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Will Chase Ba Beyo United States Troops to Pur Not Step to Intervention Not to ASuffer at H (Washington, March 10.?American troops were ordered across the Mexican border today by President Wilson to take Francisco (Villa and his bandits dead or alive. Under the direction, if not actually the leadership, o: Gen. Funston, who ended the Phillipine insurrection by taking Aguinaldo single handed, American columns are expected to be moving into Mexico before tomorrow night. They go to meet about 3,000 guerilla iroups iu <t muuuiaiuuuis n.gion from which Carranza soldiers taave fled. Whether this long de-erred armed j action, which begins purely as a puni tive measure to clear northern Mexico of menacing bandit bands over! which Gen. Carranza has no control, | shall grow into a general armed inter- ; vention or occupation in Mexico, depends in a large measure upon Gen. Carranza and the Mexican people. It begins witb President Wilson's declaration that it is entirely in aid ; of the Carranza government and without thought of aggression. This statement. DreDared Dy the piesiden* *ilm self, was given out at the White j House: 'tVn adequate .force will be sent at once in pursuit of Villa with the single object of capturing him and putting a stop to his forays. "This can be done and will be done in entirely friendly aid of the constitute ! ed authorities in Mexico and with i scrupulous respect for the sovereign-: ty of that republic." j President Wilson's decision to de-! part .from the policy of watchful wait-! tng, hastened toy the iColum'bus massa- i ere yesterday, was announced today i after it had been unanimously ap- j proved by the cabinet and adminlstration leaders in congress. ixhe presi- J debt's position was explained fully to j the latter, who agreed that he should not 'be embarrassed at this time by * discussions of minority which might, arouse trouble in Mexico. After a 'brief cabinet meeting, at which the president was described as being as determined to eliminate Villa as he was to eliminate Huerta, Secre tary -Baser nurried to the war department anVas his first act in office sent; orders to the border. Soon arterwards the army general' staff assembled and conferred over the plans, long drawn and perfected ! since the Meixcan situation loomed up j as a disturber to the peace of the United States. v Gen. Funston telegraphed, urging | \v utmost secrecy as to the army's plans. \ The border is honeycombed with Mex' ican spies and it was agreed that the : expedition would 'be pushed to sue-j ces^ (by keeping Villa and his men j -ignorant of its movements. It is pos- j sible .that no correspondents will be ' permitted to accompany the columns. j At any rate a strict censorship will be j imposed. > Former Secretary Garrison, familiar j with the army's Mexican plans by his connection with the crisis of two years ago, came to Washington and offered his services to aid his successor. They were at once accepted and Mr. Garrison went into conference with SecreEXCURSK " VI Southern Account South Carolina MARCH 1< The Southern Railway will tickets to Columbia, S. C., ac Tickets will be on sale March returning March 20th. Folic Newberry $1 55 Union 2.25 Anderson 3.90 Spartanburg o.G5 Chester 2.15 York 3.00 Batesburg 1.20 rv i < i 1 1 ( rropornonateiy reaucea ia detailed information apply Ticket Agent, or communica S. I ndits nd The Border sue Vilia and His Forces? ?Sovereignty ot Republic f i r a anas or Americans. ! > tary Baker ax the war department. Gen. Carranza, in a telegram to tlie . state department, expressed regret at; i , the Columbus massacre, but made no j comment on the proposal of sending | American troops to hunt down the ! bandits. Eliseo Arrendondo, his am- j ' bassador here, was officially inform- j j ed o: the American government's J . action. He only replied that he would \ i ^.1. -I.