The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-02-12

AlbanianS, kurdS, ROumanlanS,
Servians, Bulgarians, Nubians
Cingalese. Arabians, Soudanese,
Abyssinians and a host ofothers.
all dressed in their national cos
tunes and pursuing their accus-
toned occupations with all the
noise and confusion of the land
of Allah, Mahomet and Buddah.
A hustling, bustIing, jostllng
throne: arrayed in all the pictur-
esque splendor Of the far East.
MuleteerS and musicians,
camel drivers and contortionistS,
swordSmen and singing girls,
dancers and dervishes, tumblers
and tradesmen, jugglers and
ienizaries houris and hawkerS,
acrobatS and artisans, g shout
ing, singing, rollicking and good
natured crowd as one may wish
to see. And how the sight-see-
ing and fun loving American
crowds enjoy it.
Yonder goes a blushing bride
and a dashing groom spending a
brief moment Of their honeymoon
on the swaying, lurching back
of a camel: there a sta!d and
steady old banker is being iolted
along the streets of Cairo on an
equally segacious dondey: here a
motherly looking matron is seen
clambering to the broad back of
a kneeling elephant: old and
young Of both sexes and all sta
tions catch the infection of the
moment and join in the iollity of
the occasion. Busy politicians
forget the plots and plans Of
party and faction to jounce up
and down on the vertebrae OF an
Algerian ass: overworked busi-
ness men forget their cares in a
camel ride and laugh themselves
red and reckless as they roll and
pitch on the hurricane deck Of
this a.mbling ship Of the des-
est" thoughtless students for
sake their books and revel in the
delights Of the Oriental theatre,
and grizzled veterans share with
registering youths their admira-
ton of the grace and beauty of
the dancing girls or the grues-
ONE thrills evoked by the grot-
esque torture dance.
Every member of the legisla-
tive party comes away with a
feeling that he or she must go
back, and when the legislature
adiourns many of the solons will
carry their families down. The
living expenses are cheap, one
can get board and lodging as low
as a S1.00 per day and possibly
cheaper by the week. In urg-
ing the people to go to tothe ex
position we wish to assure them
that we do so sincerely, and be-
cause we feel that they will be
greatly benefited thereby.
Since my last letter it is with
sincere pleasure that I can an
nounce that Governor McSween-
ey has pardoned Frank NJ. Play
er, the Kingstree dispenser who
was found short and convicted.
Senator Williams and myself
carried the pardon over to the
penitentiary and when we broke
the news to Player, he stood al
most petrifed and for several
minutes in silent prayer of
thanks to God for his deliverance
from bondage. l have witnessed
many pathetic scenes, but this
one was enough to melt heart
of stone. I knew Player and
within his breast there beats no
dishonest heart, but his down.
| fall came through his inability
to say no, to a clss of blood-suck-
ers who, to crafty their own
desires would send a fellow crea-
ture to hell, and then laugh in
their sleeves at his tortures. So
| it is with Frank Player. He
was always an honestopen neart-
ed man, his home was always
open to his friends and his pock-
ct was never closed to their
wants: when he took the posi-
ton of dispenser, pretended
friends soon began patting him
on the back and to learn his
weaknesses; they found them
after a while and their work of
destruction set in, and continued
until they carried him on to the
brink of the precipice and when
they got all they could out of
him they hurled him down into
the abyss of disgrace, and gloat-
ingly turned to seek another
victim. Frank Player is now a
free man and although man on
the shady side of life we believe
if his health and life is spared
he will make every effort to live
an honest an upright life, and it
is the duty of every manly man
to take the poor fellow by the
hand and whisper words of en-
couragement into his ear: the
man who would throw his mis-
fortunes up to him is miserable
coward.
The work of the legislature is
dragging its way along. The big
gest question was the fight on
what is known as the ''child
IA oor' hill The "KinrS dau0h-