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i i ^ WEIJLO ^H^9>wn in the valley ''Well-Enough* mt They toil and they eat and they love a hi W Whife off in the hazy distance gleam the And none that has traveled that ditjtcult The way is o'er rocks, sharp and jugged ^^^kWhiie the water drips cool, far below in H^r cursed. How he longs, all in vain, for :i ir. d!v I and true; Hut he may not turn back, so he And at last, oh, long journej : see lorn h? with pain! ^KHe stands at the summit of w^eat desire, ^^^AAnd then?ah. the sadne~~ of heart-breal l or be longs to return to dhe land he lias \WiWAVW^.'.W.W.SW. THE ::: ^ UNDECEIVED L1 Pv/.VAVylv.'.V.'.W.W.V.V. r /\>I tired of this delay. I f Marion. I want the matc I ^ tor settled detiuitely, and ^ ? Jt at once." 'WWwr "You are very unreason?* able, aunt," said Miss Deshrugging her shoulders petu' l^atiy. "Thiugs of this sort can't be t?irried up in a moment." J **A moment!" echoed Mrs. GardiM ner. "Why. it's full three months since W <irey Pelham commenced visiting ' you!" "Set your heart at rest, aunt." said Marion, with a glance of triumph X^Bhootiug from. beneath her drooping, bine-veined eyelids. "If ever a man was desperately in love, he is?the lime of his bachelor freedom grows short." "But how short?" "Will you be satisfied if he proposes Jr - week?" " es?but he will not." "Leave him to me!" said the tali beauty, imperiously. "I am as impa tiont as you are?but I know very well it will uot do to show it." "It is shockingly expensive," sai<i Mrs. Gardiner, plaintively. "When I took the furnished house for six mouths, I supposed you would be off my hands long before this?and the servants' bills, and tbe account for the coupe, with the driver iu white gloves, and?" "Spare me the reiteration of household annoyances, aunt." said Marion. Impatiently. "You are supposed to be a wealthy dowager. I. your heiress niece. What sort of society do you suppose we could have commanded if people had known our real status?" "Well. I suppose you are right," said Mrs. Gardiner, disconsolately; "but. dear me. Marion, if this last chance should fail?" "It will not fail, aunt. Haven't I told you to set your heart at rest?" Thus ended the colloquy between aunt and niece, and Mrs. Gardiner left the room to attend the summons of her cook. \l*rir?n vaca <e!nwlv w.ilkf* ? with thi> step of a princess, to the full length mirror, framed in a net-work of gilt passion vine leaves, and looked into its surface. f What a lovely picture smiled hack upon her. flushed with the soft wineligbt of sunset. A tall, flexible figure, full of unstudied grace; a small head, royally set upon the slender, snowy throat, and crowned with braids of silken black hair, coiled round and round in glossy profusion. Her com plexion was rather dark, but line grained as satin, with a delicate crimson glow on either cheek, and lips full and scarlet as newly ripened cherries, while her lovely black eyes, large and soft as velvet, gave a tender expression to the whole countenance. * "Yes." murmured Marion Delaacy.half aloud. "I have beauty ? Grey Pelham lias rank and wealth. Are we not evenly matched? What right has he to ask for more?" The thoughts were yet flitting through her brain, when a servant entered, with a sealed missive in her hand. Teiegram. miss, jusi ;iru\ tu. Marion caught it from the servant's hand and tore it open. "Miss Delancy." it read, "your father is much worse and more troublesome to-day. and I cannot continue to take charge of him. unless arrears are paid up at once. If I do not sec you soon, I skail bring him up to New York, and return him to your care. "SARAH DARBY." Marion flushed scarlet, and bit her lip until her small, white teeth gleamed vindictively. "What a bothei!" she muttered to herself; "but it is just like that spiteful old Darby to carry her senseless threats into execution. I must get ten dollars from Aunt Gardiner to stop her mouth with; aud tlie sooner th? better. Perhaps I had best take the evening express down to Berksdale at once." She glanced at her tiny Geneva watch. "Yes. I have time; but I ought not to waste it now. of all times! Olio night's delay may cast some chill across the slow of Grey Pe!ha:n's love; but there is no alternative left uie." And the evening express carried Miss Delancy down to the obscure little village where her poor, crazed, old father was farmed out. at the least possible rates of compensation, to a hard faced widow with a heart like adamant Meanwhile. Grey Pelham. Esquire, in liis elegant bachelor sanctum, was preparing himself elaborately for an eveuing call on his fair goddess. It was a ' room whose adornment and decoration Jjespoke not only wealth without stint limit, but refined taste and highly k cultured appreciation. Exquisite lit r lie Droiize giuuiis ^iniiua-u-u v.i uincu brackets; statuettes of ahibaster leaned from backgrounds of ruby velvet: paintings tbat an amateur would have valued at their weight in gold opened the glow of Neapolitan skies and misty Swiss valleys to the eye, aud cabinets of rare cameos and antique coius fiHed the recesses. But the student and philosopher were now merged in the enthusiastic lover. Grey Pelbam had lost his heart to the mystic sparkles of Marion Deiancy's marvelous, black eyes, and of all/^c SNOUGH. J ?n are careless and joyons and free; j it, and they grow old happily; peaks of the unknown: 'Fame." steep can enter the valley again. 