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?. " __ __ _ ISSUED SEMl-WEEK^^ - i. m. GRIST & SONS, Publishers. | % ^amitj Jfeuispager: $or the gromotion of the political, Social, Agricultural, and <EommerlriatJlnt<;r<sfs of the people. { tebms-^oo^a jfEARja^AKOE. ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKYILLE. 8. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1900. \ NO. 61. giiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii ||llllllll!llll!lll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll [| MALCOB | g A Tale of Moral Heroism ] I BY CHARLES ? = = Author of "In Hia Steps," "Crucifi: == = L.ardy's Sev? EE = COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY THE Al 1 Illlllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllll rUu8tration8byE\ ,illlll!!lllllllllllllll!lllllllllllllllllllllllllllill!lllllllllll!llllll CHATTER XIII. J' TWENTY YEARS AFTER. Nearly 20 years bad gone by sine? 01 that night of the election, wnen uoro- ?* thy had kneeled In front of Valmer's M saloon, in the main street of Conrad, ^ when one evening a well dressed, dis- w " tinguished looking gentleman stepped out of the west bound express upon the n platform. a "Does Mr. Kirk live where he used to?" he asked of one of the loungers at a the station. "Yes: he lives up by the chnrch," was ^ the answer. The stranger went on down the main *( street, looking about him curiously, a and finally stopped in front of a com- a % fortable looking house close by a good w sized church building. 8 He went up the short board walk and i' rang the bell. e' The door was opened by a girl about ? 19 years of age. a girl with a great pro- 81 fusion of heavy brown hair and a face that people had to look at twice before D they knew whether she was what Is ? generally called "pretty" or not k "Is your father at home?" asked the tJ gentleman, smiling. a "1 don't know. Will you come In? That is. unless you have something to ^ sell. And then I am sure father is $ out" She said it without the least appearance of being pert or rude. "I haven't anything to sell," replied the stranger, laughing. "I am George Wilson, one of your father's old classmates in Hermon, and he"? "Come right in," said the girl. "Any one from Hermon is welcome. I've heard father speak of you often." "Tills is Faith, is it if" ne asaea as ne entered a pleasant sitting room. "Yes, sir," she answered shyly. "Excuse me, I'll call father." She went out of the room, and the Rev. George Wilson of the famous Institutional church of Boston looked around him, and bis look was full of the most absorbing interest. What he felt and thought can perhaps best be told in a letter which he wrote home two days afterward while sitting in the guest chamber of the parsonage. The letter threw much light on the events of the past 20 years and is of value as coming from one who saw Malcom Kirk and his family at this time, both as a friend x and also as an intensely interested spectator of a very remarkable life. "I am sitting in Malcom Kirk's house," the letter began, "and it is difficult for me to realize all that that fact means. There Is no question in my mind that Kirk is in some ways one of the most remarkable ministers in this country, and yet he and his talented wife have remained in this comparatively obscure place for over 20 years, working quietly and without ostentation, with some most astonishing results until lately unheard of by the churches in the east. "Since I was In Conrad about 20 years ago great changes have occurred in the state. Perhaps the greatest change of all has been the prohibitory amendment to the constitution. Every one knows that the election on the legislature's act to submit the amendment resulted in an affirmative vote. Every one also knows that the people have never reversed that decision, and It seems probable that they never wilL "You will also remember what an excitement was caused by one event In Conrad at the close of that famous election day. I listened to the story from Kirk's own lips, and it was as exciting as any novel I ever read. "He bad been callcn out of town on | the afternoon of that day to see a young man who died of the effects of a drunken debauch, and as he came back to Conrad in the evening his wife was kneeling in the center of a group of other women, holding a prayer meet- ' lng in front of one of the most notorious saloons then in Conrad. f "He had only just come to the place ' when a great disturbance broke out in the saloon behind him. Some one broke v through the crowd and attempted to ? throw a bottle of vitriol at Mrs. Kirk. It was afterward shown that the man 1 was crazy with drink and awfully excited by the events of the day. He was only partly successful