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The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21
GOOD ROADS.

The time of year is near at hand when the man who has to do much driving with a horse and carriage will wish that he could take a vacation. For with spring mud and the ravages of the winter rains our highways will be at their worst estate. As the farm CT pries his wagon out of the mud with a convenient fence rail he will wish that few stone roads were going his way. In our modern idea of road build ing it would be well if every one who had anything to do with road making
 would take few lesson to heart. A few loads of small stones would put an end to bad hole summer or winter and a well cared for ditch would help to keep the highway dry and well drained. There is a great deal of pen -u rv;ae and nound foolish work done
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21

A small addition is being built on to the residence of A. F. Clark. The Botsford Brothers are doing the work.
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21
THE JUMPING OFF PLACE.

Consumption had me in it's grasp {;
 and l had almost reached the Jumping off place when was advised to try Dr Kings New Discovery; and want to say right now, it saved my life. lm- provement began with the first bottle, and after taking one dozen bottles l was a we'll and happy man again." says George Moore, of Grimesland, N. c. As remedy for coughs and colds and healer of weak, sore lungs and for preventing pneumonia New Discovery is supreme. Soc and $l.0O at R. H. Beers & Co.,, Newtown; Taylor, Curtis & Co.,, Sandy Hook; P. Gar win, Bethel; L. Goulette, Stevenson; H. w. Osborn, Easton: w. B. Hawley, Sherman; Smith Bros., Cornwall Bridge; Connery Bros., Georgetown; J, M. Sullivan, Bedding Ridge; G. F. Baker, Hawleyville; G. w. Hurlburt & Co.,, Roxbury; Allen Joyce, Rox- bury Station; C. W. Hatch, Bridge water; w. N. Noble, New Milford; k. H. Beardsley, New Preston; Cogswell & Wettereau, Washington Depot Harry Brown, Southbury; c. P. Will Hams, South Britain; Perkins Bros, Warren; w. N. Hurd, Long Hill !; drug gist. Trial bottle free.
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21
LinOnine is What You
 Want for That Cold

The best remedy known to-day for all stomach troubles is Kodol, which is guaranteed to give prompt relief. It is natural digestant; it digests what you eat, it isspleasant to take. Sold by Henry Rupf, Newtown, Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21
The NeWtoWn Bee.
 Yewtown. Friday February 2l. 1908.
THE OUTLOOK.
THE ASSASSINATION OF THE
 KING OF, PORTUGAL.

THE ASSASSINATION OF THE
 KING OF PORTUGAL.
 The crowned heads of Europe have a
 new occasion to have a headache over the assassination of the King and Crown Prince.of Portu gal, which occur red on February 1. The cause of it all is the old story of di ctatorship in the government and unrest on the part of the people. The King had just grant, ed to Premier Franco almost unlimited power for the suppression of revolution ary movements and political opposition and as the royal family were returning to the palace in carriage a group of men ran up and poured a volley of shots into the vehicle. The King and Crown Prince each received three bullets and were killed instantly. Prince Manuel, the second son, who is now king, was struck in the arm and jaw. The queen struck the assassins with bouquet of flowers that she held in her hand and tried to shield her hus- bands from the shots, but all to no avail. King Carlos, who is dead, has ruled since October 19, 1889. He was a very large man, weighing over 300 pounds, but was of an active life. being fond of shooting and aquatic sport. The new king has the somewhat circuitous name of Manuel Maria Filippe Carlos Amalia Suiz Miguel Gouzaqua Xavier Francisco D'Assisi Eugenio Duke of Bija. He will have as King the name of Manuel II and probably his friends will pat him on the shoulder and call him Man for short. Evidently being king in these revolutionary times has it's drawbacks. It is unusually true just now that uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

