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TO ARREST REBELS' LEADER. \M\ Ith W \l TllOltl HKS III'NT P?|M*n? tpparrntl) Incriminating Pro visional Pmddciit hi Violation of Neutrally Are I>Im o\? red. El Paso. Tex.. Feb. 1J? The self styled provisional president of Mex? ico. Francisco 1. Madeio. is lr\ El Paso unless he has sMpped out in the last 2 4 hours. 80 confident are the l otted state* official* that the direct? ing head of the Mexican revolution Is still here that they had a warrant Issued this afternoon for his arrest. The warrant was Isaued by Oeo. B. Oliver, United States commissioner. The warrant came as a result of the capture of papers on the person of Martin Casslllas, a revolutionary .eader, as he was returning to Mexico Sunday from a visit td El Paso. The papers were in the handwriting of Madero and were signed by him. .ted February 12 at El Paso. ant charges that Madero armed military expedition galgTl ? friendly nation and caused arms and ammunition to be sent into Mexico from the United States in vio? lation of the neutrality and customs laws. The United States troops and fed? eral officers on the border have been given orders t< make the artest. I*ast week officials ir. Juares Issued a circu? lar stating tha Madero was waiting in El Paso for a chance to enter the country. This was denb'd by the heads of the insurrecto junta here. Ship Subsidy. 1 From Harp? r"s VVeekl) > It Is entirely natural that a man of the general character and calibre of Oalllnger, of New H????i'>shire. should be the main champion of postal ship ^?ubsldlea, and thut men like Cummins, ^^Ihe opponent of governmental favor tlem tml I'.urton. of Ohio with his long experience with appropriations should be found very decidedly on the other side. The curious thing about the subsidy people Is the promptness and * Indignation with which they reject * any plan for helping our merchant marine that does not Involve actual payments out of the Treasury. They admit that one great handicap we la? in. r under Is the gr >ater cost of build)'.g ship' in th'* c? untry i s con. fcpartd with our hlef competitors. But they are horrified at the very Idea of admiring foreign hullt ships to Ano-r Iran register}, and ttuy can s?e no virtue even In admitting; free the ma? terials of the shlp-bulldlng industry. They get away from all such proposals ?y mounting to the bisher ground of wssntlment and patriotism. It all Com es down to a question of whether or not the opponents of subsidies love the old flag and want to see It back on the seas again. It Is of no use to point out to them the utter fallacy of ftS^th* notion that trade follows the flag, am to prove instead that trade ot flx*d laws of Its own. In some inscru? table way they know better. Neither Is uUx>f any use to remind them that in the competition f,.r the ocean <ar rylng business whoever can can rend * er thsVrequlrrd service most cheaply ?l? ht''iud t ? w in. They are above such sordid considerations. They remind us of the retired opera singers who undettake to rhn farms and raise pigs. It Is nothing to these that their pigs coat a lot more to ra'se than any? body will pay for them or than It ^?Vost* to raise the ordlnuv pics tint go to market. They have set out to l>e practical farmers, and they are go? ing to be pra> llcal and businesslike if It costs the earnings of a whole opera season. Pias Is pigs, and they must have 'em.' Similarly ships Is ..hlps ^band we gasjsg have 'em, and the flag at the masthead. Ships with the old nog flying, and plowing all the *eas, mean a gr#*nt and prosperous Amer? ican merchant marine. A great und prosperous merchant puriue In some? thing We are hound t Fhave, no mat "^?r f our n -t 'ssg on the venture equals the r??st of pensions, it al? ways costs somethitlK to he partllotle. anyhow. Ute. never ite his bread itt sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the mor? row? lie knows >?? not, ye gloomy Tow? ers. ?Goethe. iV'h.i I r?? e f 1 r . o , - tend* both great and small! Better b#? damned than mentioned get st all. ?John Wohott. In bed we laugh, In bed we cry; %^ And. born In bed. In bed we die. W The near appro.ich g bed ? Ig show <>f human Idlsa to human woe. ?Isaac Do Ih nserade. Political opponent'* In Paris, III., having agreed to refrain from buying votes, all that Is m I I 1 an ag-ee a% I 1 ftr- 9i nttne?. 1 OK?. WIZVIION nUC KAUM mis* QHBATBR WKAPON, President I kl nett l'rgo* That Organ? ization Is ihr Surest Method for Im? proving the Farmers' Condition, and slums Some I tendons Why It Is IMthrult to Orgnnl/c |HfJ Amcricuii Farmer. TO the Officers and Members of the I'niiim' Colon: Organization Is today the greatest weapon and the most achieving tool at the disposal of the American far? mer. I have stressed, In previous appeals, the almost magical value of organi? zation, as shown in great and small business. State and federal govern? ment, accomplishment generally the world over. Hut one could write volumes and yet leave many features of the sub? ject unhandled. 