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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-05-26

Died at his home on Deep Creek last
Friday night, Mr.. Ben E: Baggett, agg-
ed about "A years, The deceased was
an old Confederate Veteran. He was a
member of the famous Hampton Legion.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-05-26

Rev. J. W. Perry, OF Florida, who was
formerly pastor of the Manning Baptist
church, is here on visit to his son, Mr..
John ". Perry.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-05-26

a case WHICH We Gu1uh WILL OC T6oSA-
ed with unusual interest, not only be-
cause the accused is a prominent citizen,
and man of exemplary character, but
because their is involved a fine legal
question which when finally decided
will have potent effect upon our pro-
hibition Laws, or destroy them until!
further legislation is had, this IS the
case OF the State against DR.. D. O.
Rhame OF Summerton, charging him
with having sold Jamaica ginger, a
compound or mixture containing alco
hol, in violatioa of law. A preliminary
was held here Thursday before Magis-
trate Dickson who sent the case up to
the court Of general sessions. Captain
W. G Davis represents Doctor Rhame,
and J. NJ. Woods, Esq: the State.
1t is always unfortunate for gentle
man OF Standing to be forced into the
unpleasant notoriety, charge Of thi:
nature would create, but now the case
is in the courts, we hope it will go to the
limit in order to obtain a final judicia
expression, as to whether or not stand
ard household remedy is contemplated
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-05-26

The famous Clicouot Club Ginger Ale
l24 per bottle, on ice at The Manning
Grocery Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24
FAIRGROUNDS FOR CHILDREN

While the park system of Topeka is
| being expanded to something like
proper proportions through the acauir-
! ing of new sites and the development
of existing ones. the fact should not be
lost sight of that one of the great
needs of this and every other city. for
that matter, is adequate Fairgrounds
for children. There is no better place
| for them than in the city parks. IN
| each of them, except the very smallest
tracts Of ground should be set apart for
! the exclusive use of the children for the
playing of all sorts of games that are
SO attractive to them, and also so bene-
| fetal to their physical progress.
Not only should special places be set
children but they should be equipped
with variety of devices which will
help the youngsters on their way to
having real good times. Such ap-
paratus as is needed can be purchased
and set up at minimum expense. If
the park commissioners have not the
| authority to devote some of the money
at their disposal for these purposes it
should be given them.
The streets are no places for chill
dren TO play, nlled as they are with
vehicles of all kinds, including the
swiftly moving automobiles and the
/ trolley cars. And children playing in
the streets are more or less of a
nuisance to the residents, including
their own parents. In their frolicking
about they play havoc with lawns and
parkings. their carelessly tossed balls
break windows and in a variety of 9TH
er familiar ways they cause all kinds
Of petty troubles.
Good brisk play in the open air is as
essential to the growth and develop
ment of a child as is proper food and
care. And places should be provided
for them to play in. Some movements
| along this line have been started in
the city. They should be encouraged in
| all ways and made more general.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24
HYHAWKER JOTS

The Emporia Gazette doesn't think
that the people of Kansas made much
of a wild throw when they sent Joe
Bristow to the United States senate.
Kansans have won five Carnegie
medals. In this connection the
account has been taken Of political
heroes, that, of cours. forms no true
basis of the heroism Of the Sunfiower
state.
Bert Walker thinks that the great
est deliverer of mankind will be the
statesman who can get through con-
gress an act making it a felony for
anybody to say to an old bachelor,
why don't you get married?" Some
body must have been teasing Bert.
It has been suggested that the
skeleton found buried in the sand
dunes In Payne's Geological park, on
the banks of the Arkansas river, may
captain who navigated the river and
whose boat was wrecked and sunk
with all on board.
Last Fridays Wichita Beacon con-
tanned a local item stating that B. F.
Bracken of Be1oit had handed Rev.
W. NJ. Irwin of Wichita a call to the
passionate of the First Presbyterian
church in Beloit, which the preacher
took under consideration. Immediate
ly following was medicine local
headed "Fr1ghtful Fate AVerted. -
Minneapolis Messenger.
The editor of the Norton Telegram
has something of a poultry problem
on his hands. He set a hen not long
ago on some real eggs, of course.
Imagine his surprise and also his cha
grin, on looking into the nest, to find
ten corn cobs resting peacefully I'M
der the hen in the place of his eggs
or young chickens. 1t has been sug-
gested that the hen Matched ears of
corn and then ate the grains off the
cobs.
An Anthony husband whose wife
sometimes says they should leave
Kansas because of the winds took
home the daily paper of recent date
and spread it before his spouse. Then
he pointed to the scare heads at the
top of the front page telling of the
awful tornadoes, cyclones, snow,
wind, death and disaster everywhere
but in Kansas, and said: Nov, my
dear, just pick out your location and
we will move.'-Anthony Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24
THE BREEp1NG or ME.N.

