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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
THE COLONIAL RECORDS.
Congressman Stokes Has Presented a
Bill in Regard to Them.

For quite long time Congressman
Stokes has been engaged in the laud
able effort of having the United States
government make some provision for
the printing in permanent form of the
valuable colonial records on file in the
Office Of the secretary Of state in the
capitol. No State has more valuable
or interesting collection Of such docu-
ments than South Carolina. Students
of American history come to Columbia
time and again and spend days and
even weeks going through these re-
cords. ALI express the greatest surprise
that such documents have never been
printed and made accessible.
Congressman Stokes writes from
Washington to Mr.. D. H. Means stating
that he has hit upon the proper plan
for accomplishing the desired purpose.
The following is the bill he has intro
duced in congress, which was on April
25 referred to the committee on library:
To provide for the investigation Of
the historical archives and public re-
cords Of the several States and Terri.
tories and Of the United States, with a
view to their preservation and publica
tion.
Be it enacted by the senate and
house Of representatives of the United
States Of America in congress assem-
bled. That the American historical
association be, and is hereby, directed
to inveslisa'e the character and condi-
tion Of the historical archives and pub
lie records of the several States and
Territories, and Of the United States,
and the provisions which have been
made by law for the preservation and
publication Of the same, and to report
to congress, through the secretary OF
the Smithsonian Institution, the re-
suits of such investigation, together
with suggestions of such legislation as
the said American Historical associa-
ton may deem necessary and proper;
and that the sum Of $4,000 be. and the
same is hereby, appropriated to the
said American Historical association,
out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, for defrayiug
the expenses Of such investigation and
report: Provided, That no member Of
the said American Historical associs-
tion shall receive any compensation for
his services in connection with the
said investigation and report other than
the reimbursement of such expenses,
including clerical assistance, as shall
be necessarily incurred in the prosecu-
tion of the work,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
DOG AND ELEPHANT.

Every one expects to see the great
elephant kill his companion with &
single sweep of her trunk, and crowds
frequently gather at the cage expect
ing a battle. but the dog eats and
sleeps without being molested.
The secret Of this strange compan-
ionship, which no one ever guesses, is
that the dog Prince is really the mas
ter of the household and the elephant
lives in constant fear Of him.
On more than one occasion Prince
has succeeded in Quieting the great
beasts when the keepers were power
less to master them. Elephants are
naturally nervous and easily excited.
and when once aroused are difficult to
control. The keepers have found that
when everything else fails they need
merely send Prince into the cage and
the furious monsters will back to their
corners and remain quiet.
Peter r. McNally. one of the assist
ants at the ZOO. who vouched for
Princes ability. has observed several
similar cases Of this curious power IL
dogs.
The keepers do not know that Prince
ever engaged. in battle with one OF the
elephants. though there is not the least
doubt that they are all afraid OF him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
Threw Away Fifty Thousand Dollars.

Threw Away Fifty Thousand Dollars.
There died in the City Hospital at
Philadelphia last week q woman. prac-
tically e pauper, who by inscribing a
few lines upon a paper would have
been put IN possession Of $50,0o0.
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 perfecting 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 medicated
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 $4,000. While working on her
food preservatiye, 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 Ill with a lingering di-
sease, and finally removed to the hos
p3tal. 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, 1900-05-02
4 Good " ork.

The Columbia Record says "Col.
John D. Frost is about finishing very
important work which he undertook on
his own responsibility to preserve q
vs.usble historical record. Enclosed
IL glass frame there has been for
years in the adjutant generals Office 3
manuscript list of the members Of the
famous Palmetto regiment. It was
made years ago and the ink gas so old
aud dim that in some cases the name
could barely be deciphered. Colonel
Frost took out the manuscript and has
spent some time in retracing the names
ip fresh ink"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
FREE BLOOD CURE.
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advice will be given. Address Blood
Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
sToRM-TosSED CREW.
They Went Ashore and Found canni.
balls Devouring a Human Body.

The crew Of the British steamer Kur-
distan, Captain Littlehales, now taking
on cargo Of coal at Lanbert's Point,
tell Of an experience at once strange
and horrifying. The vessel is from
Iclique, 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
st. 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, 1900-05-02
JUMPED TO FIERY DEATH.
Suicide Leaps Into Coke Oven and
Literally Destroys himself.

