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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
Young People on the Farm.

If the young people on the farm
are discontented, says the American
Farmer, would it not be wise to in
vestigate the case? If there is dull
ness and lethargy there is something
wrong. A morbid disposition kills
every JOY, and it should be combated
at once. Morbidness is infectious,
and its contagion is evil. 1t is duty
we owe to ourselves and friends to
be cheerful, and the cheerful mood
is also contagious.
Our young people on the farm can,
and they should cultivate cheerful
ness, self-control and serenity. The
s'blues'' are not commendable. Things
will happen to annoy us, but we can
keep our voices low and our faces
pleasant. We achieve something
worth while every time we repress in
speech, tones and gestures and ex-
preston, irritation, impatience and
i'll temper.
Our young people on the farm
should be thoroughly interested and
alive in all that is going on. We must
keep on climbing the mountain side;
we can not stay where we are, and
we must not fall back. Advancement
must be made, and our interest should
be so great there will be no room for
morbidness. If we cease to grow we
cease to live.
Our young people will not suffer
from the blues if they read good,
strong books, if they study with
earnestness the preparatory course
for their life work, if they keep up
their music or anything else in which
they are interested and have some
thing to talk of beyond the gossip of
the neighborhood and the mere friv-
olities of life.
All of our young men and women
should have a practical work to do,
and then some skill Of the hands or
some fad to fill in the old moments.
Many Of our girls like the needle, and
beautiful pieces of embroidery have
grown, little by little, using the frag
ments of time.
We must live outside of ourselves,
make self worth something to the
people around US, and this will give
us a large interest beyond self; with
the other young people, enlist in a
cause that will help the world. If you
do this, it is not likely that you will
l. J
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
The Farmer Feedeth All.

Very few Of us appreciate the
great things the farmer does for this
country. In addition to feeding the
nation the farm still overshadows the
mill, the factory and the workshop
in providing exports. For the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1906, the surplus
exported amounted in value to $685.
100000, the largest ever reached by
agricultural exports for this or any
other country, and exceeding the ex-
port values Of 1901, previously the
record year.
During the last seventeen years the
exports of farmers have exceeded the
agricultural imports by S6,000,000,-
600, while all other producers find
themselves at the end of the same
period with a total on the debtor
side Of 459,O00.000. Thus, it will
be seen that the farmer saves the
balance Of trade" for this. country
and is the prime factor Of all the
prosperity.
It will thus be seen that the farmer
S the chief factor in making: this
great country rich and prosperous.
When he prospers we all 'pfHspsr.
Yet, with all Of his Importance he
gets very little consideration in COM
parison with those of other callings,
Congress will do anything nearly that
the Wall street gamblers ask them to
do. But when it comes to legislating
for the benefit of the farmer, there
are numerous reasons why it cannot
be done, or if anything is done for
them it is done in kind of 1--WE
don't think you deserve it air -
Why is it that the farmers are
thus treated by those whom they
send to represent them in congress
or the State Legislature? 1t is be-
cause the farmer does not hold their
public servants to a strict account
for the way they vote when it comes
to legislation that will help or pro-
tect the farmer. The farmer could
help himself if he would. He should
when amember of congress
Or other public servant does not vote
to suit him, he should be defeated
for reelection. In this way and no
other will the farmer make himself |
felt and respected in public affairs.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
A Pet Tiger.

Out Of river bed where it had tun-
bled when its dam was put to fight
some. hunters In India fshed a tiger
cub. In two days it was as tame as a
kitten and grew up the playmate Of
the camp terriers. 1t was very fond
Of them and the terriers worshiped the
tgress. To allay the fears Of woman
visitor the tigress was one night chain
ed up. Next morning the snima was
found with a man under her. She had
not hurt him. He was thief, and, not
knowing Of her existence. had come
within the area which her length Of
chain enabled her to command. She
sprang upon him, lay on him and kept
him prisoner until guards came to re.
lease him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
Keep It There.

