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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-08-08
GARY AND PATTERSON FIeRT
These Two Candidates Have a Slug
ging Match

The great educational campaign
evoluted into slugging match Satur.
day at haurens. 1t was somewhat the
unexpected which happened. Frank
B Gary and A. Howard Patterson had
rough a2d tumble fight before thou
sand Laurens people, men and women
| Trey fought with desperation and de-
termination until Jim Ti!lman and 9th
ers separated them, and then they
wanted TO get back at each other. Had
the incident occurred years ago 10 this
county, when there were CARLOAD Ct
pistols sta meeting, there would have
been funerals here eouorroS; but these
days al the feeling seems to BE be-
tween the candidates. Today the re.
suit was two badly bruised faces and
emphasis on style of campaigning going
on, aud if others showed the same
spirit there would be many more 6sti-
cuffs each day.
HOW IT STARTED
From day to day Mr.. Patterson ham
me- red at Mr.. Gary about his Charles
ton speech. readiog the clippings and
making the statements published. Mc.
Gary thought this persistent effort was
to make it appear indirectly that he
stradGled in Charleston or favosed a
local option while N Charleston, with a
license feature which he insisted was
not the case, and that Pattersons ef,
fort by l<ading extracts was to place
him 10 false position as to what he
had said and his announced attitude on
the liquor question. Mr. Patterson re-
peated and reiterated about Mr.. Gary s
alleged straddle in CHARLES on. When
Mr. Gary's turn came to speak he i'm
mediately replied that he did not
"straddle, aud that his position then,
ss now. was plain.
Mr.. Patterson was sitting about Ave
feet bebitd where Mr.. Gary was speak
ing and got up ard said: Mr.. Gary,
| want to explain something"
Mr.. Gary turned squsrely arourd aud
said: Now, Mr.. Patterson, | want to
ask you plainly-is what have said
about that Charleston matter true?'
Mr. Patterson said he would explain.
Mr.. Gary replied there was no use to
explain, but insisted on knowing
whether what he had just said about
the whole matter was true or net.
Mr.. Patterson went on to say the
candidates would not agree with Mr..
Gary, or something on that line. Pat
terson said he dared him to prove mis-
statement by any of the candidates.
Gary insisted on direct reply as to
whether his statement sbout the Char
lesion speech was true or ros. By this
time the t~o men we're within arms
length, looking fercely at each other
and no doubt looking for blow.
Patterson said, yes, he denied as oe-
ing correct what Gary had said, if he
could not explain. Gary then said: "lf
you say my statements not correct you
say what is not so.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-08-08
READY TO HEAR TILLAAN.

Chairman Stanyarnc Wilson present
ed Senator Tilman for whom the crowd
waited so long. Senator Tlllman said
the audience had listended for FIVE long
hours and was no doubt weary. The
crowd assured him it remained to hear
him. He reiterated why he was In the
race and speaking. He was present un-
der the orders Of the state committee
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-08-08
BARNEY IS THIRSTY.

Barnard B. Evans started to sleak
aud the platform caved in but he
mounted table AMI went right on talk
ing. He said that W. D. Evans re-
ver5ed the brick rate from Caupobello.
The commissioners were never seen here
except when going on frolics in Pull
mans and with good liquor Spartan
burg, he urged, was Disseminated
against. He would reduce rates or
know the reason, or not serve with the
men who would not work with him.
The saw mill few miles from here
spent third Of the cost Of lumber on
freight. The commission nov admits
that it cannot or will not enforce the
law as to excess fares. W. D. EVanss
statement that taxes had been increased
on the railroads was saying that which
is not so. Assessments were reduced
and not increased. God forgive the
people fer putting such men on the
board. He asked that the wrong be
blotted out and that he be elected.
Thos. n. Berry said he could not
overturn the board if elected but was a
business man and ran as such.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-07

