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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-07
The DIscoyerer of Bill Nye.

Bill Nye's real name, strange to re
late, is William Nye. That may not
seem surprising, and yet it is, for the
adoption of false name is trait that
literary men and burglars bear in COM
mon. The man who is responsible for
this discovery is E. D. Cowan, who is
now in Europe in the interest Of the
Chicago Daily News. Cowan was con-
nected with the Denver Tribune at the
same time that the crimson-crested poet
of the Wild West, Eugene Field, was
also Illuminating it pages. In looking
over the exchanges Cowan's attsntion
was frequently attracted by splitting
paragraphs which appeared in q dis
tressed looking sheet called the Laramie
Boomerang. Investigation resulted in
the discovery that they were the contri-
button of a Boomerang compositor
named Bill Nye. O. H. Rothacker, the
editor OF the Denver Tribune, so dazed
the newly discovered humorist with 8
magnificent offer of a salary OF S25 9
week, that Nye left the printing case and
plunged into the maddening whirl ot
literature.
Now the World is his oyster, and he
is only little more than so years ot
age, and bald headed at that.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-07
The Duty of Every Patriot.

At the reunion of the Confederate So
cieties in Baltimore on Washington's
birthday Gen. Wade Hampton was pres
ent. The Baltimore American says:
cloud calls we're made for United
State Senator Wade Hampton, who, with
Ex-Governor Hugh Thompson, of South
Carolina, had seats on the stage. One
man called for the rebel yell, and great
shouting followed. Senator Hampton
said: 1T was the greatest misfortune Of
my army life that 1 was not present at
these sad scenes. had fought through
the whole war, and was in North Carroll
ma when Lee surrendered. I felt as we
all felt-that the South had failed, and
that it was better to have died on some
of the Dattlefelds, where the rebel yell
was sounding and our flags were flying.
When l saw General Lee after the war
he said it would have been easy for him
at any time to have been relieved Of his
great responsibility by riding along the
line and letting friendly bullet end him,
but that he lived and did what he did
for duty's sake only. Il could have
taken no other course with honor, he
said, sand if the same thing were to do
over, I would DO as I did then Every
true old Confederate ought to feel IN
that way. Imake no apology for my
course during the war. | could wish my
tongue would cleave to the roof of my
mouth if I attempted to call my old
comrades in arms traitors. It is the duty
of every patriot and old Confederate to
try to make this country fit for freemen
TO live in for all time to come.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-07
Huge Trees.
(From the Lexington, Ca, Echo.)

In private letter to gentleman IN
this city, from Col. Jno. D. Whitford,
there is an account of some forest giants
lately measured in Greene and Wilson
counties on Contentnea Creek, One
pine tree measured % feet in clrcumfer-
ence and would make stick Of timber,
solid heart, 5 feet square and 35 feet
long, or straight-edge plant 6 feet wide
and IS feet long. mother pine meas
ured IS feet in circumference and 100
feet to the first branch: Some white
oaks were measured and would make
plank 2 feet wide and 60 feet long. A
pine which was felled for making shin.
giles measured IL feet in diameter and
i42 feet long. These immense trees are
found abundantly in that section and
will some day command good price:
The party of engineers under Colonel
Whitford is engaged In clearing out OBJ
structions from the channel OF Con-
tentnea Creek and will soon have the
stream open for steamers to point
within six niles of the Wilmington Il
Weldon Railroad, 63 miles above the
mouth of the Greek, and 100 miles above
New Berne.-Raleigh News-Observer.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-07
The Experience of ENoduses.

