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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-26

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-26

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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13
How to Stop a Runaway Horse.

A policeman, who has distinguished
himself in stopping runaway horses,
gives, in the Medical Classics, the fol-
lowing points as to how to accomplish
that end with the greatest success:
When you see runaway coming 40 not
try to check him by a rush from the OPP
posite direction or the side, for you will
be Immediately knocked fiat by the col
lision; but, instead, prepare yourself
for short run with the horse. Measure
with your eye the distance, start for the
run while he is yet some way off, per-
haps ten feet in the case of fair to
medium runaways. You may depend
upon his keeping straight line, for a
really frightened horse is half blind and
would not veer for steam engine. He
will 90 straight ahead until he >masheS
into something. So do not get close to
the line on which he is rushing, and as
he passes you grab the reins near the
saddle. Gather the reinS firmly, and
then. leaning backward as you run, give
them powerful yank. You may be
able to brace yourself somewhat as you
give this jerk. half sliding on your feet.
The strong jerk on the bit tells the horse
that he again has master and prepares
him for the final struggle a step or
two forward after the first yank, do 1t
again. This is the finishing stroke. 1t
never fails when given by Il determined
man. Keep firm pull on the reins till
you grasp the horse by the nOstrilS, and
hold him 80 till be is pacified.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13
Thermometers.

The earliest account we have Of an instru
ment for measuring the heat OF cold OF the
atmosphere is that noticed by the "Spirita!ia
of Hero. about $50 B. C. The use Of mercury
in the tube was suggested by HALEY, about
lG97, and first practically carried out b.
Fahrenheit native OF Dantzic-at the time
his invention was completed an instrument
maker at Amsterdam He divided the space:
between the freezing and boiling points Of
water into $50 degs., and commenced the
graduation of his scale at the point to which
the mercury fell when the bulb was treatec
to mixture of salt and pounded ice. Tht
salt and ice made the lowest degree OF colo
known to the experimenter or any OF hi
scientific friends, and was, on this account
termed zero" It is a generally received
idea that the zero point on the Fahrenheit
thermometer was 50 named because Of its cor
responding to the lowest degree OF cold kno~1
on the shores Of the Baltic sea, the native
home of Fahrenheit, but this IS as erroneous
as several other popular ideas respecting the
temperature scale
It is simply, as already related, the Lowest
degree of artificial cold known to the inven
tor of the useful little instrument. The
freezing point Of water was marked at &
decs. above zero, because it corresponded tx
81 Of the $50 equal spaces marked by the In
ventor Oh his scale before any Of the point
had been named
About 1870 Reaumur, Of France, used spirit
of wine and adopted the freezing and boiling
points as the two standards Of his scale. The
space between these was divided into 50 degs
The freezing is the zero point Of the Reaumul
thermometer, the graduations extending
each way. The Reaumur was the standard
thermometer of France until the time Of the
revolution of 1889, when it was superseded
by the centigrade, the invention Of Swedish
astronomer named Celsino. The centigrade
thermometer marks 100 degs. between the
freezing and the boiling points of water. II
is used to the exclusion Of the others men
toned throughout continental Europe, the
Fahrenheit being almost wholly confined tx
Great Britain, Holland and the Unltec
States.-Exchange. -------
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13
The Civil Service Law.

Baltimore American Washington cor
respondence: New young Congressman
as they come to Washington take good
care to have themselves interviewed,
and they take equally good care to say
things that are popular. Their strongest
hold is, OF course, civil service law, and
one after another they denounce it, and
demand its abolition by the coming
Congress. That kind of stuff is par
donable in new men. Nobody knows
them, and they must say something
popular in order to be read. But when
a man of Congressman PaySon's repu-
tation and standing comes along and
Eliminates in the same absurd style, his
best friends regret it. Not that they
may not fully agree with him. But
every sensible man knows that, for
tunately or unfortunately, nothing will
ever come Of all this anti-civil service
law agitation. 1t has come to stay.
1t needs improving and will be i'm
proved; but one thing can be de-
pended upon absolutely no Congress
will ever dare to repeal the civil service
law. It is all very we'll for Congress to
swear at it, and for them and their con-
stituents to demand" its abolition. All
this is the merest talk, and every Con-
grcssman knows it. There have been
annual bills offered to do away with it,
but the very men who offered the bills
knew perfectly we'll that the bill would
never even come back out of committee.
The simple truth is that the Congressman
OF the Fifty-frst Congress, like those OF
preceding Congresses, however much
they may declaim and talk to reporters,
and however much they may hate the
present law, the same Congressman will
never dare to vote for its abolition. And,
furthermore, 70 President of the United
States will ever sign any bill, granting
for an instant that Congress would pass
if, which will abolish or even seriously
hamper the operation of the law. SO that
all these rabld interviews might as well
cease. The law can be and needs to be
very much improved, hut it never will
be abolished
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13
Madame Boulanger.

