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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-31
IrbY EIplatns.

COLUMBIA, Oct. 24.-State Chairman
Irby of the State executive com mittee
has at last been heard from with regard
to the action Of bis committee in not
having printed and sent out tickets for
voters opposed to the calling Of con-
stituttonsl convention the discovery of
which political scheme was made about
a week ago. Yesterday morning Senat-
or Irby received the following letter
which explains itself:
Charleston s. c., Oct. %, 1894.
Hon. J. L. NJ Irby, Chairman State
Democratic Executive Committee,
Columbia, S. G.
Dear Sir-The tickets sent Us for tha
general election, upon being examined
here, find show none printed for con-
stitutional convention NO"
Kindly inform me at once II such Is
an oversight or an Intentional doing by
your instructions, as I wish to know 30
that can determine my course Of &C.
tion. Yours respectfully,
James NJ. Seignious,
Chairman County Democratic Egecu-
tive Committee.
Senator Irby wrote and forwarded
the following reply:
Columbia, S. G., Oct. 23, 1894.
Hon. James NJ. Seigntous, Chairman
County Democrrtic Executive Com
rnittee, Charleston, S. G.
Dear Sir-Replying to your letter OF
the 22nd inst, in reference to the fact
that you have no tickets printed "coh-
stitutiOnal convention, no." beg to
say that Mr.. Cslvo, who has charge of
printing the tickets for the Democratic
party of this State acted under my Or
ders, and alone am responsible for the
absence of tickets against constitu'
tiOnal convention. The State conVen-
tion Of the Democratic party unanl-
nously adopted platform urging the
Democrats of the State to vote for the
calling Of a constitutional convention,
and thereby com mltted the party to 1t.
I. as the chairman of the executive
committee of the party, am only car
rying out the will OF that convention
by providing for its success in the com.
ing general election. I have no right
to expend the money OF the party for
printing tickets other tnsn with the
names its candidates aud with 'con.
stitutional convention, yes"
This constitutional convention is be.
ing opposed by Republicans and Inde-
pendents, enemies Of the Democratic
organization, led BY three prominent
daily papers-the News and Courier,
The State and Greenville NeW5-Who
have abundant facilities for preparing
and furnishing tickets.
Our tickets were sent out several
days ago and no effort at concealmen5
has been made of our position In this
matter. Abundant time has been given
these dailies to print their own tickets.
Very respectfully your obedlent ser.
want, y. L. NJ. Irby,
State Chairman.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-31
A Living Curiosity.

GREESv1LLE, S. c., Oct. 25.-M. L.
Gullick of Tigerville came to town yes
terdsy, bringing in his covered mountain
wagon 8 living curiosity IN the shape OF
q live chicken with It's head of. The
bird was a donineckcr cockerel and had
been caught on Sunday morning to sup.
ply Mr.. Gullick's table at dinner. HIS
hesd was chopped of with an axs, this
being The usual method Of dispstching
fowls, but instead OF futtering around,
kicking his feet and raising dust 'like
chicken with his head off," he began
to stalk about the yard as if losing this
part of his anatomy was matter of
every day occurrence. BE continued te
manisfest this strange sort of tenacity to
life and was spared from the spit in con-
sequence. It was found that he would
take nourishment through his throat
and after being seen by all the nelghbors
WAS brought to town. A crowd saw him
en- Main street and agreed that it vas
most peculiar sight. Hs was quite
able to make queer noises that were
nothing less than grunts. The FISH
around his neck had dried up 30 that the
sight was remarkably odd without being
repulsive. The chicken can bs seen at
Browns ssable.-NeHs.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-31
Blown Up.

