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tumorous department. A Promoter's Humor.?Charles R. Flint has a quaint Yankee humor which is as well developed today as in his school years. In the Polytechnic Institute the markings were on the basis of 100 and were bulletined monthly. One day a group of boys were looking at the new bulletin, on which one of the hopeless dullards of the class was marked 66. Flint said slowly: "Sixty-six, that's the very number of our year, and I hope that when we get to '99 Jack wjll receive that figure." Once a sanctimonious persons remarked: "Children should never be allowed to play with toys on Sunday!" 'May they not play with religious toys?" he queried. "There are no religious toys, sir!" "Excuse me, there are!" "What are they then, sir?" "Noah's arks."?Leslie's Weekly. *3" A recent tour of a rather wellknown lecturer included a certain small town in New England. The lecturer was waited on by the chairman of tha committee in charge of the affair, with a request that he tell him what to say in introducing the speaker to the audience. "Tell them any old thing you please," was the characteristic reply. "Say, if you like, that I'm the most distinguished man in the country." The committeeman was a man without humor. "Ladies and gentlemen," he began, "I have the honor to introduce to you Mr. , of New York. I don't know him. Never saw him before and I know nothing about him; but he tells me he is the most distinguished man in the United States." There is one lecturer now who thinks levity in bad taste?unless you know your man.?New York Evening Post. Happened Right In the Family.? The cross examiner was a smart man, whose object was to disconcert the witness and discredit his testimony. "What did you say your name was?" was the first question. "Michael Doherty.' m "Michael Doherty, eh? Now, Doherty answer this question carefully. Are you a married man?" "Oi think so. Oi was married." "So you think because you got married that you are a married man, do you? Now, tell me whom you married." "Who Oi married? I married a woman." "Now, don't you know better than to trifle with the court? Of course you married a woman; did you ever hear of any one marrying a man?" "Yes, moi sister did."?London Spare Moments. What Ma Didn't Forget.?"Pa." "Yes." "That Mrs. Flipley was here today, and guess what she said about you." "Oh, I can't," the old gentlemen replied, beginning to get interested. "What was it?" "She told me she thought you were such a handsome man, and hold your age well." "She did, eh?" he replied, pushing out his chest and pretending that it didn't make any particular difference to him what she had said. "But," the sweet child continued, "ma told her she ought to see you in the morning before you put in your false teeth and got the side hair slicked up over your bald spot.?Chicago RecordHerald. He Feared to Presume.?The American tourist is so firmly convinced that he is being cheated on all hands during his European travels that he occasionally oversteps the bounds of prudence. "What is the price of this pin?" asked a young man in a Paris shop, handling a small silver brooch of exquisite workmanship. "Twenty francs, monsieur," said the clerk. "That's altogether to much," said the young American. "It's for a present to my sister. I'll give you five francs for it. "Zen it would be I zat gave ze present to your sister," said the Frenchman with a deprecatory shrug, "and I do not knew ze madamoiselle!"? Youth's Companion. A Straight Tip for a Penny.?"A year or two ago," said a young man to a friend, "I spent a few weeks at south coast watering places. One day I saw a machine which bore this sign, 'Drop a penny in the slot and learn how to make your trousers last.' As I didn't have a great deal of money I thought j an investment of a penny to show me how to save the purchase of a pair of trousers would be small capital put to good use, so I dropped the required coin in and a card appeared. What do you suppose it recommended as the way to make my trousers last?" "Don't wear 'em, I suppose." "No." "What did it say?" "Make your coat and waistcoat first." ?London Tit-Bits. ?. ? ? A Soulless Community.?A young clergyman, just arrived at the locality of his first call, met at the railway sta tion a boyhood acquaintance whom he had not met since they were playmates together in a remote town. After a handshake and mutual expressions of pleasure at the unexpected meeting the newly found friend exclaimed: "But, say! What on earth are you doing in this part of the world?" "Me?" enthusiastically replied the ecclesiast, "I have come here to save souls." "You have, eh?" was the response. "Well, let me tell you I've been in this town long enough to know that you've struck a sinecure." international Wesson. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON X, SECOND QUARTER, INTEI NATIONAL SERIES, JUNE 9. Text of the Lenion? Acts* xxll, 8-1 Memory Verses, G-S?Golden Tex Acts utI, 10?Commentary Prepaj ed by the Rev. D. M. Stearns. [Copyright, 1901, by American Prea Aaociatioa 6. "Nigh unto Damascus about aoc suddenly there shone from heaven great light round about me." We hai been studying the appearances of oi Lord to His disciples after His resurre tion, and now in this lesson and the ne: we have two of His post ascension a; pearanees. It would be very profitab to consider His first post ascension a pearance to Stephen. Let every one lr up Acts vii, 53, and may it become a coi stant word in our hearts. In str.dyii this lesson it would be very profitable 1 write out in parallel columns the thr< accounts of this incident in chapters I: 1-20; xxvi, 9-20, and the portion we a. about to study. Paul tells us that 1 was on his way to Damascus to bring tl believers there to Jerusalem to. be pui ished (verse 5), and, believing that 1 ought to do many things contrary to tl name of Jesus of Nazareth, he had pi saints in prison and helped put them'] death (xxvi, 9-11). 7. "Saul, Saul, why persecutest the Me?" He and all who were with hii fell to the ground, but he alone heai these words, spoken in the Hebrew lai guage (compare the parallel accounts The voice was for him, not for his cor panions. In Dan. x, 7. we read that 1 alone saw the vision; the men who wei with him saw it not, but were filled wit fear. The vision and the words were f( Daniel, not for them. When Peter wi released from prison, he alone saw ar heard the angel; the guards knew not! ing of Jt. So it may be when He cal His saints to meet Him in the air. Tl world may see or hear nothing, but pe haps be afrai'd. 8. "I am Jesus of Nazareth, who; thou persecutest" This in answer to h question, "Who art thou. Lord?" Whi a revelation for Saul, who had believt Jesus to be an impostor and who, sincer ly wishing to do right before God, se< in a moment that he is all wrong ar that the believers in Jesus whom he hi been persecuting were right and that h Saul, had been persecuting Christ 1 them. That Israel's Messiah had actua ly come and been rejected and crucifix by the rulers of the people, and that 1 is, with them, guilty of His death. In moment he sees his Lord, and he se< himself as a rebel against his Lord ar Saviour. 9. 'They heard not the voice of Hi that spake to me." Chapter ix, 7. sa: that they heard a voice: there is no co: tradiction: there can be none in Scri, ture. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit i Truth, cannot contradict Himself. Th< heard a sound, but not the words, whi< were for Saul only. Compare John x 2S, 29. where some heard words, but ot ers only heard something like thunde Do you hear Him speak to you persona ly when you read His word, or is it a Indistinct? 10. "And I said, What shall I d Lord?" or, as in ix, G, "Lord, what wi Thou have me to do?" Saul submits, 1 accepts the risen Christ as Israel's Me siah and as his Lord and Master, ar his question is no longer what the chi priests would have him do, but what tl only true High Priest would have hi do; he has ceased from man, for he hi seen the Lord. He is sent to Damascu but under a very different authority fro that which sent lijra from Jerusalem, ar to learn the things that have been a pointed by God for him. If our hone questions are, Where wilt Thou, Lore (Luke xxii, 9) and, What wilt Tho Lord? He will not fail to show us a the things appointed for us and guide i in them. 11. "I could not see for the glory < that light." So those who were wil him led him by the hand into Damascu and he was three days without sight, ar neither did eat nor drink (ix, 9). E must have learned much as he commune with God those three days of dying 1 self and the world, and doubtless tl Lord wondrously and lovingly reveale Himself to him. What a blessed exp rience it would be to have such a visit of the glory of God that we would r more see the attractiveness of tb world's vanities because of the glory < that light! Eyes and ears for Him! 12, 13. "Brother Saul, receive tl sight." Thus said Ananias, a discipl having been commissioned by the Lord 1 search out Saul and be a blessing and comfort to him. Give much attentlc here to Acts ix, 10-19, and note amot other things that the Lord in heaven o serves the street in the city on which v sojourn and the house on the street. E knows just where to find us always aii just what He can do with us, and tho: who are willing may be chosen vesse unto Him to bear His name if willii also to suffer for His name's sake. Sa had spent much of the three days i prayer, and the Lord had granted him vision of a man coming to him and pu ting his hand upon him that he might r ceive his sight. 14-10. Note the honors conferred upc Saul and take them to yourself as far j your faith will allow, remembering tin all things are yours but yourself, ac you. if redeemed, should he set apart f< Himself (I Cor. iii. 21: vi. 19. 