A dispatch from Connelsville, Pa,
says lesping high into the air as an ex-
pert diver would in taking a fancy
plunge into the wster, an unknown
man committed suicide Wednesday
morning at the foundry works Of the
Fl. G. Fri,k Coke company. by diving
into coke oven. In less than a
minute what had been a man apparent
ly iu the tull vigor Of life had mingled
with the curling smoke of the ovens,
distinguishable only by its blush
brown color and nsusesting odor from
the gas smoke Of the burning coal.
A more tragic death never occurred
in this region. The coke workers saw
him only for an instant as he prepared
for the leap. He was we'll dressed, of
medium height and weight and smooth
shaven. For the slightest possible
space of time he seemed to pause on
the sloping ground behind the ovens,
then quick as fash he ran down the
slope, taking the quick short steps Of a
trained athlete, who gauges them pre-
cisely for the jump he intends taking.
Eight feet from the oven-tops the man
shot into the air, his hands poised
above his head in the fashion of diver,
and descending swiftly, dropped head
first into the tunnel head of an oven
that had burned to the sizzling white
heat Of coke, just before it is drawn.
For an instant the body clogged the
tunnel head and the legs were Wriggled
as though desperate effort was being
made to squirm through and meet
death quickly in the blazing oven. A
rush was made for the oven door by
the horri6ed coke drawers. All there
was to show for the man, who but 9
few seconds before had been in life,
was charred mass Of flesh not three
feet in length. There is no means Of
Identification.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
a Crazy Printer,

A dispatch from Yorkville to the Co.
lumbia State says at noon Thursday
while all others were out Of the Office,
H. H. Gallaher, printer, temporarily
crazy, tried to cut the throat of Miller
Drakeford, the 7-year-old son of the
editor of The YeomaR. The child was
playing in the composing room. His
mother heard a scream aud ran to the
door in time to see an uplifted knife
over her boy. She snatched him from
the man and ran into an adjoining
room, fastening the door. The little
boy has cash on his neck an inch
long, barely missing the jugular vein:
Gallaher is in Jail, and said if he had
known they were going to imprison him
he would have cut off the child's head.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
BATTLES IN THE SEA
COMBATS BETWEEN BLUE CRABS
AND MlNNOWS.
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AMI "li>ISO"S =.
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The Crab Balls Its Claw and Walls
for a Bite-Little Cannibals and
Their Ways as Practised in the
Z Brimy Deep-Soft Shell Crabs
The blue crab is q pretty fair hand
at catching fish. It will lie in shallow
water motionless, with it's pincer claws
extended and its pincers open, waiting
for q chance to nip minnow. II one,
coming swimming along through the
water, should happen to pass between
those open jaws, suddenly the jaws
close and that is the last Of the min
now. But the blue crab can do better
than this; sometimes it will hold mo-
tionless in one claw a shred Of some
thing on which it has been feeding as
bait for minnows. holding at the
same time its other big claw with the
pincer open, waiting. The minnow
comes up, charging for the food held
in the closed claw. but there are likely
to be enough Of them to spread. and
they may come from various directions,
so that more than likely one will come
within the waiting pincers Of the open
claw, and when one does the proceed
ings are closed for the time being.
But sometimes the minnows get the
blue crab, as they do when the crab is
shedding. The crab knows when that
time is coming. and then 1t makes for
a place where it can shed its she'll and
stay in safety until it's new shell is SUI
ficiently hard to protect it. The crab
comes in with the tide and makes for
some place on the bottom. in shallow
water, perhaps along the edge of the
eel grass, or under some protecting
patch Of ulva, and then proceeds to
dig a hole in which it can stay after 1t
has shed it's shell until it is strong
enough to go about. 1t digs the sand
or mud up around from under itself.
and, as likely as not. leaves its discard
ed shell, in a most lifelike form, up on
the sand on the edge Of the hole II
front of it. This shell would frighten
away some small fishes that would not
dare to tackle a crab in its ordinary
condition. The discarded shell is help
to nSnermeQ WHO are lluulluS HLloS' pS--
cause it shows where a crab may be
found. and weakfsh. which come in
shore in shallow water to feed, hunt up
soft crabs by searching the neighbor-
hood Of the spot where they find q
shell, Just as fisherman would do.
Sometimes fisherman discovers
soft crab by the sp!ashing that the min
nows kick uD around it Ii undis-
turbed the minnows swarminS around
the helpless crab kill it and eat it. But
sometimes another blue crab will ap-
pear nd break up the minnow's feast.
This is a blue crab that has not shed
it's shell, but has its armor on. 1t
comes stalking in among the minnows.
perhaps nipping one Of them IN one OF
its pincer claws as it comes up and dis
persing the rest. :,
The blue crab is a cannibal: it will
eat its own kind. If when this crab
comes up there is any Of the soft crab
left, the newcomer will very likely eat
that first. with one claw, holding mean
while in its other. the wriggling min
now which it had seized at the outset,
keeping that to top off with.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
eRANuLATED SUGAR CHEAPER.
Why the old-Fashioned Brown Va
riety Is Seldom Seen.

