponded ready for tlie struggle. This
In the meantime, us he tells It, he showered on him tie returned cheery
The best way to obtain the foil
seemed a small army to go against the
gypsy galloping along a dusty road,
had gone to the offices of one com answers. Was he thinking of putting
with long hair stream ing; a peasant flavor of Trans.vlvnnla is to approach Mldlanlte army—135,(NX) strong, but
pany and had been permitted to see the money Into charitable works?
like u soldier from Trajun’s column it from the east via the road from God said even this was too many, lest
an offlrlul, who shook his head when
“It would only create an army of at Rome, with white, embroidered Bucharest to Sinaia, across tlie bak they he led to boasting and self-con
Carson explained his motive.
grafters," he answered succinctly.
fidence. Tlielr reul danger was not
blouse and thong-hound legs, scratch- ing, dusty plain, through the region
“Your patent is absolutely worth
“Then what are you going to do?”
' ing the soil with a primitive p low ; a lieavy with tlie odor of |>etrolcuni. up In their small army but in their pride.
less," he says he was told. The offi
“I’ve never been very good at mak
nobleman in his castle gazing down the slopes of the Carpathians where All that were faint-hearted were al
cial, however, offered him $1,(100 for ing plans," he returned. “I believe in
Into a medieval Saxon village; and an mountain streams huve gashed rough lowed to go hack, leaving only 10,000.
it, says Carson, who turned down the letting tomorrow take care of Itself. 1
oil magnate scattering Ills wealth antid earth wounds In the hillside, pust arti There were 22,000 cowards In tbnt
offer with promptness, as well as sub guess It will from now on."
ficial-looking folklore castles, to the
group of men and worst of all, they
Bucharest's imitative charms.
sequent bids of $2,000 and $3,000.
Before his process was put in op
were not ashamed to confess It. Still,
Many of these contrasts were inher ancient frontier of Transylvania, at
“No," said Carson.
“It would be eration in tlie smelters It was possible
i tills w ss too many. When God was
ent within the prewar boundaries and the top of the pass at I'redeul.
hlackmuil for me lo accept your money to treat only 240 tons of copper ore in
Here, upon emerging from tlie nar through with His sifting process only
all of them in much enlarged postwar
if my patent is without value. We a top-loading furnace. By the Carson
Rumania, due to tlie addition of row valley on a high plateau, there 300 remained. The 10.000 were brave
shall settle the worth of it in the process in a side-charging furnace, 700
Transylvania to the kingdom. This Is Is spread before one a view of the re men, but not of proper quality and
courts. I intend to prove to you and tons o f ore cau be treated.
fitness. Those who lapped the water
because Transylvania, known in Ru ceding foothills and expanding plain
to the world that my process is all
showed alertness and watchfulness.
It is typical of the man that he has manian as Ardeai (Forest Land), in of Transylvania.
that I have dreamed It to be."
III. God Gives Encouragement to
taken his defeats and victories with Hungarian as Erd ley, and In German
Before one comes In sight of Bra
There, in a word, is the inside story equanimity. “I'm not surprised." has
Gideon (vv. 8-15).
as Siebenbürgen, las been the fron sov one Is alrendy aware of what the
of Carson’s long fight. He was strug been his invariable answer each time
God commanded Oldeon to go down
mountain harrier has meant and what
gling for the ideal, the dream of an in he has been adjudged in tlie right, | tier of the West t jalnst the East for It has protected for so many centu to the Mldlanlte camp where he would
centuries.
ventor. and he ineant that nothing And he has crystallized Ida entire !
hear something that would cheer his
Its Inhabitants have, furthermore, ries. In about half an hour from
should check him. He picked up a philosophy in tliat sentence with which
Predeal tlie mountains give way to heart and strengthen Ills hands. God
successfully
maintained
that
border
humble living in San Francisco as a he met congratulations:
always comes to cheer us when our
ugalust the Turks since 1700, and this the fertile plain known hr the Bur-
mining nnd metallurgical engineer
hearts are fain t When he came near
“Most of all I want to prove to my- I
I xenland. which surrounds Brasov.
history
of
border
wardenshlp
has
while still lie carried tils battle through self and to the world that my dreams
he heard a man tell a dream which
Brasov Is Interesting.
given
tlie
region
Its
racial
complexity
was that of a barley cake tumbling
the courts. In San Francisco he met were real."
and architectural charms.
