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RELIGION IN TRADE. Dr. Talmage Shows How Busi ness Trials Refine the Spirit. COUNTING HOUSE MARTYRS. How a Merchant Finds His Office a School of Industry, Pa tience, Integrity and Upright Living. In this discourse Dr. Talmage argucs that religion may be taken into all the affairs of life, and instead of being a hindrance, as many think, is a re-en forcement. The text is Romans, xii, 11, "Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord." Industry, devoutness and Christian service-all commended in that short text. What, is it possible that they shall-be conjoined? Oh, yes. There is no war between rehgion and business, between ledgers and Bibles, between c iurches and counting houses. On the contrary, religion accelerates business, sharpens men's wits, sweetens accerbi ty of disposition, fillips thc blood of phlebmaties and throws more velocity into the wheels of hard work. It gives better balancing to the judgment, more strength to the will, more muscles to in dustry and throws i nto enthusiasm a more consecrated fire. You cannot in all the circle of the world show me a man whose honest business has been de spoiled by religion. The industrial classes are divided in to three groupp-producers, manufac turers, traders. Producers, such as farmers and miners. Manufacturers, such as those who turn corn into food and wool and flax into apparel. Tra ders, such as make profit out of the transfer and exchange of all that which is produced and manufactured. A busi ness man may belong to any one or all of these classes, and not one is indepen dent of any other. When the prince imperial of France fell on the Zulu battlefield because the strap fastening the stirrup to the saddle broke as he clung to it, his comrades all escaping, but he falling under the lances of the savages, a great many people blamed the empress for allowing her son to go forth into that battlefield, and others blamed the English government for accepting the sacrifice, and others blamed the Zulus for their barbarism. The one most to blame was the harness maker who fashioned that strap of the stirrup out of shoddy and imperfect ma terial, as it was found to have been af terward. If the strap had held, the prince imperial would probably have been alive today. But the strap broke. No prince inaependent of a harness maker! High, low, wise, ignorant, you in one occupation, I in another, all bound together. So that there must be one continuous line of sympathy with each other's work. But whatever wour voaation, if you have a multiplicity of engagements, f ato your life there come losses and annoyances and' perturbations as well as percentages and dividends, if you are pursued from Monday morning un til Saturday night, and from January to January by inexorable obligation and duty, then you are a business man, or you are a business woman, and my sub jectis appropriate to your case. In the first place, I remark that busi ness life was intended as aschool of en ergy. God gives us a certain amount of raw material out of which we are to hew our character. Our faculties are to be reset, rounded and sharpened up. Our young folks having graduated from school or college -need a higher educa tion, that which the rasping collision of everyday life alone can effget. En ergy is wrought out only in the fire. Al- 1 ter a man has been in business activity 1 10, 20, 30 years, his energy is not to be measured by weights or plummets or ladders. There is no height it cannot scale, and there is no depth it cannot fathmad there is no obstacle it can Now, my brother, 'why did God put you in that school of energy? Was it merely that you-might be a yardstick to measure cloth, or a steelyard to weigh flour? Was it merely that you might be better qualified to chaffer and higgle? No. God placed you in that school of energy that you might be developed for Christian work. If the undeveloped talents in the Christian churches of to day were brought out and thoroughly harnessed, I believe the whole earth would be converted to God in a twelve month. There are so many deep streams that are turning no mill wheels ' and that are harnessed to no factory bands.t Now, God demands the best lamb out ~ of every flock. He demands the rich est sheaf of every harvest. He de- t mands the best men of every genera- i tion. A cause in which Newton and a Locke and Mansfield toiled you and l1 I can afford to toil in. Oh, for y fewer idlers in the cause of Christ, il and for more Christian workers, t men who shall take the same energy 8 that from Monday morning to Saturday t night they put forth for the achieve- a ment of a livelihood or the gathering e of a fortane, and on Sabbath days put c itforth to the advantage of Christ's C kingdom and the bringing of men to d the Lord. h Dr. Duff visited a man who had in- a herited a great fortune. The man said I to him: "I had to be very busy for many years of my life getting my live- I lihood. After awhile this fortune t1 came to me, and there has been no ne- a cessity that I toil since. There came a r time when I said to myself, 'Shall I n now retire from business or shall I go r on and serve the Lord in my worldly