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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-01
PAINTING THE WORLD.
Indian Legend OF the Way Spring
Came Into Existence.

indian Legend of the Way Spring
Came Into Existence.
Once, long before there were men in
the world, all the earth was covered
with snow and ice.
White and frozen lay the rivers and
the seas; white and frozen lay tie
plains. The mountains stood tall and
dead, like ghosts in white gowns.
There was no color except white in all
the world except in the sky, and 1t was
almost black. At night the stars look
ed through it like angry eyes.
Then God sent the spring down into
the world-the spring with red lips and
curling yellow hair.
In his arms he bore sprays OF apple
blossoms and the first fowers-crocus,
anemones and vlolets, red, pink, blue,
purple, violet and yellow.
The first animal to greet the spring
was the white rabbit. The spr4ns
lronped q red crocus on his head, ana
eyer since then all white rabbits nave
red eyes.
Then the spring dropped blue yio-
let on a white bird, the first bird TO
greet the spring, and that is the way
the bluebird was made. Ever since
then it is the first bird to arrive when
the spring comes down from heaven.
So the spring went through the world.
Wherever he tossed the leaves from
his fragrant burden the earth became
green. He tossed the blossoms on the
frozen seas, and the ice melted, and the
fish became painted with all the tint
of his flowers. That is the way the
trout and the minnews and the salmon
became gaudy.
Only the high mountains would not
bow to the spring. So their SUBMITS
remain white and dead, for they would
let the spring paint only the sides.
The snow owls and the white geese
and the polar bears fed from the
spring, so they, too, remain white to
this day.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-01
The Coffee Cup II Persia.

The expression "to give cup OF cof-
fee" has in Persia somewhat op1l-
nous significance This is due 70 the
fact that the coffee cup is cne recog-
Aized medium for conveying poison.
Some years ago the governor Of Aspa-
dana, having long been at daggers
drawn with the chief of a powerful
mountain tribe, determined in this way
to put an end to all trouble. He pro-
fessed to entertain great degree OF
friendship and esteem for the chief
tain and invited him to visit him at his
ralace. The chief unsuspiciously came,
accompanied by his two young sons.
FOR a week they were royalty enter
tanned. But at last one morning when
the chief came into his hosts presence
lie was coldly received, and an attend
ent soon stepped forward with single
cup of coffee in his hand, which he Of
fered to the guest. The latter could
not fail to understand that he was
doomed. Prcferring. however, steel to
poison, he declined the cup and was
thereupon. at a signal from his host,
stabbed to death.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-01
London's Crossings.

You can cross the three most dan
gerous streets in Manchester on an
average 5000 times in>safety, but the
three thousand and first time you Will
pc run over. If you are not, somebody
else will be in your place, for the AZ
erage a year never fails by more than
a point or two either there or In Lon
don. But in London you can only pass
the crossing at Blackfriars bridge,
which is the most dangerous spet in
the city, $50 times. You may be the
lucky person who escapes by chance,
but somebody is certain to suffer to
keep the average up, counting the ac-
cidents over q space Of FIVE years up
to date. Next comes the Mansion
House crossing. with q TOO to one
chance.-London Answers.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-01
When Men We're Branded.

4 curious relic Of bygone times, prob
ably the only one in England, still
stands at Lancaster castle. 1t is a
strong iron holdfast, into which the
prisoner who in olden time had been
sentenced 10 be branded as malefac-
tor had his hand thrust and locked.
The branding iron, after being made
red hot at the end. was pressed against
the "brawne of the thumb" and on be-
ing withdrawn the letter NJ branded
on the unfortunate prisoners flesh In
dicated from henceforward that be
was a malefactor. The ceremony was
performed in the presence Of the judge
and jury and in open court, and the
brander invariably turned to the judge
after he Lad done his work and ex-
claimcd. ~ fair mark, my lord" 1t
is 100 years since the instrument was
last used on two men sentenced to i'm
Drisonment for manslaughter.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-01
HUMAN PANTOMlME.
Certain Gestures Absolutely Ident1-
fed With Certain Feelings.

