The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-06
a soUALL FROM THE SEA!

liShed on SulIlNaiIS 1ol0'i'''
ond. has devoted eight columns
of space replying to an editorial
which appeared in The TINES
May 2Srd, and which occupied a
space of about four inches. The
TINES article was altogether i'm
personal, and we have no recol-
lection of ever having seen the
editor of the Review" never
theless, there seems to have been
something in our criticism to
arouse the anger Of the Reviews
editor, for he made wry faces at
US, raved and pitched, and other
wise worked himself up to reck-
lessness. He fairly ''cusSed US
out" and vomited up from his
irritated stomach a lot Of bilious
matter which must have been
fermenting, and was being held
back to be thrown on the city
authorities of Charleston at the
first provocation.
He makes a very frothy person
al attack, and says The TINES
made ':lying charges, that what
we said about "owls flying out
on the approach of the pur-
chasers" of the St Charles Hotel
was not true, and he declares
as a matter of fact no such thing
as an owl ever roasted in the
''St. Charles. Well, perhaps
not, and we are sorry that the
Charleston owls did not take ad-
vantage of such fine opportu-
nifty. He intimates that we think
we are :'funny and could write
comical stories" Perhaps he is
right, and it makes US feel real
bad to think that the Review ed
itor thinks we cannot write 'scom-
ical stories" Our election to the
State Senate was unfortunate,
so thinks this editor, and that
we ''talk like a man who served
his apprenticeship as a police
court reporter. Oh we'll, we will
not disturb the dream as Re
might be enjoying the delusion.
The Review claims that it
':shows ability that THE TINES
never did and never can possess.
We fully concur: did we possess
such ability, out Of pure charity
our friends should take US to a
sanitariur where diseased minds
are treated. That paper says,
''the whole of The TINES article
is a mass of lies from start to
finish, and is so disgusting that
it does not deserve notice" What
pity to have wasted eight col
umns CT space in the high toned
and ably edited Review, on a
four inch editorial in such paper
as The TINES, and that too, in
such chaste, beautiful and elo-
quent language as is found in
the Review. No wonder the
eclipse Of the sun made such a
poor show OF. Sullivan's Island.
The brilliancy of the Review Of
fee was too strong competitor
for such a little dull thing as an
eclipse.
In the rawlings of the Island
editor he makes mention Of ex-
pressions, the inspiration OF
which we suspect he procured
from a politician in Clarendon
county who is now in the ''soup'
possibly "by some unfortunate
mishap" and who is anxiously
awaiting an opportunity to get
even with US for the throw
down" He would not mind
paying a quarter any time to
have Us s'cussed out" so that he
could apply the abuse of US as
poultice to his sore head.
The editor reads US a lecture
on "Birdology" in order to teach
US why ''Mother Carey's chick.
ens' should not be troubled. In
our allusion to the "Mothe1
Carey bird" we said the ere
view" has "the plumage of, and
processes to be a Mother-Cary
bird" we are now confirmed in
our opinion that the plumage is
a disguise, and the profession is
a fake, that it is in its element
only, when it is lowering around
a pile Of debris dumped from 8
scavenger cart.
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