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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-24
BETTER THAN GOLD.
A DISCOVERY THAT MEANS MILLIONS
FOR AIKEN COUNTY.
that will Bring him Inlmence Wealth.
a Process for Transforming Kaoun into
Aluminium.

COLUMBIA, December IA gen.
tleman who registered at the Grand Cen
tral Hotel tonight has knowledge of a
discovery which when fully developed
will make the kaolin beds OF this State
infinitely more valuable than the phos.
phate deposits. He asked the represen.
tative of The News and Courier if be
knew Mr. P. A. Emanuel of The Aiken
Bar, which being answered, he went on
to relate the following facts:
It IS known that fortune not to ha
reckoned by millions awaits the discoy-
erer Of a cheap process for the manufac-
ture Of aluminium. About year ago
Mr. Emanuel applied himself to this ore.
blem, and il is believed that he has ar.
rived at its correct solution. The ma.
terIal which he used is the kaolln of
Aiken County, the basis with which he
worked sulphuric acid. On making the
discovery Mr. Emanuel went to Wash.
ington and submitted his processes to
the scientists there, and now has his dis
covery secure from attack by the proper
letters, patent and caveats.
Not very long ago aluminium was sold
at about $4,000 a ton, but by a process
which was considered final the price was
reduced at Pittsburg to two dollars and
a half a pound Or about $4,000 ton. =.
The startling announcement IS made
now that by the ingenuity ofM Eman-
uel aluminium can be freed from kaolin
at a cost of about two dollars and bali
a ton, being price two thousand times
less than by the Pittsburg process. AS
there is now more demand in the world
for aluminium for mechanical purposes
than there is for gold, the immensity OF
the field and fortune for the dlscoyerer
will be apparent.
1t is said that half million dollars
has already been offered for a location
near Aiken for plant to develop the
aluminium industry.
The narrator of these facts said that
he had seen lot of the clay after one Of
the preliminary processes in which the
metal had already materialzed. He
also said that Mr. Emanuel had diseoy.
cred a material which will greatly de.
crease the cost of manufacturing phos.
phate fertilizers. a cayeat has been
tiled tor this discovery, but the scheme
is retained for the present, as the publi.
cation OF it might embarrass the discov-
erer.
1t IS understood that the facts herein
have been given to Georgia industrial
paper: II the facts be as stated, and
there Is no reason to doubS them, as the
gentleman who stated them is man Of
education and responsibility, there are
more millions at less cost under ground
IN Aiken County than there were on the
Island OF Monte Cristo.--News and
Courier.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-24
Three of a kipa and Two Pair.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Dec l7.-Mrs.
Blume of Allegheny has surprised her
neighbors and her husband during the
past two years by giving birth to seven
children. y few days since Mrs. Blume
presented her husband with triplets-
two strapping boy babies anda healthy
girl. Not quite year ago Mr.. Blume
was surprised by twins, and during the
preceding year her first two children
were born. The triplets. who are de-
scribed as clipper, and their prolific
mother are dong well. Mrs. Blume IS
a woman ofordinary build and her chill
dren are all we'll formed and healthy.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-24
j Bloody Arkansas Tragedy.

FORT SMITH, Ark. Dec. 1l.-Char-
les Joplin shot and killed five persons
today at the Jenny lead mine, twelve
miles from here, and then committed
suicide by shooting himselfs Those kill
ed were John Miller, his wife, his grown
daughter, Lou Miller, DR.. Stewart, g.
prominent physician, and man whose
name is not known. The shooting oc-
cured late In the day and details are
meagre. The only clue to the cause Of
the killing lies in report that DR..
Stewart intimated that Joplin was the
cause of Miss A1iller's trouble.ss
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-24
The Interest on State Bonds.

CHARLESTON, Dec. l7.-State Treas
urer Bates was in the city to-day and
had an interview with the bank presi-
dents. The object of the visit was to get
money to pay the interest Of the State
debt due january lst. Treasurer
Bates was fearful that in view Of the
postponement Of the time for the pay
ment oftaxes till February lst he might
not have sufficient money in the treas
ury to meet the January payments.
The Charleston banks came promptly
to his aid and agreed to furnish the State
with all the money it needed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-24
Wounded by Hiehwaymen.

COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. ia few
nights since, Mr.. S. II. Clamp, wealthy
farmer living near Blythewood, in Fair
field county, was, while going home af-
ter selling cotton in Columbia, beset by
a gang OF desperate highway robbers and
being rendered unconcious by blow on
the head was robbed of S4GO, with which
the robbers made off. He was found
Later by friends and it is now thought
he will die from his severe wounds. No
clue to the perpetrators has been secE-
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-24
He Wanted to Swan:

ATLANTA, Dec. PA negro stoal
"a pair OF shoes from merchant on De-
catur street, and carried them home
with him. When he reached his house
ard tried them on he found they were
number eleven, when he wore the small
SIZE OF thlrteeS He very kindly carried
the shoes ban to the merchant from
waom he had stolon them, and offered
10 exchange them fer a size which would
ut him. The merchant recognized tho
shoes, a policeman was summoned and
the negro was soon in the lookup.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-24
Twelve Hundred Miners on Strike.

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Dec. IT,
Twelve hundred miners and laborers at
the Rock Springs mines Of the Union
Pacific Railaoad Company arc on a
strike and mines are al! idle. The COM
pany gave notice Saturday that they
proposed paying the workmen by the
hour. a mass meeting was held yes
terday and the strike resolved upon. 1t
is believed that the company intended
forestalling the effect Of the eight hour
law, introduced in the present State
Legislature, winch is likely to pass.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-24
Eichteen Mon Killed

BRUSSELS, Dec. IA terrible accl-
dent occurred to-day at Escoudial Col
liery, at Herun, in the province of
Paunant. \ Shift of eighteen men had
entered the cage and the engine started
to lower them into the pit. Suddenly,
and without warning, the rope connect
ing the cage with the drum broke and
the men preci pitated to the bottom OF
the shafts. Every one of the occupants
of the cage were killed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-24
Duel Between Father and Son.

GAINESVILLE, Tex, Dec. ia fatal
duel took place on Tuesday night in
Palne's Valley, Indian Territory, be-
tween Senator Samuel Paul Of the
Chsgkgsaw Legislature and his son, Jos
Paul The father received dangerasss
wobnd in his thigh, but S
1t is said that the diff sS$
q quarrel over a W6s
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-24

not exceeding one hundred and ten
hours in a year. After some debate
the bill was passed ard sent to the
Senate.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-24

must struggle through total bllnQneSS
to immortality, and John Bunyan must
cheer himself on the way up by max
ing aflute out uf his prison stool, and
Canoya, the sculptor, must toll on
through orphanage modelling lion ID
butter before he could cut his statues
in marble. And the great Stephenson
must watch COWS in the field for few
pennies and then become a stoker, and
afterward mend clocks before he puts
the locomotive on its track and calls
forth plaudits from parllaments and
medals from kings. Abel Stevens IS
picked up neglected child OF. the
Street, and rises through his consecra-
ted genius to be one of the most Illus
trious clergymen and historians OF the
century. And Bishop James of the
same church IN boyhood worked his
passage from Ireland to America, and
up to usefulness where, in the bishop
ric, he was second to no one who ever
adorned it.
While in banishment Nenophor
wrote his "Anabasis" and ThucydideS
his History of the Peloponnesian
War;" and Victor Hugo must be exiled
| Tor many years 70 the lS1ald Oh duern-
sey before he can come to that height
in the affections of his countrvmer
that crowds Champs Elysees and the
adjoining bouleyards with one million
mourners as his hearse rolls down tt
the church of the Madeleine. Oh, it /:
a tough old world, and it will keep got
back and keep you down and keep yot
under as long as it can! Hail sons ant
daughters of the fire!
Stand, as the anvil when the stroke Of stal
wart men falls fierce and fast;
Storms but more deeply root the oak who's
brawny arms embrace the blast;
Stand like an anvil; noise and heat are borl
of earth and die with time;
The soul, like God, its source and seat,
II solemn. still, serene, sublime.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-24