Certain Gestures Absolutely 1dent1-
ied With Certain Feelings.
Certain gestures are absolutely iden-
tilted with certain feelings. TO shake
ones fist is to threaten, to hold up ones
finger is to warn To indicate thought
we place the tips Of the fingers on the
forehead, to show concentrated atten-
ton we apply the whole hand. To rub
the hands is everywhere sign Of joy,
and to clap them sign Of enthusiasm.
1t would be easy to multiply examples.
Affirmation, negation, repulsion are all
indicated by motions that every one
understands. 1t is the same, in quite
as great a degree, with nationalities, in
spite Of the original diversity Of the
races that make them up. The mimetic
character results at once from race,
from history and from climate.
The gesture Of the EnGlishman is
fierce and harsh. He speaks briefly,
brusquely. He is cold, positive, force
full. His salutation is cold and accen-
tuated, but his handshake is loyal. The
gesture of Germany is heavy, good hu-
mored and always ungraceful. Many
of the Slav people are unwilling to
look one in the face, and they have a
false gesture. The Spaniard and the
Portuguese. although dwelling In a
southern land, gesticulate little. Their
language is rhythmic, slow, solemn;
they are grave; their salutation is a
little theatrical. The Italian is lively,
mobile, intelligent, gay. His language
is harmonious, sonorous, warm and
luminous, like his country's sky. The
salutation Of the italian is quick and
full Of feeling, his gesture colored and
exaggerated.-London Answers.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-01
Summer School Announcements.

The county summer school will be
held in the Institute building, Manning,
S. c.. beginning Wednesday. July -.
Prof. G. T. Pugh, recently of Wander
bilt, will be the principal instructor,
with Mrs. Gertrude G. Holladay assist
ant. These teachers are particularly
we'll qualified for the work and we ear
nestly desire that all our teachers that
can possibly do so, attend.
reads as follows:
SECTION is. 4 First Grade Certificate may be
moved bv the County Board from which it was
issued II however: Teachers Institute or
Summer School is held in the County: First
Grl6e Certificate shall not be renewed unless
the holder attends the Institute or Summer
School. or shows to the State Board Of Educa-
ton some satisfactory reason for not doing So
S. P. HoLLADAY,
Co. Supt. Education.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-01
New Scholarships.

The last General Assembly provided
for forty one scholarships, one from
each county, in the normal department
at the South Carolina College for young
men teachers, or young men intending
to teach, worth free tuition and matric-
ulation and forty dollars, at FIVE dollars
month for eight months to assist IN
paying living expenses, application
must be made by the lst July, and ap-
plicant must be over nineteen years
old.
Application blanks can be had by
applying to President Benjamin Sloan
of the college. This is good oppor-
tunity and we hope some young man
from Clarendon will take advantage of
it to thoroughly prepare himself for
the teaching profession.
S. P. HOLIDAY,
Supt. Education.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-01
A Hero's Tribute.
Lincoln said Of Washington:

Washington is the mightiest name on
earth, long since mightiest in the cause
OF civil liberty, still mtshtiest in moral
reformation. On that name eulogy Is
expected. 1t cannot be. To add bright
ness to the sun or glory to the name OF
Washington is alike impossible; let
none attempt it. In solemn awe pro-
nounce the name and in naked, death.
less splendor leave it shining on.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-01
Hero Worship.

"It strikes me that Brimken deserves
q great deal Of credit"
"He never impressed me as Drainy
man"
That's just the point. When a man
with so little brains as Brimken has
managed to be so prosperous, can't
help feeling that he must possess some
great and mysterious superiority: =
Washington Star.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-01
LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 26th, 1902.

LOUISVILLE hX., March 26th, 1902.
For several years suffered :yth chils and Fever,
caused By Malaria in my system, and each summer for
several years would relapse r aiyny physician pre-
sc1bed S. S. S. In all, took three bottles and they
entirely cured ne and have never bc troubled since.
I an sure no other medicine could have given so
complete and immediate relief aud cannot speak TOO
highly of S. S. S My partner in business is taking
S. S. S. for eruption OF tie skin and generalru down
condition of his system, and though he has +aken but
cre bottle, already cornueu1cs to feel better
e,I West Market St. l. SHAPOFF.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-01
Between Wilson's Mill and Sumter.
Between lli!lard and st. Paul.