"Eugenics--the Science of Breeding
Men is one of the features of the
American magazine for June. Prof.
w. I. Thomas. the author, states that
from the scientists experiments in
stock breeding we are not encouraged
to hope that the human mind could
ever be revolutionized by breeding.
He says:
1.-THE idea of breeding men is not
altogether new, and so eminent a man
and evolutionist as Alfred Russell
Wallace has stated a view-whfch is
at the same time a popular though
certainly a mistaken one-that it is
possible by the selection of stock to
produce a race from which the old
Adam is eliminated, whose disposition
resembles that of angels and whose
intelligence approaches in absolute
ness that of the Diety. This is the
widest sort of dream. All the in
stincts and qualities which man has
are natural and useful to him. A
creature without capacity for anger
and resentment, and interest in con-
f1ict and success, without some de-
gree of fallibility and infirmity would
be a very poor human creature in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24

deed, or rather he would not be hui
man at all. The true ideal and the
only one realizable is an individual of
emfnently marked human traits, with
strong sympathies and intelligence,
with that balance which we call nor
maIity, under full control of himself
and dominated by the finest social
Ieeilng. By breeding out character
out Characteristic expressions of ac-
tiVity. Moreover, biology and prac-
teal stock breeding hold out no en-
couragement that a new species can
pc created by selection. Great men
lived before Agamemnon, and mod
ern times have produced no greater
minds that those of Plato and Soc
rates. The general average of health,
vigor. manhood and mentality can be
raised by breeding, and possibly the
percentage of illustrious minds. but
the general pattern of mind cannot be
changed.
I'm the field of domestic animals
there has been no limit to the nature
Of experiments which man was able to
try, and no end of experiments tried,
but even under conditions so favorable
to control, the results have been very
far from radical. especially so far as
mental qualities are concerned. The
dog approaches man in intelligence,
and the horse is among the intelligent
animals. but no horse or dog has ever
been able to speak or count. The
owner of Clever Hans. actually
thought his horse would count. If the
owner asked him to add two and three
he would hove his hoof five times
and he would do this if a stranger
proposed it. But what he actually
did was to observe that the man made
a slight, unintentional and almost i'm
perceptible inclination of the head
when five was reached. The man
knew when to stop and the horse got
the cue from him. When two scien-
fists, each ignorant of the number the
abe other would give, whispered two
numbers in either ear of the horses
neither of the men knew when to stop
and neither did the horse. He went on
stamping. It was very clever Of the
horse to notice the movement or the
head. but 1t was not counting"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24
women saved MISSISSIPPI Ievees.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago Ne

IFrom the Chicago NeWs.l
A magnetic speaker is naturally a
drawing card.
Men who know themselves are often
suspicious of others.
A woman's 11eartbreaks are almost
as bad as a mans indigestion.
The less said about the age of wom-
en- and canned goods the better.
He isn't a progressive magician who
is always up to his old tricks.
ANY man becomes an ideal husband
the day his wife becomes widow.
For reasons unnecessary to mention,
some people never have brain flag.
woman isn't necessarily smart be-
cause she says things that make
others smart.
Any man may be justified in blow
ing his own horn, but not in going on
a tOot.
If a man tells a woman she's all the
world to him, she can forgive him for
wanting the earths
own game by people who let him
think he was fooling them.
Money may make the mare go, but
it falls down when 1t attempts to start
a stubborn mule down thep ike.
The girl who is wise never gives
Young man a lock of her hair. She
NAV decide to change the color of it
later.
When a man treats his wife with
more consideration than usual she
begins to wonder If he isn't trying to
square himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24
HUMOR OF THE DAY

