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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
a Greater Navy.

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Congress at It's next session will be
asked to appropriate good sum for
improvements of the navy The results
of the war with Spain makes the
strcngthing of our navy an absolute
necessity. The Oregon must be con-
sidcrcd the most powerful ship of our
present navy. But we have building
and nearing completion the Kentucky,
the Kearsarge, the Alabama, and the
Illinois, all more powerful than the
Oregon. Bids will soon be asked for
three battleships of even greater strength
They are to be one third larger and one
fourth swiftcr than the Oregon. They
will also be stronger in armor and ar
mament Then we are to have three
immense cruisers, superior IN every
respect to the New York and the Brook
lyn. They will be third larger and at
least two knots faster than those noble
vessels. Three vessels Of the Olym-
pia 5 class are to be built, but they will
be more powerful and considerably
faster. In addition to all these mighty
new ships we are to have six smaller
cruisers, something like the Marblehead
but superior to that cruiser both in
speed and coal capacity. In their
plans for all the new ships the board
has had special view to the capacity
for carrying an ample supply Of coal.
Even the the big battleships will be
able to go 5000 knots without recoaling.
This Will give them an advantage over
the best of our present battlesships
quite as great as their superior power
of attack and resistance. Our navy
strengthened by the additions we have
named will move up from fourth to
third place in size and in effective
strength will probably be surpassed only
by the navies Of England and France.
But the man in the ship is factor to
be considered, and with the new vessels
which We shall add to our navy in the
next four or FIVE years we will, with our
daring sea-fghters and our matchless
gunners, be able to hold our own
against any navy that it may be neces-
Sarv To frht,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
Big EATERS OF THE OLD DAYS
Seven and q Half Pounds Of Beef Part
Of One Man S Dinner.

The late Abraham Hayward refers in
his "reminiscences to Thomas Walker.
who died early IN the present century.
and WIS editor Of; singular g;l>tronomic
journal, called the Original. Among
other things he speaks Of Mr.. Walker 5
persistent advocacy Of very few per-
fcctly served dishes at 4 single meal.
Among others he mentions a Christ
mas dinner given by Mr.. Walker. in
which three persons including the host,
participated. 1t was composed of
crimpcd cod. woodcock and a plum
pudding just as much Of each as was
wanted. with champagne in abundance
as the :olc wine. This dinner excited
considerable comment at the time. for
it was given at period when it was
considered good form to load the table
with an endless quantity Of viands and
drink in profuslon, many varieties Of
wines
This dinner of Walkers leads Mr..
Hayward to comment upon the fornlid-
able appetites with which people were
endowed in the early years of the CEN
tllry One of Walker meals was mere
ly nibble to the robust eaters Of this
period
The lord lieutenant of a certain west
crn county Of England ate covey of
partridges in their season every morn
ing for breakfast. Another man of
title consumed daily an equal number of
these birds as mere whet, and his ap-
petite was only sharpcned by the per-
formance. This feeder, before he had
finished with round of beef, had eaten
seven and half pounds of solid meat
and a proportionatc quantity Of vegeta-
bles.
Mr.. Hayward tells of distinguished
literary and political character who
vas in the habit of ferquenting the
notorious Crockford's. His appetite
and capacity were so prodigious that
the proprietor of the establishment
determined to offer him substantial
fee to refrain from eating there. He
was about to do so, when he was in
formed that this glutton had been
bought off by the proprietors of all of
the other exclusive feeding and gamb-
ling resorts of London.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
Gold Coming South.

The Savannah News says that if the
statement sent out by the New York
banks is correct, cotton pick Will be
paid to i Very great extent this year
in gold. 1t is the custom Of Southern
banks to get currency from the New
York banks. at the beginning OF the
cotton season, with which to harvest
and move tic cotton crop. They get
small bills to facilitate the paying of
the cotton pickcrs. This year it seems
that the New York banks are not able to
respond to the demand Of their custo-
mcrS in the South for paper money.
They have not more than enough for
their own needs. and they can not get
any from the treasury. The conse-
qucnce is that gold will have to be used
in moving the bottom crop. The pros
pect is therefore that there will be plen-
ty ofgold in circulation in the South this
year.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
About Reducing Cotton Acreage.

