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PUBLISHED Tk* SCHOOL BOOKS SiperioleadeBt Sweariageo faps Stete Board of Etfocatifs BALLOTS WERE SECRET, State Superintendent of Education Declares Body Acted With Absolute Disre g ard of Property Rights of the People.?Says Text-Book Adoption Will Cost People Much Money. Mr. John E. Swearingen, State superintendent of education, made Monday the following statement of his position in respect to the adoption last week of text books for the public schols f the State during tse next five years: "To .protect the interests of the people and to keep the record straight I protected against the recent text book -adoptions made by the State board of education. Though my pro tests were disregarded and my wishes ignored.. 1 desire to make a brief statement of my position. "Eighty per cent of the books now in use have been thrown out of the I schools. Not one word of explana tion, reason or excuse for this rev olutionary action has been offered to the public. Such sweeping changes are without precedent in the text book history of this State or of any other State. "The books sold in South Carolin*, during the last five years cost more than $500,000. Thepe books have been in the main displaced, and now have only an exchange value of 60 per cent of their original cost. The new books adopted are higher priced and every time a pupil or patron is required to exchange an old book there must be a cash payment in ad dition. "This cash payment will be a tax on every citizen of the State. It may be small in the case of any one book, but will amount to thousands of dol lars in the aggregate. "If Winthrop college should bej burned to the ground there would bej a universal lament from the moun tains to the sea. The State board of education with an absolute disregard to the property rights of the people bas destroyed values and imposed taxes representing, an investment eq ual in value to the cost of the magni ficent college at Rock Kill. Every exchange of books also imposes labor) and inconvenience in addition to ex. pense.. Any man in charge of a text | ? book depository knows what this in convenience means. A number of thei depositories are conducted, by coun ty superintendents of education, and these officers will feel the strain be fore the exchange period has passed "I do not believe that changes should 'be made unless the books in | use. have proved Inferior or unsatis factory. The State board of educa-| tion declined to indicate in writing the unsatisfactory books on the pres ent Hat, The adoption of 1906 was little short of a crime if inferior books were imposed upon the chil dren of the State. Three members of thev present beard took part in that adoption and must have voted for the hooks then selected. The change of heart has taken place in these gestlemen Is not questioned by me. but it would be better understood if it were fully explained. I' any eity superintendent in a special dis trict exercising the right of 'n de-j pendent text book adoption should1 enter upon his work by changing 80, per cent, of the books in the hands | of the pupils, I do not believe his! action would igo unchallenged. How | much more, then, should explanation be offered when the changes affect the whole State rather than a small 1 municipality! "I had prepared for the use of the board a ballot showing the name of each member voting and the title of each book voted for. This ballot the board declined to use, because the members did not wish to offend the sensibilities of the various'book agents with whom they had establish-1 ed and wished to maintain pleasant j relations. This is a laudable senti-l ment, but It leaves out of the reckon tag the sensibilities of the people. It Is a well established principle of! representative government that the: Tecord of a public servant belongs to his constitutents. As State superin tendent of education, I was anxious J for every citizen to know my position in regard to every book that was re tained as well as to every book that was changed. I see no reason why the other members of the board should be unwilling to leave a similar | record, even though unsuccessful bid ders might be disappointed in the | adoption. "The work of the board has been finished, but the tax on the people will not be felt till later. I have j pointed out what I consider the un justifiable disregad. of property j rights. I also maintain that the wholesale changes ordered by thej board were neither necessary nor al together desirable. I asked for a full record of the proceedings by which this result was brought about and