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With its foll corps of effi? cient teachers and high standard, of scholarship, it offers advantages for educating your ladies, equal to any col? lege for women in this Sute. We in? tend that it shall grow in efficiency as it grows in years, and thus command the continued favor of its patrons, and commend itself to the favor of all who have daughters to educate. For terms and catalogues apply to H. FRANK WILSON, President, Varch 21 Sumter, S. C. TBE SIMONOS NATIONAL BANK OP SUMTER STATE, CITY AND COlfNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTE tt, S. C. Paid np Capital ..... $75,000 00 Surplus Fnnd. 12,500 00 Liabilities of Stockholders to depositors acccording to the law governing National Banks, in excess of their stock . . $75,000 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT* Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In? terest allowed at the rate ot* 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of January, April, July and October. a. ii. 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OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock. April 9. 2 A. WHITE & SON, Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED 1866. Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL ft LONDON ft GLOBE, NORTH BRITISH ft MERCANTILE, HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y., LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,000,000. Feb. 12_ 1890. 1894. PHELPS kW., General Insurance Agents, Sumter, S. C. Fire, Life, Accident, Steam Boiler, Plate Glass, Bonds of Surety for persons tn posi- ( lions of trust, and Liability Insurance in every branch, written in the very best Amer? ican and Foreign Companies. 1 Over sixty-five millions of cap?a! repre- i eented. i Office at Messrs. J. Ryttenberg ft Sons, 2d 1 Floor, Front. Mcb 14-0 < Congressman McLaurin's Let ter. He Denounces Coat-tail Swingers, and Dog-meat Politicians. FAVORS TILLMAN FOR THE ?. S. SENATS. The following is the letter of Con? gressman McLaurin, which was pub? lished in the daily paper of the 22d alt., and to which reference was made last week. Mr Lewis Appelt, Mannings S. C. Dear Appelt :-Your letter of recent date, calling my attention to widely circulated reports of my being in "com? bination with Senator Bailer in bis race for the Senate, bis been received. It is a lie oat of the whole cloth. Hitherto, I have paid no attention to slanders "circulated" by interested parties, for the parp?se of destroying the confidence, thai the people are sap posed to have io me. I cannot, how? ever, avoid a reply to a pointed ques? tion, 8oeb as yoo ask. I shall "call a spade a spade" aod express my feelings fully. Last spring, when the famous "blacklisting" of the Sooth Carolina delegation was io progress, I soon discovered that the trouble arose largely from the administration con? founding the Alliance man and the Pop? ulist. In the West, the People's party' swallowed the Alliance and, jost com? ing into power, the mistake was natural io reference to the Alliaocemao io the Sooth. If yoo will remember, t was oot present when that disgraceful sceoe occurred io the office of oar Postmaster General, where the question of the Democracy of oar Representatives in Congress was tested. I felt that the matter of my Democracy bad been tried by the people of the Sixth district, aod if I suited them it mattered very little to me whether I spited anybody else or oot I sooo discovered that Mr. Bis? sel! jw as a big-hearted, big-brained mao, not moch qf a politician, bat a fine law? yer and a thoroughgoing business mao ; the only trouble being that he roos the Postoffice Department io a business way instead of as a political machine. Mr. Talbert and myself have an addi? tional advantage io oot having defeated ex-members on the spot to wage special war upon as. While the issuing of ukases, pronoociameotoes, etc., was go? ing on I kept my mooth shot, aod at? tended to my owo business. Person? ally, I did not banker after the distribu? tion of the offices, for I know I could'ot sait everybody; aod every mao who made application and failed would either be a lukewarm friend or an open enemy. I felt, however, that I bad a certain doty to perform io reference to these postoffices, aod made op my miod to perform that duty, if permitted by the Postmaster General, aod if oot so permitted theo the responsibility was takeo from my shoulders. I waa press? ed from every quarter by Re for me rs to secure these appointments. Yoo wanted the office at Manning, aod suppose I had said: "Oh, I cannot recommend you because Messrs. Latimer aod Strait are oot recogoized !" You would have very probably told me that I was sent to Congress to represent the Sixth aod oot the Third aod Fifth Congres? sional Districts. I made a formal re? quest of Senator Butler that he should oot interfere with my recommendations, or if he did, to give a reason why he shoald treat me io a different manner from that io which the Hoo. George W. Dargao had beeo treated. Senator Butler's treatment of me