The News ind Courier under tit
heading The Cotton Growers in Coun-
ell say that the National Cotton
Growers association at Memphis re
Gently adopted new policy to restrict
the production Of cotton. Reduction
Of ACREAGE by agreement WAS dlScar"c"
as imparacticabIc The new policy is
''diycrsiGcation Of crops, and this is to
be kept before the eyes Of the farmers
by the distribution of literature. 10
this end the formation Of a society siml-
lar to the Grange and Alliance, free
from politics, is recommended. This
seems to be wise direction given to
the Cotton Growers association, if it
can be crrricd into practice. The CT
forts and experiences of years IN
this section show the folly Of the effort
to reduce the acreage in cotton by
agreement. Itis saying among farm
ers themselves. that farmers cant
combine They viii acknowledge
that as general rule, less cotton
should be planted, but every individual
man of them thinks that it is good for
all the other fellows and not for him
this year He has money to raise to
meet debt in the fall. He can't sell
his corn, fodder and other produce with
out sacrifice and cotton is so low, he
must plant largel y to raise the money.
This is the way they talk and consider
ing the low price he gets for everything
he has to sell, the farmer has to plough
a stumpy row. The cotton is such an
easy crop to cultivate. it woos him away
from tobacco which requires SO much
trouble and skill in the curing. There
are number of good farmers around
US who know that tobacco is far more
profitable crop than cotton, that there
is cash demaad for it as early as
August, but it is so troublesome. So
after all the element of ease in the cul-
tivation and gathering Of the crop and
the application of knowledge already
acquired, are important consldera-
tions with many. BY concert Of action,
the farmers and those interested with
them, could make the plan proposed
very useful. The question is, will 1t
be done?
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
Gems Of Thought.

Half our mistakes in life come from
being in a..hurry.
Every human soul has something Of
the nature of God left in it.
Try to learn the hard lesson Of con-
centration without absorption.
Assuredly sore and subtle tempta-
ton of middle age is to nurse wrongs.
The end of life is not personal happi-
ness. 1t is the image and glory of God.
If it is reproach not to have friends
it may be evena greater not to have
enemies.
No man can do anothcrs work for
him. fit is not done by each one for
himself. it is not done at all.
1t is not greatness, but littleness,
that can easily dispense with human
love and coldly prefers. to suffer alone.
4 gentleman's first instinct is to put
every one at his ease and especially to
avoid giving unnecessary paln.-Blshop
ThOrOld.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
To Be Mustered Out.

The following troops were ordered to
be mustered out Of service Friday:
First South Carolina. Jacksonville to
Columbia, S. c., First Pennsylvania,
Second and Third Pennsylvania Fourth
Wisconsin. Sevcnty-frst New York,
First New jersey, Thirty Mich
igan. two squadrons First Ohio cavalry.
Eighth Ohio. One Hundred and Fifty
eighth Indiana, Third Ohio. Second
North Carolina: Simous Island, Ga, to
Raleigh: First and Second Alabama,
Third L. 5. volunteer cavalry. Second
Massachusetts.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
Spain Paws the Penalty.

Spanish official reports recently pub
!ished show how terrible were the los
ses by disease of the Spanish army in
Cuba during the two years from March,
1895, to March, 1897. In that period
Spain sent to Cuba 187 900 troops.
These with the garrison already there
brought the total Spanish force in the
island up to something ike 100000
men. >Dnring the two years specified
5here were killed in the battle 81 Off
GERS, 1874 privates, 81 officers and 704
prirates died Of wounds. These losses
were comparatively light, but when we
turn to the mortality from disease we
see a frightful record. Yellow fever
took of 3l3 officers and 13, 900 privates.
Other diseases, mostly malarial, re-
moved 127 officers and 40, 900 privates-
During two years out Of every 1000
Spanish soldiers in Cuba 10 were killed
in battle or died Of wounds; sc died Of
yellow fever, POI Of other diseases, and
143 were sent home inyalided, total
loss of 420 men out Of every 1,0e9.
The reports for the period since March
1897, are not given, but it is reason
able to suppose that no less than I90,-
900 Spaniards have lost their lives
in Cuba since the insurrection began,
probably nine-tenths Of them by dis
ease. We agree with tn Atlanta Jour
nal that this was terrible retribution
worked on Spain She had never made
any effort to improve the sanitary condi-
ton of Cuba. So long as she got her
enormous tribute from the island Spain
seemed not to care abont anything else.
Cuba was permitted to become and re-
main one of the foulest hotbeds Of dis
ease in the world, whereas great ma
ton might in time have made it as
healthful as it is fertile and beautiful.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
Rewards in the NAVY.

