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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03
VlRCHOW AND HIS WAYS.
Herr Professor Was Blunt, but de
Once Met His Match.

Herr Professor Was Blunt, but de
Once Met His Match.
The late Professor TirchoW was, IN
his own country at least, almost as
famous for his excessive bluntness Of
speech as for his very remarkable men
tai attainments, says the Philadelphia
Press. Often he spoke so unfeellngly
TO the students Who sat under him IN
the lecture rooms that they have been
known to leave his classes and not re-
turn. According to Berlin traditions,
one Of the professors favorite replies
to q wrong answer to one of his Ques-
lions was:
aCcrtainly not. ANY cook would
know better than that"
On the other hand, he seemed to ap-
preciate the spirit in some Of his stu
dents which prompted them to answer
him back in very much his own tone.
I Once when he was presiding in a very
old and faded suit Of clothes he turned
suddenly upon a seemingly bashful
man sitting near him and asked:
do your eyes tell you the truth!
What color is this coat Of mine"
Without an instant's hesitation the
young man rose and said: Il presume
it was once black. Now it is any color
except white.'
That student was passed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03
The NIonteSore Family.

The late Sir Moses Montedore, the
"grand old man" Of the Jews, the mod
ern Moses bringing thousands and tens
of thousands out of bondage and power
ty into the land Of peace and plenty
and really he had his reward, rounding
out his century in fine shape, his spir-
itual eye not dinmed nor his natural
strength abated-was once taunted
with being descendant Of the murder
ers of Christ. He said nothing at the
time, but called on his accusers next
day with chart Of his pedigree, show
ing that the home Of his forbears, the
s'old homestead" had been in Spain TO
over 1000 years, about 200 years befor-
Christ was born.-New York Press.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03
About Volcanoes.

Few persons have any idea Of the
prodigious quantity of lava and hot
ashes which q volcano in a state Of
eruption can yomit in few hours.
The matter which was discharged IN
1860 from Mount Etna and which
threatened to overwhelm Catania forms
mass the extent Of which has been
estimated as being not less than l'Ooo,-
100000 cubic yards.
From the immense crater Of hilauea,
in Hawaii, there was vomited in 1910
during a single eruption mass Of lava
equivalent to fifty times the volume OF
earth which it was necessary to remove
in order to form the Suez canal.
In 1873 the Skaptar-Jokull, one Of the
most redoubtable volcanoes in Iceland,
sent forth two rivers Of fire, one Of
which ran along q valley for eighty
miles, it's depth along the entire dis
tance being thirty yards. Finally, It IS
estimated that from the mass Of stones
and ashes which were discharged in
1888 from Krakatoa could be formed q
mountain higher and wider than Mont
| Blanc.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03
THE NEED OF COURTESY.
Il Is to Business and Society What
Gil Is to Machinery.

If young people, especially in small
towns, would form courtesy clubs or
graft this idea upon existing organiza-
tons, it would result in great advan-
tage not only to the young people be-
longing to such associations, but also
to the towns themselves.
We find great many men and Wo-
men side tracked all along the path
WAYS of life because they were not
taught the value of good manners and
Of a fine, gracious courtesy in their
youth. The result is that they have
grown up hard and coarse and repul-
sive in manners and have not been able
to win favor or attract trade or busl-
ness. In other words, their bad man
ners and repulsive ways have kept
them back and handicapped their ca
reers.
1t is astonishing how fine manners
and politencss in children develop into
ease and attractiveness in manhood
and womanhood. Other things being
equal the employee who is selected for
advancement is the one with good man
ners, q fine. gracious demeanor, a good
presence. These qualities are the best
kind of capital, even better than
money.
Everywhere we see young men and
young women drawing big salaries
largely because Of their superior polite
ness. The fine hammered are wanted
everywhere as superintendent, as
statesmen, as travelling representatives,
as clerks, as private secretaries or as
credit men. In fact, agreeable deport-
ment is the one Indispensable quality
sought after everywhere.
There is nothing else which will Sc
quickly open the door to opportunities
i to society, to the hearts Of all.
Courtesy is to business and society
what oil is to machinery. 1t makes
things run smoothly, for it eliminates
the jar and friction and the nerve rack
| ing noise.-Success.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03
An Old Time Remedy.

