?5p?;V: " ~ g&Hartforr iwiuLfi TRICKERY IN TSADET!: I I Rev. Dr. Talmage Contrasts It j: With Fair Dealing. j: CONDEMNS BUSINESS i ! ^ - ? ? L--- UfL'^U \/i!iiae A f 3 i processes uy nmui ...v. Misrepresented. Many of Our Merchants Are Models of Integrity. Integrity and trickery in business life form the subject of Dr. Talmage's sermon today, and the contrast he establishes between the two is a striking one. The text is Proverbs xx, 14, "It is naught, it is naught, said the buyer, when he is gone his way, then he boasteth." "Palaces are not such prisons as the world imagines. If you think that the I only time kings ?nd queens come forth from the royal gates is in procession and jprgeously attended, you are mistaJjjjar Incognito, by day or by night, ^aralothed in citizen's apparel or the qtoF of a working woman, they come out and see the world as it is. In no other way could King Solomon, the author of my test, have known everything that was going on. From my text I am sure he must in disguise some day have walked into a store of ready i made clothing in Jerusalem and stood j near the counter and heard a conversation between a buyer and a seller. The merchant put a price on a coat, and the customer began to dicker and said: "Absurd! That coat is not worth what you ask for it. Why, just look at the coarseness of the fabric! See that spot on the collar! Besides that, it does not fit. Twenty dollars for that? Why, " mi I it is not wortn more man $>iu. jl iiey have a better article than that and for lower price down at Clothem, Fitem & Bros. Besides that, I don't want it at any price. Good morning." ''Hold," says the merchant, "do not go off in that way. I want to sell you that coat. I have some payments to make and I want the money. Come, now, how much will you give for that coat?" "Well," says the customer, "I will split the difference. You asked $20 inu i - iid^SlO. Now, I will give you $1V "Well," said tiie mercnant, 11 is a great sacrifice, but take it at that price." Then the customer with a roll under his arm started to go out and enter his own place of business, and Solomon in disguise followed him. He heard the customer as he unrolled the coat say: "Boys, I have made a great bargain. How much do you guess I gave for that coat?" "Well," says one, wishing to rt/vnf>T\K-nr>?T?t Ilia oT>fomric possessing a vabe which it really does 1 not have. Nothing but sheer false- 1 hood can represent as perfection boots that rip, silks tha; speedily lose their < ' - i iUSter, calicoes mat iuimeuiaicij n?u out, stoves that crack under tie first i hot fire, books insecurely bound, car- < pets that unravel, old furniture reju- J vecated with putty ar.tl glue and sold 1 as :iavir.g been recently manufactured, i gold watches made of brass, barrels of < fruit, the biggest apples on liie top. 1 wine adulterated with strychnine, hos- ' - ' e J?} lerv pocny woven, uiomes vj. uvucsuiu manufacture shining with foreign la- 1 bels, imported goods represented as rare ] and hard to get, because foreign cx- i change is so high, rolled out on the ' counter with matchless display. Im- < ported indeed, but from the factory in 1 the next street. A pattern already un- J fashionable nnd unsalable palmed off as 1 a new print upon some country mer- i chant who has come to town to make ? * ~ .1 J J J ? , His nrst purcnase 01 ary gygua auu going home with a large stock of goods 1 warranted to keep. ] Again business men are often tempt- } ed to make the habits and customs of other traders their law of rectitude. 1 There are commercial usages wl-.ich 1 will not stand the test of the last day. 1 Yet men in business are apt to do as j their neighbors do. If the majority of '< the traders In any locality are las in 1 principle, the commercial code in that 1 community t;11 be spurious and dis- t honest, it is a hard thing to stand ] close hy tV law of right when your 1 next door neighbor, by his-looseness of dealing, is enabled to sell goods at a < cheaper rate and decoy your customers. ^ Of course you who promptly meet all \ rour business engagements, paying j when you promise to pay, will find it j hard to compete with that merchant < who is hopelessly in debt to the impor- i ter for the goods and to the landlord i vhose store he occupies and to the i clerks who serve him. There arc a j hundred practices prevalent in the < world of traffic which ought never to be- ] some the rule for honest men. Lneir j wrong does not make your right. Sin ] never becomes virture by being multi- i plied and admitted at brokers' board or ] merenants'exchange. Because others ] smuggle a few things in passenger i trunks, _ becausc others take usury 1 when men are in tight places, because j others deal in fancy stocks, because ] others palm off worthless indorsements, ] becausc others do nothing but blow ( bubbles, do not, therefore, be overcome ( of temptation. Hollow pretentions ] and fictitious credit and commercial j gambling may awhile