The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03

THE MYSTERY OF TILE EXPECTED RoBBER.
~ ONALD DONALDSON, JR.,
81 m was born May 2, 1881. He
R% was the healthiest and alto
getber the finest child that
ever came into the world, the most de-
sired, the best loved. And whimsical
nature exacted the smallest possible
price Of pain for him.
Yet permit me to reconsider thaI
statement in the light Of a better phi
losophy. There are those who say that
In adversely one need not shout for the
awakening of the gods nor in the day
of supe-abundance dread it; that moth
ing comes which is not earned. It may
be that q young mother reaped no more
than the Just reward Of consistent right
living from her earliest girlhood. How
ever that may be, the fact remains
that all things went incredibly well.
Behold Dorothy, as pretty as ever and
not day older, tripping about the
house with a song; behold the boy,
healthy as young lion and roaring,
when he roared, for his own good
pleasure and not for any i'll.
Hackett prophesied great things OF
him, believing that lis exploits would
some day necessitate revised edition
of our psychic Facts" work that
was then complete except for the last
section, which HacEett wished to en-
title "The Real Facts despite the
imputation upon the accuracy Of the
preceding portions.
AS to his hopes Of young Donald my
partner spoke only once in the pres
ence of the boys parents.
you'd have thought I had accused
him of being cross eyed" said he to me
in describing the incident, and there
after we discussed the subject strictly
in private.
Our book eventually went to the
printer, but Hackett never saw 1t IN
binding. He was stricken with an Ill
ness which rushed on to a fatal ter
mination in such haste that it seemed
all over in day, and was standing by
the grave Of my oldest friend. After
ward I could hardly bear to look at the
book upon which we had labored to-
gether. I left everything to others. 1t
had 4 small success and was soon for
gotten, though recent events have !ed
the publishers to print some thousands
of copies from the old plates. The work
is full Of unfounded belief and equally
unfounded doubt. I am proud only OF
the former, which was mostly lack
ett's. A natural, honest, seemingly
baseless belief is probably founded up
on the knowledge Of the ages and the
souls sympathy with infinite W1sdom'
but your doubt is likely to be your
own, and you should be the more MOD
est in the expression Of 1t.
Pardon this DEPRESSION about "Psy-
chic Facts" The psychic fact with
which this present record principally
concerns itself is Donald Donaldson
Jr., and from this point onward snail
stick closely to him. have given a
view OF his parents because that was
absolutely necessary to an understand.
ing Of his nature and of the events in
which he took part. shall now very
briefly sketch his youth, which was
unmarked by any incident out Of the
ordinary.
He vas a healthy baby and sturdy,
active scbooiboy when the years had
brought him onward to that stage OF
life. Mentally he was too quick to re-
quire diligence. The tasks in the Tun-
bridge schools were easy for him, and
ne led his classes without effort. 1t
must he remembered, however, that 60
other pupil had equally good home
training. His mother was O teacher,
both by nature and by instruction. He
might have advanced more rapidly IN
der her care alone, but the public school
is a part of our creed in Tunbridge. II
any school in the town had not been
good place for Donald, we should not
have taken him away. We should
have made the school better:
While upon this subject I will quote
a curious remark that I once heard q
little girl make to another in Don's