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- -N , C VOL. xxvII MANNING, S. C., WEDN E SDAY, JU~NE 25. 1913 NO. 50 SLORED BY BISHOP CARNEGE'S GlT TO YANDERLT S880 UP. WANTS IT TURNED DOWN Bishop Chandler Declares That It Is Not a Donation to the Institution, But an Attempt to Denature It, by Influencing Decision of the Su preme Court The recently -announced gift of $1,000,000 to the Vanderbilt univer sity, of Nashville, Tenn., by Mr. An drew Carnegie is, In the opinion of Bishop Candler, cot so mucn a dona tion to the university as an attempt . to "denature the institution". To a representative of The Journal Bish op Candler said Wednesday: "This loud-heralded gift appears, on close inspection of the terms of the offer, to be no gift at all, but -a shrewd attempt to get control of a part of the property of Vanderbilt university in order to set up a medi cal school fashioned according to the peculiar ideas of Mar. Carnegie and his educational employees. "In the first announcement of the so-called gift the essential terms of the gift and the expressions of pur pose accompanying It were held back. The request of a member of the board of trust, even, who asked to see the .papers in the case, was re rused. What was contained In the letter of Mr. Carnegie was not known to any one outside an inner circle until last Monday, when the board of trust met. The matter was so se rious that Major Millsaps, a member -of the board of trust from Missis - sippi. moved that the question of ac cepting the gift be postponed until the members of the board could have time to consider It. This mo tion was re'ected, and the motion to accept the gift put thrdugh with in considerate haste. On Tuesday four of the board of trust offered a pro test against. the acceptance of the Carnegie proposals. When the pub lic sees Mr. Carnegie's letter the pro test of these wortby gentlemen will be generally approved, -if I am not greatly mistaken. "The Vanderbilt university be longs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The church's own ership having been denied, suit was brought by order of the general con terence some time ago to settle the question. and the chancery court de cided every point in favor of the church. From that decision those who deny the church's right took an appeal, which is now pending in the supreme court of Tennessee. To this Mr. Carnegie makes allusion in his letter, putting his offer in such rela tion to dangling money before the public with the purpose of influenc ing the case. He also denies the ability of any and all churches to -manage and control educational in stitutions-a preposterous piece of Ignorance and confident assertion ashrtion which the whole history of education in christendom for a thou sand years contradicts. His expres sions about the churches are as dis creditable to him as -his conditioning a gift -on the result of a pending suit is indecent, "Blut I need not comment on the proposal. It speaks for itself. With out sEdenic innocence Mr. Carnegie is in this letter like Adam in paradise. 'nalred and not ashamed.' "Now the dullest -mind can see that Mr. Carnegie does not propose to give a penny to the Vanderbilt -university, but to take something from It. to dismember from it one of its deonrtinents, which Is- worth about $500.000. "tny the same process be may pro eed to alienate all the other depart monts and nut them under his little boar-lets. -it is strange that more of the members of the board of trus+ did not perceive this patent fact, and' protest against the acceptance of his offer. It would be just as appro priate for the Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals to accept for its uses the gate receipts of a bull fight as for this gift to be ac cepted by a Christian institution. "It appears also that the Episco palians see in this affair an effort to defeat the proposed medical depart ment of the University of the South. If they are correct in their opinion. Mr. Carnegie is proposing at one blow to destroy the medical school of the Episcopalians, and'denature the medical school of the Methodists and raise on the ruins of both a Car negieized establishment in his own image and likeness.. "I can not doubt that this impu dent proposal of the aggressive and agnostic steel-monger will provoke the indignation of the Christian peo ple of all denominations in the coun try, and incur the emphatic disap proval of all thinking men. This un disguised attempt to disintegrate a Christian university is in keeping with the well fixed purpose of an tagonism to church schools which Mr. Carnegie has pursued for a long time." To. the question what will the bishops of the Methodist church do in the case? Bishop Candler replied: "The bishops are common-law visi tors to the university, and citation of the trustees ta) a meeting of the visi tors at the bishops' room in Naeshville next Friday has been issued. I have no right to anticipate their decision and I have as little doubt about what it will be. The