There is a Berlin man who is the
proud possessor of a timepiece which
ie considered to be the most marvellous
piece Of mechanism that human SIKH
ever put together. Ingenuity ana hu-
man skill have been brought into oper-
alton, with the result that a watch
has been constructed which measures
less than One-quarter of "a inch in
diameter, or with a face of about the
size OF the head OF d large sized tack
Or nail. The case is made OF the very
finest OF gold, and the whole watcn
weighs less than two grains troy. In
roy weight it takes $50 grains to make
an ounce, and twelve ounces consti-
tute a pound, or 5,760 grains are con-
tanned in a pound. This wonderful
piece of mechanism weighs only
l-2S80th part of a pound. So great
4 curiosity was this midget considered
that its owner paid 81 ,946.G0 for it,and
would not sell it for twice that amount.
The numerals on the face are in Ara
bic, and If the hands were put end to
end they would not measure fve-twen-
ty-fourths of an inch in length, the
large n being less than nne-eighth
and the small one less than me
twelfth OF an inch long. 1t has. be-
sides, just as an ordinary watch or
clock, a second indicator. which is
about as large in diameter as the small
hand is long. and the hand Of this sec
ond indicator is less than one-aixteenth
OF an inch in length. The numerals
here are also in Arabic. but are en-
GTaved in red, to be more easily dis
cernible. The works and hands are
made of the finest tempered steel and
are set throughout in diamond chips.
II is constructed on che most improved
plan. being wound by the stem agd set
by pulling the stem out a short dis
lance.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-07

How many know that a sponge is ar
animal, and that the soft, %squeezablt
straw-colored mass that we call The
sponge is nothing but the skeleton? II
its natural state as it grows in the
water all the many holes of the skele'
ton sponge are filed with a jellylikt
substance, which is the flesh of tn,
animal. The smaller pores of thu
sponge are the openings by which thu
living sponge draws in water, an{
countless streams are continually flow
ing through every part of it, bringing
in little particles of food and all the
necessary air for breathing purposes
1t is curious the way these spongei
eat. When a bit OF food comes in COR,
tact with any part Of its body the jel.
lylike substance sinks in, forming {
little hollow, into which the food drop
and then the jelly completely covers l.
over and absorbs it. All the besi
sponges come from the Mediterranean
and Red seas. Divers are sent down
in search of them, and THEY are care
fully cut with a knife from their rest
ing place. The Turks, who have con
troll of most of the trade, have some
thing like 5000 men employed at thiI
work, and the value of the produc
amounts to about $500, 900 a year
There has been some fear that the de
mand would outgrow the supply, II
experiments are being made to fore,
the sponge growths.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-07

As an illustration he tells how III,
little son Waldo on his way to school
had to pass a house where lived a
French family. The child heard the
family talking their native language.
which he could not understand, and
that made him have a sort of supersti-
tious fear of them. So Mr.. Emerson
used to walk to and from the school
with the little fellow. But one day
he decided that the child was old
enough to overcome his fear and pass
the house Of the French family by him
self. He went to school with the lad
and told him that he must return
alone. After school was dismissed
Waldo walked manfully toward home
until he had nearly reached the French
house. Then he stopped, and, leaning
against the fence, began to whimper.
Miss Elizabeth Hoar, a neighbor, say
him, and went to his rescue. Come,
Waldo, l am going your way, and you
can walk with me-" she said. The
child looked up tearfully into her eyes
a moment and then said in the most
doleful voice: Il don't think that vas
what my father meant for me to do
Then he trudged on by himself. IL
such ways boys and girls may prove
their heroism in the little duties OF
life
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-07
THE INFLUENCE OF BABEL.
facial Unity Not the Same as Lin.
guistic Unity.

