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TRICKERY IN TRADE. 1 Rev. Dr. Talmage Contrasts It With Fair Dealing. CONDEMNS BUSINESS Processes by Which Values Are Misrepresented. Many of Our Merchants Are Models of Integrity. Integrity and trickery in business life form the subject of Mr. Tulmago's sermon today, and the contrast he establishes between the two is a striking one. The text is Proverbs xx, 1 1, "It is naught, it is naught, said the buyer, when he is gone Ins way, then he boasteth." Palaces are not such prisons as the world imagines. If you think that the only time kings and queens come forth from the royal gates is in procession and gorgeously attended, you are mistaken. Incognito, by day or by night. and clothed in citizen's apparel or the dress of a working woman, they come out and see the world as it is. In no other way could King Solomon, the author of tnv text, have known everything that was going on. From my text 1 am sure he must in disguise somo day have walked into a store of ready made clothing in Jerusalem and stood near the counter and heard a conversation between a buyer and a seller. The merchant put a price on a coat, and the customer began to dicker and said: "Absurd! That coat is not worth what you ask for it. Why, just look at the coarseness of the fabric! Sec that spot on the collar! Besides that, it does not Gt. Twenty dollars for that? Why, it is not worth more than $10. They have a better article than that and for lower price down at Clothom, Fitem & Bros. Besides that, 1 don't want it at any price. Good morning." "Hold," says the merchant, "do not go off in that way. I want to sell you that coat. 1 have some payments to make and I want the money. Come, now, how much will you give for that coat?" "Well," says the customer, "I will split the difference. You asked $20 and 1 said $10. Now, 1 will give you $15." "Well," said the merchant, "it is a great sacrifice, but take it at that price." Then the customer with a roll under his arm started to go out and enter his own place of business, and Solomon in disguise followed him. lie heard the customer as he unrolled the coat say: "Boys, 1 have made a great bargain, llow much do you guess I gave for that ooat?" "Well," says one, wishing to compliment his enterprise, "you gave $3U for it." Another says, "I should think you got it cheap if you gave $25." "*No," says the buyer in triumph; "1 got it for $15. I heat him down and pointed out the imperfections until I really made him believe it was not worth hardly anything. It takes me to make a bargain. IIa! 11a!" O man, you got the goods for less than they were worth by positive falsehood, and no wonder, when Solomon wont back to bis palace and bad put off his disguise, that he sat down at his writing desk and made for all ages a crayon sketch of you, "It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boastcth." There are no higher styles of men in all the world than those now at the head of mercantile enterprises in tho great cities of this continent. Their casual promiBO is as good as a bond with piles of colltcrals. Their good reputation for integrity is as well established as that of Petrarch residing in the family of Colonna. It is related that when there was great disturbance in the family the cardinal called all his people together and put them under oath to tell the truth, except Petrarch. When he came up to swear, tho cardinal putaway his book and said, "As for you, Petrarch, your word is suflioient." Never since the world stood have there been so many mcicbants whoso transactions can stand the test of the Ten Commandments. Such bargain makers arc all the more to be honored beeauso thev have withsood year after year temptations which have flung so many flat and flung them so hard they can never, never recover themselves. While all positions in life have powerful besetmcnts to evil, there are specific forms of allurement which arc peculiar to each oeeupation and profession, and it will be useful to speak of the peculiar temptations of business men. First, as in the scene of the text, business men arc often tempted to sacrifice plain truth, the seller by exaggcr ating the value of goods and the buyer be depreciating them. We cannot but admire an expert salesman. Sec how ho first induces the customer into a mood favorable to the propor consideration of the value of the goods. No shows himself to be an honest and frank salesman. Now carefully the lights are arranged till they fall just right upon the fabric! licinning with goods of medium quality, lie gradually advances toward those of more thorough make and or more attractive pattern. Now he watches the moods and whims of his customer! With what perfect calmness he takes the order and bows the purchaser from his presence, who goes away having made up his mind that he has bought the goods at a price which will allow him a living margin when he again soils thorn! The goods were worth what the salesman said they were and were sold at a price which will not make it necessary for the house to fail nuoro haa- 2? -.?J ? 