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VOL. XXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL I1 WINS FIRST TEST VILSON SCORUS VICTORY IN CA Nil TOLLS REPEAL FIGHT HOUSE LIMITS DEBATE Adopts Rule for Only Twenty Hours Debate and No Amendments to be Allowed - Underwood, Clark, Kitchin, Fitzgerald, Among Demo crats Opposink President. President Wilson Friday 'won the opening skirmish of the greatest leg islative battle of his administration with the House over bitter protest from Democratic leaders and almost solid minority opposition when the House adopted a special rule for the consideration of the bill repealing the free tolls provisions of the Panama canal act. Speaker Clark, Demo cratic Leader Underwood, Republican Leader Mann and Progressive Leader Murdock headed those lined up against the administration, but the House responded to the president's personal plea for prompt considera tion of the repeal bill as a means of supporting his administration's for eign policy. Two votes demonstrated the presi dent's commanding influence with his party in congress.. On the first test, a motion to end debate and preclude amendment on the rule carried by a vote of 207 to 176. The rule itself was adopted 200 to 172. Nothing to compare with the scene Friday had occurred in the House since the famous Cannon rules fight four years ago. In vain Representa tive Underwood took the floor and urged his colleagues to vote against the rule. The rank and file of Dem ocrats, after listening -to three hours of passionate argument, swung Into the president's column, 195k of them voting to prevent the amendment of the special rule, while 55 followed the leaders in joining with the minor Ity in opposition. . -Friday night administration sup porters considered the crucial point passed, and jubilantly predicted the passage of the repeal bill itself Tues day or Wednesday by a majority of more than 100. Several of the 20 hours allotted under the rule for de bate had been consumed when the House adjourned, and 'with the speechmaking continued without in terruption it was thought the final vote could be reached late Tuesday. The roll call was taken in silence, the crowded floor and galleries tense with excitement, after an hour -of de bate. Throughout the day the cham ber had been crowded and the gal leries filled to overflowing. The an nouncement of Speaker Clark against the rule caused high feeling and every influence available was brought to bear on doubtful ones. As a re sult when the struggle began both sides were keyed up to a high pitch. With Representative Underwood, Speaker Clark and -'Representative Fitzgerald, on the minority side, the Democratic majority, for the time recognized as leaders Representative Henry, chairman of the rules com mittee; Representative Adamson, chairman of the interstate and for: eign commerce committee; Represen tative Palmer of Pennsylvania, Rep resentative Hardwick of Georgia, Representative Sherley of Kentucky and other prominent figures support ing the president's position. Only eight Republicans joined with the majority in support of the administration program. but leaders on both sides Friday night conceded that many Repu.blicans who voted against the preliminary administra tion plans eventually would vote for the repeal. The solid Progressive delegation of the House, led by Rep resentative Murdock of Kansas, was -aligned against the majority. President Wilson's triumph was considered most notable by the rank and file of all parties because of the unusual alignment of forces within the Democratic ranks. Two men who had sought with him the presidential nomination at the hands of the party --one the speaker of the House, the .other the floor leader of the dominant party--were opening and actively ar rayed against him. Speaker Clark. though he did not take the floor, had issued his eleventh hour attack upon the plan to limit debate, and announced that he would speak against the repeal bill Tuesday. Representative Underwood, who has been in the open against the presi dent on the issue, pleaded urgently against the rule, and later delivered an attack on President Wilson's pol icy. denouncing the repeal of the toll exemption as an economic mistake and declaring the president to be wrong in his conclusion that exemp tion is in violation of the Hay Pauncefote treaty. Other Democratic chieftains. among them Representatives Kitch * in of North Carolina, broke with the president. Yet in the face of this opposition from men who heretofore had but to raise their voices to have the Democrats of the House follow them, the president won within the party membership ,by nearly 4 to 1. Democrats who voted against the pre vious question on the rule and thus against the administration were: Aiken. Brockson, Prousard. Bruck ner. Caraway, Carew. ('onry. Dale, Deitrick. Difenderfer. Donohoe. Dool ing. Finley. Fitzgerald. Gornman. Goulden, Graham (Illinois). Griffin. Harrison. Helm. Igoe, Jones. Kendal. Kirkpatrick. Lee (Pennsylvania), L'Ergle. Lotue. McAndrews. McDer mott. Mahan. Maher. Mitchell. Mor gan (Louisiana). Murray (Massachu setts), Murray (Oklahoma). O'Leary, O'Shaughnessy. Patten (New York). Phelan. Ragsdaie. Baker. Sherwood. Stne. Taylnr ( Arkansas), Taylor EXPLAINS MAIN POINT WILSON SAYS HIS OPPONENTS LOSE SIGHT OF IT. Canal Tolls Repeal is Not a Personal Matter-Highest Interests of Coun try Are Involved. President Wilson in talks with callers Thursday argued that mem bers of congress were not being ask ed to change their personal opinions on the tolls exemption, but to vote patriotically for its repeal in order to correct a serious international sit uation which threatened to embarrass the United States at every turn in future negotiation of treaties and trade agreements. The president told congressmen who visited the White House that those who based their opposition to the repeal on economic grounds or even on their individual interpreta tion of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty were losing sight of the main point -the united and unanimous opposi tion of the civilized world to the tolls exemption. The president has been Informed that the press of South America, speaking, he thinks, also for their governments, has join ed the press and governments of the rest of the world in the view that the United States is interpreting treaties to suit itself, regardless of obligations. Mr. Wilson emphasized that it was no personal question with him though he himself believed the tolls exemption was a form of ship sub sidy and a mistaken economic policy as well as a breach of the treaty. He reiterated that he did ikot go to con gress with his message to express his personal views, ,but to state a situa tion which had arisen international ly. involving circumstances which were not before members of congress when they last considered the Pan ama canal act. He did not believe members of congress would be com promising themselves by changing their votes now because he knew they could not have -foreseen the world wide protest at that time. Asked just what the International situation was, the, president explain ed that so long as the judgment of the whole wcrld was unanimously against the United States on a situa tion of national honor and a treaty obligation, foreign governments gen erally would not be enthusiastic about entering Into further treaties or trade agreements. For this rea son. he held it as vital to repeal the tolls exemption clause. There was deep feeling in the pres ident's voice as he explained the sit uation to one group of callers. He referred to the American nation as too big and powerful to .be ungener ous or captious in its construction of treaties. The United States, he be lieves, is too big to say "we will do just as little as possible and as we please in' interpreting our obliga tions." He insisted that the thing for the United States to do was vol untarily and ungrudgingly to make its own ships pay tolls on an equality with other nations; as to the points nvolved were too small as compared with the international inconvenience and loss of prectige which he thinks would be otherwise occasioned. (Colorado) Thomas, Underwood, WVil lams, Wingo and Speaker Clark. Total, 55. Representative Kitchin of North Carolina voted against the previous question on the roll call but changed his vote to "present" just before the result was announced. Republicans who voted for the previous question were: Bartholdt, Brown (Wiscon sin), Gillett (Massachusetts), Gard nr (Massachusetts), McKenzie, Madden, Steenerson and Stevens (Minnesota) .-Total, 7. When debate on the special rule began in the House, Representatives Adamson and Hardwick for the ad ministration attacked Speaker Clark's position and in reply Representative Underwood made his urgent plea for support "from the colleagues who have held up my hands in this House." When the debate closed and the droning voIce of the clerk had called the rolls, the Democratic House leaders had been repudiated and the president's appeal answered. With the cloture rule in force the House immediately began the 20 hours of general debate on the repeal bill. Representative Sims of Tenntessee. the author of the repeal bill, made the first speech in support of his measure. He was interrupted fre quently by applause and cheers, in which the crowds in the galleries oc casonaly joined. He argued at length against the economic policy of the free passage of American ships through the canal. Debate against the repeal was opered by Representativc Underwood. who argued to show that under the various treaties the U'nited States has the right to prescribe suc'h tolls as it deems necessary for vessels using the canal. The House cheered the majority leader's argument, based on the treaties between America and Great Britain. in which he held that the United States has the sovereign control of the canal zone, and dle cared that to repeal the free tolls provision was to surrender that right. Great Britain. he said, could not properly contend that the United States under the treaties is not free to exempt its ships from tolls as it sees fit. Recpresentative Palmer of Pennsyl