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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLi of Seoalfr Cemmiogs. HE WAS ON BOTH SIDES Iowan Argues Against Canadian Re ciprociity and John Sharp Williams Cites 1904 Speech in which Cum miiis Favored Putting Farm Pro ducts in Free List. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says the gen eral opinion of disinterested auditors of the colloquy in the Senate Thurs day between Senators Cummins of Iowa, and Williams, of Missippl, that the brilHar/. Southerner routed the Iowan, horse, foot and dragoon. The deed was accomplished by the apt citation of a speech delivered by Mr. Cumming3 several years ago In advocacy of reciprocity, particularly with regard to farm products. There Is wide recogi ition of the fact that <m John Shi.*D WHiams the South has added another tc the galaxy of g?*eat Senator.*. Senator Cammings continued his argument, agslnst the Canadian re ciprocity bill, but d<id not conclude. He attacked this measure from the standpoint not only of its alleged in justice and political inexpeditVicy, but on the grounds that It was not properly drawn as a tariff law. If passed in its present form, he said, the agreement would give Can ada the option of reorganizing one half of it without accepting It all. The statement, explained In detail by the Iowan, drew the attention of the Senate, many members question ing the interpretation thus put upon the bill as sent to Congress by the President. Senator Cummins said the passage o* the bill would be followed by a storm of disapproval, against which the Republican party could not stand. He said it would be accepted by the agricultural interests as notice that the Congress had determined they we 3 not entitled to the same con sideration at its hands that is given to the other producers of the land. "No self-respecting nation can ac cept without qualification the Cana dian-reclprocftr agreement in the ex act form proposed to us," declared Senator Cummlngs. He declared he believed in tariff revision, "but mark my words," he said, "the people of thiB country, with unerring judgment and intelligence, will know who is responsible for putting the farmer Into (free and unlimited competition In what he sells, while still protect ing the things that he buys." ' Senator Williams, of Mississippi, ; Interrupted to read from Senator Gnmming's inaugural address in Iowa in 1904. ' ;-v*In this speech Mr. Cummlngs ex pressed the belief that the Iowa farm er would not suffer from free Cana dian agriculutral products more than they do from the competition of near by States. "I remember that speech," sala Senator Cummins. <? "But it seems the Senator is now most inconsistent in his views," said Mr. Williams. "I am not," said Senator Cummins, "ten or even seven years ago, there was not the danger of competition of Canadian farm products that there* is now, when the United States al most ceased to be an exporter of such products." Burglar Creates Terror. The police of Macon, Ga., are hunt ing for a negro burglar who has been systematically robbing residences on "Boundary street and Coleman ave nue, having visited no less than five of those thoroughfares this week. In one instance he ransacked a room at the home of S. L. Stripling, in which there was a person sleeping. The negro has twice been captured by the owners of the house, but man aged to escape. Struck Below Ground. While working 1,500 feet under ground at one a. m. James Conroy. of Kingston, Pa., was struck by lightning and so badly injured that he is not exepected to recover. He did not know there was a storm until his chamber was filled with a blazing light, and he was knocked senseless and badly burned. The stroke of lightning had followed the intake of air current as far as Con loy's chamber. Engine Jumps Track. East bound train No. 26, on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, was wrecked Wednesday evening, one mile east of Aden, Ky. The engine jumped the track and turned over. Mat F. Kelley, of Mount Sterling, Ky., the engineer, was killed, and Edward A. T. Watkins of Lexington, travel ing engineer, sustained a broken leg. None of the passengers was hurt. \ Struck a Snow Storm. V Dispatches from Duluth says that steamers down the lake are sending in.wlreless messages stating that they" are late because they have been held UP by a snow storm thi? side of the Canadian Soo. Snow fell In abundance, according to reports, all Thursday night. During the storm most of the freighters anchored and rode safe until the