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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-10-31
Prairie Songsters.

DO you ne'er think atwondrous beings these?
Do you ne'er think who made them, and
who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught!
Whose habirations in the grasses even
Are half way houses on the road to heaven!
Ilove them, and what resident of the
prairies does not; the birde, great
natures happy commoners, in sunshine
and IN rain, that dwell upon the prairies.
They have sweetness of song and an
independence of manner that their
cousins of the timber and woods do not
have.
On the wind swept prairie, with
the crocus and the green grass in the
early spring comes the meadow lark. It
is cousin to the English lark Of which
the poets have sung again and again
and Of whom the lover of feathered
nature never tires. But the prairie lark
is less shy. With loud and melodious
voice it proclalms it's joy and delight in
returning animated nature, its love for
the rolling boundless plains, in an en-
chanting manner. Rising from the grass
with whirr Of its wings and 9 manner
of fight not unlike that of the prairie
chicken, it struggles with the chain of
tinkling music that perplexes It's fight.
Dressed IN mottled gray, with bright
yellow breast and black necklace,
perched on house top, clod Of earth, or
from the depths Of the rich green grass,
1t pours out its delightful strain, wonder.
fully SURPRISING its shy eastern congener
in the loud, ringing tones, though rich
and sweet in quality. In the early
morning when the rising sun greets a
dew.bejeweled world then the meadow
lark greets all nature with it's most
charming music.
The hlackbirds even, that commonly
are called thieves and pillagers, are the
self constituted winged wsrdens of the
farm and delight in nothing more than
following the plow to make captive the
bugs and worms unhoused and ruthless
ly slain by the plowshare. They have a
melody and beauty in their tinking
songs which their eastern cousin with its
harsh CRY never dreamed of. Following
the plow IN the warm June days, stop
ping only long enough to snap up some
unlucky insect, dainty morsel, they
keep close to team and driver. The
blackblrd at this season then sings bis
richest music unsurpassed by any OF
the prairie songsters. His little black
coat glistens and shines in ite jet rich
ness. Swelling and expanding with the
food of music to follow, with outspread
wings, 1t takes few steps forward and
then pours from it's throat food OF
ripping, bubbling, purling melody sim.
ply delicious. It closes the effort with q
graceful bow to an sdmiring audience
and wipes its bill on the ground. It's a
bit Of rare melody that only needs to be
seen to charm.
TRR SAuNTRRER.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-10-31
Eighteen Hundred Million Miles.
In Millions great poem Of "Paradise
Lost" We find these lines:

In Millions great poem of paradise
Lost" We find these lines:
"Thence, full of anguish driven,
The space Of seven continued nights he rode
With darkness: thrice the equinOctial line
He circled: four times across the car of night,
From pole to pole, traversing each cOlure:
On the eighth returned and on the coast averse,
From entrance or cherubc watch, by stealth
Found unsuspected sway"
The reference is, OF course, to the fall
Of the ''loet spirits," and the distance
they must have travelled, according to
the hints and illusions in the lines
quoted is exactly 1885,, 2,3OS, 1863 miles,
1,120 rods! Quite tumble, wasn't it?
By what process the result was reached,
We have not space here to say. Can any
OF our readers figure 1t out, and give
steps used to ''eet the answer" In the
meantime for some interesting figures as
to distances between prominent cities by
rail, and the cost OF tickets via the But
lipgton Route, address w. j. q. Kenyon,
Gen. Pass. Agent, st. Paul, MINI.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-10-31

Cooperation Among Farmers.


