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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16

Il have been watching you; Nero-
MICA" he said. until l have grown
Jealous ot the sky and the foliage, and
everything else that your beautiful
eyes have rested on. What have you
Been thinking Of
OF nothing in the wide world but
YOU" she replied.
OF me. sweetheart" he exclaimed
ioyfullv: and then he told her what he
had come to aSk-when would she be
his wife.
You are too kind ever to be cruel,
darling" he said, looking at the beau-
tifUl flushed face. Il told you long
ago who lonely my home IS l want
the angel in the house, want you
there. You cannot tell how dreary u
all seems TO me. Veronica, when VIII
vou come to me- -.
Not yet" she replied shyly-'it
cannot be yet.
why n0t?" he asked:
You have only just found out that
you love me"
Nay. Veronica" he said, smiling,
Il found that out long since. l was
coming last July to tell you so, but
poor Sir Jasper had just died"
She turned her face away lest he
should see the Quiyer of pain on it..
':Sir Mare" she said gently, you
have never asked me any questions
about my family, or my home IN
Venice, or my fortune ~
Lady Brandon has explained" he
replied. Your father was a great
friend OF Sir Jaspe'rs, she tells me-
Veronica made no reply. She could
not tell him the truth, but she would
speak no false wordto him-neVer one.
He continued
u care nothing about your fortune,
sweetheart. ! am rich mans rich
that | am troubled at times to know
how to spend my money. lay 1t all
at YOUR feet. You are mistress OF
everything that belongs to me. When
will YOU come to me, my Veronica:
You have nothing to wait for. DO not
be unEined and send me away
She made no answer. In her heart
she wished to be with him, but the
very consciousness OF il prevented her
from speaking.
This is July" he said: shall we
say September, Ver0nica?'
She agreed, and Sir Marc was Sc
determined to keep her to her WORD
that he went at once in search OF Lady
Brandon and told her. He brought
her back with him to where Veronica
still stood under the lines.
Il leave my interests in your hands,
Lady Brandon" he said. i shall re-
turn, with your permission, to marry
Veronica on the twentieth OF Septem-
Der. You will promise that she shall
be ready?" Lady Brandon promised.
u do not think that | can live away
from her altogether until then, Lady
Brandon. Will you invite me to come
down in AuguSt?' :,
Come whenever you will, Sir Marc,
said Lady Brandon.
He pressed the hand Of his love,
u have bound you, sweetheart" ," he
said-'you can never free yourself
again"
And, looking at his handsome face
his eyes lit with love, she said to her
self that separation from him would be
death.
| fro py CoSTTSrEDi
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16
Feed the Entire World.

The United States is the great
bread producing country of the
earth, and if our supply of foodstuffs
was suddenly cut off half the people
of other countries would starve to
death. Recently published statistics
show that the United States sells ap-
proximately S1,ooo,ooo,0Oo worth Of
surplus agricultural products in a
year. They feed the armies of Beers
and English. and a squeeze in prices
in America is felt all over the world.
England is the best customer of this
country in food supplies. In 1900 we
sold her S4Os, 100000 worth of farm
products. Germany spent here S134,-
100000 for agricultural products.
About half of this was for cotton,
the rest was for food. France buys
annually from US about s45,0O0,o00
worth of agricultural products, most
ly bread and meat.-Chicago Chron-
icle.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16
LATIMER AND EVANS.
Nearly Came to Blows at the St.
Georges Meeting.

