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i ro. WINNS:BORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, -IAY 23, 1906 -44 0 AMPIONED PAUL JONE 3 RS. DONALD McLEAN FOUGHY FOR BURIAL OF NAVAL HERO AT AKNYAPOLI& As Presdent-General of Patriotic Daughzters of the American Rev wution She Was Invited Guest ol kiener at Ceremony. When the annual convention of th( Daughters of the American Revolutioi -was in session in Washington a fev weeks ago the meetings were preside< -over by Mrs. Donald McLeen. She en o3yOed the unique distinction of being the first presiding officer : the con .gress who was not the wife of som Saan. prominent in official circles. Sh had been a candidate for this hig! 'Woman's office for several years, ani the opposition to her election wa Plainly stated because she could no bring to the office high "national Prestige, which the Daughters of th American Revolution felt was neces sary to the varied traditions of the so diety. FROM LONG LINE OF PATRIOTS Mrs. McLean has half a yard or soc nfcestral bars on her revolutionar xrbbon, and hails back to some ver: istinguished citizens, both men an "Momen. She was born in Prospect Hal Frederick, Md., the city made famou bY Whittier's poem. "Barbara Fritchie. *7he ancestral hall is 'a big, beautift 9z .4f MrS. DONALD McLEAN, PreIdent - place of co'onial arehitecture, an tonly a iw years sii.ce Mr! ..hie, mother of Mrs. McLean, dies -She also had been prominent in D. A * .matters ever since the organizatio: '-E the society. Judge John Ritchit tther of Mrs. McLean, served in Con .g&ess and was subsequently clevated t< te bench of the Court of Appeals c Maryland. He was an crat:.r of re nown. and Mrs. McLean seem:s to havy inherited this attribute of her father'. Mrs. McLean's grand father wa Judge William P. Maulsby, and he gandmothner. Emily Nelson. for whon: s~he was named, was the daughter o Gyu Roger Nelson, who was a boy c si.teen in college when the Declaratici - e Independence was signed. He ri away and joined the revolutionar: forces. He rose in rank to Brigadier Ueneral for conspicuous bravery on th< fil of battle. He was left for dea< -on the battlefield of Cowpens, and British officer in passing his body wan toaly struck his hand with the fiat o: bis saber, breaking the bones of ever) tinger. To his dying day, which oc -cred many years later, Gen. Nelsor arried a stiffened hand. He became member of Congress and later was mrade a Justice of the Supreme Couri ot the State. DATES 1'ACK OF PREVOLUTTION Airs. McLean's ancestry began bacli of the rev'olutionarny period, however. ' udgres i1&nnr and Beattle, two of those twelve Judges known as "The Tweirc 1tals." who first signed a protest S the British stamp act in 1765, ten years before the battle of Lexing' Ton, have in Mrs. McLean a descecnaan1 who is not unworthy of the illustious ?sample of fearlessness of spirit set b3 theL Lient. James Lackland was alst -an tacester of Mrs. McLean. as was also 'cUtv Governor Burgess. o: e'oimial Mar'yland history. Ms. Nllerean w-as educated at wha1 wasat the time known as the Womani Colhge. She was gradntori at the agt -Of fourteen,. receiving a dilploma whici tS one of her proud p)ossessions -to-day Sheeconsnuied her studies in history Inus and the languan~es until h'ar mar riags, in 1SS3, to Donald McLean. Inaof a long line of revolutionary anedtors like herself and a brilhiani lawar in New York city. M15 McLean has made a practical studiof parliamentary law. and in th( long'ears of battling for chapter rights on te floor of the Continental Con e:,and.her own big chapter has be come a finished expert in thrust and parry in parliamentary tactics. At the Fourteenth Continental Con gress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, when Mrs. McLean was Regent of the New York Chapter, she assisted in introducing a resolution looking to the burial of Paul Jones in Annapolis, Md., that being her native State. Besides having a local pride, she thought the first naval hero of the nation should be buried near to the great naval school. There was tremendous opposition to the proposition, and the congress voted I to "lay the resolution on the table," an i expression used in parliamentary pro ceedings to defer action on the subject. Later it was taken up, but the congress I - voted against taking the body of the I naval hero to Annapolis and favored I 3 bringing it to Washington for burial in I 1 Arlington. Mrs. McLean has now. how i ever, seen one of her dearest wishes s "arried out, and, as head of one of the t greatest bocleties of patriotic women in the world, she was a guest of honor 1 s at the recent burial ceremonies of Ad - miral Paul Jones at Annapolis. Made a Good Speech. Senator Morgan the venerable states f man from Alabama. has that valuable y sense of humor which enables the pos r sessor to enjoy a joke when the laugh I is on himself. The other evening, as L, he tells about it, he picked up an old s copy of the Congressional Record while at home, and opening it at random be. .1 gan to read. "Very soon," says the -General of Daughters of the Revolution. I : Senator, "I became interested. and as :.I proceeded I said to myself. 