ABERDEEN, Oct. PA dispatch re-
ceived here from Peterhead,
seaport about twenty-five miles from
here, announces that the Swedish schoo-
ner Allen, loaded with gunpoTder,
which was at anchor near Peternead,
has bael 5lcWn up. It is added that
within two minutes after the explosion
nothing was to be seen on the surface
of the water but splinters from the
schooner. All her crew pertshed'
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-31
a Farmers Trust
To tina Thinking Farmers Of the South:

To the Thinking Farmers Of the South:
For the past two years I have made
''cotton commissions" my business and
daily have 7 witnessed the downward
tendency of your product. If you will
think for a moment, you will realize
the fact that though you are the pro-
ducers of this country and should be the
most independent, yet you are the most
dependent people of America. Why?
Because there are com mbinatlons on pear
ly every article you use. The nsnufsc-
turers Of the North combine Oh every
thing and say what it shall bring, while
you sell your products for whatever they
are willing to pay you. Why cannot
you protect your cotton in the same
way?
Ishould like, ifit meets your approval,
to organize a trust company called the
Southern Farmers Trust Company, for
the purpose of protecting your products
from the depressing Influences Of sp,cu-
lstors, spinners and capitalists, and
provide means By which you can name
the price for your products, instead OF
having the price dictated to you, as IS
DOW the case. I feel satisfied this can
be done by forming q trust which would
be able to handle most of the cotton you
grow.
Lat the capital stock be $50, 600, 900 to
$l00, 900, 900, subscribed entirely by the
farmers of tho South and divided into
as many shares as may be necessary
and small enough for every cotton plan
Ter to subscribe. Lst each farmer take
stock to bis utmost capacity and sup
port the trust In every possible way.
In case you receive 10 cents for your
cotton, instead of cents which you are
now receiving, you save on crop OF
8 000, 900 bales about 5000 600, 600, at
least twice as much as she capital stock
OF the trust company. In case specula'
tors should become frightened even at
the mention Of the trust and advance
the price of cottan, 80 much the better
for you, but very likely they would at
tempt at 6rss to bluff you.
tsi1k 1t is DOW time to act. What
benefits the farmer or lsborer uuQues-
tionably benefs all classes. If aucn
plan should meet your approval, I would
bs moro than glad to meet rep:esenta'
tive cotton grower from each State or
Alliance, either ia New York or in some
Southern city, to see if something can
not be done to bring about some benefit
to the South. Something must be deae
or your lands will not be worth cultivat.
ing. Very respectfully,
John T. RoddsY,
80 Broadway, New York.
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from Leeds, England; width. 20 inches;
weight, Il ounces per yard; invoice
price, q cents net per yard:
Per Per
Amount Of duty Yard Cent.
Mckinley tariff (S8 12
cents per pound and 40
per cent. t...............44 equals 16S
New tariff 40 per cent.).1l equals 40
Reduction Of duty. .....33
Price difference and saving to con.
sumer:
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SOog W CSuSOkQC& lu0Cl GAo
two tariffs s..............Sl.l4 .6l
Price saved to consumer SO cents.
Mckinley tarif---
Democratic tariff
Worsted Dress Goods, all wool chal-
lie. imported tRto the port OF New
York from Paris, France; Width, ~
inches; invoice price, IS cents net per
yard:
Per Per
Amount of Duty Yard Cent.
Mckinley tariff az cents
per square yard asd 50
per c.nt.) t.)..............l9 equals lO5
New tariff Cooper cent?. % equals 81
Reduction of duty......10
Price difference aud saving to con-
sumer:
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Price saved to consumer, 16 cents.
Mckinley tariff---
Democratic Tariff
A glancs at the lines beneath the
foregoing tables will show at once how
greatly the duties under the Mckinley
tariff exceed those that will be imposed
under the new tariff law.
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Cost to consumer under the
two tariffs. .s2.Msl.29b
Price saved per yard to consumer, 7OA
cents.
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Cost to consumer under the
two tariffs .SAW SSSO
Price saved per yard to consumer 7s7s
cents.
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Carriage Cloth, wool and cotton mix
J cd. imported into the port OF New York
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This Is the net foreign value, plus the
duty but the shipping charges OF e1-
penses accruing from the time the
goods leave the hands of the foreign
shipper.
The domestic manufacturers at the
mills, that we have already seen were
valued By the manufacturer st $780,
$4,000 under the Mckinley tariff, as
given IN the census Of 18sS.0, reduced
from an average rate Of 100 per cent.
to an ayeage rate of Is per cent. as q
result Of freeWool, would be valued by
the manufacturer at S232,1aO,O00.
To obtain the total value of manu-
fact1res CT wool under the Democratic
tariff, We add the values Of the imports
anu the domestic manufactures, when
ia the importers and manufacturers
bands, and fnd a total value Of $685.
ssS.OO.
To this last amount We add 80 per
cent, as in the other instance, to cover
importers profits, and all the expenses
and profits of the middlemen and find
that when the goods have reached the
point for distribution to the consumer
their value is S427, ,932 900.
II We now caEe the goods az the price
the consumer had to pay for them un-
der the Mckinley tariff, to w.t., $751;
46S,0O0, and deduct from 1t S427, ,032 900
the sum for which the consumer could
have purchased the same goods had the
provisions Of the Democratic tsrif been
In effect during the fiscal year Of 1892.
90, that the consumer could have
possessed the entire stock of goods and
Still have left in his pocket S163, ,5S4, coo.
This latter sum shows what the De-
mocratic tariff would have saved the
consumer.
He then continued and said:
This saving to the consumer will en-.
able every man to provide himself
with something that he otherwise could
not obtain unless he Were wealthy. It
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Democratic tariff
Overeoating, wool and cotton mixed !,
imported into the port Of New YORK
from London, England; Width, o4
inches; weight, 80 ounces per yard; IN
voice price, 6S cents net per ya1d:
Per Per
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-24
Artificial Lakes on Farms.

