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- M'LAUKIN SPEAKS. [Continued from page 1] ) r?d. wgjor. lived but a few short wcls. Governor Kllcrbo tendered me Iho noiuinnion. 1 realized the radios! nature of Fome of my utterances and votes, and while I oculd not forosoc wut has hep pci.ed, 1 know my ra ure well enough to ieel certain that having onoe oulisted ia Iho fight I would never tu n heok while lifo lasted. I, therefore, rt fused to aooopt tho appointment at the hands of Governor Ellerbe unless ho would guatanteo that tho Kzeoutivo Committee would order a primary and permit the people to rass upon tho issues whioh 1 had raised. CAMPAIGN OF 1897. It is unnecessary for mo to refer to that bitter fight. You all remember tlie meeting in Greenville, wheic I was insulted, bullied and baited like some wild beast, it was a sample of some of tho rest. For myself 1 am willing to "J.et the dead past bury its dead." 1 have no ill feeliDg towards any one on account of it. 1 spoke, I believe, in awawu cnimlw in ilm Safafn mitaiiln i\f in u (1itn. vvu..v ? ^ ~ greesional District except three. 1 advocated my views not only on the tariff but on what 1 considered the real line of policy to be pursued by Southern Representatives. 1 earned about eighty per cent, of the rote cast and every county except three, whijh were lost trom local considerations by small margins. 1 w sh 1 had time to recount to the people what the rico schedule, whioh I got into that bill, has done for the rice planters on the coasts of South Carolina, tha waste places it has redeemed, the thousands of dollars it has brought into this State. What the duty on pine has done for the lumber interests, which wero being sacrificed to the white pine imported free of doty from Canada. The North, which is almost bare of timber, instead of going to Canada, but been forced to go South, and that has put thousands of dollars into this State. There is no telling what an arrangement of the schedule on cotton goods so as to prevent discrimina tion against coarse fabrics, has meant to the cotton mills of the South. COTTON I'LANTRRS SACRIFICED TO A SKNTIM KNT. This is not the place to explain what the retention of the home market means when a manufacturer seeks a foreign outlet. I will refer, however, to the duty on raw cotton, which 1 advocated at the time Cott n, corn and wheat are our great exports. Now 1 want to ask any man of reason, why it is that a duty of twenty-five ceuts per bushel is put on wheat, and fifteen ceuts per bushel on oorn, while nothing is put upon cotton? The three stand exactly upon the same basis. 11 is this, Northern Rep resentatives protect coin and wheat against importations from Canada andelsewhere, while cotton has been sacrificed to a mere sentiment. 1 think that I am the first Representative in Congress to point out the danger to the cotton p anters arising from the importation of Kgpytian cotton. Ten years ago there were no importations to speak of. The year 1 made this speech there was in round numbers fifty-six millions of pounds and last year there was almost seventy millions, an increase of nearly twenty percent. Since then two mills have been built in South Carolina (in one of which 1 am interested) using nothing but Kgpytiaa cotton. Now 1 contend, if the cotton farmers were protected like the wheat and corn planters, we could produce any kind of cotton that is needed. South Carolina is the home of the cotton plant. No cotton comes into competition with our Sea Island cotton, aud common sense tells me. that we can develop any grade needed between that and the short siaple. Ten years ago the "Allen long staple" was planted all over upper South Carolina, and 1 know of some men who bought gins especially adapted to this cotton, but they had to throw them away. Kgypiian cotton has uiitiu lucui uut ui uiv nusiucnM. i hi? n*a bills of this up country are the very place where this cotton should )>e grown, hut how can we develop it in competition with the of Egypt? What a"o we Joicg ^ resolutions to reengine arc W constru^HJf dams in the valley of tho Nile, J K which within two yearn will add one million ( and one half bates or one eighth to the cotton . crop; while weuie reducing the acreage here our competitors are increasing it, and we are to furnish the market for the increase. 1 tay, awajr with the impractical statesman- , ship which will sacrifice the crtton planters of South Carolina to those of Egypt. After 1 was elected to the Seuate 1 attempted to pursue the same line in everything, but 1 was very ill for a long time after my campaign, confined to my bed at one time for seven weeks. These terrible campaigns of ours in j the heat of summer, making speeches day , after day, sitting for four or live hours, your clothes wet with perspiration, in the sun, . and one-half the time without diuuer, th"re are but few men who have gone through with , it and not had their health impaired. 1 have , no doubt but that it shortened the days of the , gallant Earle and even rugged John lrhy. TIIK TREATY WITII STAIN. t While I was in this physical and menial , oendition, the war with Spain came on and I , had to grapple with these new question*. 1 t was sick, heart, body and soul. All that 1 w wanted was peace and to be let alone, The ] cruel taunts and sneers of "tlepubliean and ( traitor hurt me then, while i can laugh at j them now. 1 made up ray tuitid not to create >s any further issues, hut tauiely fall in and ' follow the lead of Jones, Tillman, l'ettigrew y & Co., and then to quietly retire at the tnd t of my term. My intimate friends know that c this was my intention. When they con- , eluded to defeat the treaty, 1 could not seo f what great harm could come to tho country j from forcing tho Republicans to call an extra , session. It would only postpone matters ? by one month. At the request of some of p the Democratic leaders, I made a speech, not c against the treaty but against Imperialism, j which speech was at the time, and with the . lights before me, my opinion. 1 had not drawn tho distinction between Expansion and Imperialism, and i fully intended to vote . against the ratification of the treaty, I was 0 so tired of being abused and accused of dis | loyalty to my party. At that lime, how ? ever, I contended in private that the p, rejection of tho treaty was unwise 0 even from a party standpsint. 