-* -i? TT. J I communicate wiui ms cinci. ne iiitu : i previously expressed his personal opinion that the movement would not be opposed. j State department officials declined to say what their attitude would be if Gen. Carranza took hostile position. I They said the United States would! settle that question when it arose. If! an offer of cooperation of Carranza j trooDs is made, thev said, it could i hardly be refused. Today Gen. /Car-, ranza ordered 5,000 troops from various garrisons to move on the Villa .forces. The effect of their advance probably would foe to keep the Villa bandits near the border, but Secre- j tary Lansing announced during the j day that no matter how far into Mexico it was necessary for American forces to penetrate, or to what num-1 bers it became necessary to increase their force, the United States would consider the expedition a punitive one, solely for the suppression of outlaws. For such an expedition there is ample precedent in international law and i in fact in the relations a: the 'United j States with Mexico. How many of the 12,000 troops now j on the iborder will 'be employed lias j not fully been determined. The general plan will be to distribute the infantry to guard the border towns, while the cavalry will be released for scouring the mountains, deserts, sagebrush and arroyos. In order not To \ weaken the defenses o: border towns i il may uc juectxssary iu xuuvc uiLitrr ; troops from interior posts to the border. No prospect of using the NationalGuard exists in the situation tonight but any larger scale of operations might involve it. DO>'T GO TO "ALL LITE STOCK," EITHER ? ; The Progressive Farmer !has never, for the average Southern farmer, takei: any stock in the agi'ation for livestock as a substitute for cotton, and Vv e are glad to see the fact is coming j more and .more to be recognized mar j livestock farming should have a place | on every .farm, but seldom, if ever,! can livestock farming exclusively be made the most profitable. Just as all-cotton farming is a badly balanced, unprofitable business, so is it unsafe and certainly conductive to the maximum possible profits to attempt; to raise livestock exclusively. The best results are to come only when livestocks, legumes, grain and cotton are so combined L.hat all food and feed for man and beast are produced and; soil fertility is maintained. This and ; this alone can rigntly "be called good ! .farming and good farm management. ?The Progressive Parmer. )N FARE [A Railway i Teachers' Association 3-18,1916 sell very low fare round trip 4-"U ~ ;cuuni/ u? uiie auuvts meeting. 115 and 16, with final limit wing fares will apply: Greenwood $2.75 Abbeville 3.20 Greenville 3.60 Rock Hill __ 2.75 Winnsboro 1.40 Orangeburg 1.75 res from other points. For to any Southern Railway te with L McLEAN, D. P. A., Columbia, S. C. KENTUCKY COLONELS. f In the Nature of Things They Simply Can't He!p Being Numerous. Iu the south especially and in Ken-; tucky more especially a man becomes ' i a colonel at about forty-seven unless ! he is of a willful, rebellious, obstrcper-1 i oils disposition ami inclined to standi up for an admitted but rarely exercised 1 ; right not to become known as "colo- j nel." A man who is nut sudden and j quick in quarrels and who can be put; , upon cannot escape becoming "colo-1 . nel." Many men whose courage is 1111-1 ( questioned prefer not to engage in; , street fights in opposition to an estab-! , lished custom. It is the rule rather i than the exception to submit ?<?<>(] na ' , turedly or with concealed impatience j , when the first three gray hairs appear . ^ at the temples and the use of the title ; begins by popular consent. There are. of course, many colonels! , under forty. When a governor is inaugurated he has the power to appoint i , staff colonels. A governor who does ' not appoint as colonels such of his con ( stituents as he knows by name is lacking in tlie jtuncriliousness which distin-! guishes the practical politician. Thus many young men who would have been, . "leftenants" if they had adopted a mil-! ( itary career are made colonels in civil life. Another predisposing caus^ of, premature colonelcy is the tendency of j some men to become far early In life.' A man who measures as much as forty j inches at the waist line and has not: been convicted of felony is entitled, j even obliged, lo be called "colonel'* before he is forty.?Louisville CourierJournal. i i HER BORROWED ROBE, i j it Brought an Actress the Most Perilous Moment of Her Life. "The only time I ever was a thief saved my life," said Rose Coghlan once. "My sister-in-law, Louisa Thorn-1 ton, was playing in 'Colleen Bawn' in Scotland. I was Anne Chute, one of 1 the bridesmaids, and I always dressed ' in Louisa's room with her. "This particular night she was ill, and her understudy went on. Now, it ( happened that I had longed and longed to wear a certain costume of Louisa's, i It wasn't one bit suitable for a girl of; my age in a bridesmaid part, being; made of heavy white corded silk with , a long court train and all the fixings, j but I adored it. "I dressed up in it and went out to; wait for the cue with the otner gins.j Just as we were ready to go on some one behind me said. 