prosper, but the ^ iay of reckoning cometh, and in addition to the horror and condemnation of outraged communities the curse of God will come, blow after blow. God's law forever and forever is the only standard Df right ana wrong and not commercial sthics. i'oung business, men avoid the first 2 business dishonor, and you will avoid 1 ill the rest. The captain of a vessel < was walking near the mouth of a river i svhen the tide was low, and there was a 1 long, stout anchor chain, into one of i the great links or which his foot slipp- i id, and it began to swelll, and he could t ao't withdraw it. The tide began to t rise. The chain could not be loosened i aor filed off in time, and a surgeon was ( called to amputate the limb, but before i :he work could be done the tide rolled ? )ver the victim, and his life was gone. 3 [ have to tell you, young man, that 1 just one wrong into which you slip may 1 :>e a link of a long chain of circumstan- t les from which you cannot be extricat- t id by any ingenuity of your own or any s aelp from others, and the tides will 3 roll over you as they have over many. tVhen Pompey, the warrior, wanted to e :ake possession of a city and they would i iot open the gates, he persuaded them i :o admit a ssck soldier. But the sick j soldier after awhile got well aT.-d strong, c ind he threw open the gates and let the g levastating army come in. One wrong c admitted into the soul may gain in s strength until after awhile it flings open t ill the gates to the attack of sin, and r he ruin is complete. t Again, business men are sometimes y empted to throw off personal responsi- s )iliiy, shifting it to the institution to g rhich they belong. Directors in banks p md railroad and insurance companies fi ometimes shirk personal responsibility mderneath the action of the corporation t :nd how often, when some banking 1 louse or financial institution explodes 1 hrough fraud, respectable men in the v )oard of directors say, "Why, I thought t ill was going on in an honest way, and f ! am utterly confounded with this de- t neanor!" The banks and the fire and a ife and marine insurance companies v itid the railroad bonipanies. Will not stand up for judginent in the last day; jut taose who in them acted righteous' .7 will recoive, each for himself, a regard, and those who acted the part of isglect or trickery will, cach for him;els, receive a condemnation. Unlawful dividends are not clean be:ore God because there are those associated with you who grab just as big a pile as you do. He who countenances :he dishonesty of the firm or of the corporation or association takes upon him self all the moral liabilities. If the Einancial institution steals, he steals, [f they go into wild speculations, he himself is a gambler. If they needlessly embarrass a creditor, he himself is guilty of cruelty. If they swindle the uninitiated he himself is a defraud;r. No financial institution ever had a mocev vault strong enough, or credit stanch enough, or dividends large enough, or policy acute enough to hide the individual sins of its members, rhe old adage that corporations have no ?ouls is misleading. Every corporation has as many souls as it has members. JTl^CLLU j Ilic&Li V UOIliuSO iiatb tempted to postpone their enjoyments and duties to a future season of entire leisure. What a sedative the Christian religion would be to all our business men if instead of postponing its uses to aid age or death they would take it into the store or factory or worldly engagements now! It is folly to go amid the uncertainties of business life with no lirtr? tn Tinln A movAlinrif. in :l Now England village was standing by a horse, and the horse lifted its foot to stamp it in a pool ol water, and the merchant, to escape the splash, stepped into the door of an insurance agent, md the agent said, "I suppose you have come to renew your fire insurince." "Oh!" said the merchant,. "I had forgotten that." The insurance was renewed, and the nest day the house that had been insured was burned. Was it all accidental that the merchant, to escape a splash from a horse's foot, stepped into the insurance office? N'o, it was providential. And what a mighty solace for a business m?in to feel that things are providential: What peace and equilibrium in such a consideration, and what a grand thing if all business men could realize it! Many, although now comparatively straitened in worldly circumstances, have a goodly establishment in the future planned out. They have in im-- : nation built, about 20 years ahead. house in the country not difficult 11' iccess from the great town, for oy will often have business or old accou ts to settle or investments to look after. Fhe house is large enough to accommo" " *? 