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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
Corporations IN EnCland

4 curious illustration of the power
OF corporations is reported from
England. From time immemorial it
has been esta ablished law there that
bequests made for the propagation
of secular or ireethinking doctrines
were subject to confscation by the
king, and thousands of pounds have
been thus conhscated. Recently,
however, 1t occurred to some person
to try new plan. A company
known as the Secular society (lin-
ited) was incorporated for the spe-
cifc purpose Of receiving such be-
guests, and the best English lawyers
say that under it's charter it can re-
ceiTe and use bequests for tho very
purpose 50 long held unlawful. A
corporation is strange entity.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
Storing Many Eggs.

Farmers of MCLEAN county, ILL.,,
are organizing an egg trust, and sew
eral are engaged in storing eggs in
plants constructed especially for the
purpose, to be held until next winters
demand. A firm in Danyers, a village
west Of here, has erected building eS-
pecially for the storage Of eggs, and
expect to pack the enormous sum ST.
100000. The enterprise promises to
be an extensive one. A systems of
wagons radiating all through the
comfy and those adjoining will be
placed in service, and eggs will be
bought from all who are willing to
sell. The eggs are being packed by a
novel process which is in vogue in Den
mark, and which was recently intro
dused into this country. AS soon as
the eggs are received they are placed
on zinc frames holding ten dozen.
These frames are perforated, SO that
they will hold the eggs, yet none will
drop through. When fifty Of the
frames are filled they are carried into
dark rtom and a candle placed under
each frame. The good eggs show
clear like globes OF light, while the
bad ones appear dark in spots. or all
over according to the degree Of bad
ness. The eggs are then tested for
'breakS," and those broken are dis
posed of to the bakers. Having pass
ed both Of these tests, the trays, with
their contents, are placed on an eleva-
tor and lowered into the basement of
the building. Many tanks of cement,
with walls foot and half in thick
ness, like huge beer vats, are located
below. Each is seven feet long and
the same width and depth, and each
holds 10000 dozen. The tanks hold a
colorless liquid, the ingredient Of
which are kept secret and which is
claimed to preserve the eggs for
months. The eggs are piled on top Of
each other in the tanks, but the
liquid between them prevents them
from breaking each other by their own
WEIGHT -
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
The -Four Guests.

A knock at the door but he
Was dreaming dream OF fame:
And the one knocked drew softly back
And never again he came.
A knock at the door-so soft
AS soft-aS Shy-aS dove.
But the dreamer dreamed till the guest
was gone
And the guest was Love.
A knock at the door-again
The dreamer dreamed away.
Unheeding-deaft TO the gentle call
Of the one who came that Gay.
A knock at the door-no more
The guest 10 the door came.
Yet the dreamer dreamed OF the one
who called
For the guest was Fame.
A knock at the door-but still
He gave no reply.
And the waiting guest gave CHEEKY
Ere he slowly wandered by.
a knock at the door in dreams
The dreamer fain would grope
Till the guest stole out with an mum
bled sigh
And the guest was Hope.
A knock at the doOr-'twaS loud.
With might in every stroke:
And the dreamer stopped in his dream
ing thought,
And suddenly awoke.
A knock at the dOOr-he ran
With the SwiftnesS Of a breath:
And the door swung wide, and the
guest came in
And the guest was Death.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
The Home Merchant.

Who sympathized with you when
your little girl was sick? Was it
your home merchant or was it Sears,
Roebuck & Co? Who carried you last
winter when you were out of job and
had no money? Was it Montgomery
Ward & Co., Or was it your home
merchant? When you want to raise
money for the churchS or some needy
person in town, do you write to John
Wannhmaker, or do you go to the
home merchants? How much do
Siegel, Cooper & Co. give towards
keeping up the sidewalks Of the town
or paying the minister's salary? When
you were sick, how many nights did
Chas. \. Stevens & Co. tup with you:
When your loved one was buried was
it your home merchant that dropped
the tear of sympathy and uttered the
cheering word, or was it Marshall
Field & Co.? Of course it was the
home merchant. You can get just as
good goods and just as low prices with
them as in the city. Besides, they are
here to right and wrong. Let those
people who think it is the caper tc
buy what they want from the cata-
logue merchant ponder on the above.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
One WAY to Kill . Dog.