vania told the Democrats that oppo sition within the party ranks to the president in this matter virtually amunted to "impeachment of either the veracity of or the intelligence of the president. "The country never has failed heretoforo to sustain every president who spoke for the country," said he. "whether his utterance TOLLS DEBATE ON - 4 - BIliGEST ORATORICAL BATTLE IS OPENED INCONORESS LEADERS OPPOSE WILSON Speaker Clark, Minority Leader Mann and Oscar Underwood Are Oppos ed to President-Representative Henry of Texas Heads Administra tion's Fight. The greatest legislative battle yet undertaken by President Wilson's ad ministration was begun Thursday the presentation of a special rule in the House to limit debate and prohibit amendment of the admnistrations ] proposal to repeal the provision of 1 the Panama canal act, allowing free I passage to American ships. For two hours the rule alternately was defended and attacked in heated debate in the House. When adjourn ment came, with an hour of debate on the rule left, Speaker Champ Clark, who before had not announc ed his position on the repeal policy, issued a statement vigorously oppos Ing the rule. Impressed with the Importance of a measure which President Wilson has characterized as necessary to the con duct of his administration's foreign polcy, an extraordinary attendance of members was on the floor when the rule was presented. Throngs of spec tators filled the seats in the gallery, occupied the stairways and overflow ed into the corridors. The specta tors came when the House met at 11 and waited hour after hour as rou tine business delayed the tolls bill and the nervous tension on the floor grew more and- more tense. The legislative way finally was cleared and at 4 o'clock Representa tive Henry, chairman of the rules committee, presented the rule, limit Ing debate on the Sims bill to 20 hours and precludng amendment. ex cept for a single motion to recommit. Brief argument brought about an agreement for three hours of debate on the rule and the preliminary skir mish of the greatest legislative strug gle of a decade was on. To a house silently attentive, Rep resentative Henry explained the rule and launched into a defense of the repeal bill. Then followed an argu ment in which the rule received lit the attention, as compared with the I merts of the measure and the presi dent's foreign policy, the right of the American government to exercise control of the canal it has built and the economic advisability of free tolls for American ships were dragged j back and forth in the discussion. Most speakers dwelt on the foreign situation. The president's adherents t who spoke, all Democrats declared that, under the treaty, the United States had no moral right to pass its ships free. His opponents, Republi cans and Progressives, attacked the foreign policy of the administration and denounced the proposed repeal as an "abject surrender to Great Britain".t Thro~ghout the discussion Major ity Leader Underwood, for the first time opposing the administration, sat quietly In his seat, listening atten-t tively to the argument. Repugblicane Leader Mann and Progressive Leader Murdock both made arguments against the rule and the bill. Administration leaders vigorously sought to keep their supporters Ine line and to get recruits. The opposi tion directed its efforts to obtaining votes to defeat a motion to close de bate on the rule, which, if beaten, would allow amendment of the rule. In this situation, epponents of the bill would attempt to prevent thef Sims bill and might force the adop tion of a compromise amendment, re peing the tolls section, without sur- 1 rendering the contention that the United States under the treaties has the right to grant free tolls. Speaker Clark's statement encour aged opponents of the rule, and Rep Iesentative Sims, author of the repeal bill, later issued a statement declar ing: "I have heard there will be an organized effort by enemies of the ad ministration, both in and out of the Democratic party, to defeat the mo tion for the previous question on the rule to-morrow. The object of this 4 would be simply to allow embarrass-1 ing amenments to be offere to the bill. A vnte against the previous question will be virtually a vote 4 against the bill." Representative Henry opened the argument for the rule. He declaredi that the free tolls plank of the Balti more platform did not represent Dem-1 ocratic sentiment and pointed out passed only 72 Democrats in the1 House voted for free tolls, while 94 voted against the provision. "I propose," he said, "to aid in the correction of a blunder that has been1 committed by the American congress.1 This free toll provision violates a treaty and contract we have with England and other nations. The president of the United States has come to the House and has summon ed us to his aid in this great crisis and I propose to follow him." Mr. Henry asesrted that the Amer ican people secured no benefit from free tolls and asserted that the yes vels that would profit from the ex emption are owned by the "Steel Itrust." the "Standard Oil trust, the Southern Pacific railway, the New H~aven railway and the Seaboard Air "These are the people." he said, "who are toe make a million dollars a year because of this exemption." He quoted from the report of the shipping trust investigating commit tee to show that railroads controlled most of the American ships that woud use the canal. WANTS NEW UNIVERS1 CHURCH TOLD TO GIVE UP CLAD TO VANDERBILT. [dea is to Use One Leading Colleg as Neuclus of New Southern Uni versity. MembW of the Methodist Epis: 3opal chath are deeply aroused ovei the decision of the supreme court o rennessee, when it held that Vander bilt university is under the contro: )f the trustees and not of the Meth. >dist Episcopal church, South. Thii lecision enables the trustees to ac :ept the $1,000,000 gift from Andre, ,arnegie. But the decision was noi mtirely unexpected, and alread3 )lans had been discussed in event o: he loss of the suit by the church. Bishop Wilson, with the late 3ishop Galloway, accepted Vander ilt university officially as- an insti ution of the church at the general onference in 1898. Bishop Denny ras for eighteen years a member of he Vanderbilt faculty. Bishop Hosg ias made that institution hisspecial nterest for many years, has taker Lctive part in the controversy from ts inception, and was really the one rst to institute the suit for the ourts to decide whether the church or the trustees had control of the >roperty and the government of the niversity. There has been .no public an Luncement of the plans under con truction, but the course warmly ad ,ocated by many influential preachers .nd laymen in the Southein Metho list church is to sever every connec ion possible with Vanderbilt univer ity and to found a new university r take one of the leading Southern lethodist colleges as a nucleus for ts foundation. Atlanta and several thers large cities of the South have ffered large inducements for found rg such a university in their bor ers. Already there has been $1,000,000 ledged, the site . granted and a ouilding begun at Dallas, Tex., on hat is proposed to be the "Southern fethodist university", and at the oming general conference will, be ut forward for official endorsement .s the accepted central educational asttution of the denomination. All his matter will be decided at the :eneral conference, which meets In he summer at Oklahoma City, Okla. GIVEN CLOSE INSPECTION. )etails of Methods by Which Rails Are Tested. Details of .the methods by which very rail in the Southern Railway's ,036 miles of track is annually sub ected to the closest inspection are iven in the March issue of the louthern News Bulletin in an article elling of the steps which the South rn has taken to prevent derailments esulting from broken rails. The system of inspection. which as adopted over two years ago is elieved the most rigid and effective ossible. The work is under the irection of the district engineers and ivision roadmasters and is done by he track supervisors and_ section oremen who closely'scrutinize each .nd every rail while on their hands .nd knees and with eyea close enougb o the rail to detect the slightest dis overable tendency toward weakness r failure and wherever such are ound the rail is immediately remov d. Detailed reports are made on ach rail left in the track so that omparison can be made at the next ear's inspection. The management of the Soutbern MAlway feels that this rigid inspec ion of every rail over which its raffic moves embodies every possible tep toward the prevention of rail allures, a feature of railway opera ion to which the officials of leading tmerican railways have been giving he closest study during the past few 'ears. ADOPTS NEW POLICY. ew York Habitual Criminals WIll Get Life Imprisonmnent. Douglas I. McKay, police commis oner, has reserved notice on the 'underworld" that habitual crimi kals must either leave that city or bxpect the worst if caught in the po ice net. Fourth offenders under the aw can be sentenced to Imprison nent for life on conviction of a fel According to old timers at police ieadquarters no equally effective ylan for ridding New York of crooks was ever evolved. It was pointed oui :hat criminals generally expect to ;pend some time behind tlhe bars, ut that there is not a crook living vho does not fear life imprisonment. rhe ultimatum to the crooks, it was aid, was caused by the large num er of safe robberies perpetrated or :he lower east side during the last sis noths. Hurt Saving Girl. Rob Johnson, a plasterer of Wil 'nington, N. C., was seriously huri Vednesday afternoon when he swerv d his bicycle to avoid crashing intc Slittle girl. Boys Blown to Pieces. Frank Earlwine and John Stack. louse of Wheeling, W. Va., found :an of ..atroglycerine Tuesday. Il 3xploded, blowing them to atoms. Georgia Marshal Killed. Charles Graham. of Douglass, Ga. shot town marshal of Broxton, Ga. Ronday while being taken to .Jail. aute to the president as having the 'Jacksonian courage to call on con ;ress to aid in correcting this col AMERICANS RETURN FIR [ MEXICAN FBDER.AS CARELES NEAR BORDER