was kind, courteous aod upon a high plane. He said that in his service in the Senate be had never interfered in tbe district of a congressman, where he was treated with that consideration due bis official position, aod would not interfere in mine. In the majority of cases in my district. Senator Butler bas made no recommendation whatever ; io some cases, yours for iostanee, at my request be joined in the endorsement. It is utterly impossible to represent South Carolina without some concert of action between the Senate and House. Senator Butler bas been kind and con? siderate, I have, in my turn, endeavored to be courteous and show proper respect for his official and personal character. The subject of State politics was never mentiooed between us until after tbe article in The Headlight, due respect for the feelings of each preventing even an indirect reference to it. I have bad appointed to nearly every postoffice in the district Tilimaoites, of the most marked type, without a question being asked or a pledge being takeo from a single man. So far from any appoiotee of mice feeliog that he is under the light? est obligation to Senator Butler, you felt perfectly free in y oar last issue to compare bim to a buzzard." My dear Appelt, what in the name of heaven is a public man to do ? Latimer tells me 1 that some of his people are "cussing" bim because-he bas not any influence, ' and some of mine are "cussirg" me be- ! cause I have 1 I have nothing to do with the candi- * dacy of Senator Butler ; be bas treated i me like a gentleman, and I shall treat j him the same way, regardless of conse- j ? faences. The very first time that State j t politics was discussed between Senator t Butler and myself was after that infam-1 t )us attack and insinuation by Gantt of! ? a * 'trade and combinad OD." I thee deemed it my doty to talk to Senatoi Batter, and be said Dot to pay any at tention to that, that be knew the per? sonal and political relation between my self and Tillman, and did not expect mc to do anything else, bot that it need not disturb our personal and official rela? tions for me to support my friend. Now, Appelt, I appreciate your kind letter, and the motive which prompted it. The past four years have beeo to me full of experiences, and I tell you candidly that I have about reached the conclusion that at present there is no place in public life for a mun with any delicacy of feeling, conscience or pa? triotism. When I think of the dream I had, when we all started out in 1888 to smash the ''rings" and to have free speech, free thought and a truly popular government, I do not want to see estab? lished as absolute a despotism as there is outside of "darkest Rasia;" the Al? liance and all those great financial and governmental issues freighted with the life or death of a nation, dwarfed into the single question of how whiskey shall be dished oat to thirsty souls. Take the situation when I went to Spartanburg. After villifying and slan? dering me for months, telegrams from Washington, ordered Gantt to atk me certain questions. I said that I would support Tillman provided he stood for the demands of the Alliance, and actual? ly one of their little creatures, a peri? patetic school teacher, who wants to be Superintendent of Education, de? nounced me. I think Tillman is will log to stand upon his own merit, but this crowd of sycophants flatter his vanity and call everybody else .'traitor," when if the test came, like the miserable vultures that they are, they would be the first to turn and rend his vitals. I will follow DO man blind? folded, but if I had been even willing to do this, I would have died, a thousand deaths before I would let one of the political "hell-hounds," that can be bought like a piece of dog-meat in the market, pop his whip over my back and drive me crying to his master's feet. It is not love for Tillman or their country that influences these blatant bawlers. I know some of the loudest mouthed, who bate him most. They want an office. This tells the tale. Governor Tillman does not need help now, he is in the very zenith of success and power. Let the tide torn, let dan? ger, defeat or disaster threaten and then he will see who his friends arc, men whe stood shoulder to shoulder when the battle was thick, men who have the courage to differ with him, or the miserable parasites and barnacles that can only exist amid uncleanness, and who, unless scraped off at regular intervals, eat through the hull and sink the stoutest ship to the bottom of the Sea. It is mortifyiog, humiliating, for poli? tics to be upon the low plane where such explanations are demanded. Now, as to the other question, which you asked me about tbe dispensary, I am more than ever convinced that some modification along the line suggested by me at Spartanburg is a necessity. The establishment at Columbia, with its host of officers, is too cumbersome, and the profit feature is morally wrong. It is better to undersell and starve the "blind tiger" than to shoot it; especially when the beast shoote back. Besides, aoy law that necessitates a