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% LOCKED IN A CHEST EXPRESS MESSENGER IS VICTIM OF A HOLD UP BANDIT GETS THE CASH The Express Car oil Train Tluit Fussed Orangeburg Six O'clock Thursday Afternoon is Entered and Itobtx'd by llaiulit Near Charleston. The passenger traiu that passes Orangeburg for Charleston at six o'clock every afternoon on the Southern Railway met some wild western doings on Thursday afternoon. When near Charleston the express car was entered by a bandit, who locked the messenger in a chest, took about a thousand dollars or more and escaped. Here is what The News and Courier says about the robbery: Locked in tho chest of the express ear, where he had been forced at the muzzles of two revolvers, Express Messenger Coleman listened helplessly to a masked bandit rifling bis bags, while No. 14 of the Southern Railway tieauod on her way Into the Union Station at 9 o'clock Thursday night. The robbery occurred somewhere between Charleston and Sumniorville, assumably at Ten-Mile. The express messenger was busily engaged with the usual work preparatory to the arrival of No. 14 at the Union Station and did not notice the bandit, who forced his way into the car, until too late to reach for his gun. Coleman realized that the bandit. had the drop on him, and yielded without the struggle that might have borne fatal results. At the point of the revolvers lie was forced to retreat into the chest of the car, and while the train proceeded forward at full speed he was placed under lock and key, safely out of the way of the robber, who proceeded to leisurely and coolly calculating survey of the premises. Express Messenger Coleman wai wlipn \'n 1 A rnlln/1 -? " ..VIA A ivy, i * 1 UUIVI IUIVJ I 1115 Union Station at 9:1 5 o'clock, and a search was made at once. Ho was discovered after some time locked in tho chest, and when released told his story. Immediately an anxious investigation was made to determine the amount of hooty which the robber had decamped with long before the alarm for Coleman became general. It was ascertained at a late hour Thursday night that a comparatively small amount, probably not much in oxeess of one thousand dollars, had boon taken. Nothing of negotiable valuo had been overlooked, however, proving that tho bandit had mado a systematic search of tho car before leaving it, either at tho Union Rtaa i 1. - i ? ' iiou in Buiuewnere aiong ino route when No. 14 slowed down temporarily. Much excitement wan caused in the "Union Station by the rumor that something was wrong" in tho express car of No. 14, and the amount that had been taken was rapidly magnified until it had soon assumed proportions that the deeds of the James brothers dwindled Into Insignificance. This is the first. train robbery in many a moon, and it is tho cause of a great amount of comment in railroad circles. Tho boldness and neatness with which It was executed lead many to believe that an old hand is at work again. / * "IMPEKATOR" AFIItE. ? Tjftrgest A'essel Swept by Flames AVliilo at Pock. Tho steamship "Imperator", largest vessel afloat, was swept by fire early Thursday as sho lay at her <lock at Hoboken, with her crew an 1,131 steerage passengers aboard. Second Officer Gobreoht, who led the crew into tho hold to fight tho flames, was cut off from bis men, enveloped in a cloud of smoke and suf focated. His body was found an hour afterward, untouched by flre, and brought ashore. A seaman, one of the party who went down with Gobrecht into the bowels of the vessel, also perished. A fleet of fire-flgbting craft, augmented by apparatus on shore, surrounded th? ship and poured tons of water into her hold. When tho fire was checked at 8 o'clock tho great vessel had listed 15 degrees. Touching in Louisiana. James Comeaux, colored, was lynched by a mob at Jennings, (la., Thursday. Comeaux had been arrested for assaulting A. W. Joseph, an Italian merchant, who had accidentally swept dirt on the negro's shoes while he was passing the Italian's store. Two of Joseph's relatives have been arrested in connection with the lynching. f ? World's Navies May Pass Canal. An invitation to all tho navies of the world to meet In Hampton Roads, In 1915, and follow the United States navy through tho canal will he issued shortly by President Wilson. The United States navy will start on its Mediterranean tour in October and will return in timo for Christmas in the states. s I TWO MORE ARE WET LKAIXGTOX AM) SIMTKIt COl*NTEl) FOll UOOZK. The Prohibitionists Will Fight to the Hitter End und