In the ice chest Of a Germantown
residence there are always lying four
or five big keys. This is because the
nose of the little son Of the house
bleeds every few days, and nothing
stops the hemorrhage like the dropping
a large, cold key down the child's back,
says the Philadelphia Record. He
souirms and cries out before the shock,
and then in q moment he is well, his
nose stops bleeding. A physician SAID
that the cold key remedy for the hem
orrhage Of the nose was as old, he sup
posed, as keys themselves are. ut Is
very good remedy" he went on, 'and
it's curative power is due to the shock 1t
gives. But isn't it an odd thing to use
a cold key? Almost as odd, to my mind'
as the candle with which some persons
tallow their noses when they have a
cold. But the candle remedy does no
good, so far as can see, whereas the
key remedy is one of the best in the
business :"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03
STOPPED THE STORM.
The Snow Was Little TOO Heavy
to Suit the Actor.

The Snow Was Little TOO Heavy
to Suit the Actor.
mechanical devices are now made
wonderfully real on the stage" sa1G
the old stock actor. ut hasn't been so
many years ago since even the simple
device Of depicting q nowstorm was
regarded an achievement. remember
on one occasion was out with COM
pany playing repertoire and in one
mcloGrama-I don't even now recall
the name-I took the part Of an old
man whose daughter, the heroine, had
been abducted. l was supposed to be
blind, and my strong scene was in the
third act, When went out into
snowstorm in search of my daughter.
She was lying in 4 drift, and as hob
bled across the stage l kept crying:
Me chc-ild! Where is me che-ild?
"Wcll, it was early in the season and
the play was the first attraction at that
theatcr. The scene painters had been at
work and had dropped several paint
brushes, hammers and other articles
INTO the Sieet lu'it lIcIu lIIe sIIo" StOAhi'
AS the stage hands in the flies shook
the sheets to make the snow come
out a couple Of hammers came down
and just missed me by an inch. was
blind and didn't dare to look up, but
when q monkey wrench just grazed my
temple I had presence Of mind enough
to yell: See yonder moon! The storm
is over. The stage hands took their
cue and let up on me, and the audience
never stopped to question how a blind
man could see yonder moon. ."-fhila-
delDhia Record.
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LIKE TO BE YOUNG AGAIN?
yess Well, Here Is One Man VINO
Would Rather BE Excused.


eve all say that we'd like to be
young again, but doubt If we really
mean it." says Harvey Sutherland IN
Afnslee's. wed like to have as good
health as we had when we cast our
first vote. ana we'd like it il we didn't
have to visit the dentist so often and
so expensively. But if it came to the
point that the genii bounced out be-
fore us and sulkily growled: What IS
your wish? l will obey, and tho 9TH
er slaves of the lamp l fancy we
should study quite awhile, with many
q 'Why-ah, let me see now before
we pluckcd up the courage to blurf
out. Make me twenty-one again.
Because, you know, you haven't
any too much sense now, with all
your experience of the world, and II
you We're twenty-one again it would
have to be in mind as we'll as in body.
The mind is what the body is. It
seems q terrible price to pay for
new set Of teeth and an undiscriminat-
ing appetite. What? To walk again
that weary, tortuouS road; to discover
again how many kinds of fool and
q failure one can be, and not half try
either; to have to take over again all
those terms Of old Professor Expert
ence? Huh-uh! Not for me. You
may if you like. Even if I could start
anew with what have learned OF
life which would come far short OF
what I should really need, it seems to
me that it would be bore to have to
sit through the performance again.
I suppose if ever there was q success
full man, lucky man, it was Martin
Luther, and yet when the electress
Of Brandenburg wished him forty
more birthdays he told her he would
sooner give up every hope Of heaven
he had than spend forty years more on
earth. To be sure, he would have had
to spend them in Germany, but that's
8 detail
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03
An Essay on Rain.

I'm a general way I approve OF
rains,'' said the grumpy person when
he reached home after drenchlng.
"They are fine thing when they come
decently and in good order'-as he
placed his umbrella where it would
drip on the parlor carpet-"but l want
to 90 on record right now"-reno71ns
his soggy new hat and saturated coat
"as declaring I am opposed to these
rains that begin on the day before yes
terday and keep coming"-gazing at his
eight dollar trousers, which resembled
dishrags. "1t wouldn't be so bad" he
resumed as he took his shoes off and
let the water run out, 'if it rained
straight down, but when it rains zig
gag and up and crosswise and catacor-
ners it's time to protest. A dod gasted
day like this has no right to be on the
calendar"-and SO on until he got to
bad.-Exchange.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03
Mere Maiden Timidity.