snowfall ceased. PRICES ARE HIGHER -j THE COST OF TEXT BOOK SOME. WHAT INCREASED. But Then It Is rresamed That the Books Selected Are Better Than the Old Ones. The new boohs adopted by the State board of education for the free public schools of South Carolina will cost the patrons of the school some more than the books now used ac cording to comparative -figures made up at the office of the State superin i tendent of education. The increased expense is shown in jthe following- comparative statement of the cost of new and old books prepared by Mr. Swearingen: Primer. Ccat of old Primer.12 Cost of new Primer.25 Increase over .00 per cent. During the five year period 1906 1911 135,000 primers were sold. Up on that basis the total increase to the pnpils of the State will be $17, 680.00. Readers. Cost of old First Reader.20 Cost of new First Reader.25 ?Increase 25 p?r cent. Total number of Fi^st Readers sold during the rist five years, 200, 000 copies. Aggregate increase to the pupils $10,000. Cost of old Second Reader. . . .28 Cost of new Second Reader. . . .35 Increase 25 p*r cent. Total number of Second Readers sold during the last adoption period, 129,000 copies. Aggregate increase $9,030.00. Geography. Cost of old Elem. Geography. . .3fc Cost of new Eleoi. Geograph. . .45 ?Increase 33 1-3 per cent Total number sold during last adoption period, 63,000. Increase to pupils, $7,560.00. Physiologies. In place of a two-book series a three-book series has been adopted. Cost of old series Elem.30 Cost of old series Adv. .50 Cost of new series, 1st book. . .35 Cost of new series, 2nd book. . .40 Cost of new series, 3rd booK. . .60 Increased cost to each pupil of the series, .55.- Increase about 60 per cent. Arithmetic. In place of <?. twi>-book series'cov ering the work up to the high school a three-book soxies has been adopted. The first two books cover the work up to the 7tb grade. Every pwil therefore who passed into the 7th grade will have to purchase a new book for the one year at a cost of 41 centB. Cost of old Arithmetic Elem. . .32 Cost of old Arithmetic Adv . . .40 Cost of new arithmetic Elem. . .22 Cost of new Arithmetic, Inter.. .36 Cost of new Arithmetic, Adv. . .41 Increase in cost' of the series, 47' cents, about 06 2-3 per cent. CAUSES SOME COMMENT. Action of State Board of Education Is Being Discussed. The State says much interest is be ing manifested in the action of the State Board of Education in eliminat ing about 80 per cent of the text books now used by the free public schools of South Carolina. The members of the State board of education are: D. M. O'Driscoll, Charleston: F. Rice, Jr., Alken: D. W. Daniel. Clemson college: A. G. Rembert. Spartanburg; J. Lyles Glenn, Chester: Nathan Toms, Dar lington: A. J. Thackson, Orangeburg; J. E. Swearingen, the State superin tendent of education, i? the secretary of the boa.rd and the governor is the ex-officio chairman. 'Mir. Swearingen several days ago issued a statement in which he crit icized the hoard for the sweeping changes in iext-books. He charged that the board had placed an unnec essary tax of several hundred thous and dollars upon the people of the State. The action of the board has caused much comment and further developments in connection with the situation are1 expected. Fatal Crap Game. As a climax to a "crap game," en gaged in by a crowd of negroes dur ing the progress of a camp meeting j on Sunday at Montague, a small (station on the Greenville and Knox | ville railway, eight miles above Greenville, an unknown negro was 'shot and instantly killed by Will I Robinson. Robinson was captured I by the sheriff and is now in jail. !He claims he shot in self-defense. I Held on Serious Charge. At Macon. Ga., Charles Doctor, the I young musician who is charged with [criminally assaulting Leah Cohen, a 13-year-old girl and the daughter of Rabbi Cohen, is in jail. It was ex pected that he would have a prelimi nary trial Thursday, but he has not asked for it. Doctor has offered to marry the girl, but her relatives will not consent. Flock to the Sea Shore. Three hundred thousand men, women and children slept on the beach at Coney Island. New York, Thursday night, driven from their homes by the intense heat. Early Friday, however, a cool wave brought relief. Five persons succumbed to Thursday's heat. ORANGEE STANDS BY THE BOARD GOVERNOR B LEASE SATISFIED "WITH WHAT IT DID. Says the Members in Their Action Were Just as Conscientious as Swearingen Was. Governor Blease Wednesday after noon issued a statement in connec tion with