Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TRADE PAYS. off the Dtsadfaatages of Buying by Mali?By Proper Xewapa . get Advertising the Local Merchant / May Compare Favorably With Rig la a recent talk Elmer S. Batterson *< Chicago, a noted town boomer, the following pertinent remarks the mall order trade and Itladred topic*: mall order house has no* ad? orer the local atores. The le house sends out a catalogue the farmers ouce or twice a year, local merchant may roach him Wk the local press. It cost* at $1 apleos to get out the oata Ths local merchants son.1: out far advertising. Every new cus eosls a catslogue house at least The local merchant secures his at a less figure. A midl a large force of clerks a large expense In a large city. Ms goods are shown by pin tu res mm" in catalogues. A shant can show his goods la window daily. A local merchan > ths sdsnaiage He can give you on approval and exchange them It takes Urns to make an ex with a snail order house. **Catalogu* houses do not undersell %m fee*! merchant. This Is true. One tbssn tV bmt a fair test Take ten arti **ge* ar ossapars a business of two .tgsssrths with a local inesohsu* and a sjsmll tsreter hsnsa and see, Catalogue do not run an Illegal business, run, a lag*! on*. If they did not Ussy wosjld have been excluded from *g#"\ maibj long ago. as every commer? cial Is on the lookout. \ 11 orubr house receive sn a paVasol for a baby cab a srosaan oar a rural routs. This 4m esvesgh. The snail order hour* at ?tonnst** there Is a baby In the It snast have clothes H will i In another y*ar mors clothes! and sttU more ths folio wing child musty havt a father ' Stfsi a nsathsr.aad probably other chtl . iron are m the family. **? They need) risssjsslssht arttflssj and. being on a ruJ ' ami routs. Mrs In ths country and need tarns lanj Insist* Holding ths letter mm ts tie light, ft Is noticed that ths tango* m bSadad and at of good qual } gfe? so ths psspls must be wall to do. may go Ints ths esta Ott sot a circular so otsso. Have the typs stsreo ths plats*, aad a hau you a soson or so yuu may gst ont a -ago* at a nominal price. **f US asuot take car* of your custom ?? ?von If you leas money. Mo mar should turn down a customer, should sos him provided with the A quick aale as better ***** havhag an arttcls on hand for a ?at aaimns do not cotn? ' to town. ********** at wrong. Investigate It by ?a*ftls*c thosn. If It Is because lumber mmm advaaasd and can bs bought choap Og ft* a neighboring city bscasss there tob** an* kssabsr Aalsr In youf town I a now lumbar ooropany com* "All sclnsfi motives should be cut t>o as weih business as possible, don't gst Jsalous If your neighbor i mors. An unfair merchant Is a tr to his town. *"A large store In a small town does st baut th* small stores. It takes In trads radius. If your town Is In radius and you draw ess* nvs mils* surrounding ML ratio is M to 4. If yo? lamas* ths mile, you increase ths trads almost if par cent A sow do? it store with Improved methods th* trading radius. If Ma In neighboring cities get fan) advertising space In local papers, -ft ts boons** th* local merchants don't nuns* It aad eh* outsiders do. Th* town does not stop at ths city It takes la ths farmers In the ?undlng country*. A mark t day Is m sjood thing for s am a I town, a bar day also, when farmers may sell goods at auction. Th* refunding rail rood fares also draw* Ott up a for th* farmers. Have a re? in s country church. Get people *?* com* to town by giving them a prise ~*Lot th* parcels poll com*. l*t it so. It will p-ovs s good thing Ih* il morchant msy get better advan out of It than the mall order tw If hs tskee advantage of It. "Merchants should spend 4 per cert of their earnings In newspaper adver? tising. The majority spend less than 1 per osnt In small towns." No V?e to Dir. ?"I hsvs found out that t.ieru Is no to <Ha of lung trouble ss long as csn get l?r. King's New Discov? ery" ssys Mrs. J. P. White, cf Rttsh boro. Pa. "I would not be a live today only for that w< nde -ful medicine. It loosens up a cough quicker than any? thing else, and cures lung disease eren after th* cafe la pronounced hopeless." ThH most reliable remedy for coughs and c dds. la grippe asth fna bmrchltl? and hoarsensai is rold sni'T guarantee at Hfbert's Diu? Store. ?0c. and fl. Trial bottle free. Too many find their consciences In th* conventions of others. Where ths wage determines the work ths work la never worth It. Leopold---An Agent of Democracy. Leopold. King of the Belgians, ac cording to a dispatch from Brussels/ Is ? show In? signs of mental collapse. ! Paresis has fastened its grip upon the old roue and Raynaud s gangrene has attacked his heels. Amputation may be resorted to, but it will serve at best only to retard the march of the mala? dy. A crlticaessituatlon confronts the Chamber of Deputies, and the need of a King to wear a crown and to t?? k?