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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
Make the Farm Beautiful.

1t is just as much in order to
make the farm beautiful as it is to
make the "city beautiful', and the
farmer has every facility for making
il so. A spacious lawn, shrubs and
trees judiciously planted, flower beds
bright with bloom and fragrant with
scent are possible for almost every
one who lives in the country. All
that is needed is the disposition and
a little taste. And the results repay
the effort a thousandfold. The down.
at-heels appearance of many farm
dwellings and grounds is a reproach
to their owners or dwellers. No
wonder that boys and girls living IN
such surroundings, if they have any
ambition and taste at all, dislike the
farm and leave it at the first oppcr-
tunity.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
DEATH FOLLOWS DUEL.
Two Young Men Fight About a
Young Cuban Woman.

Rudolph Warren, son Of Jere War
rem, a prominent American sugar
planter, died in hospital at Havana
Monday from pistol wound in the
abdomen which he received in duel
sunday with Hannibal Mesa, membei
o ia wealthy Cuban family.
The two young men recently had
several physical encounters and were
reputed to be rivals for a woman's
affection. The duel was at thirty
FIVE PAGES. Warren fell at the first
fire. Mesa was not harmed.
Warren made a statement to the
police that he had accidentally shot
himself. Immediately after the duel
Mesa sailed for New York on the
steamer "Habana". The utmost re-
ticence is being maintained on all
sides regarding the affair.
The Cuban government is taking
measures to procure the arrest and
estradition of Mesa on mis- arrival in
New York. He will be charged with
homicide.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
Found Weeyils in Cotton.

A special to The State from Ben
nettsville says some time ago J. J
Matheson, C. P. Hodges and D. <
McColl brought into that county
lot of cotton seed in which dead boil
weevils were found. 1t seems this
seed was shipped. from territory in
fected with the boil weevil, but that
it had been treated and the purchas-
ers thought that it was free from any
boil weevil. Profs. Conradi and
Thomas of Clemson college, after Civ.
ing the matter due consideration
and after most careful inspection, de-
cided that the best thing to do with
the seed was either to have it ship
ped back or have it destroyed. The
seed brought in by D. X. McColl, af-
ter being condemned. was shipped
back to Fort Gibson, Miss. The seed
which was ordered out by ]. J.
Matheson was finally burned.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
FIND ANOTHER CAVE.
I, Is Larger Than the Famous Cave
in Kentucky.

With what appears to be pre-his-
toric hieroglyphics carved on It's
walls, mammoth cave, rivaling the
famous cave of Kentucky, was dis
covered near Ogden, Utah, Monday
Thomas Whitaker, rancher, made
the discovery. He will head party
of University of Utah professors on
u tour of investigation. The cave is
located in the mountains near Prom
cntory Point, eighteen miles from
Ogden, and has probably never been
visited by white men, as the sur"
rounding country is bleak desert.
The front chamber is Is by l3o
yards, Al feet high, and the walls
hear pictures of Indians crudely
drawn. There is an Indian legend
current in that locality to the effect
that a great battle was fought years
ago between two tribes near the
point, the vanquished having perish
ed in a mammoth cave.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
CAUSE DEATH OF THREE.
Religious Differences Cause of a
Triple Tragedy.

Angered because his only daugh-
ter, Katherine, is to marry a man of
different religion, George Brown, Sec
retary of the Western Louisiana
Planters Association at Bachelor, La,
shot and killed ner in bed recently.
He ordered the servants from the
house and blew out his own brains.
Her fiancee was Frank Ford.
A dispatch from Motil, Miss, says
when Frank Ford, wealthy young
planter, received a telegram announc-
ing the murder of his fiancee, Rather
inc Brown, he went to his room and
fired fatal bullet through his brain.
He left a note Cant live without
her. Goodbye" He recently inherit
ed two hundred thousand dollars.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
GOD KNOWS THE BEST.
4 Poem That Should Help All Who
Are in Distress.

