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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-01
SILVER MEN AHEAD.
Cleveland Yainly Believes That He Can
Stem the Tide.

WASHINGTON. March 6.-The state
ment in The World today that Pres
ident Cleveland had it in his power to
use the Cuban situation to secure an
other nomination is being gravely con-
sidered in Washington. It is known
that the President is personally tired
of the burdens of office, and that he
has contemplated letter declining an
other namination. On the other hand
Mrs. Cleveland likes her position, is
in excellent health and has great in
fuence with her husband. To remain
another four years in the White House
would be regarded by him as sac
rifce to be made only for the attain
ment of an important national object.
1t was announced exclusively in
The World last November that Mr..
Whitney had urged the President not
to declare himself out of the field, but
to hold himself in position to serve the
party and the country.
President Cleveland is believed to
be favorable to the annexation of
Cuba, but his eye is mainly centred
on the blishment of the national
finances on a thoroughly sound basis.
He has recently been approached by
sound-money Democrats with the de-
claration that present indications point
to the control OF the Chicago Conven-
ton by the free silver wing of the
Democracy, who confidently figure on
not less than 600 delegates out of $50.
No sound-money candidate IS in
sight to stem the tide He alone has
the strength, the personal following
and the courage to lace the situation
and compel different result. Secre
tary Oirey is not sufficiently Y identified
/" ith party policies, Secretary Carlisle
is too Vulnerable, Col. Morrison too
doubtful and Mr.. Whitney positively
declines.
President Cleveland is considering
this matter very seriously. TIE sug-
gest:on that the Democratic party is
TO be controlled by free silver acts on
Mr.. Cleveland as red flag on bull.
Could he See his election reasonably
sure, he would run again. rather than
ALLOW such catastrophe befall the
party which has Lh-ee times honcred
nm. II Gov Mckinley is to be nom
mated at St. Louis on a high tariff
platform with financial straddle,
President Cleveland believes that the
Democracy Will stand a good prospect
OF winning on revenue tariff and
sound-monev platform. \ free State
bank plank would be used as sop to
hold the Southern States in line and
neutralize free silver detection. All
This IS. Of course, still in embryo and
unsettled, but it IS certain that Fresi-
dent Cleveland has not definitely de-
cided to leave the field.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-01
Killed BY Convict.

NEwBERRY, S. c., March 27.-Ies
terday afternoon negro prisoner on
the chain gang named Duffy, working
in this county got enraged at an Or
der given him by Guard Hargrove
and swinging his pick axe around
struck the guard in the head. AL
though the negro was shackled, he
succeeded in making good his escape,
although two other guards were near
by. Mr.. Hargrove, after painful suf-
ferings, died at 2 o'clock this this
morning. Duffy had just been SEN
fenced to the chain gang last week.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-01
Ate Toad Stools.

CHICO. California, March 25.-On
Sunday last a party of II Chinese and
japanese men and women partook of
toadStools, mistaking them for mush-
rooms. AS result three Chinese and
three japanese died today from pois-
ouiug. and the survivors are in critl-
cal state. 1t is reported thata number
of other Cinnamon were also stricken
down and are being hidden from the
medical authorities by their friends.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-01
Silver Men Won.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 23.-The
Democratic State Executive Committee
today decided to hold one State con.
vention to nominate State officers and
delegates to the national convention,
the gathering to meet at Nashville,
May 6 and 7. The one convention
plan was advocated by the silver men,
headed by Senator Harris, and Con-
gressmen Mcmillan, Richardson, Cox
and McDearmond and caused three
hours discussion.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-01

CHICAGO, ILL.,, March 24.-Chris.o-
pher Schrage, who is rs years old and
lives alone at I'll South Jefferson ST.,
was bound and gagged by two men
this evening at $50 o'clock and rob-
bed of money and papers amounting
to more than $50,000 The robbery
was one of the boldest ever perpetrat-
ed in this city No arrests were made
and the police are at sea in the matter.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-01
High Hats Must Go.

COLUMBUS, o., March 25.-The
House has passed the Fosdick bill. to
prohibit the wearing of high hats by
women in theatres. An amendment
to the bill tining the manager OF an
opera house or theatre SO for permit
ting a person TO wear an obstruction
in the shape of hat or headgear was
adopted. Tie bill now goes to the
Senate.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-01
The Bermuda Lands.