1 i and cruel; through fierce heat, with a dead- i the depths of the way that to him is ac- 1 handclasp, for the smiles that were ready s dong. with the joy of achievement in view. ^ ! in>Is and feet, and lace drawn and wrinkled -j to dwell on his priceless gain. I I c! was not that a man's cry of woe? | { lost?to the "Well-Enough'' valley below, j race G. Bostwick, in New York Tribune. J ' '.W.V.VbVAV/IW.'.VI'I'.'.V.'. 11 f9*"'* By Helen ! Forrest Graves. r VW.V.V.W.V.VhW.VAV.V.'. ' hazel eyes, and features, which if not 1 strictly regular, were sufficiently well * moulded, and possessed the rare merit * of expression. The last sunset rays were just touch- * ing the stone cornices of the elegant ' mansion that Mrs. Gardiner called j "her ancestral inheritance"?not deeming it worth while to mention the ,! trifling fact that it was rented from a I Jewish stock broker at a thousand dol- x lars a month?when Mr. Pelhaui rang ^ i the doorbell. **/\n+ of tA?*n Iia vai -\o tn.l o ftne ^ the servant. "How unfortunate! j' | Where lias-she gone, anil when did she Ig0''" i j Now, .Margery being a new servant, j i had not yet learned the crooked ways ^ and wiles of the Gardiner household, and unwittingly answ*ed the truth. Q "She's gone to Berksdale, sir, and ^ maybe she'll be obliged to stay two . or three days, I heard her tell the missus. It's at Mrs. Darby's, sir, where?'' o "Berksdale, eh?" s Mr. Felham knew that another train j, left within the next hour or so?the v last train that night, and he resolved ^ to follow his bright beacon star forthj with. Poor fellow, he had reached that ^ ' desperate stage in love in which all j j spots where the beloved one is not are j howling wildernesses. t He slipped a bank bill into Margery's v ?iot unwilling lingers, and hurried down, the street. v "I will seek her out. and let her 0 sweet lips decide my fate at once." lie tl thought. "Marion! How appropriate f is the sweet Scottish name to her pure t and gentle womanliness! All the Marions in poetry and romance are models X] of grace and gentleness, and she is no exception." t (You see that Mr. Telham was very much in love.) a | Berksdale was soon reached by the , iron feet of steam, hut, rapid as the j progress was, it failed to keep pact t( with the young man's feverish iuipa- t] tience. ^ It was eight o'clock, with a full moon ,, shining upon the fresh spring foliage. ,, when, after having been duly directed 1 to Mrs. Darby's, he set forth on his ^ walk to the secluded village nook. ., "Darby?Mrs. Darby? She do be the one who keeps the old. crazy gentleman. and a rare uu she is to thump him round! Oh, yes. sir. Ain't more'u a mile beyant the big church?a red house, with a big poplar tree in front." Thus instructed with regard to the locality. Grey Pelham felt that he could not well go wrong. The red house, with a big poplar tree in front, presented no very inviting d aspect as he strode up to the wide- a open door. The blinds hung on one r hinge, creeking dolefully in the breeze; e the gate was tied up with loeps of a rusty rope, where nails should have o been; and broken crockery, invalided ii tinware and heaps of oyster shells u adorned the dooryard in lieu of velvety grass and borders of flowers. Grey Pelham, wondering a little as p to what business could possibly bring ,, Marion Delancy to such a spot as this. ^ knocked at the open door, but 1:0 one 0 responded to the summons. t lie knocked again, and yet a third e | time, with no better success, and tin- a ; ally walked boldly into a little sitting a 1 room, where yawning portals seemed v : to invite entrance. A single oil lamp burned on the table, by whose light ho could just find his way to a chair. "I suppose I may as well sit down 0 here and wait until some one comes," 0 he said, resignedly to himself. ^ As he did so, he became aware of a voices in the adjoining apartment, s raised high in altercation, and of a name spoken in shrill tones?a name 1 dear and precious in his ears. 11 "I tell you. Miss Delancy, 'tain't ? enough! Two dollars in a week won't ' pay his board, let alone the clothes and 0 the lodging!" 