The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
"!HOM'S' TROUBLES.
A CHANGE OF BUSINESS ADVISABLE BUT
NOT PROBABLE.

McCOrmick's HO1fday..."Tom's' Ex.
perience-.."Could Run the Bust.
: ness''-..Draughts vs.. Sugar.
Shouldering Crossties...Corn Whis.
key without Distillation-..Tele.
phone Connection with Augusta.
MCCORMICK, s. c., Monday, July IS. 1880.
the people in Mccormick and the country for
several miles around in the neighborhood.
Another excursion from Augusta, Ga. The
Brothers and Sisters Mutual Aid Society.
They have $50 members. Initiation fee, N.5o;
monthly dues, 25 cents; one dollar allowed
per week for O sick member and all necessary
| nurses; at the death Of a member each mem.
Der Is assessed one dollar. They had Prof.
music, all free, and nice barbecue. all fur
nished from Augusta-meats, breads, pots
and cooks. They arrived here about eleven
o'clock, and about two hours was taken up
| by introductlons, as all the relatives had
come in from the contingencies. aunts,
cousins-from first half cousin on up to about
forty y.second. By this time dinner was ready,
and all, old and young, fell into line TO par.
dinner every one took hand In the ramble
about and around the famous old gold mines.
The train pulled out about O'Clock and then
came the general good-bye-aunt, uncle, cous.
In, and goodbye everybody. ,,,,u,s ,ooo
Mr.. Editor, I told you In my last that ex.
pected To make change In my business this
week, by and through the consent Of my
day made 1t o holiday with the balance .ol
| the good people so that Is one more day gone
which never "an regain; q solid dead loss
but no day 10 get situation, which i ex.
law. so th, old lady said Tuesday would do
30 this morning set out. I first went TO q
dry goods house and found the proprietor In
and had a long talk with him about the dry
the questions put TO me about dry goods. such
as laces, embroidery, muslins. nlulls, &c., as. ]
had spent some time sitting about the DOOR
The gentleman asked what could afford to
work for. / told him, which seemed TO please
him very much, that was one thing my moth.
Ier-in.law had drilled me in, to set my price
then could advance, so I thought the posi-
tion secured. I told the proprietor how
could run the business when got there, and
/ was in The act OF returning home, when he
told me that he had concluded not to get any
made up my mind that the dry goods busl.
ness was not q very healthy business anyway,
as there was SO much poisonous dyes used IN
cheap goods, and that there must be great
during the day, and It looked hot and dry in
the store anyway, to me, but I promised to
call again. h.. .r
asked II Mr.. - was In. The young man
| told me he was, and to please walk back In
the office. 1 walked back, eyeing things as /
| passed down to the office. What conglom-
Of gSs up
ed any help. I told him my business in as
few words as possible, for good business men
do with as few words as will carry on busi-
ness; they always like to receive short letters
l-especiaily duns. He told me that he was
needing man, one that could handle heavy
groceries, such as boxes Of bacon, barrels OF
molasses, &C. I told him was bis man, and
we pretty soon agreed on wages. He then
player. I told him l was hard to beat: he
then asked me II was playing game OF
checkers, and customer was to come In and
ask for adollar's worth Of sugar, what would i
| we did not have any sugar, but would have
some in a Few days. He then told me to call
again, as he had promised an answer to young
man that had applied before me. made up
hot. hot
/ returned home and made my report to my
wife, and she TO my mother-in.laW. We all
went TO supper, as usual. could see that my
mother.inlaw was not as cheerful as she
might have been, and would look over the
| table at me, just about the way COW looks
at three-year-old calf excused myself by
saying would 60 out again tomorrow, and
/
two errors-one was, telling the dry goods
| man how / expected to run the business when
| I got there; and the other was telling the gro
cery man that would tell the customer that
we did not have the sugar: was too honest
and that is just what my mother-in-law says.
| WEDNESDAY, July II, 1889.
All is lovely this morning. feel like an
evening star. had good shGve last night,
after hearing grand lecture from my moth
er-in-law on business generally, and finally
| wound up on men that did not provide for
their families. She did not include me, that
ls she did not call my name; but 1t was
about as hot in my room for awhile as 1t
looked in the grocery store. We came near
having serious accident here this morning,
la man tried to couple on to one OF the trains
while running. The result was, the man
The train pulled up and took him on. He
must have been mute, ss he could not speak
and seemingly could not hear.
While In my rambles about town I looked
into drug store. Everything looked neat
and nice, and must say cool and inviting,
so began thinking what knew about med.
icines, and as had been medical student
once under a country doclor, made up my
do in getting a situation. I met the proprie
tor, who was ever so polite to me. I suppose
he thought from my looks that he would get
TO sell bottle Of Simmons Liver Regulator,
acted much since last nights lecture from my
mother-in.law; but soon set him Alright
He was in his shirt sleeves, or, as you might
say, with his coat of. How cool he looked
the place have been looking for all summer,
and the salary shall not keeI me out. and he
may run his business as he II kes, and am no
draughtplaye er anyway. He asked me what
knew about drugs, medicines, &c; l told
him that by asking me few questions, ne
might be better satisfied, and that had not
put up a Job on him. So he asked me to give
him the English OF the following words:
| Aesc,tles Htppocastdnum: answered, H9rse
chesnut. Next, Apocynual AndessdcnlafoLtun'
Answer, Bitter Root. Next, ChaHdaden-
dram Tornientosum-I thought he had me on
this as could not get up any Engish 70 SUIT
1t, but I thought the place looked 30 cool, l
would give him little Latin, so answered,
Pareia Brava. Right or wrong 1t passed.
Next Polytrichunl Junipc4intna - Answer.
| Hair Cup Moss. Next, Hanthorgt,tn', Answer
| -Prickly Ash. He then handed me the fol,
there Be any difficulty in compounding it:
Ammon Corb. gr. 20.
Ammon Chlor. gr. 80.
Syr. Allie, OF. l.
Aauae, 9.5 oz.2.
Half teaspoonful as required.
/ informed him that an explosion might oc-
cur in compoundingi 1t, when the syrup OF gar
lie has been placed In bottle and the solution
of ammonium salts added. The only way to
compound 1t safely would be TO mix the 60.
luton OF Ammonium Salts with the Surup OF
Garlic in mortar, and to allow the carbonlc
acid gas produced by action OF the acetic
acid In the syrup on the Ammonium Corbon.
ate to escape.
After going through this rigid examination
and feeling satisfied that had answered cor.
rectly, I thought sure the job was mine. But
"the end was not yet" He then asked me II
could tell him how much water would be
required to one quart Of alcohol to make
good article of corn whiskey, and how much
red sanden should be added to make good
article OF rye whiskey-I failed. went
through the whole U. 8. Dispensatory In my
mind, but could not remember ever seeing
any formula to make whiskey, only by dis
nj al