Yorkville Enquirer from York, South Carolina • 2

Scraps and Jarts. The Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans in Kansas have agreed upon a fusion arrangement that promises to carry the state for Bryan and Stevenson. A Washington dispatch intimates that the state department has information to the effect that Li Hung Chang has been detained in Shanghai. There is nothing definite in the information given out. It is understood that Li Hung Chang started from Canton to Pekin ostensibly to bring about a settlement of the whole trouble.

Several of the powers were suspicious of him, and there was talk of overtaking him on the way. Fro the Washington dispatch it would appear that this is what has been done. Anyhow, Li Hung is still at anangnai without much probability of bis being able to get to Pebin or even back to Canton. Captain Robley D. Evans, of the United States Navy, passing through St.

Louis last Monday, en route to Washington, talked freely of the China situation. He said: "In my estimation the great powers of the earth are facing the most critical situation in modern history. I do not believe that China may become a world power, by its own force. It stands in immediate danger of dismemberment. The partition of the empire can only be prevented by the United States.

I approve of the policy of the administration as now outlined. This country cannot afford to stand by and see China divided among the European governments without making a protest that will startle the world. The "amendment" campaign in North Carolina is getting pretty hot up about Wilmington. Last Tuesday night, Jack King, an unlicensed Baptist preacher, or exhorter, undertook to distribute some anti-amendment Populistic literature in one of the Wilmington wards. A number of red shirts got hold of King, ducked him in a horse trough and made him promise that he "would not do so any more." King had two M.

Simmons and William Branch arrested and taken before a justice of the peace. Simmons plead that he considered it no harm to wash a dirty henchman of Butler like KiDg. The red shirts did not deny their, guilt. King withdrew the prosecution on the ground that the men "knew not what they did." It is understood that they feared retaliation. The navy department, on Wednesday, made public the mail report of Bear Admiral Kempfif, explaining his reasons for refusing to join with the ships of the other powers in the attack on the Taku forts.

Bear Admiral Kempff's explanation for refusing to participate in the attack on the fortifications of a power with which we were at peace is warmly commended by Secretary Long. Admiral Kempfif's first report says "On Thursday, June 14, Bear Admiral Bruce called and asked what I thought of the matter, and I informed him that I was not authorized to initiate any act of war with a country with whom my country was at peace that my limit was to protect American interests, both by regulations, and under recent instructions from both the navy department and from the commander-in-chief of the United States naval forces on the 11 Asiauc "A few years ago," said a Chicago clergyman the other day, "there went a great cry for 'missionelly Bibles' in the Flowery Kingdom. The Bible society was extremely gratified. The demand was unprecedented and thousands of dollars were spent in sending them nice red morocco testaments. This sort of thing went on for a long time; but the number of native converts did not increase accordingly.

The missionaries investigated. What do you suppose they discovered "That they used the Bibles for gun 1 wadding?" "No. They made firecrackers of 'em. Practically all the Dicely printed Bibles that we were sending over there were rolled up in nice little rolls, a page at a time, and made into fire crackers. The Chinese make firecrackers at home for an in- crediably low price, and the paper that they were getting free was a considerable figure with them.

But it taught us a Celestial lesson, as I might say." The national weather bureau's weekly summary of crop conditions, issued last Tuesday, says Rain is very generally needed in the Atlantic coast districts north of Florida, the drought being quite severe in the Carolinas, New Jersey and portions of New En- gland, while too much rain has fallen over portions of the central valleys of northern Texas, the central gulf states and northern Florida. Throughout the Atlantic coast districts corn is generally in need of rain. Generally there Kofln QAmn imnPAitomonf. in JLi CJO UOVU OVIUV 1U1 VUVI Wbuvuv aw the condition of cotton but the crop is suffering from drought in the Carolinas and from too much rain in portions of the central belt and portions of Texas. In the last named state it has generally made rapid growth, being excellent in places and poor in others.

Shedding is reported from the greater part of the cotton belt and rust from the eastern districts. In the Carolinas and Virginia tobacco has snflfered for rain, late rains having improved the crop in Maryland. Tammany's campaign fund this year will fall little short of $2,500,000, says the New York Herald. It may even exceed this sum if the leaders decide that they need the money and deem it wise to exert their power to collect it. Here is the preliminary estimate of the funds which will fill the Tiger's campaign chest: Assessments on office-holders, assessments on "protected" interests, $1,000,000 from other sources, $500,000.

