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TWO GIRLS ROB . 1 \uj(hia That They Were Teeth) Hew ^ le Steal Thiagt Frea Stent BUT THEY GOT CAUGHT Arrested In a Department Store Tell Strange Tale on Instruction In Shoplifting.?-Won Prizes in Shape of Sticks of Candy for Proficiency * in Stealing. The New York World says the pretty, starched frocks of two girls, each about ten year3 old. with another girl, about three toddling between ^ them, attracted the eye of Miss Marie Young , detective, in the GreenhutSiotrpl f!non<ir f^nmnnnv stnrA nT 1 Rth street and Sixth Avenue Friday afternoon. At the lingerie counter, Miss Young says, she sa\* one of the girls Mde a slip in her sleeve. A moment later the other took a similar garment, the detective says She followed them and saw them take garment after garment, making frequent trips to the waiting room. Jirially Miss Young invited the chil* dren to the ofllce, where Miss Young asserts she found J0.87 worth of silk and linen slips pinned under the older girl's ekirts and one silk garV xiier.t pinned to the little child's dress. At the police station, where they **<ie taken, the older girls said they were Helen Stewart and Helen Henwood of No. 421 West Thirty-ninth street, and the baby was Agnes HanIcy, of the same address. When charged with stealing one of the girls said earnestly. "No, mister, we didn't take the things. Some one just put them Vl A1*A ' ' Wll^l 1.7. The police'then gave up their efforts to learn anything ami took the three to the Ch/dren'g Society. From the time the smallest girl reached the station house she began to cry for her mother and father. All attempts to comfort her failed. The detectives went out to look up the address, which was found to be J fictitious. This was about nine p. m. * Soon after they left the West Forty^ seventh street station called up the Gerry agents and asked if they had a lost child there, giving a description of Agnes. An hour later Edward Ahearn, a city fireman, and his distracted wife, 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 neigh4ikm. tViof tniA llttlo trivia Vinrl UUI O IUIU Liui tnu t i/ ?? v i? vv?v r> * SM ??*% taken the child away as if for a walk. The next morning the baby's companions wore arraigned in the Children's Court before Judge Hoyt. There "Helen Stewart" said she was Helen Birmingham, of No. 541 West A Fiftieth street, and the other said she was Mary Murch, No. G41 West Fifty-sepond street. These names and-addesses were verified by the detectives. After telling their right 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 West Fiftietn street. With other girls about their same age they had received a regular course in shoplifting. To make them 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 represent counters, which were covered with ribbons and various articles of wearing apparel. Then they were told they would "play store." The woman's 15-year-old daughter acted as the store detective. 1"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 leceive a stick of candy." | The two children boasted that they * had won four sticks of candy in succession, 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 -4 for themselves" instead of for their instructor and deserted the school and successfully pilfered articles from several shops. ? ? ? ? Burglar Creates Terror. The police of Macon, Ga., are hunting for a negro burglar who has been systematically robbing residences on Boundary street and Coleman avenue, having visited no less than Ave 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 managed to escape. Whenever a man finds pleasure In his work or his business, the success of that business is assured. Mr. A. L. Baggott, a large business man of New. York, who retired some days ago, expressed It well when he said that he always made his business the greatest game he played. He never found business a bore or found more pleasure in playing set-back or pool than in playing the- game of his business. Paste this in your hat, young man. STANDS BY THE BOARD GOVERNOR BLEASE SATISFIED WITH WHAT IT DID. Says the Members In Their Action Were Just as Conscientious as Swearingen Was. Governor Blease Wednesday afternoon Issued a statement in connection with the text book contract matter. Governor Blease said: "I have seen Superintendent Swearingen's statement. I have no comment to make. He is entitled to his opinion, and I have the highest regard for him, and, If he is a candidate for re-election, he has my best wishes for his success, for I think he is conscientious and trying to do what he believes is right. However, ? mAot no rnfnl anrl t nrr? 11 cVl (I i LCI Hi UlV/Ot VUt ULlll unu ui. vx t v, v.n .. investigation I am satisfied that the seven gentlemen who represented the State by appointment on this