in his horrible ^ attempt. Mrs. Kirk's face was burned e , on one side, but a man of the name of a Carver, who had been drinking, but f was sober enough to realize what was ^ going on, grappled with the other and j, took away the bottle, receiving dread- a ful burns in doiug so. This mnn is now j. the sexton in Mr. Kirk's church, a de- c vout, sincere Christian and a good ex- a ample, so Kirk says, of hundreds of j men who will remain sober if the saloon is taken away and the constant temptation to drink is absent. Ana so ^ far as I can observe he Is decidedly right in his belief. g "Well. Mrs. Kirk has recovered from c those injuries, and her beauty of face, j which is still remarkable, is marred. r only by a scar which gives her, to all v y who know her history, au added iuter- v est. The affair created an intense feel- t, ing here for a long time. Nothing so s terrible had been known since that at- Y tempt to disfigure Mrs. Coleiuan of ^ Marvii'e, Canada, while marching with r other women in a temperance proces- j sion. The event opened many people's j. eyes to the satanic power of the drink j evil. It was only one out of countless events where the whisky element has p stood for tl?e greatest crimes and for 6 which It must answer heavily at the Is !iin!iii!iiiiiiiiiiiiininnmiiiiiiiiii!!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiji iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! H KIRK. II in Overcoming the World, g | A. SHELDON, rion of Philip Strong:," "Robert == >n Days." EE = 5VANCE PUBLISHING CO. EE = trman Ileyer. Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfi | illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllll^ udgment bar of a long suffering God. "It is difficult for me to write of Mai3m Kirk without seeming to exaggerte and overemphasize his work. 1 rant to speak of his beautiful family, rhich is a part of the best part of this restern town. "Mrs. Kirk has developed Into a wo #? ?" oKiip/tb inn of rare power iu uu mc v.uuk.u nd social life of the place. Years ago tie women here recognized her ability s a lender by making her president of lie Christian Temperance union. It ras largely through her efforts that lie township polled a very heavy vote ar the amendmeut. She has thrown 11 her rare talents as a gifted musician lso into the redemption of the town, dth the result that no woman has ueh an iufluenco as she has on all the oung, thoughtless life that has crowdd in here during the town's rapid rowth in the years of eighty-six and even. "There are three children, two boys, amed Gilbert and Hermon. and a irl. the oldest child, named Faith. The oys are bright, handsome fellows and ike after the mother. Gilbert is 17 nd Hermon 15. Faith, who is nearly S), is like her father. I have not yet een able to tell whether she is what ou women would call 'pretty' or not, r 4 jjj V I PRINCE TUAN, THE CH uf she is one of the most interesting adividual girls I ever met. She Is ond of trying experiments and resem les her father in that respect. Sh( rants to know and feel things for her elf and is passionately fond of doing or other people. 1 begin to get the mpression that she is thoroughly un elfish and that she has the making oi remarkably useful woman. But 1 iredict for her some trying expert noes. She is one of those girls whc vonld make her father and mothei .uxious for her future if It were noi or the fact that they and herself are Christian in their whole nature. Thai s the salvation of such a girl as Faith nd Mr. and Mrs. Kirk seem to be leacefully sure of the fact. All of the hildren are members of the church nd all three of them are very evident y proud of their father and of what he las done. "You ask. What has Malcom KIri loueV "In the first place, in spite of wha eemed like impossibilities, he succeed d years ago in building a church anc ?arsonage. both of which had beei turned down, it is supposed, by th< vhisky men during the tight whicl vent on before the amendment wai .Iffinrl Tlin nhnwh l? n pnmfnrtnhl< tructure, seating 300 or 400 people vith several classrooms attached. Th< tarsonage is a good house of eigh ooms, fairly well furnished, altliougl Cirk's peculiar habits of generosity lave not permitted anything approach ng luxury even in the slightest degree "But. the building of the church ant arsouage is iu one sense the verj mallest thing that Kirk has done. 11 5 not too much to say that he and his : r?C?4l ) V//. 'V.' X V/-?. X ? "''"'/ > "Come rfg/it in," said tlic (7irl. "Any one i tram Herman is welcome." 