The senatorial and congressional
candidates meeting was held at st.
Georges in the court house Saturday
in the presence Of about 900 people. A
number of ladies occupied seats in the
Jury box" and were interested Specta'
tors to all that transpired. The meet
ing was divided into two session one
in the forenoon the other in the after
noon.
The morning session was hot with
out incident. MesSrs. Evans and
Latimer were at it again and at one
time it looked like it would be fight
within the bar of the court room, but
the sheriff of Colleton (an adjoining
county, put stop to the matter.
1t came about in this way: Mr..
Evans was the first speaker and in his
speech prodded Mr.. Latimer in the
same way and on the same matters
which has been brought out at pre-
vious meetings. Mr.. Latimer made
about the same refutations and said
that they (meaning the ReformerS)
had carried Mr.. Evans as long as they
could and had dropped Evans, and he
also made some alluSion to Evans be-
ing his friend" to which Evans re-
piled:
You never were my friend, you
betrayed ME like a dog"
Then Latimer brought up the Sl5,-
600 bond deal and said Evans had been
charged with it in the last campaign
and Evans corrected him by saying
that it had only been rumored and
some reference was made to an anony-
NOUS circular in connection with Mr..
Duncan's name but their meaning was
not cleared.
Mr.. Evans added that he had de-
MED the accusation at the time; de-
nounced it as a lie: he now denOunceS
it as such and the man who repeats
it is a liar. At this point Mr.. Lati-
mer appeared as if he had reached the
point where endurance ceased to be
yirture, hence the enactment Of the
little tragedy. The meeting proceed
ed without incident until after recess
when the party went to the hotel to
get dinner.
Mr.. Latimer walked into the hotel
and proceed to Mr.. Evans room and
said Mr.. Evans, l wish to have a
word with you.' to which Mr.. Evans
replied. No Sir, you cannot talk to
me-" and walked down stairs and
went out and dined with a friend.
There was excitement, but those who
know both of the men think that mat
ters will soon reach a crisis. Both
evidently had friends in the audience
and the other four candidates were
perhaps the most interested specta-
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16
Is 1t Worth " hile.

Is it worth While that We jostle Il
brother
Bearing his load On the rough ROAD
OF life?
Is it worth While that we jeer Ut each
other
In blackneSs OF heart:-that we Waf
to the knife?
God pity us all in our pitttul strilc.
God pity us all as We joStle each other:
God pardon us all for the triumph We
feel
When 4 fellow goes down: poor heart
broken brother
Pierced to the heart: words are
keener than steel,
And mightier far for woe or for veal.
Were it not we'll in this brief little
journey
On over the isthmus down into the
tide,
We give him fish instead ola serpent
Era folding the hands TO be ana aoiCe
For ever and aye III dust al AIS Sl1'e:
Look at the roses saluting each oIhSr: .s:
Look at the herds all III peace o'i ''ie
pain r.:
Man. and man only, makes war on his
brother, =,
And dotes in his heart on his peril
and
Shamed by the bruteS that go down
on the plain.
Why should you envy moment OF
pleasure
Some poor fellow-mortal has wruns
from it all
h,scould you look into his life's broken
measure
Look at the dregs-at the wormwood
and gall
Look at his heart hung with Grape
like pail.
Look at the skeletons down by bis
hearth-StOne-
Look at his cares in their mercllesS
sway,
Know you would goand say tenderly
lowly,
Brother-My brother. for aye and a
day
Lo. Lethe is washing the black.
ness away.
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Crops Had to Standa Week ofTryinS
Conditions.