0 mi. i^li? late an tneir rrienas. j.ne nana * re wide and hung with pictures of hunting scenes and a branch of antlers and are jomfortable vrith chairs that can be rolled out on the veranda when the weather is inviting or set out under some of the oaks that stand sentinel id out the house, rustling in the cool Dreeze and songful with the robins, rhere is just land enough to keep them interested, and its crops of almost fabilous richness springing up v.nder application of the best theories to be found in the agricultural journals. The farm is well stocked with cattle md horses and sheep that know the 7oice and have a kindly bleat when one joes forth to look at them. In this Dlissful abode their children will be instructed in art and science and religion, rhis shall be the old homestead to which, the boys at college will direct :heir letters, and the hill on which the aouse stands will be called Oakwood or [vy Hill or Pleasant Retreat or Eagle Evrie. Mav the future have for every jusinesss man here ail that and more resides! But are you postponing your lappiness to that time? Are you adjourning your joys? Suppose that you ichieve all you expect?and that the rision I mention is not up to the reality, because the fountains will be brighter, ;he house grander and the scenery more picturesque?the mistake is none the ess fatal. What charm will there be in rural luiet for a man who has for 30 or 40 i ^ i pears oeen coniormiog ais entire uatiue :o the excitements of business? Will locks and herds with their bleat and noan be able to silence the insatiable spirit of acquisitiveness which has for rears had full swing in the soul? Will ;he hum of the breeze soothe the man ,vho now can find his only enjoyment n the stock market? Will leaf and iloud and fountain charm the eye that aas for three-fourths of a lifetime .?ound its chief beauty in hogshead and 3ills of sale? Will parents be compe;ent to rear their children for high and aoly purpose, if their iafancy and boyaood and girlhood were neglected, yhen they are almost ready to enter ipon the world and have all their habts fixed and their principles stereotyped? No, no: now is the time to be VftTi io fTir> firriA fo rnnr lajk/^j-. VU Jit J WUV V*l?v WW WV* < W J V Creator. Now is the time to be a Jhristian. Are you too busy? I have :nown men as busy as you are who had i place in the store loft where iliey vent to pray. Someone asked a Chris;ian sailor where he found any place tu Dray in. lie said, "I can always find i quiet place at masthead." And in :he busiest day of the season if your leart is right you can find a place to vrav Rnav thnrmiffhfares are eood r * ""*?/ " "o ? - - w places to pray in as you go to meet ,*our various engagements. Go home a Ittle earlier and get introduced to your ;hildrcn. Be not a galley slave by day md night, lashed fast to the oar of )usiness. Let every day have its hour ?or worship and intellectual culture md recreation. Show yourself greater than your business. Act not as ;hough after death you would enter lpon an eternity of railroad stocks and soffees and ribbons. Roast not your nanhood before the perpetual fires of msiety. With every yard of cloth *ou sell, throw not in your soul to boot, jse firkin and counting room desk and AMAIA MM 4- A AVI And id.ruware uraic 10 goes out of it a skeleten, enough to scare a ghost. Men appreciate the impotence of having a good business stand, a store on the right side of the street or in the right block, yet every place of business is a good stand for spiritual culture. God's angels hover over the world of traffic to sustain and build up those who are trying to do their duly. Tomorrow, if in your place of worldlv engagement you will listen for it, you may hear a sound louder than the rattle of drays and the shuffle of feet and the chink of dollars stealing into your soul, saying, "Seek ye first the king- ' dom of God and his righteousness, and ( all other things shall be added unto ; you." Yet some of those sharpest at a bar &CLIU. aic tucatcu uuuui cutii Jiiiuiuitdi blessedness by stratagems more palpable then any "drop game" of the street. They make investments in , thing? everlastingly below par. They , put their valuables in a safe not tireproof. They give full credit to influences that will not be able to pay , one cent on the dollar. They plunge into a labyrinth from which no bank- , rupt law or "two-thirds enactment" will ever extricate them. They take into their partnership the vorld, the flesh and the devil, aud the enemy of all righteousness vvill boast throngh -x xi. "L . _n eternal ages uiai me man wiio in an his business life could not be outwitted at last tumbled into spiritual defalca tion and wns swindled out of heaven. Perhaps some of you saw the fire in New York in 1835. Aged men tell us th/.t it begeared all description. Some stood on the house tops of Brooklyn and looked at the red ruin that swept down the streets and threatened to obliterate the metropolis. But the commercial world will yet be startled by a greater conflagration; even the last one. Bills of exchaage, policies of insurance, mortgages and bonds and government securities will be consumed in one lick