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STRIKE ALWOST SETTLED PENNSYLVANIA ROAD AND MFN l 1 .os KR T<MiFTHFU. Ac t'onfcr<*iKV Yesterday Between Railroad omrlalM am! t anplo>ecs' < oiimiiiiiv Basis of Settlement of \* ?4;? Controversy Agreed On? Ifcrth suu-h Confident That Bctalls Will He Worked Out Satisfactori? ly. Philadelphia. Pa. July 18.?General Manager W II Myers, of the Penn ayhranla Railroad, and the commit t. . rrpr.-. nting the 1 r>.i???u trainmen and conductors employed on the lines of the company east of Plttsburg. to? day agreed on a basis of settlement <>f the wage controversy. Each side < Ulms to have gained all that It had been contending for In the negotia? tions, which have been In progress for the past 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 tea hours, as detailed in the New York Central award. On certain rune, where the company's present ^ rate Is higher, the rate will not be disturbed. The classification of these exceptional runj and the question of overtime were left to be decided at conferences between the various members of the committee and the dtvleton superintendents of the lines which they represent. it wax further agreed that the men would be guaranteed 26 days' work a month. While the men regard this as a concession, the railroad officials say that during the recent hard times the men were benefited by being worked on short time rather tha'i being laid off altogether. THRFF < IIILDRFN IU HM D. N.-erreww liOtks Children In House With Fetal Results Florence. July 18.?A negro tenant, dwelling on the plantation of Mr. J. C Frlvett. In the Back Swamp sec? tion, about six miles north of this city, was destroyed by fire about 10 o'clock last night. In which ?hree ne? gro children lost their lives and an ? ther 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 tto 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 amlstance was given, but before anything could be done the three chlliren were roasted sllve. The old? est child managed to get out of th< 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 bumed < .ndltlon. Nl'.lio KIDIH 1 l) m MOB. White Woman'** \?Milhtnt Taken Prom Constable mid Lynched. Sylvanla. (la.. July 18.? Knding a two days' pursuit, a mob during last night took Kvan Roberts, a negro, from Constable ('. V. Klggs. In the lower part of this countv, strung the 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 lonely ro*'l Saturday afternoon In a buggy. Th? re-- ? '?? me frighten,-,I and ran awsy and took the women out of danger, though the negro pursued them with a pistol. Constable Bigg* csptured Roberts and hid him from the moii for twelve hours*. Short vw-rk wax made of the negro when his hiding place was found. The city council of Oreenvllle will this week let contracts for paving Main str- I m l building a hrldg" over Reedv ri\er. Don't Neglect Your Eyes? call and have our optician examine your eyes If they are troubling you; > b> having this done you mav not have to wear them long. Hut to continue straining them may necessitate you wearing them your Itttllfsjl Our optical parlor is I tted with every device for thoroughly examin? ing the eye. We have Installed a lense grinding plant and do our own lense grinding and drlllng; carry a stork of compound lense frame mounting < and optical goods. We can fill your prescriptions at once properly; all work guaranteed Graduate optician In charge. W. A. Thompson, Jeweler and optician. Plme 333. ? ? No. 6 S. Mdin St CABELL ON WAR PATH. Internal Hrvi'nue Commissioner Aff tor Patent Medicines. Washington, July 18.?It. E. Ca? t-ill. 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 down his old 10-guage seatter-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 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 medl clnal 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 lnebrl at?\ To this list more than fifty have been added since the last volley he tired Into the patent medicine makers in June, 1909, and in these the title "bitters" occurs so frequently that it appears like a family name. The manufacturers of these patent "ton les" 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 a'. ? ?hol license of $2.r> per year. It Is to be remarked that of this batch of fifty odd new methods of k^ ttim; druni by prescript! in ? large number are m I nufactured In the pro htbltton Hates: Maine. Iowa, Kansas und Kentucky are all fertile soils for the tonic man. Now "bitters" spring up over-night like moving picture shows In these 1 rohtbttton parts. The internal re\enue office Is addressing itself particularly to stamping out th? growing evil in those districts, Some time ago a genius Invented Mil - sort of seductive and soothing tonki toff tired mortals who shunned the bowl, but longed for something fOf that tired feeling. He christened it Ferro-China Something-or-Other," and Wigwagged the tin d mortal to eome and partake. He did so with virtuous enthusiasm that made the Ferro-China man ? millionaire in less than a year. Then others got into the lYrm China gam<?fifteen of them?with "Ferro-Chlna That" and all was well ?until the internal revenue o tile took a hand itself and found that "Ferro-China*1 was nothing but a sort of stage name for the old-fashioned gin cocktnlV Commissioner Cabell has fifteen "IVrro-('hinas" on his list, and the tired mortal will, after Au? gust 1. have to buy it as an alcoholic beverage. MBaef| Wine and Iron." that long llmi Standby for the jaded female, most ill op straight and conform to I he formula in the United states Med? ical Dispensary, otherwise it will be sohl as straight "goods." Of late many of the beef) wine and iron prepara? tion-: are nothing but a cheap sherry with not enough iron to make ? oar* !?? t ta< k or enough beef to make 8 Hamburger -teak la ? hogshead of it. Strangs to say, Arkansas, that hav? en of the moonshiner, hai ? growing lot of manufacturer! of "tonics" that i beer and Inebriate, it is a paradise for the thirsty man. that COUntry. with Its mountain stills, Its nourish? ing "medicine* manufactories ami its low freight rates fno,, Kentucky on barrel good*, '.Verve Tonics," once so beguiling to ministers, school teachers and oth? er bard-worked nun, who were good but Innocent show ? wholesome fail? ing off. It has reused to be the fash Ion to goal a quinine capsule In u keg of w hiskey for ten minutes, rack it off In bottles and sell It as a nerve food The reason for this radical change of heart on the part of the medical fakirs may be found sitting .it the desk of the commissioner of Internal revenue, Perhaps the gov? ernment Is getting too centralized, but a little more power and a little larger appropriation for the revenue service would help the country in a degree wholly commensurate with the power or money granted. W talk little if WS do not talk about ourselves?Haalltt, Mr. Featherstone n? a Local Optlonist 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 burled In the musty, dusty flies, and a search is rewarded. The following summary of Mr. (\ 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 the 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 iden 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 and other States, and have en? deavored to study the question care? fully and conservatively with a view to ascertaining what wai best tor 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 monoply had been broken, that a general prohibition law would be dangerous, and might be disastrous to prohibition and the cause of temper? ance. He advocated temporary pro? hibition by legislativ?' 