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The San Francisco call., 1907-03-24
The Suits Testimony
Himself
TUDGE-look at me nowi

TUDGE-look at me nowi
See theway mylapels bulge-Notice
the unevenness OF my shoulders-how
they have fallen away-See how broken and
iumpy looking | am in front-Dor't you
think from the way I'm twisted here and
distorted there that I'm about the worst
looking Suit you ever saw in your lifes
Yet there's good material il me, Judge.
i'll had been properly cut and made up,
YOU wouldn't see me in this terribly
twisted Condition-not much.
But wasn't
Between these two prisoners my present
Condition was assured.
For the Tailor there cut me altogether
inpr operly, then hustled me through a lot
Of inexperienced hunger-driven operatives
who slammed" me together any old way
And when came from their hands,
o'as 6adiy made felt IT,
should have been carefully taken apart
and made over by skilled tailoring experts
then / might have had a slight chance
Of being good suit.
But no-that would ccst money.
Twas thrown TO Old DR.. Goose-the Hot
Flat Iron-fOr his work is cheap.
He stretched me here and shrunk me
there-till every thread and strand of
Fabric ached and ached.
But he made me look the part of we'll
made suit like thousands Of other improp-
erly cut and poorly tailored suits he has
so 'doped"
To soon Come TO the state you see me
IN now, Judge-disgraced and dishonored.
Now that's the Charge have agains,
the prisoners.
might have been made into a srit that
would hold its Shape for Life
How do / know2
Because there are clothes so made
Sincerity Clothes" is their name.
You won't 6nd a Sincerity Suit In nv
condition-nOt in a thousand years-For
Sincerity Clothes are made right from
Starr 70 finish.
Sincerity Clothes are designed and Cut
Oy the most expert and knowing tailors
10 Amenca
Tnen they're tailored by expert needle.
wOrkers-who Sew Shape and Form per.
manently into the Fabric.
When Sincerity Suit is made, II is riQidly
inspected-the few slight alterations that
may possibly be required are made byexpert
needleworkers not by Old DR.. Goose.
All these things Cos. money of course
ASincerity Suit cost the Sincerity Makers
more money 10 make than il Cost the
prisoners here TO make me-
But-here's the Ds0sf remarkable bayf-
A Sincerity Sui. dce-n't cost the wearer &
Single Cent more than ] and my class of
Poorly Mades cost him
All first grade y-to-wear dealers carry
Sincerity Clothes, Judge-If you want to be
sure, see that this label is in the Coat--it
insures Style, Service and Satisfaction.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-24
WAVES NOW ROLL OVER
THE STEAMSHIP DAKOTA

SEATTLE, March 2s.-E. c. Clancy,
supervising engineer OF the Great
Northern Steamship Company. today
received word from the Orient that
the steamship Dakota, which went
ashore on Osani reef. has broken up.
The csblegram says
Dakota broken up by gale this
morning Main mast, mizzen mast and
funnel under water"
Another cablegrsm says: Salvage
Association reports 11,24l sacks of
-four. z77 bales OF cotton. as sacks of
wheat salvaged. about per cent OF
cargo"
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-24
High-Crade Pianos

Every one of the instruments in
cluded in this advertising arrange
ment are pianos of sterling qualities
and splendid reputation. They in
clude the Hazelton, the Decker, the
Kimball, the Schumann, the Smith &
Barnes, the Hobart M. Cable, the
Story & Clark, the Schubert, the
Bailey and the Haines Bros. There is
not one of these pianos that is not
favorably known and that has not a
host of followers. Most of them have
previously been sold by other houses
at prices far In advance of what they
can now be purchased for.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-24
FREE PIANO
INSTRUCTION
A -Four Months Course of Piano
Lessons Free of All Cost
Select Your Own Teacher