NEW YORK, March 2G.-Dispatches
received in this city yesterday from
Habana stated tha! the Bermuda had
landed the arms and ammunition she
carried. and that General Galixto Gar
tia and the men with him had safely
Joined the insurgents.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-01
BIMETALLlC DEMOCRATS.
COMMlTTEEMANM MAYFlELD ADDRESS
CIRCULAR.

The Democrats in South Carolina ne
Saws, Favor Both Gold and Silver and
Should Support Them Both--Clubs Meet
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-01

Superintendant of Education May
field, who was appointed bimetallic
Democratic committeeman for this
State at the recent Memphis conven-
ton, yesterday issued the following
circular:
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-19
Jackets and Capes

All our jackets and capes must be sold, we don't
wish to carry them over. Now your time to buy them
at about onehalf price.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-19
Silks z Velvets.

To reduce our stock Of Silks, we will
25 per cent less than our former low prit
of velvets is very large. You can get az
reasonable price.
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CLOTHES EXCHANGE
The Phenomepal Srceess- of the Busi-
ness In London


Why does not somebody in our fig cities
open, for the comfort and convenience OF
feminine kind, a clothes exchange, on the
plan OF one which has proved so successful
| In London that its proprietor has had to
| enlarge her offices and salesToom. The
| clothes exchange is place where private
| wardrobes are bought and soid-where a
| woman thrown suddenly into mourning
can get price for her colored things il
your husband or father has failed you can
| feailze instantly on your wardrobe and
where should new gown no fiji. or prove
| uhoecoming, or fall out of style. or get
100 hopeiessiy leose or tight. an Instant
market for IL can te foGnd--
I AT the cioth-s-e excEhngea. w5aps, that's.
1uhss, satcheis, even false hair. are all
bought up and-sold to- the thrifty women
who know a bargain when they see if.
secondhand clothes often go AT the lowest
prices when the garments themselves are
almost fresh from the dressDaker's hands,
and princesses, ladies OF proud title with
often well-filied purses patronize the
ciothes exchange, buying and selling or
ieavlng orders for The attendants to be ON
the LOOKOUT for certain bargains they are
desirous of making. Sometimes whole ward
robes never appear in the salesroo.ns at all.
Dut on the payment of a fee are shifted
from one owner Ia another, and women who
are gong on voyages or to spend a while
III some foreign country don't hesitate to
lay In all their supplies at the exchange.
Such an establishment would have been
regular boon to many of us a atChristmas,
When gifts were often duplicated, even
three or four times Nobody-yvants six
glove hooks or nine mouchoir cases or four
par of bedroom slippers, but Santa Claus.
IN the rush of business at this season. FIRE.
quentiy makes mistakes Just like that
The only resort left frugal-minded per-
sons was to lay the duplicate gifts aside
IN tissue paper. and during the year a { anni-
versaries and birthdays cautiously swap off
the extra bric-a-brac and toilet articles. Or
many heedful soul has already laid away
a sufficient surplus supply OF presents from
the CHRISTMAS and New Year=ofis5 to
nearly defray the impending obligations of
December, 90. Nowsift there wasal clothes
exchange round the corner. by the nav
ment OF 2o-cent fee, button hook could
De swapped for anything equal its value
IN STOCK a mouchoir case replaced by u
collar box. ana the profits in Christmas re-
ceiptS made To equal ones output.
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BRAIN TUBE OF CONGRESS
Queer Tunnel From Library to
The Capital.
CABLE LINE UNDERGROUND
t VIII Transport Books for Members.
A Little Tunnel That Is Packed
with Ingenious Devices and Newest
Inven;lons-Speedo of the Car-Pneu.
matte Tubes and Telephones.

Iydecker hole in the ground is a dead
horse to an electric motor, when compared
to the Congressional conduit for the brains
OF all the ages.
There are so many things in Washington
mat have no parallel or duplicate that it
Will not be surprising. yet very interesting,
to learn that the city tlas the only under
ground cable car line in the world. In
some respects it is an invention; in others
it is variation of the endless chain prin-
cipie' put III the main it is unique, and es-
peciauy IN the regard that it is out OF sight
This subterranean novelty is the sugges-
ton of Superintendent and Engineer Rer-
nard R.Green, who, withGen. Thomas Casey,
mas had charge of the construction of the
new Congressional Library, whose beauty
is charm ard delight to all who have
recently visited Washington.
This road is only l,275 feet long. or
nearly onC-sourth of mile There is
no charge for transportation. no conductor.
no gripmaD, no cold blasts through omen
doors in winter, no excessive sunshine in
summer; ii needs no tenders, no coroner's in
quest, and no delays in the eternal merry-
go-round ny reason of breaks in the cable.
no swearing of people i'll a hurry, and, in
fact and in fine, it is a model OF modern
railroading.
1T IS EXTREMELY EXCLUSIVE.
But ii is cEe of tie most exclusive rail-
ways in the world. Seats We're reserved
hundreds, even thousands of years ago,
III the carriage of this system. Generally
one must be dead TO be entitled to free
transportation. although tEele are several
modern exceptions 10 this rule of necessity.
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of the hellboffIte splintered the block into