0 And Marion's accents, silvery sweet, 1 answered in low. measured tones: ^ "Two dollars a week is a great deal of money for an old man who can chop wood, and dig garden, and help you so ^ much about the house." I "But he won't help. Miss Delancy? ^ ; he just sits and mopes the whole time. 1 The doctor says he ought to have 0 wine." 0 "Oh. nonsense! I can't afford to bny v him wine! That's all an absurd no- c tion!" 1 "Well, lie is your own father. Miss 7 Delancv: fix it any way you please. 1 and it ain't hardly decent to let him t starve." t "Yon are too extravagant in yonr fi ideas. Mrs. Darby. What can an old i man like that want of new clothes and I dainty fare? I tell you. I can't afford to pay you more than two dollars a week; my expenses in New York are r ruinous, and?" i "Then you may as well send lilm to s the poorhouse at once. Miss Delancy. t I won't undertake to keep hint short ^ of three dollars, at the very least." ( "I don't like to do that," Marion an- r swered. hesitatingly, as if the idea t commended itself to her as not imprac- c ticable in some respects. "People will \ talk." 1 "They'll talk just the same if yon j let him starve to death here, aui> a i good deal worse." t "It's a great nuisance-" said MarJ|p, t impatiently. "Well, I suppose I will t have t)o pay you two dollar* and^|g Lalf.' \ "See him? Oh, 60, not for the world1 < [t always racks my nerves. You leedn't tell him I've been here!" "Well!" ejaculated the other; "if yon lin't the coolest one. Miss Delancy! 1 1 lon't set up to he the most devoted ' laughter in existence, hut if my father vas like your'n, I'd want at least to iee him once in a while." "What wnuM he the us?? Here's he quarter's money in advance; and | f he gets violent or troublesome again, ust lock him upon bread and water! sow, show me to my room, please, for I *ve got to get hack in the early train o-morrow morning, before my de oted cavalier misses me!" "Then it's true that you are going o marry a rich man down in New fork, Miss Delar.oy! Squire Frolhingt;iin said you was, but. la! there's leaps o' reports that haven't no more oundation than a whiff of smoke." .Miss Deianey iau^heil triumphantly. "You will see. throe months from low. Mrs. Parby. That's right; get he candle, for there is nothing that poils my complexion like want of ieep.'" (irev IYlnani had sat as motionless luring this conversation as if he had teen turned to stone! Honorable genleman that he was. he would have corned the idea of eavesdropping; but io had been spellbound?thundertruck. Was this cold hearted, cruel vorlding. whose very natural affecion seemed frozen in her veins, the larion lie had worshiped with such bind. unquestioning idolatry? Was it lossjble tlujt he had been deceived all hese months? Like the downfall of some superb oblige. undermined at once and entirely, lis dream of love crashed to the earth! le buried his face in his hands, with low. bitter groan, given to the memry of the Marion whom he now knew ind never existed, save in his own magination. Then he rose and went out in the ool. clear moonlight, staggering like no just risen from a hed of serious ickncss. lie was thankful now that ie had encountered 110 one?that Inrns free to depart without question or loubt. Disenchanted ? undeceived! The ilow had been a cruel one. but Grey 'olhara recognized the kindness of the land that had struck it. and returned o New York, resolved to bear it with rhat equanimity he could. Miss Delancy waited, but waited in ain, for Mr. Pelham's anticipated all: and finally at the end of three lays dispatched a little pink note, perumed with the ottar of roses, to ask ho reason of his unwonted absence. The servant brought back the note tnopened. "Please, miss, he sailed for Havana his morning!" A month subsequently the cxasperted creditors of Mrs. Percy Gardiner net in the elegantly furnished house, ust in time to deplore their own dilioriness, for that smiling matron had ecamped. leaving an array of debts iehind her that might have awed the lotorious Mrs. Chad wick, the Ohio ^ risoner. j And that was the disastrous end of ; larion Delancy's matrimonial cam- ] laigu!?>*?w York Weekly. I i OTNClppS! In Charlottenburg, Germany, a novel 1 levice to protect firemen from smoke < nd flames while lighting a Are was rmhlinlv tpsfcd. The invention ' ' onsists of au iron shield, perforated, . nd affixed a little behind the nozzle j f a tire hose. It is capable of form- , ng in front of the man holding the \ iozzIc a circular screen of water. i IYofessor Itedard, of Geneva, who apilied music as a tranquiliziug influnce on persons under anaesthetics, las discovered that blue light falling ] n the eyes, even when closed, affects he nerve centres and produces sleep, ( ither by a hypnotic or anaesthetic j ction. Violet and green, hut not red ] nd yellow, rays have a similar, but reaker effect.?London IGobe. In the eastern part of the great forst region of Central Africa, where the kapi was