Ten well-known American piano
manufacturers have arranged, through
Eilers Music Company, to sell SIS of
their pianos at great reductions from
Former prices. The purpose of this
great reduction is to thoroughly ad-
vertise these makes in 518 California
homes, where they will be used and
seen and spoken of. In addition to the
greatly reduced prices each buyer will
be given a four months course of
piano lessons absolutely free and also
furnished with the necessary instruc-
tion books without cost.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-24
Orders by Mail

A large number of these pianos have
already been sold. and quite number
of orders have come to us by mail
Such orders receive the very best OF
attention. We are particularly care
full in making mail order or tele-
graphic selections. Such buyers have
at their service an expert piano man,
who has had years of experience In
one OF the best American piano fac
tories, and who thoroughly examines
every instrument before shipment, thus
avoiding possibility of any concealed
defect
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-24
The Eilers Guarantee

Every piano carries with 1t the
Eilers guarantee, which means your
money back IL not thoroughly salts
fed in every particular.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24
Good Spring Tonic.

The Fairfax Enterprise says:
There is no spring tonic better than
sassafras tea, made from the lining
bark of the red sassafras, and its
uses as a beverage foT few weeks
at this season is guaranteed to rout
spring fever and bring about a love-
ly transparency of the skin. All the
better if you shoulder pick or hoe
and search the woods yourself for
the aromatic shrub. You may not
know Brer Sassafras when you find
him, but you cannot miss the health
ful tonic Of fresh air and exercise
and the tender glories of the spring
woods" When we were a boy on
the old plantation on the Cooper Ri
yer in the days of slavery it was
custom for all hands, white and black
to take sassafras tea about this time
of year, and it was not bad to take
either. In those days there was no
such thing as patent medicine, and
we were in happy ignorance of the
existence of the myriads of microbes
that now menace us on every hand.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24
A Growing Evil.

One Of the many growing evils Of
this country today is the city depart
ment store. In our town, where we
have the best of stores, the most
honorable of merchants, and where
goods are sold at a margin so small
as not to afford a respectable living
to our business men, thousands Of
dollars are annually sent to the de-
partment stores of our great cities.
Farmers expect our merchants to
pay them a good price for butter,
eggs and poultry, for their cab
bage, potatoes, beans and tomatoes,
and some Of them we are sorry to
say then take the money receiv-
ed from our home merchants and
send it to city department store.
There is neither economy or profit
in such q manner Of doing business.
You can write it down in your hat,
that as a rule, the city department
store is a swindle. Our citizens who
patronize them should be compelled
to ship what they nave to sell to
them. There is not a business man
in our town who will not duplicate
their prices for the same quality Of
goods, and he who turns down his
home merchants to patronize these
fakirs is killing the goose that lays
the golden egg.
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nd the County Commissioners.

and the county commissioners.
The showing also proves that the
people in the new counties are pay
ing handsomely for the privilege Of
enhancing the value of the property
of those folks who live in the county
seat towns.
The showing also proves that the
people Of Bamberg paid last year
IL mills more for ordinary county
taxes than the people Of Orangeburg
County paid.
The showing also proves that the
pecple of the other new counties paid
last year for ordinary county pur-
Loses from 1 u mills in Greenwood
TO mills in Saluda more than the
Leople of Orangeburg County paid
for the same purposes:
The facts presented above show
what people who vote to establish
new counties may expect in the way
of taxes. If we judge by the exper-
ience of the other new counties that
have been formed, we are compelled
to believe that the taxes in any OF
the new counties proposed above,
should they be formed, will be much
higher than the taxes they now pay
in Orangeburg County. :.
This is patent to any man who Will
honestly examine the records and
give an unprejudiced opinion: # any
cne comes to different conclusion, n,
after examining the record, we would
like to see by what process Of rea-
soning he reaches it.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24
The Farmers Are Rich.

