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?5p?;V: " ~ g&Hartforr iwiuLfi TRICKERY IN TSADET!: I I Rev. Dr. Talmage Contrasts It j: With Fair Dealing. j: CONDEMNS BUSINESS i ! ^ - ? ? L--- UfL'^U \/i!iiae A f 3 i processes uy nmui ...v. Misrepresented. Many of Our Merchants Are Models of Integrity. Integrity and trickery in business life form the subject of Dr. Talmage's sermon today, and the contrast he establishes between the two is a striking one. The text is Proverbs xx, 14, "It is naught, it is naught, said the buyer, when he is gone his way, then he boasteth." "Palaces are not such prisons as the world imagines. If you think that the I only time kings ?nd queens come forth from the royal gates is in procession and jprgeously attended, you are mistaJjjjar Incognito, by day or by night, ^aralothed in citizen's apparel or the qtoF of a working woman, they come out and see the world as it is. In no other way could King Solomon, the author of my test, have known everything that was going on. From my text I am sure he must in disguise some day have walked into a store of ready i made clothing in Jerusalem and stood j near the counter and heard a conversation between a buyer and a seller. The merchant put a price on a coat, and the customer began to dicker and said: "Absurd! That coat is not worth what you ask for it. Why, just look at the coarseness of the fabric! See that spot on the collar! Besides that, it does not fit. Twenty dollars for that? Why, " mi I it is not wortn more man $>iu. jl iiey have a better article than that and for lower price down at Clothem, Fitem & Bros. Besides that, I don't want it at any price. Good morning." ''Hold," says the merchant, "do not go off in that way. I want to sell you that coat. I have some payments to make and I want the money. Come, now, how much will you give for that coat?" "Well," says the customer, "I will split the difference. You asked $20 inu i - iid^SlO. Now, I will give you $1V "Well," said tiie mercnant, 11 is a great sacrifice, but take it at that price." Then the customer with a roll under his arm started to go out and enter his own place of business, and Solomon in disguise followed him. He heard the customer as he unrolled the coat say: "Boys, I have made a great bargain. How much do you guess I gave for that coat?" "Well," says one, wishing to rt/vnf>T\K-nr>?T?t Ilia oT>fomric<? "vnn FRVP. j v ? 0?$30 for it" Another says, "I should think you got it cheap if you gave $25. " "No," says the buyer in triumph; "I got it for $15. I beat him down and pointed out the imperfections until I really made him believe it was not worth hardly anything. It takes me to make a bargain. Ha! Ha!" 0 man, you got the goods for less than they were worth by positive falsehood, and no wonder, when Solomon went back to his palace and had put off his disguise, that he sat down at his writing desk and fnr ?11 strps a cravon sketch of you, "It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way, -? then he boasteth." - There are no higher styles of men in all the world than those now at the head of mercantile enterprises in the great cities of this continent. Their ( casual promise is as good as a bond with i piles of collterals. Their good reputa- . tion for integrity is as well established as that of Petrarch residing in the family of Colonna. It is related that when . there was great disturbance in the f ami ly the cardinal called all his people to- ; gether and put them under oath to tell the truth, except Petrarch. When he J came up to swear, the cardinal put away his book and said, "As for you, Pet- J rarch, your word is sufficient." Never , since the world stood have there been , so many merchants whose transactions . can stand the test of the Ten Command- ; ments. Such bargain makers are all ] the more to be honored because they have withsood year after year tempta- , tions which have flung so many flat and flung them so hard they can never, , never reeover themselves. "While all positions in life have powerful beset- . ments to evil, there are specific forms , of allurement which are peculiar to . each occupation and profession, and it will be useful to speak of the peculiar temptations of business men. Firat, as in the scene of the text, business mea are often tempted to sac- i rifice plain truth, the seller by exaggerating the value of goods and the buyer ( be depreciating them. We cannot but ( admire an expert salesman. See how he first induces the customer into a mood favorable to the propejiconsidera- ( tion of the value of the goods. He . shows himself to be an honest and ! frank salesman. How carefully the \ lights are arranged till they fall just . right upon the fabric', tfeiiimng with ( goods of medium quality, he gradually . advances toward those of more thor- j ough make aud or more attractive pat- ( tern. How he watches the moods and ( whims of his customer! With what perfect calmness he takes the order and bows the purchaser from his presence, | who goes away having made up his mind ' that he has bought the goods at a price which will allow him a living margin ^ when he again sells them! The goods were worth what the salesman said they were and were soid at a price wmch will not make it necessary for the house to fail every ten years in order to fix up I things. But with what burning indignation 1 we think of the iniquitous stratagems by which goods are sometimes disposed of! A glance at the morning papers i shows the arrival at one of our hotels of j a young merchant from one of the inland cities. He is a comparative stranger in the great city, and of course he i must be shown around, and it will J be the duty of some of our enterpris- , ing houses to escort him. He is a large purchaser and has plenty 01 time and money, aid it will pay to \ ror-j Thp fVTATnncr spent at a place of doubtful amuse- . ment. Then they go back to the ho- ( tel. Having just come to town, they . must, of course, drink. ? A friend from the same mercantile z establishment drops in, and usage and t generosity suggest that they must drink. Business