The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, September 01, 1899, Image 8
LEDGERS AND BIBLES
THERE IS NO WAR BETWEEN RELf
GION AND BUSINESS.
Dr. Talmaffp Declares That ItiarhtfODinrM
la n tie-onforcciucut nml
Not o Hindrance In the Affairs ol
l.lfc.
[Copyright, I.ouls Kiop?eh. ISO).]
Washington, Aug. i!7.?In this discourse
Dr. Talmuge argues ibrt religlou
may be taken into all the r.flairs
of life oud Instead of being a hindrance,
as many think, Is a re-enforcement.
The text Is Uornaos xll, 11: "Not
slothful In easiness, fervent In spirit,
serving the Ixird."
Industry, devoutness and Chrlstlau
service?nil conimcuded In that short
text. Wlint! Is it possible that they
shall be conjoined? Oh. yes! There
is uo wnr between religion and business,
between ledgers and llibles, between
churches and counting houses.
On the contrary, religion accelerates
business, sharpens men's wits, sweetens
acerbity of disposition, fillips the
blood of phlegnintica and throws more
velocity Into the wheels of hard work.
It glvos better balancing to the Judgment,
more strength to the will, more
muscle to Industry and throws into
enthusiasm a more consecrated tire.
You cannot In all the circle of the
world show me a mau whose honest
business has been despoiled by religion.
The Industrial classes are divided into
three groups?prod .icers, manufacturers,
traders. Producers, such as
f&rmers and miners. Manufacturers,
such us those who turu corn into food
and wool and llax into apparel. Traders,
such as tunkc prolit out of the
trnnsfer and exchange of all that
which is produced and manufactured.
A business mun may belong to any
one or all of these classes, and not one
Jb Independent of any other.
When the prince imperial of France
felf on tlio Zulu battlefield because the
strap fastening the stirrnp to the saddle
broke as he clung to it. his comrades
all escaping, but he falling under
the lances of the savages, a great
many people blamed the empress for
allowing her son to go forth into that
battlefield, and others blamed the Engll.l.
ffiivornini'iit for neopntiiiEr tlio s:io
rttlee, and others blamed the Zulus for
their barbarism. The oue most to
blame was the harness maker who
fashioned that strap of the stirrup out
of shoddy and Imperfect material, as It
was found to have been afterward. If
the strap had held, the prince Imperial
would probably have been alive today.
But the strap broke. No prince inde- !
pendent of a harness maker! High, '
low, wise, ignorant, you in one occupatfoir,
I in mother, all bound together.
So that there must be oue continuous
line of sympathy with each other's
work. But whatever your vocation, if 1
you have t\ multiplicity of engagements.
if into your life there come Tosses
and annoyances and perturbations
as well as percentages and dividends.
If you are pursued from Monday morning
until Saturday *!?J*t aud ftrsua
Jannnry to January by Inexorable obligation
and duty, then you are a business
man, or you are a business woman,
aud my subject is appropriate to 1
your case.
Grand and Glorlona.
We are under the impression that
the moil uud tug of business life are a
prison Into which n man is thrust or
that It is an unequal strife where unarmed
a man goes forth to contend.
I shall show you this morning that
business life was iuteuded of God for
grand and glorious education and discipline,
and If I shall be helped to say
what 1 want to say 1 shall rub some
of the wrinkles of care out of your
brow and unstrap some of tlie burdens
front your back. I am not talking of
nn abstraction. Though never having
been in business life, I Uiiow nil about
business men.
In my tlrst parish at Belleville, N. J.,
ten miles from New York, a large portion
?f my audience was made up of
New York merchants* Then I went to
Syracuse, a place of immense commercial
activity, and then 1 went to Philadelphia
and lived long among the merchants
of that city, than whom there
are no better men wn earth, and for 'io
years I stood in uiy Brooklyn pulpit.
Sabbath by Hahbutli, preaching to audiences
the majority of whom were
business men and business women, if
Is not nn abstraction of which I speak,
but a reality with which I nm well acquainted.
