The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 30, 1905, Image 1

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VOL. XIU. WHAT THEY CET.; ^ The Salaries to be Paid the DiV \ fcrent bounty Officers. a 8 ???? i I terms of the act < i i t Passed by the Legislature at Its Recent * Session. The Superintendents of c s Education Get Better Pay Than t t Formerly. ComosrUnn la ' " * " c Interesting to Note. E c The legislature reoently passed an 8 act providing for the salaries of all 8 the officers In all of the counties ex- ^ ocpt Judge of probate, master In equl- c t.y and magistrate. For the latter t ( thee a special act was passed. Judg t es of probate and masters will draw c the same salaries and receive the same ^ fees as heretofore. e It is declared In the act that the r constitution provides that the compensation shall be graded In proper- a tlon to the population and necessary e s<. rvlce required. The amount of sal- ^ ary fixed for eaoh officer Is given pub t lioatlon here, and our readers may j find it interesting to make compari sons, to see how dlffi rent counties c treat their ottlolals In the matter of t pay. Another noteworthy feature is g the amount paid In eaoh c >unty to ^ tax and governing boards. t Following are the salaries to be paid n the county oflloers this year: e County. Auditor. Sheriff e Abbeville $1,000 1.100 { Aiken 1,200 2,000 L Anderson 1,600 1,800 , Ramberg 800 960 n llarnwell 1,250 1,500 0 Reaufort 1,200 1,650 e Rerkeley 825 800 n Charleston 3,200 4,000 n Cherokee 800 1,600 | Chester... 1,000 Chesterfield 900 900 ^ Clarendon 800 800 d Colleton 1,000 - 1,300 j Laj-Hngton 900 1,800 c Dorchester 900 750 ^ Edgefield 1,000 1,000 Fair Held 1,000 1,000 t Florence 1.000 2,260 0 Georgetown 1,000 1,800 c Greenville 1,600 2,200 t Greeuwood 900 1,000 ^ Hampton 900 1,000 E Horry 700 700 B Kershaw 900 1,100 g Lancaster 900 1,500 c Laurens 1,000 1,600 g Lee 850 1.400 a Lexington 900 800 e Marlon 937 1,800 e Marlboro." 900 1,900 Newberry 1,000 1,400 c Oconee 900 760 g Orangeburg 1,200 2,600 / Pickens 075 000 j Richland 2,000 2,400 t Saluda 800 1,100 _ Spartanburg 1 000 2,500 Sumter 1,200 1,800 Union 900 1 500 Williamsburg .... 900 1,300 York 1,300 1,350 Clerk of SupervlCourt aor. Abbeville I 300 $1,000 Aiken 500 800 Anderson 500 900 Bamberg 250 800 Barnwell 400 850 Beaufort 400 800 Aerkeley 300 000 Charleston 2,400 1,500 Cherokee 250 500 Chester 350 800 Chesterfl ;ld 400 600 t Clarendon 150 80^ Colleton 400 nth Darlington 425 750 Dorchester 300 800 , Edgefield 200 700 Fairfield 300 650 Florence 300 1,000 Georgetown 600 800 Greenville 1,600 950 Greenwood 350 900 Hampton 300 600 Horry 300 600 Kershaw 350 700 Lanoaster 400 800 Laurens 400 800 Lee 200 700 Lexington 350 300 Marlon 600 800 , Marlboro 700 900 , Newberry 275 ^00 Oconee 1,320 t>V)0 ( Orangeburg 660 700 Pickens 300 600 . Richland 1,200 1,200 Saluda 250 600 Spartanburg 1,260 1,000 Sumter 400 900 Union 400 600 i Williamsburg 275 700 York 300 700 Supt. Ed. Coroner Abbeville 600 $ 160 Aiken 600 300 Anderson 750 200 Bamberg 5 800 Barnwell 500 250 Beaufort 400 300 Berkeley 300 100 Charleston 900 1,80b Cherokee 600 boo Chester 600 2u0 Chesterfield 400 100 Clarendon 625 200 Colleton 600 160 Darlington 600 226 Dorohester 400 100 "FMffflfiald 600 700 Florence 800 200 Georgetown 600 300 Greenville 600 360 Greenwood 600 100 Hampton 660 126 Horry 400 100 Kerabaw 600 126 Lanoaater 600 176 Liurens 600 226 Jjqq 600 160 Lexington 600 160 Marlon. 800 160 Marlboro 700 200 Newberry 660 260 Ooonee 600 100 Orangeburg 860 300 Plokens 600 100 Richland ?- . 600 Saluda 450 100 Spartanburg'..... 1,200 300 Sumter 800 360 Union 600 126 I Closing lixcrcisc^^^ Williamsburg 500 125 fork 760 200 The county treasureres are to be h i 1 the same as the county auditors >xo<pt In the following Instances: Cherokee, $1,000; Union, $1,000; Lee, 1860; Marlon, $1,200; Chester, $1,000 inri 50 oents for each tax execution. Each county auditor Is entitled to i fee of 26 oeots for every transfer of 'eal estate recorded. Each sheriff is to receive 20 cents a lay for dieting prisoners and actual '.xpenscs for himself and prisoners or unatics when called beyond the coun -y. Tne sheriff of Lancaster rtc^lves 1150 additional for a J itler Each member of a township board >f commissioners, unless otherwise peel tied, shall receive $2 a day for lot exceeding five days. The chairnan of township board to receive $2 a lay additional while serving as a nember of a county board. E\ch nemberof oounty boards of eduoatio'i hall receive $3 for not more than even days. TownsblD boards of assessors shall >e paid $2 a day per member for not nore than three days, except in counles having cities of 10,000 Inhabl ants, whero the members may relet ve pay for not more than 20 days. The members of the county board of (jualiz&tlon shall receive $2 a day for tut more than live days. County oommlsslo- i shall lie paid s follows: Abbevu.o, ?; Aiken, $3 ach per day for not more than 100 lays; Anderson, $3, without mileago, or 07 days; Bamberg, $125 each; lam well, aifio HoBnfn?t. 41 , - v?.VUf a^vUUiVt V) VI |/CI liem and mileage; Berkeley, not to xoeed $75 each and mileage; Oharleson, $1,200; Cherokee, not exceedlug 100 each and mileage; Cheater, $3 per