1 bad ? then, as 1 have now, very little confidence in , the political sagacity of Senator James K. t. Jones, and 1 believe t that Senator Gorman v was at heart an Expansionist, because he c voted for the acquisition of the Hawaiian H Is'ands, and 1 suspected him of an ambition v after Mr. Bryan advised the ratification of c the treaty, to defeat it and thus supplant , him in tho leadership. Not I hat I objected H to thin, for Oorrnan a a conaervative man, 0 anil might have bet u elected President the last time, could he have commanded the no- ' ruination. However, on Sunday afternoon, the day before the treaty was to be voted upon, the news was Hashed over tho wires f, that our troops had been fired upon by the * very people whom we had freed Tom the g tyranny ofSpanish oppression.This presented a an entirely new situation and before I had d finished reading the "extra" the correspou- * dents of the New Vork Hun and 1 think of t the World, called at my house before I had L consulted with any human being, and 1 ex- r pressed this opinion, as the files of the news- I papers will show. One month of delay might p mean serious consequences to the people of s the United Htatcs. It must he remembered ti that Spain had the sympathy of cm re Ku ropo, and after the battle of Manilla nolb g ing but the tact of Dewey and the attitude h of Kngland prevented us from being forced | into a war for which we were totally unpre h pared. To defeat the treaty meant that we o were still at war with Spain, and that o ir g soldiers were intruders in the Philippine I - a land. To ratify the treaty meant n>t a sta'e of war, but a mere insurrection and deprived o other nations of an excuse for interference, o It seems to me any way, that no matter whut a the situation cr causes may he, that the only d position for a man to take when we are en- p gaged in a foreign war is to stand by bis own tl country, right or wrong. Uct me review the Isituation a moment, in the first place, I ll had not, as long as it could be avoided, beeu b in favor of the war, and had but liltlcsyinpathy with the iallaa matory addrcssi s made c in Congress, which end arraased the l'resi- S dent in his humane (florinto avert the war, s I could not out look with distrust upoL those it men who forced the war on by frantic appeals hi and then, the very moment that hostilities , a ifcton i rere begun, ciitiolsed ererj atoveraeiit tnndtr o bring war to a speedy and successful rn>l. ,t was a small and pretty pai t for cenator* 0 play. Agulcaldo bad many warmeyuipalmer* in Congreea, who ccuipared him to Oeorpe Washington" and bis half naked 'ollowers to the heroes of King's Mountai? tid lluuker'Hill Seme of them nowcansot conceal the chagrin which they feel at he oapture of Aguinaldo and the cessation of hostilitiee, It is charged that my vote rati Sed the treaty and stoppel the wa\ If so, 1 am proud of the fact, and 1 am thankful th?t I had the strength to do my duty and cast that vo*e I fear that 1 would not have had the courage to do it, had I not felt that my vote was abtolutely nececsary; but realiz iugthe farreachiDg effect and the fearful responsibility, 1 cast mi vote accordingly. 1 have never seen the day when 1 regretted it, ?uu uijf tuuurru win rcuiouiucr u aivcr i ?im iead, with pleasure and pride, as the most glorious act of my life. EXPANSION. I will not undertake to demonstiate the ivijdom of expansion, but will oontent my<elf by simply saying that we are a nation of expansionists. We have expanded during he last oue hundred yeais on this continent 'rom eight hundred thousand 10 four mi'lion Kjuare miles. Expansion is the bed-rook of Democracy. Thomas Jeifereon, the first expansion President, added 1,12*2,000square niles to our area. The annexation of Tex is, California. Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada irero by D mocrntio Administrations. Am lie w Jackson would today be denounced as m Imperialist by the very same people who est "Jackson day dinners" and worship at lis shrine. Old llicko-y said on this subect, ' 1 have thought with the ancient Italian, that it is right never to cede any territory within the boundary of the Itapublio, iut always to aid to it by honorable treity, hits extending the area of freedom." All his talk about imperialism is bosh. The lecple understand it as tho cry of 'wolf," vhen Uier^, is no wolf. When Mr. Bryan ibandoncd the money question and at emptcd to substitute ' Imperialism," he stood ibout as much chance of being elected as a i split-foot hull-'rog did of kicking all the eater out of Luke Michigan. At least, that s the opiuiou of a friend of mine. The price aid for these islands has been given as au ibjection This i? absurd. England, France, ieimany. Bosnia or Japan would pay ten imcs as much to occupy our position iu the 'hi ippine Islands l.ying as they do along he Asiatic coast, they are the gateway to the Drient. The people of the South are vitally iuer< sled in the trade of China; so far, we lave oo'y touched one of the provinces ilinister Wu, the other night in Charlotte, old of the teeming millions iu South China, ind said the great problem was to clothe the icople. They are forced to use silk to make heir clothes, hut that this was expensive and iluiost an impossibility. I am told that, or fear of wearing them out, tho Chinese rery rarely wa?h their clothes. I have leard it wittily said that the chief difference ictwcen the Chinese and Japanese is, that he former never wash their clothes and the alter never wash their body. 1 believe it sas Mr. Wu who said the other night, to eich ihe Chinese to wear cotton shirts and hen get the emperor to issue an edict to mako he tails only one inch longer, and the cotion crop of the South wou'd hs exhausted by hat one inch, and none left for Europe. If iny argument was needed to show the im fiortanco of these markets, tho effect of receDt troubles in ( liina is sufficient. Cotton goods are stacked n< in the warehouses unsalable, and when the best judges thought list fall that cotton would be twelve and onehalf to fifteen cents per pound it has declined more than three cents. 1 am an expan linnist?1 fivor the politioil, commercial and religions expansion of our country. This is ilong the line of progress. We ca-not attain a ceitain growth and then stand still. As in the individual, so in the nation We pither move forward tower Is perfection, or back wards towards decay. There are crtrin crises in the life of every mau which wind leads to success, let them pais aud the chance is lost forever. The capacity to take i Wantage of the opportunity coustiiutes the difference between the rnun who succeeds a:.d the one who fai s. and so it is with nations. have grandly seized our opportunities, and 1 for one am in favor of pushing it to the limit. During the past century we have been absorbed in testing ihe great question of constitutional reprraeulalive government ami the development of America. The time ban now come when we must have foreign tiade, and not nierelj mbeidiary to our industrial development at borne hut as necessary to our continue i prosperity. Our ri sources and population if man d world-wide avenues of trade, and we cannot separate the commercial and political elen ents involve 1. What are we to Jo with our surplus products? This is the |ue?tion engaging the attectioa of all the civilized nations of the earth The only Held unoccupied is in the Orient 1 believe [hat the time is near at hand when the cot on trade of the South wil he with the Ori mt. When our commerce on the Allauttc sill he iosginiticant compared with that of he Pncitlc Minister VVu gave us some raluable informs'ion at Charlotte. Our nanufac'urors are reaching out for this rude, and what better can I do as you Seaaor than help them. No State will reap a ichor reward than South Carolina, with all he water power and manufacturing developneiit in the Piedmont reg