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i8sqbd sbkl-nbblt! L. m. grist & sons, Publishers.} % JJamitji fleicspger: Jfor the promotion of ihf political, Social, g.flricultural, and Commercial giitygte of the jgeople- ^te'ce"^''06, established I85r>. YQRKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUJSTE 18, 1902. ISSO/JCjT ' ? I - < ?>.?? U. nlll. ?..SJA.nnnn WHEN BOYS BY JOHN Y Author of "Helen's B ingtoi Copyright, 1901, by John Habberton. rw * nmnn f? ^ drii^n v. THINGS SLOW AND LIVELY. fITHIN a few days oui company was organ Ized. and we recruit! were gathered int< tents of our own. Bu we- continued to b< thoroughly miserable The cavalry camj seemed such a shift less, do uothing place for all wh( were not recruits that I thought seri ously of writing a private letter t< President Lincoln suggesting that h< should have this large and lazy bod: of men go on.t and kill some rebels o do something else that would help em the war. It seemed to me that the mei I saw lounging about me could not pos sibly be the same who had been all tin talk of the post when the Ninety-nintl was there. We recruits did very little lounging i We were drilled pretty steadily In tin use of u saber, a weapon which did no feel or act anything like we had sup posed. For days it seemed too heavj and clumsy for me ever to use to anj purpose, and I doubted whether 1 evei should be able to injure the Confeder acy or defend mj-self by any of th< I hclu ld an odd vpcclticlc. thrusts, points or cuts of the manual of arms 1 told Cloyne so one day, and he replied: That's the reason you're being taught. Thero'd be nonsense in teaching you if you already knew how." The regiment-that is. the new companies had no horses, and we Summerton boys would feel very dismal when we saw tbe older companies mount and go off on a scouting trip, as they did at least once a week, while we. instead, were marched out to drill or set to work on the stables, which were so many and large that It seemed they never would be tlnished. There were 12 of them, and each was more then 3U0 feet long and required IOC thick 10 foot posts, which had to be cut in tbe forest, besides hundreds of smaller ones for the roof and to divide tbe stalls. Many of the men made up their minds while this work was going on that a soldier's life was a dog's life, and they proved their sincerity by acting like dogs?growling, suarling, skulking and fighting. During this wretched experience ol cavalry life my spirits were strengthened frequently by observing the Imperturbable manner of Hamilton, listening to Cloyne's sensible comments on whatever occurred and admiring the loyal spirit of little Crainard. to whom whatever the government did through auy of Its olheials seemed entirely right. Whenever my mind was troubled because 1 didn't understand the full meaning of everything that was done or left undone Brainard would remind me that If I knew everything about the war 1 probably wouldn't be a private soldier, but general of the army o perhaps president of the Uuited States, "Leave something, a little something to the colonel or the war departmenl or at least the president," Braiuard would say. "If you could do and manage everything, as you seem tc wish, the higher ofBciuls wouldn't havt anything to do but draw their pay don't you see?" There was some truth In this, and such a remark would generally pacifj me for a few hours. 1 think, however thut 1 got most comfort out of mj spurs and the Joy I anticipated for th< time when I should have a horse and tickle his flanks. My father had nevei allowed one of his horses to be touched with a spur?my experience with old Itover was unknown to him?so then was a pleasure in store for me. Anc what spurs they were! 1 had broughl fpam Vfiro VapL? Tltnt? n'Drf "Mexicans," the wheels nearly thre< Inches in diameter, with points as lonf as a shingle nail, and they gave out t bell-like jingle as 1 walked, which was such sweet music to my ear that I never was without them. 1 even won them to bed. for, as no oue remove* any of his clothing when lying dowi for the night on the floor of his tent where was the use in takiug off one's spurs? One night this question was an swered to some extent. Our tent wai round, and the 15 men who lived in i slept with heads toward the outsidi and feet to the center. By early No vember the nights were so cold that i man needed a blanket as well as hi: uniform to keep him warm. Severa . WERE MEN. lABBEflTON. abies," "George