Sorthbound. Northbound.
No T3. No. rs. No. y. No. X
PM \ NJ Stations \ N p NJ
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THOS. WILSON, President
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-01

and pustular and
scabby skin errlp-
tiols Of various
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-27

ties. for, although the earthwork was fairly heavy. there were no large bridges. The chief troubles connected with its construction lay rather in the thickness of the bush and in the scar city and ineficiency of the labor avail able. To dear away the former was most tedious business, and sometimes huge trees were encountered, the fell ing of which occupied four men for a week or mere. As a navvy the native was not very valuable. In fact, it was only by dint of constant supervision that any work could be got out of him at all. The plan was therefore adopted of dividing up the line into short pieces and letting them out in small contracts, a few chains of earthwork being allot- ted, perhaps, to single family. The men were largely got from Lagos, and at one time as many as 1S,oOO were em- ployed. The experimenting engineers were, of course, English; and the char acter of the climate may be inferred from the fact that the regular arrange ment was eight months work and four months leave The cost of the work was something less than sS,000,0O0.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-27
REMARKABLE.

Alfred C. Thompson. recently pastor of the First Free Baptist Church of
 Worcester; Massachusetts, "after much prayer and study of the divine word"
 asks his friends and the public to kind ly omit the Rev. and D. D. T have de-
 cided," he says, "to discard all titles that are now affixed to my name, be- lieving them to be unscriptural."
 Perhaps the titles which Brother
 Thompson is going to discard are un- scriptural in the sense that they are not especially commanded or indorsed by the Scriptures. But as they are not defi- nitely forbidden by the Scriptures it is not likely that Brother Thompson's ex-
 ample will find many imitators among those who preach the gospel Many of the preachers take such innocent and
 heartfelt joy in their titles that it would be a pity to even suggest to them that they might possibly be able to live and 
 do good work in the Lords vineyard without their titles. Perhaps they couldn't get along without them. They don't seem to be able to get along with out modestly obtruding them on every possible occasion. They will wonder
 how Brother Thompson came to do
 what he has done, and it Is rather won-
 derful when human nature is consid- cred. A title is title, even if it Is only
 Colonel. And such legitimate and hon. orable titles as Rev. and D. D. are
 worth having if, any titles are. Those
 who have them will, as a rule, hang
 on to them and feel @ quiet pleasure in | them.
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MADNESS AND METHOD.

Perhaps there is as much method as madness in the assaults made by Elijah III. on the press. Anyhow, he keeps at it as if he had plan. Yesterday at the monday meeting he thus gently re- ferred to the reporters: "Ill give it to them tonight" he cried-"the lash of God. I'll muzzle the dirty yellow dogs" After suggesting a means of muzzling the press, by the appointment of cen sor, the prophet" called upon the peo- pie to aid him in his fight against the newspapers, adding: If you don't stand by me you're a pack of towards. " A Zion guard called out that a reporter was taking notes." The prophet strode to the end of the platform and said: Let him take notes. I don't mind him taking notes. I like to see the agents of the devil taking notes"
 Elijah III. isn't the only prophet who seems to think it pays him to cuss the press. The Rev. B. S. Taylor, other wise known as the Rev. Cyclone" Tay- Tor, has come out of the West to save Brooklyn while Elijah III. is saving New York, and he too gives the press fits. For instance, pointing his right forefinger at the Brooklyn Eagle re- porter he said: "Editors and reporters are nothing more than gang of whis- key-loving, rum-soaked, depraved bums, and the editor of the Eagle didn't know what he was writing about in his editorial not long ago, that hell is play ed out. No, brothers, tell you, hell ain't played out"
 The New York newspapers are giving graphic and accurate accounts of these outbreaks, which may be just what those who make them want.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-27
SUFFICIENT.