Mr.. George P. Rowell, Of Printers
Ink, in writing on the scenes and in
cidents of visit to Columbia, he
takes this state to task for erecting
tablet in the state capitol whereon is
emblazoned the ordinace of secession,
and the names of the men who sign
ed it. He thinks the boy who fired
his fathers barn should as appro-
priately preserve the fagot which
caused the conflagration.
That may be Mr.. Rowell's opinion,
but we do not agree with him. The
men who signed the Ordinance of
Secession in this and all the South
ern States were as true patriots as
the men who signed the declaration
of independence at the beginning Of
the revolutionary war, and in honor
ing their memory the State does the
proper thing. She not only honors
them, but honors herself in erecting
the tablet Rowell complains Of:
The Spartanburg Herald is right
when it says the men who signed
the ordinance of secession were the
flower of Southern chivalry, and the
world has found no nobler. They
were the representatives of a race
who counted not on devastation and
ruin, on sacrifice even of human lives
when the eternal principle OF right
was involved.
Disinterested students of history
with one accord agree that these men
were moved by conscientious re-
gard for what they conceived to be
their duty. Many foresaw the con-
sequences, but they did not hesitate.
1t is not creditable to be present gen
GRAFTON to say that it's doubtful if
that ordinance" would be signed
by a representative body of men Of
this day, especially with the lights be-
fore them.
But so long as men reverence de-
votion to duty, so long as they honor
those who dare to- 90 right as they
see it regardless OF pecuniary or
personal consequences, they will de-
sire to keep in mind the men who
had the boldness to declare South
Carolina a freeand independent state
rather than submit to what they be-
lieved injustice, and TO back it up
with their lives and their treasure.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
A NEED, JUST LIKE SLEEP.
Il the Instinct OF Natural Death Born
In Naakinds

L. the Instinct OF Natural Death Born
In Naakinds
The most convincing fact in proof 0.
the existence in man OF an instinct OF
natural death seems to me that report
ed by Toxarsky in relation to an old
woman. In the lifetime Of Toxarsky
begged an acquaintance Of his to OBJ
tain for me the details Of this most In.
tefesting case, Of which I bad found
but an Incomplete statement rox-
arsky unfortunately could add nothing
to what be had published in his article.
I believe, however, that have found
the source from which his instance had
been taken.
In his book upon the physiology OF
taste. which had its day Of celebrity,
B-illat-Savarin relates the following:
II had great-aunt. n'rety-three years
old. who was dying Although for some
time confined to her bed, she had re.
tanned all her faculties, aud her cordl-
ton was only betrayed by her loss Of
appetite and the weakening Of her
voice. She had always shown a fond
ness for me. and was near her bed,
afectionately ready to wait on her.
which did not prevent my watching
her with the philosophical eye have
ever had for the things and events sur.
rounding me. Are you there, nephew?'
she asked, in scarcely audible voice
Yes, aunt: am here at your service.
and l think you would do we'll to take
a little good old wine Give, mon
ami. One can always swallow liquid.
fastened. Raising her gently. made
her take half glass Of my best wine.
She frightened for a moment and, look.
ing at me with eyes which had once
been very fine. Thank you she said.
for this last favor. If ever you reach
my age you will find that death be-
comes need, just like Sleep
These were her last words. Hall an
hour later she had fallen asleep forev-
er. We Enthusiastically have here an in
stance Of the instinct Of natural death.
The instinct was shown at relatively
early age In q person who had retain,
ed all her intellectual facult:es."-P
lessor Ellie Metchnikof in .Harper's.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
A Famous Tenor.

