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H ES VOL io.---NO. 7. PICKENS. S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20,IOLL CoRo thoedrs of We invite you t and boys w( Our line of M Our Boys' Knc Men's Pants fi A complete lin felt and at The best $3.50 Every taiing in line of unhi known to I We will take best stock section, ll( Yours truly SMITH & : GREE WAG WAGONS. We are GREAT On "OLD RELIAB Select Material Used. Prices The Greenville G. W. SIRRINE, Supt. - IT I0 MARVIELOUS HISTORY. GREAT RECO)RD 0141 TH1 PART. The Leading One Hundred Events or tho Nineteenth Century. Christian Herald. An eventful century truly has been this nineteenth centu-y of the Chris tian era now within a month of its close. F om whatsoever standpoint it is re garded, Its history is marvelous. la the knowledge we have gained during its progress, of our own globo, it stands unparalleled. There has been wonder ful progress also in science, in educa tion, and in the adaptation of natural forces to human purposes. Political and territorial changes, too, have made this a very different world from that of 1800. It was not possible In small space to even mention theevents which make the century memorable, but it may be interesting to recall a hundred, which, if not the most important, are those that have had the greatest inlu ence in shaping and developing the condition of the nations. WARS AND REIVOL4UTIONS. Battle of Austerltz, Napoleon de feats Austrians and Rassiains, 1805. Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson sinks Freneh fleet, 1805. Moscow burned by the Russians to entrap Napoleon, 1812. Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon van quished, 1815. Battle of Navarino, securing Greek * independence, 1827. Crimean war, Great Britain France and Sard inia against Russia, 1853-55. India mutiny, in which native sol diers massa< ro English men women and children, 1857. France-Austrian war, 1859, fol'owed byvGaribaldi's campa.gn unifying Itaty, 1860. The great clvil war in America, 1861-65. Surrender of Le'e to Grant at Appomattox, April 9, 1865. Austro--Prussian watr. Dac~sive bat tle, Sadowa, July 3, 1860. France Prussian war. D 'cisive bat tIe, Sed an, Sdeptember 1, 1870 ; follo wed by federation of German States in Ger * man empire. Russo Turkish war. Battle of Plevna, December 10, 1877. Bombardment of Alexandria by the British, 1882, followed by the occupa tion of Egy pt. War between Chinese and Japanese, 1894. Americo-Spanish war, Manila, May 1, 1898 ; Santiago, July 3, 1898. War by Great B1ita.'n a'gainst South African republics, 1899) 19)00. France becomes an empiire, 1804 ; a republic, 1848 ; an empire again, 1852 ; third republic, 1870. General outbreak of revolutis throughout Europe, 184i8. Rome, seized from the pone, becomes capital of United Italy, 1870. 10KPLORATION. In the Arctic . Expediition of Sir -John Franklin, 1845; DeLong, 1879; Greely, 1881; Peary, 1892; Nansen, 1894; Duke of the Abruzzi (farthest north ), 1900. In the A nactic : Blpcoe. 1831 ; B'l lony, 1838; D U eville, 1810 ; R ,-s, 1841 WIlkes, 1842; Blorchgrevink, 1898. In Africa ;[Livingetono, 1840-7?3; Stanley, 1875 87; Spe and Grant, 1863. In America :John C. Fremont's j-ur ney westward to the Pacfico, 1842 46. INVIENTION. First steamboat, the Clement, made a voyage from New York to Albany, 1807; theO frst steamboat to cress the Atlantic, the Savannah, 1819 First railroad, Stnokton and Darling ton, England, 1825; Baltimore and Ohio, fourteen miles long, 1830. LIghting the streets by gas, first ex periment in London, 1807. r1lhe Journal: o come to soc us for any thing that'ien ar. on's Suits run from $4.00 to $25.00, o Pant Suits $1.50 to $0.00. om1 $1.00 to $7.50. 0 of Men's and Boys' Hats in both raw goods. Shoo inade for men. Underwear, among Which is the best undered white shirts and colored shirts he trade for 50 cents. ileasure in showing you through the rf goods in our line in the Piedmont the prices are all right. BRISTOW, ~:NVIL.LE, S. C. ONS. WAGONS Vaking a + -RUN our LE" WAGONS. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Right. Coach Factory. - - H. C. MARKLEY, Prol. ainlication of Auh-diviainn. 197. The McCormick reaper ir vented, 1834. Howe's sewing machine, 1846. The electric telegraph, Bamuel F. B Mors- 1837. First line in the Uniteu States. 1844 The tel Whone first, r x hIbitod, 1876. Tne phonograph, 1877 88. Cable laid across the Atlantic. 1857; perfected 1866. ElectrIc railroad at Edison's home at Monlo Park, 1830. Pnotograph : F rst experiment by DAguerre, 1829; first successful por trait by Morse, 1939. The speet-roscope, first used, 1802; perfected, 1859. Roeutwun rays found to penetrate solids, 1896. SOCIAL AND HUMANITARIAN. Slavury aholishect in the British do minions, 1833. Alexandria II, emperor of Russia, em'ancipates twenty-three mlilion serfs, 1861. Lincoln's emancipation proclama tion, 1862 Fi rst international exposition in Hvde Park, London, 1851. First settlement of an international quarrel by arbitration Instead of war (Alabama claims of the United States against England) 1871. International Peace Congress sumi moned by Russia meets at The Hague, 1899. Organization of the Red Cr015 Society at Geneva, 1864. Organization of the Wnman's Chris tian Temperance Union, 1873. First college settlement established, 1860. 'rho Christian Herald adopts 5,000 ehi d ren orphaned by the India famine, 1900. R IAOLIIUS. Organization of the American board of commissioners for foreign mfisions, 1810. First mhbsionaries sent Out, 1811 Oeganization of the first Sunday school union in London, 1803. Ameri can, 1824. British and Foreign Bible society founded, 1804. A merican Bible society organlzed, 1816 First Young Men's Christian associa tion established by George Williams in London, 1844. The inquisition abolished by the Spanish cortes, 1820. B3eginning of the Salvation Army, 1865. Doctrine of Papal infallibility form ally endorsed by the Ecumenical coun cil, 1870. Bi ble rev ision . New Testament issued, 1881 ; Old Testament, 1885. Organization or the first Young Peo nln's Society of Christian Endeavor, 1881. Organization of the Order of IKing's Daug hter s, 1880. D)ISASTEIIS. Earthquakes: Caracaq. 1812; India (2,000 persons killed) 1819 ; Canton, ChIna. (0.000 perisued) 1830 ; (Jalabria (1 000 persons buried) 1835: San D~om into (5,000 killed) 1842; Southern Italy (14 000 lI ves lost ) 18">2; Calabria (10 000 killed), 1857 ; Quito (5 000 deaths), 1859; Mondoza, Soutn Ame rica (7 000 deathu.), 1800 ; M anila (1,000 dleaths), 18613; M ity - lens (1,000 deatne.), 1867 ;~ A(.lui pa anti distrIct (25.000 deathe), 1868 ; 8.'n Jose, Colombia (14,000 deaths), 1875 ; Sclo (4,000 deatne ), 1883; Charleston, S. C (oroperty worth $5,000,000 destroyed and 41 lives lost), 1886; in the R vera (2,000 deaths), 1887; Japan (4,000 dead. 5,000 woundeu) 1891. Famines :I -eiand, 1840 ; Russia (America contributed through The Christian Herald 6 cargo or corn, sent on the hoard the Lii) 1891; in I 'oia 1837, 1860, 1865, 1868 1876, 1897, 1899. In the last two named years, there were large American cone~tuns- In morcv and grain through The Chris tian Herald. in 1897 thbese contribu tions amounted to $409,000. includiug corn on board the City of Everett; in 1899 and 1900 $600.000, Including corn on board tti Q I L to. The great fire in Chicago, 1871. The Conemaugh flood, destroying Johnstown. Pa., 1889. Tidal wave at Galveston, Tex., 1900. Tidal wave in Japan sweeps away 50 000 houses and kille 2,419 persons, 1889. LITERATURE. Goethe publishes Faust, 1898. Victor Hugo writes Lea Misorables, 1862 Thomas Carlylh's History of the French Ievoaution published, 1837. rolph Waldo Emerson's Essays, 1811-71. Jotin RIuzkin's Modern Painters published, 1843 60. Whitter's Poems, 1830-75. Harrist. Beecher Stowe'* Uncle Tc m's Cahin, 1851 52 Darwin'a U -in