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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-18

A coPPERHEAD snake crawled into
a key Of beer in Kentucky and four
men who drank the beer died.
There are still several million men
in this country who are risking their
lives every day, but thew are her ves
and not afraid Of copperheads.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-18
FIVE NEGROES KILLED.
BY Fast Train While They Were
Gambling.

Five negroes. their heads close to-
gether, as they were totally absorbed
in game of craps on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad near NeWberg. w
Va, did not hear the humble of an
approaching train. They were ground
beneath the wheels and five killed,
the bodies being so terribly mangied
that Identification has not yet been
possible.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-18

did you ever st, i's':-l esjed
woman, asks correspondent. We
never did. Nor did we ever see a
woman waltzing about town in her
shirt :ieeves splitting tobacco juice
over every thing she came in contact
with. Nor did we ever see a woman
tank up on mean whiskey and abuse
her husband and children. God bless
her, she amt built that way.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-18
RIV:ALED CAPTAIN hOEPENICk.
Siberian Imposter CIeverly Dupeo
Army Officials.

The German impostor "Koepen-
ick,, who created such sensation
by fooling whole village. has been
rivaled in his line of cleverness by a
Siberian, who went to Hardin, Sibe-
ria, and passing himself off as an
officer ESCAPED with a neat sum Of
money. The victims of his bold
escapade were army men and ottl-
cials at the Russo-Chinese bank.
The man appeared at the head
quaters of the frontier forces Of the
Trans-Amur territory and displaying
a document, which purported to be
an order, he asked for an advance
of s35, 800 to be used in paying his
men and buying provisions. So well
did he play his part that a check
was made out for him and he cashed
it.
He was forced against his will to
take asmall portion Of the amount in
silver. Telephoning to the barracks
for two soldiers, he had them escort
him to the railroad station and left
them to guard the money bags for
a short time. The soldiers were on
guard for "a hours before the trick
was discovered. The officer" had
escaped.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-18

That Chester (Pa.) bride who
tainted at the altar is no doubt be-
ing pitied by the girls who are sure
they could go through the marriage
ceremony without the culver Of an
evelaSh
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-18

Now that Mr.. Rockefeller has de-
:ided to give out no more inter
views, there will be less good advice
wasted on a cynical public.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-18

Tom Lawson's advertisement ad-
vising people to "buy stocks" are
not so very attractive Just now
we are looking forward to the
necessity Of buying coal.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-18

The youngest applicant for
divorce in the history Of Illinois is
Eme May Maxwell, aged Is years,
who has filed suit against her hus-
band, William Maxwell, aged 81.
alleging cruelty. She was married
at the age Of ID years.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-18

With capital Of s30,OOO,O00, the
new paper trust figures that it ought
to be able to beat its competitors to
a pulp.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-18

THEY say that Lieutenant Cover
nor Chanler's cousin would pay ST.
900, ,00Oin the democratic campaign
fund if the former was made the
presidential nominee and would
promise to make him ambassador
to Great Britain.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-18

From Starvation in the Different
Famine Districts Of China. That
Was the Estimated Number Of
Deaths, But 1t Is Thought BY Some
That the Number Of Deaths Was
Less.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-18

THE CIDADEL SCHOLARSHIPS
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-17

handled the buying in masterly way. When the closing gong struck, Beulali Sands had 10000 shares. which aver aged her 115; Bob and had 30.000 at an average of 125. and the stock had closed 132 bid and in big demand. Miss Sands 2o,000 showed s340. 900 profit. while our 30.00o showed s210.- 900 at the closing price. All the houses with Washington wires were wildly scrambling for sugar as soon as 1t began to jump. And 1t certainly looked as though the shares were good for the figures set for them by Bob. s175. at which price the Sands profits would be sl,200.000. Bob was beside himself with joy. He dined with Kate and me. and as I watched him my heart almost stopped beating at the thought-"if anything should happen to upset his plans." His happiness was pathetic to witness. He was like a child He threw away all the reserve of the past three months and laughed and was grave by turns. After din ner. as we sat in the library over our cofee, he leaned over to my wife and said.
 Katherine Randolph. you and Jim don't know what misery have been in for three months. and now-vill to- morrow never come. SO I may get into the uhirl and clean up this deal and send that girl back to her father with the money, I wanted her to tele- graph the judge that things looked like she would win out and bring back the relief. but she would not hear of it. She is a marvellous woman. She has not turned a hair today. don't think her pulse Is up an eighth to- night She has not sent home a word of announcement since she has been here. more than to tell her father she is doing well with her stories It seems they both agreed the only way to york the thing out was whole hog or none and that she was to say nothing untii she could herself bring the Nord saved or lost don't know but she is right She says If she should raise her fathers hopes. and then be compelled to dash them. the effect would be fatal
 Bob rushed the talk along fitting iron ons point to znothsr. bat irvzris- bly returning to Be1lsh Sands and t0- morrur and it's saving pru6tx Final 1y. ks got to . pttch shsrs it seezs< = fso1kh hs nust tsze e he li1- zzz
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-17