oc- n cupation?" He said; "I resolved on o the latter, and I have been more indus- a trious in commercial circles than I ever a was before, and since that hour I have s never kept a farthing for myself. I have t thought it to be a great shame if I x couldn't toil as hard for the Lord as I h had toiled for mysel f and all the pro- 1: ducts of my factories and my commer- I cial establishments, to the last farthing a have gone for the building of Christian ti - institutions and supporting the church c of God." Would that the same energy t< put forth for the world could be put tl forth for God. Would that a thousand a men in these great cities who have tl achieved a fortune could see it their du- t: ty now to do all business for Christ and a the alleviation of the world's suffering! 's Again. I remark that business life is b a school of patience. In your everyday v life how many things to annoy ard to a lisquiet! Bargains will rub. Conm- ia me cial men will sometimes fail to d meet their engagements. Cashbooks I and moneyv drawer will sometimes quar-p rel. Gools ordered for a special emer-b gency wili come too late or be damaged in the transportation. People intend- t ing no harm will go shopping without I any intention of purchase, overturning c great stocks of g Ads and insisting that t: you break the d,,en. More bad debts si on the ledger. More counterfeit bills I ther people. More meannesses on the art of partners in business. Annoy .nee afte: annoyance, vexation after -exation, and loss after loss. All that process will either break you iown or brighten you up. It is a chool of patience. You have known nen under the process to become petu ant, choleric, and angry, and pugnaci yus, and cross, and sour. and queer, Lnd they lost their customers, and their ame became a detestation. Other nen have been brightened up under he process. They were toughened by :he exposure. They were like rocks, ill the more valuable for being blasted. At first they had to choke down their wrath, at first they had to bite their lip; at first the3 thought of some sting ing retort they would lice to make, but they conquerel their impatience. They have kin words now for sarcas tic flings. They have gentle behavior now for unmannerly customers. They art patient now with unfortunate deb tors. They have Christian reflections now for sudden reverses. Where did they get that patience? By hearing a minister preach concerning it on Sab bath? Oh, no. They got it just where you will get it-if you ever get it at all-selling hats, discounting notes, turning banisters, plowing corn, tinning roofs, pleading causes. Oh, that amid the turmoil and anxiety and xasperation of everyday life you might hear the voice of God saying: "In patience possess sour soul. Let patience have her perfect work." I remark also that business life is a school for integrity. No man kaows what he will do until he is tempted. There are thousands of men who have kept their integrity merely because they never have been tested. A man was elected treasurer of the state of Maine some years ago. He was dis tinguished for his hcnesty, usefulness, nd uprightness, but before one year had passed he had taken of the public Funds for his own private use, and was hirled out f office in disgrace. Dis tInguished for virtue before. Distin guished for crime after. You can call over the names of men just like that, in whose honesty you had complete onfidence, but placed in certain crises )f temptation they went overboa:'d. Never so many temptations to scoun irelism as now. Not a law on the statute book but has some back door through which a miscreant can escape. Ah, how many deceptions in the fab ric of the goods! So much plundering in commercial life that if a man talk ibout living a life of complete commer eial integrity there are those who as :ribe it to greenness and lack of tact. More need of honesty now than ever efore-tried honesty, complete hon sty-more than in those times when Dusiness was a plzin affair and woolens were woolens, and silks were silks and en were men. How many men do you suppose there re in commercial life who could say thfully, "In all the sales I have ever made I have never overstated the ralue of goods; in all the sales I have ,ver made I have never covered up an mperfection in the fabric; in all the housands of dollars I have ever made [ have not taken one dishonest farth ng?' There are men, however, who an say it, hundreds who can say it, housands who can say it. They are nore honest than when they sold their irst tierce of rice, or their first firkin of f butter, because their honesty and ntegrity have been tested, tried and ome out triumphant. But they re netn her a time when they could have -obbed a partner, or have absconded with the funds of a bank, .or sprung a map judgment, or made a false assign net. or borrowed illimitable without my efforts at payment, or got a man nto a sharp corner and fleeced him. ut they never took one step on that athway of hell fire. They can say heir prayers without hearing'the chink >f dishonest dollars. They can read heir Bible without thinking of the ime when with a lie on their soul in he custom house they kissed the book. hey can