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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28
An Odd Compliment.

An Irishman was in the COM
pany of a widow to whom he was
paying his addresses, when on
giving a shudder she made use
of the common expression that
someone was walking over her
grave.
Pat, anxious for every oppor-
tunity of showing his affection
for the lady Of his choice, ex-
claimed:
BY the powers, ma'am, but
I wish I was the happy man
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28
Q g . oRE ga
Bears the nThs Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature .: L@X2zzzzx
What's in a Name?

Everything is in the name when it
comes to Witch Hazel Salve. f. c. De-
Witt & Co. of Chicago: discovered some
wears ago how to make a salve from
Witch Hazel that Is a specific for Piles.
For blind, bleeding, Itching and pro
truding Piles, eczema, cuts, burns,
bruises and alf skin diseases, DeWjtt;s
Salve has no equal. This has giveh
rise to numerous worthless counter
feits. Ask for DeWitt's the genuine.
Sold by The r. B. Loryea Drug Store.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28
COPY SUMMONS. FOR RELIEF.

COMPLAINT NOT SERVED.
To the Defendants Above Named:
You are hereby summoned and re-
ouired to answer the complaint in this
action which will be filed in the Office
of the Clerk of Court Of Common Pleas.
for the said County, and to serve a copy
of YOUR answer to the said Complaint
on the subscriber at his Office at Man
ming, in said County. within twenty
days after the service hereof: exclu-
sive of the day of such service: and if
you fail to answer the complaint within
the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this
action will apply to the Court for the
relief demanded in the complaint.
You are further notified that the
Complaint in this action was, on the
26th day Of August, 1904, filed in the Of
flee of the Clerk of Court of Common
Pleas for said county, at Manning: in
said county.
Dated August 10Th, y. D. 1904.
W. C. DAVIS,
Plaintiff IS Attorney.
49-6tl
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28

I made enough out of Jones
last book to buy me a new auto
mobile. I may let Jones swing
on behind some day-if he's real
good.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28
Journal Of a Publisher.

I gave a dinner to sixteen au-
thors the other day. The poor,
starved devils ate me out Of
house and home!
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Clarendon.
By James NJ. Windham, Esq, Pro
bate Judge.

By James NJ. Windham, Esq, Pro-
bate Judge.
IN THE PROBATE COURT.
IJTHEREAS, R. w. Green made
w suit to me to grant him letters
of administration of the estate
of and effects of NJ. a. Green.
These are therefore to cite and
admonish all and singular the kin
dred and creditors of the said
NJ. A. Green, deceased, that they
be and appear before me, in the
Court of Probate, to be held at Man
ming. on the 29th day of September
next, after publication thereof, at II
o'clock in the forenoon, to show
cause, if any they have, why the
said administration should not be
granted.
Given under my hand this 14th
day Of September. A. D. 1904.
JAMES NJ. WINDHAM,
SEAL.
51-3t] Judge of Probate
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28

I have made the fortunes Of no
less than a dozen popular auth.
ors; and yet none Of 'em has ever
bad the gratitude to come to me
ard say "Here's halfw
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28
Some Uldtime Philosophy.

Take away everything to growl
at, and a world Of happiness
would be the mournfullest sight
in creation.
Few of US would care to ride
in chariot Of fire to the next
world. Even the prospect of
free coal is not pleasing.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28

Nine times out of ten the fast
train pulls out fromIthe station
willie we're two miles off, calmly
waiting for the wagon.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28

We picture heaven so far away
that we must have wings to fly
to it; and then the devil comes
along and clips 'em, and we have
a good excuse for not going.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28
Satan's Timely Turn.