on, and with three inch harbors as Charleston, Georgetown aud i\>rt Royal. How can 1 better ssrve the armers of this Statt? They will share in the >enetil8 of this trade. Here is the United Itates midway between Europe ami Asia Urnost an island when the canal is cut? vith the Gulf of Mexico on the South aud he Great Lnkes on the North; the Atlantio m one side and the Pacifio on the other, and vith the people of two continents lidding 'or our products, the possibilities dazzel the magination. It is no idle dream I believe hat most of the people witbin the sound of ny voice will live to tee it realij-d We havo lecome a pacific power with 6,000 miles of oast on that ocean; with the Hawaiian slands and Aleutian Islands an resting laces, and the Philippines as a key to the 'Open Door, ' we are the only nation strong notigh to compel Russia, wiih her transihenan Kai road, to revpecc the integrity f the Chinese Empire. As Jong an the Juited .States and Japan say "No," the Chiens Empire must remain intact and the door e left open to our products When 1 think f how strangely it has all come about I cau lot but believe that the hand of God is guid ug this government, aud that he has watch d over and directed us along the path rhere lie greatness, peace and prosperity. J annot undertake to discuss the question of goieriiinout for these omlyiivg possessions; re have nettled other problems of a more omplex nature, and I cannot but believe bat a solution will be found just; humane ml satisfactory to all conoerued My vote n the Army Hill has heea att eked. ... ...r. rir.ni Iinifc rill III UAHOMMA IIAS RISKN AUOVB I'ABTY. It was ft long the line of supporting the iireign policy of this government. Let me Ay ilit here, that I hiii net the first Con riHHiiiAii from Sou in Carolina who has voted gainst his party an 1 supported the I'rest ent when it ea;ne to a <|Uestion of a foreign rar. Three of the greatest men that South arolina hue ever produced, Calhoun, >)Vtide? atid Cheves, supported the governnent against their party during the war of HI.! Chcves used these words, "rhich I re eat from the l>oitom of my heart: "Irrepeotive of parly, for the great interest of he nation." In connection with the fight now in proi ess against mo, the firrl protective tariff ill ever introduced was tiy a South Carolina {epresent .tive, Lowndes, and advocated y M r. Calhoun in one of the gratest speeches f his life, i his is not the first time that our allant ittle Slate has risen abo/e section id acted for Ihcinterebl of the nation. 'i'he Army Itill provided for a maximum of ne hundred thousand men and a minimum f sixty five thousand, and betwoen these mounts the discretion was left to the Present. At that lime the insurrection was in regress, and my common sense told me here wma but ono of two 'hings to do. other put enough men in the field to crush he rebellion, or <|iiit and come home. 1 elieved in the former plan, and so voted. Fellow citizens, there is a great deal of lap-trap talked even in the United States enato. At out one-half of those mournful peeches on the great danger of "lmperialIdi and "Militarism'' were for home conumption and the most of them were made fter comfortable beefsteak and a bottle of il .1 |<? mm *me Murum's Extre Dry." I see that since the fvbellion Is over, the 1'resiJent wyn thu ho will lake the miniuium amount. barely, fellow cltixene, 1 cou'd atfird to tru?t ? man out ({ueaiioa of that kind whom tne people the United Stabs bad elected to the Presidency Why not exetcise a little common een?e?it is a simple applic Uion of the iu e three. If an army of thirty thousand men in required for a population of Sfi.UtX) 00 I peipie, is an army of H5.000 men too much for a nation of TO,000 000T Congress has for years been spending money along the cat* and buying expensive guns, and abroUitely many of tnein are lyiug out and rusting for want of tnen mi: subsidy bill. Now, fellow-oitixens, this brings me to the much-discussed Subsidy bill. In the first place, it is astonishing to me what a misconception there is as to this matter. Thero has never been a vote on the Subsidy Bill, and yet, even tny good friend, Uenoral Butler, whom I love like a father, speaks of "McLauriu's vole on the Subsidy Bill." There never was a vote on the Subsidy Bill, and it was well understood a the time that 1 made my speech that there would not be a *oto at mat session IT I desired to deceive the people and play no uuworthy part, I migii just as woll have kept si out and not had that issue in this osmpaign; bat 1 felt that the people saouli he educated ou this important measure. My *oto was of no practical value unucr auy circumstances, because, if it cOu'd have been brought to a vote, there was a majority of eigdteen to twenty in favor the bill. I did not intend just at that time to uiake a set speech on the bill. 1 aroee in my seat te present the resolution of the Cotton Spinners' Association, and before I kuew it 1 had drifted into a speech on the general prinoiples of the bill. What is known as the Hanna l'ayue Uil has already been changed so much that the authois of the bill would uot know it if they met it in the road. There was at the time a great many amendments pending, and nobody ever hnows what a bill of th?t sort will bo until it pusses the Conference Committee between the two Houses; this bill never went so far as to get a vote, l?.t alone a confetenoe. So far as 1 am concerned, I do not profess to be a master of the subject. When you enter the roalm of ocean freights, with the relative cost of high knot and low knot speed, tonnage aud wages it takes an expert to understand, &o. Senator Frye is a very able man, and 1 do not bolieve ttere is a more honest one ia the American Congress. He has devoted tweuty-fivo \ears to the siudy of these<{uesiious, and yet 1 have no doubt that you could tind some members of the South Carolina Legislature who never saw a bigrer ship than a canoe on a mill pond, wnoknow more than Senator Frye, or anybody else, on the subject of eh pping and ocean freights only a "ntkai." wiiicn not coming thtlb way. One of the great objections to 'he subsidy is they call it a "steal." Well, fellow-citizens. that ii a very poor argumentopponet ts of the river and harbor, prstoffice, or any other bill can make t> e same charge. I was a little amused to see the head.lines of the News and Courier, "l'he Ship Subsidy Steal," when in the same week the Mayor of Chi' lesion and t he edtior of that p iper were in Washington wanting nine million dollars spent ou % naval station, and a subsidy of a quarter of a million for the Fxposition. It seems that a subsidy is onlv a "stetl when it is not coming their way. 11/ such foolish denunciations of the subsidy principle it has been difficult to gel a fair consideration Tal* about lobbies There never iia<a m ire powerful lobby in Washington than that opposed to the subsidy fcmel by the grert traus continental railroads and the foreign steamship owners. 