The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 24, 1899, Image 4
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CAPITAL AND LABOR
Rev. Dr. Talmage Discusses the
Industrial Problem.
SOME LESSONS DRAWN
From Strikes in Various Parts of
the Country. A Truce Between
Labor and Capital.
Each Needs the Other.
In this discourse I>r. Tahuage sug
gosts how the everlasting war between
capital and labor may he brought to a
happy end. The text is, 1 Corinthians
xii, 21, "The eye cannot say unto the
hand, 1 have no need of thee."
Fifty thousand workmen in Chicago
ceasing work in one day, Brooklyn
stunned by the attempt to halt its rail
road ears, Cleveland in the throes of a
labor agitation and restlessness among
toilors all over the land have caused an
epidemic of strikes, and somewhat to
better things 1 apply the Paulino
thought of my text.
You have seen an elaborate piece
of machinery, with a thousand wheels
and a thousand pulleys, all controlled
by one great water wheel, the machinery
so adjusted that when you jar one
part of it you jar all parts of it. Well,
human society is a great piece of mechanism
controlled by one great and
ever revolving force the wheel of Cod's
providence. You harm one part of tho
machinery of society and you harm all
parts. All professions interdependent.
All trades interdependent. All classes
of people interdependent. Capital and
labor interdependent. No such thing
as independence. hives cannot kick
Lazarus without hurting his own foot.
They who threw Shndrach into the furnace
got their own bodies scorched. < >r
to come hack to tho ligurc of the text,
what a strange thing it would ho if the
eye should say: I oversee the entire
physical mechanism. 1 despise the
other members of the body. If there
is anything 1 am disgusted with, it is
with those miserable, low lived hands.
Or what if the hand should say: I am
the boss workman of the whole physical
economy. I have no respect for the
other members of the body. If there
is anything I despise, it is the eye
seated under the dome of the forehead
doing nothing but look.
I come in, and I wave the Hag of
truce between these two contestants,
and 1 say, "The eye cannot say to the
hand, 'I have no need of thee."
That brings me to the first suggestion,
and that is, that labor and capital
arc to be brought to a better understanding
by a complete canvass of the
wiiolc subject. They will be brought
to peace when they find that they are
identical in their interests. When one
goes down, both go down. When one
rises, they both rise. There will bo an
equilibrium after awhile. There never
has been an exception to the rule.
That which is good for one class of society
and that which is bad for one
class of society will eventually and in
tiuio be bad for all. Every speech that
labor makes against capital postpones
tho day of permanent adjustment.
Every speech that capital makes against
labor postpones tho day of permanent
adjustment. When capital maligns labor,
it is the eye cursing the hand. When
labor maligns capital, it is the hand
cursing the eye. As far as 1 have observed,
tho vast majority of capitalists
are successful laborers. If the capitalists
would draw their glove, you would
see the broken linger nail, the scar of
an old blister, the stillened linger joint.
The great publishers of the country for
the most part were bookbinders or typesetters
on small pay. The gicat carriage
manufacturers for the most part
sandpapered wagon bodies in wheelwright
shops.
While, on the other hand, in all our
large manufacturing establishments you
will find men on wages who once employed
100 or 500 hands. The distance
between capital and labor is not a groat
gulf over which is swung a Niagara suspension
bridgo. It is only a step, and
tno capitalists are crossing over to bccomo
laborers, and the laborers arc
crossing over to become capitalists.
Would God they might shake hands
while they cross.
Again, there is to come relief to the
laboring classes of this country through
c jopcrativc associations. 1 am not at
this moment speaking of trades unions,
but of that plan by which laborers put
their surplus together and become their
own capitalists. Instead of being dependent
upon the beck of this capitalist
or that capitalist thcyminago their
own affairs. In England and Wales
there are Kill co-operative associations.
They have 3-10,000 members. They
have a capitol of $18,000,000, or what
corresponds to our dollars, and they do
a business annually of $03,000,000.
Thomas Brassey, one of the foremost
men in the British parliament, on the
subject says: "Co-operation is the ono
and the only relief for the laboring populations.
This is the path," he says,
"by which they arc to come up from
the hand to the mouth style of living to
reap the rewards and the honors of our
advanced civilization." Lord Derby
and .John Stuart Mill, who gave half
their lives to the study of the labor
question, believed in co-operative institutions.
The co-operative institution
formed in Troy, N. V., stood long
enough to illustrate the fact that great
good might come of such an institution
if it were rightly carried on and mightily
developed.