We have had several negro exoduses
since slavery was abolished, and we
know how they have turned out. In
every case, whether to Texas, to Kansas,
or to the North, the result has been col
lapse and misery. The whites who
colonized Central America and Brazil
after the war starved, and the remnants
were brought home as paupers. 1t takes
the best of timber to make colonists.
This sort the negroes of the South are
not. If they have not the fibre to meet
the difficulties of their present situation,
they cannot meet the more complicated
difficulties Of new climate, new crops,
new diseases, and, what is worse to such
races, home sickness. The movement
has q rascal in it somewhere, or an i'm
poster, or a fraud.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
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of orphanages. If a mother sit almost
every evening by the trundle bed OF q
child, and teach it lessons of Saviour
love and q Saviour's example, of the
importance of truth and the horror of 6
lie, and the virtues of industry and kind.
ness and sympathy and sef-sacri6ce,
long after the mother has gone and the
child has gone, and the lettering on both
the tombstones shall have been washed
out by the storms of innumerable win
tiers, there may be standing, as result
of those trundle-bed lessons, flaming
evangels, world-moving reformers, sera'
phic summer fields, weeping Paysons,
laundering Whitefelds, emancipstine
Washingtons.
parental influence, right and wrong,
may Jump over generation, but 1t will
come down further on as sure es you sit
there and stand here. This explains
what we often see-some man or woman
distinguished for benevolence when the
father and mother were distinguished
for penuriousness, or you see some
young man or woman with bad father
and hard mother come ont gloriously
for Christ and make the church sob and
shout and sing under their exhortations.
We stand in corners of the vestry and
whisper over the matter and say: sHow
is this, such great piety in sons and
daughters of such parental woridliness
and sin?' I will explain it to you if you
will fetch me the old family Bible con-
tanning the full record.
IT IS A HARD WORLD FOR WOMEN.
ssMothers of America, consecrate your
selves to God and you will help to con-
secrate ali the ages following. Do not
dwell so much on your hardships that
you miss your chance of welding an in
huence that shall look down upon you
from the towers of an endless future. l
know Martin Luther was right when he
consoled his wife over the death of their
daughter by saying: Don't take on So,
wife; remember that this is q hard world
for girls. Yes go further and say: It
is hard world for women. Aye, go
further and say: It is e hard world for
men. But FOR all women and men who
trust their bodies and souls in the hands
of Christ, the shining gates will soon
swing open. Don't you see the sickly
pallor on the sky? That is the pallor on
the cold cheek Of the dying night, Don't
you see the Frightening of the clouds?
That is the flush on the warm forehead
of the morning. Cheer up; you are
coming within sight of the Celestial City.
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plan of the stations be appropriated from
the funds Of the Department.
MINOR MATTERS
MINOR MATTERS,

The Committee on Phosphate Depart
ment were authorized and directed to make
an annual inspection of the phosphate ter
ritory. No date was fixed for the iasrec-
tion.
The proposition of the Cotton Plant, of
Greenville, to print 5000 copies of the
monthly report of the Department for $53
s. month, to be issued free to persons not
subscribers to the Cotton Plant, was ac-
cepted.
The Committee on Publications submit
ted report authorizing the publication at
once in pamphlet form 5, 900 copies of such
parts of the special exposition report as are
appropriate, to be accompanied by recent
statistics and map of the State, for gen.
eral distribution. Adopted.
This committee also reported upfavora-
bly, on the proposition from DR.. D. P.
Robbins for the Board to subscribe for
number of copies of his forthcoming book
of Columbia. This report was adopted, as
was also the unfavorable reports on the
propositions of Mr.. John s. Reynolds
aud Mr. G. A. Calvo, Jr, to publish the
monthly reports of the Department.
The Board adjourned to meet again on
the first Wednesday in May at 10 A. III.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-07
Cotton and Corn.