ray request was denied. "I trust that these three facts have been made so plain that the man who runs mav read and understand.v Dispensary Constables Removed. Gov. Blease Monday removed 12 ^i(5o????2ry constables, located in 11 dry counties of the State. THEY ARE LOST OR MISLAID BY A RAILROAD AGENT. The Disconsolate Widow Finds a Lot of Tools Instead of Dust ofN Her Husband. Through the mistake of a railroad company, Mrs. Mary E. White, 936 Fletcher street, Chicago found her self In Pittsburg, Pa., with a com plete outfit of automobile mechanic's tools in the place of a brass urn con taining the ashes of her husband, George S. White, who died a year ago. . At about the same time a chaffeur dn New York was sorrowwully declin ing a job because in place of his necessary tools he was equipped only with a suitcase containing a number of articles of feminine apparel and a brass crematory urn. "I'm sorry,'' the mechanic told Frank Cheske, an agent of the Na tional Trades association, as they stood together in front of 120 Liberty street. "I'd like to have the job, but I can't do nothing without my tools." "Where are your tools?" inquired Cheske The mechanic dived down in a suit case and produced some lacy shirt waists some .black gowns, a tooth brush, a yellow pin cushion and a brass crematory urn. "Here they are," he said with some feeling, "The railroad company got us mixed up and I drew this bag gage in Pittsburg. I've got some body's ashes here and I'd like mighty well to return them.'' Cheske offered to take charge ot the urn for him and notified the Pennsylvania railroad office of his .acquisition. s The railroad compan telegraphed Plttsburg, and in reply received the following message: . Return suit case a'i once. Am sending in Its place nun's suit case with clothing and. tools in on train No. 16. Lady very anxious." The clothes and cematory urn were started back and by this time Mrs. White persumably again is In possession of her hutfbar.d's a3hes. Jjt was said by neighbors that It had been her custom to keep the ashes with her constantly. When she left home a few days ago she took them with her. .. WILL SHOW UP SOUTH. Southern Railway Will Make an At tractive Exhibit. The Southern Railway wiil make an attractive exhibit showing the ag ricultural, forest and mineral re sources and manufactured products of the Southeast at th<.~; Appalachian exposition, to be held at Knoxville, September 11 to October 1, 1911. This exhibit will contain handsome ?lspay? of cereals, cotton, tobacco, legumes, vegetables and fruits, and especial .attention will "be given to forest products and manufactured specimens of woods. The exhibit will show in a comprehensive way the possibilities and advantages of the Southeastern States and should prove a powerful advertisement for the sec tion as large numbers of visitors are expected at the exposlthm from points outside the Southeast. At the same time the exhibit will serve the very useful purpose of call ing the attention of 'che people of the South to the great, opportunities which exist in their own country. This is a feature which the management of the Southern Railway considers of the highest importance, as nothing can have a more powerful effect in discouraging emigration from the South to less favored sections than a thorough knowledge of the South and the many reasons which make this the best section of the country i in which to live and prosper. Girls Drink Carbolic Acid. A suicide pact between two girls was carried out Saturday at Ridige way. 111., when Jessie Cobbman. 17 years old, and Lucy Davidson, 18, years old drank carbolic acid The girls agreed to die together if any attempt was made b; the former,s parents to recover her. A constable called for Jessie. She asked for time to dress, but instead wt-nt to her room and drank the poison. A moment later her friesd also drank poison and) Young Brother*. Drown. Alex. Doyle, aged M, and his! brother, J. Doyle, aged 9, were: drowned in Blue Pom! lake Monday afternoon, near Chattanooga, Tenn., The younger boy fell into the water and 'he brother leaped from a 20-1 foot embankment into the water in an effort to save the drowning boy.