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ute 47 3-5 seconds; two mileA min- utes 54 3-5 seconds; these records were made with flying start. Johnson also holds the following records with stand- ing start, which exceed trotting horse time: Quarter of a mile, 2S seconds; half mile. 56H seconds; one mile, minute 57 3-5 seconds; two miles, min- ntes second; three miles, minutes seconds; four miles, IS minutes 15 3-5 seconds; five miles, 20 minutes 22 3-5 seconds. The best record for one mile ever made by any cyclist was make by Johnson at Buffalo, N Y, October 24, 1894, when he covered a mile on d straightaway course in the remarkable time of 1 minute 35 2-5 seconds, which performance beat the best mile run on a straightaway course by race horse, Salvador having covered a mile at Mon- mouth Park, Long Branch, N. J., in 1 minute 351g seconds.
 Johnson is now one year older, and he has had greater experience and more practice. He confidently expects this summer to beat his Buffalo record. Earl in his career Johnson was not re- garded as fast man, and was beaten any number of times in competitions on an ordinary wheel. The elliptical sprocket gear used on bicycles reduces the amount of friction to minimum and is a big advantage to strong wheel driver, who plugs away at the cranks and relies on his power more than his eleverness in fast pedaling. The invention is an old one, but it has only recently come into use Johnson was one of the first to use the improved bicycle, and rode mile in 1 minute 56 t-5 seconds. Another thing that has operated in Johnson's favor is the fact that he was the first cyclist to be paced by a horse. In all trials against time cyclers are paced by some one who goes before them and breaks the force of the wind, which is one.of the great
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erboclSers of gray serge, gathered into a band just below the knee. She had a figaro jacket, made with pointed revers faced with white cloth and open ing over bodice of white surah. Her tie and waist were of tartan plaid. She wore Scotch cap and looked uncom- monly jaunty.
 A young society matron wheeling in a full divided skirt of brown cloth over which she wore Spanish jacket.
 A girl not yet out, in very short skirt of Highland plaid, with tight, black knicSers showing below it. Broad buckled shoes, black short jacket and cap with feather made a strikingly jaunty costume.
 A blonde of pretty figure, in regular black riding pantaloons, buttoned up to the knee and tight-ftting around the calf. short, faring coat did scarcely more than offer pretense of draper ies.
 A plump mite of woman in gray knickerbockers, full at the hips, but narrowing at the knees like mans riding brooches, and fastened with a buttoned band. A Norfolk jacket and an Alpine hat finished most business like equipment.
 A girl of twenty or twenty-one who was making time in dull red knickers, close-fitting at the waist line and grow
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A and B will exceed the number of pre- vious years, and Zimmerman, Wheeler and Banker will not be an appreciable loss to the American path this season. Among the famous cyclists who prom ise great things this year is A. w. Por- ter, of Waltham, Mass. During 1894 he rode a mile in 1 minute 52 3-5 seconds; two miles in 4 minute 55 1-5 seconds He has also covered mile in 5 sec onds. His two miles flying in minutes 55 Is seconds was great performance, while his quarter of mile in % sec onds, made at Waltham, Mass, on No vember 15, 1894, was also fast cycling.
 Another whcelman who is expected to do wonderful things during 1895 is A. F. Senn. of Utica, N V, who won number of races last year in class A un- paced. He is not a sprinter, but his forte is distance riding Last season he rode three miles in minutes 28 2-5 seconds, four miles in 10 minutes sec onds, five miles in 12 minutes 3615 sec onds and ten miles in % minutes 36 1-5 seconds His great triumph was riding twenty-five miles in 1 hour ssninutes and 30 seconds, which feat he performed on November 10, 1894, at Utica, N. Y.
 F. II. Allen, of Springfield, Mass; E.
 E. Anderson. of St. Louis; J. D. Park, of Denver, Col; " A. Wenzel, of Phil adelphia; E. 0. Nelson, of Springfield, Mass; H. Davidson, of Waltham, Mass, are all prominent cyclists who will make records during the coming season.
