The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-02-22
The Snow Caused Some Fun.

Il is proverbially said that every bitter
has its sweet, but that every sweet has us
bitter can also be attested bv some OF IA.
young folks who got so much pleasure "ui
OF coasting down the hillside by the rhi-
road Oh the SNOW last week. On the lat
day Of tue sport il was learHe'; that tie
owner OF the land upon which the young
people we're ccaSung, and upon wh!ch oats
lad been planted, was very much d!Spi"aa-
ed at tie crowd entering upon the land
aud sliding down the hill wlthou: his per-
mission, as i was thought that the oats
would be damaged. 1t turned out finally,
however, that the SNOW was 100 deep 10
hurt the oats and they We're not damaged
at all, but this was not known 1t the time.
When the crowd We're stopped from sled
ding Oh the land the report immediately
became current that everybody who had
either coasted down the hill or played
SNOWFALL upon the land, whether 1t be Il
Young man, young lady, married lady or
child, would be indicted for trespasS, and
as the crowd had consisted largely of mar
ried ladies. young ladies and children, who
did not understand the natu II lnd:ct-
mentS, the alarm became more Intense.
The magistrate here being one vino had
taken part in the sle6dlng, he could not
issue any papers, and It was said that the
whole party would be taken to Foreston.
The Young ladies at first thought that
orlv the Young men would be carried III
manacles Of steel before the terrifying pres
ence of Jadge Rlchbcurg al F0reston, and
ayowed that they would stand by the young
men who had given them so much iun,
even if it became necessary to 60 with them
TO trial ut Foreston But when they We're
Informed that they too would he arrested,
and that their pretty little bands also might
have to wear /. pair Of double automatic
three-linked- case ardened-nlckle-p at
bracelets, that fit up around the wrist with
click, click, click sound, then their loyalty
for the gallant boys was not so great. They
felt hat the first person who ever got man
into trouble was u woman, bat that the boys
were entirely responsible Tor this trouble,
as the ladies would never have thought Of
tn thing had it not been for the young
men, and that while Adam never did get
his revenge back on Eve, yet some OF her
descendants were now catching 1t. But Oh,
NV, how the trouble did increase, when
they were Informed that boarderS at the
Strange House were not INDUCED with such
luyur, es as fre,even IN such weather; what
a contemplation ii was to think that while
the law does not make lady convicts do such
heavy manua! labor as digging bitches and
building causeways, yet they are supposed
to dc such work as they can; for instance
sewing and patching with coarse ball
thread, cooking three pound corn side
loaves and washing striped clothes. And
what horrors came over them when conSta-
bic Tobias was armed with warrant liked
up in that hurrilike blue paper, and went
on his round summoniDg eight OF the rlng
leaders, four young ladies and four young
men, to appear at the court house at !
O'Clock Saturday to stand trial ana make Il
test case, to see if all the balance should be
hauled up 100. "Oh, its joke, they
cried. But then it can't be, because that's
the deputy 1T must Re so, did YOU see
that blue paper" We'll, if isain't joke,
why did the same man sign two names on
the warrant NO, it must not be a joke,
because father wouldn't tella story! 'Oh,
pshaw. Hal ha! hal and the whole crowd
would laugh sickly laugh. while the court
house WIS being filled with old, young and
middle-aged, men and boys, women and
children, ali sympathizing with the eight
who were arrested, aud hoping that the
sentences would be light, AS their fate
would depend also upon the result OF this
test ease. What rei:ef it was when the
supposed Magistrate did not show up, aud
all the names on the warrant turned ont
70 be ficttions. How much more pleasant
/, is, instead of gong to Jail, to SIT Ly a
nice fire and talk to q young irend(:) from
auother county, or to write letter to Cuba
and tell Souit body what harrow escape
l had frla going 10 jail, or 10 be able to
leave Moaiay moruing and pay visit
without being bound over TO coart or tiien
TO take ride in the afternoon and have
caller tlla; night oven i; people do get sick
III the country.