"Well, num-" said the cook as she
entered the parlor with her bundle in
her hand, 81 must be after goin' away
this mornin'."
What do you mean? Why are you
going? asked her astonished mistress.
81 am goin' to be married next
week"
But surely, Bridget, you won't leave
me so suddenly? You must ask him to
wait for few days"
"Oh, I couldn't, mum"
"Why not, pray"
s'Sure, mum, I'd like to oblige you,
but don't feel we'll enough acquaInt'
ed with him to ask such a thing.
Philadelphia Press.
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A QUEER PICTURE THING.
The Way One Art Treasure Was Res
cueG From Oblivion.

cueG From, Oblivion.
Few chapters in the worlds history
are more curious ana interesting than
that which deals with the fortunes Of
its art treasures. In the cathedral at
Montreal is, or was 4 few years ago,
a large piece Of tapestry which had
been discovered IN a back street Of q
New England town. The story is told
in Mrs. Silsbee's Half Century Of
Salem"
One day certain Mr.. Miller passing
through Derby street saw q woman
beating clouds Of dust from carpet.
Something peculiar in its appearance
made him stop and look closely at it,
when he discovered, to his astonish-
mcnt, that it was splendid piece Of
tapestry, with life sized figures
wrought from Raphael's cartoon,
Feed Ny Lambs"
The woman was quite willing to
tell how she obtained it. 1t was, IN
fact, 4 standing grievance to her. Her
husband was a sailor, and when he
went out on one Of his voyages she
had begged him to bring her a carpet
for her best room. AS it happened, he
did not visit a port where he could
buy a carpet, but rolled up in little
shop on the quay at Malta he had
found the tapestry and purchased it,
thinking it might answer the purpose.
It was too large for the room, and the
woman had to turn a big piece under.
She folded the piece back, revealing
part Of the superb border of fruit and
flowers, wrought in silk and gold
thread. as fresh as when it was first
worked. But the owner eyed it with
contempt. She never did like the
queer picture thing, she declared.
1t was the opportunity of lifetime.
Mr.. Miller promptly offered her the
choice Of any carpet in the stores IN
exchange for her queer picture
thing" and the woman as promptly
accepted the offer. They went down
town together, and she selected, with
unbounded delight, a hideSds pattern
of glowing reds and greens. Her face
was full of triumph when she re-
turned. The best room at last was to
| have a carpet that was carpet!
It is safe to say that no bargain ever
gave more complete satisfaction to
both parties than the one made, that
morning in Derby street, Salem.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03
4 GREAT WORRY CURE.
Common Sense Is the Best Remedy
That Can Be Prescribed.

That Can Be Prescribed.
I once asked a physician what cure
he could suggest for the worrying hab-
it. '.I would prescribe common sense"
he said, land If man or woman
hasn't got g stock on hand and cannot
cultivate one the medical man Is pow
erless." This worrying nonsense grows
The best means to cure it lies In the
hands Of the woman herself.
If she will just call little horse
sense to her aid, resolve not to borrow
trouble, to be cheerful and think upon
the right side Of things, she will live
longer and be able to retain her beauty.
Every woman has the strongest desire
to keep her good looks. Why, then,
does she take the course which is sure
to make her yellow skinned, dull eyed
and thoroughly unlovely?
The Englishwoman is greatly ad-
mired for her utter refusal to worry or
TO be worried. Consequently she looks
Young at fifty. Undertaking no more
than she can comfortably carry out
and firmly believing in the coming Of
another day, she does not procrasti-
nate, but simply will not let the domes-
tic machinery grind her down to III
health and an early old age.
She Is a frequent bather and REGARDS
health as the prime factor Of life, to be
looked after before everything else.
She sleeDs nine hours and also takes 9
nap during the day, arranging her
work in the most systematic manner.
Her little memorandum slip always
shows two vacant hours-they are Tor
rest. She eats heartily, but OF the most
digestible food, and would rather have
q mouthful Of good food and so partly
hungry than eat a whole meal OF
cheaper things.-Philadelphia Inquirer
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03
A New Piece of Music.

General Horace Porter, the Ameri-
can soldier, once asked Ii Hung Chang
for his photograph for his daughter.
The Chinese statesman kindly CON-
piled with his request and, getting his
paint pot and pencil, drew queer look
ing figures up and down the portrait.
Handing it then tc the general, he ex-
planned that the left hand column con-
tained list Of his titles, while the
right hand side bore list Of the posts
he had filed. When he reached home,
Porter gave the photograph to his little
girl, saying: Here's what you wanted
If you can't read it, probably you can
play it on the piano"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03
A VAST SALT FIELD.
How the Product Is Obtained In the
Middle Of the Colorado Desert.

