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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-03
A Call on "00m Paul.

Imagine low. one story, gable roof.
ed cottage, embowered in trees and
vines, and standing close to one of the
principal streets of rather struggling
and uDkempt village, and you will
picture to yourself the abode of one OF
the most famous men of modern times.
1t looks like anything but the abode OF
royalty, or even of high republican
dignitary and, if it were not for the
two soldiers before the door. you would
suppose that you were entering the
home of one of earth's toilers say an
engineer on a railway, or country
parson.
Before the door are the famous
marble lions presented by Barney
Barnato, the great South African
speculator. From the artistic point OF
view they will not detain us long from
the genuine lion of South Africa, who
sits there in all democratic simplicity
in wicker chair upon his front porch,
smoking long briarwood pipe.
If President Kruger seems to put on
rather an undue amount of royal style
and dignity when on the street, it can
not be said that he carries it too far
when be passes his own front gate.
Nothing could be more simple or more
primitively democratic. No cards are
required, no liveried flunkey receives
you, no etiquette or formality bars the
way. You simply walk past the guards
step up on the veranGa, stretch out
your hand, and say. "How do you do.
Mr.. President ?' If you can say it in
Dutch, so much the better. for Presi-
dent Kruger speaks no other tongue.
AS you take his cordially outstretch-
ed hand, you see that he is by no means
an impressive looking man. An old
man of fully threescore and fifteen, if
we may judge by his looks. whatever
the family Bible says, in a blue suit
somewhat the worse for the wear, and
an antiquated beaver hat,-in which
he must do everything but sleep, for
he always appears in it,-stands before
you. Under his chin and around his
capac1ous neck is a fringe of white
whiskers such as the irreve verent small
boy in America would call "galways. "
A stubby length of beard of four days
growth does NOT adOrn his face and
his good natured blue eyes twinkle
over an undeniably bulbous nose
From Fellow Travellers" by DR.. F.
E. Clark.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-03

gives the mother strength to nurse
her child. 1t cures diseases peculiar to
women and cures them permanently.
There is no alcohol, opium, cocaine or
any other narcotic in Favorite Prescrip-
tion." It Is purely vegetable prepara-
ton and cannot disagree with the weak
est constitution.
Mrs. Emerson Alien Of Dorset Ontario Co.,
Ont, writes: rI can truly say that think DR..
Pierce's medicines the best have ever used. I
was in very poor health for long time, dating
from the birth of my little girl. tried different
doctors and different medicines. derived very
much more benefit from your medicines than
from any other have ever used took four
bottles Of Favorite Prescription and three
bottles of Golden Medical Discovery and I
always keep the Pellets In the house.D
DIR. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, paper bound, is sent free on
receipt OF II one-cent stamps to pay
expense of mailing only. Address DR..
R. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-03

medicines" +" with lit
tie benefit. Then,
fortunately her at
tention is called to
the remarkable cures
resulting from the
use of DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescrip-
ton, and she gives
the medicine a trial.
Her experience is
that of ninety-eight
women out of every
hundred who use
e Favorite Prescrip-
ton" for woman1y
ils-she is cured.
DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription
is peculi ar1y a
mothers medicine.
Its use before ma
ternity makes the
baby's advent prac-
tica1ly painless. 1t
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-03
Then the man in the slouch hat went

Then the man in the slouch hat went
away.
And the man who was to have hang
ed at sunrise did the same thing, and
before the sun was set was within the
Confederate lines.
There is no absolute proof OF the
truth of the story. Mr.. Ellis says Col
onel Inman appeared to be a man whose
credibility could not be doubted. At
any rate the story is one which has
never before been printed.-Rlchmond
DISPATCH,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-03
A Break:

''What do you mean by this, sir p
demanded the angry advertiser.
whats the matter ?'a inquired the
publisher of the 'Bangton Bugle.
s.This advertisement of our delici-
GUS canned meats from the best Chica.
go houses,' you've made it read
.horses. .'''-Philadelphia Press.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-03
GA 9 r. o a.
Bears the n The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature ss &xXHztzsf
Placing Him.

HE doesn It amount to shuckS" said
the girl from the Kansas corn belt.
pardon me-" said the girl from Bos-
ton, but it seems to me that he really
isn't on an equally with a hill OF
beans. ."-Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-03

South Carolina Interstate and-W est
Indian Exposition, Charleston, S. O.,
December 1st. 1901, to June 1st, 1902.
On account of the above the Southern
Ry. offers ticket to Charleston, S. c..
and return at greatly reduced rates.
For full information, tickets, etc., call
on nearest ticket agent.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-03
A Long Outing.