Total, These figures are regarded as moderate by men who are familiar with Tammany's sources of income. The city spends between $70,000,000 and $80,000,000 a year in 1 salaries and wages. The usual rate of assessment is 5 per cent. This, of course, cannot be enforced upon the entire salary and wage schedule. Laborers and school teachers, who absorb a large amount, are practical- ly exempt.

Much of the money 1 goes to boroughs outside of Man- hattan and the Bronx, and is as- sessable in King's, Queen's and Richmond by the organizations there. About $20,000,000 goes to office bold- 1 era in Tammany's jurisdiction who can be reached by the political as- sessors. li I YORKVIL.LE, S. 1 i SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1900. 1 While there is, as usual, a strong sentiment among civilian would-be volunteers to go to China, the senti- i ment among the regulars is not so strong.

On the contrary, the aversion on the part of the regulars is so great that many of them are deserting at the prospect. One reason is the bitterly cold climate of North China in winter. A large number of Florence people are said to be very angry at Governor McSweeney and Sheriff McLendon for preventing the lynching of the Negro rapist last week. The governor and the sheriff only did their duty, and had the governor acceded to the de- mands of the Florentines and returned the prisoners to them, be would have Jnon.oarl flio nnnfitmnt. nf nil law nhirl- I UCDUi TVU VUV v- ing citizens.

The suggestion of the King's Mountain Oracle, to the effect that there should be an effort to get the national government to assume the responsibility of caring for King's Mountain battleground, is a very good one. The 1 idea of an ultimate movement in that direction has been entertained in this section for quite awhile, and has met with favor whenever suggested but it 1 must not be forgotten that the best i way for one to get government help, is to show a disposition to help himself. If this community shows its practical interest by liberal subscriptions, then it is quite likely that the government may be induced to take hold; but under no circumstances is the govern- 1 ment likely to show more interest than the community. "We believe Colonel Hoyt is going to be elected. Evidently Mr.

Tillman shares that belief, or he would not be 1 on the Watchman. That is the way it strikes The En- quirer at this writing, and while we are not inclined to question Mr. Till- man's right to go on the stump, as do some of our contemporaries, we are unable to approve his good judgment in the matter. Were the dispensary a new thing, or still in the experimen- tal stage, the people might stand in need of instruction; but now, after liaua hod t.hfi honefit of some seveD years or eight years of practical observation, it seems that they ought to be competent to decide for them- selves as to the merits or demerits of the system. 1 Mr.

C. C. Featherstone and Col- onel J. L. M.

Irby were in Charleston last Tuesday on business before the United States court. They were interviewed by The News and Courier as to the probable outcome of the guber- natorial race, and both expressed the i opinion that the race is between Hoyt and McSweeney, with the chances in favor of Hoyt. When asked if the election of Hoyt would mean much of a victory for prohibition, Mr. Feather- ston replied "Not such a great one unless the legislative body is in favor of prohibition. This I hardly think will be the case.

However, we are trying to elect prohibition representatives from all of the counties. All that Hoyt can do is to enforce the dispensary law, so as to make it almost a prohibi- tory law." TILLMAN AND THE PREACHERS. Although as strong as it could be expected to be under the circumstances, Senator Tillman's explanation as to I why be holds the preachers to be in alliance with the blind tigers is far from satisfactory. In the first place, in their relations to the liquor question, the motives of the preachers and the blind tigers are so widely separated as to make the idea of an alliance absolutely absurd. The tigers are interested only for the love of gain.

The preachers are interested for love of their fellow men. But between the tiger business and the preachers there is absolutely nothing in common. Senator Tillman surely knows this. Are the tigers and the preachers really working to the same practical a end Senator Tillman says they are. IVe assert that there is not the slightest scintilla of truth in his charge.

But few of the tigers of this section lave any political or social influence. one out of a dozen is able to voto to influence the vote of anybody else. is a well-known fact that there is as nuch or more tiger business in Chareston, Columbia and other dispensary owns, than there is in towns where here are no dispensaries. The reason plain. Tbe tiger ousiness can oe in a dispensary town with nuch more safety than in a town vhere there is no dispensary.