of Species, 1859. STATESMANSHIP. President, Monroe propounds the doc trine that -ears his name, 1823. Sir I -hurt Peel Premier of Great Britain, 1834 John buerm'an, U. S. secretary of t"easury, resumes specie payinonts, 1879. Abraharu Linemin elected president UoIt'ed States, 1860. W. E. Gladston becomes proeier of Great Britain, 1868. Bismark mad president of the cabi net, Prussia, 1862. Count Cavour, liherator of Italy, ap pointed premier, 1852 Louis Kossutn dictator of Hungary, 1849. MISCICLLANEOUS. Gold discoverml to Catifornia, 1848; in Australia, 1851 ; in the Transvaal, 1887 : in the Klondiike, 1897. Dianond mines worked in the Trans vaal, 1870. Opening of the Mont Cenis tunnel, 1871. Last spike of the Union Pacitic rail road driven, 1869. Trans-Siberian railroad operated, 1899. Opening of the Suez canal, 1869. Alaska ceded by Russia to the United States, 1867. First session of the parliament of United Canada, 1867. The Australiae under one govern ment, 1900. Maximillian executed in Mexico, 1867. Exiulsion of the emperor from Bra zil, 1889. Aosassinations : Lincoln, 1865 : Osr Sold. 1881 ; Emperor Alexander 11.. 1881 ; Carnot, preaident of Prance, 1894; Snah of Persia, 1896; King Huninert of Italy, 1900. Expulsion of Jews from Rusasia, 1882. 91. Massacre of missionaries ard con verts In China, 1900. Army draft riots In N- w York, 1863. Chloroform firat used, 1847. Vaccination legalized, 1803. P;steur discovers remney for hydro phobia by inoculation, 1881. The Rosetta Stone furnishes key to nieroglphs, 1841. -The late Senator Cushman K. Davis was not only a fine lawyer, but a deep student of literature as well. He spoke, read and wrote French and Italian flaently, and nothing delighted him more than the Greek and Latin poets In their originals. He was known as one of the foremost students of Snakespeare of the present day, and in his home he had a magnificent library. A rmiarkable thing about this library was that there was not a single law book in the collection, for during the last twenty years of his life he made it a r u 1 never to bring his business cares to his fireside. -Ex-Senator James W. Bradbury, of Main~e, w ho at 96 is the olderet former United States Senator, has never tasted l'quor or tobacco, and is today able to attend to his considerable cor ree-pondence without the aid of an aman uensis. -The late Senator Davis, of Min nosota, died from blood poisoning caused by the dye from his hose getting into a bruise on his foot. A New Book For Men Special A rrangemnentsl W hereby a t re Copy Can Be (Obtained bay Every IReader oif Thlis Pap~er. F~or weeks t hi presseis % on of lIr. .9. Newton 4 liathiaway's new book ".\ lnilines s, V I gor,' j l althi - fnv's's:ary to A ~~ mand. 1)r. 1 lattuitway has iesersid a limtitedl nnnamber of these books, andthsehle ha~sspeial, ly arranged to siendc free~ by inai to alt readlers of thu.s anid full address to him. Fo 20 yeas Dr. 1 tat haway hais coin ed his ndurnthatl tiine h a etrdmr tohat.vigo, usefulness ad hajppiiness ta aytnothier dcetors ini the ctinti~ry cihin~ ied. Dr lthaway t realts andc cures by a methlid entirely his 4)n' i, dilscovered andi ierfecitedi bs hi isetlf isedl (ehisielyhv him, I A'ss of \'I talit y. \'arileoeli, Sti ture, Iflood P'oioning in Its dlili'renlt .stages, Ilhiimait lim, Weakl Baick, all inann,,er of urinary' compl~iaints, Lcters, Sores andl Skhin I ise'ases. iB'righits Disease anid all formns of i(idneyO Traoubleis. Is tr-eat ment for undler. tined tmen restores lost vitality and makes the0 pati b-nt a si ronig, will, vigorouis manl. Dar. iiathawayV's siucicss in t iihI tretmenit oif 'a:rieoinlt anil St rieture w.l iot the alid of knlfe oir eantery is iheinomienai~l. Thle hatienit is treat i1d1 b tis iinoth oid at his own, hiome without pain or liss of timue from tmisitness. Thlis is nusitively lthe only 1 realitet which cnuros wsithout an oper ation,. Dr. Ilathlaway calls the piii itiulara at tn tin of suiuforers f rim V'artieoenhi awli St urletur(e to pages '., 25, 29. 