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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-11-26
Her Diagnosis.

Mauma-You must be aWfully care
ful darling. The doctor says your sys-
TEN is upset.
Little Dot-Yes, I guess it is, MAN.
ma. cause my foot's asleep, and peo-
Die must be terribly upset when they
go to sleep at the wrong end-PnAa-
1elphia Inquirer.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-11-26
helpful husband.

Cicero Moke-I came to tole yo,'
ma'am, dat Lucy Brown, who done
leaoe 90 yistiddy, ain gwine lib out nc
mo-, 'kase she married me today.
Mrs. Eauskeep-In6eed! Well?
Cicero Moke-Wel, fought meboe
20 might let her do so washin'. I'm
8 drummin' up trade for her dis morn-
in'.-Philadelphia Press.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-11-26
Heroic Remedies.

"They claim that peritonit1s Is
cure for appendicitis"
~ suppose that's on the same prin-
ciple that beheading is sure cure for
souinting." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-11-26

When you wake up with a bad
taste in your mouth, 60 at once to
The r. B. Loryea drug store and get
a free sample of Chamberlain's Stom-
ach and Liver Tablets. One or two
doses will make you we'll. They also
cure bi'iousness, sick headache and
constipation.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-11-26

He was evidently very obliging boy,
for when he applied to the merchant
for a position and was asked his age he
replied:
"Oh, sir, shall be whatever age you
wish me to bel"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-11-26
For 75C. Per Suit.

Fifty Gents Heavy FleeceLned Cotton Knit Under
vests and Drawers to match only per SuVest and Draw
This the greatest and best value have shown IN
Gents Knit Underwear and every the county should avail
themselves Of this great offer if in need of the goods they
worth ST. but long they last they will be sold at 5c Suit
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-11-26
One live Man Wanted.

ais your company for Hamlet CON-
pleteT'
ayes" answered MI. Stormingtoo
Barnes. "Au I want IS good, live
young man for the ghost"-Washing-
ton Star.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-11-26

Never think so much Of dime that
you lose half a dollars worth Of peace
Of mind worrying over one thas is Lost.
-Atchison Globe 49,.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-11-26

Wit is brushwood, judgment is tim
Der. The first makes the brightest
Games, but the other gives the most
asting heat
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-11-26
For 25c. Per Suit.

Fifty dozen Ladies' Cotton Jersey Knit Vests and Pants to
match at the astonishing value of 1910 each 5c uVes
and Pants This lot Of goods sold everywhere at zoe each
4O per suit but picked them value and let them
at value
The gazette-news., 1902-12-20

care for him as though he were my
veSs- OWL. am called EahCuSLka.
and | keep my promises"
IaeI katuua. the moujik. died hap
py, Iur hc knew that I:ahouShha WAS
friend To all little children. and when
she -athcTcd OS>.p clos. into her moth
erly arms when the end caine the child
CEASED weeping for his dead father.
When HahouShka and OSsip were
well on their way To the old worIn's
home. in the neat village. they heard
pilful sound of weeping somewhere
on the tree >hadoWcd side of the road.
Til" old wuuIau stopped at the sound.
We VIII 10 and Sc, Who is in truu-
hlc. o>~.p cur eyes and ears should
always 70. kept we'll opcucd - that no
>-u 60. distress may escape Us"
Guided hI the Snuud. they came 10
a STONE where. wailiu. and sli,criug
in ia" darkness "f the winter night
they found q little .irl scarcely as
large a> O>>iu. who WAS not at all well
grown for his eight years.
Halou>hka knit down 10y the child
and. gathering her cold little feet into
warm clasp. muttcrcd:
PERHAPS this j. the child"
Then she said aloud, What is thy
The gazette-news., 1902-12-20

FMIR0NMONGER. JR., Asst Gen. Pass. n.
k. 204 West Bay St, JacksOnyille, 70
G. Z. LOWELL. Asst. Supt..
=. Foot Hogau St. Jacksonville.
The gazette-news., 1902-12-20