prospects are talked over, t and the stranger is warned against cer- \ tain dilapidated mercantile establish- ; ments that are about to fail, r.nd for a such kindness and magnanimity of cau- s tion against the dishonesty of ether r ^ business houses, of course it is expcct- 2 ed they will?and so they do?take a j. drink. Other merchants lodging in ad- t joining rooms find it hard to sleep for v iP- the clatter of decanters, and the coarse a carousal of these "hail fellows well ] met" waxes louder. But they sit not r all night at the wine cup. They must * [ I ? - - ...? seo the sights^ They siSgger fcrtii wh* jj sheeks flushed and cyez bloodsh.dt? Tht {: outer gates of hell open to let in the ; ] victims. Thj wings of lost souls flit : ] among the lights, and the steps of the i carousers sound with the rumbling i thunders of the lost. Farewell to all s ,l- r\f mother. I SdliUUtiVJ Vi w v ? ? , sister, father, slumbering in the inland I i home, in some vision of that night ; catch a glimpse of the rain wrought ] they would rend out their hair by the i roots and bite the tongue till the blood 1 spurted, shrieking out, ';God save ; him!'' i What, suppose you, will come upon such business establishments? and tnere are hundreds of them in the ] cities. They may boast of fabulous 3 sales, and they may have aD unprece- 1 dented run of buyers, and the name of < Vinn^r m,av bp a terror to all rivals, ] and from this thrifty root there may | spring up branch houses in other cities, 1 and all the partners of the lirm may j move into their mansions and drive their full blooded ?pan, and the i'am- ! ilies may sweep the street with the ^ most elegant apparel that human heart 1 ever wove or ea* :hly magnificence ever achieved. I But a curse is gathering surelv for j those mea, aod if it does not seize hold J if the pillars and in one wild ruin J bring down the temple of commercial glory ii will break up their peace, and 1 they will tremble wi.lt sickness and 1 bloat with dissipations, and, pushed to 1 the precipice of this life, they will try 1 to hold back and cry for help, but no 1 help will come, and they will clutch ' ' 1 ?- L j.1 1 their gold to taice it aiong wuu tueiu, but it will be snatched from their grasp * and a voice will sound through their ] soul. "Not a farthing, thou beggared i spirit!" Ani thr. judgment will come, 1 and they will stand aghast before it, and all the business iniquities of a life- '< time will gatber around them, saying, 1 "Do you remember this?" and "Do 1 you remember that?" And clerks that 1 they compelled to dishonesty and run < ners and draymen and bookkeepers who < saw behind the scenes will bear testi- \ mony to their nefarious deeds, and - some virtuous soul that once stood J aghast at the splendor and power of j these business men will say, "Alas, this is all that is left of that great firm < that occupied a block with their mer- j chandise and overshadowed the city i with their influence and made rignte- | ousness and truth and purity fall under i the galling tire of avarice and crime." 1 While we admire and approve of all 1 acuteness and tact in the sale of goods, i we must condemn any process by which J a fabric or product is represented as > possessing a vabe which it really does 1 not have. Nothing but sheer false- 1 hood can represent as perfection boots that rip, silks tha; speedily lose their < ' - i iUSter, calicoes mat iuimeuiaicij n?u out, stoves that crack under tie first i hot fire, books insecurely bound, car- < pets that unravel, old furniture reju- J vecated with putty ar.tl glue and sold 1 as :iavir.g been recently manufactured, i gold watches made of brass, barrels of < fruit, the biggest apples on liie top. 1 wine adulterated with strychnine, hos- ' - ' e J?} lerv pocny woven, uiomes vj. uvucsuiu manufacture shining with foreign la- 1 bels, imported goods represented as rare ] and hard to get, because foreign cx- i change is so high, rolled out on the ' counter with matchless display. Im- < ported indeed, but from the factory in 1 the next street. A pattern already un- J fashionable nnd unsalable palmed off as 1 a new print upon some country mer- i chant who has come to town to make ? * ~ .1 J J J ? , His nrst purcnase 01 ary gygua auu going home with a large stock of goods 1 warranted to keep. ] Again business men are often tempt- } ed to make the habits and customs of other traders their law of rectitude. 1 There are commercial usages wl-.ich 1 will not stand the test of the last day. 1 Yet men in business are apt to do as j their neighbors do. If the majority of '< the traders In any locality are las in 1 principle, the commercial code in that 1 community t;11 be spurious and dis- t honest, it is a hard thing to stand ] close hy tV law of right when your 1 next door neighbor, by his-looseness of dealing, is enabled to sell goods at a < cheaper rate and decoy your customers. ^ Of course you who promptly meet all \ rour business engagements, paying j when you promise to pay, will find it j hard to compete with that merchant < who is hopelessly in debt to the impor- i ter for the goods and to the landlord i vhose store he occupies and to the i clerks who serve him. There arc a j hundred practices prevalent in the < world of traffic which ought never to be- ] some the rule for honest men. Lneir j wrong does not make your right. Sin ] never becomes virture by being multi- i plied and admitted at brokers' board or ] merenants'exchange. Because others ] smuggle a few things in passenger i trunks, _ becausc others take usury 1 when men are in tight places, because j others deal in fancy stocks, because ] others palm off worthless indorsements, ] becausc others do nothing but blow ( bubbles, do not, therefore, be overcome ( of temptation. Hollow pretentions ] and fictitious credit and commercial j gambling may awhile prosper, but the ^ iay of reckoning cometh, and in addition to the horror and condemnation of outraged communities the curse of God will come, blow after blow. God's law forever and forever is the only standard Df right ana wrong and not