30 an~d 3i of his new boo k. ls.vry ia se hake~n hv' I r. flat haway is spireila ly treated aicordinag ho Its nature. all unduie, hiis~i gn iral peirsonhaisiipervisioni,aund all r',mediesusedi biy imi are i repiared fromu theopurestandl host d rugs in his owvn lac boratorlies under lisa pirsontai oversight. D r. II athaway inakes no ch~aige for conisuiit. 1tion or adivie, either at his oflile or by mali, anud when~t a cas~e is takeni the oneii low fiui covers ail cost of miediclies and professional servle... D r. ilathiaway always prefers. when it is piossI li,' to have his patients cail on hitta for at least onei initerview, buit this Is not esseniilal. as, he luas eurod( scuoros of thousainds of pationts in aill hfee Lions of the worldl whom ho has never seen, is System of flomo Treatmenit is so paerfected that he~ can bring about a cntro as surely andi speedily mie though the patient cailed daily ati his ofie,. J. NBWTON HATHIAW AV, M. D. *' lDr. lH athaiway & Co., RHM South Biroad Street, A isata, Obn, uMETON TnlM PAPER WH EN WiRITINQ, AN INCRUASE OF SUICIDRS. A RMlAE EVENT AMONG NEGItOES. Bill Arp Says They Have no Ileuorse lell-Destruo iuun Was On1e an1 Evi denco of Insanity. The rapid increase of suicides in the I South is altr-ming and provokes the a serious study of our thinking people. t Fifty years ago a suicide was a rare i event among the white race, and never I heard of among the negroes. When it ( did occur, it was considered an evi- t dunce of insanity. I do not reca'l but 1 one instance in my youth and that was I a woman who jumped into a deep well i when no help was within reach. But I nowadays almost every daily paper I contains an aceount of one or more self- I murders, aind even negroes have taken t the infeotion, for they will imitate every vice and frailty of the whites. Old Lew.is, who is my wood chopper, ask, d I me the other day how it war that the I white folks kill " derselves so much, I and the niggers dideut." " Because," said I, " white folks are t more easily over como with grief or, i remorso, or distress, than negroos. I Yvu t-egroes don't borrow trouble, nor a take it hard when it (lois come. You I don't give yourselves much anxtuty about tomorrow, or next week, or next I year. You don't grieve long over a t death in the family ; your emotional i natut e Is of a low grad. ; your marr Iage ( relation is loose ; in fact, it is on the i declinesince freedom came. Tne mar- a riage records show that your legal I marriages are 00 per cent. less, accord- i ing to population, than in the white i race, and the deer, ase gets less and I less every year. Your young men and % women don't marry ; they just take up i and quit when they please, and so the 1 men don't care very much about the I welfare of their children, if they have I any. Besides all this, Uncle Luwis, i your race has a trait of stealing little I things, and this accounts in a great i measure for their indilference to the laying up of something for the future ; tomething for the winter or the rainy i days, or for old age. If the worst comes a to the worst, they know they can steal I or beg. If your young folks, men and womea, haven't, got but a dollar in the world, they will spend it for a water melon, or an excursion, and tike the chances. Now, Uncle Lewis, you ro member when there wasn't a chain gang in the South, nor a heinous crime nor a brutal outrage, committed by your people, from the Potomac river to the Rio Grande. Now there are in Georgia alone over 4,000 of your people in the chaingangs, and there would be 4,00U more if ail the little stealings were punisbed." Uncle Lewis had stopped cutting and was leaning on his ax helve. " DaLt' all so," said he, " and boss I knows It, and boss what I wants to know is Ois What must we poor niggers do about it ?" There is the rub. I couldn't t I