Hem per member and mileage; Cheser field, not to exceed $50 each with aileage; Clarendon, not to exceed $00 ach with mileage: Colleton, not to xoeed $99 each without mileage; >arllngton, not to exceed $105 each; Dorchester, $150 each; Kdgetield, not o exceed $150 jier annum, including aileage; Falrtield, not to exceed $100 ach without mileage; Florence, $125 ach; Georgetown, $75 each without aileage; Greenwood, $105 each and no ileage; Greenville, not to exceed 150 each and mileage uot to exceed >100 each; Hampton, $2 50 per diem or each member, not to exoeed 25 lays; Horry, not to exoeed $90 eaoh; Cershaw, $125 eaoh; Lancaster, $3 >er diem for not exceeding 25 days; jaurens, $100 each; Lee, $2 per diem ach, net exceeding 30 days; Lexlngon, $300 eaoh; Marlon, $3, not to ex etd 30 days, mileage; Marlboro, $3, lot to exceed 25 days, mileage; New>erry, $75 each; Ooonee, $260 each; Drangeburg, $500each;Pi kens, $2.60, tot to exceed 100 days; It bland, $3, lot to exceed 26 days, mileage; ialuda, $3, not to exoeed 30 days, no lleag<; Spartanburg, $400; Sumter, 3 each per diem for not moro than 0 days, with mileage; Union, $250 ach; Williamsburg, $3 each, not to xoeed 30 days; York, $150 each. Clerks and county boards of commissioners: Aiken, $225; Anderson, linn. ?OCA. I> - it wvvj uviKt Udill wcilj f OUU also clerk of dispensary board;) Geaufort, $50; Berkeley, $150; Charleson, $200; Cherokee, $200; Cherter, ?; Chestertield, $100; Clarendon, 1150; Colleton, $150; Darlington, (260; Dorchester, $75; Edgefield, 1160; Fairfield, ?; Florence, $200; Georgetown, $200; Greenville, $250; Greenwood, $160; Hampton, $200; lorry, $100; Kershaw, $25; Lancaser, $150; Laurens, $300; Lee, $150; Lexington, $100; Marlon, $200; M*rl oro, ?; Newberry (clerk aud attoricy ) $260; Oconee, $100; Orangeburg, 1200 Pickens, $100; Rloliland, $900; laluria, $ 10C; Spartanburg, $500; lumter, $400; Union, $150; Williams >urg, $160; York. $100. Death Dealing; Cyclone. News from Roanoke, Randolph ounty, Alabama, states that reports rave reached Roanoke of one of the nost disastrous cyclones that ever rlslted that section, which swept icross the southern part of Randolph sounty late last night. Eight or nine Ives are known to have been lost and lamage amounting to thousands of lollars was done to property. The >yolone started at a point near Double Eleads, and proceeded in & northwestmi course. The residence of Mack Jarllsle, white, was demolished and R. C. Haynes, of Roanoke, was killed. Six miles east a number of h'uses were demolished and three nrgroes Killed and several injured on the Wilson plantation. Tnree or four negroes were killed on the Holly olantatlon. near Rook Mills At. Lime postoftloe a store was demolished, and a little white girl, daughter jf Mr. Lucas, was killed and her mother seriously Injured. FeM?nU Ktlle<l. A dispatch from Kutno, Russia Poland, says ten peasants were killed and 60 were wounded at L&menta, March 21, as the result of the shooting of Infantry sent to quell disturbances. A crowd of peasants from Benlgnowa proceeded to Laments to 4U. 3 ?-l ? - 4 * * 1 iuuuuo uud mnu muurers W) sirixe and rioting oocurred. The chief of police with a company of soldiers went to the soene and the troops fired two volleys at the peasants, killing two on the spot and wounding 60. The latter were brought In oarts to the hospital there where seven men and one woman subsequently died. Eleven others are dyings Soene of Horror. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that the mortality In the Russian army at the front Is frightful. Five thousand men suooumbed to wounds or disease last week at Har bio. The greater number of the railroad oars and trucks upon which the wounded are piled are brought Into the station and left upon the sidings without having their human freight removed. The station exhales a terrible stench, having become a combined hospital, refuse heap and charnel house. Severely Paniatied. The President lias approved the aentenoe of the oourt martial Inflioted upon Midshipman Arrowood, of North Carolina, recently tried for desertion from the navy. The sentenoe oarrles with It a dismissal from the vavy and the law bearing upon the case provides that a man so dismissed should not hereafter be eligible to any rights of oltixenship. *sm CO N V NOBLE HEROES. Confederate Monument on the , Capitol Grounds of Columbia. THE INSCRIPTION. | A Memorial to The State's Brave Sons Who Died for Her, Which Is Also a Testimonial of South CaroUna's Daughter's Devotion To Them. R( quests have been received by The State for the publication of the Inscription upon the Confederate monument on the State capitol grounds, erected by the women of the State. This Inscription was written by William Henry Trescott, a native of this State, who was a diplomat of Interna 1 tional reputation as well as a liter a > teur. The hundreds of northern tour- a 1 Us who stop In Columbia during the t winter admire this Inscription as more t than a literary production, they are c moved by the grandure of Its sent!