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TO THEA STORE EI Ck ENCOURAGEMENT FAR SALESMEN AND SA.ESWOMEN. Rev. Dr. Tatma ' Preachra ro a "ishy Hos* of Totter'-Ee (iv; s G'rood Ad.vice Fir the Lie That N.w t+ s' Wl t 'r For the Life to Cons, The sermon last Sundty of L . mage addressed to the great hoe: r ,;e ek i stores and ofices ani factrie- wig p" such persons with healthful amition r i lay many of thsir annoyances. Tex, I4. "And a certain wouan name seller of purple. of te 'ti which wort biped o, hadi the Lord openei" I'r . - "Seest thou a man dilicem n ?. ne:s, lie shall stand b efore kium . The first pas .-ge introiuees to you 1.y a a Christian merchante" Her ba-lea- is to deal in purple cloths or Sila. Soe is not a giggling ncnentty, but a prciteae woman. not ashamed to work for her iiving. Allae other women of l'hiiippi and Tiiya:ira have been forgotten, but tiod has maile itnu:oruu ia our text Lydia, the Christian saleswoman. The other text shows you a man with nead and hand and heart and foot all busy toiling on up until he gains a princely success. "Seest thou a man diligent in his business. He shall stand before kings." Great encouragement in these two passages for men and women who R11 be busy, but no solace for those who are waiting for good luck to show them at the foot of the rainbow a casket of buried gold. It is folly for any body in this world to wait for something to tarn up. It will turn down. The law of thrift is as inexorable as the law of tie tides. Fortune, the magician, may wave her wand in that direction until castles and pal ees come, but she will after awhile invert the same wand, and all thesplendors will vanish into thin air. There are certain styles of behavior which lead to usefulness. honor and permanent success, and there are certain styles of be havior which lead to dust. dishonor and moral default. I would like to tire the ambi tion of young people. I have no sympathy with those who would prepare young folks for life by whittling down their expectations. That man or woman will be worth nothing to church or state who begins life cowed down. The business of Christianity is not to quench but to direct human ambition. There fore it is that I utter words of encourage ment to those who are occupied as clerks in the stores and shops and banking houses of the country. They are not an exceptional class. They belong to a great company of tens of thousands who are in this country. amid circumstances which will either make or break them for time and for et-nity. Many of these people have already achieved a Christian manliness and a Christian wo manliness, which will be their passport to any position. I have seen their trials. I have watched their perplexities. There are evils abroad which need to be hunted down and dragged out into the noonday light. In the first place, I counsel clerks to re member that for the most part their clerk ship is only a school from which they are to be graduated. It takes about eight years to get into one of the learned professions. It takes about eight years to get to be a mer chant. Some of you will be clerks all your lives, but the vast majority of you are only in a transient position. After awhile some December day the head men of the firm will call you into the back office, and they will say to you: "Now, you have done well by us. We are going to do well by you. We invite you to have an interest in our con cern." You will bow, to that edict very gracefully. Getting into a street car to go home an old comrade will meet you and say, "What makes you look so happy tonight?" "Oh," you will say, "nothing, nothrngy' But in a few days your name will blossom on the sign. Either in the store or bank S eriou are now, or in some other store ..~or bank, you will take a higher position than that which you now occupy. So I feel I am now addressing people who will yet have their hand on the helm of the world's commerce and you will turn it this way or that. Now clerks, but to be bankers,,im porters, insurance company directors, ship -pers, contractors, superintendents of rail roads-your voice mighty "on 'change standing foremost in the great financial and religious enterprises of the day. For, though we who are in the professions may on the platform plead for the philanthropies, after all, the merchants must come forward with Seir millions to sustain the movement. Be therefore patient and diligent in this transient position.2 You are now where you can learn things you can never learn in any other place. What you consider your disad vantages are your grand opportunity. You see an aninent father some day come down a prominent street with his son who has just graduated from the university and estab lishing him in business, putting $50,000 of capital in the store. Well, you are envious. You say, "Oh, if I only had a chance like that young man--if I only had a father to put $50,000 in a business for me, then I would :ave some chance in the world." Be not envious. You have advantages over that young man which he has not over you. As well might I come down to the docks when a vessel is about to a-.11 for Valparaiso and say, "Let me pilot this ship out to sea." Why, I ifould'k crew and cargo before I got out of the &bor simply because 1 know noth ing about pilotage. Wealthy sea captains put their sons before the mast for the rea son that they know it is the only plie: where they can learn to be successful sail ors. It is only under drill that people get to understand pilotage and navigation, and