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STRIKE ALMOST SETTLED rKWsYLVAMA K()\l> AND MEN * l osKH TOGETHER. A% Conference Yesterday Between Ki?lnmil ??m, nn<1 Kmplo.n rs' Committee Basis of Settlement *>ff Vacr Controversy Agre?Ml On? Both Hide* Confident Hint Details Will lie Worked (Oil Satisfactori? ly. Philadelphia. Pa. July 18.?General Manager w H. Myers, of the Penn aytvanla Railroad, and the rumn.lt laa representing the IS.000 trainmen and conductors employed on the lines of the company eaat of Plttaburg. to? day agreed on a baala of settlement <>f the wage controversy. Each aide < Limn to have gained all that it had ? ? n ?ntendlnfc for In the negotia? tions, which have been In progress for the paat six months and which culminated last week In the strike vote by the employees. The proposition offered today by the railroad officials end accepted by the men Includes a minimum day of tan hours, as detailed in the New York Central award. On certain runs, where the company'a present rata la higher, the rate will not be disturbed. The classification of these exceptional run* and the question of overtime were left to be decided at conferences between the various members of the committee and the division superintendents of the lines which they represent. it wa* further agreed that the men would he guaranteed 26 days' work a month. While the men regard this as a concesaion. the railroad officials ?ay that during the recent hard times the men were benefited by being worked on short time rather tha'i bring laid off altogether. THREE < Till.PHI \ PI RNED. N<-?rr<*w I<ock? Children In House With Fatal Result* Florence, July 18.?A negro tenant, dwelling on the plantation of Mr. J. K. Prlvett. in the Rack Swamp aac tion. about alx miles north of this city, was destroyed by fire about 10 o'< lock last night. In which ?hree ne? gro children lost their lives and an? other was so badly burned that it will probably die. Mitt Kelly, the mother of the chil? dren, locked them up in her house and went jto church, leaving them in charge of the oldest girl, about 8 years old. Not long after the woman left the house was seen to be on fire and aaalatance was given, but before anything could be done the three children were roasted alive The old eat child managed to get out of the building and. being frightened, ran to a neighbor for assistance, forget? ting about the other four In the house, one of which escaped, after considerable effort In a horribly burned condition. NF?.RO RIDDLED RY MOH. I \%hn? Woman's \ssallnnt Taken ?Von? Constable and Lynched. Sylvanla. Oa.. July IK.? Ending a two days' pursuit, a mob during last night took Evan Roberts, a negro, from Constable r. V. Rlggs. In the lower part of this countv. strung the a. negro up to the limb of an oak tree and poured at least 500 bullets Into his body. The negro attacked two white wo? men who were driving along a lonelv road Saturday afternoon in a buggy. The horse became frightened and ran away and took the women out of ^ danger, though the negro pursued them with a pistol. Const abb- Rig* capture.l Roberts and hid him from th* moti f.?r twelve hours. Short work n ii made of the negro when his hiding place was found. I The ( ity ?oiincil of Oreenville will thl? week let contracts for paving Main street and building a brldg" over Reedv ri\er. i Don't Neglect Your Eyes? call and have our optician examine your eyea If they are troubling you; pS by having this done yon may not have to wear them long. Put |g continue ?training them may necessitate you wearing them your lift tum Our optical parlor Is f tted utth ?very device for thoroughly cxamln p Ing the eye. We have Installed a lens* grinding plant and do our own lense grinding and drlllng; carry a stock of compound lense frame mounting 4 and optical goods. . We can fill your prescriptions at " once properly, all work guaranteed Graduate optician In charge. W. A. Thompson, Jeweler and optician. } ftofte 333. ? ? No. 6 S. Main St. ( \HELL ON WAK PATH. Internal Revenue Commissioner Af? ter Putent Medicines. Washington. July 18.?R. E. Ca bell. commissioner of internal reve? nue, is wearing a smile as broad as the opening of an exposition. About this time every year, after a season spent in target practice with his of? ficial batteries upon the wary moon? shiner of the mountain glen, he takes iOWg his old 10-guage scatter-gun. crams it to the muzzle with agents' reports and chemical analyses, shuts his eyes, pulls the triggers and turns loose a broadside upon the makers of too-alcoholic