- a ment, no denunlciatlon, no walling? a but a manly appeal for "just Judgment" of the cause that was lost. e Following aro these choice bits of t English which emt>ody so beautifully f and so perfectly the sentiments of the t south: r noktil si i)k. This Monument Perpetuates the memory of Those Who, True to the Instincts of their Birth, c Faith to the Teachings of their , Fathers, Constant in their L vo for the State, . Died in the Performance of their Duty, s Who Have GlorItied a Fallen Cause By the Simple Manhood of their Lives, r the Patient Endurance of Suffering, * and the Heroism of Death, and who, ? In the Dark Hours of Imprlsoment, a In the Hopelessness of the Hospital, * In the Short, Sharp Agory of the Field, 1 Found Support at d Consolation 1 in the Bjliof v that at Home they would not be For- 1 gotten. c t south side. c Let the Stranger. v Who May in Future Times ^ Read this Inscription, v Rccogn'z? that these were Men Whom Power Could Not Corrupt, , Whom Death Could not lYrrlfv. Whom Defeat Coukl not Dishonor, and Let their Virtues Plead for Just Judgment of the Cause in which they Perished. Let the South Carolinian of Another Generation Remember That the State Taught Them How to Live and How to Die, And that from II r broken Fortunes She bas Preserved for Iier Children the Priceless Treasure of the Memories, Teaching all who May Claim The same birthright that Truth, Cv urage and Patriotism Endure Forever. It is not generally known, but Mr. Trescott prepared an inscription for a third face of the monument, hut thare was not room for It. This epitaph was as follows: Those for whom they died Iniscribe on this Marble The solemn record of their sacrifice The prepetual gratitude of the State they served The Uudjlng affection of thcsa Wnese lives The Beperation of death Has shadowed With an Everlasting SorrowScattered over the baltle fields of tire south buried in Remote and Allen Graves Dying Unsoothed by the touch of famllur and household hands, Their names are graven here To recall To their Children and Kinsmen How worthily they lived How Nobly they died And in what tender reverence Their memory survives In the first two or three years following the surrender of Gen. Lee, the people of the south were face to face with extreme poverty. Even then the women of Columbia purposed to start the movement for the erection of this monument. Hut It was not until Nov. 4, 1869, that the formal beginning was { made In the chapel of Washington Street church. An address was delivered by Gen Wade Hampton and a prayer ofTored by K v. Wra. Martin, whose son Is said to have b.-en the first soldier of the southern cause to yield his j life. The women of Richland county 1 at this meeting promoted an organlz atlon and sent a call to the women of the other counties In the Slate to loin them in the ereotion of a suitable monument. There were many difficulties In the way of gettiug a suitable site for the monument. The oarpot-baggers from the north and the renegades and ex slave snf this State who were in charge of the State government could not be appealed to for a site on the State capttol grounds. In August, 1862, the aliens who composed the city gov ernment exacted of the commission, $600 for a small spot of earth on Arsenal Hill overlooking Sidney park. The granite for the foundation waN contributed by Judge J no. S. Green from his quarry on the Congaree river, and work was commenced on Arsenal Hill. Hut the workmen soon discovered that there was quicksand near the surface and the spot was utterly unfit for the weight of the monument. The association In Its dismay at having spent fruitlessly money obtained through the most trying efforts was cheered by the offer of another site, the crest of the hill at the entranoe to E mwood oemetery. At a cost of approximately $600 the base was re moved from Arsenal hill to the hill In front of the cemetery, not a conspicuous plaoe to be sure, but the best site available. N j 7 AY, 8. C., THURS Tbc contract was let In July, 1873 to Muldoou Walton Co., of Louisville, who on account of their own loyalty to the Confederacy were liberal and patient with the annotation in its efforts to raise the fundi. It was this same year that the a s elation lott by death one of Its most, earnest mem hers, Mrs. William Wallace, and by removal Its treasurer, Mrs. J. L. Reynolds, who, even after leaving Columbia, krpt up her efforts to raise funds The contracting architects were paid 15,000 on the monemcnt. In September, 1875, the marble shaft and the statue arrived from Carrea, Italy, where they had been fashioned by famous artists. It was decid3d to keep the monuments In storage until the entire purchase price could be paid. The contractors made a liberil discount, but even this was nearly 'quailed by the storage charges and nsnrance. The figure which surmounts the monument is that of a private soldier, but wis fashioned ifter a photograph of Gen. Stephen Elllotton, one of the heroes of the :rater. In the year following the receipt of he monument from Italy, a brighter lav dawned in South Carolina and the elgn of radicalism was thrown ff. In 1878 the legislature appropriated $050 or the removal of the base from Elm wuoo cemetery 10 trie capitoi grounds md each member of the general asscmily gave one day's pay to the associa<lon. The secretary of state was or- 1 lered to further the work In every way ind the legislators contributed llberklly of their