'Rose, your dress is on fire!' i "I think that is the most fearful, : word that can sound in a theater? j ' 'Fire!' My train had caught fire from one of the little gas footlights, unpro- j tected then. "The girls in their light dresses were' trying to get away from me, and the' : nearest man. Hardress, was handcuffed. I crushed my train in my hands to smother the creeping flame and backed off down the steps under the stage. A man down there threw a 1 heavy cloak over me, and I fainted. 1 was ouriied Damy arouuu wy uaiiu* and arms and neck, but the heavy silk dress saved me."?New York World. The Tyrant In the Field. There have been few commanders so tyrannous as Lopez, the ^dictator of Paraguay, when in the. war of 18G5-70 it fought single handed the neighboring countries of Argentina. Brazil and Uruguay. Lopez, says Mr. W. H. Koebel in his "Argentina." was wont to carry the theory of victory or death LU ttU UUWUllVi utuic (yvuib. were executed for mere remarks whose tone fell beneath the standard of confidence that Lopez had set up for himself. One, for Instance was shot for having announced In the course of his duty that the enemy was strongly intrenched! Another met his end on account of ai\ unguarded speech to the effect that the Paraguayan army was accustomed to count the enemy's losses and forget its own." Yawning. Yawning is a peculiar act and one that has never yet been properly accounted for. It is not by any "means a siirn oi iau^ue omy% miuuuuu it i* i sometimes produced by overexertion. But an attack of yawning comes on much more quickly if one is intensely bored, and certainly a stuffy atmosphere tends to produce it. It is also noticeable that when one-has gone con-; siderably past one's men I time the tendency to yawn frequently becomes ir- ! resistible. A very peculiar feature of | this complaint is its infectiousness: one person can easily set half a dozen all yawning in turn. When present in n rprv mnrkpri extent it is SUDPOSed to I be the outcome of anaemia, indigestion or some other complaint - < Real Sympathy. i An old farmer down the country giving instructions for his will directed a ^ legacy of $25,000 to be given to his wife. Being informed that some distinction was usually made in case the 1 widow married again, he doubled the J sum, and when told that this was eon- 1 trary to custom he said, with heartfelt sympathy for his possible successor. < "Aye, but him that gets her'll deserve -i it" Tho PHnh-fc of Birds. 1 ,,w "3 # One of the few men to recover sight after being blind from the birth of rec- < ollection was reported to have wondered at nothing so much as the flight of 1 the birds. "Why do not people make more fuss about ihem?" he said.?Lon- \ don Outlook. Artificial. c Guest?Yes, I had mock turtle soup. < By the way, where do they catch mock1* turtles? Waiter?Near the shamrock, 'c I think, sir.?SL Louis Post-Dispatch. \ i MOST FEMININE OF TREES. The Birch Seems to Take a Delight In heatrical ZTfe-tr.. The birch, above all our American trees, delights in f!:onfr: a I offers And if that scntoiKe is objected lo 011 the ground ot pathetic fallacy." we will commit the whole sin at once and add that it is the most feminine or trees. In earliest spring, when the heparins are pushing up last year's leaves ind our Berkshire mountain sides are Jonning their frail, delicate veils of . olor, the young birches an* conspicuous for the startling brightn^s of their new foliage, a green so much lighter and more vivid than a!l the other greens that it would arrest attention even if it were not borne on a snow white stem. Your young birch has all the daring of a debutante. Later, when the summer thunderstorms come, the birch has another trick up its sleeve. Some afternoon a ilark. gunmera! thunder head will mass behind the crest of a hill, and sudden ly an old uircu on me suimiiu m leap into startling prominence. so that it focuses tLie entire attention, like a single splendid streak of chalk