Jlk peaSanU named katO-
ma lay dying in n little village in far
away Russia.
katonI knew that he was going To
Z die. Ii was Christmas eve. but there
was no gladneSs in the season for him.
His wife. whom he had loved very
dearly was already gone. For three
consecutive years now his crops had
/ failed. \ few weeks before the wolves
had devOured his last COW. If he had
been entirely alone in the world he
would have said to death. Come; thou
! art welcUme"
/ But there was one other. his boy
/ OSSip. The idea OF death became ter
/ rible when he thought of leaving his
! boy all alone with not a cOpeck to bless
/ himself with.
Wien ! tell you that it takes 100
/ cOpcckS To make ruble and that a
! ruble iS less than 80 cents, you will
understand how dreadfully poor Ka-
I tuma WAS.
lie could not die peacefully for think
ing of UsSip's future. Hi dim eyes
turned fondly toward the pillow by his
side. which the boys thick black hair
almost covered. OSsip lay mOtionless
in sleep. The sick man put one feeble
hand upon his boys smooth forehead
and silently commended him To heav-
ems care.
The house was very still. The hour
was late OSSip's healthy. regular
breathing WAS the only audible sound.
If only kind heaven would raise up one
friend for his boy out Of the millions
of good people this big world swarmed
with Katoma felt that he should not
mind how soon he was laid away un
der the frozen SodS.
While his hand rested on Ossp's
head and his heart was filled with
these anxious thoughts the door Of the
hovcl opened softly. The moujik
turned wondering eyes I'm that direc-
ton. and there. coming noiselessly to-
ward him across the beaten earthen
floor. was tall woman with soft
brown eyes full of plying tenderness.
She came close tu the bed on Ossips
side Of ii. and, looking down upon the
sleeping child. she muttcred:
Perhaps this is the one at last"
KatoIia looked at her anXiously.
''Whrnce came you, good mother,
ard what seek you:"
Across the sleeping hoy she an
swrrcd softly:
81 have come for OsSip. They told
me in the village that thy days were
numbered and | knew that OS>ip
would need a friend. | will love and
The gazette-news., 1902-12-20

/ NEVER SAW ANYTHING so LOVELY.'
colonel and his wife, the oldest daugh-
ter. a girl of fifteen. and the coloners
private secretary. William Winter.
This is the window they got in at
the first night" said Winter, pointing
70 a bay window ON the ground floor
leading out or the dining room. And
this is the one they got i'm ut the other
nights" pointing to another big win
dow that was I'm the staircase hall
alongside the front door.
Why didn't they always enter at the
same Window" l asked carelessly.
That's what bOthers me-" said
Winter, but you can 20 see for your
self that they didn't" pointing 60 tram
pied places under both Of the windows.
You See it was this way" said the
colonel We were greatly alarmed the
nrSt night when the silver was taken.
and We set a watch over the things.
From that night to the present this
house has been steadily guarded from
the inside every night, from dark until
daylight. And yet we have had three
robberies during that time 1t is the
strangest thing | ever saw. and Id
give $500 TO catch the burglars"
Are they operating anywhere else
in RidgewOOd?'
Yes" said Winter promptly. they
tried to steal some things out of the
church last night, and a week ago they
broke into the office Of the gas com
pany."
Are you familiar there?" | asked.
Yes said Winter.
"One thing more, colonel. before l
60" l said. viii you tell me the
name OF the person who was on guard
In your house the last three nights:"
Il was the person" said Winter
All right colonel" said. Il am
going back to the city today to stay
about week, but | will be back
Christmas eve, and then | will look up
your thief for you. And. by the way.
you might get ready for your Christ
mas tree. for | expect to give YOU all
your things back in time for Your
Christmas celebration"
The colonel looked skeptical and Min
ter shook his head sadly.
Ion you think you had better stay
here If you are going to look for him:'
asked the colonel.
NO" | said 1T isn't necessary.
Good day, you can LOOK for me Christ
mas eve"
L said goOdby, but didn't leave
RidgewOOd after all only went
away far enough to hide myself in a
certain little hotel in the little town,
and there ! waited and watched-did
as slick detective work as ever did
In my life, even in a big city on the
biggest robbery I ever had
Christmas eve found me- not in the
colonels home, but out IN the cold.
frosty air, looking into the window Of
a little cottage. The cottage was the
end one in a row Of wooden houses. .
each with q grass plot around it. 1t
belonged TO William Winter. private
secretary to Colonel Payne: aud in the .
cottage lived Winter aud his wife and /
Winters wife's mother; also six little
The gazette-news., 1902-12-20

CRIME
h lockwood had a thief! When
1, Detective Martinez OF the
A YuIeide Tale of Two Homes

metropolitan secret service,
was called out there. | found
the town in a state of excitement over
the rObberies. The principal ones bad
taken place in the mansion of Colonel
Payne, the richest man in RidgewOOd.
There had been four burglaries at the
Payne mansion. The first night silver
was taken-Small pieces consisting OF
spoons, forks, after dinner cnffees and
knives.
The second night n small rocking
chair disappeared and several velvet
covered fOOtStOOlS and nice little arti-
cIes OF bric-a-brac designed for Christ
mas gifts. The third night all the chill
dren's Christmas toys that had been
carefully stored away i'm a Santa Claus
cupboard 10y Colonel Payne and his
wife. ready for Christmas eve. diSap-
peared. and the fourth night the cellar
was pillaged OF its wine ana fruits.
Looks as il il was somebody inside
the house" said the colonel after we
had been over the ground pretty well.
Not exactly" said |. ''ur why would
they take Il rocking chairE"
The party that accompanied me
through the house consisted Of the
The gazette-news., 1902-12-20