bln, but I did eay, " Uncle Lewis, your race has got some mighty good traits, and I like to have you about us : you are kind-hearted, good-natured, easy to please, and don't carry malice or revenge in your hearts ; you steal, but you don't cheat anybody. The white race won't steal, but they will cheat or take advantage in a trade, and that is worse. If you trust a negro with any thing he will notabuse your confidenco, but a white man will enbLAzie and de fraud and even the cashiers of banks will appropriate the bank's money, anu falsify the books for months and years. Every race has its race traits, both bad and good. Some of your had ones were almost run out by slavery, but they have come back again, and all your college education does not stop it. It makes it worse. There is nothing will stop it but work, constant work, every cay, under some good employer. Work on the farm is your best safeguard, or work as mechanics under good contrac. tors. Your people make good mech anics, and the white pecople employ them and patronize them just as will ingly as they do white mechanici. Tno negro blacksmiths and masons get a good employ ment bore and every where, I and as for cooking and washing ana I nursing your women have it, all. The two races would lit together nicely if a it wasn't, for polit~Ics and idleness.'' An idle negro is a dangerous creature and I should be taukin up and put to work. t He is much more dangerous than an C Idle white man, for lie has no shame, I and fears not God nor regards mian. If I were a law-maker, I would make I continued idleness a crime, for, as Bin I Franklin says, " It is the parent, of I vice." 5 i started to write about suicides, bet C got to preaching Uncle Lewis a sermon C and got ti the track. Nineteen hun- C dred years ago Plutarch, th'e Greek I historian said that self-murder was t coward Ice for a brave man would suffer rather than take the life that God gave t him. Self-murder was a heinous crime t under the old English law. The estate I of the felo do so was confiscated, and taken away from his family. His body I was buried on the highway withbout a e coflini and a sharp stake thrust through y it to mark the accursud spot,. Suicide r was under the ban of the church, and t no prayers were said for his soul. In a no civilized country has suicide been justified, except in such cases as that, of Saul, who fell on his sword because, e as be said, " Lust these uncircumolsod Philistines thrust me through and .y abuse me." Or perhaps that other C notable case the Scriptures record, y that of Judas, whose remorse was soa dreadful he preferred hell or anything' , that would be a change. But generally It is "better to endure the ills we have, r than fly to those we know not of." Almost every day we read of young I men and young women killing them- C solves because of disappointment or dissipation, or about, love or money. They must believe there is no hereaf ter, or all punishment ends with this C life. Surely no Christian man or wo- e man would think ofiself-murder. Wait, -f wait, young man, young woman ;wait, ' I say-~suffer and be strong ; only cow- I ards k ill themsel ves. The soul is look1 i ed1 up in this casket and God oniy has the key. Wait and trust, Him. Re. ' morse for a great crime may atone I somewhat for self-murder. Miss Mor risen might have killed herself after she killed her rival, and it would hav6 see-med neroic. Wnen Othello disot ered his great mistake in killing Dee. aemona, his peroration was grand asi he said. " I took the circumcised dog by the throat and smote him tbu' and then stabbed himself and died, fr is Shakespeare says, "lie, W4p reat >f heart. In ancient Greece and Iors1e heir notable warriors sometimes killed ,hemeelves, rather than suffer the tings of defeat in battle. In Japan nilltary officers commit what is called iarakari (ripping open the abdomen) , avoid personal disgrace. But in our and the pistol or poison