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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-02-09
a Healing Gospel

The Rev. j, G. Warren, pastor Of
Sharon Baptist Church, Belair, Ga,
says at Electric Bitters; "It's a God
send to mankind. 1t cured me of
lame back, stiff joints, and complete
physical collapse. | was so weak it
took me half an hour to walk a mile.
Two bottles of Electric Bitters have
made me so strong have just walked
three miles in 80 minutes and feel like
walking three more. It's made a new
man of me-" Greatest remedy for
weakness and all Stomach, Liver and
Kidney complaints. Sold under guar
antee at Pollock & Hennessy's drug
store. Price, SOC.
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WANTED Bright, hopest young
man from Yale TO prepare for paying
position i'm Government Mail Service,
Box One Cedar Rapids, la. 36-S
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Office in Rapley Block, Yale,
Michigan.
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GEORGE W. BELL
Practical and Experienced
1 AuCtiOneer 1
x ALE, MICH

If you expect to have q sale
this fall or winter | am pre-
pared to attend IL on short
notice and at a reasonable
price. Have had twenty-five
years of practical experience.
IL will pay you to see the
old reliable auctioneel and
get his price before engaging
an auctioneer.
Orders left at the Exposition
office will receive prompt at
tention.
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Fargo.

DR.. Twitcheler is gradually failing.
Dr. Fitzgerald reports a geat deal of
mild throat trouble, even among the
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
WALKING to Health.

When there is no organic weakness
which is aggravated by the eIertion it
is the easiest and pleasantest thing to
walk right into health. OF course there
is no virtue in q dawdling walk. The
slow and languid dragging Of one foot
after the other, which some people call
walking, would tire an athlete; it ut
terly exhausts weak person, and that
is the reason why many delicate peo-
pie think they cannot walk. To de-
rive any benefit from the exercise it is
necessary to walk with light, elastic
step. which swings the weight Of the
body so easily from one leg to the 9TH
er that its weight is not felt and which
produces healthy glow, showing that
the sluggish blood is stirred to action
in the ~most remote veins. This sort
of walking exhilarates the whole body,
gives tone to the nerves and produces
Just that sort of healthful fatigue
which encourages sound, restful sleep.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
LONDON PUNCH.
One Occasion When the Proprietor
Wanted 1t Stopped.

One Occasion When the Proprietor
Wanted 1t Stopped.
The introduction Of Sir Francis
Burnand to the staff Of Punch led to
an unusual incident. The Bookbuyer
tells the story. Mr.. Burnand had Civ
en- up his profession Of law and was
deyoting himself to writing. 1t oc-
cured to him that burlesque on the
sensational novel of the day and print
ed after the manner Of the London
Journal might make popular hit. he
proposed his plan to the editor Of
Punch, who at once accepted the idea.
The first installment came out, Illus
trated by Gilbert, Du Maurier and
Keene and reproduced in Journal fash
ion. 1t took" at once and became the
talk Of the town.
The day of the first issue the senior
proprietor Of Punch was i'll in bed
The number reached him with the
Journal burlesque folded on the out
side. At first he thought a Journal
had been sent him by mistake but
when he discovered that the page
formed a portion of Punch he did not
stop to read it, but sprang out Of bed
at once, dressed and hurried to the
Office
"Stop Punch!'' he cried, bursting into
the room. "Stop Punch! You've got
a page Of the Journal in the form!'
It took considerable explanation to
satisfy him that some dreadful mis-
take had not been made.
This was Mr.. Burnand's first appear
ance on the Punch staff. The next
night Thackeray took him to the week
" dinner and introduced him:
"Gentlemen-the new boy"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
Anatomy Of an Oyster.

