The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, May 29, 1901, Image 7
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M'LAUKIN SPEAKS.
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) 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 . -
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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.
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v ' . CpOTONDUGS.
, rnotR?, TUE6. FLEAS.
j ak. all mecTurt.
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+* , IOAND25 CtNTS
. i ' "ALL DEALF.R59J
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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.