1 - n .... vivij iuu juoib in urucr 10 ux up things. Hut with what burning indignation wc think of tho iniquitous stratagems by which goods arc sometimes disposed of! A glance at the morning pipers shows the arrival at one of our hotels of a young merchant from one of the inland cities. He is a comparative stranger in the great city, and of course he must be shown around, and it will be the duty of some of our enterprising houses to escort him. He is a large purchaser uDd has plenty of tinio and money, and it will pay to be very attentive. The ovening is spent at u place of doubtful amusement. Then they go back to the hotel. Having just come to town, they must, of course, drink. A friend from the same mercantile - establishment drops in, and usage and generosity Ruggost that thoy must drink. Business prospects are talked over, and the strangor is warned against certain dilapidated mercantile establishments that are about to fail, r.nd for such kindness and magnanimity of caution against the dishonesty of othor business houses, of courso it is expected they will?and so thoy do?take a drink. Other merchants lodging in adjoining rooms find it hard to sleep for the clatter of docBnters, nnd the coarse carousal of those "hail fellows well mot" waxes louder. But they sit not all night at the wine cup. They must see the sights. They stagger forth with checks Hushed and eyes bloodshot. The outer gates of hell open to let in tho victims. The wings of lost souls (lit among the lights, and the stops of the noiiml toil It n.ml.l...? thunders of the lost. Farewell to all the sanctities of homo! Could mother, sister, father, slumbering in the inland home, in some vision of that night catch a glimpse of the ruin wrought they would rend out their hair by the roots and bite the tongue till the blood spurted, shrieking out, "(iod save him!" What, suppose you, will como upon such business establishments? and tliore are hundreds of thorn in the cities. They may boast of fabulous sales, and they may have an unprecedented run of buyers, and the name of the house may boa terror to all rivals, and from this thrifty root there may i spring up branch bouses in other cities, and all the partners of the firm may ] move into their mansions and drive i their full blooded span, and the families may sweep the street with tho i most elegant apparel that human heart ever wove or earthly magnificence ever i achieved. But a curse is gathering surelv for those me.i, a?<d if it does not seize hold of the pillars and in one wild ruin bring down the temple of commercial glory it will break up their peace, and they will tremble with sickness and bloat with dissipations, and, pushed to the precipice of this life, they will try to hold back and cry for help, but no help will coiuo, aud they will clutch their gold to take it along with them, but it will be snatched from thoir grasp and a voice will sound through their soul, "Not a farthing, thou beggared spirit!" An J the judgment will come, and thoy will stand aghast before it, and all tho business iniquities of a lifetime will gather around them, saying, ' M )/t VAll rnmomKni* l?io9" rt *wl 4 4 I 1.x x/ J V? IVIIIVKII.^1 1.IBIO. *111*1 I'll | you remember that?" And clerks th they compelled to dishonesty and i m ners and draymen and bookkeepers v 1. > saw behind the scones will bear tc ti mony to their nefarious deeds, and some virtuous soul that once st< ed ( aghast at the splendor and power of these business uion will say, "Alas, this is all that is left of that great firm that occupied a block with their merchandise and overshadowed the city with their influence and made righteousness and truth and purity fall under tho galling fire of avarice and crime." While we ndniire and approve of all aeutencss and tact in the sale of goods, we must condemn any process by which a fabric or product is