1 am, moveover. extremely anxious that every American farmer not a member of the Farmers' Union Iden? tify himself for this organization; for his own sake, first, and, necessarily, for the good of the organization. There Is not one American State in which the Farmers' Fnlon is well or? ganized, but the lot of the farmers of that State generally has been im? proved. Why? For the inmple reason that instead of working singly, or in pairs, for the local, the county or the State im? provements and reforms they needed, they have WOfkOd as a unit. That Is the secret of organization and Its wonderful efficiency every? where. i\?r Instance: if it were to the in? terest of the farmers of a certain Stat<> to secure a larger educational appropriation that there might v>e more little "red school houses," what would be the plan under the old sys? tem. \ f irmer or two would write his roge^oooatatlvs in the state legislators, the latter would laughingly read the letter and there the matter would rest. It would continue to rest for months and \ears, until gradually the feeble, scattered voices got together and mado such an impression upon the law-making body that action was forthcoming. Had organization existed the result would h?v*? b^"tonod by as many as there was numerical power and leadership t?> the organization. That Is what organisation doe.-, hastens rev pty, reduces scatt rt 1 puoitc sentiment to a locus, ami makes It beat hard, loud and persis? tently upon the ear-drums of sleepy legislature. We have proved It In so many States, that I cannot undertake to enumerate them. Politics is Just one feature. If organization Is effectual in that tleld, It Is no less effectual in creating Conditions that will lessen the farm? ers' debt, make his living conditions more pleasant, give him good roads, put him lntn more friendly relations with his noighbu/S, and. tlnally, solve what the wise men call the "rural crol.|.m." organization is the weapon Of the many put into the hands of a few rt sponslble, able and devoted men. That is w hy 1 am pr? W hing its value. But organisation can he most ef? fective if you insist that your leaders be chosen for fitness and for ability t ? sulfei and nacrlfl rather than foi Jollying and hand-shaking ability. So it will be an excellent plan for you to ip< nd much of your lime this ? ar In looking for men who answer this qualification, then giving them n square deal, it' they fall, and you still believe them honeat and capable, g^vo them another trial. it doesn't mat? ter U they turn 001 dishonest Of grafi . t s. Drop that special kind, and go at it again with another sot. The American farmer Is the hard? est fellow in Christendom to organise beenUSS Of his independence. Hi i ups about his "rights." Even when surrendering a few of them for n while to better his condition he Is often stubborn as ? Missouri mule, ? ?rganizathm has gone forward faster in European countries, because the farmers there realised to begin a ith that they had leSS I ehance, In pollth i and business, and that the/ must < ombtnc fOf their own good. The American farmer, until lately, has thought himself absolutely s? if suflkient; he has stood upon the the? ory oi every "American being a king," over looking the way in which big and little business ami city im n organized to enforce their "klUgShlp." And continued to lei wealth drift from the farm to the city, when the ?trift should. In the nature of things, be in the other direction. i have been frank about those things, been use era must face them In erdet to perfect our organisation, and to bring into it every farmer in the country wl.h the Intelligence to know that or? r..zatton is the keynote to hU own sal v it Ion. <?ha-' ?1 !. Washington. I >. C. MAINTAINS THAI TRUSTEESHIP is NOT W "OFFICE.