Edward F. Adams In November Forum
There can be no question of the i'm.
mense value Of the cooperative move.
ment of the past three years to tho fruit
growers Of California. Besides the
strong organizations of tho vine growera
and the orange-growers, there are some
thirty or forty societies Of dec,duous.
fruit growers-by far the strongest be-
ing those of Santa Clara county-whioh
are gradually learning how to work to-
gether effectively through the state ex-
change. But aside from the creation OF
these organizations the educational 3D.
vance 10 astonishing. Where, three
years since, there was almost absolute
ignorance Of the processes Of marketing
there 10 now observation-disclosures which
renders the manipulstions and decep-
tlons which we're formerly common ut
terly impossible. The competition OF
the cooperative societies has led to such
an improvement in the service rendered
BY commission houses o. alone to repay
On hundredfold the cost of the co-opera-
tive effort, snd IN these and other in
direct ways the benefits Of cooperation
are felt and soknwledeed BY all. There
10 danger, however, that growers, finding
no present saving in the cost of market
ing, will not persist in cooperation until
the managers OF societies have learned
the business 20 we'll that they make the
small saving In expense which is certain
ly possible by cooperation. For the
present I believe that we must confine
cooperative effort to very simple matters
which are familiar to most OF those co.
operating. Cooperative stores, cooper
alive mills, cooperative canning CON-
panles, I constantly warn farmers against
touching. They are almost always pro-
NOTED by some one desiring place for
which he is'not fit, and usually come to
grief. draw the line at all co-opera-
tive enterprises involving the purchase
of material or merchandise to be sold
again. These are unsafe for farmers in
their present state of development. The
objects of our societies are very simple;
they are, first, to inform ourselves before
selling, of the condition Of the market
remembering that cur market is thous.
ands of miles away; second, to increase
our market by proper advertising at the
gen 7ral expense, and by ensnring honest
and uniform packing; third to ensure
the sale Of our own labor to as great an
extent as possible, by doing for ourselves
whatever we do not find it more profit
able to hire others to do; fourth. to
obtain for our product IN each year
whatever the conditions of the market
warrant; fifth. to eliminate from the
process Of marketing all unnecessary
labor; and sixth, to prevent speculation
by refusing to sell until our product is
ready, and then selling at tho market
price, keeping our goods in our own pos
session until sold. This is all we try to
do, and we find even this sufficiently
complex for farmers to deal with.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-10-31
THR SAUNTRRER.

Editor J. L. Montgomery, Of Marshall,
Un) Democrat, states that for many
years, he suffered untold agony from
dyspepsia, At last he began to take
Ayers Ssrsapsrilla, and by the time he
used six bottles. he was as we'll as ever
Cures others, will cure you.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-10-31
D,xersitled $4,000 Worth.

The Moorhead, Mlnn., News is not an
advocate of extreme diversidcation as
was advised by many in the northwest a
year ego, a panacea for all the ills TO
which the aRrioulturallst is heir. 1t has
held instead that the soil and climate of
the northwest is better adapted to the
small grains than anything else and
these crops, with normal financial con-
ditlon, would give ample rewards to the
industrious farmer. The growing Of
everything possible, up to the supply Of
the local market and the home demands
Of the farmers themselves, was, of course,
advocated.
Many farmers went into diversifca-
ton of crops last year, simply to diver
slfy. to make lucky hit an one of many
crops, and the result Is far from satis-
factory. A case in point is that of q
farmer who cultivated 800 acres of land
and safely harvested over 27,0O0 bushels
OF farm products. The 1900 bushels Of
oats, $500 bushels each Of barley, pota-
toes and wheat and 5000 bushels of fax
have been, or can be, sold, at present
prices for the aggregate amount Of
$6O9O About 80 per cent OF the total
product oats at 12c, barley at l8c
and potatoes at lOc-do not pay TOR the
cost Of production.
On the other hand, says the News,
had the land been sown to wheat, with
an average yield of 20 bushels per acre
the wheat yielded more than 25 bushels
per acre on what wheat land there was
seeded-there would have been a crop Of
$1,000 bushels harvested which at 45c
busbel would sell for $500 or $4,000
more than the total receipts under diver
sl6cation. Besides, he was prepared to
handle wheat and the diversified pro-
ducts cost nearly thousand dollars
more to handle.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-10-31

Do not wear impermesble and tight
fitting hats that construct the blood
vessels OF the scalp. Use Halls Hair
Remover occasionally, and you will not
be bald.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-10-31
The Sly Jim.

II has been held by close observers for
some time that there Is an underground
current to the Jsmes, and this theory
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-28
CLARENDON TOBACCO
Brought Good Prices at the Darling
ton Sale Last Week.