In the tirst place, I remark that busi- [
ness life was intended as a vcliool of ,
energy. (Jod gives us a certain amount j
of raw material out of which we are to
hew our churncter. Our faculties are J
to be reset, rounded and sharpened up.
Our young folks having graduated !
from school or college need a higher |
education, that which the rasping and
collision of everyday life alone can effect.
Energy is wrought out only in
the Are. After ft man lias been in business
activity 10. kO, 150 years, ids energy
Is not to he measured by weights or
plummets or ladders. There is no
height it cannot scale, and there is no
depth it cannot fathom, and there is
no obstacle it cannot thrash.
Now, my brother, why did God put
you in that school of energy? Was it
merely that you might bo a yardstick
to measure cloth or a steelyard to
weigh flour? Was it merely that yoa
might l>e better quftliflcd to chaff**
and higgle? No. Cod placed you lit
that school of energy tlint you might
be developed for Christian work. If
the undeveloped talents in the Christian
churches of today wore brought
out and thoroughly harnessed, I believe
tho whole earth would be converted
to Cod in a twelvemonth. There
are so many <t??p streams that are
turning no mill wheel* pnd that aro
harnessed to no factory bands.
God Deiitniada tin- J !<*?(.
Now, Ood demands ths best lamb1
out of orory (look. He demands the
richest sheaf ?rf every harvest. lie demands
the best men of every generation.
A cause in which Newton :iu.d
Locke and Mnn.dieh'. icded you and I
can afford to . ? ! :a. Oh. fur fewer
idlers in the i:.e. e ? f Christ and for
more Christ in n worncm. men wjioshaJl
take the same energy that froui Monday
morning to :j..crday night they
put forth fer the lublevemeut of a
livelihood or the gathering of a fortune
and on Kahhatii days put it forth
to the advantage of Christ's kingdom
uud the bringing of men to the Lord.
Dr. Duff visited a man who had iu
hcrltetf a great rortuuo. 1 no ninu sum
to hint: "I had to be very busy for
many years of my life gettlug my livelihood.
After awhile this,fortune came
to me aud there has been tie necessity
that 1 toil since. There came a time
when I said to myself, 'Shall 1 now retire
froui business, or shall 1 go on aud
serve the l.ord in my worldly occupation
V' " lie said: "I resolved on the
latter, and I have been more industrious
iu commercial circles than I ever
was before, aud since that hour 1 have
never kept a farthing for myself. I
have thought it to be a great shame if
1 couldn't toil as hard for the Lord as
1 had toiled for myself, and all the
products of my factories and my commercial
establishments to the last
farthing have gone for the building of
Christian institutions and supporting
the church of God." Would that the
same energy put forth for the world
could be put forth for Gc. h Would
that a thousand men in these great
cities who have achieved a fortune
could see it their duty now to do all
business for Christ and the alleviation
of the world's suffering!
Again, I remark that business life is
a school of natience. lit your everyday
life how many tilings to annoy and
to disquiet? Bargains will rub. Commercial
men will sometimes fail to
meet their engagements. Cash hook
aud money drawer will sometimes
quarrel. Goods ordered for a special
emergency will come too late or be
damaged in the transportation. People
intending no harm will go shopping
without any intention of purchase,
overturning great stocks of goods ami
insisting that you break the dozen.
More bad debts on the ledger. .More
counterfeit hills in the drawer. More
debts to pay for other people. More
meannesses on the part of partners in
business. Annoyance after annoyance,
vexation alter vexation and loss after
loss.
Sehocl of I'atfciicc.
All that process vriil either break 1
you down or brighten you up. It is a
school of. patience. You have known
wen under the process to iiecomo pctu- j
laut, and choleric, and angry, and pugnacious,
and cross, and sour, and
queer, and they lost their customers,
and tliofr name became a detestation. I
Other men have been brightened up 1
under the process. They were tough- j
eued by the exposure. They were like I
rocks, all the more valuable for being
blasted. At first they hud to choke
down their wrath, at first they had to |
bite their lips, at tirst ti:ey thought of
aeui* rfiujtiiig rKM't fbe? trsfisht IB'? SS I
make, but they conquered itiek- imps- i
tionce. They have kind words now for !
sarcastic tiings. Thc.v have gentle behavior
uow for unmannerly customers.