of the flame. The ^urse and the United States mint will ; j urn to ashes. Gold will run molten i into the dust of the street. Ex changes and granite blocks of merchan- i dise will fall with a crash that will make the earth tremble. The flashing up of the great light will show the righteous the way to their thrones, i Their best treasures in heaven, they < will go up and take possession of them. The toils of business life, which racked their brains and rasped their nerves for so many years, will nave iorever ceased. "There the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at i rest." WAR CORRESPONDENTSComplaint of Their Treatment by Otis Sent to London. An Associated Press dispatch from . London Tuesday says: A private let- ! ter received here today from a war cor- ( respondent at Manila and dated June 17, say: "There seems to be no end of , the war in sight. The censorship is , hecominer more troublesome. , Gen Otis recently establised a rule that any matter relating to the navy ! must be taken to the commander of the fleet for his approval and afterward submitted to the military censor, i thus adding to our difficulties. For some reason which the censor would . not explain, Gen. Otis refused to allow us to send the death of the Monad- : nock's captain (Nichols) for two days ( after its occurrence. The general also i refused to allow us to send news of ( the disappearance of Capt. Rockefel- , ler (April 28) on the ground that it ] would worry his family, or the killing of Capt. Tilley, of the signal corps, until the next day. The correspondents are all very tired of this arrangement, which simply means that they I muet go out and run large chances of re oaTTa^ol flTTO^a O XUlf.ll ?0 1/ Li. i_i JUUU Of VAkUvwr m MWV*? i? ? no chance of making reputations, because their stories must always reflect Otis' view. { "It is impossible to write the trutli ' about the situation. The resources 1 and fiehtine Qualities of the natives 1 are quite misunderstood by the Ameri- J can papers and we cannot write the '< facts without being accused of treason; nor can we tell of the practically 3 unanimous opposition to and dislike of ' the war among the American troops. 3 The volunteers, or at least a portion of * them, were at one time on the verge ] of mutiny, and unless Gen. Otis had < begun sending them homewards there 1 would have been sensational developments. "We have been absolutely refused 3 ail hospital figures." 1 GENERAL WEYLEE. j ( ] He Threatens, in the Senate, to Lead l a Revolution in Spain. ( The discussion of ths army bill in } the senate at Madrid Wednesday led ' to an exciting scene. Gen. Weyler, ' arguing against any reduction of the ^ strength of the army, warned the gov- ^ emment that the present situation , made a revolution highly probable, ^ ?ince it had never been so easy for the army and the people to make common cause. He himself, he said, had never thought of heading a rising, but it must be confessed that revolutions some- j times cieared the political atmosphere ] and accomplished the work of regenera- ( tion. Senor Dato, minister of the in- i n rr PPTICcnrAf} (rATl. 1 4Ufc) WW t V*W*^ vw*>ww>*r?. w. Weyler, declaring that a general who, < with 300,000 men had failed to sup- ^ press the Cuban rebellion, had no right ^ to make such threats and that any at- ? tempt at revolution no matter by < whom, would be proceeded against wi.h j the utmost rigor of the la v. The fen- j alors warmly applauded Seiior Dato's ] speech. Tiic army bili was adopted. < Lower Freight. s The railroad commission has promul- i gated the new local tariff on cotton, ' which is of great importance not only to railroads, but cotton shippers and { growers as well. The rates are a reduc- i tion of from 25 to 30 per cent, on rates formerly existing in this State, and are said to lower than those or any state j in the South. The commission and the , railroad officials have had this matter ^ under consideration for a year. ? Shot to Death. 1 Henry Novels; a negro, of Hatties- J burg, Miss., who attempted to assault * | Miss Rosa Davis, Saturday evening was * captured Tuesday and was identified by ? Miss Davis. He was immediately tied to a tree and shot to death by the an- \ gry crowd. 1 mbm?g i?utafrAaao?arWSJ?