to credit him with big motives when little
motives will come anywhere near to ac-
counting for his conduct.-Puck.
Willing to Take a chance-Mother--An
| when he proposed, did you tell him to see
me? Daughter-Yes, mamma; and he said
I he'd seen you several times. but he want
ed to marry me just the sanae.-The
1.-The ancients believed the world was
SELF Ae a et so IeiieYs have y
had proposal for a month. Houston
Post.
| Adjutant Cat inspection, discovering sec
9nd button It on Of soldiers tunic qnfastenedlI
Punch.
makes a man look intellectual? eve ell, I've
seen wives pick them. off their husbands
coats when 1t made them look foolish
New York Herald.
SO bad, Ell? PatIent-Not quite, sir; some
times my foot goes to sleep now.-Boston
| Transcript.
| First Chauffeur-It's an outrage Second
Chauffeur-Yes, there ought to be some
way to prevent the owner taking the. car
Sun.
Hieks-Rjenkyns tells me that in his
poetic work he runs mostly to quatrains.
Wicks-Yes, he writes those advertising
things for the street car cards.-Somer-
vile Journal.
Mrs. Camptown-Tell your Captain I'd
like the pleasure of his company to q
dance next Friday evening. Corporal Gin
nls-Oi Will, ma am, but Ofm afraid some
Of EN- can't dance.-Life.
Browning-What do you know about this
poultry business, Greening? Is there any
money in hens? Greening-You bet there
is. I put all Of so in mine last winter
Chicago Daily News.
Even a policeman can't arrest the
flight of time" said the funny man. oh
don't know" rejoined the matter-of-facs
person. only this morning saw a po-
Hceman enter side door and stop a few
minutes. ''-Illustrated Bits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24
QUAKER MEDTTATToNs.
From the Philadelphia Record

[From the Philadelphia Record.
A man is always satisfied not to be
in 1t when 1t comes to debt
There is fortune awaiting the
inventor of camera that will flatter
Even when he is too fresh. it may
be that fellow isn't worth his salt.
No woman thinks much of a hus-
band who isn't occasionally jealous
of her.
When you start to do thing don't
pat yourself on the back. The world
is full Of starters.
When a fellow finds that he can
no longer afford to take a girl to
theaters and out to supper afterward
he marries her.
Si1licus-"They say he isn't as at
tentive to her as he used to be. Did
they Quarrel?" Cynicus-"No; they
married.
When a girl wants to find out
what sort of a man she is going to
marry the best fortune-telier for her
to consult is Bradstreet.
Hoax-"I can't see anything in
that fellow to make the girls rave
over him." Joax-"we1l, you should
remember that the girls can't see
through him"
Polly-"How did Mr.. SoftIeigh get
brain fever?" Dol1y-'sIt was the re-
suit of severe blow on the head.
believe an idea suddenly struck him.
'swhy is 1t that you don't write
any more articles on Advice to Moth
ers' % asked the editor of the wof1lat1's
page. 81 really haven't the time any
more,'' replied the female contribu-
tor. You see, I'm married now"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe. ]

L
No greater harm can be done some
men than to praise them.
If a woman has red hair, can she
buy red puffs at the stores?
Some men never buy either chew
ing tobacco or peanuts; they beg.
Some day, we hope to meet a man
who gets all the credit he deserves.
How soon after a man is buried,
does his wife begin to look with in
terest in her mirror?
After man has occupied a big
position. he usually continues big feel
ing as long as he lives.
If an article is offered to you at
a price you know is low enough. don't
haggle. and expect to get it for less.
It is the deep-seated conviction of
those who have wrinkles that lack
of them on d woman's face shows
weakness of character.
The man who attends to his BUSH
ness. and goes his own way quietly
and peacefully, will be bothered little
except by agents.
There are lots of good and oblie-
ing people in the world, but few cases
have been recorded where a family
moved out of a house and left it
clean.
Listen as long as two minutes. and
you will hear some woman complain
is to make her husband and children
eat what's good for them.
When a woman twists her hair in
a tight little knot, instead of spread
ing it out to look like as much as
possible, it is evidence of disappoif1t-
ed hopes, and no joy worth dressing
UP for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24
INCOME TAX AND REVENUE.