commercial sthics. i'oung business, men avoid the first 2 business dishonor, and you will avoid 1 ill the rest. The captain of a vessel < was walking near the mouth of a river i svhen the tide was low, and there was a 1 long, stout anchor chain, into one of i the great links or which his foot slipp- i id, and it began to swelll, and he could t ao't withdraw it. The tide began to t rise. The chain could not be loosened i aor filed off in time, and a surgeon was ( called to amputate the limb, but before i :he work could be done the tide rolled ? )ver the victim, and his life was gone. 3 [ have to tell you, young man, that 1 just one wrong into which you slip may 1 :>e a link of a long chain of circumstan- t les from which you cannot be extricat- t id by any ingenuity of your own or any s aelp from others, and the tides will 3 roll over you as they have over many. tVhen Pompey, the warrior, wanted to e :ake possession of a city and they would i iot open the gates, he persuaded them i :o admit a ssck soldier. But the sick j soldier after awhile got well aT.-d strong, c ind he threw open the gates and let the g levastating army come in. One wrong c admitted into the soul may gain in s strength until after awhile it flings open t ill the gates to the attack of sin, and r he ruin is complete. t Again, business men are sometimes y empted to throw off personal responsi- s )iliiy, shifting it to the institution to g rhich they belong. Directors in banks p md railroad and insurance companies fi ometimes shirk personal responsibility mderneath the action of the corporation t :nd how often, when some banking 1 louse or financial institution explodes 1 hrough fraud, respectable men in the v )oard of directors say, "Why, I thought t ill was going on in an honest way, and f ! am utterly confounded with this de- t neanor!" The banks and the fire and a ife and marine insurance companies v itid the railroad bonipanies. Will not stand up for judginent in the last day; jut taose who in them acted righteous' .7 will recoive, each for himself, a regard, and those who acted the part of isglect or trickery will, cach for him;els, receive a condemnation. Unlawful dividends are not clean be:ore God because there are those associated with you who grab just as big a pile as you do. He who countenances :he dishonesty of the firm or of the corporation or association takes upon him self all the moral liabilities. If the Einancial institution steals, he steals, [f they go into wild speculations, he himself is a gambler. If they needlessly embarrass a creditor, he himself is guilty of cruelty. If they swindle the uninitiated he himself is a defraud;r. No financial institution ever had a mocev vault strong enough, or credit stanch enough, or dividends large enough, or policy acute enough to hide the individual sins of its members, rhe old adage that corporations have no ?ouls is misleading. Every corporation has as many souls as it has members. JTl^CLLU j Ilic&Li V UOIliuSO iiatb tempted to postpone their enjoyments and duties to a future season of entire leisure. What a sedative the Christian religion would be to all our business men if instead of postponing its uses to aid age or death they would take it into the store or factory or worldly engagements now! It is folly to go amid the uncertainties of business life with no lirtr? tn Tinln A movAlinrif. in :l Now England village was standing by a horse, and the horse lifted its foot to stamp it in a pool ol water, and the merchant, to escape the splash, stepped into the door of an insurance agent, md the agent said, "I suppose you have come to renew your fire insurince." "Oh!" said the merchant,. "I had forgotten that." The insurance was renewed, and the nest day the house that had been insured was burned. Was it all accidental that the merchant, to escape a splash from a horse's foot, stepped into the insurance office? N'o, it was providential. And what a mighty solace for a business m?in to feel that things are providential: What peace and equilibrium in such a consideration, and what a grand thing if all business men could realize it! Many, although now comparatively straitened in worldly circumstances, have a goodly establishment in the future planned out. They have in im-- : nation built, about 20 years ahead. house in the country not difficult 11' iccess from the great town, for oy will often have business or old accou ts to settle or investments to look after. Fhe house is large enough to accommo" " *? 0 mi. i^li? late an tneir rrienas. j.ne nana * re wide and hung with pictures of hunting scenes and a branch of antlers and are jomfortable vrith chairs that can be rolled out on the veranda when the weather is inviting or set out under some of the oaks that stand sentinel id out the house, rustling in the cool Dreeze and songful with the robins, rhere is just land enough to keep them interested, and its crops of almost fabilous richness springing up v.nder application of the best theories to be found in the agricultural journals. The farm is well stocked with cattle md horses and sheep that know the 7oice and have a kindly bleat when one joes forth to look at them. In this Dlissful abode their children will be instructed in art and science and religion, rhis shall be the old homestead to which, the boys at college will direct :heir letters, and the hill on which the aouse stands will be called Oakwood or [vy Hill or Pleasant Retreat or Eagle Evrie. Mav the future have for every jusinesss man here ail that and more resides! But are you postponing your lappiness to that time? Are you adjourning your joys? Suppose that you ichieve all you expect?and that the rision I mention is not up to the reality, because the fountains will be brighter, ;he house grander and the scenery more picturesque?the mistake is none the ess fatal. What charm will there be in rural luiet for a man who has for 30 or 40 i ^ i pears oeen coniormiog ais entire uatiue :o the excitements of business? Will locks and herds with their bleat and noan be able to silence the insatiable spirit of acquisitiveness