The Chinese minister is profoundly
affected, as we all are, by the result OF
the building of Babel. The numerous
languages and dialects OF the world
hinder seriously, he thinks, the prog.
ress and unity of mankind, says the
London Spectator. We are not so sure
about the progress, though we admit
the unity in great part. Those who
have studied most profoundly the his.
tory of an important part of mankind
We think, naturally, the most i'm.
portant-viZ., Europe, have been OF
opinion that the diversity of Europe
mas been its leading progressive ele.
ment. Suppose that at the overthrow
OF the western empire some one of the
great Teutoric tribes had imposed it!
language on Europe. or that the de
based Latin of the fifth century had
been received and asSimilateG every.
where. Europe might have been il
consequence a unit today. but the rict
n varied growths of European litera.
ture would no have existed. Uniform.
tty would have prevailed and the i'm.
pact of mind on mind, of race on race
or speech on speech, OF thought on
thought, would have been lost to man.
hin Think of a Europe in which
French, English, Italian. Spanish anC
German literature had never come I'd
the birth, but in which some one great
tongue had tried in vain to express
mans varied mind. The Chinese min,
lister, coming from a vast and coIu-
paratively uniform empire, can per
haps scarcely realize with adequate
force what we in Europe should have
lost. Nor are we quite sure that the
unity would have been gained in any
thing like the degree supposed. Unity
n uniformity are very different
things; and the profoundest unity ever
effected, or that can be effected, was
produced by a religion which was de-
veloped in great cosmopolitan cities
where scores of languages were spoken
by its converts. We remember oi
course, the great aid rendered by Greek
to Christianity, but it was an aid per
haps more on it's philosophical side
than on the side of everyday human
speech. Racial unity is the next great
uniting bond, but racial unity is
not the same as linguistic unity;
and we see today people like
the Belgians and French, the Italians
Of Italy and those Of Switzerland, tho
English-speaking jewellers in the Unit.
ed States and Canada-living close to.
gether, speaking the same language
and yet not fused or completely united
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-07

developed a desire among the upper
class women to have their daughters
educated with as much care as boys
are, and an important adjunct to the
household, consequently, is the Euro
pean governess, most often English.
A sister of the Khediye, the Princess
Khadija, is an active agent in improv-
ing the educational status Of poor girls.
Most women visitors to Cairo are curl
Gus to see the interior of the harem.
But this, as Europeans understand it,
no longer exists in Egypt. Every ma
tive house, however, has its harem di-
vision, set apart for the Women-as the
salamlik is for the men-nothing more.
In this department reside the wife or
wives and children of the master, with
the addition, perhaps, Of his mother.
In. this case her rule is probably abso-
lutte. II is anC who chooses in
structresscs FOR the children orders
the affairs of the household, and even
prescribes the fabrics, fashions and
ornaments of the women, who are SIM
ply the wives of his excellency the
pdSHd. II Is the HlOIlel-lu-id" lulSp
literally. The windows of the harem
usually overlook a courtyard or rear
street, and are screened with mushra-
bean l%attices, penetrable only by the
gaze Of a person within. To minister
to the wants of the women'5 division, a
small army OF aarvants-shiny black
slaves from Nu5ir and Berber, and
possibly a fair Circassian or two, i'm
ported from Copstantinople-is essen
tial. Slavery Of this sort is scarce
ly bondage. 1t is the law of Egypt
that manumission can be had for the
asking, with little circumlocution or
delay. These scrvitors are kindly
treated, value their homo and shrink
from any movement toward legal free
dom. Except to the masters and sons
OF the hodse, the harem is closed to all
men, but women friends come and go
freely. The tell. high-cheek-boned
black men guarding the entrance to the
harem, in these progressive days in
Egypt possess no suggestion Of the
houri scene Of the stage, are trained
from childhood to keep unauthorized
persons from ~intruding, and have a
highly-developed aversion to sight
soere.-The Century.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-07

Boys are sometimes tempted to think
that to be tender-hearted is to be weak
and unmanly. Yet the tender heart
may be associated with the strongest
will. Take, for example, the story
TOLD of him to whom we W our WON
derful railway system. George Steph-
enson went one day into an upper
room OF his house and closed the win
dow. 1t had been open a long time
because of the great heat, but now the
weather was cooler, and so Mr.. Steph-
enson thought it would be we'll to shut
1t. He little knew what he was doing.
Two or three days afterward, however,
he CHANGED to observe a bird flying
against the same window and beating
against it with all his might again and
again as if trying to break it. His SYM
pathy and curiosity were aroused.
What could the little thing want? He
went at once to the room and opened
the window TO see. The window open,
the bird flew straight to one particular
spot in the room, where Stephenson
saw a nest. The poor bird looked at
it, took in the situation at a glance
and iuttered to the floor, broken
hearted. almost dead. Stephenson,
drawing neal to look, was filled with
un~speakable sorrow. There sat the
mother bird, and under it FOL little
tiny ones-mother and young-all ap-
parently dead. stephenson cried aloud.
He tenderly lifted the exhausted bird
from the floor, the worm it had so long
and so bravely struggled to bring to its
home and young stin in its beak, and
carefully tried to revive it. but all his
efforts proved in vain. 1t died, and
the great man mourned for many a
day. At the same time the force OF
George Stephenson's mind was chang
ing the face of the earth, yet he wept
at the sight of this little family and
was deeply grieved because he himself
had unconsciously been the cause CT
the death.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-07
GEN. ADAM