1 wife have revolutionized the moral life of this whole town. When they 1 came here about 20 years ago, they f found a community of 1,500 people. A great amount of lawless, thoughtless ' life crowded the saloons, the danceliouses, the cheap resorts of amusement. Kirk and his wife, after passing through an experience of great suffering and temptation, most of f which has always been unknown even to their own people, came out of their affliction with astonishing power over the life of the place. There is no question that the very thinking of the peo pie here Is shaped by Malcom Kirk's Christianity. The promise he and his U N7,V?Eu^fe j ^ fk . office ^cooiyf %F^gsar,|Bi MB m i n 1 * i|iif t aagMK zS^KE 6ATE^" 1NESE USURPER, AND THE BR1 ; wife made when they came here has i been constantly in mind. The number of lost men and boys who have been at* > tracted to Kirk's ministry and to Mrs. Kirk's singing and playing and led to j Christ is amazing. Even the business ; and political life of the town has been . shaped by Kirk's purpose In life. That J means a great deal, as any one will ac[ knowledge. This fact, however, is shown by the common allusions to Con> rad by other towns. They speak of it as 'Ivirkville.' A higher compliment to t a man's influence it would be difficult 5 *jo find. I 'It is of course still true that the devil does business in Conrad. Kirk ? has told me that the whisky men have ) never ceased from the day they were driven out of Conrad to attempt to . come back in some form and carry on ? their work. At the present time he tells me that through failure on the c part of the officers of the law to enforce the law the whisky men have j grown bold and opened several places. He is right now in the midst of the old 1 1 - ? ?! rr 1 > f 5 tr>/\ H ?o n of n11 r? J Struggle Ugillll. 1 Ilia UUiC n. ?a u. on ufej gle with state and county officials who ? have broken their oaths of office. It is j the same- struggle in another form. At 5 the bottom of the whisky business in a any state, whether it lias a prohibitory i statute or uot, is the incentive of great j financial returns for a very little real t labor and also the human passion for i drink, two things which Ivirk says j must be recognized by the temperance . people and always reckoned upon in the problem of temperance, j "It remains therefore to be said that - so far as Kirk and his wife are cont cerned the contest they began here, j the battle they entered for victory over the world, sfill goes on. Is there i place In the world where a Chrlstlai may cease from fighting the good flgh of the faith? But I am profoundl; touched by the extent of overcomin; to be seen in this place. I have bee: unable to silence the question, "What 1 every minister as he entered a net place, no matter how small or difE cult, entered it with a passion Iik Kirk's to redeem the lost part of I and bring It back to God?' I knot J this much is true of the work don Here, mere uu? uet-u uu uuubuoi citement and no extraordinary mean employed to produce the astonishin results. There is no question that Klrl has certain qualities that have helpe< him. His voice is. as it always was, j fine instrument. He knows how t talk to people, aud he writes uncotc monly well. But, on the other banc he Is still awkward, homely of appeal nnce and by no meaus always at hi best He loves people, ne longs, a Paul did. for tfte salvation of tli world. And there lies the secret of hi work. It is nothing which other mei may not also have. "I don't know a minister In ou churches anywhere who might no claim .all that Malcom Kirk and hi wife have claimed. They have ovei come the world by means of their km by following the plain path of duty a the cost of suffering, by not pleasin themselves. They are still engaged i: the struggle. It will never cease thi side of death and paradise. But 1 wis that every pastor and every churc! might come here and see what has beei done and what the future seems cei tain to record. The most malignan forces of evil have evidently arraye themselves against Kirk and his wife and so far these two have overcoin them all. Heaven has won the victor; out here, and I do not know why i should not do so everywhere. Do w want the world to be saved? Do w have a passion to save it? Do we pu the kingdom, first? If we did, shoul * ii.; I fc-; FISH LEGATION. PEKING. we not see the results everywhere tha we see here? 1 shall return home fror my visit to Malcom Kirk with tha question sounding In my heart" There was one brief allusion In thl letter which meant even more tha Wilson knew. It was his allusion t what he called Malcom Kirk's "pi culiar habits of generosity." Indi rectly these led to events which hav to do with this history of the huma; conflict against sin and Involved Ii that growing conflict all the member of Kirk's family. A few days arter Wilson's aepartur Faitb and her mother were sitting tc gether in the "common room," as