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s'Women use this power in society. They make themselves popular, they get favors for the asking, on account of those spell-binding eyes, and they are able to make themselves look about as they please.
 'sThis same small woman, who is the most pronounced type know, has per fected herself-at first through acci- dent, and afterward designedly-until she actually preserves stage make up all the time"
 'sHorriblep exclaimed the society woman.
 Most horriblei" assented the ocalist, sardonieally, ''yet you are doing it yourself, or trying to. In the morning have seen this little woman shopping. She wears simple suit of some plain cut-nothing about her that is remark able, except her face. This is as de- mure as nuns. The eyes have soft, beseeching light, the lids horizontal movement, none of the plaintive droop. There is clear look, as if you could read the soul in their depths, and the eyes might belong to a child of nine years, so simple are they, so trusting, so youngl In a crowd 1 have seen men put out protecting arm toward this woman, thinking her child, as she stood on tiptoe to glance in at win dow or look over somebody's shoulder. Then, as they would catch sight of her neatly twisted hair or see the stylishly draped gown, they would start back in surprise. Here was a woman instead of child.
 But the real hypnotic power came later when this same little woman, the household cares off her mind, would give up shopping and start out to have a good time Then the most roguish look would come into those eyes, the most daring. Not smile upon the face, but actually diabolism in the eyes It might have been unintentional. It probably was on account of the care freeness of the woman's happy young soul. But men turned to look at her, and often she narrowly escaped being spoken tol
 '.At night, in evening dress, pretty as picture, she would continue the eye work. And the strain was frightful. When she applied to me I said: Mad am, the only thing that can cure you is trip to the mountains, where every body goes to bed at dusk and where all are too busy to talk to you during the day. Walk in the woods, lie under the trees, and keep your eyes shut
 II suspect she hypnotized the squir- rels, for she came back better, but in full practice with those hypnotic eye tricks
 "Am I like her2' asked the society woman.
 ''Yes. And to get well you must culti- vate commonplaceness. When you are pleased, you must laugh with your mouth.n
 ''That would be but sick1y smile."
 'sNo matter. Do not let your eyes dance the gray hazel dance that you have been praeticing on me this morn ing. When you want to tell people plain truths without hurting their feelings, } look down instead of up, Do you under stand? have seen you roll your eyes
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as well as Watson and Henie, who have beaten records in Great Britain, are to visit this country. Henie holds records from four miles to eight miles, while Watson is the ten-mile champion of England. If these men come to the United States, contests will be arranged in which the English champions will meet the fastest American riders, with results sure to be interesting
 Houben is famous wheelman of great speed and wonderful endurance, but he will have to drive his wheel faster than he ever has done to beat either Sanger, Johnson or Titus. It is doubtful if there is bicycle rider in the world who can beat John S. John son, of Minneapolis, unless it be Walter Sanger, and it is doubtful if the rider has yet mounted wheel who can de- feat Fred Titus at from twenty to thirty miles.
 Titus, by the way, has joined the Spalding bicycle team, and he has is- sued challenge to ride any man in the world 25 miles for s5 ,oo0 side. It would not be wonderful if no cyclist picked up the gauntlet, for bicycle rid CTS are like race horses and pedestrians. These belong in classes. Many can ride the shorter distances in fast time,
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to hypnotize people into state of won. der before letting your bolts of con demnation fall Stop it!
 And you absolutely must stop that staring, piercing, entrancing look. That is where the eyes get the strain that hurts the optic nerve.'
 5 The society woman rose with trace of offended dignity. ''Do I understand that you have no medicine to offer me?'' S68 #
 None but the medicine you are giv- ing others. Cultivate the society of people with more hypnotic power than yourself. Learn that you are subject to others; find out that you are com mon place; forget that your eyes have "a rare endowment; become 'homely' woman, and your eyes will get well. g @s
 Until then?"
 Until then you will lead brilliant, powerful life. People will fiatter and pay court to you. Ton will be loved, feared, admired, respected and hated. But-some day you may be blindl"
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blazer and bloomers.