I want you to understand that it takes no more skill to conduct a vessel out of the har bor and across the sea than to steer a com mercial establishment clear of thb" rocks. You see every day the folly of people going into a business they know nothing about. A man makes a fortune in one business, thinks there is another occunation more comfort able, goes into it and' sinks all. Many of the commercial establishments of our cities are *giving their clerks a mercantile educa tion as thorough as Yale or Harvard or Princeton are givigg scientific attainment to the students matriculated. The reason there are so many men foundering in business from year to year is because their early mer cantile education was neglected. Ask the men in high commercial circles, and they will tell you they thank God for this severe discipline of their early clerkship. You can afford to endure the wilderness march if it is going to end in the vineyards and orchards of the promised land. But you say. "Will the womanly clerks in our stores have promotion'." Yes. Time is coming when women will be as well paid for their toil in mercantile circles as men are now paid for their toil. Time is coming when a woman will be allowed to do any thing she can do well. It is only a little while ago when women knew nothing of telegraphy, and they were kept out of a great many commercial circles where they are now welcume, and the time will go on until the woman weo at one counter in a store sells $5,000 worth of goods in a year will get as high a salary as the man who at the other counter of the same store sells $5,000 worth of goods. All honor to Lydia, Christian sales woman: The second counsel I have to give to clerks is that you seek out what are the law ful regulations of your establishment and then submit to them. Every well ordered house has its usages. In military life, on ship's deck, in commercial life, there must be or der and dicipline. Those people ;',ho do not learn how to obey will never knoew how to command. I will tell iyou what youag man will make rain, financial and mora.. It is the young man who thrusts his thumb> into his vest and says: " Nobody shall dictate to me. I am my own master. I will not si mit to the regulations of this house." Be tween an establishment in who al thee" ployees are under thorough discipin "and the establishment in which 'he em'icvees de about as they choose is the d:erence etween success and failure, "ewe rp:ae'-'a tion and utter bankrut. . NMcet the store ten mintes afte th ie O)* there within two second, 'n ilti seconds before instead cf two -eod ~r Do not think anything too in inif.ant t : well. Do not say, "I' ony ist octe. From the most i:npo-'nt" rn- enon tn :: merce down to the particular 3:.le : a you tie a string around a rundl~e o'ey orders. D)o not get easiy disguste. Whie others it the store may lounge or "ret nr complain, you w -. S C:.'. : .. . 1 .E . ': -t .. :1 7 ne they can0:t lad ehad, e. e d-:i' t:_ in subaltern. Agai. I c, ... c: :, what are t 1e ::iaw: - :ands ofane:'.n In the i ie .ar has never hen e cwe I ~ ~ ~ t t~, t'.' Detter lu. your stul. l;r vi::: :.: .. go to the he? ma o . "sir. I whnt t' serve y I nn - you, lt is fromn no lac'k :f in.... part, but this ti ng seel. to mo r : and it is a sin gainst my c sin against G )d, nd I beg yo:... : euse me. le way :iush up -n' - he will cool down, and he w e e admiration for yo: than :or e who - mit to his evti idation, and w a you will rise. Dnt 'c se- '.of - temporary aivr .e ghoe up u e' : soung man. nider G , that it e oly thing you o b uild on. ie II o::. you give tip everyt irg. Th a ": l'e asks a voun: man to hurt himself 'tine and for eterri:y, who expect- in to ?aae a wrong entry. or change an invoie. 'r goods Cost so muce whe0 ;hey Ucot Wes, r impose upon the verdancv of a cu e r misrepresent a style of abric. how w dre . demand of you anvthin so iusolent. Again, I counsel all clerks :.o con ;ner the trials of their particular positio . 'ne great ttial for clerks is th. .n ci i customers. There 'ire prope who ae tirely polite everywhere e : b an dictatorial and contenpible when t::y co::' into a store to buy an y fin. T .r; thousands of men and w"::.en who fro: store to store to prie t wht idea of purchase. They are :ta until every roll of goods is brought -l. and they have poin:ci c 't "L th. e :e:_ o imaginary defects. Thay try on all ra . kid gloves and stretch the: : ut of Jh 1. and they put on all styles of cloak an walk to the mirror to see how they look, and t en they sail out of the store: .aing, "^ I w ' take it today," which means. --I don': wan: it at all," leaving the clerk amid a wreck of ribbons and laces and cloths to smoc:h oa 1.0 00 worth of goods, not a cent of which did that :nan or woman :, or exp' t") hur. Now. 1 call that a dishonesty o the part of the cus:omer. If a 'y store and tak.s a roll of cloth e:. :.:u':,_ and sneaks out into the street 1 al in the cry pelimell. "Stop th.e:: When I see you go into a s:ore not expec:.:: o anything, but to price tl:ings, tie time of the clerk and stealiag the time of I= employers, I say. too. "Stop thitf:' if I were asked which class of pe'ersn most need the grace of God amid their noyances, I would say, "Dry goods clerks. All the indignation of customers about the high prices comes on the clerk. Fcr in stance, a great war comac. The manufacto ries are closed. The people go o:i to battle. The price of goods. runs up. A customer comes into a store. Goods have gone up. "How much is that worth?" -A