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L nu State Syperistesidsni of Education ?nnognoes Appointments. S?H?QL OPENS AT WINTHROP COLLEGE LAST WEEK OF JUNE. Hon. O. B. Martin, State superin -4endsnt of education, has issued a '/panaphlet giiving the complete list of t&e faculty of the State summer school ?or teachers which will be held at Bock Hill, June 23d to July 21st, in Mr. Martin is himself.-the president ef the summer school, and associated with him is President D. B. Johnson cf'Winthrop. Following is the list of teachers who ?ill be engaged in the work at Rock -Hill during the montfc of July.: Pedagogy-Prof. P?tterson W?rdia w, South Carolina college; Prof. J. W. Thomson, Winthrop college. . "History, and Cides-Supt. W. H. Hand, Chester Graded schoo?l? Supervision-^-Supt. Lawton B. Evans o? Augusta, Ga., city schools and also Of trie Ricfimond county public schools. * Latin-Prof. C. W. Bain, South Carolina college. ; 0onstructive4;<Geography-Supt. E. 33. Hughes, Greenville city schools. Grammar, Literatare and Library "Work-Prof. J. P. Ktnard of Win? throp college. Rhetoric ,*and literature, Maj. St James Cummings, South Carolina ^Military Academy. rhisiographyr-Supt. T. C. Walton of Anderson. Algebra and Geometry-Prof. M. D. JSarie of Furman University. Eorticulture and Nature Study J. C. Newman, Clemson col 1 Practical Problems in Education ' * -Br. David E. Cloyd, Columbia University and School of Visitors for drecera! Education board. Botany-Prof Haven Metcalf, Clem? son college. Arithmetic-Prof. J. A. Finger Courtenay School, Charleston. Tre&jfrifc Singing-Prof. Rath, Hollins Beading and Elocution-Miss Edith JSbyes, Emerson, College of Oratory, Boston. Drawing-Miss Stella S. Skinner, Normal Shool, New Pa?tz, N. Y. Lectures on South Carolina History -Mrs. C. E. Means, Spar&mburg. Kindergarten Principles-Miss Min 3?? MeFeac, Wintthrop Collsge. Manual Training-Miss Mamie F. "Wickliffe, Teachers College, New York. Observation and Practice? Work 3iissAnnieE. Bonham. Drawing-Miss ' Emma T. Lucas, lemminger Normal school, and Miss B. Strait, Corcoran Art Gal drawing assistants. There will be speciallectures by Dr. -Chas. D. Mciver, President Henry IJOU?S Smith, Dr. G. R. Glenn, Miss "Edith C. Noyes, Dr. H. N. Snyder, J>z. G. S. Dickerman, Dr. P. H. Mell, Dr. G. B. Cromer, Dr. Sdgar Gr- Murphy, Gov. D. C. Rey? nard andbthers. The meeting * of county superiLtea tients and ochers interested in educa? tion and the education campaign will he held during the first week of the School, I ?. SOLIESE S?H?L?BS?FS. \ -:-;--- j The legislature has appropriatd $1, - J t i&Q, for normal scholarships at the j South Carolina college. This money c 'will be available for the session begin- ? sing nest September, and the trustees c of the college are preparing letters \ -urging the teachers of the State to ^ take hold of this opportunity. There ? ?all be one scholarship for each, and j ?ach scholarship is worth $98. Nomi- ( ?ally ?40 is approriated for each s county, but the beneficiary will be re- g aaitted his matricultaion fee of SIS and ) ??8 tuition fee of $40. Thus the schol? arship student will receive $5 a month Jor eight months to assist him in his ?Sving expenses. Following "are the Conditions upon which the scholar? ships will be awarded : > H Applicant must be 19 years of age ; and must have had one year's experi- ] ?nee in teaching. This is to encourage < yoong men to make teaching a prof es- j sion. For while there are a great j macy women teachers, the super?is- j lon must of necessity fail upon men ? ?ad men should be qualified. j Applications should be made to the < -president of the college before July 1 j ior application blanks upon which will "be written the name, age and previous { -experience and qualifications of the I teacher who wants to be the benefici- \ arv of this scholarship arrangement. ] This will be considered a preliminary examination. EXAMINATION JULY 10. ""The county boards of education are -requested to conduct the formal ex- , amination on friday, July 10, when ? fee -regula r South Carolina college and ? Winthrop College entrance examina- . f?eir? will be held. The branches upon , %hich applicants will be examined are &g]ish grammar, history, geography, ? arithmetic and