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hard loser, he said. you ought to go
to la belle France for a while. Do you
know that there are plenty of cases on
record of French chaps of high degree
blowing their heads off or chucking them
selves into the Seine because their horses
were beaten?
Something like half a dozen cases OF
that sort have happened since 1 began to
race in France. The fellows who killed
themselves weren't all in or 'roo-in-ed.' as
the stage gamblers who cur-r-r-rse the
cards say. but just because they couldn't
stand up under the defeat of their priced
horses they nudged themselves over to the
yon side of the big divide.
Now, nobody ever heard of an Ameri-
can owner doing that. l suppose We all
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1.-The rent"
''Oh. yes: the rent. Come and sit down
while l make out check
THANK you; here's a receipt"
And remember. old man. what told
YOU about a few little repairs We need.
''Oh, yes" And I might say that "OA,
yes" has been his answer for eleven
months.
Then when Aunt Jane comes back TO
wipe up the blood she asks what has be-
come of the rent man.
Hes gone" / say. with a fierce glare.
Hes gone. But told him exactly what
1 expected him to do"
Anyhow, I'm going to move next fall,
and perhaps we can get along until then.
THIS is just q line. to warn all the
L fond male parents who have kidlets
at home to keep out of all varieties OF
establishments where electrical toys are
sold between now and Christmas. Don't
ask questions. Just keep out.
OF course. I'll make an exception in
favor of those plutocratic personages who
have SO much money that they have TO
hire a couple of servants to sweep the
small change off the front porch. For
most of us. however visit to one OF
these stores is a fearful proposition.
There are electric railroad trains with
third rail systems and electric whistles
and electric headlights and lamps and
semaphores and switch gates, and all
such. and there are union stations and
suburban stations and underground sta
tiOns and all kinds of delightful things.
And this is only starter.
One of the men in the Office went so
foolish over these things that he bought
a bang-up outfit-everything possible in
miniature railroad system-and spent all
the Christmas money he had saved and
begged and borrowed and collected to
spend on Christmas gifts for everybody.
1t is now his plan to give this to his three
year-old while his wife gets off with a
frosted postal card and the rest of his
relatives and friends get nothing. He
knows his wife won't speak to him be-
tween Christmas and New Year. and he's
certain everybody else he should have re-
membered will follow suit.
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pretty good nag. Their horses had met
in races four times and each had beaten
the other twice. The two young puchs
foil to chewing the blanket at club
about how good their respective horses
were Each declared that his horse couIu
lust walk away and hide from the other
one. 30
them. looking real divvleish, took the
cunnin' orchid from his coat lapel ana
tossed it right smack dab into the othef $
face. so he did now. yessirs. In France
this could mean but one thihs-pleeo-
blood blurd.
And SO the duel was so'emniy ar
ranged The fact that the duel was !o
come off got into the Paris papers. IT
was declared that one of the dueilsls was
a monarchist and the other a republican
and that the about-to-happen duel was
the outcome of a crouch between them
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And behold now two low -brows entering
wear SLOUGH hats and their clothes are
soiled with CRIME and have lost all char
acter. They are the kind of clothes tina,
Sam Gompers likes to see-on some one
else. They are two of the plain pee-pul
They are two atoms of the proletariat
mass. They know nothing about cabinet
officers or secretaries.
Now listen to the young private secre-
tary as he reproaches them:
Don't you know you should remove
your hats when you come to see the pri-
vate secretary to the Secretary of the De-
partment of Agriculture?'
To which request for information comes
the sweet and low reply:
"G'wan. we didn't come to see no Secre'
tary We come to fix the radiator
NIethinks this has a familiar ring. but
do not care to offend the young man who
offered it, F.. G. Goodwin by name, and
regular helpful contributor, by leaving II
out. Anyhow. it can't be so TERRlbL1
old
n NY friend Tootely went to the Corcorar
lvl Gallery of Art last week. lie Is
practical man-but he had one hour OF
mystery.
There were no pictures in the hemicEcie
IT got that word from a young arusp, So
he passed on to the main exhibition. be
fore he left the room. however ne oe
came CONSCIOUS of very gaudy compose
ton hanging at the right of the doorway.
T saw became conscious because ne uiu
not look at it, nor had he any loea "ha'
# was. 1t was just large blob OF cr'''i-
CON and yellow \ little further o',
Tootelv became interested in picture ~
three drunks-I knew that was just Inc
n;cture he could appreciate-and furthei
ON he stopped before wonderful poruai'
in soft tones and still further on picture
that was running over with nestfui green's
Rut somewhere. in neVer-he~ei i"', ~
sort q. way. was the blob o CRIMSON. 80 ~
haunted him. He could see It, always On
"a the right. Always Earring Iooteis
sense of fitness.
Good gracious he said to hlmsen'
sis the exhibition made up or garlsh
sunsets or am l crazy in the nut?' (Nlce
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between now and March 4. The earth
thunder will rumble in the gloom and
lightning bolts scOurge the earth: the
body polite will have pains on its
stomach and plasters on its back: the
ship of state will pitch fearfully on noun
famous waves of public emotion and the
crew and cabin passengers VIII be fear
fully sick And afar off. where it is hot
and humid and apprehensive, the wild
mamma will kiss her first born fond
goodbye and take to the tall and uncut.
There's the kind of a pastoral that is
more in line with the present state of
affairs What?