Apart from its wide range, the nat
ural beauty and sweetness Of the voice
Of Sims Reeves held his audiences
spellbound and fully entitled him to be
termed the finest English tenor OF his
day. He especially excelled in ora
torio parts, while in opera his success
was scarcely less pronounced. Per
Aaps 1t was rs a singer Of English bal
lads that Sims Reeves appealed to the
majority, and it will probably be many
q long day before we shall hear more
exquisite rendering Of sally In Our
Alley" than that of which this great
tenor was capaSle.-London Mail.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27

Ban Young, watchman at rail
road crossing in Columbia was
knocked down by a runaway team
and run over by a locomotive. He
will probably get off with only the
amputation Of foot.
William DeLoch severely cut
George Blatin near Good Hope
Church in Saluda County. Both are
white and had been drinking, it is
said.
An extensive series Of photographs
of Clemson College are being prepar-
ed for exhibition at the Jamestown
Exposition.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

Beat boy out Of dime and the
crime will never outlaw.
Comparison may not be a detraction,
but It is certainly half sister.
The truth with unselfsh people Is
they are liable to brag about it.
There is only one way in this world
to get your own way-insist upon it.
Almost any defense would be all
right If you could make people be-
lieye it
It is Just as dangerous to tell some
people secret as it is to fool with
loaded gun.
When man submits to a procession
wedding the other men look at him
the way boys look at a boy whose
mother makes him wear long curls.
The man who has made failure in
any line OF business never has very
good opinion Of the man who started
IN the same line at the same time and
made 1t success.-Atchison Globe>
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27

The Anderson Mail says '.just as
apt as not in the next Congress some
member from Massachusetts, may
come right out and advocate a bill
to keep ships of any kind from en-
tering the port Of Charleston" No
doubt they would liketo, but it would
do no good, Charleston is destined
to be a great city, and the hate Of
thousand Massachusetts, will not re-
tard her a day.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
Too Deep,

The story is told of lank, disconso-
late looking farmer who one day dur
Ing the progress Of a political meeting
in Cooper institute stood on the steps
with the air Of one who has been sur
felted with a feast Of some sort.
do you know who's talking in there
now" demanded stranger briskly,
pausing for moment beside the dis
consulate farmer, ''or are you just 60
ing in?"
"No, Sir. I've just come out" said
the farmer decidedly. "Mr. ETarts Is
talking IN there"
"What about?" asked the stranger.
",We!l. he didn't say" the farmer
answered, passing a knotted hand
across his forehead.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
DESIRE BLONDE CHILDREN.
Many People Want Light Children
When Adopting Little Ones.

Strange as it may seem, said q
prominent philanthropist- in the New
York Tribune, not a few children Of
the thousands who must be classed
as street waits receive a valuable In
heritance of blue eyes and light hair,
which, without too great a stretch OF
the imagination, may be called
golden. While do not pretend to
understand the psychology Of the
question, facts will nevertheless bear
this out.
Of the great number of requests re-
ceived by the charitable Institutions
of this city for children for adoption
the majority of those who specify ask
for the blue-eyed, golden-haired type.
So, you see, the inheritance Of such.
colcring is sort Of "open sesame
to a good home. This curious predi-
lection was much more marked 10 or
IS years ago than now, but 1t stu
crops up occasionally and is certainly
an interesting trait. s.
The figures and letters obtalnable
at charitable Institutions contain In
formation corroborative of this state
ment. For instance, in the records OF
the New York Juvenile Asylum, an
institution which for the last 80 years
has given real home and useful
training to some 10000 children who
would otherwise have grown up in the
slums and has placed 5000 os them
in outside homes, mostly in the West,
there is a multitude of letters asking
for children to be adopted. Some OF
them show this curious blue and yell
low choice .
Can you send a child out here for
adoption? says one letter from a West
ern state which every year receives,
many children from the institution.
IF so, have you a little girl with blue
eyes and curly golden hair?''
| We should be glad to give a good:
home to little boy, says anotner.< We.
prefer one with light hair and blue.
eyes. -;
| Of course brunette complexion is
no handicap to the child for which
the juvenile asylum is striving to get
/ a square deal. But those who wish
| to adopt hght-haired children gener-:
ally specify on this particular, since:
on other points the judgment Of the
| asylum authorities is regarded as SUI
fcient. :--ssz,s:s2s =; *:
One man who has long watched the.
work of this and other institutions:of
I a similar kind insists that. the psy-
chology Of a selection is simple. Ac-
cording to his theory the West, where:
"a real chance is found for many Of the:
children, has a population made mp IN
large part of settlers from Northern
European countries, where blue eyes
and light hair constitute the prevail
/ ing type. Naturally enough when.
adopting child one Of such coloring
is preferred, all Of which, while direct
ly opposed to the theory Of attraction;
!; of opposites, serves to emphasize the
value Of blue eyes and light hair to
the New York waits.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
MAN FOUND DEAD.
Merchant and Postmaster Killed
and Body Robbed.
It Is Believed That the Person Who
Robbed Him Gave Him Deadly
Drug