LINE. Five Minutes Shooting Fray Resuli in Retreat of Mexicans From Rive Bank. Mexican Federal soldiers, who fire at, a defeated Constitutionalist forc escaping to the United States an safety, met sharp resistance Sunda from United States cavalry of borde -atrol at McKees Crossing, above D( Rio, Tex. When three horses hel by the American troopers -had bee shot down the Americans returne the fire across the Rio Grande, an after the exdhange of shots the Mex cans withdrew, bearing with ther dead, and wounded. Official reports of the oceurrenc to Colonel Sibley, commanding For Clarke at. Eagle. Pass, Tex., cause, rders for all available cavalry of th border patrol to proceed to Del Ric One troop and a machine-.gun platool left Eagle Pass Monday. The- clash-aeross -the internationa line was precipitated, according t official reports to headquarters a Eagle Pass Monday, by persistent fir ing of the Federals at the fleein Constitutionalists, who had gaine American* territory and surrendere to United Staes troops. Thre horses, held by American cavalry men, were killed.- For ten. minute .Captain Winterburn. of. Troop E Fourteenth cavalry, signaled to th< Federals to cease firing, but reporte< that his si-gna3l were disregarded an his own men were in danger. Hi then ordered, the Americans, a..de tachment of eight troopers, to fire and a sharp fusillade followed, last ing for about five minutes. Constitutionalists defeated Sunda were a scouting party led Into a tral by the Federals, wbo, earlier in thi day, had captured Las Vacas, oppo site Del Rio. They abandoned thi town, *but.'--returned suddenly to at tack the rebel scouts. About forty five Constitutionalists were cut off b: 300 Federals at McKees Crossing oi the Rio Grande, where the rebels pu up a stubborn resistance until over powered by.numbers. - They then be gan retreating across the river to th American side, where Captain Win terburn's detachment of cavalryme was on duty to preserve neutrality Of the forty-five Constitutionalist only twenty-seven reached the Texa. bank. Several -were killed In the water; their -bodies floating . down stream. Ther4 was no further trou ble, and it was said that the addi tional troops were ordered to Del Ric because of the battle expected Tues day. A force of about 700 Constitution alists was reported advancing fron the southwest to Las Vacas, when the Federal command is now sta tioned. A rebel company that hai been encamped opposite . Langtry Tex., is also moving down the rive: toward Las Vacas. I CATCH TRAIN ROBBER. Man Working in Greenville Arrestet by Railroad Detectives. Suspected of being one of the three outlaws who held up a Queen & Cres cent passenger train twelve milei north of Birmingham on the night c February 19 and robbed the mai pouches of registered packages sai< to contain $70,000, John Radliff aged 36, was arrested Wednesda: while at work in the Woodside cot ton mills at Greenville where he hai been employed for the past week. A search of Radliff's trunk reveal ed that he had on deposit in the Nor wood National Bank of Greenville the sum of $18,000 or more, and that he also had on deposit in an Atlanti bank a sum amounting to approxi mately $8,000. Except for five or si: dollars which he had on his person Radliff had no other cash in his room; In his trunk was also fount a shot gun, besides a lot of clothing Nothing was known of Radliff 1I Greenville and vicinity before Marc1 13. BABY USES PIG'S EYE. Remrkable Operation Has Been Per formed at Baltimore. What is believed to be the firs operation of its kind in the countr: was performed Tuesday at a Balti more, Md., hospital when the corne of a pig's eye was grafted on thi sightless eye of a three-months-oli boy. It was said that previous opera tion In which rabbit's eyes had beel used were unsuccessful, but that e, periments with pig's eyes had lei scientists to believe that they wari more adaptable. Two cases are sal to ,be on record where the grafting c huma:s corneas gave sight to totall; blind eyes. Confesses He Killed Five. ,Arthur Gill told the police of Ne' Orleans Tuesday that he was an es caped convict, having killed five mel in Florida. He said he wanted to se his mother and sisters. D 1rops Dead at Funeral. At a funeral of a Confederate yet eran at Pulaski, Tenn., Wadnesda: another veteran dropped dead. third veteran was carried away wit: a paralytic stroke. Broke Through Glass. Wltile attempting to escape from Gaff ney store in which they were see: stealing, two negro women brok4 through a glass a quarter of an Inc thick. I ' Rivers and Harbors Bill Passed. The rivers and harbors bill, apprc priating *4.00,O0,000, has passed coi rass, wim ont much amendment. EWHAT WILSON SAID tc GIVES HIS PERSONAL IMPRESS IONS OF THE PRESIDENCY t t TELLS PEOPLE ABOUT IT ra d e President, as Guest of National Press d d Club at Washington, Throws Aside s ir Formality and Frankly Gave .His c 11 d Experience as President of This n p d Country. a d Woodrow Wilson unbosomed him self to members of the National Press ti club, of. Washington, Friday, telling e e them in a