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DR.TALMAGE’S sermon The Eminent Divine’s Sunday Discourse. Si*l>jcol: “Advice to Commercial Drum mer*”—Many Are the Temptation* That Hcxet Traveling Men—Christian A»*neJutloiiN >ecc**ary. Text: “The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against an other in the bread ways; they shall seem like torches; Nahum*ii., they shall run like the light nings.”— 4. It has been found out that many of the arts and discoveries which we supposed merely were peculiar to our own and ago are discoveries the restoration of tho arts of thousands of years ago. 1 suppose that tho past centuries have forgotten more than tho present century knows. It seems to me that they must have known thou sands of years ago in tire days of Nineveh of the uses oi steam and its application to swift travel. In my text I hear the rush of the rail train, the clang of the wheels and the jarnmiug of the car couplings. “The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches; they shall run like tho lightnings.” Have you ever taken your position in the the night far away from a depot along track waiiii^; to see the rail train come at full speed? At first you heard in the dis tance a rumbling, like the coming of a storm, then you saw the flash of the head light of the locomotive as it turned the curve; then you saw the wilder glaro of tho fiery eye of the train as it came plunging toward you; then you heard the shriek of the whistle that frenzied all the echoes; then you saw the hurricane dash of cin ders; then you felt the jar of the passing earthquake and you saw the shot thunder bolt that of the express train. Well, it seems we can hear the passing of a midnight express train in my text, “The chariots shall rage in the streets; they justle one against another in the broad'ways; they shall seem like torches; they shall run like the lightnings.” I halt the train long enough to get on board, and I go through the ears, and I find three-fourths of the passengers are commercial travelers. They are a folk peculiar to themselves, easily recognized, at home on all tfle trains, not startled by the sudden dropping of the brakes, familiar with all the railroad signals, can tell you what is the next station, how long the train will stop, what place the passengers take luncheon at, can give you information on almost aDy subject, are cosmopolitan, at home everywhere from Halifax to San Francisco. They are on the 8 o’clock morning train, on the noon trait, on the midnight train. You take a berth in a sleeping car, and either above you or be neath you is one of these gentlemen. There are 100,000 professed commercial travelers in the United States, but 500,000 would not include all those who are some times engaged in this service. They spend millions of dollars every day in the hotels and in the rail trains. They have their official newspaper organ. They have their mutual benefit association, about 4000 names on the rolls, and have al ready distributed more tbnn $200,000 among families of deceased members. They aro ubiquitous, unique, and tre mendous for good or evil. All the ten dencies of merchandise are toward their multiplication. The house that stands back on its dignity and waits for customers to come, instead of going to seek bargain makers, will have more and more unsalable goods on the shelf arid will gradually lose its control of the markets. While the great, enterprising and successful houses will have their agents on all the trains, and “their chariots will rage in the streets, the they broad shall justle one They against shall another in ways. seem like torches, they shall run like the light nings.” I think commercial travelers can stand a sermon of warm hearted sympathy. If you have any words of good cheer for them, you had better utter them. If you have any good, honest prayers in their behalf, they will be greatly obliged to you. I never knew a man yet who did not like to be prayed for; I never knew a man yet that did uot like to be helped. • It seems to me this sermon is timely. At this season of the year there aro tens of thousands of men going out to gather the spring trade. The bitter curse of Almighty God will rest upon that commercial establishment which expects its employes to breax the Sabbath. What right has a Christian merchant to sit down in church on the Sabbath when his clerks are traveling abroad through the land on that day? Get up, professed Christian merchant, so act ing. Y r ou have no business here. Go out and call that boy back. There was a mer chant in 1887 who wrote: “I should have been a dead man had it not been for the Sabbath. Obliged to work from morning until night through the whole week, I felt on Saturday, especially on Saturday It after noon, that I must have rest. was like going into a dense fog. Everything could looked be dark and gloomy us if nothing saved. I dismissed all and kept tjje Snb buth in tho old way. On Monday it was all sunshine, but had it not been for the Sab bath, I have no doubt I should have been in my grave.” Be ashamed to sell foreign fabrics or fruits unless yon know something about the looms that wove them or the vineyards that grew them. Understand all about the laws that control commercial life, about bauking, about tarilfs, about markets, about navigation, about foreign people— theiy characteristics and their political revolutions ns they alTeet ours; about the harvests of Russia, the vineyards of Italy, the teaflelds of Cnina. Learn about the great commercial centres of Carthage and Assyria and Phoenicia. Read all about the Medici of Florence, mighty in trade, mightier in philanthropies. You belong to the royal family of merchants. Be worthy of that royal family.