Washii," Etc. recruits who admired ray spurs bad purchased others as much like tbera as possible of the regimental sutler or r storekeeper, and they wore them con* tlnually. Oue evening after our tentful 3 bad enjoyed a private supper of fricas5 seed goose, purchased from a colored * woman, we all lay down peaceably to ' sleep. Whether the geese?there were two of them ?were underdone or too 5 rich for men whose ordinary supper was dry bread and sauce of dried ap> pies I don't know, but some of us were * affected In our dreaius very much like J small children after Christmas dinner i aud unlimited caudy. How the trouble 1 y began I do not know, but I awoke r from a dream of being heavily shackled 1 In a rebel dungeon to find a terrible i uproar and struggle going on in tbe 1 tent, which was as black as Egjpt dur- 1 > ing the plague of darkness. To make I j matters worse, the most serious part ' of my dream seemed still In operation. , for 1 could not liberate my feet when 3 I tried to crawl away from the center. 1 t "What blanked cuss has been tying ' . our feet together?" roared one man. j "Let go of my blanket," shouted an- 1 j other, "or I'll break your head!" 1 f "You're a nice one to talk." said a I third, "when It's you that's making all i > the trouble!" ' Meanwhile 1, who had Just awoke 1 and didn't know anything about the i difficulty, was being dragged one way 1 and another by my feet, so 1 raised my own voice and complained of unfair i treatment. i The din awoke the first sergeant, one 1 of the only two uoncomraissloued offi- I cers yet appointed for our company, I and he opened the tent flap and roared: 1 "Keep quiet here or I'll send you all < to the guardhouse!" 1 "I'd bo greatly obliged, sergeant," 1 said Brainard plaintively, "If you'd send me there right away. If only to get out of this frightful snarl." "Strike a light," said the sergeant. Hamilton, who always carried matches. scratched one and lighted the candle. which was in a socket on the tent pole; then, as I struggled to a sitting posture. I beheld an odd spectacle. Nearly all the men in the tent seemed bound together by the feet by blankets or held down by blankets stretched I tightly across their legs. After each man had Investigated for himself a little while It appeared that the men . with Mexican spurs, like all the others, had been tossing uueasily in their sleep, all 014 account of the goose supper, and had worked the point of their spurs , through the blankets over their feet As the blankets greatly overlapped one 1 another at the center, a spur as often , as not had contracted an entangling al, liauce with some other fellow's blanI ket. and the harder the wearer tried in , bis sleep to free himself, tossing and I straining, the worse became the mis- J , ery. 1 , "Unloose yourselves!" said the ser- t 1 geant. i , "Unloose thunder!" shouted a big ex 1 > drayman from New York. "You can't i -Ill U...1 .1... 1 1 ( unloose n tie till you nuu me vuu. auu . , tlie ends of these blankets Is all inside . somewhere." "Re jabers." grunted aD Irishman. , "1 belave some spalpeen has stole the inds and tuk 'em away." We picked and pulled and tugged and > lost our tempers, and the few men who , weren't in the tangle drew out of the crowd and laughed and jeered. Pinal , ly one desperate man drew his pocket i knife and began to cut himself loose. , The others followed his example, and , nfter tive minutes of hard work we , were free, with an immense heap of .woolen rags In the center of the tent I and a hard tuft on each spur to tell I how the wretchedness began. , "No spurs in bed hereafter." said the I captain, who had come over to see the . fun and was nearly choking In an ef. fort to keep dowu his laughter and his dignity. It took an hour of time next day to get the fragments of blanket from my spur wheels, and I wasn't t helped by the fellows who sat around I ami said I was to blame for the whole I row. for no one would have bought > those infernal spurs if I hadn't set the f example. CHATTER VI. I AT I.AST. PNE night ns we were I falling asleep just after taps the first sergeant i eaine to our tent anil "All men turn out to draw revolvers und am- i munition. The whole ; regiment startson scout 1 right after breakfast in the morning. 1 t The horses will reach camp tonight." 