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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-04
Tall Stories, but True.

4 gas well was struck at Zenia, Ind,
the other day which has flow of H.
000,000 cubic feet. The flame is seventy
five feet high.
In Augusta, Ca, tree felled in early
morning was before nightfall Of the same
day converted into paper and sent out
beasing the current news.
An immense locomotive has just been
constructed at Paris foundry. Its
builder predicts that it will realize an
approximate speed of ninety-three miles
al hour.
A. r. French, OF Kansas City, had
pretty good luck in fishing the other
day. He seated himself on the pier at
Santa Barbara, CAL, and with hook
and line caught five sharks, averaging in
length five feet and nine inches each.
Tie tiEny monsters fought gamely for
freedom and it took the combined efforts
of three men to get each on terra tirma.
Wird-rolled snowballs are often seen
on the Dakota and Wyoming prairies.
Sometimes millions upon millions of the
bulls are in sight at one time. Many are
of the Of an orange, some as big as q
cannon bah, while others reach the pro-
portions Of the prize pumpkin Of the
county fair. These freaks OF the storm
leave person under the fanciful I'M
preston that great armies of school boys
have been battling over the snowy
spaces.
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fhey maintained on his memory. {

they maintained on his memory. Ger
tain it is that, before their image had
been supplanted, they had, by some
dim association of ideas, forced tho
thought upon him that somewhere be-
fore he had seen those letters. or some
like them. His memory refused TO aid
him in recalling where and under what
circumstances. Not deeming it of any
Importance that he should remember,
he had dismissed the whole matter
from his mind for good, as he supposed.
The question: s.Whcra have l seen
those letters before?n has, however,
kept involuntarily recurring to him.
Each time it has presented itself with
increased force, so that his efforts 10
drive it away have been unavailing.
As he now stands before that door, it
is for no other purpose than torid HIM
self of what has become an annoyance
to him-to find an answer if possible to
the question: s'Where9"
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PoIitcneSs OF The JaDancse.

Talking of politeNcss, the japanese have
that article in their composition To q very
extraordinary extent. Men are always
excessively polite TO one another. They
bend their backs and bow their heads and
put their two hands back to back between
their knees and have IL great time. But
the most amusing thing is to see two old
ladies' in Japan meeting one another on.
tie street The street is empty, we'll say,
and they catch sight of one another three
or four blocks apart. They Immediately
begin to make obeisance at one another,
and they keep bending and bowling at
short intervals until they come together,
when they make chat peculiar hiss by
drawing in the breath and keep on saying
"Ohavor for about two minutes. The
Young things, the ''NooSmaiS, are Very
charming and graceful in their greeting Of
one another, but the old ladies are ornate
and elaborate in their address.
And thc language has been framed with
q view to the necessities of politeness and
of difference in rank Are" with The
accent on the G, is the verb to be. Ii you
are talking to 4 coolie. somebody very
much below YOU, are" is good enough
for is Ii you are talking 10 one II
little below you, Or you wish to be polite
to an untlerlin@. You use ''arlmaS. II
vou are on formal terms with an equal,
YOU say 'goZarimaS. and when you ad-
dress a man high above you in rank you
make it 'gozarimasuru." It's an elastic
language, and pulls ont to almost amy
length.-San Francisco Chronicle I'm
dertOneS. -
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Entered the Wrong House.

'It's the easiest thing in the world to
make a mistake" said an uptown resident
to reporter the other day; 'sand those
poor fellows who 60 home late at night
and happen to get into the wrong house
are entitled to a good deal of sympathy, in
ny opinion. Two gears ago l took a first
tioor in row Of new flats il Harlem.
.sne was the only family in the house,
and we had no immediate neighbors. Win
ter came on and we suffered much discom-
fort. being unable to properly heat our
apartments because OF the cold air which
came uD through the shaft from the base
ncnt Ny wife vowed she would move,
and enc morning as I started for business
Si;e went out on q house hunting eXpedl-
ton Somehow I was delayed in getting
;!c:ac that night. and it was past midnight
when reached the house.
Ascending the steps, I unlocked the
outer and inner doors. walked along the
t!!c'! hail, and opened the door Of Jour pri-
yatc hall, which was usually left un-
fastened for me. Judge Of my surprise
when I found the carpet had been re-
moved entered the dining room; it Yves
empty. By the moonlight that struggled
through TIE blinds could see that there
was not 4 single movable thing remain
ing in the fiat Then it flashed upon me
that my wife had secured other apart
ments and played me the trick Of moving
without my knowledge. was amazed. I
leaned against the wall and thought it
over for awhile. Finally it occurred to me
to make a light. l struck a match and
attempted tc turn on the gas. Then dis
covered there was no gas in the pipes and
decided to 60 outside and look at the num-
Der. Then learned lived next door,
New York Evening Sun
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He BEsTED MoRRlsSEY.
Jim Fisk's Office Boys One Round that
Led to His Success III Life.


