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HOW THE MONEY GOES. rvn t a I A flC ALL riuY I \J n. i ni-iTjnuu m. %niv...v CLASSES CFS??NDTKRiFTS. He Says Alcoholism Xi the Greatest roe to the "Working Clashes?His Subject !:>, "A Bag "With Holot" ? A Druskaru'a Grave. The serac2 of Dr. Talmagc last Sunday was the arraignment of improvidence in ail classes, and of alcoholism as the greatest enemy of the working people. The text is Haggai I, 0, ''He that earneth wages, earneth wages to put them in a hag with holes." In Persia, under the reign of Darius Ilystaspes, the people did tot prosper. They made money, but did not keep it. They * - - ? > 1. were iiste people wnonavea. :u. nu.w they put money, no: knowing that cue sac-K is torn or eaten of moths, or in some way made incapable of holding valuables. As fast as the coin was put :n one end of the sack it dropped out of the other. I: made no difference how much wages they got, for they lost them. He thatearueth wages, ea-neth wages to put it into a bag with holes." What has become of the billions and billions of dollars in this country paid to the working classes? Some of these moneys have gone for house rent, or the purchase of homesteads, or wardrobe, or family expenses, or the necessities of life, or to provide comforts in old age. What has become of other billions'' Wasted in foolish outlay. Wasted at the gaming table. Wasted in intoxicants. Put into a bag with a hundred holes. Gather up the money that the working classes have spent for drink during the past 30 years, and I vill build for ever}- Tvorkisgman a house and lay out for him a gardeu and clothe his sons in broadcloth and his daughters in silks, and place at his front door a prancing span of sorrels or bays and secure him a policy of life insurance, so that the present home may be well maintained ofto-f tie* is riAftd The most Dersisrent. rao^t overpowering enemy of the working classes is intoxicating liquor. It is the anarchist of the centuries ana has boycotted, and is now boycotting, the body and mind and soul of American labor. It is to it. a worse foe than monopoly and worse than associated capital. It annually swindles industry out of a large percentage of its earnings. It holds out its blasting solicitations to the mechanic or operative on his way to work, and at the noon spell, and on his way home at eventide: on Saturday, when the wages are paid, it . x.jy.1 ?? snatcnes a large paruoi. me come into the family and sacrifices it among the saloon keepers. Stand tlie saloons of this coantry side by side, and it is carefully estimated that they would reach from IS'ew York to Chicago. "Forward march.5' says the drink power, "and take possession of the American nation." The drink business is pouring its vitriolic and damnable liquids down the throats of hundreds of thousands of laborers, and -while the ordinary strikes are ruinous both to employers and employes, I proclaim a strike universal against strong drink, -which, if kept, Trill be the relief of the working classes and the salvation of the nation. I -will undertake to say that there is not a healthy laborer in. the United States who, within the next ten years, if he -will refuse all intosicat ing beverage and be saving, may not become a capitalist on a small scale. Our country in a year spends $1,500,0-50,000 for drink. Of course the "working classes do a great deal of this expenditure. Careful statistics showthat the wage earning classes of Great Britain expend in liquors ?100,000,000, or $500,00*0,000 a year. Sit down and calculate, 0 workingman, how much you have expended in these directions! Add it all up. Add up what your neighbors have expended, and realize that instead of answering the beck o " other people you might have been your own capitalist. When you deplete a workingman's physical energy you deplete his capital. The stimulated workman gives out before the unstimulated workman. . My father said: ,;I became a temperance man early in life because I noticed in the harvest field that, though I was physically weaker than other workmen, I could hold out longer than thev. Thev took stimulants, I took none." A brickmaker in England gives his experience in regard to this matter among men in his employ. He says, after investigation: "The beer drinker who made the fewest bricks made 050,000, and the abstain . er -who made the fewest bricks 746,000. The difference in behalf of the abstainer over the indulger S7,000." When an army goes out to the battle, the soldier wno nas water or coixee ia ms umteen marches easier and Sghts better than the soldier who has whiskey in his canteen. Drink helps a man to fight when he has odIv one contestant, and that at the street corner. Bat when he goes forth to maintain some great battle for God and his country, he wants no drink about him. "When the Russians go to war a corporal passes along the line and smells the breath of every soldier. If there be in his breath a taint of intoxicating liquor, the man is sent bacs to the barracks. Why'.' Hecan not endure fatigue. Ail our young men know this. When they are preparing for a regatta or for a ball club or for an athletic wrestling, they abstain. Our -working people will be wiser after awhile, and the money they fling away on hurtful indulgences they will put into co-operative association and so become capitalists. If the working man put down his wages and then take his expenses and spread them out so they will just equal, he is not wise. I know working men who are in a perfect fidget until they get rid of their last dollar. The following circumstances came under our observation. A young man worked nara to ears ms or < uu yeany. .carriage day came. The bride had inherited ?500 from her grandfather. She spent every dollar of it on the -wedding dress. Then they rented two rooms in a third story. Then the young man took extra evening employment; almost exhausted with the day's work, yet took evening employment. It