Satan's Timely Turn.
Satan raise de harricane--
BLOWN high en- higher:
Make me ride lightnin' flash.
En- hol' me ter de fire.
AK me: "How dis suit you
Fin amt it hot enough
En- I holler loud
Ter de br'illin' crowd
'sDis yer sho' hot stuff"
He singe my robe er selfshness,
He melt my pride away:
He burn me light ez a Elective light
'Vwel I good fer Judgment Day.
Sinner, dat what suit you.
You won't be good enough
'Twel you holler loud
Ter de bri'lin' crowd:
''Dis yer sho' hot Stuff"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28

There is a good deal of dust in
the middle of. the road-so much
in fact, that we can't see the fel-
lows who are doing the loudest
shouting:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28

Eis Campmeeting Song.
You better take yo' passage
'Fo' de ship er de gospil sail:
But don't you be no jonah
It's hard on de suff'rin' whale!
II.
You better steer fer glory
Whilst de time is called today:
OBut don't you do lax 'Lijah,
Or you'll burn up on de way.
III.
o, de worl' is full er trouble
It come on ever han,
En- all you gifts, wen de trouble done
Is a glimpse er de Promis' Lam.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28
Teachers Examination.

Teachers Examination.
The regular fall examination for
teachers will be held at the court
house. Manning, Friday, October 2lst.
In addition to the regular subjects
Hughes Mistakes in Teaching. Peter
mans Civil Government, Silas War
ner's Enoch Arden and Current His
tory will be included.
S. P. HOLIDAY:
Supt. OF Education.
Sept. ), 1904. l3O-lt
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04


According to recent issue of the
Chicago Tribune, an electrical system
of stock-raising has been developed on
moderate scale at the University of
Michigan. Small animals, such as
rabbits, have already been forced into
matured size and plumpness In two
thirds of the period required by nature,
showing the possibility of reducing the
tedious development of larger stock,
especially sheep or cows, by many
months. In several rooms of the cleo
tro-therapeutlc laboratory, cheap wood
en- pens, circular i'll form, have been
wound to the height Of two feet with
electric wires. A moderate current of
one-half horse power circles these
electric pens. From its influence the
air inside the pens is made electro
magnetic, becoming strong magnetic
field, with sixty-two lines of force to
the square inch. In these pens rabbits
have grown TO maturity in two thirds
of the time that rabbits near them
have developed in non-electrical pens.
These electrically nurtured animals
did not become larger than normal
rabbits: they merely arrived at normal
size quicker. Furthermore, as is the
case with dollhouse flowers, they We're
found less hardy their slower
brothers. But. for the livestock mar
ket, the forced animals had an unex.
celled tenderness and -plumpness.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04


Where animals are kept in the stable
during the summer months, as, for en-
ample, work horses, or, in some in
stances, the breeding stock, nothing
contributes SO much to their comfort
us that of protecting them from flies.
Animals that are kept busy fighting
flies require more food to keep them
in condition. and, indeed, it is impossi-
bic with an unlimited supply of food
to keep them in proper condition.
Advantage should be taken of the
fact that flies constantly tend to seek
the light places. A stable need not
be absolutely dark i'll order to prevent
annoyance from flies. and, in fact, we
do not believe in keeping stables too
dark, on account of the fact that ami
mails are liable, il kept In such quar-
tiers for any considerable length of
time, to go wrong in their eyes. Gun
ny sack nailed over the windows of
the stable will greatly reduce the num-
Der of flies that will poster the ami
mails. These should not be nailed
down absolutely tight Mt the bottom,
or air will be excluded and the stable
will become warm and unhcalthful. If
the sacks are partly loose at the bottom
they will still shade the stable salts
factoriy and at the same time admit
air. Horses placed in the stable for
nm hour at noon will eat better, rest
better, and we cannot help but think
they will work better afterward, If
they are afforded some protection dur
ing the time they are in the stall. In
some of our better class of stables reg
ular window blinds are used, these b.
ing pulled down during the day and
run up at night, thus freely admit
ting the air when 10 protection from
flies is necessary. 1t is claimed by
those who use such blinds that their
cost is more than offset many times
during single season III the saving of
feed that is effected by the protection
which they afford.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04

MRS. TnURsToN. is the daughter of
railroad switchman In Omaha.
The romonce began in Omaha fifteen
years ago. when Clarence Thurston
and Nellie Cotter went to kindergnr.
ten together.
The children grew up together and
their love for each other became fond
err with the passing years. The fact
that his father was general solicitor
for the Union Pacific and her father
was n switchman in Its service was
nothing to him when they were chill
dren. And then wien the opportunity
came he took her to be his wife.
When John NJ. Thurston was elected
to the United States senate and went
TO Washington to live the son went
with him, and in the gay society of
the capital lie met many beautiful
women from all parts of the world. but
his heart remained true and faithful
to the Omaha girl.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04
swclled Leg Trcntm cnts.

