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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-02
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70 UVVVNVEOE
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-02

In polite society a snub is sort Of
upper cut.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
Fans From a Fish's Fins.

Curious little fans are made from
the pectoral fms Of the fish known as
the sea robin The sea robin is not
q very large fish, but its pectoral fms
are large n proportion to its size, and
in nature they suggest fans from the
manner in which the fish opens and
closes them The pectoral fms Of the
smaller sea robins are marked with
brown, those of the larger fishes with
maroon, beautifully shaded. The fms
have many rays or ribs. In making a
fan the fin is first stretched out Oh q
board to dry \ large fin will make o
fan about six inches in breadth. The
rays spread out in it, as the split bam-
boo strips do in i Japanese fan, ex-
cept that the rays are tapering, and
they are much slenderer and more deli
cate. When the fin is dry it is mount.
ed as a fan, and when it has been
thus completed it is dipped in varnish.
The varnish not only brings out the
colors, but it serves also as a pre-
servative. Thus treated the fan will
last for years.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
The Hawaiian Alphabet.

There are but twelve letters in the
Hawaiian alphabet These, with their
recommendations, are: a (ah1, (a), 70
as in ho), u (oo), h hayl, k (kay), |
la, N moo), (noo), p (pay) and "
Nay). The missionaries added a thir-
teenth, {, but the natives won't have
it and continue to pronounce, for in-
stance, the name of the root from
which poi is made kara although the
missionaries have it tara Every
vowel in a word is distinctly sounded
except that the vowels al are sounded
ST. as in English. Waikiki, the beach
in Honolulu, is properly pronounced
'sVikeekee" There is a great differ
ence in the speech Of the ligh and low
caste natives. The first call their is
land group "Ha-va-ee-ee," and the lat
ter begin it ali right with ''Ha," but
conclude with cultural grunt, and
the word heard most, Aloha sounds
soft and beautiful on the lips of the
first, but is a lazy, good natured grunt
as the latter speak it. Aloha is in
their limited vocabulary at once
greeting and farewell, a formal eI-
preston of regard and Of deep love.
In the latter case it is increased IN
warmth and depth of meaning by
modifying adjectives annexed instead
Of prefxed, as "Aloha nui.' Aloha
nui loa," or even aloha nui loa kea!'
and then it is time to speak to papa.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
Roe's Devotion to His Wife.

No picture of Poe il Philadelphia
would be complete, writes E. P. Ober-
holtzer in Book News, if we do not
remember his poetic attachment for
his girl wife and his love for high lit
erary ideals. so faithfully evidenced
in his own writing and in his criticism
Of the work Of other men. His love
for bis wife was 4 sort Of rapturous
worship of the spirit of beauty which
he felt was fading before his eyes"
Mr. Graham wrote after the poets
death: Il have seen him lowering
around her when she was III, with all
the fond fear and tender anxiety of
a mother for her frstborn, her slight
est cough causing in him shudder, a
heart chill that was visible. l rode
out one summer evening with them,
and the remem brance or his watchful
eyes eagerly bent upon the slightest
change of hue in that loved face
haunts me yet as the memory o. a
sad strain" Recollecting that When
she was gone honest sorrow mingled
with the poverty that hung about him
like a thick cloud through which no
sun shone. we can afford to forgive
much in those last misspent days.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
THE zoo BY NIGHT.
Cleaning Eyes In the 8lackness Give
Flavor Of the Wilds.

q
The average grownup who visits the
zoo thinks it rather dull sort OF
show, for the fact that the animals are
captive robs them Of all the romance
that would attach to them in their ma
tive forests.
But let the blase sightseer obtain
permission to visit the zoo at mid
night: and his impressions will be very
different. Darkness hides the bars and
the boards, and the eyes Of some
wakeful creature CLEAN naliciously at
you. For the moment you imagine
that you are in the wilds, on equal
terms with the creatures around.
Poised on the swings and platforms
at the top Of their cages sleep the
monkeys, instinct surviving their loss
of freedom, for in the forests they
had to sleep thus to avoid the beasts
Of prey.
Here rests a lioness, prone upon her
back, her legs rigid in the cir and her
paws hanging Imply down. There re-
clines her lord, asleep upon his side,
his paws turned in and his general
pose not unlike that of dog.
The more cunning and more coward
" of the animals do not seem to SLEEP
at all. for as soon as they hear our ap'
preaching footsteps they give US thell
greeting with snar!s and maleyolen1
glowerings and watch us susplclously
till we depart.-Pearson's.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
ART OF THE ETRUSCANs.
Mysterious People Who Left Traces OF
Remarkable Civilization.