! OF the helIboffIte splintered the block into
minute fibers.
.'BelIite is the name of the Swedish
ammunition, and IL has some pretensions
| to perfection. On comparing the effi-
cheney OF beIlite with that OF gun COTTON
under exactly the same conditions, the for
mer shows a superiority OF 1O.4 per cent
at q distance of seventeen feet SIX 1nches'
and 1872 per cent at a distance or tWeive
| feet and six inches. The firing OF twenty
five millimeter machine gun ammunition
and steel bullets against mines loaded WIN
belIite, had not the least effect upon the
explosive, thus proving it to possess in
fhis resnect u great advantage over all other
explosives.
BELLITE's COMING IMP ORTANCE.
SIT is the opinion OF those who have the
best opportunity OF knowing that beliite
bids fair to become of great Importance.
III is equally suited for mining and Tor
military purposes, and it is not liable TO
be used for the undesirable purposes that
many powerful explosives serve.
"England uses lyddite. and size has done
some deadly work with shells loaded with
this substance. But as we are now meas
uring our strength with bers, ii is crafty
ing to know that, chemically considered and
practically demonstrated, our national de-
lenses, loyeite aud cmmensile, are mu ch su-
perior to hyddite.
''Shells loaded with ioveite travel at the
rate of 2,S0O feet per second, and this is
the greatest known artificial velocity.
One hundred pound six-inch breech-load-
ing guns send bullets at the rate OF 2,z6O
feet per second.
''Emnlcnsite possesses the double quail
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ity OF both projecting and bursting charges.
: 1t is insensitive to shocks, blows or fire.
yet as an explosive is much more powerful
than nitro-gIycerine. When used in the
era nulated form for a projecting charge 1t
produces no smoke, nor does it foui tn piece.
with goOdy store of emmensite and
joveiie neither the British fleet in the
yelling Canal. nor recruits stationed south
at Nassau need to strike our patriotic hearts
with terror.
There has fortunately been little oppor-
. tunity for really testing the destructive
effects OF high explosives by use in war
but many experiments have been made in
blowing up condemned vessels, and thus
some idea can be obtained OF their relative
strength.
"One OF these experiments was made
under my supervision at the torpedo sta
'--'t- Nr7.nurt, Aagust Is, 1854, when the
schooner Joseph Henry. a condemned ves-
Sci belonging TO the Treasury Department.,
was blown up by a torpedo.
BLOWN UP BY A TORPEDO.
This torpedo was one of the kind known
rs contact torpedo, the carved arms which
protrude being movable and so fixed that
II touched by an object they will be pressed
Gown so as TO complete the electric cur
rent. and thus fire the torpedo. Itcontained
firty-;hree pounds of gun cotton, there
being four dry disks in the central can, the
remainder being wet.
The Joseph Henry, which was so feet
long. 20 feet beam, and feet draught. was
anchored IN the harbor, and the torpedo
was attached TO the end OF spar rigged
out on the bow of a steam launch. the
latter being electrically controlled from
the shore.
The launch started from the shore. and
on touching the schooner the
torpedo exploded and blew so large a hole
into the vessel that she sank inmadiataIv :,
ABOUT two years ago DR.. Newman served
as an expert for the special commission 10
report 10 congress on means of improving
The morning times., 1896-01-12
NzO5saSFtIaaz iSatzl1z.

with the classics. and Mr.. Hoar will posi-
bly, not care TO get bis fayorite philosophers
by the underground railway. Senator
Vest is credited with being specially ia
niiIidr with only two books, the Bible and
Shakespeare, and these he has at home.
Senator Chandler, before his term is
out, may find il necessary TO read up on
farm implements by the time Senator Till
man produces his pitchfork which he has
sworn 20 use on the Chief Executive when
occasion demands.
Senator Stewart has use for only one set
OF booEs. his own and other peoples at a
ratio of l6 of his own TO / of the other
peoples Senator Morrill, depends on the
longest memory in the Senate. Senator
Frye hasn't read a book since he studied
the biography OF Queen LiliuoEalani or Mrs
Dominis, as he used to call her. Senator
Sherman is writing a library of his own
Senator" Gray will probably confine him
self for years to come to English Spolia-
ton" Claims i copy of which he has in
The morning times., 1896-01-12
MICROBES IN ICE.
Dangers Which Lie Hidden I'm the
Pores of ConrenIed w.tar