They are patient now with unfortunate
debtors. They have Christian retlectious
now for sudden reverses. Where j
did they get that patience? By hear- i
lug a minister preach concerning it on i
Sabbath? Oh, 110! They got it just !
where you wlH get it?if you ever get !
it at all?selling hats, discounting j
notes, turning banisters, plowing corn, :
tinuiug roofs, pleading causes. Oh. I
that am'.d the turmoil and anxiety and j
exasperation of everyday life you
might hear ihe voice of Clod saying:
"In patience possess your soul. Let
palicnco have her perfect work."
1 remark again that business life is j
a school of useful knowledge. Merchants
do not read many books and do j
not study lexicons. They do not dive 1
tuio i>i'umiuiuin or learning, ana yet ;
ncarlj' all through their occupations
eotne to understand questions of l
finance, and politics, an.l geography,
anil jurisprudence, and ethics. Ilusi- j
ness is a severe schoolmistress. If
pupils will not learn, she strikes them i
over the head and the heart with severe
losses. You put uoo into an
etiterprise. It Is till gone. You say,
"That is a dead loss." oh, no! You
a re paying the schooling. That was
only tuition, very large tuition?I told
3*ou it was a severe schoolmistress? 1
hut it was worth it You learned
tlrr.gs und< r that process you would
not have learned in any other way.
Traders in grain eonie to know something
a'.out foreign ! trvcsls, trailers
in l'rult come to know something about
the prospects of tropie.il production,
manufacturers of American goods
come to understand the tariff on imported
articles, publishers of hooks
must come to understand the new law
of copyright, owners of ships must
come to know winds and shoals and
navigation, and every hale of cotton,
mil every raisin cask, and every tea
box, and otery cluster of bananas is
so much literature fur a business man.
: Now, my brother, what are yot: going
i to do with the intelligenceV 1 ?o you
suppose iiiki p!11 you in i:us scnooi or
infortnutiou merely lluit yo.v might be
sharper in a trad , that yon might bo
moro successful as a worldling? Oh,
, ?*>! l' ^V:1S tlisit you might take that
.'# "ful liifonnation and use it for Jesus
Christ.
Nerd of Iloncniy.
Can it bo that you hate been dealing
with foreign lands and never had the
' missionary spirit, wishing the salvation
of foreign people? Can it be that
you have become acquainted with all
the outrages indicted in business life
and that you have never tried to bring
to bear that gospel whieli is to extirpate
all evil and corrcet all wrongs and
tup inn to aJJ 'jgd. a yd ^il'l up nU
' wroteheduees nfcd havo men foh Oils
world and the world to come? Can It I
bo that understanding all the iutrlca- t '
clos of business you know nothing |
about those things which will last alt- |
or all bills of exchange and consign- |
incuts and Invokcf aud rc::t rolls shah ;
have crumpled r.p an 1 been consumed j
iu the lhvs of the last great day? Can 1
It bo that a man will bo wlso for a
time aud a "ool for eternity?
1 remark, also, that business life is a j
school for Integrity. No man knows :
what he will do until lie is tempted. '
There are thousuuds of men who liu ye
kept their Integrity merely because
they never have bc-eu tested. A man
was elected treasurer of the state of
Maine some years ago. iie \va: distiugulshed
for his honesty, usefulness and
uprightness, but before one year h-?d
passed he had taken of the public
funds for his own private use and was
hurled out of otlicu In disgrace. Distinguished
for virtue before. DlstiniMiinlirvl
fnr r>viim? nftm- V.,:i
over the unities of uiou just like that,
iu whose honesty you h:ul complete
conthleuec, hut placed its eortaiu crises
of temptation they went overboard.
Never so tunny temptations to seouudrellsm
as now. Not a law on the
statute hook but has some back door
through which a miscreant can escape.