standing army for its enforcement will fail of its own weight. I am glad that you heartily support me in these views. We have had enough turmoil sod strife in South Carolina. There were old, deep-seated abuses and traditions that had to be destroyed and rooted out. Tillman was the man to do it. His genius is essentially destructive, and as he has about accomplished his work in South Carolina, send him to the Senate where be will find enough abuses to employ bis genius for the balance of his life. In South Carolina we want some? thing DOW OD the constructive order. We cannot live there io two armed camps, and if wc undertake it the Federal government will put us through aoother course of reconstruction. We do not need an -'apiet" to prance around over the State, squint one eye. "cuss" and try to play ''Ben Tillman, I think that the soil was exhausted wheo it produced Bea No. 1. The squeak of the "squeduok" try? ing to masquerade as the blast of a trumpet will make us ridiculous and contemptible. What the State needs DOW is a sedative to steady the "old lady's nerves, and then a good tooic to build up the waste tissue. After so much one x, two x, three x and four x, a short course of "Keeley Cure" would not be a bad iovestmeot. Io other words, we want "oil on the troubled waters." A good, conservative, business-like SoverDor, who is Dot ao "imitator," Dot brilliant but sensible, will briog us ?ound all right, and the old lady will be ill the better for the little shakiog up she has had. Thanks for your kind reference to my )nlitical future. If my record and zea! hat I have displayed OD every occasion vhere our demands are ic question en- ! itle me to this coosideratioo, well and I [ood, otherwise I do Dot want it. 1I bave borne for six months patiently an< silently these continued misrepresents tioos and slanders. I am 500 mile from borne, trying to do my duty, an< f my language is strong, it ia becausi I feel outraged at the malicious meannes of these attacks. Yours truly, (Signed) JOHN L. MCLAUBIN, Mischief Brewing. Ellery M. Brayton, the member o the Republican Executive Committei from this State has gotten up a flaming address to the Republicans of the State in which be calls upon them in th? most insinuating way to "hasten t< register." Ordinarily such importan moves as this by the Republicans ii done on the quiet but in this case tb< chairman bas come out in a bold waj and called opon bis fellow Republican! to register and prepare for the coming election. Apparently the most im portaot coosideration seems to tx in the constitutional question and th? possibility of annulling the 2 per cent tax for schools, fixing an education a and property qualification for the elec? tive franchise, establishing the chair gang and whipping post, and otbei obnoxious provisions, are held up at the red flags to the colored voter, What there is behind the call on the Republicans to prepare for action re? mains to be seen, bot it is evident thal there is something op io the Repub? lican camp, as the following addrest indicates : "Only three registration days re? main. It is the duty of every Repub? lican who is not registered, or who has lost his certificate, or changed his resi? dence, to go . to tbe supervisor at tbe county court house on the first Monday in May, June or July, and obtain a certificate. The approaching election will be one of vast importance and great opportunities to the Republicans. The scheme to set aside the State Con? stitution aod make a new one should instantly arouse the voters, lt ie fraught with danger and involves momentous changes, among which are probably the annulling of the 2 per cent, tax for schools, fixing an education aod property qualification for the elective franchise, establishing the chain gaog aod whippiog post, aod other obnoxious provisions. The oew Constitution will oot be submitted to the people for ratification ; so that the ooly chance to defeat the scheme will be at the oext election, wheo the ques? tion for or against the Constitutional Con? vention is to be voted on. No Repub? lican who does oot have bis registra? tion certificate cao vote. The danger is imminent, and those who now fail to exercise their privileges will be respon? sible for the deprivation of the rights, liberties and privileges grant? ed by the present Constitution. The hostility and disintegration among the Democrats affords a chance for the Republicans to exercise their political rights Do not throw the op? portunity away. If remiss or recreant it may be the last chance many will have to vote in South Carolima. The whole country is sick of Democratic role aod incapacity. A revolt against tbe deplorable condition into which it has plunged the country, aod the distress and poverty brooght upon the people, is DOW sweeping over the land. The strongholds of Democracy io the North have been overthrown, and the Sooth is doomed to a break-up. The principles and policy of the Repoblicao party are being vindicated. In this State the way is open to elect seven Repoblicao Con? gressmen and defeat hostile Democratic j