"But," says some one, "haven't
these institution sometimes been a failure?'
Yes. Every great movement
has been a failure at some time Application
of the steam power a failure,
electro telegraphy a failure, railroading
a failure, but now the chief successes
of the world.
"JJut," says some one, "why talk of
surplus being put by laborers into cooperative
associations, when the vast
multitude of toilers of this country arc
struggling for their daily bread and
have no surplus?" I reply: I'ut into
my hand the money spent by the laboring
classes of America for rum and tobacoo,
and I will establish co-operative
associations in all parts of this land,
somo of them mightier than any finunoial
institutions of the country. We
spend in this country over $100,000,000
cvory year for tobacco, We spend
over $1,500,000,000 directly or indi
roctly for rum. The laboring classes
spend their share of this money. Now,
suppose tl o laboring man who has boon
expending his money in those directions
should just add up how much he has expended
during these past few years und
then suppose that that money was put
into a co-operative association and then
suppose he should have all his friends
in toil, who had made the same kind of
expenditure, do the same thing, and
that should be added up and put into
a co operative association. And then
take all that money expended for overdress
and overstyle and overliving on
the part of toiling people in order that
they may appear as well as persons who
have more income gather that all up,
and you eould have co operative associations
all over ihisl.?nd.
1 am not say ing anything now about
trades unions. You want to know what
I think of trades unions 1 think they
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niv iiivjou uguuuuiiii in nUlUC UirCUilODH,
ami they have a specific object and in
this day, when there arc vast monopolies
a thousand monopolies conecntra
ting the wealth of the people into the
possession of a few men, unless the la
boring men of this country and all countries
band together they will go under.
There is a lawful use of a trade union,
but then there is an unlawful use of a
trade union. If it means sympathy in
time of sickness. If it means finding
work for people when they are out of
work, if it means the improvement of
the financial, the moral or the religious
condition of the laboring classes, that
is all right. l>o not artists band togeth
er in an art union? Ib? not singer.-band
together in Handel and Haydn societies?
l>o not newspaper men band
together in press clubs? l>o not ministers
of religion band together in conferences
and associations? There is
not in all the land a city where clergymen
do not come together, many of
them once a week, to talk over affairs.
For these reasons you should not blame
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Ktinii tsMii vi r>. ? i iiuii iin;> ill I* 'KMIIL'
their legitimate work, tlicy aro most ad
tnirahlo, but when tlicy ooiuo around
with drum and life and Hag and drive
people off from their toil, from their
scaffoldings, from their factories, then
they are nihilistic, then they are communistic,
then they are barbaric, then
they arc a curse. If a man wants to stop
work, let him stop work, but he cannot
stop me from work.
Hut now suppose that all the labor ing
classes banded together for hcncficicnt
purposes in co-operative association under
whatever name they put their means
together. Supposo they take the mo >
that they waste in rum and tobacco s i
use it for the elevation of their families,
for the education of their chili en
for their moral, intellectual and rc'ig
ious improvement, what a different
stato of things we would have in this
country and they would have in (jr at
Britain.
l>o you not realize the fact that men
work better without stimulant? You
say, ' Will you deny the laboring men
this help which they get from strong
drink, borne down as they are with many
anxieties and exhausting work?" 1
would deny them nothing that is good
for them. I would deny them storng
drink, if I had the power, because it is
damaging to them. My father said:
"I became a temperance man in early
life because 1 found that in the harvest
Held, while 1 was naturally weaker than
the other men, 1 could hold out longer
than any of theui. They took stimulant
and 1 tooK none."
Everybody knows they cannot endure
great fatigue ?men who indulge in stimulants.
All our young men understand
that. When they arc preparing for the
regatta or the ball club or the athletic
wrestling, they abstain from strong
drink. Now, suppose all this money
that is wasted were gathered together
and put into co-operative institutions
?oh, we would have a very different
state of things from what we have now!
1 remark again: The laboring classes
of this country are to find great relief
when they learn, all of them learn, forecast
and Providence. Vast numbers of
thorn put down their income, and they
put down their expenses, and if the income
meets the expenses that is all that
is necessary. I know laboring men who
arc in a perfect fidget until tlicy have
spent their lust dollar. They 11 y around
everywhere until they get it spent. A
ease came under my observation where
a young man was receiving ?700 a year
and earned it by very hard work. The
marriage day came. The bride had re
ceivcd ?500 as an inheritance from her
grandfather. She put the ?500 in wedding
equipment. Then the twain hired
two rooms on the third story. Then
this man, who had most arduous employment,
just as much as ho could
possibly enduie, got evening employ
ment so he could earn a few dollars
more, and by this extra evening employment
almost extinguished his eyesight.