has superceded 61 other means of suicide. It would ave thousands of lives If the pistol vas abolished by law. Not one should ie allowed in any household ; they are ,ntirely too convenient for murder or uloido or robbery or revenge. And ho sale of poison should be so regu ated that no one could buy It except 'pon the most careful inquiry as to its ntended use. Human life is too sacred o be endanvered by pIstole and poison, or, as St. Ptul says, " We are made in he image of God." Well, we see that Mr. Crumpicker, ir Stumpsucker, or some such nime, rom Indiana, has opened the ball at Vashlngton with his usual ncreech owl towl againist the South. Ho was it uch a malignant hurry that ho got in he first bill, and It is to red 'ce the epresentation of tt e South In Congre-. Io reminds me of lilamnan, whoso st~om oh would not digest his food as long as io saw Mordecai sitting at the king'. ,ate. H. has bigun to build a gaillwr or us. L et him be-ware, for it was 11 - nan who was hanged. Some of theme %bid RIpublicans remlinid me of olo 'ato, the RItman cuinsor, who hat d he Carthegenians so bad that he never ,oted on any question Io tbe Ro man ionate without, adding, " And I also ,oto that Carthage be destroyed " But iobody caret; we will yet have a school >ook commission in every Souther ;tate. The South is moving right long in spite of Northern insults an 4orthern literature. I so that " B hr )ara ['riotchie " is to be Played iII At anta. I wonder if that dramatic lie vill be patronizd by any self-restet ng Southern man or woman ? Many ,ears ago a Yankeo troupo ete tt Z 1me with 'U aclo Ton's Gabin,'" and1 vo egged them out of town. Thtat', vhat we done. They may abuse us from Jfar off, but tiey shan't "''me down kere and rub it in. HirnrA .. 'SICNAI'OR JOHN L. M. 1ItitY. k Rniarkablo Career EIctie~l in tie V oy V-riani of, MaxilsotI-lio W as the O)rgaeoxtr Who tiavi. liraii alid intpma1i uts to tio UClbrirt MuVo 111011. Col. John L. M. Irby, former United 3tatus Senator, it prominent lawyer mid distinguished citiz.-n of tils State, lied at his honao in iaurens on the '4i iunt., in the -17th year of his ago. John !aurens Manning Irhy was but 61 years old, havin-r been born In Lau 'ens, Sept. 10, 1851. LLis father wa 301. James H. Iroy, a distinguishco jouth CarolinIan, who for yuars repre ented Laurens County in the S.at ienate and was later lieutenant gover ior, at the time John L. Manning wiat ,overnor. Oa account of the friend hip of these two, the ileutouiant gov irnor named his son for Gov. Mannint! ['h 'younger Irby's mother was Miss lenrietta Earle, a daughter of another listinguished South Carolina family. lonator Irby was thus a near relative if his successor in the United States lenate, the late Judge Joeuph It Barle. Both of thebe wno immediatuely ucceeded Wade Hampton have passea way, while the grand old Conlederatt hieftain survivee them. Senator Irby sp. nt his boyhood at he old Irby homestead in Laurens "his is a pictureeque spot-a grove of en acres surroundtng a mansion of col inial design, built in the early part, of he century. The dimensions of the rb 'home are identical whh those ol iolomon1's temple. irby Hlli overlooks be-city of La~urens. and the t ospitalita >i its board has buen enjoyed by many. ienator Irby and his lather before hiin vere lavish entortainers. The deceased was a man of superior oducation as well as of keen jsidgmnent (dc strong intellect. He was preparea or college ati the local schools and dtorwards attndeod the Univernit~y or (1,rginia and 'lrrnceton. In 1876, a nemnorable .