upon his individual powers to keep . clear head. to shout loudest. to forget nothing. to keep his feet. and to stay as near the center of the crowd as pos sible. depended his floor honor," per haps his fortune, or, what was more to him. his clients fortune. Nearly every man of them was a college graduate who had won his spurs at athletics or a seasoned floor man whose training had been even more severe than that of the college camp us. When. 1t was known before the opening of the exchange that there are to be things doing in a certain stock, 1t is the rule to send only the picked floor men into the crowd. There klay be a fortune to make or to lose in a minute or a silver of min ute. For instance. the man who that morning was able to snatch the first 5000 shares sold at 40 could have resold them a few minutes afterward at 152 and secured s6o.o0o profit And the man who was sent into the crowd by his client to sell 5000 shares at the "opening" and who got but 140. when the price would be 152 by the time he reported to his customer. was a man to be pItied- Again. the trader who the night before had decided that sugar had gone up too fast. and who had -shorted- (that Is, sold what he did not have. with the intention of re- purchasing at a lower price than he sold 1t forl 5000 shares at 140 and who. finding himself In that surging mob with sugar selling at 1s7. could only get out by taking a loss of ESQ., oo0, or by taking another chance of later paying 1e2-such q trader vas also to be pitied
 No one who scanned the crowd that morning would have believed that the calm. set face on that erect Indlap Azure. occupying the very center of that horde of gamblers vho were oniy awaiting the ringing clang of the gong to hurl themselves like msdme1 a' each ether. vas the hysferfcsl man vho the night before vas wildly pray ing for this moment Nearly everJ man in that croud was calm. but Boe Brovnley vas the csimest of then all It's the exchsnEs code that t any cos' ef heart or nerTetssr q nan uurt re tain good form rnfIl the Eo1g strikes Then. that hs mszs bs ss nszr the Mn' czzst fizsr ss kzuz1 nint Ert bofJ szz bs nz<s 0.l5 rszlssf xss'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-17

ways entering with an undisguised eagerness. leaving with a slow. dreamy reluctance. That he never saw her outside the office, l am sure. for she said goodnight to him when he or she left for the day, with the same don't-come-with.me dignity that she exhibited to all the rest of us. had not attempted to say a word to Bob about his feeling for Beulah Sands. nor had he ever brought up he subject to me. On the contrary, he studiously avoided it.
 Three months of the six had now passed, and with each day I thought noted an increasing anxiety fin Bob. He had opened special account for Miss Sands on the books of the house In his name as agent, with a credit of s60. 900. and we both watched it with a painful tenseness of scrutiny. It had grown by uneven jerks. until the balance on October 1 was almost s40O, 900. On some of the trades Bob had consulted me. and on others. two in particular where he closed up after a few days operations with nearly s200, 900 profit. I did not even know what the trading was based on until the stocks had been sold Then he said:
 Jim. that little lady from Virginia can give us a big handicap and play us to a standstill at our own game She told me to buy all the Burlington and Sugar her account would stand. and did not even ask my opinion. In both eases I thought the operations were more the result of a vakeful night. and an I-must-doSomething de cision than anything else. and tack led both with shiver: but when she told me to sell them out at . time 1 thought they looked ike going high CT. and the nert day they slumped. I could not help thinking about the des- tiny that shapes our ends-
 On my part. I tried to heip. On enc
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-17

girl crossed his path, BOD Browh1sy was a man who was thinking, think. ing, thinking all the time. It was only with an effort thatNh would keep his eyes on whenever he was talking with long enough to take in what was said, and if the saying occupied much time 1t would be apparent to the talker that Bob was of in the clouds. All his friends and associates remarked the change, but I alone. except perhaps Kate, had any idea of the cause. l knew that two million dollars and the coming New Year were hurdling like kangaroos over Bobs mental rails and ditches, though did not know it from anything he told me, for after that talk on the upper deck of the Tribes man he had shut up like clam.
 He did not exactly shun me, but showed me in many ways that he had entered into new world, in which he desired to be alone. That Beulah Sands plight had reused into intense activity all the latent romance of my friends nature did not sur prise me. I foresaw from the first that Bob would fall head over heels in love with this beautiful, sorrow laden girl. and it was soon obvious that the longdelayed shaft had plant ed it's point in the innermost depths of his being. His was more than love; a fervid idolatry now had possession of his soul, mind and body. Yet its outward manifestations were the op- posite of what one would have looked for in this gay and optimistic south erner. It was rather priest-like wor- ship, a calm imperturbability that nothing seemed to distract or upset, at least in the presence of the goddess who was its object. Every morning he would pass through my office head ed straight for the little room she oc- cupied as if it were his one objective point of the day, but once he heard his own Good morning, Miss Sands" I he seemed to round to, and while in her presence was the Bob Brownley of old. He would be in and out all day on any and every pretext. al-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-17