Why did he take this extra
evening employment? Was it to lay
by something for a rainy day? No.
Was it to get a life insurance so that it
he should die his wife would not be a
pauper? No. It was for the one purpose
of getting his wile a ?150 sealskin sack.
I am just giving you a fact I know.
The sister of this woman, although she
was a very poor girl, was not to be
eclipsed, and so she went to work day
and night and toiled and toiled and
toiled almost into the grave until she
got a ?150 sealskin sack! Well, the
news went abroad all through the street.
Most of the people on that street were
laboring hardworking people, and they
were not to ho outshone in this way,
and they all went to work in the same
direction and practically said, though
not literally, "Though tho heavens fall,
we must have a sealskin sack!"
A clergyman in Iowa told me that hit;
church and the entire neighborhood had
been ruined by tho fact that tho people
mortgaged their farms in ordered to go
down to the Philadelphia centennial in
1870. First, one family would go, then
another family, and finally it was not
respectable ihk to go to the ccntonnial
at Philadelphia, and they mortgaged
their farms. The church and the
neighborhood ruined in that way. Now,
between such fools and pauperism there
is only a very short step. In time ol
peace prepare for war. In time of pros
perity prepare for adversity. Vet how
many there arc who drive on the verge
of the precipice and at the least touch ol
accident or sickness over they go. Ah
my friends, not right, it is noi
honest! He that providcth not for hi:
own, and especially those of bis owr
household, is worse than an infidel. .A
man has no right to livo in luxury ant
i have all comforts and ull brightness
around him, taking his family with hiu
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at that rate -everything bright and
beautiful ami luxurious, until lie stumbles
against a tombetone and falls in
and tlicy all g- to tho poor homo. That
is not common honesty. I am no advocate
of skinflint saving. I abhor it.
Hut 1 plead for Christian providence.
There arc some people who arc disgusted
if they see anything like economy,
such as a man might show in turning
down the gas in tho p trior whon he
goes out. There are families actually
embarrassed if you ring their doorbell
before they hive the hall lighted.
There are people who apologize if you
surpriso them at the table. Now, is it
moan or it is magnificent to save just
according to what you save for. If it is
for the miserly hoarding of it, then it is
despicable, but if it means better education
for your children, if it means
more house help for your wife when
sne 18 not strong enough to do inuoh
work, if it means that the day of your
death shall not he a horror beyond all
endurance bocauso it is to throw your
family into disruption and annihilation
and poorhouse, then it is magnificent if
it is to divoid all that.
Some of the older persons remember
very well Abraham Van Nest of New
York, one of its Christian merchants,
lie was often called mean because he
calculated so closely. Why did he
calculate so closely. That he might
have the more to give. There was not
a Uiblo society, or a tract society, or a
reformatory institution in the city of
New York but lie had a hand in supporting
it. lie denied himself many
luxuries that he might give to others
the necessities, lie has been many
years reaping hi- reward in heaven, but
1 shall never forget the day when 1, a
green country lad, cauic to his house
and spent the evening, and at the close
of the evening, as I was departing, ho
accompanied me to the steps, came
down off the steps and said: "Here,
DoWitt, is?lu for books. Don't say
anything about it." It is mean or it is
magnificent to save, according as you
save for a good or for a bad object.
1 know there aro many people who
have much to say against savings banks
and life insurances. I have to toll you
that the vast majority of tho homesteads
in this country has been the result
of such institutions, and I have to
tell you also that tho vast majority of
the homesteads of the future for tlm
laboring classes will bo tho result of
such institutions. It will be a great
day for the working classes of England
and the United States when the work
i gtnnn can buy a barrel of flour instead
I id' flour by the small sack, when he can
buy a barrel of sugar instead of sugar
by the pound, when be can pay cash
for coats and hats and shoes rather than
pay a>i additional amount for the reason
that he has to got it all charged.
Again 1 remark, great relief is to
come for the laboring classes of this
country by appreciation on the part of
employers that they had better take
their employees into their confidence.
1 can see very easily, looking from my
standpoint, what is tho matter. Employes,
seeing the employer in scorning
prosperity, do not know all the straits,
all the hardships, all tho losses, all tho
annoyances. They look at him and
they think. "Why, he has it easy,
and we have it hard." They do not
know that at that very moment the employer
is at the last point of desperation
to meet his engagements.