At the tobacco sale in Darlington last
week Mr. James D. Reayes of the Fork
sold some tobacco, which he raised. for
Sl.G5 per pound. The tobacco raised in
Clarendon is much sought after on account
of its fine quality. Sumter is to have !:
sale in the new tobacco warehouse to NOR
| row, and we expect that some file prices
will he paid to induce our Clarendon
planters to carry the weed t. that city.
Sixty.hve wagon loads of tobacco from
Salem went TO Darlington last week, aHd
out of this number nineteen was from one
neighborhood in Douglass township.
These nineteen Douglass farmers sold
about II. OOO pounds of tobacco from 81 to
q cents per pound. The Hardy Brothers
received u cents per pound for their en-
tire lot. The general average received was
lS cents per pound for 12,0UO aggregating
81, 160. Now this is from small portion OF
one neighborhood.
| We have not been able to ascertain how
mAny pounds the other forty-Six Salem
farmers carried over and sold, but we have
ascertained that all of them would naturally
come to Manning if the proper marketing
facilities were here.
Just think Of it, from one small neigh.
borhood over $1,000 worth Of produce was
sold. It does not take wise man to see
that where so much money is paid out q
great deal of it is spent for goods. We are
informed that Douglas township alone will
sell over 81, 1000 worth of tobacco this year
Merchants, this is u pointer for your con
sideration.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-28
rOREIGN ITEMs.

Baseball has been introduced in Ger
many.
Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Hogan
are on their way TO America.
Cuban sympathizers ir Mexico are
raising and forwarding $1,000 per
month to the insurgents.
The Japanese have routed the Black
Flags at Formosa and the rebellion Is
said to be practically at an end.
The Chinese government has settled
claims Of France for outrages on
French missionaries at Szecheun.
The complications in China grow
more complicated and the Chinese con-
tinue to threaten the lives of foreign
ers.
Private advices received in London
indicate that Max Judd. consul general
OF the United States to Vienna, has
been removed.
The Pope has sent Manager Nicala
Avcradi to Mexico to settle disagree
ments between the Bishops and the
government.
The troubles between Peru aud Bo-
livia have been settled by the question
of the salutin9 the Peruvian flag by
Bolivia bv arbitration.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-28
THE Y. P. C. A.
Next Sundays Meeting to Be Held at
the Baptist Church.

Next Sundays Meeting to Be Held at
the Baptist Church.
The exercises of the association were
conducted by Mr.. F. 0. Richardson last
Sunday afternoon in the Presbyterian
church. He spoke on the parable OF the
barren fig tree in st. Luke as applied to
unfruitful professors Of religi, IN Of every
age. Il exhibits o rule observed in the
divine administration. which should strike
terror to all who enjoy spiritual privileges
without improving them.
Every man is allowed o certain time Of
trial, during which he enjoys the means
and helps necessary to piety. If he con-
tinues ignorant of Gods visitntions, de-
spiSes the riches of the divine mercy, and
goes on obstinately in sin. these advan-
tages are commonly taken away from him.
his day of grace ends the utmost term OF
Gods patience IS passed forever, and the
man is delivered over to hardened heart,
after which his repentance and salvation
become impossible.
Messrs. W. C. Davis and W. c. Chandler
spoke of Gods mercy to give relief, how
ever inyeterate the sinner. He encourages
him to apply and wait Call upon me IN
the day Of trouble, and will deliver thee
and thou shalt glorify me.
Miss Monte Harviu presided at the
organ.
The association meets next Sunday al 5
o'clock in the Baptist church. They vii.
be conducted by Dr.. George L. Dickson.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-28
OUR MERCHANTS
Doing Nothing to Encourage the
Farmers to Market Their
Products Here.

Our business men must certainly see
that they are standing in their own light
when they let a large portion of our farm
ers take their produce to another county
for the want OF marketing facilities here at
home. Where is the business sense ex-
hibi,ed in sitting down with arms folded
to watch the procession OF farmers with
th~lr wagons loaded with produce passing
the store doors on their way to Darlington
and Sumter? "Tis true it will cost few
paltry dollars to build a warehouse, but
what does the cost amount to compared
with the increase OF trade and other bene-
fetal results? The farmers of Clarendon
would naturally do their bartering and
trading at their county seat, but how can
they when our business men make no ar
rangement to handle all of their produce !:
Manning IS we'll equipped for the handling
of cotton and will pay as high prices asany
other town, but we should also be equipped
to handle tobacco, and we must be If we
want to keep trade at home. We have
urged this matter several times and We ex-
pect to continue it until our business men
build q warehouse.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-28
SCHOOL BOOKS AT NEW YORK
COST.