Wife-I am going downtown this
morning to try and match piece OF
silk.
Husband-Very well, my dear; LII
tell the cook to save some dinner for
you, and I'll put the children to bed
myself. Tit
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-03
Buy and Try a Box Tonight

While you think of it, go buy and
try box of Cascarets Candy Ca
thartic, ideal laxative, tonight. You'll
never regret it. Genuine tablets
stamped c. c. c. Never sold in
bulk. All druggists, 1oc.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-03
bdby'S Birth.

How many a woman dates life OF
chronic invalidism from baby's birth.
She tries udifferent doctors and different
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-03

South Carolina now raises tea whie b
sells for $12 per pound.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-03

How Are Your KIdneysv
Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Pills cure all kidney ills. Sam
pie Free Add. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N. T.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-03
Money to Lend.

Long loans of above amounts at regular
rates are desired. Correspondence solicited.
McILHANY & HILLEARY,
3m Real Estate, Loans and Insurance.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-03

Educate Your Bowels With scarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c 25c &c. C. c. fail. druggists refund money.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
AN ENGLlSHMAN'S WIFE.
She Is Really Her Husbands Business
Partner end Acts 1t.

She Is Really Her II husbands Business
Partner nnd Acts 1t.
IN England" says A!nslee's Maya
zine, "a mans wife is in reality his
partner, and whether or not the two
are in harmony with each other in af-
fection in all material things they rec
ognze that their fortunes are irre7oca-
bly, bound together, that the interests
of both are quite identical and that
each has just as strong a motive for
making things go well as has the other.
since they share equally the labor and
the reward therefrom. They may have
their private disagreements, but they
front the world together. The wife
takes the keenest interest in the most
minute details Of everything that af-
fects her husbands welfare. She
knows his income to a penny. She
manages her household as q chancellor
Of the exchequer manages the nations
outlay. so that the annual budget shall
not only avoid deficit and shall accu-
rately balance, but so that it shall
show a surplus. She will practice
rigid economy if necessary, and in do
ing SO she will feel that she is merely
CARRYING out her share Of the marriage
contract. It is the mans part to make
money; it is her part to help him save
It She plans nothing for herself apart
from him. She cannot think Of him as
in anything apart from her. If he Is
in political life, she enters into his am
bitons with intelligence and zeal. she
will write his letters for him and en-
tertain his constituents. She will study
the bluebooks and teach herself to un-
derstand the public questions with
which he has to deal, so that she may
discuss them with him and follow his
career intelligently. She belongs to
him, in fact as he belongs to her.
There Is not much display Of sentiment
in an English household after the hrst
wear Of married life has ended, but
there is the bond Of c common interest
which grows stronger every day and
every year and which gives to man
and wife 4 unity Of purpose and OF
feeling that will beyond comparison
outlast the cobweb tissues Of emotion
alism."
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
The Women Of Langum.

Woman supreme-without the ballot!
And this feather which London An
swers sticks in the cap Of woman is no
less brilliant because she is allowed to
wear it only in the town of Langum.
In that little Welsh village man
neither is nor pretends to be. In other
villages he sometimes pretends to be,
but in this seQuestered nook on the
Pembrokeshire coast he is simply An
ME Williams man or Mary Jones
man and recognizes himself as such.
In Langum woman is the dominating
force in the market; she is the house
hold fnsncier, the family accountant,
and in fact fills all the positions which
in any other community, civilized or
barbaric, are established by precedent
given to man. Whether he Of Langum
has resigned or been divested of all re-
sponsibilities OF life is no part Of this
story.
There is another important fact in
Langum life-oysters. The place is IA
nous for them. But Langum oysters
are in no sense rivals Of Langum wo-
mankind; their proverbial dumbness
precludes that.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
EewDort's Architecture.

The cottages Of Newport afford a
strange commentary upon the con-
trasting tastes Of the American ma
ton. Their heterogenelty were inpos-
sible in q race Of settled culture. in a
race Of common blood, in country Of
limited extent. But the United States
is a nation Of nations. Its people are
not Americans, but Englishmen and
Scotsmen, Frenchmen and Germans,
Italians and Spaniards Of the third or
fourth or tenth generation says the
Smart Set Their taste in a-chitec-
ture is a taste that was born on the
sunny Mediterranean shore, in cozy
Normandy orchards, in classic Spain
and Italy, in baronial Scotland and
England. 1t is revealed in the cha
teaux, the castles, the villas, the log
gias Of Newport. Seville and We'll
beck, Florence and Falaise, here stand
side by side on the same strip Of grass,
separated only by a grille from Venice
or Antwerp.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
The Strain on Parents.