No more pathetic spectacle now con-
fronts the eyes of the world than that of
Madame Boulanger. wife of the fllghty-
fanced general, who for so long has
lived alone with her two daughters in
retiracy in Paris. Hers is sad though
handsome face, in which pain has cut
more lines and grooves than time; while
tclistcn to her low. sweet voice is to
wonder how the General can endure
passing any of his days beyond the
reach of its subtle music. She is gen
tie, little heart broken lady, from whom
the iron hands of ambition have clutched
all that she found best in love.
And she has not even the satisfaction
Uf Knowing that the man who turned
the sunshine of her earlier days into the
bleak dcsolation of the present ever
gives her single thought. Still she
does not condemn him. 1t is not for
me to Judge him." she sometimes says
when some one accosts her concerning
him; ''we loved each other once! Some
dav." she usually adds, she will need
nv love again. l do not wish to be di-
vorced from him, because l want to re-
tain the right to care for him when all
the world forsakes him-when, save his
wife, he has no friend" History tells
us Of few more beautiful characters than
hers. How unworthy of her is the
registering, blatant demagOgue to whom
she remains so true.-B0St0n 1raceler.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13
Ideas OF a k'uture Life.

The Iroouois and Hurons believed in
country for the souls Of the dead, which they
called the country Of ancestors" This Is
to the west from which direction their ira
ditions told that they had migrated. Spirits
must go there after death by a very long and
painful journey, past many rivers and at
the end of a narrow bridge fight with dog
like Cerberus, and some may fall into the
water and be carried away over preclpicss.
This road is all on the earth; but several Of
the Indian tribes con:ider the milky way tc
be the path of souls, those Of human beings
forming the main body of the stars, and
their dogs, which also have souls, running on
the sides. In the next world the Indians dc
the same as they custonlarily do here, but
without lnes troubles.
The Israelites believed in doubling Of the
person by a shadow, pale figure, which
after death descended under the earth and
there led sad and gloomy existence. The
abode of these poor beings was called sheoL
There was no recompeuse, no punishment.
The greatest comfort was to be among ances.
tors and resting with them. There were
some very virtuous men whom God carried
up that they might be with him. Apart
from these elect, dead men went into torpor.
Mans good fortune was to be accorded
long term of years, with children to perpet
uate his family and respect for his memory
after death-Garrick Mallery in Popular
Science Monthly.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13
AwoNDERFUL COTTON PLANT.
a Spartanburs Farmer Raising Cotton
Seed Without Lint

News comes from Spartanburg of
I ew cotton plant, which, if it is as
claimed, will make wonderful revolu-
ton in the agricultural and cotton oil
interests of the nation Te Ferguson,
an experienced cotton planter, claims to
have cotton plant which will produce
nothing but cotton seed without the
lint. His statement is briefly as follows:
He claims that there is a male and fe-
male cotton plant-the male being de-
signated, be thinks, by the red calks.
The seeds are vari-colored, the shades
being generally blue, green and white,
and of course cannot be distinctly speci-
fed. Given this fact, Ferguson com
menced, some time ago, to pick out the
male plants, and with the seed extracted
from them planted another patch sepas-
ately. When the crop was ready for
picking the male plants were again Sc.
lected and the production OF seeds
planted separately again. This process
Of selecting the male plants was kept up
until at last the lint refused to germiu-
ate, and nothing is left in the
bolls save large amount of seed.
The amount of seed contained in the
boil is more than equal to the weight of
the lint and seed found in the average
sized boil Of cotton. Ferguson claims
that he can produce four hundred
bushels Of seed to the acre by this new
discovery, where only thirty-ive bushels
are now gathered with the lint. He has
been very careful in producing the re-
suits given above-to oblitcrate all YES
tise of lint from boil of cotton-and
has succeeded in a most remarkable
manner Other experienced planters
nave been shown Ferguson's new dis
covery and are much struck with it.
An expert who was shown the plant
and bolls said the boil has the appear
ance, both on the exterior and the intc-
rior, of a regular boil of cotton after the
lint has been picked out. The seed are
a little larger than the common seed and
are perfectly free from any semblance
of lint. The bolls are flied with these
seed, which are as numerous as okra
seed in pod of okra. The revolution
that will be effected bv this new cotton
plant, If it can be cultivated success
fully, will be beyond calculation. II
Ferguson'S calculations are correct, the
cotton oil business will be entirely revo-
lntionized. The planters who now raise
cotton are fortunate if they can make
zoo pounds of lint cotton to the acre.
Counting the value Of cotton seed at $50
an acre is considered big return to
planters in this State. Ferguson claims
that his new cotton seed plant will yield
at least 800 an acre. This amount he
says will be obtained from 400 bushels
of cotton seed at twenty cents per
bushel, that being the present price paid
for the raw seed. The State agricultural
bureau will investigate the matter.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13
CAPTAIN and Wife Drowned.