Ah, how tuauy deceptions in the fabric
of goods: so njoch plundering in commercial
life ;tyu if a man talk about
living a life of complete commercial i
integrity there are these who ascribe it
to greenness and lack of tact: More
need of honesty now than ever before,
tried honesty, complete honesty, more
than in those times when business was
a plain affair, and woolens were
woolens, and silks were silks, aud men
were men.
How many men do you suppose there
are in commercial lite who could say
truthfully, "In all the sales 1 have ever
made I have never overstated the value
of goods. In all the sales 1 have ever
made I have never covered up an imperfection
i:i the fabric, of all the thousands
of dollars 1 have ever made I
have not taken one dishonest fartliiug?"
There are men. however, who
can say it. hundreds who can say it.
thousands who can say it. They are
more honest than when they sold their
tirst tierce of rice or.their tirst lirkln of
butter, because tliei."'honesty and integrity
have been tested, tried ami
come out triumphant. But they re
member a tnuo when they could have
robbed a partner, or have absconded i
with the funds of a bank, or sprung si j
snap judgment, or made a false m> j
signment, or borrowed inimitably with- j ,
out any efforts at payment, or got a
man into si sharp corner and iloecvd j
him. But they never took one step on \
that pathway of noil tire; They can j
say tlielr prayers without hearing tho
elifnk of dishonest dollars. They can
road iheir Bible without thinking cf
the time when with a lie on their soul
in the custom house they kissed the
book. They can think of death and
tho judgment that comes after it with- ;
out any flinching?that day when all !
charlatans and cheats and jockeys and
frauds slmll be doubly damned. It
iWifc; not make their knees knock toprtfc*.
a*?i il 4ocm not make their
toeth chatter to read "as the partridge
sineth on eggs r.inl liatelieth them not;
so 1m> that gutteth riches and not by I
riglit shall leave them in the midst of j
his days and at his end shall be u j
fool." |
Only Oner.
What a school of integrity business
life is! If you have ever been tempted
to let your integrity cringe before present
advantage, if you have ever wakened
up in some embarrassment and
said: "Now, I will step a little aside
from the right path, and no oue will
know It, nml 1 will come all right
again. It is only onuo." That only
ouce has ruined ten* of thousands of
men for this life and blasted their
souls for eternity.
A merchant in Liverpool got a LZ>
Bank of Knglaml note. and. holding it
I1I\ 4a?I*.1P,I t lw. !!.p|lf lilt o.l \1* oaim.. ill. '
U}' 1U??UU i iiv lipiii, 4* V. na ?? c?x?.?vterliuoutious
iu what seemed red ink.
IIo I'.nnlly deciphered the letters and
found out that tlio writing had been
made by a slave in Algiers, saying in
substance, "Whoever gets this hank
I note will please to Inform my brother.
; John Dean, living near Carlisle, that I |
I am a slave of the boy of Algiers." The !
j merchant sent word, employed govern- |
1 inent ollicers and found who t!i: ^ man
; was spoken of in this bank note. Aft- j
l er awhile tlio man was resetted, who |
I for 11 years had been a slave of the !
bey of Algiers. Ilo was immediately j
i emancipated, but was so worn out by 1
' hardship and exposure he soon after j
died. Oh, if surfo of Ilia batik bills j
i that route 1hrot:?th your hands eottld
' toll nil the scenes through which they i
have passed it would be a tragedy .
eclipsing any drama of Shakespeare, .
mightier than King Lear or Macbeth!
; As 1 go on in this subject I am impressed
v/l'h the importance of our .
having mora sympathy with htt- ite-ss ;
moil. Is it not a shame that we in our j
pulpits do not oftener preach al i
their struggles, their trials and their '
temptations? Men who toil with the !
hand are not apt to ho very sympa
tie-tie wi'li those who toll with the
. brain. The farmers who raise the corn l
| and the oats and the wheat sometimes |
are tempted to think that grain tie r- '
chants have an easy time and get tin ir
profit a without giving any oquivnb-nt. I
l'late am! Ari.-totle weiv so op;x,.'d |
I to nu-reliandise that they dechtred eoi i- !
tiieree to be the curse of the nn'i e.s, :
and they advised that cities be built
! at least ten mi!' from the sea coast, j
j I tut you and 1 he that there are no
more industrious or high minded nn n
I than those who jr.ovc in tin; \v?;M of j
j 1 radio. Some of them carry burdens |
heavier than hods of brick, ntit! are
exposed to sharper thiinrs ih.an she
onsi wind, and climb mountains h cic-r
! than the Alps or !i innlayns.nr.'! if (i; -v '
I arc faithful to Christ w ill at la--t s ?.v j
. to them: "Well done, good and faithful '
*jjy:yit; lltoil hast been faithful over a !