Have they been long in society?'
 Dear me, no! heard her husband say the other day, that he had never seen a lady smoking cigarettes. ."-Chi- cago Record Herald. --s
 The cool October days have come,
 As they have done before;
 And now we hear the oldtifne cry,
 Say, WILL you shut that door?" Cincinnati Times-Star.
 Dorothy-so the angels brought your new baby from heaven?
 Ethel-Yeth; but ma theems to think juth ath much of him ath if they had brought him from London or Parist-- Puck.
 The new boarder had been three weeks in the house. Tt is usual, '' said the .landlady with great delicacy, flor my 1odgers to pay as they go.'
 "Oh, that's all right" he replied af- fably, ''I'm not going for long time.''- San Francisco Wasp
 She-Oh, she married a duke and has lived happy ever after.
 He-I thought they had parted.
 She.-Yes that's why she is happy Judge. He-But I love you, Carrie!
 She-Well, and I love caramels, but I don't see as that fact is calculated to make caramels happy.-Boston Tran script.
 Certainly Not!-''I'd like to exchange this," said a woman who the other day entered retail book store.
 The clerk unwrapped the bundle and glanced at its'contents. I'm sorry, madam he said, ''but we can't do ik.''
 Why not?" she cried. "You've al- ways exchanged books for me hereto fore"
 T know," replied the clerk, politely but firmly, ''but we can't change this: it's The Leopard's Spots.' "--Philadel- phia Press. One Was Sufficient.-Jimmy, aged five, had been naughty, and his mother had punished him in the good, old-fash- | toned way. His father pretended to be greatly shocked at overhearing the ag- grieved youngster express a hope that | large stray bear might happen along some dark night to make meal of his offending parent. But, Jimmy" said his father i'm. pressively, you shouldn't say such ! dreadful things. You should always re. member, my son, that boy never has more than one mother" Thank God for that!" breathed Jim. my yfervently.-Lippincott's.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-27

There are brave and cool women. Ac- cording to the San Francisco Argonaut a few days ago a lady whose husband had gone out for the evening was about to retire for the night with her infant child when to her amazement she perceived the foot of a man be- meath the bed. Instead of calling for assistance she coolly went to the childs cot and sat and sung till the little one went to sleep. Two hours then remain ed before her husband came in. He was surprised to find her waiting up, but when his wife handed him an en- velope saying, "You might run and post this," the cause of her waiting was revealed, Instead of letter the following was written on the envelope: "A burglar is under the bed; run fetch police.' The husband returned in a few minutes with a policemankand the man was arrested. The burglar had no idea that the lady knew he was there until the policeman pulled him out.
 Tn Petersborough, England, enough bricks are made in the course of a year to put girdle four times around the earth. It is estimated that the busy brickmaking yards, which have grown LID in great number round the ancient city in the last twenty years, turn out S00.000.000 bricks annually. AS the length of brick is about eight inches, then. if Petersborough's annual output were laid in single line it would stretch over 100000 miles, The brick in- dustrv has revolutionized the trade of Petersborough. Such is the wealth of clay and the profit to be drawn from it that one part of the brickmaking dis- trict has been fitly named "Klondike," It lies in beds Of enormous area and depts, and sonnet of the experts say they could go on taking out the easily accessible clay for the next century without taking thought as to where the next supply of the material is to come fron1.. ~. Y. Y
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-27
HA1KwAx rAELs, NOT HYPOCRISY.

HAIKWAN T4ELS, NOT HYPOCRISY.
 Can't people change their minds with out being accused of hypocrisy? Here comes the United States Investor protesting not to understand how Americans can logically defend the acquisition of the Philippines and in the same breath denounce Rus sia's efforts to absorb Manchuria. At the beginning of our late war with spain." says our eontempo- rary, i've made an emphatic promise to the world that we entered upon that contest not 10 acquire territory, but to free the oppressed. The world scoffed and said. Wait. They did not have to wait many years to see us ingeniously find a way to evade that promise"
 This is plausible, but it isn't hypocri- sy that causes us to talk the way we do about Russia in Manchuria. It is the haikwan taels that have made the trouble. Manchuria is at present reach ed by American trade through New chwang. Our trade through that door way in 1902 amounted to eighteen mill lion haikwan taels in value. against seventeen millions in 1901 and eight millions in 1900. The four principal ar- ticles are jeans. drills. sheetings and kerosene. AS the average value os the haikwan tael during 1902 was sixty three cents, it is easy to calculate what our Manchurian trade amounted to.
 We want more haikwan taels. and Russia shouldn't do anything to pre- vent our getting them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-27
THE RAILROAD TO RUMASSI.

