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McLAURIN LOSES SUIT. Suit in United States Court Ends in Verdict Against Former Sena tor For $41,639.26. In the United States circuit court in Charleston a verdict for $41,639.26 was found against ex-Senator john L. McLaurin in the suit of the Inter national Trust company of Baltimore .on a promissory note, the verdict be ing found by the jury upon the in structions of the court. The suit grows out of the indus trial ventures in which the ex-sena tor engaged upon the termination of his career in congress. As president ,)f the Brunswick and Birmingham railroad and vice-president of the Brunswick and Western Construction company, Mr. McLaurin gave his per sonal notes to the trust company, be ng endorsed however, by Frank A. ~Umtedt. who appears to have been m of the promroters the projects -with which tih ex-senator was con 3ccled. The industrial concerns seeni to have been more on paper than in fact, but the notes of Mr. Mc Laurin were valid, even if the indus -trial projects were a fraud and fail ure. and now the court orders that Mr. McLaurin shall make good the amount of his notes. The plaintiff -s-ed for $43,862.76, but there is a bal ance to the credit of Mr. McLaurin and in instructing the jury on its ver :dict the court took cognizance of this ,credit sum. Mr. McLaurin took the stand tes tifying in his own behalf. His tes -imony and that of Douglass H. Gor <don the president of the trust com pany, were the only evidence submitted at the hearing. The ex-senator seem -ed unable to prove any fraud on the part of the making of the note to the trust company, at least as far as the trust company was concerned. At the conclusion of his testimony, the defense closed its case, and the ecounse4 for the plaintiff moved the striking out of all testimony of Mr. Nl.aurin and the cross-examination of President Gordon and moved the -finding of a verdic: for the plaintiff. Ar-uments on the motion were made ov MeL.srs. Mordecal & Townsend in .1pposition, and Mr. Chesnut for the -motion, when the court directed the Uindmg of the verdict, as stated. Mr. John G. Capers is also associated with -the counsel for the defense and the lawyers for the plaintiff are Smythe, L~ee & Frost. Ministering to a Mind Diseased. Chicago Tribune. The doctor's telephone bell rang. '-Hello!" he said, applying the "phone to his ear. "Hello! Is that Dr. Kewvrum?" ''Yes." "This is Mrs. Ollerzill. O, doctor, I have such a tickling in my throat. 3 just can't endure it. I wish you'd rtome over as quick as you can and see wvhat is the cause of it." "The old hypochondriac!" he mut tered. "There is nothing on earth the matter with her, but I suppose I'll hav.e to go, as usual, Madam." he con iinned raising his voice, "what did you have for dinner?" "4Chicken pot pie." "'All right. I'll be there in a few When he visited his patient, a quar se: of an hour later, he found her coughing and wheezing, and appar etty in great pain. "No relief yet madam?" he asked. "Not a (cough) bit, doctor! It's (cough) getting worse (cough) every '(cough) minute!" "W~rell," he said, opening his case :.and taking out a small steel instru -ment with a long handle, "we'll soon r'emove the cause. People are often -trouibled in this way after eating chicken pot pie. May I ask you to supend your coughing for a moment and openi your mouth?" "Will it hurt, doctor?" Nta particle. Now close your eyes, -please." She co.mplied, and he inserted the instrument. "I see what it is madam. Hold stilL. There-that's all." "Is it over, doctor?" -XYes; you may open your eyes." *Did you find anything?" "I should say I did. Do you see this?" Hereupon he showed her a chicken leather, which appeared to be in a r.emarkable state of preservation, ev --rthng considered. Herses, IThe best the State. F ceived. Pric Quat -1 the tickling all gone. madam?' "Yes. it's all gone, doctor. I don't feel it a bit-now. I just happened to think though, that I've made a mis I take. It wasn't chicken I had for din ner, doctor. It was roast pork. 0, dear! I can feel it coming on (cough cough) again!" Then the doctor's patience gave way. "Confound it, madam!" he exclaim ed. "Why didn't you say so earlier? If you'd told me that at first I would have extracted a bristle!" Russia's Forest Lands. Though Russia's forest lands are vast in extent, she has recently adopt ed stringent measures for protecting them against the indiscriminate incur sions of the ax. Wherever trees are cut down they must be immediately replenished by young plants, unless it can be shown that the area is already so thickly covered with trees as to interfere with healthy forest growth. Each locality or district into which he forest lands are divided is placed tinder rigid supervision and no viola tion of the forest laws is permitted to escape punishment. Similar measures should be adopted in this country, where our forest lands are being rapidly denuded with the result that v:e are subjected to great danger not only in the loss of inel and timber, but also in the risks to which we are exposed at the hands of cyclones and floods. Each year the necessity of stringent measures for protecting our forest lnds is becoming more and more im perative, and we cannot do better than to imitate the,precaution of Rus Occasionally a man earns a living without getting it, but more often he manages to get a living without earn ing it. REDUCED RATES. To Spartanburg, S. 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