The Aiken Recorder says: The
Times and Democrat Of last Thurs
day published the statements Of 10
state banks, situated in 10 different
towns in Orangeburg county, show
ing deposits amounting to S1,3G,-
427.66. This is a good lot Of money
and shows a prosperous condition.
And what is true of Orangeburg is
true of every county in the state.
The farmers are in a more prosper
Gus condition now than they have
been at any time since 1861. :" We
agree with the Record that the farm
ers are doing well. The imitation of
prices does not hurt them as it does
those of us who are not farmers. The
reason for this is the farmers raise
much of what they eat, while the
balance Of us have to buy what we
eat; and at the present high prices
it takes about all we get to pay for
1.-THE Times and Democrat.
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Dodge Them
Both.
Between two
evils you should
always choose
. the lesser"
"But suppose
one Is a bear
and the other q
rattlesnake." :"
"Then climb a
tree. +"
a Polite Douma.

By locking up all prospective mem
bers Of the douma who might not
agree with him that black is white
or that yellow Is a pale blue If he
wanted 1t that way the car hopes to
have a body that will not do anything
to inirre his feelings.
After his somewhat painful expert
ence with the last douma the czar feels
that he cannot be too careful In select
ing material for the new one.
Any man who thinks it was George
Washington rather than the czar who
discovered America would hardly do,
as he might begin thinking out loud
some thoughts that were not down on
the programme.
We presume the czar knows what be
is doing. Russia is peculiar country,
and it may require peculiar means to
handle 1t, but we cannot see why he
did not save time and expense by Sc
lecting some nice sewing circle and
asking It if it could spare few min
utes in the spring to act as douma.
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lovedr' he cried. "See---I have
brought thee thy veil
nave

lovedp' he cried. 'See---I have
brought thee thy veil.
Suddenly he dipped it in the gush-
ing blood and spread it out again.
AS I promised thee, beloved" he
added softly, Il have not slept, nor
eaten, nor rested tell I have wetted
it with the blood Of thy slayer, even
as he wetted it with thine
I can stand a good deal, but some
how that finished me. I left him
there with the dead animal and got
back, pretty sick with my arm to the
village, thinking all the time Of that
chaps endurance and patience. II
gave me cold creeps to think that /
had ran him mercilessly for nearly
a week, and all that time, as l had
not the slightest doubt, he had Meth.
er tasted food or drink nor closed
his eyes---just subsisted on the GER
tainty of vengeance.
The villagers went out to fetch
him in. He was lying with his arms
around the tigers neck-dead.
| didn't take the skin.
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Considerable.
They met in the alley.

What's the matter wild yer face,
Ji-nmy?" asked the little girl from
the Shanties.
'Aw. cant yer see I've got de
toothache?" snapped Jimmy, holding
on to his right jaw. why, one side
Of ME face is swelled all up like a
pumpkin"
We'll, don't worry, Jimmy. I'll
pray for yer tonight.
viii yer, Madge? What yer go
.n, TO pray?"
Il m going to pray dat yer get de
toothache in de other side so dat will
swell up an make yer face eyen."
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24
Humor aaa Philosophy
BY DUNCAN N. SMITH
SLIGHTS HIS END.

You often meet gentleman
Who likes to take drink
When some one says, The rounds on
me-"
And tosses down the chink.
Without reserve or bashfulness
He goes to the attack
A very willing victim, but
He hates the buying back.
Hes always Johnny n-the-Sp
At some one else's treat;
he storms the bar without delay
And gets there with both feet
He he's a most consuming thirst.
But he Is not so dry
Or anxious to repeat it when
His turn rolls round to buy.
He gulps it down as though It were
A favor done to you,
A condescension Just to come
And take drink or two.
And when he thinks you have given I'D
AS much as you will spend
He turns and curbs his thirst until
He meets another friend.
It Is not solely those who drink
The bright and beady booze
VINO only try to cultivate
Such friends as they can use.
It Is a weakness Of the race,
I'm sorry, too, to say,
TO pluck the flower Of favors and
To make a getaway.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

