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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MAKES IT PLAIN ? 0 **^ /Wrd of liualm ?r?e Tbeir| Side of Back Adoption. SAVING TO THE STATE Statement of the Appointive Members of the State Board of Education Concerning the Adoption .of Text Books for the Schools of South Carolina. In view of the misunderstandings and erroneous statements that have grown out of the recent protest is sued .by State Superintendent Swear iugen in reference to the late adop tion of text books, the undersigned appointive members of the State Board of Education submit to the people the following statement of the facts involved: Fitness of the Members to Judge and | Select Text Books. The undersigued members of the] Board have all of them been for many years intimately connected with thej schools. Most of them are teach ers of many years' experience of j nearly every grade and every kind of j school. , Special Preparation for the Adoption. For something over two ^ears, they have had this adoption in view j and have in consequence,* been-xac quainting themselves with the usable .ness, and merits of the books in actual use in the schools. This has been done not only by examination of the books themselves but by the questioning of teachers all over the State. * For some six months prior to the adoption, books to be offered began to cone in and expert representatives of the book companies began their visits to the several members of the Board. The coming of these books and agents increased in frequency, so that. for some three months .before ? the adoption, the members were call ed to spend most of their time, not j given to their regular work, in the examination of books and the dis-, cussion of them with agents. This prolonged and searching ex amination of text books was supple mented by informal discussions and comparisons among the Imembers. themselves while in attendance upon BoaTd meetings in Columbia. Hence the several members entered the adoption with clearly defined views) as to the relative merits and suita bility of various books., including those now in use, and had, in many cases, their minds made up on their first choice, or on the books which they would be willing bo accept in place of this first choice, and with) definite ideas as to the opin ions of their fellow members. Consequently when the time came for adoption, the members were virtually ready to vote intelligently without the necessity of much discussion, though despite this preparation there was full discussion on all Important books. The undersigned members submit, therefore, that this experience and this study of the books, it is reasona ble to conclude that their individual judgment as to the merits of the books submitted deserves the same consideration, and is just as likely to be correct, as that of Mr. Swearingen, and that where a majority of them were agreed upon a particular book, it is just and rational, as well as demjocratic, to assume that this ma jority opinion was more likely cor-| rect than that of Mr. Swearingen or] that of any minority which included Mr. Swearingen. The So-Called Secret Ballot. It is unthinkable that Superinten dent Swearingen intended in the I slightest degree to impugn or make insinuation against the integrity of! the members of the Board, either in dividually or collectively. Indeed we have his assurance that he did not; yet that construction has been put upon his protest and especially upon his reference to a secret ballot. Hence we are at a loss to under stand why, when he perceived that the newspapers so construed his pro test, he did not, in justice to himself and in justice to the Board, imme diately publish a disclaimer of any such intention. The .ballot, it is due to say, was ] not secret in the sense that any mem ber's vote was concealed. It is due! to say, further, that not only was the method based upon the precedent of the adoption of five years ago, but, in the agreement to adopt the Ira-| personal vote, it was distinctly stated . that, if in the voting any member; desired to put on record anything about the vote or adoption, he had I the right to do so. In the case of most of the books, j especially of the more important; ones, there were a preliminary dis- j cussion that revealed whether there mas any decided dixerences of opinion j among the members. Some member : then put a particular book in nomi-j nation. There was yet fuller discus sion, including comparisons withi such other books as individual mem-1 bers thought worthy of mention. An j open individual vote was then taken. Thus the whole Board knew how each member voted. How the Members Voted. On only three of the books adopt ed were the undersigned members