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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-23
LEVER TO HOLD SEAT
SAYS BE Is USEFUL TO BIS STATE
PRESENT CAPACITY.
Is Concentrating His Energies on Ag-
ricultural Matters But Won't Pre-
dict as to What Might Happen.


In commenting on recent state
ment in The Columbia Record saying
that he would not be a candidate for
United States Senator next summer
because one man would be better
able to whip Blease, Congressman
Lever said:
"The Records statement is sub
stantially correct in quoting me, -ex-
cept In that clause in which I was
made to say, I believe one man
would have better chance to beat
Blease than If two or three were in
the race If should decide to en-
ter the race for the Senate It would
be for no purpose Of beating any ane
man, but my campaign would be up
on the idea Of winning the race NY
self, and would not be figuring upon
a plan to beat any one man-either
Blease or Smith, but to win the NOM
nation regardless Of those In the con-
test.
while it is true that I am urged
every day by letter and otherwise to
enter the race I do feel that for the
coming year at least my service In
the committee on Agriculture will be
Of more benefit to the state than If I
would be Senator during that time.
Of course, I am not willing to say
now what my course Will be year
hence, can not forecast the develop
ments nor my own sense Of duty to
the state at that time-the latter con-
sideration will control me in my final
determination.
"In the meantime my thought shall
be given to the performance Of the
high duties which the House has
made for me and I shall go about this
without regard to the fact that there
is senatorial rate pending In which
l may be contestant. The reasons
will have to be strong for good which
I now hold to enter contest for
seeming promotion"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-23
Has Too Many Wives.

That in this day and time man
can not properly care for the needs OF
three wives at once Is asserted by
Mrs I. L. Davis. formerly Miss Grace
Bradshaw, Of Atlanta, Who IS suing
Davis for divorce, on the ground
that he has TIVE othsr wtw-in add1-
ton to herself.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-23
pah.eIs Kill Mail Carrier.

Word reached Deming, n NJ
Thursday by courier OF the murder
~ Mexican rebels near Columbus, on
.he Mexican border. OF the Un1teo
states mail carrier operating between
Columbus aud Deming.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-23
Children See Double Tragedy.

ChUuren SV6 OOUU1o 11"5o0J"
While his two small children stood
by and watched, Ben Strong, farm
er, Of Meridianville, Ala, shot his
wife twice in the breast, then turned
the gun on himself, and blew Oh the
top Of his head. He Is said to have
been insane.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-23
Ei1,ed Under Five Tons Of Sand

Robert Mcdonald. cf New London,
Conn. was instantly killed when the
sand truck, Of which he was chauf-
four, gave way and let five tons Of
sand fal, upon him. He had crawl
ed under VIE :-uck 70 laoate a trou-
bic.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-23
r,ned for Wearing Slit Skirt.

On a. warrant charging indecent ex-
posure, Mayor Ainslte and Ponce
Chief Of Werner Tuesday AFTERNOON
made the first arrest on record LOT
the wearing Of slit skirts. She vas
fined s25.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-23
v,anobed at Warning, Killed.

Warned by his mother that he
would be killed that day, Eugene Os-
burne. a railroad man of Oklahoma
CITY, Okla, laughed at her fears and
went to work. Two hours later he
was struck by passenger train and
instantly killed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-23
Tor Balloon Causes Heavy Loss.

A toy balloon with its torch still
burning landed upon the roof OF a
residence in Norwood, Ala, and be-
fora The flames could be checked four
homes had been consumed at an estl'
mated loss of $50, 900.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-23
r-aoksmen Make Rich Haul.

cracksnen secured tewelry valued
At between $4,000 ana $4,000 early
Thursday by blowing safe IN the es-
tablishment Of Rosenberg & Daniel
a iswelry supply house. OF New York.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-23
Has Not Been Pardoaed.