Drug.
C. F. Ferguson, postmaster and
merchant at Newsoms, Southamp-
ton county, Va, was found dead in
an alley leading to the wharf of the
Bennett Steamship line, just off
Water street, Norfolk, Va, early
Sunday morning. It is thought that
death was the result Of a drug ad-
ministered by some one for the pur-
pose of robbery, although Coroner
Knight, after a careful autopsy,
stated that he could find no signs OF
poisoning.
Ferguson, it is said, had been
drinking heavily. To support the
drugging theory is the fact that the
face Of the dead man had turned pur-
ple by noon. The coroner will con
duct an inquest, at which time ne
hopes to be able to assign, without
question, the cause Of the mans
death. :,
Ferguson wore handsome gold
watch, with his initials engraved on
it, and to which a chain and charm
were attached. These were missing,
as was everything else the mans
nockets may have contained.
The pockets were turned wrong
side out. Nothing was left in them
by which he could be identified and
the police we're for time at a loss.
4 Masoaic emblem which Ferguson
wore and which the pickpocket over.
looked finally gave the police a clue
and the body was later positively
identified by Mayors Clerk E. M
! Dardeo, who had known Ferguson
intimately for many years.
Furgeson is not supposed to have
had a great amount of money, o.
much else of value, save the watch
and its appendages. Two rings o1
small value were left on a finger.
Furguson was last seen Saturday
night about 9 o'clock, seated on the
Sidewalk, reclining against a bricl
wall, and it was there and in tha'
position that he was found Sunda.
morning. Whether the body wa!
robbed before or after death is no
known. The police will conduct
searching investigation into the case
Ferguson was about thirty-eigh'
wears old and unmarried,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27

ANNA Bell Russell, respectable
young colored woman, was shot and
mortally wounded in Winnsboro on
Wednesday of last week by Stork
Means, a twenty year old colored
boy. because she refused to marry
him. He way laid his victim and shot
her on her wav from church and
wounded two colored men who at
tempted to protect her. Instead of
blowing out his own brain, as such
fools usually do, Means made his es-
cape.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
ROBBED ON STREET.
A Northern Visitor to Columbia
Held Up by Thieves.
The Victim Says They Were Negroes
They Took Victims Coat, Shoes
and Money.