SHE TOOK THE CRIPPLED BOY N HER ARMS
not been able To find her way back (,
the camp. and how she feared til,
wolves would devuur her before any
one should come To ksik for her. ThcI
she told BabOuShka that her name wa.
NasaliSsa.
BabuuShka ClaSpyd the little wander
er to her great moJhrrly heart
That. indeed the wolves shall not
my dear little NdS;ilisSa. cannot give
thee back 10 thy aunt, for | know no
better than thou dust where this great
cuiupany of men and women may be
camping for the night But thou shalt
90 home with OSsip and me. Thou
shalt share our fire and our porridge,
and all that is mine thou shalt share
with OSSip. / can keep the wolves Of
hunger and cold away. and if thy aunt
comes 10 claim thee she shall lind thee
rosy and happy"
Then EaSalissa quickly dried her
tears. and with her hand claSped in
BahOuShka'S she trudged checrfully
forward until they came TO a tiny little
cottage set back from the road Il short
distance. Ia its one window lamp
was burning brightly.
The window and the lamp belonged
to Baboushka's cottage. She pushed
its unlocked door open, and the chill
dren entered with her into q clean
swept, we'll warmed room.
\ large chair was drawn close up to
the hearth. As BabOushka entered she
glanced eagerly al this chair. and again
she muttcred under her breath:
Il had hoped lie might have come
while l was out"
Good mother" Ossip asked, why
DO You leave lighted lamp in the win
dow when you 90 away"
80 that" She answered. should any
one 20 aStray in the cold and the dark
be- might find his way 10 my poor
cottage. And now let us seq if the bean
broth has kept warm all this time
made il before left home in the early
morning hours So that if any wander
crs found their way hither they might
not leave my roof hungcred."
The bean broth had kept warm. She
hadc OSs!p throw few more fagOts
under the pot and set NaSaliSsa Oh a
stool In the WarmcSt nook. Then she
brought three bowls. filled them with
the bean broth and put them on the
table. over them she asked blessing.
Before her own wooden spoon had
made two Journeys from bowl to lip
she heard tiuid knock at the door.
She ran quickly To answer it. \ tall
pale lad Sto.d outside. Ia his arms he
carried a small mite Of boy. about
whose shoulders was WRAPPED worn
and S"iled womau's shawl
The tail. pale lad looked into the fire
lighted room with longing eyes. His
teeth clHttcrcd with the cold as be
asked: Good mother. may We ask
shelter for the ui-ht: The cold bites
bitter hard. and my little brother Pc
trusha l. but a sickly cripple
Then BahUushkI opened wide her
ioOr with an eager hand and fast beat
ng heart. Perhaps. at last. this was
he child. What she said aloud was:
That indeed thou mayest. But why
lrt thou abroad on such a bitter night
with the little oneE"
She took the crippled boy In her
strong. loving arms and carried him
The gazette-news., 1902-12-20
HOW BABCUSHKA
FOUND TIE
CHRIST CHILD


name. little one, and what doest thou
here alone in the bitter nighttime?'
At which the child's tears flowed
afresh. and between her sobs she told
the kind. soft eyed woman how she
had been travelling with a great COM
pany of men and women who were
leaving their own village to seek a bet
ter land across the seas - our own
blessed America, | make no doubt
and how. when they had encamped for
relative she had in the world. had sent
h"r into The woods to gather fagots to
iut under their soup kettle. and how
she had wandered 50 far that she had
The gazette-news., 1902-12-20

.GHT was falling fast, and
the SHOW was piled high
against the outer walls of
the hovel where 4 poor mOu-
iiL (Dp1S1u1 named EatO-
The gazette-news., 1902-12-20

A.C.HACiERTY, East'n Pass.-Ngt., +.
10 Stat" ST. NcW York.
THOS. ID. HALEY, ,Loc;d Frt. Agt.
Foot Hogan ST. Jacksonville.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-09-26
THEY SAW The SMOKE.
But They Declined to Act Upon the
Warning.