aid of only two men, Col. r. NJ. Martin,
now of Louisville, and Capt. A. F.
Owen Of Evansville. Ind, he attacked
the provost guard Of the town of Hen
derson, killed and wounded the cap
tain and lieutenant and eight or nine
soldiers. With twenty-seven men he
crossed the Ohio river and made the
first capture during the war north Of
Mason and Dixon's line (Newburg,
Ind.), carrying off over 500 stands Of
arms and paroling 10 men. This
gave him the sOubriquet of ~"Stovepipe
Johnson" as he used s~tovepipes to.
initiate cannon, and threatened to shell
the town, thus causing the surrender.
The capture Of Henderson, Hopkins
vile, Clarkville and Uniontown, with
their g~arrisons, and many other des-
perate engagements of his, are worthy
Of being interestingly recalled. He
commanded one Of Morgan's brigades
on the Ohio raid, and afterwards re-
organized that command and COM
manded it during the battle of Chicka-
manga. Later, On his second eXpedi-
ton, which was a forlorn hope, he en-
tered Kentucky with dfty-ive men and
officers, issuing his conscript order that
caused Burbridge and Hobson to sus-
pend their secret expedition into Vir-
ginia and turn their forces against
him. This has been considered one OF
the most daring and successful feats OF
the war, and President Davis himself
said If did &c m1ch tO nr01Duo tho war
as any other movement. 1t was in
this expedition that he lost his sight,
Aug. 20, 1864.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-07
unioue Four-in-Hand.

There are three girls in New Bruins
wick, N. j., who devote a good part of
their leisure time in rearing and train
ing turtles. They have about three
dozen of them now, and of these four
are so intelligent that they are trained
to do all manner of queer things.
Among other things they are harnessed
together like a four-in-hand, and made
to draw a dolls baby carriage. The
mere matter of feeding them is in it.
self a big task. these reptiles eat
most anything, but they have a par
ticular liking for snails and worms,
and, like grown people, they acquire a
taste for almost anything. Last sum
mer, when Strawberries were plenti-
full, these three dozen turtles made away
with two quarts of them, and then,
by way of entree, they disposed of 217
angle worms which a boy had been
specially hired to dig for them. So
you see, catering to a turtle is not the
easiest thing in the world.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-07
Natural Soaps.

From time immemorial the Egyptian
soap-root and the Spanish soap-root
have been employed for washing in
southern Europe and Egypt, and
are. to some extent, exported for
use in cleansing fine articles. In
the West Indies and South America, a
PUPPY fruit, which grows on a tree
known as the soap tree, is said to have
such cleansing properties that it will
clean as much linen as sixty times its
weight Of manufactured soap. There
is also a tree in Peru, Quillaja Sapon-
aria, whose bark, in infusion, yields
a soapy liquid much valued for wash
ing wOolens and is largely imported to
England and other countries for this
purpose. The juice of the sOap-wort,
or, as it is commonly called in the
United States and Great Britain. the
Bouncing Bet" strongly possesses the
saponaceous qualities. In California
the roots of the Phelangium Pomar-
dianum, which grows there abundant
". are much used for washing. This
plant has a strong odor of brown soap
in its leaves and stems, as well as the
roots. The South Sea Islands and the
islands of the Caribbean sea also pro-
duce plants which are used as soap
substitutes.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-07

Most of the young people of today
judging by his pictures, look upoI
Washington Irving as a venerable OLE
gentleman, chiefly interesting as tht
author Of RIP Van Winkle' and The
Legend Of Sleepy Hollow" Back il
the days Of the revolution, when he
was a mischief-loving little boy who
was the cause of great anxiety to his
mother, he was passionately fond
Of music. and devoted to the theater,
to the great horror Of his strict par
ents. Whenever he had amassed a few
pennies he would steal off to an ole
theater. Now, as the family always
had prayers at 8 o'clock in the even
ing and attendance was compulsory,
little Washington-Who, by the way,
was named after the Father of His
Country-would rush back home in
time for the evening devotions, and
when over he would go to his room,
and while his family thought he was
asleep in his bed he crept out of his
window, down the veranda to the
ground and off to the theater to see
how the play ended.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-07
In an APRICOT Orchard.