Horses that have run at pasture IRE
often troubled with swollen or
stocked" legs when first brought 10
tie stable in the fall. and others that
do not run to grass are. 50 affected
when suffering from general debil-
ity." The following is an excellent
remedy for such cases:
Powdered sulphate of iron (cop-
peras) three ounces. powdered gentian
root three ounces. sulphite mot sui
phate) of soda three ounces. Have the
druggist mix these ingredients thor
oughly in his mortar and then divide
the compound into twenty-four pow
ders.
Give one of the powders night and
morning mixed in the grain feed, until
all are used. Mcisten the grain slight
ly before putting in the powder.
If this does not effect cure, give
IL tablespoonful of glauber salts in the
grain feed every night for two or thrca
months, il necessary. Gases where the
legs have been stocked constantly
and quite badly for some time have
been permanently cured by glauber
salts alone.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04
Diskins Land for Corn.

A correspondent writes us that hay-
ing heard of quite successful corn
growing III Illinois without p.owing
the land first, inquiries whether one
can safely disk the corn land, list and
plant without the usual breaking.
Sometimes the lighter prairie soils are
prepared in this way and corn is plant
ed and does fairly well without first
breaking the land. This has been 80,
however, in seasons following desp
winter freezing. and little spring rain
to run the soil together. Only the
light blank soils mixed with some
sand have been successfully grown to
corn by disking, rather than breaking.
In wet spring seasons some risk is
taken even with these soils to plant
in this way. 1t is far safer to break
the ground first and pulverize 1t for
corn. And the clay loan should be al
ways be so treated, and 1t is best to
break them deeply. Disking heavy
soils and listing for planting would be
Il great mistake in any kind of n
season. These soils are run together
and hardened by the usual spring
rains more than others are, and our
correspondent would make mistake
to undertake corn growing on his clay
loan lands by merely disking tllem.-
Exchange.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04
GRlNpsToNE IL rRAMw.
frame, Is an end view, and c the COM
plcte side view.-J. b. Crookston, in
st. Louis Republic.


act on the theory that most people
eat too much. Much is said of the
evils of incorporate drinking and but
little is said about Incorporate eat
ing. yet incorporate eating has killed
hundreds of people where Incorporate
drinking has killed one. aim to eat
temporarily, always leaving the table
with the ability to eat more, and with
the appetite for more food vet when
feel indisposed stop eating. do
not always stop entirely. If my all
ment is not serious, l eat perhaps one
halfs or one-tEird as much as usual
and always find relief. If your horses,
COWS, poultry, sheep or swine are all
ing it is safe to take away their feed
for short time, particularly their
grain. If we or our animals are not
enjoying usual health, in addition to
giving them less feed it is well to give
them more exercise. Less food, the
drinking of more water and more eX-
crcise in open air, these are my prin-
cipal remedies for ails and aches
GREEN'S Fruit Grower.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04
COST OF NAVAL BATTLE.
Five Minutes Fighting Requires an Ex-
pcnditure of $40, 900 ON One Ship.

Five minutes rlxutiH& Requires an lSx-
pcnditure of s7O,OOO ON Ono Ship.
From Tuesday to Sunday" Victor
Hugo wrote III his diary on Jan. 8,
1871. "the Prussinns hurled 25,OOO pro-
jectiles Mt us. 1t required 22O railway
trucks to transport them. Each shot
cost GO francs; total, 100000 francs.
The damage to the forts is estimated
at 1,4OO francs. About ten men have
been killed. Each of our dead cost the
Prussians 10000 francs"
This extract. says London Tit-Bits,
gives one an excellent idea of the cost
and ineffectiveness of big-gun work Oh
land generation ago, when it took an
average of $500 projectiles, costing
10000 francs, to Kill n single man
and to inflict less than f6 worth of
damage on the enemy's Notifications.
But time has changed since the
and munitions with them, and
great guns of today, on the sea at any
rate. give vastly different account Of
themselves. During the recent war
between America and Spain 1t will be
recalled that the Brooklyn poured such
a deadly deluge Of projectiles into the
Spanish warship yiscaya that within
1--WE minutes the latter lay at the bot
tom of the sea rent and battered
tumble of scrap iron.
In:all the Brooklyn fired 61S shells
at the yascaya and the bill of destruc.
ton read thus:
/ ~ ~ s.lnch shells. at $50 each,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04
THE HAWKEYE STATE
NEWS OF THE WEEK coNclsELy
CONDENSED.
Lynching Hoax Frightens Old Negro
to Death-Graves Convicted of Wife
Murder Muscntine Bomb May BE
Warming Boy Thieves in Jail.