We will have on hand about Sep
tember lst the largest line OF school
text books ever exhibited in the town
OF Manning, and we take this means
of letting the public know that we
are going to sell these school BOOKS
right here in the town of Manning at
Just the same prices they would nave
to pay for them in New York.
While we promise you to sell YOU
school books very cheap, we wlsh
also to impress it upon your MINDS
that we are daily receiving from the
largest and best Northern markets
large shipments of dry goods and no
tions. shoes, hats, and reaoy-maoe
clothing, and we expect to prove TO
YOU ere the month of September is at
an end that we are selling other
things cheap besides school BOOKS.
Keep your eyes on us now by read
ing the TIMES, and be sure to come
to see us before you go anywhere else :,,
when YOU come to town and we Will
be sure to save you money.
Yours for prosperity,
W. Z. JENkINSON.
P. S. Oh, forgot to tell you that
it is given p that Annie Mcleod IS
one OF the best 10c plugs OF tooacco
ever sold in Clarendon county. Gail
and get some. We have it.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-28

Parties implicated in the killing Of
the Bannock Indians will be brought
to account. A dipatch from Washing
ton says the Judicial Department is now
at work on the cases
At Springfield, Ill.,, Judge Newell
yesterday gave his opinion that the new
law requiring the United States flag to
be placed on the public schools and
buildings did not apply to schools or
institutions under charge OF religious
denominations where religious instruc-
ton is impaired. He declared the sem
ate bill to be vicious one.
Four cowboys started from the 40
mining camp in Chicago In race to
Atlanta, Ga. Friendly rivalry is the
cause of the race Of 900 miles The
contest is for purse Of $4,000, and is
between II. G. Payne and Harvey
Campbell, representing the stockyards
and Henrico Scultig, Spaniard and
Arthur Bingham, alias BILLY the Kid" !"
Chtlan, representing the 40 mining
camp.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-28
AT WASHINGTON.

Shirishiroh Kurino, japanese minis
ter to Washington, has gone to Mexico.
Secretary Herbert was entertained
by the Kebo Valley club at Bar Har-
Dor, Me.
The United States treasury begun
the payment of adjusted refund in
come tax claims,
Civil service rules have been extend
ed to include all printers and pressnen
in the executive department at Wash.
ington.
The bond syndicate has for the third
time replenished the gold in the Uni
ted Statcs treasury, thus keeping the
reserve intact.
News reached Seattle Wash, that
the schooner Walter Earle, was wreck
ed off kodiatt Island and eighteen Of
the crew drowned.
1t now leaks out that the United
States would have taken possession and
closed the ports at Havana had Spain
not settled the Mora claim.
The government Is making arrange
ments to transfer money from the
sub-treasury at New York to New Or
leans to handle the cotton crop.
Secretary Morton has issued g call
for a road parliament to be held in At
lanta, October 18th, 18th and 10th.
under the auspices of the Cotton States
and International exposition.
Bids were opened at the treasury de-
partment Wednesday for the heating
apparatus of the Columbus. Ga, pub
lie building. The Dalton company OF
Chicago was the lowest bidder at S@69T.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Manning, the
youngest daughter Of the late secretary
Of the treasury. Daniel Manning, has
become the wife OF Jules Won Ger Ou-
dermeaulan, of The Hague, Holland.
They were married Tuesday and will
leave for Holland this week.
A London dispatch says at a meeting
of members Of Parliament iavoring
currency reform, it. was resolved to
form Parliament Committee for the
purpose of considering what measures
can be taken to establish relative
value between gold and silver.
1t has been decided at Washington
that General Ransom is debarred from
holding the position as minister to
Mexico, as he was a member Of the
senate when the salary was increased.
He may be re-appointed, however,
which would strnich:en matters out
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-28
YOUR NAME IN PRINT.