The sompetition does Dot count for much. By closing at night, the dispensary divides time with the tigers, and the timers are able to buy their supplies rom the dispensaries and still sell hem at a profit. These are facts unlisputed and undisputable. When the dispensary was first esablished in Columbia, Jreenville and other towns, the prinsipal opposition came from the barceepers. It is not that way now.

Host of the barkeepers, along with nany others, have since drifted into the business, and relieved of the license tax, in most instances they find more profitable than saloonng. We believe that a poll of the igers of the state today would show in immense majority in favor of the lispensary. We believe also that il tigers were able, they would have i dispensary in every non-dispensary iown in the state. No, the preachers are certainly not alliance with the tigers. The sympathy between the tigers and the dispensary is much stronger than it is between the tigers and the preachers, The preachers are working against Doth tiger and dispensary but not all the dispensary law.

If they win, they'll wipe out the dispensary and ap ply the balance of the law against heir alleged allies, the tigers. TILLMAN AND FREE SPEECH. rhe Other Fellow Has the Right; Bat Nol the Right to Exercise the Right. Greenville News: Senator Tillman's reply to the preachers is no reply at all. His new jnderstanding of the meaning of "aliance," that of simply working for the be same end, is not the common tinlerstanding of that term, and the senitor knows the meaning of the English anguage too well to imagine for a noment that it is.

He must have mown the idea that would be conveyed every man's mind by the assertion bat "the preachers and barkeepers are an unholy alliance." It is simply mother exhibition of the recklessness md disregard of other people's rights md reputation whenever they stand the way of his schemes or mauifest my sparks of independence or manlitess. It is altogether probable that Till an's strong hold on the popular nind will save him now from incuring the popular rebuke due to such injust and slanderous charges as he las made against a class of men that leserve only reverence and respect; the time will come when his own eputation must suffer from it and vhen he himself must see the injusice and the wrong of it. Claiming the right to his own views, 'acknowledging at the same time their ight to freedom of speech and freelorn of political action," what does be lo? Denounces them in the most inulting aLd damaging terms for exercising the right he acknowledged they lave. In other words, others have a i- -1 lgnt 10 cneir opiuiuu uui upiudo is contrary to Tillman's, he will ry to break the force of it by casting and contumely upon those vho hold it, and be never hesitates to lo this to further his own schemes. That is the gist of the reply.

The must be saved even at the sacifice of the reputation of the preaches of the Gospel. THE CHINESE SITUATION. lostly Matters of Design Rather Than Jew York Sun, Wednesday. The admirably clear and concise depatches of The Sun correspondent at fien Tsin, convey a very good idea of he obstacles opposed by the season to iperations in that part of the country hrougb which an advance to Pekin vould have to be made. In fact it vould almost look as though the crisis lad been precipitated for the purpose profiting by the difficulties caused the rains.

The capital is now surounded, as it were, by a great natural noat, with practically only two availible routes open to it from the southvest along which the allied forces can idvauce, and as the experience of the ighting around Tien Tsin and beyond las shown, to do so, except in great orce, would be to court almost certain lisaster. At the same time, every lay's delay is adding to the Chinese lower of resistance which, though an vail hides all their dnirnrs rom the outside world, it may be asumed is now more formidable than have been suspected a month or wo ago. The procrastination displayid in making the powers acquainted vith the condition of the foreign envoys is part of the general policy of lelay clearly being pursued for miliary reasons, aud it is becoming inireasingly difficult to believe that the Chinese are depending entirely on heir own counsel for the course they ire pursuing. The curtain may not ie lifted as soon as is desired but vhen it is the situation will present any unexpected features if the retorts from more thfllb oqe of the Euopean capitals are to be trusted. All ppears to depend on whether the car party, represented by those desir ing a portion of China, or the peace party that would maintain its integrity together with the observance of existing treaties, prevails.

The reports from Manchuria represent the Russians as being on the defensive at many points but concentrating and hurrying up troops for early operations for the suppression of the rising within their recognized sphere. TROUBLE IN THE ORIENT. It Is Going to Be a War and It Is Going to Be a Big One. There are dispatches and dispatches from Chiua; but still no satisfactory information as to the attitude of the Chinese government, or as to the fate tKa miniutnra' in Polri i Most of the Europeao governments are satisfied that their miuisters are dead and that belief is also strong in Washington. It has also dawned upon the world generally that although Chi' na may have not yet seen fit to notify i the powers that she is fighting, that is what she is really doing as energeti, cally as she knows how.