represented as , possessing a value which it really does not have. Nothing but sheer falsehood ca 11 roprosent as perfection boots that rip, silks that speedily lose their luster, calicoes that immediately wash out, stoves that crack under the first hot fire, books insecurely bound, car- , pets that unravol, old furniture rejuvenated with putty ar.d glue and sold as having been recently manufactured, gold watches made of brass, barrels of fruit, the biggest apples on the top, wine adulterated with strychnine, hosiery poorly woven, clothes of domestic manufacture shining with foreign labels, imported goods reprcse ited as raro and hard to get, because foreign exchange is so high, rolled out on the counter with matchless display. Im- i ported indeed, but from the factory in the next street. A pattern already unfashionable nnd unsalable palmed ofT as a now print upon some country merchant who has come to town to make his first purohaso of dry goods and going home with a large stock of goods , warranted to keep. Again business men are often tempted to make tho habits and customs of other traders their law of rectitude. There aro commercial usages which J will not stand the test of the last day. Yet men in business are apt to do au their neighbors do. If tho majority of the trailers in any locality are lax in t\t*i inoi til a t l?/\ ' ' - - * ' * |>iiui;i|iiv, HIV ruiUIUUIUIill UUUC 111 I lllll community will be spurious and dishonest. It is a hard thing to stand | close 1 y the law of right when your next door neighbor, by his looseness of dealing, is enabled to sell goods at a cheaper rate and decoy your customers. Of course you who promptly meet all your business engagements, paying when you promise to pay, will find it hard to compete with that merchant who is hopelessly in debt to the importer for the goods and to the landlord whose store he occupies and to the clerks who serve him. There are a hundred practices prevalent in the world of traHic which ought never to become the rulo for honest men. Their wrong does not make your right. Sin never becomes virture by being multiplied and admitted at brokers' board or mcronants' exchange. Hccausc others smuggle a few things in passenger trunks, because others take usury when men are in tight places, because others deal in fancy stocks, because others palm off worthless indorsements, bccauso others do nothing but blow bubbles, do not, therefore, be overcome of temptation. Hollow pretentions and fictitious credit and commercial gambling may awhile prosper, but the day of reckoning comoth, and in addition to the horror and condemnation of outraged communities the curse of Hod win come, l>low alter blow, (loci's law forever and forever is the only standard , of right and wrong and not commercial , ethics. Young business, men avoid the lirst ( business dishonor, and you will avoid j all the rest. The captain of a vessel , was walking near the mouth of a river j when the tide was low, and thcro was a ( long, stout anchor chain, into one of ( the great links or which his foot slipp- j cd, and it began to swolll, and he could t not withdraw it. The tide began to , rise. The chain could not be loosened j nor filed off in time, and a surgeon was . called to amputate tho limb, but before , the work could bo done tho tide rolled , over the victim, and his lifo was gone. | I have to tell you, your.g man, that , 0 I ???? I just one wrong into which you slip may he a link of a long chain of circumstances from which you cannot bo extricated by any ingenuity of your own or any help from others, and the tides will roll over you as they have over many. When Pompoy, the warrior, wanted to tako possession of a city and they would not open tho gates, he persuaded them to admit a ssck soldier. Hut the sick soldier after awhile got well avd strong, and ho threw open tho gates and lot the devastating army come in. One wrong admitted into the soul may gain in strength until after awhile it flings open all tho gates to tin; attack of sin, and the ruin is complcto. Again, business men arc sometimes tempted to throw off persotinl responsibility, shifting it to the institution to which they belong. Directors in banks and railroad and insurance companies sometimes shirk personal responsibility underneath tho action of the corporation and how often, when some banking house or financial institution explodes through fraud, respectable men in the board of directors say, "Why, 1 thought all was going on in an honest way, and I on. mOa.I.. l-.l -!?t it!