*ear in bState history, h ras admitted to the liar after reading swruhder Henry-Mclver, of Cheraw, he present'chief .juntioe of the su prom, ourt of Seuth- Carolina, and Joanua H. ludson, ex-judge. His firsit venturO in the practice of sw was in the Oity of Lauren: with W .Gray, .Frq , as his~ partner. bL er .e was asnociated with J~,oet, T. Jinn nn, Congressman elect,. Young Irhy ntered with enthusiasm 1n to the gr e ampaign which brokd down the ruke ithe robber barons of the radtual arty and placed Wade Hampton at be head of the State government. He ras a lieutenant colonel on Gov. Ham;, nn's staff. In 1878 he praotically gave p the law to looi after hIs extensive arming interests, Irby took no active psrt in State pol ties until 1880 when he was electo d to he House. This was at a seaoson of olitical disquietude. Capt. 13. R. Til1 san having the surmmer before sowed be seeds of discordi in his memorable peech at Bennettsvlille. In 1888 i rby 'as returned to the House, anu agaIn ii 1890. IHis political career may be aid to date from that latter year. For I. was then that the R~eform mo)vement ras inaugurated and without Irby it ould not have bijen as successful as It ras. He was the .motive piower in the laroh convenition of 1890, which niotI ated T1'ilman for governor. A biographer- in writing of this pe lod of his life says : " All the forced4 rhich contributed to this political up. aival were concentrated at the March onvention. This coznvention was a *raotie'ai declaration of war upon ex iting political instittio1ns." "Eyeorythiug that could secure sue esa wat pitesent and allthat was nou d was'tiaillf the elements should be us~d Oi' lr'ystlthIed. It was at the rmot oritical moment in the proceed De~ of dhie 14o'dh. 'COnvention that rD~ Arstapgi#ared ags a master of ol at'tso an 'ganizcr of victory. IO tsh idi That revolution was mit i4d a'ti convention, it nar o~w1 .~pd pa-sing fito history as l 6t!t~ and -impotent, body. ~'O~eI~ads wsere about, equally asi whether the r'evoaution h V4gdr9eeds by thbe 'suggestion' of a ~iI~ e for glvnrnor or whether the i~hage shoald content itselft-with ~'sing-as had been done before 10 Volf the people in resolutions. It was into this broach that leby throw himself with~ ardor and enthdalasm, and his activity on the floor and the energy and force of his personal ap peals changed an imminent flasco into a POtential success. The conversion by him of a few votes in favor of the su g gestion' secured the nomination of Till man for governor, thus furnishing the hitherto disorganized forces with a leader and giving t'ie movement a name, a battle cry and solidity. The broken ranks which were practically closed and reorganizd by him moved on from that day to the overwhelming victory in November. Had there been no movement, there might have been no Irby, but had there been no Irby it, Is ( q'ially true that there would have been no organization." His ablaity to organize the forces in the "March convention" placed him in charge of thbe campaign, and he was the fieId marsrhal who carried Tillman to success. As chairman of the execu live committee of the reform move muent in 18O, he wits "Tillman's ileu L, nant," and hib knowledge of Stato af fairs and of peopio, his political acumnen and eugacity and his acknowledged fidelity to the It forU party maLio hun flext in lronminenco to Tillman. tit- wwas re-t leeted to the Legislature in 1iV9, and became Speaker of the tioue. A man of ability, of fine ap i)earance anl of good voice he was cau'tble to 11il the position. W hat has by some boon regarded as n grtl, poli ical crimo on tht, partof OiW R forn Itovemiett was the defeat ' W ade II aitny ton lor c-roi lot oil o the Un ted States Senate. Wiwn Gen. iHaII pton's t( rit3 xpi)ired in 1800, Irby was elected to succeed him. Irby's careCer in the United States Senate cannot he sald to have been as brilliant as wvas ox) 'ctOd after thu cain 1a1 gI of the l form tmoveme'nt. I - maitde hii1s maiden o)0litical speech in the United States Senato (uring the diebate on the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law. He op posd L u positlon taken by President, Cieveland and his cabinot on the silver issue. In tie tariff light he twico hold the balance of power, and though dis approving of some features of the measure, he voted with the Democrats to save them from ignominious defeat. When Congres.tmen Latimer and Strait were blacklisted and classed as Populist, by tho iostoico departmeont, Senator Irby iiade a spirited defence ti them before Wilson S. Bissell, post. anster general, and had then restored 1-o their rights as i)mocrats. Irby was but 36 ye ars old when he took his seat in tife United S ates Senato on the same day i~hat W. J. 3ryan was sworn into the louse of 1I presentativOb, and like Bryan, he was an advocate of tie free coinage of silver. In 1892 lie was a delegate at large to tW national D) bmocratic convention at Chicago, which o nominated Grover Cloveland for president. Senator Irby was a member of tb' conistitutionial convention in 11,15 Th0e, as in the State L 'gislatu"', i declined to take part in partisan and foolhardy legislation, and was engaged at timus in spirited debates with other leaders in that body. It was his fate o causo tho disiulasure of Senator Tillinan, and in 1896 he (lid not stand for re-election. In the summer of that year, there was a heated campaign betwon Gov John Gary Evans, Judge Joseph 11. E rie and Mr. John T. Duncau. Judge E trio won the nomination In the pri naary, but had hardly taken his seat when he was cut down by death, and a career of usefulness ended and a life of Promise fell short of its possibilitios. John L. McLaurin Congressman from the Sixth district, was appointed by Governor E lerbe to temporarily supply the vacancy caused by Senator E trio's death. An election was held. Evans was again a candidate, as was Mo Laurin, irby this time became a can dilate, b~ut he lost and McLaurin was chosen. This was Irby's first acknowledged polilcal, defeat, and he then retired to tho practice of law at Laurens. Hie has "'epeatedly .relused to be sent to the Legislature or to become a candidate for- governoir, as he was urged to du la.st spring. He has been unusually ->uccessful in his law practice lately, and has been retained in several net able cases. Ho has had asso~niated with hIm in his practice since 1896 t~wo voune lawyers, R A. Cooper, E:q., and 1H. E. H ibb, E q. 1-1 was the Iast of the Laurens c buirs of the R form movement. G. W. Stelil, who issued thbe manifest~o 'vhichi brought about, the March con vention of 1890, served two terms In Congress and died last year. Hugh 8. F'arley wits ai jutant general four years and aspired to succee.1, Shell in Con g ress. Gen. Farley died In 189*7. Sen attor Irby is the last of the three. A bout, four years ago he-became in. terested in the ancient order of ma sonry and at th" time of his death was hig h priest of Rising Sun chapter, No, 6, R~yal Arch Masons, of Laurene. It was his purpose to go highter in ma son ry. H~e was interested in a number of enterprises ,in Laturens and was a whole souled, publi spirited man. In that communityr he was personally very popiular, having a magnetic charm wh ich brought frienidi to him and his tidlelity toward others kept his friends true to himself. A friend in writing of hiim several years utgo said: "The salient characteristics of Irby are a keen and clear Insight Into men and measures, and the ab'iity to take a comn prehensive view of a situation or anI 'emergency. Although of an impetuous nature, he Is cool and deliberate in the facte of danger. Hi5s agacity and pru donrce In political emergenoles, his un swerving devotion tO Tilliman andc the cause, and his ability as a speaker have qualitled him both as a cabinet : ficer and field marshal, His advice arounrd the council board is always heeded, and his victories in the fild speak tsheir own prais, S." Senator Irby married Miss Ntnnin Macfarland, of Uherew, .a woman of much grace and lovelinodg of character and of rare phyalcallbe'@t'y. To them seven children werq boyei, fi~e sons and two daughters. Th0 01dest son, Me, W. C. 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