own means. At length the entire fund was ratsid and May 13th, 1878, was set for he unveiling. The monument there ore stands not only as a memorial to he men who fought for southern Ights, but as a testimonial to the :ourageof the women whose noble enlea vors in days darker than war itself verc persevered In until their labors 1 vere crowned with success, Itisreoaled that not a little financial aid was contributed through the sale of a poem 'Sumter" written by Mr. J. B. Alton, and by receipts from a lecture 1 Tne Confederate Soldier," by Maj. 5. P. Hamilton of Chester. The day of the unveiling was a nomentous occasion, more impressive ban the pomp attendant upon the vis- ; t of the Mauiuls de Lafayette, more [orgcous than the ceremonies attendini upon the inauguration of Wade lampton as governor; more significant , ban the celebration of the passing of 1 he ordinance of secession, for that vas but a nation's natal day and the inveiling of the monument com mem rated the entire glorious history of . >hat same nation; particularly the reord of the 20,000 South Carolinians vho fell in battle aud the 40 000 others vho came oack ragged, maimed and vreokcd in health. The monument as then unveiled, , rnd been erected near the State house, i tbout GO feet from the front wall of , ,he building, at a point near where he Ilouden statue of Washington now , s. After the grand military parade j mrticipated in by a score of gaily unlormed companies from all parts of louth Carolina, the procession came >ack to the capitol grounds where, , rom a stand decorated most beautiully Gen. Jno. S Preston delivered ( >he oration, Gen. Ellison Capers, the ( e.ctor of the Christ church at GreenGlie, pronounced the invocation. From he top of the speaker's stand floated i streamer bearing the dying words of ilaxcy Gregg, "If I am to die, I give ny life cheerfully for the indepen- \ lence of South Carolina." In the paade were 40 survivors of the Mexican var commanded by Capt. W. B. Staney and the regiment of Confederate urvtvora was commanded by Col. Wll iam Wallace. There were doz ms of , mttle Hags of glorious history and each ( vas cheered by the vast multitude. The newspapers of that day said that .here werel5,000 people massed around capital square when Gen. Preston poke. The master of ceremonies was Gov. IV. D. Simpson. Gens. Hampton and Sutler were detained at Washington it the last moment and wired regrets. Jen. M L. Bonhan, an ex governor, was chief marshal. The four young ladies who pulled .he ord which loosed the drapery iround the monument were Misses Jheves McCord, Doberta Beck, May Dargan and Beverly Means, each of whom had been orphaned by war. Their escort oonststed of four veterans, )ach of whom had lost an arm: Col. J. J. Haskell, Maj. S. L Leaphart? State treasurer?James Fraser and S. W. R>wan. The monument had been jcmplebed three days before, Memo rial day, and bhe marble soldier was stationed at his past as the funeral bells were calling the women to lay II >wers on the graves of the dead solliery. This is not a Columbia possession. It is the property of all the people of rrw, - J-n ? unc oiaw. i. lie lOUOWIIlg COQI<riDUllODS were male by other counties; Abbeville, $201; Aiken, $27; Anderson, 1100; Barnwell, $121; Beaufort, $140; Uharleston, $1,405; Chester, $105; Ohestertield, $277; Colleton, $31 Clarendon, $07; Darlington, $88; Edgefield, $307.50; Georgetown, $285; Greenville, $409; Hampton, $10; Horry, $87; Kershaw, $310; L' xlng ton, $140; Laurens, $121; Lancaster, $140; Marlboro, $11; Marlon, $35; Newberry. $203; Orangeburg, $493; Oconee, $35; Pendleton, $52; Pickens, $5; It.chland, $3,005; Sumter, $23; Spartanburg, $232; Union, $308; Williamsburg, $07; York, $90- Total $10,119.76. The legislature appropriated $650; the railroad company remitted the freight charges, there were contributions aggregating $168 from be>ond the borders of the State, making the whole $11,761.46. The architect, Mr. Walton, was paid $9,242 53 and the remainder was paid for site, the two removals of the base, etc. The monument was struck by lightning, the marble figure being broken, and when the new figure was made the monument was moved to its pres ent site overlooking Main street. This In Itself forms an interesting ohapter In the history of Columbia. Badly Hurt. G. 0. Jewell, a foreman in the Southern's shops at Columbia was dangerously injured by being struck on the head by O. L. Mllford, a oar repairer. The trouble arose from a dispute betwoen the two men Inside ol scar. | & 9 DAY, MARCH 80, POOR FOOLS. Many New York Women Each Morning Worship the Sun. MANY OF THEM BICH. AH the Followers of this Heathenish Custom are Women. The Cult Now Said to be Finally Establish* ed in the Cities of New York and Chicago. The New York American says amazing fact that 2,000 of New York's women, more or less prominent, are sun worshippers and votaries of the Mazda/nans, the mystic Persian cult expf.unded by Dr. Otomau Z\r-AdushtIlanlsh, has been revealed through the arrest last Saturday of Mrs. Hrownle Rathbone Weaverson, of No. 150 West One Hundred and Fourth street, a disciple of the mysterious religion. Mrs. Weaverson is charged with having taught the Persian theory to Mrs. Ellen Kaehll, an aged woman