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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18

in the bank, you could not get a
check of more than 500 cashed.
Banks, corporations and even
private firms were permitted to
issue promises to pay which pass
ed current as money. The secre-
tary of the treasury fastened TO
New York and placed the re.
sources of the United States
treasury at the commands OF the
New York bankers. In many
States, stay laws were passed,
and creditors were forbidden for
a specified time to enforce the
collection Of a debt.
In this year of grace, October,
1911, the cotton planters are in
just as serious a condition as
We're the bankers and mercantile
classes in 1907. Yet I fail to see
the government or any one else
rushing to their aid. Our prom
ises to pay do not pass current
as cash, and no stay law holds
the hand of our creditors.
It is not that anyone wishes to
injure US. Our property is GER
tainly as safe a basis of credit as
the stocks and bonds of the bank
er. Stocks and bonds are all bas-
ed on the values that come from
the soil. Let the production of
grain and cotton stop and see
what would become of securities.
It is merely worthless paper with
out the fruit of productive labor
behind it. The difference lies in
the fact that other classes are or
ganized; the farmer is not His
assets are not in available com
mercial shape for him to borrow
money upon them.
Cotton is now below the cost
of production and unless some
thing is done speeding the rem
edy will come too late for the
crop.
l make this suggestion:
Let the national head of the
Farmers Union request every
planter, both white and black,
not to sell another bale of cotton
for ten days. In October there
are few who can not hold their
cotton ten days.
I believe that the market is in
such condition now, that it only
needs a start to have a consider
able advance.
There is a very large short in
terest. The world is on that side.
Let the receipts suddenly stop
from any cause just as the frost
season approaches and start the
shorts to covering, and an ad.
vance Of two and half cents IS
not unreasonable to aspect.
Another thing, no planter
should sell his cotton to q mill
under privilege to call for a set
tlement at a future date for the
following reasons, to wit:
l. It takes the mill out Of the
market, thereby destroying the
competitive buying which we
need to sustain the advance in
prices.
.. 1t is bad policy for you to
furnish the capital to run anoth-
er mans business: and not get
paid for it.
3. This cotton is not held off
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the market; it is in the direct
channels of consumption.
4. With the merger of the
mills under one head it is pecu.
Iiarly dangerous. With reason
able supply assured, they can
stay out Of the open market, de
press the price and so fix the
amount which they shall pay for
the cotton delivered under con-
tract.
,JNO. LOWNDES MCLAURIN.
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Notice of Discharge.

I will apply to the Judge of Pro
bate for Clarendon county. on the
7th day of November 1911, for letters
of discharge as guardian for Matte
H. Harvin now Matte II. hlbler
and May Gilbert Harvin, formerly
minors. w. SCOTT HARYIN,
Guardian.
Manning, S. c., October 7th, 1911.
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of election without the aid of Re-
publican votes, therefore the
convention is bound to find a
spotted Democrat if it hopes to
win, the man must be built ac-
cording to Republican standards
as was the only Democratic pres
ident the country has had since
the war between the States, and
unless the party can capture such
a Democrat they may as we'll
save the expense of a campaign.
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the case against Creatore will be
remains to be seen, if Creatore IS
determined in his defence, and
passes the case to tie highest
court it should determine exactly
what IS sacred music, it's decision.
might force a revision of the
HYMN books, and a general dis
carding Of the Sunday school
songsters.
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No communication OF q personal character
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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18

Immortality.
Speaking Of Immortality, what's the
matter with the hen"
"Go on"
"Eer son never sets.'-NeW York
Tinnas
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and unlesstne legislature revokes
the charter there is a likelihood
Ct that city becoming the Mecca
for the sporting fraternity OF the
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18

.. 1t is bad policy for you to
furnish the capital to run anoth-
er mans business: and not get
paid for it.
3 This cotton is not held off
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-06
HOLLAND DETEsTs DIRT.
Much Further Advanced In Municipal
Housekeeping Than America.