Once Vesuvius destroyed two Italian
cities in few hours. The people saw the
smoke from the volcano but failed to
escape in time.
Where there is smoke there is fire and
where there are symptoms of one of the
most dangerous of diseases. A feeling of
languor, a sense of weakness and WEAKNESS,
drowsiness, giddiness and mental discom-
fort. A bad taste in the mouth-the old
coppery" taste. An offensive breath,
headache, neuralgia, heartburn, a feeling
CT dizziness and weight in the stomach,
nausea, dry and feverish skin, constipation,
rising of nasty gas into the throat, tongue
furred like the moss on a tree, irritability,
disgust with food.
Have you any of these symptoms
Either now or sometimes9 Eyes" you say,
shut don't think they are dangerous"
They are signs of danger. They show that
the eruption is coming.
Now what lies at the bottom of all these
symptoms? Indigestion, dyspepsia, and an
overworked liver. There is but one help,
one remedy. Slow up, and for the mis-
chief already done, tone up the digestive
organs and liver with the new medicine,
Calcura Solvent, discovered by DIR. David
Kennedy, Kennedy Row, Kingston, N. Y.
All druggists, $1.00 bottle.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-09-26
WEST CHESTERFIELD, N. H..

Julian Farr was at home over Sunday.
E. H. Cobleigh has fine crop of tobac-
co well secured and hung.
The ladies' society will meet at the hall
on Thursday afternoon, Oct. g.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Durham went to
their home in Springfield, Mass, Sept. IT..
Mrs. A. A. Byards sister and son spent
a few days with Mrs. Byard last week.
Mrs. Fred Stoddard. who has been seri-
ously i'll the past three weeks, is slowly
recovering.
Mrs. Nellie w illiams has finished work
for H. d. and NJ. NJ. Smith, by whom she
has been employed several years.
N. G. Colburn and C. w. Chamberlain
are busy with their gasolene engine cut
ting ensilage and filling silos in town.
U. G. Davis and family have been NOV
ing their household goods to their new
home, recently bought in Dummerston.
A. A. Byard received news on Sun
day of the death of his brother, Will
liam, in Marlboro Mass. The body will
be brought to the old family home In
Peru, VT, for burial
o.. d. Farr and U. G. Davis have been
building a silo for Henry r. Brown OF
Brattleboro on his farm in Dummerston
known as the Clark place, and have also
made repairs on the buildings there.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-09-26
Some Abandoned Vermont Farms.

A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman writes from Williamstown,
VT, concerning some abandoned farms
near there. | took a ride, he said,
through Mortified, not a very good
farming town, down the mountain
into the pretty little village of Waits
field, ON the Mad river, and generally
known as the Mad river valley. Here
are the best farms and farmers that
| know of in central Vermont. Corn
was we'll cared, and was apparently a
good crop, much ahead of Orange
county. The farms were level, and
one could see farm after farm with
nice houses and large painted barns.
But back toward Waitsfield mountain
| saw a different condition of things.
There must be a thousand acres OF
abandoned farms. Many buildings,
once happy homes, are deserted and
decaying. | cannot quite understand
the reason, for most of the lands were
quite level and all kinds of farm ma
chinery might be used to advantage
One place in particular impressed me-
1t had a very fair house, but poor
barn. There must have been zoe
acres, so of which was very level and
free from stones. Yet the moving
fields were growing up to golden-rod
and only three or four acres of good
grass on the farm. This could prob
ably be bought for $500 or $4,000
Directly across the road were the best
fields of corn and oats that l have
seen this year; also nice large, leveI
moving fields and good buildings. II
seemed. to me that the difference must
be in the man, not in location and
soil. AS l came back over the noun
tain and looked upon the magnificent
river from 1000 feet above sea level
| could not help wondering why city
people did not buy some of these
farms for summer homes at cost less
than what many would spend in 6
single summer at mountain or sea
shore hotels.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-09-26
THE PUTNEY COLUMN.