How the Product Is Obtained In 1ne
Middle Of the Colorado Desert.
In the middle of the Colorado desert,
q little to the north Of the Mexican
border and 264 feet below the level OF
the sea. lies field Of crystallized salt
more than q thousand acres in extent,
presenting @ surface as white as snow
ard beneath the monday glare OF the
sun so dazzling that the naked eye
cannot stand its radiance. 1t stretches
away for miles and miles about Salton,
Colo, an ocean Of blazing, bliSterlng
white.
Here daily throughout the year men
are at work overturning the great de-
post with massive plows and scrapers,
getting it into great piles preliminary
to putting it through the refining proc
ess. The salt plows used to secure the
harvest are great four wheeled imp!e-
ments driven by steam and managed
by two men. The salt crust IS thrown
up in parallel ridges; then laborers
with hoes work it to and fro in the
water, washing out the dirt prelim-
mary to stacking it in mounds to be
taken to the mill.
Salt springs in adjacent foothills are
constantly contributing to the deposit,
and so heavily laden are they with al
most pure salt that the plow has hardly
passed on before q new crust has
! formed in the furrow left. This fact
renders it unnecessary to operate more
than small portion of the vast de-
posit.
AS may be supposed, work in these
fields is performed under the most try
| ing conditions. No white man can
stand the intense heat, and for this
reason the work is done wholly by
japanese and by Coahuila Indians. OF
these the Indians are by far the better
adapted to the work, the japanese per-
forming only one portion, sewing the
sacks in which the salt is shipped. The
atmosphere, laden as it is with parti'
clcs Of salt, gives rise to a painful
thirst, and the only available drinking
water comes from a single we'll. 1t Is
warm and i'll tasting.
Beautiful mirages frequently appear
above the great salt field in the day
time, sky pictures Of magnificent cities
and flower dotted, tree shaded fields
The moonlight, too, produces won
drCusly beautiful effects upon tho
great field Of cleaning salt. For sew
eral weeks in the year the thermome
ter on the salt field averages 40 de
grees, and the reflection Of the sur
/ produces a glare like that from a fur
mace. The deposits vary in thicknes:
from ten to twenty inches and form
a solid crust over the great marsh. 1
is estimated that about 700 tons are
now plowed up daily.-New York Trio
une.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03
He Didn't Take the Hint.

Chicago once had as its superinteno.
ent Of city schools a bachelor named
Rowland, whose gruffness Of manner
and love Of neatness were proVerb1aL
Going into the room Of young and at
tractive teacher one day, Mr.. HoWlano
took notice Of an untidy desk and a
carelessly arranged bookshelf, and,
pointing his finger at them, quer1eo
brusquely:
"What kind Of housekeeper do you
think you'd make"
"Why, Mr.. Rowland, are you looking
for one?" was the humorously qu1zzical
reply.
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His Grace.

Bishop Wilberforce used to tell a sto-
~ of a greedy clergyman who when
asked to say grace looked anxiously to
see if there were champagne glasses
on the table. If there were, he began,
"Bountiful Jehovahw But if he saw
only claret glasses he said, ave are
not worthy Of the least Of thy mercies." i"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03
Little ChiId,s Loneliness.

Little Mabel, says the Woman's Jour
nal, had been put to bed alone. Pres
emily she appeared in her nightgoWn
at the head Of the stairs, saying plain
lively, 'T'm lonesomer' Her mother
gave her favorite rubber doll named
Happy to take to bed with her and for
a few minutes she was quiet. Then
she reappeared with her plant of lone
someness. This time her mother re-
minded her that God was with her and
sent her back to bed with a reproof
Soon she was heard weeping bitterly
and when her mother went to her Ittls
Mabel summed up her sense Of misery
by exclaiming, Il don't want Happy
and don't want God; I want some
body with a skin face"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-03
r,ya Some Municipal Ways.

"Your town is getting to be quite
city, isn't it?''
"Well, don't know. Sometimes l
think we're a city and sometimes 1
don't. We wear swallowtail coats at
evening parties, but we haven't had a
street car strike yet."-Chicago Trib-
une.
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No Cash.