which has for rears had full swing in the soul? Will ;he hum of the breeze soothe the man ,vho now can find his only enjoyment n the stock market? Will leaf and iloud and fountain charm the eye that aas for three-fourths of a lifetime .?ound its chief beauty in hogshead and 3ills of sale? Will parents be compe;ent to rear their children for high and aoly purpose, if their iafancy and boyaood and girlhood were neglected, yhen they are almost ready to enter ipon the world and have all their habts fixed and their principles stereotyped? No, no: now is the time to be VftTi io fTir> firriA fo rnnr lajk/^j-. VU Jit J WUV V*l?v WW WV* < W J V Creator. Now is the time to be a Jhristian. Are you too busy? I have :nown men as busy as you are who had i place in the store loft where iliey vent to pray. Someone asked a Chris;ian sailor where he found any place tu Dray in. lie said, "I can always find i quiet place at masthead." And in :he busiest day of the season if your leart is right you can find a place to vrav Rnav thnrmiffhfares are eood r * ""*?/ " "o ? - - w places to pray in as you go to meet ,*our various engagements. Go home a Ittle earlier and get introduced to your ;hildrcn. Be not a galley slave by day md night, lashed fast to the oar of )usiness. Let every day have its hour ?or worship and intellectual culture md recreation. Show yourself greater than your business. Act not as ;hough after death you would enter lpon an eternity of railroad stocks and soffees and ribbons. Roast not your nanhood before the perpetual fires of msiety. With every yard of cloth *ou sell, throw not in your soul to boot, jse firkin and counting room desk and AMAIA MM 4- A AVI And id.ruware uraic <xz tuc 3^^ iv givixvuo isefulness and highest Christian charicter. Decide once and forever who ihall be master in your store, you or 'our business. Again, business men are often tempt;d to let their calling interfer with the nterests of the soul. God sends men nto the business world to get educated ust as boys are sent to school and :ollege. Purchase and rale, loss and ;ain, disappointment, prosperity, the ? "? 0.1 _ ? _ J 1. lisnonesty 01 oiners, panic ana uans nspension are but different lessons in he school. The more business the core means of grace. Many hr.ve gone hrough wildest panic unhurt. "Are 'ou not afraid you will break?" said ome one to a merchant in time of Teat commercial excitement. He re- j lied, "Aye, I shall break when the iftieth psalm breaks, in the fifteenth erse, 'Call upon me in the day of rouble, and I will deliver thee.' " .'he store and the counting house ave developed some of the most stalrart characters. Perhaps originally hey had but little sprightliness and orce, but two or three hard business hnmps woke them up from their lethrgy, and there came a thorough development in their hearts of all that | T7a5 good and holy anc energetic iiid j ; tremendous, and the have become the front men in Christ's army as well 13 lighthouses m the great world of traific. But business has been perpetual ! depletion to many a man. It first pulled out of him all benevolence, nest all amiability, next all religious aspirations, nest all conscience, and, though he entered his vocation with lsrcA heart arid rxVhl^ r-Tiarnntar >10 goes out of it a skeleten, enough to scare a ghost. Men appreciate the impotence of having a good business stand, a store on the right side of the street or in the right block, yet every place of business is a good stand for spiritual culture. God's angels hover over the world of traffic to sustain and build up those who are trying to do their duly. Tomorrow, if in your place of worldlv engagement you will listen for it, you may hear a sound louder than the rattle of drays and the shuffle of feet and the chink of dollars stealing into your soul, saying, "Seek ye first the king- ' dom of God and his righteousness, and ( all other things shall be added unto ; you." Yet some of those sharpest at a bar &CLIU. aic tucatcu uuuui cutii Jiiiuiuitdi blessedness by stratagems more palpable then any "drop game" of the street. They make investments in , thing? everlastingly below par. They , put their valuables in a safe not tireproof. They give full credit to influences that will not be able to pay , one cent on the dollar. They plunge into a labyrinth from which no bank- , rupt law or "two-thirds enactment" will ever extricate them. They take into their partnership the vorld, the flesh and the devil, aud the enemy of all righteousness vvill boast throngh -x xi. "L . _n eternal ages uiai me man wiio in an his business life could not be outwitted at last tumbled into spiritual defalca tion and wns swindled out of heaven. Perhaps some of you saw the fire in New York in 1835. Aged men tell us th/.t it begeared all description. Some stood on the house tops of Brooklyn and looked at the red ruin that swept down the streets and threatened to obliterate the metropolis. But the commercial world will yet be startled by a greater conflagration; even the last one. Bills of exchaage, policies of insurance, mortgages and bonds and government securities will be consumed in one lick of the flame. The ^urse and the United States mint will ; j urn to ashes. Gold will run molten i into the dust of the street. Ex changes and granite blocks of merchan- i dise will fall with a crash that will make the earth tremble. The flashing up of the great light will show the righteous the way to their thrones, i Their best treasures in heaven, they < will go up and take possession of them. The toils of business life, which racked their brains and rasped their nerves for so many years, will nave iorever ceased. "There the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at i rest." WAR CORRESPONDENTSComplaint of Their Treatment by Otis Sent to London. An Associated Press dispatch from . London Tuesday says: A private let- ! ter received here today from a war cor- ( respondent at Manila and dated June 17, say: "There seems to be no end of , the war in sight. The censorship is , hecominer more troublesome. , Gen Otis recently