The Independent in recent issue
 printed Some dozen pages of letters
 from people all over the country in
 which they outlined briefly their views
 regarding the Presidential candidates
 and the policies for the coming cleo
 tion. The summary of this newspaper
 vote showed that Taft was the choice
 of 43 per cent of the voters, Hughes
 had 38 per cent, La Folette and Roose-
 welt had 72 per cent, each on the Re- publican side and Bryan had 72 per cent of the vote on the Democratic side of the house. There were advocates for Debs and Haywood and the policies ad- vocated ran all the way from rank so- cialism to national prohibition. The newspapers of the country are having quite good deal to say about the spectacle of Taft's holding a promi- nent government position yet spending all his time trying to get the nomina- tion in mad chase over the country. They claim that it is not very pleas ing spectacle nor good example for our young men for man in high pub lie offic to neglect his work for the purpose of seeking personal advance ment. There seems to be quite move ment on the Democratic side of the house toward Johnson, the governor of Minnesota. He is a clean man and has won phenomenal success as Dem- ocratic governor in a Republican state. Bryan is somewhat discredited as the man who has been twice defeated and who has against him quite consider able section of his own party who think | that he failed them when Parker ran. Time may make any changes in the po- litical slate and it is too early to be certain who will be our next president.
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21

The Borden's Condensed Milk Go. are having small addition built on to the .Newtown plant to accommodate the ice crusher. Manager W. H. Stew ems, completed the task, last week, of housing 25OO tons of ice. This week he has had men at work filling in saw dust on the sides of the house.
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21

Ferris Mead of Taunton district, who was injured on February 25, was for tunate enough to have taken out a pol icy in the United States Health and Accident Insurance Co. on February g.
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21

have a good one. You must have !
 firm road bed if the travelling is to Dc
 pleasant, the spring holes right in the
 track must have better treatment than
 to be choked up with a shovelful of sods
 or sand. If each man who has sec
 tion of road to work would take a little
 pride in his job and seek to make the
 road as good as conditions will permit
 1t would be a public blessing and he
 would be a public benefactor. It
 would be good thing for the towns
 to offer prize of $50 to the man- who
 would maintain the best mile of road
 in addition to what he would natur-
 ally get for keeping it in repair. In
 some parts of our state public spirit ed citizens have at their own expense put in a mile or two of stone road as an object lesson. Here is better use for your money than sinking it in a make-believe gold mine or in Wall street.
 IMPROVING OUR WATERWAYS.
 Senator Philander c. Knox in an ad- dress before the Chamber of Commerce at Pittsburg on February l2, brought out new idea concerning the internal development of our country. He ad- vocated the spending of between three and five hundred million dol lars on canals and river improvements so that the heavier freight could go by boats on the Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio rivers and reach tide water on the Eastern coast and at the Gulf. He said that experts have figured it out that a modern canal fifteen feet deep is equal in carrying capacity to fifteen double track railroads of equivalent length. In reply to the supposed ,harge that such a system of water ways would hurt the business of the .ailroads he adduced the actual experi- ,nce of the canals in Europe showing | hat there the canals increased the 'ailroad traffic in some cases 58 per ,ent in two years. He showed the in- of spending i've hundred mill ion dollars of good American money ,n the Panama canal and 0f having ,ur own waterways and means of reight communication untouched. If ve should make application locally of is ideas it is about time that the overnment set to work to improve he Housatonic river by a canal so hat our coal may come up the river n barges and our apples be shipped to lew York on freight boats at a very ,w cost. There is no doubt that there light be an immense development of usiness and the employment of a .rge number of men if the waterways the country could only be utilized. erhaps we might be saved also the .ouble which we had last year in the ,rrible freight congestion.
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21
TOWN TOPICS. METHODIST CHURCH NOTES.

The Aid society of the Methodist church will have chicken pie supper in the church parlor, March 3. They hope to see all the friends that have been so loyal to the society and to meet many new ones.
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21
COLDS

are always annoying and many
 times dangerous. There is no
 knowing what will happen fla cold
 is allowed to settle across the chest
 or lodge in the throat. Bronchitis
 is q stubborn complaint; pneu- monia and consumption are both followers of colds. As soon as the first evidence of a cold exhibits it. self start to take Linonine. It will soon relieve you of the chokes and tickles, take the soreness from the tissues and the aches from the bones. It is a powerful curative agent, yet gentle in its action. It fills the arteries with rich warmth giving strength-bringing blood rejuvenates, builds up.
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21

w. H. Waldron of Wheelertown has sold his crop of tobacco to c. Falk < Brother of Lancaster, Pa. delivering it at New Milford.
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21

Miss Mildred Peck of Tashua spent several days, last week, with her aunt, Mrs Carl Stillson. ,....t
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21