The following is the weekly bulletin
of the condition Of the weather and
crops issued Tuesday by Director
Bauer Of the South Carolina section OF
the climate and crop service of the
United States weather bureau:
The average temperature for the
week ending Monday, July ith, was IS
degrees, which is about s degrees
above normal. 1t was the warmeSt
week Of the season. Maximum tenn
peratureS of 100, or above, were gener-
al over the State from the 4th to the
7th. with an extreme maximum of lG6
degrees at Florence on the 4th. The
maximum of the week was IS degrees
at Spartanburg on the I'd.
There was very little cloudineSs, and
the sky was practically cloudlesS ex-
cept for short periods each afternoon.
Fresh to brisk, parching winds pre-
vailed, that were injurious to vegeta-
tion. The relative humidity was much
below normal, causing crops to wilt
and shrivel. The nights were practic-
ally dewleSS.
Only six out of over 200 points rep
resented by correspondents, reported
any appreciable amount of rain, with
the largest amount in Oconee and
Lexington counties, making this the
driest as well as the hottest week of
the season. The drought has become
serious over the eastern half OF the
State, where corn has suffered materi-
al injury. while over the western half,
all crops have 50 far stood the trying
conditions remarkably well, but are
badly in need Of rain.
The earliest corn was too far ad-
vanced to be greatly hurt, but Later
paintings suffered from the extreme
heat. drynesS and parching winds, and
some fields were irretrievably damag-
ed, over the eastern counties. Bottom
land corn, and over the western coun-
ties generally, it has not yet been
seriously injured, but soon will be with
a continuation of the present weather
conditions. Corn is firing in Orange
burg and Barnwell: chinch bugs are
damaging it in Chester, Lancaster
and York.
Cotton withstood the unfavorable
weather fairly well. except that in
places it is turning yellow and she'd
ding it's lower leaves, and has stop
ped growing. Lice are still prevalent
in a few localities. 1t is blooming
profuSely in places, and the plants are
full Of squares. The dry, parching
wind had a deteriorating effect, but
in places the crop continues to be un-
usually promising.
Tobacco was hurt somewhat by the
hot sun, and curing, that is now gen.
eral, was haStened by the unfayorable
weather that threatened further in
jury In places the crop is very fine.
Wheat threshing is practically
finished, and late reports confirm pre-
ious ones as to the poorness of the
crop, and the uniform fine quality
of the grain. Rice is doing well, but,
like all other crops, needs rain badly.
Melons are being marketed, but the
weather is detrimental. Peas have
good stands. Pastures are poor. Ap-
pies are plentiful in York. Gardens
are failing.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16
sNali AelarieS and Honesty.

We rliD the following from The
Saturday Dlade Ct G!ii:Hgo: Judge
Edward +. I.unnc. "a; the criminal
court oi Chicago, las recently ;:t!
G"rcd L decision that is q; interest TO
every business man iE the country. 1t
vas the case OF The state rrr.,l;S
William G.. West, an cntlHyc vi The
pact:iuy house Of Nelson Morris < 30.
who WIS charged by that company
with cmbeZZ:emant.
West, d young married ii;au abJlJ
80 years or age, who was living VIA
and supp ;rting Il wife and two Chill
dren, had charge Of meat carf0r the
firm, and each week loaded the car in
Chicago and then took it to Aurora,
making six or eight stops at small!
towns along the way to make deliveries
to small dealers. West collected the
money for all his deliveries aud twice
week made u written report and
turned in his money, amounting some
times to as high Us $4,000. For doing
all this work, and occupying posi-
tion of trust in which thousands OF
dollars passed through his hands he
was paid SIS per week. The company
that employed him pushed the pro-
secution and wanted him sent to tile
penitentiary, but Judge Dunno found
him guilty of fembezzling but SIS, thus
saving him from the penitentiary, and
sentenced him to serve thirty days in
jail.
In rendering his decision Judge
Dunno told the employers Of West
that when they asked a man to take
such a responsible position at SUCH d
small salary and where he is called Oil
in the performance Of his duty to col
lect such large amounts Of money,
knowing that he has u wife and two
children to care for. you are simply
inviting him to commit a crime. OF at
least exposing him to TEN ptatioG, and
it is wrong"
The judge said he believed West, the
prisoner, to be good man, and that
had bis salary been even as much as S.
more per week he would never have
been exposed to temptation. II he
had been paid s25 a week as he should
have been paid, he would have had
$500 in the bank instead Of being here
convicted of embezzlement." The
decision of Judge Dunneis well worth
serious consideration by all who give
employment to others.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16

LAST year the crops OF Ephraim,
Utah. were almost entirely destroyed
by grasshoppers. This year there
will be no such destruction. A series
of entertainments has been arranged
to which the price of admission is one
half bushel Of these lively insects. At
dance, the first of the series, the
man at the door" took in seventy
five half bushels, which served as a
bonfire at the close of the evening.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16

RICHLASD County is now enjoying
the comfortable returns Of the money
it has invested, with good judgment,
in good roads. The Carolina News
remarks editorially that the county
has the best roads OF any county in
the State, and it is worth a visit to
any one to so over them in order to
see how sand beds and muddy hills
can be transformed into roads ''as solid
and as smooth as Main street in
columbia"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16
Tried to Kill His Mother.