establised a rule that any matter relating to the navy ! must be taken to the commander of the fleet for his approval and afterward submitted to the military censor, i thus adding to our difficulties. For some reason which the censor would . not explain, Gen. Otis refused to allow us to send the death of the Monad- : nock's captain (Nichols) for two days ( after its occurrence. The general also i refused to allow us to send news of ( the disappearance of Capt. Rockefel- , ler (April 28) on the ground that it ] would worry his family, or the killing of Capt. Tilley, of the signal corps, until the next day. The correspondents are all very tired of this arrangement, which simply means that they I muet go out and run large chances of re oaTTa^ol flTTO^a O XUlf.ll ?0 1/ Li. i_i JUUU Of VAkUvwr m MWV*? i? ? no chance of making reputations, because their stories must always reflect Otis' view. { "It is impossible to write the trutli ' about the situation. The resources 1 and fiehtine Qualities of the natives 1 are quite misunderstood by the Ameri- J can papers and we cannot write the '< facts without being accused of treason; nor can we tell of the practically 3 unanimous opposition to and dislike of ' the war among the American troops. 3 The volunteers, or at least a portion of * them, were at one time on the verge ] of mutiny, and unless Gen. Otis had < begun sending them homewards there 1 would have been sensational developments. "We have been absolutely refused 3 ail hospital figures." 1 GENERAL WEYLEE. j ( ] He Threatens, in the Senate, to Lead l a Revolution in Spain. ( The discussion of ths army bill in } the senate at Madrid Wednesday led ' to an exciting scene. Gen. Weyler, ' arguing against any reduction of the ^ strength of the army, warned the gov- ^ emment that the present situation , made a revolution highly probable, ^ ?ince it had never been so easy for the army and the people to make common cause. He himself, he said, had never thought of heading a rising, but it must be confessed that revolutions some- j times cieared the political atmosphere ] and accomplished the work of regenera- ( tion. Senor Dato, minister of the in- i n rr PPTICcnrAf} (rATl. 1 4Ufc) WW t V*W*^ vw*>ww>*r?. w. Weyler, declaring that a general who, < with 300,000 men had failed to sup- ^ press the Cuban rebellion, had no right ^ to make such threats and that any at- ? tempt at revolution no matter by < whom, would be proceeded against wi.h j the utmost rigor of the la v. The fen- j alors warmly applauded Seiior Dato's ] speech. Tiic army bili was adopted. < Lower Freight. s The railroad commission has promul- i gated the new local tariff on cotton, ' which is of great importance not only to railroads, but cotton shippers and { growers as well. The rates are a reduc- i tion of from 25 to 30 per cent, on rates formerly existing in this State, and are said to lower than those or any state j in the South. The commission and the , railroad officials have had this matter ^ under consideration for a year. ? Shot to Death. 1 Henry Novels; a negro, of Hatties- J burg, Miss., who attempted to assault * | Miss Rosa Davis, Saturday evening was * captured Tuesday and was identified by ? Miss Davis. He was immediately tied to a tree and shot to death by the an- \ gry crowd. 1 mbm?g i?utafrAaao?arWSJ?>gw * THE OHIO TROUBLE] Board ?)T Arbitration Can Do No* j thing in Cleveland Strike. I ????? MAYORS OF TOWNS CLASH. Cleveland's Mayor Threatens to Subdue Brooklyn by Thirst. Cars Run on Twelve Lines. The storm centre of the street railway strike has, according to the authori ties, settled in Brooklyn, a suburb connected wiih Cleveland by a long high bridge. At noon Wednesday 150 employes of the Borne Steel Range company blocked a car on the bridge and dragged the motcrman and conductor from their posts, inflicting with their fists and other weapons injuries more painful than serious. Soldiers on guard at the barn about half a mile away hurried to the scene, but the rioters had taken refuse in the factory, i, wmcii bidiiua uuuci tiic l\j liic bridge. The factory was surrounded and the premises searched, but there was no clew by which the guilty ones could be picked out. Gen. Axline, in command of the troops, iu oruer to pcrsoua.ii> view me situation took a ride on an Orange street car. He was in civilian dress and the car was stoned at various intervals all along the route. A rock came near hitting him. The general took other trips through the troubled districts but declined to give his views of the situation. The vigilance of the guards while daylight aided them prevented trouble of a serious nature. Preparations for mass meetings at various point were made duriDg the <?ay. A meeting will be held in Brooklyn to protest against the action of Mayor Farley of Cleveland, who has assumed, under the authority of an almost forgotten statute, supreme police power in Cuyahoga county. This relieves Mayor Phelps of the suburb, together with his constabulary fnrc.fi nf their rsower and thev don't like it. The two mayors are not on the terms that existed between the storied governors of the two Carolinas. The soldiers and the Cleveland chief executive's special police in Brooklyn are not allowed to use the public hydrants to get water, it is said, and upon various occasions bayonets were of a necessity used to convince shopkeepers that it was wisest to sell soldiers what they wanted. Mayor Farley mailed Mayor Phelps a letter in which he declared that if the Cleveland cohorts had any more trouble about getting water, Cleveland, which pumps the water to the suburb, would attempt to abrogate the water truce and let the whole hamlet go thirsty. Mayor Farley also issued a statement to the strikers, in which he said that a man who was more loyal to his labor union than to himself and his country was a coward and a bad citizen. President Mahon of the National union of street car employes, in an interview declared that as the street car company, according to his information, ? .1 _ <? J _11 was losing inousanas 01 acinars every day, the strike