have their bicycle outfits tailor-made get them sometimes in three pieces and sometimes in two, which means that there are always boomers, and that there may and may not be skirts also.
 This discourse is mainly upon skirts, because knickers have no longer the fascination of faddism. A woman who was trying to smoke a cigarette re- marked plaintively: ''I wish this nasty thing was proper, then could throw it
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while others who fail at short distances are successful at the longer runs. It is claimed that neither Johnson nor Snn- ger can ride 25 miles as fast as many others, while Titus could not live with Sanger or Johnson in a shorter run. Johnson is perhaps the fastest bicycle rider in the world for a mile. The wonderful mile ridden by Willie Windle in 1 minute 46 4-5 seconds was reduced last year to 1 minute 35 2-5 seconds by John s. Johnson, and the time will come very shortly, if not this summer, when the mile record will be minute 30 seconds. Johnson's mile as well as Windle's was made with a flying start. Harry c. Tyler's one mile standing has been lowered by Walter c. Sanger, and to him alone belongs the title of cham pion at the standing mile, he having covered the distance in minutes 2 1-5 seconds.
 The bicycle is now of as great im- portance as the trotting horse so far as racing is concerned, and it has been proven that it can be propelled faster. and further than horse.
 John s. Johnson, the champion bi- cycle rider of the world, is q Swede, 23
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ing. You can see well. You are clear headed, and nothing is wrong appar- ently. About noontime your eyes sur prise you by closing suddenly with sharp jerk, and remaining shut a sec ond, to open again with a stinging sen sation. By afternoon you are as drowsy as you ought to be at midnight, and by dusk you cannot see at all. Later this drowsiness wears off and your eyes sparkle and burn, until your friends tell you how brilliant you are looking. But when the lights are out the drowsy feeling is all gone. You cannot sleep for that fire in your head. Each day 1t gets little more troublesome, and each day your friends tell you how much more brilliant your eyes grow-n
 'sGo on" said the society woman, catching her breath with little gasp of surprise.
 "Oh, there is not much more. But if you live to be seventy you will wear black glass spectacles."
 S "Why? Why? How am I to blame?" cried the society beauty, alarmed at picture; land what can do?"
 Don't use your eyes so much. You women with pretty eyes learn that your eyes are the secret of your power. You learn it in. your cradle. and you begin to practice your eye-work with your first steps. By the time you are grown up you have it perfect.
 ''Now I have in mind a small woman mot very strong, and of plain appear ance; or she would be plain were it not for those eyes of hers. They are only fair-sized and they are the ordinary 'round' eyes of Americans not the almond of the Spanish. or the fascinat- ing slant eyes of the Oriental; yet they have in their changeable depths all the peculiar fascination of both of these nationalities with the added American sparkle. That woman works wonders with those eyes-but she will be blind some day. A~~s
 'sThis little woman-she is very small, even to pertness-applied' to me for mysterious trouble of the eyes. I can't always see, even when they are open she said to me, smilingly. Then, as glanced at her, she threw back her head and looked at me. For several seconds the entire surface of the eyebaH was exposed to the light and air. The lids that should have shaded the eyes were
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suit of pattern bifurcate. And this landlady, moved to wrath by the board er's habit of wearing her bicycle suit about the house, was moved to this wise remark: ''I won't have it. It's all right to wear 'em bicycling, if the others do, s'pose, but you can't wear 'em in my house, where-where
 Where there's nobody to see," inter- rupted the boardcr.
 But, after all, the landlady was right and the boarder wasn't. Just as soon as the mysterious they" wear bloom CTS in bathrooms, or rings in their noses, it will be quite right for one lone wom- an to do, and not much before. For there's luck in odd numbers only when the numbers are so large that they have ceased to be odd.
 ELLEN OSBORN. HE who is not actively kind is cruel Ruskin.
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years old, slim built, and weighing in training, 13s pounds. He is not a stoclzy, sturdy lad like Windle, nor model of athletic beauty like 4. A. zim- herman. He is not only the champion bicycle rider of the world, but he is just as fast on roller and steel skates as he is on wheel. Some of his records made last year were: 440 yards, 22 seconds; $50 yards. 52 seconds; one mile, min
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est drawbacks fast rider has to con- tend with.