It turns out that the Washington
dispatch Of last Friday purporting to
riye the news Of q communication Of
the Sentence Of Milton A. Carlisle
from i've years to ose was tnaGthef.
szss and not true:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-23
One Dav of Married Life Enough.

Twenty-four hours vas the extent
Of Daniel soper's married life, MS
wife leaving him the day after the
wedding, March 81, 1911, at Los
Angeles, CAL A few days sge be vas
granted Z divorce.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-23
Rooserelt's Assailant to Prison.

John schrank who attempted to as
sassinate Theodore Roosevelt on Oc-
tober - last at Milwaukee, probably
will shortly be taken from the North
esn hospital for the Insane to the
States prison at Waupn.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-23

Russian Peasant Perish in Fire.
In the fire which destroyed the
r,---s-- village Of AstradanoVkae
1874 peasant lost their kves.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-17

the entrance of bullet directly into
the muscles or even into a bone. The
skin is filled with nerves, and when any
OF them are torn by the ball the pain
is extreme. If the bullet plunges di-
rectly through the skin into the body
the only nerves disturbed are those il
the comparatively small space the bull.
let strikes. Since there are few nerves
in the muscles, the nerves of the skin
convey the sensation of pain to the
brain. In the same way the greater
portion of the pain experienced in the
amputation of an arm or a leg is oc-
casioned when the skin is cut, and the
subsequent cutting of the muscles and
the saving of the bone, in which all
the pain is popularity supposed to be
centered, amount to little in compar
ison
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-17
NOT PAINFUL TO BE SHOT
Testimony Shows GunshOt Wounds
Seldom Cause Intense Suffering
Union
(Harper's Weekly.)

81 was shot in Cuba in SO" says
well-known army officer, and did not
know it for While it was not, Of
course, a pleasant sensation. 1t was
just like the sting of pin or knife
when the skin is broken 1t was moth
ing to knock a man down. | knew OF
many cases during the war with Spain
where a man did not know he was
shot until somebody showed him TIE
blood running down his shirt or trous-
ers."
Similar testimony is afforded by an
army surgeon, who has served for
many years He treated many gunshcr
wounds during his time and was him
self shot, circumstance that qualities
him to give douhly expert opinion
"A mimic ball passed through my Lett
leg at Shiloh" says this surgeon, "and
l did not experience any particular
sensation except, perhaps, one similar
to being jabbed with a sharply pointed
knife l felt the ball go through thu
skin, but it gave no sensation in pass
ing through the muscles That, OF
course, on account of the greater
number of nerves in the skin as COM
pared with the muscles. The ball pass
ed almost entirely through my leg and
was removed considerable time later
but / suffered almost no inconvenience
The wound, of course, swelled, as
any wound of the kind will; but !
should imagine that the bullet now in
use would cause much less trouble ana
pain than the old round bullet, as the
sharp point of the conical bullet enters
the. flesh very readily"
There is a great deal of misappre-
hension as to the intensity of the pain
caused by the entrance into the human
body of various objects. Many persons
fancy that if man is shot at all he
must therefore suffer intensely. The
reverse is true A slight wound, mere
abrasion of the skin. is sometimes far
more painful than wound caused by
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-17