beautiful ITee pIOSt1a0eo.
Woadman, spare that tree;
Touch not single bough!
In youth it sheltered me.
And I'll protect it now.
Twas my forefatber's hand
That placed it near his cot;
There, woodman, let it stand,
:fhy ak shall harm it not
When but an idle boy,
| sought its grateful shade;
In all their gushing JOY
Here, too. my sisters play'd.
NV mother kisS'd me here,
MY father press'd my hand
Forgive this foolish tear,
But let that old oak stand!
Ay heartstrings round thee cling,
Close as thy bark, old friends
Here Shall the wild bird sing,
And still thy branches bend,
Old tree! the storm still brave!
And woodman leave the spot;
While I've hand to save,
Thy ak shall harm it not.
asye rode along on these the noun
tains of Lebanon, We bethink how ltS
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-24

DR.. Talrnaee Describes the Scenes on
Mount Lebanon and Deduces Moral
Lessons Therefrom--The Prophets Loved
Mig htX EoceSts
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-21
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

The great object of school should be
TO put the child in the way of using
his own powers, and stimulate him to
continue TO use them. A. Cooper.
"A correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian says that while there are only
about fifty thousand Protestant native
Christians in China, there are 544,S7O
Catholic native Christians.
There are no fewer than seventeen
different Presbyterian missionary soci.
cites, including the Reformed (Dutch)
Church, laboring in India. OF these,
eleven are American and Canadian, and
elk are British.
The six Bibles of the world are: The
Koran of the Mohammedans; the Tri
Pitikes of the Buddhist; the Five Kings
of the Chinese; the Three Vedas of the
Hindoos; the Zendavesta, and the Scrip
ture of the Christians.-The Beacon.
Even in Asia Minor and Persia there
have been revivals Of religion, five hun
bred persons having been added to the
church in one place, and four hundred
in another. The gospel is thus the
power of God for salvation among al
people.
Mile. Virginie Mauvais, nov in hel
! ninety year. has given nearly
half million dollars to her native
town, Nancy. to build new wing TO the
hospital. Mile. Mauvais is noted edu
cationist, and her system OF instruction
has been in vogue in numbers of school:
for more than fifty years
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-21

As to the amount of food, l only say.
says writer in the Ohio Farmer, that
in my Judgment you can not push pigs
too fast If you feed for bone aud mus
Gle rather than fat, and | would give a
variety of food and all that they will
eat You must use Judgment and not
feed so much that some foul feed will be
left in the trough; but If you only give
what they will eat up clean, there is no
danger of overlooking. In order to give
variety, and encourage them TO eat a
large quantity of food ! would feed
some whole corn each day-one or two
ears each per day after the pigs are
three months old. When the object is
TO develop pig so as to get it ready for
market as soon as possible, there is no
economy in short rations, but the more
food we can get it to digest the cheaper
we can produce the pork. / believe
bran to be the cheapest and best food
we can give 10 growing pig, but we
must feed it VITA some other food. Oil
meal is only to be fed as a balance ra-
ton and for the small quantity required
we can afford to pay S1.25 per 100
pounds: but it could not be substituted
for the other foods named. / place a
good deal of importance on the use of
salt in this ration, both to make it pal
atable and also to add to its digestibil-
ity. Always manage SO as to have your
slop- barrel emptied once day, to pre-
vent it from becoming too sour, and add
salt each time you mix fresh slop. 1t
is best to have two barrels and use
them alternately. / am speaking now
Of hot weather feeding, when a little
carelessness or neglect will develop
acidity so as to injure the food.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-21
THE NEEDED STIMULUS.
Books That Excite Young Readers to Ac
quire Additional Information.