discovered, Mr. It. Meiuertzingen has recently killed specimens of hitherto unclassified species of wilfa wine, for which the popular name forest liog" has been suggested. It ears much resemblance to the wartlog, but is less hideous in the shape >[ its skull and the arrangement, of ts teeth. It is also more abundantly lothed with black hair. As in the case f the okapi, the late Sir H. M. Stanley ienrd of the existence of this hog, but lid not see specimens of it. In reporting the results of tli? recent isit of the British Institution of Civil Engineers to America, Sir William Yhite said that four new instalments i tow under way on the Canadian side f Niagara Falls will give an aggregate , f 440.000 liorsc-power. When these vorks are completed the grand total if power derived from Niagara on >oth sides of the river will be about 00,000 horse-power, which, of course, s but a fraction of the whole power of he falls. The visitors were informed hat within a radius of about fortyIve miles from Ottawa sufficient watertower exists to furnish uea-Iy 1,000.000 lorse-power for driving machinery. The final report of the Royal Comnission on Coal Supplies presents some nteresting facts. Assuming 4000 feet is the limit of depth and one foot as he minimum thickness of seam at vhlch coal mining is practicable, the ommission estimates that the availtble quantity of coal yet untouched on he British Isles amounts to a little >ver one hundred thousand million ons. This is about ten thousand milion tons greater than the estimate nade by the Coal Commission of 1871, jotwithstanding tlig fact that more ban five a?d a, half thousand million ons of coal hive been raised in the neantiaie. The difference is accounted 'or by more accurate knowledge of ^ coal, seams. -The consumption of coal in 100.1 is estim:|^^nt T?" . - > -V' v, "... . TWO STRIKE VICTIMS f l! Utile Abatement in Trouble Between Teamsters and Employers ^ i RIOTING IS RENEWED IN CHICAGO ' 3 I Union Teamsters Gashes a Negro . Driver's Head With an Axe, Cutting Off Several Fingers With a Second I Stroke, and an Excited Negro Po- : i liceman Shoots Into a Crowd With i Fatal Result. ' f Chicago, Special.?No proposals for ' peace came from either side to the ; teamsters' strike Saturday, and for the present the strike has settled down 1 to a matter of cvluranee. John J. < Farwell, Jr., iii whose hands the employers have placed their case, as far i is peace negotiations are concerned, : said Saturday afternoon that no over- i tures would be made to the teamsters | it any time hereafter. The employers ire willing, he said, to meet the men it any time, but no more proposals will be made to them. The Teamsters' Joint Council held a | short meeting, at which terms of set- ( tlement were considered, but nothing ivas done. 1 ' John C. Driscoll. formerly se^etary pf the Team Owners' AssoeiationiV'ho j has been anxiously sought in conlection with the suits brought against President Shea, of the Teamsters' Cn- ' ion. by George R. Thorne. who alleges ! criminal libel, has returned. President | Shea declared that he was offered $10,- ( )00 by Thorne. through Driscoll. to call , i strike on Sears. Roebuck & Co. Dris- . 'oil denied positively that he nad any knowledge of the affair. He will appear before the grand jury Monday. Secretary Sincere, of the Employers' Association, declared that as far as doing business was concerned, the strike is over. The employers have 2.COO J teams in service and are doing almost i normal amount of traffic. , Saturday evening, while Frederick | Jones, a colored teamster, who was un- , loading some lumber at an uncompleted building at West Eighteenth and j Sangamon streets, a mob numbering 1,000 men. women and children, gathered around him and commenced to , throw stones and other missiles. Po- | licemen Benson and Schempster, who , were guarding the wagon, drew clubs ( and attempted to drive back the mob, both officers being struck several times with stones. While the trouble was at Its height, John Hinee. a union teamster, forced his way through the crowd and coming up to Jones when he was j stooping over throwing off some lumber, struck Jones o^er the head with an axe, cutting a gash in his scalp three inches long. A second stroke finished him. One other non-unton workman was killed. " Thanks the President. St. Petersburg, By Cable.?Paris is Russia's choice as the place for opening peace negotiations. If Japan insists upon Manchuria or Washington, Russia doubtless will agree, but Paris is preferred and the Emperor already is prepared to issue instructions to M. Nelidoff, the ambassador to France, to act as plenipotentiary to receive the Japanese conditions. The Russian government has com- | municated to the administration at Washington its consent to puublication of Russia's reply to President Rooserelt's appeal, at