20: Ps. i 8). "Chosen to know ITis v ill." Bee 1 Pet. iii, 9; John vi, 38-40; xvii, 24; Lul xxii, 42. and consider how fully you ai living in the will of God. "See that Ju One." "They saw no man any more sa\ Jesus only with themselves." "Ri: with patience looking unto Jesu> (Mark ix, S: Ileb. xii, 1, 2). "Hear tl voice of His mouth." "This is my b loved Son; hear Him" (Math. xvii. C Let our determination be, "I will hei what God the Lord will speak" (P lxxxv, 8); not the opinions of men. bi only the voice of God. "Thou shalt I His witness unto all men of what the hast seen and heard." Compare Acts i 20; I John 1, 3, and say before God ho and where you stand. Are you willingl the Lord's servant, living to turn peop from darkness to light, from satan unl God, that they may receive forgivenei and inheritance by fnith in Christ by d claring because you cannot help it thi which you have seen for yourself i Christ and heard with your own eni from Him? (Chapter xxvi, 10*18.) It ! the privilege of every sinner who hr ever heard the gospel to receive the Loi Jesus and be saved; it Is the privilege < every saved one to be joyfully conscloi of the forgiveness of sins and by a coi slstent life and testimony lead others \ Him (John i, 12: vi, 37: I John v, 11 'Acts xiii, 38, 39: Rev. xxil, 17). Pisccllancouis grading. FROM CONTEMPORARIES. I* . New* and Comment That I* of More or Lea* Local Interest. YORK. Rock Hill Herald, May 29: A number from town attended services at Edg8. moor Sunday Mrs. R. A. Banks has been quite sick at her home in Oakland Mr. L. B. McFadden has been ^ confined to his home in Oakland the past two weeks by sickness Mrs. . Paul McCorkle, of Charlotte, came J down Saturday and spent the day with in Mrs. T. L. Johnson Mr. J. C. Mila ler and family have gone to Concord, re N. C., where they will make their home ir in the future Miss Margaret Roach ^ is expected at home tonight from Agnes . Scott Institute, where she has been stu" dying music Messrs. John B. P" Meacham and Wilson McConnell, two 'e I York county boys, will graduate at [) Davidson college this year Miss iy Anna Lewis Cole leaves tonight for q. Baltimore, and in about a week will lg go abroad, where she will spend her vacation Mrs. Annie Robertson, accompanied by her nephew, Master Marion Cole, went to Winnsboro yesx* terday. Master Marion has recovered ;e from his recent sickness Herbert, ie the 21-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. 10 Louis King, died last Thursday of u- cholera infantum and the remains were ie interred in Laurelwood cemetery Friie day The Misses Milholen gave a t very delightful sociable last Friday ' night at their home near Mt. Holly, co complimentary to the Misses Ousley of Chesterfield. A number from town >u were present The social meeting m of the musical club, which was to have \| been held at the home of Mrs. B. M. n. Fewell Thursday afternoon of this week, has been postponed until June. n] Announcement of the date will be made hereafter It is rumored that Mr. Peter McCollough, at Catawba Falls, caught a sturgeon on his fall trap in the -h early part of last week that weighed >r 200 pounds. It measured nearly six feet is in length and three and one half feet id in circumference. It was cut up and jj. sold in the neighborhood. Is CHESTER, ie Lantern, May 28: Married, by Rev. i- J. H. L. Gedeist, May 25, 1901. Mr. T. B. Bundy and Miss Daisy A. Hudson. m By Rev. H. C. Buckholtz, at the Bapj9 tist parsonage, May 26, 1901, Mr. F. M. ' McCallum and Miss Annie L. Keenan. I Mr. Joseph H. Wilson, of Lowrysville, who went to the re-union at & Memphis, is going to visit a sister 51 whom he has not seen since he was 14 id years old; nearly 30 years ago id Mrs. Hester's building, occupied chiefly by the Hotel Chester, is to be greatly improved. In fact it will appear from tho frrmt na a npw hnildine\ while many changes and Improvements will a be made in the interior and rear. The ie specifications of the architect are now a in hand and contractors are making their estimates. The first floor will be id let down to the level of the pavement. A handsome glass front will be put in, m with iron columns. The old wooden balcony will be removed and neat' _ iron balconies placed at the second and | third floors. The entrance and stairP' way will be changed and improved. " The offices and store rooms on the first if floor will be remodeled with the re?h mainder of the building, and some aJii, ditions made A good number of our h- people are gone to the Chickamauga ,r# unveiling, and the Memphis reunion. ]] Following are the names so far as we I have them and we think the list 's nearly complete: J. O. Darby. A. Wis*. Mrs. L. E. Douglass, Miss May Cbrnwell. Miss Kate Cornwell, Mrs. D.N It Carter, Joseph Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Molie lie Hafner. J. S. Lewis, G. Williams, s- A. W. Gladden, J. W. Gladden. Joseph til H. Wilson, W. B. Robinson, H. W. Hafner. Miss Mary Hafner. A. A. Owens. 