medicines masquerading under the guise of tonics that rever? berates from Coney Island to Coron ado and brings down a score or more of offenders, usually accompanied with sharp cries from the killed and wounded. This morning he turned loose his goose-gun and bagged fifty odd?not a bad half-day's work for the middle of the dog days. Hence the broad smile. In the report put out today Com? missioner Cabell publishes a list of about two hundred different bitters and patent medicines in which the proportion of alcohol to that of medi? cinal drugs is entirely too large to warrant them passing as medicines. This proportion is not an unvarying quantity, but depends en? tirely upon the particular drug used with the alcohol. The commissioner takes pains to lay down no particular standard of proportion as this, he thinks, would offer a premium on the patent medicine man camping Just >utslde the reservation, as it were, and doing business with a near-booze that, for practical purposes. would answer every demand of the Inebri? ate. To this list more than fifty have been added since the last volley h9 tired Into the patent medicine makers in June. 1909. and in these the title 'hitters" occurs so frequently that it appears like a family name. The manufacturers of these patent "ton? ics" and "alteratives" are given un? til August 1 in which to put In more alterative and less alcohol, otherwise, after that date, they will be classed as alcoholic liquors and no druggist may sell them v Uhout paying an al? cohol license of $25 per year. It Is to be remarked that of this batch of fifty odd new methods of fatting drunk by prescription a large number are manufactured In the pro? hibition Stabs Maine. Iowa. Kansas ana* Kentucky are all fertile soils for the tOBta man Now "bitters" spring up over-night like moving picture -hows In the-;,. ] rohlbltlon parts. The internal re\enue office Is addressing itself particularly to stamping out th? growing evil In these districts. Some time ago a genius Invented Some sort of seductive und SOO thing tonic for tired mortals who shunned ?h" bow', but longed for something for that tired feeding. He c hristened it I Vrro-china Something-or-Other." and wigwagged the tin d mortal to rOflM and partake. lie did so with virtuous enthusiasm that made the FaiTO-China man a millionaire in less than a year. Then others got into the Ferro China game-?fifteen of them?with "FeiTO-China That" and all was wall until the internal revenue office took a hand Itself and found that "Farm-ChIngM was nothing but a sort of stage name for the old-fashioned gin cocktail. Commissioner Cabell has fifteen "l-'erro-Chlnaa" on his list, and th?> tired mortal will, after Au? gust 1. have to buy It as an alcoholic beVera "I'.e. I*, wine and Iron." that long? time Standby for the jaded female, must SN up straight and conform to the formula in the United States Med leal Dlapensary, otherwise it will be sold as straight Mf.;s." Of late many of the hat f. wine and iron pre pa ra? tions re nothing but a eheap sherrv With got en .ugh Iron to trinke ? eav pt t ta< k or enough beef to make a Hamburg- r Steak In a hogshead of It. strange to my, Arkansas, that hav? en of the moonshiner hai ? growing lot of manufacturers of "tonics" that ehoer and Inebriate. It Is a paradise for the thirsty nan, that country, 'a ith its mountain stuis. its flourish ing "mediein??" manufactories and its low freight rates fron, Kentucky on bar. e| goods. 'Nerve Tonics," once so beguiling to ministers, school teat hers and oth? er hard-worked men, who were good but Inno. ent. show a wholesome fall? ing off. It has ceased to be the fash Ion to Moat a quinine capsule In a Rag of whiskey for ten minutes, rack It off In bottles and sell It as a nerve I.i The reason for this radical hinge of heart on the part of the medical fakirs may he found sitting at the desk of the commissioner of Internal revenue, perhaps the gov? ernment la getting t.'antraUsed, but a little more power and a little larger appropriation for the revenue service would help the country In a degrc wholly commensurate with the power or money granted. We talk little if WS do not | .lk %bOUt ourselves.?Hazlltt. Mr. Featherstone ns u Local Optionist Looking over the flies of news? papers of bygone days is one of the most interesting?and instructive?of literary pursuits. It Is deplorable that few having access to such treas? ure houses have time for the profit? able diversion. Occasionally how? ever, something happens or is said that recalls a gem buried In the