the same time thanking the President warmly for the friendly and lofty spirit in which it was conceived. It is now possible to give some additional interesting details of the extraordinary council presided over by the Emperor, which met recently at Tsarkoe-Selo, and at which the practical, although not the final decision was taken to terminate the war if the conditions were not too onerous. Gen. Boyton's Successor. Washington. Special. ? Secretary Taft has appointed Gen. Ezra A. Carman as chairman of the Chlckamauga Military Park Association to succeed the late Gen. H. V. Boynton. General Carman was colonel of a New Jersey regiment during the civil war, and was breveted a brigadier general. I ntn River. MUIO nuiiyva ..... Chicago. Special.?Three persons were drowned and two others escaped narrowly a like fate Saturday night when an automobile in which the live were riding plunged into the Chicago river through the open draw of the Rush street bridge. , The drowned: Jerome G. Kurtzman, manager for a chemical company; Mrs. Jerome Kurtzman; W. A. Hartley, manager for an automobile house. The rescued were: W. H. Hoops, Jr., manager for an automobile company and Mrs. Jeremiah Runyon, of New York City. / Foreign Consul Murdered. Tangier. By Cable.?Moorish robbers entered the Austrian vice consulate at Maagan. on June 6 and murdered Vice Consul Madden, a British subject, who also represented Denmark, and who had been established there for many years. They also fired at and wounded his wife. The assassins escaped. The Austrian and British authorieties have sent energetic protests to the Sultan's Foreign Minister. Fatal Pistol Duel. Knoxville, Tenn., Special.?Charles Reed is dead and Alia Blakmore is mortally wounded as the result of a pistol duel at Pleasant View. Ky.. Sunday. The cause of the affray is not known. Both are young men and foremen of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad construction gangs. A quarrel at Reed's camp caused Reed to begin shooting, and Blakmore responded. Each was shot four times. Blakmore was brought here to the hospital and will die. His home is in Alabama. Reed lived at Saxton, Ky. Secret Service Agent Wounded. London, By Cable.?A dispatch to a news agency from Kieff, Russia, says an attempt was made Sunday afternoon to assassinate Lieutenant Colonel SpirldoYitch, of the secret service -police. The polonet^aa j^aiking in the. main afjg^t o? the clty> wi|?tf?n unknown IHfired twicfc at hJ^B^a revolver. were effe^^^B SpiridovaertDuslyji^^HBis assail SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN ! Conditions For Past Week ag Given Out by the Department. The first of the week ending Monlay, June 5th, was warm, the middle ! aortion cool, and the close had normal : :emperature. There was widespread i romplaint that cool nights were un- ; 'avorable on cotton. There was more I .han the usual amount of sunshine j )ver the western and central part? : ind less than usual over the eastern j jarts. There were local high, damag , ug winds in the northeastern coun- | ' - "A.u o nQn V. ! ies on lilt: oviu ouu oioi, ?j ng thunderstorms. A large portions of the State had io rain during the week, but there vere heavy rains in the east central, eastern and southern counties on the 50th and 31st, further delaying farm work and increasing the foulness ot :orn and cotton. Farm work made rapid progress ov?r the larger portion of the State, but mltivation is difficult owing to the ank growth of grass and weeds and he rapid diying of ihe soil which renters it baken and crusted. The wrath- j ;r was generally favorable for growth if crops, and there rs a marked im[movement noted where they have seen cultivated, but the general condi:ion of all field crops is still poor. J There is a marked improvement \rm cotton which looks well where worl^ ?d, especially on clay soils, but is itill poor, yellow and small on sandy ind gray soils, with less complaint of plants dying than last week. Lice ire prevalent in the central and eastern counties. There yet remains a small portion of the crop to chop to stands. Favorable progress was made in cleaning fields of grass and weeds. Put much remains foul, and some will Pe abandqned owing to the rank growth of grass and the scarcity of ' -1? ?