W\1 fiiTugtffT wltl tubke thee mitt ovot 1
many things. Entri thou into the joy
of tliy Lord."
OuftlneM Martyrs.
We tallc about the martyrs of tbe
Piedmont valley, and tbe martyr^
among the Scotch highlands, and tho
martyrs at Oxford. There are just as
certainly martyrs of Wall street ami
State street, martyrs of Fulton street
and liroadwny, martyrs of Atlantic
street and Chestnut street, going
through hotter tires, or having their
necks under sharper axes. Then it behooves
us to banish all fret fulness
from our lives, if this subject be true.
We look back to tho time when we
were at school, and we remember the
rod. and we remember the hard tasks
and wo complained grievously but
now we see it was for the host, litisi
uoss life is a school, nud the tasks
are hard, and the chastisements sometimes
arv? very grievous; but do not
complain. The hotter tlie lire the better
the rocining. There are men before
the thrum* of Hod this day In triumph
who on ecirth were cheated out of everything
but their eotiin. They were
sued, they were imprisoned for debt,
they were throttled by constables
with a whole pack of writs, the.v were
sold out by the sheriffs, they had to
compromise with their creditors, they
had to make assignments. Their dying
lionrs were annoyed by the sharp ringing
of the door bell by some impetuous
creditor who thought it was outrageous
and impudent- iliat a man should dare
to die before he paid the last half dollar.
I laid a friend who had many misfortunes.
Everything went against
him. lie had good business capacity
and was of the best of morals, but lie
was one of those men such as you
have sometimes seen, for wli >:u everything
sci ms to go wrong. His life became
to him a plague. When I heard
lie was dead. I said. "Hood; got rid of
the shoriilVs!" Who are those lustrous
souls before the throne? When the
question is asked, "Who are they?"
the angeds stunning on the sea of
glass refund. "These are they who
came out of great business trouble an I
bad had ilieir "obes washed ami made
white i:i t tie blood of the luunb."
3io\v ft nil IK'Iim.
A man arose i:i Fulton street prayer
meeting arul said: "I wish publicly to
acknowledge the goodness of Hod. I
was in business trouble. I had money
to pay, and J had 110 means to pay it.
and 1 was in utter despair ol all uutiuiii
help, and I laid this matter before
the Lord. and tliis morning I wont
down among some old business frieixis
1 had uot seen in many years just to
make a call, nr.d one said to me: 'Wli.v,
1 am to glad to see you! Walk in. We
have some money on our books due
you a good while, but we didn't know
where you were, and therefore not
having your address we could not
send it. We are very glad you have
come!'" And the man standing in
Fulton street prayer meeting said,
"The amount they paid me was six
times what: 1 owed." Von say it only
happened so? You are unbelieving.
Clod answered that man's prayer.
Oil, you want business grace! Commercial
ethics, business honor, laws of
trade are all very good in their plaeo,
but there are times when you want
something more than this world will
give yon. You want God. For the lack
of him some that you have known have
consented to l'orgo, and to maltreat
their friends, and to curse their enemies.
and their names have been bulletined
among scoundrels and tliey
have been ground to powder, while
other men you have known have gone
through the very same stress of circumstances
triumphant. There are men
hero today who fought the battle and
gained the victory. People come out of
tlmt man's store and they say, "Well,
if there ever was a Christian trader,
that Is one." Integrity kept the hooks
and waited ou the customers. Light
from the eternal world Hashed through
the show windows. Love to God and
love to man presided in that storehouse.
Some day people going through
the street notice that the shutters of
the window nre not down. The bar of
that store door has not been removed.