Books That Excite Young Readers to Ac-
quire Additional Information.
Several years ago l was one evening
sitting in my study when lad entered
nv presence, and asked if / would be
willing to lend him something to read.
/ replied in the affirmative, and inquired
what kind of reading matter he desired.
He expressed wish for something that
was exciting" and l requested him to
be little more definite. Then he gave
me vivid summary of work which
he had recently read to his great enjoy
meHt; evidently one of those trashy ro-
mances of which so many are published
in Boys Libraries" whose perusal can
in no wise be beneficial.
went to my bookcase and took from
il one of Abbott's histories for young
people, The History of Darius the
Great Opening it, read the paragraph
in which is given an account of the
shooting of Cambyses of his friends son
through the heart with an arrow before
his fathers eyes. Then l asked if he
thought the book would suit him, and
he answered.: "Yes, sir"
He carried the book away with him,
and two evenings later returned with it,
inquiring if would lend him another
similar 10 il. I did so. and let him
have other volumes in succession, until
within three months after receiving the
first, he had read the thirty and odd vol
umes forming .se series-read them
Understandings learned by question
ing him-aad acquired taste for SUBJ
stantial literary food.
This summer he will graduate with
the highest honors from one of tho
foremost colleges in the country,
having betrayed the expenses of the
preparatory school and the college by
his earnings when his mates were
many OF them resting. He intends
eventually to practice at the bar,
where one of his disposition is likely
to become a shining light" if neither
WEBSTER nor a Choate.
He is pleased to attribute his desire
for an education 20 my encouragement
years since; but / can conscientiously
credit myself only with having brought
to his consideration the books to which
] have referred.
Young friends, read these same
books, or books of a similar character,
instead of the printed ''stuff" which
greets your vision on every side. You
viii find the story of real ''flesh-and-
blood heroes" and heroines as 'excit-
ing" as is that of fictitious personages,
and, reading of them, will be stimu-
lated to emulate their noblest, to alb
hor their worst traits Best of all,
such books will incite you to acquire
additional information relative to those
concerning whom you have been read
ing, and eventually to secure an edu-
cation that viii fit you to make your
way through the world successfully
Fred. F. Foster, in Harpers Young
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-21
THE BENIGHTED TURK.
In Palestine and Jerusalem He is an Intol-
cradle NuIsance.


cradle Nuisance.
One of the earliest convictions i'm
pressed upon the mind of the traveller
to Palestine is that the Turk is a nuis-
ance. The gigantic absurdity, to call it
nothing more, of leaving all these holy
places, the center of generation to all
Christendom, in Mohar ledan bands,
produces a natural feeling of irrita ton,
which is constantly freshened and re-
vived by some vexatious regulation or
piece of official red-tapeism, causing
the most peaeeable pilgrim to regret
that the period of holy wars is past,
and consider seriously the advisability
of preaching crusade himself on his
return from the parts of the infidel. 1t
is sufficient to talk with any resident
who has ever had any serious business
with that hopeless GOvernment-espec-
tally those who are trying to in
troduce, any kind of progress or
improvement in Palestine-to find
a good solid foundation for this
feeling against the Turkish rulers;
the ordinary traveller is exasperated by
their mere presence. Here we find, in
the first place, the unspeakable Turk
occupying for his own purposes the site
of the Temple. and raising beautiful
buildings thereupon for his own wor-
ship. This, we consider, is bad enough,
but when ne comes TO celebrating his
own religious festivities there, and con-
seauently excluding all but Moham-
medans from the whole area during the
time that we are at Jerusalem, the
enormity is still more remarkable.
This is not even a coincidence. The
benighted paynim does not want for
wo-ldly wisdom. and having no conf
dence whate yer in the doctrine of
peace on earth and good will toward
mar, as understood by enthusiastic pill
grims. he has established feast of his
own which attracts sufficient number
of Mohammedans to counterbalance the
Christians. To these latter the whole
of the Haram-esh-Sherif is closed, and
many poor pilgrims who can not afford
to stay long at Jerusalem are obliged to
60 away without having seen the place
of the Temple. very real hardship to
some Of them Spectator.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-21

hung between the two front arms of this
Jack which hold the evener as shown,
stretching the wire. This wheel is
made of two disks of boards with the
edges chamfered. They are nailed to-
gether cross-wise and their chamfered
edges brought together in such a way
that the completed wheel has grooyed
edge.
A strong rope must extend from the
axle, on which this wheel is hung to
the evener, for stretching the wire.
From the groove on tie wheel rope
reaches TO pulley at the top of the
tripod and to the weight below it This
weight has an increased advantage over
the rope attached to the eyener, as the
wheel is so much larger than the axle
on which the evener rope winds. At
the foot of the jacks legs are half-inch
irons. When the jack is being used,
these irons are pinned solidly into the
turf, SO the machine can not be moved.
Now we will proceed to reel out the
wire. First pay out the bottom wire,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-21
INDISCREET JOKERS.
They should Remember That Ride ule Is
Dangerous Weapon.