The schooner Flora Rogers, which
rescued the mate and four OF the crew
of the water-logged schooner Jennie
Rosaline, from Savannah for Provi-
dence, October 25tb, was off Charleston
bar Sunday morning and the rescued
mariners were taken to Charleston.
Their names are: Mate Frank Maxson
of Baltimore, James A. Runney of St.
John, A. A. Pinckncy, New York; NJ.
Hefron, Birkenhead, England; George
Smith, Norway.
They report that the gales caught
them on October 25th North of Hat
teras. They were driven to the Gulf
Stream and main and mizzenmasts were
carried away. Captain Barlow and
wife were swept overheard aud
drowned. She was in his arms and
said: "My dear husband, kiss me good
bye" The mate and three of the crew
were washed over the side, but caught
ropes and saved themselves. The col
nred steward was crushed to death be-
meath the main boom. He belonged to
Savannah The captain and Mrs. Bar
Tow were from Long Island.
The rescued men praise the GOODNESS
and courage Of the officers and crew OF
the schooner Flora Rogers, who rescued
them at great personal risk.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13
AwoMAN ExcoMMUNIcATEp
Archbishop Cleary Rules Out a Divorced
Wife Who Married Again.

MONTREAL, Nov. 3.-There is a great
deal of excitement in Roman Catholic
circles over the stern action taken by
Archbishop Cleary in a case or divorce.
Mrs. Huseman, a handsome middle
aged woman, living at Westport, near
Kingston, procured a divorce from her
husband some years ago and subse-
ouently was married. by Protestant
minister to well-to-do farmer named
Quinby, with whom she has been living
ever since. Archbishop Cleary, IN con.
frming number of applicants, took
occasion to denounce from the pulpit in
most vigorous terms what he termed a
grievous public scandal.
He said married woman, baptized
and confirmed in the faith, has been no.
,oriouSly defying the laws of God and
the holy Church by living in adultery
With a man not her husband. There Was
no such thing, he declared, as divorce
under the Christian law. God, said his
Grace, had peremptorily laid it dowa
that Christian marriage can exist
only between zone man and one
womau," and he excludes all right and
power Of any State or any government
on this earth TO dissolve the matrimonial
bond on any pcetence.
The offending woman was then form
ally accommodated by his Grace, who
explained the penalties attaching there
10. 1t is said that several more excom-
.aunications of a similar nature will
shortly follow.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13
Cutting Back Plants

Many people have an idea that plants must
not be cut back, no matter how straight and
branchless they may grow. read in pop
ular periodical protest from one Of these
people against cutting back fuchsias, saying
that ''it was altogetL-.' wrong and injured
the plants" knew better. For several
wears we have cut back all fuchsias that did
not of themselves grow bushy. Abutilons
are generally disposed to grow tall and
branchless, and so when they are about ten
inches in height we behead them about three
inches Directly two branches start out,
and when sercra. inches grown we cut them
back. Two, sometimes three, branches start
forthwith
Then We allow the plant to grow and bud
until quite large, when we frequently do a
little pruning 1t is then that, by cutting
back plants, we delay the blooming period,
but when it does come we have flowers on
half dozen or more branches, instead OF one
main stalk. Most plants grown in the Win
dow during the winter are apt to be tall and
fragile and need to be severely cut back IN
the spring. March is the best time, but, If
neglected, should be attended to as soon as
possible. Cuttings can be rooted in large
mouthed bottle filed with water and placed
in the wilGow.-Practical farmer.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13
TIE COTTON OIL TRUST.
Plans Adopted for Changing It Into a
CORPORATE Concern.

New YORK, Nov. 6.-The committee
appointed at the last meeting of the GER
tiicate holders of the Cotton Oil Trust
to examine into its affairs and suggest a
method for changing the trust into a
corporate concern, met this afternoon,
I. P Alcott, presiding. The report
presented and adopted, after consider
able discussion, was on the basis of
changing the present certificates into
stock which would be assured by a de-
post of all securities owned by tue trust
with the Central Trust Company. The
new stock will consist of S27,000,0 900
common and SIS, 900, 900 6 per cent. non
cumulating preferred stock.
The committee reported that through
errors of judgment loss of $2777, 10
had been sustained and had been
charged off on the books of the CON-
pany.
The report of the trustees for the fiscal
year ending August Sd, 1889, was found
to be correct. The extraordinary loss OF
$277,11 is accounted for by the fact
that the president and treasurer of The
rust had for the purpose, as they state,
of maintaining aud Strengthening the
credit of the concern used its funds in
supporting the price Of certificates.
These transactions entailed a loss of over
half a million dollars. Mr.. Hagler, the
president, contributed 500, 900 toward
making up the deficiency.
The company will be reorganized on
the plan recommended by the commit
tee.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13
a Girl Horse Racer.

