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Quota Of Quaint and Queer Quips
Don't Forget the Time

The new flag OF the Chinese rebels
has red field, blue union and white
sun.
So far forty-seven deer hunters
have been killed In the United States
this year.
The Socialist vote In Los Angeles
this year was $1,000 as against 1900
last year.
Norman j. Coleman OF St. Louis,
aged 81. first secretary of agriculture,
died November 8.
The first foot ball fatality of the
year resulted In the death Of Roy Far.
rer at Pierre, S. d.
La Junta lodge, No. "a, l. o. o. F.,
is to celebrate its twenty-fourth an
niversary this evening.
Kyr!e Bellew, one Of the most noted
actors on the American stage, died on
the I'd inst. at Salt Lake City.
The Western Passenger association
will not this year grant any reduced
rates during the holiday season.
Letters addressed to Santa Claus
will be turned over by the postal au-
thorities to charitable associations.
The district court at Redding, Calf,
had to be adjourned the other day to
allow one of the jurors to "sOber up"
John Hayes of Denver is under ar
90 fN a oh IN 10 h i'm,
to attend his sisters funeral at Buf
falo.
Abraham Isaacson of San Francisco,
died on the I'd inst. at the age of LOG
years. His last request was for a
cigarette.
An invention just perfected is ex-
pected to prevent ships from sinking.
1t is an adaptation of the principle of
compressed air.
That loud noise heard over in the
direction OF Wiley last week was the
Journal editor talking to his balky
gasoline engine.
A Pueblo man who was supposed to
be dead. but who was later found to
be merely dead drunk, drew a 800
fine in police court.
M. w. Mariana, a mining employe
at Telluride, received charge of TO-
900 volts of electricity on the lst inst,
but survived the shock.
President Taft will swear in his bal
lot in the Cincinnati election, he hav-
ing failed to register owing to his
swing around the country.
The Chicago postotfice has started a
crusade against Objectionable post.
cards. Those under the ban are; Men
and women kissing, women in abbre.
waited garments, and animal pictures.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-10
Call and Settle

All those owing me on account for
shop work which has run more than
thirty days call and settle by cash
or by giving a bankable note, on or
before Nov. l6, 1911. G. w. Fravel.
-2t35
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For Sale

Fourroom house and five lots. Trees
and large porch. Everything first
class. One-third down and balance
like rent. Address Owner, care of
The New Era.-4t35
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To Trade

Kansas farms for Crowley county
farms.
Twenty acres near Ordway to trade
for Ordway town property. E.. P.
Johnson-29tf
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The best Niggerhead or Maitland
coal $3.50 per ton at the bins. The
Ordway Trading Co.-34tf
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-10

Thanksgiving dinner, supper and
dance at the Ordway opera house
Thursday, November 80. Plenty to
eat and good time for all assured by
the ladies of St. Peters church.-3t35
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DreSSmakine

Am now prepared to take all kinds
of dress making at reasonable prices.
Mrs. Myron Fenton.-tf35
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Hello, Central!

Where did you say was the best place
to eat and sleep? Why, at the Hotel
Ordway, of course.-34tf
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Money to Loan

On improved farm property at 8 per
cent. ia. Mast--2Otf
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Found

Half set of false teeth. Owner
can recover same by calling at this
office and paying for this notice.
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-10

Have your clothes cleaned and
pressed at Custer's shop, 'Ordway. 14tf
The Ordway new era., 1911-11-10

Cement blocks for sale. e. P. John
sOn.-tf
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-06-14
AN UNLIMITED GUEST
Man Awakes to Find Snake Coiled
about his Arm.

During the wind and rain storm
Monday night after midnight, F. D.
Arnet, an official of the Bibb Brick
Company, living at 221 Clayton ST.,
Vineville, Ca ,awoke and was sur
prised and startled to feel something
tightly wound around his arm.
Jumping out of the bed he turned
on the electric light and saw a green
moccasin, more than three feet long,
head uplifted and fangs protruding,
looking him in the face He grabbed
his coat, and using it as shield and
a glove managed to unwind the snake
which he flung away from him.
The snake landed in the middle
of the bed, promptly coiled and show
ed no signs of departing. Mr.. Arnett
Immediately forsook his apartments,
and despite the mosquitoes, spent the
remainder of the night sleeping on
the dining table downstairs. A hick-
ory tree grows beside Mr.. Arnett's
bed room window, and it is supposed
that the snake was driven from it
into the room by the storm.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-06-14
SHRINERS AND ELKS FOLDERS
4. c. L. Issues Attractive Display of
Atlantic City.

