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SUCCESS IN MEXICO ??? ASSURANCES GIVEN THAT HUERTA WONT RUN ! ? J OUTLOOK IS HOPEFUL ? Wilson hikI llryaii Adopt Attitude That lluerta lias Been Mliiiiiiiat<tlami They Tliink That Other Developments May I.ead to Peace in ] War-Hidden <'ountry. President Wilson and Secretary Bryan have adopted the attitude that the elimination of Yictorlimn iinnptn from the Presidential race in Mexico is assured and that the first step toward the establishment of peace in Mexico lias been accomplished. This wgs the authoritative declaration Thursday of administration ofllclals, who also let it be known: That oral assurances had been given Nelson O'Shaughnessy, charge d'affaires of the American embassy, of Huerta's intention not to bo a candidate in the approaching election. That the United States would construe literally the argument in the second note of Frederico Gamboa, Mexican minister of foreign affairs, who pointed out at great length that a provisional president in Mexico is ineligible to succeed himself. That any effort on the part of lluerta to circumvent the Constitution, by resigning in advance of the elections in favor of another provisional president, would bo regarded by the United States as a breach of f I f 1 * \\t\C t l'O ' "\t-- t 1 - uu: Aivic.ii stress was laid by the ofllcials upon the withdrawal by Senor C.amboa, in his second note, of the original demand for recognition by the United States through the exchange of ambassadors. That the lluerta government had in effect withdrawn its demand for recognition is now held by many Washington oflicials, notwithstanding Senor liamboa's declaration in the same note'that, lie would "always stand on the unavoidable condition which declares that we are in reality the adintcrim constitutional government of the Mexican Republic". Dispatches from the Mexican Capital, stating on high authority that lluerta would resign soon in favor of Gen. Geronimo Trevlno so as to be an eligible candidate for the Presidency, attracted wide attention. The administration ofllcials having taken the view that lluerta has been eliminated from the Presidential contest, are looking forward to the early negotiation of an armistice by the Mexican factions and the prompt holding a constitutional election. The United States will consider itself free to withhold recognition until af. tor it has scrutinized the elections to j determine if they had the approval of the Mexican people. 1 ? Sotting a (iood lOxnmple. I The action of those fifty thousand 1 or more Missouri citizens in turning ] out so willingly to help get tho state "out of the mud" was a practical 111 lustration of patriotism that may well 3 find imitators. For it is patriotism 1 to Help one's community or state, as ] well as the nation, info a better and J: higher condition. If more of such a spirit were displayed in communal i life there would not he nearly so < many dead or dying towns, j As a good roads proposition the ae \ tion of the Missourians has every \ thing in its favor. It was a recognit tion that good roads are vital to the ? best interests of the state, and therer fore, to those of every city and village t in the state. Roads are the arteries t of commerce and trade, and also of v the social life of a place. A good road, one that can be traveled every o day in a year means progress and nr prosperity. Many a town has lost out s because the roads leading to it were t well nigh impassible, ?nd in like t manner many a town has won out bet cause its citizens saw to it that the I. roaus leaning 10 11 were Kepi 111 gooo condition. % Again the action of tho people of Missouri was a striking illustration of the power of harmonious co-opera? tion. Rich and poor, and people of every vocation in life, and of all ages, a were moved by one single purpose? ^ that of improving the highways of the state. It goes without saying h that in all tho future its roads will be more easy and comfortable to traverse, and that they will be more pleasing to the eye. In a very literal sense it may be said in the langagc V of Scripture, "the crooked has beer ci made straight and the rough placet t< plain." All that will mean millions d; of dollars to the commonwealth, and M which is by no means to be overlook h; od, a greater pride in and love foi in the state. That same spirit of co-operatioT may well be imitated in everything ol conceived to promote the interests o anv nlaee. whether that nlace be : JIf da 1 m largo city or state, or a small village n, It is the spirit that speaks of unity o jj desire and action. Many a town ha: II) been killed hy factional feeling ant jealousy. Such a spirit has mori than offset all the natural advantage! the place may have had. Unity, ear neatness, and intelligent action wil j,, make prosperous any place not in it self impossible. 