To discover the heart Of an oyster
the fold Of flesh which oystermen call
the mantle" must be removed. This
is fatal to the oyster, of course, but in
the interest of science and for the ben
eft Of the Curious it is occasionally
done. When the mantle has been re
moved the heart, shaped like a. cres-
cent or horned moon, is laid to the
view. The oysters, heart is made up
Of two parts, just like that Of q hu-
man being, one Of which receives the
blood from the gills, and the other
drives it out through the arteries. The
liver is found in the immediate vicin-
ity of the heart and stomach and Is a.
queer shaped little organ, which is
supposed to perform all the functions
of blood filter. Every oyster has q
mouth, heart, liver, stomach and
other necessary internal organs, in
cluding a set Of cunningly devised IN
testines. The mouth is at the small
end Of the oysters body, near the
hinge Of the shell. It is oval in shape,
and, though not readily discovered by
an unpracticed eye, it may be easily
located by gently pushing blunt bod
kin or similar instrument along the.
folds Of the surface Of the body at the
place mentioned Connected with the
mouth is the canal which the oyster
uses in conveying food to the stomach,
from whence it passes into the curious
little set Of netted and twisted intes-
tines referred to.-Santa Fe New Mex
ican.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
A TURKISH LEGEND.
why the Much Married Man Got to
the Mosque First.

why the Much Married Man Got 80
the Mosque First.
Some years ago, when General Tew-
fix Hussein was the Turkish minister
at washington, he objected to the Gu
rious questions the newspaper inter-
viewers asked him about the harem.
One interviewer, however, told the
representative Of the sublime porte 4
funny story about Brigham Young and
his many wives, and it induced the
minister to reciprocate.
There is q, Turkish legend he said,
"to the effect that If man prays sew
en- consecutive mornings alone IN the
mosque for good luck it will come.
Near ST. Sophia mosque, Constantine
pie, poor man lived who tried to car
~ out the injunction; but, when he
kneeled, to his chagrin he always saw
another man who had arrived first.
The fourth morning he could restrain
himself no longer and cried out: What
is the secret Of your getting to the
mosque first? I get up early and lose
no time The other man asked, How
many wives have you? When he an
swered One the fortunate man said:
You can never get to the mosque ear
lier than I, for I have four wives.
When I wake up one brings me my
clothes, another gets my shoes, third
prepares my bath, and the fourth
cooks breakfast The result is lose
no time Now, my friend, so at once
and marry three other wives, and you
will know the secret Of my arriving
first at the mosque
'The poor Turk followed the advice,
and very soon he knew why the man
with four wives got to the mosque
frst-he stayed there in preference to
staying at home."-Leslie's Weekly.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
AN ANCIENT PYRAMID.
Story Of "the Tomb Of the Chrfstinro
In AIreria

In Algeria.
The tomb Of the Christian in Algeria
is pyramid on the summit OF hill
more tllan 700 feet high, at the edge Of
the sea-. 1t dates back to before the
time OF st. Paul, having been built by
order of Juha H., the king Of Alaure-
tania, as Il burying place for himself
and his wife, Cleopatra, the daughter
of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. The
only daughter Of Juba and his wife
was DruSilla, who married Festus, the
governor of Judaea in the time Of ST.
Paul The tomb can be entered by a
low doorway beneath one Of the four
false doors. These have holdings On
them Of q cruciform shape and may
account for the title, ''The Tomb of the
Christian" The passage within the
pyramid winds round and eventually
leads to two chambers shut of from 1t
by folding doors, which can be moved
up and down by levers. The tomb
must have been rifed of all it contain
ed centuries ago, though some think
that by eXcavating in a downward di-
rection it might still be possible to dis
cover the burying place Of the king
and queen, supposing the two cham
bers, like the false doors outside, to
be a blind. Doubtless the younger
Cleopatra had brought the idea Of
making a royal mausoleum in the
shape of pyramid from Egypt. Por-
tons of a marble statue Of Egyptian
design were found at Cherchel, sug-
gesting that an Egyptian colony may
once have existed there. There are
two other similar monuments in Al
geria, in the provinces of Oran and
Constantine respectively, the latter be-
ing considerably older than the tomb
of the Christian, which, however, is
the only one referred to in ancient
writings.-AUtocar.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
THE ELDER TREE.
Once Held In High Esteem az q Cure
For Epilepsy.