The people of Holland are much
further evolved in the manner of mu-
nicipal housekeeping than the Amer
leans. They have acquired the true
idea of the citizens duty in the mat
ter of keeping their streets clean. They
regard dirt as being as much out Of
place in the streets as in their houses.
and the average Dutch urbanite would
as soon dump Il bucket of garden mold
in the middle of his parlor floor as he
would throw any kind of trash what
ever into the street.
1t would be very much to the adj
vantage of American towns if the
Dutch point of view was acquired by
residents. A great many appear to
think that the street is the proper
place for trash of any kind. They
throw newspapers and wrapping pa
pers and fruit Feelings and tin cans
into the thoroughfares with the indif.
ference of sailors heaving refuse over.
board at sea. OF course this does not
obtain in all streets. but in many of
the we'll built respectable blocks in
our cities trash is constantly in evil
dence.
Some of it. perhaps, is blown out of
the stores. but it is none the less dis
agreeable to the eye and suggestive OF
uncleanlinesS. Trash boxes are pro-
vided by cities at convenient points,
but even when they ace not readily
accessible it is rarely necessary for any
person to cast paper forth to be
blown hither and thither 1t is no less
than slovenly to unwrap parcel in
the street and throw the paper away.
1t should at least be crumpled into a
tight wad so that it will not blow
about and brighten horses and litter
the street
The Indifference with which some
people cast aside their unconsidered
trifies of wrapping paper, fruit skins
and the like is. amazing when their
usual habits are studied. They will be
perhaps insiStent upon the last degree
of cleanliness aliuut them personal.
ly and yet Will contribute with cheer
full thoughtfulness to the discomfort
and the distress of mind Of numberless
neighbors.
This is a matter that cannot be eff
fectively reached by regulation, and all
that is left is to appeal to the sense
Of propriety Of the individual and to
ask him to be as considerate Of the
laws of cleanliness in the street as he
Is in his own home.-Exchange.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-06


l have been angry ana nurL-uoo iCng
have | cherished the feeling;
l have been cruel and hard. but now.
thank God! 1t rs ended.
Mine is the same hot blood that leaped
in the veins of Hugh Standish,
Sensitive, swift to resent, but as swift
in atoning for error.
Never so much as now was Miles
Standish the friend of John Al
Thereupon answered the bridegroom:
Let all be forgotten between
All save the dear, old friendship, and
that shall grow older and
dearer!"
Then the Captain advanced, and, bow.
ing, saluted Priscilla,
Gravely.' and after the manner of old.
fashioned gentry In England,
Something of camp and of court, of
town and of country, COM
mingled,
Wishing her joy of her wedding, and
loudly lauding her husband
Then he said with smile: Il should
have remembered the adage,-
If you would be we'll served, you
must serve yourself; and more
over,
No man can gather cherries in Kent
at the season of Christmas"
Great was the peoples amazement,
and greater yet their rejoicing,
Thus to behold once more the sun
burnt face of their Captain,
Whom they had mourned as dead;
and they gathered and crowded
about him,
Eager to see him and hear him,
forgetful of bride and of bride
groom,
Questioning. answering, laughing, and
each interrupting the other,
TIL the good Captain declared, being
quite overpowered and bewildered,
He had rather by far break into an
: Indian encamnmant
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-06

Than come again to wedding to
which he had not been invited
Meanwhile the bridegroom went
forth and stood with the bride at
the doorway,
Breathing the perfumed air of that
warm and beautiful morning.
Touched with autumnal tints, but
lonely and sad in the sunshine,
Lay extended before them the land OF
toll and privation;
There were the graves of the dead,
and the barren waste of the sea-
shore,
There the familiar fields, the groves
of pine, and the meadows;
But to their eyes TRANSPORTED, it
seemed as the Garden of Eden.
Filled with the presence of God,
whose voice was the sound of the
ocean.
Soon was their vision disturbed by
the noise and stir of departure,
Friends coming forth from the house,
and impatient of longer delaying,
Each with his plan for the dag, and
the work that was left uncom-
pleted.
Then from a stall near at hand, amid
EXPLANATIONS of wonder,
Alden the thoughtful, the careful, so
happy, so proud of Priscilla,
Brought out his snow-white steer.
:. = obeying the hand of it's master,
Let by a cord that was tied to an
iron ring in its nostrils,
Covered with crimson cloth. and
cushion placed for a saddle.
She should not walk, he said,
through the dust and heat of the
MONDAY;
Nay. she should ride like q cneen not
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-06

