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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
The Kelley Cure Inventor.

DR.. Leslie E. Kecley, the inventor
of the Kelley cure for drunkenness,
who died in California the other day,
was native of New York State. His
youth was spent in Michigan, whence
he came to Chicago to attend Rush
Medical College. He graduated in
1861 and then enlisted in the United
States army as SURGEON during the civil
war. Late in 1866 he moved to Dwight,
H., where for thirteen years he pur-
sued q lucrative medical practice.
Early in his career as physician he con
ceived the idea that inebriety was
disease of nervous origin and was cura-
bic. For several years he worked Cd
this theory, and eventually began a
system Of treatment on patients at
Dwight with the double chloride Of
gold and sodium" At his institute he
treated people suffering from the drink,
cocaine, cigarette and other habits.
Of his patients some 1900 were ply
sicians. 1t is estimated that about 4
per cent. return to drink. The system
consists of four weeks treatment Of
hypoderuic injections of the gold cure
given four times daily, together with a
tonic which is taken from time to time.
A Kelley League was formed of the
GRADUATES" of the cure, Of which there
were more than 0,0O0 members. The
Kelley treatment is administered at the
Kelley Institute, Columbia, s. &.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
Threw Away Fifty Thousand Dollars.

i hTe" away Eiily iiOGoS'iS SSheio %
There died in the City Hospital at
Philadelphia last week a woman, prac-
tically a pauper, who by lnscribing
few lines upon paper would nave
been put in possession Of S50,000.
For many years DR.. Isabel Mitchell
was a physician Of some prominence in
the Quaker City. While practicing her
profession she. became interested in the
pure food movement, and spent much
Of her time in perfectlnG a process for
the preservation Of meats and vegeta-
bles where ice was not obtainable. Her
experiments resulted in a formula
which was declared practically perfect
by chemists and physicians Of Philadel-
phia and vicinity. It was preparation
which answered the purposes desired
and was at the same time harmless to
health, being the forcing Of nledicated
ozone into the articles to be preserved.
DR.. Mitchell received many offers for
her process, but none Of the terms was
satisfactory to her, though one Of them
was for S50O00. While working on her
food preservative, she neglected her
practice, and gradually lost it all.
From a comfortable home she went by
gradual changes to a garnet, where
she was taken i'll with a lingering di-
sease, and finally removed to the hos
pital. She persistently refused to re-
veal her secret to the few friends who
had stood by her, and with her death
the formula is lost to science.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
GRANULATED SUGAR CHEAPER.
Why the Old-Fashioned Brown Va
rietY Is Seldom Seen.

When I was running boarding
house for gangs at work on new rail-
roads in the West few years ago."
said the tall man. brown sugar cost
cents pound when Iboughti it by the
hogshead, and granulated sugar cost
12 cents pound when purchased in
equally large amounts. Now, If you
had 200 men to board, ali Of whom used
sugar in their coffee, what kind Of su-
gar would you buy?"
81 suppose I'd rnake a mistake, but
as far as know now, would buy
brown sugar, for that would be the
cheapest" was the reply.
And that's where you've made
mistake said the tall man. I'll prove
it to you in minute. When You go
home tonight, you take a teaspoon
and experiment with both kinds Of su-
gar. You'll see that with granulated su-
gar you can pick up only as much as
the bowl of the spoon will hold. But
IT'S different with brown sugar. II
you dig your spoon deep into it, when
you lift the spoon, you bring nearly
three spoonfuls of sugar along with it,
as It packs closely. That is what house
wives call a 'heaping teaspoonful.' Now
the average railroader IS used to put
ting three to four spoonfuls Of sugar
in his coffee and ne never looks to see
whether they are heaping ones or not
Therefore, the brown sugar is the more
expensive. I tried both ways, and I
found that using granulated sugar
saved me over SIS month over what
It cost to serve brown sugar. There's
even more difference now than then,
too. The big sugar concerns have beat
en- down the price Of eranulated sugar
until It costs but a penny a pound more
than brown sugar. That's why you
see granulated sugar in all the cheap
boarding houses to-day."-New York
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
Enoch Arden in Real Life.