think of death and the judg nent that comes after it without any linching-that day when all charlatans sad cheats. and jockeys and frauds hall be doubly eanned. It does not nake their knees knock together, and t does not make their teeth chatter to ead 'as the partridge sitteth on eggs .nd hatcheth them not, so he that get eth riches, and not b y right, shall eave them in the midst of his days, ad at his end shall be a fool." What a school of integrity business ife is! if you have ever been tempted o let your integrity cringe before pres nt advantage, if you have ever waken d up in some embarrassment and said, 'No~v, I will step a little aside from he right path and no one will know it, nd I will come all right again, it is nly once." That only once has ruined ens of thousands of men for this life d blasted their souls for eternity. Plato and Aristotle were so opposed o merchandise that they declared com erce to be the curse of the nations, nd they advised that cities be built at east tenmiles from the seacoast. But ou and I know that there are no more adustrious or highminded men than ose who move in the world of traffic. ome of them carry burdens heavier ban hods of brick, and are exposed to harper things than the east wini, and limb mountains higher than the Alps r Himalayas, and if they are faithful hrist will at last say to them: "Well one, good and faithful servant. Thou ast been faithful over a few things. I 'ill make thee ruler over many thines. nter thou into the joy of thy Lord." We talk about the martyrs of the 'iedmont valley, and the martyrs among he Scotch highlands, and the martyrs t Oxford. There are just as certainly iartyrs of Wall street and State street, lartyrs of Fulton street and Broadway, iartyrs of Atlantic street atnd Chest ut street, going through hotter fires, r having their necks under sharper res. Then it behooves us to banish 11 fretfulness from our lives, if this abject be true. We look back to the ie when we were at school, and we re 2embr the rod, and we remember the ard tasks, and we complained grievous r, but now we see it was for the best. usiness life is a school, and the tasks re hard, and the chastisements some imes are very grievous. But do not omplain. The hotter the fire the bet er the refining. There are men before be throne of God this day in triumph rho on earth were cheated out of every hing but their coffin. They were sued, hey were imprisoned for debt they rre throttled by constables with a rhole pack of writs, they were sold out y the sheriffs, they had to compromise eith their creditors, they had to make ssignments. Their dying hours were nnoyed by tne sharp ringing of the oorbll by some impetuous creditor ho thought it was outrageous and im udent that a man should dare to die efore he paiid the last half dollar. I had a friend who had many misf or anes. Everything went against him. e had good business capacity and was f the best of morals, but he was one of bose men such as you have sometimes cen, for whom everything seems to go rong. His life become to him a plague "Good-got rid of the sheriffs!" Who are those lustrous souls before. the throne? When the question is asked, "Who are they?" the angels standing on the sea of glass respond, "These are they who came out of great businesz trouble and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of Lamb." A man arose in Fulton street prayer meeting and said: "I wish publicly to acknowledge the goodness of God. I was in business trouble. I had money to pay, and I had no means to pay it, and I was in utter despair of all human help, and I laid this matter before the Lord, and this morning I went down among some old business friends I had not seen in many years just to make a call, and one said to me: 'Why, I am so glad to see you! Walk in. We have some money on our books due you a good while, but we didn't know where you were, and therefore not having your address we could not send it. We are very glad you have come?'" And the man standing in Fulton street prayer meeting said, "The amountthey paid me was six times what I owed." You say it only happened so? You are unbelieving. God answered that man's prayer. Oh, you want business grace! Com mercial ethics, business honor, laws of trade, are all very good in their place, but there are times when you want some thing more than this world will give you. You want God. For lack of him some that you have known have con sented to forge, and to maltreat their friends, and to curse their enemies, and their names have been bulletined among scoundrels, and they have been ground to powder, while other me. you have known have gone through the very same stress of circumstances triumphant. There are men here today who fought the battle and gained the victory. Peo ple came out of that man's store, and they say: "Well, if there ever was a Chiistian trader, that is one." Integri ty kept the books and waited on the customers. Light from the eternal world flashed through the show windows. Love to God and love to man presided in that storehouse. Some day people going through the street notice that the shutters of the window are not down. The bar of that store door has not been removed., People