*' Claims That Intention of Pramere is Not to he Interpreted as Including Trustee*. Washington, Feb, 14.?Holding that the meaning <>f the word "office" win-re it occun in the constitution of South Carolina does not embrace that of trustee of a college, and that therefore he is within both the letter and the spirit of the law in holding the ottlce of senator while at the same time trustee of Winthrop and Clem son colleges. Senator Tillman today explained his views of the situation for The State. Senator Tillman says he assisted in framing the section of the constitu? tion regarding the right to hohl two offices at once and that the meaning of the term "office" was discussed at the time with the result that it was held to he not incompatible to hold office and be a college trustee at the same time. He Insists that it | would have been absurd for him to frame any part of the constitution which would legislate him out of the trusteeship of a college he loved so well and had done so much for. "Inasmuch as OOV, lilease in a spe? cial message regarding the holding of two offices has made specific men? tion of me as one of the law-break? ers. ' said Senator Tillman, "1 feel willing to make public my position. Otherwise I would have nothing to say until the court passed upon it, as lUggested by the Joint committee of the legislature. "The s hole question hinges on the Interpretation that shall be placed upon the word 'office.1 The language in article I, section of the consti? tution is plain and simple enough: 'But no person shall hold two olllces of honor or projit at the same time.' There Is a special exception in the case of notaries public and of militia officers. "Article 3, section 24, of the consti? tution is more explicit: " 'No person shall be eligible to a seat in the general assembly while he holds any office or position of profit or trust under this State, the United' States of America, or any of them I or under any other power, except of-1 fleers in the militia or notaries public' mj ,,. member of the. constltu kS chairman of the committee which framed the second article 'hat dealing with suf 11 that the question of what constituted an office was discussed in the convention as I was then both a trustee of Win? throp and of Clemson, While there was no vote, the consensus of opin? ion and the adoption of the article us sm had reported It seemed to me to warrant the belief, which I then held and still hold, that the meaning of the word 'oflice' did not embrace that of trustee of a college. "This view Is sustained by the knowledge that the chairman of the committee on education in both the house and senate are ex otficio trustees of Winthrop and the Uni? versity of South Carolina, while the chairman Of the committee on mili? tary is an ex officio trustee of the Citadel. "The idea to my mind is al surd that as a member of the constitutional convention 1 would legislate myself out of a position Bl trustee for a col? lege which 1 had done so much for and which loved so well. 1 do not know what the opinion of the su? preme court will be, and if it is de? cided that 1 am not legally entitled to sit on the board of trustees for Win? throp, l shall cheerfully get off. i have given much of my time and study toward advancing the interests of that college and would hate to sever my connection with it. "The legislature elected me such trustee with the full knowledge that i am a United States senator, if the"- were no lawyers in that body competent to discover that 1 was not eligible, it is a sa.l commentary on our lawmakers. The legislature has seemed all along to take the view which 1 hold to be the correct one, for it has Uniformly elected from its membership trustee both to Clemson and Winthrop. "As for my position as senator dis? qualifying me from acting as trustc for Winthrop, it musl be remembered that the office of sen.'.tor is not a Slate office, but a national one and was created by the constitution of the l ulled States It is filled by the State and th it is all. "I was a life trustee of Clemson when 1 was elected senator and had aeepted the place under Mr. (Mem sons win even before i was ch t ted governor. l would not consciously act contrary to the law of my own State, ami I do not think J have done so. The two positions 1 hold are not olllces under the State constitution as I understand the mealng of the word." A man who Is ungrateful is often ? ? . i a,,r> . tii in his benefactor, ,a Kochefuucauld. HENRY THE THIEF. _ I The Black Heart of tin- Cirecly Arctic Expedition, < we of the many tragedies of the1 Qreely arctic expedition was the exo i cation of Private Henry, who had been caught time after time steal? ing food from the scant store of the starving party. Henry alone was strong and active, thanks to the Stolen food and to the fact that he did no labor he could possibly shirk. Lieutenant Qreely had warned and warned Henry and had punished him, but to no avail, and finally, after a particularly despicable act of theft, the commander, in fear, that Henry's course would cause a general raid on the store of food and thus bring about the the destruction of the whole party, condemned Henry to death. The story of the execution, which makes a new page in history, is told in the American Magazine by Frank