} Neither could swim. The bodies j lound ao hour later, were locked in i car.n others? arms. Still Another Victim. The fourth victim of the fire that destroyed the boat house at Nan-! tucket, Mass., of William Barnes, Jr., | the New York Republican leader, last Saturday, died Monday night when Thomas Keer of New York succumb-j ed to his injuries. Tired of liife. Capt. E. H. Jarvis, formerly of the United States revenue cutter service, shot and killed himself in a room at the Athletic Club at Seattle, Wash., on Monday. im* ORANGEBl KILLED WITH SPADE WHITE CONVICT TAKES LIFE OF A NEGRO CONVICT. * Deed Was Committed in the State Penitentiary by J. W. Messervy, Vtlio Murdered Two Men Before. The State says J. W. Messervy, the Charleston county man who was con victed two years ago for killing a whiskey constable at Ravenel, in Charleston county, and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, Monday kill ed Vance Clanton, an aged negro, at the State penitentiary by striking him on the head several times with a spade. Clanton was serving ia life sentenct, from Darlington county. According to the story of Messervy the negro tried to kill him with a knife. Mes servy was cut just above the heart and on his left arm. Coroner Walk er made an investigation of the case ?arid held the inquest Tuesday. No one witnessed the affair. Ac cording to D. J. Griffith, the superin tendent of the penitentiary, several prisoners were sent Monday morning to clean out the basement of the hospital building, which is used as a barber shop. The two prisoners, Messervy iand Clanton, were sweeping up ?ome hair. Messervy held the spade while Clanton was using the broom. Mes servy stated that the negro without warning attacked him w;lth a knife. He knocked the negro down with the spade and the negro, rising, cut him on the arm. He then struck the fatal blow. A guard was called by Meeser vy and medical assistance was iglven the negro. He died in a few mom ents. Messervy killed another man when he klMed the liquor constable iat Ravenel. Clanton is the third man he has killed. He is evidently a bad fellow. SHORT WEIGHTS IN COLUMBIA. Experts Find Scales and Measures Inaccurate. Weights and measures used in Co lumbia are generally incorrect, the errors favoring as a rule the dealer as against the consumer; and, upon a showing to this effect by Federal experts, the city council has set foi itself the task of remedying matters. The situation is complicated and its proper readjustment will require some time. The promising feature is the cordial cooperation which the merchants themselves offer. It is re-! alized, by city council as well as by the Government agents, that the losses inflicted by short weights and measures upon the consumers are in flicted innocently and ignorantly by most of the dealers so offending, and these merchants say they will he very glad to have their standards correct ed. In April experts from the bureau of standards of the national depart ment of commerce and labor quietly j made an investigation into the weights and measures used in Colum bia, under the direction of 'Mr. M. H. Stillman. Mayor Glbbes knew of the investigation, and, forseeing the importance of its bearing, asked to be furnished with a copy of the report, embodying the findings of the ex perts. This report has just come to hand, from director S. W. Strat ton, of the bureau or standards. HURT BY SAME MULE. Father and Son Both Meet Death the SamecWay. News reached Lexington Monday of' the death of Gus Bouknight, a young farmer of the Chapin section of the county, death resulting, from inju ries sustained by being thrown from a mule. A strange coincidence in connection with the death, o: the young man is the fact that his fath er, John Bouknight, was injured in a runaway last fall by being thrown from a bale of cotton, the same mule being hitched to the wagon, that threw Gus Bouknight on Saturdey. The father lingered a few days, when death came as a relief to his suffer ing. Gus Bouknight was about 3 0 years of age, and, besides his wife and child, is survived by his aged mother and several brothers and sisters. His remains were laid to rest in the Meth odist church cemetery at Chapin Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock in the presence of a very large congre gation of relatives and friends. Caused Double Tragedy. W. E. Hudson, a prominent mer chant and planter, was shot and kill ed Monday by Drew Hudson, the adopted son of T. A. Hudson, a brother of W. E. Hudson. In turn Drew Hudson was killed with his own weapon by Morgan Hudson, a third brother. The double tragedy occurred about five miles north of Dyersburg, Tenn., and is said to have been the outcome of a feud which had existed for some time between W. E. and T. A. Hudson. Young Man Gone Wrong. R. C. Kuhle, an express messen lodged in jail, charged with the theft day b yDeputy Sheriff Harell and logded in jail, dharged with the theft of articles in his charge while In transit. Kuhle was running between Florence and Jacksonville while in URG, S. Cfe