Courts Will Have to Deeide. A dispatch from Lexington to The News aiul Courier says after hearing one of the most interesting sensational election contests in the history of the county, if not in the State, for more than two days and a half, the Lexington County board of canvassers Thursday overruled the protest offered by tho prohibitionists over the outcome of the election held on August 19, on the question of re-establishing the dispensary in Lexington County, in which the dispensary won by a majority of 5 6. The contest will now be carried before tho State board of canvassers, which is scheduled to meet in Columbia on Monday, September 8, and in the event that an adverse decision is rendered before that body, it is probable that the case will be carried into the Circuit Court. This means that Lexington will remain In the "dry'' column for several months to come, us it will take a long time to go through the several processes incident to a final decision. The report of the Lexington board of canvassers iH a very lengthy document and is interesting. In concluding its decision the board says: "With reference to certain testimony that has been offered, to the effect that certain members of this board had taken a drink of whiskey during the days that this contest, was being held, this board desires to say that 110 member of it is a drunkard, and that 110 member of it was under the influence of whiskey or other intoxicants to the extent that it did or could have pissibly affected their judgment and conclusions in this case, and any opinion or conclusions to the contrary is groundless and without foundation in fact." Sumter "Drys" Very Hitter. The prohibitionists of Sumter loud in their condemnation and protestations against, the manner in which they were treated by the board of canvassers, claiming that the board was unfair to them at every step. On the other side some of the dispensaryites say there was 110 discrimina tion made by (he board, while others, it is said, admit that the prohibitionists got the raw side of the deal, and still others will not express their opinions. Feeling runs high against tho commissioners of election among the prohibition advocates. The appeal of the prohibitionists is made on the grounds that the dispensary petition was not signed by onethird of the qualified voters of the! county, and one of them stated that ho was willing to sign an affidavit to this effect and that the clerk of the county board of commissioners had made a statement to this effect to him. It is alleged by the prohibitionists that the ballots used in the election are not of a legal size, being two and one-half inches by three inches, when the law requires them to he two and a half inches by five inches. The Supreme Court lias held that the ballots must fulfill the requirements of the law in this respect. Tho anti-dispensary people claim that they were not given justice and that It is necessary for them to take up the matter on appeal to secure justice. They have their evidence well in hand and will put up a strong showing, they claim, before tho higher Court. At the same time the dispensary attorneys aro getting their evidence together and will also put up a stiff fight bdfore the State board of canvassers, or Supremo Court, if the case goes before that body. In tho meantime other more soberminded citizens, some on both sides, regret tho whole election, as the sentiment of the people has not yet been ascertained and they are not willing to act on the matter as it stands now. They regret exceedingly tho hard feeling caused by tho election. TAKIOS THIIITY DAYS. For l'asteur Method to Immunize Threatened Patient. Itelativo to the death of littlo Reiilah iRethea in Dillon from livdrnnhn. bia Wednesday after she had receiv| od tlie Pasteur treatment In Columbia, Dr. J. P. Hayne of tlio state board of health said Thursday morning .that, the Pasteur treatment was not always a cure. lie said that it took thirty days for the Pasteur treatment to immunize a patient against hydrophobia and if tho patient should develop the disease before that time the treatment was of no avail. Most patients take longer than thirty days to devolop hydrophobia and this gives the Pasteur treatment time to work, hut not always. This is the reason that persons bitten are urged to use all speed in getting themselves treated. Movleans Killed in Kxplosion. Tho explosion of dynamlto in a gondola ear in tho thickly settled portion of Tacubaya, a suburb of Mexico City, caused tho loss of scores of lives. The