1 i And that glorious, soul thrilling or- i i der was delivered In ns careless tones ; as If the sergeant had merely come In i for a man to carry wood for the cook, i 3 I made up my mind that the sergeant I was not the man for his place and that i thi' captain showed himself unfit for 1 his business by appointing such a man. 1 Nevertheless I hurried to the ser, gcaut's tent, and my soul thrilled with 1 3 patriotic Joy as 1 saw the great wooden box full of revolvers of the heaviest - caliber. 1 knew something about rea vol vers, my father having Invented t one and allowed me to help him In e some of his experiments. I mentally - made the calculation right there that 1 if each man In the regiment fired only s one shot at close quarters, which is all 1 the revolver is fit for in war, there # would be about 1.000 fewer effective meu Id tbe Confederate army by the time we returned. Besides tbe revolver eaeb man received a bolster, to be worn at tbe belt, a cartridge box aud a box for percussion caps, for tills was before tbe days of metallic cartridges. When the sergeant began to Issue ammunition, bowever. bis language suddenly beame unfit for publication, for tbe department quartermaster, who was 30 or 40 miles away, had by mistake sent carbine car? ?1 ?? I-IIAII rt f rtrt 1 * nn/1 TfTAHA #Q?* fAA UiU?crs>, VYUIV.U, ui tuuioci nc?c iui ww large for revolvers. The sergeant reported the fact to the captain, while big Pat Callahan, of whom I had seen as little as possible, recalled old times by saying it was "all the gov'inent's fault, an' If the gov'meat's brains was turned Into gunpowder there wouldn't be enough to blow It to"-perdition. The captain used language which proved that he was not a member of the church, but suddenly he dived into the big box In which the pistols had come and drew forth a ballet mold. "Does any oue here know how to load revolvers with loose ammunltiouV" he asked. "Aye. aye, sir," said Cloyne, touching his hat. "1. too." said 1. "And I." said Hamilton. "Good!" said the captain. "You three break up carbine cartridges, make a U? -! W..IUAM nil ikn lire, reiuuiu iue uuneio auu iuuu an iuc pistols. Six shots apiece will be better than none. Sergeant collect the revolvers." Then tbe men returned to their tents, more than half of them joining big Pat Callahan In cursing tbe government Hamilton and I began breaking cartridges. while Cloyne started a fire near the cookhouse and looked for something in which to melt the lead. After much searching he settled on one of the cook's frying pans. Then he had to boil the bullets in water to get the grease from them, so an hour passed 3efore we had any new bullets. That job of loading pistols hung on imazingly. Some of the cylinders did not work well, so we had to "nurse" them, for it would never do for any man to be without a pistol in the face :>f the enemy. I became so sleepy that [ had to pinch myself to keep awake, nee in awhile Cloyne did not close the mold tightly before pouring the end, so the balls would be a little too .?J Down beside rue came Mick McTwyny. arge to fit the cylinders, and we tried :o uiake them smaller by scraping the sides with our pocketknivcs. Daylight began to dawn, and still 20 or more revolvers remained unloaded. Keveille blew, the captain came to look on, spoke impatiently and then said we were doing very well. Breakfast call sounded, and the men got not mly their breakfast, but three days' rations to pack in their haversacks. Still wp had Rome unloaded Distols. Then one man after another came up and told about the horses and made , tue almost wild with anticipation and fear, the latter because they said each man was allowed to select his horse, so what would be left for us but the poorest uags of the hundred? Finally the last revolver was charged. 1 I went at a double quick pace to the 1 cookhouse for my breakfast and ra- ' tions. The latter consisted of hard tack ' ind a great piece of pork. How was I to put that lump of fat into my haver- 1 sack? I had not even a bit of paper, 1 much less a saucer or box. I settled ' th" matter by throwing it away. Fat pork was disgusting stuff anyhow. Then, eating as I ran, I hurried to the ! stable. The stable orderly looked at me, , grinned most offensively and pointed , to the only horse that remained. I went into the stall to look at him, but . got out again just in time to save myself from a kick. There was no time to be lost, for most of the men had already mounted and were being cursed Into some sort of line In the company street. "Fall in on the extreme left!" roared ( the captain. I obeyed orders, being near there already. A mounted sergeant was already there, but he was not