W. e. Aver of Windsor was in Putney
Tuesday.
Oliver Hougnton recently visited in
Greenfield
Robert Shelley is spending few days
with relatives in town.
Mrs. Fritz Crawford of Springfield,
Mass, is visiting in town.
10. r.. Mason of Keene came Saturday
for a visit at F. ID. Kendalls.
Rev. Il. r. Perkins will preach in East
putney Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Miss Bertha Derby of Keene is spending
the week with Mrs. Stearns Clough.
Rev. E. r. Perkins attended the Bap-
fist state convention in Bennington this
week.
NJ G. Williams returned from Boston
Monday.
E. f. Knight attended the undertakers'
convention in Boston this week.
Mrs. NJ. S. Bailey of Gardner, Mass,
has been guest at Dorr Cloughs few
days.
Miss Mary stowel. who has a position
in Brooklyn, is spending few days with
her parents.
Misses Ellen and Isabel Crawford re-
turned Monday from a visit with their
aunt Miss Julia Crawford, in Boston.
H. Sparrow of Bellows Falls came Sat
urdy to return with his wife and daugh-
ter who had been visiting at f. d. Ken
dall's.
Mr. and Mrs. George Leach and grand
daughter, Fannie Elwell, went Saturday
TO Langdon to attend the funeral of Miss
Elwell's father.
Mr. and Mrs. w. G. Treadway went
Monday to Boston, going from there to
Mr.. Treadways former home in Shelter
Island NY, for visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. r. Harlow of Chata-
nooga, Tenn, formerly of Westminster
West. have been visiting relatives and
friends in town the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. w. S. Adams returned
Friday from their vacation, spent in
camping with friends from Marlboro, N
H., in the mountains near Wallingford
this state
All men interested in the welfare of the
Congregations church are invited to a
supper al the church Tuesday evening
Sept 80, at 1880 at which time it is hoped
that a MEMS Sunday Evening Club may
be organized.
An addition of II feet is being built or
to William Robertson's paper mill tC
accommodate the two new driers which
will be put in. New floor tmbers are
being laid, also a new water wheel and q
new vat. Capt. and Mrs. Robertson
returned Tuesday from their carriage
drive.
DIR. Harriet Il. Parker will give a tall
Sunday evening at the Baptist church
in place of the preaching service. She
will exhibit some of the articles made
and used in India, where she has beef
as a missionary, including some of the
idols which are worshipped by the ma
tives, and will speak of the customs O
the people and her work among them
She gave a very interesting talk in thu
Congregational church last Sunday even
ing
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-09-26
ASHUELOT, N. n.

Frank S. Allen of II. W. Woods store
is having a two weeks vacation.
The Sheridan wooden mill began Mon
day running on the winter schedule.
Mrs. II. o. Bolton spent last week at
Hazardville, Conn, her former home.
Miss Helen Woodbury. was visitor at
Hazardville, Conn, and Northampton, re-
Gently.
Michael OBren and nephew. John
Phelps are spending the week at Great
Darlington Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank II. Callihan of
Worcester were visitors of his mother
part of last week
s. w. Maxfield attended the state and
congressional Republican conventions at
Concord last week and visited Manches-
ter on business.
Miss Florence l. Converse was at Wor-
cester recently to attend the wedding of
a relative. She visited Claremont on her
return.
The nomination of John H. Dickinson
on the Democratic ticket as state senator
for this district, the 14th, is received with
local favor as he is popular, progressive
young man and promises to draw a large
vote outside his party.
Rev. Father F. d. O'Neil has resumed
his residence in the BALI house in a
finely appointed fiat on the second floor
which Mrs. Thayer, of Keene, has had
fitted up. The lower floors are arranged
for public reading rooms.
Mrs. Hugh Sheridan returned from
Providence, r. l., Saturday, where she
went to place her daughter, Irene, in q
private school
Mr.. and Mrs. julius f. Howard have
issued invitations to a reception at theiI
residence Friday evening the Goth, cele.
brating their twenty-fifth wedding an
niversary.
Bishop Bradley of Manchester is ex
| pected at the st. Michaels Roman Catho
lie church services Sunday, when a large
class from the Sunday school will be con
| firmed by him.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-09-26

For sheer ferocity of appearance I'M
redeemed by any milder facial attri-
butes. a lizard called often "Moloch
horrld king" Moloch horridus is pre-
eminent among reptiles. The body is
so covered with spines that nature
seems to have endeavored to ascertain
how many spines could be inserted on
a given area. But unlike its tutelary
deity the lizard does not demand the
blood of children. 1t is, indeed,vege-
tartan, and only fiery in that it has a
curious faculty of absorbing water. A
specimen placed in shallow dish was
observed to attract the water like a
piece of plotting paper. The creature
is native of Australia.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-09-26
CHESTERFIELD, N. n.

Several young men from town attended
the fair at Greenfield, Mass, last week
Miss Mary Fisk, daughter of Rev. Noble
Fisk, has gone to Boston to resume her
studies in the deaconess' school. She con-
Quoted the services at the Methodist
church last Sunday.
After spending three score years in
town, our esteemed citizen George w.
Cressy, has decided to retire from active
work, and will move with his family to
Keene, where he will make his home. He
has rented his productive farm to Law
renee Butler.