THURSDAY, JUNI VOTED IT DOWN Roirt's AoiiijjKirf[j| Reciprocity BUI is R-jected by the Senate AFTER A LONG DEBATE The Vote Against the Amendment Was So Overwhelming That Its Friends Did Not Ask for a Roll Call of the Senate When the Vote Was Taken. ? The Canadian reciprocity bill emerged from its first ordeal in the senate Monday night unscathed. The Root, amendment proposing a modifi cation of the wood pulp and print paper section of the agreement was defeated by an overwhelming vote, after several hours of debate. Friends of the amendment were so satisfied of a defeat that a roll oall on the vote was not demanded. . This leaves the reciprocity measure open to the general fight that is to follow for amendment of important portions of the Payne tariff iaw. Sen ator LaFollette in a speech opposing the Root amendment announced he would give to the senate a chance to pass on general tariff amendments for free paper, free lumber and lum ber products and f?r reductions in many other schedules. Senator Clapp also announced his Intention of of fering a free paper amendment later, and other senators gave ev'dence of Mieir purpose to force from now o~ consideration of tariff revision on the widest plan. Attack on the Root amendment was Interspersed with attacks on the whole reciprocity measure In the de bate that ran throughout the after noon and which resulted In the de_ feat of Senator Root's proposition to change the house bill to require that all Canadian provinces should re move their export restrictions on pulp wood and Its products before the re ciprocity features of the wood pulp and print paper items of the agree ment became effective. "I am opposed to this so-called re ciprocity legislation as a whole, be t cause I believe it Is wrong, harmful j and unjustifiable," said Senator La Follette. "If It must pass I want to see it made as nearly perfect as pos sible. I shall vote against the Root amendment because I believe it will defeat the very purpose of the wood pulp and print paper paragraphs ot ?the agreement." Senator LaFollette said there was no justification for any duty on pa per. He analyzed the figures of the tariff board to show that the best mills in the United States actually produce paper cheaper than the best mills in Canada. To continue a high tariff on paper, he said, was to put a premium on "inefficiency- and sloth," and to make the tariff deaden all constructive forces "for the de velopment of efficient management." Senator LaFollette declared that newbpapers for having urged the re ciprocity measure as a means of get. ting relief from the oppressive charges of the print paper manufac turers. He said they had joined with the "packers, the railroads, the flour millers" and others who would se cure advantages through favorable action on the reciprocity pact. "For my own part," he said, "i shall stand for a proposition which will give to the users of print, paper a free product. (But I contend they are not fairly entitled to that at the sacrifice of any other industry or I great class of people. I am sorry they should have joined to sacrifice | the agricultural interests in this bill." Senator LaFollette declare dthat j in the testimony taken by the finance: committee it would be shown the newspapers had suppressed the news of the reciprocity proceedings but on this point Senator Stone, who also is a member of the finance com mittee, declared the Wisconsin sen ator was mistaken. "That is the blackest page in the j newspaper history of ,the United States," said Senator LaFollette. i "I regret that the fact must be come part of the history of this leg-) islation, but it is a stubborn fact, j There is no one who followed the: [hearings before the finance commit tee but knows that those who favor-j ; ed the Canadian agreement were giv en great space, but when the agri-i cultural interests came before the i committee, makinr a great showing: I of the injury they would suffer, a I showing which I consider the mostj j important made before the commit.! tee, the news llled but meagre space I in the great newspapers of the coun-1 try." "I want to interrupt the senator,"! said Senator Stone, "not to defendI the newspapers, but because T think; his statement is not quite justified by! the facts. It was charged that thej Associated Press, for example, had given great space to the prorecipro-i city literature and to the prorecfp- j rocity contention which the newspa-i pers had greedily accepted and wide ly exploited. ? The facts as developed show, as I understand thorn, that far more, space was given the anti-reciprocity arguments by the