Practical jokers at Hamburg have
caused the death of an old negro named
John c. Goodlow. He was taken out
side the town by party of young men,
who trumpet up an imaginary charge,
and prepared to burn him at the stake.
The negro's arms were tied to his side
and his feet nailed to u board, and rag
soaked with kerosene was placed near
his nose. Then II bucket of water, which
he was Informed was coal oil, was
thrown over his head. Goodlow was told
his end had come. The old mans groans
ceased just Mt this time and his torment
ors We're Mortified to find he was dead.
The body was quietly deposited in an old
corn crib, where it was found the next
day, md buried after a coroner's jury
had held that death was due to natural
causes. The facts have only just come
to light,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04
1850; to o5 e-inch shells, at eel each,

t1 1850; to G5 6-inch shells, at eel each,
f1,365; to ~ G-pounder shells. at FL
each. Ell; TO 400 1-pound shells. Mt u
shillings 6 pence each, $3.50.
Thus the five minutes firing cost the
United States fS,6T7, and during each
minute of the duel the Brooklyn hurled
1913 pro cctiles at her enemy at n cost
Of f1,T35. If we add to this the cost
OF the Viscaya's answering fire we sec
that the fight between the two slip;
could scarcely have cost less than
f3,0GO minute, or Mt the rate of ESQ.,
coo an hour. We must remember, too,
that OH neither ship would it be pos 81
BILE to use all the available guns at
once; so that there is still large mar
gin for increased expenditure when n
nian-of-war is In a position to use her
fighting powers to the utmost.
But let us take one of our own first
class battlesliips. the London and EST
mate the cost of five minutes fighting.
assuming that she could use all of her
forty-six guns throughout.
The London's four 12-inch guns.
which, by the way, cost no less than
100000. fire armor-piercing s,:el!s
weighing $50 pounds each Mt the rate
of two minute. each pro 'ectile, with
its cordite; charge of ltiT,a poands.
costing ESQ Thus IN five. minutes
fighting these four MISUNDERSTANDING
monsters would htirl at the enemy
forty projccti,cs weighing more than
eighteen tons and costing $3.50.
Each siX-inch gun, of which she has
twelve, costing f3.75O each, throws
shells of 100 pounds weight, costing
Eli apiece, and in five minutes of rapid
and continuous firing these guns woull
pour into the enemy's ships hurri-
cane of projectiles weighing twenty
two tons. ut Il cost of f6,6SS So far we
have only accounted for sixteen out Of
the forty-siX guns.
The London twelve-rounders number
sixteen and cost f555 each; from the
mouths of these guns no fewer than
9cO shells could be poured in five min
utes, representing nine tons of metal
and n cost of f2.SSO.
Each of the half-dozen thrse-ponnd-
ers has a firing capacity of thirty
shells Il minute, SO that in five min
utes' fight they alone would send 1900
worth of metal into The enemy's side;
Willie the eight maSims would send out
IL storm of death-dcaling bullets weigh.
ing more than six hundredweight and
costing f14O.
Thus, in five minutes fighting us!n;
all her forty-six guns, the London
would vomit forth over fifty tons of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04
Found Guilty of Murde,

Charles w. Graves. Dcs Mones fur
niture dealer, who was charged with
numbering his wife and burning the
body, was found guilty in the District
Court, the jury recommending life I'M
prisonment. His stepdaughter, an ac-
tress, secured his conviction. Graves is
said to have clioked his wife to death in
fit of rage and then to have saturated
the body with kerosene and set it on fire.
His stories relative to finding the body
and his visits to the home the morning
Of the crime were conflicting. This,
coupled with previous threats to kill her,
led to his arrest and prosecution. Mrs.
Graves daughter, Winnie Reader, a
member of the Grau opera company, then
playing in Chicago, arrived home to
spend the holidays three days after the
crime was committed. She buried her
mother, accused her stepfather of the
crime and secured his conviction.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04
UNDER THE SUN.