* part In the affairs of his country is keenly felt. i Leopold's career has been a con? spicuous example of the evils ot a governmental system under which there is life tenure for the executive head, and the King of the Belgians has been useful to the world only Insofar as his peccadilloes have serv? ed to impress upon society the folly of % people submitting to bring gov? erned by a degenerate with a divine right as his sole qualification for of? fice. A little while ago a former Ameri? can woman, who had rented the Chateau of Loj moy to Leopold, kick? ed) her royal tenant out because of the disgraceful life he led with a former barmaid, now the Baroness Vaughan. The place, daring the tenancy of Leopold and h.s low-born mistress, whose manner* are said to be worse than her morals, was compared by the Belgian press to the famously in? famous Part sux Cerfs, which Mme. du Barry had ?organised for Loui^ XV, and. aocord!ngsto the coi respon? dents i of the American press, the Baroness created as much scandal by her fights with her chefs snd her chauffeurs as by her affair with his Christian majesty , Leopold. The precious pair have now acquired tho Chateau de BaUlcoourt, described as "a miniature Versailles." the park of S00 acres a notable example of PS-fnch landscape gardening, and the chateau Itself of Louis XVI* amhitec ture. recently redecorated and; fur? nished In Louis XVI style st a cost of $1100,000 by a wealthy scholar and artist, who sold It to Leopold. The barmaid "Baroness Is said to to tumb? ling the fumit'ire out of tho castle to put In Its place something more mod? ern, and, according to her Ideas, nvjre tasteful. Her senile lover submit* to her every suggestion as to ths order? ing of his household affairs, and Is about to* bestow a Belgian dukedom upon their Illegitimate son. v Ths Belgians in the Twentieth cen? tury are supporting, at enormous ex* pease and Inconvenience, a con? scienceless old debauchee with a sof? tening brain and gangreened heels, who administers the government of Belgium and the Congo from the French homo of the'- Doll Tearshect he has sot up as his faVorttc. The ac? counts of J the diversions his declin? ing aad paretic years read like a page from Gibbon or Suetonius, describ? ing' the lives of Oassnrs during the decadence of ths Roman Em? pire, A limited monarchy might 'be a fairly acceptable form of government If tho reign of the monarch were lim? ited to the period of his good behav lour and tho conscientious perform? ance of hla duties. If all wearers of crowes were ss self-respecting and as seriously bent upon acquitting them? selves honorably aa has been the ven? erable Frans-Joeeph of Austria-Hun? gary, or as was Xing Christian of Denmark, who fslt that a divine right Implied a responsibility to seek divine guidance in sue capacity of ruler, and to set a good *a ample to his subject* by being personally above reproach, republican government, with Its fre? quent elections and resultant business upheavals, might not be so popular as It Is nowadays. Evon If all ot the wieldsrs of ths scepter were as In? nocuous as. Edward VII. who has been nothing; more than a somewhat dissi? pated, sporting gontlumsn, whose faculty for making friends has offset Iths flaws In bis private character, the monarchist form of government might continue to exist much longer than It Is destined to In the various European countries of growing en? lightenment. Xing Leopolds star Is setting amid the ruins of a life that has served to advance ths cause of democracy throughout the civilised world. Tb* the other crowned heads, all of whom are watching the portents of the times anxiously, and most of whom feel their thromes tottering a little now and then, the Belgian King has been a* great a source of worry as he has to his own ministers. The vices of Leopold have aided the cause of democrcy in Europe nlmost as much as the essa?en?? of Carlos aided the cacse of monarchHm.?Courier Jour? nal. I he Lucky Quarter. ? Is the one y >u pay out for a box of Dr. King's New Lifo Pills Thev bring you the health that's more precious then Jewels. Try thtm for headache, biliousness, constipation aad m;?larla. If they disappoint you th* price Will be chcei fully refunded at Slbert's Drug Stoi ?. - _____ It's the net profits that count in busl? ine?. If ycu advertise regularly and judiciously, you will get more net pro? fits. Dcn't you think so? mm WASE REDUCTION. SOUTHERN WH,Ii ASK COMMy> < SIOX'S MEDIATION ON THE QUESTION. Conference is Ilrokeii Off?Railroad and Its Employes Can Come to No Understanding as to Reduction of Pay. Washington, Feb. 25.?Because of a failure to reach an agreement in re? spect to the matter of a reduction of wages of ths employes of the South? ern Railway