Led to His Success IN Life.
C. n. White, chief paymastcr OF the
New York. Lake E-ie and Westeru railroad
company for many years, has resigned.
He is succeeded by Peter +. Donohue.
who was Paymastcr Whites assistant,
When Fisk and Could were in control OF
the Erie, Peter Donohue VAS Fisks office
boy. He was q slight-builo boy, but is
exc was always on the right side of
business
One day Fisk gave orders to Peter, who
sat at tie outside door of Prince Fries
Office in the Grand Opera House building,
that he would be engaged in some partlc-
ular matters, and must be out TO every
applicant, no matter who it might be.
At that time John Morrisscy and Fisk
were great friends: and Morrisscy hap
pened to want to see Fisk that day on some
important business. Peter knew Of the
high regard Fisk had for John Morris5ey,
and the latter was in the habit. when he
called at the Erie building, OF walking
into Fisk S Office Unannounced and with
out ceremony On this day he was pass
ing. when the threc-foot-anG-a-half office
boy rose up and told the co" gresham
that he couldn't pass.
CLOVIS that, said E1orrisscy.
'tMr. Fisk is busy and can't see any
body replied Peter Donohue.
Hell see me- sa;;l Morrissey.
isNo lie won - insisted Peter.
The persistence Of the boy rather net
tied the cX-priZe fighting statesman, and
h. said, testify, and taking step toward
the door:
DO you know who am:''
''yes," said Peter, coolly, ''you'rc John
MorrisSey.''
Well" said Norrissey, II guess Mr..
Fisk will sec me-"
With that he swept the d;minutive Of
flee boy aside and strobe toward the door.
His hand was on the knob, but he did no;
turn it, Peter ponohue sprans on The
broad back OF the former athlete and
climbed mp It like I; monkey. He threw
his arm around Morrissey's neck and
gave it Il squeeze that shut the big mans
wind OFF and forced him to give all !.is
attention % freeing himself from the de
tcrmined Office boys grasp. He finally
succeeded, but when the novel struggle
vas over tie Office boy stood again be:
tween the congressman and FiSk's door.
'.llr Fisk gave me orders to let nobody
il there" exclaimed Peter, ''and you
can't go n That's al there is about it.
Mo:risScE's anger quickly gave way TO
admiration Of the boys pluck and faith
fu!ness. and. laughiny heartily over his
, defeat. he went away lie told Fisk next
Gay a5c;:t his encounter with Peter, and
how the latter had ''downed him" Moth
ing al, Fisil'S remarkable career evcr
pleased him us much rs the mill" f" rs he
called it, between Morrissey and Donohue.
The boy was rapidly advanced by Fisk.
and one of the direct results OF this affair
with Morrissey is his present place 1t the
head of the most important branch of the
Erie railways financial Department.
New York Sun.
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Germany's Army Commanders.