NHY friend the Apprentice LUnatic.
1v1 borrowed my fur coat and my dinner
Jacket. for which I am justly famous, and
went over to Baltimore one night this
week to watch a prize fight. And what
do YOU thinl, he saw? No one could posi-
bly, guess.
It beats me. and I doubt if any of the
folks who commit this enightening CUFF
to heart have ever heard anything like it.
ne saw 6 man WHO Clallneu 10 DC Il Hill
lister of the gospel climb into the ring.
say his prayers kneeing in his corner. and
thea put his man out of the way in two
slashing rounds.
All of which goes to show that I have
a fur coat and a Tuxedo.
FUDGE PARKER, who sits in the ante
J room of the Secretary of the Depart
ment of the Interior. is man who lives
up to the ideals of that musty old build
ing in which Mr.. Garfield dispenses in
formation so freely 10 the press Funeral
notice later; Ohio papers Please copy. He
is a man who signs many documents and
who sits very near picture of Hoke
Smith. He cannot sign a document with
out IA quill pen. and Sd he is very, very
proud of his quill pen.
But who is it that enters on stealthy
feet? None other than Commissioner
Moore, the Inventors Friend. and that
Patent Lawyers Nightmare.
oh" he says to Judge Parker, what a
fine quill penn
.Yes, indeed" says the Judge. But it's
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LEIGH. a
noted jockey nearly
thirty years ago,
later one of the
high-notch trainers
of American thor
breds, and for the
past eight years a
successful owner of
race horses on the
turf of France, was
uncoiling some en-
ter t a i II ! n s stuff
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HE gif t-b u y | n 8
tours of the Christ
housekeeping male
are not a whit less
entertaining, from
I h e dispa ssionate
view point of the
impartial observer,
than the frantic
ante Yule Struc-
glings around the
shops of his wife
or his mother or
his sister.
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OW they're setting
in motion an agi-
tation against this
riotous New York
method of see
ing in" the new
year. Some of the
newspapers a L e
getting up sym
poSia' on the SUBJ
ject. Not alone
the preachers, but
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MAN who was at
tached to the White
House staff during
the first admins
tratjon of President
Cleveland was tell
ing recently about
how adept the late
Dan" Lamont. Mr..
C,eveland's secre-
tary at that time.
was in the gentle
art Of nudging the
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snecial Correspondence of The Star.
NEW YORK, December Is, 1908.
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resolution OF Theodorian eulogy and they
should kiss each other on the brow and
everything he happy and peaceful and
mellow from now to March A.
Whereupon the Idealist was seized with
iongings for the unattainable and wept.
After all. wasn't the Idealist a little bit
selfish? Wasn't he thinking only of him
self and of Congress and of the pastoral
of a dream? Did he take into considera-
ton the rest of us who like noise and
explosions and excitement, in packages
big and little, and who are blamed sure
we're going to have plenty of all three
between now and Inauguration time? And
did he allow due weight to the fascina-
zion of the unexpected?
! remember once, when was q young
Ster, / was crossing a vacant lot with a
couple of boy friends. when we found a
cartridge. 1t looked like perfectly good
cartridge, and we began to wonder what
would happen if we laid it on the ground
and slammed 1t with q brick. We had
quite a heated discussion about it. Final
~, after a lot of youthful Alphonse and
Castor work, ! did the slamming The
result exceeded all our expectations and
our fears. There was q terrific report
and some smoke and smell, and ] came
near losing an ear and a couple of fingers
and lot CT other anatomical attach
Inents.
II would seem 20 the perfectly casual
and disinterested observer that the Senate
and the House spent some time last week
in figuring out who hit their secret service
cartridge first.
But to get back to the original PROPOSE
ton. / am 4 great admfrer of the Presi
dent but l have not the honor to be in
his confidence. However. I'll bet two
weeks salary against dill pickle that if
he has his way there will be things doing
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about the French way of doing things
Somebody in the group had named GER
tain American race horse man as d hafd
loser and that got Leigh started.
Well II you fellows think Blanks
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made acheful. and dizziness made deplor-
able! The folks who played the thing
did the best they could with it. The
lines of the romantic tragedy" required
them to bawl. and bawl they did. right
up to the haft of the handle. But the
piece couldn't have been other than a
bore even had it been played to people
who'd been marooned on such cable
station as Midway Island for five or ten
years.
Now this. it appears. was piece OF
queerly bad gambling. That production
amount of money. The one scene in
which the entire action passed was an af-
fair of almost dazzling splendor, and the
Viking togs worn by the folks on the
stage were rarely splendid and, eXtrava-
CANT. 1t is bemazing to imagine how any
body Of Henry Miller's experience in the
show" business could have sunk such an
amount of money in a. production that
even caused the sedate and dignified dean
of dramatic critics. William Winter to
refer to it in his critique as an affair that
reminded him Of "a stalled hearse in a
snowStorm."
I HAVE never considered Thornton Jen-
1 kins Hains now on trial for his life.
as an accessory in the killing Of Annis, to
be an entirely sane man. I often met him
around Washington before and after he
killed Ned Hannigan in the skiff down at
Fortress Monroe. and never regarded him
as a man exactly balanced. Something
over a month ago / met and conversed
with him in his cell. and the impression
of former years was strengthened. The
defense that is to be set up for his
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H. breathed