People say, "Wlmt is the matter?"
You go up a little closer and you see
written on the card of that window,
"Closed on account of the death of one
of the linn." That day all through the
circles of business there is tall: about
how a good man has stone. Boards of
trade pass resolutions of sympathy,
and churches of Christ prav, "Help.
Lord, for the godly man eeaseth." lie
has made his last bargain, he has suffered
his last loss, he has ached with
the last fatigue, liis cidldren will get
the result of his industry, or. If through
misfortune there be no dollars left,
they will have an estate of prayer and
Christian example, which will he everlasting.
Heavenly rewards for earthly
discipline. There "the wicked cease
from troubling and the weary are at
rest."
The Oln'ranimerunn I'nxslon I'lny.
The preparations for the passion play
in \t year an? in full swing. All the
actors for the chief nails have not \ t
1men chosen. hut the singers have boon
a, looted and .ore practising <li!i;;{?jil!y
in conjunction witli the musicians.
The part of Chri-t will bo p rfonncd,
as bob to, by .\nton Lang. Workmen
tiro actively employed on tlio now
buildings wl.ie'i tlio committee Iwivo
ilcci lnl to i iv t. Tito auditor ititn i-;
1 ?fin r covered wiili :j:i Iron roof of not
loss t*1:111 !." meters span. Jit tl cost of
fully loft,000 marks. r.erlln T.ettcr.
Tin* Uirtl T?i".l Tells.
The military man walked nervously
buck nml forth till bis spurs jingled
like : leiylil ells. Stopping abrupt!;.' before
the woman who bail confronted
libit, lie aslted:
"II ?\v do y.-.n know all these things
about my pad?"
"A little bird told m?."
'"Sdealh!" be hissed. "Another
round lObluf? Washingtoa Star.
NOTED CONEST SETTLED.
Ri*v. JjIi.i Viott"r? L >i< i Ilia Sent lu
till* (jior?iu 1j"c!hIhIurr.
Atlanta. Aug ?Tho famons contest
over tho election returns from
Coffee, which kept that county without
u representative at the late session of
the legislaturo and enabled the* old
county officials to hold over a yeur
longer thaa the term to which they
wore elected, has seen settled.
Rev. John Vickers. tho Democratic
candidate in Coffee for tho iowor house
of the legislature, suddenly appeared ou
the flocr c. th'fe louse near the clcso of
the Inst session and was hailed as the
lost member from CofTco. Up to the
time of his appearance no oao was fouud
who could explain why CofTeo had no
representative.
Rov. John Vickors cleared the atmosphere
to some extent when ho announced
in a solemn, quiet voice that there had
been a contest over the election in Coffeo
county and that the matti r was still
poudius before tho election homagers.
He announced that ho was the Democratic
candidate and applied to the
house for his soat. His application was
refusod, pending tho settlement ot tho
contest over tli9 election then going
forward.
It now develops from tho settlement
of the county contest, which was only
reached last Saturday, that Rev. Joiin
Vickers loses his claim and that tne
6car iu the lower house from CoITeo goes
to Eiijah Tanner, tho candidate of tho
Populist party.
MOST DESTRUCTIVE STORM.
Number of Klslicriai-u Drowned on tho
, North State Coast.
BnAUFor.T. N. C., Aug. *V ?Sixteen
fishermen voro campiug c:i Swan
island, near the month of the Neuso
river, during a recent storm. Tho
island was overflowed, compelling thorn
to 6eek the mainland. In tho attempt
nil of their boats were capsized except
oiie, drowning li men, consisting of
four Smith ami four Salter brothers and
6is others. All were married and men
of largo families, citizens of Piney
Point, Cartaret county.
A crew ot lour men, who were camping
on another island, is missing and
are undoubtedly drowned.
The storm played havoc on Oecracoke
island, destroying 80 houses and two
churches, washing the Norfolk and
Southern railroad piers, grounding several
steamers and schooners, wrecking
smaller craft of fishermen, drowning
not less than ~0 men and all the horses
and cattle on tho island.
It was tho most destructive storm
that section has ever known. The
island was under water three days.