living at No. 1453 Amsterdam avenue, rjuhn iu --- * ....v id uvn oAj/cubuu iu ius3 nor lire as the result of the treatment. liiHtances have been cited in which women have been driven insane by their fanatical devotion to the strange belief; others have been made cripples and doomed to a life of misery; Dr. Ilaul9h, the priest apostle himself, has been arrested on the charge of having tortured his followers; yet despite these facts, the society is not only in existence in.New York City, but the number of his followers among the fashionable set is growing. This was shown at a meeting following Mrs. Weaverson's arrest in Carnegie Hall when a vast throng of women, old and young, and all dressed in the height of fashion, hung with breath less attention on the words of the Dastur of the Ueh-Dlnscience, who stood on the platform olad in the full regalia of his sombre cult. In the morning these women bow to the rising orb and address it as a god. In the evening they prostrate them- ( selves on rugs as did the Persians of old and the ancient Toltecr of M xioo. One day a worn in by the name of Miss Reuss mounted the platform of the Mazdazuau shrine in Chicago, (for the cult has even a greater following there than in New York) and began to scream and pray hysterically to tin , sun. ''She Is Insane," said Zir Danish solemnlv tr? t,h? hnrriHoS n.<- - - wv WVHIUV/U UUlULlg 111 LUC | great hall, "but the honor of Muzdaz uau has been saved." After the meeting Miss Reuss was taken, a hopeless, raving maniac, to an asylum. She had fasted ?arty-two at the or der of Dr. Hanlsh. He was arrested, only to be released and resumed the preaching of Ids doctrines. Mrs. Davenport Vlckeis, one of his faithful followers, was commanded by him to fast forty-two days only a short time after, and she tried to until weakness compelled her to desist. " There is nothing but the the Qreat I Am!" thuudered the apostle to his wavering followers. "All else Is shadow and illusion, it is by obedience that , we live. We must look to God In our- ( selves. If we disobey, the light goes out; death ensues." It was In such language as this that Dr. llanish preached at Carnegie Ilall, while one of his followers was being tried before Magistrate Mayo with having practised, without a license, on a week, infirm, old woman, who gave her all the money she had, which was only $3 70. The women who came to Carnegie Hall to hear and applaud him came in carriages. Their gowns were of the latest cut, and diamonds adorned their hands and ears. The contributions were liberal, and every gesture of the black robed, fantastic figure on the platform was wildly applauded. With rapt fascination they listened to doctrines which would have made the ordinary woman shudder with a stoicism almost uncanny in its nature. "Go ye forth," cried the self appointed Messiah, "all ye that are unhappy, and fast. Pray ye to the sun, thesouroe of life. Cursed he they who believe not. There is no God but the sun." Aud the women grew hysterical in their fervor. The philosophy expounded by Dr. Hanlsh, he says, dates back to 142,000 years before Christ. In the old Zend language "Madsa" means sun, and it is in this origin that the philo sophy obtalied Its name. The drat attempt by Dr. Hanish there to start the society a few years ago met with failure. He then went to Chicago and met with better success. He established a sumptuous home as the headquarters of the cult. Then, indited with his success, he came back to New York and obtained a few members. Now he has 2,000 women followers. What Han Been Done. mu. n ~ me aparuuiDurg Journal says the southern farmer by holding on to his ootton for three three months has put prloes up 96 a hale. By continuing to hold he can put values up still higher. This experience has shown him the vaiue of co-operation and should cau.se him in future years to market his ootton gradually and avoid the shock to the market of throwing it all on at once, as has been the oustorn. Wm Not Poitoned. A dispatch from San Franolsco siys after a full police examination of the evidence surrounding the death of Mrs. Stanford, the noted woman philanthropist, it was announced late Wednesday night that death was due to natural causes. While confessing their Inability to explain the presence of stryotnlne in the oarbonate of soda whloh she drank before death they say there was not sufficient quantity to oause death. IVIUMI 1905. vSUUULl) BE STOPPED By the Civilized Christian Nations of the Earth. Over One Thousand Christian Men, Women and Children, the Prey of Mohammedans. Full reports of the Baku atrocities are published at Vienna. The massacres of KishinelT and Qomel were child's play in comparison. Over 1,000 Christian, men, women and children, were slaughtered within three days by Mohammedans, amid scenes defying description. Toe victims were shot, stabbed or burned to death, their eyes gouged out and otherwise mutilated. All tins happened in the presence of the police force, a regiment of infantry and several squadrons of Cossacks and the governor, Prh ce Nukashides, who were unmoved onlookers for three days. The otllcers and troops amused themselves while the slaughtering was going on. The whole was arranged by the government to prevent