I know a gentleman very well who
nas over a thousand hands in his employ.
1 said to him some years ago
when tlierc was great trouble in the labor
'market, "How are you getting on
with your men?'' ,:()h!" he said, "1
have no trouble." "Why," 1 said,
"have not you had any strikes?" "Oh,
no," he said, "I never had any trou
bio." "What plan do you pursue?"
lie said: "1 will tell you. All my men
know every year just how matters stand
Kvcry little while 1 call them together
and say: 'Now, boys, last year 1 made
so much; this year I made less; so you
see I cannot pay you as much as 1 did
last year. Now. I want to know what
you think I ought to have as a percentage
out of this establishment and what
wages 1 ought to give you. You know
1 put all my energy in this business,
put nil my fortune in it and risked
everything. What do you really think
1 ought to have ..nd you ought to have?
lly the time we come out of that consultation
we are unanimous. There
never has been an exception. When
we | rospor, we all prosper together;
when we sutler, we all sufTer together,
and my men rould die for mo." Now,
let all employers he frank with their
employees. Take them into your confidence.
Let them know just how mat
tors stand. There is an immense amount
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ui couiinon sense in lite world. It is
always safe to appeal to it.
1 remark, again, great relief will eomo
to the laboring classes of thii country
through the religious rectification of it.
Labor is honored and rewarded in proportion
as a community is Christianized.
Why is it that our smallest coin
in this country is a penny, while in
China it takes a half dozen pieces of
coin or a dozen to make one of our pennies
in value, so the Chinese carry the
cash, as they call it, like a string of
heads around the neck? We never
want to piv less than a penny for anything
i < ibis country. They must pay
i that which is worth only the sixth part
i or the twelfth part of a penny. Heathenism
and iniquity and infidelity dci
press everything. Tho gospel of .Jesus
Christ elevates every t' ing. I low do 1
account for this? I account for it with
i the plainest philosophy. The religion
i of .Jesus Christ is a democratic religion.
It tells tho employer that he is a brother
to all the operatives in the establish
i mcnt made by the same (Jod, to lie in
[ tho satno dust and to bo saved by the
! same supreme mercy. It docs not
make the slightest difference how much
i money you havo. you cannot buv vonr
i way into tlic kingdom of heaven. If
i you huvo the grace of (lod in your heart
I you will enter heaven. So you see it is
I a democratic religion. Saturate our
j population with this gospel, and labor
( will bo respectful, labor will be rcward>
ed, labor will be honored, capital will
f ho Christian in all its behavior, and
. there will be higher tides of thrift set
r in.
5 hot me say a word to all capitalists:
f lie your own executors. M ike i:;v st,
monts for eternity. I>? nor he like
t some of those capitalists I know who
< walk an u id among their employers
t with < ?i ipeicilioui uir or drive up to
k the factory in a manner which seems
1 to indicate they are tho autocrat of the
i universe, with the sun and moon in
1 their vest pockets, chiefly anxious
when they go among laboring mcu not
to be touched by the greasy or smirched
hand and liavo their broadcloth injured.
He a Christian employer. Uomoniber
those who are under your
chargo are bone of your bone and Hesh
of your flesh, that .Jesus Christ died
for them and that they are immortal.
Divido up your estates, or portions of
them, for the relief of the world beforo
you leave it. Do not go out of tho
world liko that man who died in Now
York leaving in his will $10,000,000,
yet giving how much for tho church of
Clod how much for the alleviation of
human suffering? Ho cave some money
a little while before lie died. That
was well, but in all this will of' $10,
000,000 how much? One million?
No. Five hundred thousand? No.
Ono hundred dollars? No. Two
cents? No. One cent? No. These
great cities groaning in anguish,
nations crying out for the bread of
everlasting life. A man in a will
giving $ 10,000,000 and not 1 cent to
(Jod! It is a disgrace to our civilization.
t )r, as illustrated in a letter
which I have concerning a man who
departed this life leaving between $;>,
000,000 and $8,000,000. Not one
dollar was left, this writer says, to
comfort the aged workmen and workwomen,
not $1 to elevate and instruct
the hundreds of pale children who
stilled their childish growth in the heat
and clamor of his factory. Is it
strange that tho curse of the children
of toil follows such ingratitude? How
well could one of his many millions
have boon disbursed for the present
and the future benefit of those whose
hands had woven literally the fabric of
the dead man s princely fortune. O
capitalists of the I nited States, be
your own executors! Ito a Gcorgo
l'eabody, if nccdbc, on a small scale.