would have to be settled soon upon advances made by the company. Oa the face of this President Everitt again told the board of arbitration that the company had nothing to arbitrate. The board is unable to take action looking to a settlement in view of the attitude of the opposing forces. The task of distributing the soldiers was Wednesday completed by Gen. Axline. Mayor Farley declared that he would suDDress violence if he had to call out the entire National Guard of Ohio. A boy was shot Wednesday evening by a non-union conductor, but whether or not accidentally is not known. DISARMING THE CONSTABLES. Governor McSweeney Issues an Order on the Subject. The Supreme Court having recently ieclared that officers, such as dispensary constables, cannot carry concealed weapons, the following order was sent to the captains of the force Tuesday morning, with Governor McSweeney's ipproval: "Dear Sir: Governor McSweeney directs me to have you instruct the constables under your command not to carry concealed weapons. The Supreme Court has rece-tly decided that a weapon cannot lawfully be carried concealed. If weapons are carried they must be exposed. Respectfully, /'W. W. Harris, Clerk." Mr. Harris, in speaking of the carrying of capons by constables, says that :he State does not furnish them with pistols, nor are they instructed to use :hem. Whatever pistols are carried by constables are their own property. It bas been generally believed that constaales are armed by the State, but Mr. Harris says that this is incorrect. Governor Tillman had them supplied with pistols, but during Governor Evan's idministration they were all called in, ind since that time when constables jarried pistols they had to buy them .hemselves. It is a fact, nevertheless, ;hat the constabulary generally went ihont armed, but if thev do so hereaf :er they mu3t carry their weapons as policemen usually do. Advertised a Wedding. A novel advertising scheme was employed by one of the New York suburDan railroad companies Tuesday, which Irew many thousand persons to Lakeside Park, on the shores of Onondaga Lake. It consisted of a bona fide wedIJ-nn nnyamnriTT norfnrmf r] V>v a r>l fv AlUg WiViUVUJj ~ pastor in the presence of a crowd of japing rustics and city dwellers in search of novelty. For a percentage of :be receipts a young farmer who rejoices in the euphonious name of Berta \larion Smith, and Miss Lillian Easterjrook? the daughter of a milkman, consented to make their nuptial rites the subject of public gaze. Twenty-five lollars was offered the Rey. Henry 0. \fonchester, pastor of Danforth Metholist church, to perform the cercmony, md he consented, not understanding ;hat the wedding was to be public. When he learned that Ms tee was to :ome from the treasury of the railroad :ompany and that the wedding was beng advertised for all it was worth as m attraction to the park, he declined ,o have anything to do with it. The services of the Rev. A. Oberlander, an Evangelical Lutheran minister, were :hen hastily secured and the nuptial :not was tied by him. It is estimated ;hat the railroad company made the scheme profitable to the extent of 55,000. The percentage due the bride md groom will set them up comfortable n housekeeping. . ?L?ii"'mm* "ftOU "^"^ OS,ADISG X02ACC0. A Timely Article for Ranters of the A or> \\f AA^ V?V/..U^U. VT ccu. The Tobacco Planters Guide says many tobacco planters make a mistake by not properly grading their crops. Some entertain the idea that they can pack away a lower grade with a higher and make the whole lot sell for the value of the latter, when the result is generally the reverse. Dishonest packing has never paid any farmer and never will. The planter should remember that the buyer generally knows more about the quality of tobacco than any one else, and is more likely to detect any flaws or defects in packing. You can put this down as a safe rule; that, whenever you pack a lower grade with a higher, you are certain to get paid for the lower grade, and all extra leaves put in the lot is just so much waste. Honest packing always pays. Maj. llagland has written so minute ly and so fully on this subject that we cannot do better than give the reader his directions. They are comprehensive and need notbe supplemented with any explanatory notes. ''If, after the tobacco is cured, the weather remains dry and it fails to get soft readily so that it can be moved, it may be brought in order in the following way: Place green bushes with the leaves on the floor and sprinkle water over them copiously. Lf the tobacco is dry and the atmosphere contains but little moisture, and if the weather is cool, a little fire kindieu in the flues will assist in making the tobacco soft. Straw, wet or made so, will answer the same purpose. If the weather is damp there will be no necessity to use either straw, bush or water. But when it is necessary to use means to order tobacco, io is best trt in fliA off^rnAAn fViof vv iwiviuwuu, una.* the tobacco may be removed the next morning. If the weather continues warm and damp or rainy, tobacco that remains hanging will be apt to change color unless dried out by flues or charcoal. Wnen this becomes necessary, build small fires at first, and raise the heat gradually. j.oDacco saouia never oe stripped, from the stalks except in pliable order, and the leaves on every plant should be carefully assorted and every grade tied up sepajately. Usually there will be three gaades of leaf, assorted with reference to color and size, and two of lugs. Of leaf, tie six to eight leaves in a bundle, and of lugs eight to ten. As fast as you strip, either hang the hands on sticks, twenty-five to each stick, and hang up, or bulk down in two layers, the heads of the hands or bundles facing outward. The latter mode is best if you intend to sell in winter order, loose on the warehouse floors. If bulked down, watch frequently to see that it does not heat. If the bulk becomes warm it must be broken up, aired and re-bulked, or hung up if too soft. It :g safer always to hang up as soon as stripped, unless you desire to