the text book contract mat tor. Governor Blease said: "I have seen Superintendent Swear ingen's statement I have no com ment to make. He is entitled to his opinion, and I have the highest re gard for him, and, if he is a can didate for re-election, he has my best wishes for hia success, for I think he is conscientious and trying to do what he believes is right. However, after a most careful and thorough investigation I am satisfied that the Beven gentlemen who represented the State by appointment on this board, (and who were appointed by my predecessor,) are equally as con scientious and as honorable gentle men, and did what they believed was for the best interest of the children of South Carolina. "I considered the changing of the board. Certain newspapers were very loud In their denunciation of me in contemplation of such action and spoke in the very highest and lauda ble terms of these gentlemen, and it [ appeared from their ravings tbat had I removed these gentlemen I would jhave been subjected to the most se vere censure. I "Now, that the adoption is over, some of these same papers are criti cising these gentlemen. If they can make their position consistent, after publishing these contradictory state ments, all right, for it will only be in keeping with the easing of their conscience for their other falsehoods and vituperation in which they have engaged. "On the morning of the beginning of the book adoption I was called away from Columbia and, therefore, was not present at the adoption of the books on the morning of the first day. Neither was I present when the vote was taken on the question raised by Superintendent Swearingen?that each man record his vote on each book. If I had been present I would have voted for Mr. Swearinge-'u plan: and, if any one is interested enough to now, I will be delighted to state how I voted on each book tbat was adopted during my pres??-?-*. I think my record in the ^louse of Representatives and In the State Sen ate and in the Governor's office will justify me in saying that I have al ways been free and open In every net that I have ever committed, and I have no apologies to make to any man or set of men. I recognize no 'boss' but the people, and, when I go before them to them alone will I iglve an account. "I refused on several occasions to see book men. Notably in this class were the agents of the American Book Company, and I have been in formed that Mr. Fair, one of their representatives, was rather severe In his criticism of my not allowing him to see me and discuss his books with him. When book men called, I de clined to see them?stating to some to see Mr. Swearingen, that he was State Superintendent of Education, and that the people had elected him to perform that duty and not me. As to GInn & Co., I guess Mr. Wal ker will hardly say that I had any favors for them. The only agentB with whom I did have any conversa tion of consequence, did not get even a book, except Prof. White. "As I have said before, my fight was for Southern books, and we i adopted Thompson's, Klnard's, Wal lace's, White's, Sims's and other I South Carolina authors. As to the! Wheeler reader, while I was not pres-| ent when they were adopted, they are by a Kentuckian and many of the other books adopted were by Southern authors: and in my opinion, our people would rather pay alittle more and have their children taught the truth in Southern books, than to pay less and be taught books by Yankee authors, and taught to be-1 lieve that their grand fatherp, andl their great-grand-fathers were trait ors to their State. "I regret that Superintendent Swearingen looks at the matter as he does. "As for my part of it, ignorant [ as I was as to the needs of the chil Idren. I did the best I could. As for 'the balance?T refer the people to I Prof. O'Driscoll; Mr. Rice. Prof. Dan i iels, Prof. F.embert, Prof. Toms, Prof. Thackston and Senator Glenn. If this is a Bleas.e board, or If these gen tlemen were controlled by me, or If they are corrupt, then lay all the blame on my shoulders, and I will gladly carry it until the people of South Carolina give the command "lav it down." 1 - m c Sonic More Hot Air. The Augusta Chronicle says Felder made the statement in Atlanta Wed nesday night that he will shortly be gin showing by oral and documentary evidence, that "Blease is a moral degenerate, and unfit to sit in a con vention of 'buzzards'." Japs in South America. Private cable advices received on Thursday state that the colonization of Japanese is now going on in Nic aragua, Hunduras, Panama