musty, dusty flies, and a search is rewarded. The following summary of Mr. C, C. Featherstone's campaign . speech last Thursday was such a re? minder: Mr. Featherstone replied to the arguments of the local option men. In regard to the statement that pro? hibition won't prohibit he alleged that liquor men are spending millions of dollars to defeat prohibition legis? lation. He Said the liquor advocates are retrenching themselves behind local option. Now, The State is not largely con? cerned in the issue. We have been quite content to jog along, making our position clear on the liquor ques? tion, putting the record in black and white, and leaving it there. Except for sustaining a Democratic principle of local self-government The State is about as indifferent of results as the average voter appears to be. But when the esteemed gentleman from Laurens, whom we have applauded for his practical local option policies, begins to "throw off," so to say, on those of us hewing to the line of local self-government, letting the chips fall wet or dry, we begin to reach for the record. In 1907 there was a good deal of "prohibition talk." The State dis? pensary had been knocked out in a victory for local option, and many of tho counties had voted themselves dry. Mr. Featherstone, however, was doing no prohibition talk, except where he coupled prohibition with local option, except where he con? templated securing the benefits and blessing of prohibition through local option. In The State of October 25, 1907, appeared a carefully prepared and exhaustive argument by Mr. Feather? stone in advocacy of "reverse local option." We quote somewhat liber? ally, and commend to careful consid? eration. "In 1898, when, as a candidate for Governor on the prohibition ticket, I made a canvass of the State. 1 advo? cated with all the vim of which I was capable, a general prohibition law for the entire State and fought most bitterly the local Option hies AT THAT TIME I WAS TEN YEARS YOUNGER THAN 1 AM NOW. Since then. I have watched with great care the prohibition movements, both in this arid other States, and have en? deavored to study the question care? fully and conservatively with a view to ascertaining what was best lor prohibition In the long run. "Of course, what I and other true prohibitionists desire eventually is a general prohibition law for the entire state, but those of us who think con? servatively upon the subject DO NOT WISH TO RUSH INTO A STATE OF AFFAIRS THAT CAN NOT BE MAINTAINED. To do so would be to do Irreparable damage and injury to the cause." In the wisdom gained in a half decade, Mr. Featherstone conceded, even after the great power of the State tnonoply had been broken, that a general prohibition law would be dangerous, and might be disastrous to prohibition and the cause of temper? ance, lit advocated temporary pro? hibition by legislative enactment and then giving the counties the power to vote in dispensaries if they wished them. That was local option. We again quote from Mr. Featherstone's statement: (After suggesting the State be made dry, as was done, by Legisla? tive enactment): *'i do not believe it would be wise, ;?t this time, to pre vent the sab- of whiskey from being voted In, where a majority of the people of any community are opposed to prohibition. .\ PROHIBITION LAW IN BUCH A COMMUNITY WOULD BE DANGEROUS TO THE CAUSE \T LARGE by reason of its non-enforcement until the time conn s when we have an OVER? WHELMING MAJORITY for pro? hibition In the ENTIRE State. . .. .. .. Had vve not better adopt the cautions but sure method? Build up the public sentiment at the point where, when we get B general law, it will be sure to prove a success." Here we have Mr. Featherstone pr< sent the identical and common ar? gument made by local optlonlsts, and that was natural since he was press? ing a local option measure. Ihre he distinctly takes the position thai pro? hibition In a county where the j. pie do not sustain it would be "dan? gerous to the cause at large by rea? son of its non-enforcement." And that was his Judgment after an ad? ditional ten years' study of conditions in various States having prohibition and local option? Has Mr. Feather? stone 'hanged his views? If so on what grounds? He, with ten years more wisdom than in 1902, be? lieved a general law unwise "until the time comes when we have an OVerwht Imlng majority In the entire State." (Emphasis ours). The "en? tire State" means every county in the State. And here is a final extract from Mr. Featherstone's address, and if any