elementry algebra. There will be a standing committee on scholarship appointed by the board ! and by the faculty, and this comm i t iee will .'select from the applicants ex ami ned. The incumbent may be re- ; appointed after the first year if in the j Judgment of the committee this would be advisable. The course of study so far arranged ls for the first year only, there will %e no second year classes until after line next session. Grammar will be taught by Dr. Joynes; composition and literature by Dr. Wauchope ; oral leading by Prof. Davis ; hitsory and geography by Prof. Davis; arithme? tic, algebra and geometry by Prof. Wardlaw ; physics and physiography by instructor Carson; nature study by -&rof. Moore; pedagogy by Prof. Wardlaw ; free hand drawing by Mr. Carson. There will be 19 hours a week JOT recitations.-The State. 3?ew York, May 21.-The jury in the snit of Charles Broadway Rouss who was suing the Charles Broadway Rouss estate for $100,000, for maintenance support, returned a verdict for full amount today, with $5,766 interest- The boy in su*n? claimed to dway Rouse. RESTER'S COTTON STATEMENT. The Aggregate for the 264 Days of the Season is 338,000 Bales Ahead of the Same Period Last Year. New Orleans. May 22.-Secretary Hester's weekly cotton statement, is sued today, shows for the twenty-two days of May an increase over last year of SI, OOO and an increase over the same period year before last of 39,000. For the 264 days of the season that have elapsed the aggregate is ahead of the same days last year 338, (XX), and ahead of the same time year before last of 694,000, The amount brought into sight dur? ing the past week has been 91,156, against 46,627 for the same seven days last year, and 67,955 year before last. The movement since September 1 shows, receipts at all United States ports t to be 7,556,141, against 7,353, 516 last year; overland across the Mis? sissippi a, Ohio and Potomac rivers to Northern mills and Canada, 1,039, 826, against 1,071,441 last year: in terior stocks in excess of those held at the close of the commercial year. 35,241, against 54,069 last year; South ern mill takings 1,654,000, against I, 468,575 last year. The total movement since September 1 is 10,285,708, against* 9,947,601 last year and ,9,691,921 year before last Foreign exports for the week have been 25,344, against 72,382 last year, making the total thus far for the season 6,397,555, against 6,142,868 last year. The total takings of American mills, North and South and Canada, tims far for the season have been 3,691,005, against 3,501,466 last year. Stocks at the seaboard and the twenty-nine leading Southern interior centers have increased during the week II, 170, against a decrease during the corresponding period last sesaon of 57,296. Including stocks left over at in? terior towns from the last crop and the Dumber of bales brought into sight thus far for the season, the supply to 3ate is 10,500,782, against 10,307,288 for the same period last year. THE VISIBLE SUPPLY. New Orleans, May 22.-Secretary Seater's statement of the world's visi? ble supply of cotton, issued today, shows the total visible to be 2,846,965, ig?inst 2,872,403 last week and 3,198, t40 last year. Of this the total of American cotton is 1,661,965, against 1,733,403 last week and 2,164,440 last rear, and of all other kinds, including Sgypt, Brazil, India, etc, 1,185,000, tgainst 1,139,000 last week and 1,034, XX) last year. Of the world's visible supply of cotton there is cow afloat and held in jrreat Britain and Continental Europe .,573,000, against 1,850,000 last year; n Egypt 69,000, against 126,000 last rear; rn India 710,000 against 554,000 ast year and in the United States ?24,000, against 668,000 last year. IQM?KCE OF FAMOUS PICTURE, Considered Almost Valueless, an Expert Pays $50,000 for it. Lodnon, May 16.-A curious romance if a .fameras picture has just come to ight For many y??rs a picture, entitled 'The Holy Family," hung, oh the vails of the Bristol Young Men's As oci?tion. The owner lent . it for a ong time and ultimately proposed hat the association buy it for what ie termed a reasonable sum-850. But he association thought it had more mportant demands for its money and ieclined to buy it. Lately the ov/n >r died and the executors took charge >f the picture and sent it to London ;o be sold. Judge of their surprise vhen they got $50,000 for it from an ?xpert, who identified it as a famous jictore from the brush of Pietro Da Uortona, a great Italian painter of the jeventeenth century. The expert con ?idered it cheap at the price.