almost extinguished his eyesight. Why did he add evening employment to the day employment? To get money. Why did he want to get money? To lay up something for a rainy day? No. To get his life insured, so that in case of his death his wife would not be a beggar? No. lie put the extra evening work to the day work that he might get 6150 to get his "wife a sealskin coat. The sister of the bride heard or this achievement, and was not to be eclipsed. She vras very poor, and she sat up working nearly ail night, for a great while until she bought a sealskin coat. X have not heard of the result on that street. The street was full of those who are on small incomes, bat I suppose the contagion spread, and that everybody had a sealskin coat and that the people came out and cried, practically, not literally, "Though the heavens fall, we must have a sealskin coat!' ' I was out vrest and a minister of the gospel told me in Iowa that, his church and the neighborhood had been impoverished by the fact that they put mortgages on their farms in order to send their families to i-<; Philadelphia centennial. It -was n:?t respectable not to ?0 to the centennial. Between such eveils and pauperism there is a very short step. The vast majority of children in your almshouses are there because their parents are drunken, lazy or recklessly improvident. I have no sympathy for skintlint saving, but I plead for Christian prudence. You say it is impossible now to lay up anything for a rainy day. I knowit, but we are at the daybreak of national prosperity, ?: >me peo ^ _ -i_.. ? pie uiiiifi. 11 is mean 10 turn me gas io* when they go out of the parlor. ; ney feel embarrassed if the doorbell rings before they have the hall lighted. They apologize for the plain meal if you surprise ihem at the table. Well, it is mean if it is on'y to pile up a miserly hoard, but if it be to educate your children if it be to give more help to your wife when she does not feel strong, if it be to keep your funeral day from being horrible beyond all endurance because it is to be the disruption and annihilation of the domestic circle, if 't be for that, then it is magnificent. There are those who are kept in poverty because of their own fault. Thev micr'ai have been well on, but they smoked 02 chewed up their earnings, or they lived r>cyond their means, whiie others en the sau.v wages and on. the same salaries -.vent on tc competency. I know a man who is all 'be time complaining of his poverty and cryinc out against rich men, wnilehe himsei: keep: two dogs, and chews and smokes, aud is fitl to the chin, with whisky and beer. Wilkin; f - ~ 1 j Micawber S-'iiu to D.ivM Coppcrntu: ' v.or>- 1 ; perfieH. ray boy, -CI income; expenses. j I ?j ' ruir,?.. mi.,.rv Tint. ! SIlJilUU 1 > . vouii, ^" r Copperrieid, my boy, ?1 income: ciipc-n-es. 1-j shillii.gs and ; pence, result happiness/' But, O vorkingmiu, take your morrsi:i? Irani a^dyour nooa dram and your evening dram, and spend everything you hare over for tobacco and excursions, and you insure poverty for yourself ar.d your children forever. If by some generous flat of :hc capitalist"! of this country or by a new* law of the gov j ernment of the t'nited .Staffs 'So per cent or j A) per cent or 100 per cent were added to j the wages of the working classes of America, j it would be no advantage to huuureds of I thousands of them unless they stooped I strong drink. Ave. until they qui: that evil j habit, the more money the more ruin, the more wages, the more holes in the bag. My plea is to those working people who are in a discipleship to the whisky bottle, tbe beer jus and the wine tiask. And what 1 say to them will not be more appropriate to the working classes than to the business classes, and the literary classes, aadth^ professional classes, and all classes, aud net j with the people of one age more than of all l ages. Take one good square look at the suf-1 ftfrHft nt:ia who strong drink has en- j I *v* ! thralled, and remember that toward that j | goal multitudes are running. The disciple of i' alcoholism suffers the loss of self respect, j Just as soon as a cian wakes up and linds j that he is the captive of strong drinks he ; feels demeaned. I do r.ot care how j j recklessly he acts. ile may say, "I | don't care:" he does care, llo cannot j look a pure man in the eye unless j it. is with positive force of resolu- j tion. ; Three-fouriis of his nature is! destroyed: his self respect is gone: he says } things he would not. otherwise say; he does j . riof. otherwise do. When a ! LUnvuv.. man is nine-tenths gone with strong drink, ! the first thing he wants to do is to persuade j you that he can stop any time he wants to. j He cannot. The Philistines have hound him j hand and foot, and shorn his locks, and put! out his eyes, and are making him grind in J the mill of a great horror, lie cannot stop. I will prove it. He knows that his course is ' bringing ruin upon himself He loves him-: self. If he could stop, hs would. He knows! - ..... >.. i i his course is bringing rum upon nis iaamy. I He loves them. He wuld stop if he could. | | He cannot. Perhaps he could three months j cr a year ago; not now. Just ask him to !' stop for a month. He cannot. He knows he cannot, so he does not try. I had a friend who was 1-3 years going ! down under this evil habit. He had large ! means. He had given thousands of dollars to Bible societies and reformatory institutions of all sorts. lie was very genial, very generous and very lovable, and whenever he talked about this evil habit he would say, ' I can stop any time." But he kept going on, going on down, down, down. His family would say, "I wish you would stop.'' J "Why," he would reply, can stop any j time if I want to." After awhile he had de-! lirium tremens. He had it twice, and yet after that he said, ' ! can stop at icy time if I wanted to." He is dead now. What killed him? Drink, drink! . And yet among T "" ? etnn it .inr I ills last utterances was. --a van i? | time." He did not stop it because he could not stop it. Oh. there is a point in inebriaj lion beyond which if a man goes he cannot jstop: | One of these victims said to a Christian {man: "Sir. ifl were told that. I couldn't i get a drink until tomorrow night unless I I' had all my fingers cut oft", I would say, 'Bring the hatchet and cut them off now.' " ! I have a dear friend in Philadelphia whose ; | nephew came to him one day, and when he ?i?