The opening of the railroad to Ku- massi, which has just been announced, marks another step in the progress of civilization on the Gold Coast. The to- tai length of the line from the coast is 1sO miles. Work was begun at Sekondi in 1898. but the first section of forty miles was not finished till 1901. The delay was due to a variety of causes scarcity of labor, illness among the en- gineers and the rising in 1900, not to mention the. delay involved in con- structing landing place for material at Sekondi, which was merely a name when the operations were begun. From Tarkwa to Kumassi, however, the work was carried out much more rapidly, and the 14O miles of that section were laid in twenty-seven months. The line did not present great engineering difficult
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-27
rruti to BOyIubd.

Where the maple leaves are yellow And the apples plump and mellow, And the purple grapes are bursting with their rich autumnal wine,
 And the oak leaves redly flaming All the blaze of sunset shaming- Is trail that wanders idly to land of yours and mine.
 It goes through the grassy hollows And across the hills; it follows All the playful turns and curvings of the ever singing streams;
 0vergrOwn with tangled grasses, All the olden haunts 1t passes Till it fades into vista that is cherished in our dreams
 Past the pokeweeds and their berries And the dance halls of the fairies. Over field and through the forest it goes ever on and on.
 With the thrush and kildee singing And the redbird madly winging Far ahead of us to somewhere, where the sunset meets the dawn.
 Up and down, the hillsides hugging, With the hazel bushes tugging At our arms, and blushing sumach holding spicy berries out; 4#z.A,... And the hawtreas and the beeches, Hickories and plu1ns and peaches Just as young and just as plenty-all our thoughts of age to fiout!
 So 1t stretches and 1t glistens, , Far away-and he who listens Hears the echo of the hailings and the mur- mur of song
 That comes through the silence throb-
 ping ....,. --.z... Half with laughter. half with sobbing- Till 1t clutches at the heartstrings and would hold them overlong.
 This the trail-the Trail to Boyland-- |. How it spans the miles to joyland! ,. Passing 1eafy lane and blossom tangled wine, and bush and tree, Coaxing bees till they, in coming, + Fill the hush of noon with humming-- And the wondrOus way to Boyland stretches fair for you and me! -....s, s,
 W. D. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-27

 x In a paper which he read before the British Association, Sir Robert Giffen put the annual income of the 300, 100000 people inhabiting British India and the feudatory states at $2,34O, 100000, or $7S per capita. Writing to the London Times, William Digby, the Indian au- thority, asserts that this is an over estimate. He says there is not so great an income, actually, for the SO0,0OO0OO of to-day as there was for 250,0000O0 of twenty years ago. He says that the total visible income of India in 1900 was s1, ,449, ,7ss ,5s5, which gives each indi- vidual less than $50 a year to live on. In the presidency of Madras he esti- mated that the income of the 34,oOO,OoO inhabitants is 5-S of a penny per head per day.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-27
Sale of Sample Scarfs and MuHS
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 During the dull sum- mer months we have kept our furriers busy build ing Furs for this falls custom, and we offer these Furs as an attraction to our storethis week. Early corners will have oppor- tunities that will not oc- cur again this season.
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 ScarfS. Reg. Weeks aeis s
 Price. Price. Sable Fox Short Scarf $20.00 S1200 Sable Fox Long Scarf 25.00 1900 Alaska Sable Short Scarf POGO 1900 Alaska Sable Long Scarf 5000 1900 Mink Short Scarf 5000 2O.00 Mink Long Scarf 4O.0O 5000
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 Muffs. Sable Fox Muffs, from $ 600 to s120O Alaska Sable Muffs, from 700 to 1900 Mink Muffs from 150O to 25.OO 4kkkk
 N. B.-We have always made spe- cialty of repairing and remodeling furs. Our workshop offers special advantages for the execution of this work prompt ty
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-27

The historian Pasquale' 'Villari having refused to accept a renomination as President of the Societa Dante Alighie- ri, the Deputy Rava has been chosen as his successor. This society was or ganized for the purpose of fostering the use of the Italian language in Tunis, Malta, Trieste, Marseilles, Tyrol and elsewhere where Italians congregate. The society numbers eighteen thousand members, and has the support of the government.