Are in Distress.
Sometime.
What l do thou knowest not now
but thou shalt know hereafter"
Sometime, when al! life's lessons have
bee q learned,
And sun and stars forevermore
have set,
The things which our weak judgment
here have spurned,
The things DER which we grieved
with lashes wet,
Will flash before US, out Of life's
dark night,
As stars shine more in deeper tints
Of blue.
And We shall see how all Gods plans
were right,
And how what seemed reproof was
love most true.
Anu VIC SudlI sec INV, "AAiC W y
frown and sigh,
Gods plans go on as best for you
and me;
How, when we called, He needed not
our cry,
Because His wisdom to the end
could see.
And even as prudent parents disallow
Too much of sweet to craving
babyhood,
So God, perhaps, is keeping from US
now
Lies sweetest things, because it
seemeth good.
And if, sometimes commingled with
life's wine,
We find the wormwood and rebel
and shrink,
Be sure wiser hand than yours or
mine
Pours out this potion for our lips
to drink.
And if some friend We love is lying
low,
Where human kisses cannot reach
his face
Oh, do not blame the loving Father
so.
But wear your sorrow with obed-
lent grace.
And you shall shortly know that
heightened breath
Is not the sweetest gift God sends
His friend.
And that sometimes the sable pail Of
death
Conceals the fairest bloom His
love can send.
If we could push ajar the gates Of
life
And stand within and all Gods
workings see,
We could interpret all this doubt
and strife,
And for each mystery would find
key.
But not to-day. Then be content,
poor heart!
Gods plants, like lilies, pure and
white unfold,
We must not tear the close-snut
leaves apart;
Time will reveal the hidden cups
of gold,
And if through patient toll we reacn
the land
Where weary feet, with sandals
loose, may rest,
Then shall we know and clearly un-
derstand-
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
CHARGED WITH MURDER
WOMAN CONFESSES TO KILLING
HER BLIND son.
Claims That She Committed the Aw-
full Deed at the Command Of Her
Husband.

John and Mary Landy, negroes, of
Seivern, Aiken county, have just been
placed in Jail at Aiken, charged with
numbering their eight-year-old blind
son, who was the stepson of the man.
The woman has confessed to the
correspondent of The News and Cou-
rier and Sheriff H H. Howard, her
part in the affair, which, according to
her story, as seriously involves her
husband as it does herself. But the
man persistently denies any knowl-
edge of the affair.
The woman stated that she married
Landy about a month ago; that he
conceived a mortal antipathy for the
afflicted child, and several times de-
manded that she do it to death, else
he would kill her; that he did shoot
at her. The man admits suggesting
that she kill her child, but that he
did so only as jest and to cast as.
pensions upon the boy. He admits
shooting at her, ''but only III fun,
he claims.
The woman continued that he pre-
pared. match heads last Thursday
steeped them in water and ordered
her to give the child the dose, warn
ing her that her life would be the
forfeit if she failed to obey him. Con.
tinuing her confession, she says she
did give the child the fatal dose that
afternoon. while her husband was
away, and that it died about eight
o'clock that night.
Her husband returned about nine
o'clock, she says, and she informed
him of. her deed and the results. The
body was enclosed in a cracker box
and buried in the back yard, one OF
their little daughters assisting, she
also declared.
/, Having no idea Of the enormity OF
the thing, it is said, their little
daughter Saturday told neighbor OF
the proceeding. Suspicious were
aroused and an investigation follow.
ed, resulting in the exhumation OF
the body. The arrests followed and
the man and woman were brought
on to Aiken and incarcerated.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
TELLS SHOCKING STORY
ANOTHER ARCTIC EXPLORING
PARTY is LOST.
Many Are Believed to Have Perished
From Scurvy, Exposure and Star


Many Are Believed to Have Per1Shed
From Scurvy, Exposure and Star
vation.
Failure has overtaken the German
Arctic expedition under Lieut..
Schroeder-Stranz. Most of the mem
bers are believed to have died on the
ice from starvation, exposure or
scurvy and the commander-in-chief is
missing.
Four of the men have succeeded in
returning to Advent Bay, Spitzbergen
and two others are probably safe at
Treurenburg Bay.
The aviator and the cook died
from starvation. Nothing has been
heard from Lieut.. Schroeder-Stran2
since he started on a sledge expedi-
ton alone in August last year.
Capt. Ritzchel brought the first
news of the fate of the expedition in
January when he returned to Advent
Bay in a deplorable condition and
was thought to be the only survivor.
A dispatch from Spitzbergen has re-
vived hopes that few others may be
alive.
Among the party, besides the offlc-
ers and crew, were several German
scientists, including a geologist, a
botanist and an oceanographer.
Experience in polar work was al
most entirely lacking and the equip
nent was said to be very poor. The
intention of the party was to pave
the way for a more important expedi-
ton under Lieut.. Schroeder-Stranz,
which was to endeavor to make the
northeast passage later this year.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
makers, revise the tariff "to a basis