Not only this, she is making every arrangement to mobilize her army and conduct operations on a still larger scale. 1 All the Iuternatioual powers, includ' ing the United States, are making I every possible effort to put their armies iu shape for operations in China on a large scale; but the recently ent idea to the effect that there would be an early advance on Pekin is now 1 completely dissipated. The powers have not yet been able to agree upon i a plan of operations, or a command, ing officer, and there seems to be no early probability of such an agreement. Consul General Goodnow, at Shang' bai, has maintained from the first that the American government should ex. pect only the worst from Pekin, and that it has no right to expect anything else.

He holds also that the uprising is rapidly spreading into southern China, and considers himself in much danger. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Florence Rapist Dead. James Clink, the principal in the Florence affair, died in the penitentiary Thursday. He had received the best of attention but the loss of blood from an ugly wound in his hip was too much for him.

i Alliance Exchange Continues. At a meeting of the trustee stock. holders of the state alliance exchange, i held in Columbia last Wednesday, it was agreed that the exchange be continued. The stockholders voted on a i proposition to withdraw the $18,000 capital and return it to the subscribers, i To prevail required a two-thirds vote. Ten thousand voted for the proposi tion and $8,000 against it.

The exchange, therefore, still continues in operation. A Story of Hard Lack, i John and Andrew Crawford, of Fairfield county, are certainly "playing in hard luck." A contributor to the Winnsbory News and Herald writes that, on July 2, they had three fine mules killed by lightning and their barn burned to the ground, losing their whole crop of oats and all the rough food they had, besides lots of useful farming implements. They had hard work to save another bam that was not ten feet from the one burnt. Four years ago their gin house was blown down, breaking up their wagons, rake, mower and a new buggy the next year their crop was nearly ruined by hail; last year, like everybody else, they had their crop cut off by the drought; this year they lost three fine mules, besides other valuable things? heafy losses four years in succession. Whitman and the Tigers.

At Lancaster, last Wednesday, according to August Kohn, G. Walt Whitman insisted that from what others said, the various departments are in bad shape and be wauled to remedy things. The disregard of law in South Carolina was amazing and disgraceful, not only as to the dispen sary, but everytniDg eise. inese speakers are to be believed the best men at times, he feared, took just a little too much liquor. A little drunkenness does not affect a man as much as telling a lie.

God never made a misfit and there is use for liquor. The Bible does not condemn anyone for getting drunk. He went to Charleston to make investigation, and found blind tigers on King street and Meeting street and the Battery and Cooper river and Ashley river and then to the Isle of Palms he went in bathing on Sunday and found them selling beer on Sunday and bought beer there on Sunday. He believed every dispenser was violatiug the law today. The tigers sell more liquor than the dispensary.

They were once blind, but the tigers only have cataracts on their eyes the constables are stone blind. He would enforce any law on the books. There Was No Lyuchlng. Says a Columbia dispatch of Tuesday to the New York Sun The state of North Carolina was invaded yesterday by a company of South Carolina soldiers, bearing arms, but although his permission was not asked, Governor Russell of North Carolina will not protest. They were the Timmonsville Guards, who were under the orders of the sheriffs of Marion and Florence counties and were in a chartered train trying to protect two Negroes from a mob.

John Livingston and Jim Clink, Negroes charged with criminal assault, were on the train, the former being mortally wounded. After being nearly captured at several places, at one time chased by a mob in a special train, the tired officers and soldiers reached Columbia by using the tracks of several railroads early in the morning. They put their prisoners in the penitentiary, the wounded man going to the hospital. The party was prevented from coming directly to this city because intervening stations were occupied by mobs and the train would not have been allowed to pass. The officers feared to carry the men to the Florence jail despite the fact that they had a strong military guard.

The people were determined to lynch them and the soldiers did not want to resist to the point of firing on their relatives and friends. Today the people of Florence held a mass meeting, adopting resolutions condemning the action of the governor in removing the prisvi A 1 1 oners rrom mat county ana aemantung their return. The governor replied that they were safer in the penitentiary. Ten years ago Governor Richardson surrendered a prisoner to representatives of such a mass meeting held at Lexington, who pledged the honor of their county that be would be protected. He was murdered by some of the delegation.