What is mohair, nanny" asked
Sally Peterson Jones, looking up from
her slow perusal Of the newspaper and
keeping her place on the page with a
dusky forefnger.
Nanny Jones began to rock faster.
"You know wat hair is, l s'pose, don
you?" she inquired.
"Oh, yas'n." responded Sally prompt
II.
"Well, den, does you know wat mo
isl" asked her mother rockihg still
faster.
"No'm," admitted Sally with great
reluctance.
"Well, chile, you can't spec me to
take de place OBJ q natchel histry oh
animals fo' YOU" said her mother calm
", allowing the rocking chair to slack
en- it's speed. Wen you've hunted up
de mo in one OBJ your schoolbooks an
know jes' what he looks like, come to
me, an III 'splain de rest. But ch1llen
mus und'take some work on dere own
eddication, shorely. 'Tain't right TO
payments to do it all.'' =.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
"Address as Above"

There is one lawyer in Brooklyn who
will never again make use Of Latin
phrases in writing business letters. a
short time ago he had to write a letter
to a client in neighboring city regard
ing an important lawsuit that was to
come up before the court in the course
Of a few days. The information he So
Icited was highly essential to his case.
In writing this epistle he made use Of
letter head with his printed address
at the top. In closing his letter he sign
ed himself thus, John Langdon. ad-
dress ut supra"
After waiting several days for the
reply, which did not come, he again
wrote his procrastinating client and
asked why he had not sooner answered
his first letter. The next day he re-
ceived reply in which the client said
that he had answered the letter and
addressed it to John Langdon, Ut
Supra, n. W
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
"A MONTANA BLUFF"
How Four Troopers Made Seventy
ave Filipinos Flee.


What is regarded as one of the tauest
bluffs on record furnished Captain Ed
gar Russell, chief signal officer in the
PHILIPPINES during the inSurrection,
with a story which he told as an exam
ple of western nerve.
I'VE were outside Of Manila in some
little scrap" said the captain, "and
about seventy-fve natives were lying
in trench ahead Of us, shooting away
merriIy, but not hitting anybody. By
and by noticed little disturbance in
our front. Presently four Montana
troopers trotted out Of our lines and
started straight for the Filipinos. Er-
erybody looked at them with wonder
and waited to see them all killed. Bull
lets whistled all around them, but they
never halted. Slowly, just at trot,
they logged on toward the enemy. The
natives fired and fired, but Yor some
unknown reason did not hit. On and
on went the quartet, disdaining cover.
At last there was shout, and to our
utter astonishment we beheld the sew
enty-fve Filipinos suddenly jump out
Of their trenches and take to their
heels in mad fight. The nerve Of the
Montana troopers was too much for
them. When they had all fed, throw
ing their rifles away as they ran, the
troopers came back, their arms full Of
guns. That is what the army called a
Montana bluff It's the sort Of nerve
that lets man open jackpot on a
pair Of deuces." New York Tribune.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22

.'Now, / rather pride myself on my
ability to read character" said the
man who was given to buying detec'
tive tales, "and yet why should 1! 1t
is really a very simple thing; requires
nothing but close observation. For IN
stance, it is easy to tell mans occu'
patton. His facial expression, his ac-
tlons, even his dress, are stamped by
his daily work. You see that man Sit
ting opposite us? Well, I am just as
sure as though he had told me that he
is a barber
"You are mistaken" replied his friend
"That man is butcher"
Tmpossible! exclaimed the amateur
detective. You never saw butcher
with slim white hands, like his"
Perhaps not" admitted the other,
"but he is butcher just the same"
How Go you know he isT
How do l know? Why, the scoun-
drel shaved me once" Household
Guest
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
Burial Alive.

Though it is possible that cases OF
burial Of living persons may still occur,
fortunately they are more rare than In
former times. Even the doctors orders
against interment were not always
obeyed, for the Gentleman's Magazine
Of 1851 relates the case Of Richard
Carson of Hay. Herefordshire, Eng
land, who was supposed to have died,
but a doctor declared that Carson still
lived and ordered that he was not to be
buried. His relatives paid no heed to
the Injunction, and the body was COM
mitted to the grave next day. a per-
son passing through the churchyard
heard q noise and prevailed on the
clerk to open the grave, where the
supposed corpse was found in pro-
fuse sweat and bleeding at the nose.
Unfortunately the man was beyond re-
coyerv and soon died.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
Noah Lett the Ark on Apris 20.