This town of some 60,000 Inhabi Into the camp and smiting It. Hu also
Nowhere In Europe Is the sense ef tants has been suggested as a 'cafiltal
heard the Interpretation given to that
pleasant remoteness more keenly felt for the new- and greater Itiirtmnlii. and dream which made Gideon to lie that
than In this district. Tlioagli little It has much to recommend It, being cake. This greatly cheered his heart
known to a traveling puldic, it Is part almost In the center of the country,
and strengthened him for bis work
of the stuff that all our dreams are easily defended, li’uvlng the charm of and caused him to break forth In
made of, through such novels as "The age and tradition nnd room for ex i praise to God. The barley cake Is a
Prisoner of Zenda" and “Graustark," pansion In the surrounding plain.
very insignificant tiling—a very cheap
which seem either consciously or un
Nevertheless, the tourist cannot hut
affair In Itself, but wilt, the hand of
ture.
consciously to have been laid In the be grateful that nothing has as yet
God upon It It would he sufflclent to
! “I want to see the barren areas of
neighborhood of some one of the come of a project which would anni spread consternation among the Mid-
California put Into trees and farms,”
seven castles which give tlie German hilate an ancient Saxon border strong
tanites and bring destruction upon
Is the way he phrases It. “So, very
name, Kietienhurgen, to tlie province hold atnid Frenchified puldic buildings
their aruilea. No matter how weak
possibly, I shall work at that a while."
and which are quartered on tlie arms such ns modern architect* would be
and Insignificant a man may be, if
The Inventor’s Dream.
of greater Rumania.
likely to erect to house tlie official de God Is with him he shall not fall.
' Chemistry, however, still Is, as It al
partments of this highly centralized
Mixture of Races.
IV. God Gives Victory to Gideon
■ways lias been, a hobby with him. and
(vv. 16-23).
The towns of the castles were government.
for some time he has been engaged on
The present-day citizens of Brasov
His attack was unique. The whole
settled by Germans from Franconia,
experiments for the manufacture of
matter was of faltli iHeh. 11 ;32). The
w ho were locally'called Saxons and look not unlike German university
■nlpliurlc acid. Ills original Invention,
who, in all the years of their separa students; no trace of centuries oT grouud of Ills faltli was God's Word
which brought him Into fame over
tion from Germany, have maintained battle* with tlie heathen gleama In and the token which He had given
night by a court award of a fortune
him. Gideon with bis 300 men formed
a close connection with tlielr mother their spectnded eyes, and no fron
In royalties, practically revolutionized
country, its culture and institutions, tlersinan's freedom of motion betrays into three ronipauies, each man helug
copper smelting. He had run away
provided with a lamp concealed with
the while efficiently keeping the Car Itself through tlielr Nflff cut clothes.
from his boyhood home In Kenton,
in a pitcher. Thus armed they sur
Blond they are and blue-eyed, but they
pathian frontier.
Ohio, at fourteen. Two years later he
rounded tlie camp of the Mldlanltes.
They had likewise the cooperation are obliged to yield In frestinesa of
was in Arizona working In a copper
They were all Instructed to keep their
of the Szeklers, close kinsmen of Mag complexion to their rustic cousins of
mine. The furnaces at that period
•-yes upon their leader and Imitate
nearby agricultural villages.
yara, who for their delight in com
were loaded from the top. As he
him. We too are to keep our eyes on
The Black church, which domlnatea
bat have been settled along the north
watched the sweating, harassed labor
our Leader, Christ, aud to ever
em portion of the mountain wall. the town, derives Ita name from the
This little brick house which stands in Cleves. Ohio, was the home of a
ers charging them under heavy ditfi-
do as He does. At the profier mo
Back of these warders the (nass of fact that It waa burned In 1689 and
former
President
of
the
United
States.
William
Henry
Harrison
lived
here
«■nltles, the desire was horn In Carson
ment they blew their trumpets aud
Magyar farmers and Rumania la never properly acoured alnce. The
to alleviate their lot and eliminate the for many years. A movement lias already been started by citizens of the
broke their pitchers, giving oppor
rpault la both dour nnd Impressive.
borers,
foresters,
and
shepherds
tilled
waste of energy necessary In the anti town to have Congressman Stephans of Ohio arrange for the preservation
tunity for their lights to shine out.
the fertile valleys between the rolling It la a good example of Fifteenth
of the old structure.
quated process.
This awful crash of breaking pitchers,
foothills tliat gradually ebb from the century Gothic, without any tower.
followed hy the sound of trumpets
With Braaov as a center, one may
Carpathians toward the Hungarian
accompanied by the shout “the sword
legs under the same board while they plain.
explore the Saxon and Szekler re
nf the Lord and of Gideon” threw the
ate spaghetti together, and drew their
glona at the base of the mountains
It Is this mountain wall that ac
Mldlanltes Into a paulc, causing them
living from a common source as they counts for the history of Transyl Southward Ilea the Saxon town of
to fight amongst themselves: 120,000
worked together In a cigarette fac vania—a Jagged, glorious harrier that Rasnov (Itoaenan), over which towers
were thus slain, leaving hut 15,000 of
tory.
the massive ruin of the Riirglierg. now
dominates the landscape.
that mighty army (Judg. 8-10).