thing it is more striking and sig? nificant than those previously pre? sented : "The prohibitionists had as well at the outset understand one thing, and that is that the enforcement of an anti-whiskey law is not child's play. Its successful enforcement means a law. IT MEANS, IN MY JUDG? MENT. A PAID CONSTABULARY FORCE. IT MEANS THE LEVY? ING OF A TAX FOR THAT PUR? POSE. An anti-whiskey law is the hardest of all laws to enforce for ob- j vious reasons. . . You will, of course, understand that I am not for one moment undertaking to say that a prohibition law cannot be enforced. Oil the contrary, It can be done where there is a healthy public sen- | timent behind it. IT CAN NOT BE DONE WITHOUT THIS." Those arguments against forcing a prohibition law upon an unwi'ling people, thereby reaping lawlessness and ill repute, would have felt at home in The State's editorial columns. Has Mr. Featherstone told the peo? ple, this summer, that "the enforce? ment of an anti-whiskey law Is no child's play," that its enforcement "means ... a paid constabulary force," and "the levying of a tax for that purpose?" Has mention been made in this campaign of the need of a special tax to enforce a prohibi? tion law? Mr. Featherstone believes it will be necessary. Following is an extract from The State's editorial comment on Mr. Featherstone's advocacy of reverse lo? cal option: * "Mr. Featherstone is logical and frank. He is calm and he talks com? mon sense. He recognizes facts and admits them?even if they seem against prohibition. He is a prohibi? tionist but is not a fanatic. He is seeking the substance and cares noth? ing for the shadow?and he knows the shadow from the substance. Mr. Featherstone gives credit to local op? tion laws for the strength that pro? hibition has gained in South Caro? lina and the South. He recalls the gains for temperance under the local option law prior to 1892; he recalls how the prohibitionists cast a heavy vote that year as the result of a sen? timent developed through the agita? tion incident to local option con? tests." In 190S Mr. Featherstone was rec? ognized as the conspicuous advocat0 of reverse local option. The present Legislature, chosen that year, pro? vided for exactly what Mr. Feather? stone wished. The State argued then, and now holds, that every Legislator advocating that system was and Is bound by good faith to give that sys? tem time to vindicate or condemn it? self. Mr. Featherstone was its fath? er; it is satisfactory to local option Ists; yet within a few months after the reverse plan is in operation, he appeari against it. If this local op? tion was good in 1907, and 1908, and r.tlO, if a plan that reduced 21 dis? pensary counties to 6 in 1909, was then good, what has o curred to con? demn it? What has occurred to promise better results for a genera) law? What has occurred to make it easier to enforce prohibition against u community's protest? What have local optlonists done to incur Mr. Featherstone's disfavor?? Columbia State. RAISING TELEPHONE RATES. Greenville Telephone Hearing Ad? journed to August 25. Greenville, July 19.?After a sit? ting lasting from 1<? o'clock this morning until 6:30 o'clock this after? noon, with only an intermission for dinner, the railroa I commission has adjourned its hearing in the matter of the Increase of telephone rates in this city, until August -.">, when it will hear the testimony brought for? ward by protesting cltlesns. The Bell Telephone Company pro? poses to Increase its rates and Install a more improved By stem, and a ma? jority of the subscriber! had signed a petition asking that the committee allow them to do so. The hearing was helil today and several of the Company's Officials Were examined, including .1. Bpps Crown, vice presi? dent and general manager; George J. Voundt, engineer and <!. .1. Holdltch, auditor. The written and signed tes? timony of w. T. Gentry, president, w as also placed in ev idence. 11. I W. Paltmr, general agent for the cnmpany, conducted their case, and J. J. McSwaln, a local attorney, cross* examined the witnesses on behalf of the protesting citizens. The entire day was occupied in te? dious and complicated cross-examin? ation. The citizens will get expert witnesses to appear at the meeting on August 25. The Colonel has come back with the degi.s of A. I'... LL. D., Litt. D.. rh. D. and I>. c. i,. not to mention the degrees of latitude he took when he told England how to govern Egypt.- (Cleveland Leader. Honesty in Business. And that no man overreach, nor circumvent his brother in business.? 