attempt to make it appear .eby a telegram sent from Nashville that Bishop Hoss only is concerning himself about the matter is as unjust to his colleagues as it is unfair to him. Bishop Hoss has done his duty, and he has had opportuni ties beyond most of the other bishops THAT CARNEGIE GIFT WHICH THE METHODIST CHURCH WILL DECLINE. If Accepted, Would Rob That Great Church of Its Largest Educational Institution. We publish below Mr. Carnegie's proposal in reference to Vanderbilt University: Carnegie Corporation of New York, 576 Fifth Avenue, New York. Dr. J. H. Kirkland, Secretary Exe cutive Committee Trustees Van derbilt University. Nashville, Tenn. My Dear Sir:-I have given care ful consideration to your letter of May 1, written on behalf the trustees of Vanderbilt university, inviting me to contribute a million dollars for the establishment upon a sound founda tion of a medical school of modern type in the south. After consulta tion with those familiar with medical eOucation of this country I am con vinced that the sum of money you mention could be wisely devoted to a medical school In Nashville. I ap prove thoroughly your suggestion that this gift be conditioned on the appointment of a small board of sev en persons to govern the medical school, who shall be chosen absolute ly- without reference to denomina tional consilerations and purely up on the ground of fitness for their du ties. There Is, however, one factor in your university situation which leaves the policy for the future in doubt. A suit is now before the courts to test the question whether the university shall be governed by an Independent self-perpetuating board as at present, or whether the trustees shall be chosen by the repre sentatives of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, with which denom ination the university has been since its-beginnng in sympathetic relations. Should the trustees finally receive an adverse verdict, I understand that the university will then be under dis tinctive denominational control. This result would seem to be unfor tunate for the future p'rogress and well-being of the institution. I do not believe that it is wise for any sect to control educational institu tions such as universities, whether the organization be a Methodist con ference, or a Presbyterian assembly, or a Catholic order. For this reason, thbrefore, while I am anxious to make this gift, which would be of high value to the whole south, I hesitate to do so until the question of denominational control has been settled by the courts. I make the following proposition for your consideration: I will fur ish the $200,000 cash now needed for the laboratories, and the remain ng $800,000 shall remain in the custody of the Carnegie corporation in New York-interest at 4 per cent. to be paid to the university for the use of the medical school until such time as the question of denomina tional control has been settled by the ourt of last resort, its final disposi tion to be then determined. Should this proposition be satisfactory to our board of trustees, I understand that the conditions agreed to in your letter of May 1, as to the size and onstitution of the governing board of the medical school and the char acter of the school itself are also onditions of this gift. The objection- to denominational ontrol of colleges and universities is not due to lack of sympathy with religion It lies in the fact that such ontrol by a single denomination rarely means religious development, but nearly always means that both ducation and religion are subordin ted to the Interests of the particu lar organization which Is in control. [ welcome, rather, all Christian sects, believing with Matthew Ar old, whom I am proud to recall as y friend: "'Children of men! the unseen Power. whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, ilath looked on no religion scornfully That man did ever find. Which has not taught weak wills how much they can? Which has not fallen on the dry heart like raIn? Which has not cried to a sunk, self weary man, 'Thou must be born again!' " As a true friend of the south. Sincerely yours, (Signed) Andrew CarnegIe. Several Children Bitten. At Hartsville Martha May Haney. he seven-year-old daughter of the Rev, and Mrs. G. F. Haney. and Chas. . Funderburk, the five year-old son -f Mr. and Mrs. C. W. F'underburk, were bitten this morning by a dog difeted by rabies. The girl was very painfully lacerated about the waist line and the boy was bitten on the hand. Aviator Drops Into Lake. At Cleveland, Ohio, while making a flight from the East 40th street nier over the lake to Euclid Beach, a dIstance of six miles, in his hydro 9eroplane late today, Aviator Weldon B. Cooke and his machine fell into the water and did not come up. Life savers were called to search for him. Week of Heavy Rain. Rowell, N. M., Is menaced by a "uge volume of water pouring down the Rio Hondo river from the White \ountains. Cloudbursts after a reek of continuous rain caused the flood. hurch