After an absence Of thirty years
James Edwards, whose home is now in
Denver, Col, returned to Philadelphia,
and found that his wife had been d.
vorced from him and married to an
other man. Thirty-five years ago Ed
wards married Miss Belle Hickman
whose parents were wealthy. Edwards
was in poor circumstances and his
wifc's mother opposed the marriage.
The couple lived together for five
years, but at the end Of that time Mrs.
Hickman is alleged to have brought
about o separation. Edwards went
West and became wealthy.
Edwards says he repeatedly wrote to
his wife, but she failed to get the let
tiers. Not hearing from her husband
for fifteen years Mrs. Edwards adver-
tised and received a letter from Den
yer informing her that man answer
ing her husbands description had been
killed. Mrs. Edwards. not certain that
her husband was dead, obtained di-
yorce and remarked.
Edwards succeeded in meeting MS
former wife upon his return. There
were explanations all around and he
badc her farewell and went back to
Denver!
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
A Tolbert in a New Role

4 dispatch from Seneca to the Green
vile News says the negroes there are
angry after hearing the testimony III
the trial Of George w folbert. post
master, for trvi~y to Slay james Wat
son, co'orci. II accostiDg him about
the relvill!vn oi mail 1t is claimed
By some eye witnesses that Tolbert
came out of the postofice with large
club, followed Watson into the street,
chased him and beat him with the club
until he had fallen exhausted, and
with au oath said: Get Up, d-n you"
Tolbert claims that he mas more money
to spend on beating "Niggers. The
Negroes are planning an early date to
hold an Indignation meeting, claiming
that many Democratic postmasters
would have treated them with more
consideration. The Republican county
convention at Walhalla also denounced
him in bitter terms as being incompe
tent and unfit for the position, and will
ask the government to give them man
who will treat all citizens alike. Mr..
Tolbert is from Abbe7ilie county.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
LOST TEN THOUSAND At CARDS.
The Son of Montana's Millionaire
Senator Gay Sport.

The Washington correspondent of the
Augusta Chronicle says: Nothing
could more clearly illustrate certain
phases of Washington life as it goes on
in the in side circles than 4 little Incl
dent which occurred the other night
and is now the subject Of discussion IN
quiet quarters |; will be readily re.
mcmbered, Of course, that the one sub
ject which has engaged the greatest
amount Of attention here during the
past few wccks-with the exception Of
the Puerto Rican tariff bills the con-
test of Senator Clark, Of Montana to
retain his seat in the upper house IA
defiance of ali the machinations which
his old rival Marcus Daley, can bring
to bear. Clark's income is fabulous,
aud he has son who is doing every
thing in his power to reduce it within
reasonable limits. The Other night
youpg Clark stcered up against Repre-
sentative DeGrafenreid, Of the lone
star State, and the Texan suggested
that quiet little game of poker would
be the proper caper. Clark was game
and ia for the game. 1t was matter
of only fes momeats TO stir up few
friendly and cocgcnial spirits. About
the handiest was Harry Fanscp1en, who
used to be the private secretary Of Hon
John G. Carlisle, Of Kentucky. Van
scuden is now one Of the men about
town and very dashing fellow whose
ulcans of support are more or less in.
visible. : r>w c..!.:.vi s,.rnds drorpei
70 aud before long the little,quiet game
was progressing with speed witch
made the hair Of even the athl"r: u
Clark curl with more than otcloary
crimpiness. |. secured to be somewhat
inexplicable that every time the deal
went round the scion Of the Montana
senator caught, not bad hand by any
means, but ore which his associates
could just cover after having made the
betting exceedingly lively. Charley,
Of the house Of Clark, wanted to De
sport, and he was game to the last,
but when tn. game borke up after sit
ing Of over five hours the said Charley
found out that he was just $4,000 to
the bad, the Associated Press dldn 'tsend
out the story. The local papers didn't
print the story, but it is fact, just the
same, that the son of the mucbly sill
vered senator from Montana was not
only hceced Of a fortune, but was re-
strained from squcaling because he re-
allied that it would jeopardizs the
chances of his distinguished father in
his battle for a scat IN the most august
delibera,ive body on earth Such are
the inside chapters of Washington life,
of which the outside world rarely ever
hnors
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
CURE FOR INSOMNIA.
New York Physician Finds Way to
inducs Sleep.

4 we'll Known New York physician
who suffered from insomnia for many
years. has found out brand new
method whereby sleep can be instantly
obtained The doctor has tried 1t on
himself and on his patients, and mas
never known it to fail. 1t is essential
ly self-asphyxiaticn, and yet there is no
possibility Of danger.
\ long breath is first taken and the
air is kept in until positive discomfort
is felt. which is slowly exhaled. This
is repeated a second and q third time,
and in a minute or so the patient will
be asleep.
The theory Of sleep that finds the
widest acceptance is that sleep Is oc-
casioned by exhaustion Of the nutrition
Of the brain, due to its functional ac.
tivity when awake. During sleep there
is Il flow of nutrition to the brain, con-
sequently an increase of blood to sup
ply its deficiencies. By holding the
breath the head and brain become in
tenSely congeSted with venous blood
loaded with carbonic acid. The car
bonic acid and the other chemical prod
acts which venous blood contains act on
the nerve tissues. producing sleep, and
the same as ether and chloroform pro-
duce artificial sleep.
If YOU are truly brain weary do not
Try to replace the thoughts with others.
but make the mind blank as far as
possible. If the brain is excited turn
it to monotonous thoughts, recite
poems or verses. or go over journey
which you very much enjoyed, recall
ing even the most trifiing incidents.
Physicians are more and more arriving
At the conclusion that the way Of treat
ing insomnia is not by means of drugs.
There is always the danger Of forming
the drug habit, and in most cases drugs
are not necessary. If noises inside the
house or outside distTb one. putting
cotton in the ears will De found to give
relief. Those who are troubled with
sleeplesSness should retire at regular
hour each night If there is a fear
Of not being able to sleep that keeps
one awake one should feign not to
want it, and one will be surprised to
And how quickly sleep comes. Always
take slight meal before retiring to
rest. A vast number Of cases Of in.
somnia are caused by empty stomachs.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
THREE JOINTS.
Removed From Mans Backbone and
He Still Lives.