- i . ..... UVI.VMj VVUIUUIIUVU Willi mis ueincanor!" The banks and the liro and lifo and marine insurance companies and the railroad companies will not stand up for judgment in the last day, but t'aosc who in them acted righteously will receive, each for himself, a reward, and those who acted the part of neglect or triekery will, each for hinisels, receive a condemnation. Unlawful dividends are not (dean hefore Cod because there are those associated with you who grab just as big a pile as you do. lie who countenances the dishonesty of the linn or of the eorboration or association takes upon himself all tho moral liabilities. If the financial institution steals, he steals. If they go into wild speculations, he himself is a gambler. If they needlessly embarrass a creditor, he himself in guilty of cruelty. If they swindle the uninitiated he himself is a dofrauder. No financial institution ever had a luonev vault strong enough, or credit stanch enough, or dividends large enough, or policy acute enough to hide tho individual sins of its members. The old adage that corporations have no souls is misleading, livery corporation has as many souls as it has members. Again, many business men have been tempted to postpone their enjoyments and duties to a future season of entire leisure. What a sedative the Christian religion would be to all our business neu if instead of postponing its uses to old age or death they would take it into the store or factory or worldly engage - t 11 P 11 -- * - - ' 1 ' * 11iciiLn nun i 11 in luny lO go .lima 111 c uncertainties of business lifo with no God to help. A merchant in a New England village was standing by a liorHc, and the horse lifted its foot to stamp it in a pool of water, and the merchant, to escape the splash, stepped into the door of an insurance agent, and the agent said, "1 suppose you have come to renew your fire insurance.'' "Oh!" said the merchant. "I had forgotten that." The insurance was renewed, and the next day the bouse that had been insured was burned. Was it all accidental that the merchant, to escape a splash from a horse's foot, stepped into the insurance oilice? No, it was providential. And what a mighty solace for a business man to feel that things are providential! What peace and equilibrium in such a consideration, and what a grand thing if all business men could rcali/.c it! Many, although now comparatively straitened in worldly circumstances, have a goodly establishment in the future planned out. They havo in imagination built, about 20 years ahead, a bouse in the country not difficult of access from the great town, for they will often have business or old accounts to settle or investments to look after. The house is large enough to accommodate all their friends. The halls are wide and hung with pictures of hunting scenes and a branch of antlers and are comfortable with chairs that can be rolled out on the veranda when the weather is inviting or set out under some of the oaks that stand sentinel about the house, rustling in the cool ureczo ami songful with the robins. There is just land enough to keep them interested, ami its crops of almost fab ulous richness springing up under application of the best theories to be found in the agricultural journals. The farm is well stocked with cattle and horses and sheep that know the voice and have a kindly bleat when one iroes forth to look at them. In this blissful abode their children will be instructed in art and science and religion. This shall be the old homestead to which t ho boys at college will direct Lheir letters, and the hill on which tho house stands will be called Oak wood or Ivy Hill or Pleasant llotreat or Kigle Myrie, May the future have for every businesss man here all that and more besides! Hut are you postponing your happiness to that time? Arc you adjourning your joys? Suppose that you ichievc all you expect?and that the /ision I mention is not up to the reality, ecausc the fountains will be brighter, he house grander and the scenery more ( dcturcsquc?the mistake is none tho ess fatal. What charm will there be in rural juict for a man who has for HO or 40 j /cars been conforming his entire nature x o the excitements of business? Will f locks and herds with their bleat and # noan be able to silence the insatiable ( ipirit of acquisitiveness which has for t /cars had full swing in the soul? Will j .he hum of the breeze soothe the man { vho now