-New fork Herald. SEABOARD SHOPS-BURNED. Norfolk, Va, May 22-The Seaboard ?Lir Line railway shops, minor offices md warehouse on the outskirts of Portsmouth, were practically destroy ?d by fire which broke out shortly ifter 10 o'clock tonight At a late lour tonight the blaze had not spent itself, but the destruction of nearly ?very building and car at the yards was ibout complete. As near as can be ?stimated at this time, the monetary, Loss will foot up to 8750.000. James Harrell, a machinist, who ?ought to save bis tools, was so badly burned that he may die. No one else was seriuosly hurt so far as can be learned, SEHSTT??AT ora TIDINGS. Victoria, B. C. May 20.-Alfred Dunningham, manager of the Hong Kong Daily Press* was a passenger on the Kag a Maru which arrived last night. He said in an interview that while attention is being maintained in Northern China by Russian aggres? sion, a matter of far greater import? ance to America, Great Britain and Japan was overlooked in the south. The report is that the aggression of France is increasing in the Southern provinces. He was of the opinion that France and Russia were acting in concert, the former in the north and the latter in the south. He says France has bribed the officials of Kwang Si and is waiting the oppor? tunity to poor troops into that pro? vince. The south, said Mr. Cunning? ham, is now on the verge of a far greater crisis than that on the north, although at present, the rebellion in Kwnag Si is practically brigandage on large scale. The rebellion in South China he says is another factor. There is no doubt but that the re? formers have organized the brigands and rebellion which will be far greater than the Taiping rebellion ever was will break ont before long in South China. E. W. Thomas has been appointed the general manager of the Whaley mills, or more properly speaking the Olympia and Richland milis iu 'Co? lumbia. Mr. Themas is one of the most able mill men in the East and Mr. Whaley has wished te secure his serviees.for some time. THE STORM SWEPT WEST. Three Counties in Nebraska Torn by Two Tornadoes. _a_ Many Persons Killed or Wounded -Full Extent of Disaster Not Yet Known. Hastings, Neb, May 25.-A series of heavy storms, two of which developed into the worst tornadoes that have visited Southern Nebraska in years, passed over portions of Clay, Franklin and Kearney counties last evening. Fifteen persons are known to have lost their lives and over a score of persons were more or less seriously injured. The casualties are as follows : Near Norman, dead: Daniel Mc Curdy, Robert McCurdy, Mrs. John Wehlever, Mrs. Earl Bacon, Mrs. C. A. Tipple? Injured: Mrs. George J. Meer, arm broken; Icey McCurdy, leg broken; George J? Meer, badly huit; Robert Chambers, badly hurt; Earl Bacon, John Wehlever, Mr. and Mrs. Kinear, not serious. Near Upland, dead; Lutheran minister, name unknown; Mrs. John Peters, farmer's wife; Mrs. Chris Lamers and mother. Injured : Chris Lamers and two chil? dren, William and Minnie Schultz, Fred Pop and mother, Mrs. Isaac Gasper. At Pauline, dead: Mr. and Mrs. James Mumaw and child, Frank C^uigg, Flora Palmer, John Palmer. At Fairfield, injured: Mrs. A. W. Broderick and child. serious; John McReynoIds, internally injured ; Mrs. Nobelinzy, Charles Taylor, caught by ?ailing chimney, serious. Near Norman, at the home of Daniel McCurdy, a number of relatives and friends were spending the day, and not )ne in the house escaped death or serious injury. Two miles south of Jpland German Lutheran services vere being held in a school house when ;he storm struck and demolished 'it, billing four of the occupants, includ ng the minister and injuring a num? ber of others. The storm was equally destructive it Fairfield, but the people were warn? ed of its coming and sought cellars br safety. Six dwellings were blown o pieces at that place, but their oc? upante escaped injury with a few ex ;eptions. Every dwelling and out railding in the path of the