dollar. "A dollar? Outrageous: A dollar:" Why who is to blame for the fact that it has ct to be a dollar? Does the indignation go out t the manufacturers on the banks of the Mer rimae because they have closed uf': No. Does the indignation go out toward the e ployer who is out at his country seat.' No It comes on the clerk. He got up the war He levied the taxes. ie puts upi the rents. Of course the clerk? Then a great trial comes to clerks in the fact that they see the parsimoniouts side of human nature. You talk about lies behind the counter-thlere are just as many lies lie' fore the counter. Augustine speaks of a man who advertised that he would on a cr tan occasion tell the people what, was in their hearts. A crowd assembled, and he stepped to the front and said, "I willI tell you what is in your hearts-to btuy cheap and sell dear." Oh, lay not aside your urbanity when you g' into a sto're: Treat the clerks like gentlemen and ladies, p~rov ing yourself to be a gentleman or a la-ly.1 Remember that if the prices are high and your purpose is lean that is no fault otf the clerks. And if you have a son or aI daughter amid those perplexities of corn mercial life and stuch a one comes home alh worn out, be lenient and know that the, martyr at the stake more certainly needs the grace of God than our young people arm he seven times hard exagruitms of a clerk's life. Then there are a'.l the trials which e"'e to clerks from the trea:meut o inconsidera tion of employers. There are professed Christion men who have no mocre regard ior their clerks than they have fo" the scales ont which the sugars are weighed A c'er ' i no more than so rmuch store furn" 'e. No ensideration for their rights or inte-est" Not one word of encourgemetrm uie to sunset, nor fromn January toDemer but when anything goes wrong-a streak o dust on the counter or a box wtth the' cover" off-thunder showers ofscoling. Men' m perious, caprtcious, cransy toward their clerks, their whole :manner as uc a t say, "All the insterest 1 have i" yo i' t see what I can get out of yeu . hen ther a- all the trials of incomupetent wage-,no j stuch time as these when 'f a m'a" e .'lf a saiary for his services he ough t to b thakft., but I mean in pro-pec'aus times. Some utffou remember when 'the war b'ro'seou ant u taerchoandise went no and? mer'than~ w ere made milldonairs in six m"onth byni the simple rise in the value of gods id the clerks get advantage of that rise" Some tims: not always. 1 saw estates athered i those times over whch the cur' of iod has hung ever si"ce.Tecyoun paid men and wor"en in t.'ose tre reahe the Lord of Sa':t, a'n r' 'he indigatio of~ God has b.een aroun *th.e esah'rn-euts ever since, :ie"hin "a the chandJaliers glow ing from the crnonuhitrra':ngn the long roil of 'te 'en"n lly.':r': may build up pal aces of :n'chads ee hitr. but after a' ie i 'e il along and willt on ha": on ths ila and another han o that ara.i thr itself forwarda umldwnw. et: whoe ,tructu're c'u:.' the wors'ii r- as grapes are rnasaed in the wine prss Then there are boys ruine'I by ako on p iensation. In h?ow many~ prospr"t. tee it has been fo. th:e lat '.0 ears hu'y were given jusrt enoug::a.ney' to teach th:. how to 3:eal. Sotne were seized upone the police. The vast r.:sjor:'y' e:n :azces were nt known. The headi of 'h r~ hee ny"more. .\ Il:u:b:e te'ta:on 'm a bo's w. The been cre'l estbihc:: n:e won :llons"ad:L1 .san1: who :'a'ie a a ~onto iere .niio ny nae M: 1 m tave "athee WV p of the rtcile"wh want you tounrea iger up in talis .tor I Christian svuupathy.' years t Art,,,. Th en. . . t . .. .. * 2. ..!. .. *' . 1'. II - : 1 ' w -. t - ' n r:.a''."' . '.~te: O tt"! ;t I 'i'': >i'ti C o rM C t u e. " :: . c' 1::'.n T 'W i e t2 : ! e it tv o_ i :t . C''1I. wn . : ::1." it- I !hav e t.. t :t yeou t::: v~ '- - iCS own :r'-on pwer. With m vr ni1: hrc-ne cf cl r:C. :._..? :(':: ' t a :::g re c": c' ar <i1: 'v e e":.t t ere :ire. J::rin :::. en put ' i f t t., t::eir :. 'i . y in 310 a el ur.:: : :::. om- 1:1, o sr. -21 i-r. - '1 : r i "y ':2: 2 :::s oftria 1e ' .l r.t s :tci :aite .. :" per." "C}: .:::N e pa:f., a r.:n iary a to -::. e~e:: Wx ou hii V a ' n:- m . l f p'i:I !: 1 . Ch ,ti a. - .2'' .IC -'.V:lrCap i. a 1 e a t ': ' 'fore' S.'o -itliri-t ^a1. ar li t :l!:.ght h'ir C rang was i :hi : 0 r :g -on on- tboys' F:rer. t' rg; : '' Ali ., .1 e. w::o enlyi at.-' L.in ::he t r :er= ;t:: ow -n blraml :t :t is r te ::..::. i:ty. T re are 10.W 7. ririt tl:.... tih t wT u:,1 e':1ure you. in theC .ne: ti e ? ." .. ~tre ha, keZ';n c ose.l, after : n o o after the ":lu e. ,: :-:e :". I:e: (':: t he c::.rt i h ouse n e p ": -: p er t . " :': c r t h e io n l i n e o f ::e:r - -h~stm:1 enthe se h::v take "ai of ::1e, after wa "1.a anti New York ni L-,ndon and Vieanna have gone down into the grave where Thebes and Babyvlon and Tyre ie burie d, after the great fire bells oi Ihe udmen: day have tolicle at the burn ing'of a.word-Cn that 'lay all the affairs of aning houses and 2:ores will come up for iaspec :t o ' i"i h tan opcening of account mas ie ty cide the cler'ks and the men who c:np'oyed them.i Every invotce madie au', ".1 the Jahel of goods, all certificates of' st.k 'll lit of prce, al private marks >ote' :irin "ow"e'p'ine s everybody can hat Were :ieve~r'ul" but in wiieh lots 1vr ,~t l har us all gagings. all 1n-ae::~s a'1 -a.e entr-ieS, all tadul :'aino l oswt copperas ausf strychine, \ilixn of teas and sugarsi '11i ec '--: 'ad sy rups with cheap er ate-. ril Al ebezzletnents of trust fund-. All windlers in coal and iron and oil :"rd shiver i id stocks UIn thtat dlay, whena t "e cti's 0 :isl wrorId -are smoking in the la: con.