Hod has made you a steward. I>ischarge
your responsibility.
My word is to all laboring men in
this country: I congratulate you at
your brightening prospects. I congratulate
you on the fact that you are
getting your representatives at Albany,
at llarrisburg and at Washington. I
have only to mention such a man of
the past as Henry Wilson, the shoemaker;
as Andrew Johnson, the tailor;
as Abraham Lincoln, the boatman.
The living illustrations easily occur to
you. This will go on until you will
havo representatives at all the headquarters,
aud you will have full justice.
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i'ldi a tuai. I i i i ?l l l * UII ill.111 at
tlio opportunities for your children.
I congratulate you that you have to
work and that when you arc dead your
children will have to work.
I congratulate you also on your opportunities
of information. I'lalo
paid $1,1100 for two hooks. .Icrouic
ruined himself financially hy buying
one volume of "Origen." What vast
opportunities for intelligence for you
and your children! A workingman
goes along by the show window ofsomo
great publishing house, and he sees a
book that costs $">. He sayg: "I
wish 1 could have that information. I
wish I could raise $."> for that costly
and beautiful book." A few months
pass on, and he gets the value of that
hook for 2.") cents in a pamphlet.
There never was such a day for the
workingmcn of America as this <1 ay
and the day that is coming.
I also congratulate you because your
work is only prefatory and introductory.
You want the grace of Jesus
Christ, the Carpenter of Nazareth.
He toiled himself, and he knows how
to sympathize with all who toil, (let
his crane in vnur heart, and vrm can
sing on the scaffolding amid the storm,
in the shop shoving the plane, in tho
mine plunging the crowbar, on shipboard
climbing the ratlines, lie will
make the drops of sweat on your brow
glittering pearls for the eternal coronet.
Are you tired? lie will rest you.
Are you sick? lie will give you help.
Are you cold? lie will wrap you in
the mantle of his love. Who are
they before the throne? "Sir,'" you
say, ''their hands were never calloused
with toil!" Yes, they wore. You say,
"Their feet wore never blistered with
tho long journey." \ os, they were,
but Christ raised them to that high
eminence. Who are these? ''These
are they that came out of great tribulation
and had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb."
That for every Christian workingman
and for every Christian working woman
will be the beginning of eternal hoiiday.
One Minute Cough Cure quickly cures
obstinate summer coughs and colds. "1
consider it a most wonderful medicine,
?quick and safe " W. W. Morton,
Mayhcw, Wis.
I>r. hi. Norton.
Fort Lower Shocked.
Fort Lower was shocked Thursday by
what is said to have been the suicide of
Mrs. S. W. Keep, who, it seems shot
herself while in bed at an early hour
Thursday morning with a parlor rifle.
The ball entering at the left temple
ranging upwards doing its deadly work
in a few minutes. It is rumored that
there may have been foul play, as m>
one can account for such an act unless
it was prompted by jealousy. Mrs.
Keep was a highly respected Christian
lady about years old and her death
is a shock to the community in which
she lived. At this hour wo arc unablo
to give the facts in the case as wo have
not heard the verdict of the jury. The
deceased leaves a husband and two
child ren.
Irritating stings, bites, scratches,
wounds and cuts soothed and healed hy
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salvo,?a sure
and safe application for tortured (lesh.
Hewaro of counterfeits.
I>r. Iv Norton.
How It Is Done.
4iA live grasshopper will cat a dead
grasshopper. ' says the New York Tribune.
"A Missouri farmer mixed
Paris Green and bran together and let
a grasshopper oat it. lie died. Twenty
ate him up. They died. Four hundred
ate those twenty and they died.
Fight thousand ate those 400 and they
died. A hundred and sixty thousand
ate those right thousand, and they died,
and the farmer was troubled no more."
Quickly euro constipation and rebuild
and invigorate the entire system
?never gripe or nauseate?PcWitt's
Little Kirly lliscrs
For sale by Dr. H. Norton.
Wo hopo our farmers will get good
prices for their cotton this year. It
will help amazingly all round.
GOOD ADVICE.
(Continued from first Page.)
SKLK-81; ST AI NINO M KTIIODH.
The young farmers of your State
must look back into the early history of
their fathers and shape their futuro
course in agriculture by the self-sustaining
mothod in use on ovcry faim at
that time, utilizing all tho latest and
most approved farming implements that
will reduce the cost of labor, increase
the pleas.ire of tho business and hasten
that day of prosperity so much to bo
desired. Tho older farmer should resurrect
the principles of farming in
voguc-during their earlier days and make
of their farms commendable object lessons
of what they know to be possible
of the great rcsourecs of their
State.