j divided in their final vote. These were the basal set of Readers, the Geograpies and the English books be low the high school. The following voteS for the Wheeler primer: Messrs Daniel, Glenn, O'Driscoil, Rembert, Thackston and Toms. In the case 01 the first and second basal Readers, Messrs. Glenn and RemTr-ert voted for the Graded Classics of F.. F. Johnsen & Co. as a solid basal set. Messrs. Daniel, O'Driscoil, Rice, Thackston and Toms voted foi the Wheeler first and second Readers, as adopted. In the case of the Geographies, the final vote stood for Maury, Messrs. Daniel, O'Driscoil, Thackson, and Toms; for Frye, Messrs. Glenn, Rembert ano Rice. In the case of tb<5 Grammars the following voted for Klnard and Withers books: Messrs. Gleinn, O'Driscoil, Rembert, Rice and Thack ston. The following voted against these books: Messrs. Daniel and Toms. In each such ir.stoance, how ever, those who opposed the books fi nally adopted cheerfully accepted and approved the verdict of the majority. In th- final vote or. all otLer books adopted the undersigned members voted alike. Change of Text Books. In reference to the change of text books, it must be remembered that the law itself anticipates the neces sity for change in providing for a per iodic adoption. The object, moreover in inviting bids is to secure not the cheapest books, but the best books at. the lowest prices. The Board showed its recognition of this prin ciple as a primary end in the fact that, at its first meedng and fre quently in the course of the adoption, it was repeated with emphasis that the first ddty was to get the best books irrespective of ??easonable dif ferences in price. One of the most dangerous doctrines implied in Mr. Swearlngen' protest Is that which tends to establish the principle that books shouid not be changed and (Continued on third page.) CAPTAIN PUT OUT OF CAMP. Officer Curses Governor and Staff and Publicly Ejected. George H. Todd ofc. Montgomery, Ala., captain of Battery B, Second regiment, Alabama National Guard, was ejected from the camp at Pick etts Springs Thursday night by Col. Bricken and a company of infantry for cursing the governor, the adjutant general and his fellcw officers. A court-martial will be ordered in his case. Todd was thrown from his horse Thursday afternoon when a salute was being fired in honor of the visit of Gov. O'Neal bo the camp. It made his angry and because the men at the gun laughed at him he swore they should not complete the firing nor should they lower the flag. Capt. Lewis of th* Tuskegee company, offi cer of the day, ordered the salute to go on and when Todd attempted to interfere, placed him under arrest. At a consultation held later Adjt. Gen. Scully told Col. Bricken to do what he -thought be;it and a guard was ordered to escort Todd to the outskirts of the camp. The incident created a great sensation \at the camp. which was crowded with visitors. * YOUNG WOMAN IS KILLED. Sister, Father and Little Brother Are Seriously Wounded. A family automobile party, touring from Portland bo San Francisco, end ed near Cresent City, Oregon, when the machine's fuel tank exploded, fa tally burning one young woman and inflicting serious injuries upon siss ter, father and the two little broth ers for whose protection she gave her life. A bump In the road struck the bottom of the car stripping the gear and tearing loose the gasoline burners streamed back, touching the tank. An explosion followed and flames enveloped the tonneau. Myrna Kell}', with her arms around her six and eight-year-old brothers, crowded them down in the car but was her self caught by the full blast of the fire. She died late Friday night. * JAPAN WANTS OUR COTTON. Baron Mitsui's Visit Seems About to Bear Fruit. What is regarded as the most ag gressive move yet made by Orientals to obtain a share in the Sosth's cot ton business was put into full swing Friday by the chartering, at Austin, of a $100,000 company by K. Fuku shima, a Japasese. He is manager for the Mitsui banking house of Ja pan, and has opened offices at Hous ton. The purpose is to export cotton to Asiatic countries through agencies to be established throughout the Ori ent. Thest plans follow the personal visit to this country about a year ago, of Baron Mitsui, who studied the cot !ton and rice business. * Two Hundred May Perish. A dispatch from Surf, Col., states , that of the two hundered passen gers and eighty-fi e sailors on the I wrecked Santa Rosa, only S5 had es caped to shore. It added that little jhope was held out for those who re Jmained on the vessel. Eleven pas I sengers and fi^e of the crew were lost by the capsizing o? the life boat. * ????