in the case. But the attempt o make it appear that he is stand ng alone Is utterly without founda ion In fact. This effort to isolate Bshop Hoss from his colleagues be 'ore the public eye is sinister and nworthy. It lacks even the virtue areaie's candour." LETTERS ARE REAl SHOWING HOW LOBBY DID IT'S WORK WORKED THE SENATORS Several Letters that Passed Between Oxnard and Palmer Containing References to the Handling of Sen. ators to Suit the Sugar Trust Made Public. The Senate Lobby Committee gave to the pu.blic Wednesday over the protests of a lawyer representing Henry T. Oxnard and Truman G. Palmer, a series of letters written by those two beet sugar representa tives, showing a long continued ef fort to influence legislation in Wash ington ; to control Congressional committees; and to direct national political affairs in support of the con tinuance of a protective sugar tariff. The Onxard-Palmer letters, pro duced at the close of the committee's morning session, were the chief fea tures of an exciting day. They cov ered a period from 1906, when Phil lipine free trade came up, through the balance of the Roosevelt admin istration, the political campaign of 1908 and into the Taft administra tion. Assurances that certain senators would be on the Senate Phillipine committee; that "no stone was be ing left unturned to get real protec tionists" on the House ways and means committee; and that strong pressure could be and was being brought to bear upon members ot both houses to accomplish various ends, appeared frequently in the ser ies of letters. Chairman Overman's first effort to read one of the Oxnard letters, wben the committee began its sessions. brought a protest from John T. Yer kes, an attorney representing Ox nard and Palmer. He declared the committee had no right to go into "private correspondence" dated be fore the present session of congress. In a long executive session the com mittee decided that the letters bore directly upon the attempts of OrLra and Palmer to influence legislation and they were at once made public. A letter from Oxnard to Palmer August 1, 1907, in part s.tid: "Regarding the vacancies on the Phillippine committee, i is true that nothing can be done uatil next win ter, but'I spoke to Foster and New lands, (he told me he was 0. K.) and asked them to apply for the vac ancies made by the Tennessep and Idaho Senators.- They tol-l me they would." Another letter from Onard to Palmer: "I see no harm in having Newlands try for the committee, too. I am committed to him already. I saw Foster's political manager in Washington yesterday and impressed on him the importance of Foster's getting Carmack's place."' An unsigned letter to Oxnard dat ed Chicago, July 29, 1907, was in part as follows: "Major Gove wrote to me some time since in regard to the formation of the Senate Phillip pine committee in the 60th Congress and I wrote him that that matter was fixed last winter. Gove writes that Teller will take it himself, rather than to have it In uncertain. Fhands. Any friendly Democrats seen during the winter will count." A letter August 27, 1907, from Oxnard to Palmer: "I am of the opinion that you had better not even try to get any resolution through regarding Cuba, as that might start our enemies going. Of course, we want a strong Anti-Phillippine res olution put through." July 18, 1907, Oxnard wrote from New York to Palmer: "I prefer that you leave the Cuban question alone for the present. If we begin talking it will start them raising money and talking back. Regarding the trusts I would neither attack nor defend them. We don't want a fight with them If we can help it." Oxnard wrote to Palmer on July 1, 1908: "After going over the sit uation with our friends here most carefully it was deemed best, that I should not put in an appearance at the Denver Conventioni and I feel that it might be better If you also stayed away. It Is alright for Morey and Gove to be there." "Another written from Chicago on October 7, 1907, to Oxnard said: "Wakeman was with Uncle Joe for four hours and feels that he accom plished something, though he did not feet at liberty to tell me much in detail. From here he went to Cin cinnati at Foraker's request to meet him. "He is leaving no stone unturned in his efforts to get aeal protection ists put on the committee on ways and means to fill the fiye vacancies." To Palmer, October 15, 1907, Ox nard wrote from Upperville, Va: "I had been trying to find out what chances we had on the ways and means, and am glad to get the infor mation you give on that line. Will bring all pressure I can on Cannon." A letter to Ornard, dated October 1, 1907, and apparently from Pal mer, said in part: "In Denver I saw both Senators Teller and Patter son. Patterson told me that Lodge stated to him that we had those is lands for the purpose of exploiting them with American capital, and that we were going to do it. "Teller told me that Aldrich told him that he and his crowd would stand by us. but that if the bill got on