Fait called it, the room that the famil, used for dining and sitting room tc gether. Dorothy was sewing, am Faith was helping her with some worl on the boys' suits. It was about 11 o'clock in the mote ing, and Malcom Kirk was upf stair in his study. The boys were at schoo! and Faith, who had finished the big! school, had been staying at home to two years helping her mother. "Mother, how does Gilbert oianag to tear his coat across the back lik that?" asked Faith, holding up tba garment and looking at it with grav astonishment. Dorothy could not help smiling, al though the next instant she sighed i little. "He said one of the boys pushed hln against a wire fence last Saturda; while they were out fishing near 'Th Forks.' " "Well, the boy that did it ought to b made to wear It after I have mende* It That would bo making the punish a ment flt the crime,'" said Faith aa Q she stabbed the back of the coat with * a big needle and began turning over y the basket to find some thread. "I'm sorry Gilbert hasn't a better a suit," said Dorothy gravely. "He must try to get along with it this fall, any* way. Mend it as carefully as you can, l" Faith." e "Yes, ma'am," replied Faith. "I am * I trying to find something besides white silk. At the same time, mother, don't e ' _____ jmgy MHBUS r^H ASnBHI ff ^nBwWHfrT^ll^SP |9hBBbHB|B^PH H ^H|H B9B^BK9E ^B^HS ^^ 1 g ^Ln^U7 ?*" \ d ftz^Va : you think "white silk on a black back ground would be a warning to Gilbert not to get his coat torn again?" Mrs. Kirk laughed, and before sht could answer the bell rang. Faith put aside the work and went to the door. "Can I see Mr. Kirk?" asked a voict that Dorothy recognized at once. "No," said Faith decidedly. "Fathei Is in his study writing, and he ought not to be disturbed." "But he told ine to call today, and 1 want to see hira very much." "Did he tell you to call this morn Ing?" "Well?no?he said today. But 1 couldn't come at any other time." There was silence a moment wbih Faith stood holding the door uncertain Iy, but still resolutely blocking the en trance. * Malcom Kirk came out of his stud] at the top of the upper halL "Is thai Mr. Barnes, Faith? Tell him to com< up." Faith at once stepped aside, and ? shabby looking man came In. As h( passed the door of the sitting room he bowed clumsily and said, "Good morn lng, Mrs. Kirk." Then he stumblec noisily up stairs and entered Malcom't study. The door closed, and Faitl went back to her work. TO BE CONTINUED. FROM BOTTOM TO TOP. How Pluck and Perseverance Conquer Success. RECORD OF MILES B. McSWEENEY Left an Orphan at an Early Age, a Poo: Newsboy Becomes a Printer, Then an Editor, and Then Governor o His State. Miles B. McSweeney can be truly referred to as a self-made man. He was left fatherless at the age of 4 years, bis father dying of yellow fever in Charles ton. Young McSweeney's struggles for ? livelihood began before be reached hit: 10th year. He sold newspapers and clerked in a book store. While clerk ing be attended a night school, and became very fond of reading and ,t writing. q While in the book store he met Mr. t Augustine Ford, a member of a company that had beguu the publication g of a paper known as The Gazette. Q This was in 1867. 0 McSweeney afterwards worked for ?. Burke & Ford, job printers. From [. there be went to Edward Perry's, e where he completed bis apprenticeship Q as a job printer. At this time Washa iugion and Lee university, of Lexinga ton, Va., had offered a scholarship to the Charleston Typographical Union, e which was to be awarded io the most H deserving of,the youug men then emIj ployed in Charleston printing offices. y By a majority of votes of members of the union, young McSweeney was j chosen and the scholarship given to him. On account of the lack oi means, he found that he could not pay 1 -? j AIAtu: %>? tor Ills UOUI'U UUU ClUllJiug, nuu g obliged, after spending a part of the I session, to give up his desire for a ^ collegiate education. Like all good r typos at that time, he was a union printer, and served Columbia Typo e graphical Union as corresponding sece retary and afterwards as president, t He wus among the first to sign the e roll for re organization of the Pht oeuix Hook and Ladder company, of Colutn, bia, and served as secretary of the company for a number of years. Mr. MeSweeney's record as a Demo Q erat is wellknowu, and he did faithful y work for his party in 1876. e Mr. Mi-Sweeney moved to NinetySix, iu Abbeville county, and com e uienced the publication of the Ninety3 Six Guardiun. This was his first busi uess venture. He had a capital of $65, and purchased a second-hand press ft outfit for $500, paying $55 cash as first \ payment. w But he had energy and was a good workman, and gave