can find his only enjoyment t n the stock market? Will leaf and e a_: ? i .1 . tiiiu luuuuiiii unarm mo oye uiat | ins for three-fourths of a lifetime 1 'ound its chief beauty in hogshead and } )ills of sale? Will parents bo eompo* , ent to rear their children for high and t loly purpose, if their infancy and boy- ( iood and girlhood wcro neglected, , vhen they aro almost ready to enter ( ipon the world and havo all thoir hab- 5 ts fixed and their principles sterooty- ( ped? No, no: now is tho timo to bo lappy. Now is the time to sorvo your Jreator. Now is the time to be a Jhristian. Aro you too busy? I havo j cnown men as busy as you are who had ' i place in tlic storo loft where they i vent to pray. Someone inked a Chris- j dan sailor where he found any plaee to I pray in He said, "1 can always lind 1 i quiet place at masthead." And in j he busiest day of the season if your i peart is right you can tind a placo to i pray. Busy thoroughfares arc good i - -1 places to pray in as you go to meet your various engagements. Go hoiuo a little earlier und get introduced to your children. Do not a galley slavo by day and night, lashed fast to the oar of business. Dot every day have its hour for worship and intellectual culture and recreation. Show yourself greater than your business. Act not as though after death you would cuter upon an eternity of railroad stocks and coffees and ribbons. Koast not your manhood before the perpetual IIres of anxiety. With every yard of cloth you sell, throw not in your soul to boot. I so lirkin and counting room desk aud hardware crate as the step to glorious usefulness and highest Christian character. Decide once and forever who shall be master in your stove, you or your business. Again, business men arc often tempted to let their calling interfer with the interests o' the soul. God sends men into the business world to got educated just as boys are sent to school and college. 1'urohase and tale, loss and gam, disappointment, prosperity, tho dishonesty of othors, panic and hank suspension are but different lessons in the school. Tho more business the inore means of grace. Many hr.ve gone through wildest panic unhurt. "Arc you not afraid you will break?" said some ono to a merchant in time of great oommcrcial excitement. He replied, "Aye, I shall break when the fiftieth psalm breaks, in the fifteenth verse, 'Call upon me in the day of trouble, and 1 will deliver thee.' " The store and the counting house liavc developed some of the most stalwart characters. Perhaps originally they had but little sprighilincss and force, but two or three hard business thumps woko them up from their lethargy, and there came a thorough development in their hearts of all that was good and holy and energetic and tremendous, and the have become the front men in Christ's army us well as lighthouses in the great world of traffic. Hut business has been perpetual depletion to many a man. It first pulled out of him all benevolence, next all amiability, next all religious aspirations, next all conscience, and, though lie entered his vocation with large heart and noble character, he goes out of it a skeleton, enough to scare a ghost. Men appreciate tho impo;tcnoo of having a good business stand, a store on the right side of the street or in tho right block, yet every place of business is a good stand for spiritual culture. (Hod's angels hover over the world of tralli'- to sustain and build up those who are trying to do their duty. Tomorrow, if in your place of worldly engagement you will listen lor it, you may hear a sound louder than the rattle of drays ami the shuttle of feet and the chink of dollars stealing into your soul, saving, "Seek ye first tho kingdom of (Hod and his righteousness, ana all other things shall he added unto you." Vet some of those sharpest at a bargain are cheated out of their immortal blessedness by stratagems more palpable then any "drop gamo" of the street. They make investments in thing" everlastingly below par. They put their valuables in a safe not lireproof. They give full credit to influences that will not be able to pay one cent 011 the dollar. They plunge into a labyrinth from which no bankrupt law or "two-thirds enactment" will ever extrieato them. They take into their partnership the rorld, the flesh and the devil, and the enemy of all righteousness will boast through eternal ages that tho man who in all hi- business life could not be outwitted at last tumbled into spiritual