the political manifestations threatened oy the Christian Armenian population. The Mohammedans, who are called in those parts Tartars,were supplied by the government with revolvers and ammunition and given a free hand. At the house of iialabek LalayotI upward of forty persons were burned to death, those trying to escape the tlames being instautly killed, soldiers and otllcers cooly looking on. Lalayefl, with.bis old wife and nephew, escaped to the cells but were found and cruelly tortureo, eir eyes being pierced. The military . >rfered only when resistance was ohered by the Christians, and tben the Cossacks j helped the Mohammedans to beat the ' Christians. Tne wells are still full of . corpses. Reuter quotes the Peterburirskla Tledomostl for the following account of the massacres at Baku: From G o'clook on the morning of February s 20 and from noon on February 22 a 8 massacre without precedent and quite ^ unexpected took place in the streets and public squares at Baku. The Tartar inhabitants, armed to the teeth, attacked the Armenians, who F were unarmed and defenseless, and . pitilessly massacred them, without . d.stinctlon of rank, pcsltlon, age or . sex. The panto was general All shops and places of business were at ' once closed, but the owners of them ^ were shot down. A sort of torpor, which it is impossible to describe, n seemed at tirst to have taken posses siou of everybody. There appeared to be nobody to take the defense of ? the unfortunate people. Tne soldiers 0 did not attempt to disarm tiie fanati- . eal murderers, who hunted men like J wild beas:s, killing them by hundreds. . It was In vain that the defenseless 1 Inhabitants imp:ored the governor by telephone to send help. The reply H was always the same. "No Cossacks; K no guard." It was equivalent to the p verdict: "Die, since thou art taken." The bodies of men, women and chll- ? dren and horses were lying in the 1 streets and ^uares by the di zens, by ? hundreds. Tne'. no one to take ^ them away 1 . The authorities remained inaotlve. Blood 11 owed in streams, and every- 8 where the crimiual apathy of the au thorities was tne subjeot of universal ^ I 11 - ? muiguauon. me m.tssacre lasted al- . most three days. To warn noon on ? February 19 a Tartar entered an Armenian ohuroil and b >gan to tire on Ir an Arm 11 in sold e s Ttie police olll- e Oer wiio was present arrested nlm, but afterward set nlm at liberty wltnout dLarming him, and shouted to the crowd. ' Kill him, or he will kill you H all." In saving himself the criminal tired on the crowd, one of whom ran after him and killed him. This seems to have been the signal. In all no g fewer than 10,000 cartridges were ex t pended. d ChaiiiK*"K Knoapeil. I ' Nine prisoners escaped from the t Lexington County chalngang last L week. The gang was looated near v Mr. Job Swygert's place in Hollow . Creek township, not far from Lees- s ville. The total number of prisoners l on the gang was 16 or 10. It was rumored about there that the captain j of the gang was away at his home, being sick. The guard was said also * to have been sick and the gang had ( been left under the care of a new y man. Mr. H. Z. Adams, who resides near where the escape occurred, cap- j tured two of the prisoners. A tele- f gram was received from the authorl- , ties at Newberry stating that they ' had taken three of the fugitives, thus , leaving four still at large. It is said that these will hardly be captured, as | they are long term prisoners and one j of them came near escaping before his trial, by filing the bars of the jail. i Hang Hiin Twloo. I 1 At Pittsburg, Pa., two men were hanged Taursday and the first unsuc- l cessful hanging was recorded In Allegheny oounty. Iteno Dardata wasl hanged first, and his neck was broken. William J Hyers followed. The loop 1 of the noose was pulled away, preolpl 1 tatlng him to the ground. He was not badly hurt, the rope was again 1 adjusted. This time there were no < mishaps. Death re> ulted from strangulation. Hyers was convicted of killlncr Anffiiflt. .1 T.ou^vb 11 0 g*.?w V I WV/U f?U JL U1 Uio Ore k on June 3, 1901. He Implicated Lay ton's wife and John MoWllllams. They were acquitted. McWIlllams afterward married Mrs. Layton. Dar data killed Thomas Sinclair at 1m perlal on September 20, 1903, during a quarrel over a drink of whlakey and a dollar. Another Negro Ottloer. The president has appointed Sergeant George S. Thompson of the Twenty-11 fth infantry to be second lieutenant In the Pnllippine scouts, thus adding one more negro to the commissioned foroe of the army. Lieut. Thompson was appointed on his merits, having received high commendatlou for heroism and efficiency during the insurrected in the Philip pines. He is one of the eraok shots in the army and his received several medals for rifle and pistol shooting He is now stationed with his regiment at Fort Nlobrora, Neb. BANKS GIVE MONEY. Nearly All of Amount A iked For It Given. 