The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 03, 1899, Image 4
TRICKERY IN TRADE.
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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 ,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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 . ~