~ w-e* oniifli*oa horn lauurcrs. x-11 oc o^uatvd aoted in many parts of the State. The conditions of corn is variable, ranging from good to very poor, and much of the crop is suffering for want of cultivation. In many places it is yellow and undersized. Where proper* ly cultivated it is fine. Bottom land3 were prepared and planted during the week. Worms continue destructive in the southern counties. Rice looks fairly well. A large acreage of June rice will be planted in the Georgetown district. Melons are late. Wheat is being harvested and the yields are poor, owing to rust and too much rain. Oats are ripe and being generally harvested, with yields ranging rrom excellent to poor. Spring oats continue promising. Peaches are being shipped the quality is good, but the fruit is small. In places peaches are rotting badly. Gardens are doing well but need rain in the west. Pas- i tures good. Minor crops generally j promising.?J. W. Bauer, Section Di- J rector. W. F. Klumpp & Co.'s Cotton Crop Letter. The following cotton crop letter is furnished by Messrs. W. F. Klumpp & Co.: r The weather conditions the past fortnight have continued unfavorable, and private advices with few exceptions report the crop to be very backward, compared with last season, farmers being unable to work the fields on account of the protracted rains. In the eastern belt, the plant is making better progress than in the central and western belt, but as a rule over the entire region the crop i3 doing poorly, especially in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, where the plant is badly in the gras3, and in Texas and Arkansas, where the outlook in many sections is very discouraging, fanners having been unable to finish planting, and some fields being abandoned on account of wet weather. The crop is about two weeks later than usual, and considering the reduction in acreage, of about 15., as per our crop letter of the thirteenth ult., the weather conditions of the next thirty days are of greatest Importance, as they will throw more light on the chances for a crop in keeping with consumption. Weather conditions will continue to govern prices for some time to come.; Riot in Aiken County. Columbia, Special.?A race riot is in progress at Bush, in Aiken county, the scene of the old Elleuton riots of the reconstruction period. So far a white | man named Burwell McClain is dead, and his son mortally wounded and two negroes are dangerously wounded. These were fired upon from the house of a negro named Gordon High. McClain had been deputized to go and bring a negro child to a magistrate, the child being in dispute in a case to be tried before the magistrate. High defled McClain, who was re-enforced by his son, and two negroes and High and his friends fired upon the approaching party, with the result that Burwell was killed and the others wounded. High then made his escape into the forest. Other negroes have armed themselves with Winchesters and shot guns and declared that they will protect High, after whom a large and wellarmed posse has started. High will be lynched when he is caught. A long distance 'phone message from Aiken says further bloodshed is expected. Battleships Go South. Norfolk, Va., Special.?The first division of the battleship squadron, under command of Rear Admiral R. D. Evans, composed of the flagship Maine, Kearsarge, Kentucky and Missouri, sailed from Hampton Roads for the Southern drill grounds. After two days' evolutions at sea the squadron will sail for New York, and tne snips will then disperse for repairs at the northern navy yards.* Constable Shoo^Negro. Columbia, S. C., Specil^? Dispensary Constable John R. Isom ?rly Monday afternoon shot and kill^pa young negro named Jim Lone^fno had broken away from Policeman Keith. Long had been under arrest for snatching a valise from a negro excursionist who had just arrived over the Seaboard from Savannah. Isoip daha^^c his revolvefrfirdd nccidentl&i^^^^Buck ?????? NORMAL COLLEGE REPORT ;| rhe Stat? Industrial and Normal Col* 'j: lege For Girls is Expandirfg its Uso* fulness. The following leading facts are (^ .leaned from President Johnson's anmal report of the work of Wlnthrop College: ijM "Winthrop College closes Its 10th ear in Rock Hill with these com- j nencement exercises tonight. It wlH >e interesting to this large and repre- . ? entative audience, I know, to have omc account at this time of the work nd growth of the college. "Up to 1895 the institution was conlucted in Columbia, from 1886 to 1892r rent or aire- ana inserting in lieu thereof the words, 'and all Individuals, firms or corporations engaged in furnishing or providing for rent or hire power derived from canals, water powers, rivers and streams in the State, so that all individuals, firms or corporations engaged in furnishing power for rent or hire derived from water power in this State shall be assessed and taxed upon the same basis. May Die From Horse's Kicks. Chester, Special.?A fearful, horrible and possib'y fatal accident occurred here Thursday afternoon about 7:00 o'clock. Mr. P. G. McCorkle was driving with his wife and little boy out near the park and the horse very suddenly became frightened and got beyond control. He ran from the street across the hills near the park and threw the occupants out of the buggy. Mrs. McCorkle escaped with slight injur}', but was fearfully shocked; little Billy was unhurt, but Mr. McCorkle sustained