there a moment later. lie went to the hospital with a compound fracture of the lower leg, caused by the hoofs of my horse, and he never saw active service again. As we sat there and were again brought to some semblance of line, the captain remembered that he had not yet appointed uis run compic-mem u; noncommissioned ofiicers. The company was entitled to eight sergeants and eight corporals, of whom only Ave sergeants had been designated, and one of these had been sent to the rear by my horse. Of corporals we had none. "Who loaded those pistols?" asked the captain. "Cloyne. Hamilton and Frost," replied the tirst sergeant. "And Brainard." said 1 from the left. "Cloyne." Raid the captain, "you will net as sergeant; Hamilton, sergeant? and commissary: Frost"? How did my jacket buttous succeed In holding In my tieart during that glorious second of anticipation? I forgot every annoyance and disappointment of the past Military ability, even if only displayed in loading revolvers. wus to be recognized and rewarded. The captain was a splendid fellow. I wanted to order three cheers for him at once, but just then a familiar grating voice rose from the center or me line. "1 was promised to be sarjint mesilf. Didn't I recruit sivlnteen mln?" "So you did. McTwyny," said the captain, looking at the ruffian a moment before he spoke. "Well, you shall be the remaining sergeant Frost first corporal: Brainard, second corporal"? The captain continued through the list of corpora Is. and my heart sank. "J was better to be corporal than private, but to have had my expected honor snatched from me by some one else and that somebody Mick McTwyny?to have Mick for ray official superior! Oh, it put uiy spirits to flight and some of my patriotism tried to go with them. "Sergeant McTwyny to his post!" shouted the captain. Down beside me came Mick McTwyay. Oh. if he had but been there when 1 first arrived and bis leg Instead of the other sergeant's had been broken by my horse! Still he was there now, aDd so was my horse. I could hope. From the parade ground, where the colonel and adjutant sat mounted, a L uooomhltt" fho a\crnn 1 UUglf UIOY IUC uogtujw.j, bMv for forming line. "Atten-tJon!" the captain roared. "Serjeant Cloyne, front! You will command the third platoon. From the right count fours." "One. two. three, four; one, two three, four," ran down the line In rapid succession. "Forward!" blew the colonel's bugler. "Fours right, march!" shouted the captain. "To the left, march!" We obeyed orders as well as we could according to the tactics In which we had been drilled on foot. Between the tops of the tents we could see the other companies filing out of their respective streets and forming column in the road in front of camp. There was some trouble and a great deal of profanity, which began to seem an army necessity, as different captains endeavored to take place in column according to seniority and were hindered by other captains whose lines of march crossed their own. Some of the men in the newer companies got dreadfully mixed up and made a lot of trouble before they were set to rights, for they were not accustomed to horses, much less to riding. Finally, however, the whole force was in columns of fours in the road, and when the adjutant, learning this by galloping down the flanks, signaled the colonel, the latter had his bugler once more sound "Forward!" "Forward!" repeated the bugle of each of the 12 companies. "Forward!" shouted each captain. With a confused trample of horses' hoofs, clank of sabers, rattle of carblues, jingle of spurs, a jumble of "Whoa!" "Git up!" "G'long!" and "Durn ye!" from the recruits and In a great halo of dust the regiment was off. And yet ?a regiment two-thirds of whose men had never seen their horses until that morning and half of whose recruits had never before been on horseback, who had to have their pistols loaded for them and who bad never been drilled together nor taught even the simplest company movements on horseback! Well, 'twas the way with hundreds of other regiments during the earlier years of the war, and 'twas nobody's fault apparently. As a nation we could bring men together faster than wr could arm and drill them. Fortunately for us, our neighbors at the south were having the same ill luck. TO RB PONTINTTHD. JOFRNALIST DECORATED. In Coimeqnonre Lohpk IIIm Position on a Ne\v?])nprr. Cal O'Laughlin, of the New York Herald Washington staff and one of the well-known correspondents at the ftapltal, has been