*'? Three Rescuc-.rs Drowned. The wireless operator at Surf, Cal., received a message at 10.15 p. m. Friday night from the Centralla say ing that the second mate and two seamen of the Helen P. Drew were drowned while attempting to take a life line to the Santa Rosa. * .ORANGES HOLD THEM DOWN j POLICEMAN LIABLE FOR SHOOT L\G OF BYSTANDER. Supreme Court So Rules in the Case of a Policeman Who in Making an Arrest, Shot a Man. i A policeman, firing at a man he Is trying to arrest, the ball striking a bystander, subjects the policeman to the law, according to a decision hand ed down by the Supreme Court Tues day. In the case of the State against Robert M. Barwick, writes Chief Jus tice Ira- B. Jones: "The defendant in October, 190S, was policeman for the town of Pines wood, in Clarendon County, and on arrival of the Saturday night train from Sumter, was opening a way through the crowd for me lady pas sengers when Thos. Singleton, accord ing to the defendant's version, declar ed he would stand back for no damn man, whereupon defendant seized Singleton to arrest him for cursing j and refusing to open the way. {Sin gleton broke loose and ran and, the I defendant pursued, firing his pistol towards him several times. "The deceased, Sam Bracy, was [standing in line of the firing and struck by the bullet, which gave him a mortal wound, of which he died some days later in a hospital in Sum ter, S. C. The defendant was Indict ed for the murder of Bracy and was convicted of manslaughter with rec omendation of mercy. "The testimony of the State was to the effect that the deceased was hit by a bullet from the pistol of the defendant, but the defendant testi fied to the effect that Singleton, while running away, or someone in the di rection he was running, shot at the defendant; that defendant did not shoot until after this firing, and the suggestion was that deceased may have been shot by Singleton ?arwlck was questioned at his trial about statements under oath before the Mayor's Court. 'A statement that Barwick made there would have had the effect 01 showing that if Singleton shot in a certain situation he could not have hit the deceased. The appeal to the Supreme Court was upon the question of defendant giving testimony against him In vio lation of the Constiuticn. Going into the law on this point of giving evidence tending to' incrimi nate himself, the Supreme Court's decis'on points out that when a de fendant voluntarily goes on the stand he assumes the position of any other witness. There were other exceptions as to witnesses, "One of the witnesses for the defence," writes the Chief Jus tice, "admitted that he may have said in a joking way without mean ing it that the country was going to Jhe devil if they would convict a white man for killing a negro" "The Court charged the jury: "The law is applicable the same to every man. The law knows no pets, the law knows no difference between an Indian, Japanjese, a citize$t of this State, an African or a Cauca sion I would not charge you dif ferent law according to the parties Interested, much less could you try the facts differently, the parties being of a different race, either Japanese, Chinese, African or Caucasion. There is no color line in the law, and thtre shall be none under your oath in :the jury box." The Supreme Court says that this charge waB sound and proper in the circumstances and could not possible have prejudiced any pight of the defendant. The judgment of the Cir cuit Court was affirmed in this hase.* TWO KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Rockingham County, Ya., Swept by Yiolent Electrical Storm. Two men were killed, others were shocked and burned and it is estimat ed that thousands of dollars' worth of damage was done to property and live stock Friday when an electrical storm of great violence swept Rock j ingham county, Va. John Crider ana I Jacob Wilkins were struck by light I ning while riding for shelter, and Ithey and their homes were instantly {killed. A .bolt broke up a funeral profession in East Rockingham, stun |ning the undertaker and his assist ant, who were riding on the heare, and throwing the mourners into a panic. More than a score of cattle and horses were killed in the fields. * Tell Tale Thumb Mark. The print of sweaty fingers on a highball glass may lead to the cap ; ture of three men who shot Julius ! Weigel at his road house on Hemp stead turnpike near New York Tues ; day morning. ^The murderers had a I drink, one leaving a plain thumb j j mark with an irregular scar on the j ' glass. ? j Drowns His Child. When his wife protested at the wanton destruction of a picnic din ner she had prepared, Oscar Shoot, of Red Bay, Ala., in a fit of anger, Friday pushed her and their two chil dren in the river. One of the little ones was drowned before it could be