9 President Wilson Indorsed. Ono of the most interesting and helpful results of Presiient Wilson's special address to Congress on tho Mexican situation is ifce responsive ring of approval it lias brought from thinking men in every party and in every section of the country. The Atlanta Journal says if lluerta ever had reason to doubt that the administration was speaking for the entire American people be is now convinced of his error, for every voice of public opinion that comiuandR respect has united in earnest commendation of the course the President is pursuing. Thus the New York Tribune, as staunch a spokesman of Republican politics as could be found, declares that the nation must "approve and support the dignified, benevolent and resolute policy which was "put forward in tho President's message'' and the Run aflirms that "the attitude of the administration, so manifestly inspired by lofty ideals of duty and of method, represents exactly the attitude of our Congress and, generally, of the American people. The Herald speaks with insight as I well as enthusiasm: "No more striking evidence of the truism that In the I'nfled States political opinion "stops at the border," could be asked or given than that furnished by the reception accorded by Congress to President Wilson's address. Republican Ren n tol-K If Alirnonnlollimo ? , . . ?...? .v j i v in uuun i f, cin strongly as those of tho President's own party gave unequivocal approval of the efforts of the executive department has made to promote peace in our neighboring republic, and of the policy to be pursued in the immediate future." The Kvcning Post remarks that <lie President "lias absolutely united the country behind him. Scarcely a single partisan or prejudiced voice is raised against his general attitude. This is tho more remarkable in that the President's plea, while strongly insisting upon the national dignity and the duty laid upon tho United States, is all for peace, all for friendship with Mexico, all for non-intervention, all for the most resolute denial of any selfifeh purpose in our .attempts to bring about a peaceful sett lenient." The Boston Transcript is confldont that Mexico and tho world are now convinced "that the voice of the President in this crisis is tho voice of the nation;" and the Springfield Hepublican declares that tho course Mr. Wilson advises "is tho nnlv t? pursue and the American people will show their patriotism to the best advantage by solidly supporting him." The Chicago Tribune says "The President's action is bused on the deepest and broadest foundations of American international policy, foundations sometimes ignored but always ignored at cost." The Chicago Inter Ocean counsels the American people "to stand firmly with their President in seeking such a triumph of moral force and pressure as most clearly distinguished from physical arguments of any kind." And the San Antonio Express, speaking from the first band experience of one on the troublous Southern border, observes: "Congress cheered the President; we who know conditions in Mexico, we who are more capable of judging because ol our proximity to and our famlllaritj with the aflairs of the neighboring Republic, congratulate him on hit wisdom and strength.'' Thus, almost without a dissenting voice, does the press of tho United States sanction and support tho far sighted and high-minded policy the administration is carrying forward. Ii is doubtful if ever before in the coun try's history a President ever inspir ed confidence so cordial and wide spread in dealing with a crucial is sue." They Will 1m? the Tjotters. The refusal of Germany, Grea 'Britain and some other Europeai nations to participate in the grea fair at San Francisco will, if persisted in, lessen to some extent tne uttrac tivenesB and valuro of the Exposition but it will do for more harm to thoei nations not represented. Doubtless as the governments of those countrie declare, tlio cost of making such dis plays is considerable, and the immed 1 iate trade results may not bo appar ent. Hut for nations that spend bun dreds of millions of dollars ever * year to build wadsbips, and train an equip vast armies, th excuse that ca not afford two millions apiece for in ' dust rial display is rather far fetche ; and but provokes a sceptical smile. 1 > is rather a sad coinmetary on the boasted civilization of thoso land ? that while they decline to pay u. con" I partively small sum to bo representei > ed on an occasion designed to promot i commerce and the arts of poae< * they squander with spendthrift reel * lossness immense snms for warlik , purposes. r Home influence and not legislntio is needed to curb the "tango" and th 1 "I ni key trot" and slit-skirt, wearing X is the opinion of Vieo-President Mai f shqll. Mr. Marshall was the principi \ sjieaker Sunday at the camp nieotln . of the Methodist Episcopal Cliurcl f South, at Great Falls, Va. s 1 It may not be possible to stop th 8 formed the habit, but a stron s healthy, determined public sentlmei - against the illegal sale of liquor b 1 so-called social clubs and blind tiger - and similar lawlessness, can be buj pressed, and it (should be. PRIMARY NEKDS REFORM .IOIIN J. McMAll \N I'lmjks LKtiAl/ ki:^i iki:mi:nt or school * ' I Attendance to Moot Mxccptional ()?