- gra-? :i~. h tra wil1 go on, andi 'town in an a 'ache cf destruction wil Io at'ho-e wiho Woge man or woma::n, inuulted God and Jeole.! the judgmen:. Oh, that wIl be aI reat day for :you, ho'nest Christian cler-k: -o get:inz up terary no retiring late, no walaino arcund tMO~ weary- Unmbs, but a rttatmon in which to live and :a realmn of liht ar.. love and joy over wvhich to hold eras::g dor:ini.:n. H oist him: np fron1 ory to -dory. atnd frorm song to sor.g. ann :rout throne t3 thro::e, for, while others go 'lwn inwc the sea with their guid likea niil:one hamarnz to their neck, this one hal c-:':e atn the he'izh:s of amnethyst atd l a ter, i.:'ing in l:is right hand the ao:' grl:?t price ': a sp'irkiin-. iiter Aunricti;:;. Pvtrer. A nice point of law that rmay be of ne rest to the various t-own c.3unu f the stt, was decided by Judpoe Bachanan, says the Union correspo~nc mt of The News and Courier, unde:I dato of the Sih instant. Ben F. Town end a, seen tried by' the' courcifo atiting a short 11-1e s: in a s:re was summoned to rappar befo:eth ouncli. His attrneys pt upnnc rrg'ment thsm: he h':d ro -et ""':.'l ':sammoned and the co'nell had: o! 'ght to try the cra re wa otj prprvbfore thce cour. ?Tecou l ure him five dollars. He appeal ed. The Jude'e held that: the mayor' court only bad the rights vested I magstrtte, and that unless ar was seen by an olMicor of utc law. wnue cmttting a breach of the peace. or said otlecer was in hot pursuit, tlb' the party could not be arrestel exces - w-th 'rrant -s-orn out by sa "e one. Mr.- Sa''r, atto"rCey, m"a": a very fo tcse ~argmen o To.'en sin " c-:' in wh c' """'.c5e E 1S 1)7 :7 cO'C'i~isw fre : 'sanon '" n . e' - 5:3 a igh to -s an1. ' I .3r- s aL::.; -t srntoI'e , e~e a . ce"a -e;o S ss I C - - - He' lef "teral c - t' SO. wie Sh totald 'mo 'w 'g o 2olm '- : ene is r eng ,rora "-1.. ::'. 1., ::_ ; i, n th e:s asternrr of the r sc a:is . , V 1 :1.1 , r " qut- arfra VIa~s .J : .' .. c.c: i abu norm.td , ecu f_'oa5e one fo o .. e th 1 7sthe waE, ressr.' "t reC~bC iI:Gc iti wi nc hes:,bu weer ~ w: a;l w5ccd .: f:rand: a::'rr', r b ., ve t'en m ere orion rio ;:0 8:.u: .- r:" va iu h e aosi :It iet l o: v is. :111 1''1'". rop :de"res.:2L pme !nt , r h wern a - . ::r. s the.rl trn cutos e sCotionas wer that ;inr !e he ,.r o more ran was ;ids cratdb 1J: .V - mcl.'ur aerees cied. qne g:cenran -'cv rm~ h CVlae w.remr :i ; ma ter pict-os there was ac' rirzt 'f to mu ri. c fa ring 'F C i ; i.O Oi 1, t C.c l~d xcess f~oisu~eard i sca secuons be cnete.isv poehrul he ererae h iled n1 gcondilyo ointso-: to - alcr/ yiowth e:-:ce toY ck~ to pevious rapnid (krciJoment chen, vwas ra hear cool during the hts.~ Lat not bw enough to prove banefr an n v:rnds orrdan gig hai. Y:srs occurredi. p Cn mp-d ve:-y much over the reree pratin of e Stite. exceptin aed roks vhere iin.Sy oen rin oe. a nd el sc unis daerd on ac ount of tho rnc rain, cco s aring l or, sandy iad, no; tty inI por wre this work hr~ -o led een comle" u The~ prIent imprend conditior p'ints to a fu l crop yild excep thre' iws -.co nearly atured to oe lantLed in X~ay and June is over the ~ntire State in fine growing condition ~.nd looks very promising. Some re ort ears not well fecundated on ac ount of the rains weszxng off the pol ::nl from t he tassels. The condition of cotton has improv dc in manny places, but the stalk gen ra iy c. ? iues und ersized althoug~ ell fruited, with full-grown bolls uerous. Bolls nearly ready to open in southeastern couiltis. The prevail eg unse anbl cool nights hindered be strowth, an d caused the plant to L'come lousy, -me"oeydwi enorted fromn a ?unner of counties. edd ing of leav-es, squares, and s'nai. bls is quite comnmon. Many filds& ~re becoming grassy. and in Fairfield ome fields have been abandoned on ccount ot -rless. Rust has developed n Barnwel , Bamberg, Florence and illiamsburg counties. Over quite arge areas there has been too mnuch ain for cottou. Laying by is well un er way and more than half the re orts indicate that the fields "Jaid by' sre clean and in good condition. Notwithstanding the numerous ad erse reports from eastern and central ounties, the majority of aLl report: nicate ih.the pr::sent condition o. the crop is promzising, but that it is in critical sae. A continluation of ainy weather will, by hindering cul vtion ci whizh many fields stand in cd, tend to catme deteriorsation. iz cnditon. Sea islan.i cotton ccntin es to do wel!. Tobacco curirng mak.:ing ravorabi' ~rgress. and rcnt reports indicate a eter quahity of leaf than first cut tig. Seine tobacco has been market R-ce continues in exceilent condi on reuerall, esp up lard, of which seme :s verv noor. Pea.s ar~ ashout all sown and they aecmne up to gcdstands. In some ..ICtsI th ower leaves arc sheddi; W-' 'a'e~ns generally late, under -d end the cr.>p as a wiokc~'' 'a -e..- p~. to siips siill bein lantec ed ..sccp :iss r a-sde r:pidgowif TL. ce-a rOie ing 'A t arro i M. G o rienin andare lar irco ut:a y e or t~en"otting me.jin:rLiy I in aatiletry 11. J. . BaerV :sc iln r coreazumb~a O. C.' sAt Gar;:ment.R nt ~r 1 'ash .M 9ett v -n'. t rcrl 30, }hich11 ad en 2.'5ta O' Mr. . . 