B. Copley, who got his data direct from the survivors of the expedition. He writes: "All his lethargy gone, Greedy dis? missed the man, seized pencil and paper and, with trembling, emaciated tingers, wrote: "Near Cape Sabine, June 6, 1SS1. "Sergeants Brainard, Long and Fred? erick: "Notwithstanding promises given by Private C. B. Henry yesterday, he has since, as acknoweldged to me, tam? per! d with seal thongs if not other food at the old tamp. This pertinacity and audacity is the destruction of the party if not at once ended. Private Henry will be shot today, all care be? ing taken to prevent his injuring any one, as his physical strength Is greater than that of any two men. Decide ;h<' manner of his death by two ball and one blank cartridge. This ord* r is Imperative and absolutely necessar} for any chance of life. a. w. Qreely." "In the official report of the Lady Franklin bay expedition it is simply announced that 'shots were heard about 2 o'clock, and later the order w as read to the general party.' The j manner in which the order was exe? cuted here appears for the first time "Sergeants Brainard, Long and Frederick could not, as ordered, 'de? cide the manner of death by two ball and one blank cartridge.' Qreely had i failed to take into consideration that at this time the party had left only one serviceable rille. "The three sergeants drew lots to sec who would do the shooting. When they had done so they hound them? selves with an oath that the identity of the man thus chosen never should be revealed. "Henry' was at the tent on Cem? etery ridge with all the other men when the time for putting him to death came. What was to take place, of course, was known only to the three sergeants and the commander. Two of the sergeants remained In the vicinity of the old hut, while the third went to the tent to bring Henry down. "The man who want for Henry told him that he was wanted at the old camp to help carry up some more Of the supplies that had been left there Suspecting nothing, Henry readily accompanied the sergeant to the place chosen for putting him to death. Now, Qreely had repeatedly cau? tioned the three sergeants to take no chances on Henry's getting away, for, although none at Cap.' Sabine knew the man's past history, enough^ of the man's black soul, had f? n reveal < d to make his comrades f< el that no crime could be put past him. "So Bralnar* Long and Frederick, cauntloned by their commander and warned by their own Knowehfue of the man with whom they had to deal, had decided that Henry should be made to stoop to pick up something and that then he should he shot from belaud. At least one of these ?< r geants had no more compunction about killing him than he would have had about Killing a mail dog. "But one of the other two men weakened the last moment, To shoot a man In cold flood from be? hind, t(? semi him into eternity with no opportunity to compose his soul, was too terrible a thing for htm to stand. It was a mistake that nearly proved disastrous. "Henry was told face to face that he was to be put to death in accord? ance with the order of the Command? er, and he was advised to kneel an make his peace with his Qod. At tin same time the executioner appeared with his rifle at a convenient dis? tance before the doomed man's eyea. "Henry stood agape. He muttered something about something not being right. Near where the third sergeant stood an ax lay on the ground. Hen? ry's gase, searching the ground, en? countered the ax, He sprang for it. A warning cry was raised. The ser? geant who stood near the ax jumped ami got his foot on it almost as Henry was upon him. There was a cry of 'Quick!1 Even then there was danger of the executions r shooting ins fellmv sergeant if his aim was the ! h ast unsteady. i "But despite all he had been through the aim of the executioner was true. The rifle cracked, and tin- bullet sped, penetrated the breast <?f the man for whom it was Intended when it wan molded. Henry whirled, crying: '\<>u have tricked me! You have tricked me!' Again the rifle cracked. The ? ( ml bullet went through Henry's I . mI, and he fell d< ad." SENATOR B. It. TILLMAX, Pen riet m e of South Carolins Man by a Metropolitan Writer. (A. 11. Lewis, In X. V. American.) Some vivacious Frenchman once said that a man is as old as he feels and a woman is as old as she looks. I do not propose to ho drawn into any discussion of woman. She is no more to be improved than a calla lily is to be improved. Moreover, my pencil, however, kindly, is too coarse for what peachblow delicacy the subject would demand. It would be as though a stevedore handled spun glass or Irish lace. As to the animal man, however, I feel more sure as to my ground. Granting