* 4es and Insure Disciplinary Oontrol. Children with school-going companions will want to go to school It is natural to imitate. This is motive by suggestion one of the most poten influences in 1 ift*. Thus it is quite easy to send children to school if it is the custom of the neighborhood to do so, but it is difficult in a community that has not this custom. The development of such a custom is much to be desired, and may require the aid of law. Desisting Needed Discipline, lint there are'times when children, even though they started to school with eagerness, will drop out or lag unless kopt to the tasks by the com ulsion of the parents backing up the teacher. At such a period of strain, f the parent undermines the influence of the teacher, or encourages tho child to give trouble or stop off, it may prove the fatal turning point in the career of the child. Whether or not thus ruinous to the child, the contagious example and demoralizing influence will disturb the work of 111<3 other children, and will retard the growth of that community sentiment necessary for the establishment oi the needed community attitude toward supporting the school and the teacher and making the fullest uso of both. Mveeptional ('nsos, Here is the need for the exercise of the authority of the State to protect the school which it owns and pays for, and to control the parent who is exceptional in harsh disregard of the child's interests or is exceptional in weak surrender t. the self-will of the exceptionally relvollious child The State's authority is to correct the. wrong attitude of the ignorant or heart less parent and prevent the denial of the child's right to use the shool facilitties offered by the Stace or the State's authority is to stiffen the backbone of the weak parent helpless against a spoiled and disobedient child. Thus in iteher case the State comes in merely to supply the deficiency of the needed parent authority, which appears only in ex! ceptional cases. All law is for ex| ceptional cases?to make them still more exceptional by adding motives the normal and customary. To Steady I'urciit's Judgment. , tendance will have far-reaching be neficlal moral effect as the crystalli ization of public opinion and the rinai settlement of wavering indlviI dual views by the sovoreign decree. "Thus saith the law!" This will tend , to straighten and steady the judg ment and motive of a parent inclln ed lo let the child stay at home for ; fimsy, fancied or otherwise false ' reasons. The child may be put to 5 work too young, when not really nec' essary for the support of the family. r Or the parent may just care nothing f for the school?concede it no rights i and give it no thought, and therefore without reason keep the child loaf; lug at homo. In similar indifference I without professed hostility, the par out indefinitely delays starting the ? child to school, upon sundry pretexts t such as waiting for shoes, and new - clothes, or hoofs, or waiting till the - weather is better, or till the child - gets over Its cold, etc. In such cases - the child may never learn to read, especially if without associates to stir the ambition to attend school despite parental indifference. Dropping Out of School. ( T.et us emphasize the fact that the j child seldom attends school without parental compulsion, and every year many drop by the way. Even after I the habit should have heen aconired | by yoars of attendance, pressure is ^ still needed and when exerted usually has good effect. Many a boy does well at. tho high school, though he would have stopped before entering it if allowed to have his way. Si Hillary a boy frequently starts to col^ leg>e against his will, and would stop each year, but for parental influence. n Nowadays it Is often persuasion of entreaty rather than control, as part cuts in easy circumstances have so generally ceased to command. NeverIS thcless the unwilling student usually ' justifies tho parent's decision especially where tho parent shows a real ' decison and firmness, and is not con^ tent to keep the boy at school or collego merely in name. 0 Trying Out the Child. But more and more as tho lilghei education is approached tho taking n of it. may be left to the choice, the e aptitude, of the boy, or girl. Not sc ?, in lower grades, especially primary r- There the child docs not knov il enough to bo able to decide for him g self with any real sense, llo has noi i, reached tlie ago of discretion, aii( even if his powers of reasoning were sound and his judgment trustworthy io ho would still lack the data, the in g formation, tho range of vision, nec it ossary to make an intelligent elecis >y ion on so momentout a question s, Moreover, heforo tho child has beer )- tested, nobody can know enougl about his possibilities to be justl] | The Awful Cost of War, War is tho greatest curse to the human race, and all tin; great nations of the earth ought to make war the very last resort to the settlement of International troubles. All other means should be exhausted before war is even thought of by nations. As a boy wo have a very distinct recollection of the hardships and sorrows caused by the War Iletwecn the States. Very few homes In the South but where lorrow entered because of the death of somo loved ono or friend on the battlefield. Tho young men of the South almost to a man went to tho front in that fearful struggle and did their duty like the brvvo men they were should have doue. Thousands of theso young men were left on the battlefields as an offering to tho god of war, and few homes in the South hut what mourned for somo loved one or friend who gavo their life for their country. Who can estimate the loss of theso young men to the South? Then look at. tho treasure that war cost, to say nothing of tho homos destroyed. The money cost of the two Balkan wars amounted to $1,350,000,000, and tho loss of life was appalling. Of 150,000 Turks mobilized 100,000 were killed In battle; but it Is among me r.aiKan christian armies that the losses were most terrifying. miliaria brought 350,000 men into the field, and of this number 1 40,000 are dead. Sorvia mobilized 250,000 men, and lost 70,000 killed. (Ireece, out of a total of 150,000 lost. 40,000 killed, and Montenegro, out of a fighting population of 30,000 left S,noo dead on the bloody field. The proportion of fatalities to the number engaged exceeded that of any war on record. In the face of these terrible figures, there are people in the United States who are anxious for this country to go to war with Mexico. They do not stop to count the cost, but want this country to rush into a conflict that would cost millions of dollars and the lives of thousands of our young men. Wo are glad that we hnvo ut the head of the nation In this crisis men who fear (?od and have the courage to do right. Refore going to war with Mexico or any other country they will exhaust all other methods. AIRMAN PIKiOIT) |)()KS IT AC!AIX. Proves Somersault in Mid-air Was Not mi Accident. The thrilltnp" mnimniivpn /?f n \/i vwiii ing a somersault in the air with an aeroplano flying at rapid speed was repeated Monday by the French Aviator Pegoud over tho aerodrome at Hue, near Versailles, Franco, with perfect success. Pegoud had promised that his performance at Juvisy the day before was not the result of an accident, but was u proof of proper control and also of tho stabillay of the aeroplane. Tie carried out the daring feat, with apparent easo again Monday in the presence of ofllcers of the Frencli army flying corps, about 100 military and civilian aviators and a large assemblage of tho general public. "The story is interesting, but I am not prepared to comment 011 the event, without knowing exact details," said Orville Wright Tuesday, when questioned at Dayton, O., about tho upside down flight of the French aviator, Pegoud, at Hue. "Present models of monoplanes that T am acquainted with," ho said, "make such a feat impossible, because once the engine is upside down it stops duo tc a lack of gasoline." M. Pegoud writing to the Matin, says: "My experiments are not finished. I want soon to show that it is possible for an aeroplane to turn overhead-first and then tail-first, and then side ways without disaster. II my experiments demonstrate, as I am convinced they will, that security may bo attained in an aeroplane, 1 will bo satisfied." To Issue Paper. A national official paper will br established by the National Farmers union. It was said the purpose ol the publication would be to advance the interests of organized farmers bj disseminating information regarding the ponding legislation in whlcl farmers are interested. warranted in deciding against giving ; him a chance to show what is in him 'lo should be compelled to make i certain trail of learning before he o his parents shall decide against it One of the objects of education is t< .give the child (at first an unknowi ' quanity) opportunities to doveloi and tost his different powers, ti awaken his latent tendencies, taste and inclinations, to start all the cur rents of desire and ambition so tha later ho can with reasonable accur * acy and fairness to himself and th ? world find his true bent and choos i his life work. Already there ar > bungles enough made in this selec . tion. There would lin mnrn If th r schools were not. serving the rlsini - generation by trying out what Is ii t them. Ttut there should, come to h 1 far fewer misfits in life, lnevltahl 3 disappointments through mlsdlroctoi , energies, and there will ho fewer - when school are more perfectly ad - justed to their proper work, and th - children are moro universally pu . through preliminary school thainln, 1 of the right sort. l John J. McMahan. r Columbia, August 30. "OLD BILL" MINER DEAD ? ll.