10 T. G. Hudson, J. W. Reid. T. P. McKeown, James Lewis, John Lewis, m Robt. Conrad, W. A. Blain, Dr. A. F. 1:1 Anderson, R. H. Ferguson and son. Also the Lee Light Infantry, 32 strong, m J. C. McClure, captain. 1,1 GASTON. P' Gastonia News, May 28: Sunday afternoon. at a quarter to 6 o'c'ock, the I- home of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Favssoux n. was saddened by the death of their ill little son, Templar Irvine. He had been ! is sick for several days, but had not been thought seriously ill till Saturday 3f night Saturday a young Negro man Ij named Cyrus Jones, shot and killed a " young Neero woman. Martha Wells. The shooting occurred two and a half |(l miles from town and no one was at the' I0 house at the time except a five year old Ml child. Ed Johnson and his wife, at to whose house the shooting occurred, io were away from home. The girl was Johnson's wife's sister, and Jones also e. made Johnson's house his home. There >n is no one but Jones to tell how it happened and his story is one not easily . believed. He says a hawk caught a ' J chicken and he went to shoot the hawk while flying away, and the erirl being between him and the hawk he shot her. ij' The ball took effect midway between * AfAci Tamao In rinnr 4r? 4 o <1 Vioro to awaiting court Lee Davis died at n St. Peter's hospital at Charlotte Fridav >n afternoon. He was about 24 vears old and a native of Gaston county, livinar three miles north of Gastonia. In 18% "" he enlisted in the 13th infantry, Co. E. TT. S. army, at Richmond, and was state tioned at Fort Porter. New York. Tn id 1898 he went to Cuba, and on the 1st ?e day of July was shot through the body Is at the charpre of San Juan Hill. After a few months' stay at the Kev West ul hospital, he returned home, and eariv . in 1899. went to Manila. He returned from Manila in February, 1900. affected n with chronic diarrhoea, and has since t* been an invalid. At times he hoped to e- fully recover. Over a month aero he went to the hospital at Charlotte, but in relief did not come. He was buried at 5s Shi'nh. near Gastonia. Saturday. Dr. J. C. Galloway and Rev. .T. "L. Cromer [(j conducted the funeral exercises. His parents. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Davis, died while he was vouner. He leaves one brother. C. M. Davis, of Charlotte, and one sister. Mrs. Sallie Mast, of Oklahoma. re St THE GAFPXEY RESIGNATIONS. ;e TIteIr IntercHtlnsr Effect lT|?on the )e Polltlenl Situation. e- Editor G. R. Koester. of the Columbia ?). Record, who was at Gaffney last Saturir day. wrote a most splendid account of Si the meeting:, and in The Record of Monday drew conclusions as follows: )0 But one other thinpr. and we are through with the speeches. Tn his first fierht. Tillman appealed to class prejuw dice and arrayed country aprainst town, ly As the father of the famous forty le movement, McLaurin effaced that class to bitterness and brought about a restora38 tion of good feeling. Tillman knows be [?. cannot in this fight array those two elements again in hostile camps, so he has tried a variation of his old game. His Oaffney speech was a shrewd and I" artful, but demagogic, attempt to stir \ip the factory operatives to hatred of is the officers and owners of the mills, d He tried to make out that he was the >t champion of the operatives and that ig McLaurin represented the interests of .j. the rich men who build and control fack0 tories. This appeal to class hatred is j. more dangerous than his first, and more ' fraught with evil consequences to South Carolina. Should he succeed, the harm done this state will be incalculable. All true lovers of South Carolina should band themselves together-to prevent a successful outcome of this new appeal to class prejudice, for should it succeed everybody in South Carolina will suffer. The policies McLaurin represents, if successful, will benefit the mill owners and officers, but to an even greater extent they will benefit the operatives and all other classes of citizens, by increasing the general prosperity of the state, increasing the demand for cotton, enlarging the home markets for the small products of the farms and enlarging the demand for labor. Now for the resignations and their effect. It was shrewd politics on both sides. From Tillman's standpoint the situation can be summed up easily. Tillman does not underestimate either McLaurin's ability or following. He knows that none of the men suggested as candidates against McLaurin is able to cope with him, so he manufactured an invitation for himself and threw himself into the breach at Gaflfney. He knows better than any one else except McLaurin, the strength of McLaurin's position, and saw how fast he was gaining a following throughout the state. He realized that if McLaurin could continue his campaign of education until the primary of 1902, making occasionally such speeches as those at Charlotte and Greenville, he would be in