Associated Press and by the newspapers of the coun try than was given by either the one or the other in favor of reciprocity. I wish simply to put the'statement, as representing my judgment of the facts, against the statement of the observations of the senator from i 29, 1911. SCORES CARNEGIE FUND ATTE3E?T TO MONOPOLIZE HIGH ER EDUCATION. Priest Asserts That It Will Have El feet, Also, on Legislation Aimed at Steel Trust. A scathing attack on the alms and alleged tendencies of the Carnegie j foundation was the somewhat sensa tional feature of the opening session of the convention of the National Educational association at Chicago Tuesday. In an exhaustive address the Rev. Timothy Breanahan, S. J., president! of Loyola university, (Baltimore, ar-| raigned the foundation, and his views were supplemented by a geu-| eral discussion. In the >,ourse of his address Father i Bresnahan said: "A fund of $15,000,000 in bonds of the United States Steel corporation providing retaining allowances for certain institutions will enlist the in terest of influential personages inj the stability of the Pittsburg million-j aire's Industrial institution. "These, we may reasonably sup pose, would scarcely look impartially J on legislative enactment that would Imperil the value of their securities.! The result of investing the Uniteaj States Steel corporation bonds in the j foundation could scarcely have es caped the accumen of so acute a bus-1 Iness man. "The Carnegie foundation affords a motive to university and college pres idents for discharging, professors when they have reached the dead line. If the evils of depotism are in store for us should we permit monopoly of education by the governmen, which after all can be called to be account, what may we expect from a private, permanent, self-perpetuat ing corporation backed by millions of dollars and irresponsible to the pub-* 11c, whose one aim is to bring into disrepute schools under definite re ligious control; to bind together non sectarian schools selected mostly for their actual or prospective strength; through1 them to get control of the higher education of the country, and finally to establish educational unity and coherency by an educational sys tem necessarily hostile and skeptical In its attitude toward religious truth?" FATAL SHOOTING SCRAPE. One Man Mortally and Another Se verely Wounded. Foster F. Harper and William RIdgeway, two young white men of prominent families, engaged In a pis tol duel near Holliday's bridge, An derson county, Monday afternoon, each firing 15 shots, and each being wounded, Harper probably mortally. The row was a result of some reports one of the principals started, so it is said, but the nautre of the reports can not be learned. Friends of both men anticipated a fight and asked Harper and Ridge way to meet at the home of Rub Holllday in order to adjust their dif ferences. It Is said that both men began firing when they met and that each emptied his revolver three times and when their pistols were emptied tbey calmly reloaded and began firing again. ?Harper was shot through the liver and two other- balls lodged In his stomach. Ridgeway received three bullets 'In his leg. He was moved to his home, where he was attended by physicians. Harper was rushed to Belton in an automobile, and was'' brought to Anderson over the electric trolley. He wms carried to the hos pital and Doctors Harris, Haynle. Babb and Young operated on him. They say there is very little nope for his revovery. Ridgeway will recover if no complications set in. Woman Starve to Death. For the second time within forty eight hours, a woman collapsed Sat urday of starvaaion in the steets of New York. This time the victim died. She said she was Rose Dasso, aged 51, homeless and friendless. She had slept in doorways and parks for a year, she said, and with her last breath she told a policeman who knelt over her that food had not passed her lips for so long that she had forgotten the date, and had all but forgotten the taste. Fell in North Sea. One of the four balloons which as cended at Paris Saturday fell Into the North Sea. A violent storm pre vailed at the time and the aeriai craft was rapidly carried out to sea. Two persons were aboard her. A rescue boat was sent out. as soon as possible to the aid of the distressed balloon but later returned, having re covered only an empty ballast bag marked "R. G. >B.?70." Two Br?thens Injured. As a result of a railroad accident at Majolica, six miles west of Salis bury, N. C, on the Southern railroad Tuesday afternoon, Ralph Johnston. 