the people a newsy paper, lived economically, and * in the course of a year he paid every dollar that he owed. On the 22nd of August, 1879, the first issue of the Hampton County B Guardian appeared, and it has been published ever since by Mr. McSweeney. r J \ a ei / t< t< C( The paper has been well managed and vi t is looked upon today as one of ths e best in the slate. Mr. McSweeney has it > ever been foremost in everything cal- vt cfftated to help*his state, town and t county. it He is regarded \s one of the best ? ! business men in his section, and has ji r.t 1 2m AMAwat im/^AMinlf Sn<* ?. wecu auvucaaiui iu cvcij uuucii a n i g. g, His progressive spirit is seeu in differ- 0 t ent parts of Hampton, and be has de- ? veloped and improved every lot pur- a I chased by him in that town. p The school house in Hampton was ci built by money loaned to the town by p a few citizens. The resolution was i offered by Mr. McSweeney at a public tl meeting and it was unanimously agreed t< to. p As inlendant of the town he after- ri wards saw every dollar of indebtedness g paid. He served for five terms and p 1 then declined re election. t; t Mr. McSweeney also took a promi- e > nent part in building the Methodist s| and Baptist churches. He not only f< 1 contributed liberally; but solicited c - subscriptions in Augusta and Charles- a 5 ton. He is a member of the Methodist a ' church, and contributes liberally < f his ' means to its support. 1 Mr. McSweeney has always been q 1 prominent in politics, and has been q three times honored as a delegate to Q the National Democratic convention. ' At the first St. Louis convention in (1888 he voted for Cleveland and Thurman, and at the convention in July, y 1896, he voted for Bryau and Sewall. ? At the Kansas City convention be ^ s voted for Bryan and Stevenson. g He served the Democracy of his ? county for 10 years as county chair- t( man, declining in 1894, when he was ^ elected to the legislature. He has always taken great interest in the military of bis state, and was ^ r on the staff of General Stokes and g General Moore, with the rank of major 1 and lieutenant colonel. During his yj f service in the legislature he was chair- ej man of the committee on military. a[ Mr. McSweeney takes keen interest in all educational matters, and wa9 for ' several years a trustee of the South g 3 Carolina college and a member of the g 3 board of visitors of the Citadel, and g by virtue of his oftice is chairman of both boards at present. g 1 He is a member of the order of jc ' the Knights of Honor and the Knights ' of Pythias, and has been honored by tf ; both organizations. w 1 Mr. McSweeny was a member of the 1 Stale Democratic Executive committee jc for a oumber of years. He was for Qj eight years president of the South ^ Carolina Slate Press association. Iu 1896 be was elected lieutenant- j( governor by a handsome majority and g re-elected in 1898 without opposition, c| and on the death of Governor Wm. j H. Ellerbe, in June, 1899, he took the |a oath of office of governor and has 21 since discharged the duties of the ^ office with the same business ability af that he managed bis own private ^ affairs. As president of the senate he j presided with fairness aud impartiality and to the entire satisfaction of the senators. YV His administration as governor has fa been free from blunders aud the office U1 has been conducted on business princi- ro pies. Even his political enemies have ^ to concede this. He uow asks an en- af dorsement of his fellow-citizeus by an e? election to a full term, and justice and a| fair dealing which characterize the peopie of South Carolina demaud and will (jt give as much. a^ > ? co Six Hundred Massacred.?Says a ?l( Hong Kong dispatch of Thursday: * "An Italian priest has just arrived ljj here from Hen Sien Fu, in southern Huan, where the Italian bishop and three priests have been massacred after ^ revolting torture. This took place on July 4. Six hundred converts were massucred after the women had been 10 subjected to the most hideous brutali lies. Six oi her priests fled to the hills, J;" where they were probably killed. The priest who escaped had a perilous a* journey to Kong Kong. He hid in a ^ cottin on board a river boat for 17 days. TATE CAMPAIGNERS \ ^ W 'lead Their Causes Before Sovereigns of York. \ IG DAY IN Y0RKV1LLE SATURDAY. ' - X andidates For Governor Discuss Whisky?The Evans's Have Their Usual Quarrel, as Also Do Capers and McMahan, Durham and Booker?Senator Tillman Winds Up the Meeting With a Characteristic Speech. In point of attendance, tbe stale iinpaigu meeting in Yorkville, last utnwluv luvitra I ho rfl/tnpd nf f ho nroa. "lu,u,Vl " ? ?? -w?w. t" nt canvass. So say the candidates, tid so says