Herbert Hill who lives at Robbery
Mass, shot and killed his sister, Mrs.
Riley, and seriously wounded his
mother, Mrs. Amelia Hill last week,
The latter was struck in the back OF
the head apparently with the butt OF
a revolver. Hill is said to be dement,
ed and to have been under treatment
for mental trouble from a specialist
for some weeks. Hill was finally ar
rested Thursday evening at Milton
Lower Mills. He had every appearance
of being insane.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16
Killed by Lightning.

During a terrific thunderstorm
Sunday afternoon Thomas Roe, a
Watchman at the Ocean steamship
wharyeS, at Savannah, Ga, and Lizzie
Williams, small negro girl who had
brought him his dinner, were instant
ly killed by bolt OF lightning. An
other girl, standing two feet from the
Williams child was unScratched.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16
a Fatal Wreck.

Two men killed. one fatally injured
and several more Or less seriously in
jured is the story Of a wreck on the
Toledo, Peoria aud Western railway
Saturday. All the Injured belonged
to the construction crew except two:
Lepage and Meyers, who are travelling
statesmen. An extra engine and
caboose were coming slowly toward
Peoria and received word to look tor
the construction, when the two met
on curve. The construction train
WAS Going at q high rate Of speed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16
Has Retired.

Theophilus II. Porter, for 46 years
a newspaper carrier in Lynn, Fass.,
retired from business last week, hay
ing made enough money to keep him
comfortably for the rest OF his life.
In all that time he has walked about
Is miles every day but Sunday, when
he went to church regularly, as he
does not believe in Sunday papers.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16
Ribbon to Be Much Used This Winter.

Ribbon will be much used for col
lars, belts, soft girdles and corsage
bows this season. The pouch front
corsage is frequently trimmed with
large, full rosette of ribbon placed
little to the left or in the center,
or with bow of several loops and
ends of lengthwise effects that is
worn on the side of the bodice. A
plain albatross or silk waist may be
trimmed with stripings of narrow
velvet ribbon and finished with ro-
settle on the left side. This is an e1-
cellent way to retrim an old bodice.
Ladies' Home Journal.
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Broke His Neck.

The Columbia State says on We'd
nesday a negro named Toland Work,
man, while riding on the top of a G.
n. & L. freight train, went to sleep
as the train was approaching the sta
tion of Sligh's, and rolled off. 1t was
the mans last sleep, for when he was
picked up he was dead, his neck had
been broken. 1t was an unusual case,
and merely serves to call attention to
the practice Of negro train hands to
fall asleep on the top Of cars.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16
An Old EnCineer.

The Oldest locomotive engineer in
the country is Christian Smith, who
lives near Harper's Ferry, Md. He
ran the first engine on the Baltimore
and Ohio road. The speed was six to
eight miles an hour, in those old times
considered swift running.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16
A Flood In Kansas.

The flood situation in the valleys OF
the Blue and KaW rivers is becoming
more serious and many families have
been forced to leave their homes for
higher ground. The Blue is raging
torrent 2l feet deep and still rising.
1t is running over the Union Pacific
tracks several feet deep for a distance
of two miles, taking short cut to the
Kaw river. The body OF dead man
foated past here today on the kaw.
1t could not be caught.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16
Victims Of a Sharper.