The emperor of Germany is the com
nander-i -in-chief of the army, whose motto
is For God, King and Fatherland." The
allied sovereigns, Bavaria, SaNony. etc,
appoint their officers Of the contingent
which they furnish, but they have TO be
approved by the emperor. The minister
of war is Gen. Won Schellendori. He
superintends the different commands for
Prussia and the confedera;cd states.
Field Marshal Won Moiti:e is at the head
of the general staff. which is made up of
the officers of the different armies tempo
rarily detached. They form seven divis-
ions. The first three study each i theatre
of war, the fourth occupies itself with the
railroads. the fifth devotes its time to mill
tary history, the sixth studies geography
and statistics and the seventh gcodosy
and topography Field Marshal Vol.
NIoltke can call 70 his assistance the most
distinguished civil engineers il the empire
whenever he wishes. The general STAFF
has 4 library, begun in 1916. which now
comprises nearly co. 600 volumes.-Berlin
Cor San Francisco Chronicle.
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a
y with some reluctance, ''that have
shared those feelings with her to a GER
tain extent. 7 am myself an orphan,
you know"
81 do not wonder" said Beckweth,
'sthat a person whose mental charac-
teristics have led her Hto such a
channel should have developed in
childhood desire for the proper
recognition of her true relation to
those about her. Hattie's early solci-
tude for her real mamma never left
her, it seems y
'sNo. She loves and reveres the
memory of those who supplied the
place of her natural parents; but it is
still, as it ever has been, her most
sacred wish to know who the latter
were, and to learn something Of
them.
cit seems to me-" said Mrs. Horton,
ssthat, although it may be difficult
matter after so many years have
passed, it ought not to be impossible
for her to at least learn who her par
ents were. Did Mr.. Harper ever make
an effort in that direction:?"
"He made several efforts; but some
persons have not the gift, You know,
Of conducting thorough Investigation
in any thing. He was one of that
kind, I presume"
Hattie Harper" said Beckweth,
musingly, 81 should really like to meet
her again after this, and renew her
acquaintance. Aunt Alice. did you
see the sketch of Fishers Island that
Miss Denham made? Mop Well she
made one the other day, and I an go
Ing to beg it of her, frame it, and hang
it up here in the cottage as memento
OF my little childhood's playmate, and
of this evening"
"Really,'' said Aunt Alice, "you
have disposed of that picture, which is
not yet even yours, with ali the assur-
ance of Gil Bias. How do You know
that Miss Denham will give it to you?
always catch your turbot before cat
ing it,! used to be good motto when
I was young. Come now! one of you,
finish reading The Newcomers to me;
we have not had any of Thackeray for
two or three days"
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CHAPTER Y.
IN THE JUNK SHOP.


"Sirr' said Bccllwcth. who has final
" entered the little red shop and is
addressing its proprietor, ''havc you
any more letters like the three largest
of those on your door? If so, should
like to sec what ones you have
can what would Vea be wantin'
wild thim?" said MI. Flynn, the self
styled '.junk merchant.
This method Of saluting his visitor
was due to his suspicion and curiosity
getting the better Of him for q mo-
ment; for his practiced eye told him at
a glance that Becllweth was out OF the
run of his usual line OF customers.
For my yacht" was the brief re-
ply.
At this answer his questioncr men-
tally acknowledged to himself that for
once he had bin lid asthray" IN his
estimate of q customer. "Faith:' he
soliloquized, in an undertone. 81 nivcr
thought OF that;" and then added
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Measurement of Clouds.

The most important work in the
measurement OF clouds is now done at the
university of Upsala, Sweden, by Messrs.
Ekholm and Hagstrom. When oppor-
tuni;y offers the heights Of clouds are de-
termincd thrice daily by simultaneous OBJ
scrvatiors at TWO telcphonically connected
stations about mile apart. The angles
Of conspicuous points are carefully noted
by means OF specially adapted instruments,
giving much more satisfactory data for
fixing the distances than have been OBJ
tanned by the Photographic method at
tempted at Kew. The greatest height Of
any cloud yet measured is 43,SG0 feet, and
the highest velocity is 112 miles an hour
for Z cloud at IS, coo feet. The most i'm
portant result thus fer reached from these
measurements is the fact that clouds are
uuitc regularly distributed in three layers,
the mcan Summer levels for Cpsala being:
low clOuGS-stratus. cumuluS, cumulo-
nimbus, 2.000-G,000 feet: middle clouds
strato cirrus, 12,G00-15,00 feet; high
clouds-cirrus, cirro-stratus, cirro-cumu-
IuS. 200G0-27 GOO feet. -ArkansaW
l,.prrirr
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4 Sew Nervous Disease,

In the Dutch Indies i new disease Of
au epidemic character has made its ap-
pearancc 1t is called the berri bcrri and
caused great mortality upon the Lunda
islands. Tile Dutch government sent
Professor Dr.. TekclhariuG to make an eX-
animation, and he has just made his re-
port. He considers it g disease Of the
nerves and thinks {; particular kind of
blctcria VIII be found TO produce it. In
oculation of Gogs and rabbits produced
eft Gets different from the symptoms
sh )wn by men attacked with the disease,
bu. the peculiar degeneration of tho
nerves was similar in man and beast
Chicago News.
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Take Time at the Table.