When one gives the subject thought,
1t appears strange that SO few readers
have artificial ponds when SO many
have suitable places to erect the ponds
at small expense. Recently during a
visit to the country we saw where a
never-failing spring had been utilized
in this way, and the miniature lake
was both useful and ornamental. The
surplus water ran through a trough,
erected for the stock, and with a
great deal less attention than is re-
quired by a windmill the trough was
kept perfectly clean, always full and
the water fresh. Although the grass
had been pretty short during the sum-
mer, the horses looked as if they had
been living on iuxuriant clover. The
pond is we'll stocked with game fish.
and each of the farmers rising sons
would about as leave dispense with
the barn as to do away with the pond.
Rural World.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-24
PROMINENT FOREIGNERS.

PRESIDENT CAsIM1R-PERIER is an early
riser, being at work on his letters and
dispatches every morning at $3.50. New
ertheless he often reads till one o'clock
at night.
PRINCE KRAPoTKINE, the most distin-
guished living refugee, has resided in
England since 1856. His family held
high rank in Russia before the days of
the Romanoffs.
PROF. VIRCHow, the most versatile of
the living savants, filed up his sunnler
vacation by attending five great inter
national congresses. Yet he is seventy
three years old.
THE empress of Austria has to give a
written receipt for the state jewels
every time she wears them and her
majesty, as a result, usually contents
herself with a private collection, which
is worth about one million five hun
dred thousand dollars.
PERSONS who have met Mr.. Gladstone
say that his pictures give his face the
appearance of n ruggedness which is
foreign to it. He really looks feeble,
but his clear complexion and the color
in his cheeks indicate that his health is
good. His hair is white.
AN instance of the German emperor's
kindly thought is shown in his sending
a costly locket, symbolically embel-
lished, to a little girl, the daughter Of
the station master at Freisack, who on
his recent visit to that town presented
him with a poem and a bouquet Of wild
flowers.
THE Rothschilds smoke the most
costly cigars thatare made-the Henry
Clay Sobranos," which cost a dollar and
a quarter apiece. These are wrapped in
gold leaf and packed in little inlaid
cedar-wood cabinets. These million
aire princes buy three cabinets at a
time, containing forty-two thousand
ciparS-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-24
sprtnz Crops Favored.

Unless the season is unfavorable,
the markets are almost invariably
glutted with fruit and produce in the
fall and winter. Everybody then
wants to sell, to realize money for cur-
rent expenses, and prices are too often
weak and unremunerative. The pro-
duction of early stuff asparagus,
Strawberries and other vegetables and
fruits-is not so common as the staple
crops,a and when a good market is con-
venient this early truck is generally
the most profitable. The spring and
early summer market is usually a bet
ter-paying one than the fall market.
This is a great point and we'll worthy
the farmers best consideration.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-24
Le.kx Poultry Hou.e Roofs.