say, "What is the matter?" You go up a little closer, and you see written on the card of that window, "Closed on account of the death of one of the firm." That day all through the circles of business there is talk about how a good man has gne Boards of trade pass resolutions of -i pathy, and churches of Christ p; dy, "Help, . Lord, for the godly tizan ceaseth." He has made his last bar gain, he has suffered his last loss, he has ached with the last fatigue. His children will get the result of his in dustry, or, if through misfortune there be no dollars left, they will have an estate of prayer and Christian example which will be everlasting. Heavenly rewards for earthly discipline. There "the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest." WISDOM FROM THE NBGRO. Rev. D. Brown of Winston Raps the Colored Preachers. The status of the colored race was discussed in Baltimore Wednesday at the second annual convention of the istrict foreign missionary society of the olored Baptist churches. The preei dent, Rev. Dr. W. C. Brown of Win ston, N. C., sounded the keynote in his annual address. From the expressions f approval given by the delegates it becomes evident that he voiced their sentimnents in condemning unlawful ess by Negroes as well as unlawful punishment of their crimes. The president said in part. "The greatest socialogical question bdore the people of this country is what shall be done wito the Negro. T'hree alternations have been suggested sbjugation, emigration or extermina tion-but the true solution has not been touched-Christiauization. Put backbone and grace in the pulpits; put moral power and courage into the min istry, both white and black, let them preach fearlessly the gospel of peace and universal brotherhood. Let the people be taught to fear God and keep is commandments; let all, both white and black, be trained to respect the majesty of the law and this much-vexed ace problem will solve itself. "Let us condemn rape and rapists; ynching and lynchers. Race preach rs are a menace to the religion of esus Christ and by cunning, ill-ad ised indoctrination and subtle theories hey are sowing from the pulpit's tares in sufficient abundance to choke the aturing grain. Race manias may do for politicians, but they will not do for reachers." In endorsing the president's address, Rev. Dr. R. Spiller, of Hampton, Va., aid: "I am as ready as and one to rise p and condemn the wrong doer, be he white or black. I want to sustain the aw, and if necessary for the protec:.iou f our homes, to exterminate every Ne ro who disobeys the law. Delegates are present from Mary and; the District of Columbia, Penn ylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, West V nia, Ohio and North Carolina. A GIGAN11IC FRAUD. hree Quarters of a Million Men Still on Pension Rolls. The annual report of Hon. Clay Evans, commissioner of pensions, will ~how that during the year there were dded to the pension roll 40,991 names aud 43,186 were dropped, 34,345 of hese by reason of death. There was ~xpended for pensions $138S,355,052. he annual value of the entire pension oll amounts to S135,617.961 being ~649,496 more than it was ever before, nue to the higher average value of pen ~ions. The roll is made up of 753,451 urviving soldiers, 237,415 widows and ependent relatives and 653 nurses. The total disbursements to pension rs sincd 1866 were $2,3S9,910,974. uring the same period $15,490,9S6 rent to examining surgeons; $12,092, 7S to pension agencies and $52. 237 228 or salaries and other expenzses of the ension bureau. The total number of origical appli ~ations filed during the year, includ ~ng those on account of the war with pain, was 48,7653. The number of ~riginal claims allowed was :37,077. uring the year 107,919 claims of all ~lasses were rejected, a large percentage f these being claims for increase. The eport will state that the delay in the djudication of claims is in nearly every ase the fault of the claimants or their ttorneys. In order that the prensent complex ystem of pensioning may be simpli ed and to secure a more uniform prac :ice in the future, the appointment of a ~ommission on the laws, rules and regmin secmmended. HOT AND DRY. A Heated Summer Follows a Cold and Rainy Winter. The Columbia State says the month of August just past was a record breaker for heat and drought. Since the weather bureau was established 11 years ago, the month of August has never presented as many consecutive days of heat as it has this year. The mornings and evenings have been pleas ant for the pa3t week or so, but the heat during the day has been severe. The whole summer has been warm, and in July abnormally so. Mr. J. W. Bauer, director of the weather bureau, has given some in teresting facts in connection with the long dry spell. The hottest day this year was July 15th, when the ther mometer reached 105. The coldest day was 1 degree below zero, showing a variance of 106 degrees at this station since the year began. While the summer has been remark ably hot and dry, the winter was colder than usual. The average temperature for January was 1 degree colder, and for February 6 degrees colder than the normal. March, however, was a trifle warmer, and 'April was colder than ordinarily. The average deficiency in temperature for the entire winter was 4 degrees per day, or in other words, each day this past winter was 4 degrees colder than the average for the past 11 years. The deficiency in temperature was 252 in February and for the entire season 273 degrees. The precipitation this year has been abnormal. When the growing season began in March there was an excess of 5 inches in the rainfall. This contin ued until about the middle of April, when the excess reached as high as 5 inches. The "dry spell" then began, and has continued uninterruptedly. , The average normal precipitation between March and September is 25.75 inches. This year it has been but 16. 