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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-06-23

, pOSGeu dill over Cle surrounding
country and the smaller posters with
the list of prizes have been issued this
week and will be sent out by Secretary
Scheen. The list of prizes will be as
follows:
CALLITHUMPIAN PARADE.
First prize-Group of five men foot
or mounted, $1,000.
Second prize-Best makeup mount
ed, $500.
Third prize-Best makeup on foot,
$500.
Fourth prize-Best animal in ,har-
ness, So. SO. s 49, .ssis4.az.s.
Fifth prize Best horse and gig with
two passengers, $3.50.
Sixth prize Horseless carriage,
gasoline automobiles excepted, Sl.5O
Seventh prize-Best makeup by any
boy under twelve, S1.00.
Eighth prize-Best makeup by; any
boy under ten, $780,
Ninth prize Best makeup as an In
dian, IS cents.
Tenth prize-Best makeup as a
negro, IS cents.
No participant entitled to more than
one prize.
FOOT RACES AND OTHER SPORTS.
Boys race: (boys fourteen years
and under.) rs rods.
First, 81, second, $3.50, third, 81.
Mems race, (between fifteen and
eighty-fve years of age.) Single
dash Is rods. First, $3.50, second,
$3.50, third, 81. =
Girls race, (any age.) Single dash
fifteen rods. First, 50, second, So,
third, ST..
Potato race, (boys only.) 80 po-
tatoes. First, 50, second, $3.50,
third, ST.
Sack race. Ten rods, First, $3.50,
second, 81, third SO cents.
Creased pole. Prize, S. or watch.
Creased pig. Prize of So and pig.
Races for farmers boys only. (Six-
teen years or under.) Prizes of So,
Sl and SO cents. Races to be run
separately by four groups as follows:
Group of boys north of town, group
south Of town, group east of town and
group west of town. Four separate
races, with three prizes EACH A fifth
race will be run by first winners in
the four races, with prize of SIS to the
winner.
All who desire to enter races must
leave names with the secretary, T. f..
Scheen, not later than Saturday even
ing, July End.
There will be interesting exercises
at the grand stand just before dinner
Rev. Gratz will deliver the address
and there will be music by the Prince
ton quartette.
The biggest and best attraction of
the whole celebration will be the grand
barbecue at noon hour when all will
be hungry and ready to partake of
the piece de resistance, in the shape
of a fat and finely roasted OK which
will be served free to all. Robt.
Chapman, colored caterer of Min
neapolis, will have charge of the
roasting and serving of the OK and he
will have corps of assistants who
will help him. He shines when it
comes to barbecue and knows just
how to roast the OK properly and give
tia rich and juicy flavor. He will be
on hand early and make preparations
for the roasting and will see that
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
Labor Contract Law.

Following is tie law in relation to
laborers contracts, as amended at the
recent session of the general assembly:
Section l. Be it. enacted by the
general assembly of the State OF South
Carolina. That the Criminal Code
(Vol. 2, Code of Laws, 1902, be
ammended by adding after Section
35S a Section, to be known as Section
351a, to read as follows:
!. Section 357a. That a conviction Of
either party mentioned in, Section
355 and Section 357 Of the Criminal
Code (Vol. ?, Code Of Laws, 1902, for
violation of such contract as is men
toned in said sections snail not
operate as rlief ordiScharge Of such
persons from the performance OF any
part Of said contract which is to be
performed subsequent to the date Of
the breach for which such conviction
was had: Provided, however, That
such persons shall not be crirainally
liable for the non-p performance of arty
obligation due to be performed during
the period Of time such person may be
underpoinp priSOnment.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
1he Race Problem is Not New.

Joel Chandler Harris, than whom
the south has produced no keener OBJ.
server or more forceful writer, has
contributed to the Philadelphia Satur-
day Evening Post three interesting.
articles on the negro problem"
Those who talk about the negro
pic blem" for the sole purpose OF max
ing political carital out Of the ques-
tion would do we'll to read, digest; and
act upon Mr.. Harris" review Of the
subject. He clearly shows that the
so-called NEGRO problem" IS merels
the problem which "all individually
and all races have had to contend with
at one time or another, and there is
mo solution save hard work and right
living.'' Mr.. Harris points out-and
proves-that the negro's situation in
the south is nothing like so bad as Ia
the north, for while southern negroes
are earning a living by pursuing Yar-,
Gus trades and callings in which the
whites are also engaged, northern me-
groes are not allowed to compete With
the whites in any but the most menial
and improbable calliDgs. MI. Har-.
ris sums up the question briefly when
he declares: The trouble aeretofore
with educated negroes is that they
have insisted on Swarming into poll
tics or into the pulpit. Up to date
they have made the poorest kind Of
politicians and, with a few notable ex-
ceptions, very inferior preachers. .
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
Nearer. Ny God. To Thee.

