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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
How Hale Got to Camn.

During the war Edward Everett
Hale went to the front to visit one of
the generals in command. The last
part of his journey to headquarters
was OF a steamboat, where Hale met
an officer, major, who was also going
to headquarters. At first the major
was very friendly, but when he learned
that Hale was also going to head
quarters he began to fight shy of him.
Evidently he did not want ''civilian"
on his hands on the long night ride
from the boat landing.
When they reached the landing Hale
found a horse, and after hard ride
through mud and brush he reached
headquarters. After he had had his
supper, and as he was sitting talking
with the general, the major rode up.
He had lost his way more than once,
his horse had fallen with him, he was
covered with mud and in the worst
possible temper.
''Why, major said the general,
sswhere have you been? Mr.. Hale has
been here two hours
The major glared at Hale and
grunted: ':How did you get here?"
ssOh," said Hale quietly, 81 fol-
lowed the telegraph wire.
Nobody fought shy Of him after
that. philadelphia Record.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
An Indian Grandmother.

From an educated Sioux Indians
recollections OF his childhood, pub
lished in ST. Nicholas, the following
is taken: This grandmother, whose
name meant Sweet Wild Singer, was a
patient woman; and also remarkably
industrious and active; although she
had already lived through fifty years
of hardship, she was still wonder to
the young maidens in the art of en-
broidering with beads and porcupine
quills. She showed no less enthusiasm
over Hakada than she had felt when
she held her frst-born, the boys
father, in her arms. Every little at
tention that is due to loved child
she performed with much concern
and devotion. She made all my little
and scanty garments and my tiny
moccasins with a great deal Of taste.
It was said by all that could not have
had more attention had my mother
been living. She was q great singer.
Sometimes, when Hakada wakened
too early in the morning, she would
si2s to him something like the follow
ing:
:'Sleep. sleep, my ooy the Chippewas
Are tar away-are tar away.
Sleep, sleep, my boy; prepare to meet
The foe by day-the foe by day
The towards will not dare to fight
Till morning bresk-till morning break.
Sleep. sleep. my child, while still It's night
Then bravely wake-then brarely wake"
The Dakota women were won't to Gu
and bring their fuel from the woodst
and, in fact, to do most of the work,
This of necessity fell to their lot be.
cause the men must follow the gamess
during the day. Very often my grand
mother carried me with her, always
engaged in a pretended dialogue with
me. While she worked it was her
habit to suspend my cradle from a
bough or wild grape vine, SO that the
least breeze would swing it to and fro
st. Nicholas.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17

lives happily enough and ; much liked
by his neiSlDors. Strange as it may
seem, be was able some years ago 20
persuade comcly maiden to become
his wife. and she has borne him sew
erel healthy children. AS IS usually
the case, the mans remaining senses
have become much quickened since his
misfortune, snd he manages to earn
quite a SUN every year b. weaving
baskets and doing odd jobs with his
hands in the way of mending and re-
pairing, which people who are aware
of his need send to him. Ills great
delight is fishing, and he spends hours
along the brooks and streams Of Brit
tanv. waiting for the fish to bite and
is more successful in his efforts than
are many sportsmcn who have all their
senses.
Altogether there is not happier
man in all France, so the people who
know him say, than this man with a
mask, whose sole am bition at present
is to become the proprietor Of one OF
the Government tobacco chops, III
which position he would make e snug
little income in addition to his pen
sion, and would be able to smoke the
livelong day without paying for his
pleasure, York Recorder.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
Boiling Water Not AlWays Hot.