'This man tis ma~kin~g a very sensibie talk.' ..found myself quite in accord with his a views and read along with a good deal of approval until I finished two pages - I was wondering who could have made > such a speech but was too much inter f ested to lock back to find out. But as - I turned the page I came upon an in Sterruption. and there was my own name iven as the Senator making the reply. sIt was my own sDeech I had been read ( ing." A Bad Memory. Senator Knox's physician advised 1him to give up smoking a few days1 ago and put him in the same class with Senator Spooner, also smokeless, after1 forty years of it. The next morning Senator Knox's phy sician happened up 31AIN F ACADE,. STANFORtD U'NIVERE at the Capitol and went into the Sen ator' committee room to pass the time: of day. He found Knox sgoking a Cigar " Here. Senator." he said, "I thought I told you to quit that." "Quit what?" asked Knox, in milda surprise. Sun Morements.t Standing on the seashore at a well known Atlantic Coast resort. watch ing a beautiful sunset, with its rays pierc-t ing the clouds, were two Jews. jt "Look!" said one of the followers of l: MIoses. "see the sun rays."f "No," replied the other, "dere is 1 STANFORD UNIVERSITY iLMOST COMPL ETE DESTRUC= TION OF THE PICTURESQUE CALIFORNIA COLLEG3. uilt in Spanish Architecture and Cost of Builcings Alone was Thirty Million Dollars-Will Probably be Rebuilt. One of the mose serious results of he Pacific coast earthquake disaster s the destruction of Stanford Univer ;ty, near Palo Alto. More than $30, 00,000 had been expended on the )ulldings alone, and the damage has ieen so severe 7hat it will mean prac ically an entire loss. This group of )uildings was planned and bu:" on a >rearranged scheme and has , -n ac ounted the finest group of structures or educational purposes on this con :inent, if not in the entire world. The )uildings were all in the picturesque Spanish mission style, with the arch as he principal architectural feature. This 'act, which was so much a source of ,eauty, has probably been the largest ource of destr-ction, because, while ;he arch undisturbed is one of the most ;ectre of building forms, when thrown yut of plumb it must fall. IRREPARABLE ART LOSS. The main buildings are built around an inner quadrangle, which contains he offlices of administration and some !lass rooms. These buildings are all ane story in height. The outer quad angle, which comprises the principal architectural features of the univer sity, has as main points of interest the memorial arch, with .ts wonderful frieze, by St. Gaudens, representing the progr'ess of civilization in America, and directly opposite this, through the inner quadrangle, the Stanford Memo rial Church, with its mosaic front de picting the "Sermon on the Mount." This building cost, in construction alone, $1,000,000, exclusive of the mo saies and carvings inside and out, and its marble statues and art treasures from Europe. Perhaps it may be said that the loss of the buildings and eqiipment, in spite of their great value, is the least part of the disaster, because since the university was started -n Senator Stanford's Palo Alto ranch it has been a marvelous incentive toward higher education on the Pacific coast. Not only -has it gone ahead with great strides on its own account, but it has carried the State University at Berke ley along with it in healthy rivalry, until the two gave an equipment for higher education in California that was not rivaled by that of any other State. MRS. STANFO..D'S GENEROSITY. If it were not for the indomitable spirit which seems t.o have enabled the university to triumph over many diffli culties it might be said that its career has been particulariy ill-starred. Fox in spite of its grea; endowment, said to exceed that of arv other institution of learning in the country, i; has been unfortunate from the beginning. Vex atious litigation arose at the time of Senator Stanford s death, in 1S94, and the claims put forward by :hose who had received personal bequests, to have them settled first, seriously impaired the finances of the university because it was impossible to realize upon Its property. After that the Paific rail road suits tied up the university money for a couple of years, until the Su preme Court decided in favor of the Stanford estate. But Mrs. Stanford, tvith wonderful courage andi singieness af purpose, unselfishly turne:1 all of her property over to the university, saw it through its crises until her recent tragic death in Honolulu, when the eland Stanford University was again thrown in despair. Its present de structiori by the earthquake seems to :ome as a culminating disaste:', yet it s probable that it will rise again su perior to the conditions which seem in league against it, though it has ractically been set back to an abso utely new beginning. It is already understood that plans 1ave been cons-idered for the rebuild ng of the university, as the statement as been made by President David Starr Jordan to the students of the iniversity, asking them to rema.in and TY, MLEIRIAL ARtCII IN CENTER. id in bringing order out of the chaos esulting from the earthquake. Pres dent Jordan has been mentioned to ucceed the late Professor Langley as ecretary to the Smithsonian Institute a Washington, but those who are in .position to know state that it is be eved that he will remain at the helm f the Stanford University and see :-at the magnificent buildings are reeted again. Stainford University had its concep ion in Italy in 1S%. There a four (en year ola American boy to-sed on s bed. struek d''wn I y ai malignant ver. Is fond. mother knelt at is edside and a's hi< youna lif.