several kicks in the face that the doctors think will prove fatal. He held to the lines an(^ the horse kicked him twice, the blows landing just under the left eye, breaking the eye lid and cheek bone, and directly in the mouth and nose. He is terribly mangled and at this hour is unconscious. Drs. Cox and McConnell are attending him and everything in their power will be done to save the patient. $500 For Howard College. Birmingham, Special. ? President Montague, of Howard College, at East | Lake, has just been notified by Wil- ^ liam J. Bryan that Howard College ' will be given a fund of J500, the in- t come of which is to provide an an- < nual prize for the best essay on some < economic subject. The money is to be f taken from the Philo S. Bennett fund, t of which Mr. Bryan is trustee. 3 Want Southern Railway Enjoined. Charle^on, Special.?Suit was j filed in the United States Circuit c Court on behalf of H. H. Cummings, 1 j of Augusta, asking that the Southern j Railway be restrained from operating the South Carolina and Georgia railroad, and that a receiver for the latter c property be appointed, and the road 1 sold at public auction. The suit is i based upon the alleged conflict of the 1 Southern Railway's operation of the i South Carolina and Georgia with the t anti-trust laws of the United States, it 1 being held that the operation of the t road is in restraint of trade. The b case will be heard before Judge Pritch- s ard at Asheville June 26. c Mrs. Roosevelt Visits the Wilmers InVirginia. Washington, Special?Mrs. Roose- ? ( velt will be entertained for several i ? days by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilmer 1 at their old Virginia home at Rapi- , | dan. She left Washington for her < | outing unaccompanied by any of her f i children. The visit is a repetition of 1 one several years ago when the Presi j dent and Mrs. Roosevelt spent several ( days at the Wilmer home. I May Import Cigarettes. Indianapolis. Ind., Special.?judge James Leathers, of the Marion county Superior Court, decided in the case of J the State against W. W.'Lowry, in- ( dieted for smoking a cigarette, that the anti-cigarette law passed' by the J last legislature is constitutional, ex- < cept wherein it may conflVt with the < inter-State commerce l^fT Smokers 5 may import cigarettes from other States < and smoke than, but jt is held un- j Mr* 1 PALMETTO AFFAIRS" 1 Occurrences of Interest in Various Parte of the State. Geneal Cotton Market. 8 Middling r Galveston, firm 8% * New Orleans, firm 8 5-16 Mobile, steady k....8M? y Savannah, steady 8 3-16 Charleston, quiet 8.00 E Wilmington, steady 8.00 t Norfolk, steady 8% s Baltimore, nominal 8% s Now York, quiet 8.55 Boston, quiet 8.55 a Philadelphia, steady 8.80 Houston, steady 8 7-16 ^ Augusta, quiet 8V4 Memphis, steady 8% St. Louis, quiet.. 8% ^ Louisville, firm 8^ 1 Charlotte Cotton Market. a These figures represent prices paid 0 to wagons: Good middling 8^ ? Strict middling 8*4 Middling 8*4 I Tinges 7 to 7% Stains 6 to 7V> 1 a t State Board of Equilization. f The State Eoard of Equalization ad- c journed Thursday night. Thursday the 1 board listened to extended arguments ? on the matter of assessing the Colum- v cana. and upon raising the assess- f moms or tnemuis in unester. ? Mr. J. L. G. White, of Chester, fought for a dollar for dollar valuation on the mills there, but Mr. T. K. Elliott, of Winnsboro and Mr. A. G .Brice. of Chester, argued in behalf of the mills, and the assessments were reduced. In regard to the assessment of the Columbia canal, the following resolution was passed: I "Whereas, article 7, chapter 14. of the code of laws of South Carolina, 1902, providing for the assessment for the purpose of taxation by the State Board of Equalization of canals providing power for rent or hire is not sufficiently broad to provide for the assessment by said board of individuals, firms or corporations providing power for rent or hire directly from the natural water powers, rivers and streams in the State; and, whereas. such individuals, firms or corporations so engaged should be taxed upon the same basis as corporations furnishing like power from canals: "Be it resolved by the State Board of equalization, That the General Assembly be memorialized to amend section 309 of the code of laws of South Carolina, 1902, by striking out the j words 'and canals providing power for j s the Winthrop Training scnooi ior teachers, and from 1892 to 1895 as ^ Vinthrop Normal College, under the et creating the institution as now organized. % "At the time of the establishment "j if the Winthrop Training School for he training of women as teachers in 886 nothing was being done by South Carolina for the higher education and raining of her daughters, although mnual appropriations had been made >y the Legislature for some 80 years or the