to the floor of the Senate they would have tg stay with their party and rote for the passage of the bill." "My idea has always been," the Palmer letter continued, "to starve the thing off until general tariff re duction comes, when we eould trade FIGHT WITH DEATH THE GRIM REAPER BAFFLED BY SENATOR TILMAN. HFe Tells for the Benefit of Others What He Did to Regain In Part His Health. Some few weeks ago The Times and Democrat "said Editor E. H. Aull of the Newberry and News says he met Senator Tillman on the train recently and he was much pleased to find him "as strong and vigorous as he was, both physically and men tally. His mind is strong and vig orous and there is much of the old time fire and snap about the eye. All the talk about his mind being weak is unkind and besides unfound ed. He can't eat the big meals that he once could but otherwise eeems entirely well." In commenting on the above the Columbia Record says: Death, the universal conquerer, has had some notable contests and many -notable victims, but seldom has he been baffled and held at bay in a contest fought out before the pubile eye and on a world arena so conspicious as in the case of Senator Tillman. No doubt the senior South Carolinian's fight against the grim monster after he had called and giv en the word to go on the last dread journey will go down In the medical records as one of the most notable in the professional records. Three years ago Senator Tillman was stricken, and for weeks lay helpless in the shadow of death, as a writer in the New York Sunday Sun recites:*"His friends and fam ily lost hope. His colleagues expect ed to be summoned. to his funeral. The newspapers prepared their obit uary sketches, making ready for what seemed the inevitable. This was back in 1910. "But the senator refused to yield. The same grim determination that marked his political career led him to make another fight. And he won again, as he had won so many times when the odds against him were not so great." "The methods by which the veter an senator waged and won his fight were original and heroic, in keep ing with his always resourceful and strenuous career. He won by a sys tem of physical exercise in aid of nature, that is simple but has proven marvelously effective in his case. And in the process he has not only got rid of the dangerous fatty matter that accumulates with age, ,but he has gained thirty pounds of good hard muscle. "Thc Senator is back in Washing ton; the chairman of a powerful'sei ate committee, able to walk ten miles a day and not only do hard work, but his mind in some respects is clearer and truer in its processes than ever before. 'I didn't mean to let paraly sis kill me,' the senator is quoted as saying. 'I proposed to get well and stay here afew years longer.' He did both by a simple plan of physical culture, the rules for which he gives as follows: "1. Before getting up in the morn ing, take the head off '.he pillo'. and stretch out straight. Begin by kick ing backward wita one foot and then the other, fifteen tines each. Dur ing tnis an othler movements, whereI counting is required, i draw in the breath to the limit and hol I it while the movement Is on, from ten to ifteen times. "2. Put the heels upon the bed with the knees drawn up, then throw the knees apart as far as they can be carried, repeating twenty times. "3. Throw first one foot and then the other toward the headboard, keeping the knee joints as straight as you can. "4. While still lying on the .back, kick ount with both feet as wide apart as you can and do 6he kick ing with emphasis, so as to sti-ain the muscles on the calf and soles of the feet. Elevate 'both feet at once toward the headboard and then the spine as much as possible by using the abdominal muscles to pull up the lower extremities three times. If the hands are placed under the small part of the back and the arms .are used as a lever to help elevate the legs and feet it Is much more effec with the other fellows." A letter from Oxnard to Palmer July 16, 1908, said in part: "I spent a day- with Mr. Thomas recently on his yacht and he seems to think we had better stand in with Mr. Taft if possible." A letter from Palmer to Oxnard, July 3, 1908, in part: "When Taft was nominated I sent him a congrat ulatory telegram and this morning received his thanks. On the 29th I sent him a letter recalling my last interview with him and enclose copy herewith. I hope that he will not convey a verbal reply through some third party." Oxnard wrote from Washington. December 26, 1907, to Palmer, then In Chicago: "I have seen Col. Ed wards and got him to agree with me that it Is poor policies for Taft to push this measure this winter and he Is going to try and bring him to that way of thinking. I also saw Loeb, who agreed with me that the whole subejet had better be post poned and will talk with the Pres ident. While I have little hope of success I shall keep at it on those lines.' Oxnard at Upperville, Va., receiv ed another letter from Chicago, dat