Under this heading, we find the fol.
lowing in the New Orleans Times-Dem-
ocrat:
The Southern press seems to have
finally persuaded the farmers to aban-
don the all cotton idea, and to grow more
grain. It has been calling their atten-
ton to this matter for some years, with
little effect, but the farmers appear to
have finally walked up to the fact that
there is more money to be made by cul-
tivating cotton and food products to-
gethers than by devoting themselves to
the great Southern staple alone. Diver
sifed crops prevented an over-produc-
ton of cotton and low prices; and it
freed the farmers from too great a de-
pendence on the West. Formerly, near
y all the profit from the cotton crops
went for food products. Now that the
latter are being raised on the place, the
cotton becomes a surplus crop, with
which the farmer can buy his clothing,
sugar, coffee and such other articles as
he cannot raise.
The change in agricultural methods in
the South is shown in the fact that last
seasons corn crop was of nearly the
same value as the cotton produced, the
two standing, cotton S264, S52, 600, corn
S213, 662, ,920. Adding the oats, wheat,
etc., it is probable that the cereals raised
in 1887 were equal, if they did not excel
in value, s'King Cotton. %
We are not among those who are al
ways crying out against ''the great
Southern staple" as if it was actually
an enemy of this section, but it does not
require much consideration of the sub
ject to see that there is far more profit
in growing cotton as our farmers did
last year, than in raising it as the South
has generally done in the past, selling at
low figure and buying all our supplies
from the West. The profit of the cot
ton crop formerly found its way to lii
nois, Iowa and Ohio; under the changed
system the South will keep most Of it.
The newspapers have made great
outcry against the all-cotoon theory, and
they have done some good in this dlrec-
ton, but the fact remains. and will con-
tinue to remain, that cotton is the cash
crop of the South, and the farmers will
continue to grow it because every pound
represents so much money.
As to corn, that is another matters 1t
can be grown to greater advantage IN the
West than in the South, even under the
most favorable conditions. AS food fo1
stock oats and rye are infinitely superior,
and these can be raised much more
cheapiy. This is matter that every
farmer ought to consider. Corn is not
the best feed for stock. It Is never used
in Europe, and it is not necessary IN the
West and South.
In our opinion, wheat, oats and rye
are much more profitable in the SoutE
than corn, and the wonder is that on,
farmers do not SOW larger acreage OF
these cereals.-Atlanta Constitution.
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LEAP YEAR PROPOSALS.
Advice to Young Ladies Who Dare to Z
ercise Their Privileges In 1855.

Advice to Young Ladies Who Dare to Ex
ercise Their Privileges In 1888.
A young lady comes to us with very
curious request, says the Baltimore
American. 81 want you,' she writes
s'to tell me how to proceed to make
leap year proposal. do not mean any.
thing farcical, but real matrimonial
proposition, and desire to do it in.suct
a way that the effort will not be failure
Please give me a few practical direc
tions."
Of course we will, dear Miss "Cyn.
thia," of course we will. Evidently you
have never made a leap year proposal
and you naturally feel nervous; but,
never fear, it's nothing when you gel
used to it. In the first place, you must
catch your man. From the tone of YOU
letter We infer that you have got him
Well, the next thing is to surround the
man with favorable conditions. Never
propose in the morning. 1t is worse
than useless. To nine people out OF ten
there is no more romance in the earlier
part of the day than there is sunshine al
midnight. The evening is a good time
When the young man is alone with you
and his face assumes sentimental look,
pop the question. Force an answer at
once. The average man needs time tc
frame excuses and equivocations. The
best plan is to make him commit him
self, and after he does this get him to
write a few sickly love letters. The
sicklier the better.
Then, Miss Cynthia, you must make
few presents to the young man. A
cluster diamond ring is quite acceptable;
a gold watch and chain would not be
amiss, and almost anything that costs
from $500 to $1,000 would not be likely
to freeze his love. You must also pay
fer tickets to the drama and opera.
Booth tickets at 81 for the two for six
nights in one week would be slightly ex-
pensive, but you must remember, Miss
Cynthia, that courtships are very ex-
pensive, especially leap year courtships.
And, after all, if his love should wan
der away from you and he should try to
defeat matrimony by innumereble post
ponements, your course would be en-
tirely clear. You would merely have to
get those sickly love letters before a
jury and the verdict would follow.
Forty-fve thousand dollars is the fash
ionable figure, but as Baltimore is more
sympathetic than New York there is no
reason why you shouldn't get $50, 900,
and any young lady who has $4,000 IN
her own name need not remain uu-
married long.
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DEAR Mr.. EDIToR:-Won't you please
tel your male readers that s. will buy a
fine, strong and serviceable pair OF
pants, made to order by the n. \. Stan
dard Pants Co., of &C University Place,
New York city? By sending 6 cents in
postage stamps to the above firm, they
will send to any address 25 samples OF
cloth to choose from, fine linen tape
measure, full set OF scientific measure,
ment blanks and other valuable informa.
ton. All goods are delivered by them
through the Z. S. Mails. \ novel and
practica! idea. Advise your readers tc
try the firm. They are thoroughlys re,
liable. Yours truly,
WILLIAM VANDERBILT.
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interest, for I am persuaded many, il
not most, of the supporters of the bills
passed relating to these things are not
of our profession and necessarily do not,
nor cannot, think and feel as we do In
reference to them.
Iwould respectfully ask the press OF
the State to give publicity to this ad-
dress, ti.at it may be considered by all
of the farmers Of the State.
D. X. NORRIS,
President Farmers Association S. G.
Hickory Flat, February %.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-07
THE FLOWERY KINGDOM.
Timely and Appropriate Letter from
General John ID. Kennedy.
(From the Charleston SUM-