One of the arguments in favor OF
the creation of a federal income tar
is that 1t would be a great revenue
raiser. This is conceded on all sides
and it is also patent to everyone
that the government needs greatly
increased revenues If it's expendi-
lures are to be maintained at their
present enormous figures But il
does not take much discernment to
realize that even If an income tax
precision was inserted into the tariff
bill-and this could only be done, if
at all, after a lengthy fight in the
senate and a lengthier one in the
house which would delay the con-
clusion of the tariff legislation for
months-it would not prove effica-
cious as an immediate revenue
raiser.
The reason for this is plain The
income tax law which was passed in
1894 was declared to be unconstitu-
tional by the supreme court on gem
eral principles. 1t is the opinion of
some lawyers that an income tax law
could be framed which would meet
the tests of the courts, and that
might be declared constitutional be-
cause the supreme court is differ
emily constituted from what it was
in 1894, when 1t handed down its
memorable decision in this case, de-
claring the law to be unconstitu-
tional by a narrow margin of one
vote, and this one vote coming
through a change of heart over night
by one of the eminent judges. But
n ote fnH Of on ia
vision might be inserted into the
tariff bill, it would be carried to the
courts as soon as an effort was made
to enforce it. The legal battle over
such a provision of law. would be of
the titanic order and it would take
a few years, at least, before the SUI
preme court would finally pass on
the question: So as an immediate
revenue raiser an income tax pro-
vision in the tariff bill would be
something of a decided failure.
And immediate increases in
revenues of substantial sort are
what the government needs. 1t is
estimated that it will run. $780,,
O0O,0 900 behind during the current
fiscal year. The tariff bill that Mr..
Aldrich would like to see enacted
into law would increase the revenues
only s1O,0OO.O00 a year according to
his own figures. This is a paltry
sum compared with what Is needed
The thing for the congressman to do
is to pass something real in the way
of revenue raising tariff law This
can be done by framing one up with
low schedules which will attract i'm
kIzSc
try. This is the kind of a tariff bill
that President Taft asked congress
to pass. This is the kind of a tariff
bill that the people demanded with
their votes at the, last election but
the present indications are that this
is the kind of tariff bill that will
not be passed, and Mr.. Taft will be
justified in vetoing such a one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A girl will seldom seek release from
her engagement to a man unless she
has a better offer.
y y
Apparently. it doesn't take young
widow long to become reconci1ed to
the loss of her husband.
X
A boy who is slow may have the
markings of a good chess player in
him but that's not much of pros
pect, at best.
n X
After a person has been bitten he
is ant to lose all confidence in the
theory that dogs bark is worse than
it's bite.
A poor young man may need a
thrifty, economical woman for a wire
but he probably would be better salts
fed with a rich and liberal one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24

was white with excitement. Some one
nao kept her letters from reaching
Neal-some one
In the doorway stood Esther. still
petularlt, from the scene downstairs.
AS she walked toward her sister Re-
the letters in her outstretched palm.
with a. little gasp Esther saw.
crumpled into a chair and began to
cry in a frightened way. That aw-
ful silence of Regina's demanded as
no words would have done.
81 did it for your own good" Es-
Their walled. Meal never will be
rich. And-T thought you'd see how
mucn. better a position DR.. Bright
right could give you--I thought you'd
forget wrote Neal you were going
TO marry the doctor and hadn't cour-
age to tell him yourself and that you
did not want to hear from him again
II got your letters both times by
taking them to slip into the drop
while l asked you to get stamps or
Der? IL did it because L thought
you would be happier, Regina
The tall, stern girl, standing like
an avengirg goddess, looking on the
historical, weak woman huddled in
the chair. did not speak for some
minutes.
why didn't you destroy them
when you got them ?" she asked
abruptly.
81 didn't dare" wept Esther, "I was
afraid 1t was criminal. or some
thing"
The faint flicker of humor which
swept Regina's face even in her mo-
ment of righteous wrath spread to
her generous heart.
I'VE won't talk about it again, Es
ther," she said quietly. You'd bet
ter go to bed. And now-now I'm
going to write to Copyright,
1909, by Associated Literary Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24