1 may say something later on this subject which will cmbarass some people, but will refrain at this time. Tbero is nothing iu the principle of the bill itself which involves stealing, defrauding the government of sectional advantages. There may have been some abuses in granting subsidies wheu it was iu the experimental stage, hut there is no reasou now why there should be abuses. In 'ho administration of any law there is a chance of abuse, and yet the law may ho a good one; the abuses being merely TiicicfeHTtoTfrexBSuTftnr; r This is what the friends of prohibition nn?l the dispensary ench claim. Subsidies are no new theory in the South. Conventions were held during the twenty years ptseeding the war to ?ncourage the building up of the (otnmerce and industriis of the South llayue, Calhoun and McDutlie were leaditg spirits iu these cnterpr.ses. The establishment of railroad and steamship lines by government aid was advoc ited. South Carolina subsidized railroa s before the war. Two m llion dollars were given to construct he BUie Ridge Road, which has never been eomple'ed 1 think 1 on. sa. thai nearly every line of road c instructed in this State before the war was subsidized, either directly or indirect y. The Legislature ofLiuis i&ua granted a s ihsidy of $5.00 par ton for evtry vtssel of more than 100 tons built in the Sf*te Alabama give $1.<M> a ton, and exempted from taxaion all goods imported into the State from f .reign couutries. The National Government connected the Atlantic and the l'acific by subsidizing railroads aud in this policy we have une<|ualrd rail!old facilities, nod nave d.velopei our intcr.-tate traftic to such an exteut that we are now forced to setk an outlet for our sur plus proiu :ts, All that is proposed, is to follow iu developing our foreign trade the same principles thai have succeeded in our internal development. Is there anything new or strange in this? It is good common business sense What ditfereuce in prinoi pie is there between the State Government subsidizing railroads, and the Federal Government steamship lines'.' WI1AT DOES UK Y AN TIIINK Of IIIS POLITICAL PARTNER Ol lH'.Hj'.' I have in iny hand an artie'e alvooatirg subsidies by Mr. 8ewill, who was on the Bryan ticket in 1800. 1 would like to know what Mr. Bryan thinks of the "Beniocracy of his recent political partner, sines be bus atlacked mine." Twenty years ago, when we wished to develop manufacturing in South < aroiia ?, uii we not subsidize very cotton milt by exempting it from taxation? What progressive town or comity has not Bubsi diss J railroads or other euterpiises essential to its development? 1 never saw an in dividual, who ever amounted lo anything, wi.o was afraid to spend money on himself and so it is with towns, coun i s Htates and governments VOTING 8t'BSI|>IKS TO RAILKOAWS ANI' NKWSI'AI'KRB, Why should the Southern people, in the face of these facts, repudiate the spirit of ?ix tyjearsagv? What a gross inconsistency for Senators and 11 -present tti ves to denounoa the subsidy principle and endeavor to ar -use the prejudices . f the people, when nearly every one of them from the Houth taoh year votes a subsidy to the Southern Railroad for carrytug the fast ma I to New Orleans. Why, fellow citizens, they voted for a l'ostotlice Appropriation Itilt at the la->t ses siou with a eutxidy of thirty five million do! lars for carry ing tue mails. It is really a ul.sidy to the magazines and uewepapots of he country, for the receipts are that much less ihan the expenditure* for that class of mad. A subsidy of sine n iilions per year is much more defensible, in m> judgment in the development of our fortign trade. We spend millions of dollars building naval vessels, useful only in limes of war, why not build vessels useful loth in war and peact? livery vessel accepting the subsidy is a part nf llii nan In llm> -* ? vl. ? > ... iii.iv v. rrr?i. 1UV l|l|l'9ll(in 11 not in lo the principle of iho subsidy hill, thai ia a part of our established policy, both State au National, but it is whether this par tioular suhsi ly is for the general welfare. In it expedient? Is it wise? I shall devote a few moments It this aspect of the oase There was a time when by government aid and enouiagemcnt, wo had a merchant marine, and carried ninety per cent of our products abroad. Last year only nine per 1 cent, was carried in American bottoms. 1 W hy is this? I triors vs. rsiTKn btaikj. It Is because in this contest of Europe ' against tho Un'ted States, foreign ship-own- ' ers get a subsidy from their Governments of twenty million dollars besides the advantage of lower wages, aud have thus driven tbe 1 American tlag from the high seas. We pay < this subsidy to the foreign ships in inoreased ? freight rales over and over again. We are I drained of two hundred millions a year whioh ? we pay foreign vessels in freights. No other < country could stand such a drain. After all, I y ? op l W ' " n n'w i. I ' m, ?? then, wo are paying a subsidy, and hehce It ' 01 Is a question of whether we wilt subsidise ai Ameiioan or foreign vessels U is useless eu for me to discuss before this intelligent audi- u] enoe ibe importance of our foreign trade. If fu Kurope and the Uaited 8 ates are to be com ti petitors in the market* of tie world, can we li| afford to put ourselves entirely in their haodi? jm The power to fix freiwht rates gives them the cl power to fix the price of our cotton, wheat ul and manufactured product*. tli Buppoeo there should be a general Euro- kt peas war, and the merchant marine of England, Germany and Norway wu pressed in f >r transpoi t service. What would be the t'1 effect on cotton and ootton goods? 1 tell you ?* that you would see cotton hauled into the H1 streets of Qreenville and not sold at three ai oents, but simply hauled back home. Tnere would be no buyers, because there would be <1: no ships to carry cotton or cotton goods t>; abroad, business of all kinds would lauguish, ri and there would be failures on every hand at Conditions have changed?before the war we of were buyers abroad, now we are sellers. We pi aro asking foreigners not to exohange pro to ducts, but to oome here to buy. Nothing ci would sutrer ia case of a European war like pi ootton. They would have to coine here to buy whoat, corn, bacon, mules and horses, b; as England did in the Boer War, but they st! could do without oottin for a year or so. All the skips would be needed for war uses m Foodslutls high and no sale for cotton, what S? oould hurt the South worse? What, then, is y? more dependent on Amerioan ships than the cotton crop? fv Does any man of common sense suppose in 111 this great contest for the trade of the Orient that the ships of Germany and England are going to give us the same advantages that fa they do their own merchant*? As Mr. I' Thurber, of New York, recently said, "Kv>ry ^ ship is a missionary of trade, and steam 1'' lines work for their own countries just as u railway lines work for their terminal points. It is as absurd for the United States to rely upou foreign ships to distribute her goods, ... as it would be for one business house to rely upon the wagons of n competing house to cc make its deliveries." There is no section so ),] vitally interested in ships as the 8outh, cl Why, Charleston, Mobile and New