Americans live at too high a pressure.
No man hes any business having func-
tional dyspepsia. Organic dyspepsia is
different. That is due TO cancer or some
other specific disease Of the stomach or
other internal organs. Rapid eating
often grows out Of the habit Of eating
alone Pleasant company at table and
good food are excellent prcvcntives of
rapid eating. Eat slowly. enjoy Your
food. take plenty Of time between courses
and let your teeth DO their share of the
work instead OF putting the whole job on
the stomach II you don't enjoy Your
meals take vigorous enough exercise to
make you hungry. Hunger is the best
sauce. That is the way 10 prevent Gys-
pep$ia if you haven't it, and III" way to
cure it if YOU laye.-New York World
Interview.
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Crows are commonly said to live for a
hundred Years, and the turtles are reported
to have even longer life; but if Professor
Baird be right, the greatest animal longevity
is possessed by fishes. Professor Baird says
that as a G,h has no maturity there is moth
:ng 10 prevent it from living Indefinitely
and growing continually He cites in
proof i pike living il Russia, whose age
dates back TO the fifteenth century. In the
royal aquarium at St. Petersburg there are
fish that have been there L hundred anu
forty years.
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A Mystery Of the Sea and the Romance
, Of Wreck
CHATTER III
lr0SE SOSG MANY.


When Miss Denham had finished her
account of the shipwreck. BeckWeta,
with all traces of his lighter mood gone,
expressed deep interest in Hattie
Harpsr's history. He said that, al
though he had known herfor but sim
gle summer, she had always been asso-
ciated IN his mind with the recollec-
Nons of his boyhood; for during that
time she had baen his constant and
only playmate. One little incident
now came TO him as clearly as if he
had heard the statement made but yes
terday. He remembered the vehemence
with which little Hattie used to declare
on all possible occasions that Mrs.
Harper was not her Gown mamma. :"
sWhere Is she now, Miss Denham?"
he concluded.
"I can not tell" she replied, after a
moments hesitation; and, had her face
not been in the shadows of the deep,
high-backed srm. chair in which she
sat, her questioners might have seen the
color come and go from her face.
II knew her we'll in Chicago,
several years ago." she continued,
, seeing that Beckweth was great
" interested to know more. Her
father and mother by adoption both
died in the same year, when she was
about sixteen years of age. They had
no relatives in whose special charge
they cared to place her, so she became
she ward of an old friend of the family.
The latter saw that she had a good
home-even a luxurious home-and
that she was literally educated. When
Of age she came into possession Of
what for most persons would be lib
eral fortune, willed her by Mrs. Har-
per, who, surviving her husband, had
been made the recipient OF all of his
wealth"
aPoor child! said Mrs. Horton, Il
am glad to hear that she was well pro-
vided for.''
"Well provided for! yes, in one
wayr' said Miss Denham, speaking
with suppressed energy not uncom-
mon with her. ''She appreciates the
natural benefits that she enjoys; but
they are nothing compared to what
she has been deprived of. Do you call
1t, in the true sense, being well pro-
vided for? Can ones full measure of
true manhood or womanhood be devel-
oped by being denied the priceless as
sociations of home and kindred, except
for ssd5s period in childhood, when
ones nature is less appreciative than
at any other time? Can a home pur-
chased with money, however much
kindly feeling, or even love, ac-
companies it, or can friendship,
warm-hearted and true though
it may be, ever fill mothers, fathers,
. brothers or sisters place in the heart?
Are there not those whose tenlpera-
ment is such as to cause them at times
to experience untold anguish at wit
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aloud: Dropped a letter from her
stern I suppose? What was it?'
s.She has not had any put on yet; she