an impregnable position before the primary of 1902, and so Tillman determined to attempt to crush McLaurin before his movement had gathered momentum. He would entrust this effort to no political child or lightweight, but devolved it upon himself as the very strongest man among the opponents of McLaurin. He threw up his seat*in the senate, and will claim it was an act of pure patriotism. It was not. It was simply a sharp political trick to save his power. If McLaurin were elected, he knew it would be the end of Tillman, and he believed he was the only man who could cope with McLaurin. On the other hand, McLaurin is on the whole a gainer from the Gaffney incident. It will bring the campaign on in an off year when there will be no entangling county politics to complicate the issue. It will be a clean, clear-cut, straight fight between him and Tillman. The result of forcing an earlier primary means that there will not be forty or fifty candidates for state offices trying to get a chance to speak at each meeting. There will be plenty of time for discussion, and all McLaurin wants is full opportunity to get his views before the people and be judged by them. Public sentiment will force a race between the two. Tillman will be a candidate for re-election to the seat he has resigned, and McLaurin will offer for election to the same place, so that one or the other will have to stay at home after the votes are counted. There are a number of other men who would like to be senators; but as they did not have the couraee to come out and run against Tillman last year, but suffered his re-election without opposition, they should keep out of the way now and give a fair field to the man who had the courage to tackle Tillman and bring him to bay. If those others want to go to the senate, thev have nothing to hinder them going into the race for the seat McLaurin resigned. The people should force them to do so and let there be a souare test between Tillman and McLaurin. A man so lost to selfrespect and the proprieties of the occasion as to force himself into that race when there is another ooen for him, should be souelched. and we believe there are few stumps in the state where such an one would be given a hearing. It will be a great battle. The political education South Carolina will receive from the contest will be of incalculable value. In conclusion. "Lay on. McDuff. and damned be him who first cries, 'Hold, enough!' " PORTO RICO AND THE PHILIPPINES The Conatttntion Does Not Necessarily Follow the Flng. In the decision of the United States supreme court on the Porto Rican tariff question, rendered last Tuesday, the government won a complete victory. There were several constitutional questions before the court; but the main one whether or not congress has the right to legislate for Porto Rico ana me jrmuppineo as mc v.uuuniv?? existing in these possessions may require. and regardless of the constitu[ tional limits to legislation for the United States. There were three of the Porto Rican eases, all involving the^ame questions from one standpoint, but different questions from another standpoint. For instance. one grew out of the collection of tariff duties after the occupation of Porto Rico and before the ratification of the peace treaty. The second grew out of the same proposition after the ratification of the peace treaty and before the enactment by congress of a law providing for the collection of duties. and the third developed after congress had passed tariff laws for Porto Rico. The court held that duties collected prior to the passage of the Foraker act were illegal. The decision was against the government; but was of little importance, as it applies only to a short interval and conditions that cannot exist again. It was the last case, testing the constitutionality of the Foraker act. that was of vital importance. Oa^uaI "D TinwnoQ Imrmrtorl r* lot nf bananas from Porto Rico, and upon their arrival in New York had to pay, under the Foraker law, duties amounting to 15 per cent, of the Dingley act. He tried to recover the money on the constitutional ground that "duties, imports and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States," and there came up the question whether or not Porto Rico was a part of the United States under the constitution. The court was closely divided, standing five and four. Justice Brown rendered the controlling opinion and was sustained by Justices White, Shiras, and McKenna, on different grounds. Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Harlan, Brewer and Peckham dissented in long opinions. The opinion of Justice Brown is too long for publication in full; but the meat of it will be found in the last paragraph which covers the whole expansion question: "Patriotic and intelligent men may differ widely as to the desirableness of this or that acquisition; but this is solely a political question. We can only consider this aspect of the case so far as to say that no construction of the constitution should be adopted which would prevent congress from considering each case upon its merits, unless the language of the instrument imperatively demands it. A false step at this time might be fatal to the development of what Chief Justice Marshall called the American empire. Choice in some cases, the natural gravitation of small bodies toward larger ones in others, the result of a successful war in still others. may bring about conditions which would render the annexation of distant possessions desirable. If those possessions are inhabited by alien races, differing from us in religion, customs, laws, methods of taxation and modes of thought, the administration of government and justice, according to Anglo-Saxon principles, may for a time be impossible, and the questions ought not to be made for a time, that, ul timately, our own theories may be car- bv ried out, and the blessings of a free th government under the constitution ex- In tended to them. We decline to hold cc that there Is anything In the constl- sc tutlon to forbid such action. la "We are therefore of opinion that the ss Island of Porto Rico is a territory ap- B; purtenant and belonging to the United cc States; but not a part of the United sh States within the revenue clause of the ai constitution; that the Foraker act is b< constitutional, so far as it imposes du- ol ties upon imports from such islands, T and that the plaintiff cannot recover a< back the duties exacted in the case, st The judgment of the circuit court is therefore affirmed." Hi P' ai JONES RESENTFUL TOO. ln m Want* South Carolina to Elect a ol Man Who Will Submit to the n< Doniiea. ^ At Memphis, last Tuesday, August 01 Kohn, the Columbia corresdondent of C? The News and Courier, saw United ai States Senator James K. Jones, chairman of the National Democratic exe- C cutive committee, and had a talk about the resignations of Senators Tillman m and McLaurin at Gaffney. Senator tl Jones said: p! "The purpose of the double resignation is to submit to the people the ^ question whether they favor strict ad- a] hesion to Democratic principles or p( whether they favor an abandonment of ai them, while keeping up the Democratic a< party only in name and adhesion to 01 Republican principles. As to the I" course this thing should take I must f say that the time has come for the peo- " pie of South Carolina to say whether they approve of Senator McLaurln's ^ course or not. The time has come for P the people to speak out and say wheth er they prefer to have Republicans masquerading as Democrats. I cannot suppose there is any doubt of the re- jv suit. The Democratic party does not .* care to have men pretending to be Democrats, while endorsing Republi- p can principles and policies. This talk h about the encroachment of white Republlcanism in the Southern States . has been general and going on so long ? that it is now the duty of some rep resentative State to speak out square- p ly and have it settled by the people H whether we will remain Democratic or . under false pretences go to the Republican party while calling ourselves .. Democrats. The opportunity to speak N out Is now offered to South Carolina, u and I do not believe there will be any R more of this talk when she is heard from." ? . ? b: McLAURIN TO JONES. H of Ont of the Queiition to Make Campalgn in Anfrnat. ^ Senator McLaurin has written the aj following letter to Colonel Wilie Jones, chairman of the Democratic executive ~ committee. Colonel Jones, in a recent lg interview, suggested that the campaign fr be in August. Senator McLaurin does not want a summer campaign, as he jj distinctly stated at Gaffney. However, g he is in the fight to the finish and calls b< the chairman's attention to the conditlons: y Dear Colonel Jones: I note in today's tr paper that you speak of the campaign G between myself and Senator Tillman th beginning about August 1st. This is ai entirely out of the question so far as I th am concerned. I made it a point to w date the resignation September 15th, be- p< cause I knew that it was absolutely impossible for me to canvass the state un- vs til the weather becomes cooler. I re- K sighed in good faith to submit this th question to the voters of South Caroli- m na. I want fair treatment and an op- o 1 portunity to present my case to the tr people. Senator Tillman intruded him- m self into this fight. I am ready to fight gi to a finish, but want no "draw" or "fouling." My suggestion would be, as th congress does not meet until December in ' 4th, that the committee request Gover- er | nor McSweeney to withold action un- O , til the result of the primary is announc- w I ed. And then appoint the man receiv- c? ing the highest number of votes. Let O 1 the legislature elect my successor, as it th is only for a short time, or let you gen- ce tlemen who desire to contest arrange lo ! your canvass entirely apart from