The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-29

interest. feel doubly repaid for it
Every book in the Bible seemed tt
speak more forcibly and | could trace
all the important places in Bible his
tory in every journey made"
| Our sAali COLLEGES.
Mr.. Bryce, in his American Com
monwealth," says an excellent word TO
our hundreds of small colleges. Som
| of our own people are inclined 20 snee
at these humble places of learning, ant
recommend that they be abolished
swallowed up by the greet universities
| etc.
Mr.. Bryce says they get hold of q multi
tude of poor men who copld never go t
one of the great universities at distance
from their home. They thus fill the
country with learning, not of the
highest, to be sure, but still higher thar
the public schools. They strike often.
times the spark in the breast of the
country youth that kindles in later time:
to such love of scientific pursuits and
original Investigation that the youth be-
comes one of the famous men of his day.
Our great men in all fields are nearly
always those who were born and grown
in the country, near to the heart OF ns-
ture It is these strong, ambitious
youths that the country college reaches
particularly. E1.Prssident Andrew D.
White speaks in high commendation OF
the small colleges, calling them feeders
of the universities. What though they
are not so sumptuously endowed, and
have not stately, high sslariec profes-
sors! In the true love OF learning, in
the simple, unconscious dignity of genu-
inc manhood, in the kindly sympathy
with his student. and nearresS TO them
the country college professor is often
the superior Of his brother in the uni
niversity. The strong piniercd human
sympathy that draws pear to the weak,
the crring, the poor, the unhappy, aud
bears them up and st length sends them
into the vcrld as men in their turn is
better than the ability to write a whole
Greek play and put il the accents cor
rectly. We have in the United States
now 345 colleges, mostly small ones.
Loag may hey 1:ve!
Engine. Rema -I<aals Record.
A Philadelphia inventor named
James Reagan claims to have run an
engine continuously for one week
over the philadelphia Division of the
Reading Railroad without changing
the fra in the furnace. and that moth
Ing Of the kind was ever attempted or
accomplished before. The invention,
it is believed, will reyolutionize the
old time methods uued in firing loco
motives II the railroad companies
adopt it, and inventor Reagan's per-
formances are the talk of every engl'
neer on the road. BY using patent
shaking crate the unheard-of record
wss made of running a locomotive
drawing heavy freight trains for l3e
hours, including long steps OF the
! road, which the engineers dread on
account Of the way their fres clog, IL
often requiring thirty.fve or forty min
utes to re1ew them in order to pro-
ceed. Mr.. Reagan stuck to the engine
| throughout the week of experiment,
scarcely sleeping. All the food he got
was what the engiD Deers gave him and
few oysters secured durisga short stol
| in Philadelphia. "The mageitude o:
the undertaking." says Mr.. Reagan
twas such that every one doubted the
ability to make one trip. The quality
of the coal was even below the ordlna
ry used by the road. The tes: was
made as severe as possible, and th'
victory is more signal On that account
Besides the fast gain in time there il
equally as much saved in fuel: Afse
the first fire was lit did not burn ;
piece of wood as big match stick
and it usually takes one-quarter OF
cord to START the furnace after the fir
begins 30 clog and q cleaning ou; be
comes necessary"
The success ef the Alliance.
Atlanta Journal.
| The farmers are deriving grea
| benefit from the Alliance. 1t has save
them in Georgia alone S20O,0 in
single year on the purchase Of fertlli
zers. It has lowered the cost of almos
every article they use, food, clothing
farm implements, wagons, buggie
and even the few lu1uries that Geo.