A small hole in the roof will do in
calculable damage to a flock by keep
ing the house damp and cold. Evap-
Grafton of moisture is always at the
expense of loss of warmth, and the
failure to stop a crack may cause an
expense for more food, as the body of
the fowl is kept warm by the food,
and the more comfortable the quar-
tiers the less food required. Dry cold,
where the fowls are not exposed to
the winds, will no t cause as much
sickness as dampness, and especially
when the rain not only leaks down On
the floor, but also on the fowls as
well. Close the leaks before the
weather becomes cold. - Farm and
Tiresi6e
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-24

The men who fought the establish
ment of the department of agriculture
a few years ago, on the ground that it
was unnecessary, will perhaps be sur
prised to learn that one hundred years
ago there was a Clothing Depart
ment," and that congress issued regu-
lations for a clothier general, a regi-
mental clothier, and so on. A DE
partment of Clothing would excite de-
risive laughter now. There was a good
deal of inquiry and report on the SUBJ
ject of clothing for the continental
army, and at n time Gen. Horatio
Gates reported that the cost of cloth
ing each man IA twenty-three dol
lars,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-24
THE NAPOLEON REVIVAL.
Why the Emperor Is the Most Popular
Character In History.

VAy hho 6baPoSSE n Inc Mobb 1CpuAhE
Character In History.
Within the past year there has been
q revival of interest in the career of
Napoleon Bonaparte that is almost
phenomenal. In literature he has fig
ured in the pages of memoirs and rem
i~niscences by those who came into
more and less intimate contact with
him. In art not only has he been q po-
tent inspiration to modern painters
and sculptors, but he has made price
less all pictorial records of his time. In
the drama he poses as the most pictur-
esque figure that has been brought
upon the stage within the century.
Personal relics of the man are held as
sacred and beyond all price. AS Paul
Bourget aptly says, Napoleon has
hypnotized the French people again"
In France the sting of defeat after
the Franco-Prussian war turned the
thoughts of all to their period Of great
est glory, and so it needed but time to
see Napoleon enshrined as an idol. An
equally logical explanation is found
for the most notable feature of the Ma
poleon revival in this country.
The Century's life of the emperor was
projected five or six years ago, before
anyone could have foreseen the pres
ent attitude of the public mind. It
wa undertaken solely with the idea
that Napoleon was one of the greatest,
most forceful and picturesque charac-
tiers in the entire range of history, and
that hitherto he had been inadequate
ly represented. For that reason Prof.
William NJ. Sloane, the greatest Amer
lean student of French history, was
commissioned to write the life. and
his years Of study among unpublished
archives have brought out his COM
pleted labor at the most opportune mo-
ment. And Prof. Sloane shows us a
new Napoleon, a devourer of books, an
unsuccessful literary aspirant, an inef-
fectual Corsican political agitator, but
the new Napoleon certainly makes the
old Napoleon more easily compre-
hended.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-24
90

of all cases of consumption can, if taken in
the earlier stages of the disease, be cured.
This MAJ seem like n bold assertion to
those familiar only with the means gener-
ally in use for its treatment as, nasty cod
liver oil and its filthy emulsions, extract
of malt, whiskey, different preparations of
hypophosphites and such like pdHiaffves.
Although by many believed to be incura.
BILE, there is the evidence of hundreds of
living witnesses to the fact that, i'll all its
earlier stages, consumption is a durable
disease. Not every case, but q large per.
lenfage Of cases, and we believe, fully 9S
per cent. are cured by DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, even after the disease
has progressed so far as to induce repeated
bleedings from the lungs, severe lingering
cough with copious expectoration (includ-
ing tubercular matter, great loss OF flesh
and extreme eIuaciation and weakness.
Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases
reported to US as cured by Golden Med
ical Discovery" were genuine cases of that
dread and fatal disease? You need not take
our word for it. They have, in nearly every
and most experienced home physicians,
who have no interest whatever in mis-
representing them, and who were often
strongly ~prejudiced and advised against
q trial Of Golden Medical Discovery"
but who have been forced to confess that
it surpasses. in curative power over this
fatal malady, all other medicines with
which they are acquainted. Nasty cod
liver oil and its filthy "emulsions" and
mixtures, had been tried in nearly all these
cases and had either utterly failed to bene-
ft, or had only seemed to benefit a little for
q short time. Extract of malt, whiskey,
and various preparations of the ~hypophos-
phites had also been faithfully tried in vain.
The photographs of a large number of
those cured of consumption, bronchitis,
lingering coughs, asthma, chronic nasal
catarrh and kindred maladies, have been
skillfully reproduced in a book of 100
pages which will be mailed to you, on re-
ceipt of address and six cents in stamps.
You can then write those cured and learn
their experience.
Address for Book, WORLDS DIsPENsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-24
SETTING 4 HEN.
Much Annoyance Can Re Prevented BY .
Eittle Training.