Pores of Congealed Water.
The dangers incident To the consumption
of ice obtained from polluted sources. as
lakes sr ponds receiving sewage. have been
much insisted on, and not only have actual
instances of the communication of enterjc
lever ID this manner been quoted, hut Tho
meteorological examination of ,lirferep,
samples of meltedic have been adduced to
snow that the process of freezing has no
iniiuehce on the number or vitality OF the
microbes. Ice water, for example, from Tho
spree, mas been found To contain roo m
tne L. sm, and from the Lake of Geneva
SlS, while melted hailstones Welded 70
says the British Medical journal.
bittherecent experimentsofProf.C Christo-
manor OF Athens go some way toward
Justirying the old aud popular belief in the
purifying action of ccngeiation, which. as
ne shows, effects q partial separation az
an impurities, concentrating them IN tho
inher observation-disclosures. EXAMINING HI, clrs
OF artificial ice from factory supplied nv
aWeii, and others OF water from anaouef,,c.
OF Hadrian, he observes in al, a central cnre
forming about one-fourtli part OF the ,ntire
granular appearance. contrasting strnngIv
win the perfect and colorless transnaran,y
OF the surrounding ice
"blie the original water from the aoua.
duct contained thirty milligrammes of ,!or.
eanlc matter" solids lost in icnition3 in
ehe ,ter That from the clear ict. Shaved unlr
-, whi!e the turbid central portion gave
ioo-5; SO with the water from the welI.
tne sixty-four miiligrammes in which were
uNiusu the ice into 5.5 and 2O2 miIU-
sraHnes per liter respectively.
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1t is easy 10 guess that this wonderful
little abroad is the one in the tunnel which
connects the magnificent Capitol with the
golden-domed Library, its new neighbol
OF granite and marble.
Byran, Dante Homer, Hobbies. Milton
Adam Smith, Herbert Spencer, Machia-
velh, Sherman, Madison, Caihonn, Burke
Longfellow, Emerson, the Congressional
Record (which is usually very dead and
all the great dead and few living great
historians, financiers, and Political eoono-
nlSts are 10 tie the privileged class on these
underground cable cars.
Even Gen. Casey must foot il TO the
Capitol or ride in his magnificent private
carriage; TO say nothing OF the inventor,
If he ever has desire nowadays to lock in
on the bald heads of the Senate, or the
young men with the buttcrnilk mus
tacheS OF the renaissance period i'll the
House. ~
DESCRIPTION OF THE TUNNEL.
Speaking by the official card, The tunnel
runs about three TO five feet below the
surface of the park and payements, in Il
straight line from the main entrance OF the
Library building TO point OF tie Capitol
Immediately south of the central oolonnadc
on the east front, where il enters the sub
basement, where The carrying apparatus
will extend vertically 10 a small sioTSToom
on the main floor of the Capitol, which
is in rear of tie loom now occupied by The
House Committee on Enrolled Bills.
The other terminal viii be in the basement
story of tie Library building, Immediately
under the main reading loom and close by
the delivery apparatus.
This tunnel-rcferring TO the brick work
is four feet wide asd six feet high. With
the apparatus in place there is only room
enough for one man TO pass through it.
The vertical section shown in The accom-
panying cut indicates this. The heavy
grades are at the Capitol and Library,
where the cables rise TO meet the enier-
gcncy as it were. In the last stages of the
tube there is an almost perpendicular
climb. like that of the line uf Mount We
suvius.
AS to the apparatus: The line is called
a tunnel conveyor, and consists of
small endless wire cable. carrying book
holders. These bookholders are shown
in the vertical section herein reproduced.
The distinction between this double
tracR'' and that of the ordinary cable
tracks is that one line is above the other.
This is also shown in the vertical section.
ELECTRICITY THE POWER.
The cable is TO be kept running by an
electric motor at the rate of about n
mile in eight minutes, 1t requiring there
fore about two minutes for a book TO
travel from the Library to the Capitol
Congress has recognized its own laws
against striuging overhead wires by put
ting its telephone between the Library and
the Capitol in this tunnel The railway
line is further equipped with pneumatic
tube, SO that IL is evident that more me-
chanical devices and modern Improvements
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No Powder Wasted hx Roers,