defalca tion and was swindled out of heaven. l'erhaps some of you saw the liro in New York in 1835. Aged men tell us tlu.t it bcgcarcd all description. Some stood on the house tops of Brooklyn and looked at the red ruin that swept down the streets and threatened i. .Ll!i . i . * io uumcraic me metropolis. liat the commercial world will yet be .startled by a greater conflagration; even the last one. Hills of cxehangc, policies of insurance, mortgages and bonds and government securities will be consumed in one lick of the flame. The bourse and the United States mint will turn to ashos. Gold will run molten into tho dust of the street. Kxchangcs and granite blocks of mcrchan disc will fall with a crash that will make the earth tremble. The flashing up of the great light will show the righteous tho way to their thrones. Their best treasures in heaven, they will go up and take possession of thorn. The toils of business life, which racked their brains and rasped their nerves for so many years, will have forovcr ceased. "There the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest." GENERAL WEYLER. 1 He Threatens, in the Senate, to Lead ? a Revolution in Spain. Tho disoussion of the army bill in he senate at Madrid Wednesday led ,o an exoiting scone. (Jen. Wcyler, irguing against any reduction of the itrength of the army, warned the govsrnment that the present situation nado a revolution highly probable, ince it had never been so easy for the ] irmy and tho people to make common 1 :ause. lie himself, he said, had novor < bought of heading a rising, but it must 1 )o confessed that revolutions some- ' imes cicared the political atmosphcro lud accomplished the work of regenora;ion. Honor Dato, minister of the in- < ;crior, replying, severely consurcd (Jon. ] i m r i * ? -? * >* eyier, acoiaring tnat a general who, with 1100,000 men had failed to suppress tho Cuban rebellion, had no right ;o niako such threats and that any at- ' xjmpt at revolution no matter by ' whom, would bo proceeded against with ,hc utmost rigor of the law. Tho sen- j ilors warmly applauded Senor Dato's | ?pccch. The army bili was adopted. , Lower Freight. The railroad commission has promul 1 ?atod tho now local tariff on cotton, 1 which is of great importance not only m railroads, but cotton shippers and ' growers as well. The rates arc a reduc- J .ion of from 25 to 30 per cont. on rates , formerly existing in this State, and are ] laid to lower than those of any State ] ,n the South. The commission and the railroad officials havo had this matter tndcr consideration for a year. ITHE OHIO TROUBLE. Board of Arbitration Can Do Nothing in Cleveland Strike. MAYORS OF TOWNS CLASH. Cleveland's Mayor Threatens to Subdue Brooklyn by Thirst. Cars Run on Twelve Lines. The storm centre of the street railway strike has, according to the authorities, settled in Brooklyn, a suburb connected with Cleveland by a long high bridge. At noon Wednesday 150 employes of the Borno Steel ltangc company blocked a ear on the bridae and dragged the motorman and conductor from their posts, inllictiug with their fists and other weapons injuries more painful than serious. Soldiers on guard at the barn about half a mile away hurried to the scene, but the rioters had taken refuge in the factory, which stands under the approach to the bridge. The factory was surrounded and the promises searched, but tbere was no clew by which the guilty ones could bo picked out. tien. Axlinc, in command of tbc troops, in order to personally view tbe situation took a rido on an Orange street car. He was in civilian dress and the ear was stoned at various intervals all along the route. A rock came near hitting him. The general took other trips through the troubled districts but declined to give his views of the situation. The vigilance of the guards while daylight aided them provented trouble of a serious nature. Preparations for mass meetings at various point were made during the day. A meeting will be held in Hroaklyn to protest against the action of Mayor barley of Cleveland, who has assumed, under the authorityof an almost forgotten statute, supreme police power in Cuyahoga county. This relievos Mayor Phelps of the suburb, together with his constabulary force of tboir power and they don't like it. The two mayors are not on the terms that existed between tbo storied governors of the two Carolinas. The soldiers and the Cleveland chief executive's special police in llrooklyn arc not allowed