1 Thes. Iv, 6. St. Paul's Epistles are full of sub? lime doctrines, heavenly concepts, di? vine truth, and just as full of prac? tical rules of conduct. Among the latter that which my text enunciates has daily applications. In fact, there is no point upon which men's atten? tion should be more frequently called thnn that which regards their busi? ness intercourse with their fellow men. For in none do more offend It is of hourly occurrence that we take advantage or try to take advan? tage of others in business transac? tions. We may hesitate at murder and palpable robbery, scruple at gos? sip and defamation of charter, and hold up hands of holy horror at the many acts of selfishness which we observe; but there are seemingly no qualms of conscience at the tricks which are played to get the better of others when a bargain is to be made, a sale to be effected or a bartering in a commercial transaction. Honesty in business seems be a lost virtue. Notwithstanding the effort of the public to buy articles at as low a price as they can, it is a rare thing for the purchaser to receive the worth of his money. Even what one picks up at "a bargain" seldom equals the price paid. Though we may be on our guard against high prices and extortion, we are never completely satisfied that we have not after all been cheated. Builders who erect modest houses or more pretentious temples are known to use unseasoned timber, or inferior cement, or poor materials; unless one is ever on the watch, he is sure that some cheap stuff will be mixed with that which has been put to the test and admitted as good. Contractors will do their best to avoid fulfilling their contracts to the letter and spirit. Hotel keepers charge 25 cents for an orange you could buy from a dealer for 2 1-2 cents. Doc? tors and lawyers send in large bills to those who seem able to pay because they lose a great deal from others who will not pay. The shoes one buys as good and solid will soon be found to have paper soles. Material with avowedly fast colors will run as soon as it gets a chance. A lot of rotten apples are purposely mixed with a barrel whereof the top layers are line and attractive specimens. Trade is rotten and there seems to be no honest, square and fair dealing. Banks lend you money at G per cent., and when you put your money in the bank you will get only .1 per cent. A l-i ok is purchased today for a dollar and tomorrow you can't obtain twen? ty-five cents for it. A magnificent si le-hoard, which costs a hundred dollars when bought, will not bring one-fourth of that when sold. A poor woman has a lot of solid jew? elry and precious stones and gems; adversity a nd poverty force her to offer them for sale; what she receives is a mere pittance and in no way equals their just value. Thus on all sides advantage is taken of the brother's necessities, ignorance or guilelessness. The aim of merchants and contractors of every kind seems to be to strike as shrewd a bargain as they can without regard to hon? esty, value and justice. Tradesmen who have a conscience and would abide by it and sell their merchandise at only a just price are apt to meet the scorn of their neigh? bors and open hostility and in the end fail. They will be regarded as was Antonio by Shylock?hated "for that, in low simplicity, he lends out money gratis and brings down the rate of usance here with us in Ven? ice." riu-ating in business does not seem t'- be punishable. Yet there is a high law against it. The practice comes under the condemnation of the com? mandment which says, "Thou shalt not steal." If it be a crime to take h dollar out oi* a man's pocket sur? reptitiously, it is also a crime to take the same or less from him in a busi? ness transaction in which he is made to pay more than he ought. It' it be wrong to injure another's property and goods, it is also wrong to give him inferior articles when he expects t<? receive for money solid and true I ihings or to perform tor him services poor and careless. The judgment upon Ananias and Saphira was a merited retribution for fraud in a transaction with the Apostles, by which the pair sought to benefit at the loss or deceit of others. Some, persons imagine that no in? jury is done to others, or that they have no reason to complain, if ignor? ance or willingness be the cause of loss to them. They ought to be wide? awake in this busy world; they should cultivate shrewdness and other qual? ities Which would prevent them from being deceived. They have eyes to see the things offered to them, a mind to judge the proposals mad.