- pa'vsed that he migh' live again. To her nusband, Senator Stanford she said: "It was his wish and desir that indigent young men should hav an equal advantage in obtai ing educ ticn. For his sake let us erect a un versity where all shall have an equa chanwe." From that i.ay the Senatc and Mrs. Stanford devoted their entir energies toward planning the Lelan Stanford, Junior, University. Government Positions. As "distance lends enchantment," s perhaps are many people affecte who, living in the remote States, a desirous of holding an appointive o fice under Uncle Sam at Washingto Lured by the short hours, ligl work, and comparatively large salarie A. QrADRANGLE WITHl STANFORD MEMORIAL CHURCH IN DIS TANCE. MEMORIAL ARCII AND STAN FORD GROUP. the young man or woman is .likely look upon department service as beautiful life of "Do Little and Dra Ycur Pay" and watch the passi: show. But it has its seamy side a carries both advantages and disadva tages in its train. There is the danger of fossilizatio of becoming a leaf in the sere; wi energies gone and aspiration dea Th,*s danger is great and seems almo inevitable to him who has many yea of service in the departments. Thou all will not agree with the Hon. Char Clark in a recent article in the Satt day Evening Post when he says "Ov the doorways of the Departmer should be inscribed In letters so lar that he who runs may read: "All Hope Abandon Ye Who Ent Here." Yet to the young man and wom who would keep the fires of their ai bition burning, government servi should be entered only as a steppi: stone to a more strenuous life higher and better things. 42-PIECE Each Dish Decorated Wit! 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MacBride was in command oJ the squad, Chief Guaner Adamsoz 2; placed the charges, and the third gun th ner set them off. .d. The thunderous detonations to whici st the terrified city listened all that dread rs ful Friday night meant the salvation oj rh many lives. A million dollars' wort! 2p of property, noble residences anc r- worthless shacks alike, were blown tC er drifting dust, but that destructior ts broke the spirit of the fire and sent the ge raging flames cringing back over theii own charred path. er DYNAMITE A BLOCK DEEP. The whole east side of Van Ness ave. mn nue, from Golden Gate to Greenwich a- was dynamited a block deep, thougI ce most of the structures stood untouche 1g by Ilame or cinder. *ot one .c ..rg( of failed; no one building stood upon i1 foundations. Unless some second ma MONOGRAM iffSis the finest dinner set erer offered asa premium. 42 complete pieces. Eery dish (except cups. and saucers) * decorated with the owner's untial. 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Order the 24 pi< ise, incorporated under the laws of Illinois for $10.000 MIanaster. 63 Washington lilcious tantrum of nature reve:s2d the direction of the west wind the whole populous district to the west, blocked with fleeing refugees and unilluminated except by the disastrous glare on the water front, seemed safe by 9 o'clock. Van Ness avenue is flat as the earth on the east side. Every pound of gun cotton did its work, and, though the ruins burned, it was but feebly. From Golden Gate avenue on the north the fire crossed the wide street in but one place-the Claus Spreckels' residence, on the corner of California street. There the flames were writhing up the walls before the dynamiters could reach it; yet they made their way to the foundations, carrying their explo sives despite the furnace-like heat. The charge had to be placed so swiftly and the fuse lit in such a hurry that the explosion was not quite successful from the trained viewpoint of the gunners. But though the walls still stood, it was only an empty victory for the fire, as bare brick and smoking ruins are poor food for flames. EFFECTIVE WORK OF WEEK. Capt. MacBride's dynamiting squad realized that a stand was hopeless, ex cept on Van Ness avenue. They could have forced their explosives further in the burning section, but not a pound of the terrible guncotton could be or was wasted. The ruined block that met the wide thoroughfare formed a trench through the clustered structures that the conflagration, wild as it was, could not leap. Engines pumping brine through Fort Madison from the bay completed the little work that the gun cotton had left, but for three days the haggard-eyed dremen guarded the fick ering ruins. The desolate waste straight through the heart of the city is a mute witness to the most heroic and effective work of the whole calamity. Three men did this-three, simply, because they would not trust their work to others-and when their work was over and what stood of the city for the first time rested quietly, they departed as mod estly as they had come. They were or dered to save San Francisco; they obeyed orders, and Capt. MacBride and his two gunners made history on that dreadful night. Elephants Going Up. "A five-foot elephant costs this spring," an importer of animals is stated to have remarked, "$1,400, as against $1,200, for which such ele phants could be bought two years ago. "Elephants, like all other wild ani mals, are growing scarcer with the settlement of the globe, and their prices tend upward. More small ele phants than big ones are imported be cause they cost less to begin with and because they are easier and safer to transport, and showmen like them, too, for the reason that young ele phants are more tractable and easier to train. And small elephants are at tractive anyway. "Then, the elephant is a hardy ant mal in captivity and he is naturally long lived, and the young elephant in creases in value with his growth. So that even with their prices tending upward, young elephants are good property, though even they are rather large for family pets." DINNER SET Wild Rose Design in Colors and Edges Traced In Gold. Srun anl the risk, pay all postage. trust you itfh :tures TODAY and earn this' elegant Monogran and can furnish 1000 references. Address Street, Dent. 156, Chicago.