tornado vas blown to pieces and the financial oss thus far accounted for will reach .bout $60,000. The family of Peter Pockinson, nine n number, was reunited late today. Uhey lived near Norma and were eparated by the storm, it being feared t first that most of them had been rilled. There were two tornadoes, >oth originating within a mile of ''airfield. The first one moved to he northwest and the second off to hej southwest. The one to the lorthwest did the greater damage and il the fatalities seem to have been n its path. The greater loss of pro lerty was sustained by farmers. The leaviest individual loss reported is that uffered by Charles Taylor, who \ laces the damage to his stock farm, ncluding cattle and horses killed, at , 21,000. State Teachers5 Meeting. The State Teachers' association will aeet at White Stone Li thia Springs une 15th to ISth inclusive. During [ bat meeting there will be a session if the college department at which ome interesting subjects will be dis ussed. Following is the programme which . rill be observed, beginning at 3 o'clock y n the afternon of June ISth: ] "How can the colleges in the Stat9 ooperate most wisely?' Discussion ntroduced by Dr. James H. Carlisle ! rom the standpoint of faculty, and ' ion. Wm. H. Ly les from the stand win t of trustees " What shall we do about athletics?" ! Mscussion conducted by President H. i. Snyder. "Whatcan the college and the school lo to aid each other?" Discussion ntroduced by Dr. M. I. McCain and Supt. S. H. Edmunds. A business session will follow the lis?ussion of papers. The Columbia Electric Street Rail? way, Light and Power Company has ?ompleted arrangements for the is uance of 81,000,000 worth of 5 per ;ent gold bonds, to be used for the aking'/np of two previous debts, the >etter equipment of the road and for icquiring the property of the Colum? na Gas Tjight Company. Chief Justice Walter Clark, of the tforth Carolina Snpreme Court, is the :hoice of William J. Bryan for the democratic Presidential nomination n 1904, according to a story that has .eacbed Washington. Atlanta, .May 22.-A telegram re? lived here today from Atlantic City, ii. J., announces the death there to lay of Mrs. Mary W. Curry, widow of ;he late Dr. Jabez L. M. Curry, former Jnited States minister to Spain. Capt. Manley B. Curry, paymaster in the Jnited States army, stationed in At? a??a, is the son of the deceased. The Dody will be buried in Richmond, Va. A vast deal of nonsense has been published about the "good work that Booker Washington is doing," but ;here is a great many conservative and thoughtful men in Alabama who have followed his work carefully, and svho are unable to discover where it is good. They hold with the States and other southern newspapers that the Tuskegee institute is changing excellent field hands into rowdy crap players and loafers. Much better re? sults would be obtained if Booker Washington would teach his students how to look at the rear end of a mule through a pair of plow handles with profit-: in other words how to farm on scientific principles.-New Orleans States. St. Louis, Mo., May 23.-After be? ing out fifty-five minutes the jury ia the case of Emil Hartmann, ronner member of the House of Delegates, for bribery, returned a verdict this after? noon before Judge Ryan, finding Hart mnan guilty and fixing bis punishment at six years in the penitentiary. The penalty is the heaviest that has been inflicted so far in the bribery triais. THINGS TALKED OF IK WASHINGTON. Washington, May 25.-A typical I sample of the special legislation which characterizes every Congress has just come to the attention of your corres? pondent. One Thomas J. Mormon, of ! Columbus, Ga., enlisted for the Mexi I can war September 1, 1847. In Decem j ber he became involved ia a scrape, j was tried by court martial in January (1848) and found guilty of being ac? cessary to murder, sentenced to vari? ous penalties including dishonorable dismissal at the close of the war. He subsequently deserted and was absent during January and February 1848. After the war be deserted his wife and ran away with another woman, to whom he was never married. Since that time, Mormon and his wife have both died, but tne woman with whom he ran away has secured the passage by Congress of