New York city's officials propose to
close all the amusement resorts at the
famous Coney Island on Sundays The
proprietors OF them announce that they
will continue to operate their shows on
Sundays for educational purposes a
proceeding that does not come Under
the ban of the New York Sunday
closing laws. OF course. this is a
mere subterfuge, but there is no
doubt that a stranger to Coney Is
land can learn a lot by a visit to that
place on. Sundays. or any other day,
for that matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24
rHE TsTHMrAN oPTMIsT.

For real, downright ability to see
the doughnut, to the utter exclusion
of the hole, the chief of the Panama
canal diggers takes first prize. The
vacant space within the cakes rim
has no effect upon the retinal nerves
of Colonel Cocktails; his vision is COM
pletely filled with the rim itself When
the "'toe'' of the Gatuni dam slipped, in
accordance with the doleful prophecy
of those who said the dam could not
be built safely, the colonel promptly
declared that the slip was an act OF
Providence; that it was anticipated
and desired.
A few months later, when assertion
of the railroad sank into the nire, the
Cocktails optimism never finched- 1t
was all right, amounted to nothing,
was expected, desired, looked forward
to with anticipatory pleasure and
backward at with pangs of real regret
that the tracks did not sink further.
Now a special dispatch to Philadel-
phia paper says an extensive landslide
has occurred at the Cucaracha cut and
is still in progress. Is the chief fius-
tered? Read: Colonel Goethals is
making the landslide work for hfr,-
The material is falling entirely within
the canal prism and will greatly facili-
tate the excavation work.
Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24

For the information of those who
may have forgotten: The impaIla
@hich Mr.. Roosevelt shot recently in
Africa is nothing like the ferocious or
unusual beast that its name might
imply to some. 1t is merely little in
offensive deer that roams around the
African plains. 1t is something like
the innocent looking fallow deer
which can be found in almost any
geological park in this country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24

worse off in a few years than they are
now. Their independence would be
short-lived, too. Some other nation
would gobble them up at the first OPP
portunity and it would not take much
to create such an opportunity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24

Topeka boosters, who are doing such
great work these days. have this ad
vantage over their brethren in many
other cities. They have all kinds of ex-
celIent material at hand for advertis-
ing Topeka as fine place to live and
40 business In
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24
SHE KEEPS HIM GUESSING.

She has her moods, I must confess
They Keep me guessing all the while,
And with a cruel fickleness
She deals alternate frown and smile.
The sweetest thing she's apt to say,
Her looks. I think, are more than kind
That's just the way she feels today
TOMORROW she may change her mind.
Now she is distant. hard and cold.
To speak, indeed, I hardly dare
For fear 1 may be overbold,
She has g very freezing stare.
1t doesn't do to get too gay;
Humility Is best, I find.
That's just the way she feels today
tomorrow she may change her mind.
When she is pretty mean to me
Her disposition gives me hope,
And when she's gracious as can be
Her will I'm willing to obey,
But what It is I've not OWNED.
That's Just the way she feels today
tomorrow she may change her mind.
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24

Pfttsburg, Pa. attracts attention
again with three suicides and two IN
successful attempts at suicide in one
day. If only a Few of the reports
about the life in that town are true
these unfortunates are entitled to a
little sympathy instead of censure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24

Senator Curtis had the honor of
presenting the compromise amend
ment on the lead schedules which
was adopted by the senate and which
makes a Slight reduction in the rate
on white lead from the schedule or
iginally prepared by Mr.. Aldrich. But
Senator Bristow was the man that
started the successful fight on the
Aldrich schedule which resulted in
the compronnise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-24

The move Of the business men along
the east side of Kansas avenue to sub
stitute arc lights for the string of in
candescents which have been Pickering
there for a year is good one. The
little lights are better than no lights at
all but they do look a trifie countrified,
or street-fairish. Still they have been a
rather pleasing decoration.