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The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-29

enjoys hearty meal. Not that this
meal will be big enough to satisfy him
entirely. He is great gourmandizer
and he will have three more meals
before the night is over.
He Gets His FavOrite Newspaper,
Dinner over, he goes to look I'D
some of his old acquaintance. He
Will find them in the different lodging
; houses about town or, if he fails, ne
can go to the Mills Hotel and spend
a comfortable hour reading his fayo-
rite evening paper.
1t must not be understood from this
; that the Mills Hotel supplies its 20
cent-a-night guests with the news
papers. But in one of the two big
courts of the hotel are dozens of the
more prosperous boarders, reading
their papers. The tramp looks about
him until he sees his favorite journal
and then takes a chair as near the
reader as possible. In twenty min
utes or half an hour. the reader fin
lshes, throws down his paper and
walks away. That is the mans
chance. He quietly picks up the paper
and enjoys himself until he tires of it,
when, if he feels inclined, he will have
a game of checkers or dominoes. This
he manages by getting into conversa-
ton with one of the guests and the
latter's ticket procures the game with
no cost to anyone.
The evening spent thus pleasantly,
he walks down the Bowery to his no.
tel and secures his bed. explaining
that he had mis- meal first, because he
had to see a man about getting a Job
A Free Laundry.
AS soon as he is settled, the butter
fly begins to emerge from the cocoon.
The tramp takes a bath and, if he
happens to have been sent to one of
the shelters, he washes his clothes
and hangs them in a patent dryer.
They are dry by the time he has fin
ished his bath.
At 10 o'clock he goes to Madison
Square. There he joins a line of men
and receives the coffee and sandwiches
given out free every night from a
great furniture van hired by the firm
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Use. He does call, but not to get work
For such cases the Salvation Army
has four or five shelters.
To one or the other of these the
tramp is sent. But he does not go
there directly. He knows that the
manager will have some odd Jobs -
DO about the house and that these
jobs will be given to the first dodgers
who present free tickets. Besides that,
he is hungry and he wants to eat.
The ticket he has received from
army headquarters is in two sections,
one for a nights lodging, the other
for meal The army houses do not
have restaurants. They have, instead.
an arrangement with a nearby eating
house by which these tickets are hon
ored at a value of 10 or 10 cents, as
the case may be. The army afterwards
redeems the tickets.
The gentleman tramp knows which
restaurant each lodging house has
made arrangements with and so he
heads there, presents his ticket and
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-29

and very much a victim of a cruel
world. He always wants work-of
course He is going to start right out
IN the morning and look for a po-
sition, but he has only just come to
town and has not had time to do any
thlng as yet. Meanwhile, he is hungry
and does not know where to sleep. He
has no money and no friends. What
is he to do?
ordinarily, the Salvation Army
makes a man work for what they give
him. They do all they can to keep
from being victimized, but, at or 6
o'clock at night, there is nothing TO
give a man to do-and the applicant
knows it. Therefore, they think it
better to give him bed and a meal
and look into his case the next day.
The Tramp's First Dinner.
The tramp shuffies out, carrying with
him ticket emitting him to a meal
and bed, and leaving behind a prom
Use to call the next morning and try
to get work. This is not an idle prom
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-29

kCopyright, 1903, by Samuel R. Will
letts)
His linen is always clean, he is
well-bathed and well-shAved, and his
clothes are neat and fit him to per-
fection. All day long he lounges at
dis ease among his friends. He reads
his paper in the morning and evening.
lie hears good music when he so de-
sires. Books he has in plenty when
ever the reading mood is on him, and
time enough to read them and com
Portable chair to sit in. He ffas few
cares and never wants for the COM
forts of life, yet he does no work and
The feel OF a coin is unknown to him.
He Is the polished diplomat-the
aristocrat of 'the world of graft"
Everything he gets is given to MIN
Tree. lie is tramp, perhaps, but
vastly different one from the tramp
of the humorists. He does no beg
ging from door to door and dirt is
unknown to him. He is, in fact a
well-bred. well-groomed gentleman of
leisure on nothing a year.
IL takes keen wit and a thorough
knowledge Of the city to do this, but
1t can be done. 1t simply requires a
Well-planned campaign of which a
dozen or more charitable institutions
are made the victims.
The Tramp Energies.
The aristocrat of trampdom reaches
the city Late in the afternoon. He has
been travelling all day on a freight
train and his face and linen are grirny
and soot-covered and his coat is torn
de is hungry, too, and a four or five
days growth of beard makes him seem
like anything but the prosperous look
1ng gentleman he will soon blossom
into.
First of all, he makes for Four
teenth street, if he lands in New York.
lie can work his game for the longest
period of time in the metropolis, al
though he spends several weeks of
each year in Philadelphia, Washing
ton, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburg and a
few other cities.
On Fourteenth street is the national
headquarters of the Salvation Army.
hhe tIamp's objective point. He shut
files in about O'Clock in the afternoon.
with consummate art, he assumes the
air of man very tired, very hungry
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-29
The LITERARY OUTLOOK
Brand Whitlock Both Noted Lawyer and Writer-A View
OF Yellow JournaIism-Who j. P. Mowbray
Was-Joseph Conrads Work
By HERBERT BREWSTER.