white lightning. Agnin. in midwinter, when the birch b.v rights should be protectively colored and inconspicuous, it is the other trees we do not notice, and the birch tree rises by the edge of the frozen stream, perhaps, or against the dark wall of the pines and displays all its snowy limbs to best advantage against evergreen or sky. ? Walter Prichard Eaton in Century Magazine. GUARDING THE CHILDREN. Widows With Offspring Should Be Sure to Make Their Wills. Sometimes the failure to make a will involves more than a loss of time and money. You are a widow and without a will, leaving children who are not yet of age. Now. you may not care who looks after your property, but you do have a lively interest in the person who looks after your children. If you had left a will you could have named therein the guardian for your children The court must tlo so. and the guardian appointed by it may charge commissions. counsel fees and premiums payable out of your children's share of your estate. Suppose you leave real estate. It can't be sold without an order of the court. That involves a long and expensive proceeding 011 the part of your administrator. If you leave minor children that still further complicates matters. A guardian must be appointed for them who must join in the applica tion?at a price?and their shares must be set aside and held until they are of age?also at a price. "Infant's proceedings." as such actions are termed, are most technical and expensive, yet unless every contingency is provided for good title cminot be given to the real estate. Nor can clear title be given for at least two years after your death. If you had left a will you could have included therein a power of sale, and at any time when the interests of the estate demanded it the property could have been sold.?Samuel Scoville, Jr., in Good Housekeeping. A Bit of Sicily. "There is no Italian town more picturesque thaD the Sicilian capital. Pa lermo," writes a traveler. "Sailing ships of all rigs, their hulls painted all the colors o:f the rainbow, nose up against the quay, where mule carts, whose diners are shouting at the top of their voices, wait to take away the merchandise. The narrow streets where the custom house officers examine the goods brought ashore is a place of terrific noise. When a driver, two clerks and two custom house officers are discussing the contents of a bale or a cask it seems as though murder must be committed wittiin the next few seconds. But somebody signs, something, the cart moves on, and everybody laughs." Murdering Shakespeare. "1 never hesitate to cut and slash and change any play until it suits me." said Stuart Kobson to his legal adviser 011 one occasion. "I suppose you edit Shakespeare with a blue pencil'/" replied the lawyer. "You can just bet I do." "Then, i im;'uine. you would plead guilty to an indictment for murdering the Bard of Avon?" "No: 1 would not, but I would admit dissecting liis corpse." NEARLY TRANSPARENT. Just as the .football match was getting interesting it began to rain. A tvell-dressed man in the front row of :he stand immediately raised his umbrella, which was rather worse for wear. As soon as it appeared, however the people behind him began to grumble :hat they couldn't see the game, {The r.*e'M: essed individual at once turnid to them and said In a supercilious roice: "I?er?beg your pardon! But can't Fou see over my umbrella?" "No,'' replied a voice from, the rear, 'we can't see over it, but we can nearly see through it." 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I offered payment for ! the pig?'twas neither large nor fat? 1 ! hut JimnRnr) made the "Drice too hi?! i I wouldn't stand for that. The rank! est great I eer saw.' I cried "with . rising ire; ^before I'll pay I'll go to !jp 1 Our Greal ! A YEAR'S READING FOI MA] \ PHHSIlllilillSM fri f - ' -- - faci - ii iMW fan The Best Two for All th< in Theii THE HOUSEWIFE We are happy indeed to introduce and able to make a clubbing arrangement that enable our readers to have The Housewii cominjr vear. The stories are high-class in every x stories that will appeal to and please many with gripping excitement and int< holding qualities. Particular attention is given by The H wife to seasonable, sensible cooking, hous hints, and matters of particular inierei mothc-r and child. 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