\l) HAD NOTED CAKKKK OF DA KING CHIME. At Age <>f Seventy-llv? Succumbs to Attack of Gastritis in State Penitentiary at MiUcdgeville, Ga. "Old 11111" Minor, the most picturesque bandit America ever produced, has died on the Georgia pris011 farm with the great project of his lifo unfulfilled. It was bin great hope and ambition to go to Europe and rob the Mediterranean express, the richest passenger train in the world, which goes from Paris to Constantinople. Hill Miner was nearly seventy when ho died, and ever since be was a middle aged man he had been planning and arranging the details for pulling off a wild-west hold-tip in the center of the Old World. It wasn't the rich loot that tempted him to tho undertaking but the daring adventure and tho fame as an outlaw which such a climax to his long career would have given him. Instead, he died of gastritis, a bent old man, a shackled invalid, among the suite's weak and decrepit prisoners at the farm near Milledgeville. The shackle* were the only thing that made life tolerable at tho last to the former terror of the plains, lie regarded them as the greatest compliment which the prison management could pay him. and always smiled grimly and shook his head when they offered to take off the chains if he would give his word of honor not to try to escape. uiiii Minor was ":i rmd man'' In tlio UBimlly accepted sense of the term, and was a great criminal. but he had a queer code of honor of his own which lie lived up to the last. His Own Story of Info. Nobody In all the history of America has a more notable career than Old Bill Miner, who died at the state penitentiary at Milledgeville Tuesday night at 9:2f> o'clock. The full story of his life, told by Bill Miner as death approached, which has just been gained by a correspondent, is one that would thrill the most unimaginative and fill page after page of the most adventurious stories ever promised by writers of fiction. When the grizzled old robber, emaciated and worn with long txperience of lawlessness, passed away in peace, idolized by hundreds because he posed as ehirf of robbers and classed himself as a gentleman and scolar, none of them ever dreamed the true story of his long life. lie was born in Jackson county, Ky., in 1S47, and there he led the wild free life of that section at that time. Throughout the width and breadth of the state (leorgo Anderson was known before he was fifteen years old. Shortly afterwards he started west unit iiiur jx-urs inier was rounded up for robbery in San Joaquin county. April 5 18GG, when but nineteen years old, he was sentenced to San Joaquin prison, where lie was known as prisoner No. 3 24 8. Me was discharged June 0 of the same year, but July 12 ho was sent up from Palcer county for a few months, which he served as No. 3313. lie was discharged only to be sent up from Calveras county June 2 0, 1 1871, as No. 4 002, hut a new trial 1 was granted him and he was taken back February 0, 1 872, and returned 1 March >0, 1 872, as No. R2 06. Tie tried to escape May 7. 1 874, ' and had four years added to his time, 1 but March f?, 1 877 his sentence was commuted to twelve years and he ? was discharger July 1 4, 1 880. Heal Activities. Tt was at this juncture Bill Miner began his real activities. Meeting up with Bill Leroy, most noted of western bandits at that time, he formed a partnership with him go> ing under the name of W. A. Mor* n?i TT -A ' - ~ ~ - iM-i i uy stage coaon or $3,r?()0. Posses r pursued them. T-eroy was captured ? and lynched, but Bill Miner escaped j safely, after shooting up the posse, r hut only slightly wounding a few of i the members. A littlo later he was caught in - Tuolomne county for robbery and K sent up for twenty-five years, going . back to San Quontin as No. 10191. * He started work December 21, 1881, i* and emerged from prison July 17, . 1901. 3 Daring Train 1tol>l?eries. i Although growing old and having P paid a severe penalty, he started out in his career of lawlessness with more s force in every way. September 2 8, - 1908, he held up a train near Paget t Sound on the Canadian side, having - two confederates on the job. e They robbed all the passengers, e looted the express cars and secured a e big hand, hut all the robbers were t- caught except Bill Miner. Resting e tor a few months ho again started his ? v\ i 1<1 career. With his two aides he a "hold up a train at Mission Junction, e British Columbia, September 10, e 1904, and secured $10 000 in gold. 1 The government and express authori\ ties became frenzied at ids daring - robberies and the Dominion governe ment. offerod $r>,000 reward for him, t while tho express company offered n g similar sum and tho province of British Columbia augmented it by $2,500 more, making a total $12,500 to be paid for "Old Bill" Miner, alive or I / The North Carolina Way. Last year a young man from