Harry, I suppose you keep a cash
account?'
"No, Uncle George, haven't got so
far as that, but keep an expense ac-
count."-Boston Transcript.
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Wasn't Looking For That Run.

SUPERINTENDENT Of the Railroad CoIn-
pany-So you want job as fireman,
eh?
AppIcant-Yes, sir.
Superintendent-Il have to ask you
q few questions. How far is it to the
north pole?
Applicant-Gee whiz! If you're go
ing to put me on that line, 1 don't
want the job.-Indianapolis News.
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To preserve health is q moral and re-
Iigious duty, for health is the basis CT
all social virtues. We can nc longer be
useful when not Hell.-JohnSon.
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Earned 1t. In CbicSCo.

How did he ever get the title Of
! 'Hon?"
''He declined q nomination for alder
man once."- ."-Chicago Tribune
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aTHEASTERN RAILROAD.

On and after this date tee following
passenger schedule will be in effect:
NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD.
South-Bound.
.35. '23. '53.
Lv Florence, s.0OA. 7.55P.
Lv Kingstree, 3.56 9.07
Lv Lanes, Al 9.27 1872.
Ar Charleston, $40 Ills $40
North-Bound.
'7s. 's2. .52.
Lv Charleston, e.45A. 4.45 P. 70oA
Lv Lanes, SIG 6.1O S.35
LV Kingstree, 8.S2 6.25
Ar Florence, $50 7.2O
Daily. iDaily except Sunday.
No. 50 runs through to Columbia via
Central r. 4. of S. C..
Trains Nos. IS and 80 run via Wilson
and Fayetteville-Short Line-and make
close connection for all points North.
Trains on c. & D. r. R. leave Florence
daily except Sunday 955 NJ. arrive Dar.
lington 1928 m, Cheraw, Il.40 M.
Wadesboro 1885 p m. Leave Florence
daily except Sunday, 500 p m, arrive Dar.
lington, 8.25 p N, HartsVille 9.2C D m
Bennetsville 92l p N, Gibson 9.45 o M.
Leave Florence Sunday only 9.55 a N, ar.
rive Darlington 1927, Hartsville lilo
Leave Gibson daily except Sunday 6.S5
IL, Bennettsville $50 m, arrive Darling.
ton 750 q m. Leave Hartsyille daily eS,
cept Sunday 700 N, arrive Darlington
7.45 N, leave Darlington 855 N, arrive
Florence 9.20 N. Leave Wadesboro daily
except Sunday 4 25 p m, Cheraw Sis m,
Darlington 6.29 p N, arrive Florence z o
m. Leave Hartsville Sunday only s.l5 m
Darlington 900 m, arrive Florence 9.2U
m.
J. l.. KENLEY, JNO. F. DIVINE,
Genl Manager. Genl Supt.
7. NJ. EMERSON, Traffic Manager.
II. NJ. EMERSON, Gen'l Pass. Agent.
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DAILY. TDaily except Sunday
No. So runs through to Charleston, S. G.
via Genital r. r., arriving Manning 6.53
p N, Lanes, 1856 p m, Charleston 9.20 D m.
Train No. So makes close connection at
Sumter with train No. SO, arriving Lanes
9 IS m, Charleston II IS m, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays.
Trains on Conway Branch leave Chad
bourn 1901 a m, arrive Conway 2.2O o n,
returning leave Conway 2.55 N, arrive
Chadbourn $40 p N, leave Chadhourn,
5.35 m, arrive at Elrod $40 N,
returning leave Elrod $40 NJ, arrive
Chadbourn l1.25 m. Daily except Sun
day.
Il. ". EMERSON, Gen1 Pass. Agent.
J. R. KEMLY, Genl Manager.
T. NJ. EMERSON, Traffic Manager
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Wood intended to be made into plan
os requires to be kept forty years ID
perfect condition, so it is asserted.
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ATLANTIC COAST Line,

CHARLESTON, S. c., April 13, 1902.
On and after this date tee following
passenger schedule will be IN effect:
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MANCHESTER l. AUGUSTA r, r..
II orthwestern r. R. of S. G..

lime TABLE No. Z,
In effect Sunday, Jan. IS, 1902.
Between Sumter aud Camden.
Mixed-Daily except Sunday.
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W. @. & A.
South-Bound.
North-Bound,

No. So runs through from Charleston via
Central +. R., leaving Charleston 40 m,
Lanes Is N, Manning 8.57am.