mysterious FGoPlS w ~ -S'e -
Remarkable Civilization.
Why did the Etruscans devote their
whole lives to the incessant making OF
pottery until it accumulated in such
quantities that they were compelled
to bury it in order to keep room for
themselves in their streets and houses:
Then, again, there is the mystery OF
the EtruScan inscriptions. These in
scriptions are fairly numerous, but
hitherto they have proved to be utter,
IL undecipherable. The Eruscan is
the only dead language that has dehed
investigation. Considered as a Ian
guage, nothing could seem more i'm
probable than the hieroglyphics of the
Egyptians, but Psychologists can read
them with such ease that almost any
given series of hieroglyphics can be
read in three Or four ways by an equal
number of rival Egyptologists. Any
language more utterly impossible at
first glance than the Assyrian arrow
headed language could not we'll be
imagined, but there are many learned
men who can read, write and speak ar
rowhead with facility. And yet no man
can make the least sense Of the writ
ings left by the Etruscans, although
they are written in Roman characters.
All that we know Of the Etruscans
seems unreasonable and preposterous.
Naturally this makes them fascinating
to every one who delights in mystery
and the solution of puzzles.-Putnam 8
Magazine.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
Electric Railway inventor.

The electric railway had many in
ventors-persons who by various in
provemcnts brought the system to its
present usefulness. Thomas Daven-
ort, q blacksmith, Of Brandon, Vt, IS
credited with having first suggested
the electric railway, although an Ital-
ian priest, Ahbe Salvatore Del Negro,
professor OF natural philosophy at the
University Of Padua, is reputed to have
designed an electric toy traction ma
chine Of the reciprocating type in
1880 Davenport ran q toy motor
mounted on wheels on small circular
railway in 1854, exhibiting this year
later at Springfield and Boston. About
half q century passed, however, before
the electric railway was made prac-
teal for present uses.-Argonaut.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
MEETING A CROCODILE.
The Animal and the Hunters Were A1s
Taken by Surprise.

While looking for Il hippopotamus it
was the fortune Of the author Of
Uganda tp Khartum" to encounter a
crocodile under somewhat unusual cir
cuuStanreS He w:ls; following fresh
track leading through the dense under
growth from the lake inland. Two
men accompanied him, one carrying
his camera and the other his second
g,.n. while lie &houldcrcd his rifle.
Suddenly I heard 4 rustling noise In
front Of NE and realized that some
creature was approaching, but what?
II could not lie the hippo. because there
H;,s no thunderous tread, but I had 10
ti:.!a to think. for the creature, what
ever it might be. was upon me in sec
ond.
st two yards discovered what it
was-an immense crocodile more than
twelve feet !cng.
was right in it's path, and there was
DO possible escape on either side, so l
stood still With my rifle at shoulder
and waited The "crock" did not wait,
however, ard in some remarkable way
it hustled me to one side, almost knock
ed me over. and endeavored to make his
way to the water.
To dispute bis. right of way would
have been folly. I realized only hor-
rIble, soft, wriggling mass pressing
against my legs in most sickening
way. Why lie did not bite me do not
know. At first thought he had done
so rs be brushed against my leg, but l
found it was only his horny scales that
scraped my shin. And he was more
taken by surprise than was and for
got all about his huge jaw and the
lasting impression he might have made
upon my legs.
After lie had passed I turned to see
how the men would fare One had got
back to the shore and so was no longer
in view. The other man with the cam
era was the funniest sight. His head
was stuck fast in the thick brambles,
and his legs were in the air, the CAM
era of course in the mud beside him.
I do not think the ':crock" could have
seen him, for he had literally taken a
header into the bush, and his legs We're
far above the crocodile's jaws.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
Tn. Girls Were Still One Ahead.