- Oh, take my advice and turn the years of weariness into 3 ‘enrs of luxury. But you have come now neay the end o! your railroad travel. You begin business. Now, let me say, there aro two or three things you ought to remember. First, that all tho trade you get by the tice of “treating” will not stick. If you cannot get custom except by tipping a wineglass with somebody, you had not get his custom. An old traveler gives as his experience that got by “treating” always damages house that gets it in one way or other. O commercial traveler, though your may give you line, the largest salary of man in your though they might you ten per cent, of all you sell, or per cent, or fifty per cent, or per cent., they cannot pay enough to it worth your while to ruin your soul! Besides that, a commercial bouse never compensates a man who has been morally ruined in their employ. A young man in Philadelphia was turned out from his tim |dov because of inebriation got in the ■errIce of the merchant who employed ftim. aud here is the letter ho wrote to “his employer: “Sir—1 came into your service uneor rupt in principles and in morals, but tho rules of your bouse required me to spoil J my evenings at places of pub.its entertain ment and amusement in sen rob of custom ers. To accomplish my work in your ser vice I was obliged to drink with them ami join them in their pursuits of pleasure. It was not my choice, but the rule of the house. I went with them to the theatre and the billiard table, t but it wits not my choice. I did not wish to go; I went in your service. It whs not my pleasure so to do, but I was the conductor and compan ion of the simple ones, void alike of under standing and of principles, in their sinful pleasures and deeds of deeper darkness, that I might retain them ns your custom ers. Your interest required it. 1 have added thousands of dollars to tho profits of your trade, but at what expense you now see, and I know too well. You nave be come wealthy, but I am poor Indeed, and now this cruel dismissal from your employ is the recompense I receive for a character ruined and prospects blasted in helping to make you a rich man!” Alas for the man who gets such a letter as that! Again, I charge you, tell the whole truth about anything you sell. Lying commer cial travelers will precede you. Lying commercial travelers will como right after you into the same store. Do not let their unfair competition tempt you from the straight line. It is nn awful bargain that a man makes when he sells his goods and his soul at the same time. A young man in one of the stores of New York was selling some silks. He was binding them up when he said to the lady customer, “It Is my duty to show you, that there is a fracture in that silk.” She looked at it and rejected the goods. The head of the firm, hearing of it, wrote to the father of the young man in the country, saying: “Como and take your son away. He will never make a merchant.” The father came in agitation, wondering what his boy had been doing, and the head men of the firm said: "Why, your son stood here at this counter and pointed out a fracture in the silk, and of course the lady wouldn’t buy it. We aro not responsible Customers for the ignorance look of them- cus tomers. must for selves. Your son will never make a mer chant.” “Is that all?” said the father. “Ah! I am prouder of my boy that I ever was. John, get your hat and come home.” But it is almost ni£nt, and you go back to the hotel. Now comes the mighty tug for the commercial traveler. Tell me where he spends his evenings, and I will toll vou where he will spend eternity, and I will tell you what will be liis worldly prospects. There is an abundance of choice. There is your room witli the books. There are the Young Men’s Christian Association rooms. There are the week night services of the Christian churches. There is the gamb ling saloon. There is the theatre. There is the house of infamy. Plenty of places togoto. But which, O immortal man, which? O God, which? “Well,” you say, “I guess I will—I guess I will go to the theatre.” until Do you think the tarrying ia that place 11 o’clock at night will im prove your bodily health, or your financial prospects, or your eternal fortunes? No man ever found the path to usefulness, or honor, or happiness, or commercial suc cess, or heaven through the American the atre. “Well,” you say, “I guess, then, I will go to—I guess I will go to the gambl ing saloon.” You will first go to look. Tbeu you will go to play. You will make $100, you will make $500, you will make $1000, you will make $1500. Then you will lose all. Then you will borrow some money so as to start anew. You will make $50. you will make $100, you will make $600. Then you will lose all. These wretches of the gambling saloon know how te tempt you. But mark this: All gamblers die poor. They may make fortunes— great fortunes—but they lose them. “Weil,” you say, “if I can’t go to the theatre, and if I can’t go to the gambling saloon, then I guess—I guess I will go to the house of infamy.” Commercial trav elers have told me that in the letter box at the hotel, within one hour after their ar rival, they have had letters of evil solicita tion in that direction. It is far away from home. Nobody will know it. Commercial travelers have sometimes gone in that evil path. Why not you? Halt! There are other gates of ruin through which a man may go and yet borne out, but that gate has a spring lock which snaps him in forever. He who goes there is damned already. He may seem to bo comparatively free for a little while, but he is only on the limits, and the Sa tanic poliee have their eyes upon him to bring him ia at any.moment. The hot curse of God is oi^ that crime, and because of it there are men whose heaven was blotted out ten years ago. There is no danger that they be lost; they are lost now. I look through their glaring eyeballs down into the lowest cavern of hell. O destroyed spirit, why comest thou in here to-day? Dost think I have the power to break open the barred gateway of the penitentiary of the damned? There i3 a passage in Proverbs I somewhat hesitate to read, but I do not hesitate long: “At the win dow of my house I looked through my casement and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man, void of understanding, pass ing through the street uear her corner, and he went the way to her house in tiie twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night. Ho goeth after her straight way, as an ox goeth to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, till a dart strikes through his liver.” But now the question is still open— Where will you spend your evening? O commercial travelers, how much will you give me to put you ou the right track? Without charging you a farthing I will prescribe for you