Graced the scene with their presence,
and stood like the Law and the
Gospel,
One with the sanction of earth and
one with the blessing of heaven.
Simple and brief was the wedding, as
that of Ruth and of Boaz.
Softly the youth and the maiden re-
peated the words of betrothal.
Taking each other for husband and
wife in the Magistrates presence,
After the Puritan way, and the laud-
able custom of Holland.
Fervently then, and devoutly, the ex-
cellent Elder of Plymouth
PRAYED for the hearth and the home,
that were founded that day in af-
lection.
Speaking of life and of death, and i'm
ploring divine benedsctlons.
Lo! when the service was ended,
form appeared on the threshold,
Clad in armor of steel, a somber and
sorrowful figure!
Why does the bridegroom start and
stare at the strange apparit1on?
Why does the bride turn pale, and
hide her face on his shoulder?
Is 1t phantom of air,-a bodiless,
spectral Illusion?
Is 1t ghost from the grave, that has
come to forbid the betrothal?
Long had it stood there unseen.
guest unlimited, unwelcomed;
Over its clouded eyes there had
passed at times an expression
Softening the gloom and revealing Il
warm heart hidden beneath them,
AS when across the SKY the driving
rack of the rain-cloud
Grows for a moment thin, and be-
trays the sun by its brightness.
Once 1t had lifted its hand, and moved
its lips, but was silent,
AS II an iron will had mastered the
feeting intention.
But when were ended the troth and
the prayer and the last benedic-
ton,
Into the room 1t lode, and the peo-
pie beheld with amazement
Bodily there in his armor Miles Stand.
ish, the Captain of Plymouth!
Grasping the bridegroom's hand, he
said with emotion "Fnr9iuA mol
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-06
PRESERVING OLD TREES.

The preservation of old. large
or historic trees is naturally
quite an important question. and
the widespread interest demon
strates most Enthusiastically the
growing regard for trees in the
public mind and this is as it
should be. OF course there is
the other side. as to whether
greater public improvements
should be checked or diverted to
spare even historic trees, when
historic buildings of greater pc
culiar interest have to come
down in the cause of progress.
Nevertheless it remains true that
no such trees should be de-
stroyed if it can possibly be
avoided. and no groups of trees
should be sacrificed. if change Of
plans not, materially affecting
the whole scheme can be made.
We cannot afford to lose one
beautiful tree if it can be avoid
ed. and it is most gratifying to
realize that the love of trees
both for their beauty and worth
is now constantly growing SEN
timent.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-06
They Harm the Local Dealers.

Iowa. Nebraska, Kansas and other
western states are seriously afflicted
with peddlers of drugs. favoring ex-
tracts. etc. Each state has laws i'm
posing license upon travelling vendors,
but as in each case the annual fee is
not in excess Of S100 the peddler has
good thing. as it is poor salesman
who does not dispose Of from $1,000
to $4,000 worth Of goods during the
year. and all of the goods handled are
of the kind that give a profit of from
so to 100 per cent
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-06
The Wedding Day