 It has been reported that Johnson would turn professional and go to Eng land to race against tile champions, and the announcement created quite sem sation among cycle circles If he should cross the Atlantic it will be late in the fall probably, for he has been matched to ride series of one- mile races with Walter E. Sanger for trophy, said to be valued at s2,5005 and the championship of America One race IS to come off in June, another in July and the last in August. These contests will raise furor in sporting circles, for the men have any number of admirers who will speculate heavily on the results. Outside of the contests in class A and class B, the Johnson Sanger races will be the sensation of the cycle world for 1895.
 The fact that Arthur Zimmerman, who ranks close to John S. Johnson in speed, is to be married in June and is going to Australia, and that Wheeler and Banker will not be seen in the country this year, would lead many to suppose that there will be scarcity of crack wheelmen, but such is not the case. The number of fast men in classes
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him for an eye trouble.
 ''Take your case, my dear madam, You come to me with a queer sensation in your eyes. They do not pain you except along the optic nerve, at the side of the head, with shooting bangs when you are tired, running along un- der those cherished side waves of yours. Your eyes are not infamed, they do not twiteh and you have no organic eye trouble, yet must repeat that you, as well as others of your sex. will be blind If you keep on.
 "Now, as you are beginning to get angry, will tell you how your eyes trouble you; and if I do not describe your symptoms exactly, you have only to stop me, and I will own that am in the wrong.
 "Your eyes, to begin with, feel par ticularly strong and bright in the morn
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OSBORN'S LETTER.
! Chat About Cycling Dress of
 Different Varieties.
Knickers Here to stay-As Thick as Flies in Hot Weather and of as Many Sorts as There Are Wheol-
 women.
IcopyRleHr. 1895.

HERE are as ny bicycle costumes in the s h ops t h i s spring as there are tea gowns.
 T h 0 re a d y made suits are in two pieces
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Stub Ends of Thought.
It isn't what we think we a,

It isn't what we think we are that other people think we are.
 It isn't always the man who has money who has smiling countenance: it's the man who wants to borrow it.
 It is easier to be polite to our cred itors than it is to our debtors.
 There is not wide margin between saying 2 mean thing and doing a mean thing. 8Azaa EAf
 A woman sets her mind to do thing without thinking whether other peo- ple's minds are set that way or not.
 So few women are great geniuses be- cause so many women are so nearly that.
 Some men would rather not pray than to have their trousers bag at the knees. @p#s aa@#4 ~
 Temptation is the beautiful doorway to wretched Interior
 A man will follow a word with a blow, while Q woman will follow a blow with a great many words.
 Something more than finite power is needed to prepare mankind for an infinite condition.-Detroit Free Press.
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Temptation is the beautiful doorway
Now IS the time to protest in th,

Now IS the time to protest in the name of the public veal against the goddess compounds called moth balls and all such remedies that are worse than a plague of moths would be- The smell of these things sickens many people intolerably, and the odor will cling for months, poisoning innocent strangers iG cars and public places. Camphor is higher, but 1t is matter of few cents only, and camphor is effect tive, and at the same time fairly agree able, at least by comparison.
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LOOK. wide open, and the lashes fairly touched the eyebrows
 But the singular part of it was this: While she did this look she smiled, dancing her eyes. Stop doing that cried, for had in my hand optical in struments that required straight gaze Look right at me- - m 'sShe did as I told her, but she dropped her lids at the sides, brought dark light in those queer eyes, and for the life of me I couldn't make a proper diagnosis os their condition. They changed so constantly.
 ''The explanation oi it was that this woman had hypnotic power in her eyes; and that hypnotism is bad for the eyesight. In the old mesmeric days, those who practiced 'mind-reading' tried themselves so that they tainted after the seance. In these hypnotic days, since hypnotism is so largely the work of the eyes, women, and men, too, for that matter, run the risk of losing their sight.