30 inches, showing that while the rains of the spring ran the average rainfall 51 inches in excess of the normal, the hot weather has reduced that excess until it has become an actual deficiency of 9.45 inches for the summer months, or about 4 inches since January 1. There have been 84 days since May 1 when the mercury ran over the 90 4lPgree mark. May 3 was the first day A hen the maximum temperature was over 90 degrees. There were 14 days in May when that maximum was reached. The rainfall in that month was but 1 inch, reducing the previous excess to 1 inches The hot weather record kept up in June. There were 22 days in that month when the thermometer regis tered over 90. Five days showed a maximum of 100 degrees and over. There was but half the usual amount of rainfall and tne previous excess in precipitation became a deficiency of 1-10 of an inch. It was abnormally hot in July.' There were 23 days when the thermometer registered over 90. For four consecu tive days there was a record as follows: 102, 105, 101, 103. July 15th was the hottest day recorded since the weather bureau was established 11 years ago. The rainfall this month was about nor mal. But the real drought commenced in August. Of the 25 days so far recorded, there has been for 23 days a maximum temperature of over 90, and the other two days the maximum reached over 88. Teis has been the hottest and dry est August recorded in 11 years. The average normal temperature for this month for the first 24 days has been 78.6 but the mean temperature for August, 1899, 24 days, has been 84, over 5 degrees in excess of the normal. A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. Five Men Killed and Seven Seriously Wounded By It. A boiler explosion at the Republic iron works on South Twent-fourth street Pittsburg Pa., shortly before daylight Friday killed five men and seriously in jured seven others. A fire which broke out following the explosion added to the horror. The mill was partly wrecked and the entire plant was compelled to close down. The explosion occurred just as the night force was leaving and the day force was coming on duty, so that there were only a few men in the mill at the time. If it had happened a half hour later the list of dead and injured would have been appalling. It oc curred in the 14-inch department and the concussion was terrifia. Buildings were shanken a mile away and duct filled the air for two or three blocks. It entered open windows and nearly suftocated persons who were aroused by the roar and the shock. Immedi ately following the explosion the wreck age took fire and this added to the dif ficulties encountered in rescuing the burned and mutilated victims. When the boiler burst a section of it weighing four tons was blown through the roof a.n2. erushed into the side of the house of Gregory Sanders, on Wright's alley, about 200 yards distant. The building, which was of frame, was wrecked, but the occuparts escaped with a bad fright. This flying portion of the boiler toine down the central sup ports of the roof, which fell in and par tially buried some of those injured. The cause of the explosion has not yet been determined. The damage to the plant was heavy, but the firm can not estimate it at this time. Merited Success. Special attention is called to the large advertisement of the Columbia Business College, which appears in another column of this paper. There is no school in the country that turns out more successful graduates, or is more progressive, more alive to the demands of the times or that has a bet ter business or shorthand course. No young man or lady who is thinking of attending a business college should fail to send for one of their catalogues. The college makes a specialty of s-euir ing good positions for its graduates and it often has more cnlls thaa it can fill. Every grd ad te of the college and many promin, nnr business men of Columbia udur~se tue school as one of the very best. A postal addressed to Prof. W. H. Newberry, the president will bring full particulars. "I have used your 'Life for the Liver and Kidneys' with great benefit, and for Dyspepsia or acy derangement of the Liver or Kidneys I regard it as be ing without an euual." James J. Os borne, Attorney at Law, Boilston, Henderson Co., N. U, Lost, a Husband. Mrs. James K. Jolly, 82 Oakridge street, Norwich, Conn., writes to Post master Ensor at Columbia for informa tion of the whereabouts of her husband, formerly of the Third