Orleans tj should rival New York, si far as harbors art f, concerned We have already felt the bene- %v fits of our Asiatic trade, and in it lies the C( possibilities of our future, but we must bave j, cheap freight, rapid transportation, and the w prestige of the Amerioan tl ig over our own j)( ships. Our Southern ports are discrimina ,,| ted against by the same great railroad lines that aro fighting the opportunity for an -p American merchant marine We must bave c| a Southern commerce, not aS uthern trade. Tnat same influence has prevented the con- j,| struotion of rhe Nicaraguan Canal, and I u predict that there will be no cinal, until its friends and the advocates of a merchant ma rinejoin forces and work i? harmony. The c, two are inseparable. They will either fail together or succeed together. W^en that nl time ootues, freights will move North and ,,| South, instead of East and West. Our ports wi 1 be the gate ways, and the South will de- j? volop with unequalled rapidity. Cannot any m man of sense aee that the money power headed by C. I'. Huntington and Hill, with great ;i] railway systems running East and West, do tj noi want freights deflect*d South? W th ibis j change, the Seaboard, Coast Line and Southern would rival in greatnets the three transcontinental lines. The producer of law jq material will prosper, just in proportion to li: the demand for his product. All that our a Sou.hern people have to do now ii to be wiie and conservative and favor the great pub y( lie mo isures looking to the promoiion of the j, material and industrial interests ofthecoun- a ry huh me uonor ana giory oime nation V( IIO YOIIH OWN' THINKING. 1 Fellow-citizens, with so many tilings " to talk about, it has not been possible for me to do more than skim the surface, ft but I hope 1 have been so fortunate as to 81 excite a desire on your part to investigate 111 for yourself aud not let some old moss Ul back, who does not know that tlio war 1' has ended, do your thinking. These are " practical vital issues. As your Senator, ' I have frankly stated my position. There ? are two sides to these questions. I re- f" spect an honest difference of opinion, p< but no man can impugn my motives sue- P fceasrutfy. ; t-i NOT AN* AUTOMATON. I never could answer the ends t" an automaton in politics or busines . I yield to the dictation of no man. It is u characteristic of a Scotchman to liink OJ and act for himself. 1 have asserte 1 and n will always assert my personal an4 po- c, litical individuality. 1 have blazed out iu my own ]>ath more than once in County, L%1 Stato ami National politics, aud followed t, it without regard to popular applause. 1 ], made "Peace aud unity" very popular once in this State?too popular, in fact? j, for some of those who once denounced j, tlio "Leader of the Movement," now grovel in tlio dust at the feet of their old- G] time foe, humbly content with thecuises p, that fall from his lips, for the sake of the a, few crumbs that drop from the table. t., HEKCSKS TO l'BKA' ll TIIK OOSl'Et. OK fi IlBSI'AIR. If re-elected, as far as in me lies, my voice and vote will lie used in behalf of ^ those measures which make for liu- .j. man progress and human happiness in the present world; measures which ^ will unite aud knit men into a wider ^ recognition of the brotherhood of man. My voice will go, not to invoke party pre- ' judice and party jiassion, not to preach a ^ gospel of despair, not to help to create bitterness, but to assist in its elimina- II' tion. pi The rancor of party prejudice, tlio fo- p uient of party spirit, the agitation for public spoils aud selfish ends, those are 8, the fetters that clog, the manacles that ,p impede our national development, and ,v threaten Our national life. ,u A COMMISSION* TO 8TC11Y CHINA 1M 'OH- L ,1. IA.Nl' i<> lilt SOUTH. When a measure is before Congress proposing the creation of a noil-partisan r( com mission of trained business men to j|( visit China, to investigate and report how j(( wider markets for American products may be obtained among the eight liun- ^ died million of people who live in that portion of the globe, a measure which t( would he of more heuelit to the cotton spinners of tlie South than almost any jsingle economic measure ever introduced int > Congress, shall 1 blindly follow the lead of the modern apostles of Detnocracy and vote against it because the nieaslire originates upon t he Kepuhlicau side, f ami because a Hcpiiblican President ^ would have the naming of such com missioii? For one, 1 have a higher concep (j( tiou, not alone of my privilege, but my duty, to stand by and advance bj every honorable effort the interests of those ' people through whose favors I Jiavo a place in the halls of legislation. When ' . to he a successful politician one must ea- |u ter alone to prejudice ami follow bliud (ij passion in its leadership, I shall, even if taunted by the latter-day saints of l>e- jj mocracy, prefer to believe that my con- t| duct is in strict accord with the policies tj of those grand old Democratic heroes of (|| the past who in their day and age, gifted with patriotism ami wisdom, made the ^ Democratic party known throughout the ||( nation as party of progress as wel as the (j. party of power. IS I'ltoSI'KKITV SO rilKlliri II. A I'll AN ca TOM? Whenever prosperity is so frightful a phantom that I must cither get scared at that phantom or stand by the issues 8? that promote prosperity, you need not fear that I shall dodge. Whenever cer- fet tain "latter-day saints attempt to force si me to the a< ceptanco of the doctrine that ol a dead issue of the past is a vital force \] in the living present, 1 shall make my p] personal pretext. >> honevor, to l?o an i vccoptnble Democrat, according to the ? rletinition of a party led by Allen, I'otti- ^ grow and Teller, I imiHt attack and oppone every man and every moanvro that st is not marching backward, 1 shall reserve at to myself the right to Htato that South dr Carolina turns her face with hoj>o and ki with courage towards the future. Whenever, in the face of a pending political contest, ono must have a cold chill sacli time cotton goes from livetotwelvo eents or wheat to a dollar a bushel; each j Lime cattle or hogs go up a cent a pound; {" acli time he reads an advance of ten per 'a :ont. in wages; each time lie sees a no- OG Lice in the papar of "Men Wanted'- in Wi \ i hi i > i? ii i" i > ^astir great industrial army;each time thnt i old, lingering mortgage Is cancel led; ich time that ho sees a new roof put l?on the house and a few more comforts >r (ho old mother at tho lireside; each me he sees the burdens of domestic toil glitencd for tho weary wife, to bo com}llod to have a chill for fear Mr. ltryan's lanoes would be hindered by eacli aud I of tliese varied circumstances during 10 last thrco or four years, would have jpt me in a perpetual shiver. For myilf, rather than be a sufTorer from an uagiuary ague, 1 shall prefer to glory in ieso evidences of prosperity aud happijss, rather than conjure them up as meters even If some politician's chances ? thereby lessoned. When to be approvod by "tho latterly saints of Democracy" as