A MACONITE IN TROUBLE.
John Schmidt Ilrl?l at Mireveport,
La., For liiguiny.
S hr eve port. La., Aug. V.?John E.
Schmidt was arrested yesterday morn-,
ing by Deputy Sheriff Walters and
Lieutenant of Police Beach for bigamy.
Ho has a wife and three children living
in Macon, Ga. He is is not divorced.
On Sunday, July last, ho was married
to Mrs. Kate Schaeffer 111 tho Baptist
parsonage by Rev. Dr. Felix,
,i A detective, Mr. Patterson, from
' Georgia, has been on his trail und submitted
tho proois of his bigamy.
Schmidt was given a preliminary hearing
last evening. The facts developed
are against him. Jndgo Land fixed his
bond at $1,000. lie was remanded to
jail.
Germans to Welcome Dewey.
Savannah, Aug. ?At a meeting
last night of tho German volunteers, a
company composoil entirely of Germans,
it was decided that tho company should
go to New York aud tako parr m tho
reception to Admiral Dewey. Captain
C. H. Koenenian says ho will tako t>0
men, 34 of the members having agreed
last night that they would go. Tliu
German volunteers wore organized in
184t> and tho company served in tho
confederate army with distinction.
Schley to Visit lllrmliigliiim.
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. '.i. ? Rear
Admiral W. S. Schley has written a lotter
in answer to an invitation sent him
by Secretary J. A. Rountree of the Alabama
State Fair association, acoepring
tho same aud promising to come here
during the fair, which will be held Nov
7 to 14, provided he has not been ordered
to sea before that. Ho expresses
gratitude tor the invitation and for tho
good will shown by the southern people
toward him.
Alleged Wliitconps Arraigned.
Greenwood, S. O., Aug. ',3*?Tlio
four men charged with whipping nogroes
in this county wcro arraigned bofore
Magistrate Austin for a preliminary
hearing. They waived examination and
gave bond in tho sum of $1,000 each for
appearance at the circuit court. There
have been no further arrests and no
Ko(ul Resigns Iiih StMit.
ArciL'sTA, Mo., Aug. Tho rosignation
of Thomas It. Heed, representative
in congress from tho First Maine !
district, \vaj received by C ovornorPov i
ers today. Tho resignation is to talto i
oft'eet .Sept. 4 and it lias been accepted
by Governor Powers.
lllggiHt Cotton Mill South.
COLIMUIA, S. 0., Aug. V ?Tho con- j
tract for building tho Olympia cotton j
' mills. $1 1)00,000, has beon lot to tho U. '
! Thompson company of Birmingham. 1
| Tho building will bo tho largo at mill in
tlio south, hating acres of floor
spaco.
Antlclgiiretto Imw In Void.
Jacksosvim.e, Fla., Aug. Tbo
low prohibiting tho immufacturo, s.ulo J
I or gift of cigarottes, enacted at the ro- l
! coat session of tho Florida legislature,
i has been doclared unconstitutional by
j Circuit Jndgo Call.
Julian Ciirr Is President,
j Rai.f.ioh, Aug. 7, --Julian S. Cnrr of
! Durham has been elected president ot
the lla'ieigh and Grpp,t Eastern Railroad
company, juat incorporated here.
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HrGHWAYS.
ow Ther Ar? Hull* and System of
Malntennnce.
From Stuttgart, Germany, a corrc*
spondent of the Hayvzi Register, who
has made a study of tho road system of
that country, sends tho following re- ?
suits of his observation: " .
All roads, excepting ' those streets
that are within towns, are divided into
classes?viz, state and county rondi
The stato roads arc tho most important
thoroughfares, connecting tho larger
towns with one another, and ore built
and maintained entirely 1 y the central
government. The county roads are
those which, connecting the smaller
villages, are built by the county with
stato assistance np to two-thirds of
their cost, but thereafter aro entirely
maintained by tho county.