a bill (Private No. 473) "correcting Mormon's record" so as to make it appear that he was honor? ably discharged. Now the woman re? ferred to has applied for a pension and it is feared will secure it. It is more than likely that if the Pension Com? missioner refuses the pension, as he will if possible, Congress will pass a special pension bill allowing it. The prevalence of this type of legislation is well known to every person familiar with Congress and is creating a drain on the Government funds which is ap? palling. ? The prospect of a serious conflict be? tween Senators Hanna and Foraker grows daily more likely. Senator Fo? raker has announced that he will urge the passage of a resolution by the Ohio convention expressing the wish of the convention that Mr. Roosevelt be the republican nominee in 1904. Mr. Hanna, on the other hand, has declared that he would oppose such a resolution. Hanna claims that a reso? lution approving the President's ad? ministration thus far wili prove all sufficient and opposes the state's com? mitting itself further than that while Mr. Roosevelt has still more than a year to serve. It is shrewdy suggested that -the junior. Senator'"from Ohio fears that his influence at the White House will completely vanish, once Ohio has indorsed the President. Of course the belief that Mr. Hanna de? sires to be a candidate himself in 1904 is also strengthened. The convention, which occurs the first week in June, will be watched with the keenest in? terest and a large number of politi? cians, not only- from Ohio but from other states* are preparing to attend. ? It is believed in Washington that Senator Foraker wiH win, and if he does it will constitute a body blow to the political future of Senator Hanna, i Another story which comes from i Ohio and is received here with much < interest is to the effect that Mayor i Tom Johnson of Cleveland and "Gol? den Rule" Jones, Mayor of Toledo, : will join forces to elect the latter to : the Senate to succeed Hanna Mayor < Johnson is in complete control of the ; Cleveland organization and Jones < ought to be able to control the Toledo < members of the legislature, so that there is some ground for the demo? cratic hopes. Jones has four times t been elected mayor against the strong? est opposition and despite the fact that he refused to commit himself to any party declaring that party should cut no figure in municipal politics, i The last time he was elected he re- [ ceived 100,000 votes. 'Secretary Cortelyou of the Depart- ? ment of Commerce is not saying much < these days but he is doing a "heap of thinking" abcut Secretary of the 1 Treasury Shaw who has passed along i to the new Cabinet member a most ' difficult and perplexing problem, that < ef employing women/immigrant in- < spectors. The six inspectors who were i appointed some time ago at the in- ? stance of certain religious and philan- j thropic associations, served ninety < days and were then dismissed on the ] recommendation of Immigration Com- < missioner Williams who did not con- 1 sider that they performed any useful 1 office. Now, Rev. Josiah Strong, presi- 1 dent of tlie American Institute cf ( Social Service, Mrs. Margaret Dye j Ellis of the Women's Christian Tem- j perance Union, Miss Sadie America ] of the Woman's Municipal League ? and National Council of Jewish Women i and Mrs. Florence Kelly, formerly an ? Illinois factory inspector, have come i to Washington to secure the reinstate- * ment of the discharged femal6 inspec- 1 tors. They called on Secretary Shaw, I and with a manner that was "child- j like and bland" the Secretary referred j them to Secretary Cortelyou, under, < whose jurisdiction the Bureau of Im- ! migration will be after July. A com- '. mittee of women will descend upon < the young cabinet officer with their ] logic of recrimination and tears. : The Department of Justice has lo- '. cated half a million dollars worth of i the property of ex-Captain Carter who ? is serving a term in the Leavenworth ] penitentiary for embezzlement from '. the Government. The Department has ] been working very quietly in the mat- i ter and this fact was learned without 3 the approval of the officials who have ] the case in charge. Attention is now I being turned to the Greene and Gay? nor