1t is not often that a man may be-
come famous in two widely separated
fields. Brand Whitlock is one of the
few who are coming to that distinc-
ton. In his home city, Toledo, O., he
ds known as one of the best criminal
lawyers in the state; the book world
al1nows him only as the author of 1.-THE
Thirteenth District" and as a writer
of short stories. It is in this latter
field that Mr.. Whitlock engages at
tention. He is the kind of a writer
who writes only because he has a story
Ito tell rather than because he thinks
he must tell a story. His profession
brings him into touch with life as few
professions can. The other day he was
engaged on a case involving over $780,
900, when a woman came to him with
the request that he try to rescue her
wayward daughter. Mr. Whitlock
dropped his important case at once
and a reunited family's happiness was
his reward. 1t is just this sort of thing
(which makes all of his friends love
MIN, and it is such experiences that
gives him his hold life when he
comes to express the thing in a story.
Not long ago Mr.. Clarence S. OAR
row, one of the leading lawyers of Chi
cago, made Mr.. Whitlock most tempt
ing offer to join him in his Chicago
firm.
II couldn't take it," said Mr.. Whit
lock afterwards. because I'm doing
some real good here and I'm able TO
write here when 1 fell 1 must write"
Sometime during the summer Mr.
whitlock will complete his second
novel, a story of life In a small Ohio
town, which will be brought out this
fall.
f. W. Townsend in his last book,
pLees and Leaven," knows, of course,
what he is writing about when II
comes TO telling of Journalism as IT is
,practiced, so the following description
Eof yellow Journal methods may be TAX
sen as a fair picture:
Young Paxton, who had made a rep
aitatioD as a poet and humorist on the
white River Advocate comes 10 New
York, with his sister Grace, tempted
by am offer from the yellow Chronicle.
"Bowards first visit 10 the cbron-
1cie was an experience. He found cha |
os IN the reporters room.
II don't think ] could do very much |
ngork out there" he said 20 Carson. tho |
ignanaRing editor, and that wOrthy's |
reply WAS. with an assurance that the 4
special writer should have a room 10 |
himself somewhere;
"Oh, that's the boiler shopi The kind |
Of work We 90 out there would come 70
z stapestiil ~ ~ kept things quiet
kibs theory n that nothing hers must
- allowed 20 fail into rut and n men
80 @A-Dsee " N0rk andes b0EpaAs o0sA~
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PROPOSALS WANTED