sell soon, and striKe down m sale Keeping order in spring or summer. It is considered in safe order when the leaf is pliable and Che stem will crack half way down the tie. "If you sell loose, deliver in large, uniform piles; such will cost less and your tobacco bring more in price. But to sell in a distant market, pack in tierces?half hogsheads make the best and cheapest?to weighs about 400 pounds, net, taking care not to press f.hp sn a<5 to brnisA if-, nr r>af-Tr it too closely together. The best leaf is wanted for wrapper, audit must open easily when shaken in the hand. Pack one grade only in each tierce, uniform in color and leDgth; but if it becomes necessary to put more than one grade in a tierce, place strips of paper or straw between to mark or separate them. Pack honestly, for honesty is al ^ x. m mi _i_ ways toe oesi policy. Jiue man wr<o nests his tobacco will certainly go on the Black List, and buyers have good memories. If your tobacco is fine, sound and nicely handled, you will have the satisfaction of getting, at the least a remunerative price for it, although poor and nondescript stock may be selling for less then the cost of J i_- _ mi a J ? prQUUUUUU. me wuau uutaiue ui tuio country makes, as a rule, low grades plenty, and at a cost to raise much less than we can compass. We must plant less surface, fertlizc heavier, and cultivate and manage better, if we would get the best prices." THE CROPS AND WEATHER. What the Department of Agriculture Says About Them. The following is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crops in the State issued Tuesday by Section Director Bauer of the United States Weather and Crop service: The week ending July 24th averaged about 3 degrees per day hotter than usual, with a weekly mean temperature of 94 degrees, but the maximum temperature did not reach the extreme figure of the previous week. The i . -o . r _ a mgntswere unnormiy noi. There were light, scattered showers on the 17th, and the two following dates, but at few points only was the rainfall heavy enough to break the drought. Charleston had 1.00 inch; Kingstree 1.05; and Summerville 3.13 inches: elsewhere the amounts were genenlly under half an inch, while over the greater portion of the State practically no rain fell. The drought has reached a serious stage. Crops of all kinds have deteriorated, and some, such as old corn, etc., are in places ruined. The prospects are reported to be ''gloomy" and ''appalling"in places. No amount of rainfall, correspondents say, would restore the failing crops to profitable yields. "Water for stock is scarce, and in places 3attle are report ed dying. Light showers have fallen in portions of the State since most of ror\r?rfa Troro Cotton failed rapidly, and drought stopped its growth, it is turning yellow as -though maturing, and is shedding leaves and fruit. The plants are blooming to the top. These are the prevailing conditions, but in spots cotton continues to do well. Sea-island cotton, while generally in excellent condition is blighting to a considerable extent. Old corn is injured beyond recovery in many counties, and generally it is but a poor crop. Com on bottom lands is very good. Fodder pulling has begun in the eastern counties. Tobacco was severely injured in places by the drought and extreme heat; the leaves are sunburned, and ? ? T,__ P il. . _ J J tne quality 01 iae crop is reuuceu. Where timely rains fell; the crop is very fine. Curing is general. Early rice is heading. The crop stands in need of rain, generally, and of water for flooding, where not laid by. Upland rice has suffered from the heat and drought. Hon. J. J. Darlington, a native of Due West, S. C., was tendered a Disrict Judgeship by President McKinley but he declined it. COt-LEOe GRADUATES, ' vr,?n*? Soiaa Statistics Coso^f Jiing thd iLlfo Tako Tp. One hundred ?ears ago more gradj uaies adopted the ministry of the Gosj pel as a career than any other calling. j. ne proportion was a xii-ae mure w<ui one-third of the total number of graduates. The law followed next in order, but taking a considerably smaller number of men. Gradually the law gained on the church, until it took first place, about 33 1-3 per cent, of the graduates becoming lawyers. The standing of these two professions remained about the same until within the last ten or fifteen years, when the law 6lightly increased its lead. From ten years ago up to the present time, however, commerce has been forging to the front, and at the present time it appears that more graduates engage in commercial pursuits than in either the law or the ministry. One-third of the men "who now come from college go into 'business, a considerably. smaller number go into law, a ? v All U A VCiJ lUUV^UL PlUrtJiCl ilUUiUCl come preachers. The conditions have been reversed in 100 years. Then the law and the church were regarded as being pretty nearly the only learned professions. Now the formerly despised "trade" is taking more highly educated men than either the law or the church. The marvelous growth and expansion of commercial enterprises during the hundred years is responsible for the changed conditions. It requires men of brains and education to plan, organize and erect the monster enterprises which are to be seen on every hand at the present time. Commerce has not only become "respectable," but it offers inducements to young men such as are not duplicated by the learned professions. As a matter of fact, snouid not commerce, since its nigner branches now require the services of so many highly educated men, be included among the learned professions? The commercial development is destined to undergo still greater expansion and the probabilities are that the demand for college men in its service will go on growing for many years to come. He Kept the Seat. A man who had not been to church | for a very long time finally barkened to the persuasions o? Ms wife, and de! cided to go. He got the family all together and they started early. Arriving at the church there were very few people in it, and no pew-openers at hand, so the man led his