This hymn has singular history,
and is d proof of the fact that God
chooses strange means and instruments
at times to accomplish his purpose.
TIE writer. Mrs. Adams, was the
daughter Of a couple who first met in
Newgate jail, England, the father
being political offender. 1t is said
that Mrs. Adams was Unitarian:
:,pt the Trinitarian spirit of the hymn
is 50 evident in every line. that 1t has
been accepted and sung by Christians
throughout the world. 1t was written
rs personal experience. and a mem
orial Of answered prayer. r.-Selected.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
Two Contest Cases.

Mr.. Shafroth's refusal to hold a con-
gressional seat tainted with fraud
serves to recall another contest case.
recently decided in congress. The
Shafroth case reminds US Of the other
one because it was so different. MI.
Howell was elected to congress on an
independent ticket in a Pennsylvania
district, defeating Mr.. Connell, the:
machine republican candidate. Con-.
nell began contest proceedings and.
was seated by a vote that was almost
partisan-one Republican from
Pennsylvania and two Republicans
from New York having the honesty
to vote to retain Howell. The Phila-
delphia North American thus speaks
of the case: 'Howell's election was
not only a fact, but it was distinct
triumph for independence against
machine trickery. Connell, a Re
publican, was able to prevent Eowells
receiving the straight Democratic
nomination, yet was fairly beaten at
the polls. And though his methods
are well known, and though Howell is
poor. man, he goes before congress
and accuses the successful candidate
of corruption. The testimony did not
in the least justify change in the
result. But party loyalty triumphed
over decency, and the will Of the vot-
ers vas defeated by dishonest judg-
ment in the house of representatives"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
Complete Mastodon Found.

The complete form of a mastodon
has been discovered at Hillside, on
Quartz Creek, according to dispatch
from Dawsun, y. T. 1t was imbedded
SO feet il the earth when found and
the use Of a steam thawing plant was
necessary to nnearth the immense
animal. The hair and the skin Of the
beast are said TO be in a perfect state
Of preservation, although the flesh is
somewhat decompcsed, and the big
tuSks which remain fastened to the
skull are in good condition. 1t is
estimated that the skeleton is worth
about $4,000, as there are but one or
two in existence. in as good condition
as is this. The mastodon was dis
covered buried in an old channel. well
within the zone of almost perpetual
frost, which accounts for it's excellent
preservation.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
Lost His Fingers.

The Augusta Chronicle says Willie,
the tive-year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
VI. F. Butler, residing at 5l9 Broad
street, had the thumb Of one hand
and two fingers of the other hand cut
off Wednesday morning by a lawn
mower. The little fellow was in the
back yard of the home, with the other
children Of the household. Wille's
larger brother had the lawn mower
playing With it. Willie had wagon.
In some way the wagon became fas-
tened in the lawn mower and Willie
was endearoring TO eXtricate 1T. He
moved the machine without thinking
OF his great danger. and the heavy
blades OF the machine caught both
hands. doing tie above damage. The
little fellow was quickly extricated
from the machine by those who heard
his cries and rushed to the scene, and
carried into the house. Physicians
were hastily summoned and the am
putated fingers given surgical atten-
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
Killed His Brother.

At Spartanburg Thursday playfully
pointing an old cap pistol at his
brother, pulling the trigger and not
realizing the danger, Boyd Bailey,
aged Ii years, was shot and Instantly
killed oy his brother, a 12-year-old
lad. a bullet frem the weapon having
entered the boys forehead. The boys
were at home alone at the time, their
parents having left to attend funeral
of a friend, and upon their way home
the parents were informed of the sad
tragedy that had fallen over their
bright and happy home during their
absence. The killing was purely &C.
cidental. The younger brother did
aot know the weapon was loaded, and
they had been playing with it some
time before the accident occurred.
The accident has cast shadow over
the neighborhood where the Baileys
1ira6
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
A Family Tragedy.