legislators as well as to preserve Consti? tutional rights from destruction. If sys? tematic methods are adopted in each county to enumerate and organize toe registered voters by forming them into clubs it will result io separating the active and useful voters from the drones and be a stimulus to registration. The emergency is critical, and the call to duty imperative : Therefore, rally Re? publicans, and register. Be alive to your interests and responsibities. A man who is not registered is not a voter, hav? ing no more voice in tbe affairs of the State than a woman, a felon, or a luoatic, and is a political outcast." The colored Republicans are more interested in the constitutional conven? tion than any others, as they believe that should a new Constitution be ad? opted it would have some such restric? tions as was adopted in Mississippi, which would materially decrease the political strength of the Republicans. One of the leaders, in conversation with a representative of the State remarked that, it was high time for the Repub? licans of South Carolina to be mak? ing a last effort for political freedom. Ex-Collector E. A. Webster, of Or? angeburg, is chairman of the republican party in this State, and whether the ad? dress has been issued with bis approval or not does not happen to be known, and it is barely possible that Mr. Bray? ton bas undertaken a task in which be will not meet with the cooperation of bis brother Republicans.-State. A good joke is being told on the newly chosen dispenser in Darlington. It is too juicy to be lost. It is said that on the strength of his appointment be resigned from the church and superintendency of the Sunday school. Soon after tbe decision came along. Let Us Have Prohibition. The decision of the Supreme Court setting aside the dispensary law has evoked a flood of comment and criti? cism in the State. The sentiment in towns and cities largely favors the result of this decision, but there are many dissenters who agree that the dispensary system was worthy of a fair trial as a solution of the liquor question. In a number of communities if has not been accorded a fair and unbiased test, and political prejudice bas been rife to prevent a discriminat? ing judgment upon the system. It is well to admit that the restrictions and restraints of such a system do not accord with the teachings of the past, nor is the genius of our people prone to accept anything which savors of es? pionage and forcible obedience to law. So far as the administration of the law itself is concerned, many of its supporters bave not agreed with the chief executive in his ultra methods for its enforcement. He has unnecessarily antagonized the opposition, and in many instances bas driven away its friends who wens willing to aid and assist in reasonable measures, but who would oot. identify themselves with odious means and belligerent actions even to sustain what they believed to be right. The fierce instructions given to armed constables were not calculated to allay the intense opposition of brave men, and the use of weapons by these con? stables upon Blight provocation only in? creased the fury against chem. This was the condition of affaire when the Supreme Court rendered its verdict that the law contravenes the constitution of this State, and is null and void exept in ODe particular. The court holds in substance that all license laws were repealed by the dis? pensary act, and that the Legislature has an undoubted right to prohibit the traffic in liquor, but it cannot create a monopoly, nor can the State engage in business of any sort. This leaves an actual, postive prohibition of the liquor traffic in South Carolina, but there are no penalties for its violation or provisions for its specific enforce? ment. The Legislature can remedy these defects, and at this writing it is asserted that an extra session will be called for the purpose of amending what ie left of the dispensary law. If the Legislature shall be coovened to cooside these mattere, it would ap? pear that, only two propositions are likely to be entertained. Governor Tillman, we take it for granted, will not altogether forsake the line he has been pursuing, and he will doubtless urge the passage of a law that is not inimical to the decision of ihe court, and yet will maintain the control aod regulation of the liquor traffic. He will be compelled to yield the revenue feature of the law, as this is the very essence of its unconstitutionality. Whether an act can be framed which will avoid the objections already sus? tained by the courts is to say the least very doubtful What theo? Tbis Legislature can? not do otherwise thao to enact a com? plete prohibition measure, and provide the machinery for its due enforcement. Such a conree, if taken at an early dat?, would thrust this question into the campaign, and all other issues would theo be dwarfed into insignifi? cance ae a natural consequence. The political elemente would undergo a change, and new alignments would take place. Old issuos aod factional prejudices would give way to this ab? sorbing question, and