<.,^1 },?* pvil habit said: ! f tJillUl lCU G.VWUU uw v . ... ___ j "Uncle. I can't give it up. If there stood a J j cannon and it was loaded and a glass of wine j were set on the mouth of that cannon, and j I knew that you would lire it off just as 11 came up and took the glass, I would start, for j I xuust have it." Oh, it is a sad thing lor a | j man to wake up in th:s life and feel that he ! I is a captive' He says: "I could have got j J rid of this once; but I can't now. I might j have lived an honorable life and died a i j Christian death. Eut there is no hope for j me now. There is no escape for me. Dead. | ! but not buried. I am a walking corpse. 1 i j am an apparition of what I once was. I am j I a caged immortal beating against the wires I of my cage in this direction: beating against J (the cage until there is blood on the wires j s and blood upon my soul, yet not able to get I out?destroyed without remedy." 1 'y- - /N?" rum j i go on ana say uiai> uc uisviy^ v. *, (" sufferers from the less of health. The older | men may remember ihat some years ago Dr. Sewell wont through this country and electrified the people by his lectures, in which J he showed the effects of alcoholism on the human stomach. He had seven or eight diagrams by which he showed the devastation of strong drink upon the physical system. There were thousands of people who j turned back from that ulcerous sketch j swearing eternal abstinence from everything that could intoxicate. God only knows what the drunkard suf-1 fers. Pain files on every nerve, and trav-1 els every muscle, and gnaws every bone, and burns with every ;lame, and stings with j every poison, and pulls at him with every torture. What reptiles crawl over his sleeping limbs.' What fiends stand by his midnight pillow! What groans tear his ear! What horrors shiver through his soul! Talk of the rack, talk of the inquisition, talk of the funeral pyre, talk of the crushing Juggernaut?he feels them all at once. Have j t>.t? -ward of the hosDit.il j where these inebriates are dying, the stench of their "wounds driving back the attendants, their voices sounding through the night? The keeper comes up and says: "Hush, now be still! Stop making all this noise!" I But it is effectual "only for a moment, for as j soon as the keeper is gone they begin again: j "0 God. 0 God.' Help, help! Drink! Give me drink! Help! Take them off me! Take them off me! 0 God!" And then they shriek, and they rave, and they pluck out their hair by handfuls and bite their nails into the quick, and then they groan, j and they shriek, and they blaspheme, and | they a<k the kepers to kill them?"Stab I me. Smother me! Strangle me! Take the devils off me!" Oh, it is no fancy sketch! That-thing is going on now all up and down the land, and I tell you farther that this is going to be the death that some of you will die. I know it. I see it coming. Again, the inebriate suffers through the loss of home. luoaot care how much he icve? his wife and children, if this passion for strong drink has mastered him, he will do the most outrageous things, and if he could not get drink in any other tray he would fell his family into eternal bondage. How many homes have been broken up in that way no one but God knows. Oh, is there anything that will so destroy a a man for this life and damn Lim forth' life that is to come! Do not tell me that a man can be happy when he knows that he is breaking his wife's heart and clothing his children with rags. V.'hy, there are on the roads and streets of this land today little i children barefooted, unwashed and unkempt ?want oil every patch of their faded dress and on every wrinkle of their prematurely old countenances?who would have been in churches today and as well clad as you arc but for the fact that rum destroyed their parents and drove them into the grave. Oh, rum, riiou foe of God. thou despoiler of' homes, thou recruiting ofr" cr of the pit, i hate thee! But my subject takes a deeper tone, and that is that the unfortunate of whom 1 sneak surfers from the less of the soul. The Bible intimates that in the future world, if we are unforgiven here, our bad passions and appetites, unrestrained, will go along with u* ".Vv .-.nr ffirmm;. Snfhn: I sun pose, when an inebriate wakes up is that world, he will leel an inf.nitc thrist consuming him. Now. down in this world, although he may have been very poor, he could beg or he could steal -5 cents with which to get that which would slake his thrist for a little while. But iu eternity where is the rum to come from'.' Oh, the Jeep, exhausting, exasperating, everlasting thirst of the drunkard iu hclil Vi'hy, if a Send came up to earth for some infernal work in a grogshop .md should go ' \ back taking on its wing just, one drop of that . I for which the inebriate in the lust world ' iongs, vriia; excitement vomit it maxe mere: i'ut thai one drop from, off the fiend's wing : on the tip of the tongue of .lie destroyed i:i! ebriate; let the liquid brightness just touch ? it: ie: the drop be very small, if it only have : in it the smack of alcoholic drink; let thai 5 drop just touch the lost inebriate in the lost L world, and he would spring tc his feet and 5 cry; '-That is rum, aha! That is run!'' i. .1 r~ ii- ' - - - - ' - - - f Ana i; voula vra:;o up ine c-c;;ojs or the } laranoJ. ' Give me ruiu! Give me run;! ! (jive me rum;"' in the future world I do j cot beiiovc* tiiii; it will ue tiie aOsCLCe o: God that Tvi-1 j-iake ti:e drunkard's sorrow. ! io noi brieve it v.