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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-14
Tiny Anvils,

The anvil that rings to the sturdy
blacksmith's sledge may weigh 200, 300,
400 pounds, but there are anvils whose
weight is counted in ounces. These
are used by jewelers., silversmiths
and various other workers. Counting
shapes, sizes, styles of finish, and SO
on, these little anvils are made in
scores of varieties, ranging in weight
from Is ounces to number of pounds
each. Some of these little anvils,
weighing perhaps two pounds, are
shaped precisely like big anvils. 9th
ers have shapes adapted to their spe-
cial uses. All the little anvils are of
the finest steel. They are all trinity
finished, often nickel-plated, and those
surfaces that are brought into use are
finished with what is called mirror
polish, the surface being made as
smooth as glass. These little anvils
are made up to five pounds and some
of them up to ten pounds in weight.
They are made some in the United
States and some in Germany.-N. Y.
Sun.
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BUSHELS OF GOLD
Stolsn from the Strong Room Of
SIN Sting Works.
NO GLUE TO TIE THIEVES.
clsaned Up About Seventeen
Thcusar d Ounces Of Colo,
Worth Ovar Three Au Tdred
Thousand Dollars.

Gold bricks yslured at $1,000 were
stolen during Tuesday night from the
Seiby Smelling works at Vallfjo, Col.
The robbers evidently had beea work
ing on the job for two or three months.
Tney had dug tunnel from outside
the house, beginning with shaft about
thee feet deep. Thence they worked
underneath the vault and striking up
wards. bored hole in the strong room
floor. The hole was shaped like the
aanhole OF a boiler. Part Of the holes
were bored two months ago, it is
thought, ard the last one was CON-
pleted during the night. Through
that hole they took the gold bricks and
near the mouth Of tho tunnel east Of
the works, where they were evidently
plsced ia a boat. In their hurry the
robbers left two Of the bricks on the
bank.
Duriag the night one Of the work
men reported to one Of his fellows that
he heard noise 10 ths strong room
and declsred it was ghost. The 9TH
ess ridicu!ed him foE his superstition,
but no investigation was made to see
what caused the noise. TIE entrance
to the tunnel was covered With frame,
over which the employees Of the smelt-
ers passed every day. but no one seemed
to notice any,hiDg out Of the way.
Sheriff Veale OF Contra Costa county,
his deputies and Chief Of Police San
ford Of Vellejo have been notified snd
are now at the works. The police Of
San Francisco and all the bay cities arc
all at work on the case, but so far there
is not the slightest clue to the robbers.
The work was that Of skilled men and
their elaborate plans were carried ous
without hitch. They got all the bull
lion in the vault, leaving behind only
the two bricks which we're dropped on
the shore. Only one days accumula-
tion of refined gold vas kept at the
works.
The tunnel that the robbers exca-
7ated was about three feet in diameter
and gave them plenty Of room in which
to work. It is supposed the dirt from
the tunnel was taken out at night and
dropped in the bay. First reports
stated that the tunnel was two or three
hundred feet long, but according to
late advices it is only about ten feet
in length. Tie shaft was started close
to the wall and was sunk below the
foundation. Thence it was only short
distance uldsr the floor OF the vault.
Its thought the men who committed
the robbery took their plunder way in
launch and made of directly for Sar
Francisco. There are plenty Of places,
however, to which they may have gone
either up the Sacramento river or to
the shore Of any Of the numerous bays.
Following is list Of the properly
stolen: Four fine gold bricks, all num-
bered and containing as follows: No.
1886. 100 ounces and . fraction. No.
l237-3.300 ounces. NJ. 1881, 1913
ounces and fraction. No. 1239-1, ,037
OUNCES aid fraction. Also 10000
OUNCES Of gold in various shapes an. a
little silver. The gold in the bricks is
worth $40 so ounce.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-14

tic building on earth? Taanty thous.
and m,n we're 20 years in building it,
It cost about SIC, ,O0O.0 600. The walls
are OF marble inland with carnelisn
from Bagdad aDd turquoise from Tibet
and jasper from Puoja5 and amethyst
from Persia and ali manner of precious
stones. A traveller said that it seemed
to him like the shining Of the enchant-
ed castle Of FURNISHED silver. The walls
are 245 feet high, and from the. top Of
these springs dome 30 more feet high,
that doms containing the most wonder
ri echo the world has kno IN, so that
Ger and anon travellers standing bsloR
with flutes and drums and harps are
testing that echo, and the sounds from
beloE strikes up, and then come down,
as it we're, tie voices Of angles all
around about the building, There is
around it a garden Of tararlnd and
banysn and palm and all The f.oral
glories Of the ransacked esrth, Bat
that is only tomb of d,sd empress,
and it is tsme compared wish the
e,andeurs which God has builded for
Your living and immortal spirit.
"a home of ths blessed foundations
of gold! Arches Of victory! Cspstones
Of prajs. And dome ia which there
are echoing and re- echoing the hal'
leluiahs Of the ages! And around about
that msnsion is gard n. The garden
Of G ID, and all the spriDging fouu-
tsins ara the bottled tears Of the church
in the witness and ell the crimson Of
the fowers is the deep hue that was
caught up from the carnags Of earthly
nsrtyrdoms and the fragrance ig the
prayer Of all the saints and the aroma
puts into utter forgetfulness the csssia
and the spikena7d AID the frsnkipcsnse
aod the world renowned spices which
Qleen Bslkis of Abyssina flung at tha
feet of King Solomon.
When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls
And pearly gates behed,
Thy bulwarks. with salvation strong,
And streets of shining gold?
Through obduracy on our part and
through the rejection Of that Christ
who makes heaven possible l wonder If
any of US will miss that spectacle? Tae
Queen of the south will rise up in judg-
ment against this generation and con.
denim it because she came from the Ut
termost parts Of the earth to hear the
wisdom Of Solomon, and, behold, a
greater than Solomon is herel
Msy God grant that through your
own practical experience you msy fad
that religions ways are ways Of pleasant.
ness and that sll her paths are paths OF
peace--shat it is perfume now and per-
fume forever. And there was sn abun-
dance Of spice; neither was there any
such spice as the queen Of Sheba gave
to K ng Solomon.
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Already Cooked.

The city boy in the country also has
Experiences" A little lad, by
spending the summer on farm,
learned many things.
1t was new experience for the little
fellow, and everything was delightful
" unfamiliar. He found out for the
first time that hens made eggs, and
this knowledge filed him with de-
sire to see one of them at work.
Being patient waiter, the lad final
~ had his wish gratifed, and exult-
ingly seizing the product of the cack-
ling fowl, he marched into the house
with his prize.
"Let me have it, said. the farmers
wife, "and I'll cook it for your din
ner."
"Oh, 7 guess the hen cooked it, all
right" said Master Carl. Its warm
Portland Argus.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-14
South Carolina Leads.

South Carolina leads all the
| states in the increase of cotton
spindles during the year ending
June 80, 1901. Georgia also made
a, very fine showing as did North
| Carolina and Alabama. The lat
ter state was slow in taking ad-
vantage Of her opportunities for
cotton manufacturing, but she
has at last gone into the busi-
ness with a vim and during the
past two years has made re-
markable strides towards great
ness in textile production. Ala
bama now has mills which turn
out as high class cotton goods as
any that are made anywhere in
the south and the number of
her spindles is increasing very
fast. More than 81 per cent of
all the new spindles in the Unit
ed States, that is spindles which
have been put in since July l,
1900, are to be found in the south.
South Carolina has not only led
in recent cotton enlargement,
but in the extent of her cotton
manufactures is excelled by
only one state, Massachusetts,.
In 1900 Rhode Island stood Sc
cond but South Carolina has pas
sed her. South Carolina's l.
794,s57 spindles in 1900 have in
creasedin one year to 2,l95, ,02O,
a rate of growth which the tex
tile industry of no other state
has ever shown. The increase Of
cotton spindles and looms for
the whole country during the
past twelve months was 7 1-2
per cent, but the increase in
the south was Is ITO per cent.
The south says the Atlanta
Journal is marching steadily
to the fulfllment of her mani
fest destiny in cotton manufac-
turing. It will not be long be-
fore she will leave New England
behind in this great industry.
With such facts, as the above
before US, it is nonsense to claim
that South Carolina or the
South needs go over bag and
baggage with the Republican
party to prosper. South Carolina
and the whole South has pros
pered marvelouslv under Demo
cratic doctrines, and we see no
need of her following McLaurin
and other pie county politicians
into the Republican camp.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-14
Great Floods in China.

Great & pods caused by the overt owing
Of the Yang Use have caused the death
Of many thousands in China. The river
has risen 40 feet and for hundreds of
miles the country is great lake with
only tops Of trees and an occasional
roof showing. At Anking the town is
flooded, some of the houses to their
roofs. At Kiu Kiang, the native town
is flooded and two feet Of water stands
in the foreign settlements. Lower
down the river towards Sau Hue, the
destruction vas greater and bostmen
estimate that 10000 we're drowned in
the district. Chong The was wiped
away By foods aod 10000 droTHed
there and many other points have been
inundated involving awful loss Of life
and great destruction to properly. 1ti5
feared an enbankmant built by Chong
Cheh Tuag near WI Chang would break
and cause the drowning Of thousands.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-14
Skulls a. Personal Effects.

A missionary returning 10 Basic
from Patagonia brought with him a
collection of ancient Patagonian
skulls. The custom house officers at
Les Verres opened the chest, inspect
ed the contents and informed the own
er that the consignment must be
classed as animal bones and taxed at
so much pound The missionary was
indignant, and eventually the officers
agreed to reconsider the question.
When the waybill had been revised it
appeared in the following form:
"Chest of native skulls. Personal eff
fects already worn."-London Chron-
icle.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-14
DiSn,f Work

Swindler-Madam, 1 have called for
the suit of clothes which needs brush
ing and pressing.
Lady of the House-What suit?
your husbands Sunday suit,
maam. He called at the shop as he
went down this morning"
"And he said was to let you have
them?"
"Yes'm."
did he appear in good health and
spirits?"
''Why, certainly"
"Look and act naturally"
"Of course. Why?"
because he has been dead IS years.
and have some curiosity on the sub
ject."
"I-I have made a mistake, per-
haps!"
perhaps you have. The man you
saw go out of here an hour ago is my
brother. Good morning."-N. Y.
World
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HIS LAST REaUEST.
Tell Them ] Was Not Crazy. His
Letter.

A special from Bremen, G-a Tnu1s-
day says. It now develops that J. E.
Jollie, the agent Of the Central railroad
there who committed suicide Tues
day was worried by financial troubles,
having been dealing in futures. It is
not thought, however,, that he is short
in his accounts as the money he used
was borrowed
During the funeral Thursday after
noon all the stores of Bremen were
closed and the Methodist church Wss
crowded to the doors. Mr.. Jollie was
one Of the most popular and beloved
residents of the town.
That he hsd deliberately planned the
rash deed and counted the cost is shoEn
by the following letter left to his wife:
"My Dear Precious Ella.-I regret to
tell you that 10 an IF ,rt to get back
what I lost last fall l. have lost every
dollar had, and all I could borrow, and
now am ruined and have debts star
ing ct ne everywhere 60. I have not
the courage to meet them Or to make
ii known toyou while lam alive, know
ing you will for give me when l am
dead.
"Now, I ask that you pay, as soon as
you can, the following amounts that
oWa."
Here follows an itemizsd statement
Of Indebtedness, amounting to 1854,
$3.50 Of this consists of notes due on
house and lot and s454 is principally
borrowed money, all OF which was used
to buy futures in sugar, rubber etc.
II told Mr.. Hunter the other night
+ had paid the land note, which was
my irst lie. Ask him to for give me
and also ask yours.
Il also owe $50 on the piano note
and the part Of the note due Septem-
Der 1st.
This statement is made for your
protection after am gone. You can
do as you like about paying FOR the
home. You know there has OILY been
$50 paid. Il would not be much loss
to count of the rent, though it is q
nice, cheap place, and you might get
some discount to pay it.
II leave you $l,750 insurance. Of
course there will not be very muoh left
you to pay my debts, and the place, but
enough I hope to keep you from work
ing too hard at too rough work.
L have prayed God to forgive me for
the taking Of my own life, but I don't
know how it will be. Eternity looks
long ard can't say how il will be with
me, though I hope to meet you IN
heaven. Now good bye, my sweet,
true love, and don't think took hard Of
me.
Tell people I an not crazy. Don't
tell anyone why, it might injure you in
getting your insurance. I gave Pro-
fessor Holland my notes for policy &
few days ago. Don't suppose they will
be any good now, but l had no idea
this would happen then. Get the notes
or policy. Jim"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-14
Short Cotton Crop

The monthly report Of the ststistlciau
Of the department Of agriculture shows
the average condition Of option on July
25 to have been II 2 as compared sith
91.1 On the 25th of the preceding
month; rs on August l. 1900; 81 on
August l, 1899, and 10 year average
Of 81.
There was an improvement of condi-
tion during July amounting to 6 points
in Georgia, 5 points in South Carolina,
2 in Alabama and Mississippi and S in
Virgins. On the other hand there was
decline of l9 points in Missouri, Is in
Arkansas and Tennessee, Is in Okla.
hons and Indian Territory, y in Texas,
I in Florids, 4 in North CaroIins and ?
in Louisiana.
The impairment in condition is
largely due to drought, but in por-
ton of the eastern section Of the cotton
belt it is attributable to the prevalence
of excessive rain during large part Of
the month.
While the condition in Mississippi is
5 points above the States 10years aver
age, every other State reports oon6i-
tion below such average, Virginia being
l, Louisiana 2, Alsbans 3, Texas Z,
Georgia s, South Carolina and Florida
8; North Carolina l2; Arkansas, Ten
nessee and Missouri Is points below
their respective 10 year averages,
The averages of condition in the diff
ferent States are reported as follows:
Virginia S6; North Carolina 73; South
Carolina Is; GEORGIA IS; Florlds 70;
Alabama 81; Mississippi 89; Louisiana
80; Texas II; Arkansas SO; Tennessee
70; Missouri Il; Oklahoma 70; Indian
Territory Is.
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Killed His Daughter.

Clements Buchter, a chairmaksr, at
Louisville Thursday shot and killed his
daughter, Irene, aged 10, and wounded
his wife. 1t is alleged that Bu,hter,
Who it is said had been making impro-
per advances to his child had tried to
force her to accede to his demands,
when she called her mother. Together
the woman tried to restrain the father,
who drew his revolver and began shoot
ing. The daughter WAS shot through
the heart and instantly killed and the
mother was shot through the hand.
Buchter was arrested and refused to
talk.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-14
Scientific Farming in Germany


Recent reports to our department.
of agriculture indicate that farming
is conducted in Germany on more inn
proved and scientific principles than
anywhere else in the world. The Ger
man farmers employ less machinery
but more chemistry. They pay very
close attention te the fertilization Of
the soil. Yet with all their efforts,
and all the advantages of their ad-
vanced science, they are unable to
fully supply the demand Of the poPu-
lation of Germany for breadstufs.
They do supply seven-eighths Of that
demand, but the remaining one
eighth, which has to be imported
from abroad, amounted in 1889 to
more than 5o,ooo,ooo bushels of wheat
alone.-Youth's Companion.
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press Of the S ate for that great sld ez

press Of the S ate for that great srd ez
ai,ed honor.
"Sone of US thought it 10 bad idea
in these piping times Of peace to re-
ceive our politicsl learning and lessons
in the duties of tie cit;zsn from the
lips Of nossible candidates in al eff
yesr. Receive it without the ranco
Of partisan strife, when our blood is
as cool as conditions will permit dur
ing the midsummer after the great
strain Of making aud laying by the
cIop-when feeling at peace with all
world and with love for sll and malice
toEard none-and not wait until the
battle is on and the sparks are famed
to f fsme and each have taken sides in
political fuel, and forgetful of all plat
forms and issues, fight fur cur maa.
And as I have said, We thought il q
good i6ea TO invite our great patriotic
statesmen to core sBd speak to US and
to give Us lectures on the great issues
Federal issues that have been fought
over since the days of the great Jeffer-
son Oh down 10 the issues bin of cur
wsr va. with Spain or issues the
Spanish war has rsvitalizsd.
We 90 not want vituparation, mud.
singing, insults or ungentlemanly epi
thets hurled st any man or men CT
any mans motives irnpugned
we ask fer enlightnont Of you IS
our professor in S:atecrsft-we as your
s:uients. and l believe you all will
observe the request.
ITO you my fellow citizens, each
speaker desires you close undivided at.
tension, and knowing you as I do, l
I guarantee to them that they will
ges It."
He closed With some remarks about
the Charleston exposition.
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Roston,a Washington MedaI.

Locked up in a safe at the Boston
public library IS the gold medal
awarded George Washington by the
continental congress by vote March
81, 1776, for his services in expelling
the British from Boston, March II,
1776. AS a souvenir of the anniVer-
sary of evacuation day about $4,000
medals, made from this design and
one-half the size of the original, were
distributed to the school children Of
Boston recently. The medal was
bought from one of Washington's
heirs IS years ago.-Indianapolis
News.
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A curious lantern fly, discovered by
naturalists in the Malay archipelago,
possesses the power of jumping a dis
tance of several feet without opening
it's wings. 1t has projection on its
head which, when bent back and sud-
denly released, throws the insect into
the air. This fly was seen to jump
from the ground to the roof of hut.
Science.
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An Insect with sprlng-Board Nose

An Insect with Spr1ng-Board Nose.
Among the curious insects Of the
Malay peninsula recently studied by
Mr.. Nelson Annandale, of the Lon
don Geological society, is one called
the lantern fly, which is remarkable
for it's sudden leaps, made without the
aid of it's wings. 1t was only after
he had carried a specimen back to Lon
don and carefully examined it that
Mr.. Annandale discovered that Gu
rious projection on the front of its
head, a kind of nose with crease in
it, was the leaping organ. When bent
back under the abdomen and sudden
ly released it sent the insect flying
Youths Companion.
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The Magnet.

"Look here, Dunwell, how do you
manage to bring out all your apart
ment house debtors? When I ring the
bell no one shows up"
"It's dead easy! I go down dis
guised as a health food sample distrib-
utter. In two minutes every occupant
of the house is in the hall."-Chicagc
Daily News.
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Wise Beyond His Years.

Anxious Mother = Tommy, your
teacher says you are the poorest
scholar in your class.
Tommy-That's nothing. It is only
because I don't answer all the ques-
tions she is asking every day. It isn't
wise to tell all you know to a woman,
even if she does happen to be school,
teacher.-Boston Transcript.
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A Serious OVERSIGHT

Dooley-What' the matter wild ye
anyhow, Mick-an tattered an
scratched all over?
Mckay, an me own dog done it.!
I went home sober last noight, an
the baste didn't know me!-Punch.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-14
A Bad Sign,

Clara-I am afraid that Charley
Stretcher isn't going to make good
husband for Sadie.
Maud-Why not?
"She tells me that when they came
back from their wedding trip he had
some money left."-Puck.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-14
Rored Holes with BulIetg.

A novel method of boring holes in a
fat bar of iron was recently adopted
on ship where breakdown occurred.
To repair the breakage it was neces-
sary to make bolt holes in a spar bar,
and as the engineer was without the
appliances required for the purpose
he marked the exact places in chalk
and then fired 80 caliber bullet
through each from new pattern VIM
chester rife.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
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One Advantage.

She Cat the museum)-I wish were
a two-headed girl.
He-And why, pray?
''Then T could wear two hats and
tell myself if they were on straight" "
Chicago Daily News.
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Discovered at Last.

Tom-say, what is a bachelor maid;
anyway?
Jack-Oh, it's merely term girl
applies to herself after she loses al
hope of becoming wife. - Chicago
Daily News.
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Needed Another DOE,

Srockman - You remember that
"pointer" you gave me on the street
yesterday?
Bonds-Yes; what about it?
"Why, tried it, and as consequences
I've come around to see if you couldn't
get me a retriever Richmond Dis
patch.
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To Prepare for Trouble.

After all there appears to be only
one way in which to prepare for trou.
bic, and that is to save your money.
-Atchison Globe.
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A Georgia jury recently brought in
the following ver'ict: 1--WE, the jury
fnd the prisoner almost guilty.
Chica ro Daily News.
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A Stage Fright.

Why isn't homely actress a case
of stage fright?-Chicago Daily News.
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Then let our songs abound
And every tear be dry;
We're marching through Enmanuers ground
To fsirer worlds on high.
I have 10 say also that We need to