Once Held In High Esteem as q Cure
For Epilepsy.
Although tradition tells US that it
was on en- elder tree that Judas hang
ed himself, great virtue has long been
attributed to it as q cure for epilepsy.
The origin Of this belief may be found
in the following quotation from an old
book Of charms:
I'm the month Of October, little
before full moon, pluck q twig Of elder
and cut the cane that is between two
of it's knees. or knots, in nine pieces.
Bind these pieces in a piece OF linen,
hang this b a thread about the neck
so that they touch the spoon Of the
heart, or the sword formed cartilage,
and that they may more firmly stay in
their place bind them thereon with a
linen or silken roller wrapped around
the body till the thread break Of itself.
The thread being broken and the roller
removed the charm is not to be touch
ed at all with the bare hands, but
should be taken hold Of by some in
strument and buried in place that
nobody may touch it.
Of course unless the instructions
were followed strictly complete cure
could not be assured. There is another
superstition about the elder which
doubtless has saved many boy a
stout caning-namely, that it hinders g
child's growth if used as an instru-
ment of punishment.-Sunday Maga-
zinc
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
Famous King Og.

Or, the famous king Of Bashan, men
toned in Deuteronomy, had bedstead
nine cubits long, OF about sixteen and
half feet. 1t is doubtful whether
Or himself was Of the full length OF
his bedstead. Many bones Of reputed
giants have been found IN different
countries Of the world, and uniformed
people hastily concluded that the men
to whom these bones were supposed
to have belonged must have been from
fifteen to thirty feet in height. All
such remains have been proved to be
those Of the gigantic animals existing
in former era Of the worlds history.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
Raters, sailabouts and Larks.

What is a rater, a sailabout, a lark,
is a question commonly heard among
those not familiar with yachts and
technical racing terms. a rater Is
thirty-eight feet long and carries the
double sails-sloop rig and jib. The
half rater Is thirtytwo feet long, car
ries the same style sails as the rater
and usually gets five minute handi-
cap in rater races. The sailabout car
ries a single large sail and is built on
graceful lines, with rounded sides and
ends, while the lark has square sides
and ends and carries the single sail.
Few larks are built now. Most Of the
yachts recently built have the double
centerboard. The centerboard pre-
vents drifting sidewise, and the single
board is often entirely out Of water
during heavy winds; hence the use Of
the double board.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
The Word "CranE."

Crank in the sense Of III eccentric
person is 4 new word The very first
written instance Of crank in the mod
ern sense that could be found for DR..
Murray's dictionary was i'll the reports
Of the trial Of Guiteau, President Gar
fields murderer Guiteau's reference
to somebody as crank gave the word
a vogue that has gone on spreading.
But the adjective cranky was known
in 1857 as meaning sickly (the German
'krank'), and to Dickens in the senses
Of cross and crochety. In all its mean
ings it springs from the root idea Of
crookedness, as does crank in its six
teenth century sense Of deceitful
trick, as in ''quips and crankS."
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
THE ELOQUENT NUDGE.
An Incident Illustrating n Trait IN
woman'H Nature.

An Incident Illustrating u Trait Ia
Woman's Nature.
"Do you see the woman walking in
front of US there" asked the man with
the fashionable tie to the friend who
was strolling up Broadway with him.
''Do you notice anything particularly
striking about her? Nothing, except
that she is very we'll dressed? That's
what I would say. Now, I'll bet you
half dollar that when she passes the
three women walking just ahead of her
all three will nudge each other stimuli
taneously.'
The woman behind was walking
faster than the three in front and she
soon passed them. The three women
looked her over from foot to head, then
nudged each other with their elbows as
if possessed with the same thought.
''How did you know it," inquired the
friend as the other pocketed the Ealf
dollar.
Il didn't know it." was the reply. IF
I had it would have been taking an un-
fair advantage Of you to bet. But I
was reasonably certain Of it. There is
q certain indescribable something in
some wonen's manner, appearance and
carriage that causes all other women to
nudge each other at sight Of her.
couldn't tell you just what it is, but I'm
ready to put up q wager on it every
time. The nudge is simply a part Of
women's sign language which means
something that cannot be put into
words, but which every other woman
understands. New York Press.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
RISKED HIS LIFE.
How an Enterpris!nE Reporter Got
the News For H{s Pnoer