s:Cold boiling water, indeed! Boil
ing water is the hottest kind of thing.
Don't I know? Haven't scalded my
fingers more than once with water from
the teakettle?''
James is right, and yet he is wrong.
Boiling water is not always very hot
water, in spite Of his painful expert
ence
This is the way it happens:
When water boils ordinarily it is be-
cause great heat has separated the tiny
particles of the water, forcing upward
and outward in lively bubbles the all
which is contained in them. This is
done in spite of the downward pres
sure Of the atmosphere. After the
water has become hot enough to boil
it can get no hotter. because the air
escapes as fast as it is sufficiently heat
ed to do so.
There are places on the earth where
the pressure of the atmosphere upon
the water is so slight that it requires
bat little heat to push apart the parti-
cles and set free the air bubbles which
are confined in the water, so it begins
to boil before it becomes very hot. It
ought hardly to be called cold water,
perhaps, but it is certainly far from
being as hot as ordinary boiling water:
This state of things is found on all
high mountain tops, as the atmosphere
grows weaker and its pressure less ss
one ascends.
4 gentleman travelling at great e.
ovation in the Andes Mountains put
some potatoes in a pot OF water over a
hot fire. Tie water began to boil a.
most Immediately, but the potatoes
did not cook. All the afternoon and
all night the water bubbled and boiled
but still the potatoes were not cooked.
The boiling water was not hot enough.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
HOW Snakes Swallow.

The formation of snakes jaws is
also peculiar and thus enables It to
swallow bodies much larger than it
self, or than it seems to be. A small
snake, found in Africa, where this
tribe of animals abounds, is known as
the egg eater, and one OF them, less
than twenty inches long and only half
an inch in apparent diameter, can
easily take into its stomach hens
egg. This is done by the formation Of
the head, and especially of the jaws.
The bones of the head are not sutured
together, but are loosely articulated
by elastic bands. Thus tie jaws can
be extended to on amazing extent,
considering the apparent size Of the
head. 4 snake less than two inches
in diameter at the neck can swallow
rabbit, and by taking plenty OF time
smaller ones will manage to get out
side of large frog. And to hold the
prey during the process Of SLOW deglu-
tition-a time Of horror, probably, to
the unhappy victim-the teeth Of The
snake are hooked.
In this process of swallowing, the
snake secretes glsry saliva, and by
gradually drawing the jaws and neck
over the prey, as one would draw
glove on the hand, and by the help of
the hooked teeth holding all it gains
by each effort, in time the prey is
finally swallowed. The writer has
watched this process in the swallowing
of :. large frog by a small snake dur
ing more than an hour, and when the
frog had disappeared down to its last
quarter, the animal kicked continually
with it's hind legs in struggles to get
free. Snakes always take in their
prey by the head, just as the hunter,
and, doubtless, for the same reason,
draws deer to camp by the fore legs
and never by the hind ones, SO that
the hair may not cause intractabI
friction.-New York Times.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
The american Buffalo.

When the frst white settlers landed
in Virginia the bison ranged east Of
the Alleghenies almost to the sea
coast, westward to the dry deserts ly-
ing beyond the Rocky Mountains,
northward to the Grea. Slave Lake and
southwark to chihuahua 1t was the
beast Of the forest and mountains, in
the Alleghenies no less than in the
Rockies, but its true home was on the
prairies and the high plains.
Across these it roamed hither and
thither, in herds of enormous, of in
creditable magnitude; herds so large
that they covered the waving grass
land for hundreds of square leagues,
and when on the march occupied days
and days in passing a given point.
But seething myriads of shaggy
named wild cattle vanished with re-
markable and melancholy rapidity be-
fore the inroads Of the white hunters
and the steady march Of the oncoming
settlers. Now they are on the point
Of extinction.
Two or three hundred are left in
that great National game preserve, the
Yellowstone Park, and it is said that
others still remain in the wintry
desolation of Athabasca. Elsewhere
only few individuals exist-probably
considerably less than half hundred
all told-scattered in small parties in
%l,a widest oo1 most ronooIic and in.
accessible portions OF the Rocky
Mountains.
A bison bull is the largest American
animal. His huge bulk, his short,
curved black horns, his shaggy name
clothing his great neck and shoulders,
giving him look of ferocity which his
conduct bellies. Yet he is truly agrand
and noble beast, and his loss from our
prairies and forests is es keenly ' re-
gretted by the lover of Nature and of
Wild life as by the hunter. r.--Forum.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
The IS Second Sampson"