higher education of her sons, J< ior was there an institution for the raining of white teachers in North Carolina, Georgia or Florida. The '*i ounding of the schoool at that time ">! /as made possible by an appropriation rom the Peabody board, made through he interest and sympathy of its chairnan, the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, he orator and statesman, after whom he school was named in grateful reoignition cf the great services of him* elf and the Peabody board rendered o education in the South, sympathetic ally, unselfishly and unremittingly Jl luring all the dark years after the p ;iv!l war, when the needs of our desoated, impoverished, prostrate South- \ and ^ere great and urgent. "The gchool had a small beginning n 1886. It opened with two teachers Jid 19 3tudcnts in one room, and that ras a borrowed room. Today it has 6 officers, teaciiers and assistants, :81 students, not including the pupils n the practice school, and a plant * :osting over $300,000. "The college closes this 10 years of ts life at Rock Hill with much protress made and with a bright outlook or the future. Its material equipnent, including buildings, grounds, urniture, machinery and apparatus, las been added to and greatly imiroved; the courses of study have >een developed and enriched; the icholarship standards raised; the facilty increased from 23 officers and eachers to 46; the number of students ncreased from 325 to 481, the utmost apaeity of the dormitory accommodaions; very many communities in this State have been reached and benefited n their schools and homes; and the trhole organization better adjusted to he work to be done and greatly im? >roved in many particulars. Few in- > ititutions have enjoyed greater pros>erity and growth in the same time. "The number of students applying or admission to the college has steadly increased each year. This last rear the total number applying was 137?the greatest in the history of the .ollege. The enrollment in the school ' ias been thoroughly representative of he people of South Carolina. A num>er of the students have always paid heir own expenses. Over half of he students each year have stated hat they would not have attended any tther college than Wlnthrop. "The total number of matriculates n the college from the beginning, ncluding the new students of this rear, is about 2,500. The total enollment, including the full enrollment ;ach year, is 4,437. "The college has emphasized more itrongly each year teacher training ind industrial work in accordance vith its charter. There are 396 in he normal department this session? in increase of 25 over last session. "The total enrollment in the difTermt departments from the beginning, ncluding this session, is: formal ; 2,891 Jterary 581 Stenography and typewriting .. 389 dressmaking, millinery and sewing 1,094 . booking 669 j floriculture 243 bookkeeping 143 Drawing and designing 1,665 / "Many of these young women, hough not completing the course here, ire yet doing acceptable work in caching and in other lines of employnent open to women in this State. We estimate that over 1,900 or 2,000 roung women have been helped by he college to become better teachers, - ^ . ~ ft larze Der IDG lOttl Uicj arc w _ w :entage of the white children in the ,'ommon schools of the State. It la {ratifying to note that the demand for eachers trained here increases every rear." Two Boya Cremated. Atlantic City, Special.?The bodies >f two boys who met a horrible death )y cremation on the beach have been dentifled as those of Ordner J.' Delan;y and William Jeffries, both of this :ity, aged 7 and 5 years respectively. The two boys were inseparable com* >anions. They had gone to a brush ieap of pine trees on the beach front it New Hampshire avenue, which rees were to be used to build a jetty, ."hey dug a hole beneath the pile and irawled under. It is Denevea mey iad matches, for soon the brush was iblaze and before the boys could :rawl out they were cremated. Editor's Convention Elects. Guthrie, Okla., Special.?The annual lessfon of the National Editorial As " J iOCiauon aajouroea sun cictuue these officers: President, John Dynond, New Orleans; first vice presilent, John E. Junkin, Sterling, Kan.; second vice president, Henry B. Varler, Lexington, N. C.; corresponding jecretary, W. A. Ashbrook, Johns:own, Ohio; recording secretary, J. W. Cockrum, Oakland, Ind.; treasurer, J. [rvin Steel, Ashland, Pa. Gen. A. P. Stewart Scric^ly III. Chattanooga, Special.?General A. P. Stewart, ranking living officer of the Confederate army, is seriously ill at 3orden Springs. Ala. H% i3 the resl- 3 lent member of the Chicamauga Park ? commission and has had many honors jJH shown him. He made a' brilliant record during the civil war. Ha is over j||H jv years of age. It is feared thatb-h^^^H will not recover. ir:o^yaeedt|j^B