The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 06, 1911, Image 3
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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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Dieacners were in a staie 01 cuiuuhion.
Women shrieked and hundreds
of others rushed on the field for the
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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