FORT FREMONT. S. c.. MARCH "a
i ~ sealed proposals in triplicate will
,oos ie sS until $3.50 a. m. April ~.
isv9, Tor constructing Administrator
Building here. Informafion s,,n,asu,lD y =
on application. U. &. raaer,,s-
right 70 reject or accept any or an n -
poeals or any part thereof FnveienS.
containing proposals should b. me -.
ca proposals for Administrator B,,a,1 :
W., ADDRESSED QuartsrmastsE, Fort
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ditions their work becomes normal
We want abnormal work; we want
| men who are putting the news, the To-
cal matter, the features, the suburban
| stories into shape to be under pres
sure of excitement. to be a bit ratified
| a little insane in truth; for then they
are likely to be seized with novel
startling-fancies as to the manner and
| form their work should take"
Carson went on Some men can't
| stand it; they break down in health or
go wholly insane. A little insanity
isn't bad thing. We've had lots of
stunning features suggested by men
we were nursing along to keep 'em
| from going wholly mad. But we don't
subject our special and editorial writ
ers to that strain" Concerning the
editorials, Carson explained that the
deadly commonplace was wanted.
THAT STYLE" he said, carries an air
of profound wisdom to our class of
readers" Howard got more light on
the Chronicles methods from Turnbill.
one of the star reporters.
Have you made a long engagement
with the Chronicle?" asked Turnbill.
at the dinner table.
No length of enga cement has been
mentioned" Howard answered.
A contract without a time limit?"
"A contract?"
Il don't want to appear inquisitive;
but have you no oontract?"
N-no. Our correspondence was tel
egraphic," and he repeated the sense
of the message he had received from
Carson.
''Turnbill inverted the glass from
which he had been drinking and spill
ed its remaining drop of wine on the
floor. Not worth that!' he said.
And this is the training school of
some of our modern novelists.
A few days ago the newspapers
chronicled the death of Andrew c.
Wheeler. better known as "Nym Grin
kle" and up to that time, his identity
with u. p. Mowbray" was never
known save to his publishers. The
statement came like a startling reve-
lation. Mr.. Wheeler had earned a Just
fame as 'Nym Crinkle" and had re.
tired from active newspaper work to
a country home I'm Rockland county.
New York. Then one of his friends. the
editor Of New York paper, asked him
70 write some papers on Nature. Thus
began the Journey 10 Nature" signed
). r. M The essays were brought
out IN book form and 20 many inqul-
res came 90 the publishers that Mr..
wheeler told them 10 say that j. +. NJ.
wsH }. y. Aowbray. retired Wall
street broker Then be wrote Tangled
W ~ beplah Lana" and other pub
llehing nFns began 20 write % Mr..
siDWbfay TOT articles, MT. Wheeler
however, ksDi the secret ~ authorship
ana shortly before bic death, a0mplet-
Cd another . y. al h0ok. tTbe ON
assIi4g u EaGe," Ghis stoTE siil BE-
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-29

One of the very best books of the
spring season, among all the works
of fiction thus far brought out, is Mr..
Joseph Conrad's Youth" The volume
is made up of three NOVELTIES,
Youth" THE Heart of Darkness" and
1.-THE End of the Tether" Marvellous
in English are these three tales of
earth's waterways, SO good, indeed,
that very likely they will not be pop
uIar. 1t used to be said that nothing
was so good for a young writer as to
read Stevenson. Now one might al
most say instead, read Conrad. The
breath of the sea, the spirit of advent
ure, the enthusiasm of youth which
lives in all men who look forward are
in these stories. Mr.. Conrad is a ma
tive of Southern Poland-a fact which
makes his wonderful command of
English more astonishing. His father
was noted critic, and poet, and was,
for long time, editor of a patriotic
review at Warsaw. The son did not
stay long at home. The sea claimed
him and one cannot doubt he went
through all the adventures which he
now relates in his books. The English
critics look to Conrad as the coming
great writer of their tongue. 1t is to
be hoped that we may make his bet
ter acquaintance here.
George AIDE is acquiring wealth so
rapidly through his two comic operas.
The Sultan of Sulu" and pretty
Peggy that he will probably give IN
writing his Fables and stories. In
Babel' is the title of his last collection
of tales. The volume will appear in
a month.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-29

issued in two or three weeks. There is
little doubt now but that Mr.. Wheeler
will be remembered as 81. P. Now
bray" long after "Nym Crinkle" is for
gotten,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-05

fled. Nearly Ill OF them have llt1!e
money. They debated whether 10
kill their hostages or turn them loose,
but inally they decided to let them 90
unharlned. About 100 shots were
exchanged in the battle at Pilot HUI.
The fight at Pilot Hill "Wednesday
night between the convicts and their
Dursuers seems to have been a more
serious affair than at first reported.
After they had looted provision store
at Pilot Hill they were practically
surrounded by the sheriffS of Sacra-
mento and PiacerS counties. each COM
mauding strong posse. All four
horses on the convicts wagon were
shot and one OF the criminals was kill
cd outright. Then the outlaws raised
u white flag and marched up the road
with the guards and Others whom
they haG captured on each side Of
them. \ general volley was not or
dered. as it might have killed several
innocent men. In this deliberate
manner the second escape was made.
The pursuing officers have been IN
structed to shoot the convictS on sight
and their death or capture in the near
future is expected
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-05
A Distiller in Trouble.