property and it is believed that '. already some clues to their holdings ] have been secured. When the evidence < regarding all the property is secured i and properly prepared, another effort ; will be made to extradite Greene and Gaynor and a new trial in the federal ? courts in Chicago will be commenced, i by which it is hoped the Government '. will be able to recover a large portion : of its loss from the Carter embezzle- : ment. There is great gratification at the : State Department over the news that ; the permanent treaty between the United States and Cuba has been i signed at Havana. This treaty incor- 1 porates all the provisions of the Platt amendment. The treaty still remains to be ratified, and although ratification by the Senate of the United States is certain, there is some question as to the action of the Cuban Senate. The title to the Isle of Pines remains to be settled by a subsequent treaty.^ The provision which permits the United States to establish naval stations at Guantanamo and Bahia bay are regard? ed by American officials as the most important provisions of the new con? vention. The specific location of these stations is not included in the treaty, but a selection of the points named has been the outcome of subsequent i negotiations. Manchuria rivals Or?gon in fertility, timber and climate and has abuncance of gold, silver, iron and coal. It has the area of Texas and three times the population of the State of New Fork. HORRIBLE ELEVATOR ACCIDENT. wk One Man and Three Women Mash Beyond Recognition. Pittsburg, May 22.-One man and three women were killed and five or six injured tonight at 1026 Fifth avenue, the building being occupied by a dancing academy. The cause of the fatalities was the snapping of the elevator ropes allowing the cage to drop 50 feet. The dead are so badly mashed that identification has been impossible up to midnight. The only one whose name may be correct is Catherine Curtin. On her body was fonnd a railroad ticket with the name on it. A banquet and ball was being held in the building by the Pennsylvania Electro-Mechanical institute, and every available portion of the fifth and sixth floors were crowded by members of the institute and their friends. At about 10 o'clock the elevator with a load of 13 passengers started for the banquet room on the sixth floor. When that floor was reached it was found that every place was crowded and the passengers decided to go to the fifth floor where the dancing was in pro? gress. When between the sixth and fifth floors the steel cable snapped and with a resounding crash that was heard blocks away the cage dropped with its load of human freight. It smashed through the floor above the cellar of the building and was stopped by a braced post of wood, three feet below the first floor. In this inaccessible position the passengers were jammed under broken timbers and twisted steel, yet none might have been killed had not the heavy balance weight, weighing over a ton, come crashing down upon them. Miraculous? ly all but four were able to scramble out. The others were pinioned under tlie heavy weight. Four were mashed almost beyond recognition. Albert Myers was held a prisoner for more than an hour. While fire? men and volunteer rescuers were preparing riggings to lift the machine so as to be accesible he lay pinioned under the wreckage. Whiskey and water were passed to him with words of encouragement. A fireman en? dangered hi3 life by dropping into the mass of wreckage and holding the injured man's head. "Heavens it was hot down there, " was the brave man's first words spoken while being carried from his prison to a hospital in an ambulance. The opinion prevails that the elevator was overcrowded and Superintendent of Police McTighe ordered the arrest . Df Prof. L. N. Giles, a mechanical Bngineer and instructor of the Penn? sylvania Electro-Mechanial institute . who at the time of the accident was < running the elevator It is alleged that he allowed the elevator to be overcrowded and that he had no ex- : perience in running an elevator and i tvas partly responisble for the acci- ; 3ent. . Author "of Maryland" Tells How I He Came to Write the Song. Mr. James R. Randall, the author < Df that soul-stirring song, "Maryland, ? My Maryland," is