1 fi-years-old, of Salisbury is dead and his brother, Samuel R. Johnston, is in a critical condition at a hospital here. The brothers had been on a fishing trip and boarded an incoming freight to Salisbury. Wisconsin, that his statement shall not igo unchallenged." WILL REMOVE THEM THE HOOK WORM IN SOUTH CAR OLINA MUST GO. A Sweeping Investigation to be Mode by Experts and Specialists fa This State. The announcement is made by Dr. J. LaBruce Ward that the work of f investigating and treating hook worm in South Carolina will be materially furthered by the recent appointment of three specialists in addition to the one already employed to go over the State and (get In among the people* Dr. Routh of Hampton, County. J.s. at work in his native place. Dr. J . T. Howell, of Kenly, N. C, will begin in South Carolina on July 1; on July 15 another goes on duty, the name to be announced later. These specialists will make exam inations and seek to cdre the cases they find. Each will be equipped with a microscope and projection lan tern; by means of the latter lectures will be given as a large part of th?. work, in this way aiming to get the actual facts, visual facts, before the, people of the state, especially the ru ral sections. As a further step In the system atic stamping out of the disease, plans for the establishment of dis pensaries for the treatment of pa tients comes. as a practical scheme and an invocation in South Carolina. Beauford and Hampton Counties have signlled to Dr. Ward their hopes of aiding, him to begin this work in thesi? counties. Others will be added Et the list. The plan is to have in each county four or five dispensing sta tions for medicine. The specialists will make the, rounds of these stations, advertising In the county papers at what time! he will be at a particular dispensary. He may be consulted, the patient goes home for treatment according to di rections, and in a week returns either cured or to be recommended to fur ther treatment until the disease is completely eradicated. Dr. Ward has received information from the Rockefeller sanitary com mission that at the dispensary at Bienvlll'e, La., 61 cases were treated the first day of its opening. Dr. Ward states that the disease is no heavier there than in 'South Carolina. Systematic hook worm eradication is ?going; on in South Carolina. 'North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mis sissippi and Arkansas. His plan Is that the men shall move from coun ty to county thus covering in time the entire State. TURKS ON THE RAMPAGE. Districts Devastated and Women and Children Butchered. The situation, in Albania is ex tremely critical. Turkey has massed 50,000 troops within a day's march of the Montenegrin frontier. Charles R. Crane, of Chicago, who has just arrived at Vienna from Cet tlnje after traversing Albania, says the Turks are devastating whole dis tricts, killing prisoners, burning houses and crps and blowing up the churches. A large body of Albanian women and children is now cau?ht between two wings of the Turkish army and escape is impossible. Mr. Crane' adds that 25,000 wo men and children have fled to ?Mon tenegro and are starving there, their only means of subsistenence being boiled grass and variou sroots they are able to gather. KILLED AND INJURED By a Terrific Oil Explosion at Tort Arthur, Texas. At Port Arthur, Texas, two lives were lost half a dozen or more men were injured some seriously, three oil barges and one tug burned to the water's edge, about 10,000 barrels of oil destroyed and two large ware houses and over 500 feet of wharves j burned, In an explosion followed by ia disastrous fire in the Port Arthur harbctr and water front Monday morning. The loss is estimated late to-day at about $300,000. Capt. Frank Weber of the barge Gumble. and a man who is as yet un identified, lost their lives in the ex : plosion aboard the Gumble, where i the fire originated. The flames swept rapidly over smaller vessels belonging to the Tex as Company and .spread to two large ; warehouses of that company. These j two, together with 500 feet of I wharves, were soon a mass of ruins. .Other buildings were damaged. Tried by Japanese Judges. j At Tokyo, John E. Atkins, a sea ; man of the United States cruiser Sar ; atoga, has been sentenced to five i years imprisonment for killing John iL. Sannders. a bluejacket of the New ; Orleans. Atkins was tried before I three Japanese judges on June 23. : He was defended by Attorney Hato yama, son of the president of the di. , et. It was shown that the killing oc icurred during a row while Atkins [ was intoxicated. - ? ? o Must Have Been Thirsty, j On the voyage