A young and bashful professor was
frequently embarrassed by jokes his
girl pupils would play on him These
jokes were so frequent that he decided
to punish the next perpetrators, and
the result Of this decision was that two
girls We're detained an hour after school
and made to work some difficult prob
lens as punishment
It was the custom to answer the roll
call with quotations, so the following
morning, when Miss AS name was
called, she rose and, looking straight in
the professors eye, repeated, with
all thy faults love thee still" While
Miss BIS quotation was, The houcs
spend with thee, dear heart, are as
string of pearls to me."-Ladies' Home
Journal.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
A TERRIBLE BIG TROUT.
He Was Cunning and Hard Case,
Tee, Was This Fish.

Tee, Was This Fish.
We were camping in northern Wis
consin, and one evening after our sup
per of black bass and bacon we lay
under the pine trees smoking and tell
ing fish stories in which it was always
the digger bass tbst got away. The
guide listened with the gravity Of a
man who knew all about fish stories,
and finally he knocked the ashes from
his pipe and told US story.
"Once long ago." he said, 'there was
q terrible big trout up in Smiths
pool. Every fellow who fshed IN the
pool had hooked him one time or an
other, but he always got away, bit or
the snood or something.
Il tried to catch him myself dozen
times. One day I was sitting by the
pool when, splash, a young robin
futtered out of the nest on limb
above the pool into the water below
In a minute there was q rush, q gleam
Of yellow, and the old trout had
thrown himself clear out of the water
and had swallowed the young robin
whole.
What did 1 do? Well, climbed
that tree in short order, got another
one of those young robins, baited my
hook with It and threw it in just as
lightly as I could. In q minute there
was another rush, another CLEAN OF
yellow, and again the old trout jump
ed clear out of the water as he SWal-
lowed the robin, and in q minute more
had him hooked.
1T was lucky I wasn't fishing with
any Of this newfangled rigging these
boys use and that I wasn't bothered
with a reel to look after, or would
have lost him sure. AS it was it took
me devil of time to get him out.
"Good to eat? Great Scott! We
didn't try to eat him. He was so full
Of hooks we sold him for OLD iron.
you know
That ended our fish stories for that
night. J. A. in Chicago Tribune.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
a SCRAP OF PAPER.
Il Was The Means Of Bringing Muir.
derer to Justice.


derer to Justice.
Scraps Of paper have on several oc.
casions been the means Of throwing a
light on some of the greatest criminal
mysteries Of modern times Had it
not been for the minutest scrap Of
tissue paper it is quite possible that
the notorious Franz Muller would have
remained free man TO the end Of his
days.
After foully numbering q Mr.. Briggs
in a railway carriage on the North
London line Muller made off with his
victims hat. When caught several
months later Il top hat declared to be
Mr.. Briggs was found in his posses
sion. Its shape however, had been
considerably altered, anu Muller in
sisted that the hat had been bought by
himself.
Was it Mr.. Briggs bat?
IF it is Mr.. Briggs hat said the
halter who supplied him, YOU may
find piece Of tissue paper in the lin
ing. Mr.. Briggs hat was too large for
him, so I put the paper in to make it
fit
When the lining was turned down a
scrap of paper which had adhered to
the leather was discovered. Muller
had bigger head than Mr.. Briggs and
had therefore resolved to take the pa
per out. He left that little bit, how
ever, sufficient to establish the identity
of the hat beyond all question as that
Mr.. Briggs was wearing When he was
murdered.
This is only one instance among
many where bits of paper have solved
great mysteries.-London Answers.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
Sentien+ Alarm Clocks.

Devil dogs are q species Of alarm
clock used in Greece for the purpose OF
keeping persons awake, such as watch
men, stage drivers and railroad men.
They are generally small black dogs.
Should the person whom the "devil
dog" is detailed to keep awake be q
stage driver, the dog is strapped to a
little stool beside him. and throughout
the journey he keeps up sharp bark
ing, often causing the passengers to
keep awake as we'll as the driver.
At times he will pause for & minute
or two to moisten his parched, rasped
throat at the basin of water set before
him and then begin again
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
He Didn't Dine.

Mr.. Brown had just had telephone
put in connecting his Office and house
and was very much pleased with 1t,
II tell you. Smith," he was saying
<sthis telephone business is wonder
ful thing. l want you to dine with
me this evening and Will notify Mrs
Brown to expect YOU Speaking
through the telcphcne-"My friend
Smith will dine with us this evening.
Then to his friend-"Now. listen and
i.car how plain her reply comes back"
IS. Browns reply came back with
starting distinctness: ASK Foar
friend Smith if he thinks We keep q
hotel
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
Identified.