JOHN Temple Graves, John L. Nc
Laurin, and all men who agree with
them politically, should not pose as
Democrats any longer. They are Re-
publicans and should go where they
belong.
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The NeWberry Observer saws i,

The Newberry Observer says if
the negro blind tigers of that county
cant be suppressed then QUE boast
ed white supremacy is a delusion and
a snare" Don't be discouraged. Ne
gro blind tigers and all other kinds
can be suppressed if they are severe
ly punished when caught. 1t won't
do to deal with them gently, but they
must be made to understand that the
violation Of the Jaw means a fifty dol
lars fine and thirty &&;;'<o- the .;hain
gang. Two dozes OF t;;i: ki.d Of
medici: e vii! cure the most hardened
blindt;yer there is in Newberry. Re
menf..r the prescription calls: for
both fine and chain gang withoutany
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The wise may ex2urgate their bliss,
But who with friend or stranger
Would want a sanitary klssf
The fun Is in the danger.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

Two more safe crackers have been
convicted and sent to the pcniten-
tiary for ten years each. These con-
victions were at Spartanburg. This
makes about a dozen or mere pick
pockets and safe crackers that are
Serving time in the South Carolina
Penitentiary. This kind of treatment
will do more to rid the State Of this
class of rascals than anything else.
Let the good work go on.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

SENATOR Tillrnan says he does not
think that any Democrat entertains
any idea of nominating Roosevelt,
but he thinks that Roosevelt is work
ing his cards to get another Repub-
lican nomination. He says he wants
the nomination handed to him on a
silver platter from the hand of some
one on bended knee and that when
this is done he is going to take it.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24
Think Of 1t Mothers.

We sometimes scan the society .
news in the daily papers and there
the names Of many Of o,ryery best
married ladies attending card parties
who have young sons Of an impress
ionable age. Does these mothers
ever stop to think what effect their
card playing is gong to hayeon these
sweet, precious boys? Mothers, you
would give your lives to save your
boys from the awful loom Of the
gambler or drunkard, but you u1T=
consciously lead tbese.yery boys in-.s3
to temptation when they find out
that you attend card parties or take
a social glass Of wine. It's harder
for them to resist temptation after
knowing that you indulge IN these;
things than twas before.
We know that you will say that
there is no harm In a Social card par
ty or a social glass Of vine. What.
possible harm there be IN aspIe
Of cut paste board with hearts, dla-
monds, spades and clubs printed on !
them? None, you III say. The same
thing may be said Of a glass Divine
drank at the festive board. There
may not be:any harm in these things
in themselves when used in modera-
ton as they are used at card parties:
But what guarantee have you that:
your precious boys viii notSuse them
to excess. They do not. know that,
these innocent things are full Of In-S
perceptib!e microbes that scar the
conscience, blight the intellect, wreck
the body and at last damn the soul
when used to excess. These precious.
boys have not had your experience
and they cannot guard against that
excess, and many Of them areWreck
ed by the flowing ball or the.gamng
table. s ~.
AS we look back over our life we.
can recall to mind a score Of bright
young fellows that flung aside the
bright prospects Of a useful and hon:
ored lie by the alurements of the:
social card table that eventually led
to the haunts Of gambling dives, just
as the social wine bibber is led into
the lowest slu1ns and gutterof the
vile whiskey dens. Young people are
drawn into these fascinating amuse
ments, SO innocent in themselves,
yet the seed of chance is planted, and
planted so deep that when it germl-s
mates and springs up, the roots have
such a hold on frail nature it is all
most impossible to eradicate them.
We freely admit that these social,
innocent at homes" or little card,
parties, INDUCED in by the mothers
of precious boys, are harmless, and
will do the mothers no harm, but
what about the influence on those
sweet, precious boys when they know
you indulge publicly in card playing,
mothers? Don't you know that too
often the little innocent game Of
cards for a small stake or prizes: ma
lures the innocent boy who INDUCES
in it into the hardened gambler?
Don't you know, mothers, that the
great army Of sdrunkards is recruit
ed every year from the ranks of the
moderate drinker? Then be careful,
mothers, about the effect Of your
playing for prizes at the innocent
card parties. IF you do it, why not
your boy?-The Times and Demo
crat.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