-ill be the absence ci' lizht. 1 uo not believe it will 5.0 the *;>sence of holiness. i :Link it. will be the absence of ruai. Oh. "Look not upon the wine when it is re<i, when it moveth itself aright in the cup. for at the !a-t it biteth like a serpent and it stir-geth like an adder." V.'hile 1 dec! i jJ some ti:ae ago that there was a point beyond which a Lian could not step. I want to teil you that, while a.rnaa | cat cot stop in his own strength, the Lord j God by his grace can help him to stop at any j 1 tc-i^ in i rod mi in \.!W Vnrk where I there were many men who had been reclaimed from urunkenuess. 1 heard their testimony, and Tor the first time m my life then.* hashed out a truth 1 never understood. They said: "We were victims of strong Jrinl:. We tried to give it up. bur always failed. But somehow siocc we ^.ive our hearts to Christ, he has taken care >:'us." 1 believe thai the time will soon come when the grace of Gud will show its power no' only to save man's S'jul, but his body, and ( reconstruct, purify, elevate and redeem it. s 1 verily believe that, although you feel grappling at the roots of your tongues an almost omnipotent thirst, if you will give your heart to God, he will help you by his grace frt Mr,..ni>r Trv it Tf i* vfi!!r 1;WI chance. 1 have looked oft upon the desolation. Sitl ting next to you in our religious assemblages , there are a good many people in awlul peril: | and, judging from ordinary circumstances. ! there is not one chance in five thousand that [ they will get clear of it. There are men in | every congregation from Sabbath to Sabbath i of whom 1 must make the remark that if | they do not change their course, within ten ! years they will, as to their bodies, lie down i in drunkards' graves, and as to their souls, I lie down in a drunkard's perdition. I know I that is an awful thing to say, but 1 cannot I help saying it. Ob, beware! You have not yet been cap. I tured. lieware? "Whether the beverage he j poured in golden chalice or pester mug, in [ the foam at the top, in white letters, let l there be spelled cut to your soul, "Beware!" When the books of judgment are open, and lO.OOO.OUO drunkards come up to get their doom, I want you to bear witness that 1, in the fear of God and in the love for your soul told you. with all affection and with all kindness, to beware of that which has alj ready exerted its influence upon your family, j blowing out some of its lights?a premoni| tion of the blackness of darkness forever. j UP., II you couiu oiuy iieai- imcu-usruugv; j wiih drunkard's bones drumming on the j head of the liquor cask the dead march of i immortal souls, metliinks the very glance of ! a wine cup would make you shudder, and ! the color of the liquor would make you think j of the blood of the soul, and the foam on the j top of the cup would remind you of the froth j on the maniac's lip, and you would kneel I I down and pray God that, rather than your j j children should become captives of this evil j i habit, you would liK.e to carry them out j j some bright spring day to the cemetery and j put them away to the last sleep, until at the i I fit' smith -wind tlie t'owers would i [ come up all over the grave?sweet prophe! cies of the resurrection; God has a balm for ! ! such a wound, but what flower of comfort j | ever grew on a drunkard's sepulcher'.' ! Oc to Nashville. I The Columbia State savs: The io i | dieatioss are tbat South Carolina will j ! bs very largely represented at the j [ coming reunion of Confederate veter- J i ans at Xashville, the place that is to j the west what Richmond is to the j south. It is hardly to be expected that as many will make the trip as attended the reunion at Richmond last j summer, out if tbey needed any other i incentive than their patriotic spirit to j draw them to Nashville they certainly j have it in the great exposition in that cily. The veterans all ever the Siate are already preparing to go and have a s:ood time. Columbia will as usual send a good delegation from Camp ii?.mpton. Cap-. B. A- .Newland, the 1 /->? +V.Q nciccon rray f]a j Ck^V-Liv LLJ\y . I partcaent of tha Seaboard Air Line, j ! speat yesterday in the city arranging ! -with Mr. J. F. Livingston, passenger j agent of the ColutabiNewberry and j L'iurecs, for ihe details of the Soutn j Carolina Veterans' special, which j will leave Columbia about 11:30 a. m., | June 21st, for Nash?iile via the Coj lum'oia, Newberry and Laurens, SeaI board Air Line aoa Nashville, Chatta- j ! noogaanc' St. .Louis rcaas., arriving in I Nashville at 5 a.m., June 22. The ! schedule arranged by the management of these roads is extremely con venient for all who contemplate mak- J iagthis irip, the train leaving Columbia after all the morning trains come ; in from Charleston, Orangeburg, Sum' ter. Florence and Darlington. Special trains will be run from Camden, Kershaw, Yorkvilie and iiock Hill via Catawba Junction to connent at ? ? -L <~?l 1?i-? A , Uimton ana ina v^iisricsLuii uu ?r cj- > tern Carolina railroad from Spartan burg, Greenville and Laurens to connect at Greenwood with, this train. Tiae officers cf Camp Hampton of Columbia arranged with Messrs. Kewland and Livingston for a, special coach for the camp. Returning the ' Veterans' special" will leave Nashvilleat Sa. m., June 25th, passing over the Cumberland by lioo&oui Moun- j tain, Missionary Ridge, Military park, Kenesaw and many ether points of ioterest in daylight. The rate for this occasion is extremely low and is open to the wives, sons, daughters and friends of the veterans. Export Bounties. Senator Cannon of Utah has offered the following as an amendment to the tariff bill: "And from ana after 60 days from the passage of this act there shall be paid cut of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to any exporter of wheat or wheat ilour, rye or rye Hour, corn, ground or usground, cotton, hops or tobacco, produced wholly in the United States and exported by sea from any port in '1 TT vvAMf rifI tne umteu Q'.