over the 752 cabin ! pasengers on the Olympic consumed the following: Champagne, 7,000 bot tles; Beer, 13.000 bottles; Mineral waters, 1,000 bottles; Whiskies, 500 bottles; Liquors, 160 bottles. TWO CENTS PER COPY. ARE AFTER HIN Fmk, Slat Winets in Lor: aw for, Shadow?d and Threatened BY PAID DETECTIVES Air. Funk Says He Has Been Per* secuted and HI Treated Ever Since He First Testified in the Case, and Intimates that Bines Is at the Bot tom of It. Shadowed for weeks by detectives ' instructed to get anything posciflfte against him was the alleged experi ence of which Clarence S. Funk, ot Chicago, star witness in the present Lorimer investigation, Mcriday com plained to :h<s senate committee in quiring into the Lorimer election. The statement produced a Sensa tion because the name Df EJward Hines, whom '.Mr .Funk had testified, had ashed him to contribute $10,000 toward $100,0-00 used to "put Lori mer over a: Springfield," was men tioned in connection with the ser vices of the detectives. Mr. Funli, declared four detectives had followe* him to Washington and two had watched him during lunch; Monday. One of them, ho eald, had been compelled to give hin name and that of his employer when caugM lx| a tight placo. j Mr. Funit declined to break his word to the detective and reveal his. name. He said the employer was not Senator Lorimer. The commit tee ended the(day's, heartag by golmsc > into executive session to consider the situation. At the ex-scutive session Mr, Funk is aid to have revealed the detec tive's name and promised! to produce him .before the committee* Tte com mittee then took up consideration ot j what steps to take to prevent detec tives interfering with witnesses be fore the committee. Mr. .Funk's statement about the detectives cjime at.the, cjose of a long examination on the witness stand. He retold the story he related: to the Helm committee in Illinois, about how Mj\ Klines Is alleged to hav? ashed him, as general manager ot tho International Harvester company,, to contribute $10.000 to IJte Lorimer fund. For Itsoura attorneys and mem bers of tho committee have aBked question after question of him about., this conversation, the report of whicty probably led to the pre?ent investi gation of tt:e Lorimer election. The witness had described his persona^ relations to Senator Lorimer, Mr. Hines and many others figuring. 5a the case. Rather Inciaentariy Mr. Funk ..re marked thai: his part In the gage baa been anything hut pleasant and that he had been promised more "unpleas antness." "Promised more?" repeated Sena tor Jones. "Yes, over the telephones an* b> nnnnsmsotis communtcarJons, indirect threa-Ls have been made.** Th'un Mr. Funk said he had been followed ever since he testified at Springfield before the Helm coromft ten. Mr..Funk tQld about the,tdetectives. following him to Washington and about getting the name of one of them. He said the detective he had corner"0d claimed to be employ ed by the Thiele Detective agency in Chicago ?nd had been Instructed fo ret anything he could on Mr. Funk: He protonted against being made to reveal the detective's name because "he seemed Tike a nice feJlow, who said he wau not proud of what he was doing s.nd had a family to suy*. port." Tn tell his name, Mr. Funk saiA, would mean his dismissal. "If you don't tell it, all four wttt probably loue their Jobs," suggested Mr. Gamble. William J. Hines of counsel for Senator Lorimer and Edward O. Hines urged the witness ,to reveal the name. "Put Edward Hines on the stand and ask bim to whom '.he detectives roport each night," responded Mr. Funk. Elbridge Hancy, of counsel for Sen ator Lonlmer, asked if the detective said Mr. Lorimer emplDyed them. "No, Sena.tor Lorime- did not em ploy th?m," declared the witness. The comnitee then vent into ex ecutive session. Will Bring Him Back. A dispatch to The State from Cam eron, Te:cas, says Gov. O. B. Colqult, of Texas, Monday honored reouisition papers for W. B. Avant alias William Benjamin, who Is wanted in George town, S. C, is a convicted manskry^r. Avant was arrested while engaged tjj selling machines; and admitted hei was tho man wanted. His wife was with bim at the time. Avant was convicted of manslaughter for hilling Mrs. G. C. Bii?ham and sentenced Jo> three and a half years. Fell Under Train. As he wau alighting from a Soufh ern train Monday night at the termi nal station at Atlanta, after a. visit to his family at Ellenwood, Ga., J. j? Lenford, aged 42, slipped and^ety Htt was struck by the train and so badty; injured that, death resulted; ten mitt utes later. He leaves a widow ani ten children, ,.