11. Lira tlic before ar. ' d h is dead boy.v in the bed. :itn c: thc t d wore c 'r bottles 1:Lich h a cmnTaincd la.d a m )e bore the label of Dr. T . r tha of the Farmers and c..: 1ncs L.u Store and the o. r;s the "a'bes of Green's and Ea Dru t. his clothl:ng; was ne atiy p d pon chi:- in the room. e ad nrd-' every peaainta '' could be.fort -.:Im - . te fata.1 re~uht. r. Len sas 27 yars o. ::,e: h-e went to Coll?:nb'ia eht month.; .ag S f")rom iii; ho.:e in Hio!! ~I B oerey coun 3, a n c he *"b'nther has ben a'ting r a r an and -b r le had pTo ter the c4oronce's laquesw2t, tokchagne fthboyand saw that i t 1-ag-prop fer y in terr^ ed''esday afterecon. Corer Green was notild and an inqu'est wa-s held. it was deveiced 'a th --oun- man h ad come to the iti' Lse the vcycning before and cob.i ncd rz ,ogig Latesr is thle ere ~ecame down and ask:ed for a Siss. .t wad p-e1 rum. That was t seen of Tim alive. I: was also developed that he had orce bfore st '-';ote to take his own hie. The .c.dict of the jury was that Mr. Linn ce"to his death from his owIn' adr lau:danum noisomng, pro m dt, ed.' In the ocat Docket of the d was found 3U cents in siler and the fcllowing letter: July 19th. "r. A E. McCoy, Holly Hill, S. C. Dear sir: Please collect the rent for my place and balance our account and urn f farm over to my ureI_, By ron R. Lin, No. 801 Scush Gadsden str eet, olumbia, S. C. I have been sun etricken so much I can't stand it any more and I cau't sarile anyting else; so I will go to par'z urlaovu to wait eternity. Very respe::tfully, T. L ., ETEAMERS FOR ALASKA. Additional steamers Beaicg Arranged to Accrmmdate the Rush. There are promises of additional steamship service between Seattle, Wash., ani St. Michaels, also a line of Yukon river steamers. Arrange ments are nov being made with a company. that is being organized by :o cal and easter capitalists. Te scheme is to build a sea going steamship and a light draft steamer for service between St. Michaels and Yokon City. The company has been formed on a $2M, 000 paid in capital basis. B. W. Shaw, formerly a well known insurance man of Seatt-e, has written a letter to a bus mess man of Seattle, in which he states frankly that he does not expect to be believed. "This is a great mining strike," savs Shaw, "pro ably the greatest on the American continent or in the world. Gold has not been found in great paying quantities except on two creeks, in about 200 claims. Somne of the pay streaks are near ly all gold. One thousand dol lars to the pan is not an uncommon thing and as high as one hundred ounces have been taken out in a single pan. It is not unusual to see men comning in with all the gold dust they can carry. You would not believe moe when I tell you that I went into one cabin and counted five five-gal lonl oil cans full of gold dust, but it is a fact. It is the result of the work of two men during the winter and the dumnn is not much more than half work~ed out. There has been about $2, 000,000 in dust taken out so far in the district. At a low estimate I be lieve there will be -$50,000,000 taken cut during the next year." Kui-Klos: in Arkansafr. There is great excitmnent in Law rence and Randolph counties, Ark., over the continued outrages commit I ed by a band of men known as the IKu-Klux. The band arst made its ap pearance in R andolph county about a month ago, and its operations were condned to a few townships, but it is spreading until now two counties are aroused over their actions. Hardly a week passes but some new outrage is committed. A number of men, and even women, havre been dragged from their homes at night and whipped in a most cruel manner by the Ku-Klux, and one woman has died fromt the ef zects of a flogging administered on her bare back. The perroes Ilogged have in every ca2se beren citizens with Iwhom the K-a-Klux found some fault. In one case an oid man and his wife 1were dragged from their bed, tied to a tree and whipped urntil their bactis weere raa' because they did not senO. :heir daughter to school. Near Rich wxed, in Lawrence county, a fe-w n-'ints ago, the b-and raidea. the home ofc Newton Gray, a respectable farmer, ad G~r~ :has net been seen or heard irom ince.It is believed he is dead. ' number of outrages have been comn '-ad i the vicinity of Richwood in the past week and the excitement in I--a a neihorhood is intense. Thir se eiknowvn residents of the r~igborood were arrested. charged vwita being members -oi the organmza :fo-, bu t the e xaminaijion trial ten o! i~en wredismissed, th-oe farmers, usmui in- hop, Fletcher au-i Gates. ""in bonda- over to the circuit cort. On Morda iss'.at iid lton's place, Eiito sladt we colord ciidren di-d an -aioh- e co-loe chld became sudenl si, sppos.dly fromt pos onin. Th fow in he yard, whic a're s'm brea~d which is thought to hae poisoned the children also died. The hil whih bc-ame sudd~en siki.uI ik. The children whi r -adFan Naiison, o.:- yer *d 'i Joms h.' Th ihei C ramanan Jie:e Nelson dik and he aeand was- told wh.at had hspyn -a Se i~mditi too0 me t:M. ~vot: Neson and- Ato ~jand ul Nlism, er arrest whon e-a stsang out:d heingco-ditdth . I7 " h-. : ,w -. ; ppr. M r e th1 :e Anm m tE-- far thet Opp-Nr+tion. ii iCe decisiv vo ot 4 to 2, after Q ti-.o hours' hearing Vedriesday, the comm itto on rules refued to report a rule for the consi eration of tIe Till man liquor bill at this s sainc. The iaoratin T " dy suitested a dif ferent r 2ult and the :fction Wer-ines d w:>s a disappoin tment to Senator Tillman. The argumec s ins pport of the application for the rule were presented by Senator Tillman and Rep re entati v atimer. It was not dis guised that tre ;bject or the bill was to Circumvent the Simonton decision and p.rpet ate the ex.ting dispensary in the