1 Treasurer of Cotton Growers' Association Issues a Statement. Stater ment Also Issued Here. According to a statement received from the treasurer of the Southern Cotton &:s elation, the hanks of the ' ootton growing states have contributed about $7,000 to the movement and only $3,000 additional Is asked. Toe amount agreed upon at a meeting of the Southern banking committee was 110,000, and Mr. John 1). Walker, the treasurer, states that this money will be used as Is all of the other contributions received from fertilizer com- . pan'es, oil mills and other concerns. . President K. I) Smith, the president of the South Carolina branch of the V v sociation Wednesday morning gave out the following inter vie a: "We have won the tight as to re- ,, iuetlon of acreage and fertilizer. Let , iny man who duub's do as I ve donego to the state* where the land Is pre ^ pared and being prepared ,aud then oonestly and faithfully say that the c vcreage is not reduced and the use of tertllizor for ootton not reduced likewise. * "'Tlsan Insult to the intelligence md business sense of the farmers to lay that they do not appreciate the iltuatlon. 'Tls a scandalous libel on y ihe South to say that the great New Jrleans convention, the most repre ^ tentative gathering ever convened In f| <ho South, pledged themselves to a s le. That the several stat s compos 1 ng the cotton belt in their subst qnent . ion vent ions characterized by their J a I HUM bill a:* ana conservative 01181- t less tone were represented by liars, tr at best by shallow and unstable en T. ihuslasts. For once in the history of he cotton belt the producers have a vord in the price of their product and ' o sweet and glorious is the feeling, o sure is the prospect of Its continuance, that none net d fear that the P laves of lgnorauoe and poverty will . lomlnate them again. "Now the next step is the erection if warehouses at every station ship ting 2,000 bales and up. These ware- ( louses can be built at a cost of $1 p- r ' ale, Including the water equipment nsurance can then be had at one- . lalf of one per cent. Hy bonding tiie ( tllce in charge the warehouse re- a. e ipts become negotiable in bauk* ai d 1 he cotton thus stored can be held and a.' aarketed as the pried justities. 3 "We have a monopoly of cotton at * , profitable price. We are able to ontrol the market and will from now n The entire South?not the farmer lone?is alive to the dazzling possllilitles and the world is realizing that act and all right thinking and right icarted men are applauding our courge and manhood. Let every one 'J' tudy the situation and get a tirm " rasp of the principles Involved and fI reach and teach them until no one w iced be[(l3ceiv"d |again. The farmer st nd banker and merchant of the South ol lave been to sc 100I and have learned, ' I nd their learning, their education, is 111 iriuging fruit. Already It has borne r( ruit tc. the amount of $10 per bale el t will continue to bear fruit to the ir .mount of from four to six millions as fli u annual protlt on cotton and its 01 iroduts. P( "The South is destined to become she financial center of these United Itates. We have the brains and are ai apldly accumulating thecapital. Let verv Sfiut.hftrnor h?lr> " D! a WANTED FlVd MEN KILLED. u tl luoli Ih the 8tatemont Made in a p Kentucky Court. 0 J A dispatch from Lexington, Ky., ays a plot to shoot down live men In a he Breathitt county court house |) luring one of the feud murder trials o here, was brought out In that city 01 Wednesday at the hearing of a moJon to admit to ball Sheriff Edward o Callahan and the Ilarglses, one of b vhom Is a judge and another a state tl enator. o The sensational story was told by u. Vnderson White on the witness r< tand. White said that Judge James Iargis had given witness a 15 calibre a )lstol, telling White to go to the tl g)urt house, where the trial of Thomas Jockrlll for killing Benjamin Ilargls vas in progress, and be ready, to do is instructed. White declared that G lames Hargis wanted him to shoot c ive men, In event any trouble started, n The men, White says he was asked to si Boot were Dr. Cox, James Cockrill, n Hark Cockrill, Attorney Vauglian ri ind another. This other, witness re- c nembered as being J. B Marcum n Kill all of these or any one of them is vs ivnat White said Hargis told him. h White said he declined to do this and b returned the pistol. Hargis then told h White that White would be needed i< probably as a witness. Hargis told o White to return when sent for. d Anderson White is a brother of a Thomas White, who is now serving a h life term for the killing of J. B. Mar- * 3U01. ti "Jeff" Smith followed White. He a iald tnat. before the killing of Oock # rill, Judge James H irgls declared to r witness. "Jim Cockrlll has got to be f killed. If he is not, Cockrlll will kill c Uallahan or me, or both of us." t Witness deollned to participate in t the plot. II irgis threatened, witness said, to get George Smith or Curtis Jett to do the killing. Wit ness said that he was In Hargls' store r the day after Cockrlll was killed. ( Callahan and Judge Margin were there r and when the news came from Lex ington that Cockrlll had died in s H hospital Ilargis and Callahan smiled 1 at eaoh other. t Men Are Hoareo. ( In Paraguay the women are in pro- I portion of seven to one as compared ( with the men. The consequence It t that the men are taken the greatest < care of, and everything which Is un pleasant or might be risky to the lift t of a man is done by the women. Th* ( streets are cleaned, ships are