Connecticut, stationed at Summerville. She states that shheadonfn him in Columbia last. Makes the food more de ROYVAL SAO POI EIGHT CENTS FOR COTTON. That is the Estimate of a Reliable New York Firm. We hope every man who has cotton to sell will read and remember the fol lowing letter from a reliable New York cotton firm to the Columbia Record, and which was published in that paper last Monday: "For the past two years nearly every section of the United States has been enjoying the most remarkable prosperi ty. The producer of cotton and the sec tion of which he is a citizen have been almost the only exceptions to this state ment. The price of cotton for two years has not exceeded the cost of production, if, indeed, it has realized that, while iron, copper, wheat, wool, dry goods and nearly every other staple commodi ty have advanced, notwithstanding an increased supply and a probably lower ed figure in the cost of production. "The reason for this is not far to seek. The cotton crop is the one crop of American production of which prob obly 75 per cent. is consumed abroad. The great bulk of it is marketed with in three months, and must be sold for cash. To a certain extent, therefore, the sellers are at the financial mercy of the buyers, and this advantage is one that is naturally used to the utmost. If, when the crop commences to move the impression can be created that the sup ply is likely to exceed the demand cot ton must decline. Recently the-closest observers of the crop development came to the conclusion that the promises of this year's production were not brilliant. Cotton commenced to advance sharply in price and it looked as if, for the first time in three years, the Southern farm er was going to realize a fair value for his product. "This was the situation on the 12th of August when Mr. Henry M. Neill, of New Orleans, an Englishman by birth, and the representative in New Orleans of a London firm whose busi ness it is to buy cotton f or foreign spin ners, issued a circular in which was widely promulgated both by cable and telegraph and was calculated to create the impression that the crop which is about to be marketed promised to be as large if not larger than any previous crop. The effect of this has been to lead foreign buyers to belive that they could, by holding off, secure the cotton they have to buy at practically their own price. "We have not believed that Mr. Neill's predictions were justified, and with a view of arriving at a sounder conclusion we have, during the past few days been telegraphing to every section of the South, asking our various; friends there to report to us by tele graph the conditiori of the crop in their locality. The result of these inquiries we encIose to you. Unless the people who havt~ sent us these telegrams are guilty of the grossest misrepresentation the cotton crop cannot be a large one, and there is no reason why the. South rn producer should be stampeded trough misrepresentation into selling t a loss. "We therefore ask you if, in your pinion, it is legitimately your func ion as a journalist to use the column3 f your paper to correctly inform your onstituency as to the real outlook and k:eep them from misleading t~hemselves o their own financial loss? The price f manufactured cotton goods has con inually advanced during the past year. Spinners can pay, so we are informed, ight cents per pound for cotton, and yet make a profit in the sale of their product, and we are convinced that if Southern cotton holders can be brought face to face with a realization of the trength of their position they can ommand at least a share of the coun ry's prosperity in which they have not previously been participants. "We would especially request in writing you this letter that you do not use our name. The information hat we give you, coming from the arious parties who have sent us the elegrams, you are at liberty to use, to ether with their names, but there are hose who may misconceive our pur ose in thus addressing you and think hat in so doing we may be seeking some self advertisement. Such is not he case. To a considerable extent our usiness and interests are with the South, and in a broad way anything hat favorably affects that section is o our advantage, ibut we seek no publicity in conneeion with this let er." The Record says the firm issuing that etter is one of the most reliable in this ountry, though in deference to its ishes its name is withheld. What it ays is so. Other reliable estimates onfirm it and discount Neill's attempt o bear the cotton market. The crop s short and if cotton is not rushed to market prices must and will rise. The irm in question has received replies rom 61 responsible firms nnd individu als throughout the cotton states, which idicate that the crop production has uffered a reduction of about 20 per ent. Their correspondents report a eduction or damage of anywhere from 10 to 50 per cent: 'Drowned While Bathing. One man and four children, three irls and one boy, were drowned at Black Rock Friday while sea bathing. he five victims with Andrew Koehler, father of the drowned boy, and Louis ~itt, father of two of the drowned irls, were spending the day at Black ock. Conn. While