Hon. Joseph f. Rhame left this morn
ing for Glenn Springs.
Mrs Haines of Union is visiting her
sister, Mrs. 0. E. Webber.
DIR. Abe Weinberg has returned home
from his trip to Darlington.
-Naior Abe Levi expects to return home
from the North next Sunday.
Miss Annie Loryca has return ed home
from her trip to the Hammoeks.
-Nessrs. 5. !. Walker and J. W. Nc
Leod went to Boston last Friday.
Captain I. I. Basual has been con-
fined to his bed for several days.
Rev. James Mcdowell and family re-
Turned from Saluda last evening.
Mr.. D. r. Reeves of Aatreyville. Ga.
is visiting relatives in Clarendon.
Mrs. Emma Scarborough. of Sumter. ls
visiting her mother. Mrs. B. A. Walker.
Mrs. Catherine Allen. of Florida, IS
visiting the family OF Rev. Il. NJ. Mood.
Hon. Joseph Montgomery expects to
return 10 Alabama the latter part OF TINS
week.
Miss Julia Mood. after trip to Iryon,
S. c., and Spartanburg, has returned
home.
-Captain D. j. Bradhaui left this morn
ING for Columbia to attend the State IL
lance.
Mrs. Mary c. Clark and children. o.
Sumter. are visiting the family Of Mr.. Z. g.
Thames.
Mrs. A. Nachman of Darlington is visit
ing the family of her nephew. Mr. a.
Weinberg.
MIR. W. 8. Wilson Of Camp Ridge was
in town yesterday, and we learn that ne
expects to organize nutual benefit assoc''
alton.
Capt. ". S. Briggs, who has been Nv.
inc in Sumter. has moved with his family
back to his old home in Clarendon. "Ihey
may wander off for while. but there Is nc
place like home"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-28
NARVETOUS RESULTS.

From letter written by Rev. j. GundeE-
man, of Dimondale, Mich We are permit
ted TO roake this extract: II have no hesi-
tatio1. in recommending DR.. Kings New
Discovery, as the results were almost mar
velous in the case of my wife. While was
pastor OF the Baptist church at .Rlves juno
ton she was brought down with pneumonia
succeeding In Grippe. Terrible paroxysms
of coughing would last hours with Ettle
interruption aud it seemed as If she could
Tot survive them. 4 friend recommended
DR.. Kings New Discovery; twas quick in
its work and highly satisfactory IN results. "
Trial bottles free at Z. B. LORYEA'S
Drug Store. Regular size bottles 80 cents
and 81 CO.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-28
ENI-R RIG SUCCESSES.

Having the needed merit to more than
make good all the advertising claimed for
them, the following four remedies have
reached phenomenal sale. Dr.. Kings New
Discovery. for consumption, Coughs and
Colds. each bottle guaranteed-Eleetrlc BIT
ters, the great remedy for Liver, Stomach
and Kidneys. BuckleD's Arnlca Salvc, the
best in the world, and DR.. Kings New Life
Pills, which are perfect pill. All these
remedies are guaranteed to do just what is
claimed for them and the dealer whose
name IS attached herewith will be glad to
tell YOU more Of item. Sold at +. B. LOR-
YEAS Drug Store.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-28
TO BE COMPLETED.
The Gulf 4 Ship Island Railroad to be Fin
i,hed Before November 1896,

The Gulf & Ship Island Railroad to be Fin
i.hed Before November 1906,
New ORLEANS, La, Aug. 27.-A spe-
cial to the Daily States from Mississippi
City, Miss, says: A contract to com.
plete the Gulf s. Ship Island Railroad
from Ship Island to Hattiesburg, on or
before November 1895, and to COM
mence work thereon during September
next under a decree OF the United
States was handed down Saturday by
Hon. Henry C. Niles, and was signed
yesterday by S. S. Bulls Oleland, OF
New York, and bond of $4,000 was
given to receiver T. ]. Stewart TO carry
out the decree Now. barring for
feiture of bond, there will be busy
rush at Gulf Port within less than sixty
days Real estate has taken decided
upward turn.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-28
Tua,r TIRED FEELING

Is a common complaint ANA it is danger
ous symptom. 1t means that the system is
debiiitatet because Of impure blood. and
in this condition it IS especially liable to
attnc.Ss of disease. Hoods Sursnparilla is
the remedy for this condition, and also for
that weakness which prevails at the change
Of season. climate or life.
Hoods Pills act easily, yet promptly and
efficiently on the bowels and liver 25c.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-28

Malaria produces weakness, general de-
bility, biliousness, loss of appetite, indi-
gestion and constipation. Groves Tasteless
Chill Tonic removes the cause which pro-
duces these troubles. Try it and yon will
be delighted. Fifty cents. To get the
genuine ask for Groves. No cure, no pay.
Sold by Loryea, the Druggist.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-28
e,o, ,,,. r,-w,t.. Killed Himself.

MAIDEN, Mass, Aug. 27.-Daniel j.
Mcleod, Melroec carpenter, attempt
ed to kill his divorced wife, Mary Nc.
Leod, on Washington street at Oak
Grove yesterday afternoon and after
ward shot himself through the head,
diving instantly. Although the woman
was badly injured It is thought She will