decorated by the czar of Russia, but has heen obliged to sever his connection with The Herald as a consequence. Count Cassini, Russian ambassador to the United States, is a warm personal friend of Mr. O'Laughlin, who reciprocates the feeling and who has written many nice things about the Russian ambassador. O'Laughlin considers Cassini the ablest member of the diplomatic corps at Washington and has not hesitated to say so in his articles. At the suggestion of the count the emperor of Russia conferred upon Mr. O'Laughlin the order of St. Stanislaus and forwarded to him a little bit of ribbon which is worn as the insignia of membership in the order. James Gordon Bennett, owner of The Herald, who is in Paris, heard of the , Incident and was displeased. He ini i mediately cabled the following: L'al O'Laughlin, Washington: ta Will tjlVC until I1CAL MaiUIUUJ return decoration. Bennett. Mr. O'Laughlin replied by cable on the same day: James Gordon Bennett. Paris: Will give you until next Wednesday to get man for my place. O' La ugh lin. Mr. O'Laughlin said: "I think Mr. Bennett should at least have given me an opportunity to explain how the decoration happened to be conferred. I could not very well return it after I had accepted it. That would have been a discourtesy of which I am sure even Mr. Bennett would have not have approved." It is said that Mr. O'Laughlin has already recevied offers from several prominent papers. His place on The Herald has been given to Robert Patchin, late of the Washington Times. Commenting on the incident editorially, The Herald takes the position that its correspondent had no right to place himself under obligations to the Russian embassy by accepting the decoration, thus crippling his usefulness as the representative of an independent journal. A. CONFEDERATE RECORD. w be An Old. Deb Feels Delicacy About Receiving Favors. te The following lines, written for the Dallas (Tex.) News, by W. L. Sanford, 1 he were suggested by the recently discussed proposition looking to the admission of fir ex-Confederates into Federal soldiers' homes: My record's such that I should somewhat hesitate to go th And seek admission to the home for Federals, for you know tr I chanced to be with Johnston when McDowell made a play ca ... -- ~ J J .. til MO rid ine earin 01 rsetiuresa.ru, auu ?u we ninaucu mat nay. 'Twas at Manassas Junction, which the Federals called Bull Run, re And In the stirring summertime of Eighteen Sixty-One. ar The government officials and society turned out hs From Washington to see us run In Ignominious rout en They found us without searching, and before the day was done al That gay assemblage burnt the wind In flight to Washington. so Oh! there was wild confusion, and the thoroughfare of old gl Was strewn for miles with fans, silk hats and epaulets of gold. 1? Three thousand killed and wounded were the only ones who stayed. wl And so I am embarrassed by the record that we made. is ar And then I was at Seven Pines and at Mechanlcsvllle; pi At Gaines's Mill and Frazier's Farm and bloody Malvern Hill. vvi For seven days the battle raged, and when Its wrath was o'er Hi Abe Lincoln said he needed Just three hundred thousand more. w But scarcely had we rested, when, again at old Bull Run, ..j We hurled Pope's shattered columns In defeat to Washington. . a He tried to drive a wedge of steel 'twtxt Lee and Jackson's corps. or Then Lincoln found he needed Just six hundred thousand more th To quell the rebel rising in the fierce secession states, t> And then he had no surplus men, as history relates. er And later on at Fredericksburg, with Burnside in command, ca They rashly stormed the flaming heights where we had made a stand. Twelve thousand dead and wounded wis the penalty they paid? wl And I'm somewhat embarrassed by the record that we made. ga is ' And then, as hick would have it, I was with the daring throng That bayed Joe Hooker's army, trenched, one hundred thousand strong. We had one-third his number, but that mattered not, for we Were led by grim old Stonewall, and the great commander, he y? Who, in soft slouched hat of brown and faded cape of gray, Was worth full fifty thousand men on any battle day! When Jackson gave the order, his immortal veteran corps Shot by and flanked the enemy by fifteen miles or more, si And burst upon his right and rear, in their historic way, While Lee with fourteen thousand kept the battle front that day. We scattered them like chaff, although outnumbered three to one? 5C They faded from our vision like the mist before the sun. th We didn't leave enough to make a decent dress parade; N And, therefore, I'm embarrassed by the record that we made. ja ' ' " ? *?