n, OTSdtH0Q q
pale Idealist to me
the other evening.
would it not be
just glorious if the
President should
send a message to
Congress saying he
was so, SO sorry
for the harsh
language he used,
a n d c on gr e S S
should accept in a
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York's most disgraceful night of Il
year.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-01-15
Some Plain Talk.

The News and Courier says there
is no question whatever that the i'm
provement of the Edisto River should
have the careful consideration Of the
River and Harbors Committee in
Congress. Representatives Patter
son and Lever, of this State, are en-
gagged in an effort to make this
stream navigable for boats of very
light draught from Charleston to
Orangeburg. Last year, as Mr.. Le-
yer showed in his recent statement
to the Rivers and Harbors Board of
the War Department, 1000 bales of
cotton and 10000 tons of fertilizers
were sold in the city of Orangeburg.
Sixteen thousand bales of this
cotton were shipped to Wilmington
and all the rest, with the exception
of 81 bales, which came to Charles
ton by some good fortune, went to
Savannah. All Of the cotton market
ed at Orangeburg should have been
sold and shipped through the port to
Charleston. That it did not take this
direction, as we have heretofore
pointed out, was not on account Of
the rates charged by the railroads
for the transportation of the cotton.
As matter Of fact the rate to
Wilmington from Orangeburg was
80 cents the hundred pound, to Sa-
vannah 20 cents and to Charleston
25 cents. The advantage Of rates en-
joyed by Charleston as compared
with Wilmington amounted to 25
cents the bale Of five hundred pounds,
and of 20 cents the bale as compared
with Savannah. Something more than
the deepening Of the Edisto River,
would be needed to draw
the cotton from Orangeburg to this
port, and that something must be
by the people at Charleston
who are engaged in the cotton busi-
ness. !"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-01-15
New Postal Ruling.