Forth from the curtain of clouds,
from the tent of purple and scar
let,
Issued the sun, the great High Priest,
in his garments resplendent,
Holiness unto the Lord, in letters of
light, on his forehead,
Round the hem of his robe the golden
bells and pomegranates
Blessing the world he came, and the
bars of vapor beneath him
Cleaned like CRATE of brass, aed the
sea at his feet was laver!
This was the wedding morn Of Pris-
ella, the Puritan maiden.
Friends were assembled together; the
Elder and MAGISTRATE also
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poo along like peasant.
Somewhat alarmed at first, but reas.
sured by the others,
Placing her hand on the cushion, her
foot in the hand of her husband,
Eaily, with joyous laugh, Priscilla,
mounted her palfrey.
Nothing is wanting now" he said
with a smile, 'but the distaff;
Then you would be in truth my queen,
my beautiful Bertha!"
Onward the bridal procession now
moved to their new habitation,
Happy husband and wife, and friends
conversing together.
Pleasantly murmured the brook, al
they crossed the ford in the for.
est
Pleased with the image that passed,
like a dream of love through its
bosom,
Tremulous, floating in air, DER the
depths of the azure abysses.
Down through the golden leaves the
sun was pouring his splendors,
Cleaning on purple grapes, that, from
branches above them suspended
Mingled their odorous breath with the
balm of the pine and the fir-tree
Wild and sweet as the clusters that
grew in the valley of Eshcol.
Like picture it seemed of the print
tive, pastoral ages,
Fresh with the youth of the world
and recalling Rebecca and Isaac
Old and yet ever new, and simple and
beautiful always,
Love immortal and young in the end
less succession of lovers.
So through the Plymouth woods
passed onward the bridal process
SIGN
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-06
Cooperation IS
NEEDED BY TOWN
Growth Depends Entirely on the
Spirit Of Its Citizens.
PRIDE HELPS COMMUNITY.
improvements Cannot Be Accomplish
ed Unless Accompanied by Public
Eacking-Petty JeaIousies Must Be
Eliminated.

Eackin9-Fetty JealouSieS must be
Eliminated.
The phenomenal growth of many
cities and towns. especially in the
south and west. has caused some per-
sons to wonder why their town has
growth in the past decade and why
some other town possessing no great
er natural advantages should have in
creased its population by such Won
derful numbers, says II. NJ. Weir in
the American City.
The normal growth of an American
city in ten years is about 20 per cent.
When city shows a percentage of
growth greater than this it is evident
that some other force than nature is at
work to bring about such result.
What. therefore, is that force that can
make a city show such remarkable
gain as 40, 80, 60 and even 100 per
cent and over in the increase in its
population? Undoubtedly many per-
sons will answer, Factories, railroads
and immigration" This is true, but be-
hind all of these factors, so essential in
town development, lies the reason, st
is the spirit of its citizens"
Every citizen, whether he admits it
or not. has a certain amount of inner
ent pride in the development of the
community in which he dwells. In
the progressive successful community,
the town that is forging ahead of its
rivals. this pride of each individual has
been united in one concerted effort for
the cause Of the community at large.
Without public effort it is impossible
to launch and consummate any note
worthy achievement. Cooperation is
essential in town development.
1t is an undisputed truism that fac
tories build cities and that population
creates land values. 1t is therefore
necessary to secure factories if the
town is to be progressive. And, as ev.
cry resident of community is bene-
flied by its growth. it is therefore the
plain duty of every citizen to assist on
all occasions by giving his time, en-
ergy and money to the development Of
his community. And he should feel
honored that he has the opportunity to
hand to posterity a city progressive
and successful in whose building he
was factor.
In such cities as Detroit. Dallas,
Houston. Atlanta and all those west
ern cities whose growth has been so
phenomenal it has been proved that
cooperation and organization were re-
sponsible for the wonderful increases.
If in any city the citizens would
eliminate petty jealousies and all
strive to work together in harmony for
the cause of the common good. always
bearing in mind that publicity. to-
gether with those two potent factors
the sacredness of true citizenship and
the irresistible power of unity are es
sential TO its welfare. that city would
soon be classed as one Of those truly
progressive communities that is best
expressed as typically American.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-06
The COurtship Of
Miles StundiSh
With illustrations by
Howard Chandler ChriSfv