makers, revise the tariff "to basis
Of legitimate competition, such as
will afford a wholesale influence on
our commerce, bring relief to the
people in the matter of the high cost
Of living and at the same time work
no detriment to property conducted
manufacturing industries"
''In it's tariff revision work the
committee has kept in mind" he
said, "the distinction between neces-
sites and the luxuries of life, reduc-
ing the tariff burdens on the neces-
sites to the lowest points commen-
surate with revenue requirements
and making the luxuries Of life bear
their proper proportion Of the tariff
responsibilities Many items of man
utacture controlled by monopolles
have been placed On the free list.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16

The new rates are estimated 10 re-
duce the customs revenue approXl-
mately sSO,0oo,ooo year This is
expected to be made up by the in
come tax. Indorsed by President
Wilson, the measure represents the
efforts of the president and the house
tariff makers to carry into effect
Democratic pledges of downward re-
vision and of concessions to the
American consumer.
Protection to the farmer would be
cut throughout by mere than so per
cent. in an effort to reduce the cost
cf food. Protection to the steel and
implement manufacturer would in
turn be cut by fully as wide mar
Gin. Heaviest reductions fall upon
foodstuffs, agricultural products,
wooden and cotton cloth.
The free wool proposal backed by
President Wilson and accepted by the
House committee, is expected to pro-
woke a severe fight within the Demo
cratic ranks Of both houses. 1t had
rot become clear whether the Demo-
cratic opponents Of free wool and
free sugar in the Senate would be
able to force a compromise on one or
both those provisions.
The decision to make a gradual
reduction in the sugar tariff was
reached by the president and the
House committee after Louisiana
cane growers declined to accept a
compromise that would have estab-
lished one cent per pound tariff for
three years with free sugar in 1915.
To encourage trade with foreign
countries, the bill would reserve the
maximum and minimum provision of
the present tariff law. The new tar
if rates would be the maximum tar
il and the president would be given
authority to negotiate reciprocity
treaties and make concessions to
countries that grant favors to Ameri-
can exports.
In statement accompanying the
hill Chairman Underwood said the
measure would, in the opinion OF its
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
Awful State of Affairs.

The Barnesville News-Gazette di-
rects attention to the fact that "ten
killings have occurred in Pike Coun-
ty, Ca, since the October term Of
Pike superior court. A similar re-
cord is being made all over Georgia
and the country. Life is about the
cheapest thing there is. Hundreds Of
citizens of Pike County go around
daily with pistols in their pockets
with the purpose already formed in
their minds to take human life if
only provoked" This is an awful
condition of affairs for country like
ours.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
DEMOCRATS SWEEP CHICAGO.
Progressive Rep 80 ans Makes Very
Poo .ow.

Democrats swept Chicago in We'd
nesday's municipal election, return
ing twenty-five aldermen, and the
Superior Court Judge, city clerk and
city treasurer. The proposed bond
issue of $2,Ss0,O0O, urged by the
Hearst-Harrison factions of the Dem
ocratic party, carried by small mar
gin. Republicans elected eleven al
dermen, Progressives three, and In
dependents one. The Progresslves
had candidates in every ward, but
failed to show strength, being out
voted by the Republicans by nearly
three to one throughout the city. The
Socialist vote was consistently scat
tered through all the wards, and was
not far below the Progressive total.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
They PIay on Both Strings.