to use tbo public hydrants to get water, it is said, and upon vari ous occasions bayonets were of a necessity used to convinco shopkeepers that it was wisest to sell soldiers what they wanted. Mayor Farley mailed Mayor Phelps a letter in which he declared that if the Cleveland cohorts had any more trouble about Retting water, Cleveland, which pumps the water to the suburb, would attempt to abrogate tho water truce and let the whole hamlet go thirsty. Mayor Farley also issued a statement to the strikers, in which he said that a man who was more loyal to his labor union than to himself and his country was a eoward and a bad citi/.cn. President Mahon of tho National union of streetcar employes, in an interview declared that as the street car company, according to his information, was losing thousands of dollars every day, the strike would have to bo settled soon upon advances made by tho company. On the face of this President Evcritt again told the hoard of arbitration that the company had nothing to arbitrate. Tho board is unable to take action looking to a settlement in view of the attitude of the opposing forces. The task of distributing the soldiers wan Wednesday completed hy Gon. Axline. Mayor Farley declared that he would suppress violence if ho had to call out the entire National Guard of Ohio. A boy was shot Wednesday evening by a non-union conductor, but whether or not accidentally is not known. Lynched in Texas. Some two weeks ago a negro was lynched in Grimes county, Texas. Tuesday night a church at Fuqua Prai- j rie was burned by an incendiary; suspicion fell on .1 oliti and Randall Hamilton, negroes. The latter was tirst found, and, with a rope around his nock, confessed that .lolin burned the church. .)oli 11 was found at his home and his answer to a demand for surrender was a volley of buckshot, Van Wright being fatally wounded and Tuck Moody slightly injured. The negro escaped, badly wounded, but was recaptured at noon and at once strung up. No further trouble is expected. Kovenge for a former lynching it is thought was the motive of tho incendiaries. lion. .J. J. Darlington, a native of Due West, S. (J., was tendered a Disriot.1 udgeship by President McKinloy but be declined it. Atlantic Coast Line. WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD. CONDKNHKI) SoilKDUf.K. Trains Going South. No.65* No..'16 P.M. A.M. Leavo Wilmington 3:45 Liave Marion 0:81 Arrive Florence 7:15 Leave Florence *7:46 *8 25 Arrive Sumter 8:67 4 49 Leave Sumter K:67 " 40 Arrive Columbia 10:20 11 CK) No. 62 runs through from Charleston via Central It. It-, leaving Charleston 7:00a m , Lanes 8:84 a. m., Manning 9:0!) a. in Trains Going North. No 64* No.68 A. M. P. M. Leavo Columbia *6:60 *4 00 Arrive Sumter 8:15 6 13 Leave Sumter *8:15 0 00 Arrive Florence 9:30 7 20 Leavo Florence 10.00 Leavo Marion 10:40 Arrive Wilmington 1:25 *Daily. No. 68 runs through to Charleston, 8. C., riA uentral it, K., Arriving At Manning 6:41 p. m , I?anes (1:17 p in.. Charleston 8:00 p. in. Trains on Conway llranch leave Chadjourn 6 35 p rn, arr.vo ConwAy 7 40 p m, returning leave Conway 8 30 a m, arrivo Jhadbourn 1 1 20 am, leave Chftdbourn 11 60 i rn, arrive Hub 12 25 p m, returning leave Hub 8 00 p arrive Chadbourn 3 35 p m t Daily except Sunday. J. II. Kenly, General Manager. T. M Emerson, Traffio Manager. H. M. Emerson, General PAesenger Age n J. R. Tolar. J. H. Hart T. H. Hlaohly. TOUR. H1RT S CO.. 100 Front Strkbt, N E W Y () R K , Com mi anion Merchants and Jobbers of Naval Stores. Liberal advances on consign ments of Naval Stores and Cotton Member* of the New York Cotton ami Product Kxoliange. \1/A(VA\I\W LINK 8TEVMER8 Ih * Steamer will Icavn the whtirf at Conway every Monday and WednesJny morning lor Georgelowu at l o'clock, touchiog all intermediate point*; and will leave her wharf at Georgetown every Tuesday ami Frid y morning for t'onway at 1 o'clock, touching at all iiitermcdia'o point?. L>. T. McNeill, Gen'I Agt nml Treaa , (.'onway, 8 <!. B. A. Munnerlyu, Agent, Georgetown, 8 (5. II. II. WOODWARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CONwat, S. C. ()HIoe up stairs over Herald oflico opposite Hank. ??m i iii w-?w > NOTICE, Conway Lodge, No. yt). Knights of Pythian will meet regularly the first and third Thursday nights of each month until otherwise ordered. 