The postmaster general has issued
an order, which went into effect on
Jan. l, 1908, which requires publish
ers Of all papers to drop from their
subscription lists the names Of all
subscribers after a specified term
following the expiration of the time
for which the paper is paid for.
Hereafter publishers of weekly
newspapers can not carry subscrib-
ers in arrears more than one year,
semi-weeklies, more than nine
months, tri-weeklies longer than six
months, and dailies longer than three
months.
For each violation the publishers
will be fined l cent for each four
ounces. Since the average newspa-
pers weighs four ounces or less,
each paper sent to a subscriber IN
arrers for a longer period than in
dicated will cost the publishers l
cent fine.
The same ruling requires that all
papers sent through the mails as sec
md class matter must be paid for
and not sent complimentary. The
ruling will revoiutionize the newspa-
per business. and will relieve the
postal service of tons and tons Of
newspaper matter, which is carried
at a very low rate Of postage.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-01-15
SAME OLD CONTEST.
Will Take Money in Lieu of Seats in
Congress.

A dispatch from Washington to
The News and Courier gave the in
formation that Representatives Le-
gare, Patterson and Lever, from the
lst, I'd and 7th Congressional dis
tricts, respectively, were again to be
put to the inconvenience and trouble
Of going through with the contests
filed by the three South Carolina ne
groes: Aaron Prioleau, Isaac Myers
and 4. D. Dantzler, who want to go
to Congress from these districts.
1t appears from the records in the
Office Of the clerk in the House that
the testimony in these cases were
filed last July, and was opened ac-
cording to law, during the months of
August and September OF the past
year. The papers fled by Prioleau
cover III pages Of testimony and
briefly those Of Myers 119, and
those of Dantzler ia.
The committee on elections has
announced already that unless more
damaging testimony can be secured
by the South Carolina negroes than
they have produced up to this time
there is little chance for any OF the
present Representatives to be un-
seated. AS matter of duty the
committee is compelled to waste
much valuable time in the reading
Of afidavits from the contestants in
these cases, and in listening to long
winded arguments from their attor-
neys.
An examination of the briefs that
have been filed shows that they dit
fer in no material respect from those
filed heretofore. In the main they
attack the South Carolina election
laws as being unconstitutional, be-
cause of the disfranchisement OF the
negro. Around this is built up
sentimental tale Of woe about the
negro and his abuse in the South,
which is handed to Congress at the
beginning of each new session Of
Congress.
Neither of the contestants expect
| to get a seat in Congress, but they
are after the two thousand dollar
allowance that the law gives to all
contestants for congressional seats.
It is Just such forces as these cases
present every two years that con-
Ivinces US that the right Of suffrage
should never have been conferred on
such men as Dantzler and the 9TH
ers, who would cut grotesque fig
ure in the national halls Of legls-
| Iation.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-01-15
JUROR DIED
From Heart Failure While Sitting
On q Case.

The greatest excitement broke
forth in Part OF the court OF gen
eral sessions. in New York, where j
civil suit was being heard when it
was discovered that Moses Olenick,
juror No. ?, who was apparently as
leeD in his chair, was dead.
The clerk Of the court was calling
the roll Of the jurors, but when he
reached Olenich's name, there was
no response. He called the name a
second and a third time, but still
there was no answer. Nearest the
juror was Thomas Moore. an agent
OF the Gerry society, and Moore lean
cd forward and touched the appar-
emily sleeping juror on the shoulder.
Moore saw in moment that the
Juror was dead. DR.. Frank Mcguire,
the Tombs prison physician, was hur-
ciedly sent for. but ne said the man
had been dead several minutes. He
had been stricken with heart failure.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-01-15
ANOTHER COTTON PICKER
Mr. HarviH, Of Manning, Secures
Patent on New Machine.

Patent on New Machine.
Mr.. C. r. Harvin, Of Manning, S.
c., has invented and patented a cot
ton picking machine which gives en-
couraging promise of doing the work
foc which it is designed. The whole
apparatus is to be carried on a spec
tally designed four-wheel truck and
drawn by horse power along the cot
ton rows. The principle on which
the machine works is something like
that Of the familiar suction aue at
the modern ginneries.
A gasoline engine on the forward
part of the truck furnishes the pow
er to run a pair Of twin fans that do
the suction work. while connected
with the fans are four or more fex-
ible tubes, or hose, that may be
guided along the rows of open cot
ton by unskilled labor. The force OF
tho suction will draw up the fluea
all well opened cotton, while spec
ial device will pick out open cotton
that does not come freely from the
boil.
Mr.. Harvin has; not made COM
plete machine, according to his de-
sign, but he has rigged up on an
ordinary farm wagon an outfit that
demonstrates his idea to be practl-
cable. Being necessarily engaged IN
other business, Mr. Harvin has had
little time to devote to his important
invention, but he hopes soon to or
ganize & stock company with sufh-
cient capital to push the matter in
manner that its importance deserves.
We hope this machine will prove
success. There is nothing that is so
much needed on the farm as a GOOD
machine to pick cotton. Labor on
the farms is so trihing that unless
some machine is invented to pick
cotton it's cultivation will be greatly
curtailed. 1t will effect a great saw
ing too in the gathering Of the cotton
cron. Success to you, Mr.. Harvin.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-01-15
A GOOD WORK
Being Done by the Auduhon &c.
cIety as Shown by
ITS ANNUAL REPORT