a consistent arty man, one must turn his back to tho sing sun aud watch alone its setting, id when, instead of viewing tho glories tho morning, ho must conjure up tho II an to ins of night, 1 shall rest content i placo my faitli in those immortal priuples, which tho fathers of Democracy romnlgatud, at the *f rmation of our iivruiuvui. iiuu ? nu n nave UCOI1 SOUIOU i the devotion of patriotic menaud couicntted by tlic blood of heroes. When marching from a condition of lisory, when tleoing from a land of idom, must one needs look back with jarning? When, likcthechosen of God, escaping oiu the task-masters of Kgypt, ami arching towards the laud of promise awing with milk and honey, with wealth I corn, vino and olives, abounding in itnoss, must we still attempt to satisfy 10 morbid cravings of that appetite liich yet yearns for tbo Ileshpots of gypt? ivk the you no men of the south a ciianck. When pig iron was stacked up in tho irds at Chattanooga and Birmingham, usalablo at six dollars per ton, furnaces dd, men idle, and I now find furnaces axing, yards empty, men working, and ustomcrs knocking at tho door to buy tat irou at prices which have ranged oui sixteen to twenty dollars per ton; hen, instead of four cents. 1 sold my >tton this year at eleven, shall 1, as a >yal citizen of this glorious Southland, ith the visions of the greatness that lie sfors her, standing as she does at the pen door of opportunity, shall I follow ie leadership of a Pettigrew, Altgelt, or illman; or shall I exert every honorable fort In my power to make the present leasuro of prosperity but as a faint limpse of the coming mom, compared ith tho splendor of the sun at its median?! Am 1 to he turned from my course, mscious of the absolute unselfishness ' my purpose, to do all that may lie in ly power for the welfare and happiness I the people whom 1 love; am I to he uterrcd from my course, because some ohtleal wolves are heard howling upon y track? I see before me a mother, who over tid again has with bowed head and in nito yearning asked herself. "How may so rear my son that lie may g<> out into le world and achieve success?" This as been a sterner problem in the South tan in the North. The diversity of iuuu facta ring industries has left the venues of success wide open for the Dung men of the North, while to tho outig men of the South there liavo been lit few avenues open for those rightful mhitions which tiro tho heart of every Diitli. 1 would, if in my p svor, before am called home from my labors, proline a condition where I might see these oys oiio, perhaps, the president of a real factory, the other perhaps the treaiivr or secretary, another the manager, ml another perhaps as the sales agent stahlisliiiig markets for South Carolina roducts throughout the world. All icti cannot lie lawyers, clergymen or ankers, but every boy with tho training f a good mother, and the education af>rdcd by our public schools, lias a rea nable right to aspire to the proudest ositions of eminence in the world, linanialr-tttdus trial .-and comiuerchil. 1 would in my power, promote t'.o condition here your sons might go out into the road avenues of life with every impendlg barrier torn down, where the lioy pon the poorest farm in South Carolina, r the son of tho least paid operative at te mill, could march out with hope ami 111 t'!i i ! 11111 lifivinir lnwm tonirlif . ..n WWW U'WV issons at tho mother's knee which must i-or bo his guiding star, tind that oppormity f?.?r success and eminence which is qualities command. With tlio groat race problem, which as for so many years confronted us, appily settled, as 1 said at Charlotte, why should wo bo miserable slaves of do party and a foot-ball for the other?" et it Vie understood that tho industrial ml commercial interest of the South line"before the interest of any politian. 1 cannot believe that narrowness, igotry, prejudice or tho arts of the wily ilitician, sh mid be permitted to swerve s from a course which loads to the atlinmciit of these objects, which bring i their train blessings to every farm and reside, to every hearth and homo, in our rand old commonwealth. Why should the achievement of some arrow political ambition stop tho young ion of tho South from the opportunity [ winning the same success which is pen to tho young men of the North? nine twelve years ago, a boy of German arcntago just out of a little school near ittsburg, w ent to work in an iron mill, uick, active, willing, obliging, lie was 1011 promoted to a position in the raughting ofllce. A short time aftcrards be was promoted as assistant forelan, then as foreman, then as supei incident, then as manager, then as presiand to day ho stands as president [ the largest corporation that the orld has ever known, and by common port draws a salary of one million dolts per year. Tills is an extreme ease, lit merely an example of thousands and ..e . i I . c ? i Iin wi l IIIMCUKIS HI MII11IIU III llll) orth I cannot hoiieve tliere are iglier intelligence, greater capacity ??r uer worth, to bo found anywhere than inong tin* youth of our State. The difTi'iico arises alone from conditions and ivironiuent. What father or mother, what good pa iotie citizen, what Christian man, then, ould censure me, realizing as I do the arvclous advantages that South t'arona possesses for manufacturing. and cognizing the infinite possibilities of uvelopment, if I hope that thatdevelopicnt shall come speedily as a blessing to ui ami yours. fan there bo a commercial triumph, i industrial success, that will not bring ensure to my heart? I believe that the itolligenco and the Christian patriotism the people of this State will arise to conception of our grand possibilities. my life shall he preserved to witness lis marvelous triumph, do you think ie attacks made upon mo hy selfish, intrant men, with their own purposes to u-vc, will not l>? forgotten, or, at least, ie wounds they may leave will have raled, and even those who condemn toiv will join with mo in a shout of lAnksgi ving I hat will stir every heart, ipahle of lofty sentiment. A Village Swept Away. A di-patoh from Charlotte, N C , ys roports from romato counties in 10 tnouota'D districts show great dc ruction by the storm, la N?keravil!c x*coq roeiioncos and tho Baptist tureh wtro washed a*ay. Qiintcr ooro and his son were drowned, very house in Magnolio City, a vilgo in Mitoholl county, was destroyed, t ltoan Mountain station, 20 rcsijncos were swept away. Six largo ores on mg iv>ck croen wore carried ray and ono man, John MoKinnoy, owned, whilo an unknown man was I ltd by a landslide. Heavy Losroh. The damage to tho Ashovillo division ' tho Southern railway Dy tho recent )od is estimated at a half million dol s. For several days Ashvillo was implotoly out off from the outsido orld. I 1 . - . . " ' THE WAGES OF SIN~ A S<<ma i)0?l Affdrin * Ph I doiphU Hotel. WERE TO DIE TOGETHER, But the Man Changed His Mind and Tried to Kill the Woman. Sin and insanity. A sensational attempt at HiurJer and suioido took plaoo at a hotel in Philadelphia, Pa., Friday night, when John A. Jenkins of Brooklyn, N. Y-, at tempted o kill a young woman named Mao