-1 ??" *-n..Kln In IVio onrlnc of SlxtV-Four. Ana men ? iiau oumc ttuuw?^ a ? _ When Grant appeared upon the scene and pushed his forces o'er The Hapldan toward Richmond. And the journey, I would state, S Consumed eleven months, although the distance Is not great. P' He might have made It In a week, but found along the way ch Some serious Impediments in the ragged coats of gray. ar We met him at Cold Harbor in the blithesome month of June, co Our uniforms were faded, but our muskets were In tune! te The hand of the dread angel that smote Egypt in the night lr Was not more deadly than the hands we lifted In that fight. m He charged, recoiled; then stormed again and failed with all his power, Pi And lost ten thousand on the field In less than half an hour! pc Such deeds seem super-human, and their memory will not fade, ti< And that's why I'm embarrassed by the record that we made. ?-? ? fa THE RACE FOR SENATOR. and the press that forced McLaurln's co triumph. Another element believes te; A Critical Review of the Pronpect* that Evans was the undeserving victim do of the Several Candidates. of John T. Duncan In the race when co The following review of the candl- Earle was elected and that atonement Hi dates In the coming primaries from the Is due him. Evans alone of the candl- ca . r\* thA rJotoa woa a vnln'nteer In the SDanish Clear neaueu auu juuitmi cuuwi ??. uu?.v*? ..M ??. Laurens Advertiser, is of interest at war and some young men will vote for of present: him on that account. And yet?it is too is From this, the core of the Piedmont, long a story to detail why?The Adver- mi how does the. race for senator look tiser is convinced that a majority of yo now, as the campaign is about to open? the voters has already sealed a verdict se< Does Latimer get the Jump? Or John- that he shall not be senator. There is th stone, Hemphill, Henderson, Evans or a story that at the Union "Summer tr) Elliott? Let tne picture be exposed not School" meeting last year, Mr. Latimer 8U as The Advertiser would wish it, but as who, we believe, joined in an appeal ,,e it actually appears to The Advertiser for the election of Evans after the first after looking over the field. We speak primary in 1896, when Earle was lead- w' mainly of appearances in Laurens and ing, said that he voted for McLaurin in the Piedmont. 1897. and explained that it "was a co Mr. Latimer seems to be the leading choice of evils" or something like that. yc candidate. Whether truly or not, he Is It was a cruel, almost brutal, thrust co thought to be Senator Tillman's man. and must have gone deep. Hence it pu Senator Tillman will perhaps openly is not surmised that Evans and Lati- ha express no preference, but there must mer are playing a funny game this !le be an impression that he has a favor- year; provided the story is true. If no ite. The Impression now is that Lati- Evans could beguile his enemies into yo mer is that favorite. It is said on the repeating the fight of 1896 against him W( other hand that Latimer is not strong it might save him. He Is more sure of ??? tka I nikot ko will trot than anv of In his own county. Anaersun wan mc ?nai "... 0" .. , ? single county which In Its convention them; but we think his opportunity has Tl took grounds against the program at- not yet come. He is young yet?not 39? pr terwards adopted by the state conven- and has a future. Any man who has ^ tion. Johnstone is strong, undoubtedly ever held four queens with a big pot s strong, throughout Latimer's old dls- on the table knows how hard it is to ?' trlct. Anderson, Abbeville, Oconee, lay them down, though the chances are Greenwood, Newberry and Pickens that the other fellow has as many aces. pe will divide between these two; and oth- Evans holds four queens, er candidates, among them Evans, will As to Mr. Henderson, an impression as pick up the leavings. Latimer has kin- is abroad that he is one of the two pa dred and strong friends in Greenville, leading candidates. We think his tn There are men in the race with whom strength his overestimated. Some peo- Ul" Latimer will not measure in attain- pie say that he is Tillman's choice w ments or speaking power, but he has rather than Latimer. He is an able pertinacity, dogged pertinacity, and is lawyer, a good speaker, a delightfully ' 0 a stayer. He