Recently the two old pals visited
owned
by
the
former
Crown
Prince
The Saxon woman, panslng In the
In making the application to our
Thrashing Turned Fortune's Wheel for O'Reilly. He left the college, went friends and nt night went to bed in field to ndjust tier straw HHilor list Carol of Rumania
to sea. fought through the war in the thetr little two-room apartment at
selves lu this age, we can think of
for Henry O’Reilly, Who Withee
There I* no approach by road to
atop her tightly bound kerchief,
English navy, and then came to this 361 East Seventy-sixth street. Mr.
the sound of the trumpets as repre
to Shake Tormentor'! Hand.
gnxes at the rugged heights as If at till« giant fortress, hnt a sharp climb
country. He married. Yet three years Scrofani In his cot on one side of the
senting prayer or calling to God; the
tlie border of the unknown. The Hu brings one to what was a little city
New York.—Having made $175,000 ago the O'Kelllys still were "broke.” room, with his beloved banjo on the ll anlaii cowherd, driving his sleek inclosed within the great walla of the i torches as the light of the Gospel; the
pitchers our human nature, the whole
In three years selling real estate, i Then came their tremendous prosper- wail above his head, and Mr. Ferraro cattle along tlie Qlt, knows that be castle, whose massive keep still doml
>s this treasure lu earthen vessels.
Henry O’Reilly of New York d ty lias i ity with the boom of Long island real on a twin cot on the opposite side o f yond those heights the brother* of Ids nstes the plain. Thia once iiopiilntia
begun an unusual Journey with his wife I estate, which O'Reilly was selling.
the narrow room.
village la now Inhabited tiy a single
race
now
rule;
and
the
Magyar
farm
"I might have kept on being Just as
and baby son, Donald. He lias sailed
T o Be F re e F ro m Sin
In the morning It was learned thar er looks upon them and wishes they former nnd bin wife, wbo occupy the
for his old home in Mt. Johns, New j poor as my fattier If that brother at death had visited the room In which had been higher and untraversable.
If yon would be free from sin, fly
fortresa where once a hundred Teu
foundland, to shake the hand of the college hadn't given me the worst beat the two old men had lived for ten
Yet, had the mountains been Im tonic knights kept the border of ) temptation; he that does not endeavor
mab wbo kicked him Into the lap of ing of my life.” O'Reilly said. “Hold years and had taken them as they had penetrable, Transylvania would have heathenesse
t to avoid the one cannot expect Prnvt-
It against him? No, I am going back lived—tnget her.
fortune.
Beyond Bannov the road continue« ' fence to protect him from the other.
been
neither
so
picturesque
nor
so
Fourteen years ago. when O'Reilly to shake tlie hand of the man who
When Joseph Scrofani, son of the rich. Fear of the Turks accounts for Into a narrowing valley toward the
was an honor stndent at ML Bonaven- kicked rne Into the lap of fortune."
elder man, broke in the door, the room tlie walled towns, fortified churches, pass at Bran. Jnat where the moun
P ra y in g
tnre's college at St. Johns, his Irish
reeked with gas that continued to flow and great castles. Trade with the tain walls almost meet, a little knell
One young person prayed on ce: "I
blood rebelled at hazing, and he sliced T en-Y ear Spagh etti
from a stove that many times ha-t East accounts for the prosperity of with the river and road curving
can’t hold much, but I ran overflow
Ills haxer across the face with a carv
warmed the two aged companion*.
the guilds in Brnsav and other towns, slinrply at It* base la lipped hy the
a lo t —Missionary Worker.
Pal»
D
ie
T
ogether
ing knife. For that he received such
as well ns for the beauty of such castle of Bran, a gift lo the queen of
New York.—Through the last ten
a beating that tie could not leave his
structures as the Black church, with Rumania hy the d ty corporation of
K e e p in g M u m
W il lf u l Ig n o ra n c e
of
their
declining
years.
Giro
Scro
bed for two week*.
Brasov. This, perhaps the most per
Rich Restaurant Owner Kills fllrl Its priceless collection of prayer rugs. feet falry-etory castle In the region,
Willful Ignorance will bring terrible
That heating, administered by one fani. seventy-four years old, and
Became
Part
of
Rumania.
lamnatlon —Kpiirgeoo.
o f the students at the coltrge. proved Frank Ferraro, sixty years old, slept and Himself and Withholds Reasons
hangs shove tlie little Rumanian vll
Trtnsylvanla, on account of It* geo
the beginning of the turn of fortune !n the same room, rested their aging — New York Paper.
lags,
Intimate
yet
aloof
graphic situation. like a natural fort
R
Ex-President’s Home Will Be Saved
STUDENT NOW HUNTING OLD
PAL WHO GAVE HIM HAZING
i