1). a.SIMvkt Chan. Com. J. C. SriveY K. K. & S May Hth, Oil. ly R. 13. SCARBOROUGH, 1 Attorney at Law, i Conway, S. C. Agent Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. Wilmington and Conway Railroad. Haily except Sunday. Southbound.?No. 07. heave Hub 8 00 pm heave lliona 3'10 pm Arrive Chadbourn 3 35 pm heave Chadbourn 5 35 pm heave Clarendon tl 00 pm lieavo Ml Tabor 0 15 pm heave Loris 0 35 pm heave Sunfonl (i 60 pm I?eave Hayboro 7 00 pm he.vc Privclts 7 09 pm heave Adrian 7 1*2 pm Arrive Conway 7 10 pm Northbound.?No. 08. heave Conway 8 30 am heave Adrian 8 65 am heave Privotts 9 00 am heave Baybiro 9 10 am ^ heave Kan ford 9 '20 am heave h iris 9 35 piu heave Ml Tabor ...10 10 am l.eavo Clarendon 1 40 nm Arrive Chadbourn ll *20 am heave Chadbourn II 60 am leave 1 liot> m 12 16 pm " Arrive Hub 12 26 pm Skin Diseases. For the spfedv and permanent cure of totter, rait rheum mid oestrum, Chamberlain's Kyo mid Skin Ointment is j without an equal. II relieves the itching and smarting almost instantly and its continued nso ofToiIs a permanent cure. It also cures itch, harbor's itch, scald head, sore nipples, itching piles, chapped hand.*:, chronic sore eyes and I mr.niiiiura mis. Dr. CmIt'h Condition rondel's for horses are the best tonic, blood purifier and vermifuge. Price. 25 cents. Bold by ^ To get strong and healthy use one bottle Murray's Iron Mix- 1 ture. Price 50c TH MURRAY DRUG COMacfeat's * School of SHORTHAND . -AND? 1 TYPEWRITING ; COLUMBIA, S. C. This School has the reputation of being the ^' beit business institution in the State. Urad- ( uatce are holding remunerative positions in mercantile houses, banking, insurance, real C estate, railroad oflioos, &o., in this and other etates. Write to W. n. Maofeat, Court Stenographer Comulbia, 8.C. for terms, etc A M o T ?LIFE? ? A vegctablo for Mild, cure for Lir- the Pleasant, er, Kidney (Sc LIVER Sure. et stomach trouhUs. and 25, 50, $1. >p -KIDNEYSSold wholesale by? The Murray Drug Oo. Columbia a( Dr. II. Baer, Charleston, S C, .. 1 It is the= = Custom liut a very poor one, to wait until the ginning season is on before locking to see what fix the gin is iu Now is the time to HURRY YOU 11 GIN 10 TUB ELLIOT GIN RENIN WORKS.- , Do not <le)ay ho<1 then ask us fo leU^m have it at once, f >r thorough work Jhj..ol lift il no in u. luirrv I has h t I ?>it f inn t*i this mailt r now wilt more (ban repay you when tho ojIIoq in white in the fields and the gin Louie crowdo I. Tho work is coming ia already, bo i-hip at once to the uudertdgned, located at tho old eleotrio light engine house Reference by permission:?\Y. H. Uibbes Ot Co , V C. Bail ham, Jno. A Willis, jQtigTVYlark jour name and shipping point on work seat and prepay the freight. The till)!! mi ihnif II mi, i 1 W J. KLMOTP, Proprietor, No. 1314 dates Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. Ginning Machinery. Q The Smith Pneumatic Suction Elevating, Ginning and Packing System Is tho simplest ami most efficient on the market. Forty-eight complete outfits in South Carolina; each ono giving absolute satisfaction. Boilers and Engines; Slide Valve, Automatic and Corliss. My Light and Heavy Log Beam Saw dills caunot bo oqu&llcd in dosign, eficieiey or priee by any dealer or tuanu acturer in the South. Write for prioee aud catalogues. V. C. Badham, 1820 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. Il I o. i#l L L, 01 n NOTHING LIKE IT FOR Constipation, Indigestion, t?i Regulator 'Z Kidneys. Wholesale by? TUB MURK AY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. 0. Dr. II. RA1SR, Charleston, S. C. All We Ask of &rf~YOU S?ANYTHING "u,c Machinery or Mill Supply Line Is that you givo us an opportunity to submit our prices and make comparisons. We ask this bocauso we beliove wo can make it to YOUR advantage. TRY US. Ve make a specialty of equipping IMPRuVED MODERN GIN NERIE3 OF ANY CAPACITY WITH THE SIM I'LEST AND MOST EFFICIENT COTTON HANDLING {APPARATUS I>L K XI ST E NCR?TIIR M U it It A r SYSTEM. Correspondence with intending puricasors solicited. W. H. Gibbes & Co.. COLUMBIA, S. C. SOUTH CAROLINA AQKNCY Liddoll Co., Charlotte, N. C. A. B. FarquharCo., Ltd , York, Pa. iaglc Cotton Gin Co., Bridgowater, Mass. traub Machinory Co., Cincinnati, O. =. Keeley . 26 SMiTII STREET, f| 'OK, VANDF.khokht, l||l| D HAItLKSTON, S. C. **** ** " : * ^ LCOHOL lOltPIUNR PIIJM OBACCO IGARKTTW SING Produce each a disoaso having defin e pathology. The disoase yields laily to the Double Chloride of Gold rcatmcnt as administered at tho above oeloy Institute. N. B.?Tho Keeley Treatment ia Iministered in 8omth Carolina a tty CHARLESTON . ~