George Mechou, a coal miner OF
Scall Siding. near Drifton, Pa, want
ed to relieve his NANCY dog of suffer
ing by killing him. Disliking the
sight Of blood, he tied two sticks Of
dynamite to the days tail, lighted a
long fuse and bolted for the house. He
forgot, however, to tie the dog. The
dog got to the house only to find the
door slammed in his face, so he crept
under the cabin, which stood on posts.
Nothing was left Of the dog, and the
cabin was blown into small pieces.
Mechou and his wife were found full
of splinters among the ruins. They
will be laid up for a month.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
A PATCHED-Up MAN
George Burns Has Had a Somewhat
EYcntful Career.

The most patchcd-up man in his
tory has been discovered by the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer. The name Of this
man is George Burns and the Plain
Dealer says that the catalogue Of
Burns affections and physical disabili-
ties reads like list of casualties in a
mine disaster or subway explosin."
According to this story, the entire top
OF this mans skull is gone, being re-
placed by silver plate which is at
tached to his right jaw: five ribs on
the left side have been removed. for
cling his heart to the right side Of his
anatomy: portion of his right hip is
missing, one of his legs has been frac-
tured in three places, the other in
two, his elbow joints are thing of
memory, he is blind in one eye, one of
his kneecapS is situated midway down
his shin, and in all thirty-seven pieces
Of bone have been removed from his
body. Burns says that at one time
he was thought to have passed to the
great beyond. The shroud had been
prepared, the coffin was ready, when
the supposed dead man rose to protest
against the funeral rites. The much
disabled man was born in Try, n. Y,
seventy-three years ago. He claims
to be veteran Of the Mexican and
survivor Of the Civil wars. He join
ed the navy schoolship Hartford short
ly before the outbreak Of the latter
conflict. He served under Farragut
and while on an expedition along the
Mississippi river he was struck by a
shell and the entire upper portion of
his skull was shot off. For weeks he
havered between life and death after
submitted to an operation involving
the insertion of large silver plate in
his skull. After the Civil war Burns
says he served on the Jeanett during
the Greely expedition. On his return
he was caught in machinery while
serving as an engineer in plant at
Charleston, S. G. According to Burns
statement he was hurled around the
factory for some minutes. He was
crushed beyond recognition and when
rescued was pronounced dead. He
was borne tenderly to the morgue and
laid away on ice. He there regained
consciousness and informed the at
tendants that he was still to be
numbered among the living.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
4 FOrrivinp Widow.

Mrs. Jessie P. Lambert, a rich and
pretty widow, Of Petersburg. Va, was
married at Richmond. Va, Tuesday.
to George ". Phillips, Of Wilmington,
n. c., a young man of %, against
whom she recently charged the theft
of jewels and $50 in money. Phillips
arrived in Petersburg several months
ago and secured board at the home OF
a sister Of Mrs. Lambert. The widow
lent him many handsome jewels and
$50. He disappeared, and she swore
out a warrant for him. He was ar
rested and taken to Petersburg for
trial. The charge was withdrawn and
the couple were married.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
Tired OF the Fake.

Calvin Bird, a negro, who halls from
Pearson, Ga, and who has been tour
ing the country with side shows and
circuses as the "Wild Man Of Borneo,"
appeared at the hospital of the Good
Shepherd at Buffalo, \. y, Friday,
and informed the house surgeon that
he had come to have his horns re-
moved. The physician was somewhat
amazed at first, but upon noting the
earnestnesS Of the man made an exam
nation of his head. Under his scalp
it was found that a silver plate had
been inserted, in which stood two
standards. Into these standards. when
he was on exhibition, Bird had screwed
two goat horns. and thousands OF peo-
pie have paid admission to see his
horns and hear him bark. Bird says
he met a doctor in Central America
who took him to a hospital and had
the plate inserted, first giving him an
anesthetic, and when he awoke he
found the plate in his scalp, with two
horns protruding. The plate will be
removed. The operation, the doctors
say, will be a simple one.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
A Fast Train.