Minus three joints Of his backbone,
John Kaller, Of No. so Willoughby
street, Brooklyn, n. Y, lies on a cot
in St. Johns Hospital, Long Island
City, making a brave fight against
death The missing pieces Of his spinal
column We're removed on Thursday
last by five surgeons. It was an opera
ton almost unparalleled in surgery,
but it was his only chance for life.
Kaller has been a telephone lineman.
Recent!y he was sent to repair wires
along the Shore Road, in Astoria.
About noon he was working at the top
of a pole near the Woolsey estate. Just
how it happened neither Kaller nor any
one else knows, but suddenly the line
man found himself in the clutches Of
an electric current. He had grasped a
live Wire, his body was twisted in tor
ture and puffs Of smoke arose from his
burning hands.
The man kept his senses. Hanging
there, burning and in terrible pain, he
realized that to remain in contact with
the wire for but a few seconds more
meant death to him.
With strength born Of that knowl-
edge kaller tore himself free from the
live wire on which he had fallen and
deliberately threw himself to the road
way. He fell 35 feet and struck upon
his head and back. He was taken to
st. Johns Hospital, and doctors worked
over him for eight hours before the
dangers from the electric shock were
removed. Then they performed the
operation.
In falling kalIer had broken his back.
The seventh, eighth and ninth verte-
brae were badly fractured, and splin-
ters Of the broken bone pressed on the
spinal cord. The pressure had produced
paralysis, and would have caused death
II not removed.
DR.. John Francis Burns was In
charge Of the operation. Assisting him
were DR.. H. A. McGronen. Dr.. J. J.
Mulcahey, DR.. Thomas Cassidy and DR..
John F. Farwe!l. Technically, the doc
tors took out the spinous processes and
transverse sections Of the seventh,
eighth and ninth vertebrae. The oper-
alton was successful.
II do not know Of an exactly similar
case" said DR.. Burns, last night.
Three vertebrae were badly fractured,
and had to be removed, leaving arches
to protect the spinal cord. But Kal-
ler's other injuries make his recovery
doubtful, and at my suggestion his rel
atives have telegraphed to his mother.
asking her to come to his bedside. She
lives in Illinois"
kaller's condition is very grave. He
has remained conscious from the first,
and has taken keen interest in the
remarkable operation performed upon
him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
DAZZLING LIGHT.
Illumination of a Car That Has Been
Short-Circuited.

Electricity played queer prank on a
Northern Central car the other night
=" !"on":s-oll at a safe distance 1t was
r.rely a remarkable display the like
81: which rs never tefore seen in st.
Louis. TO those on the car it had many
clements Of tragedy.
one Inan narrowly escaped death by
fire and others Of tn. passengers may
have been injured in the panic that fol-
lowed. Even the officials Of the United
Railways Company have not get ar
ri:ed at be exact extent Of the damage
done.
The cars on the Northern Central line
are the Oldest in the service. Their fus-
es burn out freuently, but that nights
occurrence was the rlost serious acci-
dent Of the kind that has yet occurred.
At $50 o'clock a car was rounding the
Sharp down-Srade curve at Thomas
street and Lefingwell avenue. It was
half filed with passengers.
Suddenly there was a grinding noise.
which deafcned those in the car ana
awakened residents in the neighbor-
hood. The car came TO n sudden stop.
What followed is told by an eye-wit-
ness. VINO was attracted 20 his window
by the unusual sound.
When I looked out" he said, the
street was lit up for several blocks as
II a powerful searchlight had been
turned into it. The brilliancy all radia
ted from the car. which I at first
thought was on fire. could see the
;c.i = CHI
form, seen through halo Of light. The
outer edge Of this light was brilliant.
GazZling white, but the inner portion,
the nucleus, as it were, nearest the car,
was the deep red Of q consuming blaze.
with the first play Of the flames 7
heard passengers in the car cry out
in alarm. Two young men jumped
through a window and the other pas
sengers rushed for the back door.
saw man leap from the rear platform
with his coat smoking. He pulled the
garment off as he left the car.
THE illumination could be seen at a
great distance, apparently for people
come focking from blocks around to
see the illuminated car. Most Of them
walked home. Another car pushed the
disabled one to the sheds"
Investigation Saturday morning
showed that the accident was one Of a
number Of electrical freaks caused by
the recent damp weather. At the power
house Of the Northern Central line it
was said that the current had become
short -circuited. This meant that the
current on coming from the wires, in
stead Of going through the controller
on the front platform operated by the
motorman, went through the one on
the rear platform. Unable to get into
the motors by that route It passed out
again and sought the nearest route to
the rails. This was by way Of the met
el work about the sides and roof Of
the car.
On its journey around the car por-
ton Of the current escaped into the
moist atmosphere. causing the appear
ance Of halo. Enough of the current
went through the controller and the
motors to burn them out, which caused
the red light Of consuming flames. It
was the burning out Of the controller
that ignited the coat Of the man who
stood near It on the rear platform.
Street railway men agreed that the ac-
cident was a most unusual one.-St.
Louis Post Dispatch.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
FREE BLOOD CURE.
An Offer Providing Faith to Sufferers