<UC5 IU SUJ uun yiuvi countries, the rfollowiug export boun tv. by way of an equalization to agriculture of the benefits of this act ts en courage the industries of the United States, to wit: Ten cents per bushel on wheat, lu cents per bushel on wheat Hour, 10 cents per bushel on | ripY- barrel on rve ilour. I 1 J <~1 vo***,? r- - ? - 5 cents per pushel on corn, 10 cents j per bushel on corn ground, 1 cent per pound on cotton, 2 cents per pound on heps, 2 cents per pound on tobacco j And ail payments of bounty under j this act shall be made upon negotiable vouchers, issued by the collector of customs at the port of clearance, upon presentation at the treasury or any sub-treasury of the United States;and j the secretary of the tre&siuv is hereby j charged with making and enforcing such regulations as may be necessary j fVwhfifuil nrotestion of the exporters j and of the government according-to the true intent and meaning of this law." This amendment is the result ; of a conference of silver Republicans, Populisms and seme Democrats, and | may be said to represent the sentii ments of the element in ihe senate j which puts silver above all other sub jects of legislation. ?sk.d Castle Pluckaey. The city council of Charleston Tuesday adopetd' a memorial address to congress asking that Castle Pinckney, the"/amcus old fortification in this harbor; he converted by the national government into a home for disabled ' armv ar.d \ savy. "?To; 'oid With Wledoai. ! So vreii has the distribution of the | relief to the flood suiierers in the Mis j ttqIIattc; Kduti 1 administered thai of the total approj t>riation of $200,000 about one-half j novr remains unexpended, although ; the held has been fully covered. M'f.ATTBiN THE MA\T HE SUCCEEDS THE LATE JOSEP H H. EARLEAS JUNIOR SENATOR. Gjv. JKHerbs Issued the CosiLat??!on Wed* r,ffid>4y Appointing Hoc. .John L. lifcLaa- ! i rin United States senator to Succeed tlie j Late Senator Ewrie, ' Govemc Elierbe. on Wednesday j '.he 25th ic'st.. duly commissioned j John Lowndes MeLsurin to be Senator j O /ni i \. C* rtv^Almo in "f J"? c* v.la/ifl rf I JIUUt ?JL>u:u MI the laie Joseph EL E?.rle, until the General Assembly shall regularly el?c: a successor to fill out the unexpired term commencing on the -lib. of March lsst. It seems to be understood on all j sides that there "will be a primary election to choose s man v/ho shall be >ir'pspr.f^0 tn ihe? TjOfrislaturft as thp. ! ciioica of the Democratic voters of South Carolina. la view of mis ex- J pectaiion ther^ havo flrcady been a cumber of gentlemen mentioned as probable candidates?S?nator May field of Barnwell, Solicitor Bellinger of the same county. Mr. M. L. Donaldson of Greenville, Ex Governor John Gary Evans and Mr. Jobn T. Duncan. I Judge Brawley was also spoken of, | but it may be considered certain that ! he will iiot enter the race. The appointment of McLauria ciusI ing a vacancy in the sixth Congress | ional district, there are already aspirants to the latter place?Solicitor J. j j M. Johnson of Marion, Comptroller j j G-ereral Norton aud Mr. W. D. Eraas, j j of Marlboro, at present a member of j ! the Stiite railroad commission. 0:hers ! may c^me in later. It no^- seeins to j | be understood that there v.ili be no i j primary in tb:s district?the cacdi-1 | d*tes going before the people them- j I selves THE NEW SENATOR'S CAREER. John Lowndes McLaurin was born j : in Marlboro county, May 9lb. 1SG0. i His father's name was Philip B. Mc fLauriz?. He was a lawyer of marked j ability, but died at au early age, leavj ing- the subject of this sketch. Thomas ; and Margaret. Thomas died when ! about 12 years eld and Margaret is now is now living in Marlboro county | as Mrs. Crossland. His mother was a daughter of Col. T. C. Weatherly, who was prominent in public life before l j.i tr u?;? u;*. ! I llitj Winr. illv vvaa ai^cjuiii ux .uio wuuvj j I siid represented it in the general as i ; sembly '/or many years. Whatever of i nolitica! abiliiy and teste that Mr. Mc- j Laurin b&s is from this side of the i | house, all of the V/eatherly's being j successful politicians. Mr. McLaurin's father -while he was in politics was elected at the very early ~a?e of 23 to j the general assembly. He was just | old enough to oe eligible. On this i side o? the house there was marked intellectuality and culiure; while they were in politics, they did not care as ! much for them as for matters of an i"? i t _t ? | mieueciuai caaracier. iur. in^juaa | j rin's father was a fine speaker. His father died from illness contracted from exposure in the army in 1864. In 1S67 his mother married Mr. ! William S. Mowry, of Charleston, S. j C. Mr. Mo wry was a very wealthy j gentleman and the family lived for j several years in Marlboro county ard J then moved in 1873 to Eaglewocd, N. | J., where Mr. Mowry has since that! j time been a very successful member ! of the cotton and stock exchange, j Mr. and Mrs. Howry, and five half | brothers and sisters are now living at this place. All Mr. Me-Laurin's haif brothers are in business in New York city. In those early days the school sjstem of South Carolina was so defect- | | T>e that "Jonnnie and Temmie" were | s^ntuptothe 1 . -he) Military academy i j near Warrenton, Va. Tommie died j while attending the school and John, the new senator of tcday, was then taken on to Englewood and sent to j j school there until he was 15 years of age. He was then sent to Swarthm/vro <W!eot? tipqt Philadelnhia. A Quaker school didn't suit ardent bouth Carolina temperament and after two years,* Colonel Weatherly, John's grandfathr, concluded that a military school and a disciplinarian like Col. John P. Thomas were needed to properly train and hold in check the promising young Carolinian. He remained under Col. Thomas in his school at Charlotte, N. C, until he graduated in 1SS0. John was noted more as a baseballist and a boxer than 2s a student, though his natural quicKness and aptness enabled him to stand well in his classes. He then went to the University of Virginia and lock the laccu.