The Atlantic Coast Line has issued
beautifully illustrated folders OF
standard form in two colors, adyer-
tising the low round trip rates to
Rochester On account of the Imperial
Council of the Mystic Shrine, July
IL, - and 13 and Of the Grand
Lodge of Eiks at Atlantic City, \.
j., July 10 and 18th.
These folders are replete with in
formation to those contemplating the
trip, as they contain the rates, stop
over privileges. many pretty half
tones and brief write-ups of the
many attractions Of those two beauti-
full cities. The round trip rates,
which are open to the public, from
Orangeburg is $3.50 to Rochester,
and S24 to Atlantic City and the
tickets are on sale for each point on
July Z, and g. While the re-
turn limit is comparatively short
an extension of about month can
be obtained by depositing ticket with
agents and upon the payment of ST..
Every Shriner and Elk should
write to Mr.. White, the general pas
senger agent at Wilmington for CO.
pies of the folders and they will
find much therein to interest them.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-06-14
COMlIANDERY INSTITUTED.
orangeburg Now Has an organiza'
ton of Higher Masons.

Orangeburg commandery. No. g.
Knights Templar, was instituted here
Wednesday and Wednesday night. 1t
now has a membership Of 50 and is
one of the best equipped command
cries in the State. The first regular
meeting will be held the fourth
Thursday after the first Monday OF
this month.
The grand lodge officers who were
here to institute the commandery
were: George T Bryan, past grand
commander, Greenyille: E. P. Mil
Ter, grand generalissimo, Bennetts-
vile; J. M. Devin, grand captain gen
eral, Charleston; Rev. W. P. Smith,
grand prelate, Spartanburg; y.
Frank Hart, grand senior warden,
Columb bia; Sam P. Lanham, grand
Junior warden, Spartanburg. Be
sides these officers number Of other
high Masons were present.
The work Of initiation started at
about 10 o'clock Wednesday morning
and it was a late hour before the
work was concluded, 81 candidates
being initiated. A big banquet was
given Wednesday night.
The officers Of the Orangeburg
comamndery are: W. W. Wannama-
ker, eminent commander; T. W.
DAIMLER, generalissimo; W. R. Low
man, captain general.
The new commandery, which Is one
of the strongest in the State, is COM
posed of some of the highest Masons
Of oraageburg, st. Matthews, Ello-
rec. Eutawville and surrounding
country. Capt. ". ". Nannamaker'
who is at the head of this command
ery, is one of the brightest Masons
in the State. and the new organiza-
ton is bound to be a grand success
under his management. He Will
have the cordial cooperation OF 9TH
er bright tMssons, who are members
CT the new commandery.
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be utterly Demolished.