company, the negotia? tions have been broken off and Presi? dent Finley announces that he will carry the cases to the interstate com? merce commission and to Labor Com? missioner Neill under tho Erdman art. President Finley today gaVe out a statement in which he expresses con? fidence tha t there yet will be an amica? ble adjustment of the controversy be? tween tho Southern railway and its men and expresses regret that the latter cannot see their way clear to accept the wage scale which the man? agement has offered. The intended action *of the Southern railway in seeking the mediation of the inter? state commerce commission and tho commissioner of labor is regarded as marking the beginning of a campaign upon the part of the railoads when such controversies arisi to stek ad? justment in that manner rather than to negotiate with their employes. The proposition of the management of the Southern railway to reduce tho wage scalo yas based, It is stated, up? on the ground that he existing bus? iness conditions and the falling off in revenue made It imperatively neces? sary. / WUh that object in view confer? ences have been going: on for two weeks or more between officials of the Southern railway and representa? tives of the employes affected, the locomotive, engineers and firemen and machinists and other shopmen. It proposed to restore the wage scale which was in effect a year ago. Presidant Finley *s statement is as follows: 'Our employes, working under con? tract, having declined our proposition In regard to a reduction of wages, we still feel confident that vthere should be an amicable adjustment, and do hot propose to proceed In any arbi? trary way. We have notified our em? ployes of our regret that they cannot, at tho present time, see their way elear to accept the suggestions as to she wage scale which the manage? ment considers imperatively necessary ussier existing conditions, and have stated to them that we will ask the mediation of the chairman of the in? terstate commerce commission and the commissioner of labor, ?nder sec ttoa 2 of che Erdman act, which pro? vide* that In my controversy con earning wages which threatens to In? terrupt the business of an interstate sassier either party may ask the later veatlon of the chairman of the Inter? state comemrce commission ana the eosnmisetoner of labor, and In the event of such request, requires the sasotals named to put themselves into kmunicatlon, with all practicable litlo/.\with the parties to the roversy, and use their best efforts mediation and conciliation to bring it aa amicable adjustment of the "We have aooerdiagly requested she snsdsstloa of tho officials named at ehe hope of arriving at an adjust rof aH , nssltf re la conbrovei our men. which will be cord tarty ssoupterl hp both Isterests Involved. Evolution and Transformation It Is possible that the most telling effect of the past ten years* campaign In the cause of the outdoor Improve? ment Is the Influence It has had In broadening out school education. The many lines In which this may be ob? served, in giving the subject a few moments' thought, is remarkable. Arbcv day, school gardens, later the tentative efforts to introduce element? al agriculture Into the rural schools and lastly the Introduction of the sub? ject of landscape gardening as a part of the agricultural college course really owe the credit for their rapid development to the growth of public sentiment In favor of the Improve? ment of bur homes and public places, upon which the realization has been forced that to Anally succeed in mak? ing a beautiful America education to that end must begin at the bottom. Steel bands or belts, ai a Substitut? for ordinary leather belts or rope dives, have ben Introduced by a fac? tory of Chaiiottenburg, Germany. Such belts may be reduced to about one sixth the size required for leather belts, they do not stretch, pulleys may b<? made narrower, and in some caso? shafts may be smaller. Either ordi? nary pulleys or pulleys with special covering to Increase friction may be need, A belt 4 inches wide and 1-5 inch thick, transmitted 200 to 2f>0 horsepower at n belt speed of 5.400 per, minute, and tests have shown that steel belts may run 12.(0*. feel per minute . Never Judge a man by the opinion his wife has of him. WRECK AT KINGVILLE. _I Southern Passenger Truln Partly De? molished Last Night?No One loud? ly Hurt. Columbia, Fob. 25.?Train No. 17, due here at 9.55 p. m. from Klngvllta was wrecked at 9.15 tonight at a switch about one hundred yards north of the Congaree Rlv?r. The two pai,seng?r coaches were de? railed, but none of the passengers wore hurt beyond a bruise or a good shaking up. The trainmen conducted an inves? tigation and found that the switch had been, tampered with The engine and the mail and express cars p-.iss'd over the switch '.n safety, bu~ the coach for colored passengers, which followed, left the rails and carried the ccach for white passengers with it. The two coaches struck a string of box cars, which wtre standing on the siding, turning two or three of them, and wrecking the interior of the ne? gro coach, which, at the time, was oc? cupied only by one, passonger and the conductor, neither, of whom was hurt. The coach for whiles was *uined part? ly over, but was not damaged The track for about a hundred feet v.vls torn up. A.'ter an hour and a quarter the passengers w?rc put aboard the *&> pr?;.