-se and in 1S82 went to B=nnettsville and began the practice of law. Although Mr. McLaurin up to this time had given very ittile attenti -n to the realities of life and his future pros pects, having been a wayward youth at college insofar as respect for rules and so ou were concerned, when he I began the practice of law he desired to turn over a new leaf and make a name for himself in his profession. ! He Hung cut his shingle." Soon an opportunity came along in the shape of cases brought against 32 road hands known since as the Hebron road cases. It was a kind of a feud in the county. The prosecution employed all the leading attorneys in the county, including the present assistant attorney general of South Carolina, ex Judee Trtwnsp.nH Mr MeT.4uiin was alone for the defense and many had advised j the accused to plead guilty. After! five days of legal fighting, Mr. Me j Lauriu won in every case by appeals j tc the jury, the law and evidence and prejudice of tLe people being against him. Judge Townsend was attracted to the bright young lawyer acd offered to take him into partnership. This copartnership was formed in 18S3 and j continued until Mr. McLaurin's election to congress, the firm being recog nizea as one of the strongest in that sec'ion of the State. Oa. the 19th of February, 1833, Mr. McLaurin married Mi^s Nora Breeden of Bennettsviile, S. C , the daughter | of Mr. T. J. B-'eecen, and a neice ef his law partner, Judge Townsend They have six children, four girls and two boys. The marriage has teen a most happy and congenial one and Mr. McL:mrin attributes his success j in law and politics to the influence of his life partner. His friends will tell all that he has never taken an important slep in his life without consult ins; his wife, and he has even discussed his lav7 cases with her. Under the former regime in South Carolina, Mr. McLaurin from almost the time that he began the nractice of law rebelled against the existing political conditions. la 1SSS he made in his county a fight such as Tillman led in the State in 1S90. He was defeated only by the greatest effort and a combination of a?l the opposing j forces. la 1800 he was elected to the legislature. The general assembly ! was composed almost entirely of new ! men and contained Senator Irby, ex[ Governor Evans, Justice Gary, Judge I t o-nrl rv>onTr rtfVioi* nr.an -orrnri lior?< i I \J>C*L J CA.UU ii-lUiiJ JJUVU. T ? 1-i.W iJUTV I j since become prominent in State and j j national aifairs. In a very few dajs j | Mr. McLaurin made a speech that dej velopsd ihe fact that he vras one of j ! the coming factors in South Carolina ! | politics. At the second term of the j j legislature Attorney General Pope j j vras elected associate justice of the! J State supreme court and Ernest Gary, I Congressman Wilson, D. A. Town- ] isend and Mr. McLaurin were candi-! for '-rcrjfral to succeed ! Justice Pope. McLaurin ha.l ^nea^y; victorr. beinir sleeted on the third bal- j lot. He piusged osee into the sea . of litigation. The Coo?aw c-ise v^ss i pending, involving a lar^e &utn 2nd] the back and railroad tax cases that i have since become so r.oted, finally ' ending in the supre'ns court of tie j United States. All of these case were I c: the utmost importance to the S'3.:e. j His record as attorney general was i good During the campaign o? 1SD2 Governor Tillman vrasopposed bv ex-G-ov-1 ernor John C. Sheppard. Toe main J f^ht upon Tillman v=-as made by Col. j Ycucaans, who wa^ a candidate fori secretary of s'ate. Ho was a very eio I -* *' - ? ' av,.\K|/: Ir * I U iiSllu, ailU >?JI 'Ji ui'o jyr^avi. There ''ere persoDai ditft-rcrees between You mans ard T:]ln.'an, ai'd Tiiiccan refused to debate or recogrr? him in the campaign at all, which threw the fi?ht, so f?r as Youmans was concerned, unon McLiurin. R-re!y has saca a debate rver taken place in any campaign ir; this State. It was of tuch a character as to excite the keenest public iGterest, yet the two men came out of it the best of friends oersonaliy. The result creaj.od such a wave of public favor for Mr. McLa^iri i that when Mr. O TOP5 O-.aU?.ilUU5.~ U.J.CU ill fj UUC, avta- , in? could prevent the people of Mr. j MfLiurin's district from electing him j to Congress in November following, j He was seated when the Fifty sec ] end congress convened in. 1892, in j the month of December. Mr. Mc- j Laurin's first utterances upon the floor> crtw great attention to bim all over j country. It was his remarkable eulogy j on his deceased predecessor. It was j unusual and drew many comments j from the press. He went back to give j a skeich of the history of slavery in j IQO souio, snowing us iKuueiice in iuc j formation of the character of the men j of his State. Then he proceeded to connect it with this new Reform J movement wrh which Mr. Stackhouse i had had so much to do in launchisg. ! He came to congress about the time j that Bailey, Bryan, Sibley and others j or equal note made their entrance upon j the congressional stage and immecti j atelv began to attract attention to bim- j self as a debater. His first fight was i M/1YNA." 1 S\f I V* A ! ILiC 1 C pea 1 \sl ^uivuao^U); of the Sherman act. His speech was j one of the very first attacks upon Gro- j ver Cleveland's policy. It was sarcas-: tic and pungent and claimed wide j spread attention both at home and in j the country at Jarge. Then, during j the pi;nic of 1S93, when because of the scarcity of money the banks had ] to form a clearing house association I and issue certificates in order to move j the cotton crop, Mr. McLaurin was the very first man in either branch of; congress to see the point and propose a remedy. He got some of the certificates and went before the banking " ? ^ OHHKOH/.TT n/-irvirv-iittoa witVi o nrn ! aiiU vUA Jl wliV/J OV/<JULU11>VO?. tj/vu w V4 V position to issue ?125,000,000 of United States notes, which were to be deposited -with t'h9 banks to take the place of these certificates. He showed that the law prohibited the retirement of these notes below $346,000,000, and that as a matter of fact they had been retired far below this amount. He made a stron? fight a?aiast the imposi ] tion of the 10 per cent, tax that the j treasury department proposed to place! upon these certificates. This speech j was very extensively printed in the j papers of the west and south. Mr. McLiuria also took a prominent part in the debates to repeal the ! 