Tommy made himself the hero Of I
story, which the Boston Record prints,
when he called for that one about the
boy who ate the ribbons and it made
him sick
Aunt Ethel was puzzled. Il know
Of no such story" she said. after
searching her memory vainly.
Nothing she could suggest answered
the description. Tommy cannot read,
but h thought he could find the book
He fond it. They read one thing aft
er another, until in the midst Of the
Nigh Before Christmas" Tommy gave
a whc5p Of glec. Aunt Ethel was read
ing:
".Ee rushed to the window and
threw up the sash"
That's it, That's it!' cried Tommy.
you see, it's just as told you
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
PRIMITIVE ANCHORS.
Stones ard Wooden Tubes Filled With
Lead First Used.

Stones ard Wooden Tubes Filled With
Lead First Used.
There appear to be two ideas which
have led up to the invention Of the
modern anchor-frst, that of attach
ing the vessel by means Of rope
or chain to a weight sufficiently heavy
to keep the vessel from moving when
the weight has sunk to the bottom OF
the sea, and, second, that Of using
hook instead Of or in addition to the
weight, so as to catch in the bottom.
The English word anchor is practical
IL the same as the Latin ancora and
the Greek angkura, meaning that
which has an angle" from the root
ank, bent.
The earliest anchors made on the
hook principle probably only had one
huke instead Of two. In the Sussex
Archaeil, Coll" there is an illustration
of what has been surmised to be an
anchor made out Of the natural forked
branch Of q tree. It was found with
an ancient British canoe at Burpham.
Sussex. There is il the British muse
um an interesting leaden anchor with
two fukes bearing Greek inscrip-
ton. Its date is about so 3. c., and it
was found off the coast Of Cyrene.
The invention Of the anchor with
two fukes is attributed by Pausanius
to Midas, by Pliny to Eupalamas and
by Strabo to AnacharsiS. Diodorus
Siculus states that the first anchors
were wooden tubes filed with lead,
while another classical writer says
that before the introduction Of metal
anchors Jumps of stone with hole
through the middle for the attach
ment Of the cable were used.
The form of the anchors used by
the Greeks and Romans is we'll known
from representations on Trajan's col
umn and in the catacombs at Rome
as an early Christian symbol. This
form does not seem to have changed
materially for quite thousand years,
rs is shown by the Bayeux tapestry.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
Swords Bent Double to Test Them.

Swords Bent Double TO est | her1.
If you have an opportunity at any
time of examining 4 sword such rs is
used in naval and military services
you may notice that just below the
hilt. an inch or two down the blade,
there is Il small disk Of brass welded
into the blade The meaning OF this
brass might we'll escape any one not
possessed Of q we'll developed sense OF
curiosity. Swords are subjected to
very severe tests before being issued,
and this brass piece indicates that one
Of the tests to which Tie sword was
subjected was to have It's Pc; '2nt
right back until it touched the i'ilt III
the brass spot. Swords that have s;!c-
cessfully withstood this severe test are
Observation-Disclosures Chronicle.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
Respect at Last.

"Briefeigh is, I think, one Of the
greatest lawyers in this state"
''Why, I heard you say once that you
didn't consider him any good.
ooh, that was years ago. He used
70 give me pointers on legal matters
without charging me anything because
we happened to have Offices adjoining
each other. Recently he has been
charging me stiff price every time
I have gone to him for advice. Chi
eago Record Herald.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19

A weak stomach, means weak stom-
ach nerves, always. And this is also
true of heartand kidneys.It's a pity that
sick ones continue to drug the stomach
or stimulate the heart and kidneys.
The weak nerves, ~ ne organs them
selves need this help. This explains
why Dr.. Shoop's Restorative has and is
promptly helping so many sick ones. 1t
goes direct TO the cause OF these dis
eases Test the vital truth and see.
". = Brown i Co.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
A BOY PIONEER.
Joseph Watts FatefuI Journey to Ore.
aon In 1874.