A large part of the success of the Beers
in their contests with British troops has
always been due to their craftsmanship.
They are nation OF marksmen. Most of
them are agriculturists, and hunting is
their great amusement. or course, the
large game OF Africa has to be hunted with
ball, and this requires the acquisition of
a cool and steady aim. They have, in fact,
much of the character of American from
tiersmen in their use of firearms, but they
differ in having an intense religious senti-
ment. When they feel that they are en-
gagged in righteous cause, these qualities,
added to phlegE1atic courage of their Dutch
ancestors, make them almost invincible in
anything like an even fight-Indian ma polls
Sentinel.
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noers even the etrouble OF walking across
me espianade for what they want to copy
In their speeches
~ VIII work like charm. For Instance,
one OF these fine days when Peffer, like
Marx Antony. win get up and speak about
Saesar's funeral ta favorite sub ject with him.
ferferl Senator Harris win get tired.
he wihtouch his electric button. A page
appears Your Uncle Isham gives the lit.
tie Mercury slip of paper on which is
written: Librarian: Old Testament. Har-
MS The page sc1ds away down the cor
railroad.
he hsssNswistedthe slip of Senator Harris
l1lo transmissibie shape by the time he
redchtss> rfie~ uefvery room and it is fired
Though the tunnel. Col Ainsworth Spof-
iord reads the h6te.~ BE is soreIy puzzled,
but heSlands~the delivery clerk the Old
testament, and, in less than six minutes,
Senator Harris has it.
Peffer is still talking on the subject of
cheap funerals- ana Harris selects that
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PLAYS WITH EXPLOSIVES
Or. Charles Edward Munroe Tells
ofiTheir Qualities.
ORIGIN eF:NITR0-GLYCERINE
Its Practieaf Use Due to Alfred Nobel.
the Germans-BeIlite Superior TO
Eun Cotton-Lyddite, JOveite and
Emmensite Three Powerful A gents.

Dr. Charles Edward Munroe, the dis
t1nEuished chemist of the Unitcd States
Naval Torpedo Station and locally known i'll
connection with the Columbian University,
Is most interesting man to converse with
Just at present. DR.. Munroe is thor
oughiy well-versed chemist in every direc-
lion, but On. the subject of high explosives
he Is, according to Appletons Biogra phical
dictionary and several good German and
FRENCH encyclopedias, lone of the best au-
thorities now living"
In view the mutterings of war now
becoming alarmingiy frequent, there is no
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~fS>~SA0' AAAAo dAeN<AOeC 10 ouAy kGtotCu u
show that the library win stu be necessity
as long as only business men" are sent to
the literary center OF the nation.
THESE WILL APPRECIATE 1T.
An industrious new Congressman ought
to be able to read four or five good books
day, ''by title" at least, like bills dur
ing any one of his busiest da ys I'm the
House. and thanks be to the labor-saving
railroad, he will not even have to walk
to the library to read them.
But whether the underground cable car
line Is much used or not, it stands out
uniquely as the distinct invention of the
age. 1t Will not be in use until the books
have been moved to the new library.
There has been some absurd talk in one
of the yeracious newspapers Of Washing
ton about building an elevated tramway
on which to transport the immense piles
of literature from the Capitol to the new,
library.
This was only a romance. A plain old
fashioned Kentucky mule, or mules, and
a cart, or carts, according to the appro-
prlation, will be the only elevated tramway
to be used, with the exception. perhaps, OF
an occasional wheelbarrow. 1t will be a
work OF some weeks, but it is not a thing
of the near future. as the building will not
be finished in all its details until about
next January. The little railway is, how
ever, complete, and could be put in opera
ton whenever required.
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chapter IN which Job says: "I know that
my hedeeiner liveth," and reads until ad.
Jourhment. This speed reduces the time
almost to Il minimum in which any ponder.
able matter could be ira nsmitted distance
OF a quarter of mile with absolute safety
and care.
IL rs not to be assumed that by reason of
TINS lightning process OF putting the million
books of the library under The noses and
spectacles of lawmakers there will be
any additional literary tone in the out.
put of such lawma kers in the Congressional
. Mr.. Lodge possibly will still make the
trip to the library, where he will be at home