A railroad train has run 149 miles,
between Buffalo and Syracuse, in l45
minutes, including two minute stop
at Rochester, says the New York Trib-
une. Isn't that just about as fast as
any reasonable person should care to
travel? Will the world be much bet
ter off if it getes electric cars running
at the rate of a hundred miles an
hour? AS to airshipS-well, nobody
knows what they may do at some
time in the future. They sail and
soar, are not tied to metal trackWayS,
and the widest imagination can sail
and soar and roam at will with them
up among the clouds.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
Lynching Threatened.

The Columbia State says it was re-
ported in that city Thursday night
that there had been another unfortun-
ate occurrence at VaucluSe and that
the people of the town were very much
wrought up. The last reports were
meagre, but it seemed that lynching
was imminent. 1t was there about
three weeks ago that young lady
was knocked down in her home by an
unknown negro and her throat was
cut. The people Of the community
were outraged and made diligent
search for the brute, but never found
him. Thursday this same lady was
assaulted by a negro brute, and the
town was up in arms looking for the
guilty party.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
SCIENCE AnD INDUsTRY.

Betting" tree-that is, killing it
by destroying the bark in a circle
around the trunk-injures' it for lum-
Der.
Statistics recently published in Paris
show clearly that good surroundings
afford com mparative immunity from pull
monary tuberculosis.
The British black rat, almost entire
ly eXteruiimated during the last 100
years hy the brown Norwegian rat, is
carefully protected and preserved on
an estate at Greenlees, Montgomery.
The mining of phosphate rock is one
OF the important industries of Flori-
Ia and South Carolina, and it amounts
TO 100000 tons a year, valued at
S5,2C0.G00 at the point of production.
Under the auspices of the Institute
OF France further researches are be-
ing made III the famous grottoes Of
Menions, On the Riviera. where bones
AID other remains Of prehistoric men
hav> 4; various times been found. Late
ly three entire skeletons have been dis
covered.
An American syndicate has just
bought the old Mckenzie concession to
supply the City Of Mexico with water.
The water will be brought from the
Almotoya springs. 40 miles southwest
of the capital. The work will include
l6 miles of canal, six miles of steel pip
ing and the installation Of motive
power.
The Chicago board of local improve
ments has decided to use creosoted
block for paEements in that city. Diff
ferent kinds of material for paving
were looked into ~ the hoard, but the
decision was in favor of the wood. The
first order of this kind of pavement
will aggregate about $50 miles Of
streets to be paved.
Everything we eat and drink and
wear runs the gauntlet Of germs to an
extent which nervous people had bet
ter not contemplate. Far too much
fuss is made of them. II we listened to
all these scares there would be nothing
left to DO but to get into bath of car
bolic acid and stop there until starva-
ton freed us fromthe dangers Of life.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
Some DOn'ts for Girls.

It isn't at all likely that any Cir
who thinks she is In love with a man
will heed 'don'ts" of any kind, anc
she isn't to be blamed, but she might
paste the following in her scrap book
to read sometime in the future when
she feels lonely;
Don't marry man to spite an
other man. Remember that by SC
doing you will certainly punish your,
self, and very likely TWO other people.
Don't marry a man because Of his
GOOD looks. 1t would be equally SEN
sensible to marry him because his
clothes were well chosen and well fit
ting.
Don't marry a man because he is
affectionate. A good head is asneceS-
Sary as a good heart, and protesta-
tions of devotion never yet paid a
butchers bill.
Don't marry man out OF pity. or
out of mistaken synpaty. Pity may
be akin to, but certainly is not. love
nor is sympathy. Neither sentiment
is sufficient foundation for matrI-
mony.
Don't marry a man because he
threatens to 60 to ruin If you don't. Ii
he is so foolish and weak as to go to
destruction because he cannot have his
way, he will be likely to do the same
if you grant it to him.
Above all, don't marry just because
you are afraid that if you refuse this
offer you may not have another. Re
member that often ''old maids" are
far happier than their married sisters,
and they are nowiSe behind them IN
having opportunities for usefulness.
Don't marry a man with the hope
Of reforming him. If he is not eager
to reform before marriage, it will be
little short of miracle if he does Sc
afterward. The proof of a mans love
should be his reformation and the girl
who marries a man who is still engag-
ed in sowing wild oats" earns the
punishment that is sure to be hers.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
Mustard Pickle.