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? tiv? enactment): * i do not believe it Would be wlSC) at this time, to pre? vent the sale of whiskey from being voted In, where a majority of the people of any community are opposed to prohibition. A PROHIBITION LAW IN SUCH A COMMUNITY WOULD BE DANGEROUS TO THE CAUSE IT LARGE by reason of its non-enforcement until the time comes when we have an OVER? WHELMING MAJORITY for pro? hibition In the ENTIRE State. . .. .. .. Had vve not better adopt the cautions i??.t sure method? Build up the public sentiment at the point where, when we get a general law, it will be sure to prove a success." Here we have Mr. Featherstone present the identical and common ar? gument made by local optlonlsts, and that was natural since he was press? ing n local option measure. Here he distinctly takes the position that pro? hibition In S county Where the peo? ple 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 alter an ad? ditional ten years' study of conditions in various stabs having prohibition and local option? Has Mr, Feather? stone changed 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 overwhelming 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 anything It is more striking and sig? nificant than those previously pre? sented : "The prohibitionist! 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? vious reasons. . . You will, of ourse, understand that I am not for one moment undertaking to say that a prohibition law cannot be enforced. On 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 hut 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 advocate of reverse local option. The present Legislature, chosen that year, pro? dded for exactly what Mr. Feather? stone wished. The State argued then, ind now holds, that every Legislator ldvocating that system was and Is bound by good faith to give that sys? tem time to vindicate or condemn it M If. Mr. Featherstone was its fath ?r; it is satisfactory to local option Ists; yet within a few months after the reverse plan Is In operation, he ippeari against it. If this local op? tion was good in 1907, and 1908, and 1910, 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 asier to enforce prohibition against a 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 10 o'clock this morning until u ::'><? o'c lock this after? noon, with only an intermission for dlhner, the rallroa I commission has adjourned its hearing In the matter of the Increase of telephone rates in I this city, until August 25, when it will heai' the testimony brought for? ward by protesting cltlesns. The Bell Telephone Company pro? poses to Increase Its rates and Install a more Improved system, and a ma? jority of the subscribers had signed a petition asking that the committee allow them to do so. The hearing was held today and several of the company's officials were examined, including J, Epps Brown, vice presi? dent and general manager; George J. Youndt, engineer and C. J. Holdltch, auditor. The written and signed tes? timony of W. T, Gentry, president, was also placed In evidence. H. B. W. Palmer, general agent for the company, 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-examln? atlon. The citizens will get expert witnesses to appear at the meeting on August 2.". The Colonel has come back with the degree! of A. R? LL. D? Litt, 1K, Ph. 1 >. and l>. C. I., not to mention the degrees of latitude be took Whell he told England how to govern Egypt.- < 'lev eland 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 than 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 J 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 witli a barrel whereof the top layers arc line and attractive specimens. Trade is rotten and there seems to be no honest, square and fair dealing. Banks lend you money at 6 per cent., and when you put your money in the bank you will get only .1 per cent. A Imuk is purchased today for a dollar and tomorrow you can't obtain twen? ty-live cents lor it. A magnificent si le-boani, 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 he 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 ? nd 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." Cheating in business does not seem to be punishable. Yet there is a high law against it. The practice comes under the condemnation of the com? mandment Which says. "Thou shall not steal." if it be a crime to take a dollar OUt of a man's poeket 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. If it be wrong to injure another's property and goods, it is also wrong to give him inferior articles when he expects to receive for money solid and true things or to perform lor him services I.r 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 made to them, opportunities to examine what they buy and the contracts on which they enter; therefore, if they are de? ceived or get the worst of it in a bargain qjr commercial transaction, they have tu? one to blame but tin m 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 Pittsburg Eaton Because of High Price*. (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 reedblrd 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 RFXS 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 ovet 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. Most of the papers treated the marriage of Frank Gould's former wife as though, it possessed some ele? ment of i oportance.?Philadelphia Public Ledger. Are Your Poultry Sickly or Healthy? W/% Poultry raising paysenos* mous profits?if kept in a healthy state. Cleanliness ts Important and when the fowls gel droopy or chicken cholera you can bring them around and increase egg production quickly by giving them a few doses of BUSCM'S COLDEN SEAL STOCK AND POULTRY MEDICINE Every poultry raiser should have this valuable remedy on hand. 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