ed October 29, 1907. Here Is part of It: "I was glad to hoar that you are keeping that matter in mind for of course. If we could hold the ways and means committee. it would save a lot of work and avoid a heap of danger. Gove says further," the let ter continues, "that Colcock further Informs him that if he succeeds he will not need but three Republicans on that committee to hold any mat Iter up that may some." RAMMED BY A STEAMER CAPTAIN AND FIVE MEN GO DOWN WITH BOAT. Eight Survivors of the Bl-Fated Schooner is Picked Up by the Stea mer. Capt. John -Andrew Dogget, of Portland, Maine, and five members of the crew of the Glouchester, Mass., fishing schooner Olympic, went down with their craft when she was rammed off Sable Island in a dense fog early Thursday by the Wa*en Line steamer Sagamore. The Sagamore arrived at Boston quaraitine from Liverpool Thursday night, with eight survivors of the schooner. The Olympic, aboard which all but men on watch were asleep in their bunks, was pierced abreast of the main mast and foun dered within a few minutes. There was barely time for eight men to climb her fore rigging and thus gain safety on the deck of the steamer. The other members of the rew, including Capt. Doggett, who was holding sternly to the code of the- sea that the captain shall be the last to leave his ship, were awaiting their turn to scale the ropes when the schdoner went under. One of Capt. Dogget's sons, Ffrank was among the eight saved. His other son, John, went to his death with his father. - MUST DIE IN CHAIR Garrett is Convicted of Murdering the Campbells M. L. Garrett was convicted last week at Bishopville of murdering two men and sentenced to die in the ?lectric chair on July 11. The crime ror which Garrett was convicted stir red the State. On May 18 he shot to death his son-in-law, Aaron Camp bell, and John H. Campbell, his fath r. Only three days before Aaron Dampbell had -married Garrett's laughter. The tragedy took place at he home of the Campbells, 13 miles rom Bishopville. After firing the fa al shots Garrett fled to the nearby wamps, dragging his daughter with im. tive. If in an iron bed this oan be raciliated by grasping the railing bove the head with the hands and pulling up the legs and feet by the use of the muscles of the back and belly. This Is very fine for reducing ,he paunch .as it substitutes muscle ror fat and hardens the obdormen. ". Fasten the feet under some 'hing and pull the trunk up to a ;tting posture, drop back and repeat for four or five times. This is very straining at first and one ought to o about it ca'utiously until he mus :les have become accustomed to the strain. "7. Throw the head back with the !eet on the bed and lift the body :lear so that the shoulders do not touch. This will form an arch. Re peat four or five times. This is enough in bed in the morning. "8. Take a cold bath and rub lown briskly, unless you do not like :old water or have not the facilities :o do it. Put on underwear and take a light pair of dumbbells (3 1-2 younds), to give momentum to the :novements. Begin to exercise the ther muscles which have not yet been used. "9. Throw the arms down by the :hghs 'backward while standingfiat footed. Straighten up and repeat ten times. Continue in the same otion, bend the trunt forward as nearly horizontal as you can main :ain It and let the arms swing as ear the floor as they can go. This timbers up the muscles of the back. "10. Now keeping the knees stiff, try to pu.-ch the big toe. of each foot with both fists. Repeat five or six times. "11. Using the dumbbells, pass them to the right and left, one arm going by the belly while the other l extended as high above the head as possible, and as one goes down elevate the other. This will lubri ate and loosen the joints of the shoulders. "12. Throw both arms behind the back so as to bring both hands as sear as possible with the dumbbells linched hard. Try this ten times. "13. Still holding the dumbbells, throw one to the rear and the other to the front and twist the spine by frst looking over one shoulder and then over the other. This is to loosen the spinal column and make he vertebrae twist on each other. "14. Swing the dumbbells back ward, forward and downward until a irce is performed by returning them to the starting point. I do this five times backward and then five times forward with each arm alternately. rhis lubricates the muscles of the shoulders and arms, producing cir culation of the blood. "I practise hese motions morning and night, before dressing and after undressing," the senator says. "It takes about ten minutes, not includ ing the bath. I feel a very marken ifference In my strength as well as otherwise." South Carolina and the country, as well as Senator Tillman, are subjects of pongratulation eoause of the Sena,tor's restoration to health. At the age of 63 he has reached the tce of senatorial influence and use ullness and neither South Carolina or the country could spare him at his eventful juncture when he