diaastor was caused by a carload of iron pipe Jamming into tho dynamite car. MEXICAN MESSAGE WILSON APPEARS IN PERSON BELORE CONGRESS REMAINS "HANDS OFF' l'rwldcut Rwoivwl With Thunderous ' Applause, As In Speech llrcathiug i Sympathy Towards Mexico He Out- 1 i lines United States Policy as One 1 ? of Peace President Woodrow WllBon went to 1 congress Wednesday and revealed \ how the Huerta provisional government in Mexico had rejected the 1 friendship of the United States and 1 its efforts to aid in the establishment ] of peace and a government which could bo recognized by this nation, and which would be obeyed and respocted by Mexico's own people. In a statement which breathed re- J grot and sympathy in every phrase, the president clung tenaciously to optimisin as to the ultimata rosnit nr,r_ withstanding the pessimistic facts ! confronting the two nations. After picturing the hopelessness for Mexico < if she maintained her present position, "isolated and without friends , who can effectually aid her," the president announced the necessity of a firm neutral stand hy this government, u policy of "hands off" to uwuit , the time of Mexico's awakening. He also voiced an urgent appeal for nil Americans to leave Mexico and for tho United States to aid them in every possible way hut in emphatic language served notico upon those who assume to exercise authority in the revolution torn country that they would be held to a definite reckoning I for loss and suffering to American citizens. The message was received with enthusiastic applause by members of the houso and senate gathered in joint session in tho houso chamber, and hy night tho machinery of tho government was in motion for making effective the policy of neutrality, and "hands off." while the warring factions continue their struggle. The president announced the position of the United States to he as follows: No armed intervention. Strict neutrality forbidding the ex portatlon of arniB or munitions of war of any kind from tho United States to any part of tho republic of Mexico. Under no circumstances to "bo the partisan of either party to the contest that now distracts Mexico or constitute ourselves the virtual umpire between them." To urge all Americans to leavo Mexico at once and assist them to get away in every way possible. To let every one in Mexico who assumes to exercise authority know that this government "shall vigilantly watch the fortunes of those Americans who can not get away and shall hold those responsible for their rufferings and losses to a definite reckoning." "That can and will be made plain beyond the possibility of a misunderstanding," declared the president. Negotiations for the friendly mediation of the United States are open to resumption at any time upon the initiative either of this government or of Mexico. DIES OF HYDROPHOBIA. Dillon I<ask Succumbs to Malady Caused by Dog Bite. Beulah, a little 0-year-old girl of Hansom Bethea, living on W. T. Huggins' place near Dillon was bitten by a mad dog about four weeks ago She was taken to Columbia, for IIia Pau. tour treatment about 18 hours after she was bitten. She was brought back homo and took (ho treatment as prescribed and seemed to be getting along nicely. . The usual time for treatment was out on last Wednesday. Friday afternoon the little girl bogan to show peculiar symptoms and grew rapidly worse until sho died Tuesday night about 11 o'clock. Sho had all the symptoms of hydrophobia. She sat up on her knees in bed and talked incessantly at times growing into a rage. The sight of water would throw her Into spasms. Swims to Safety. Wounded in the left heel by a stingray, whoso sting is poisonous, Jjm Swanson slashed his heel to the bone with a fish knife, leaped overboard from his boat and swam a mile and a half to Beach*Haven, near Atlantic City, N. J. Ho was found unconscious on the shore and carried to the ofllco of Dr. Herbert Willis, who believes that the heroic treatment and the cauterizing effects of the salt water will save the patient's life. fiov. O'Neal Works Witli Shovel. Under a blazing sun and with a big crowd of state officials looking on Gov. O'Neal grasped a shovel and performed real manual labor on the Alabama highway at Montgomery. The ceremony opened Alabama's three good roads days, in which thousands of men participated> YEA, ANOTHER DANIEL WATKHSON COMMENTS ON TILLMAN'S SPKKCIL Kentucky Alitor in a Spiccly Worded Article Approves Senator's Opinion. Senator Tillman lias made a great speech on tho right side of the most