George Stevens of the Glen, who has been laid up with the grip and bron- chitis for the last two or three weeks, has returned to work.
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21

Miss Emily Sanford returned to Brooklyn, Saturday, after 10 days visit with Sandy Hook friends.
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21

Henry Burhans has taken position with Henry Rupf, the merchant in the Street. He began his duties, Monday.
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21

For guns. rifles and sporting goods call on Dan D. Smith, A Fairfield av- enue, Bridgeport, opposite Polls the8ter.
The Newtown bee., 1908-02-21

Mrs c. B. Taylor has been in Berk- shire assisting in the care of her moth- CT, Mrs Augustus Peck, who is i'll with the grip.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-30

After all the racket kicked up
by the congressman because of
President Roosevelt's message,
intimating that their opposition
to secret service is based upon
the activity of the service being
too active in following the move
ments of congressman, has SIM
mered down, since the President
has manifested a disposition to
give them a full and complete
statement of his reasons; it be-
gins to look as if the Presidents
reasons are not wanted, and that
his message is not as offensive to
them as they first thought, but
then they have asked, and they
shall receive. President Roose-
welt is in his glory when he can
stir up the managerie.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-30
DOES PROHIBITION PRoHIBITs

After a certain sermon preach.
ed in one of our local churches.
in which the minister seemed to
find encouragement from the
figures quoted in the "Union
Signal" going to show the
benefcient effect Of prohibition in
Georgia and elsewhere, we re
produce an editorial from prom
inent Georgia newspaper. which
proves conclusively that the stat.
istics obtained for the Union
Signal,' and the actual observ'
alton of those on the ground diff
fer to the extent that the one is
a direct contradiction Of the 9th,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-30

The death of General R. R.
Hemphill which occurred at his
home in Abbeville last Monday
will be received with sorrow by
the newspaper men and women
of the State and the Representa-
tives in the General assembly will
mourn the loss also. Gen. Hemp.
hill, editor of the Abbeville Med
ium was a journalist of high or
der, his editorials and especially
those Of a historical nature were
interesting and instructive. He
was for many years clerk Of the
Senate, and his valuable service
will be greatly missed from that
body, always obliging and with
a kindly feeling towards new
members, he would give them
valuable counsel. General Hemp
hill was a man of high character
and an excellent entertainer at
the State press associations, with
his intellectual attalnments.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-30
The Baseball Umpire.

"That gentleman who is to um-
pire the game today is an old
friend of ,nine," !" said the mild
hammered baseball fan to his
neighbor as they sat leaning for
ward in the grandstand, their
eagerness over the coming con-
test enhanced by the sentorian
command, ':Play ball!''
"He's one of the squarest and
finest of men. Yes, sir, he's as
nice a fel-Say, watch the grace
full attitude of our first batter!
He's got his eye with him today,
too. for see how he let's this first
bad one go-Whatdid the umpire
call that?:'
GA strike" replied his neigh
Dor.
"Now, what do you think of
that? Ball went a mile wide of
the plate! Well, umpires will
make mistakes. I've seem.
At this juncture a crack rent
the air aud the ball sailed on a
line toward the left.feld fence.
The mild. hammered man was on
his feet in a jiffy.
s:Oh, what a swat! Run, run
like the dickens. Go on and make
it a homer! Look at that cuss go,
will you! Go on: keep a-going.
Don't stop. Make it-What's
that"
1.-THE umpire called it a foul"
ga foul? He's crazy Say,
Mister Umpire, put on your
glasses. A foul! Good Cad,
man, you're the limit! Throw
him out! Go lay down some.
where, umpire! You're rotten!
Rotten! Rotten!''
And in his disgust the mind
hammered fan slapped his derby
hat down on the seat and sat on
Bohemian.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-30
Happenings at Earvin.