board, (and who were appointed by my predecessor,) are equally as conscientious and as honorable gentlemen, and did what they believed was for the beet 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 laudable terms of these gentlemen, and it appeared from their ravings that had I removed these gentlemen I would have been subjected to the most severe censure. "Now, that the adoption is over, some of these same papers are criticising these gentlemen. If they can make their position consistent, after I publishing thospi rnnfr.n rUftorv state * I ?.f c?Vi I- fnr H vtrl 11 Anlv I HICU IB, till l if-, 11 i, 1UI n nm 1/I1IJ 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 hook. If I had been present I would have voted for Mr. Swearlngen's plan; and, if any one is interested enough to now, I will bo delighted to state' how I voted on each book that was adopted during my presence. I think my record in the House of Representatives and in the State Senate and in the Governor's office will justify m? in saying that I have always been free and open in every act thnt 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 T go before them to them alone will I igive an account. "I refused on several occasions to see hook men. Notably in this class were the agents of the American Rook Company, and I have been informed that Mr. Fair, one of their representatives, was rather severe in his criticism of my not allowing him to see me and discuss his hooks with him. When hook men called, I declined to see them?stating to some to see Mr. Swear!ngen, th.it 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. Walker will hardly say that T had any favors for them. The only agents with whom I did have any conversation of consequence, did not get even a hook, except Prof. White. "As I have said before, my fight was for Southern books, and we adopted Thompson's, Klnard's, Wallace's, White's, Sims's and other South Carolina authors. As to the Wheeler reader, while I was not present 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 tauglu the truth in Southern books, than to pay less and be taught books by Yankee authors, and taught to be- ( lieve that their grand fathers, and trflif 1111*11 HUM lUVtlVl M > w. w ors to their State. "I regret that Superintendent Swoarlngen looks at the matter as he does. "As for my part of It, Ignorant as T was as to the needs of the children, I did the best T could. As for the balance?I refer the people to Prof. O'Drlscoll; Mr. Rice, Prof. Daniels, Prof. Rembert, Prof. Toms, Prof. Thackston and Senator Glenn. If this Is a Bleasc board, or If these gentlemen 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 "lay It down." ? ? Fatal Crap Game. As a climax to a "crap game," engaged In by a crowd of negroes during the progress of a camp meeting on Sunday >at Montague, a small station on the Greenville and Knoxville railway, eight miles above Greenville, an unknown negro was shot and Instantly killed by Will Robinson. Robinson was captured by the sheriff and is now in jail. He claims he shot In self-defense. BED LIVE WIRE i Dwell Harrises lest Bis Life While Viewiag Base Ball Ga?*. WAS HIGH UP ON A POLE Over Two Thou Hand People Who Were Witnessing Rase Ball Game Saw the Unfortunate Man Fall Backwards and Hang Head DownWard for Some Time. The State says while perched on an electric light pole near the centre field fence watching the ColumbiaCharleston game Wednesday afternoon at Elmwood park, Derrell Harrison, a young white man, came 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 horrified spectators. Death resulted almost instantly. The accident occurred in the sixth inning, about 6:40 o'clock. Harrison 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 flashed and Harrison fell backwards, his legs catching on the cross-arm, the oilier man dropping to the ground. His hat then sailed to the street below. It is said that the other man was not injured. In an instant the grandstand and ? ? i ... t ? _ a. a. - r t~ Dieacners were in a staie 01 cuiuuhion. Women shrieked and hundreds of others rushed on the field for the A A 9 V? A A A A 1 d i-tn ^ T /\K M 11 u ??1r A ?n-V.HVy W 1 I HU UV/V>1 V4V.11 U L/ U4 IVU? centre fielder on the Columbia team, was anions the first to go to his aid. A man climbed the polo with a rope and attempted to tie it around the dead man's body to low?r 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 twentyfive year old. He was from the Horse Creek valley of this State, but has recently been with his brotherin-law, G. T. Scott, in the Olympia mill village. His wife was in Columbia. After the accident the game was resumed, but many left. PUT BEHIND BARS. Life of a Desperate Negro Fiend Saved by White Men. A dispatch to the State from Lexington says that Sam Carter, the negro, who was rushed