Saturday, April %, is the day marked
in all ancient calendars as being the
one upon which Noah and his family
quilted the ark after having withstood
the siege Of the great deluge. The day
is marked In all ancient calendars, es-
pecially British, as egressus Nose de
area, the 18th Of March, the day upon
which Noah, his family and their great
floating collection Of natural history
specimens set sail, being designated in
the same class Of early printed litera-
ture as introitus Noae in area, ''the day
Of Noah's entrance into the ark" Why
these days were chosen as the ones
upon which the supposed embarkadon
and debarkation were made are enlg-
mas which the aniquarians have not
vet solved.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
She VIII Keep Her Word.

When Grandmother Pettingill makes
up her mind, she is as firm as a rock.
Nothing can move her. Perhaps it was
on this account that when she returned
from the celebration Of the one hum
dredth anniversary Of the settlement
Of Shrubville and made such deter
mined declaration nobody attempted
to influence her.
sI've been there, and it's over with" 7"
she said, "and now I'm home safe aft
er all the noise and bands and scared
horses and crying children and men
making speeches, want to tell you
one thing. I shan't ever go to another
centennial in Shrubville, no matter
what the circumstances are and no
matter who asks me- You children
may as well bear that in mind"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
The Llama.

In Bolivia, one Of the highest inhab-
itated countries on the globe-La Paz,
the capital, being 10000 feet above the
sea leyel-much use Is made OF that
graceful and invaluable pack animal,
the llama, which will travel farther
and With even less food than the burro,
but will not carry more than 15O
pounds. The llama in some respects re-
sembles the camel, kneeling in camel
fashion to receive its load, and it Will
not rise If more than $50 pounds are
placed on its back; moreover, t1e
weight must be evenly distributed over
it's back and sides.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
Maidens Sold by Auction.

A singular custom obtains to this day
in some Of the towns on the lower
Rhine-namely, that Of selling maid
ems at public auction. For nearly four
centuries on Easter Monday-auction
day-the town crier or clerk Of st.
Goar has called all the young people
together and to the highest bidder sold
the privilege of dancing with the cho-
sen girl, and her only, during the entire
year. The fees are put into the public
NOR hoY
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
1nstfncts That Lead to Death.

Professor Mivart proved that there
are instincts" that lead to death by
failing to adapt themselves to change
of circumstances. Migratory qeil by
thousands perish in the deserts Of
northern Africa, where their ancestors
used to find a comfortable winter re-
sort, abounding with forests and even
with grainfelds, if we shall credit
Pnny's account Of the Numidian coast
lands. The forests are gone, but myri-
ads Of quail still follow in the same
route at the risk Of starvation. +
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
A BANK STORY.
An Incident That Startled the Old
Lady Of Thread1eedIe Street.

An Incident That Startled the Old
Lady Of ThreadneedIe Street.
Some years ago the directors Of the
Bank Of England were startled to re-
ceive an invitation to meet an un-
known man in the strongroom of the
bank at midnight. You think you is
all safe hand you bank his safe, but
I knows better. 1 bin hinside the
bank the last 2 mite hand you nose
muffin about it. But I am mott theaf
so hif yer will NETT NEE in the great
squar room, with all the moneys, at
twelf mite, lie explain orl to you, let
only thor Q cum down, and say muffin
to nobody" The strongroom was
guarded the next night in spite Of a
disposition to regard the letter as a
hoax by police and-nothing happened.
The next phase Of the mystery was
more astonishing than ever. A heavy
chest Of papers and securities taken
from the strongroom arrived at the
bank, with a letter complaining that
the directors had set the police upon
the writer, and that be had therefore
not appeared as he promised, but to
prove that he was neither thief nor
a fool he sent q chest Of papers be had
taken from the bank. Let few gen.
tlenen be alone in the room, and he
would Join them at midnight, said the
writer, and to cut short a long and
strange chapter Of bank history, man
with q dark lantern burst into the
strongroom Of the bank at midnight
after calling from behind the stone
walls for the directors to put out the
lights. He was one Of strange class
Of men who gained living by search
ing the sewers at night, and through
an opening from sewer he had found
his way into the richest room in the
world.-St. James Gazette.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
E.iRhtniuE RoDiGity.

1t is absolutely impossible for rs to
conceive Of the rapi6ity and brilliancy
of lightning. 1t has been estimated
that a fash occupies less than one-mil-
llonth part of q second. AS one-tenth
Of a second is needed for the full effect
Of any light upon the eye, we get only
a very faint idea Of the brilliancy OF
rho fash.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-22
Grapes.

Grapes dissolve and dislodge gravel
and calculi," says the doctor. They
bring the stomach and bowels to a
healthy condition. Even the consump-
tive finds new life in them and should
take grape Juice by the tumblerful
daily, as it makes new, rich blood. 1t
builds up the tissues and feeds starved
nerves. 1t is also cleansing.