State. Representative Latimr. hovevr-r, disclaimed any purpose of that sort and argued theat the ;eneral principle of the bill was s bls.o in giving to every state the exclpsive control of the liouor trailic. If the propcsed legislation meant the ,erpetuation of the dispensary system he would not, he said, support the In opposition, R epresentative Elliott assa-led the dispensary larr, exposed it abuses, asserted that it wa shame l preed and prostituted in the interm of certiin toliticians in the State. Latimer resented this criticism as an imputation on the Riefrm party and o: him personally. and retorted that if half he had heard about Ccl. Ei lictt's conteet for a seat in congress were true he was in no position to dis parage other people. Co!. Elliot in igmantly denounced Latin r's statementas an unwarranted . d unmardy personai tion. This was the only unesant incident. Mr. J. P.-l nnedv Bryan, a promi nent Charleston lawyer. concluded te arumient in op.osition to the rule. The disp-tan~t had hardly cleaied the speaker's room when, on Bailey's .roton o reprtthe Aule, the vote was taken :ith the result indicated. Bat y and Mic cilian voted in the affirma Icpresentatives Wilson and Strait wre present but took no part in the ditsusion. Seszator Tillnan showed kemi disappointment and seemed to be at the end of his wits as to the next move. Congressman Wilson in discussing Wednesday evening the dispensary situation with The State correspondent, I made the following very important statement: The two latest decisions of Judge Simonton have given the death blow to the dispensary. It witI be entirely powerless, he says, to cope with liquor establishments which pay no liccuse and which have practically unlimited covers cf sale. They will, beyond question, undersell the dispen sary, which can only operate at a very heavy expense, as shown by its his T torv. The State board of control, he sug gests, should exhaust the stock on hand by the next meeting of the general as sembly and reduce expenses so as to E entail as little loss as possible. The next legislature, he thinks, will have to either enact total prohibition or a hii license system with the restric tions oxescribed in the Constitution. If the latter is adopted, the State will realize more revenue than it has re cently done under the enfeebled and beeet condition of the dispensary. The discord and divisions which have been existing amongst the people because o1 it.s administration and enforcement will disappear and perhaps a satisfac tory and acceptable solution cf the li quor question in the State will have been finally reached. He stated that he was satisfied that Congress is not go ing to interfere, and to h'is mind the only logical result of the siuation is as above stated. A Wonderful Cloc:. T wo years ago a South Chicago jew eler did some figuring. He calcuilated that he would in all probability live 40 years. He knew tnat it takes at least two minutes to wind the ordinary house clock. At that rate he figured thzt he would, during the rest of his life, spend about 60 days of his valu able time windin~g the cicock, to say nothing cf the time and temper lost through forgetting it. Then he de cided to mate a clock that would have to be wound but once in -40 years. Hie spent his odd minutes at the task and has succeeded in producing a wonderful piece of mechanism-the only one of its kind, he claims in tbe world. This 40 year timepiece 15 inches in diameter and weighs 75 pounds. The movmen isgeared so that the barrel welcnaining the mainspring re volves once in 2i y ears. When this wheel has made 56 revolu tions, somebody will have to give the key 17 turns. The clock will then be ouduicr another 40 years. The us:whee frotn the barrel wheel crovrds around at the rate of one turn a year. The dial ph.e is six inches in diameter. Toe naing of the work took most ofthe jeeker's leisure for 24 months. The movement is full jeweled. The cock will &e put in a hermetically sealed glass case, and it will work in a vacnum, thus lessening friction and preventing the Oil from drying. atters in Culba, A dispatch from Cuba says the in surg-ents Wedneday morning de stroyed with dyrnamite the fine rail roadi bride near Madruga in the pro v ice of iavana. Tuesday 56 atficers and 1,183~ privaesi who were incapaci w~i for dcrty by reaon of illness or wond de partedi for- Spain. Members o- ue Red Cross Society distributed mo 'yad clothng among them prio to their~ deparue. Accordin~g to olcial statemnen:.s the insurgents dur in the isst ten days have lost ten *iled in the province of Puaerto Prin cie 8 n Sat Clara. 51 in Matan zas, 7 - in ran an 2 in inar del Rio. mnty f "e rave be-en taken priso:ers n th s e time. Dsring om n m sa e(.me a re eoliers ue.Da:-i a reconnaissance itchcuti dfSpais trops on de coast nerla Hond.a in the c-rvi of P 'iinar diel R.io, the s~udiers~ foun 12 Au.Mauser cartridees and 2 I uall . oc an old style. .entonce 2-ommxuted. rues-t' L.iHscitine, the young Lan canee ban ctl::ial, who overdrew his acutsveral thousand dollars arnd speula.in rd could not trh ecolbein aftrwars presec'~' cozn :v.ei Ln d a.teee to 1, m: Teia, Illora t montr :::.s w ere rn commudet.'ed Gaen Tun rsaynt. os 2 uIoms Ti duane ~i- Cbe'.0 . :Q. pt ; a " Vi:rr Cr rs ondent at Nccberry, who ctee Solicitor S-,ase returned from t he Laurens court tOday with news of a probabie lync:ing. Henry Gray, a coal-blac. neg:ro. with s loats: disease, sssaulted a tarse year-old white girl in Laurens coty. Ho arrested and would have