in thp city. He < was seen by a reporter \c?terd?y and ^ave the following account of the < Drigin of the song: < "In the year 18611 was, though a ? re ry youngman, a professor atPoydras ? College, Parish of Pointe Coupee, La. j This college had been built and en- - lowed by a rich Creole planter. It ; was situated on a lake about seven < miles from the Mississippi river, in j a region largely devoted to sugar cane ? production, the inhabitants being . chiefly of^French descent and habitual- -, [y speaking that language. To get . Dur mail at a time we had to go to . the postoifice at a village on the river bank. One day in April I rode over ??here and received a copy of the New \ Drleans Delta which contained a ] graphic account of the passage of the < Massachusetts regiment through Balti- . more, my native city, and the sanguinary encounter with a crowd of ? infuriated men who proposed to resist ] all invasion of Virginia soil. This j narrative inflamed my soul and, as I j it that period had the gift of poetry, J the thoughts surging in my brain took ( the shape of verse. That night I could , aot sleep and I seemed to be tormented : into song. I rose from my bed, lit a sandle and began to write at my desk, rhe metre of one of James Clarence Mangan's poems instinctively present- j id itself as a proper vehicle of what , [ wished to express and I, with some , rapidity, wrought out 'Maryland, My J Maryland.' Tne next morning I re? touched the poem, polsihing it here and there, and then read it to my pu? pils, who received it with enthusiasm. E copied and sent it to The Delta for 1 publication. My expectation was that < it would contribute somewhat to the ? lyrical history of the day, but 1 hard- ' ly anticipated what really happened. Since that time I have written poems . that are more artistic than 'Mary- s land, My Maryland,' but this one poem seems to cling to me in a way to ' aclipse all other productions of mine : and, for many years I have abandoned ? all attempts" at poetic cultivation, 1 partly because of necessity and partly because I became interested in practi- j sal prose writing. Sometimes, when 1 '? look back on my romantic youth, it is hard to believe that I am the same individual, so radical has been the : transformation. But, you only asked i for the genesis of "My Maryland, " and I must not be tempted to intrude upon your time or space by pyschologic ; or other reminiscential musing." The State. Washington, May 24.-The Post will announce tomorrow that John I). Rockefeller lias given $50,000 to the Washington Young Men's Christian < Association, conditioned on the com? pletion of a canvass for $300,000 for the Association before January 1, 1904. The total amount contributed thus far is raised by the Rockefeller subscrip? tion to 6210,000, In submitting the pledge John D. Rockefeller, Jr., writes: "In making this pledge, my father desires to make a record cf the fact that lie has favor? ably considered the request made be? cause of the unique relationship which the Washington Young Men's Chris? tian Association bears to the country at large, in that it is national in its scope and not, as is the case with Young Men's Christian Assoications in all other cities, wholly or iargely local." 1 SRIMTEVILLE MILL IO GLOSE DOWH. Sold Cotton Stock at a Very Large Profit. Will Use the Idle Months to Put the Factory in Thorough Repair for Fall Spinning. The Granite ville mill at Granit? ville, S. C., will close down about June 15, and remain closed during the entire summer. This matter has been under advisement by the management for some time and was finally decided yesterday. The company has very magnaniouslv decided to pay all of the emploves half salary and wages during the idle period., AWFUL GRIME OF KISGHINEFF. Gorki, tne Novelist, Says the Mas? sacre of Jews "Will Remain on us Like a Bloody Blot for Ages." Berlin, May 22.