Eating Sores, Tumors, Ulcers, are
all durable by B. B. B. Botanic Blood
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Blood Balm). Skill Eruptious, Pim-
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One bottle will test it in an case. For
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Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
Rhode Island Democrats

The Rhode Island Democratic State
coaventlou met st Providence Thurs
day for the nomination OF State officers
aud the selection Of delegates to the
Democratic national convention. Ma
than w. I,ittleield was nominated for
governor. The platform adopted says
in part:
No people should be annexed by
the United STATES against their will
and however willing to come no people
should bo admitted except to equal
rights. A republic cannot afford to
have a subject population: The con-
stitution must always follow the flag
"a government OF law and not Of men.
When corporation possesses the
power to arbitrarily raise prices or de-
press wages it is IN effect trust. Every
such trust existing in the United States
should be controlled by Dational legls-
lation and when based upon monopo-
ly its special privilege should De abol-
ished.
The Chicago platform Is endorsed
and reafirmed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
a Sad Suicide.

4 letter from Eta Jane to the
spartanburg Herald says: "Willie 7.
Foster committed suicide near this
place last Saturday about $50 o'clock
by shooting himself through the head
with breech loading shot gun. For
some time he had been in i'll health,
both in body and mind, but it was not
thought that he was con temrlating self
destruction until the fatal deed was
accomplished. He was about twenty.
five or twenty-six years Of age and Of
quiet disposition and well thought Of
by everybodody.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
His Heart Displaced.

DIR. J. Sheldon Wright, who attend
ca Martin Welge, 10 years old, after
he was knocked down by Brooklyn
trolley car, was witness for the boy
the other day in his suit against the
company to recover s25,000 in the Su-
preme Court, Brooklyn. The physician
testified that when he was called to
attend Welge he found his heart dis
placed. 1t was suspended by fibre
and vibrated like pendulum, swing
ing fully two inches to and fro. When
Dr.. Sheldon was called in he had little
hope Of his patients recovery. Since
then he has somewhat improved.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
STORM-TOSSED CREW.
They Went Ashore and Found canni-
balls Deyourinc Human Body.

The crew Of the British steamer Kur-
distan, Captain Littlehales, now taking
on cargo Of coal at Lambert's Point,
tell Of an experience at once strange
and horrifying. The vessel is from
Iquique, Chile, and when off the Pata-
gonian Coast, near Terra del Fuego. was
caught in a storm and fog and came
to anchor. a boats crew went ashore,
and hearing strange noise proceeding
from a cavern near their hiding place
inspected it. A party Of savages were
in the cave, engaged IN eating what
seemed to be the dismembered body Of
a human being. The savages attacked
them, the seamen say, whereupon they
fred upon them, killing one savage.
His companions carried the dead body
away, and, the sailors believe, devoured
It. In the cavern was Danish flag and
much wreckage. On the shore near the
cavern lay the wreck Of a wooden brig.
Norfolk, Va, Cor. Baltimore Sun.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
The Cuban Way,

Evidently Cuba has not been entire
ly Auericanized. Here is the way
Secretary of War Root spent Sunday in
Havana: The morning was devoted to
receiving the heads of various depart
ments Of the government and confer
ring with them, and at General Lud-
lows residence at night there was a
with dancing. Evidently the
Cuban Sunday needs reform.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21

Following closely upon the runor OF
the retirement Of John Burns, Of Eng
land, from all active participation in
the great movement Of organized labor.
IN Great Britain IS the loss OF another
famous leader in the person Of Joseph
Arch, the well-known agricultural Ia
borcr and member Of Parliament. Mr..
Arch confirms the rumor that he will
retire from all active work in the Ia
Dor heId at the next general election.