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. OOOOCNXXXXXXXXXXXXXIOOOOOOO Improved Uniform International D ead and Buried, M an Returns H om e Siuiday5chool ’ L esson» Moberly, Mo, — Returning to Ids home here two weeks after he was supposed to have been buried, James O'Neill, seventy- 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. iB r RBV P I I F I T I W A T I R . D .D .. D « M D a y a n d B v * n ln g 8 howl». M o o d y B ib i» In s t itu t* or C h lr a f o .) *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