-Maxim Gorki, the Russian novelsit, recently wrote an article on the KischeneS massacres for a Niji Novgorod newspaper, but the censor refused to allow its publica? tion. Gorki then sent the article to the St. Petersburg correspondent of tlie Frankfort Frene Presse, which prints it today. The article says : "Russia has been disgraced more and more frequently of recent years by dark deeds, but the most disgraceful of all is the horrible Jewish massacre at Kischeneff, which has awakened our horror, shame and indignation. Peo? ple who regard themselves as Chris? tians, who claim to believe in God's mercy and sympathy, these people, on the day conscerated to the resur? rection of their God from the dead, occupy the time in murdering children and aged poeple, ravishing the woman and martyring the men of the race which gave them Christ. "Who bears the blame of this base crime which will remain on us like a bloody blot for ages? \Ve shall be\un? able to wash this blot from the sad history of our dark country. It would be unjust, and too simple to condemn: the mob. The latter was merely the hand which was guided by a corrupt conscience, driving it to murder and robbery. For it is well known that the mob at Kischeneff was led by men^ ' of cultvivated society. But cultivated society in Russia is really much worse than the pe?ple, who are goaded by their sad life and blinded and anthralle by the artificial darkness created around them. The cultivated classes are a crowd of cowardly slaves, without feeling of. personal dignity, ready to accept ever lie to save their sase and comfort ; a weak and lawless clement, almost without conscience and without shame, in spite of its alegant exterior. "Cultivated society is not less guilty of disgraceful and horrible deeds committed at Kischeneff than the actual murderers and ravishers. Its members' guilt consists in that not merely they did not protect the victims, but that they rejoiced over bhe murders: it consists chiefly in committing themselves fer long years; fco he corrupted by man-haters and per? sons who have long enjoyed the dis? gusting glory of being the lackeys of power and glorifiers cf lies. These are the real authors of the disgraceful and awful crime of Kischeneff. "Shame upon their wicked heads.. May the fire of conscience consume their decayed hearts, covetous only of lackey-like honors and slavishly ob? sequious to power." ONE CHRISTIAN KILLED. St. Petersburg, Thursday, May 21. Photographs from Kischeneff, which have been recieved here, besides fully sustaining the reports that the^ worst atroicties were committed during the DUtbreak against the Jews there, con? tradict the official account of the mas? sacre and the stories printed in the Nationalist press. The people of Kischeneff declare that me Christian received a gunshot wound and that there are no Christians in the hospitals. Of the two dead Chris? tians one was a boy, whose death was attributed to fright and chronic dis? ease. HEARD FROM. The young lady who read that beau? tiful graduating essay at last year's commencement so full of lofty thought and charming sentiment, 'on the threshold of iifes' opening day,' ambition's highest aims alone,' 'ever apward and onward,' 'spreading sun? shine in the paths of the weary and the worn,' with fond determination to win a name and fame," and much more, all so beautiful, beautiful. Has she won the name? And is she being heard from?" "Oh, yes,' Yes, yes. She has wpn a name." Scrubsby I, think it is. Driver of a grocery wagon. And she is being heard from. The way Sern bi? by hears from her, so the neighbors say, is enough to scare cats."-Ex? change. Arizona sheep are no longer clip? ped by hand. Power machines have almost entirely superseded the old-time hand shearers, at the main shearing plant there are twenty machines run by a gasoline enigne and operated by as many skilled shearers. A day;s work for one of these men, with his clippers run by gasoline, is to clip from 100 to 125 sheep. In the hands of an expert the work is done better than with the hand shears, and the sheep are left in a better condi? tion than after a hurried shearing in the old-fashioned way. The clippers are much like the ordinary horse clip? pers and seem to fairly peel off the fleece when run at full speed. Then there is an economy about the machine clipping in the fact that the wool s taken off evenly, making a uniform staple and taking away all the growth* instead of leaving tufs and patches on the sheep. So closely may the wool be clipped that sheep have been known, to blister from the sun the next day, but of courser this can be avoided by regulating the shears.