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 Iboughtit by the
hogshead, and granulated sugar cost
y cents a pound when purchased in
equally large amounts. Now, if you
had 200 men to board, all Of whom used
sugar in their coffee. what kind Of su-
gar would you buy?"
IT suppose I'd make mistake, but
as far as I know now, I would buy
brown sugar, for that would be the
cheapest" was the reply.
And that's where you've made a
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 If
you dig your spoon deep into 1t, when
you lift the spoon, you bring nearly
three spoonfuls Of sugar along with II,
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 he 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 granulated 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
Sun.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
A Big Landslide,

A. landslide Of remarkable proper
tions followed the recent earthquake
in San Jacinto county, in Southern
California. A tract covering 600 acres
on San Jacinto mountain and / 900 feet
above the sea level slid 150 feet down
the mountain and filled the small val
ley with debris. Great masses of
granite were split by crevices four feet
wide and seventy-fve feet deep. The
falling mass was upheaved as it fell,
giving the earth the appearance of
mighty convulsion. The theory of To-
cal geologists is that vacuum under
the mountain, caused by drawing off
water for irrigation, became filed with
gassas tore through the crust of the
mountain and produced the earthquake
and landslide.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
Tda Philippine War.

lu6 Wal now III progress Ill
the Philippines seems to be
kind of now you see it and now
you don't affair. Several months
ago President Mckinley issued
a proclamation that the insur-
rection was over, and that in
very short time every thing
would be tranquil in the archa-
pelago. Notwithstanding this
declaration of the President
fresh troops were sent right on
to the Philippines. Since the
Presidents remarkable state
ment several other high officials
have assured the country that
the insurrection was over, but
fresh troops were still being sent
to the front. Now comes the
Republicans of the State of New
York, in convention assembled,
with a platform which declares
that the insurrection in the
Philippines has been suppressed
and that organized resistance to
the authority of the United
States no longer existed. The
newspapers which contained
this declaration of this conven-
tion contained also the follow
ing item of news:
Twelve hundred Tagals at
tackled Cases battalion head
quarters of the Fortieth regi-
ment at Cagayan, Island of Min
danao, on the 7th. The Ameri
cans had fifteen casualties, while
of the attacking force fifty
were killed and thirty wounded
or taken prisoners. The enemy,
numbering $50 rifemen, the re-
mainder being bolomen, archers
and mounted spearmen, swooped
down in a bowling mass at day
light, surprising and killing
three IF the sentries. They
swarmed the streets in small
parties, some wearing scaling
ladders, by means of which they
attempted to enter the houses.
The Republican idea of a sup
pressed insurrection appears to
be rather a curious one. It is
an expensive one, as well, for
only a day or two before the
New York Republicans had
suppressed the insurrection, the
adjutant-general Of the army
issued a statement saying that
the troops nowin the Philippines
numbered 63,5S5, an increase
since March l of 3O8. Trans
ports bearing some 5000 men
are now on the way thither, these
figures do not include, of course,
the navy forces in the islands.
If a suppressed insurrection re-
quires the active service of so
many soldiers, we may we'll con-
template with some apprehen-
sion the size of the army which
would be necessitated should the
insurrection really gain in force.
Up to date and since the happy
establishment of ''peace," the
American casualties in the
Philippines as reported from
Washington are as follows, the
last report being dated April IS:
Killed. 473
Died Of wounds, disease and sc-
cldent5 ,luo
Total deaths s....................l 678
Wounded .,...................2 2,O92
Total loss ...,.............3 40
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
Hangs Himself.