Another family tragedy, similar to
the Beseke case, occurred Wednesday
at Pankow, a suburb Of Berlin, Ger
many. Theodore Brambach, a com :
rnercial traveller, took his wife and
sen to the circus on Tuesday evening,
and after returning home. the family
sat down to a supper. After his wife
and son nad gone to bed, Brambach
turned on the gas, but the rooms were
too well ventilated aud this plan Of
death failed Wednesday morning
Brambach shot his son and his wife
and ther himself, having previously
sent a servant toa friend With letter
explaining his act. 9rambach. like
Lieutenant Beseke. had lived far be-
;ond his means and had become in
volved in financial difficulties.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
Modern School Fads.

The Raleigh Times says "once in
while We see in the north, aSlwell as
the south, some allusion to the modern
''fads'' in use in the graded schools
Of the country. A school teacher can
be the most exclusive, undisturbed
humbug on the face OF the earth.
This is so, for the reason that 9s peo
pie out 100 pay no attention to the
education Of their children. They buy
the books, pencils and tablets, which.
they are directed to get, and having
done this, they consider their duty
perfoSmed-the balance isdone, by the
teacher and pupil. We sas.ll not be
surprised to see return to Webster's
old spelling book and reading and writ
ing and arithmetic, done as it was
half a century ago. 1t is surprising
to see how many college students use
bad grammer and cannot even spell
words OF ordinary use. Children used
to learn the alphabet before spelling,
and spelling before reading, but now
they read before they know the alpha
bet, OF can spell the simplest words.
The test Of these new methods are
passing through the crucible; and il
they do not prove better than the old
plan they will be apt to return to the
methods Of the fathers
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
He Has Skipped.

A few nights ago Mr.. W. S. Cooper,
who has been for several months the
agent Of the Southern Railway at
Honea Path, quietly took his trunk
from the hotel and left for parts un-
known. When the hotel-keeper in
ouired about him next morning it was
found that he had left money to pay
his board bill, and, as far as your cor
respondent can learn, he settled all
bis bills in town and was straight IN
his accounts with the railroad COM
pany. It was reported that he left
without even resigning his position,
but it is not definitely known whether
or not this report is true. There is
no reason known here why he should
have left secretly, more than is con-
tanned IS an unconfrmed, but perSiS-
tent, rumor that there is the newt
able woman in the case.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
How 4hout Ohio?

At Chicago Wednesday night in d
meeting preliminary to the general
conference OF the African Methodist
church. Bishop Charles S. Smith, OF
Detroit Mich. urged that the United
States should acquire the island OF
San Domingo as place OF refuge for
the negro race. Who are passive and
non-resentful in the face Of such bar
barities as the recent burning OF col
ored people in Georgia and Mississip-
pi,: he asked. A number Of the
higher officials of the African church
were present at the meeting and the
speech of Bishop Smith was loudly
applauded.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
OurhtIO Have 1t.

Mrs. Mamie Bonds has filed suit for
divorce in the district court OF Beau
mont. Texas. alleging that she recent
ly' became converted to the Baptist
faith. and that her husband, J. T..
Bonds, perSiStently. and without any
valid and legitimate reason. refuses to
permit her TO be baptized, causing
her great mental anguish and fear OF
losing her soul, causing her to be es-
tIanged from her husband by reason
OF his scOtling remarks, and that life
with him is unbearabIe and prosecu-
tion.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
WHAT CIGARS DID.
Jokes AS He Goes to Have His
Tongue Taken Out.