been ly r ched Wedinesday but for the advice of . re spectable old citiz=n. who got the ca; tors to take the prisoner to Laurens before the grand jury and have him tried; but the jury had beern dismissed. The solicitor got an order from Judge Buchanan Thursday to remove lhe prisoner to the penitentiary. The sueritf instracted the deputy accord ingly. The crowd boarded the train at Laureus today, and the solicitor tried to get the conductor not to stop at Gcldvilie, where the deputy would have boarded the train with the pris oner. Wnen the negro saw the men get off he ran about 330 syrds before being caught. He was shot at five times but not hit. He has probably been lynched." The correspondent was eminently correct in his surmises- Gray was lynched and there can hardly be a doubt abcut it. Conductor Fowler, of the Columbia, Newberry and Liu rens road. who arrived in the city yes terday, states that a larze crowd of people got on his train at Laurens bav- 1 ing tickets to Goldville. A gre t many of them he did not know nor could he judge exactly what their ob ject was in going to Goldville, though ne had his own susnicions. Before the train got to Goldville So licitor Sense and ex-Sclicitor Schum pert came to him and advised him not to stop at Goldville. Capt. Fowler told them that he could not possibly refuse to stop, for there were a num ber of people; who had bought tickets to that place, and he o.ld be com-: peliea to stop. In addition he told them there was a corpse to put cil' there and his duty was explicit, how ever much' he might want to avert trouble. Even if he had decided noti to stop he could not have done so, for he had to sidetrack on account of a. freight train. When the train reached Goidville all the Laurens passengers jumped off. The prisoner was in the hands of a deputy sheriff who had brought him to Goldville in order to bring him to Columbia, and circumvent the lynch ing party. As soon as the crowd be-! gan pouring out of the train, Gray, though hanacuffed, mped out of the buggy and ran. Sheriff McCrary, who had come from Laurens, rushed out to the crowd and commanded the peace, assuring them that the negro would be safely returned to Laurens and would have a fair trial. The crowd paid no attention to him what-: ever and pursued the negro, who, though handcuffed, was making ex cellent time. Shot after shot was fired at him, but none seemed to take effect. ; Finally the crowd caught 'him and a man, taking his pistol from his pcck et. struck him. He was then put in a buggy and rapidly driven off, the crowd following. The telegraphic facilities at Goldville are meagre an dl details could not be learned, but tha the fiend is not now dead would be most .improbable. It has since been learned that the brute was lyr~ched beyond a boubt. MIr. L athrop A ppointed. President McKinley has nominated Abial Lathrop to be United States dis trict attorney for South Carolina. This appointment is another victory for the Old Line Republicans. Capt. Melton is the head of the Lily Whitesl and counted confidently upon landing, as he had the very strongest kind of endorsements and was in evry way qualified to fill the place. This appointment does much to sound the death knell of the Lily White organi zation, for it will now be deserted by every member of it who has a desire for onfce, since it is apparent that the spoils are to be dished out to the Old Liners. oe i ponmn Mr. Lathrop oe i ponmn to the persistent work of Col. E. A Webster, the Old Line Republican Boss, who d'c'.tes appointments forI his State. Mr. Lathrop is an OLangeburg at torney and has many friends among the Democrats of the State. He held the position of district attorney underI President Harrison and discharged its duties satisfactorily. Hie is as clean as any Republican in South Carolina. Great Gaa Pload. A specisl to the Syracuse, N. Y., Post fro3m Baldwinsville, N. Y., says: An immense s-as well has been devel oped on the Binning farm. one-half mile northeast of Bald winsville. It is by far the most prolific weil yet foand here. By actual test Wednesday the volume of gas tio ring from it amounts to over 5,000,000 cubic feet every 24 hourr. The pressure is intense and must reach 3.000 pounds to the square inch. The well is down 2,250 feet. It has been sunk into the Trenton rock, 200 feet from where the gre-at deposit of natural gas has been struck. No* such deposit has ever before been dis closed in this State, and it is even said t~y experts that the ilow exceeds any, sec.ired in any~ other State. The force of tie gas which picoeds from the! boin s so en:rn-ous :t it will lif t a we.iht of 200) or 300' p- - placed over the opening. It the-'~ unpr tices of rock from a dept of 23520 fet ga . e irto the ai. Wh. :Ee roc i'thown out the partich are drivent throughi portions ofsf -' Id as though-~ they were shot from a s" Theo el is now being piped and paa ed. E-n A. Wal~do, th asitn in Ne ork- city, who disapp~eored BeD1o.t, W4isc"ousi . IHe w-as at te later p-ace ins~ Ta:- s:.ba ha vear. ago Waldo vass mN York city and in tate cm~ -Vi waks or so he va- di:.c- v- -- n de-nn imlessly abcu. :' Tliahassee, Fla. 1%dloe Brned. IThe Liou i-ong corrsp-'. th Lo.ndion T 3-: there, an' se;e-a!u --er- nave men sus->ended on teear: avna Ce :21 or th purose of :.IQ, a'nt to work :en sass, he will be~ c-loId in s-uflicnt! - e Repubican rnext tal, thus ins-ur' ngthe el ction "f iHnna to the Celeree fo i r its great leaveming '.trength ad hah 5unes A sures the food arduist hti:ml:mtl ::1 forms of ad~ulteration common01 o the Cheap brands. ROYAL 1 At;NG POWDER CO.. N Yw Y;R. THE CINGLY TARIFF BILL FINALLY PASSED BY CONGRFSS -g . d by tbe President-Howy th Great P'ollt cA.1 Contest Was B ought to a Con cnsionu-- C 'rgres Adjo)ur Sine D. Thegari:f fi'l its Zrer l ast ienstia ti :e s am' at 3 p. m. Saturday, wchen heS~tby the decissive vote of 40 :; 31. :rer-d to th e food reoort on te bill. The annourrcene.t of e muA w as greeted with enthusias i anlause by e y ttcrowded chamber. This'losed the great jabor for which the Fifty-fifth Conress assembled ia xtraordinary session, and after stub born resistance, at times threatening Sde-adlock, the se iite concured with :he house in a resoluion for the final ad jouarament of the session at 9 o'clock oaturday night. The President's mes sage for a currency commission was receind, bt the house bill creating he commission was not acted upon. The closing day was prolific of aseries of mo-sentous scenes, each of which alone woul have ben of extraorditn ey i eres. An a alysis of the vote shows that the afcirmative vote was st by 37 Republicans, 1 Democrat, McE aer, 1 silver Rpublican, (Iones -' Nevad a) and 1 Populist, (Ste ware. Ta negatte e vote was cast by 23 Dem crats aid 2 Populists, (Harris and Turner). Mr. Teller, silver Republi can, and 2 Populists, Allen and But ier, were present and did not vote. O:e Populist, Kyle, and 1 silver Re publican, Pettigrew, were absent with out nairs, w;ich was equivalent to withholding their votes. Mr. Tillman voted against and Mr. McLaurin was paired against the bill. Although the result was a foregone cnclusion, yet this did not abate the eager interest attaching to the close of a great contest. Early in the day the debate was listless, though enlivened at times with virulent criticisms by Mr. Alen and by a speech from Mr. Burrows of the finance committee. Messrs. Caffery, Morgan and Stewart ccupied the time up to 3 o'clcck, when the vote was promptly taken. Then came a long parliamentary bat tle over final adj urnment. The op po4i icn endeavored to score a point by :omelling a vote on laying the Presi dent's message before the senate, and, muceeding in this, attacked the ma j )rity for refusing to act on tho Presi :ents recommendation. The main desire of those opposing adjournment was to secure a vote on the Harris resolution calling on the President to stop the sale of the gov ernment interests in the Union Pacific railroad. For four hours an acrimo nious parliamentary contest was waged. Gradually the tactics of the oposition were overcome, and short ly before 7 o'clock, Mr. Morgan with drew further opposition and the reso lution for final adjournment was passed. Complimentary resolutions to the Vie3 President, Mr. Hobart, were adopted and at 9 o'clock the final scene was enacted by the formal ad journment of the session. THE PREMIUM LIST. Some2~ Interesting Fac:s for this Yse'i E~t hibttion. The tremium list of the State Agri cultural and Mechanical society has been printed and distributed. It comes from the press cf the A bbeville Press and Banner, and is a very neat typographical work. The following sperhal announcement is made: '2his premium list will be delivered and mailed to thousands of practical men in this state and ttarougncut the Union. Every one that receives a copy is re quested to read, reflect and act upon tue following paragraphs: I. The cfflcers ana miemoers of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society of south Carolina would cor dially inv~te farmers, manufacturers and mechanics to contribute specimens of their skill, ingenuity arnd taste to this exhibition. so as to make it a trui index of the progress made by the state in arts and agriculture. II. Especially do we invite the earn est co-operation of the women of ine country to conztribute, by the refine ment of their tastes, an exhlolLion of the results of homae industry, to add to the beauty and display, and show how large a part in the jimprove ment of daily life is due to the quiet but useful labors of. the hearth atd home. LII. Conty :iricultural, Me chan ical a::d Horticultural societies of t uth Carolin-a are requested to make repor'.s of their success. progress and prcceo.iogs to the state society in Ca lumbia Curing fair wek in November nm xt. 1V. All asscciations throughout the Union having : or their object in any is> whatsoever the industrial deve1 o pa ent of any portion of the United States, are earnestly rcquested to send printed corries of ta~e proceedings Lo the secretarv of the State A:.ricultural and Mee'tnfcal societ y of South Caro ina. at Pomaria. s. C. This war iP cufered to the t-ublic a are aid varitd prernam list. The retu as are libe: al, and the expents sof auending the fair are very mod . Ae li ratiroadis in the state offer vr' liberal excarsica rates, ar d the c y o Columbi~a makes every efo:t to t-~r tai~n her visitors, wvho are assured a cordala reception and a pleasant Iti ratifying to announce that the e-e, elegant msin building, giving a oain sp-ce of over 30,000 square eet a been remedled inside, and ~dditional rooms :added at each end o the convenierce an~d cmfort of isitors. Our fairs are raidly growing in heir usefolness as well~i as popularity. )ver 30u) y>-itors were in attend ance during the las fair, and the exhibition as 'l' casss of machinery ad a icara. :amplemnents, as well is th erla nf oe made goods, u ased in the souh. Oar fair 'm d o mnufctrers, poultry -asr a sobrttdrs a fine adver Trom); W.\ HOLLOwAY,