~ AECNCuLco Dy ]
little Training.
An exchange thinks that this is a
subject that seems to admit of a wide
range OF opinion. Notwithstanding it is
something almost any child of ten OF
twelve years, brought up in the rural
districts. could do successfully. There
are many grown people. however, who
look to their neighbors for informa.
ton on this subject, and the neighbors
Think it such a trivial affair that they
do not give the subject sufficient
thought to enable them to enlighten
those who seek the information. In
other words, they only understand it
practically and not theoretically.
Josh Billings made one point clear
when he wrote: 1.-THE best time to set
a hen is when the hen is ready" but a
difficulty presents itself just at that
period. When the hen is ready the
owner is not, owing. to the fact that
the hen has chosen an unsuitable place
for Matching, and here is where the
trouble is The owner wants to move
the hen to a more convenient place,
A az hhNo a. 10 NSAS AhuSh SCC III
her ways" and will not be moved, and
as a natural consequence in attempt
ing to compel biddy TO hatch where
she does not want to, a sitting Of eggs
are spoiled and much valuable time
lost. A very little training of the hen
would avoid all the annoyance. When
your hens begin to lay, suitable places
should be arranged about the premises
for nests, in secluded places on the
ground, and when the hen has once
appropriated n of these places to her
OWL use all that is necessary is to let
her alone. If there is danger Of the
eggs freezing, put a china egg in the
nest, and when she begins to sit re
move it and give her good eggs. In
this way, success is probable if not
certain.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-24
THE TEXAS FAST MAIL.


New and Rapid Mall and Passenger Service
Between st. Louis and the Southwest.
Commencing Sunday, December 2, 1894,
the IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE will inau-
gurate a Fast Mail train between st. Louis
and points in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas
and the Southwest. This train, which will
be a veritable 'fiyer," will leave st. Louis
3 a. m, after the arrival of the Fast Mail
from the East, and in addition to its mail
complement, will carry Pullman Buffet
Sleeping Cars and Tourist Sleeping Cars
destined to California points. This new
schedule Will hasten the mails into the
Southwest by from eight to fifteen hours
over the present time, and keep fully abreast
with the passenger service of the day. The
through California cars will be placed at
some quiet spot in the yards at st. Louis,
and will be opened for occupancy as early
as 9 O'Clock in the evening. For full partic-
ulars address company's agents, or H. C.
TOWNSEND, General Passenger Agent, st.
Louis, Mo.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-24
THE WORLD DO MOVE.

GUN cotton is the ba sis Of the new
smokeless powder invented by Prof.
Munroe.
WOMEN are forbidden by ordinance
from wearing divided skirts in Ell Paso,
Tex.
PLAYFUL Juvenile wags have taught
the monkeys in the Jardin des Plantes,
Paris, to smoke cigarettes.
ACCORDING to statistics women to-
day are two inches taller on an aver
age than they were twenty or thirty
years 20
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-24
In Olden Times

manently beneficial effects and were salts
fed with transient action, but now that it
is generally known that Syrup of Figs will
permanently cure habitual constipation,
well-informed people will not buy other lax
atives, which act for a time, but finally in
lure the system.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-24

strip of surgeons rubber adhesive
plaster, which m OF spools one
and a half inches wide, and while he
held the limb straight and in positions
i wrapped it three times around the
limb neatly and closely, but not too
tightly. The layers adhered to the
leg and to each other and made a light,
neat splint hat would not loosen or
come off. The poor chick hobbled off
at once and is now walking about
taking its food with very little incon-
venience. The strip of plaster should
be of the proper width to correspond
with the size of the chicken and can
be applied by anyone using proper
care and Judgment"