a Special tosThe State from Pickens
SAYS Chief Constable c. L. Cu'eton
of that division assisted by 4. T.
McCrayy and G. w. Coleman Thursday
set a watch over government d!stilery
No 239, operated by j. D. Stansell.
1t was not long before they saw Stan
sell 90 into the cistern room and in a
few minutes he emerged with a
tin bucket containing two gallons OF
whiskey and started with it toward
his house. The officers pursued and
soon captured him. They contlscated
the whiskey and brought Stansell to
the magistrate at Pickens before
whom be pleaded guilty on a charge
of transporting and paid the fine OF
500 an unusual price for two gallons
of whiskey. The distillery will
probably be broken up.
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MANNING, S. c, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST5 1903

into the service. Nearly 10 persons
were saken t. the two hospitals with
in half an hour, while many more
whose injuries were Slight had their
wounds dressed and remained on the
scene, where they assisted in caring
for the less fortunate.
The explosion shook the city and
within half an bcur there were at
least 5000 people on the scene OF the
catastrophe. The crowd so badly
hindered the work of caring for the
wounded that the mayor sent out a
militia call. Three ompanies respond
ed aud three hours later had thrown a
Gordon of men around the district and
cleared the place Of every one except
those Immediately engaged in quench-
ing the flames and searching for VIC
Tins.
Two hundred yards further down
the river from the second magazine
the fremen suddenly came across The
bodies Of four little boys who We're
about to have swim. \ fifth men,
Der Of the part was in the river when
the explosion occurred, and escaped
without inilry.
Apparently the force from this sec
ond magazine was expended in two di-
REGIONS, north and south. On the
north it completely demolished the
house Of William Riggs, about 90
yards away, almost burying Mrs.
Riggs, and badly injuring her little
son. Mrs Riggs died before being
taken to the hospital.
On the other side OF She magazine
was a grove Of trees, through which
the explosion tore path 80 feet wide
for distance OF nearly 300 yards.
The four little boys were caught in
the centre Of this path, and three
were Instantly killed, the body Of one
of them being frightfully mutilated,
the head being completely blown OF.
The fourth was alive when he was
discovered by the police and tiremen
but did not long survive.
Most of the property destroyed CON
sisted of small buildings constructed
Of wood, and at a comparatively
small cost. The property loss, there
fore, will not be heavy.
The select men Of the town OF
Tewksbury believe that $4,000 will
cover the entire loss.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-05
SHE POISONED EIM.
a Georgia Woman Gives Her Hus.
band Strychnine For Quinine.

Recently Sheriff Rogers was sum-
moned to Gresstcn, : miles north OF
Eastman, to make arrest. Upon ar
irving on the scene he found mob of
over 500 threatening to lynch Robert
Cawthon, who they believe was in
conspiracy with Mrs. r. j. Tucker,
who gave her husband poison for
Quinine in a capsule the night before,
Tucker dying in less t! an an hour
after taking the dose.
Cawthon has been working on the
farm for Tucker for year or more,
and he and Mrs. Tucher we're exceed
ingly good friends. She says be ask
ed her to kiss him once. He says her
careSSes were at his command. She
says some time ago CaWthon told her
he wanted to marry rich widow, and
that she was the widow, or would be
if she would help him.
On June 22nd, it is said, he went
to Empire and bought some strych-
nine from DIR. Kimberly to poison
dogs. 1t is said they put the poison
in a drink of whiskey that Tucker
had, knowing that sooner or later be
would drink it. On July 18th Joel
Horn, prosperous farmer, with his
wife was passing Mr.. fuckers home
and told Tucker he was not feeling
we'll and Tucker told him he had a
drink OF whiskey and to drink it, and
it would probably do him good. Horn
drank the whiskey and died before he
had cotton mile away.
Tuesday night Tucker took a cap
sule Of supposed quiDine and died of
poison in 30 minutes. Mrs. Tucker
says Cawthon gave it to him. Caw-
thon says she did it. They both
have partly confessed and it is believ-
ed they will fully confess before night.
Excitement is at fever heat, and it is
believed by many that an effort will
be made to lynch Cawthon Thursday.
The stomach was taken to Atlanta
Thursday morning for a chemical
analysis by DR.. Clarke. Had it not
been for tine timely arrival of Sheriff
Rogers, Cawthon would have been
dealt with at Gresston
Thursday Both man and woman are
now in Jail. An effort will be made to
have Judge Roberts hold a special
term of court for trial Of this case as
public sentiment demands speedy
Justice. Augusta Chronicle.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-05
Stole Safe and All.