be utterly Demolished.
The James, York, Rappahannock,
Potomac and Patuxent Rivers, navi-
gable for distances varying from
forty to one hundred miles inland
by many large vessels Of war, form
the four main peninsulas on the
western side of the Chesapeake,
whose width at the narrowest parts,
from channel to channel, ranges
from six to nineteen miles.
Battleships operating as the first
and last named (irst above York
town and secondly from Patuxent
River or Bay) points could, without
cooperation Of other vessels in con-
tigious channels, command the two
Epeninsulas formed by the James and
York and the Patuxent River and
Bay, and the cooperative fire of
ships carrying long-range guns, To-
Gated in our rivers as above outlined,
would thoroughly rake across the
three peninsulas lying between the
Patuxent and York Rivers.
The total length of peninsulas
commanded by the enemy's fire
(adding eight miles for inland
range) would be, respectively
twenty-nine and one-half, thirty-two
thirty-eight, thirty-one and twenty
six miles, or total command OF
one hundred and ffty-six and one
half miles Of these peninsulas.
Only reasonable possibilities OF
strategic disaster are here dealt with,
while it is not altogether inconceiv-
able that vessels of the enemy, cay
rying high-power guns, might pen
citrate the Potomac and other rivers
much farther than has been indi-
Gated.
In possession of the peninsulas OF
the Chesapeake, and the landing OF
a large army, the enemy's position
for flank maneuvering would be most
advantageous, and the Amerioan
army sent to repel them might find
itself between the enemy's force on
land and the "dead lines" across the
peninsulas which would be raked
by the hostile ships in our rivers.
With such disaster to our present
standing army confronting US, who
can say what devastation might not
be wrought or what strategic ad-
yantages gained by the invading
nation? Who can confidently deny
the possibility of not only Baltimore
and Washington, but the cities OF
New York, Boston, Philadelphia and
in fact all the ports of the Atlantic
seobard being laid under the ban OF
heavy reprisals-pending the period
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bic for vessels of II or 13 foot
draft; $50 miles Of which are naviga-
hle for vessels of 20 feet draft; 425
miles for ships drawing 25 feet, and
nearly 400 miles which may be trav-
ersed by ships of 80 feet draft. The
II or 1S foot channelway admits a
small naval fry, such as torpedo boats
and destroyers, gun boats and other
vessels OF light draft. The 20-foot
depth will accommodate second and
third class cruisers and many troop
and supply ships. The 25-foot depth
will admit of navigation by all sec
ond-class battle Ships first class
cruisers. scout and troop ships, and
in fact all auxiliary craft of navy;
while nearly 400 miles of the Chesa-
peake and it's tributaries may be pen
etrated by warships of the Dread
-naught type clear up to Baltimore.
What scope for the enemy's feet
and what a>national disaster to US
the transportation Of troops and
munitions cf war, through the Chesa.
peake and the proposed Inland Wa.
terway cut off; the deprivation of a
great proportion of the nations IA
cilities for docking and repairing
with the lost Of the most central Of
all ooaling stations. Deprived of this
central base Of operations, the ships
of our navy would be driven to seek
facilities, fuel and shelter in either
extreme northern or southern ports.
Not only could hostile feet witt
impunity pass Fortress Monroe, but
a hundred-fve hundred-troopships
of the tramp" class and eggsshell
construction could with equal safety
pass up the Bay under cover of night
or during weather the least hazy OF
misty. What gunnery or what
craftsmanship could contest the pas
sage of battleships at distance o1
twelve and one-half miles, or ever
troopships when favored with dark
ness. or during the day by haze OF
mist?
Baltimore, Norfolk and Newport
News are accessible, as far as chan,
mel accommodations are concerned
to vessels of the Dreadnought type
while the York River may be entered
twenty-five miles; the Rappahannock
thirty; the Potomac, thrty-hve. anc
the Patuxent River twentymiles by
ships of the same class, to say moth,
ing of the streams which empty into
the eastern side of the Bay; while
Annapolis may be approached with
in a mile or two and the improve
ments at the Academy, and for which
the government has spent million:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-06-14
DOES SOME GOOD.
The Torrid Weather Kills the Cot
ton Boil WeeviL

A dispatch from Tallalah, La, is
to the effect that the torrid weather
Of the past week.-Mrs. been effective
in putting a big per cent Of the
dreaded cotton boil weevils out of
business.
: The tests conducted by the Delta
Boil Weevil Labratory, under the
direction of G. D. Smith of the Unit
ed States Bureau Of entomology, in
dicates that the bug has sustained it's
most serious setback since its inva-
sion of that territory.
Of the weevils placed in hibernat-
ing cages last fall half Of one per cent
only have emerged against 1-2
per cent last season, showing that
the per cent surviving is considera-
bly, smaller.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-06-14
INDICT 7. B. FIELDER
BILL WILL BE HANDED TO NEW.
BERRY GRAND JURY.
Governor Blease and Hub Evans on
FeIder's Latest Letter About Them
and Their Acts.