rescued. ? * Four Drown In Pond. Four waitresses at a hotel In Mount Pocono, Pa., were drowned in a pond near the hotel one day last week. Two others were rescued In an un conscious condition. ? f 1URG, S. C, TUESDAY, JULY FAVORS CLARK Congressman Finiey Believes the Speak er Oar Strongest Mao. THINKS HE WIU WIN Bases His Opinion on the Great Pop ularity of Clark Among House As sociates and Remarkable Ability He Has Displayed, Considered in Connection With Present Status. In an interview with the Washing ton correspondent of The News and Courier Representative D. E. Finiey, of the Fifth South Carolina District declares that In congressional circles the belief is growing that of the men thus far mentioned Speaker Clark would be the strongest candidate the Democrats could name. Mr. Finiey stated th'at the party had in the past won its victories on the tariff ques tion. He is also strongly of the opinion that Speaker Clark is the strongest available candidate, and should be nominated. "The Democratic party is in better shape tn-day than it has been at any time within the last eighteen years," said Mr. Finiey. "In 1892 the party was united on the tariff question and swept the country, gaining for the first time since the civil war the Presidency and both bouses of Con gress. In 1894 the unfortunate di vision within the party on the money question cost us the control of Con gress. Happily the money question is now out of the way and the tariff Is again a live issue. For 16 years the Republican party has perpetuated Itself in Iwer as a result of Democratic divisions on questions other than the tariff. Now the Republicans are divided on the tariff to as great extent as the Dem ocrats were during Cleveland's sec ond administration. The old line Re publicans, the party of Cannon, Payne and Dalzell, stand for a protective tariff. The so-called Insurgent Re publicans, who hail from the agri cultural States of the West, proclaim their opposition to a protective tariff unless It Is on some product of their immediate section. But generally their attitude on the tariff is well illustrated in the vote in the House of Representatives on the passage of the farmers' free list bill and the bill reducing the tariff on wool, when practically all of them voted with the Democrats. Today there are no division In our party on any subject. Next year we shall enter the national campaign with a record of achieve ment in tariff reform, and lessening the high cost of living, which we ex pect to carry us to victory. "Much is being said in the public prints and by individuals In every walk of life as to who will be the' Democratic candidate for the Presi dency in 1912. Fortunately for the country, the Democracy is In a most favorable condition today. This con dition is creditable entirely to the splendid record of the party in the House of Representatives in the last Congress. We were a minority party in that Congress, of course, but, thanks to the wise, able and patriotic leadership of Champ Clark, our party was able to make such favorable showing of its purposes In the way of correcting abuses and bringing about a reduction of the oppressive taxation and discountenacing the wasteful ex penditures of the public money by the Republican party that the people In Congressional elections last fall gave the Democrats an overwrelming victory, changing a Republican ma jority of forty-five in the 61st Con gress to a Democratic majority of sixty-five in the 62nd Congress. "The Democrats in the House were not slow to recognize the potential leadership of Mr. Clark, and when Congress met on the 4th of last April he was unanimously nominated by the Democrats and elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Speakership is a great office?unques tionably the second greatest office in the country. Speaker Clark has more than fulfilled the expectations of his friends. "Whatever hope the Democracy has for 1912 is necessarily based on the welldoing of its Representatives in the House In the last Congress and what they have done and will do in the present Congress. Under the lead ership of Mr. Clark the Democrats have put through the Canadian re ciprocity bill, which will enlarge the markets of Canada to American pro ducts. We have also put through the House the farmers' free list bill, plac ing thereon something like one hun dred articles, used almost entirely by farmers. Following this the House bill will reduce the oppressive wool len schedule of the Payne-Aldrirr tariff law more than 50 per cent, meaning an annual saving also of millions of dollar* to the American people. The Democratic programme includes a general revision of the tariff. "No man in Congress or In Amer ica is able to compete with Mr. Clark