have decided to plunge. She has q balance of about s400,000. and I am going to spread 1t thin. am going to buy her 10000 shares and take on 10.- 900 for myself. If you went in for 20,- GOO more. 1t would give me wide sea to sail in. l know you never specu- late, Jim. for the house, but thought you might in this case go In person ally"
 Don't say anything more, Bob." l replied. This time the rule goes by the board. But will do better; I'll put up million and you can go as high as 10000 for me. That will give you buying power of 100000, and l want you to use my last 50,000 shares as a lifter."
 I had never speculated in share of stock since entered the firm of Randolph & Randolph, and on general. special. and every other principle was opposed to stock gambling. but saw how Bob had worked it out, and that to make the deal sure 1t was necessary for him to have a good reserve buy ing power to fall back on 1t, after he got started the System" masters, whose game he was putting in to and whose plans he might upset should try to shake down the price to drive him out of their preserves. Bob knew how looked at his proposed deal and ordinarily would not have al- lowed me to have the short end of it, but so changed had he become in his anxiety to make that money for the Virginians that he grabbed at my ac- ceptance.
 Thank you, Jim," he said, fervent- ly, and he continued: "Of course, I see what's going through your head. but I'll accept the favor, for the deal is bound to be successful I know your reason for coming in Is just to help out, and that you won't feel bad ly because your last 50,000 shares will be used more as guarantee for the deals success than for profit. And Miss Sands could not object to the part you play, as she did at the un- derwriting, for you will get big profit anyway"
 Next day sugar was lively on the ex- change. Bob bought all in sight and
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-17
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-17

before Kate or 1 realized what was coming he placed himself in front of us and said:
 "Jim, Kate. cannot go Into to-mor- row without telling you something that neither of you suspect. l must tell some one. now that everything is coming out right and that Beulah is to be saved; and whom can tell but you, who have been everything to me? --I love Beulah Sands. surely, deeply. with every bit of me. worship her. I tell you, and tomorrow. tomorrow if this deal comes out as 1t must coiae, and I can put s1.500.000 into her hands and send her home to her ia ther. then. then. will tell her love her. and Jim, Kate. if she'll marry me. good.by, good-by to this hell of dollar hunting. good-byl to such misery as I have been in for three months, and home. a Virginia home. for Beulah and me-" He sank into chair and tears rolled down his cheeks. Poor, poor Bob, strong as a lion in diversity, hysterical as a woman with victory in sight.
 The next day sugar opened with wild rush: 5000 shares from 140 to 152." That is the way it came on the tape, which meant that the crowd around the sugar-pole was mob and that the transactions were so heavy, quick and tangled that no one could tell to certainty just what the first or opening price was; but after the first lull. after the gong. there were of ficially reported transactions aggre- gating 25,000 shares and at prices va rying from 140 to 152. I was over on the floor to see the scramble. for 1t was noised about long before ten o'clock that sugar would open wild. and then, too. I wanted to be handy If Bob should need any quick advice.
 A minute before the gong struck, there were 300 men damned around the sugar-pole; men with set, deter. mined faces; men with their coats buttoned tight and shoulders thrown back for the rush to which. by com parison. that of football team is child's play. Every man in that crowd was picked man, picked for what was coming. Each felt that
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-17

thE6IDENI .. J. SMALAA
 America. has sent out the. official call for all members of the union to cease work immediately, comparatively few men will be added to those on strike as result because in all the large cit ies, he now asserts. the members of the union were already out.
 A Chicago report says that there is a sudden change of front on the part of the striking telegraphers there. Like the ofncsrs of the companies. they. had announced repeatedly that they would not consider arbitration. but they have just announced that they would accept the general board of arbitrators of the American Fed erstion of Labor in settling the diff
 This board consists of John Mitchell of the mine workers, Daniel ]. Keefe of the longshoremen and Samuel Gompers. It was MT. Gompers who made the announcement.
 United States Labor Commissioner Neill has returned to Washington. He says the strike cannot be settled in Chicago. and the only place where an adjustment can be reached is New York. It is regarded as probable that President Small will come to New York within a few days.
 It has been definitely decided that there will be no strike of the railroad telegraphers. despite all reports to the contrary. This decision was reached at a conference held here which was attended by President Small, Secre. tary Russell. President Samuel Com pers of the American Federation of Labor, two representatives of the O. R. T. and several other labor leaders. The opinion was that the commercial telegraphers would not be greatly helped by calling out the 47.0oo rail- road operators. but the latter can best help by the contribution of financial aid. They will shortly be called upon to contribute . strike fund of $60. 900.
 The representatives of the o. R. T. promised that they would do every thing possible to aid the commercial men except to order strike. That. they said, would tie up the railroads of the country and cause business dis aster to no good purpose.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-17