*s car and a caboose, and wer-. brought en to Columbia, reaching here at 11.20. 3IOBLEY INQUEST HELD Further Account of Killing of Lan? caster Man Monday Night. Lancaster, Feb. 25 ?So far as is knDwn here there are no new devel? opments tcday in the Welsh-Motley homicide case. Berry B. Mobley, the man killed, was the desperat-ly wounded sutvivor of the Irag^oy or.acted in Kershaw Just before Christmas, In which two ycung men of the town. Thoma.? Ciy? burn and Steve Weish, both promi? nent In business circles, feet their lives. t Mobloy was to have been tried at the March term of court for the. al? leged murder of Welsh and his slay? er. Cast night Grove r Welsh, a y? ling? er brother of the deceased Welsh, and Mobley were pa*angers on the South? ern north-bound train ooming to Lancaster. Mobley, accompanied by his uncle, 2. L. Robertson, of Oak hurst, was coming to consult his at? torney about his approaching trial. Wolsh was accompanied by his uncle. W. U. Ciyburn, of Halle Gold Mine, father of the young Ciyburn lolled In the Kcrshaw affair. The thootmg occurred Just, as the train was slowing up at Pleasant Hill. Several sh>ts were fired. Three bal? lots struck Bobley in the head, caus? ing instant death. M oblcy'c pistol ahowed one empty chamber a^ter the sheeting, it Is s*id. It is also slated that no words were passed between ths patties. Welsh came on to Las caster and voluntarily surrendered Hs Is now in Jail. Mobley was a son of W. C. Mobley, of Lancaster, and was about it years old. He leaves a widow and five children. An Omnibus Senator. The current ssesion of the sixtieth congress will end by June at the lat? est and po?slbly adjournment will come early In May. The final session wll run from December to March 4. There remain, therefore, between a nundred and sixty and a hundred and seventy working days of the session. The general assembly of South Car? olina is composed of 41 senators and 124 representatives, a total of 165 members, but, as two of the represen? tatives have been elected Judges, the active and available membership Is really reduced to 163, or about one for every working day remaining of the sixtieth congress. Why not, therefore, elect to the scat left vacant by Senator Lat liner the entire membership of the general assembly, one day for each, according to the roll call of the Joint assembly, with the odd days remaining over di? vided equally between the president of the senate and the speaker of the house? That would give everybody a chance and would n:ake a pic tureuque variety to the roll of th9 United States senate. It would also injure the presence of at least one senator from South Carolina on every day ot the senate's session. And what a noble army of ex-senators we should have in South Carolina afterwards! -There are immense poslbilltles In thir Idea which we commend most earn? estly to the general assembly.?Char i leston Post. I Good for Everybody. ?Mr Norman It Coulter, a promi? nent architect. In the Del Pert build? ing. Baq Francisco, si.ys: "I fully endorse all that has bo .mi said ot Flectrk- Hitters as a tonic medicine, it is good for everybody, it corrects stomach, liver slid kidney disorders In a prompt and efficient ?o.miur and builds up'Xhe .?y: torn." Kb (trie Hit? ters is the "best spring medlcltl * SVSt ?Old over a* druggist's counter: as a blood purifier it is unequaled. 50c. ut Bibert'e Drug Store. "Variety is the spice of life," and advertising is the spice of trade. TiTlTMrilMIIIMIIlMHHIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMI'MMIIWIIIIIIII.ItiiiHmh? LS ?VegetablcPrcparationfoT As? similating iheTood andReguta ?ng the Stomachs aiklBawelsof IM AN I S ( HILDKKN rVomotesT^cs?on.Cteciful ness and Rest .Con tains neither Ormtm;Moiphin0 nor Mineral. Not Narcotic. JBcape a/-Old JkSAMUELPTTCHER Mx.Stnnm * A perfect Remedy for Constipa? tion, Sour Stomach .DiarxWoea, Worms .Convulsions Jeverish oess and Loss OF SLEEP. Tac S?nde Signature of NEW "YORK. Alii mouths ]}Dosis-]->Ci >.s CASTORIA For Infants and Children. mmm-mmmm??