I'l.ANTINO T1IK WHEAT ? It?>|?.
Plant your wheat not later than tho
last week in October, preparing your
land by deep ploughing, harrowing aud
rolling. No matter how extensive or
i how restricted your acreage in wheat
may be the coming fall do not neglect
to treat the seed as a safeguard against
smut. I have read hundreds of letters
this spring from farmers stating that
they could not raise wheat booauso of
the ravages of smut. The Itomanswcrc
alllictcd with the same trouble over two
thousand years ago. Scientific investigations
within recent years have discovered
the life history of the smut
germ, and by continued experiments,
have found remedies which, if properly
applied, will in every instance free the
grain of future disaster from that
source. Smut is nothing more than a
parasitic plant adhering to the grain,
germinating with the grain and growing
along with the stalk. Its presence is
only discovered by microscopic examination.
As the infected head of wheat
develops the nutriment intended for
the grain is absorbed by the smut germ
and a mass of loose brown spores is
formed. These spores, blown about the
field by winds, adhere to thousands of
good grains and the foundation is laid
for increasing disaster the following
year. Smut docs not therefore develop
after the crop is planted and growing,
must be in life and attached to the
seed wheat before it is put in the
ground. Ordinarily a solution of bluestone,
at the rate of one pound to
enough water for immersing five bushels
of wheat and allowing to stand for
twelve or fourteen hours, will eradicate
the trouble. I >o not allow smut to en
ivi mm .u f: u m?j II l UgUlUSl w neai
raising. A more universal growing of
wheat will develop Hour mills convenient
to every section of the country.
Produce the raw material and machinery
will be at once erected for the preparation
of grain into needed uses.
INC11KA8INO 1NTKKKST IN AORICULTU11E.
The widespread interest which the
people of our cities arc taking in the
betterment of our agricultural condi
tions is indeed gratifying. There has
never been a time in the history of our
country when so universal an interest
in agriculture was manifested by people
in all avocations of life as at present.
The world is awakening to the nccessi
ty of the farmer and the importance of
aiding him to so shape his courso in future
that his business may be one of
deserving prosperity and high usefulness.
Upon the success of tho farmer
must unquestionably depend the continued
prosperity of all avocations
existing in a truly agricultural country.
All of these highly desirable ends and
muiu may uu uur uill |MftOUUU UIIUU^Il LIIC
adoption o( such farming methods as
will enable us to become more prosper
ous as the years roll by. Make your
farms sclfsustaining. When you have
provided an acreage of diversified crops
sufiicicnt to meet the demands of home
supply it would then be proper to consider
the extent of the money crop.
Rotate your crops, plough deep, harrow
and roll your lands. Increase the fertility
of the soil, supply needed humus
and improve its mech.inieal condition
by growing leguminous plants everywhere
they can be sown or cultivated.
Institute a systematic method of increasing
the compost heap and cut down
I the heavy bills for fertilizers. The
lugumo and compost heap should be
the farinpr's bank; with their assistance
he can at once travel the inviting road
to independence and wealth. Without
them he must continue to look for help
only from costly and oppressive sources.
Let the farmer work out his independence
without fear or trembling, gradually
abolishing the credit system from
the future conduct of his business.
Plunged Among The Sharks
A magazine writer, in describing a
recent trip at sea, says an interesting
occurrence on the ocean trip was when
a Lascar sailor volunteered to show
how sharks were killed in his country.
Several were following in the wake of
the ship at the time, and the Lascar
selected the largest for the exhibition.
Divesting himself of his already scant
apparel lie armed himself with a knife,
which he carried between his teeth and
made a deep dive. We did not sec
him for fully two minutes, and just
when we thought something was wrong,
a great commotion occurred among the
sharks, and slowly one turned over on
L i _ 1 I. iL - - l'l 1- -
ins uai3K, me water, mcanwniie, ue- i
coming a deep red. The Lascar had j
swum tinier water and used his dirk
with deadly effect, He quiet had bccti
his approach that the other fishes had
failed to notice him, and when they
did they were frightened off by tho
splashing made by their wounded
brother.
"Our baby was sick for a month
with severe cough and catarrhal fever.
Although wo tried many remedies she
kept getting worse until we used One
Minute Cough Cure,?it relieved at
once and cured her in a few days."?It.
li. Nance, I'rin. High School, Itluffdalo,
Texas.