frank, conversational way d t how he felt as president of the Unit- t d er States, how difficult for him to t] e imagine 'himself as the chief execu- i e tive with the formal amenities of the g ,-position and how he had struggled to l be as free as the ordinary individual I without the restraint of his office. to It was an intimate picture of 0 Woodrow Wilson, the man, drawn by U himself, on the occasion of the "house warming" at the Press club's new quarters. The president did not g intend to have his remarks made pub- a s lic, but later, at the request of the cl club, he unusual speech was made ci s public. It follows: ri "I was .just thinking of my sense c< e of confusion of identity, sometimes, T j when I read articles about myself. I t1 i never have read an article about my- 's a self in which I recognized myself, and o: - I have come to have the impression that I must be some kind of a fraud, w - because I think a great many of these w articles are written in absolutely good b] y faith. I tremble to think of the va- hi p riety and falseness in the impressions w a I make-and it is being borne in on bi - me that it may. change my very dispo e sition-that I am a cold and removed ni - person who has a thinking machine Y - inside which he adjusts to the circum- fe 7 stances, which he does not allow to u i be removed by any winds of affection e3 t or emotion of any kind,,but turns like bi - a cold searchlight on anything that te - is presented to his attention and ai B makes it work. tc - Hard to Restrain Emotions. ti "I am not aware of having any de- et tachable apparatus inside of me. On the contrary, if I were to Interpret myself I would say that my constant em1arrassment is to restrain the emo- s - tions that are Inside of me. .'You may not believe It, but I sometimes feel like a far from extinct volcano, and if tl the lava does not seem to.spIll over it M is because you are not high enough to ti see into the basin and see the caldron tb - boil. Because, truly, gentlemen, in m the position which I now occupy there th is a sort of-I don't know how else to ki express It than to say-passionate st sense of being connected with my fel- al low men in a peculiar relationship of is responsibility. Not merely the re- h, sponibility of office, ,but God knows, pi there are enough things in this world ai that need to be corrected. m ."I have mixed, first and last, with ti all sorts and conditions of men- t there are mighty few kinds of men w that have to be described to me, and there are mighty few kinds of' expe- si riences that have to be described to It me-and when I think of the number n< of men who are looking to me as the ha representative of a party, with the ti hope of all varieties of-salvation from le ithe things they are struggling In the ly midst of, It makes me tremble. It al makes me tremble not only with a sc sense of my own inadequacy and se weakness, but as if I were shaken .by - the very things that are shaking di them; and if I seem circumspect, it is p] because I am so diligently tryinig not 1c to make any co. <sal 'blunders. If pi you just calculated the number of p~ blunders a fellow can make in twen ty-four hours if he is not careful and Cif he does not listen more than he talks, you would see something of u the feeling that I have. c U'ses All Brains in Reach* al "I was amused the other day at a d< remark that Senator Newlands made. "3 I had read him the trust message I sc was to deliver to Congress some ten ci days before I delivered it, and I never ei stop 'doctoring' things of that kind bi until the day I have to deliver them. ti When he heard it read to congress he se said, 'I think it was better than when Y you read it to me.' I said, 'Senator, at t there is one thing which I don't think ir you understand. I not only use all if - the brains I have, but all I can bor- na r row, and I have .borrowed a lot since b< e read it to you first.' "That, I dare say, is what gives ti the impression "'f circumspectness. I as am listening; I am trying diligently tl -to collect all the brains that are bor rowable that I may not make more f blunders than it is inevitable that a st man should make who has great lim- as itations of knowledge and capacity. El And the emotion of the things is so 1 great that I suppose I must have some Pl kind of a mask to conceal it. I really tI feel sometimes as if I were masquer- a: ading when I catch a picture of my- P -self in some printed description. In S: between things that I have to do as a w~ e public officer, I never think of my-. self as the president of the United States, because I have never had a sense of being identified as such. n "I feel just as much outside of it ri r, as I still feel outside of the govern- ti . ment of the United States. b hIt Is "Only Me". it "No man could imagine himself ti the government of the United States; but he could understand that some a part of his fellow citizens had told a him to go and run a certain part of It lh e the best ke knew how. That would :0 h not make him the government itself irl or the thing itself. It would justi make him responsible for running iti the best he knew how. The machine >- is so much greater than himself; the a t- office is so much greater than him- G self;a theafc is so much greater tl MRN GLB -PRIZES IINETY BOYS TO GET FREE CORSE AT CLEMSON COLLEGE VILL STAY THIRTY DAYS resident Riggs Announces Details of. Plan by Which a Short Course in Agriculture is to be Given to Mem bers of Boys' Corn Club in the Various Counties of the State. Ninety South Carolina boys will be iven a course of thirty dais in prao cal agriculture at Clemson college ext winter. The course will be giv n them free of charge an i. In addi on to this, President W. M. Riggs as arranged matters * so that the oys will not even have to pay for eir. board while at the college. 