and oth er Central American states. The Jap anese government is said to be be hind the movement. IURG, S. C, SATURDAY, JUL' HEP LIVE WIRE Dwell Harrison Lost Bis Life While Viewing Base Ball Game. WAS HIGH UP ON A POLE Over Two Thousand People Who Were Witnessing Base Ball Game Saw the Unfortunate Man Fall Backwards and Hang Head Down Ward for Some Time. The State says while perched on an electric light pole near the'centre field fence watching the Columbia Charleston game Wednesday after noon at Elmwood park, Derrell Har rison, a young white man, qame In contact with a live wire and hung suspended from a cross arm, head downwards, for about five minutes in plain view of about 2,000 horri fied spectators. Death resulted al most instantly. The accident occurred in the sixth inning, about 6:40 o'clock. Ham son and another man, whose name as yet has not been ascertained by the authorities, were watching the game from the electric light pole. A light which looked like a ball of fire flash ed and Harrison fell backwards, his legs catching on the cross-arm, the other man dropping to the ground. His hat then sailed to the street be low1. It is ^aid that the other man was not injured. In an Instant the grandstand and bleachers were in.a state of confus ion. Women shrieked and hundreds of others ruphed on the field for the scene of the accident. John Burke, centre fielder on the Columbia team, was among the first to go to his aid. A man climbed the pole with a rope and attempted to tie it around the dead man's body to lower it to the ground, but his body was so limp that it slipped out, falling into the crowd. Examination showed that he was dead. Derrell Harrison was about twenty five year old. He was from the Horse Creek valley of this State, but has recently been with" his brother in-law, G. T. Scott, in the Olympia mill village. His wife was fn Colum bia. After the accident the game was resumed, but many left. THEY TOOK 'THE FUNDS. House Committee Advises Dismissal of Several Men. The recomendation for the dismis sal from the Government Bervic? of American Consul Gen. W. H. Mich ael, at Calcutta, former chief clerk of the State department, and Thos. Morrison, present disbursing clerk,, for their connection with the Day portrait case, as announced Thurs day, in which misappropriation of State department funds Is charged, was reported to the House committee I on expenditures in the State depart ment by the sub-committee, which Is conducting an investigation of the department. The sub-committee said that it had not completed its labors, but report ed the case of Michael and Morrison, in the hope that their services would be dispensed with Immediately. The recommendation is the result of an I Investigation by it into ' an alleged I expenditure of the department of $2, 150 for a painting of former Secre tary of State Day, of which amount the artist, Albert Rosenthal, said he received only $850, the remaining $1,600 b?ing unaccounted for. "This conclusion reached by your commit tee," the report says, "seer.i irresis tible that this sum of $1,600 was jointly misappropriated by Michael l end 'Morrison, or individually by I Michael." Struck in a Field. Robert Wilson, colored, a laborer on S. B. Crawford's plantation, near Great Falls, Chester County, was in stantly killed by lightning on Fri day afternoon. Wilson and several j companions were engaged in hoeing (cotton when the accident occurred. I Three of the others were kocked j down and stunned, but fortunately were not killed. Convict Falls Dead. While laughing and talking with fellow convicts, a negro named Lee, alias Smith, who was serving a two year sentence on the Spartanburg County chaingang, tumbled over backwards and died before medical aid could reach him one day last week. He was joking about his ar rest, conviction and sentence when he died. Elks Club Raided. At Talladega, Ala., Thursday Sher iff Connett raided the Elk's club, se curing fifteen casks of beer and fif teen cases of whiskey. This is the largest raid ever made in the state of Alabama. The Elks are highly in dignant. The entire city of Talladega is in a state of excitement as the result of the raid. Drown in River. iThe bodies of Albert J. Handtman, a prominent club man and athlete, of Cincinnati, ad Miss Anna Kees, known on the vaudeville stage as Bonie Hampton, were ?found in the Ohio river Thursday. They had been missing since Thursday week and it was supposed they had eloped. Y 1, 1911. MISSED BIG AMOUNT TRAIN ROBBERS MADE MISTAKE EN STOPPING TRAIN. Only Swag Comes