AS soon as an orchard Of apricota
comes into bearing, advertisements are
inserted in the newspapers of adtoin-
ing towns for women and girls. Thou
sands of leave their domestic
duties, taking with them their lam
lilies, to engage actively in the sheds
of the ranchers, cutting the fruit for
drying, after the men have collected
1t from the trees. Sometimes five hun
bred people will be engaged upon a
large orchard. Rules and regulations
are laid down for their conduct; the
women and girls sleep in the tents pro-
vided at a low rental by the manage
ment, and either cook for themselves,
or board with what would be termed in
railroad circles a "boarding-boss'; thu
men, mo- so many, occupy tents A
some other and distant part Of th9
orchard. The sole requisite being tho
ability to pick and cut fruit, an ggre-
cation Of humanity representing all
classes of society, from the impecuni-
Gus English family with cultivated
and aristocratic connections,
to the nondescript. who travels from
town to town in search of employment,
is collected together in Industrious ac-
tivity for the revenue to be derived.
Each has a small tray in front
Of her, and, after cutting the fruit with
a knife, she lays it open on the tray.
Each tray is furnished with a raised
end; when five are filled they are
nIiGd III and tho nnnpotNp chnI1tG
tray" w%hereupon an attendant APP
proaches, punches a ticket with which
she has been previously furnished, and
takes the five trays to the sulphur
house. The women are paid ten cents
a box, each box containing sixty
pounds of fruit. All fruit has to be
placed in the sulphur house for several
hours, for the purpose of bleaching it,
or causing it to retain its natural color,
as well as to destroy all insect life
that may remain, otherwise the sun
would cause it to turn black. The trays
are then carried out and placed upon
the ground under the steady rays OF
the glorious California sun. Should
clouds be hanging over, the trays are
placed one above the other until that
great purifier and drier of the universe,
old Sol, makes his appearance. The
fruit requires from three to seven days
to dry. At the enc of this time men
go out into the orchard with what are
called "sweat-boxes," and scrape from
the trays all the fruit into these boxes
in which it is left until full dried.
EInal1V If iG h01llH6 tn tho ctnrahnICpc
and piled up in heaps, perhaps ten feet
high, awaiting the eye of the critical
buyer.-Pearson's Magazine.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-07

Associate Justice Brewer, Of the
United States Supreme court. is one
of the best anecdote r~eIaters in Wash
ington, and frequently tells stories on
himself. Here is an amusing one.
When he was studying law in New
York city he evinced some interest in
the municipal campaign then on and
was invited to make a speech on a
certain occasion. He accepted and
carefully fortifying himself with in
formation on the subject and other
wise preparing for his part of the pro-
gram he appeared On the platform in
ample time. When he got up he made
an eloquent depletion of the virtues
OF his party; he made deep draughts
on smile and metaphor; his sentences
were exquisitely rounded and it was
q mastery example of a class-day ora
ton. The audience sat unmoved, an
occasional man alone greeting what he
said. The next speaker was an IN
kempt individual, careless of grammar,
who committed a wholesale slaughter
OF the English language. But he made
several good points in a crude way
that appealed to the crowd, and when
he ended the applause was deafening.
AS the then would-be lawyer with the
fine periods passed out a man behind
not recognizing him, whispered in his
ear: Il like that second felicr better:
he talks sense"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-07
Polar Star Peculia rifles.

Some of these starry nights take a
look at the North star, which is away
up toward the top of the sky at pres
ent, and see if you can make yourself
believe that the bright white spot is in
reality three balls of light. 1t has
recently been discovered that this
so-called star is composed of three
suns, swing around in great orbits, like
the sun, earth and moon. When we
consider hat this great guiding light
Of the heavens is 255 ,000, 900 miles
away, or 1854 times as far off as u
sun, however, we feel inclined to be-
lieve almost anything about it. The
three suns composing Polaris, or North
star, cannot be distinguished through
the most powerful telescope in the
world, but were discovered by means
of a s~pectroscopic photograph taken at
the Lick observatory. Two Of the suns
of the North star triplet revolve
around each other every four days, and
these together revolve about a third.