Barker of that oity and then blow h:B brain; out while in tho grasp of a police .a j. ,Yhe oupl'- egisterod at tho hotel Fr.dav evening as man and wife. Two lotters wrro found in the room, one written by tho young woman and tho other by Jonkins. Tho voung woman aaya alio was forced to write her letter at tho point of a pistol. It was addressed to her landlady on North Thirtomth street, and read as follows: 4 Kincly look after my body and pay the insurance. They have failed to oall for it. Tho money ia in tho bureau draxer. You may keep some of my things and give the remainder to Hannah A Nobor, 1700,south Second street. Give mo a good burial. God bless you. Jack and 1 die in love and ii the triu nph of lovo'a death. Livinaly, "Mao, "210 North Thirteenth St." Tho addreaa given is where tho girl boarded. Tho letter Itf . bv Jenkins, who ia Baid to liv > at 236 1'roBpcot Place, Brooklyn, was prefaced by a vo*so of pootry. This was fol'nwed by the words, ''kindly notify my brotherin law, John I Murphy, of thii happy evoot. No. 265 Proepeot Plaoc, Brook l>n, N Y. This ia tbo ultimate result of gambling and a dissipated life and ia a warning to young men Signed John A J inkins." This ia followed by more pootiy and then came the following: "God help my mother. This cr? a uro has ruined my lifo and 1 am putting her ou: of tho bitincss to save other men." It was Juit about midnight when screams wcro hoard ooming from the fourth fl jot of tho hotel. A woman was Been to b ; hinging by her dross out of tho window. A policeman ran up ho stairs and met a man rushing down. 11) grabbod Mm and was return ing with him up tho stairs when the mtn suddenly drew a revolver from his hip pocket and blew out his own brains Leaving tho prostrate man on tho stairs, tho iff. :cr atd several hotel servants went to the room fr?m tl e window of which the woman was hanging and Crew tier in. As soon as she si* she was saved she fainted. Jeokius' body wis sent to the mor^uj and Miss Barber was sent to Ibe ocn tral elation. Miss Ha'bjr made a statement saying J nkins threatened to either shoot her or throw her out of the window. "Ha r.iid ho oould not live without mo and that 1 would be deai before 12 0 c'otk. 1 ileadoi with him to spare my iifo. Hut ho was obdurate Plaoiog the pistol at my head ho forced me to writo at his diota.ijn the letter to my landlady. Then 1 thought 1 might save my life by resorting to strategy. 1 a:kjd him for ono drink before 1 died and ho ordcrod beor. Whoa the waitor appeared with the bottle I sj rang to tho window and attempted to jump tut iuto tho street. My drees caught and held me and thtn 1 know no more." Jenkins was about 33 years of ago and Miss Harbor 23. dtio was haudsomo and dressed well. She is said to bo a waiir ss in the restaurant of a largo department store in that oily. THE SECRETS OF UCCESS Examples Which Qo to Show That Courtesy P.*yi. Success says a young man went into a gentlemen's furnieLiog house in St. ]j uis, and a.-kod to ico ? certain style of cottars. The loroly ulcik behind the counter looked at him indifiorontly, and drawled: ' Haven't got any; they ro out of stylo, anyhow.'' '1 ho would be customer turned on Lis Led and sought another btore, whero he mado known his wants in tho samu language, the ah rt clerk rephed, courteously: "I'm afraid we are out of those, but i ll eco." lie eame back a litnute later to the young man, bringing with him sovcial styles of collars, and said: "1 m soiry, but we arc entirely out of thoao. Perhaps you could wear bouqo of thete." The youog mau decided that he could, and bought a dozen. Meanwhile the clerk called his attention to ties, ha dkcrohiefs, and hoso that were ' just in," and, whilo it had not tccurroi to the purchaser that he needed these things, he bought sovr-al, also shirts and underwear which he had forgotten that he wanted till the shrewd and gentlemanly clork called the fact to his mind. The tirin was richer by $20 when the olerk bowed iko young man out; and that storo seourid tho steady (atrcnago of a good customer, who, had the counter been in charge of a different man, would have gooo to the first firm. A u an went cu: to take the cen sua. Ho had never worked for tho government before or worn a badge, and tho weight of it, the importance of it, worried him, and he wanted everybody to know about it. 11 5 found, however, that "the masses" cfiin't care who ho was or what ho represented. When ho threatened irato females with tho [ ooitc i tiary, told them impressive ly that he was a "government c.fli cial," and rtquested them to ljok upon his insignia of otfi jo, they set tho dog on him, attacked him with a broom, c-r requested him to '"wait oaiil tho uuld mor< gits homo," which ho dcolincd to do. Now, any ono is aware that refusing to answer tho census man is a vory sinister crime, but tho federal otfieers looked ov r tho report which the young man brought in from a tone ment district ooniaming a wonderfully mixed population, and quietly sont another uiau over the same r.;utn- Thia swcct-tcmpercd gon<us u mlly n p??r ed at the taek door, being a varo that its generally vexes a woman to be called away from her work to aoswor foolish question", but ho was also quick to reoognizu plaocs whero it would bo an uni ardonatdo sin to enter by tho rear door. This oensus-taker was sunshine it self. Usually ho had asked half a doz en questions and got tho answers reooruod before tho victim discovered who who was, as ho had carefully oonoealcd his btdgo and burioi the faot that ho was a "government official." He was tactful with all mon and womon. Ho rcoogn'z.d an educated person, watcvor tho surroundings, and did not I * < in po many word-t ii sueh one rcu!<3 read nod write. Neither did ho fi id ii advisable to iLqoiro of a red-headed Irsh woman who)her sho wat white 01 ooiorcd Ho mado love to the little oh;ldrcn, complimented the mothers, and patted the dogs. When the census vaa finished, D"t a man, woman 01 chi'd had o cap id him An assess or wcDt oat to assess taxes lie worked hard all day, and brought inrepurte from forty families, which he 1 ad scoured through much tribulation, sod with tbo firm oonviotion that these peo pie had hopelessly perjund theui'elves. There w?s tncthor assessor who wirked three hours, and secured hoDeat rcporu from eigb'y oight fan ili* a; and, when ho 1 if Led his hat and aaid 'God m< ra ing," people were scrry ho couldn't stay lontrer, and it was all beoause ol the diffuienoo betwccu the two in*n. There wan an izpreRS agent whe called a lady's attention to the fact that he ''understood his buiinops," bo oauso she insisted there was an cz prebs officrat a place of which the agent had novor heard, aud he hadn't the grace to apolog'zj after finding that the lady was right. There wat another man, iu tho hj.hu cfiiie. who reooived a wrap which a hdplesE woman b ought in hmgiDg ever hei arm bectueo "-ho cou'du't in k c a package to have her life,"' aud fo d d it, tied it, and hiakd it, muling like an angel all tho while, wha evji he th- u hi and?but why multiply initai c -R. There is a tule that still holds good in jublio and private life "Tho n.om cz alted a man's position, tho more onvtcous is his manner.' His i oaitton is tho result of cour'esy. Knights of Pythias. Tho following officers were < holed by tho Knights of l'jthias at ibcit mooting in Spananburv: Grand Chaucollir?M L U nbam. Anderson. Grand Vico Chacocllor?Geo. P, Morrcr, Newberry. Grand i'rcUte?J M Knight, Sum ter. Grand Keeper of K cords and Seal? Dr. J. H. Thorrweli, Fori Mill. Qraid Maner at Arms?L onel K Ardeis^n. Spartanburg. Grand Master of Etchcqu?r ? Wilsoi G. Harvey, Charleston. Grand Inner Guild?J H D. Wig ger, Charleston. Gra'd U iter Guard?G. W. Reives, Rranehviilo Supr. me Representative?D C Hey ward, Walterboro A Riiwo. "What's them?" Inquired Mrs. Corntossel us the farmer opened his carpet bag and let the contents drop on the tio<jr. "Them Is two gold bricks.