A pretty incident Of the Ivy City races
of last week is being told among the gen.
tlemen riders at their clubs 1t recalls
the romantic days of the period before
the war, when the Southern chivalry
was supreme in the affairs of the turf.
The story is idyllic. After Modoc had
made his famous victory and won the
silver cup that was worth $50 and the
golden opinions worth very much more
in value. there was 4 strong desire
among the gentleman riders, members
of the Dumhlane Club and others, to
meet the owner of the winner, who is no
other than Miss Garter, of the illuStrious
house Of the Carriers, of Virginia. Her
home is in Warrenton, Va.
Miss Carter consented to meet some
of the gentleman at the club house at
the close of the days sport. The rider
of Modoc, Mr. Jimmy Maddox, was also
present. The newly won cup, which
holds gallon, was filled with cham
pague, and the ladies and men present
drunk from it in the old loving-cup
fashion, pledging the future successes
of Miss Cartcr's Modoc-W Washington
Star,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13
A Girls Art Work.

St. Louis has another prodigy, says letter
from that city, and she may be seen at any
hour during the day dressed in brown
blouse skirt, jumper jacket and little round
hat, frescoing the walls Of the southern hotel
Her name is Carrie Meyers, and she resides
with her father at LOG South Fourth street.
Though only Is years of age, Carrie has, un-
aided, designed and executed the freseong
for large number Of the finest rooms In the
hotel, and is regarded by her employers as an
able and. accomplished fresco artist. She Is
very pretty and graceful, also exceedingly
shy. Under the protecting presence OF her
father she escorted the reporter to her studio.
where all sized canvases Of as many different
subjects graced the walls in charming confu-
sion Luscious punches Of fruits and flowers
hung beside and over meadow and wood
scenes, and an old fashioned water mill, Lively
and dripping, contrasted with landscapes and
portraits, all executed with remarkable Skill.
Carrie is not only an artist, she is also musi-
clan, and has scattered around her room
number OF instruments, which she plays just
to while away the time. A bass fiddle occu-
pies one corner and an organ another. On
the center table lay a flute and piccoio and
on the organ violin. She plays all OF them
well-Chicago Times.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13
Popular superstitious.

Faith in the power Of the sun, moon and
stars to act on the health has, OF course, been
held for centuries. That great parsonage o!
olden time, the astrologer, would not fail tc
impress upon people this idea Of the influence
which the heavenly bodies possess over health
and disease. Very few Of these have sur
vived up to the present time.
1t is natural that the sun should be consd'
cred the great restorer and life giver. There
is an old Jewish proverb to the effect thai
when the sun rises the disease will aoate.
This was founded. on tradition that pre-
cious stone was hung on the neck OF Aora
ham, and that to look upon it was to be
healed. When Abraham died God placed
the stone in the sun The remnant Of thl:
superstition is found today in the saying
that if an invalid goes out for the first time
and makes circuit, this circuit must be
with the sun; if against the sun there will bt
a relapse
The universal belief that the mool ha'
power to make person crazy has given u
the word lunatic. That the soul which ha:
till then lowered between life and deatt
finds its release as the tide goes ont. Is gen
orally accepted by many.
A great prejudice exists against the nlSn'
air, especially in ventlating sleeping rooms
the night air is by no means so unhealthy e.
many people suppose. In those places where
the soil is impure, or near waters that are
stagnant, the change occasioned by the with
drawal of the suns heat gives rise to eIhala
tions that are unhealthy, but in the maJorit,
of instances, the prejudices that exist asainS
night air amount to q superStitious dread.
When an idea crystallizes into proverb i
carries an automatic weight with it, and e.
one for moment stops to question its truth
One may rebel against it, but in doing s.
there is always feeling Of having taken tn
law into ones own hands, and if evil IS es
capped it is miraculous.
As rule the popular superstitions intilc
but little actual bodily harm, nevertheless
the state of apprehensive dread and discon
fort which they sometimes entail, both upoi
the believer and upon his friends, makes j
essential to refrain from their indulgence
and especially from teaching them to chill
dren, upon whom they make lifelong i'm
pression.-Dr Grace Peckham in HON
Maker.