10 per cent, tsx on State banks Se \ made a number of other speeches on j the financial question, all of which i have attracted, attention. la the or-! ganizatioa of the Fifty-fourth congress, Speaker R=eed placed Mr. ile ; Lauin upon the ways and means com-j mittee. Since that time he has de-! vcied himself to tiae study 01 me tariir j question. In a. speech delivered cn March 23. last, he attracted the atten-1 lion of the whole country with hisj speech upon the Dingley bill. He I boldly proclaimed the doctrine that if j a policy of protection was to obtain j that the south should have her share; that allomothingshould be protected I He offered an amendment io the com- j rnittee room asking for a duty of 2i ] cents upon au cotton imported into: the United States. He was vigorous- j iy attacked on the floor from all quar-? ters, but met every assault -with that! tact and coolness and fully sustained j his reputation as a debater. Then j there was his last speech advertising j Columbia and the south in a way as to attract the notice of the entire country. Mr. MeL-.urin has been elected thrice in his district. Oee of his admirers yesterday had this to say about him: is a very broad man in politics. During a factional figbt there was no man that iougiit naraer,out ass.xm as me oaw:e j ended he took the position that he was a representative of the whole people, and that he did not have the right to held a Democrat responsible or ques 1 tion his right to vote against him in j the primary election. He was the] first Reform leader to come out open- j ly and bodly in favor of peace and j unity. At one time it seemed certain j that ihe leaders of his own faction J would defeat him, but when the.y j' would get a man out and McLaurin would go on the stump, the first speech j would dissipate all opposition. Mr. r M?T.o5TxinTe f?-!ordc or>H mOTT*7 Af VllS ( enemies, politically, also consider that he has done as much if not more towards the breaking down cf factional lines in this State as any other man. Ia 1 act, Mr. McL^iurin is net , thought c f as being a member of either faction/' ( On Thursday Mr. McLaurin filed with the governs his letter cf acceptance of the position. The leiter is , considered timely and very much to ; the point. Mr. McL.au.rin, as ^as ex- ] pected, takes occasion to ur^e then State executive committee to call a J j orimarv election for the nurocse of I' naming a man for the general assern bly to elect for the fall unexpired term. Here is his letter, however, to speak for itself: To His Excellency, the Hon. W. H Ellerbe, Governor of South Caro Jina, Columbia, S, C.: Dear Sir: Your notification of my i appointment to tne Senate of the Uni- < ted States to nil the vacancy caused by < the sad death cf Senator Earle' has : been received. The pride and pleasure : at the receipt of such a distinguished . honor is saddened and sobered by the thought that our SLate has lost one who, to my mind, was the ideal rep resentative of the culture, intelligence and refinement of southern civilization. With a profound consciousness of the responsibilities involved and an honest determination to represent as far I am able the interest of the entire people of our beloved State, I accept your appointment. I desire, however, ! to sav that I believe that United Stales j Senators should be elected by a vote j of the people; and as me Constitution 5 debars us that nriviiege, I sincerely j trust that the Democratic executive j committee wiii, at its convenience, order a primary, and gi^e e?ery Dem- j ocrat the chance of h^vinc: a voics in j the selection of one to Sil this, the j ; highest, olfice in the gift of the pes- i ; pie. If I am not selected, I vrill bum; h!tr in the rvishes of a ma- I jority of my fellow cilizens. If I am selected, I will bare the proud consciousness of knowing that J am ia fact, truly the representative of the ! people?the whole people of the State of South C*rciina. It is peculiarly j graiifvicg to r&e ?o receive this ap | point msr.1 at jour bnnds; but bad not j the exigencies o; lbs situation in the j Senate demanded tbe immediate ap- j pointmest of one somewhat familiar] wicb. the situation. I would have re- j quested you 10 hold -he matter of an-! pointment in ab~y?nce until a primary election is oraerei, whicn, I hope, ia-; executive committee will see pwper :o do, 2nd otber candidates see fi: to e^ter. I s-ali at every meeting: insist upon to one rotiag' for roe merely because I bive be':n appointed to tbe position. I resign an cince but little inferior in dlsrnity acd honor. If I am to be continued in tbe senate, I j want it to be <?iven me in an election j where every cii:z;n, however huaaole he may be, can have an opportunity to say so at tbe ballot bcoc Notbicfr would eive me more pleasr> . ? i z ure man to represent ?outc v,:a roues in the Senate chamber of the United States after a free expression from the people thtmselees. R^spcctfully, John L McLitirin. j Th^ Columbia State says: Gover- j nor Eilerbe is done with the matter, i He would no doubt lika to see a ori-1 maryand ha^e his selection, -which; he feels he made in response to the j will of the people of the whole State, as he understood it, approved by tbem therein. He will not take any hard in the primary, however. A dispatch from Washington states thyt Senator m-n Ci:? 1 ?