From Registered Mail, No Express Being on Board. Posso in Pursuit. Apparently mistaking the first sec tion of the northbound passen ?er train No. 16 on the Southern Pacific railroad for a southbound train said to be carrying a shipment of $400, 000 In gold dust from Seattle to San Franciuco two robbers held up the northbound train on Thursday night near West Fork, an isolated station in Cow Creek canyon, Oregon. The robbers rifled the mail car, blowing up the safe, and made away with the registered mall. They tried I to secure entrance to the express car, | but were foiled by (Messenger Robo, j who refused to open the door despite threat!, that they would use dyna mite if he refused. The robbers after fruitlessly prying with a crowbar at the side door of the car, finally de sisted and decamped with the loot secured from the mail car. The amount taken by the Tobbers can not be ascertained at this time. This train carries in its registered mail the cash from Southern Oregon postoffices to Eugene, Oregon, which is their depository, and this was probably included In the mail stolen. The robbers boarded the train at West Fork while the engine was tak ing water. Soon after it had got un der way they crawled over the tender into the cab and directed the engineer to stop the train. This done one of the men kept the engineer and fireman under cover with his revolver while the other one went back and uncoupled the mail and baggage car. Then the engineer was ordered to pull these cars some distance up the tract, where he was again ordered to stop. The robbers went back to the mail car and lining the mail Clerk? up, took the registered mail pounches and dynamited the mail car safe. The noise of the explosion warned Messenger Robb of what was taking p!ace and when the demand came lor him to open his door he made no responce. The conductor of the train as soon as he discovered what had taken place went back to West Fork where he notified Glendale and surrounding points. Posses have been organized to pursue the robbers. D EPRESS PRICE OF COTTON. A Plot for That Purpose Said to Have i Been Formed. A Washington dispatch to The I State says a bull and bear war has broken out again although on a small BCato, because it developed there on Wednesday in the hearing of the committee on expenditures in the de partment of justice that there has been a studied effort on the part oi Northern spinners for the last fdur years to curtail the output of cot ton goods in order to force down the prices of the staple. Fooks of the Arkwright club whi^ have just been exhibited to Congress man Beall of Texas led him to say i that Interesting disclosures might be 'expected any day In view of the ac I tions of Attorney General Wicker sham last year when the bull and j bear movements were the issues of I the day. J While it Is too early to say what (the outcome of the matter will be ! thrre is a feeling that spinners from j both the North and South will be 'summoned to testify before the com i mittee to ascertain whether the cot tor market had suffered because of thi. agreement of the Northern men to curtail their production and to what extent the Sojthern spinners responded. Owed Him Small Amount. Jesse Kirk, a nep;ro, shot and kill ed Will Wood, also colored, at Swit zer, Spartanburg county, Monday. Kirk claims that he shot Wpod, his brother-in-law, in self-defense. He said he and Wood had been off to gether and were returning home, when Wood claimed that Kirk owed him 25 cents. Kirk claims that he paid Wood the amount, and Wood then claimed Kirk owed him more than 25 cents. Kirk denied owing him any more money. Cotton Mills Closed. In accordance with resolutions adopted at a meeting of the Cotton Manufacturers' Association of South Carolina held in Spartanburg last January looking to a curtailment of (the output of cotton mills of this I State for a period of five weeks, be tween April and September, practical I ly all the cotton mills of Greenville I have closed down. Sunday School Recruits. One million four hundred and thir ty-one thousand pupils have been added to the Sunday schools of the I United States in the last three years, j according to statistics presented to tho International Sunday school con vention, which was in session at San Francisco. Buried Under Gold. Literally buried under $9,000,000 ; in gold, Wadesworth Williams, em I ployed in the San Francisco mint, j was so badly injured the other day I that his recovery is doubtful. TWO GIRLS WIN IN RAFFLE AND ARB AWARDED A LIFE PARTNER. A Novel Manner of