4 special dispatch from Salley'S to
The State says last Friday night week
robbers entered the room Of Mr.. Sulil-
van Sawyer and stole small iron safe
containing about s15 in cash and sew
eral valuable papers. 1t is not known
how the robbers entered the house but
the supposition is that while Mr.. Saw
yer was eating supper the parties
went into his room and carried the
safe away. Saturday the safe was
found concealed in the woods near the
town but it had been opened and
everything carried away. Mr.. Saw
yer is one Of the most prosperous mer-
chants of the thriving little town Of
Perry. 1t is hoped that the guilty
partie;; will soon be caught and speedy
Justice meted out to them. This is
the second time that Mr.. Sawyer has
been robbed in the last month and it
seems that the robbers must be famll-
lar with the place and where the
money is kept. This ought to be d
lesson to all who keep their money
and papers in such places that can be
easily moved.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-05
AS TO Watches.

Everybody carries 4 watch nova
days men. women. girls and boys.
Prices range from 81 to as many thou
sands as one cares to expend in jew
e]ry settings. The 81 watch keeps
just as good time as the $4,000 one.
Did you ever consider the amount OF
labor performed by a good watch in
it's lifetime of SO years? The balance
wheel yibrates $4,000 times an hour,
1000 times day or l57,6So,0 600
times year. The hair spring makes
an equal number Of vibrations, and
there is the same number OF ticks
from the escapement. Multiply l57,-
$50, 900 by so and you have 1854, ,0e0,-
900 pulsations. Yet the watch is in
good condition at the end Of half a
century of labor.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-05
Bribe Takers Sentenced,

At St. Louis, Mo, Wednesday Judge
Ryan passed sentence on tive members
of the house Of delegates, four OF
whom were convicted of bribery and
one Of perjury in connection with
municipal franchise deals. Following
are those sentenced: John A. Sheri-
dan, bribery in connection with street
railway deal, five years: T. Edward
Albright, bribery, suburban deal, five
years: Jerry J. Hannigan, bribery,
suburban deal, five years: Louis
Decker, bribery, suburban deal. four
years: Emil Hartman, bribery, city
lighting bill six years. ALI filed ap-
peal bonds in the sum Of $4,000 each.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-05
Blind Tiger Clubs.

The Columbia State says Gov. Hey
wards attention has been called to the
fact that there is an increasing num-
ber of social clubs in the city, and it is
darkly hinted that some Of these clues
exists only for the purpose of selling
liquor. 1t is very delicate question.
Recently one Of these clubs on lower
Main street was raided and the conSta-
bles found an ice box in which were a
few bottles of beer and large num-
Der Of bottles of soda water. The
proprietors Of the club asked the CON
stables to leave the soft drinks.
Whereupon the constableS became
suspicious and upon opening the bot
ties supposed to be filled with sodo
water found instead that they were
loaded with real booze.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-05
4 Fatal Row.

A tragedy occurred in Mason county,
Tenn, last week, in which three men
we're killed and a fourth desperately
wounded The trouble occurred in
the home Of Miss Julia Bell while a
dance was in progress. Miss Bell, 1t
is said. had shown a preference for }.
Frets and Dick Mason. Tom Fields,
Clav House and Mike johnson attack
ed Frets, who it is said, began to
shoot with the result that the three
first named were killed and johnson
is thought to be mortally wounded.
Frets, it is said, shot only four times,
arginc a man each time.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-05
A Papular Governor.

The Pickens Sentinel-J Journal says:
2"Gor. Hayward has proven himself
every inch a man and is faithfully
carrying out with the people the
promises he made to them on the
stump. He is a clean man and a true
one and Furthermore, be is a man thai
is easily approached and lends a lis
tening ear gladly and willingly to any
APPEAL that will help his State or bis
people. Pickens county people are
proud of the record he is making and
will be ready to hold up his hands in
the discharge of his duty. Long Life,
good luck and several terms in the
gubernational chair, for the mantle
Of state is on most worthy and excel
lent shOulderS.7