momentous question of modern times. All other questions palo to nothing beside it. "We can better afford to have degraded and corrupt polities," he says truly, "than degraded and corrupt women." Two clases of men believe that woman suffrage is Inevitable; the nincompoops and the shifty politicians. I here are men who seem to have woman suffrage in the blood; yearn after it; always did; believe in it, advocate it. They are tho nincompoops. There are others who think they see it coining and want to be on tho reception when it arrives. There being nothing men value more than woman's favor, their attainment of it by these is likelv to cnntmriipt ?mu?. efforts. What the best women prefer In men is manhood. It is not always to be had, and then, or course, they have to take the best they can get. It Is bore that the nincompoops come In. The Courier-Journal does not. believe that women suffrage meaning precipitate and universal votes for women, the bad with the good, the hlack and the white is inevitable. The real question has not yet been considered except by the women freaks in band wagons and circus processions. Heal women are but beginning to take it seriously and to de- i liberate on it rationally. The newspapers, for the most part, are afraid to tackle it. The average editorial writer is not permitted to think; but, I if he does, come power interdicts his calling ids soul his own. There are women and women. The I he-women themselves are divided into two classes: the silly women who run after fads and the sel^exploiting women who want to be leaders Meanwhile, there is a world of good and wise women who have not spoken nor been consulted but who know that the crazy Janes in the band wagons and the circus processions are driving straight to hell. There are, however, tiy-up-t hecreek women as well as nincompoops men. They have to be reckoned with also. The average suffragette is made up mainly from these. As a rule she is a woman who wants some thing and thinks It's the ballot. That is itlll only a partial classification, however. Behind the shilly-shally desire for the ballot there are many different states of mind. There are women who want the ballot as an attractive personal attribute, as they might want a necklace, an auto, or a frock, or something they think would add to their beauty or distinction. There are others who want it as an Instrument of power. They want something either for themselves, or for society, which, they fancy, women's voies will help them to get. They believe that when women vote it will bo easier to induce legislatures to pass feminine statutes and the courts to confirm, and the administration to enforce them, and easier to induce Congress to piece them out where necessary with Federal legislation, and easier generally to compel indecent people to become decent people. Time was when if n person became conscious of sin, he repented. NTow the idea is to get a bill through the legislature. The suffrage plan is virtue by act of assembly. The old way had good points, but it is the fashion to abandon all the old ways and hooray for new ways. Misconduct, let us say, is bad, but Intrialo t I An io i r. 4 ? ? 1 .? ^ 1 -1 >/hiiiiuui/u in nui bu, Dlillt! I I^IIIK UI1(1 tho fabric of government seem to be nothing to those he-women, and even parental and family rights seem very little. Many good women have seen them so abused; so much duties that should go with them neglected, that their politics is merely pure milk, the protection of the young, conditions of life that are not incompatible with honest and wholesome living. But when it comes to connecting these things with women's votes, where is she? The relation between women and voting being mainly speculative, their realization of the ballot would prove wholly illusory. One Floyd Dell, a Chicago crank who seeks to exploit himself, declares that when women got tho franchise "wo shall have an element impatient of restraint, straining at the rules of procedure, cynical of excuses for inaction; not always, tyy any means, on the side of progress; making every mistake possible to ignorance and self-conceit. Yet still he wants them to vote, he says ?"transforming our politics from a vicious end to an efficient means?from a cancer into an organ". This absurd person flinds Emmelino Pnnkhurst most representative of real womankind. Mrs. Pankhurst, ho says, "has enabled us to seo what women really are like, just as Jane Addams has, by her magnificent anomalies shown us what women are not like'.' The whole case of woman