mine th and Tillman's. in I would also suggest that you permit lo he and I to arrange the schedule for our it; meetings. It is my desire to conduct a bi clean, decent canvass, free from per- fa sonalities, if permitted to do so: but I w am reUdy to take what comes. I wish lo it distinctly understood, however, that m I cannot entertain the idea of canvass- m ing in August, and that one man at a time is all I care to fight. I had enough G of the four to one business in 1897. I th appeal to you as a man and chairman sa of the party for fair play. cr The reason I suggest withholding ac- si ? ?A?)OTo*lnno until ci ftor thp Si IIOII Oil out I wignauuiio M?vu wv. ---primary is that there are many postof- w flee and other matters of interest to the w state, among which I might mention CI the Charleston exposition, which de- w mand the attention of a senator. To take away from the state this protec- th tion for even six weeks may cause trouble. I do not carc personally, however, th what is done about this, but think it a my duty to mention it. le Yotirs respectfully, d< John L. McLaurin. H< _ . he McSWEEXEY AT CHICKAMAIGA. T< The Governor Pays n Splendid Tribute to the Confederate Soldier. Governor McSweeney's presentation tr speech at the South Carolina monu- be ment on the battlefield of Chickamau- ut ga, May 27, was as follows: ar Fellow countrymen: More than a 1)6 generation has pased since the day of I carnage which made this spot historic, ! when foeman met foeman worthy of: his steel in this bloody contest. It was | not a conflict between hired soldiers: \v but men equal in courage and the same great race who were contending for f? principles they believed to be right. tri The heroism and the fortitude display- cr ed by the Southern soldiers in this con- p* flict has never been surpassed in the tn history of the world. He considered m that he was contending for the princi- IP pie upon which our government was L,< founded and he went into the conflict J"0 as a patriotic duty, and duty was his te watchword from Manassas to Appo- ers mattox. On no other hypothesis can you explain the privation and the suf- st fering which he so cheerfully and read- ?-? ily endured. tp This spirit of patriotism prevailed not only among the men of the south; co but the women, like the Spartan moth- "I ers of old, sent their sons and loved ones to the front with a cheerfulness 3Y1 born of a patriotism that will make rv any people great. From the first gun at Fort Sumter until arms were stacked 1 at Appamattox, they endured hardships P1 and privations with a fortitude rarely 5 equalled and never excelled. co And when the Confederate soldier ? stacked his arms and furled forever the ? flag which he had followed through victory and defeat and turned his face X homeward, shattered and worn, there ? were no vain regrets for the part he "f had played in the great drama of war: br but with a cheerfulness unparelleled sa and a spirit of life and the work of re jilding his lost fortunes, and today ^ ere is no one more ready or more wlllg to respond to the defense of our immon country than the Confederate Idler. This was demonstrated in our ,st war with Spain when Joe Wheeler tved the day at Santiago and young agley laid his life upon the altar of his >untry. It is meet and right that we lould perpetuate his memory in bronze id stone; but better still that it should i embalmed in the hearts and lives those who are to come after us. his we can do and at the same time :cept the result of the combat and ill be true to the flag. This is a proud day for South Carotia. This beautiful park has been irehased by the general government, id each state having troops engaged i tms great Dattie nas Deen asaea to ark the position of its troops. Many the states have already acted, and ?arly a half million dollars have been * cpended by 16 states for this purpose, hough today we have at least done lr duty, and today we come to dedlite this monument to the memory of ie brave South Carolinians who fought id fell on this historic spot. 4 In 1893 the general assembly of South fl arolina appointed a commission to \ cate the position of her troops, and i 1894 a commission to select suitable lonuments; but it was not until 1900 iat the means were provided to comete the work. At that session of the gislature an appropriation of 310,000 as made to erect suitable monuments, id the governor was authorized to aplint a commission of three members id they, with the governor and the Jjutant general, were to have charge ' the erection of the markers and the onument. By authority of that act, appointed as the other members of lat commission General C. I. Walker, t ' Charleston; Colonel J. Harvey Wll>n, of Sumter; and Captain C. K. Hensrson, of Aiken. I am proud that I ive the opportunity of taking part i these ceremonies and I rejoice at the msummation to which this day brings 3 in the completion and dedication of lis monument. It