Richard Joy, who died May 18th,
1912, at the age of sixty-seven, and is
buried in the St. Peters churchyard,
Isle of Thanet, Kent, England, was
known throughout Europe as the
'sKentish Hercules" or the "Second
Sampson. When bat 3 youth OF sew
enteen years he was invited to London
by the King to give an exhibition in
remarkable feats of strength. Among
the feats of his mature years wes that
of breaking, with his hands and feet,
a rope with tensile strength OF
thirty-fve hundredweisht ard the lift
ing of o200 pounds. The following Is
copy of his epitaph:
Herculean hero, Famed for strength.
At last lies here. his breadth and length,
See how the mighty man is fallen
To death the strong and weak are ali one ;
The same judgment Goth befall
Goliath Great and David Small.
st. Louis Republic.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
Matchmaking Among Indians.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Mr.. Browning, is determined to prove
to the Indians that marriage is not a
failure. He has discovered taat most
Of the red men under the bureau at
the present time have been induced to
believe that it is not the proper thing
to get married, and for this reason, in
the mind of the Commissioner, the
numbers Of the red men are decreasing
fast. It is not certain but thai the
Commissioner, in the interest of pre-
serving his bureau, was forced to give
some study and attention to the mat
ter of matchmaking among the people.
The Commissioner has labored over
this matter very industriously, and he
has evolved scheme. He proposes to
prove to them that they can get in fa-
vor with the Great Father if they will
join in the holy bonds of matrimony.
The scheme is novel one, and it is
the opinion of the Commissioner that
ve-y soon the leading duties Of the
Indian agent will be to ect as marry
ing agent for his colony.
The reward for getting married is E
striking marriage certificate. 1t starts
with heavy sheet of paper with a red
border. Then the "United States of
America" is in blue, while the ''Our
Glorious Eagle" has not the savage
look, but sort of wedding-day smile,
and the 'tE pluribus unum" and the
American flag are displayed with an
intensity that would be cheap at any
price. The eagle presides over mar
riase certificate in the usual form.
The agents are to be instructed to
make an exhibit of the scheme, and to
use their influence in getting the In
dians to come to the conclusion that
they will be out of luck if they refuse
to get married. The agents are to show
the certificates, which have been pre-
pared with the hope that they would
have the Catchy appearance, and to
possess one would be the ambition OF
the average Indian; and this would
last him until after the ceremony was
performed. By the fash of the GER
tiicate it is hoped to prove that mar
riace is q success. City Jour
nal
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
The HehemOth.

The mammoth, or Behemoth, is not
vet universally regarded as extinct.
According to Siberian and Chinese be-
lief the race is merely banished under
ground, it's "blind life" being in
stantly exterminated by glimpse Of
the suns, or even of the moons, rays.
The inference might almost be called
q logical one from the state Of the IN
earthed remains.
In several cases the great beast has
emerged from his millennial retire
ment as completely arrayed as if death
hard only Just overtaken him, his hide
densely clothed with fulvous wool,
and that again covered by long black
hair; his name falling from his
shaggy shoulders, his antediluvlan
eyes actually staring from their
sockets. Contemporary dogs and
wolves find mammoth flesh appetizing,
in spite Of its semi-fossil character ;
mammoth bones have been proved to
contain remunerative amount Of
gelatine, and in kamchatka to this
dav mammoth fat is largely used for
fuel.
The first mammoth tusk seen in
Western Europe was brought to Lon
don in 1911 by one James Logan, who
had purchased it from the Samoyedes,
and Father Avril, Jesuit who crossed
Siberia in 1855. wrote that ''the Rus
slams had discovered sort of ivory
whiter and smoother than that which
comes from India.
The substance was priced, too, as q
styptic, and was said to be derived
from powerful amphibious creature,
Gas big and as dangerous as a croco-
dile," living chiefly at the mouth OF
the Lena. Fossil ivory, toward the
close of the eighteenth century, be-
came an object of general commerce,
and incredible quantities we're ex-
ported from its arctic repository.
Middendorf, about fifty years ago, es-
tinated the annual sale at llO, 600
pounds weight, and upward Of 1900
tusks are known to have reached Lon
don in 1872.
Yet the supply remains unexhaast-
ed, and may, indeed, be called mex
haustible. 1t is the demand which
has of late fallen off or failed. In
Russia and China, it is true, almost
exclusive use is made Of the excavated
material, but its brittleness and ten
dency to discoloration practically ex-
clude it from Western ,nGhets.-Ed-
inburgh Review.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
4 StsdiO Trick.