has won a reputation for pleasing gentleman, whom to know one 8 getting things for his constituents. He must like. Clearly he would make a ca Is a man of independent means?has creditable senator. He hails from a been a financial success, so it is said section of the country where voters And he is thought to bask under Sen- are relatively not too numerous and ator Tillman's smile. He Is the only Colonel Elliott is from the same sec- w' farmer candidate. tion. Mr. Henderson is not familiar to ne George Johnstone is a man of power the Piedmont like Latimer, Johnstone, co ?one of the half dozen ablest men in Evans or even Hamphlll in the Catawpubllc life in the state. He has it in ba region of it. That is why we think him to trlve to the campaign a zest, a his strength is misjudged?because we ^ dash and go that no other candidate cannot now see where it lies. Of course ni! can give it. He is a great speaker he will be in the running largely, and st< and marvelously resourceful. He has he has a good showing. hii devoted friends and devoted enemies, It is very frequently said that J. J. plenty of both. How he is known in Hemphill has no chance because he has w< the old Third district, which he repre- maintained a law office in Washington sented in congress one term and has and spent most of his time in that city m< canvassed several times, has already of late years. This ought not to appeal w' been said. In Columbia, Laurens, to the broadly Intelligent and thinking at Greenville and Spartanburg he is as a voter who remembers that the district wI lawyer almost as well known as mem- of Columbia contains no citizens in a an bers of the local bars. It is possible political sense. Men who stay in w< that Johnstone will make the pace Washington must retain their citizenthroughout the running and make it ship in their states or be disfranchised, so hot that it will fret every other can- It would be absurd to regard a man as ^ dldate to stay on his trail. But John- politically dead because he has a buslstone is not regarded as a cautious or ness in Washington. Mr. Hemphill is especially shrewd politician. He might an upright, able, clean man who served it win in a rush or he might be distanced, in congress for years and made his John Gary Evans is one man certain mark deep and bold there as a national ,je to be a factor, to get a substantial vote Democratic figure. He was in Laurens in the first primary, and in The Adver- county a fortnight ago and echoes may ln tlser's opinion it is almost equally cer- be heard of the fine impression he made * *' A"J TT" nrw/\?<y ^V?n nonnlo T-Tia frtrmor ahaanno tain that ne cannot De eiecieu. nc jmo aiuuug ?...? pW a scattering of loyal friends In every in Washington is a burdensome hand!- co county, perhaps, In the state, men who cap, and unlike other candidates he Is were his friends when he was a legis- not certain of any considerable follow- c0, lator and governor and whom he has ing save from Chester county and nis w< placed under obligations. In Spartan- neighbors. On the other hand, he pos- do burg, his new home, he has made him- sesses perhaps a better senatorial self liked and respected. An element in equipment, due to experience and > the state thinks that he deserves elec- training, directed by fine talent, poise to' tion because events have vindicated his and Judgment, than any of them, and les campaign against McLaurin in 1897, as a gracious, high-minded gentleman ^ with singular accuracy?to the utter In bearing makes friends rapidly. yo confusion of the people, the politicians Hence it is by no means out of the it. icoiiuii iiiiti nc ma; niui ouuucuiinia come a prominent factor in the conBt. Colonel William Elliott, we believe, is practically no chance. He Is a st-class man too, an absolutely ralght man. Except In Charleston ere are few voters In the coast d islet where he Is strong and nobody n bank on solid Charleston in these nes. Colonel Elliott more nearly repsents The Advertiser's views than ly of them. Alone among them he is a record for staunch and outspoki adherence to what we regard as the 1 necessary Democratic principle of und money; embodied now in the sine gold standard. We honestly besve that his one escape from overhelmine and most unpalatable defeat to aggressively defend this record id vigorously strive to arouse the peoe against much that they are now edded to. He must strike out on new les and stand to a degree with those horn Mr. Bryan denounces as the teorganizers." This