A Cincinnati liquor dealer is quot
ed as saying that the enforcement OF
the Webb bill will mean the loss to
that city Of from s7,OO0,0Oo to s10,-
100000 annually. Some of the liquor
men have been saying all the time
that prohibition does not prohibit,
and that since the prohibition laws
have been enacted the liquor drink
ing has increased? The liquor men
seem to have the habit of playing on
at least two strings-one sings the
song of the uselessness Of prohiol-
ton and the other the hurtfulness OF
prohibitive legislation.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
new TARIFF BILL INTRODUCED In
The House
MAKES Great CHANGES
The Bill Represents the Pledges
Made by the Democrats and is the
Effort of the President and House
Experts to Carry Into Effect
Promises of Revision.

Removal of al! tariff from many
articles of food and clothing; broad
reductions in the rates of duty on all
recessaries CT life, an increase OF
tariff on many luxuries; and new
income tax that would touch the
pocket of every American citizen
whose net income exceeds $4,000 are
the striking features of the new Dem
ocratic tariff revision bill presented
to the House.
Sugar would be free Of duty in
1916, the bill proposing an imme-
diate % per cent. reduction and the
removal Of the remaining duty in
1915.
Raw material would be made free
al once with a correspondingly heavy
reduction in the ariff on all woolen
goods.
All these other articles are put on
the free list, namely: Meats, -four,
bread, boots and shoes, lumber, coal,
harness, saddlery, iron ore, milk and
cream, potatoes, salt, swine, corn,
corn meal, cotton ,bagging, agricul-
tural implements, leather, wood pulp,
bibles, printing paper not worth
more than 1-2 cents per pound,
typewriters, sewing machines, type
setting machines, cash registers,
steel rails, fence wire, cotton ties,
nails, hoop and bar iron, fish, sui
phur, soda, tanning materials, acetic
and sulphuric acids; borax, lumber
products, including broom handles,
ciapboards, hubs for wheels, posts,
laths, pickets, slaves, shingles.
These principal items are taken
from the free list and taxed: Uncut
diamonds and precious stones, furs,
coal tax products, 10 per cent; vola-
tile oils, 20 per cent; spices from
one cent to two cents per pound.
Chairman Underwood of the ways
and means committee in his state
ment accompanying the new tariff
bill gave the following comparative
table to show reductions in tariff du-
ties, made upon necessaries. In each
item, both to the present tariff and
the proposed tariff had been reduc-
ed to an advalorem basis:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
SEIGLER NOW IN PRISON
rEGINs SENTENCE FOR KILLING
A POLICEMEN.
A Drunken Guard Came From Co
lumbia to Garry the Prisoner to

lumbia to Garry the Prisoner to
the Penitentiary.
A letter from Aiken says James G.
Seigler, charged with the murder
| more than year ago Of Policeman
Wade Patterson, and convicted Of
| manslaughter, and given seven-year
sentence in the State Penitetnary was
carried to Columbia to, begin his Pc
j ricd of seryitude.
Seigler, who is one Of the best
known men in the county, descend
ant of one of the Oldest and best
known families, and himself promi-
nent farmer, was tried last year and
convicted. His attorneys appealed
for new trial. The arguments were
made in the Supreme Court in jan
uary, and last month this tribunal
handed down a decision affirming
that of the Aiken Court. Seigler has
taken this very hard and he goes to
the State penitentiary broken and
humiliated man.
The local authorities were some
what perturbed at Aiken Monday
morning when a guard, Jennings
Minis, from the Penitentiary, asked
for the prisoner, and they refused at
first to deliver Seigler, basing their
refusal upon the allegation that
Minis was too intoxicated to take
Seigler into his custody.
Solicitor Gunter was conferred
with anent the matter, and advised
Sheriff Howard that Minis had the
papers for Seigler, and that there
was nothing to do but deliver him,
but that it would be advisable to
scId an Aiken deputy along to keep.
watch over both of them.
But at midday another guard ar
rived from Columbia and solved the
problem for the local authorities by
taking charge of both men. He stat.
cI that after Minis departure from
Columbia it was learned that he left
in an intoxicated condition, and the
second guard was sent out on the
next train.
Sheriff Henry H. Howard, who
sternly disapproves any laxity in Of
fetal circles, was indignant and very
much wrought up over the entire
thino He said. HT want them to
send sober men after my prisoners"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
BID GOLD IN JAR.
Directions for Finding Treasure Told
by Man Who Died.