Sands story so that she could see things on true slant, she had de- cided to try to bring her to our house to live. But though the girl was sweet. ly gentle in her appreciation of Rates thoughtful attentions, in her simple way she made us both feel that our efforts would be for naught, that her position must be the same as that of any other clerk in the office. We both finally left her to herself. Bob ex- plained to me. some three weeks after she came to the office, that she re- ceived no visitors at her home, a hotel on a quiet uptown street. and that even he had never had permission to call upon her there.
 But from the day she came to occu- py her desk in our office. Bob was a changed man. whether for better or for worse neither Kate nor I could de- eide. His old bounding elasticity was gone. and with it his rollicking laugh He was now a man where before ha had been a boy. man with burden. Even if 1 had not heard Beulah Sands story. should have guessed that Bob was staggering under a strange load While before. from the close of the stock exchange until its opening the nert morning. he was, as Kate was fond of putting t. always ready to i'll in for anything from chaperun to nurse. always open for any lark we planned from a Bohemian dinner to the opera, now weeks went by without our seeing him at our house In the osHce 1t used to be a saying that out side gong-strikes, Bob Brovnley did not know he vas in the stock business Formerly every clerk knew when Bob came or vent, for it vas with a rush. . shout. laugh. and a bang of doors; and o1 the floor of the stock ezchzngs 70 man played SO many prznks. or s1le1 his orders with 90 much jolly rood-nsture and Hilarious boisteruus- seEA Bat fruu the day the TIrEinial
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-17
CHAPTER II.

The following week saw Miss Sands, of Virginia, private secretary to the head of Randolph & Randolph, estab- lshed in little office between mine and Bob's. She had not been there a day before we knew she was a worker. She spent the hours going over re- ports and analysing financial state ments. showing a sagacity extraordi- nary in so young a person. She ex- plained her knowledge of figures by the hand-work she had done for the judge, all of whose accounts she had kept. Bob and I saw that she was bent on smothering her memory in that antidote for all ills of heart and soul-work. Her office life was sim plicity itself. She spoke to no one ex- cept Bob, save in connection with such business matters of the firms as might send her by one of the clerks to attend to. To the others in the banking house she was just an uncon- ventional young literary woman whose high social connections had gained her this opportunity of getting at the se- crets of finance, from actual experi- ence, for use in forthcoming novels. It had got abroad that she was the writer of great distinction who, under nom de plume, had recently made quite a dent in the worlds literary shell-a suggestion that rightly guessed was one of Bob's delicate ways of smooth
 ing out her path. had tried in every way to make things easy for her, but it was impossible for me to draw her out in talk, and finally gave it up. Had it not been that every time passed her office door was compelled by the fascination which I had first felt, and which, instead of diminishing
 had increased with her reticence, to look in at the quiet figure with the downcast eyes, working away at her desk as though her life depended on never missing second, should not have known she was in the building
 My wife, at my suggestion. had tried to induce her to visit us; in fact, after let her into just enough of Beulah
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-17
WILL ALL co OUT?
Western Union and Postal
 Claim Strike Ia Over.
UNIONS NOW READY TO lRBI1RA1R

Conference of Labor Hsen Decides That Railroad Operators Can Best
 Ala Their object by stay-
 ing at Wires.
 NEW YORK. Aug. l7.-Interest in the telegraphers' strike now centers in the probable effect of the general strike order issued by President Small of the national union and which called upon all operators employed by tho commercial telegraph companies and those working private and leased wires not under union contracts to go ont. Throughout the east 1t is said there were few if any responses to the call.
 Both the Western Union and the Postal companies claim not to have been affected by President Smalfs call and to be working their wires bet ter than before the general strike was declared. The Associated Press was not affected adversely.
 5 Though S. ]. Small, president of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union q
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-17
Biggest Man In Four States Desd.

BURLINGTON. N. T.. Aug. IT, Frederick Peter. New Jerseys biggest councilman and the tallest man in four states, died at his home here from q complication of diseases. Councilman Peter was born at wasi,- enheim. Germany, flfty-seven years ago. He stood six feet seven inches in height. and allied German societies of New Jersey. Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania presented him with . gold headed cane for his being the biggest German in the four states.