in the matter of carrying out the Democratic programme. The country realizes this and there Is a very large and growing sentiment that he of all the Democrats is best qualified tolead the party In 1912. There are other great Democrats in the country; in fact the party is well off in this re spect, but objection is made to prac tically every one of them. The only i objection that has been urged to the 11, 1911. VERY STRANGE CASE FEVER RESTORES MIND OF A MAN AFTER YEARS. In Delirinm He Utters Disjointed Sen tences Which Gave Doctors Their Only Clue. "The case of Benjamin Leeds" may become famous among psychologists, says a dispatch from Atlantic City. It would seem that of a sudden Leeds' brains, apparently normal ue came a blank. He forgot his iden tity, he forgot his wife and children, of whom he had always taken tender care; he forgot the past. Then, after six years, Leeds fell ill and the fever stimulated his dor mant mind.. In his delirium be re membered dimly and he muttered words that, gave to the acute sur geons who listened to the clue that will restore him to his family and may bring him back to himself. In response to a telegram from j these surgeons Mrs. Leeds went to Cleveland, Ohio. She said happily | she will nurse her husband back to mental and physical health, thenj bring him home. Leeds, once a well known citizen here, retired from business and went to live at Ocean City about seven years ago. One day in the summer of 1905 he left home to deposit mon ey in a banh near there He did not return. Wide, but vain search was made for him. His wife, giving him up for lost, became a trained nurse to support herself and their two chil dren. (Not ai word came from him or of him until the message arrived call ing his wife to a hospital in Cleve land. Her husband had been raken there ill and with a very high temper ature. Tossing on his fevered cot the light of yesterday's sun, which seemed to have set, dawned on his mind again. He uttered, disjointed sentences: >"i.My wife, Lydia,?" "Atlantic City?" "So long since I have seen them?" "What have I, Ben Leeds, done?" "Disgraceful, disgraceful to neg lect." "How they must have suffered." The surgeons articulated the sen tences and sent for Mrs. Leeds. * SORT OF FREE LOVE CULT. Leader of It Being Tried in Chicago for Immorality. Mrs. Lucile Bridges frequently kissed Evelyn Arthur See, founder of the "Absolute Life" cult, called him "dear" and wrote letters to him while he was in jail, telling of her love for him, according to her testimony giv en at the trial of the cult leader at Chicago on rFiday. "The many kisses I exchanged with Mr. See were holy and sinless saluta tions," Mrs. Bridges testified. "They had none of the meaning of the kiss the world outside of Absolute Life knows. Mr. See is a pure and chaste man. It was not sinful for us to kiss. We had the true light. We were above sin and safe from temp tation. Nothing we could do would be wrong." "I saw a now light and a feeling wa* in me as though there were some! lung for m? ft. do to better my self and better the world at large. It was a feeling which was like walk ing on a cloud. That feeling was 'absolute life,' " said the witness. Mrs. Bridges admitted also that she frequently visited the "temple" of "Absolute Life," where See made his home, on nights while her hus band was away from Chicago. She said also that she had made con tributions of $1,000 and $500, re spectively, to See in the cause of "Absolute Life." * nomination of Speaker Clark for President is that at some time dur ing the last few years a Democratic State Convention in Missouri gave out ah intimation that it was at that time (for the nomination of Ex-Governor! Folk, of Missouri, for President next year. At the time he was given this more or less useless and valueless endorsement Ex-Governor Folk was a supposed or avowed candidate for the Unrited States Senate from Missouri. There were politicians who eliminat | ed him from the race by making a vague and indeffinite promise that thty would some day support him for President. The public is of the opin ioi that if any politician in Missou ri profited by the agreement with Folk he is so much ahead of the game j but the country as a whole is not found by any such political Rchem ing. Certainly Mr. Clark was not a candidate for Senator and did not profit by any agreement between the i i Democratic candidates for Senator inj ! Missouri two years ago. "The impression is growing among public men that the country is turn-i ing to Speaker Clark as the most] 'available Democrat to nominate for| the Presidency in 1912. His friends! are becoming active in his support.! If he is the nominee his election will I follow. K. F. M. Will Fight Pine Beetle. As