In the corner of an artists studio
in this city is an ingenious arrange
ment Of screens, upon one OF which,
over an aperture about the size OF q
face, is ali inscription: :.Likenesses
taken instantaneously" The innocent
visitor peeks through the hole, and IS
sstonished to behold an exact likeness
of himself as hunp-5&cked jailcr, N
a scarlet coat, opening prison door.
The secret Of this eject is simple. The
jailer IS q lifes;ze painting strongly
rendered. The place Tor tie face is cut
out and mirro- inserted, rejecting
the features OF the spectator. The
conception Of this amusing fantasy IS
not entirely original. It was imported
from the studio OF Wiertz, the Belgian
artist. Philadelphia Record.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
An Interesting Advertisement.
The following is from very G

The following is from very Cd
copy Of the Philadelphia Weekly
Mercury:
Philadelphia sTAGE-WAGGoN. ar! Ecv
York STAGE EOtT performs their S::a,:-
twice q week.
JOHN BUTLER. with els Wagon, sets ont
on Mondays from his House. et the SiSn OF
The Death of the Fox. in Strawberry Alley.
and drives the same day to Trenton Ferry,
wien Francis Holman meets hin. and pro
:eeds to Brunswick. and the passengers and
goods being shifted into the waSsor OF isaac
FitzrandolDh. he takes them TO the New 1..sz-
.nS-Star to Jacob Fitzrandoiph's. tic san"
lay. where Rubin Fitzrandolph. With I! boat
we'll suited will receive thee. and tax" tit":t
% New York tha. nici,t. jorI Butler re-
:urni2g TO Philadelphia or Tuesday With tac
oesser.ers and goods delivered ny Fc.:nc:;
~iil agair set ont for Trcnton on Thursday,
md Francis Holman. e:c.. will carry his p-S-
,enccrs and eooGs. with tie same expedition
Is aho;G New York.
March g. 1889.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
nO2DS 0? HISD0I.
Culture never made q saint.

Culture never made saint
A stingy man is never coatea5el.
He that sips OF many arts drinks OF
none.
True fsith will 1--we a1d grow il any
climate.
Preaching aimed ct the head seldom
strikes the heart.
Benegolence without love has no
more heart in it than an auction
block.
A lie always hes dagger in its
hand, no matter how well meaning it
may look.
A guilty conscience is like whirl-
pool, drawing in ell to itself which
would otherwise pass by.
Tenderness Of affection toward the
most abandoned sinners is the highes.
instance Of a. godlike soul.
Trust him little who praises all,
him less who censures ali, and him
least Of all who is'indiferent to al.
He who is false to present duty
breaks thread in the loom, and will
find flaw when be may have forgotten
It's cause.
Some men have an idea they will
some day walk in the streets Of glory
because they now and then give away
an old coat.
When one bas light enough to per-
ceiye that one is mistaken, and too
much vanity to own it, and instead OF
turning back one goes still deeper into
ones errors, it is the progress and the
consolation of pride.
When what you read elevates your
mind and inspires you with high and
noble feelings, do not seek for any
other rule by which to Judge the COM
position; it is good, made by the hand
of en- experienced workman.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
Spanish SlowIesS.

The departure Of train from a
Spanish station is generally a very
ie:s,,re;y proceeding. TIE first bell IS
t&::ca 20 mean that the po:::ers mast
leave off borrowing cigars from the
passengers, the second Is g hint to the
engine driver to finish his lunch, and
at the third the guards begin to slam
doors as q warning to the strasslers to
Get Inside Ten minutes afterward
the lead guard sounds his whistle,
AID five minutes later the engine re-
spends with shrek, which signifies
that the excuses for delay are ex-
hs:steG. New Yo-c D:sratcb.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
Extracting Gold From Its Ores.

In this process molten lead is used
fer extracting gold from its ores in
stead OF mercury. The lead is melted
on shallow hearth and the powdered
ore is fed in at one end and carried
forward rs film over the surface OF
the lead by means Of an agtator NOV
ing over that surface. 1t IS thus
brought to the other end, where it es-
capes through hopper. In order to
prevent oxidation of the lead, the
chamber is kept filed with carbonic
oxide from gas producer.-Scleo-
tifc American.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
Bacteria in Animal Saliva.