Harvin, December 27.-Special: Cot
ton harvesting is absolutely over for
this section, and the ginning is practic-
ally finished Favorable seasons during
the harvesting has enabled glnners TO
finish earlier than for many years. The
cropwilI be about the same in this coun-
ty as last year. Very little cotton is
being held by the farmers.
The Christmas exercises OF the Alcolu
School were celebrated last evening
with appropriate songs and dialogues:
ending with u Christmas tree. Mr.. Err
vim Shaw acted as Santa Claus.
Mr.. Peter Jones, of Brogdon, is very
i'll from blood poison
Miss .Saran Harvin. OF Spartanburg,
visiting Mrs. Sam John McFaddin.
Mrs. Matte Rhame Davis, Of Man
ming. is visiting Miss Maggie McFao-
din.
MIR. and Mrs. Joseph F. Rbame. Of
Manning, spent Christmas Day with
relatives here.
Mrs Emma Fauntz, of Philadelphia,
Pa, is visiting Miss Kitty McFaddin
and Mrs. w. N. Davis, and will spend
several weeks here.
Prof. and Mrs. Jake Harviu. of Page
lau6. S. c., are spending the holidays
ct their old home.
DIR. S. w. Kirk, OF Philadelphia. Pa,
is spending a while with MIR. J. 5.
Brogdon. DR.. Kirk has spent some
weeks here every winter for the past
FIVE years, and speaks most highly OF
the South and the excellent climate.
Mr.. and Mrs L. J. Nettles, No. ll2
Wentworth street. Charleston, are vls-
iting Mrs. Netties:s mother.
Misses Anna Harvin and Lucille
Bracy, of Sumter, are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Jake Harvin.
Mr.. Ben H. Harvin. travelling sales.
man, who spent two days holiday with
his family leaves FOR North Carolina
this afternoon 70 resume work for 10Y.
It is reported here that Mr.. L. S.
Barwick, of PaNville, S. c., was killed
Yesterday by i horse. The particulars
are unobtainable at this writing.
Miss Edith Richardson, OF BroSden
and Mr.. Chas J. Bell, of Charleston,
were married Thursday afternoon at
Graham Baptist Church. the Rev. Lewis
J. Bristow, officiating.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-30
Japan's Feeling.

''While the popular feeling in J pan
toward the United States is not exactly
one of open friendship, it is certaiulv
not 4 feeling of enmity," said Prof. +.
A. Snattuck. of the keio university OF
Toxic. Japan, who, in company with
Baron K Utsumi, of the same city. Is
making d tour of this country for the
purpose of affording the young Japan
ese, who is a son of Baron Ctsuni, form
er minister OF home affairs of Japan. an
opportunity TO see how things are done:
in other countries.
'The American however," continued
Professor Shattuck to a reporter for the
Washington Herald, us more popular
than the German, French or Italian.
while the Englishman is more popular
than any other foreigner. This is be-
cause of the alliance existing between
Great Britain and Japan. Foreigners
are not popular in any country, and Jap
an treats them as DO the others. 1t Is
natural that the japanese should Zee:
deeply humilated by being excluded
from this country, which they regard
as land Of opportunities fer the people
OF all countries While il is true thar
the japanese laws exclude foreigners
from holding property in Japan, we 90
not draw the liue 1T any one nation We
simply exclude them all,
Il am quite certain that Japan does
not want war, although am not speak
ing authoritatively, as the japanese
government keeps its plans well from
the outer World. Japan realizes that IL
is only the weak that IS Distreated: and
is, therefore, strengtening her position
in the eyes of the world it is only nat
ural that Japan should esta ablish a pre-
pouderating Influence or, atleast, should
try 10 do SO, in the far east. politically
as well as commercially, the country
being en- island and being altogether
dependant on the mainland for food
stutfs.
Il do not believe that Japan will ever
let 60 of Korea, and what she will do III
regard TO the evacuation is known only
by her statesmen, but not by the gener-
al public 1t must be admitted that Jap
anese by degrees usu..p business OF for
eigners in Japan and are beginning tn
stand on their own feet There is one
tning which Japanese business men anG
the people in general should Try to cul-
tivate and acquire and hold fast, anG
that is commercial morality, or bust
ness honesty. AS it is the Japanese meu
WHO have not the confidence Of the for
eign trade. The Japanese is tricky. ami
in shat respect quite the opposite OF his;
Chinese brother, who is punctilious and
scrupulous in the fulilIment of his bus
mess obligations. It takes a Chinaman
lonr before lie agrees TO do a certain
thing, but after he has once promlsed
he VIII stick BY his word. The Japan
ese is quick to agree and make bar
gain. but lie is also quick to forget hisE
prom iseS."
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-30
Marked For Death.