Dr. K Norton.
Homicide in Florence.
-Wednesday at Lyra, Florence County,
M. C. Collins shot and killed O. W.
Young. Iloth of the parties were young
white men, and were said to ho popular.
Young leaves a wifo and two little children.
Collins also is married. The
men had some trouble Saturday night
about a tobacco barn which they owned
jointly. When they met Monday morning,
Collins brought up tho trouble by
asking Young a question. Young is
said to have been advancing on Collins
with a drawn knifo when shot.
Atlantic Coast Line.
WILMINGTON. COLUMBIA AND
AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
CON i) ENS ED Sen K DU LB.
Trains doing South.
No.66* No..'16
P.M. A.M.
Leave Wilmington 3:46
Leave Marion b.-31
Arrive Florence 7:16
L"ave Florence *7:45 *3 26
Vrrive Sumter 8:57 4 '29
Loavo Sumter 8:67 9 40
Vrri ve Columbia 10:20 1100
N l 52 rune through from Charleston via
Central It. It., leaving Charleston 7:00a. m ,
Lance 8:34 a. m , Manning 0:0*.) a m
Trains doing North.
No 64* No.68
A. M. P M.
I.e*vc Columhia * ! 60 *4 00
An ive Sumter 8:15 6 18
Leave Sumter *8; 16 6 06
Arrive Florence 0:30 7 20
Leave Flo'ence 10 00
Leave Marion 10:40
Arrive Wilmington 1:26
* Daily.
No. 63 runs through to Charleston, S C ,
If if \I :? f.ai
. ' VV IIIMII 1% It., (tl I ITIII^ (IV I till II I II K M. I I
p 111 , Lanes 0:17 p.m. Charleston 8:00 p. in.
Trains on Conway Branch leave Chadbourn
6 36 p in, arrive Conwoy 7 40 p m,
returning leave Conway 8 30 a in, arrive
Chadbourn 11 20 am, leave Chadbourn 1 I 60
a in, arrive Hub 12 26 p m, returning leave
IIu"i 3 00 p arrive Chadbourn 3 36 p in t
l>ai!y except Sunday.
*?. K Kenly, General Manager.
T M Kmerson, Trallic Manager
II. M. Emtrton, General Passenger A gen
Wilmington and Conway
Railroad.
Daily except Sunday.
Southbound.?No. 117.
Leave Hub 8 00 pni
Leave lliona 8M0 pin
Arrive Chadbourn 3 36 pm
L-ave Chadbourn 6 36 pm
Leave Clarendon C 00 pni
L ave Ml Tabor 0 16 pin
L ave Loris 6 36 pm
Leave Hanfoid 0 60 pni
L-nve Bayboro 7 00 pm
I.- vc rriveira 7 U'.? pni
Lave Adrian 7 12 pni
Arrive Conwaj 7 40 pm
Northbound.?No. 98.
Leave Conway 8 30 am
Lrare Adriau 8 65 am
L>a*e Privetta 9 00 am
Leave Ilayboro 9 10 am
1, ave Haoford 9 20 am
Leave Lorie 9 35 pm
Leave Ml Tabor 10 10 am
I rave Clarendon 1 -10 am
Arrive Chadbourn 11 20 am
L< arc Cbadbourn 11 60 am
I rave llionn 12 15 pm
Arrive Hub 12 26 pm
,). K. Tolar. J. H. Hart
T. II. Blachly.
TOLAR, HART X CO.,
160 Front Street,
N E W Y OKK,
Commission Merchants
aiul
Jobbers of Naval Stores.
Liberal advances 011 consign
ments of Naval Stores and
Cotton
Members of the New York Cotton and
Produce Kxoliange.
"u. B. SCARBOROUGH,
Attorney at Law,
Conway, S. C.
Agent Mutual Life Insurance
Co. of New York.
WACCAMAW LINE STE IMER8.?The
Steamer will leave the wharf at Coaxy
every Monday and Wednesday morning
fur Georgetown at 1 o'clock, touching all inermediato
points; and will leave her wharf
>?t Georgetown every Tuesday and Friday
Minniog for Conway at 1 o'clock, touching
utt all intermediate points.
1). T. McNeill,
Gen'I Agt and Troas., Conway, S C.
B. A. Munnerlyn,
Agent, Georgetown, S. C.
NOTICE.
Conway Lodge, No, 80. Knighta of
Pythias will meet regularly the Hrat and
r>drd Thursday nights of each month until
otherwise ordered.