to the peuiteniary by Sheriff P. H. Corley Thursday night to prevent a probable attack on the Lexington jail, is now safe behino the liars, is due largely to the successful efforts of the officers and to a few citizens of Swansea. This is the statement made by Deputy Sheriff Miller, who had just returned from the vicinity where Carter is alleged to have committed an assault upon a little 12-year-old white child on Monday afternoon week ago. Carter had been working for the father of the child for about a year, having come to South Carolina from Georgia. On Monday afternoon, 19th instant, the little girl, together with her two brothers and two sisters, all of them younger than herself, were picking blackberries in a field near where the negro was working. Seeing the children, Carter went to where they were and enticed the little girl to a thicket in the woods, telling her that he knew where there was a lot of blackberries, at the same time telling the other children to remain where they were. Soon afterwards a white man came along and noticed the little girl conring along the woods, followed closely by the negro, his suspicion aroused from the appearance of the little girl, lie questioned her and the negro closely, but failed to get any satisfactory answer. The girl's father was notified, and the girl told of what had happened, stating that Carter had told her he would kill her if she ever told. A warrant was immediately issued for Carter and before the news of the assault had time to spread, the negro was being rushed to Lexington in an automobile. Sheriff Corley had been notified by telephone and was on the way to the scene when he was met hy the party in the automobile. The little girl belongs to a well known family in the community and tho crime created a great deal of excitement. ? Struck in a Field. Robert Wilson, colored, a laborer on S. R. Crawford's plantation, near Great Falls, Chester County, was instantly killed by lightning on Friday afternoon. Wilson and several companions were engaged in hoeing cotton when the accident occurred. Three of the others were kocked down and stunned, but fortunately were not killed. Hidden Mine Explode. Seventy-two Maderist soldiers were killed in the town of Jonacatepec, state of 'NTorelos, on Monday, by the explosion of a mine planted by Federals before the excavation of the place, according to dispatches received at Mexico City. MISSED BIG AMOUNT TRAIN RODDERS MADE MISTAKE IN STOPPING TRAIN. ? Only Swag Comes From Registered Mail, No Express Being on Board. Posse in Pursuit. Apparently mistaking the first section of the northbound passenger 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 Francisco two robbers held up the northbound train on Thursday niyht near West Fork, an isolated station in Cow Creek canyon, Oregon. The robbers rifled the mall car, blowing up the safe, and made away with the registered mail. They tried to secure entrance to the express car, but were foiled by 'Messenger Robb, who refused to open the door despite threats that they would use dynamite if he refused. The robbers after frn 111abkIv nrvlni? with a crowbar at * * VI V'K"W * / !' ^ o ** ? ? ? - the side door of the car, finally desisted and decamped with the loot secured from the mail car. The amount taken by the robbers can not be ascertained at this time. This train carries in its registered mail the cash from Southern Oregon postofliccs 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 taking water. Soon after it had got under 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 oacK anu uiicuiipiuu me mail and baggage car. Then the engineer was ordered to pull these cars some distance lip the tract, where he was again ordered to stop. The robbers went back to the mail car and lining the mail clerks up, took the registered mail pounches and dynamited the mail car sa fe. The noise of the explosion warned Messenger Robb of what was taking! place and when the demand came (or 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. I THE HOYS CORN CLUBS. j Their Work Points to Successful Year's Competition. The Washington correspondent of The State says reports submitted at a meeting Friday morning of the State managers of the hoys' corn clubs ot the department of agriculture show the work of youthful farmers is being conducted with unprecedented enthusiasm and prospects point to a banner year in the size and quality of the crops raised. There are now in the various clubs in the states throughout the South between 05,000 and 66,000 engaged in the cultivation of an acre of corn apiece. According to the State managers, all the hoys are working hard for a prize of a trip to Washington offered by the department of agri-. culture ana many omer premiums uunated by merchants and public spirited citizens. In awarding