~mmmmm?mmmm The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of EXACT COPyOf WRAPPEB. In Use For Over Thirty Years GASTORIA The ocwtau* coinnt, nc? vom omr. BIIADS1 REET'S REVIEW. Buying Very Conservative?Retail Trade Still Quiet. New York, Fab. 28.?Bradstrcofs tomorrow wi\l say: Distribution of staple goods by ?Job? bers tends to increase as the spring buying seasan advances, and the large numbers of buyers' excursions draw merchants to the market, out there t Is a concensus of opinion that buying 13 :n a hjgh dfgrae conservative and that staple goods and what may be classed as necessities comprise the heavier part of the business done. Re-*' tail trade Is very quiet, except where* price reductions on winter weight goods tempt buyers, and final distrib? utive demand unquestionably feels the reduced purchasing\power of the public at large due to short-time or reduction of earnings in Industry. Wholesale trade is quiet as a whole and cotton fabrics, notably print cloths and flannelettes have been sharply cut; stocks of the former are reported to be piling up despite re? duced time worked. Rerorts from other industries are irregular. The improvement in finished lines of steel noted last week has gor.e and a slight? ly large capacity ?s now at work, but crude output seems to be no larger. Wooler. goods trade reports are not very cheerful, though the clothing trade is reported as being better, but a larger number of looms ar? still Idle. Business failures in the United States fcr the week ending February number 254, against 326 last week, 194 in the like week of 19/J7, ISO In 190*. 2G?. In 1(05 and 19.* in 1904. NEGRO BOT KILLED. Caujrht in a Fulling House and Crush? ed to Death. Lynchburg, Feb. 28.?While at? tempting to tear down an old shanty in the edge of this town, the building collapsed, and Marion Wilson, a col? ored boy of l\ years, was caught be? tween the falling timbers and in? stantly killed. Coroner Brown of Blsikopvllle was promptly notified, and drove to this place as quickly as possible, but after a careful examina? tion as to the cause, decided that an inquest wa-J unnecessary. The un? fortunate boy waj in the old house frolicking around on a pair of old Int? provised stilts and no blame nould be attached to any one except hini**lf. Preparations for farming, in lhi.i section, are unusually slow in conse? quence of the heavy rains, but the hauling oi fartlfciar* doesn't slacken a bit, notwithstanding the terrible, condition of the roads. Shooting at Alken. Alken, Feb. 28.?This morning at 10.30 o'clock Mr. W. F. Dobey, of this city, a prominent contractor, shot and wounded Mr. Herman H. Rankin. a storekeeper in Park avenue. The shooting was the result of a quarrel which Is said t?> hav< been precipi? tated by Ronkin'a salting Dohcy the payment of an old debt of $1.50. Lama Shoulder. ?Whether resulting from a snriln or from rheumatic pains, there is nothing so good for a lame shoulder as Chamberlain'a Pain Halm. Apply It freely and rub the parts vigor ously at each application and a* quick cure I is certain. For sale by all druggists. DISTILLERY IN GRIST MILL. Find Made by Revenue Officers of (Greenville County?All . Property Seized. Greenville, Feb. 28.?On the night of Feb. 21, the revenue officers mtde a raid on a grist mill located several miles fr>m Greenville and found in the mill a distillery. The still was de? stroyed and the liquor which was around it seized. Today the mill, the land on which the mill is located, a warehouse adjoining the mill and a lot of machinery used in the milt were seized. A notice has been pub? lished in local papers by the deputy collector for the Third district to tho effect that the seized property wou d be sold unless bor.d is put up by the owners of th?; same. For You. If you are in the market for a Pi? ano, Organ or Sewing Machine see or write me, and I will give you mom for your money than any od? else. Call and see "The Best.** Beautiful Upright Piano from $160 up. New Home Sewing Machine from $27 up. Organs from ISO up. Old pianos, organa and sewing ma* chines taken in exchange. New ones sold on easy terms. Repairs of all kinds done, and sup* plies of all klnda furnished. Write for prices. Office telephone No. 181, resident telephone No/lft. If. B. R?NDLE. Manager, 10 West Liberty Street, Sumtes, S. C 9-15-ly KILL.? COUCH w CURE tot LUNC8 w? Dr. King's New Discovery FOR CoW AND ALL THROAT AND 111*8 TROUBLES. GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY OR MONEY REFUNDED. PATENTS PROCURED AND DUTCH OED. drawing orphoto.1 or ?spart Marchand trt report Free adrioe, bow to obtain patent*, trade mark?, copyright*, etc.. |N ALL COUNTRIES. Business direct vitk Wat king ton saves time, ?money and often the patent. Paust and Infringamant Practica Excluarvely. Write or come to SB at tSS Utsta Stnrt, opp Sttta* BtatM rataat Oaee. WASHINGTON. D. C._ GASNOWI. LEE & accLElvLAIN, Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors. Office Harby Building, old Court Square, SuRiter, S. C. l-l-Cm