In 1914, when emigrants from the
middle states We're going to make
homes in Oregon. many young boys
joined the pioneers and made the hard
journey over the plains and noun
IainS. One OF these Lads. Joseph Watt
Of Missouri. is described by the @nthor
Of Mcdonald Of oregon. HS was
about seventeen years Of age and w'G.
employed to drive cattle. He walked
most Of the way to his new home.
"I have borrowed $3.50, Joe. to ut
you out" his father had said at part
ing. and with that the young man
had bought pair of boots and invest
cd the rest in pins and fishhooks 70
trade with the Indians. But new
boots. He slung them over his rifle
and put on moccaSinS.
At certain point il the journey,
away back on Burnt river, the man
for whom Joe was driving said: You
had better leave us and hurry on into
Oregon. Provisions are getting scarce.
We shall need all there is for the chill
dren.'
..All right. can take care Of my
self" Without morsel Of food Joe
Watt and Elisha Bowman struck out
with their rifes-and Joe's boots.
If we could only eat the boots"
sighed Joe Bare to the knees from
continually cutting off his trousers to
mend his moccasins, he strobe through
the decorating sagebrush.
How are you going to get down.
inquired the boatman when every
othec eager passenger had piled on
the Hudson Bay bateau sent up by DR..
Mclaughlin. Alone on the shore stood
Joe Watt. How are you going to get
down.
Il don't know"
Have yos any provisions?'
NO, nothing"
Can you sing or tell yarns?"
Eyes, both
'.yerv we'll; climb on to the bow Of
that boat So they started.
Well, fgurehead, pipe up was the
present demand.
With sad and solemn eyes, without
a smile. Joe sang and told stories.
Everybody laughed. The weary emf
grants needed entertainment, and Joe
was born comedian.
The doctor was building q -four mill
at the falls, and with some misgivings
Joe was engaged as carpenter. AT
night he slept in the Shayings. The
first pay day he was rich. With S12
in hand, clothes, soap, Hudson Bay
blankets We're his.
Never blankets felt so soft. Passing
his hand thoughtfully over the wool,
within sound of the potential falls, a
great idea came into the heart of Jo-
sepb Watt. Il will build woolen mills
on this Pacific coast" Years later the
boy fulfilled this resolve.-Iouth's Com
panion.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
His SYSTEM.

Shipper Clark Ito his employer, leav-
ing the ohce)-Oh. Mr.. System, haven't
you forgotten your umbrella? It's rain
ing. Mr.. System-Can't help it. I have
made i resolution to have one here
and one at home to provide for I'll
emergencies Now, if take this one
they'll both be at home-London Tit
p;+c
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19

If you have catarrh rid yourself Of
this repulsive disease. Ask DR. Shoop
of Racine, Wis, to mail you free, q trial
box Of his DR.. Shoop's Catarrh Remedy:
a simple, single test will surely tell
you catarrh truth well worth your
knowing. Write today. Don't suffer
longer. ". E. Brown & Co.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19

The trouble with most cough rene
dies is that they constipate. Kennedy's
Laxative Cough Syrup acts gently but
promptly on the bowels and at the same
time it stops the cough by soothing the
throat and lung irritation. Children
like it Sold by ". E. Brown g. Co.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
Ionq Winded.

at takes you pretty long while to
shave yourself, doesn't it,"
'Eot so very long. I can shave my
self quicker than my old barber could"
II don't believe it,
'It's q fact. You see, he stammers
tarribly.''-Philadelphia Press
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19
Force Of Habit.

Mr.. Easy-Cheer up, Mr.. Peck. II
we must go down lets go cheerfuliy
like men. Mr. Peck-But, hang it all,
Mr.. Easy, if I don't get home my wife
will never let me so fishing again,
never!-Harper's Weekly.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19

Bees Laxative Cough Syrup FOR coughs. colds
Group and whooping cough grows in favor daily
Mothers should keep it on hand for children 1t
is gently laxative. driving the poison and
phlegm from the system. 1t gives immediate
relief Guaranteed. Sold by The Manning
Pharmacv.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19

H. will be unnecessary to 90 through painful,
expensive operation for Piles If you use Man.
Zan. Put up in i collapsible tube with nozzle,
ready to apply. For any form Of Piles. Price
SOC. The Manning Pharmacy
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-02-19

It is what you are not looking for
nat gives the spice Of variety to life
Detroit News.