in bathing they ll got beyond their depth. Koehler ar d Iliti succeeded in getting ashore hemselves, but the others perished. hree of the bodies were recovered. Times are getting better. Six Pianos old in the last three weeks. Four for ash. Those in want of Pianos and rgans have found the place to get the est makes for the least money. A ie Mathushek Piano now completes he furnishing of the new Odd Fellows| al, for the use of societies that meet n hall. Call at my office or write e for circulars and price. D. A. ?ressley, Manager Columbia, S. C. tf To Neil the Cotton Crusher. A Fairfield county farmer, who has ead in disgust Neill's cotton crop esti ate of recent date, sends to Columbia cotton stalk which is not over four nches high and has its single bloom nd boll exactly three inches above the oot. He says: "Inclosed I send you sample of Fairfield cotton. Can't ou send it to Neill with my compli mnt?" DAKINE EURE dicious and wholesome ODER CO., NEW YORM. TO HONOR DEWEY. South Carolina to be in the Picture at New York. The ind'cations are that Gov. Mc Sweeney, the majority of the members of his staff, a Dumber of the State of ficials, and a number of military com panies from various: portions of the State will go to New York to partici pate in the Dewey festivities: The ex act date has n9t yet been fixed, but the event will take place about October 2d, and no time is being lost in making preliminary arrangements. Adjutant Gen. Floyd is how looking into the cost of transportation, etc. The governor and staff and state offi cers will probably secure a Pullman sleeping car for the entire trip; the cost of tickets to those going in it will be about $20 for the round trip, accord ing to the special rate sheet issued Fri day. Of course the cost of the car will have to be added. Gen. Floyd is now endeavoring to ascertain the exact cost so that the information can be forward ed to the members of the governor's staff. . Incidentally Gen. Floyd urges each member of the staff to secure his uniform at once, as it is proposed for the entire staff to go fully uniformed. The uniform to be used by Gov. Mc Sweeney's staff officers will be the same as that worn by the members of the staff of the governor of Georgia the regulation United States fatigue or service uniform. The New York Dewey Day commit tee has notified Gen. Floyd that the committee will furnish each military company that comes with comfortable quarters free and that each soldier will be allowed $1 per day by the commit tee. This is an inducement to compan ies to visit the metropolis at a mini mum cost to the men. So far only one company has accepted-the Gieenville Light Infantry, and the members are making all necessary preparations. Gen. Floyd is in communication with a number of company commanders and expects to hear in a few days that at least half ;a dozen organizations from South Carolina will be in New York to help the governor and his staff wel come the hero of Manila bay back to his native shores. The opportunity is a rare one and the adjutant general feels certain that the citizen soldiery will not be 'slow to take advantage of it. A very cheap railroad rate will be al lowed for soldiers traveling in bodies. The State. NEW STYLE OF MONEY ORDER. The Change Will Take Effect on Sep tember-4. The United States government will after September 4th issue a new form of money order which will be used to gradually supplant the style of order now in vogue. The new form is smaller than the old, being in the shape of a bank check. There will be a stub re ceipt for the remitter, and a mnnifold copy will be sent to the office upon which the order is drawn as a notifica tion and to prevent fraud. On the back of the order a space has been pro, vided for the stamps of banks through which it may be passed for collection. In color the order is blue, having a light blue ground, with fine, closely in terlaced, tinted lines of geometrical lathe-work, of darker shade. In the centre is an ,escutcheon bearing the words, "postal money order," in shaded capital letters of the same two tints of blue. The tint of the order and lathe work will serve to prevent imitations; but as an additional safeguard against counterfeiting, a horizontal water-mark, composed of the initials, U. S. M. 0., in broad, capital latters, has been wrought into the paper on which the new forms are printed. Through the process mentioned (the carbon, or manifold process) the order and the advices arc produced simulta neously. By the same operation the essential particulars of name of payee, date, amount and place of payment, as written in the order, are duplicated, or reproduced, and made to appear in the advice precisely in the order. The lia bility to mistake is thus greatly lessen ed, and a saving of time effected. Di s crepancies between order and advice, which, by entailing additional corre spondence and causing delay in pay ment, have heretofore been a son!c of annoyance to the department and post masters, as well as to remitters and pay ers, are prevented, and absolute uni formity between the order and advice insured. The dispatch of advices, which hitherto have not been madc out and until after issue