Captain Philip, Of the Texas, who
distinguished himself so nobly at Santl-
ago, has entered protest against his
own promotion over the heads Of Off
GERS who ranked him before and who he
declared would surely have conducted
themselves with gallantry equal to that
Of the participants in our recent IN our
recent naval battles if they had been
given an opportunity. Captain Philip
has not only given proof ola high sense
of justice and remarkable unseltlShncss,
but he has called attention to the un-
fairness OF our present system OF be-
slowing rewards for distinguished ser
vice In the navy
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
BLOWN UP.
The Government Steamboat John R
Meigs Destroyed by Explosion.

The Government steamboat John R.
Meigs was totally destroyed by an cx-
plosion at Fort St. Philip near New
Orleans Saturday. She had on board
Lieut.. Jervey and party engaged in
removing the torpedoes laid in the
Mississippi River during the beginning
of the war. Lieut.. Jervey had mar
row escape. The killed were Capt.
Starr, commander Of the boat: Sergt.
John Newman, of the engineers; Pat
Carlos and Ralph Rogers Those
wounded were Fritz Koch and D. B.
Reddy. Major Quinn, Of the engineer
corps, was advised that the Meigs had
been blown up by torpedo or mine.
The Government engineers had been
unable to recover the mines and torpe
does from shore by means Of the cables
to which they had been attached, owing
to the fact that the sand in the river
had weighted them down and caused
the cables to part. On this account a
crew was ordered down on the Meigs to
grapple for the mines and bring them
to the surface. The crew had almost
completed the work when the accident
occurred. The dispatch to Major
Quinn says that the Nteigs sank out of
sight in deep watern near FortSt. Philip.
Carlos and Newman, among those
lost, belonged to the United States en-
gineer battalion that came here some
time ago from Willets Point, \. Y.
Capt. Starr is from Vicksburg, but is
Northern man. and was with the feet
during the attack on Eicksburg. The
Meigs was owned by Major Willard
and had been used as snag boat i'll
Red RIVER She was 100 feet long.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
Don't.

Don't Judge disinfectant by its
smell
Don't seek to become life member
Of suicide club.
Don't present 1 grass widow with a
bottle Of ncw-mown hay perfume.
Don't think you can get rid Of your
typewriter by marrying her.
Don't attempt to convert 4 person by
reasoning instead Of by good example.
Don't blame the grocer for giving
you short weight if You give him long
wait
Don't drop your hook in the same
hole with others if you would succeed
as fisherman.
Don't think free viii gives you the
right to do whatever you like. regard
less of the rights Of Others.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
Mail Robber Punished.

The findings of the general Court
martial in the case Of Floyd ". Gay,
Company +, 65th New York regiment,
charged with robbing the mails at Camp
Algcr, were published Wednesday morn
Ing.
lie has been dishonoraoy discharged
from the service Of the United States.
forfeiting all pay and allowances and
sentenced TO serve three years at hard
labor in the military prison at Fort Lea,
ynnworth Kansas.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
0utrare Bv Ohio Soldiers.

\ Bruins wick, Ga. special to the
Morning News says: Section Foreman
Hartman. his wife and his sister. Miss
Carrie Hcdley. Of Everett. were insult
ed by party Of soldiers near their home
last night. They We're watching the
1st Ohio regiment 60 through to Hunts
Vile. when some of the privates made
coarse remarks to them They retreat
cd to their home: and the soldiers fol
lowed. Two of the soldiers fired at
Hartman. Hartman and the women
folks returned the fire. woUnding two
soldiers. one serious ~.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
Seuan Men DROWNED.