is a glad day for all ue sons of the Palmetto State. Deep gloom had settled upon the onfededate banner in July, 1863, for len Vicksburg had fallen and the terble battle of Gettysburg had been ' * iught. These disasters were not iough; but Confederate energy seem1 paralyzed so far as the army under eneral Bragg was concerned, for the nited States forces under Rosecrans id by force of number and superb ilitary equipment driven the army of ie west through Chtatanooga into orth Georgia. The idea was seized ion by the military authorities at ichmond to reinforce the depleted >lumns under Bragg by two divisions ' Longstreet's corps to be commanded V that old war horse, General J. B. ood. So hurried were the movements ' the reinforcing columns that Longreet could not have his artillery to :ach the battlefield of Chlckamauga; it the two divisions under McLaws id Hood were assigned to the comand of the left wing of General ragg's army. On the day of the 20th of September, 63, two giants in warfare grappled uiii ngm LU ten irutn suuime IU auii(t. The Yankee left was commanded V / that superb soldier, General George . Thomas, and to dislodge that force eneral Bragg ordered every effort to i made; but Thomas held his ground io firmly to yield the field there. The d war horse, Longstreet, pressed the ankee right and center with his oops and some of the Yankees under ordon, Granger and Wood, and by le use of twelve or twenty pieces of rtillery at an angle, the left wing of le Yankee army under Thomas gave ^ ay. This left the entire field in the jssession of the Confederates. It is a glorious reflection that the ilor of South Carolina troops under ershaw on the left and Manigault on ie right contributed so largely to this agnificent victory, and it is a matter ' history that the South Carolina oops, through Kershaw's brigade, . ade the farthest advance on Snog-ass Hill. There was not a bloodier fouglit bate in the whole war, when you take to consideration the number of troops igaged and the time of actual combat, fficial reoorts show that the killed, ounded and missing were over 33 per ;nt. of all the troops actually engaged, n the Union side the loss in this bat- v e of a number of regiments was 50 per >nt. of the men engaged, and the same " ss was sustained by the troops on ie other side, and General Longstreet his history says that his command st in two hours nearly 44 per cent of s strength. "The charge of the light igade at Balaklava has been made imous in song and history, yet there ere 30 Union regiments that each st 10 per. cent, more men at Chickaauga and many Confederate regi- v ents whose mortality exceeded this." On the night of this day it was that eneral Breckenridge, in answering ie call of the South Carolina troops, lid: "I will not say to whom the edit is due: but this is the first occaon upon which I have been allowed to eep with my troops on a battlefield hich has been fairly and thoroughly on." It was of this battle also, that has. A. Dana, assistant secretary of ar, on the field himself, sent to his ivernment this dispatch: "We have lis day met a second Bull Run." '* It is, my countrymen, to such men as lese who bared their breasts on many battlefield to the belching fire and ad of the enemy that we come to ;dicate this monument. It is a prlv;ge which we enjoy to have tuch a ;ritage as they have left us. onffhi Will Be Toughs. Spartanburg special of May 29 to the Dlumbia State: For the past two days ains passing through the city have ?en crowded with South Carolina mi:ia companies returning from Chickaoaugra park. As a rule these soldiers :tray dense ignorance of discipline id behave as they please wherever iey go. A number of these soldiers om several companies who were deined here an hour or more today aiting for train connections, swooped >wn on the fruit stand of Mrs. Mattie ughes, who runs an eating house near e depot, and also ransacked an ice earn cart belonging to a Negro, who iddles this confection in and about e depot. They managed to get off unvested. In this respect they were ore fortunate than a member of the ;e Light Infantry, of Chester, which mpany passed through the city yesrday en route home from Chickamaui. While the train was coming down 'sterday afternoon, at Campobello ation, on the S., U. & C. road, this Idler from Chester threw a rock rough the depot at that station. He so vilely insulted some ladies of that mmunuy wno were ai me uepuu mc agistrate of that place wired the chief police here to arrest this soldier, hose name Is TV. K. Nuttall. Chief ?an obeyed the Instructions and upon e arrival of the train from Ashevllle e culprit was placed In custody. This ornlng the matter was compromised r Nuttall paying a fine of $30 and all u. sts. 'REMINISCENCES OF YORK." XT E have on hand a few sets of V THE ENQUIRER containing the tEMINISCENCES OF YORK," emaclng 22 numbers, which we offer for ^ le at FIFTY CENTS a set. L. M. GRIST & SONS.