of the orders, will also be accelerated. The receipt, which is to be furnished by the issuing postmaster to the remit ter, showing the number and date of the order and the amount for which is sued, is also, in the main, a reproduc tion by the carbon process of the writ ing and stamping on the order, hence must necessarily agree therewith. The adoption of a receipt has not hitherto been practicable. It will tend to popularize the postal money order, supplying more than all else what was needed to make it, in the estimation of the public, a perfectly satisfactory vehicle for the transmission of small sums. The postal money order system, from a small beginning in 1864, when the number of money order -postoffices es tablished in the United States was 419, has grown to be one of the great in dispensable agencies of exchange. There are now about 30,000 such offices. The number of domestic money orders issued in the United States during the past year was over 30,000,000 amount ing in value to $240,000,000. Three Men Killed. The boiler in Chapman & Sargent's bowl factory at Copemaish, Mich., ex ploded Friday afternoon killing three men and fatally injuring four others. The dead: Charles Hlandy, George Es tabrook, Perry Melafont. The fatally injured: Oliver Sanders, Robert Peter son, Charles Taylor, Howard Ketchum. George Rice was severely but not fatal ly scaldel. The building was totally, wrecked, debris being scattered for S80 rods around. Water was immediately Large Yields of Grain. Before the pyramids were built there were no doubt grain raising contests on the banks of the Nile. Wherever there are energetic farmers they will try their skill. The Atlanta Constitution of last Wednesday gives an account of a corn contest in Liberty county, Ga., more than 60 years ago. In 1S38 fif teen farmers in that county agreed to put up 10 bushels of corn each as a premium to the one who raised the largest crop on one acre. The South ern Agriculturist, published in Charles ton by Hzn. Bartholomew R. Carroll announced the decision of the commit tee. Dr. William P. McConnell re- t ceived the promium, having raised 83 bushels 3 peeks and 3 quarts of corn which was believed to be the largest crop ever raised in the South up to that date. He planted the yellow gourd seed corn on beds 7 'feet apart, two rows on each bed a foot apart. There were 12,000 stalks on the acre. Since that date the yield has been in creased somewhat. The following are some of the records: J. B. Drake, Bennettsville, S. C..2554 Dr. Parker, Columbia, S. C. 2001 Mr. Snelling, S. C. ..........130 J. Y. Carmichel, Ga............124 R. H. Hardaway, Ga.........119 J. R. McCullum, Ga.........116 Tragedy in Marion County. News has been receivei of a tragedy at Latta, Marion county, where the six-year-old daughter of Dr. R. A. Bass accidentally shot and killed her little brother, four months old, with a parlor rifle carrying a 22-calibre ball. While the child was handling the gun it was accidentally discharged, the ball strik ing the infant in the forehead and com ing out at the back of the head. Geo.S.Hacker& Son ~oors SahBins LI Moulding and Building. Material,. CHARLESTON, S.C. Sash Weights and Cords and Builders' Hardware. Win dow and Fancy Glass a Special#y __1 IIl Mouldin andBuilding AL E. WSH GTON, S. C. SWet and Cords an Winow nd 2anc Olss a e CA~IADE.MRK, --I DEALE PROION. emoe], lass,oVrih T~ reearnto n Fapve. n Haeadquaters. fAHGorN C.lae tingheSmad and s WZ 19essa st Bna -ehe m~rpi Dor era.t Zv OT N~209o2Tac Wormis,Covlsions,Verishr TesandrS Paer andP. Head'quaresgorature Ceeraer illadEie Olsndeass ex c-ruopy minwwAwnarumeu THE lok of Manniog, MANNINC, S. C. Transacts a general banking blsi iess. Prompt and special attention given depositors residing out of town. Deposits solicited. All collections have prompt atten ion. Business hours from 9 a. m. to 2 JOSEPH ?PROTT, . LEVI, Cashier, President. BOARD OF DIRECTBS N E. B Ro ws, ~ ~vJ. W. M~o ~ E. BROWS, S. M. NRsz osP SPRoT, A. LEVI. ro Consumers of Later., The Germania Brewing Company, o. ,harleston, S. C., have made arrangem ith the South Carolina State authorit >y which they are enabled to fill ordesi) rom consumers for shipments of beer i ny quantity at the following prices. Pints, patent stopper, 60c. per Four dozen pints in crate, $2.80 per Eighth-keg. $1.25. Quarter-keg. $2.25. Half-barrel, $4.50. Expoits, pints, ten dozen in barret, $0.., It will be necessary for consumers 1 arties orderingto state that the beiras4o rivate consumption.. We offer s ates Tor these shipments. This beer 14 puaranteed pure, made of the choicest ad malt, and is recommended nedical fraternity. Send to us for rder. Brewing Com Charleston. S. W H E N YOU COKET TO TOWN CALL'AT .? SHAVING S_ Which is fitted up with cye to the comfort of h customers. . . HAIE-CUTTIN& , IN ALT STYLE*, SH AVIN G AJ-'A SHAKPOOIG - Don4 with neatnes dispatch...... A cordial invitaio~. 7 is extended.. J. L WELLS.al W/ERCJLANTS - CharlestonSC mes & C6 SOIN,s nd Brushes, Latern, ~uildiug Paper. almetto Brand of Cylider,'Planing iASTORAI or Infants and Children. e Kind You Rave Always Bought ~ears the ignature of ' The! - Kind You Have Iways Bought. ASTORIA