>gw * THE OHIO TROUBLE] Board ?)T Arbitration Can Do No* j thing in Cleveland Strike. I ????? MAYORS OF TOWNS CLASH. Cleveland's Mayor Threatens to Subdue Brooklyn by Thirst. Cars Run on Twelve Lines. The storm centre of the street railway strike has, according to the authori ties, settled in Brooklyn, a suburb connected wiih Cleveland by a long high bridge. At noon Wednesday 150 employes of the Borne Steel Range company blocked a car on the bridge and dragged the motcrman and conductor from their posts, inflicting with their fists and other weapons injuries more painful than serious. Soldiers on guard at the barn about half a mile away hurried to the scene, but the rioters had taken refuse in the factory, i, wmcii bidiiua uuuci tiic l\j liic bridge. The factory was surrounded and the premises searched, but there was no clew by which the guilty ones could be picked out. Gen. Axline, in command of the troops, iu oruer to pcrsoua.ii> view me situation took a ride on an Orange street car. He was in civilian dress and the car was stoned at various intervals all along the route. A rock came near hitting him. The general took other trips through the troubled districts but declined to give his views of the situation. The vigilance of the guards while daylight aided them prevented trouble of a serious nature. Preparations for mass meetings at various point were made duriDg the v a r>l fv AlUg WiViUVUJj ~ pastor in the presence of a crowd of japing rustics and city dwellers in search of novelty. For a percentage of :be receipts a young farmer who rejoices in the euphonious name of Berta \larion Smith, and Miss Lillian Easterjrook? the daughter of a milkman, consented to make their nuptial rites the subject of public gaze. Twenty-five lollars was offered the Rey. Henry 0. \fonchester, pastor of Danforth Metholist church, to perform the cercmony, md he consented, not understanding ;hat the wedding was to be public. When he learned that Ms tee was to :ome from the treasury of the railroad :ompany and that the wedding was beng advertised for all it was worth as m attraction to the park, he declined ,o have anything to do with it. The services of the Rev. A. Oberlander, an Evangelical Lutheran minister, were :hen hastily secured and the nuptial :not was tied by him. It is estimated ;hat the railroad company made the scheme profitable to the extent of 55,000. The percentage due the bride md groom will set them up comfortable n housekeeping. . ?L?ii"'mm* "ftOU "^"^ OS,ADISG X02ACC0. A Timely Article for Ranters of the A or> \\f AA^ V?V/..U^U. VT ccu. The Tobacco Planters Guide says many tobacco planters make a mistake by not properly grading their crops. Some entertain the idea that they can pack away a lower grade with a higher and make the whole lot sell for the value of the latter, when the result is generally the reverse. Dishonest packing has never paid any farmer and never will. The planter should remember that the buyer generally knows more about the quality of tobacco than any one else, and is more likely to detect any flaws or defects in packing. You can put this down as a safe rule; that, whenever you pack a lower grade with a higher, you are certain to get paid for the lower grade, and all extra leaves put in the lot is just so much waste. Honest packing always pays. Maj. llagland has written so minute ly and so fully on this subject that we cannot do better than give the reader his directions. They are comprehensive and need notbe supplemented with any explanatory notes. ''If, after the tobacco is cured, the weather remains dry and it fails to get soft readily so that it can be moved, it may be brought in order in the following way: Place green bushes with the leaves on the floor and sprinkle water over them copiously. Lf the tobacco is dry and the atmosphere contains but little moisture, and if the weather is cool, a little fire kindieu in the flues will assist in making the tobacco soft. Straw, wet or made so, will answer the same purpose. If the weather is damp there will be no necessity to use either straw, bush or water. But when it is necessary to use means to order tobacco, io is best trt in fliA off^rnAAn fViof vv iwiviuwuu, una.* the tobacco may be removed the next morning. If the weather continues warm and damp or rainy, tobacco that remains hanging will be apt to change color unless dried out by flues or charcoal. Wnen this becomes necessary, build small fires at first, and raise the heat gradually. j.oDacco saouia never oe stripped, from the stalks except in pliable order, and the leaves on every plant should be carefully assorted and every grade tied up sepajately. Usually there will be three gaades of leaf, assorted with reference to color and size, and two of lugs. Of leaf, tie six to eight leaves in a bundle, and of lugs eight to ten. As fast as you strip, either hang the hands on sticks, twenty-five to each stick, and hang up, or bulk down in two layers, the heads of the hands or bundles facing outward. The latter mode is best if you intend to sell in winter order, loose on the warehouse floors. If bulked down, watch frequently to see that it does not heat. If the bulk becomes warm it must be broken up, aired and re-bulked, or hung up if too soft. It :g safer always to hang up as soon as stripped, unless you desire to sell soon, and striKe down m sale Keeping order in spring or summer. It is considered in safe order when the leaf is pliable and Che stem will crack half way down the tie. "If you sell loose, deliver in large, uniform piles; such will cost less and your tobacco bring more in price. 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