and Their Acts.
The Columbia correspondent Of
The News and Courier says it is
learned that at Newberry Monday
Thomas 3. Fielder, the Atlanta at
torney, will be formally indicted. 1t
is understood that the Indictment
will be in accord with the warrant
recently sworn out against Col. Fel-
der, charging him with offering
bribe and conspiracy to defraud the
State.
The following witnesses, it is also
learned, have been summoned to ap-
pear at Court: Governor Cole l..
Blease, H. H. Evans of Newberry;
John Bell Towill Of Batesburg, and
L. ". Boykin of Camden.
| The information at hand is that
the bill of Indictment will be- placed
before the grand jury upon the con-
vening of Court at Newberry Mon
day.
In regard to the open letter Of
f., Col. T. B. Fielder, published in the
+! Atlanta Constitution several days
ago. charging in effect that Governor
Blease, when State Senator, repre-
! sented certain liquor houses, and
otherwise rejecting on South Caro-
linas Chief Executive in connection
with the old State dispensary, Gov
ernor Blease had the following to
say:
I II do not care to say anything as
! to such stuff emanating from man
that have made reQuisition for to
answer to corrupt practices in at
tempting to bribe the former State
official of this State I shall not be
diverted from my purpose to bring
him to justice. The public will soon
learn how foolish, malicious and foul
have been and are the charges made
against me by such persons and their
friends, and will see how they will
be confounded in their own filth. Let
them go on. The commission will
continue their work of Investigation,
and I will 60 my best to have Fielder
answer for the violation of our law
and his friends here will find that
there is a day of reckoning,
] Referring to Col. Felder's recently
issued open letters, Hub" H. Ev-
ans, of Newberry, who was in Colum-
bia Monday, entered a sweeping de-
NAL to all allegations made by Fel-
der concerning himself (Evans) in
connection with old State dispnsary
affairs and signifies his readiness to
meet all charges made, even to the
extent of giving them personal sat
isfaction'' at any time and place they
or either of them may desire.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-06-14
TIE PAPER TRUST
GRIEVANCES OF PUBLISHERS BE-
ING POINTED OUT.
New York Publisher and General
Manager Stone Makes Earnest Ap-
peals for Canadian Agreement.

peals for Canadian Agreement.
Public hearings on the Canadian
reciprocity bill were concluded by
the Senate finance committee Mon
day, representatives of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association
and of the Associated Press being
the last to appear before the com
nlittee.
Secretary Of State Knox, at the re-
quest of Senator Bailey, has been
asked to explain to the committee
whether the Root amendment to the
paper section Of the bill, providing
that it shall not be in force until
the President is satisfied and has
issued a proclamation to the effect
that paper and wood pulp are being
admitted free into all the provinces
of Canada, is in full accord with
the agreement, as understood by the
commissioners from both countries
who prepared the treaty. On Wed
nesday the committee Will take up
the bill in executive session to dis
cuss committee action.
Both Herman Ridder, until recent
" president of the American News
paper Publishers Association and
Melville E. Stone, general manager of
the Associated Press, testified Mon
day, in answer to queries from vari-
Gus Senators, that in their opinion
no effort had been made by the
newspapers of the country to present
only one side of the reciprocity argu-
ment to color their reports on the
question or to suppress any facts
which were of news value. Bruce
Haldeman, president of the publish
ers' association, and Frank B. Noyes,
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Hundreds Of Miles Of Peninsula
Lands Might Be Held and
Tiled indefinitely by
Hostile Hands.