- to them, opportunities to examine what they buy and the contracts on Which they enter; therefore, if they arc de? ceived or get the worst of it in a bargain <^r commercial transaction. they have no one to blame but them? selves. Such An axoim is unjustifiable. The public is forced to trust in the hon? esty and integrity of merchants, in the honor and uprightness of con? tractors. The people do not want to be deceived. Intercourse of every kind is fourded upon truth and sin? cerity. No one wants to be humbug? ged. And e\en if there be many ways by which people can avoid suffering from deception, yet the deceivers are not justified. We may be careless and not lock our houses securely; we may leave our doors open and our jewels exposed, yet the robber who comes in and makes away with them and other valuables is not freed from fault and crime. So trandesmen who knowingly and purposely profit by the Ignorance or willingness of their cus? tomers, and exact and recive more than what is generally acknowledged to be just value, as well as all con? tractors and business people who wriggle out of their agreements, are guilty of sin and wrong. We must never over-reach or circumvent oth? ers in business. C. F. THOMAS, Pastor St. Ann's Catholic Church. ?Baltimore Sun. SPARROWS DISPLACE MEAT. Bird a Scarcity Around Pitteburg Eaten Because of High Prices. (Pittsburg Correspondence New York Times.) Sparrow potpie, which many in Pittsburg began to eat during the era of high meat prices and the strikes against the butchers among working people, has caused the prac? tical extinction of the bird in many parts of the city and surrounding towns. New York people attributed their scarcity to the ascendancy of the au? tomobile over the horse and the con? sequent decrease of street sweepings, but the Pittsburg park authorities have found that sparrows made such good eating that tens of thousands have been slaughtered for pies. Those who have adopted the meal say the sparrow is preferable to the reedbird for the table. The differ? ence in the texture and flavor of the two birds is said to be almost imper? ceptible, and it is asserted that thou? sands of sparrows are served annual? ly at hotels in place of reedbirds. HORSE RUNS OVER ALTO. Usual Features of Road Disaster Re? versed. (From the St. Louis Republic.) The usual features of a collison be? tween an auto and a buggy were re? served at Edwardsville Sunday night. A car owned by Dr. E. M. Herrin was run over by a horse and rig owned and driven by George Grant. The auto was moving slowly, while the buggy was speeding rapidly, just abreast of another flying vehicle own? ed by Harry Sparks. Grant's horse mounted the radia? tor, stepped nimbly from the front to the back seat and ovei the back end of the auto, dragging the buggy with him. His hoof prints are plainly discern? ible on the car. The latter was occu? pied by Earl Herrin and Will Bur? roughs. Herrin jumped, but Bur? roughs had only time to slide off the seat under the steering column as the racing horse passed over him. John McSween of this place and Bright Williamson of Darlington left last night for New York, where they will sail for Mr. McSween's old home in Scot land, and to visit other points in the old country. They will be gone for several months and their many friends wish for them a most pleasant and safe voyage and stay.?Timmons ville Enterprise. Gov. Ansel has appointed D. M. O'Driscoll, of Charleston, as a mem? ber of the State Board of Education from the 1st congressional district to take the place of W. K. T?te, who recently resigned to take up the work of supervisor of elementary schools of the State. Prof. T?te recently re? moved from Charleston to Columbia. M.st of the papers treated the marriage of Frank Gould's former w ife as though it possessed some ele? ment of i nportance.?Philadelphia Public Ledger. Are Yonr Poultry Sickly or Healthy? k/i Poultry raising pay senor mous profits?11 kept i" a healthy state. Cleanliness Is Important and when the fowls ?et droopy or chicken cholera you can bring thriii around nnd increase, egg production quickly by giving them a iewdoica of BUSCH'S COLDCN SEAL STOCK AND POULTRY MEDICINE Every poultry raiser should have this valuable remedy on hand. Guaran? teed or money refunded* Price 25c, 60c and $ i.(?0 cans. For sale by druggists and dealers. Husch's Disinfectant and Dtp is guaranteed to kill mitkn a LRL ou your poultry, &0c Sample on request to Golden Chain Remedy Co.j Inc., Evanaville, Ind. SI HURT'S DRUG STORE.