Which Has Just Been Filed for the
Information oe the Public.-Pres-
ldent Taylor Makes q Statement
on the Enforcement Of the Game
Law for the Year Just Ended
Society Deserves support OF All.
President 3. F. Taylor Of the South
Carolina Audubon society has COM
pleted his annual report showing the
work of the society since its moor
poration by the general assembly at
the last session. The report is inter-
esting in that it shows the improve
ment in conditions in the preserva
ton of game and that until the So
ciety took charge there was little at
tention paid to the laws OF this State
The report submitted by Mr.. Taylor
is as follows:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-01-15
YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL.
Little Girl Confesses to Many Seri-
Gus Crimes.

Confessing that she was an in
cendiary, shoplifter, sneak theft,
and a burglar, 12-year-o!d girl re-
Gently told the sheriff of Lake coun-
ty, Indiana, tale Of criminal ex-
ploits which rivalled the record Of
most offenders four times her age.
She is Anna Jensick, of Roby,
Ind. and her confession followed
her arrest on a charge of having set
fire to $4,000 worth of hay owned
by the knickerbocKer Ice company.
of Chicago. The fire, started by the
girl and her five year old brother,
whom she enlisted as an aid, spread
to the ice houses Of the company
and for a time threatened to wipe
out the entire town Of Robertsdale,
adjoining Roby.
II just wanted to see it burn, y
said the girl. Il know it was wrong,
but something inside of me told me
to light the hay and see a prettE
fire" This child's mind is certainly
badly balanced.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-01-15
Hearty Two Million Bales Less
Ginned Last Year
THAN YEAR BEFORE
According to the Census Bureau Re
port Of Cotton Ginned Up to the
First Of January s,955,A27 Bales
Were Ginned Last Year Against
11,7A1,0s Bales Ginned The Year
Before

The census bureau Thursday IS
sued its showing that the number Of
bales of cotton ginned from the
growth Of 1907 to January 1, 1898,
was 9, s55,427, as compared With
11,741,o ,o3s last year, and s,71o,42S
for 1906.
This counts round bales as half
bales. The number of round bales
included is 17s,6s1 for 1905. 255,-
56s for 1907, and 2s3,5Sl for 1906.
Sea island cotton included is 1888
bales for 1908, and 54,275 for 1897,
and ss.e42 for 1906. The number
of active ginneries for 1908 was 17,-
276.
The distribution Of sea island cot
ton for 1908 by States Is: Florida,
25,214: Georgia, 37,129; South Car
olina, 1925.
There were ginned s,2S4,e7o bales
to December 13 last. The number OF
bales ginned to January in the
various States and the number Of
active ginneries are as follows:
Alabama, 1,o3o,721 bales; s.4se
ginneries.
Arkansas, s27,725 bales; 2,sss
ginneries.
Florida, 5o.1ss bales; 4,244 gin
neries.
Georgia, 1,7s5,27s bales; 1851
ginneries.
Kentucky, 1923 bales; 2 gin
neries.
Louisiana, 5e2,477 bales; 1885
ginneries.
Louisiana, 5S2.477 bales; 1885
ginneries.
Mississippi, 1,22s.44e bales; s,4s5
ginneries.
Missouri, 1854 bales; 73 GIN
neries.
New Mexico, s5 bales, 2 ginneries.
North Carolina, 562,47s bales;
2,7o2 ginneries.
Oklahoma, 1875 bales; $50
sinneries.
South Carolina, 1,os5,6se bales,
3,167 ginneries.
Tennessee, 225,245 bales; $50
ginneries.
Texas. 2,os2,7s5 bales; a,sss
sinneries.
Virginia, 7,s4o bales; SO gin
neries.