prizes the following basis is used: Greatest yield per acre, 30 per cent.; best exhibit of ten ears, 20 per cent.; best written account showing history of crop, 20 per cent.;best showing of profit on investment based on the commercial price of corn, 3 0 per cent. The State managers were in session all the morning and will meet again tomorrow. Those in attendance are; I. O. Schaub, North Carolina; C. It. Campbell, Georgia; L. N. Duncan and G. B. Hobby, Alabama; C. A. Cobb, Mississippi; V. T. Roy, Louisiana; T. A. Early, Tennessee; II. S. Mobiey, Arkansas; Fred II. Ives, Oklahoma; .T. L. Quicksail and W. F. Proctor, Texas. Virginia is represented by the State agent, and the department itIf r?r?n?Mnrn hlft illtorosf ill tllO activities in the nearby States. Owed Him Small Amount. .Tesso Kirk, a negro, shot and killed Will Wood, also colored, at Swltzer, Spartanburg county, Monday. Kirk claims that ho shot Wood, his brother-in-law, in self-defense. He said he and Wood had been off together and were returning homo, 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. Killed About Ten Cents. In a row over ten cents, the termination of a negro card game, Hamp Jeter shot and killed Will Cade, near Woodruff one day last week. Jeter was committed to jail at 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 the bullet and was killed. AH, parties are colored. WOOL TAX BILL Briigs Abtita Cnliiita Btlwcci Iaiurfcdts aid DtBtcraU. NOW DEMAND REVISION The Republicans of the West Declare that if Reciprocity With Canada is Adopted There Must Re General Changes in the Tariff Law Now in Force. The throwing of the Democratic wool revision bill into the senate on Wednesday drove the insurgent Republicans of that body into an open coalition with the Democrats in a demand for a general revision of the tariff, and brought about the threatened crisis in the finance committee in the control of the senate. At the end of a bitter fight the resolution by Senator Gore requiring the finance committee to report back the wool bill before July 10 was passed by a vote of 3:> io 18. Western Republcans who have fought the reciprocity measure, taking lip challenges thrown down by the Democratic leader, followed each other in rapid succession in their u lti in at u ms to the senate leaders. These ultimatums were invariably that before the reciprocity bill is permitted to pass a Republican senate will bo forced to undertake a revision of other schedules of the tariff, including much more than the woolen resivion bill and the free list, which have gone through the house of representatives. Of the ttfii i'uuili Vv V ultra Oast for the Gore motion overthrowing the finance committee, sixteen were Republicans. Trey were Senators Borah, Ilourne, Bristow, Brown, Clapp, Crawford. Cummins. Dixon. Gronna. Jones, Kendon, LaFollette, Nelson, Poindexter, Townsend and Works. This included the full insurgent strength of 13 and in addition Senators Jones, Nelson and Townsend. Senator Myers was the only Democrat voting with the Republicans against the motion. Notable speeches on reciprocity were made in both branches of congress. Senator Root, announcing that he favored the amendment, advocated and explained his amendment to- 'the wood pulp and paper provision of the bill around which amendment the reciprocity fight has centered and which amendment President Taft opposes on the ground that it might jeopardize the whole agreement. Republican leader Mann in the house attacked tne 11001 amendment as a violation of the Canadian reciprocity agreement. Wednesday's fight began the instant that the wool revision bill appeared from the course of representatives. Senator Core, apparently with the approval of Democratic leaders, moved that the finance committee be instructed to report the bill back to the senate on or before July 10. His admitted purpose was to prevent the finance committee from holding the bill indefinitely or from failing to report it at all. The result of the Core motion was to disrupt so completely the lines that have formed in the senate that it can not be foretold now when a vote can be reached on the reciprocity biil or whether enough votes can be mustererd to pass it without amendment. Senators Cummings, Nelson. Crawford, La Follette, Jones and other Republican insurgents from Northwestern States, who have opposed the reciprocity bill because of alleged discrimination against the agricultural interest, declared that before a voto would l)e permitted on the reciprocity bill they would demand that the other schedules of the tariff be taken up and would insist on an attempt to tack many of them on the reciprocity measu re. Woman Starve to Death. For the second time within fortyeight hours, a woman collapsed SatI n. P nlnminnlnn ill ilia afnnf u of Ill UilJ Ul niiu ? nuiuii ii> inu w. 