Tlw> i?r>n<>r;iI tv.-iv nf linildinir is nhnnt
the same far both classes of roads, except
that cn state roads, which have
the heaviest trlittic, the best of material
is used without regard to cost, so to
say ; whereas, on the county roads material
from local quarries is frequently
used. The traces and leveling for a new
road being completed?the maximum
grade allowed is 0 per cent, though in
6omo unavoidable cases it can rise to 9
per cent?-the ground is excavated in
the desired mncadauiizntioii width to
tlio depth of 14 inches. Herein are
planted the rough quarry foundation
stones, rising from the sides to the middle,
so that the arch of the completed
road shall be one-fortieth of its width.
Upon this foundation crushed basalt or
granite in pieces of a cubic inch is
strewn to a depth of from four to five
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inches, upon which, as' top dressing,
sheli limo is liberally strewn before and
during tbo wet pressing by the ateam
rolk r.
Tho roadbed being so completed, a
gravel footpath of about l 'j yards in
width is made on one or both sides of
the read. Alongside of these paths rune
a ditch as deep a? the roadbed, which
receives the water from the road through
gullies at short intervals. A fruit, generally
apple, tree, being now planted at
every 1*2 yards, as also 100 yards, and .
milestones, tho road is entirely finished.
These state roads vnry in width from
0 to 12 yards, the average width being
71J yards. The average cost per milo is
$10,000. For every mile and a half of
completed road a roadkeoper is engaged
who receives wages varying from $125
to $200 per year. His duties are to mend
all small ruts, to brush the road in dry
weather or scrape it in wet at least onco
a week; also to keep Iho footpaths,
ditches and everything pertaining to
the road in a most perfect condition,
which duties occupy him about six hours
per day throughout tiie year. Special 1
rewards are given to those who aro most '
painstaking. For every 50 miles of road 1
there is an overseer, with n salary of
from $400 to $500, whose duty it is to
watch over his piece of road; report as
to repairs continually. For each county
there is a state (road engineer) inspector.
who reports finally to the superintendent
of roads in tho ministry of the
interior. Tho inspector's salary ranges
from $700 to $^00.
'Wants a Wide Tire Law. .
A Toronto man want*- liis govern- dti
niont "to enact a law compelling all ^
vehicles carrying a dead weight of 600 ?
pounds or over on the public highway
to nnvo a tiro not lc'-^ jlmn .fivo inches
wide. It ir the nnrttf|fcire that is de,
stroying our roads. J^^^as the rains
soften thoni the nar^^^cuts like a
knife. I do not bolicv^^^^thero is or
ever will he a country roaXToonstructed
that will stand the narrow tire. A fivo
inch tire, however, will press and
make the surface still more solid, especially
when the road is softened by
rain, instead of cutting asa narrow tiro
does."
To rrcvcnt It 111 h.
Ruts will not be formed if horses aro
attached to the wagon properly. Tlio
doubletree should be long enough to
cause the horses to walk directly in
front of the wheels. A horse will not
walk in a rut, and henco the wheels
will not run in the tracks of the lust
wagon. This keeps the roadway comparatively
smooth, particularly whoa
wide tires are used, and any stones
loosened by the horses' feet aro rolled
down by the wido tires following the
horses This is the Pennsylvania system
for protecting turnpike roads.
(iln.iN Street*. >
(rluui U.hh.l. 1 I.lil ..i ?
? nil II Ilin IlIIIIITianRFIl
ircil tn make onuinii ntnl tiles, is now
being cnnwrti 1 into blocks for paving
tin* mads. Factories liavo been established
in Franco and Switzerland for
tin; prod act ion of these glass bricks and
some stn cts in Geneva have been paved
with tin m The glass is subjected to
1 eat until it is soft, tlien pressed into
bricks. It loses its transparency, but
gains in resisting power. It affords ?
good footing for horses.
r.ollcyc Iii Wiilc Tiros. '
No one linn over licensed the Standard
Oil co:n? any of lacking busim ss vagacity.
hi I lift it has oven been intimated
that this pieat corporation is extremely
interested in its own welfare; honco tho
added forco of the fact that nearly all
their wagons are provided with wide
tiros. Wo do not at this moment havo ?-~
tho exact figures, but tho number of
Standard Oil wagons is upward of 20,000.
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