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,