Dangerous Weapon.
1t is not everybody who knows where
to Joke, or when, or how; and whoever
is ignorant of these conditions had bet
ter not Joke at all. A gsHtlemda never
attempts to be humorous at the expense
of people with whom he is but slightly
acquainted. He would as soon board at
their cost or request them to frank him
at their tailors. In fact, it is neither
good manners nor wise policy to joke
at any body's expense; that is to say, to
make anybody uncomfortable merely to
raise a laugh. Old -Fsop, who was
doubtless the subject of many gibe on
account of his bumped back. tells the
whole story in his fable of The Boys
and the Frogs" What was jolly for
the youngsters was death to the crOak-
ers
\ Jest may cut deeper than a curse
Some men are so constituted that they
can not take even a friendly joke in
good part and, instead Of repaying it
in the same light coin viii rcquite it
with contumely and insult Never ban-
ter one of this class, for he will brood
over your badinage long after you have
forgotten l., and it is not prudent to
incur any ones enmity for the sake OF
uttering a smart sarcasm or a tart re-
partee. Ridicule. at best, is perilous
weapon. Satire. however. when leveled
at s-oial follies and political evils, is
not only legitimate, but commendable.
1t has shamed down more abuses than
were ever abolished by force of logic
y Y Ledger
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-21
HARD MAN TO CATCH.
The Counterfeiter Who Copies Uncle
Sans Notes with a Pen.

The Counterfeiter Who Copies Uncle
Sans Notes with a Pen.
The most remarkable counterfeiter at
present living, so a Washington Star
reporter was informed, has been keep
ing the United States Secret Service in
such condition of evaporation for a
long time past that no trouble or ex-
pense would be considered excessive for
the accomplishment of his capture.
And this, although he produces on an
average not more than two bogus notes
in a year. The remarkable thing about
these limitations are that they are
executed entirely with a pen. Once in
six months, almost as regularly as clock
work, one of them turns up at the treas
ury here, to the disgust of the Govern
ment detectives, whose utmost efforts
can not discover so much as clew to
follow. The strangest point about the
matter is that the work of producing
the bills in this fashion, merely con-
sidered as a question of labor, remunera-
tive or otherwise, can not possibly pay.
They are always either fifties or TWEEN
ties, and to make one must require
pretty constant toll for quite half a
year The last one, which was received
a few days ago, was double y.
Funny enough they come each time
from different city, and the suppose
ton is that the forger leaves town for
another locality Immediately upon
passing one. He gets rid of the note he
has just completed, which may remain
in circulation for some time before
reaching a bank. and departs long be-
fore the police agents have chance to
arrive upon the scene. The most
plausible theory seems to be that he is
monomaniac of means, who gratifies a
morbid taste in this astonishing way.
His imitation bills are so perfectly done
that no one short of a professional ex-
pert would hesitate to take them for
good money. From the vignettes to
the signatures the work is performed
with an accuracy that bears
scrutiny with a powerful magnify
ing glass In all likelihood the
reason why the notes are not made OF
larger denominations is that they would
be proportionatefy more difficult topass.
One can imagine that this eccentric
counterfeiter INDUCES in the employ
ment simply for the qualification of his
vanity. 1t is not improbable that he
himself has been shown the frame al
the treasury building in which two
specimens of his handiwork are shown
by polite attendants to visitors as the
most extraordinary samples of forgeries
in the government collection. Anyway
he goes on turning out the bills at regu-
lar intervals of six months, thus occa-
sioning periodical spasms of exaspera-
ton in the Secret-Service bureau.