The saliva of dogs and cats is espe-
ciallv rich in bacter:s, tLat OF the lat
te- containing form which Is se!>:'.-l
observed a2d SO fatal taar :aDo.t> ~ .
guinea pigs inoculatel with Ii ".s IL
twentv-tou- hours. Ic@ (:cs >s:.T'.
contains IN even greater num- o.
bacteria. o;u< occ@sioaa. eggs - IT,
testinal worms and so on. Those ioa
and loving women VINO sre pro- /,
waste their ca-esseS u?2:i la2 dogs VII
he Interested = tl:s 60. -:;:--..'--
c:.ii.;cal Ecca.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
Hir:l Mountains in America.

Il may surprise the reader OF this
s:note" who is little rusty on geog-
rapny to be informed that there ere
over 800 mountains on the North
American continent that are over
10000 feet in height, but such IS the
case. In Alaska alone there are scores
OF them, and not less than five il that
boreal region exceed $4,000 feet. st.
Louis Republic.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-17
AS THE LICET - TEE EYE

AS THE LIGHT - TIE EYE,
/ know rot whe:aa--
The eye Loves saa i;sit,
Cut know tna. without i.
AS nausht were IS s;:::a::.
I know not wne.le
The brook io"2seLe -aic.
But know that vi;hoo: i
It's ba5blinS Were vain.
As the light to theey
To the blossom the dew,
And the rain to the tcool,
TO ny heart-life are yoC.
And should destiny say 4.
That must forget,
I might bow and obey IL
Submissive-and ye..
as the eye ever closed,
And the brook without 1ata.
And the ear inthe silence.
So my heart-ife werevain
Mamie Mac:ean, in Lipp;cco:t
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Deacop William B-own. Of New
hampshire, has distributed 121, oOJ
5iblcs since 1919.
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avenue and ..27st street. It is only
seventy-threa feet tall, but is said to
have cost So75.-New York News.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1895-03-29
TERRAPlNS AS PETS.
Easily Tanned and May Be Taught to Do
Certain Tricks.

The latest fad in the way of domes-
tic pets is the diamond-backed terra
pins. They can be found now in artists
studios, mems smoking-rooms, and
even in the ladies' boudoirs, says the
New York World.
The terrapin is a most convenient pet
so far as feeding him is concerned
You can train him to eat almost any
thing in the way of meat, or if you do
not give him anything to eat at all for
a year or so it does not appear to dis
tress him to any great degree. 1t only
increases his waEefulness and activity.
At first he will only feed in water, and
will eat nothing but hard or soft shell
crabs and CLAIMS. He is especially fond
of the former. After time, however,
as he becomes more domesticated, he
will readily devour cooked beef or NUT
ton chopped up fine, and will learn to
take it out of your hand
When first introduced into the domi-
ellie the diamond-bacl1 is very restless.
He seems to want to investigate every
possible corner of the house. But as
soon as he has taken the bearings OF
his quarters he subsidies into a condi-
ton of qufet content and will allow you
to try to teach him tricks. Everybody
who possesses a diamond-back speaks
of the readiness with which they can
be tanned.
A well-known New Yorker declares
that he has succeeded in teaching his
terrapin to do the danse du ventre
But this cannot be verified. ...
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1895-03-29


Eyes, I'm going to the dinner if Louise
ever gets through with this misera BILE
skirt" he added, aloud
''Oh, nonsense, why don't she wear
boomers? Come on. We are late al
ready" said his friend.
Louise" whispered Cranston, eff
you'll call my promise off you may have
boomers or anything else you want. -
ooh, you dear, good boy" cried
Louise, with well-fe;gneds surprise. go
to your dinner. Now hurry, or you'll
be late"
Then Tom, after kissing her good
by, rushed off to the club.
Louise put on her bonnet and went
to Mrs. Kynaston's house.
Katie" she cried, as her friend well
coined her at the door, ''I'm to have
boomers"
And then she told the story of the
manner in which her husband had been
induced to change his mind.
And she said in conclusion: II bought
the boomers yesterday, and I'll wear
them tomorrow.
you really cried, did you?" asked
Mrs, Kynaston. well, Louise, if you
went in for woman suffrage we would
have it in twenty-four hours. Talk
about mems executive ability Why, 1
believe you could make your husband
wear boomers himself.'-N. Y. Even
inp SIM