The men who have gone before us
Have sung the songs we sing;
The words of our clamorous chorus.
They were heard of the ancient Hing
The chords of the Tyre that thrill us, z
They were struck in the years gone by,
And the arrows of death that kill us
Arc found where our fathers lie.
Ths vanity sung of the Preacher
Is vanity still to-day;
The moall of the stricken creature
Has .rung in the woods Away.
But the songs are worth resinging
With the change of no single note,
And the spoken words are ringing
AS they rang in the years remote.
There is no new road to follow, Love!
Nor need there ever be,
For the old. with its hill and hollow,
Love!
10 enough for you and me.
Century.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04
Incubator Don'ts.
Don't use oil less than $50 test.
Don't help the chick out of the shell

Don't use Oil less than l0O test
Don't help the chick out of the shell.
Don't fail to fill the lamps every
evening.
Don't set the incubator near the
window.
Don't use the same wick for more
than one hatch.
Don't worry with moisture gauges or
hygrometers.
Don't turn nor cool the eggs after
they are piping.
Don't neglect cooling the eggs; it
makes strong chicks.
Don't try to hatch duck and hen
eggs in the same incubator.
Don't trim the wick with scissors:
scrape off the charred part with a
match.
pon't think you are smarter than
the manufacturer of the incubator, for
you have lot to- learn.
Don't leave the large ends of the
eggs pointing in different directions
have them all pointing one way.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04

iarmer's intelligence. Shiftless farm
ers are not inclined to pay out money
for reading matter. Ignorant farmers
consider money spent for reading mat
ter wasted. There is no better sign
of prosperity than to see upon his
table farm papers, church papers,
magazines etc.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04
As to 10. Chamberlain.

In london Clubs they are telling OF
bon mot of Winston Spencer
Churchill, the Prince Rupert Of the
crusade against Chamberlainism. He
was asked if he thought there was any
truth in the report that Mr.. Chamber
lain was suffering from "softening Of
the BRAIN" NO fear" snapped the
young commoner viciously. HE has
n malady of different sort-harden-
rng OF the heart"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04
Grindstone Fra me.

My grinds.one frame is made of two.
inch plank with hole cut through for
the stone, and wide enough to fnsten
OH the bearings. The legs are made of
pieces of lx4 mortised in. They are
long enough so the man who does the
grinding can stand upright. An axle
III inches in diameter passes through
two Of the legs. and there are two
wheels made of inch hardwood board
about eight inches in diameter. These
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04

Since rural people are isolated the
tendency is for them to become care
less i'll dress. l am sure that be-
came careless and that was fright
full object to look upon when l was
striving for u foothold upon the farm
under adverse circumstances. 1t is
well for the farmer, his wife, daugh-
tiers and sons to slick up In the matter
of dress after the days work is done,
so they may appear at the supper table
and during the evening in clothes
suitable for receiving any one who
may happen to call. Very likely no
one may call. but for the sake Of tile
family 1t will pay to give this atten-
tion to Dress
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04

Surprising results have been pro
ducel in the line of dwarf trees by
Japanese growers. 1t is said there are
pine trees that started to grow in the
seventeenth century which are still no.
too large TO he carried in one baud.
The gardeners nip off the trees roots,
pinch back the branches and starve
the tree iu poor soil, keeping it barely
alive and checking the growth almost
entirely. AS time goes on, the tree
gains the appearance of extreme age
but is no larger than seeding few
lnnnfhS old
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04
Youthful Thieves Jailed,

Three boys, from Is to Ii years Of
age, have been arrested in Ottumwa on
the charge of breaking and entering. The
three boys broke into burlington pile
driver car on the night of March % and
stole n quantity of tools and clothing val
ucd Mt $50. The boys arrested are Harry
Graham. Earl Strain and Ed Redmon.
They have confessed.