loaded \ oxen are driven by them, and It is i even said that they have taken pari < In the oountry's wars, acting as sub i stltutes for their men folic. A -m c N . TV T.T.T* NO. 51. LIVED IN TRANCE Mother and Daughter Hypnotize Each Other. THE DAUGHTER DIED :rom the Effects of the Spell. A Specialist Also Hypnotized. Physicians and Hypnotists Puzzled by a Strange Case Reported in New York City. One of the most remarkable cases i? the experience of the doctors of the 'resbyterlan hospital In New York tided Friday In the death of Miss juella Huestts of Mount Vernon, vho with her mother, Mrs. Jas. H. luestls, had been in a trance for 15 lays prior to her d'ath. Mi re than wo weeks ago both of the women vere found unconscious in the home if Ilenry VV. Heifer, a lawyer of that ity, and were supposed to have been syhyxiated by gas. Neither had inee recovered consciousness and hyslcians and hypnotists were puzled by their unaccountable oondlion. MU-o 1T I.. __ -i. .. o nucovis was an attractive ouug woman, aged 22 years. Lack f nourishment was the principal ause of her death as it had been lmossible to give her food except in Iquld form and through a tube. Itlmulants and oxygen were admlnlsered without effect. A singular fact t that the young woman's mother, dio lay in an adjoining room, liegan o show signs of the approach of death don after the death of her daughter, 'ho mother also is greatly emaciated nd the physicians at the hospital sy that her low vitality is due prinipally to starvation. One specialist in hypnotism and hysiology who investigated the case as made public iiis conclusion that he two women had unoonsciously > pnotlz d each other and that gas sphyxiatton had nothing to do with je case. 11: exp alned that he had 1ms-If been hypnotized while hypotizing a patient and had only been wakened by the arousing of the subct The case of the two women has Ltractcd the attention of scientists 1 over the country. An autopsy iade on the body of Miss Iluestls lowed that death had resulted from is poisoning WHY KUsdlA LUSe.8. Field CorrcHponrtont PointH Out lllslivArtenliiK Conditions. The Novoe Vremya, a paper pubshed in St. Petersburg, Russia, Frity published a remarkable dispatch dm a correspondent in the tield, ho, with the bitter taste of defeat fill on his palate, discusses the causes f Russian reverses, and contrasts the )trlt with which Russia and Japan re conducting the war and, with sor>w and dLheartment, arraigns the ements in Russia who arc nourish>g their propaganda on defeats in the ir Last, "scattering In the very hour f defeat," according to the corresondent, "broadcast among the heartck, retreating soldiers, proclamaons urging tiiem to cease lighting ud surrender." Setting aside the factors of a temorary nature, the correspondent enu lerates four main causes of mlsfortne: First. Failure to establish before iie war an adequate intelligence deartment in Manchuria or to make ther preparations, contrasted with apanese activity in that direction. Second. Russia is dependent upon single railway, while the Japanese ave many bases, with the possibility f establishing new ones at any point n the coast. Third. The deficiencies of many flloers, whose mistakes of execution ring to naught the most carefully boughtout plan of the commander, r whose technical education has not cpt pace with the artillery they are rquired to handle. Fourth. The patriotism, devotion nd passionate longing for victory of he Japanese. Awlul Experience. A dispatch from San Francisco, lal., says the odiishing schooner zarina from Eagle harbor, Alaska, as brought Frederic Martin, still utTerlng from three days and nights i an arctic prison, shut in by the aging sea on the one side and a glv kr on the other. Martin was placed i this dangerous position by a storm rhlch overtook him while fishing off Jagle harbor last April, and which lew his dory ashore. Notwlthstand]g his sufferings and apparent hopeissness of his position, Martin kept a iary, written hourly. It tells of bis espalr, his recourse to raw fish bait s food after two days of starvation, i s fight to keep the blood moving by aifa//nla Kai* > lr?? l?i? ?-1 ^4 * * ? ucouiii^ liid lucu wioii t>no tandle of a gaff, his tinal parsever,nce and his ehCipe by clinging to the laclcr In his bare feet; how with a ope he lassoed the pinnaole of a roclc ar abjve him and then climed up the ,11 ff, clinging to the orevlccs with his tare feet. Then he ran across the rtzen fields to a fishlpf station. Killed on Track. One of tho worst accidents that has narked the history of racing in New Orleans occurred Friday in the second ace at the fair grounds In that city. Cue Held of 11 horses was about to wing Into the stretch when Swedish ^ad, running sixth, was jumped on >y one of the horses behind him and ds near hind leg broken. Oourt Jrler, following, fell over Swedish liid. Jookey McCafferty, who rode )ourt Crier, was thrown directly in he path of the onooming horses. dcCafferty, the only one of the jooktys hurt, was carried to a stable and .hence sent to a hospital. It was ound that his skull was orushed In xith front and back, that both his irma were brcken and that he had >ther Injuries. Death Is expected at my moment. Swedish Lad waa daitroyed.