I). A.Spivky
Chan. Cora.
J. C. Spivky
K. H. A 8
?ay 14 th, Ort. 1y
II. II. WOODWARD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Conway, S. C.
I*?iy*T)flico up stairs over Herald othee
opposite Hank.
---LIFE?
A vegetable for Mild,
euro for Liv- tho Pleasant,
er, Kidney <Jfc LIVER Sure,
btomach trouble*, aad 25, 50, $1.
?KIDNBYS?
Sold wholesale by?
Tho Murray Drug Co. Columbia
Dr. II. Haer, Charleston, S C,
Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure.
Digests what you eat.
Itartlfleltlly digests the food and aids
Nature In strengthening and reconstructing
the exhausted digestive organs.
It is the latest discovered digestant
and tonic. No other preparation
can approach it in etllciency. It Instantly
relieves and permanently cures
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn,
Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea,
Sickneadache,Qastialgla,Craraps,and
all other results of imperfect digestion.
Prepared by E. C. DeWitt A Co.. Chicago.
j For salo by Dr. E. Norton,
= Keeley
126 bMiTII STREET, A
Cor. Vanderhorst, Ij|I| O
CHARLESTON. S. C. V
ALCOHOL
MORPHINE
OPIUM
TOBACCO
CIGAR NTT N % ?
USING
Produce each u disease having de6n
itc pathology. The disease yields
easily to the Double Chloride ot Go d
Treatment as administered at the above
Keclov Instituto.
N. B.?The Kooley Trcatinont is
aduiinistorod in South Carolina
"S" CHARLESTON.
It is the==
=Custoni
Hat a very poor one, to wait until the ginning
tteason is on before lo king to see
what fix the gin is in
Now is the time to
HURRY
YOULt (JIN 10 TiiE
ELLIOT GIN REPAIR WORKS.
l)o not delay and then ask us to let yt n
have it at once, for thorough work canuoi
be done in a hurry 'I he attention given
this matter now will more than repay yo ?
when the cotton is white in the fields
and the gin house crowdol. Toe worki*
coming iu already, so ship at once to the
Uudersigncd, located at the old electric light
engine house ^' "**"
t i:)' > t o by pa * u: t ti m ? V. I I >
& Co , V C. BaJhant, Jno. \ Willis.
J8Hfi>'"Msrk jour name and shipping point
on work seat and prepay the freight.
The Elliott Gin Repair Works,
W. J. ELLIOTr, Troprlctor,
No. 1314 Gates Street,
COLUMBIA, S. (J.
LL, &K
NOTHING LI KB IT
FOR
Constipation,
Indigestion,
a.-*
i"t Rfiaulstnr 'Z Kitltifivs
- " ??>' ??
Wholesale by?
Til 10 MURRAY DRUG CO.,
Columbia, S. C.
l)u. II. BAKR,
Charleston, S. C.
Binning
Machinery.
o
The Smith Pneumatic Suction
Elevating, Ginning and
Packing flyste*)
Is the simplest and most efficient on
I the market. Forty-eight complete
outfits in South Carolina; oaeh
one giving absolute
satisfaction.
Boilers and Engines; Slide
Valve, Automatic and Corliss.. ,
My Light and Heavy Log Roam Saw
Mills cannot bo oqualUd in design, of
ticieaey or price by any dealer or manu
cajturer in the South.
Write for prices and catalogues.
V. C. Badharo,
1 QOA \f o i n Q f
JK*/U maiu
COLUMBIA. 8. C.
All We Ask ot
w~Y0U
ST :i?ANYTHING
,n th0 Machinery or '
Mill Supply Line
Is that you givo us un opportunity
to submit our priocs and xnako
comparisons. Wo ask this be
%>?< ?? v?o uviiwo vvu cum matte it to
YOUR advantage. TRY US. \
Wc make a specialty of equipping
IMPROVED MODERN GIN
NERIE8 OF ANY CAPACITY
WITH THE SIMPLEST AND
MOST E FFICIK NT COTTO N
HANDLING {APPARATUS IN
EX 1ST 10 NC E -TIIB MURR A Y
SYSTEM.
Correspondence with intending pur
hcascrs solioited.
W. H. Gibbes & Co..
COLUMBIA, S. C. v
80UTII CAROLINA AG KNOT
Liddell Co., Charlotte, N. C.
A. U. FarquharCo., Ltd.. York, Pa.
Eagle Cotton Gin Co., Bridgewater,
Mans.
Straub Machinery Co., Cincinnati, O.