the News For His Paper.
Undoubtedly the boldest undertaking
on the part of a reporter to scere a
"beat" ever known in the history Of
American Journalism was when Thom-
as B. Fielders Of the New York Times
leaped from a steamer in New York
harbor at odds Of about 100 to / Of
being drowned and brought in the first
graphic story of the loss Of the ocean
liner Oregon. 1t is the custom Of New
York dailies to send reporters down
the bay to meet incoming steamers
when it is known there Is "big news"
aboard. On the ground that it is bet
ter to be safe than sorry the editors
dispatch the reporters by special per
nit on q government revenue cutter
or else on q specially chartered tug,
with a view to catching their game
before the ship docks. It was known
early one afternoon that a North Ger
man Lloyd steamer was not far out,
and every city editor in New York laid
plans for sending reporters to meet the
incoming liner.
Fielders was one Of these. He man
aged to get aboard the big steamer far
down the bay and went among the sur
riyors Of the Oregon disaster and OBJ
tanned some thrilling tales Of escape.
BE took notes enough to write book
about the sinking Of the ship, with
minute details Of heroic rescues and
plenty Of what newspaper men cali
human interest stories. Then time
began to wear heavy on his hands. 1t
was getting late at night and the ship
had not yet passed quarantine. To
make matters worse, the captain said
that he would allow no one to leave
the ship until she had made her way
clear of quarantine. Fielders vainly
pleaded that he was not a passenger
and therefore was not amenable to the
inspection Of the ship by the health
officers His remonstrances were un-
availing. The captain was obdurate.
Ten o'clock came The city editor Of
the Times paced nervously around the
night desk, repeatedly asking, Where
on earth is Fielders?"
Out there in the bay FielderS,
wrought to pitch Of anger almost
sufficient to impel an assault upon the
e1acting captain, looked vainly st the
dimpling stream of light from his tug
as she lay out in the darkened waters
waiting for him. The captain Of the
steamer would not permit the tug to
come any nearer to his ship. Fielders
stood beside the rail, loudly remon-
strating with the man commanding the
big ship. He stealthily placed one leg
over the rail, then the other. Then
there was a splashing sound below
and a chorus Of shouts from the pas
sengers. The reporter was overboarG
Out in the rippling light his body was
seen to rise, and as it did the daredevil
began swimming toward his tug. His
comrades had thrown out line at
signal from him previously given, and
he made for that line. Would he ever
get it? Could they see him, a mere
speck on the dimly lighted water? he
gained hold on the rope, was pulled
aboard the tug and gave orders for her
nose to be turned toward the Manhat-
tan shore with all possible speed. The
Times contained a full and graphic
story of the loss of the Oregon the
next morning.-Remson Crawford in
Success Magazine.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
Killing Time.

TO read for either instruction or
amusement is commendable, but it is
not so for the sake Of killing time. Late
in life, after his fortune had been
made, successful merchant, Mr.. S.,
took a young man into partnership.
Entering the Office OF dull day in the
dull season, the millionaire found his
partner yawning over book. What's
that you're doing?" Mr.. S. asked.
There's nothing else to do, SO I'm
reading" was the answer. Nothing
else to do? Reading" the great mer-
chant repeated in tone that ex-
pressed wonder, amusement and scorn.
when you've nothing else to do don't
read. Think
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
! ak Notice.

The County Treasurer's Office will
be open for collection of taxes, with
out penalty, from the 18th day of
October to the 31st day Of December,
Inclusive, 1906. The levy is as fol-
lows: For State, 5mills; for County,
2 3-4 mills. for jail, 1-2 mill; for Con
stitutional School, 8 mills; Polls,
S100; Dog Capitation tax, soc. Also.
S. hool District No. "A, Special, l
Mill; School Districts Nos. II, 16, II.
19, and IS, Special Q mills, School
Districts Nos..2, S, Is, 81, 81 and 28;;
Special 8 mills. School Districts Nos.
10, 10, 20, 20 and 26, Special 4:mills;;s
5 mills additional Special levy; for
School District No. 90, for bonded in
debtedness, I per cent penalty added
for the month of January, 1902. Adj
ditional penalty of 1 per cent for
month February, 1907. Additional
per cent for Is days in March, 1907.
Road tax for 1907, one dollar.
S. J. BOWMAN,
Treas. Clarendon Co.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
DETERMINING LEVELS.
Method by Which Every Man May =.
His Own Surveyor.