would be taken "thousand to one shot" but it is his ily shot. If he is content to go over e same ground as the others he will t hopelessly forgotten, for to the oths have already been dealt the good .rds. What has been written has been Ithout prejudice and somewnat reirdless of consequences. After all it only one man's views and they count r little. Yours, reader, are as worthy consideration and perhaps fhore orthy, but these may amuse or set >u \o guessing. MR. DUKES IN REPLY. / lye the Charges of the Greenville News Are Unworthy of Notice. Mr. A. F. H. Dukes, of the state >ard of dispensary control, has sent e following letter to the Greenville ews in reply to the dispensary revetions recently published in that pair: It is with reluctance natural to a sntleman that I notice, by way of rey, your scurrilous attack upon my laracter in your issue of yesterday, id shall claim small space in your ilumns for this purpose. I am connt to make general denial of the uth of your various slanders upon e, believing that a Just discerning iblic will hold in contempt the unsupirted inconsistencies and contradic)ns that you publish and have the ill to call them charges. You have lied In your effort to persuade or erce Mr. Sprinkle into giving false stimony against me. as you hoped to >, although he was a disappointed mpetitor for dispensary business, ence you were forced to rest your se upon "hear say" testimony. When you say editorially that "one the chief alms which we have in life to break down this corrupt political achine," you reveal your motive for >ur unsupported attacks upon me and em to be foolish enough to assume at your readers will believe such ansparent lies. In fact, in your ise of yesterday you admit that you d upon me twice in your issue of aril 29th, and further, if you had been illing to do the honorable thing and .d promised to publish the certified py of the records of our office which iu demanded through your Columbia rrespondent as to the amount of our irchases from Sprinkle, you would .ve seen that in confessing that you d when you charged that I purchased t 1,200 barrels but 500 barrels, that iu were telling a new lie, and you juld have been saved the mortiflca>n of having to publish Sprinkle's letr denouncing your charges as false, le only affidavit that you artf able to oduce, signed by one "Hoke," shows e kind of cattle whose aim in life it to destroy the dispensary, as the llowlng extract from same will show: 'he subject of the South Carolina disnsary law came up, and along with the natural inquiry among ourselves to the amount of rebate which was id to a member of the board of conJl by the liquor dealers." "The natal Inquiry." Why "natural?" and iy "peculiarly natural" to "ourIves?" It is "natural" for the pubto believe that the old adage, "evil he that evil thinkest," applies in this se? Apologizing to the public for digniing you by the attention that I have ven, I assure your readers that tney 11 be troubled by me with no more wspaper attention to yourself and adjutors. A. F. H. Dukes. Depend Upon Yourselves. Henry Ward Beecher, especially in 3 later life, was fond of telling this jry about his teacher, who taught m to depend upon himself: 'I was sent to the blackboard and snt uncertain, full of whimpering. " "That lesson must be learned,' said y teacher in a very quiet tone, but th terrible intensity. All explanlons and excuses he trod under foot th utter scornfulness. 'I don t want y reason why you haven't it," he )u?d say. ' 'I did study it two hours." ' 'That is nothing to me. I want e lesson. You may not study it at i or you may study it ten hours, st suit yourself. I want the lesson.' 'It was rough for a green boy, but seasoned me. In less than a month had the most intense sense of intel:tual independence and courage to fend my recitations. 'One day his cold voice fell upon me the midst of a demonstration, 'No.' hesitated and then went back to the ginning, and on reaching the same 'Mrtl ' nttnro/1 In Q tftnU Of <11L again, avi i? ? ..... nviction, barred my progress. " 'The next!' And I sat down in red nfusion. 'He, too, was stopped with 'No!' but >nt right on, finished, and as he sat wn was rewarded with 'Very well.' " 'Why,' whimpered I, 'I recited it st as he did, and you said No!' " 'Why didn't you say 'Yes' and stick it? It is not enough to know your ison. You must know that you know You have learned nothing till you e sure. If all the world says 'No!' ur business is to say 'Yes,' and prove