llmely ana appropriate Letter Ifoul
General John ID. Kennedy.
(From the Charleston SUM-
A friend in this city of General John
D. Kennedy, United States consul gen.
eral to China, has just received letter
from that gentleman dated Shanghai,
January 6. It contains lively descrip-
-tion of some OF the features Of the largest
(in the sense OF the most populous) En-
pire in the world, and a running COM
ment on political matters, both in this
city and national, that, parado1ical as it
may seem, are timely, Notwithstanding
the length of time elapsed since it was
written and which was necessary for it
to have accomplished the great distance
between this and the Celestial Empire.
We give some extracts which will prove
of especial interest to our readers at this
time.
81 had trip up the Ysng-tse-kiang in
December, just before Christmas, and
enjoyed it very much. I went as far as
Hsn-Kow, 6U0 miles, where stayed
three days, and then two days at Chin
Kiang.
They are both large cities and we have
consulates at them. It is g mighty river,
the third or fourth in the world, and for
the volume OF water that pours down it
for so many hundreds OF miles probably
the first. Then, too, it is the main
artery that drains country In which
LOG, 100000 of people live. Some parts
of it are quite picturesque in its scenery.
The river boats that ply on it remind
one of the Fall River and Hudson River
boats.
ave have had remarkably fine fall,
the best one ever known, and the winter
thus far is comparatively mild. There
has been no rain for four months worth
speaking OF.
81 was much graifed at the election
news. It indicates the denomination and
reelection of Cleveland. He has certain
ly given the country clean, business
administration and has the confidence Of
the people to greater degree than any
man who has filled the chair since Lin
coin. He is emphatically q peoples man
and seems to have great deal OF hard
horse sense and the knaek OF saying the
right thing at the right time and in the
right place. His wife, too, for young
woman, has great tact and Judgment. I
read the accounts of his tour through
eighteen States, and was struck with the
absence of ill-timed speeches and foolish
actions on the part of both of them. Ii
the Democratic party commits no acts OF
folly at this session of Congress, don't
see how they are to be put out of power.
I am not civil service reformer to the
extent, possibly, that the President is,
but as he is charged with the response
bilities of the Office he probably knows
better than outsiders, and as I have such
faith in his Judgment and good sense,
and political ssgacity, that for one l am
willing to trust his doing the proper
thing even in this particular, too."
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-07
Upland Terracing.