Two quarts onions, two quarts
cucumber pickles, two quarts ceuli-
flower, two quarts green tomatoes,
large and small peppers (green or
red); chop and let stand in brine
over night; then scald in vinegar
with a lump Of alum until tender.
When cold pour off vinegar and add
two or three heads of celery if de-
sired. For the dressing use one
pound ground mustard, half ounce
turmeric. one cupful -four. half ounce
celery seed and two cupfuls of sugar.
Stir into one gallon boiling vinegar;
add pickles and let boil ten minutes.
Ladies' World, New York.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
An InrerestinE Relic.

In the matter of diminutive bank
notes a correspondent sends an ac-
count of a curious note which he has
in his possession. 1t is card meas
uring 2x2E inches, on one side OF
which is twice printed the word
"Twopence." while on the other the
sum is printed in words and figures
round the border. In the middle is
the following: II promise to pay
the bearer, on demand, 2 pence. By
order of the Corporation of the City
of New York, Feb. 20, 1890. D. Phoe-
nix, City Treasurer" - London
Graphic. :.
iue controversy as to the wearing
of the tall silk hat wakes warm.
Lord Ronald Sutherland Gewer adds
his views in long article in the Lon
don Tattler. First" he says, II be-
lieve that headgear to be unhealthy.
It is bad both for the outside and the
inside of the head. Badness, which
is so universal in what are called the
upper classes, in contrast to the hair
covered scalp of the poorer, is main
" due to the tall hat. AS to bad
effects on the brain, there is the high
authority of DR.. Forbes Winslow, who
says that the wearing of the tall hat
is partly the reason for insanity,
which is on the increase"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
Made Him Leave.

The divine healer and prophet, Per-
kins, posing as al angel Of Christ in
Teyarkana, Ark. recently. claiming
he vas waiting for Christ, who would
appear in d few days, was taken out
Of town Thursday night by white cap
pers, logged, his hair cut short, and
he was given 80 minutes to leave town.
\ notice left on Perkins door reads:
The same fate to sympathizers. ."
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
Women Raid 4 Saloon.

Belmont. a small town six miles
west of Nashville. Tenn, was the
scene of much excitement. the other
dav. when mob composed Of women
made a raid on a saloon ard complete
" demolished it. The saloon, Or
blind pig" had been running for
some days. Women organized at one
of the houses and marched in Il body
to the saloon. when they began throw
ing rocks through the windows and
then pooceeded to enter and finish the
work, breaking the bottles and COM
pletely wrecking the place. The pro-
prietGr fled
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
At 1t Again.

Officers Of the steamer Dahome re-
port a severe eruption of Mont Peiee,
on the island Of Martinique. at noon
OF Thursday. The eruption was fol-
lowed by total darkness five miles
away from the volcano. 1t was 20
minutes before it again became light.
The Dahome was obliged to change
her course to escape the volcanic dust
which fell heavily upon deck.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
No Negroes.

The Greensboro Record observes:
An advertisement OF a real estate
dealer in Maine appearing in the New
York Journal offers great inducements
to settlers. 1t says: No flies, no mos
quitoes and 10 negroes which shows
straw OF more or less magnitude.
BY the way, what would be said OF a
man in The South advertising such a
fact :" And this in New England
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
Sayere Storms in IOMa.

Another series Of severe lightning
and windStorms passed through South
eastern Iowa Tuesday evening, doing
much damage. In the last few weeks
more than 100 barns have been struck
by lightning near keokuk and more
than that number in Southeastern
Iowa. Many Northeast Missouri coun-
ties have suffered the same way.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
Heaviest Storm in Years.

The heaviest storm in years passed
over Greenville Thursday afternoon.
damaging much property. y number
Of houses were blown down west Of
the city: and trees were torn up by
the roots One residence within the
city was completely demolished, but
no loss Of life has been reported.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
One Boy Slays Another.

