The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-16

gentlemen is because OF Lue ii1eIloA
of the tongue and the sweetness OF
the lips.
It was a pretty mean man, who,
when asked to umpire a base ball
game between two colored mines, I'M
1nediately called the game on account
of darkness.
A bar of iron worth IS becomes
when made into horseshoes, worth
SO, into needles, s3,325, pen-knives,
$50, and into watch springs, S24O,-
900, or more than its weight in gold.
And now Shakespeare is credited
with having originated the slang ex-
preston ':Toc thin" The divine Will
liam was monopolist in tie matter
of saying everything that was worth
saying:
Cotton bagging will soon be plenti-
full and the farmers should use it
whenever it can be had. The war
against the jute trust is righteous
one and every farmer is interested in
the result.
aA wealthy man ruined by new
wheat" read Mrs. Talkene. "This is
sad," she commented, "but thousands
of wealthy men are ruined by old rye
and the papers don't say anything
about it.
The Sinking Fund Commission OF
South Carolina has authorized the At
torney Generol to bring five or six
suits against delinquent taxpayers, un-
der the present law. These Will be
made test cases.
There is burden Of care in get
ting riches; fear in keeping them;
temptation in using them; guilt IN
abusing them; sorrow in losing
them; and a burden of account at
last to be given concerning them.
In China the inhabitants are count
ed every year in curious manner.
The oldest master of every ten houses
has to count the families, and has to
make list, which is sent to the i'm
perial tax house. Last year the whole
number amounted to $685. 500 in-
habitants.
Over fifty thousand farmers have
forsaken Kansas within the last year.
MORTGAGES over their homes have
driven them off. The interest charged
was greater than the profits made on
their farms and they have given up
and gone off to make new starts IN
other States.
The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger says: Though
Ex-President Cleveland declined the
craftsmanship of the Worlds Fair
committee on permanent organization
it is very general sentiment in this
city that he should be made the pres
ident of the Exposition when Con-
gress shall have granted the requisite
charter. He could scarcely decline
hat honor
The simple statement that of the
thousand convicts in the Pennsylva-
MIA penitentiary only nineteen are
mechanics, is wonderfully suggestive.
1t is warning to young men of the
dangers of idleness. It is withal a
powerful plea in behalf of industrial
education. The busy man makes the
best citizen, and one ofthe best modes
of preventing crime and clearing pris-
ons is to enforce the law vigorously
against vagrants.
Mr.. W. B. R. Gasque has gathered
the corn from his prize acre and had
it measured carefully by d:sinterestea
gentlemen. The yield was eighty-ive
bushels and four pounds, measured
by weight. This many not be large
enough yield to win the prize, but it
is a money making crop nevertheless.
Mr.. Gasque puts the cost of making
the crop at about forty dollars and for
this he has eighty-fve bushels of corn
besides the fodder, peas, and SO forth
that were made on the same land
Marion Inde:r.
Capt. S. B. Alexander, president of
the North Carolina Farmers Alliance,
announces that the Jute Trust has Of
fered the Alliance that if they will go
back to the use of jute bagging it
will be sold at S 1-2 cents on time,
and that the Jute Trust will pay the
farmer 81 more per ton for all their
cotton seed than is offered at any of
the cotton seed oil mills. The Char
lotte Chronicle regards this as proof
positive that the jute gentlemen are
in bad straits, and thinks '.it ought to
be sufficient to encourage the farmers
in their decision to stick to cotton
bagging."
No member of sub-alGance has
the right to disobey the will of the
majority, and whenever he does, he
ought to be expelled at once; and 40
sub-alliance has the right to 60 con-
trary to the decision of the County
Alliance, and no County contrary to
the State, nor any State to the Nation
al. We must all stand together. That
is intelligent and right, as any sensi-
bic man is obliged to admit who will
stop and consider our condition and
remember that the only means open
to US by which we can remedy the
evils now surrounding US, is through
organization. The unit rule is absolute
in the Alliance, and without it we can
accomplish nothing whatever.-Ben
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