Raising Money at a Church lx>ttery Held in Phil adelphia, Pa. It is quite the thing in Philadel phia now for a girl to take a chance In a husband. That sounds as if it were not new, but the fact Is that a girl at a fair can put her hand in a grab bag and pull out a husband if she is lucky. Miss Mary Doyle did almost that at the fair for the benefit of St. Greg ory's Roman Catholic Church Wed nesday night. She and several thous and young women bought tickets in a lottery for a husband whose identity was carefully hidden. St Gregory's rector vouchsafed that the prize would make a good husband, and an nounced that he would perform the marriage ceremony gratis. As an additional inducement a diamond ring was thrown in with tne husband The drawing for the one capital prize was held on the porch of the headquarters of the church fair com mittee Wednesday night. Miss Jen nie Woodheuse held a box full of numbers. Miss Mary Muray. blind folded, thrust her hand in the oox and drew forth a number. Tbo girl who held that number was the win ner. The united heart pit-a-pats of the hundreds of gir)s assembled were almost audible. "No. 1669 wins" announced Miss Woodhouse. After much fluttering it was dis covered that Mrs. Doyle held 1669. Her envious co-gamblers in the game of love thrust her forward and she was directed to step on :he porch and discover h*r "winnings" wno was hidden behind a screen. An orchestra played the wedding march from "Lohengrin." With a pretty, petulant gesture Miss Doyle knocked down the screen. There stood William BowerB, known to all the girls of the church, "the bashful bachelor." He was blushing furiously. Besides he wore evening clothes, except that he had on a green necktie. "Pshaw" said Miss Doyle in a tone that made Bowers blush a deeper crimson, "I know Mr. Bowers is'very nice, but I don't want a husband that costs me only ten cents." She gave up the diamond ring too. Bowers will be raffled off again, next time to buy a new organ for) the church. Miss Doyle may change her mind again. Miss Catherine N. Flanagan did this afternoon. Pity, as well as budding affection, seems to have in spired Miss Flanagan, for she said: "Nobody loves a fat man, so Iii marry him." She held the ticket that won Thomas Skelley as husband at the fair of the Church of the Immacu late Conception. Skelly 1st six feet tell and weighs 280 pounds. His identity which has been a baf fling mystery for a week, during which the fair has been in progress, ,was disclose^ simultaneously with the announcement that he belonged to Miss Flanagan if she wanted him Skelly mounted a chair and said he had entered the affair in a spirit of fun, but since he had seen Miss Flanagan he was'willing and anxious to Telinguish his bachelor life. Miss Flannagan blushed prettily and it was agreed. JURY INVITED TO BARBECUE. ] But Judge Spear Says They Cannot Attend the Affair. Announcement in the newspapers that four prominent planters of Pul aski county, who were recently ac quitted of peonage in the United States court at Macon, Ga., were to celebrate their acquittal on July 4 with a big harbecue and that an in vitation had been extended to the 12 jurors to be guests of honor, has provoked from Judge Emory Spear of the United Staffs court a warning to the jurors not to 'attend. The judqe takes the position that it is against the law to tamper with a jury. He says that the names of the men are in the jury box yet, they are on the jury list and may be called upon to try a similar case. Several of the jurors announce that they will attend the 'cue despite the remarks j of the judge. Killed About Ten Cents. In a row over ten cents, the ter mination of a negro card game, Hamp Jeter shot and killed Will Cnde, near Woodruff one day last week. Jeter was committed 'o jail al Spartanburg, charged with murder. Jeter claimed that Robert Green owed him 10 cents and pulled his gun to take a shot at Robert: however, Cade got in the way of 'he bullet and was killed. All: parties are color**!. She Avenged Him. After J. F. Hart had shot and fa tally wounded her husband, Mrs. Jos enh Walker, of Oarlsbud, N. M., on Thursday attacked Hart with a heavy rock and beat his head to a pulp for revenge. Hart will die. Mrs. Walker was arrested. Hidden Mine Explode. Seventy-two Mad?rist soldiers were killed in the town of Jonacatepec, state of iMorelos, on Monday, by thej explosion of a mine planted by Fed-| erals before the excavation of thej place, according to dispatches recelv-. ed at Mexico City. TWO CENTS PER COPY. TWO (MS ROB Tlx; Qa si That