family well up the aisle aria tooK possession 01 a nice pew. Just as the service was about to begin a pompous-looking old man came in, walked up to the door of the pew and stood there, exhibiting evident surprise that it was occupied. The occupants moved over and offered him i room to sit down, but lie declined to be seated. Finally the old man produced a card and wrote upon it with a pencil: "I pay for this pew." He gave the card to the strange occupant, who, had lie been like most people would have at once got up and left. But the intruder adjusted his glasses and with a smile read the card. Then he calmly wrote beneath it: "How much do you pay a year?" To this inquiry the pompous old gentleman, still standing, wrote abruptly: "Ten pounds." The stranger smiled as though he were pleased, looked around to com pare the pew with, others, admired its nice cushions and furnishings and wrote back: "I don't blame you. It is well worth it." The pompous old gentleman at that stage collapsed Into his seat. Character In Smoking. Tf <3 ma7i cmntoe a. nnlv ^none-fi to keep it lighted, and relishes taking it from his month to cast a look at the curl of smoke in the air, set him down as an easy-going man. Beware of the man who never releases the grip on his cigar and is indifferent -whether it burns or not; he is cool, calculating and exacting. The man that smokes a bit, rests a bit and fumbles the cigar more or less is easily affected by circumstances. If the cigar goes out frequently, the smoker has a -whole-souled disposition, is a "hail fellow, well met," with a lively train, a glib tongue and generally a fine fund of anecdotes. A nervous man who fumbles his cigar a great deal is a sort of popinjay among men. Holding the cigar constantly between the teeth, chewing it occasionally and not caring if it is lighted at all are the characteristics nf m en -who have the tenacity of bull dogs. The fop stands his cigar on end, and an experienced 6moker points it straight ahead, or almost at right angles with his course. Smoking Under Tire, A Saco, Me., smoker named Frank Durgin while filling his pipe lately inadvertently put in a revolver cartridge which he kept in, a pocket with his tobacco, and started from home with his dinner pail unconscious of the extra danger which lurked in the pipe bowl. It didn't result so disastrously as might have been feared, however. When about half way to his place of work there was an explosion, the pipe dis JS J A"U ^ * vmrw A appeared ana iue uuuec yvui^cu paot, the man's ear, nipping off an edge as it passed. Bill Posting by Machine. Successful experiments have been made in Paris with a new bill posting machine, which does* away with the n5p nf pither a ladder or naste. It can be used to post bills at a height of fifty feet from the ground and is being put into,practical operation. Macfeat's SHORTHAND ?A5D? TYPEWRITING COLUMBIA. S. C. This School has the reputation of being the best business institution in the State. Graduates are holding remunerative positions in mercantile houses, banking, insurance, real estate, railroad offices, &c., in this and other etates. Write to W. H. Macfeat, Court Stenographer Com ulbia, 8.C. for terms, etc ?LIFE? A vegetable for Mild, cure for Liv- the Pleasant, er, Kidney & LIVER Sure, stomach troubles, and 25, 50, $1. -KIDNEYSSold wholesale by? The Murray Drug Co. Colum bi a Br. H. Baer, Charleston, S C, A"~' jltls the== ==Custom " -* ???:< ?v. Jl>UL & \<Clj jJWJT V/UC, i\f WttiC UUbU IUO giuning season is on bifore lo king to see what fix the gin is in Now is the time to I HURRY 4 YOUR GIN iO T2E ELLIOT GIN m WORKS. j Do not de'ay and then aak us to let jeu have it at cnce. for thorough work cati&ot be d?ne ia a hurry The attention given this maLter now will more than repay you when the cotton is white in the fie'da and the gia house crowded. T<-e work u coming in aireaay, so f-mp at ones u> m? undersigned, located at thsold electric light engice house References by permission:?W. H Gibbes & Co , V C. Badham, Jno. A. Willi*. joar name and shipping point on work seat and prepay the freight. Iks E'Jiitt ait Jiuir I)f?, W J. ELLIOTT, Proprietor, v . 101 4 r< -1. o t l ioit vxai/es owrceo, COLUMBIA. S. (3. Ginning I Machinery.^ The Smith Pneumatic Suction Elevating, Ginning and Packing System Is the simplest and most efficient od the market. Forty-eight complete outfits in South Carolina: each one giving absolute , satisfaction. Boilers and Engines; Slide Yalve4 Automatic and Corliss. My Light and Heavy Log Beam Saw Mills cannot be equalled in design, efficiency or price by any dealer or manu facturer in the South. Write for prices and catalogues. V. C. Badliam, 1326 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. _/ IE I A If LL, &K NOTHING LIKE IT FOR Constipation, Indigestion, I ^? ' t:i Replator ? Kidneys. Wholesale by? THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. C. Dr. H. BAER, ft Charleston, S. C. J All We Ask of ?#*Y0U 2ET&?ANYTHING . In tbe Machinery orMill Supply Line T ,r . i. is tnai you give us an opportunity to submit our prices and make comparisons. We ask this because we believe we can make it to YOUR advantage. TRY US. We make a specialty of equipping IMPROVED MODERN" GINNERIES OF ANY CAPACITY WITH THE SIMPLEST AND MOST EFFICIENT COTTON HANDLING APPARATUS IN EXISTENCE?THE MURRAY SYSTEM. Correspondence with intetidiag purfa casers solicited. W. H. Gibbss & Co.. COLUMBIA. S. C. SOUTH CAROLINA AGENCY Liddell Co., Charlotte, N. C. A. B. FarquharCo., Ltd., York, Pa. Eagle Cotton Gin Bridgewater, Mass. Straub Machinery Co., Cincinnati, 0. =Keeley 126 SMtTH STREET, A flOR. Vanderhorst. 8 III Q CHARLESTON, S. C. V UI U . ALCOHOL MORPHINE OPIUM TOBACCO CIGARETTE USING Produce each a disease having defin ite pathology. The disease yields ea3ily to the Double Chloride of Gold ^ Treatment as administered at the above Keeley Institute. N. B.?The Keeley Treatment is administered in South Carolina ?ST CHARLESTON. To eet strone W <37 and healthy use one bottle murray's Iron Mix _ Tr-v fc' A TUBE. irTlCe 5UC T? min DROG 60.,