1t has just been reported tllat Lieut..
Morgan l. s. Engineer corps was
drowned off Tybcc in the storm We'd
nesday with six regular soldiers. He
went out in yawl to rescue the \sallors
of an Italian bark. The yawl c;,psizcd
and MORGAN with hismen were drowned.
This is authentic. Morgan was 4
EcOrrian.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
Ea .thouake at Santiago.

Two earthquake shocks were felt at
Santiago Saturday afternoon. The first:
which occurred at 2:l5. was Of UNUSUAL
severity and shook every house in the
city. The frightened people ran out
into the streets. The second shock,
which was lighter, occurred Just an
hour later.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
Released Steamers.

Two steamers flying the Spanish flag,
sailed from New York Wednesday.
They We're former prizes. the Miguel
Jovcr and Catalina. \ few days ago
the Washington authorities decided
that these steamers should not haze
been seized and ordered their release.
The Joycr and Catalina cleared for
Spain via Habana and manned by their
old crews. went to sea Wednesday
nOrninr
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
The Courtesy of Macias.

Capt. Palma. Of the Spanish civil
guard, brought Gen Brooke Saturday,
under flag of truce. dispatch from
Capt. Gen. Nacias extending to the
American general the use Of his private
residence at Rio Picdras, near San
Juan. during Gen. Brooke stay here.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
The Cotton Outlook.


The outlook for cotton is not very en-
couraging. With middling cotton
selling around cents there is not much
left to the producer, after the freight
and middlemen's charges are deducted.
If we take $22.5 as about the av-
crage value per bale on the farm, there
is very little remuneration for either
capital or labor, under the most favora-
bic conditions of yield and with the
most economical management. As cot
ton is the basis of values throughout
most of the South, this condition Of
things is bound to make itself felt in
many ways. OF course, any depression
in the price of staple commodity will
work its own cure. in the long run, but
the process is both painful and expen-
sivc. The main cause Of the present low
price is the general conviction that
the world is face to face with another
monster crop Whether that conviction
is based on facts or not. the result is
the same, for the time being. Uufor-
tunately. the Southern farmer learned
nothing from the bitter experience Of
last season, and the acreage is practl-
cally the same. While the world will
undoubtedly, take large crop Of Amer
lean cotton at the present level of price,
it does not require crop of II 900, 900
bales. and will only take it on specu-
latiye basis. As a matter Of fact,
the size Of the present crop is
still matter of uncertainty. as its
backwardness would make it peculiarly
susceptible to injury by an early frost.
Yet the size of the crop is taken for
granted, and affects the price, for the
moment, precisely as if the result were
certain. As things now stand. there is
only one influence that could check the
decline. The Southern farmer has got
to bull his own commodity, if it is to be
L,,lloJ Ill
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
LOST IN 4 STORM
Nl:jv hundred span;ards Sd Trans
port Drowned

The Hon" Nou@ daily I'GtSs Is .ltr
rh"rity Tor 'hr statement that 600
Spainar,ls including sixteen priests,
lost their lives Scrcral weeks ago VIXEN
the Spanish gunboat Lcytc WIS captured
by Il vessel belonging to ADMIRAL Dew
cys squadron. The Lcyte had been
stationed in an adjoining island where
the insurgents were numerous and ag-
grcssivc. The latter were gaining
ground rapidly. causing 900 Spalnards
to board these sailing vessels in an en-
dcavor to escape from the natives. who
would massacre them.
Tue gunboat Lcytc undertook to tow
these three transports to Manila bay.
where the Spaniards aboard them were
to surrender to Admiral Dewey if they
did not succeed in landing somewhere
and reaching Manila under cover of
darkness. After the Lcytc had towed
them down Pampangas river and some
distance along the coast, a heavy storm
came up, making it necessary for the
gunboat to cut her tows loose and pro-
coed to Manila for assistance. Before
getting there she was captured by the
Americans next day and an American
vessel was dispatched to find the three
transports. but failed to discover any
trace Of them.
The natives on the adjoining coast
say they saw nothing Of any vessels.
The conclusion was finally reached that
the vessels foundercd with all on board.
The Chinese emperor has issued an
cdict that European and American
missionaries and their converts in his
empire be fully protected. He says
that in this respect all Chinese officials
have heretofore been derelict. He is
sues this cdict as a final warning and
declares his determination that there
shall be no more riots. japanese pa
pers announce that all export duties
now imposed in Japan are to be grad
ually abolished with the object Of in
creaSin~ foreign trade.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07