a plan which will save you for this world and the next, if you will take it. Go, before you leave borne, of to the Young Men’s Christian Association the city where you live. Get from them letters of introduction. Carry them out to the towns and cities where you go. If there be no such association in the place you Chris- visit, then present them at the door of tian churche, and hand them over to the pastors. Be not slow to arise in tho devotional meeting and say: “luma com mercial traveler. I am far away from home, and I come in here to-night to seek Christian society.” The best houses and highest style of amusement will open be fore you, and instead of your being de pendent upon the leprous crew who hang around the hotels, wanting to show you all the slums of the city, on the one condition that yotf will pay their expenses, you wilt get the benediction of God in every town you visit. Remember this, that whatever place you visit bad influences will seek you out. Good influences you must seek out. While I stand Lore I bethink myself of a commercial traveler who was a member of my church in Philadelphia. He was a splendid young man, the pride of his wid owed mother and of his sisters. It was his joy to support them, and for that purpose ho postponed his own marriage day. He thrived ia business, and Leaving after awhile set up his own household. that city for another city, I had r.o oppor tunity for three or four years of making inquiry in regard to him. When I made such inquiry, I was told that he was • lead. The st^rv was, he was largely generous and kind-hearted and genial and social, and iie got into the habit of “treat ing” customers and pf showing them all the sights of the town, and he began rapid ly to go down, and lie lost liis position in the church of which he wa3 u member, aud ho lost ms position in tno commercial heuse of which lie was tho host agent, and his beautiful young wife ami his sick old mother and bis sisters wedt into destitu tion, and he, as a result of his dissipation, died in Kirkbride Insane Asylum, O commercial travelers, I pray for you the all sustaining grace of God. There are two kinds of days when *TUo vou are especially iu need of divine grace. one, the day when you have no success—when you fail to make a sale—and you are very much disappointed, uud you go hack to your ho tel discomfited. That night you will oe tempted to go to strong drink nud rush in to bad surroundings. The other day, When you will especially need divine grace, will be when you have had a day of great success and the devil tells you you must go and celebrate that success. Tuen you will want the grace of God to restrain you from rollioklug indulgences. Yes, ihere will be a third day when you will need to be Christians, and that will be the last day of your life. I do uot know whore you will spend it. Perhaps in your house, more probably in a rail cur, or a steamer, or the strange hotel. I see you on your last commercial errand. You have bidden goodbv to tho iamlly at home for the las; time. The train of your earthly existence is nearing the depot of the grave. The brakes are falling. The bell rings at the terminue. The train stops. All out for eternity. Show your ticket now for get ting into the gam of the shining city—the red ticket washed in t j blood of the Lamb. SOUTHERN PROGRESS, The New Industries Reported iu tho South During tho Past Week. The more important of the new in dustries reported for the past week in clude a $100,000 brewery in West Vir ginia; a canning factory in Tennessee; carriage works in Georgia; coal mines in West Virginia; two cotton mills in Georgia and one each iu Alabama and Louisiana; cotton seed oil mills in Mississippi and Texas; electric light plants in Georgia, Kentucky and Ten nessee; electric light and power plants in Kentucky and Virginia; planing mill in Alabama, Kentucky, Tennes see, North Carolina, South Carolina 2) and Virginia; gold mine develop ment in North Carolina; two handle factories in Kentucky; a $75,000 hardware company in Louisiana; a 160-ton iron furnace in Tennessee; a knitting mill, lead and zinc mines and a lock factory in Virginia; lumber mills in Florida, Mississippi, '3ast Tennessee, West Tennessee and Eastern Texas; a stave and heading mill in Alabama; a sugar mill in Lou isiana; tile works and a wire mill in ventucky. —Tradesman (Chattanooga, Teun). REBELS MAY SURRENDER. It Is Said That Aguinalclo Will Entertain Pacific Overtures. Anvices of Monday from Manila state that two Spanish commissioners, Senors Eosatio and Abogado, who were permitted to pass through our lines and confer with Aguinaldo with reference to the Spanish prisoners at Malolos, returned through our lines Monday morning, near Caloocan.with sealed dispatches for the Spaniards. The commissioners said that Aguin aldo and Sandiko were both at Malolos, and inclined to pacific overtures. While the Filipinos are not yet pre pared to surrender the Spanish pris oners, they will gladly release two Americans who are held by them. EAGAN BEFORE INQUIRY BOARD. He Vigorously Denied Knowledge Of Any Chemical Treatment of Beef. After a session of a little more than two hours Friday, the court of inquiry investigating the beef charges at Washington, adjourned until Monday, pending the arrival of witnesses. Former Commissary General Eagan concluded his testimony, explaining the provisions of contracts for beef supplies to the army in Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines. He very vigorously denied knowledge of any chemical treatment of beef to preserve it, and disavowed any connection whatever of the government with any such treatment. He further defended the canned roast beef, explaining why it had been sent to the troops. HURRY ORDERS GIVEN. Otis Urges Lawton to Hasten to Manila With Reinforcements. Advices from Colombo, Island of Ceylon, are to the effect that the United States transport Grant, which sailed from New Y r orlc for Manila, on January 19th, with troops under com® mand of General Henry, with Lawton on board, arrived there Saturday. General Lawton received a cable gram from Major General Otis, in charge of the American military forces in the Philippines, saying: “Situation critical. 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