** "Swindled I" "No, sirree. I paid 25 cents apiece fur 'em. I'm goiu* to leave 'em around the house so that when folks come along with cash to pay fur country board they'll eav we're seeh simple, Muwordly people It's a pity to fake advantage of us."? Washington Star. Tin* I'lililor'n .Mhtnkr, Great Statesman?You were In rather a sad condition when you left the banquet the other night. Iteuorter?Yes; I drank more than was g-nod for me. Great Statesman-?Sol noticed. And it showed in your report of my speech. It was terribly mixed up. Didn't the .. V t.o Reporter?No; he dhln't blame me. He thought you were drunk.?N. Y. Weekly. Very l.utcnt. Mrs. Rounder Fays her husband Is strictly up to date; In other words. In coming home He's always rather late. ?Chicago Pally News. TOOK llHlt AT 11ER WOUD. "Why. Mabel, I had to punish yot; the other day for not knowing this, and now you seem to b;t\e forgotten 11 again." "Well, mother, you told me to for give and forget?and 1 did!"?AII3 Sloper. tie \\ as On It. "I'm sitting on the style, Mary; 1 surely am upon It." She shrieked to st-g his massive form I I>on h?-r new spring bonnet. ?Chicago Post. Some Heaemblnnee. "What are you doing!" groaned the victim in the chair, who had dropped in to have his teeth examined for possible cavities. "This Is no prize fight." "Perhaps not," replied the dentist, "Hut I'm sort o' sparring around for an opening, just the Mime."?Chicago Tribune. Coiilldii ntea. Fay ?1 wouldn't make Madge my confidante, if i were you. 8he told uie that secret of yours. May Why, T didn't ninke Madge my confidante. It was Kitty I told It to, Madge must he Kitty's confidante, or her confidante's confldnute.?Catholic Standard and Times. Too Well Done. Employer (sternly, 1?> elerk)?I'm not ut all satisfied with your accounts ltugster. Clerk?Why not, sir? Aren't they well done? Employer ? Yes, too well done; they're cooked.?Tit-Bits. forever Too Lnte. "How much did your baby weigh V" "Oh, dear! ]>o you know, I'm so provoked! They forgot all about weighing the dear little thing until it was nearly two hours old, so we'll never know." Chicago Becord-llcrald. Xr<hiid Willi Her. Joggles- -I've noticed that wher your wife ser\es tea she always bring? in the dishes herself. Wnggle* -Yes. She Is nfrnld of the Rorvant making a l?nd break in comjinny. Town Topics. (ihort Memory. I'ntlence- lJo yon know, when Will went to put the engagement ring on my finger, he didn't really know which finger it should go on. I'atrice -Well, he must have a very poor memory.?YonkcrB Statesman. [ Da&fncss Cannot ba Cared by local applications, as (hey oannot i rraoh the dnoasrd portion of (he ear. There i< oalv one way te care deafness, and that ia bv constitutional remedies. Doafoo'8 is erased by aa inflamed oondiion of the muoot s lining of the Euataob'.an Tube. When (his tabs gets inflamed yon have a rumbling i sound or impcrfeot hearing, and when it ia entirely oloaed deafnoss is (he result, and unless the inflammation oan be taken out and this tube restored to its normal oondition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine eases out of ten are o?u?ed I y catarrh, which is noth* ing but an inflamed oondition of the > mucous surfaoes. Wo will giva One Hundred Dollars l for any oase of Deafness (eaused by ' oatarrh) that oan not be oared by H ill's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F J CHENEY & CO , Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75o. Hall's family Pills are tho best. Great Damage Done. The recent heavy rains did great uaaasgo to bridges and mills and rail1 roids in the upper part of tho State. | ToIuoim of Tbfm. How many volumes they would All, What tomes of pondrous weight. The smart things that we do not think ! To say until too late. ?Philadelphia Press. His Heasua. i "What makes you put so much of your writing in dialect?" i "Well," answered the novelist, "it la a sure way of pleasing a great many people who are so proud of being able to guess the pronunciation that they don't bother about the sense of it all." ^ ?Washington Star. r Making lllmaetf Popular. Friend (to saloon keeper)?Why do you treat j*our friends bo often, Il&ns? UanB?VelL, yer see, I rant aah many of dem asli possible to surronnt mine pier ven I'm det und gone, und I t'ought inaype dey might pc more apt to do it If I ox dem to surrount some of It ven I'm etlll ulife. See??Judge. In the Children's Playground. Muriel Mulligan?Rupert Rafferty wanted mo ter elope wit' him yestlddy 1 afternoon. Fill Flannlgan?Why didn't yer? Muriel Mulligan?I wuz nfraid I wouldn't git back In time fer supper.? Town Topics. In Kentucky. The Colonel?It's amazin' how the children growl It seems Ilka yesterday when that boy of youra was a baby. *- .1 The Major?That's sol I can hardly realize that he's carryln' his own corkscrew!?Puck. Drotherlg Advice. Miss Fuzzle?1 want to break my engagement but don't know how to do It without driving the poor fellow to suicide. Little Brother?Why don't you let Mm see vou In curl papers just once? -Tit-lilt^. Saw Mills, Corn Mills, Cane Mills, Rice Hullers, Peji Hullers, -r Engines/ Boilers, Planers and Matchers, Swing Saws, 1 \ /N Ltip saws, and all other kinds of wood I working machinery. My 8erI geant Log Beam Saw mill is the heaviest, strongest, and most efficient mill for the money on the market, qniok, accurate. State Agent for H. B. Smith Machine Company wood working machinery. For high grade engines, plain slide valve?Automatic, and Corliss, write me: Atlas, Waiertowu, aud Struthers i and VN ells. V. C. BADEAM, 1320 Main St., Columbia, 8. C. STANDING ON YOUR OWN MERITS With a diploma of our College in your possession, you need no political pall" or influential friends to help you to sucoess, hat can stand on your own merits and advance ' mtrrly to the tr >?t. lot t it worth trying, i For further information address, NKWBKKRY'3 BU31XK33 COL1 LRUK. Columbia, S. 0. I - 3 ' - 'ED Rugs, ROACH &S. ANTS v ' . CpOTONDUGS. , rnotR?, TUE6. FLEAS. j ak. all mecTurt. I.'' . DfWHTohxcTa +* , IOAND25 CtNTS . i ' "ALL DEALF.R59J -tO" /, I *ftrOll TON f hf *K*l fCk I j. . ; S4tr/MOf?: MD." '-a. ? < .V. ? .. II If Death Dust is not for sale by yonr dealer, we will upon receipt of 26 cents i send you the large package ty mail posti paid. April-16. 81. ' Addresn, B. W. Gxtsinoer, Box 105, Spartanburg, 8. 0.