* i i'liimao, Druaiiug uy yuai , no doubt "will likewise have nothing to say or do in connection with the coming race. : The present indications sre that the j primary wili be called by the execu-; live committee to be held about the j middle of September ntxt. Ia this ca?.e the campaign, which is a part of I the primary system in this State, will j have to bs^in at least two months bs- j fore. There will be 40 county s;ats to be visited by the candidates. It will j be rather an expensive thiog for the catdidates who make the race, and it < is possible that none will be held if no j ? All V-. A 1A 4-/A ikon Wv \T/^T.oiirin I U LLCJL I'ttliuiuai? t,uau > ax. ^V^maau J retrains in the race. The friends of the possible candidates already men-1 tiontd say that they will all make the j race, and of course the result will be j a Ion?, tedious and ccstly campaign. I In the *ace in the SixLh coogressional race to nil tfce vacarc7 caused bv j if if T J me appointment ol mr. jucjuiunu tu the United States Senate, those candidates who have -already been named as certainties propose to stay in the race to the end. Mr. D. W. McLaurin was asked the plain question if he were going; to make the race. His reply was that he would do so provided his warm personal and army friend, Mr. D J. Bradham, did not ius. If Comptroller General Norton is oianto/? t,i n.-irifrrpc*: his friends feel confident he will be, then his present chief clerk, ex S^ate Senator Derham, will be a candidate for that position on the Siate ticket. He has stated as much. The Southern Christian Advocateof last week has this to say of ihe governors selection: "As was anticipated by most men of good judgment, the Hen. J. L. McLaurin of Marlborough county, now leading member of coagress from this State, has been appointed United States Senator vice Joseph H Eearle, T'Ha annnirttmpnt is a food ! O ' - . | one, and wili be ratified in the primary whenever that is held. Governor Elierbe has chosen wisely. Mr. AIcLaurin is a Christian gentleman of decided ability and high character, eminently deserving the honors placed upon hicn, and he will be fully equal to the responsibilities and duties demanded by the important office to which hs has boen aocointed We ? ^ t i-.. I congratulate our sia'.e mas ner loier-1 ests are confided to such faithful snd | capable hands- Senator McLaurin is I a worthy successor of the statesman j whose death all mourn." THETELEGRAPH OUTDONE. Xiie TransmiSbion of y,00u Words a 2Iliitite j Said to bs PoaslMe. A Droocsition is before the Senate in } the shape cf a bill introduced by Senator Pdttigrew to expend a million dollars in experimenting with a new system of rapid telegraphy, wires for tne purpose to be constructed bet ween New York and Washington. It is J claimed that this system will supplant j the telephone, telegraph and mails as I ~ s* . t i ^ *-> \rroo> rv i <1 rilCcLLUU Ui ;uiui >.*14X1/ \J1^. ^bKvwu the great business centres and will make possible the transmission of 3,000 words a minute. The new method is called the '"syncronography," and employs the alternating current on copper wires. The plans have been perfected and expen ments conducted by Albert Gushing Crehore, assistant professor of phys ics at Darmouth College, and George Oiven Squire, first lieutenant of artil lery in tne United States army, and instructor of the deoartraent of elec # " 1 - il- - TT ^ J tricity ana mines in me uuueu oi.sn.cs Artillery School. Postmaster General Gary had a conference with Lieutenant Squire on Friday to ascertain the merits of his system in order that an intelligible report might be made on the bili. Lieutenant Squire claims that under his system two lines in continuous operation would handle all the mail business between New York and Chicago, which is now done by means of about 40.000 letters a day. Hs believes the simulianeous publi- <' cation of the same newspaper in different parts of the country is among: the possibilities. In aa edition of a J1 daily paper having twelve pages there j are less than 185,000 words. At the j rate of 3.000 words a minute it vcould j 3nly require about aa ncur to trans-}1 mit the entire contends of the paper. 1 rhe ccst or' maintenance of the pro j posed system, it is claimed, will be iit- j ] Lie moretnau mai o: me system now in use. j Th9 CitAdsl Eac itupta -rat. ' The Anderson Intelligencer says: , ' Col. Coward and Capt. While of the j South Carolina Ci'-adeJ, Charleston, ; speci two days in the city last week , completing arrangements for the annual encamo.T:ent of the cadets of that 1 Institution. The cadets will come to ] Anderson on June 15 and spread their f tents on the campus of ttie Patrck Military Institute. They will remain here about two weeks, during which , time the commencement exercises will be held. Es-Jud^e J H. Hudson will deliver the annual address. The cadets will march from heretoClemson College and sptnd a day. The cade;s will be warmly welcomtd to Auucrson and royally entertained.'' 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E., and containing : : : : : : twenty-five hundred (2500) : : : : : : acres, more or less, with a good : : : : : : part of same under a high state : : : k : j : of cultivation. On the place is a : : : : j : good saw mill, grist mill, gin and : : : j : : cotton press, a fine pasture, 8 or : : : < i : : 10 good tenant houses, and ev- : : \ : : : ery other convenience a good : : : i : : farmer would want. We olier : : : : : j also for sale two lots and the : : : : : : best store house in Lone Star. : : : : : : This is undoubtedly a fine open-: : : : : I ing for anyone wishing to mer- : : : : : : chandise and farm in connection : : : : : : with each other. All of which : : : \ : : we offer you very cheap and on { : : : : easy terms. Of course we won't : : : : : be able to turn over to the pur- j j : : : chaser the farm before first ofj : \ A : : : Jan., 1898. The store we can \ t : : : : turn over for the fall business. 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