They Were Taught Be* to Steal Things From Stuns BOT TM GUT CADGMT Arrested In a Department Store Te? Strange Tale on Instruction in Shoplifting.?Won Prizes in Shape of Sticks of Oandy for Proficiency in Stealing. The New -Jork World says the pretty, starched frocks of two girle, each about ten years old. wi th anoth er girl, about three toddling between them, attracted the eye of Mies Mario Young , detective, in the Greenhut Siegel Cooper Company store at 18th street and Sixth Avenue Friday after noon. At the lingerie counter, Miss Young says, she saw one o)! the girls bide a slip in her sleeve. A moment later the other took a similar ^-ar meut, the detective says She followed them and saw ihena take garment after garment, making frequent trips to the waiting room. Biiially Miss Young invited the chil dren to the office, where Miss Young asserts she found $9.87 worth of silk and linen slips pinned under the older girl's ckirts and one silk gar ment pinned to the little child's dress. At the police station, where they ?*?ie taken, the older girlii said they were Helen Stewart and Helen Hen wood of No. 421 West Thirty-ninth street, and the baby was Agnes Han ley, of the same address. When charged wit a' stealing one of the girls said earnestly: "No, mister, we didn't take the things. Seme one just put them there.". The police then gave up their ef forts to learn anything and took the three to the Children's Slociety. From the time the smallest girl reached the station house she began I to cry for her mother and father. [Ali attempts to comfort her failed. I The detectives went out to look up [ (hi ad dres 3, which was ,'oun d '-to bo I fictitious. This was about nine p. m. Soon after they'left the West Forty seventh-street station called op the Gerry agents and asked if they had a lost chik' there, giving ft description of Agnes. An hour later Edward Ab eam, a city fireman, and his distract ed v/ife, appeared at the Gerry rooms. When they saw Agnes there was no need for identification. The mtoher seized the baby in her arms, crying hysterically. Mr. Ahearn said she had missed Agnes in the afternoon, and neigh bors told her that two little girls had taken the child away as if for a walk. The next morning the baby's com panions were arraigned in the Chil dren's Court before Judge- Hoyt. There "Helen Stewart" said she was Helen Birmingham, of No. 541 West Fiftieth street, and the other said she was Mary Murch, No. 641 West Fifty-second street. Tneae name* and add esses were verified by the detectives. After telling their rigat names the police say the two girls told them the following amazing story: They had been taught to steal by a Mrs. Kiernan, who lives in Wtest Fiftieta street. With other girls about thei? same age they had received a regular courtie in shoplifting. To make there proficient in the art their Instructor, they said, converted her parlor into a shop. Tables and chairs were plac ed In the centre of the room to rep resent counters, which were covered1 with ribbons and various articles of wearing o.pparel. Then they were told they would "play store." The woman's 15-year-old daughter acted as the store detective. "You come in as if to buy," the girls say their Instructor told them,'' and the one who can take the most without being caught will receive a stick of candy." The two children boasted that they had won four sticks of candy in suc cession, although the girls pitted against in the contest of wits were much older. Encouraged by this achievement, the detectives say the girls told them, they decided to "work for themselves" instead of for their instructor and deserted the school and successfully pilfered articles from several shops. Ignored Governor Blease. A special dispatch from Atlanta to the Augosta Chronicle says the state ment Is made that Governor Blease, of South Carolina, being ignored in sending out invitations to the unveil ing of the monument to the "Old Guard" there this f?dl?and Be la the only governor in the South thus Ignored?Is not due to the fact that he did not attend the conference, but rather is due entirely to his action in and conduct in reference to the Felder case. Fatal Tramway Accident A special from Wilmington, N. C, says that as a result of? an accident on the tram road of the Waccamaw Lumber Company, near there Wed nesday, four men were inBtantly kitt ed and one man seriously wounded. Three of the dead men are Italians. Details of the accident are not avail able at this time, but the coroner of Bruswick county is investigating the accident.