Is no well prepared to give them the benefit of the best and most exper [enced service. Three Drown Prom'Boat. At Hammond, Ind., three men en were drowned Sunday -when they tried to change places Da the robat In which they were efegina ~edarI~kg THE CURRENCY BILL IILL BE INTRODUEED IN HOUSE NEIT MONDAY IS OUTLINED BY GLASS To Provide Means for RediscoUnting Specified Types of Commercial Pa per, a Basis for Elastic Notes Pro perly Safeguarded, and Machinery for Doing Foreign Banking Busi ness. The Administration- currency bill was made public by Representative Glass, chairman of the House com mittee on banking and currency. It will be Introduced in the House and Senate after President Wilson has delivered in person his address to Coniress on Monday. An outline of the measure pre pared by Mr. Glass describing it as " a basis for legislative action", states that it will be gone over in de tail for alterations, and sets out that Its purpose is to accomplish three principal objects: Provision of a means for redis counting commercial paper of speci fled types. A basis for elastic notes properly safeguarded. Machinery for doing foreign bank ing business. The measure's essentials remain as they have been outlined from time to time since the President began a study of the. subject with House and Senate leaders, Secretary McAdoo and other advisers, provided twelve or more Federal reserve banks, which will rediscount paper deal in govern ment securities, exchange and con duct government fiscal operations. National banks and sueh State banks and trust companies as confirm to standards would be stockholders of the reserve banks. The government ould hold no stock. The government would control the Federal reserve banks entirely thru a Federal reserve board of seven members in which the banks would have no representation. The board would b' composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Agri culture, the comptroller of the cur rency, as members ex officio; four other members would ,be chosen by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The national bank note circulation would remain undisturbed - and no proposal is made in the bill for re tiring approximately $700,000,000 2 per cent, bonds, upon -hich that note issue now rests. An umendment or separate bill to refund these bonds into 3 per cent. bonds may be intro duced later. In addition to the $700,000,000 ex Isting national bank notes. not more than $500,000,000 in what are to be known as Federal reserve treasury notes might be issued at the discre tion of the Federal reserve board solely for the purpose of making ad vances to the Federal reserve banks, which would do no business with the oublic, deal only with their member banks and receive deposits only from the United States. While the notes would on their face, purport to be the obligations of the United States, they would be required to be secured by a gold reserve of 33 1-3 per cent., provided by the Federal reserve bank, would be a first and par amount lien on all the assets of these banks and would be redeemable in gold on demand at the treasury do partment at Washington or any Fed eral reserve bank. Stringent provisions are made against counting any of these notes as a part of bank reserves, and the system is guarded against~ Infation by lodging power with the Federal reserve board to exact an interestI charge upon the treasury notes in order to secure their prompt redemp tion. The notes are not made legal tender, but would be receivable by the government and every bank of the system at par without exchange. No change would be made in the protection of other existing notes, The Federal reserve board would require one Federal reserve bank to rediscount not necessarily uniform for all reserve banks, but made with a view to accommodating the com merce of the country and promoting a stable price level. For recasting the present bank re serve system the bill proposes to transfer the reserves from national banks in. the present reserve and cen tral reserve cities to Federal reserve banks, carrying the process of trans fer over thirty-eight months to avoid shock to market conditions. The bill proposes, according to Mr. Glass's statement, "ultimately the establish ment of a reserve system In which country banks will have 15 per cent. of reserve (namely, 15 per cent. of total demand liabilities) such 16 per cent. to be held 5 per cent. in the banks' vaults, 5 per cent. with the National Reserve Bank and 5 per cent. either at home or with the re serve bank, while reserve and cen tral reserve city banks have reserves of 20 per cent. of demand liabilities, of which 10 per cent. will be at home, 5 per cent. with the reserve bank of the district and 5 per cent. either at home or with the~ reserve bank." the statement says. "The presumed effect of fts plan will be to end the placing of reserves with central reserve city banksi for use in stock market operations, to keep reserves in some measure at home and to require epeulators