Drew from the reel on the table a
SNOWY skein of her spinning
Thus making answer, meanwhile, to
the fiattering phrases of Alden:
Come. you must not be idle; if | am
pattern for housewives,
Show yourself equally worthy of be-
Ing the model of husbands.
Hold this skein on your hands, while
l wind It, ready for knitting;
, Then who knows but hereafter, when
fashions have changed and the
manners,
Fathers may talk to their sons of the
good old times of John Alden!"
Thus, with jest and a laugh, the
skein on his hands she adjusted,
He sitting awkwardly there with his
his arms extended before him,
She standing graceful, erect, and wind
ing the thread from his fingers,
Sometimes Gliding a little his clumsy
manner of holding
Sometimes touching his hands, as she
disentangled expertly
Twist or knot in the yarn, unawares
for how could she help it,
Sending electrical thrills through
every nerve in his body.
Lo! In the midst of this scene, a
GREATNESS messenger entered,
Bringing in hurry and heat the ter
rible news from the village.
Yes; Miles Standish was dead!-an
Indian had brought them the It'd
ings.-
Slain by poisoned arrow, shot down
In the front of the battle,
Into an ambush beguiled, cut of with
the whole of his forces;
All the town would be burned, and all
the people be murdered!
Such were the tidings of evil that
burst on the hearts Of the hear
ers.
Silent and statue-like stood Priscilla,
her face looking backward
Still at the face of the speaker, her
arms uplifted in horror;
But John Alden, upstarting, as If the
barb of the arrow
Piercing the heart of his friend had
struck his own, and had sundered
Once and forever the bonds that held
him bound as a captive
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every sentence began
Wild with excess Of sensation, the
awful delight Of his freedom,
Mingled with pain and regret, uncon-
scfous of what he was doing,
Clasped, almost with a groan, the
motionless form of Priscilla,
Pressing her close to his heart, as for
ever his own, and exclaiming:
Those whom the Lord hath united,
let no man put them asunder!"
Even as rivulets twain, from distant
and separate sources,
Seeing each other afar, as they leap
from lie rocks, and pursuing
Each one is devious path, but draw
ing nearer and nearer,
Rush together at last. at their tryst-
ing-place in the forest;
So these lives that had run thus far
in separate channels,
Coming in sight of each other, then
swerving and flowing asunder,
Parted by barriers strong, but draw
ing nearer and nearer,
Rushed together at last, and one was
lost in the other
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-06
A NEW JERSEY CITY PUTS
BAN ON BARK EATING.
Newark Is After Horses Which Mis-.
take Trees For Food.

watch your horses. Don't let them
lunch on your trees" This is a SAM
pie of the notices OH series of blot
tiers bearing pertinent illustrations that
the Newark On. j. shade tree commits
sion has been sending out lately.
The children of the Fairgrounds,
having been informed of the trouble.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-06
A Good Move,

The merchants of Manhattan Kan.
have decided to turn down all fake ad.
rertising schemes and will make all
their announcements through the To-
cal papers.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-06
Give the Home Printer a Chance.

No person or firm that uses the gov
eminent printed envelopes furnished
by the postoffice department has the
right to complain about persons send
ing orders to mail order houses,
What is fair for one is fair for ALL
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-06

were encouraged to form an organiza.
ton, the members of which were to
wear badges and be known as the
shade tree commissioners. Both boys
and girls are members. and they ar
range patrol Of the little parks to
warn children against doing damage
and also to see that horses don't mis-
take tree trunks for something good
to eat. The mere fact that the park
is being watched has been sufficient
to stop almost of itself the depreda-
tons which had long been in progress.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-12-01
Twenty-Five Young Porkers Lib
Grated by Mischievous Boys.
Ono Saloon 10 Wrecked. Three Per-
sons Suffer sprained Legs. Oellv-
cry Wagon Is Upset and Much
Other Damage Done.

Chicago.-Twenty-fi young pigs
liberated from crates by mischievous
boys caused havoc in Clybourn avenue
with policemen in command of Lieut..
Max Heidlemeier of the Hudson ave-
nue. station charged the enemy" Bull
lets few thick and fast. and when the
excitement had subsidized the following
had happened:
One saloon wrecked.
Three persons suffered sprained
legs.
A newspaper automobile delivery
wagon partially wrecked.
Twelve pigs killed.
Several plate glass windows wreck
ed.
Many women and children in hyster-
les.
Numerous pedestrians suffered from
bruises caused by the pigs upsetting
them.
One wagon demolished when horse
ran away.
Numerous other events marked the
day, and when 1t was all over Lieut..
Heidlemeier said he had not put in
such an exciting day in all his career
as policeman
1t all happened when number of
mischievous boys saw two crates of
young pigs being delivered to Charles
Meuthen. 1457 Clybourn avenue. and
intended for an annual holiday. one
Of the chief annual events enjoyed by
"Burgomeister" Heidlemeier's sub
jects."
The two crates were set directly in
side the rear door OF Meuthen.s place.
The youngsters had no difficulty in