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HYPNOTISM OF THE EYES.
Women Who Use a Dangerous
 Power for Social Advantage.
orbs That Work wonders-Eonely Wom- en Make Themselves Fascinating, But the OpticNerve Is Terribly Strained
 An Oculist's Opinion.
ToorYRrGHT, 1895

OMEN will be blind in a few
 generati ons if they do not stop u S in g tn e ir eyes, " said an oculist to 8 so- ciety W m a n
 who applied to
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Some men would rather not pray than to have their trousers bag at the
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HE who is not actively kind is cruel Ruskin.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-11-20
7,here is a class of men in this State who

There is class of men in this State who
may be called would-be political prophets.
They have been predicting the downfall OF
John L. McLaurin ever since Re had the
nerve to differ With the great leaders and
came out manfully to let the people know
Just what he thought of things in the polit-
Gscal world He die. not 50 aoout in an un-
derhs6ia:s w:.v, but while the leaders were
in the zenith OF their glory he pointed out
wha, he conceived to be wrongs and dan
cerous pitfalls For doing so, some of the
big leaders have lost their fondpess for
him and their little henchmen have ever
since been endeayoring to break the conf
dence of the people in him. Horny coonty
is one Of the places in which the little heel
ers have been trying to do their work, and
the amount of their success can be mag
ined when they read in the newspapers the
warm and enthusiastic greeting MeLaurin
received at Conway last Wednesday at the
hands OF about 3,5oG people. He was IL
yited there to deliver an address to the sur
yiyors of the war, and he was met by the
uBrooks Guards" veterans, about 100
strong, and cavalry company, the Horry
Hussars" in full uniform, also about 100
strong, altogether about 700 persons were
in the procession to do honor to the man
whom petty politicians would call politi-
cal corpse. Hundreds of ladies and chill
dren were present and the day was made
one that will remain in the minds of those
people as long as they live. His speech IS
published elsewhere, and We are satisfied
that all who may read it will arrive at bHt
one conclusion, and that is-it is grand.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-11-20

The Convention raised the constitutional
school tax from two to three mills, which,
with the one dollar poll tax, will give C!ar-
endon d sufficient sum Of money to run
seventy schools for term Of six months.
In our Judgment there is no necessity for
seventy schools in the couaty, .and IF we
can mspage 10 meet thesrequiremsnts Sith
less than seven ty, the fewer 30 schools the
longer the free term VII be. 1t will be
clearly seen that .Ae members OF the Con-
yentiou aes iled to give the.children Of the
poor man better chance than they have
heretofore Lad without increasing the taxes
Of tie 20 man. AS it is, the property
owner is the one who bears .theS burden
No poor man can complain at this. II aay
complai nts at .sl!. they Will come fgaaa that
class of citizens who beiieve.i * ADJUST 10
tax their property :or:the edasasion Of an
others children. There 4Ee. some men op-
pcscG to .axa.icn for education; they want
everY man =. e,s;;ce;@ BIS owo. and if with
oa. tne l1ra:,s. to DO Without education.
Fortunately, such citizens are few; the ma
jority are wiling 90 be taxed, but when
taxed they want Sood schools and to be
within tie reach Of those for whom free
schools ere intended.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-11-20
State ofSouth Carolina,
County of Clarendon.

BY Louis Appelt, Esquire, Probate Judge.
WHEREAS, THOMAS E. RICHARD
son made suit 10 me- to grant him letters Of
administration Of the estate of and effects Of
q. DeSaussure Garden.
These are therefore to sight and aamon-
ish all and singular the kindred and cred
itors of the said II. DeSaussure Garden, de-
ceased, that they be and appear, before me,
in the Court of Probate, to be held at Man
ming, on the 5th day Of December. next
after pa blication hereof. at IL o'clock in the
forenoon, to shew canse, if any they have,
why the said administration should not be
granted.
Given under my hand this goth day of
December, A. ,. 1895.
[sEAL.l LOUIS APPELI,
Judge OF Probate.