'hese scholarships, which is what iey amount to, are now offered ag e main prizes in'the Boys' Corn lub work in each county. The two winning boy. corn grow rs in each county will get the Clem mn courses and two boys at large .om the State will be added to the mber, making ninety In all. The rizes will be awarded n9t alone for Lrgest yield. The size of yield, mount of fertilizers used and cost I production will be the principal tctors in determining the winners. W., W. Long, State agent and su erinstendent of extension of Clemson >lege, considers that too much im rtance has been placed on yield In. to corn club work heretofore and L the future economical productiei. s well as heavy yield Will be aime4 Each -boy must bring with him i Clemson college a statement from is school teacher designating the: rade he is )n at school. The boys. ill be divided into groups accord Egto their school grades, as far as ll- be found practicable. Mr. Long Is arranging toghave six the best men in the demonstra on work come to Clemson college in ivance and arrange a course in ele entary agriculture for the boys. hese six men will also be at the col ge during the stay of the boys and ill sleep In the dormitories with tem, in. ord'er to take the ,best care them and to relieve their parents inds of all anxiety. Mr.' Long plans..te. t boys o weeks of. Instruction .in field ops, with actual work In the feld; ne week in the dairy barns, and one eek in the horticultural grounds, in dition to class room work in field 'ops, animal husbandry, horticul re, insect pests and plant diseases. ie aim will be to make the course ementary enough for the boys to ke it in properly and at the same me thorough enough to give them iuable knowledge. It is believed that this is the rst me such an offer has been made in E corn club work anywhere. Since Le announcement of the plan In me counties, there has, been a great takening of interest In the corn ub work and applications for mom ership in clubs have been pouring .to the college in large numbers. terest in the work was beginning slacken among the boys but pres it appearances are that this will be te banner year in corn club work to The boys have accepted the plan ith enthusiasm where they have. ard of It and the chance of win Eng a free course at Clemson college, ith no expense attached, appears to~ ypeal to them strongly. The only epense the boys' parents will have bear will, be that of railroad fare. BOY FIGHTS POLICE. ifteen-Year-Old Lad Stands Off a Squad of. Officers. A 15-year-old boy, barricaded in a m shop, held off a squad of Terre aute, Ind., police with a continuous volver fire Tuesday until wounded tmany places, and his clothes Lood-soaked he staggered from his.: irtress and surrendered. The lad-. rnest McWilliams-was found in t gun ship and when his surrender as demanded he replied -with a fus ade. In the battle that followed 1 the window panes in the store ere shattered and an automnobile, hich the boy had taken refuge, was ddled with bullets from the officers' eapons. ' I Clemency to Two Negroes. Gov. Blease Tuesday paroled Hen rBeasley of Laurens, a negro serv ig a life sentence for .marder and >nmmuted the sentence of John reech, colored, of Richlanti, from even to six years. Creecb. was con icted of larceny. .I I egroes Brutally Attack White Girl. Two negroes of Atlanta brutally ttached a' pretty young white girl Tednesday. She was dragged Into ie woods when her cries brought hite men to her aid. Armed citi ans searched for the fiends. Dies on Biver.. Last Sunday A. 3. Barwick Sr., of reeks, went to the Edisto river to. >ok after some nets. Later he was ,und dead. Foul play Is not sus ected. Kills His Brother-in-Law. . W. Watkins, of Cartersville, Ga., -as mortally wounded Wednesday by Is brother-in-law, Auburn Bailey, fter disputing about $150. Town Turns Into Farm. Dyca, Alaska, formerly a town of 0,000 in the days of the Klondike oom, has been parceled out to three han he can ever..be, and the mqstpD. an do is to look grave enough and elf-possessed enough to seem to fill t. I can hardly refrain every now nd again from tipping the public the ink, as much as to say 'it is only ne' that is inside this thing. I now perfectly well that I will have 3 get out presently. ~ I know that tien I will look just my own 'proper ize, and that for the time being the roportions