The New York American says three
hundred thousand black cigars have
bitten into Maguire's tongue until
cancer has claimed it for it's own and
the doctors will have to take it out.
The tongue must come out, and
"Tom" awaits the operation with
philosophy, declaring that he has
heard his own voice long enough.
The veteran Of the Rialto smiles
bravely as he talks of the knife and
blames not Fate, but himself.
1T is my fault" declared Mcguire.
II learned to smoke at ffteen-1 will
be fifty in Septenber-and for twenty
years I have smoked twenty OF the
blacklist cigars I could get every day.
1t seemed impossible to get cigars
black enough. I was a fool. l see
that now, but I did not know it then. .
Two years ago Mcguire discovered
that he had cancer Of the tongue.
Radium was tried, and he has just
finished nine weeks treatment with
the N-rays. The doctors Of the New
York Skin and Cancer Hospital, in
order to save his life, decided on an
operation.
1T may be for few hours OF for
few weeks" said Mcguire, according
to the success Of the operation. For
day will be in preparation. After
that the surgeons will do what they
want with me. What will my last
words be? Nothing particular. l will
not preserve my voice in phonograph.
T have heard it enough Liquid fooc
and no speech will be my fate, if
survive the operation. I"
Professor William Seaman Balm
bridge, who will perform the delicate
operation, admitted that the patient
might acquire moderate degree o
speech in time. The lingual arteries
which supply the blood to the tongue
will be severed and carefully tied, AM
the glands under the tongue re
moved. In about five days the wount
will heal and then the tongue will b
removed from its very roots.
Despite the common belief Whlcl
Mcguire shares, experience shows tina
speech is not necessarily deprived t
the tongueless. A proper control O
the muscles of the back Of the throa
will enlarge the scope Of the guttura
utterances so as to make the patien
understood. The absence Of tn
tongue means, of course, liquid die
hereafter.
Mcguire is son Of the late Ton
Mcguire, the famous Californian the
atrical manager. he managed sew
eral theatres in San Francisco, an
came to New York in 1882. The doc
tors say Maguire's malady was cause
by holding his cigar always On tn
same side of the mouth.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16

as follows TO the SpflDS lelu hepup4l-
can:
Will you give me space to testify
publicly my grateful appreciation OF
Mr.. GarriSon'S courage and fidelity IN
rebuking in the Republican of the
a6th inst, DR.. Edward Everett Hale.S
gross Gifence to good morals, not TO
say religion. in his culogy in the Sen
ate chamber OF the late senator
Hanna:
The column OF newspaper comments
on iIanna's death which you repro
duced in the Republican Of the 18th
inst. was surely melancholy enough
reading: for out Of the whole number
only two spoke the truth-the Boston
Herald and the New York Evening
Post. But none Of these struck so
low a note as l'r. Hale, the dean, IN
some sense. Of our Unitarian clergy.
The man who, by age, position and ex-
perience. ought to have spoken high
and reSounding word for public NOR
aiity and civic conscience. |, for one,
am inexpressibly shocked to hnd 1t
possible that an eminent clergyman OF
the liberal faith can be so ignorant or
so misguided as to call Hanna a
whole-souled child Of Cod say ig'
norant. for does not DR.. Hale know
what all the rest Of the world knows
that this man was simply the most
ACCOMPLISHED political trader our cen
tury and more Of partisan politics has
produced? Did be not know that MS
advent in our national politics was a.
the unblushing purchaser, for casf
and for offices, Of the greater part Of
the Southern delegates at the St
Louis Convention which nominated
Mckinley in 1896? Bribery and cor
ruption are always vile, but their vi
/ lest aspect is seen in the buying Of ig
norant colored delegates, who, Of al
men, most need the protection ant
guidance of men who engage as lead
! ers ia our politics. Was ever crime
deeper or hypocrisy more glazing thar
when this man went with bribeS tt
debauch the representatives OF q rac'
and people whom he was loudly pro
claiming were the victims Ct South
ern white prejudice and injustice
Hapna'S one only conception Of polite
was business. the business of maxim!
money by politics: OF carrying conven
Lions and elections by money. AM
ret Dr.. Hale, representative, to de
gree. Of Boston culture, OF BoSto'
morality and religion, holds this nal
before the nation, and especially be
fore the youth of this country, as :;
whole-sculed child Of God" II
more shocking or debasing word ha
ever been uttered by d professe'
teacher of morality I cannot recall it
D. II. Chamberlain.
Columbia, S. c., February 2S, 1901
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
Easter and Flowers.