a country in this State was tried for tho murder in Charlotte of a prominent young man of that city. The killing occurred in a hotel at Charlotte and seems to have resulted from a fight which arose among drunken men. The jury very properly found tho slayer kuilty of manslaughter and ho was sentenced to four years imprisonment. The attorneys for the convicted young man have recently been making a hard fight to secure his pardon. They managed to get the signatures of eight of tho jurors who sat on the case to the petition for clemency. Governor Craig, however, has announhed that he will not interofere with tho case since he has made a study of it himself and is satisfied that tiie punishment is not too severe. "How different the North Carolina way from the South Carolina way!" says the Greenville Piedmont. Down here we dare say the prisoner would have been turned loose and in the reasons given by the governor for his action, tho fact that eight jurors had signed the petition would have been tho first mentioned. It has always been a strange thing "" ><"? "An M i*r?tnrii n vor. diet of guilty against a man, which calls for a sentence of a certain number of years, a fact which the jurors know when they cast their ballots, yet will turn right around and sign a petition for a pardon in a short time after the conviction. It simply, to our mind, goes to show what a frail institution man is." Mexico a Thorny Problem. .Mexico is a very thorny problem just now and the thorniness is aggravated by self-seeking politicians and business men who are thinking only of dividends, and by a sensational press. The men who have big investments in Mexico are very anxious for tbis country to intervene in order to protect tbeir interests. That is all their patriotism amounts to or their pretended love of humanity. They do not care how much bad feeling is aroused, how many hundred millions of dollars are spent, nor how many thousands of lives are sacrificed if only they can get tho government to collect their dividends for them and nrnt f linlr m in fit* ntwl t^lnnlnlionu . r. 4 *?V4I UUU 1(1 Tliey seem to forget, or, rather, to J ignore the fact that it is ticklish I business to interfere with the intorInal affairs of another nation. It is much like interfering in a family quarrel. However denlorahle conditions may he in Mexico the great J thing for this country is not to loso Jits head over the situation. The demands of self-seeking men dominated solely by selfish motives, and the hysterical outcries of sensational newspapers and unthinking persons must be disregarded. Calm and wise statesJ manship is needed and it is encouraging to note that men of all parties are thus agreed. J dead. J Hut the redoubtable old fellow laughed at their attempts to corner | him. lie roamed the wilds of the J country until May 0, 1000, when ho j associated himself with Txmis Col| quhon and Tom Dunn and held up an I express train at Furer, British CoJ lumbia. They made the engineer uncouple and pull the car a mile away, J but to the disgust of "Old Hill" lie J found only registered mail, the exI press company being left in andother ear. He abandoned robbery. A Jrice on His Head. J However, the big rewards were still In offoct and the Canadian con| stabulary took mp the trail and J rounded up Hill Miner and his two | partners and they were given life sentences in the New Minster penitentiary in British Columbia. J But Old (Bill kept up liis spirit and J August 0, 1 907, he dug bis way under the prison walls to liberty and J traveled to the middle west unharmJed. For a period lie was quiet, with J plenty to live on, but after his hoard | was used up wintering In the south ho started north and an opportuno J time seemed to present itself on Fob| ruary 27, 1 909 when he found two J novices at. Gainesville, Ga., and robbed the Southern express train. Hut lie was captured and sent to tlie State | penitentiary at Milledgeville under a j twenty-year sentence. Grizzled, old and gray, ho was still | undaunted and declared lie would escape, and this he did on two occasions with which lie reading public is familiar. Through all his career of crime ho was known to the officials as "Bill Miner", though his real name was George Anderson, but as W. A. Morgan and George W. Edwards he was iviiuwu ior a 11mo to many people in Michigan and Wiflconsln. This is the first full story over published of tho famous bandit's life. The record is official and authentic. He has so mo few known relatives said to bo llvlncr. thn ? -- * ~ ann clearest being his sister, Mrs. \V. .T. Wilmer, living at Puget Sound, Brlt, ish Columbia. ? "Still, "says The Philadelphia Press, "it would not be fair to blamo . Ctovornor Sulzer for everything. There is Cole. Blouse's indorsement of him, for instance." ? ? ?? , Governor Mouse is not satisfied . with the way the church is managed, i Judas Iscarlot had some sort of a ? grouch against the church too, we be lieve.