Two years later Governor Tillman bad a like experience. Tillman and the Preachers. Says a Greenville special of Tuesday Dr. Charles S. Gardiner, pastor of the First Baptist church of this city, preached a strong sermon Sunday night on prohibition, in which he denounced as false Senator Tillman's charge that "the preachers and liquor men are in unholy alliance led by Colonel Hoyt." He said "Senator Tillman, who made the charge, knew it to be false when he uttered it.

The charge cannot be interpreted as anything else but a mean and contemptible effort to break the force of the almost unanmous advocacy of prohibition by the preachers, and served its author as a good occasion also to throw contempt upon a class of men for which he has in many other ways expressed bis contempt." Dr, Gardner is considered about the ablest preacher in the Baptist denomination in South Carolina, and he is immensely popular not only 1 in Greenville, but throughout the state. He is well qualified to represent his denomination on this or any other subject. His name should not be con' founded with that of Dr. George W. Gardner, editor of the South Carolina Baptist, whose home is at Greenwood.

Tillman In Chester. Chester dispatch of Thursday to the Greenville News: Senator Tillman threw himself into the breach today in behalf of his "baby," the dispensary. He defended bis use of the word "alliance" as applied to the combination between the ministers and the barkeepers by quoting from a standard work the definition of'the word as "a combination to effect a common purpose." He asked what becomes of rx 1 a ir uoionei noyi uuutjnyiug (inuuipio ho accepts the whisky votes add is used to effect their purpose. Gonzales, who hated the dispensary and who hated prohibition, which is the opposite of local option, had come out openly and boldly as he always did when he has an object in his support. Colonel Hoyt and Bishop Duncan had said that he, Tillman, had lied.

The speaker himself, he said used to indulge in bad language; but since he had become senator he had reformed and Bishop Duncan was welcome to his opinion. About Dr. Gardner's strictures, be would say nothing now but would have something to say about them when he reached Greenville. He was accused of meddling in something that did not concern him in the discussion of the dispensary but he boldly proclaimed that be bad something to do with the dispensary. And when a combination was formed to defeat it, he would tell the people what he thought about it, so help him, and then if they choose to vote for prohibition, he did not care, he would have discharged his duty; and if anybody did not like it, they would have to lump it.

When ministers of the gospel go into politics they lay themselves open to be criticised and he would do so. MERE-MENTION. The Kentucky Democrats have renominated Beckham by acclamation. 1 "lue XV bo i a li uavc uuuu ui ui the railway line between Taku and Pekin, and say they propose to concontinue in possession. Colonel Bryan has agreed to deliver an address before the grand army on August 30.

Jerry Simpson was before the Populist convention at Fort Smith, last Wednesday, in an effort to get the fusion endorsement for the senate. He was turned down. On July 13, 2,000 Japanese captured a Chinese fortified arsenal two miles from Tien Tsin. There is but little idea in Washington that the United States will attempt to mediate in the settlement of the Chinese troubles. Recruits for the United States army are reported to be arriving in San Francisco at the rate of about 75 a day.

Chinese secret societies are making the foreigners at Hong Kong very uneasy. The United States and Great Britain are trying to prohibit the further exportation of arms and munitions of war from their respective ports. France Asked to the French minister of foreign affairs, last week, gave out his reply to a request from the emperor of China that France act as mediator between China and the powers The conditions stipulated by Mr. Delcasse are as follows: First, that efficacious protection and absolute freedom of communication had been assured between the French minister at Pekin and his colleagues of me diplomatic curpa uuu tucu icoycutive governments. Second, when Prince Tuan and the high functionaries responsible for the actual events had been dismissed by the government to await inevitable punishment.

Third, when the authorities and bodies of troops throughout the entire empire shall have received an order to cease hostilities against foreigners. Fourth, when measures have been taken for the rigorous repression of the Boxers. So long as these necessary guarantees are not furnished, there is room only for military action. LOCAL AFFAIRS. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

A. P. Montague, LL.D.?Announces the date of the opening of the session of Furman university of Greenville. J. S.

Brice, County an announcement of the dates and places at which candidates for congress and solicitor will address the voters in York county. WITHIN THE TOWN. The work of the street hands is making a decided improvement in ap pearances. The court of common pleas ad- journed sine die on Wednesday, Judge Benet leaving for bis home Wednesday night. There ought to be a large number of people in Yorkville from the eastern side of the county today.