G. L. King informs us that he ter
raced about forty acres Of upland last
year with the most satisfactory results.
The terraces stood the floods of last
summer with very slight injury, and his
land was saved from washing. He Is
sure that twice as much water was held
in the fields as would have remained but
for the terraces, and believes that not
more than one-ffth of the water escaped
from them that would have escaped If
there had been no terraces. It follows,
therefore, that not more than one-half,
or perhaps more than one-ffth OF the
water, mud and sand reached the streams
from his plantation that would have
reached them but for the terraces. Can't
any sensible man see that if all the up
lands were terraced in like manner be-
sides standing drouth better, the over
flows would not be so destructive, and
the streams would soon be cleared of the
sand and mud?-Cartersville (Ga.) Regis
ter.
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Miss Letter, the Chicago heiress, who
has made Washington her home, is not
only decidedly pretty, but is in all prob
ability the richest young woman IN
America. She is worth $40, 900, 900.
Miss Letter is the owner Of an opera
cloak that is little fortune in itself. 1t
is of white MORE plush, brocaded in sil:
yer. outlined with silver cord and
trimmed with white goats fur. The
clasps are Of antique gold set with large
pearls.
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John L. Sullivan once drove a street
car in New York for s. day, and wore
an overcoat that looked good deal like
Joseph's. The only man who would sc
to see him then was the conductor, who
threatened twenty times a day to have
him ssfred' for warming his fingers in,
stead of watching his horses. Now he is
kicking football around under the
Queens nose,
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The question of the day-What shall we
do tonight?
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WILL ENFORCE THE LAW.

Mr.. w. A. Ancrum, from the Commit
tee on Fish Culture, to whom various COM
munications from the fish wardens end
patrols at Georgetown had been referred,
recommended that the Commission be au-
thorized to take immediate steps to enforce
the law at that point. The report was
A4ol
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-07
SWORN wE!GHERs REQUIRED.

Mr.. J. S. Porcher, from the Committee
on Phosphate Department. reported favor.
ably on certain recommendations OF SPECIAL
Assistant Roche regarding the rules gov.
erning phosphate mining, the substance OF
which is that sworn weighers be required
at all shipping points.
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CdtCA W1l, 0&8S IS<AA SAS40S>e @AI|%y @-SN~AS
the child coward, and the fact that he
finds that there is no bugaboo may make
him liar, and the echo Of that false
alarm may be heard after fifteen genera
tions have been born and have expired.
If mother promise child reward for
good behavior, and after the good be-
ha7ior forgets to give the reward, the
cheat may crop out in some faithlessness
half a thousand years further on. If q
mother culture child's vanity and eulo.
gize his curls and extol the night-black
or sky-blue or nut-brown Of the child's
eyes, and call out in his presence the
admiration of spectators, pride and arro-
gance may be prolonged after half q
dozen family records have been obliter.
ated. If mother express doubt about
some statement of the Holy Bible in a
chld's presence, long after the gates OF
this historical era have closed and the
gates of another era opened, the result
may be seen in champion blasphemer.
ssBut, on the other hand, If mother
walking with child see suffering one
by the wayside, and says: My child,
give that ten cent piece to that lame
boy the result may be seen on the other
side of the following century in some
George MplleE building a whole village
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-05
PANTRY PiCklNGS.

CORN FR1TTERs.-Grate~cold boiled corn
from the cob, season, add three beaten eggs
and sufficient -four to give them consistency.
Drop in large spoonfuls into boiling lard or
drippings, and fry q nice brown. Canned
corn may be used.
IT is great mistake to put of making cur
rant jelly till the end Of the season, for the
best jelly is made of currants not perfectly
ripe. To keep light color in jelly, care
should be taken not to cook the sugar too
long, as this will darken the fruit and cause
it to candy.
Brown SUGAR SAUcE.-Two tablespoonful
of flour mixed with one tablespoonful Of but
ter, added to one and one-half cupfuls OF
boiling water. Boil together one minute
and add one and one-haf cupfuls of brown
sugar and cook three minutes, and add Q
little grated nutmeg.
JE1L1Es should stand open day or two
after being put into glasses, that the
moisture may evaporate, but they should be
protected from the dust. If thin, let them
stand in the SUMS rays. In day or two cut
papers to fit the glasses dip these in brandy,
alcohol or the white of an egg, and pres:
them closely on top Of the jelly.