A milk jar full Of gold, amounting
to s1,305, was dug up in barn on
tie five-acre fruit farm Of Thomas
McCue, near Independence, Kan.
The spading in the gold hunt was
done by Judge George L. Walls,
while Mrs. Emma C. McCue, the
mans widow, stood by. Directions
for finding the jar were found In a
safety deposit box rented McCue at
an Independence bank.
The little fortune, so diligently
safeguarded, represented mainly saw
ings since the McCues moved to the
fruit farm eight years ago. Bank
failures twenty years ago made Nc
Cne distrustful. A young man then,
he lost s2,SO0 in two failures. He
began to save anew and eight years
ago had money enough to buy the
fruit farm.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
This LIQUOR Unclaimed.

Guy Haynes, a messenger boy for
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, at Spartanburg, was notified
several days ago by the local freight
agent of the Charleston and Western
Carolina Railway that there was a
drum of whiskey for him at the sta
ton. Guy had not ordered the IL
cuor and the whiskey has remained
somewhat of a mystery.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16

The Savannah Press urges the fly
swatters to grid on their armor for
war. The people are told that with
all their tireless efforts last spring
and last summer they are face to
face again with more enemies than
they have conquered yet. Not in flf-
teen years have there been so many
flies as there will be this summer.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
Three Men Fatally Burned.

At Pittsburg three men were burn
ed to death and TWO others prooao oly
fatally injured in ar explosion at the
Homestead Steel Works OF the Unit
ed States Steel Corporation Saturday
morning.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
The Anderson Mail saws: "F

The Anderson Mail says: "Edi-
tors are getting their innings these
days. There are two in Woodrow
Wilson's cabinet and another, Col.
E. H. Aull, will be the next head of
the Red Men in South Carolina" :"
Don't forget Brother knight. the
popular postmaster Of Bamberg.
We congratulate them all.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16

think only of this one thing-of the
changes in our fiscal system which
may best serve to open once more the
free channels Of prosperity to great
people whom we would serve to the
utmost and throughout both rank
and fle,"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16

The Newberry Herald and News
asks "why don't those State House
officers shake hands ard make up
We suggest that Brother Aull come
down to Columbia and act as peace
commissioner.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
Over a Million Given.

Fridays contributions to the Red
Cross relief fund brought the amount
over the million-dollar-mark. Much
more than that will be needed for the
food sufferers.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
Convicts Help Sufferers.

At Austin, Texas, Governor 0. B.
Colquit Saturday received a contrl-
button of s41.S0 from 106 prisoners
il the state penitentiary at Hunts
Vile, to be forwarded to the flood
sufferers in Ohio and Indiana. The
warden of the penitentiary knew
Knothing of the collection until II
was presented to him for the gov
ernor's fund.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16

The man who makes cotton has no
protection, then why should he be
made to pay a tribute of two cents
per pound on the sugar he uses?
Who can answer this?
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16

Those men who have been getting
the benefits of the protective tariff
would naturally be epected to think
that the new Democratic bill was
crude and i'll prepared and unjust.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16

method by which this may be done
will be matter Of judgment, exer-
cised item by item. To some not ac-
customed to the excitements and re-
sponsibitities of greater freedom our
methods may in some respects and
at some points seem heroic, but re-
medies may be heroic and yet be re-
medies. 1t is our business to make
sure that they are genuine remedies.
Our object is clear. If our motive
is above just challenge and only an
occasional error Of judment is
chargeable against US, we shall be
fortunate.
eve are called upon to render the
country great service in more mat
ters than one. Our responsibilities
should be met and our methods
should be thorough, as thorough as
moderate and we'll considered, based
upon the facts as they are, and not
worked out as if we were beginners
We are to deal with the facts of our
own day, with the facts of no other,
and to make laws, which square with
those facts. It is best, indeed, it is
necessary, to begin with the tariff.
I will urge nothing upon you now at
the opening Of your session which
can obscure that first object or di-
vert our energies from that clearly
defined duty. At later time I may
take the liberty OF calling your at
tention to reforms which should
press close upon the heels of the tar
if changes, if not accompany them.
Of which the chief is the reform Of
which the chief is the reform OF
our banking and currency laws; but
lust now I refrain. For the present,
] put these matters on one side and