are somewhat refracted nd misrepresented to the eye by.the irge thing I am inside - of,. from rhich I am tipping you this wink. "For example, take matters of this Drt: I will not say .whether it is ise or unwise, simple or.grave; but ertain precedents have been estab shed that in certain companies 'the resident must leave the room first, ad people must give way to him. hey must not sit down if he is stand ig up. It is a very uncomfortable iing to have to think of all the oth- 9 r people every time I get up and sit t wn, and all that sort of thing. So iat when I get guests in my house ie pu.blic is shut out, I adjourn be g president and take-leave to be o h ntleman. If they draw back and . isist upon my doing something first, t firmly decline. They i.re blessed in- I rvals when I forget by one means t r another that I am president of the t nited States. C Likes Detective Stories. "One means by which I forget is to s At a rattling good detective story, ter some 'imagiftary 'offender, and ase him all over-preferably any )tinent *but this; because the va- 1 ous parts of this continent are be- a >ing painfully suggestive to me. he post offices, and many other Lings, which stir reminiscence have icklied them o'er with a pale cast thought'. c( "There are post offices to which I ould not think of mailing a letter, ti hich I can't think of without trem ing with the knowledge of all the a artburnings of the struggle there a as in connection with getting some- tc >dy.installed as postmaster. h "Now if I were free Tivol'd come )t infrequently up'.to these rooms. on know, I was in .Washingtn but a w times and for a very few hours itl I came last year, and) I never :peel to see theinside of..th'e. public 0 dildings in Washington until My rm is over. The minute I turn up a Lywhere I am personally conducted beat the band. The curator and T e assistant curators and every oth blooming official turns up, and ey show me so much attention-.tht don't see the building. I twould 1 Le to say, 'Stand aside and let me e what you are showing me. See Washington, Later. t' "Some day after I am throilgh with cr is office I am going to come back to o ashington and-see it. In the mean- w, ne, I am in the same category as at e National Museum, the Monu- er ent, the Smithsonian Institute or tu e Congressional Library. If I only T] ew an exhibition appearance to as- el me-apparently I can assume other ta pearances that do not show what ti going on inside-I would like to v Lve it pointed out, so that I could 'actice it before the looking glass ti: d see if I could not look like the tl onument. *Being regarded as a na-. tb mal exhibit would be much simpler. se an being shaken hands with by the a' iole United States. e "And yet this Is interesting to me, ,b cply because I like human beings. ii :is a pretty poor crowd that does It t interest you. I think they would to Le to be all m'embers of that class e: .at devotes itself to 'expense regard- ti ss of pleasure' in order to be entire- di uninteresting. These look so much ike-spend their time trying to look wv much alike-and so relieve them- h< Ives of all responsibility of thought ni -that they are very monotonous in- iv red to look at; whereas, a crowd al cked up off the street is just a jolly e: t-a job lot of real human beings, t( isating with life, with all kinds of ssions and desired. Thinks of Disguising. "It would be a great pleasure if, F iobserved and unattended, I could knocked around as I have -been ac istomed to being knocked around my life; if I could resort to any ~ligihtful quarter, to any place ing 'ashington that I choose. I have metimes thought of going to some stomer's-some theatrical custom-b "s-and buying an assortment of lards, rouge and coloring and all e lenown means of disguising my- E If if it were not against the law. u see, I have a scruple as president ;ainst breaking the law, and disguis g one's self is against the law, but I could disguise myself and " >t gei, caught I would go out, r a free American citizen once r ore and have a jolly time. I might Len meet some of you gentlemen and ually tell you what I really ought." The presidez~it talked entirely in- I3 rmially. He wore a sack suit and ii ood with his hands in his pockets c he spoke. H~e was in a happy C ood and his remarks were constant- s punctuated with laughter and ap- Y ause. Mr. Wilson is a member of te Press club, having been elected as i author long before he became 'esident. Members of the cabinet,, a1 ,aker Clark and many officials also X ere guests of the newspaper men. tl Smith Gets Bill in Line. z< Senator Smith Wednesday after >on succeeded in 'getting his bill to ~gulate transactions in cotton fu ires established as the unfinished X usiness of the Senate, which means 1I will probably be voted on in a short f< me. pi Baby Hangs Itself. William Yeomans, a baby of Cleve nd Ohio, got tangled in the string n a his bonnet, turned over his car- h age and killed himself Tuesday. a Invited to Greenville. Dr. 5. W. Babcock is considering a invitation from the people of 2 reenville to locate his sanitarium b