and Money.
The State says Mr.. M. M. Hanel-
reth, a Northern man, who has been
stopping at the City hotel since Tues
day evening, was held up and robbed
Thursday night about midnight, at
the corner of Assembly and Green
streets by two negroes. He was re-
lieved of his coat and shoes and s37
in money.
Mr.. Hamelreth was walking down
Assembly street toward the union
station and on approaching the Green
Street Methodist church he noticed
a negro coming down Green from
the direction of Main. The negro
met him at the intersection of the
two streets, on the sidewalk, and
asked for match. Mr.. Hamelreth
replied that he did not have a natcn
and continued on down Assembly,
without hesitation.
Just MS he had passed the negro ne
was grabbed in the collar and almost
thrown down. He tackled the negro
and was making a pretty lively fight,
when he was suddenly grabbed from
behind by another negro and thrown
to the grown. They held him firmly
on the ground while his pockets were
oone thro1oh While the big negro
held him the smaller one took his
shoes off and told him to "scoot.
Having secured their booty, the
negroes started off down Assembly
in the middle of the road, at rapid
pace. AS soon as he regalned his
feet, Mr.. Hamelreth went in pursuit
of the highwaymen, running them
to within short distance of the un.
ion station before losing sight oi
them. The negroes disappeared
around a street car and it IS thought
that they went straight to the rail
road tracks beyond the depot.
! Mr.. Hamelreth describes the rob
bers as follows: One about 5 feet
or 8, inches, yellow, weight about
| l4O, mixed sack coat, ripped in the
back Of right sleeve, wore cap. med
liurn negro voice; second man abou'
! 6 feet | or 2 inches, weight abouI
LIS, real black, heavy thick lips
wore slouch hat, slightly STOPPED
shoulders, dressed decidedly coarse
and rough.
! Just before they let 60 Of theil
victim, one of the coons said: Kun
Tom,
Mr.. Hamelreth reported the mat
| ter to the police within 10 or Is min
utes after it happened, but nothing
to indicate the identity of the rob
bers has been discovered.
The hold-up was almost under al
electric light, which was burning
brightly. Mr.. Hamelreth says h
would recognize either of the ne
groes if he sees them again. His ap
pearance Thursday night showed tina
he put up good fight, his shirt be
ing badly torn in several places. HI
was presented with pair of shoe
at the Union station by rallroat
employe.
Mr.. Hamelreth is an attorney a
Long Run, Ohio, and has been il
| Florida and Georgia for the pas
three months and was on his way
back to his home. He says he receiv
! ed $40 Thursday by mail from bonn
and expected to leave Friday or Sat
urday for Ohio.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27

SOMETIMES the hardworked coun-
try editor has very little time to
devote to editorial writing. He has
a great many things to do besides
writing editorials that the editor of
a city daily knows nothing about.
That is why the city editor thinks
that the country editor has a week
in which to write editorials.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
Tillman Quotes Burns.

A Washington correspondent says
one Sunday afternoon recently
party Of gentlemen met in Senator
Tillman's rooms at the Normandie
and, strangely enough, the converse
ton did not touch upon the negro
question, Mr.. Roosevelt, State rights
or any political topic. Mr. Tillman
directed the talk to the shams and
humbugs Of modern life, particularly
among the class that had recently
required great wealth. His remarks,
if reported, would have made an ad-
mirable sermon that could have been
delivered from almost any nypulp-t. Mr.
Tillman especially deplored and con-
demned the practice that so many
men had followed of deserting the
partner of their earlier struggles
and seeking younger women with
whom to share their newly-acquired
wealth.
''To my mind" said Senator Till
man, there is nothing finer or more
beautiful in prose or poetry than the
second stanza of that gem of Bobbie
Burns, John Anderson, my 10 John
Gazing out Of the window at the driv-
ing rain, Mr.. Tillman repeated the
verse he had mentioned:
"John Anderson, my 10 John,
We clamb the hill thegither;
And monte a cauty day, John,
We've had WI ane anither.
Now we maun totter down, John,
But hand in hand we'll go;
And sleep thegither at the foot,
John Anderson, my Jo."
''Those are my sentiments exact
!y," said Mr.. Tillman softly, after a
brief interval of silence. What
a world Of trouble and heartache
would be saved if we would all live
up to them!"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27

DR.. Leon Goldburg, who has been
acting as interpreter for the state
immigration bureau and who has
been charged with being implicated
in the seduction Of a young girl who
came over in the Wittekind, has dis
appeared from Columbia.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
Missionaries, Motor Boat.

A motor-boat is to be utilized for
mission service in the North sea by
the Missions to Seamen Society. Il
will be named the Frances Roget, and
will be stationed at Harwick.