to get the funds they need In their op erations, either -by direttly b'orro'wing them from persons who hold them and want to lend the e-asb for that! purpose er else by borrowing from the banks in the splaces where the operations are to bae arried da. "T som~1~ st m in premdf '. POSSE FIGHT BANDITS WHO HAD HELD UP A PASSEN. GER EXPRESS TRAIN. The Bandits Capture and Disar Two Members of Posse and Then Escape on Engine. Two bandits who held up the Dia mond Special of the Illinois Central in a spectacular manner Wednesday morning, cowed the passengers, fought off a hastily organized posse and applied at least six charges of dynamite to the "through" safe, were ill-paid for their daring at tempt. The explosive failed to break the heavy safe containing $25,000. Soon after midnight, as the train bound from Chicago to St. Louis neared Glenarm, Ill., a masked man climbed over the tender and ordered the engineer to "stop her". He did. As curious trainmen and passengers peered out of the cars to see what was the trouble, they heard bullets whizzing - ast their heads and were ordered by one of the bandits to stay in the-cars. The other meanwhile was cutting off the express car. After taking his partner aboard, they ordered the en gineer to pull the express car down the track. The first charge of dyna mite aroused some farmers and after the second charge had been fired they telephoned to Springfield. Several offcers jumped into automobiles and hurried to the scene. The robbers were at work when the posse arrived. The robbers not only started to fight the posse, but captured and dis armed two members of it, one a po liceman and the other a newspaper reporter. When the battle became too hot they boarded the engine, which had been cut off from the ex press car, and ran it rapidly toward that city. When near the city limits they jumped from the engine and fled. The agent of the Wells-Fargo & Co. said that the safe, which was blown open, contained about $500 and that this amount would cover the loss. THIRTY M[mCANS EXECUTED. Mexican Insurgents Vinder Francisco Villa Seek Revenge. Thirty Federal soldiers were ex uted by the insurgents under Gen. Francisco Villa, according to Ameri can refugees arriving at El Passo, Texas, Thursday by hand car from the interior of Chihuahua State. They related that this was done as revenge of a ruse of the Federals at Bustillos, Chihuahua, last Friday. The Federals had asked permission to send two trains with women and children through the rebel lines. Villa agreed, but on seeing the train approach laden with soldiers he ord ered an attack. Besides the capture of 30 prisoners, many. of the Govern ment troops were killed and the re mainded of the 400 Federals forced to return toward IMadera Stopped the Nonsense. The New York World says "just as the New Jersey bosses discovered that they were dang with a new kind of governor In Woodrow Wil son, so Wall street discovers that It i dealing with a new kind of Presi dent. For years the government's established policy In the matter of anancial depression has been simple and fatal. Washington waited until the panic had begun, until confidence and credit were undermined ,and then turned the United States treas nry over to Wall street, while the stock-gamblers salvaged what they could from the wreck. The WIlson policy Is to suppress the panic at the start and not at the finish. Nothing could have been more timely than Secretary McAdoo's an nouncement that he was prepared to ssue $500,000,000 in emergency currency under the Aldrich-Vreeland act. Wail street recovered Imme diately from its hysteria and Its bankers, with characteristic patriot im, began to denounce the secretary for his "absurd offer". The fact is now pointed out with a wealth of de tail that there is plenty of currency in circulation and that no emergency currency is necessary, but forty-eight hours before Wall street was point ig out with an equal wealth of de tail that one of the disturbing* ele ments In the situation was the neces 9ity that would exist in a few weeks or immense suma of money to move the crops. The truth is that there was plenty of money all the time, and except for the condition of the European money market, there was no reason whatever for Wall street's attack of nerves. Proving it is the most im portant service that the treasury has rendered by Its offer of emergency currency. Wall street's hysteria was rapidiy inoculating the entire coun try, and the Wilson administration has stopped the nonsense ,before it became serious. All of which goes to prove that "Wall ?treet has a master in the White House at last, and it is beginning to know its master's voice," as The Columbia Record says. serve system Is antiquated and unsa.t Isfactory, that to the massing funds In New York and other finan cial centres, of which so much has been said in recent years, Is largely due to the present reserve require ments of national banks. and that In order to get the real benefit from the system of rediscount which has been proposed as a remedy for many ex isting evils. It Is necessary to base sich system upon an actual control of reserves, provision has been made for .recasting tife present bank re serve system. TAKE EXTRA LAR VILL SHT Off BOOZE VIEN ED TORS MEET ON THE ISLE OF MS Governor Blease Says the Newspaper Men Have Been Calling for the - "Lid On," and He is Going to Test the Sincerity of Their Request by Putting it on. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says cold wat er and mayhap grape juice for any special occasion is all that the South Carolina Press Asociation can look for when they meet on the Isle of Palms at Charleston on the 26th of this month fo their annual Conven tion, for Governor Blease declared Monday morning that he was going to clamp on the lid and sit on it while the editors were meeting on the Isle of Palms. "I' am going to put on an extra force of constabulary and have Sheriff Martin and Chief Stothart carry out the orders literal ly," he declared. "I am going to instruct these ofi cials," said the Governor, "to keep a close eye on every editor, and if any of them buy refreshments from a blind tiger, either in Charleston or on the Isle of Palms, they have peremp tory orders to arrest the person sell ing the liquor and bind over the one buying It as a witness in a bond. not less than $500." The Governor declared that so many of the editors had been calling on him "to put on the lid," that he is going to put it on and wants to see how patriotic they are. "I am going to se if they are patriotic enough not to buy from blind tigers, and they will have an opportunity of demonstrating by personal con duct some of the precepts they are so constantly preaching," he said. Just how many of the sleuths will be assigned to "shadow" the news paper men to see that none of them wander into a place where they should not go is not known. It is presumed that such details will be left to Sheriff Martin and 'Chief Con stable Stothart, but the orders and - instructions will come from Gover nor Please. For the past several years the edi tors have been meeting in the up country and having cold water and grape juice for refreshments, will undoubtedly be to the taste of the vast majority of the Association, for they are known~ to be a very- temper ate crowd in fact many of them be ing tetotalers and intoxicating re freshments have been noticeable by their absence at the yearly gather ings for the past several seasons. So to gather In Charleston this year with the expectation of. quaffing abundance of Goose Cretk *atpr will undoubtedly have a tendency to In crease rather than diminish the at tendance on the meeting. The Governor said that If any ed itor or newspaper man Is caught In the act of buying liquor he will be bound over asa witness anid that he was going to have the name publish ed. He said that If the newspapers would not print It he would have It put out In a pamphlet and sent the Blease leader In the home 'ounty of such editor and have him to distrib ute It. It is presumed that some of the sleuths will be assigned to "cov er" such possible happenings for the pamphlet and "write it up." The State Press Asociation is to gather in Charleston on Thursday and FrIday June 26 to 27, for their annual meeting, and the outlook is for a fine attendance. On the eve ning of June 28, Norman Hapgood, editor of Harper's Weekly will de liver the annual address. At a ban quet, if one Is held, it Is supposed nothing stronger than grape ipice will be served. Killed Landlady by Mistake. At Bowle, La., Abraham Blanch ard, awakening suddenly from sound sleep by her entrance into his room., shot and killed Mrs. W. L. Walters, proprietress of a hotel where Blanchard was a guest. Real izing what he had done he turned the weapon upon himself. Inflicting a wound which will probably prove fa tal. Thinking the room unoccupied Mfrs. Walters went in to leave some linen. Women Burned to Death. Eiighty girls were burned to death by villagers enraged at the Importa tion of cheap girl labor to work on a sugar estate In the district of Pir latin In the province of Poltava, Sou then Russia.. .They were fastened slept, which was then set on fire by in a wooden house in which they the enraged villagers, while the In mates were asleep. Effort to Cross the Ocean. Count Zeppelin and his technical staff at Friedrichshafen are convinc ed that the modern dirigible airship can cross the Atlantis, says a Berlin dispatch to the London Express, "and it Is probable that a voyage from Germany to New York will be undertaken this summer." Saved from Watery Grave Emile DuBonnett and Welb'y Jour dan, two aeronauta, who were par ticipating In a long distance balloon race from Paris, two miles south of Ventor, on the south coast of the Isle of Wright. If Senator Tillman Is willing to stick out the hot weather In Wash Ingtob to reform the currency, sure ly the Senators who e In good health should be willing to are the same sacrifi.ce for the 'beneat of the