The use of flowers in Easter deco
rauions was derived, according to anti
quarians, from the Druids. While
palms and lilies are the close asSo-
ciates Of Easter in the south lands, in
English villages the young willow
boughs bursting into bloom are usu.
ally substituted. In Roumania and
Asia Minor all the houses are wreath
ed with budding branches of weeping
willow.
While the stately Easter lily, with
all it's beautiful associations, seems
the fitting symbol for sacred usos in
the sanctity Of the church, for house
and table decorations nothing can
compare with daifodils, jonquils or
the delicate narc;SSl
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
Total ..........-..... st. sos IL
Contractor S profit, 10 per cents3 $500 9o
s4O,26s 50

VtV:Ao0 w
Let it be noted now that the 6rst
two items, 81, 1920 and s7i3.16, and
the last two, $3.50 and s17, 4s.55 were
in no way, directly or indirectly a
part of the contract made by the
commission with the contracting COM
pany. Take eff. therefore, s26, ,l04.Sl
from the $40. 0.26S.69. An appropria-
tion Of s2,6s2 has been made for a
new roof. A new roof may be neces-.
sary, but the old commission, whose
word there is no re :on to doubt, says
that there is on file in the office OF
the secretary Of State guarantee.
bond on this roof for ten years
given not by McIlvain, Unkefer
Company, but by the roofing concern
that put it up. Deduct this amount
also from the forty thousand dollar
negligence. Other items seem ques-
tionable. On the whole, it looks as II
there were a dseire to magnify the
negligence of the commission and to
blame them for what they are in no
way responsible. This being the case
although the work still appears to be
shoddy, we are not willing TO join in
the condemnation Of anybody with
those who, as it seems to Us, employ
unfair methods. We are sorry the leg
islature did not allow the old commis:
Fsion full and free hearing. Possibly
there's some politics in this business. =
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
Many pennle Drowned.

y special dispatch from Paris an
nounces that the French steamer
Cambodge (of 22.3:55 tonS,) which left
Rangoon February l. for Cochin
China. and European ports, has been
wrecked ina storm of the coast OF
Cochin-China. The Cambodge carried
one hundred passengers, mostly
Annamese. About fifty OF them were
drowned.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16

A CHARMING widow living in Coun-
Gil Bluffs took advantage of Leap Year
the other day, and after much persua-
sion won a husband in spite Of her
fifty years. Her dowry was one thousand
bushels of corn and the mai: accepted
because he was a moonshiner.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16

~: and women everywhere should
uaite to honor his name-a name
which the South must surely write,
ia iIlumiued characters on her his
toric page,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
Nothing But Politics.

The Spartanburg Herald says lit is
not just to censure a commission for
things outside Of its responsibility,
nor by insinuation to reflect upon its
competency OF its faithfulness. AS
we have before said, the tone Of the
report Of the investigating committee
was far from admirable and suggests
to discerning minds that personal an
linus might have played part with ev-
idence in formulating the report. It
has been heralded over the state that
the legislature had appropriated $780,
900 "to complete the completion of
the State Housen-as some have ex-
pressed it. The work was OF such a
character, it has been said, that $780,
900 had to be appropriated to repair
it. The following is an itemized list
Of the work provided for by the act OF
the legislature referred to:
Painting walls and woodwork
etc., senate chamber, house
of representatives, committee
rooms and main lobby. I, ,16l 20
Painting arches in corridors 743 Is
Pepairing ceilings in library
and house Of representatives l,506 90
New ceiling in main lobby. l,5l4 90
Structural steel for support
ing ceilings 1880 90
New roof. ........ 1852 90
Structural steel for support.
ing ceilings. ....-l, 62z 90
Doors for arches on front aud.
rear porticos. ........... 450 w
Heating and ventilating plantl7 74s 80
Tota, 36. 608 81
Contractor'S profit, 10 per cents3, $50 8o
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16

The naval board at Washington
wants IS battleships. The appropri-
alton by the present congress will
probably be s120, 600, 900, and $780,
900. 900 for several years. hereafter.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16

If the soil is worn and washed and
thin, and lacks vegetable matter and
humus, then use more G. S. Meal.
If fyou wish to use live cotton seed
then use pounds in place Of one Of
G.. S. Meal.
The quantity of any Of these to be
used, depends upon how much crop
you wish to make and how much mon
ay you are willing to invest in the
crop.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-16
CHAMBERLAIN SPEAKS OUT
And Rebukes Preacher for Saying
Hanna Was :, Saint.

Ex-Gov. D. Fl. Chamberlain writes
as follows to the Springfield Republl-