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. Fatal Tramway Accident. A special from Wilmington, N. C., says that as a result of an accident on the train road of the Waccamaw Lumber Company, near there Wednesday, fonr men were instantly killed and one man seriously wounded. Three of the dead men are Italians. Details of the accident are not available at this time, but the coroner of tflruswick county is investigating the accident. ? lai>s in South America. Private cable advices received on Thursday state that the colonization of Japanese is now going on in Nicaragua, Hunduras, Panama and other Central American state*. The Jap anese government is said to be behind the movement. K M if"' ? "~* WUX REMOVE TULH THE HOOK WORM IN SOUTH CAROLINA MUST GO. A Sweeping Investigation to be Made by Experts and Specialists in This State. The announcement Is made by Dr. J. La Bruce Ward that the work of investigating and treating hook worm in South Carolina wiII 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 is at work iu his native place. Dr. J. T. Howell, of Kenly, N. C., will begin in South Carolina on July 1; on July 15 another goea on duty, the name ? ? V? rt ? rf-k t? M A^./l 1 n i A?t iu ue uiinuuiuvii . These specialists will make examinations and seek to cdrc the cases they find. Each will ho equipped with a microscope- and projection Inntern; by means of the latter lectures will be given as a large part cf trw work, in this way aiming to get the actual facts, visual facts, before the people of the state, especially the rural sections. As a further step in the systematic stamping out of the disease, plans for the establishment of dispensaries for the treatment of patients comes as a practical scheme and an invocation in South Carolina. Ileauford and Hampton Counties have signiled to Or. Ward their hopes of aiding him to begin this work in thes* counties. Others will be added to Jin Thn nlnn ic tn have in each county four or five dispensing stations 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 consulte-d, the patient goes home for treatment according to directions, and in a week returns either cured or to be recommended to further treatment until the disease is completely eradicated. Dr. Ward has received information from the Rockefeller sanitary commission that at the dispensary at Bienville, La., (it cases wore 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 goiiii^i on in South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. His plan is that the men shaM move from county to county thus covering in time the entire State. ? * THEY TOOK TUB FUNDS. House Committee Advises Dismissal of Several Men. The recomendation for the dismissal from the Government service of American Consul Gen. W. II. Michael, at Calcutta, former chief clerk of the State department, and Thos. Morrison, present disbursing clerk, for their connection with tho Day portrait case, as announced Thurs (lay, in which misappropriation or State department funds is charged, was reported to the House committee on expenditures in tho State department by the sub-committee, which is conducting an investigation of tho department. The sub-committee said that it had , not completed its labors, but reported ihe case of Michael and Morrison, in the hope that their services woujd be dispensed with immediately. The recommendation is the result of an investigation by it into an alleged expenditure of the department of $2,4 50 for a painting of former Secretary of State Day, of which amount the artist, Albert Rosenthal, said he received only $850, the remaining $1,000 being unaccounted for. "This conclusion reached by your committee," the report says, "seems irresistible that this sum of $1,600 was jointly misappropriated by Michael and i.VUorrison, or inaivuiuauy oy Michael." ? ? Toll Us, Man. Are you advertising I la the samo old foolish way That you grand-dad did before you, And persist, "It doesu't pay?" Think the world knows your address Cause it hasn't chan&ed in years? Wouldn't the pathos of such logic Drive a billy-goat to tears. "Just a card" is all you care for, Hidden, loneeome and unread, Like the sign upon a tombstone Telling folks that yon are dtead. Wake up, man, and take a tonic, Hunch your hits and make a drive. Let people know you want their biz, ADVERTISE, and keep alive. e Will firing Him Back. A dispatch to The State from Cameron, Texas, says Gov. O. B. Colquit, of Texas, Monday honored reouisitton papers for W. B. Avant alias William Benjamin, who is wanted in Georgetown, S. C., as a convicted mans layer. Avant was arrested while engaged in selling machines, and admitted he was the man wanted. His wife wee with him at the time. Avant WM convicted of manslaughter for killing Mrs. G. C. Bhgham and sentenced,!# three and a half years. j