George Campbell, aged Is years, was
instantly killed at Sandy Creek church,
near Ozark. Ark, by Theodore
Wade. the same age. Wade and
another boy were fighting, when
Campbell ran up and stabbed Wade in
the arm. Wade seized the knife and
cut young Campbell:S throat, killing
him instantly. Wade is under arrest
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
NOTED HUNTREsS REPENTS.
rod, Now Writing About the
Cruelty of Hunting.

Women do not seem likely to en-
croach upon at least one of mans
pleasures, that of hunting. The most
celebrated shot among English women
has abandoned hunting entirely and
published a pamphlet on 'The Horrors
Of Sport"
She knows what she is talking
about, says the New York Sun. Her
husband was an ardent hunter, but she
was such an enthusiast that his shoot
ing preserves did not satisfy her and
she would rent Scottish moor or deer.
forest for her own use. She was called
by her friends the female Nimrod and
her house was full of trophies Of her
skill. Now she has taken up her pen to
decry her old weapon, the gun.
Lady Florence Dixie is this reformed
Nimrod. She has killed lions in Africa,
gazelics in Arabia, bears in the Rock
les. With her brother, Lord James
Douglas, she took a journey through
Patagonia.
a good many years ago another
brother, Lord Francis Douglas, lost his
life in the Alps. This intrepid woman
later climbed the very peak in whose
ascent he was killed. She says thatfew
men have done "a 1.-THE of the hunting
have dore both at home and in for
eign lands so thathe herrenuEciation of
the sport seems to mean that here, at
any rate, women are not going to con-
test with men for privileges. SIZE says:
Many a keen sportsman will ac-
knowledge that a feeling of self-re-
proach has ct times come over him as
he stood by The dying victim of his skill.
] know that it has confronted NE many
and many a time. have bent over
my fa..en game and seen the beautiful
eye of the deer grow dim. Ihave ended
with the sharp, yet merciful knife the
dying suferings of creatures that
never harmed me. 7, too, have wit
messed the angry, defiant glare Of the
wild beasts fading sight as death de-
prived him of the power to wreak his
vengeance on the human being that
had taken his free life. The memory
of those scenes brings no pleasure to
my mind. On the contrary, it hauats
me with a cruel reproach, and fain
would that I had never done those
deeds of skill-and cruelty"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27

The post office receipts of Columbia
for the past year show that the city is
making rapid strides. In 1888 the re-
ceipts were ST., ,S40,26 and in 1891
s21, ,42O,29. Last year they were 49,
S43.96. This is an admirable show
ing.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27

The Atlanta Journal says the way
to keep cool is not to worry about the
weather, and just think how much
cooler you will be next winter-if the
price Of coal keeps going up.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27
New zeahnd,s Island Federation.

New Zesland's Ialand Federation.
Another step in the realization Of
Mr.. Seddon's dream of an island fed
Grafton apart from the Australian
commonwealth, of which New Zea-
land should be the acknowledged
center, was taken during the last
month, when that statesman pro-
vided in his budget for a lower rate
of taxation on goods imported into
the Cook islands-the only group
which New Zealand has so far an
nexed-than on Australian goods,
and declared that goods from New
Zealand would ultimately be admit
ted free. In view of the determined
effort by New Zealand to amalga-
mate with the Fiji island group this
action is regarded as an indication
of the anti-commonwealth policy
that would be adopted if Mr.. Sed-
don's scheme is carried out.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27

Hao Fortune OF Her owa Probably.
A titled Engltshnan is going to
marry an American girl who has no
rich father. Sac must be really at
tractive, remarks the Chicago Rec
ord-Eerala.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-27

GAME LAWS PROTECT BULL BATS
The attention Of the boys and men
who are amusing themselves shooting
bull bats in the afternoons is called to
the fact that they are laying them
selves liable to prosecution under the
game law. This law protects the
whippoorwill and all inSectiyerous
birds. For every bull bat that is kill
ed the community will suffer thous-
ands of mosquitoes, which are their
food