Theo Troutman, travelling salesman
for John E. Hurst & Co., of Baltimore,
hanged himself in a room in the Dun
can hotel in Nashville, Tenn, Wednes-
day night. He took a leather strap
from his valise, fastened one end to the
top hinge of the door and the other
around his neck, and in this way
choked himself to death. Ia letter
to his wife, who lives in Baltimore, he
expressed great despondency because
Of his inability to make sales.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
The Candidate.

This is the season when the political
candidate is abroad in the land. Of
course he is proper subject for jest,
but he is apt to take it with rare good
humor. The fact is, the candidate is
useful animal. He forces the man
who has held Office for generation to
remember his friends when they come
around. He is always friendly and
cordial, and he tends to keep alive the
political situation. We like the canii-
dates. es.-Spartanburo Herald
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
No One Cares

Little Joe Sibley, Of Pennsylvania,
says that noboiy has right to ask why
he changed from free silver Democrat
to gold standard Republican. The
Atlanta Journal says eve have never
heard Of anybody who cared about the
why and wherefore Of this gYration."
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
Not What He Wanted.

Nurse-It'S time for Your nourlsn-
ment now. Mr.. Peppely.
Mr.. Peppery (who is conva!escent)-
Hang nourishment. What | want IS
,o,,,atbinr to eat.-LondOn Judy.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
Carter Arrives at Prison.

Oberlin NJ. Carter, late captain T.:
S. A., arrived at the federal prison at
LeavenIorth, Kas., Friday night un-
der guard of Lieut.. Thomas Hsrker;
Fifteenth infantry. corpors! and
three soldiers. The prisoner was I'M
mediately dressed iu the prison gaFo
and assigned to cell
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
Who Can Tell?

There comes from New York . kind
of faravay hint that Roosevelt is ere
long going to be a wedge to split the
Republican party in twain, which
causes the Newport News Herald to
predict that Roosey will do this coun-
try some good yet.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
Where to Find Out.

Grosvenor says the president bowed
to the will Of congress in changing his
mind on the Porto Rican question. If
any one desires to know to whose will
congress bowed let him inquire Of the
sugar and tobacco trust people.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
Will Be e Winner

The Spartanburg Herald says there
seems to be wonderful unanimity of
opinion among the State papers that
Governor McSweeney ought to have a
full term. Unless all signs fail he is
going to make a winning race"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
A Dog and the Elephant.

Visitors to the New York Zoo recent.
ly have been surprised to find a New
foundland dog chained in one OF the
elephant cages living in apparent peace
and cOntentment
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
II Takes Monev.

Seven hundred and fifty dollars a
minute is said to be the cost to Eng
land Of the South African war. Kru-
gers accounts haven't been audited yet.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02

A kingdom for cure.
You need not pay so much.
A twenty FIVE cent bottle Of l.. L & X.
VIII drive all ills away.
Sec sd. and try it-never fails.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
New President Of the Senate.
BY the death Of Vice President Ho-
bart, the presidency Of the senate will

fall upon Senator VIM. P. Frye. OF
Maine. Senator Frye is 70 years ole, but
looks younger. His term as senator VIII
expire in 1901.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
Gsines7ille. Ga, Dec. 5, 1895

Pitts Antiseptic Invigorator has
been used in my family and am per-
fect!y satisfied that it is all, and will
do all, you claim for it. Yours truly,
A. B. G. Dorsey.
P. ST. am using it now myself.
It's doing me good.-Sold by The Muir
ray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all
druggists. tt
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02
REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE.
4 Good Opportunity For Some Of Our
BRIGHT Young Men.

The United States Civil Service Com
mission that on May l7-l8-l9, 1900;
examination will be held in any city in
the United States where it has board
of examiners, for the position OF cadet
in the Revenue Cutter Service.
The examination will consist Of the
subjects mentioned below, which will
be weighted as follows: