The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-21
New Zion Dots.
Editor The Manning Times:

Cotton crops in this section have
improved very much of late and they
continue to do fine, and If the good
seasons continue the weather proph-
cts will lose their regulations.
Tobacco curing in these parts is
about over for this season. The
prices are very satisfactory. Man
ming has lost some tobacco by not
giving checks direct to the bank. /
know of several who are taking their
tobacco to other markets because
they do not like the idea of toting'
an order to the store. The people of
this section haye always been an in
dependent people, and as rule they
pay their debts, but when they sell
their produce and have to tote an
order to the place where they have
an account, they take it to be re-
fection on their honesty. When
they sell their produce they like to
be paid in money Or get a check to
the bank, and then they trade wher-
ever they please.
Professor Clinkscales of WoTord
College is to be with us from the 18th
to 18th inst. He will deliver an ad-
dress to our Sunday school, and his
welcome in this community will be
gratifying to him he may rest as
sured,
We all looked for The MANNING
TIMES editor at the picnic on the
18th inst. at Coles Mill; his not get
ting there was disappointment to
his host of friends in Salem.
The picnic was q success in every
sense of the word; the crowd was
very large, being estimated at over
one thousand people, and although
the weather was inclement, the
crowd enjoyed themselves.
Two ministers present gave short
talks, and I am beginning to believe
that The TINES editor stays away
from our picnics fearing that we will
make him talk too. The preachers
talked about Train child in the
way it should go, and when it is old
it will not depart from it," and they
laid great stress in lecturing the old
er heads on the Importance of home
training, which is more Or less neg
lected.
After the talks, dinner was an
nounced, and without attempting to
describe it, we will say it was Sa-
lem picnic dinner, and those who
have had the good fortune to attend
a picnic here will understand its full
meaning. If there is ever famine
around Manning the cause may be
attributed to one of our county Off
cials, because the only reason he did
not eat up everything before him
was he only had two hands, and he
could not pick up the food fast
enough. My soul, l never in all my
life saw a man with such an appe-
tite; that man would throw an army
on short rations within week. He
is not q large man, either, but where
he puts the stuff is a mystery. a
young lady was so amazed at the
mans eating that she asked me if
THAT man was a species of the cam
ell and was putting in that tremend-
Gus supply Of food preparatory to
taking q trip across desert" told
her she ought to see him sitting in
his Office; when he amt eating pin
ders he is chewing tobacco, and when
there is no one to give him tobacco
he chews paper, but he is always
chewing, and when he runs down
the railroad he continues chewing;
if nothing else is handy he goes for
the rag.
There was another chap there who
thought he would stand up to the
big man from town." and when we
had lighted our cheroot this fellow
was still eating. He was aboard of
an egg pie, and the way he belabored
it was a caution. He loosened his
belt, and after another struggle he
got through with it aud, with much |
difficulty, ne got on his feet, when |
all at once he saw his girl not far dis
tant, sitting j. ~ buggy with a hand
some sport who seemed to be very |
entertaining, so he dragged himself
to the spot and received the what
do-you-want stare from the young
lady, and in backing off from her he
got tangled up in an old lady's frock-
eryware. felt sorry for the fellows
misfortunes; it was his unlucky day,
sure.
In the afternoon Professor Owens
of the Sumter Co-eGucational 1nsti-
tute made an address on the needs of
education.
There will be another picnic at He
bron on the oath and the boys will
expect good time. Some of the
girls are already putting their hair
up in paper for the occasion and we
know of one who went to town Sat
urday and bought her two boxes OF
Swansdown."
hear that a paper has been circu-
lated for signatures to an invitation
inviting Senator Tillman to come to
Clarendon to speak. We all would
be glad to hear him, but if we have
to 60 down into our pockets to pay
his expenses, as was required at Lib
erty Hill in kershaw county, then
that will be something else. If the
Senator wants to teach US how to
vote think he can afford to pay his
own expenses out of the $4,000 salary
we placed him in position to get. l
kind of suspicion the promoters of
the scheme to get Senator Tillman to
Clarendon want him to boom q GER
tain party whose political star has
sunken, but they will be disappoint-
ed. Tillman is too shrewd to get
into any such trap. The party we
have in mind need not hope that
even the. great Ben Tillman can re-
store him to political life; he is out
and will stay out as far as county
politics is concerned.
haye never seen the people so in
different about politics, they do not
care a fig about the thing. When
the time comes for them to vote they
will vote as they please, and all the
speech making that politicians can
fiji the air with, will have no effect.
I expect that the candidates will
be plentiful next summer, and some
of them now are learning to recite
the speeches they read in the news
papers. Next summer will produce
a crop of statesmen who will know
more about government policies than
Webster, Clay or Calhoun, and they
will rattle off speeches, the words of
which they will be ignorant of;
these presuming statesmen think
they will fool the people, but they