the State would witness a mighty struggle for the mastery. The advocates of the traffic in liquor by individuals under the license system would gird themselves for the conflict, and every means would be employed to restore the form?r con? dition of thiogs io this State, but we do not believe they would be succesful. Prohibition bas the best chance for its enactment now than at any previous time in the history of the State. A majority of the Legislature was chosen for this purpose, and if they were to abandon the system which did not stand the test in the courts, they must inevitably take a firm stand for prohibition. The large majority of voters will condemn a return to the license system, as enough bas been seen and felt to show the beneficial effect of its abandonment. The people will not consent to the reopening of the saloons. This evil once restored it would take generations to reach the point where we stand to-day. The question is to be decided by the white voters, if it goes into the campaign at all, and we have no fears as to the re? sult.-Greenville Mountaineer. Highest of all in Leavening Po* ABSOLU! Col. A Wm McLeona, of The John? ston Monitor, is the guilty party re? sponsible for this gem of purest ray serene : UNCONSTTTOO. The Hindoo bops io the hollaboloo, The blind tigers carls his tail : Tbe dispensary law is on a jag, Its advocates on a wail. The great tiger tamer is in a hole. The people are on a tare ; Though few of us know jost where we are at, There is mosic in the air. Dissipated are the joys of the czar, Dispen8'ry'g tamed up its toes : Tbe stately Palmetto's disgrace has fled, And Jndge Pope tarns np bis nose. The jonqail jaggles^witb the jimson weed And tbe fragrance of tbe two Is lost in the jangles of echoland Dispens'ry' 3 anconstitoo. Columbia's Cotton Mill. At Columbia, S. C , 00 April 25, The turning of a small wheel by Ardas Blood, of Massachusetts, set in motion the machinery of the largest mill under one roof in the United States, and marked the beginning of a larger growth for Colum? bia. The milt, though less thao half completed, ?3 ready for work, lt is five stories high, and one-fifteenth of a mile long, and will be devoted to the manufacture of cotton duck. In addi? tion to its being the forerunner of nu? merous enterprises for Columbia, aod bearing the distinction of beiog larger thao the famous King-Phillip mill, of Lowell, Mass, there is a feature about it that will revolutionize mill construc? tion . This is the application of elec? tricity to cotton manufacturing, the power being developed by power from the cana!, and transmitted over wires to fifteen electric dynamos in the mill. The mill will have, in all, 18,000 spin? dles, which are equal to 160,000 spin? dles of ordinary construction. Lime Water. To make lime water put about a pound of unstacked lime in a large bowl, poor over this three quarts of boiling water, let it stand for ten min? utes, then stir well with a stick. Place the bowl in a cool place for eight or ten hours ; at the eod of that time pour off the clear water, letting the sediment remain in the bottom of the bowl. Bottle the clear water and keep in a convenient place. A tablespoon? ful of this may be added to a glass of milk to be given to a patient with an acid stomach. . In case of burns cover the burned parts with a cloth wet in lime water. Keep the cloth wet by pouring 00 a little of the water as often as the cloth . dries. The women folks did- their, first vot? ing in town elections in Colorado re? cently. Pretty girls were bosy, pio oing violets or carnations on the coat lapels of big bearded men, with win? cing smiles that said : **Yoo will vota my ticket, woo't yoo ?" Their pres ecce prevented disorderly scenes at the polls. A discovery of .a big phosphate de? posit io Tennessee bas jost been* an? nounced, about twenty miles from Cbattaoooga. The veio is sixteen feet thick and bas been traced nine miles. How far down it extends is not yet known. The discovery of this deposit was made shortly after the war, bot the owners who didn't know what it was, took it for some sort of coal, but as it wouldn't buro worth a continental didn't bother their heads about it or take any more interest in it, until about a week ago, wheo tbey discover* ed what it was. Senator Pugh, of Alabama, thinks, in view of ?ate European news, that President Cleveland is not a bad sort of prophet. He sayt? : "President Cleve? land told me the other day that he believed silver would be remonetized in 1896 and that this country and England- will, by that time, be 00 a basis of bimetalism. It has been no secret among the president's friends that be believes Eogland will soon have to get down from tbe high horse she has been sitting upon in dealing with silver. It is because of that belief that he has advised a policy of delay on the part of this country." For Over Fifty Years. MES. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is tbe best remedy for Diar? rhoea. Twenty-five cents a bettie. /er.-Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder rELY PURE