"Three years ago was marked for
death. y graveyard cough was tearing
my lungs to pieces. Doctors failed to
help me, and hope had fled, when my
husband got DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry" says Mrs. a. C. Williams, OF Bac,
KY. THE first dose helped me and i'm.
provement kept on until I had gained
IS pounds in weight and my health was
fully restored" This medicine holds
the worlds healing records for coughs
and colds aud lung and throat diseases.
1t prevents pneumonia. Sold under
guarantee at DR.. W. E. Brown & Co..
and J. E. Arant's drug store. SOC and
Sl.O0. Trial bottle free.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-30

The decision adjudging labor
leaders Gompers, Mitchell and
Morrison in contempt Of Court
for violating the order in the
Buck Stove Company case, has
aroused the indignation of labor
organizations all over the coun-
try. These labor leaders have
for sometime held themselves
above law and the courts, but
when they have served their jail
sentences they will probably
come to understand that not
withstanding their show Of
strength election years, the law
must be respected.
We are not opposed to organ
lied labor, it is necessary to
have some way to educate and
protect laboring interests, but
when the organizations are used
by designing men to enhance
their private ends at the expense
of the man who tolls: we have
no sympathy with their leader
ship that would defy our courts
and the law.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-30
Cotton Giuued to December 13.

Washington, Dec 2l.--A total OF H.
S92, ,1l5 running bales of cotton einued
from the growth Of 1905 to December y
against 9.2S4,0I0 at the same date OF
last year ard 271,269 active ginneries
against y. .156 in 1907 were announced
by census bureau in its report today.
The figures count round bales as half
bales and include linterS.
The bales ginned to December u ag-
gregated ll,ll2:7S9 in 1906 and 9,297,-
$40 in 1905. The total 1907 crop was H.
O57, ,S22, of which 81 per cent. was gin
ned to December Is: crop Of 1906, H.
9S3, POI, of which S5.6 per cent. was gin
ned to December - and crop Of 1905
10, 495, 105, or SS.6 per cent. BY Decem-
Der l3. The report includes 2l9.029
round bales for 1908. l6II II.204 for 1907,
and 243, 1886 for 1907. Sea island bales
included aggregate S0.lS1.
The corrected statistics CT the guam
tity of cotton sinDed this season TO De-
cember are II, ,00S,66l bales.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-30

The Kingstree Record is after
Senator Tillman for violating the
State constitution by holding
more than one Office, but notwlth-
standing the argument, the Co.
lumbia State makes on the ques-
ton in it's issue Monday, we do
not believe Tillman's trusteeshlp
Of Clemson is in violation of the
law. Mr.. Clemson, before the
constitution of 1895, named Till.
man as a life trustee, his accep-
tance of the trust completed the
transaction, and no law the State
can make will break the trust re-
posed by the will. Tillman is a
lawful trustee of Clemson, but IN
our opinion he is violating the
law as trustee Of Winthrop.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-30

Since it became known that
Col. T. c.. Hamer OF Marlboro,
will not stand for reelection as
clerk of the House, the position
will be sought by several good
men, with strong probability of
Mr.. J. A. Hoyt, Columbia cor
respondent for the News and
Courier being selected. The po.
sition is a responsible one, and
Mr.. Hoyt's experience in news
paper work will give him a de-
cided advantage. He will make
a competent clerk.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-30
Jim Gilman Goes West---Shorld Have Go1e
Before,

The latest issue Of The Edgetield
News contains the following communi-
cation:
Varied emotions possess me in bid
ding adieu, perhaps farewell, to South
Carolina, and TO the people who have
known me from childhood.
II is hard to say goodbye, and only
those who do so can feel IT'S sorrow.
When I think of the thousand kind
nesses friends did me, OF the forbear-
ances they have shown my shortcom-
ings. 'tis then the heart throbs strong
est with gratitude. and beats the sad
farewell. But destiny decrees that l 60
In a distant section of the country, in
far-otf California, where it is said all is
sunshine. and clouds are unknown, L
wander in search of health. There,
among. strangers in coming years, If
years be left TO me, hope TO clasp the
hands Of many aad cali them friends
friends such as leave behind.
But fit be otherwise. then, as in the