Mr. August Kobu, in bis ?port to the News and Courier and olumbia Slate. There must have L'en fifteen hundred people present; ossibly more. It was a strong reliuderof the great meetings of the il ly nineties; hut was unlike them i that there was a noticeable absence r passion and prejudice. Io the old ays demagogueism was at a premim ; but those who tried it last Satrday realized tbut it was at a disjunt. If they did not realize the kct it was because their sense of disrimination was less than that of the rowd. Tillman was there, and be videnily saw it. There was no doubt bout the fact that he was among his iends. These included many who irmerly looked upon him only as a emagogue of the first water; but now bcognize him as a statesman of merit nd ability. The old hypnotic influace with which he use to sway crowds ) bis will was lacking. He encounjred not the least unfriendliness, here was none to encounter. He ould see and feel, however, that rhile he bad full license to say wbatver he had a mind to suy, and even idulge in his peculiarly affected abuse 'ithout danger of exciting serious rebutment, bis friends collectively and idividually, reserved the right to deal 'ith pending questions as their best idgment should dictate. It was not) only with Tillman; but with the tber speakers. Taken all in all, it ras an ideal meeting, for it included II the conditions required for a comlete justification of the rule that makes andidates present their claims to the eople from the stump. In spite of the threatening iaspect of be clouds overhead, it was determined 5 hold the meeting at the baseball ark in accordance with previous ar- , angements, and by 11 o'clock the big rand stand that holds a thousand eople, was filled to its utmost capacimi ?? ~ e? ?u~ y. lucre were ? iow lauico iu iuo rowd, but Dot a great maDy. Tbe peakers occupied an improvised plat)rcn, facing tbe grand stand, witbin onvenient hearing distance, and tbe rrangement was generally satisfactory II around. RAILROAD COMMISSIONER. After calling tbe meeting to order, Ibairman Brice introduced Rev. B. H. frier, who offered prayer. There was tusic by tbe Gold Hili band, and tbe peaking was opened by tbe introducon of candidates for railroad cotnlissioner. These candidates are [essrs. B. B. Evans, of Edgefield ; W. I. Evans, tbe present incumbent, of larlboro; Thomas N. Berry, of DarDgton ; J. E. Pettigrew, Florence ; W. >. Mayfield, of Richland ; J. H. Whar)n, of LaureDS. Each was allowed [' minutes and tbey consumed about o hour of time. There is a lively and bitter quarrel etween W. D. Evans and B. B. Evans. . B. Evans is th* aggressor. He bean during the fir^Jbeetings to charge L D. Evans wicw incompetency, intficiency and dishonesty. His charges re ostensibly aimed at the whole comlission ; but tbey are made io such a ay as to leave no doubt of their beig intended especially for W. D. Ivans. In reply, W. D. Evans charges . B. Evans as being a kind of a cowidly camp follower who went to the panisb war, after hostilities were over, i a soft berth, accepted a rotten posion in a rotten postoffice, under a rot n Republican administration, after bich he came back to South Carolina, 3d imposed upon people with rotten isurance policies, issued in the name r rotten iusurance companies. B. B. vans denounces W. D. Evans's stateents as false, and when W. D. projces what he calls sufficient proof, B. . denounces that as false. B. B. also larges tbe railroad commission with prelection of duty and violation of w io allowing tbe railroads to charge > cents excess on fares tbat bave to i collected without tickets. VV. D. Imits tbe existence of ibis custom;' it claims tbat there has been no comaim. B. B. asserts tbat tbe railroad inductors bave asked tbe commisan to do away with tbe practice, and r. D. has to admit tbat such is tbe ct. It looked several times last Sat day as if tbe colloquy would lead to a ugh and tumble hair pulliDg match ; it as to wbetber tbe repeated gentle Imonitions of Chairman Brice to tbe feet tbat there should be no personlies, averted tbe crisis, or it's all ind and no tbunder anyway, did not svelop. Both tried to tell something >out South Carolina local rates as mpared with tbe local rates of other ales ; but each denied what tbe other id to say and it was very evideat at neither made much headway in e matter of getting votes. Mr. Thomas N. Berry explained tbat ere tvere seven candidates for one Bee, and that it was tbe duty of the lople to select tbe best business man the crowd. He claimed tbat houty, competency and sobriety were e necessary qualifications, and that s had them all. He said tbat be was Prohibitionist straight out, and in der to impress his name on the (Continued on Second Page.)