suffrage rests on such tommy-rot. The few good disinterested women urging it are mistaken. All that Senator Tillman forecasts is as true as Holy Writ, which most of the typical and leading suffragettes reject In toto, tossing the BENEFITS FARMERS PAPER ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS NEGOTIABLE CAUCUS VOTES IT IN Without u IHsNOiitinK Vote Democrats Adopt Amendment to Currency Hill Which Was Sponsored by Hoth Insurgents and lU'Kulai'H Acting Together. Au agricultural currency amend-| nient to the Administration bill was I adopted by the House Democratic i caucus Monday. After several preliminary skirmishes, in which other amendments were beaten, tho caucus without a dissenting vote adopted an amendment, sponsored both by the "insurgent" contingent and the banking and currency committee, to put paper based on agricultural pro-I ducts on tho same basis as commercial paper for banking purposes. It would also extend tho maturity of notes and bills admitted to discount under the amendment to 90 days, instead of the originally proI posed <1 a days. This action disposed of the last of the big controversial I issues in the Administration currency bill. The amendment reads: "Upon the endorsement of any member bank, any Federal reserve bank may discount notes and bills of exchange out of commercial transactions: that is. notes and bills of exchange issued or drawn for agricultural, industrial or commercial purposes, or the proceeds of which have been used or may bo usod for such purposes, tho Federal reserve board to have the riolit to determine or define the character of the paper thus eligible for discount, within the moaning of this Act. Hut such definition shall not include notes or bills issued or drawn for the purpose of carrying or trading in stocks, bonds or other investments, securities, nor shall anything herein contained ho construed to prohibit such notes and bills of exchange secured by staple agricultural products or other goods, wares or merchandise from being eligible for such discount. Notes and bills admitted to discount under the terms of this paragraph must have a maturity of not more than 00 days." Chairman Class said the amendment did not discriminate either for or against the farmer; that the Now England shoe manufacturer or clothing maker could present his goods for discount, as much as the farmer could, and, in the final analysis, "the whole thing is left to the Federal reserve board or the regional reserve bank which does the discounting." Bible into the sea as man-made pro 8crlptlon and throwing over the religion of Christ as man-made hypocrisy. T.et every Christian woman?every wise and virtuous wife and mother in the land?take into heart and mind these words of the South Carolina Senator, who speaks verily as a prophet of old: "It is a beautiful dream that woman suffrage will purify politics, because our ideals of women are so high, and' wo regard them so absolutely as the source of goodness and purity that we can not conceive of their not elevating and helping everything they touch. Hut the vital and important thing for us to consider is the effect upon women themselves. "Wo had better endure the evils of corruption in politics and debauchery in our government, than bring about a condition which will mar the beauty and dim the lustre of the glorious womanhood with which wo have been accustomed all our lives. tif- i. ~ i i "* wt! ran union airora to nave degrado(l and corrupt politics than degraded and had women. To have both in ever increasing degree, as was the case in Rome, would make the world so unspeakably horrible, as well as corrupt that good men and women would disappear from the face of the earth, and civilization would bo blotted out as it was in the dark ages, after the fall of Rome, "I l>olievo woman will improve politics, but ultimately politics will destroy her as we know her and love her; and when our good women are no longer to be found, and wo have lost the breed, the doom of the republic 1 s near." We do not believe with Senator Tillman that woman suffrage will improve politics even for a little while, or ever has improved politics where it has been tried. On the contrary it will drag, and where women have been caught by it, it has dragged woman down to tho level of man The wise and good women of the world have not yet. seriously considered it. Only the she-wolves of Satan and their foolish dupes have thus fai had the front and center of the stage ?Louisville Courier-Journal. < m * * President's Daughter