aloud: Dropped letter from her
stern I suppose? What was it?'
s.She has not had any put on yet; sho
is being built.
"Thin you should have new ones.
I've nothing here that VIII suit.
An impression had come over Mr.
Flvnn that, after all, his first suspicion
had been correct, and that some trc2ch-
cry was in the wind.
The fact was, report had it that Mr.
Flynn was in the habit of sometimes
trading in contraband artic!es-those
that the revenue officers had failed to
obtain proper knowledge OF. 1t be-
came him, therefore, to be wary OF all
unknown customers. After q little
more skirmishing, Beckwcth finally
succeeded in getting matters down to a
business basis by coniiding to the
cautious dealer that the particular pat
tern of those letters that he wanted
happened to be very much
to his taste. He could find
none like them elsewhere, he said,
but if Mr.. Flynn had enough of them
alike to make his yachts name, he
would use them in preference to hay
ing new ones c;tst. \ long search was
then instituted to meet the demands
of the pseudo yachtsman; but It was
without success, for the three on the
door were all of the required pattern and
size that could be found. Mutual re-
grets were expressed at this-sincerc
on the part of one, and assumed by
she other; for Beckweth regarded the
circumstance as rather in favor of his
theory that the P + and y on the
Decreasing all came fron the sam
place.
During the search he had been yer!
salkative, and had made it q point ta
express considerable amusement AM
wonder at the nature of the wares tha
he saw. How could such miscel
ianeous collection Of apparently useles
stuff ever have been brought togcthers'
he asked ''It would be interesting,
be added, "to know how far some o
these odds and ends have travelled be
fore reaching this resting place.
A somewhat derlsive laugh from
Mr. Flynn followed this outbrlrst q
what he considered romance on TIN
part of the "young swell" "Sure
there's no mystery about it at all
said he. "That pile was picked W
about the city by men with their hand
carts; and that big lot came from thl
schooner Flying-Cloud,' that I bough
the hulk OF. l burned it, down Il
the island, and got out of it what 70,
see there. The rope-yarns and cables
my boatmcn collect in theil
boats from the captains and mates
1--WE do the best business with ths
mates) of vessels. All these whole
pieces are sorted from every lot that
comes in, and are mostly sold again al
second hand. But come, now! Some
of these other letters will do you a:
we'll as any he exclaimed, returning
to the business in hand. Don't want
any othcrs?n he continued, in response
to Beckweth's refusal to consider such
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The Bald knobbers, John Mathews,
Wm Walker and Wiley Matthews, who
nave recently been convicted at Ozark,
No, for the murder OF Charles Green and
William Edcns in one Of their night raids
in Christian county, about 4 year ago,
have been sentenced to be hanged at Ozark
on Friday, May Is.
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The Ellc of I Three.

First Medical Standardization
what is the subject selected for discussion
at our next meeting of the McGico Sc!cu-
tiiico society: Dye know. doctor:
Second Medical Student-Aw-let-Ine
See. doctor Aw-yes:
'.RcSoIrcd, That il a boy falls from 4
second story window and breaks one leg,
wouldn't he break two legs il he fell from
fourth story Window:"-The Epoch.
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The strongest friendships have been
formed iA mutual adversely, as iron IS
most strongly united by the tiercest dame.>
Cotton.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-05-09
The Braxron Craven Char

Rev. DR.. J. B. Bobbitt who has
been in attendance at the Sunday
School Conference, informs Us that
heis working to raise funds for the
"Rraxton Craven Endowment Chair"
of Trinity College. He desires TO
raise $4,000 for this purpose. We
wish him success in his hudab'e en-.
terprise. No msL has ever lived In
North Carolina who did so much for
the young men Of the State as Rev.
DIR. B. Craven, the brainest man
NJ nth Carolina has ever produced.
II is not necessary to endow this
''Chair" to commemorate his memory
and crest deeds, for they will live
throughout all ages, undimmed BY
time. But such az endowment will
carry out DR.. Craven's idea. By civ
ing education to a great many young
men, mostly who are unable to pay
their expenses. We trust the Meth.
0dists Of Durham will contribute ai
least $1,000 for this course.