Mr. Lumpkin has not only arranged to run a special train; but he has adver- tised it well. The meetings at the York Cotton mill, under the conduct of Rev. C. M.

Caldwell, are still in progress, and will be continued until and including Sunday night. A large attendance is reported both in the afternoon and at night. Up to Thursday night, there bad been 135 professions of faith. As will be seen by the notice in another column, Rev. and Mrs.

Caldwell will give an entertainment in the opera house next Monday night to help defray the expense of their meetings. the Dust of col. williams We, the undersigned subscribers, agree to contribute the amount opposite our names, to a fund of not less than $150, to be used for the purpose of transferring the remains of Colonel James Williams from the spot on which they now lie to the King's Mountain battleground. We prefer that the work and ceremonies in connection with the removal of said remains be under the auspices of the King's Mountain Chapter of the D. A.

R. Should there develop any insuperable objection to the proposition, we are, of course, not to be understood as desiring to cary it out arbitrarily. We recognize the rights of descendants and are disposed to give due deference to a more appropriate suggestion or any legal objection that might arise. 1 00 J. S.

Brice, Yorkville, 1 00 D. E. Finley, Yorkville, 10.00 King's Mountain Military Academy 5 00 Yorkville Enquirer, 1 00 W. D. Grist, Yorkville.

1 00 W. W. Lewis, Yorkville, 1 00 W. C. Benet, Charleston, 1 00 J.

F. Wallace, Yorkville, 1 60 J. W. Ardrey, Fort Mill, 1 00 Glenn Allison, Yorkville, 2 50 subscriptions to the above proposition will be duly acknowledged in The Enquirer, and the list will be turned over to the King's Mountain Chapter of the D. A.

R. so soon as that organization makes known its willingness to take charge of the same. ADMINISTRATOR WINS." The children of the late Walter T. Barron will get the insurance money that their father intended them to have. So says the supreme court.

In a decision filed last Wednesday, that tribunal reversed a remarkable finding by Judge 0. W. Buchanan, with the i result that only simple justice and right will be done. The following synopsis of the supreme court opinion was prepared by Mr. John S.

Reynolds, of the Columbia bar, for the Columbia State of Thursday: John I. Barron, individually and as administrator of the estate of Mary L. Barron, deceased, plaintiff, appellant, vs. Geo. W.

Williams, as administrator of the estate of Walter T. Barron, deceased D. Fin ley as assignee of Kennedy Brothers Barron and Walter T. Barron; The Equitable Life Assurance society of the United States (respondents); Elizabeth E. Barron, Benj.

P. Barron, Walter T. Barron, Archibald A. Barron and Louise W. Barron (appellants), of facts.

Gift by insolvent debtor to his wife. Homestead exemption. Parol assignment of life insurance policy. The object of this action is to de- termine the ownership of a policy of insurance issued November 22, 1888, by the Equitable Life Assurance Viy UU IUC 111C Ui TTOllCt A. who died intestate January 21, 1889.

The policy was made payable "to Walter T. Barron, his executors, administrators or assigns." The plaintiff, as administrator of Mary L. Barron, who died intestate February 12, 1899, claims the policy under an alleged gift by Walter T. Barron to his wife, Mary L. Barron.

The defendant, D. E. Finley claims the policy under a deed of assignment for the benefit of creditors, executed to him as asignee June 2, 1896, by the firm of Kennedy Brothers Barron, of which Walter T. Barron was a member, and by Walter T. Barron individually.

This assignment conveys all the individual and partnership property of the assignors not exempt from levy, attachment and sale as a homestead, but does not mention specifically the policy of insurance. In the event the transfer to Mary L. Barron is not sustained, the plaintiff and the five defendants last named in the title of this cause, as surviving children of Walter T. Barron and Mary L. Barron, claim that the policy should go to them as part of the homestead exemption of their father.

The circuit court found that there was no transfer of the policy by Wal? -r? ler r. rsarron to iuary u. rmrruu, ouu held that the policy passed to the assignee, D. E. Finley, under the assignment for creditors but that Mary L.

Barron having paid the premiums on the policy from the date of the as- signment to the death of Walter T..