the lizard on the lowest formation Of rocks
was just as complete as the lizard now 1t IS
shown that the ganoid, the first fish, was
Just as complete as the sturgeon, another
name for the same FISH now. Darwins en-
tire system is a guess, and Huxley and
John Stuart Mil and Tyndall and especial,
" Professor Haeckel come 10 help him in
the guess, and guess shout the brute. and
guess about man, and guess about worlds,
but as to having one solid foot Of ground TO
stand on they never have had 1t and never
will have it. put IN opposition to these
evolutionist theories the inward conscious
ness that We have no consangulnlty with the
dog that fawns at our feet, or the spider
that rcrawis on the wall, or the fish that
tiops in the frying pan, or the crow that
swoops on the field carcass, or the swine
that wallows in the nire. Everybody sees
the outrage it would be to put asiue the
Bible record that Abraham begat Isaac, and
Isaac beeat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah,
for the record that the microscopic animal
cule begat the tadpole, and the tadpole be-
gat the polliwog, and the polliwog begat the
serpent, and the serpent begat the Guadru-
ped, and the quadrupe6 begat the baboon,
and the baboon begat man.
The evolutionists tell US that the apes
were originally fond Of climbing the trees,
but after awhile they lost their prehensile
power and therefore could not climb with
any facility, and hence they surrendered
monkeydom and set up in business as men.
Failures as apes, successes as men. Accord
ing to the evolutionists, q man IS bankrupt
monkey.
pity the person who in every nerve
and muscle and bone and mental faculty
and spiritual experience does not realize
that he is higher in origin and has had a
grander ancestry than the Oeasts which
perish. However degraded men and Tom
en- may be, and though they may bays
foundered on the rocks Of crime az SIN,
and tougb We shudQec as we pass them,
nevertheless there, IS something within US
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-31
AUCTION SALE, LAND.

by virtue of power conferred upon me
by certain mortgage duly recorded in
Registry, Wake County, in Book No.
$50, ut Page 1888, l will offer for sale
to the highest bidder for cash at the
Court House door, in the City of Raleigh,
n. c., on Thursday, September 10, 1898,
at II o'clock m, Il certain tract of land
in Swift Creek Township, adjoining the
lands of w. Il. Pierce, VIM. Edwards
and others, and bounded as follows:
BEGINNING at a large dead pine on the
path leading to Yates Mill, thence South
4I@ degrees, East IS poles to a stake
thence South AZ degrees, West 515 poles
to Il stake, thence with Pierce's line
North $50 degrees, West 73 poles to a
stake and pointers, thence North SO Is
poles to a stake and pointers in. Mr.. Ed
wards line, thence South 361a degrees,
East So poles to the beginning, contain
ing nineteen acres, three rods and thirty
three perch. Il. L. MONTAGUE,
Mortgage.
Raleigh, n. c., August 1, 1898.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-31

Ask your dealers for Grape Sun CureC
tobacco and get nice cloth pouch free
with each 5 cents cut.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-31
WOMAN's NIGHTMARE.
She Shoulders When She Realizes the


Danger and Pain of Child-bearing.
There is so much suffering and danger
in store for the young mother, that her
happy anticipation soon gives way to a
feeling of dread at the thought of the
pain which she must undergo. This
constant fear SO preys upon the mind OF
many women that it fills them with ter
ror and makes baby's coming source
of the greatest anxiety and dread
All the suffering and danger of the
ordeal can be avoided by the use
of Mothers Friend )" which prepares
the body for this important event. 1t
relieves morning Sickness" and many
other unpleasant conditions which ex-
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Every woman should send their name
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