Hurt. While out riding with her fiance* Miss Jessie Wilson was thrown and received slight injuries. Francis 11 Sayer, her fiancee, had been riding f little ahead and knew nothing of th< accident until tho riderless hors< passed him. COTTON A LITTLE OFF + I UKPOKTS SHOW DKTBIUOHATION IS AKU ST. Noxt Grofttext Decline in I'nxt Ten Year*--South Carolina's Crop lletter Than I>aM Year. Reports from 1,939 special correspondents of the Journal of Commerce, bearing an average date of August 32, show a condition of cotton of 7 1.4 per cent . as compared with SI. I per cent, a month ago, or a loss of 9.7 points. Only once In tho past ten years has the decline in August been exceeded, namely, the year of 1911, when it was 14.3 points; and ihe 10-year average loss is about T>.9 points. Condition a year ago was 7.7.4 per cent., while in 191 1, the banner year, it was 72.6 per cent., and 7 0.7 per In 1 <1 1 l? TKb ...... ? .... ... i ii'- average is 7 3.5 per cent. It remains to be seen how far n loss of 9.7 points in condition will be offset by an increase of 8 5 6,0 00 acres over last year, or about L' 1 1-2 per cent. Percentage condition by States follows: Sept. Aug. 13 12 North Carolina . .80 2 79.3 75.6 South Carolina . .77.5 76.6 74.0 Georgia 79.0 79.5 7 1.5 Florida 79.4 80.0 73.6 Alabama 73.6 7 9.2 7 4.3 Mississippi . . . .73.6 81.0 71.3 Louisiana 72.4 78.1 75.3 Texas 65.1 81.4 7 6.0 A rk a n sas 7 7.6 87.4 81.0 Tennessee 81.0 89.2 75.4 | Missouri 66.8 86.6 83.0 Oklahoma 60.2 84.8 82.8 Average . . . .71.4 81.1 75.4 1 eterloratlon has been greatest in Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri, j whcro continued drought and high i temperatures were chiefly instrui mental in causing declines of 15.7 points, 15.4 points and 19.8 points, respectively. Other Important States 1 she ing losses were: Georgia 0.5 point; Alabama, 5.6 points; Mississippi, 7.4 points; Louisiana, 6 points; Arkansas, 9.8 points; Tennessee, 8.2 points. ACT LI l\M l 'OOLS. 4 Canadian Women Go Into Hysterics Over llarry Thaw. Harry K. Thaw won three victories over the New York State authorities Thursday and was locked In the Sherbrooke juil, immune for the time be ing from the Canadian immigration authorities, after having received an ovation from the townspeople of Shcrbrooko that would have done honor to a prince of royal blood. Ho riotous was the scene in the superior court subsequently warned spectators that a repetition would mean Jail sentences for the deraonstrants. Speaking from the bench at the afternoon session, Judge Globensky said that never in ids experience as a member of the bar and the bench, had be been a witness "to such disgraceful scenes". Tt was carried out in tlio presence of court attendants and four armed Dominion police who stood immobile while emotional women rushed toward Stanford White's slayer crying: "Three cheers for Thaw! Three cheers for the "British flag! Wo will give you justice, llarry." 8\AI\S PISTOL IN FACK + Columbia Manager Western Vnion Has Narrow Kscaiie. Angered because of the Western Union Telegraph company's failure to locate him and deliver a telegram announcing the illness of his father, Virgil Carver, an employee of tho Richland cotton millls, went to the ofllees of the Western Union on Main street Tuesday morning at Columbia and attempted to shoot J. T. Gray, , the manager. manure or the cartridges to explode was possibly tho means of saving Mr. dray's life, as employees in the of, flees claim that he snapped the pistol twice at Mr. Gray. After tho manager had darted through a hack door to save himself, Carver rushed out , into the street and fired the pistol once. A call was sent to the police , headquarters, but before officers ar, rived, Carver had been placed under ( arrest by Constable Hruce Nettles. Spanish Girl Involves 14 Men. Arrested because of her extreme . youth, while talking to a young man on a street corner, Gladys Cartal, a , young Spanish girl, living in Pittsburg, told tho police of fourteen men , who have been entertaining her in [ that city. Most of them are prominent men, and nearly all are married. , Arrests will follow. .1 , Thousand of Hats Killed in Attic. Moro than a barrelful of bit? bats. . that had taken possesion of the attic In tho homo of James Hagan, of Val- 1 dosta, Oa., were killed by a largo force of men in tho roof, to blind tho > out. I ? Appointed Second Tiloutenant. i President Wilson Tuesday nomi- ; i nated Bryan C. Murchison, of South ) > Carolina, to a second lieutenant In the marine corps of tho navy. i I I