=
His Own Surveyor.
4 simple way OF roughly deteIlCin-
Ing levels, and one which can readily
be practiced by any one and which has
the advantage OF not requiring any
special apparatus, is by means Of 4
spirit level and board with q straight
edge. The way to go about it is this:
First determine OH two points the lev
els of which you wish to know and
drive stakes into the ground. Then
take 4 board with straight edge and
tack it to a tree, if one happens to be
available, in line with these two
stakes. Put the board at such q height
that YOU can readily sight over it and
carefully level this board by means Of
the spirit level. Then sight it over to-
ward one of the stakes, having some
one at that stake who will, by means
of small piece of paper, locate the
point at which your line of vision cuts
it-in other words. where q line pro-
jected from your sighting board would
strike the stake Make some sort Of
mark at this point and then sight to
the other stake in the same way and
mark the point where the line would
strike it. BY measuring distances that
these two points are above the ground
you can get the difference in levels
with reasonable accuracy. For in
stance, ii your line of vision has cut
one stake eight feet from the ground
and the other one five feet from the
ground, then obviously the difference
in level is three feet, or, in other words,
the vicinity of the stake on which the
mark is FIVE feet from the ground is
three feet higher than the other stake,
and you will have three foot fall
from draining from this point to the
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
Imaginary Disease.

The British Medical Journal says
that only an imaginary remedy will
cure an imaginary disease, which is
true to the old maxim, "Similia simili-
bus curantur." 1t continues: This
may be condemned by the righteous as
quackery, and quackery Of a kind 1t
undoubtedly Is. But If the real end Of
medicine is to cure can she, when le-
gitimate means fail, afford to despise
anything that relieves suffering, even
though the suffering be imaginary?
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
Animals, Queer Wnys.

Birds as we'll as four footed animals
and insects often avail themselves Of
the labors of others in home making. I
have a photograph Of barred owl nest
in remodeled hawk nest. Skunks use
woodchuck burrows, white footed mice
and flying squirrels are fond Of build
ing holes in decaying trees made by
woodpeckers, and bumblebees take
possession Of mice nests in the ground.
st. Nicholas.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
Ceylou Sharks.

Sharks infest the waters Of Ceylon,
and the pearl divers Of that region are
In deadly fear Of these wolves Of the
deep. The divers are mostly Tamils and
Moormen and display marvellous en-
durance and pluck. To protect them
selves against the ever present danger
to which the presence Of the sharks ex-
poses them the divers carry charms
given them by recognized "shark bind
ers" who receive small government
fee and q dozen oysters q day from
each boat. Owing to the constant
noise and splashins, the sharks are
generally Kept at distance, and acci-
dents are rare.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
Wounds, Bruises and BuIls.

By applying an antiseptic dressing
to wounds. bruises, burns and like in
iuries before inflammation sets IN. they
may be healed without naturatlon and
in about one-tbird the time required by
the old treatment. This is the great
est discovery and triumph of modern
Chamberlain's Pain Balm
acts on this same principle. 1t is an
antiseptic and when applied to such in
iuries, causes them to heal very quick
y. It also allays the pain and sore
ness and prevents any danger of blood
Keep a bottle of Pain Balm
in your home and it will save you time
and money, not to mention the incon-
venience and suffering such injuries
entail. For sale by The Arant Co.
Drug Store.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-28
Postmaster Robbed.

G. W. Fouts, Postmaster at River
ton, a., nearly lost his life and was
robbed OF all comfort, according to his
letter, which says: $50: 20 years / had
chronic liver complaint, which led to
such severe case of jaundice that even
my finger nails turned yellow; when
my doctor prescribed Electric Bitters::
which cured me and have kept me well
for eleven years." Sure cure for Bill
iousness, Neuralgia, Weakness and all
Stomach, Liver, Kidney and Bladder
arrangements. A wonderful Tonic. At
The Arant Co. Drug store.