The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, September 06, 1899, Image 4
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
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Moulding and Building.
Material,.
CHARLESTON, S.C.
Sash Weights and Cords and
Builders' Hardware.
Win dow and Fancy Glass a Special#y
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Mouldin andBuilding
AL E. WSH GTON, S. C.
SWet and Cords an
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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.
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Always Bought
~ears the
ignature
of
' The!
- Kind
You Have
Iways Bought.
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