the result of widespread de struction of the pine trees in this section of the country, it is announc ed that the government will establish a forest insect field station In Spar tanburg County. A. D. Hopkins, in charge of the foresty insect investi gation, will take up the fight against the pine beetle, which Is believed to be responsible for the destruction. ? GAVE AID TO GANG SENSATIONAL STORY DAMAGING TO TAFT'TOLD. Alleges Secret Order of the President About Coal Land Helped the Coal Trust. Friday afternoon's Washington Times publishes a circumstantial sto ry very damaging to the administra tion, telling how the Guggenheims were allowed by a secret order ?,f the President, withdrawing the ter ritory form a forest reservation file claims to the land around Controller Ray, Alaska, bottling up the coial fields so that the syndicate will be able to dominate them. The story, which is said to be made up from the records of the interior department, is that last summer a Guggenheim, agent named Richard Ryan, came to Washington to induce the President to open the Controller Bay land for entry. Ballinger was then Secretary of the Interior, and from the files the following note, al leged to be from Ryan to Ballinger, is produce!: "Dear Dick: I went to see the President the other day about this Controller Bay affair. The President asked me whom I represented, I told him, according to our agreement, that I represented myself, but that didn't seem to satisfy him; so I sent for Charlie Taft and asked him to tell his brother who I really repre sented. The President made no fur ther objections to my claim. Yours, I "Dick." As the Controller Bay claim has not yet been finally confirmed, this sensational publication may prevent its being patented. A congressional inquiry is expected. HANGED FOR BRUTAL MURDER. Negro Meets Death on Scaffold for Killing a Tailor. Darnel Duncan, a negro, was hang ed in Charleston Friday for the mur der on June 21, 1910, of Max Lubel sky, a Jewish merchant, the crime, being among the most atrocious in the annals of this State. Unitl the last moment Duncan showed great nerve but as the black cap was being adjusted he fainted, the trap being sprung while he was in this condition. To the last the negro stoutly maintained his inno cence of all knowledge of th<i crime leaving a statement for the news papers. 4 The murder of Lubelsky, a King street tailor, occurred on June 21 of last year. He was found in his shop senseless and lying in a pool of blood. The only clue left by the murderer, whose motive was robbery, was a bloody stick with which the crime had been committed. A few weeks later the widow of the murdered mian was attacked In her husband's place of business in a man ner similar to that which resulted in the death of Lubelsky. Duncan was sezied outside the store and re cognized by a neighbor as the man in whose hand3 he had seen the stick with which the tailor had been kill ed shortly before the murder took place. The negro was tried and convicted of the crime. His case was carried to the State supreme court, which tribunal declined to Interfere with the verdict. Gov. Blease also declin ed to interfere. ? GOES FOR FATHER'S BODY. Waited Forty-one Years to Recover it From Glacier. Miss Edith Randall, daughter of John C. Randall, a banker of Quindy, Mass., who lost his life in the Alps nearly forty-one years ago, is now on her way to Chommonix, where she hopes to recover her father's body when the Glacier des Bessons gives up the bodies of those who were froz en at the top September 6th, 1870. On arriving at the little village at the foot of the Alps, where the glac ier gives up its dead. Miss Randall will stay at the same hotel where her father lodged and will met the children of the guides who also lost their lives on that occasion. Randall ascended the Alps with two c^her tourists and nine guides. The party was caught in the snow storm and all died. Recent discov eries indicate the bodies will be re covered within a few weeks. It takes forty years for the glac oer to travel from the place where the men perisl'ed to the little village at the bottom. ? They P-rnnk Poison. At Wesson. Miss., after drinking poison for what they thought was whiskey, two young men named Brown and Allen are out of danger, due to the heroic efforts of physi cians. They went to a party Sat urday night and hid their private flask before joining frionds. When they went out to take a "nip" they found the wrong bottle. Meets Horrible Deatn. While at work on the upper part of a derrick at the Winnsboro Gran ite corporation near that town Wed nesday, Rex Caine, a young white man from Wilmington, N. C, got his head caught between the beam and cog wheel, getting his skull crushed instantly. The body was taken to the old home at Wilmington, N. C, for burial. ? TWO CENTS PER COPY. VERY RARE CASE -.