The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-11-18
WANTS AN EAR.
a Rich Western Man Offers Five
Thousand Dollars for One.
AND MANY ARE OFFERED TOHIM.
1 Will Help This Earless Man
If He Makes Life Easy
for Me, Says the
Crowd.

The New York American says scores
of women and girls, men and boys,
all eager to sell their ears for IS, 900,
came with rush last week to DR.. A.
L. Nelden's Office, in East Twenty
ninth street New York.
The doctor has rich patient, a
Western mining man, who will pay.
that sum for an ear which must be
grated on his head in place Of an ear
which be lost by accident. But the
ear must be perfect and Of precise
dimensions, as described in the follow
ing advertisement printed in the
morning newspapers, and which drew
the anxious persons who would barter
beauty for money:
S5,000.00 will be paid for right ear,
p inches long, II inches wide, with
perfect curves and full lobe. The ear
may be from either male or female and
must be from person in perfect
health. Offers by Lii considered.
DR.. A. T.. Nelden, l3 East 18th st.
FILLED AT ALL HOURS.
The doctors waiting room was filed
at all hours, and many stood outside.
Then they came singly, in twos and
threes, all the afternoon. At night
fall more than 100 ears had been ex-
amined, and the respective owners
names and addresses written down.
Others .who came later were turned
away and asked to come again today.
kilograms came by dozens from
men and women who live out Of town
and who are willing to sell an ear for
$4,000. Letters will ably arrive in
this mornings mail containing similar
offers. One telegram received fromsss
woman in Buffalo read as follows:
To DR.. A. L. Nelden: Read
your offer Of SIS, 900 for an ear. I
have a perfect ear, but have rea-
son to care no more for the ear or
other features upon which I once
prided myself. Let me know at
once if you want me to come on.
IT WAS A cHEERLEss GROUP.
In pitiful contrast to the gay
parade Of the Fifth avenue throngs in
the sunshine Sunday afternoon was
the odd assortment OF men and VIC
men who slipped through the process
sio1 into the shadow Of Twenty-ninth
street to collect in a silent, unfriend-
ly, cherries group in front Of the Of
fee Of DR.. a. L. Nelden.
To sell an ear for IS, 900 these in.
dividuals, representing all degrees OF
life, came from all parts Of the city
and outlying districts. That others
were apparently willing to have their
cars severed for a small fortune did
not tighten the gloom Of any who
stood waiting at the doctors door. It
simply added to the, bitterness OF
rivalry.
Whatever had been the object Of
the surgeon in stating that he must
have a good ear to graf upon a rich
patient from the West and WIS will
ing to pay $4,000 to any man or wo-
man who would give up the needed
ear, it did not enter into the consid-
GRAFTON Of the earnest men and women
who besieged his door. They had
read his advertisement in the newspa-
pers and came ready to receive the
money and turn over the ear.
BRINGS A sHAPELY EAR.
One of the Grst Of those to arrive
with ears to sell was young woman
about twenty EIGHT years Of age. She
was attired plainly, but evidently had
seen more prosperous days. Her eyes
lacked lustre, her shoulders were
slightly rounded, and her face was
prematurely marked with the lines
and wrinkles Of worry and trouble.
Her ears, however, were small and
shapely.
Does the doctor live here that
wants to buy an ear for s5, ,000?" she
timidly asked the girl who answered
her ring Of the bell.
"You want the doctor to look at
your ear?" the girl asked, with a
tinge of curiosity in her tone, for up
to this time she had seen men only.
Eyes," the young woman answered,
and then she asked eagerly: He
hasn't bought the ear yet, has he?"
"No," answered the girl. You
may step in and wait for him." and
the young woman joined the throag
in the ante-room.
Murdered a Family.