then that the vivacious Frenchman was right, Senator Till? man?born in 1847?i9 much older than his age. Mr. Tillman first burst upon an unguarded world linked to that hum ble vegetable, the potato. Mi. Till? man wanted certain things to occur In the destiny of the potato, and he went to a farmers' convention and laid bare his views. So earnest wa.s he in his advocacy of the potato that other delegates took affront and Mailed Mr. Tillman. Being a man of his hands?and feet?Mr. Tillman distinguished himself in these hick erings and thrashed several sons of the soil until they endorsed his po? tato position. Mr. Tillman resolved to make the potato an issue and carry it before the pe ?pie. Organizing his hench men of the hills, he led them against the patricians of the lowlands, who lacked in reverence for the potato, lie- ran for the oflTice of Governor and was elected. This was in 1890. lb- was elected again in 1892. When he became Governor and had moved into the Executive Man? sion, Mr. Tillman found a broad green lawn in front. Full of a po? tato since rity, and condemning blade I and blossom as the merest badges of an oppressed plutocracy, he ploughed up the lawn and planted it to pota? toes. The peasantry passing were pleased with the potatoes in Tin? man's wool hat. The potato-hating patricians etirsed Mr. Tillman and his lawn-wasting agriculture as the merest mountebank and his trick. As to his personal appearance, Mr. Tillman is a fashion of sedate Cyclops. Only his one eye does not blaze from his forehead, but adorns the starboard side of his head. Some with a bent to admire Mr. Tilliman have told how he lost the eye in the field of South Caro? lina honor. This is imagination. His biography lays his optical loss at the door of sickness, while historians who know the Tillman youth, tell of its being sacrificed on the altar of accident. Of medium size, witl a face made grim and sinister by t ie eye absen? teeism quoted, Mr. Tillman, when all is said, is a hit impressive. His pro? file is like the side view of a rip saw. His face is strong, not handsome, and resembles the raw face of a cliff, laid bare by some recent landslide. His jaw, broad and bony, confers an iron bound effect. He doesn't look like a humorist, and he Isn't. Experience has shown that Mr. Tillman, like every true-born politi clan, Ii extrem* ly hard to kill. That, however, argmta nothing for cither his noble strength or size. Cats are har.l to kill. Once upon a time a han possessed a superfluous cat. He carried it a mile, tied a stone to its neck with all the care in life, and tossed it with a most hopeful splash nt<. the deep lock of a canal. Saun? tering homeward* a sense of duty well performed eurlin^ about his heart's roots, th. man found the cat on the doorsteps drying its fur. And so with Mr. TilLman. Carry him as far as you choose, tie every stone or error or misdeed about his neck, toss him into the deepest waters of popu? lar condemnation, and an hour later there he will be found sitting on the political door-stei ready to rush in? side the moment you lift the latch. The Tillman war record is brief, not bloody. In 1864 he got ready to join the Confederate army- but fortunately?for the Yankees?fell ill in time to head his valor off. When he got well he became a far? mer of the sort whose main crop is office. Mr. Tillman sowed the com? mon prejudice to reap preferment for himself. ( Mr. Tillman fought Gen. Butler for I the seat he now holus. After the fashion of their region, Mr. Tillman and Mr. Butler met in "joint de? bate." These collisions were made up of nine-tenths villification, one tenth debate. They were cantanker? ous rather than controversial. Whatever fault may be found with Mr. Tillman in the land at large In the Palmetto rattlesnake region he represents he is regarded as the modern Demosthenes. In South Carolina oratory demands that you call somebody a liar and quote Shakespeare, and the speeches of Mr. TilLman abounded in these particulars. "There is somthing dead in Dm mark," observes Senator Jeff Davis. Therety expurgating Shakespeare in a manner we should never have looked for from this particular student.? Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Delaware man claims to have a plum tree that yields an average >f 300 plums a week during the season. Many a politician would like a graft from it.?Memphis Commercial-Ap? peal. AnTonn ISr..llltg a tUot.-h and (tonrrlnMnn ran* lukkly mi v lata <air ?i il s f'oa whether a i luvwiOoa .1. i i ? hnl?lf i> acnt:ihi u C<?mtmiulrn U>iusnirUnly ".miauitl ii. ??Vi?F.OOK ?. nt'atouu s?;nt frco. 01 i-.?t niiaitcy Tor *fu:nrm/ pat em*. 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