- f Sod of a Rich Banker Proves lo be a Burglar io City of New York. HE FOOLED THE POLICE Stole Because Small Salary Didn't Al low Him to Entertaiia Women Lav ishly.?Loving Cup He Took From Pea body Home Leids to Arr<jst. Tells How Easy it is to Rob. The New York World says Karl Von Metz Meyer, a lieutenant in the Norwegian army, who came to this corn try on a three-years furlough to? study banking, was arrested in hie home, No. 185 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn Friday night on a charge of burglary. His father is a wealthy banker at Christiansand, Norway, with a branch in Munich. "I am a burglar," cried Meyeiv'a handsome, soldierly looking man of twenty-four, when arrested. "I am a .burglar and a conscience stricken [burglar. I have recently committed eighteen robberies on Columbia Heights atone. "Come with me," continued Meyer, "I'll show you where many of the . pawn tickets are." He led the' de tectives Into a room that adjoined his own and turned up the carpet In a corner. There were twenty-one tickets, representing jewelry and silverware valued at $5,000. "Why did I turn burglar?" Meyer went on. "Well I turned burglar when I began to live beyond my means. I needed money and I got it! ty breaking into homes. It is an easy thing to break into a 'Brooklyn home. I never carried a jimmy or a revol ver. I didn't want to be caught with either In case of arrest. I went vo the rear of houses by climbing ov<;r fences. For two months ten detecrivoa from Brooklyn headquarters have been looking for Meyer. In Hheir night vigils they became welll r*e quainted with the handsomely dress ed young man who lived.at No. 185 Columbia Heights and they felt sor ry for him when he told them tljat he was unable to go to sleep. Ta(&q' detectives the man was known as "Lieutenant" having informed them who he was and what he was doing in this country. The man was seen almost niijhtly on the streets by the detectives and policemen. He could always tell them that a man was better dead than a sufferer from Insomnia. He would enter his own home and next morning a new rohbery would be re ported. I Untill the burglar:' of the house of Charles S. Peabody, No. 123 Willow st., June 19th, there was never so much as a suspicion againGt the Nor wegian lieutenant and banking clerk. The Peabody .burglary took place in the early morning. Meyer had gain ed entrance a* the rear, and when- all was quiet he stole out of the fr?nt. door. One of the things he took was a large silver loving cup whic:^ be longed, to Dudley Peabody, son of Charles s. Half a block down the street Meyer caught sight of a detective In the shadow of a house. While passing a* vacant lot he dropped the loving cur? over the fence. There it was found an hour later by a milkman and re turned to the Peabody home. "Couldn't sleep again," spoke up Meyer as he addressed the policeman; then he passed on. When the loving cur. incident was told the policeman on post recalled having spoken to Meyer, who walked past the spot wh?re the cup was found. Detectives-lieutenants Tenney and Ward was assigned to keep a watch on Meyer. The Norwegian seemed to know he was under suspicion. Ho continued his nightly walks but the robberies ceased. Not one bit of evi dence could the detectives get against him and they feared to arrest the man because of his position. Friday night, however, the two men from headquarters went to Mey er's room and hurst in upon him, telling him he was under arrest; that he was the burglar for whom the tz - lice had been looking for many months. Afcer Meyer had completed . his confession and shown where the pawn tickets were hidden, he said: "I came to this country two years ago. I attribute my downfall to wo men. It was all my own fault; they fascinate me. I got a place in the foreign department of the Adams Hxr press Gomp?.ny and made good from the first day. Then I lost my health but this breakdown was not due to> dissipation of the usual sort, but to my fondness for staying up lato and talking to some pretty woman.* Left AH to Himself. A spectacle which has not been seen for years, if ever, was exhibit ed in the Senate, Mays a Washington dispatch, on the reciprocity "debate" Friday, when for nearlf ten minutes Senator Gronna, of 'North Dakota, who was concluding his speech begun Thursday in opposition to the pact, was the only senator on the door. ? _-! Set OlT By the Sun. At Washington, Pa., rayu of the sun focused on the fuse of a package of firecrackers through a bubble la a window pane Saturday caused the explosion of the entire window of fireworks were destroyed and the store was ruined.