A dispatch from Shippensburg, Pa,
says a number of Metal Township
citizens have been the victims OF Il
sharper who sold them what he claim
ed was cucumber seed that would pro-
duce cucumbers two feet long. He
sold the seeds at 25 cents package,
each package said to contain five
seeds. The directions were to plant
them in barrel nearly filed with
good, rich soil. After Seyeal weeks,
there being no signs of any vines,
some of the purchasers removed the
seeds from the barrels and found that
they were made of wood, cleverly
carved. He didn't come back, but the
next agent who struck the town was
run out Of the village, the farmers not
even stopping to ask questions.
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Stole the MclOn.

viii Slappy, 16-year-old negro
who lived On the p. B. Allen planta.
tion near Starr, in Anderson County,
died Thursday afternoon under
peculiar circumstance. It is thought
he died as a result Of eating Il water
melon that had been poisoned. He
was taken violently i'll about y o'clock
and died at o'clock. After being
taken i'll he stated that short while
before he had stolen q melon from the
patch of another negro On the place
and had eaten it. A physician was
summoned but he reached the boy
only few minutes before he died and
too late to be of any assistance. The
physician said the boy might have
died from an acute attack OF cholera
morbus: or from congestion of the
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16

AS late as 1870 only per cent of
the cotton seed produced in the South
(from a crop of 100000 bales) was
utilized in the oil business. In 1900
53 per cent, en- a crop of 9,645,9
bales. was so utilized. So that the
country now ''crushes;' annually for
its oil over so per cent more seed than
it produced thirty years ago. And
the demand for the product increases
yearly.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16

kerosene will make tin kettles as
bright as new. Saturate a Woolen
rag and rub with it. It will also re-
move stains from the clean vanished
furniture.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16

Don't be clam, but take your
county paper like a good, industrious
citizen and keep posted on the happen
ings Of your section.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16
warming from Insurnnce Men.

New Orleans insurance experts
warn the people that the: city may
be burned down any time if the pres
ent careless methods of handling oil
are tolerated.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16

The general rain which visited
Texas last week came too late to save
the corn crop, but in some sections
farmers are replanting. Cotton was
not damaged much by the fevere
drought and a good crop is expected.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-16
A Convict Rewarded.

Gov. McSWeeney Wednesday re-
warded convict for the saving Of a
guards life near this city, granting
him pardon. The pardon was grant
ed upon receipt of the following from
Supt. Griffith of the State peniten-
tiary: Dear Sir: l respectfully ask
you to give Walter Anderson a full
pardon for the reason that on the 10th
day OF March, 1900, while on detail
work on farm, several prisoners over
powered and took Mr.. Harling's gun
from him. (Harling was the guard.)
Some of the prisoners had Harling
down on the ground when this con-
vict, Walter Anderson, rushed to his
relief, pulled the conyicts off of him
and saved him from being killed, for
which l at once made him "trusty,"
and he has ever since, as well as be-
fore, been a fine prisoner, humble,
Obedient and a good worker.
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WEEKLY COTTON REPORT.

fTO BE CONTINUED
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w lllldGl ISll.
But think of little Switzerland. with
it's population of three million people
and all at work except the babies.
About half are shepherds and herds
men on the mountain slopes and
benches. raising sheep and mich COWS,
and in the year 1900 they sold over ten
million dollars worth of butter and
cheese. Down in the valleys and
around the lakes are many towns and
little cities that hum like bee hives,
for nimble fingers are making
watches, jewelry, hair work. lace, silk
and cotton fabrics as fine as goSsamer
and hundreds Of other little things
which, taken all together, make the
commerce of that little water covered
and snow capped republic nearly
double the commerce of any other
country according to population.
All the children from + to - years
have to go TO school part of every year,
and her young men have to be taught
part Of two years in military tactics.
There is no standing army, but every
citizen is a willing and ready soldier
to defend his country. Its govern
menJ is republic divided into twenty
two cantons or counties, and to main
tain this republic they have been
fighting all contiguous nations for
nearly six hundred years and have
whipped every battle they fought.
Austria, Prussia, Maximilian and at
last Bonaparte tried subdue that peo-
pie, but failed utterly. They never
had an army of over $4,000, and de-
feated Prussia with 10000 in seven
pitched battles. Austria demanded
1000 Swiss soldiers to help her fight
Turkey. Switzerland refused to fur