The bill for the fortidcation of the
mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, which
has been agitated for several years,
will in all probability be passed by
Congress at this session, and thus
the government will be able to guard
one of the most important points
along the Atlantic Coast.
The building of fort on Cape
Henry, directly at the mouth of the
Chesapeake Bay, will give protection
to an even more valuable section o.
the country than the huge Panama
Canal, which is also to be fortified.
While the canal will represent a
cast outlay of money, and will be
imu ense1y valuable to- this nation in
the event of war with either a Euro
pean or Asiatic country, the mouth
of the Chesapeake Bay once entered,
would give to the enemy easy access
to net only the capital of the nation,
but the cities Of Baltimore and Phil
a6elphia, to say nothing of Annapolis
and the Naval Academy and the cit
les of Norfolk, Newport News and
the great shipyards and coal piers
representing millions of dollars in
Hampton Roads.
Although there is modern rorti-
fcation at Fortress Monroe, and, to
a great extent, ships Of foreign
navy could be prevented from enter
ing the inner Hampton Roads were
they to steam in straight from sea,
yet should ships get pass Cape Henry
it would be possible for them to
steam up the Bay toward Baltimore
without getting within range of the
guns at Monroe.
Cape Henry, as will be shown, is
the key to the Chesapeake Bay. Un-
less it is fortified in the most thor
ough manner it will be vulnerable
and an open invitation to an invasion
that would be difficult to ,repel.
The possibility of the United States
being invaded must, of course, be
considered from two main stand
points. First, in connection with the
vulnerability of our coast line de-
lenses, and secondly, as to the forces
sent against US.
At the outset it may be said that
no one power could effect wide
spread or permanent invasion, but it
may be reasonably feared that one
of several large powers might gain
control of one or more of our i'm
potant strategic positions and lnf1!ct
great punishment before this nation
could place itself in a condition to
drive out the enemy.
AS to vulnerability, we may scan
the situation from Maine to Texas,
| and then from Texas on the Pacific
side to the northermost edge of our
country, and, though seeing several
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-06-14
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points at which a hostile power
might seek to gain a foothold, no
part of our entire coast line presents,
in the hands of the enemy, such an
opportunity for destruction of great
cities as does the Chesapeake Bay,
whose geographical nature is pecu-
liarly favorable to battling aggres-
siveness and continued occupancy.
It may confidently be said that the
power controlling that body of water
~ also ecnt.c!, or reI:dcr absolute,
ly useless to this nation, the entire.
peninsula formed by the Chesapeake
Bay, Atlantic Ocean and Deleware
River, as we'll as man7 mics of pen
i1sula land OIL the western side of
the Bay.
At no other part If our coast line
could the transportation Of trocrs
and munitions Of war be so ehectual-
ly hampeTed,> while, conversely, no
other part of our coast involves the
preservation Of so> many strategic ad-
vantages and facilities for the speedy
transportation by land and water Of
an army as would be afforded us by
the control Of the Chesapeake, the
key to which is the entrance formed
by Cape Henry and Cape Charles,
whose natural advantages for resist
ing hostile fleet lies on the south
side, which is washed by the main
ship channel whose width abreast: Of
Cape Henry Lighthouse is less thai
three statute miles between five
fathom lines.
Cape Henry is the natural Gibrals
tar of the United States and should
| be made impregnable and impossible,
the necessity for which obtains be-
cause til the key to our most
important of all strategic situations,
and because, with the proper fortid-
cation of this point, fewer battleships
in the event of war would be here re-
quired to aid in repelling the enemys
fleet. This means not only protec-
ton to invaluable facilities at the
ports of the Chesapeake, the preserva
ton to our own and closure to hos
tile fleet of the finest harbor, as well
as the most important base of opera
tions we possess, but virtual in
crease in the size and strength of
our navy and its scope and effective
ness at other ports Of our great coast
line.
The ports of New York, Boston ano
Galveston, representing, as they do,
the extreme poles or outlets CT our
commercial conditions as well as
strategic advantages and untoil val
uations of property, lie almost within
sunshot of the ocean and would re-
quire, in addition to their present de-
fenses, all the reinforcement they
could get from our "dogs Of war. -
Some idea of the strategic value
of the Chepapeake Bay for operation
in case of war may be CLEANED from
the fact that within its entrance
there are 700 miles Of water navlga-
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president of the Associated Press
also appeared.
The chief interest which the
newspapers of the country have in
the matter, Mr.. Ridder told the COM
mittee, is their desire to free them
selves from the paper manufacturers
trust which now, he added, has the
publishers at it's mercy. The read
ers of the country would benefit by
cheaper paper, as well as the publish
ers. he declared, because the money
saved on paper would be used to fur
nish a larger and better news service.
Mr.. Ridder acknowledged that the
publishers association had sent out
bulletins and kilograms urging the
passage of the reciprocity measure,
But l would not have favored the
measure" he said, eff I had not
thought it would be of benefit to the
country as a whole, Independent OF
my interest in it as a newspaper
publisher
When Mr.. Ridder attacked the pa
rer trust, which he said limited the
output, fixed the price and told a
publisher where he must buy his pa
per, both Senators McCumber and
Bailey. opponents of the bill declared
that if there was such trust they
wanted to see prosecuted by the
government. Mr.. Ridder insisted, in
answer to numerous questions, that
any amendment to the bill would, in
his opinion, endanger and probably
kill the measure and that, therefore,
he was in favor of seeing the bill
passed exactly as it came from the
House.
Mr.. Stone testified that no instruc-
tions had been sent out to Associated
Press correspondents as to Canadian
reciprocity, except that they had been
told to send any important matter
connected with it because Of the gen.
eral interest of the subject. He
was questioned in detail as to the
Associated Press service by number
of Senators. All reports, he said,
we're supposed to be absolutely fair to
both sides; to be recital Of facts
on their news value only.