SHERIFF Martin, Of Charleston,
has called together all the magistra-
tes Of his bailiwick to take active and
drastic measures for cleaning the
city of blind tigers. How times have
changed since the days when Chicco
and others were permitted to have
their own sweet way!
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24
THEY are raising a big muss in

THEY are raising big muss in
Newberry over the appointment of
a dispensary constable for that coun-
ty by the Governor. It. seems that
the blind tigers are about to overrun
the county. In that case a good con-
stable is badly needed, and the small
amount that he Will cost will bemon-
ey we'll spent. Blind tigers should
be made to obey the law regardless
of the cost.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24
The Mullins Enterprise saws: III

The Mullins Enterprise says: The
ing trade continues in full force.
Notwithstanding Chief Smith s vigi-
lence, whiskey continues to arrive in
all kinds Of packages, and names.
There are jugs full, boxes full and
barrels full arriving almost daily.
Wilmington is certainly reaping a
harvest Of Mullins sheekels-and not.
a cent of revenue is the town getting
out of it. -
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24
Wanted to

Wanted to
Know.
Come, uncle: let
us shoot the
chutes
And down the
slide go scoot-
iugl"
"All right, dear
children, II ne
must,
But why do
tn ey n e e d
shooting?
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

The best thing for John Temple
Graves to do is to go over to the Re
publican party, bag and baggage.
No man entertaining his views
should embarrass the Democracy by
nosing as a Democrat.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

CHARL LEsToN proposes to get all
there is coming to her out Of the dis
pensary, and they are making a great
effort down there to suppress blind
tigers, and we hope they will sue
ceed, for blind tigers are a danger
olJs crowd
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

Equality is an evanescent something
that your superiors ought to observe
and your interiors oughtn't to expect.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

The bread Of independence IS often
Sistressingly shy Of butter.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24
kind Them Seriousr

dNiHS IIIOTII 0GI F0Vo'J'
Clear of the band Of girls who are
sworn not to marry?"
"Are they in earnest"
81 thought they were until l offered
to buy them tickets to No Mans
Land and they wouldn't accept them"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

There is not necessarily anything al
lied to honesty In real estate. Never
theless the possession Of 1t often i'm
pels its possessors to pay their debts.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

Other peoples interest would be more
endurable if they did not conflict with
ones own.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

It is idle to talk about work to q
person who regards this world simply
as q rest cure.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

People who have no sense can't do
The best they can.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

Impertinence is most amusing wher
you are IN nowise concerned.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

Sometimes when a man has been
done to a turn the turn IS awfully
swift and the comeback extremely sud-
den.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

Would-be Charming lady Ito man
who has given her his seat in the
street car)-Oh, thank you very
much.
Man-Oh, that's nothing at all,
Miss. Many men only get up when
the lady is pretty, but it never makes
anv difference to me.-Die Muskete.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

Responsibility often finds people too
slippery to perch upon.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-24

When a woman marries man for
money the job is worth all she gets
for It.
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PERT PARAGRAPHS.

Pure obstinacy often looks like cour-
age.
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Purely Mechanical.

Robinson IS striving every night to
elevate his mind
Reading Shakespeare?
ooh, no; nothing so strenuous as
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alternatives.

Asa s.obberer John Temple Graves
stands at the head Of the class, and
is entitled to the coon skin.
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The Spice,

"What's his method"
"Sleeps on a high pillow"
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In the garden Of your life plant
rosemary trees, whose perfume and
flower will sweeten not alone your
own remembrances, but be sent forth
by the winds Of truth to brighten
and beautifv other lives.