ence greater-all these are the attrI-
butes of old age, but none of them i'm
plies or includes that rightly of Oh
age which, ceased to be ager in spir. :,
to take interest in progress, to vieW
life with zest
1t is this that characterizes that ter II
of life to which somewhat of reproa2n
attaches as denoting elimination OF
usefulness and a lack of participation,
as ii one We're done measurably with
what made up life and did not care
what happened. But how shall We
reconcile this attitude of condition
with the notion of immortality? To the
idea Of immortality mankind has ung
from the earliest records Of history
Nav Mueller says that when the first
man consciously saw the sun go below
the horizon at night and return at the
opposite side in the morning he must
have asked himself where the sun had
place than this.
If, then, we have looked to contin-
uance of life eternally, what a contra
diction is the rigidity of old age! What
an irrational thing it is for one to be-
come listless and tired of the face OF
the earth in so, 70 or so years. To care
nothing, to feel himself no part of de-
velopment! What sort of candidate
is that for life that shall continue
forever. 1t is a contradiction VI
things.
True old age is as young as youth.
Bodily infrmity that distracts the
mind or limits physical activity is
merely incidental and has nothing to
do with the zest of spirit that halls
life as on inestimable gift to be fe,t
and experienced while the senses last.
So, even so brief a contemplation as
this seems to make it clear that age is
properly a season of activity and gen
orally one of far more wisdom than
youth Its enjoyments are deeper, be-
cause it knows more; its feelings are
finer, because it has had experience.
All this is so if one really lives in old
age as the immortality of the spirit
surely means that one should
The old person who is wrapped
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-17
RIGIDITY OF OLD AGE
Only Selfish and Those Lacking In.
tereSt i'm Life Need Fear it
indianapolis News.)

Some one has spoken of the rightly
of old age That pretty nearly eX-
press all that here is old age.
When is a person old? No measure
ment of years answers the question.
There are those that are old before
they are out of their teens. Others
are young to their last day. The sub
ject can never be rightly stated With
out recurrence to Oliver Wendell
Holmes famous mot in answer to the
query how old he was. Not old at all, .
he replied. Il am 76 years young.
And that was the truth. A man that
could answer so had youth in him, no
matter how many summers and win
tiers he had seen.
Age itself is as beautiful as youth,
and, in a sense, far more valuable We
are prone to confound age with the
rightly of age The blood may pulse
slower, the movements be more DELHI
crate, the chosen delights more ration
al and less frivolous, the reason Gear
er, the contemplation saner, the patti
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-17
COTTON MILLS STILL RUNNING
Providence Journal.)

Having at the outset declared that
the lowering of the duties by the I'm
derwood Tariff bill would paralyze in
dustry, the standpatters continue to
prophecy disaster, even when they adj
nit measure of present prosperity.
The want of confidence" DOGGY has
been used for years by high protec-
tionists to brighten voters and legisla-
tors whenever the lowering of tariff
rates has been under discussion it
has become a high tariff axiom that
the prospect of the lowering of duties
upon foreign goods would cause ces-
sation of orders, and the consequent
stopping of the wheels of industry.
Protectionists have been hardening for
the ceasing of their hum ever since
Congress assembled in extra session,
and they continue their prognostica-
tons of evil even when acknowledging
that the immediate future of business
appears bright
One of the latest absurdities of this
kind is afforded by the New York re-
view of finance, commerce and
trade of last Saturday. In treating OF
"print cloths" it discloses the fact that
their sales for the week in New Eng
land cotton goods markets will eX-
coed 100000 pieces, the largest total in
number of weeks" that "on brown
sheetings and other coarse makes
prices have become firm and advances
have been asked upon some styles; -
that during the week there had been
an increased demand for goods of fine
yarn construction, which particularly
affected the New Bedford mills; and
that 1T is known that for certain con-
structions of dolby and jacquard
weaves the market for the past several
weeks has been moderately good, and
some mills have orders on their books
which will keep their dobbies and jac-
guards busy for several weeks to
come"
J 1t is certainly cheering to know that
this distressing want of confidence has
not yet reached the great American
people, and that the makers of cottons
have concluded not to close their mills
until they are scared into going with
out cotton goods
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-17
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-17
FIFTEEN CENT COTTON
READ this NH. FARMER.

And then have a heart to
heart talk with yourself and
see if you are thoroughly
familiar with the plans by
which Southern States Cot
ton Corporation proposes to
glve-or get you 15c for
your cotton. This is worth
your time, your thought;
not only you, Mr.. Farmer,
but every business man and
others who's living is made
in the South. If you are
n o t thoroughly familiar
with this plan, find out
don't delay-it means more
money for you; which spells
prosperity to every one.
You who have not---find
out. List today; don't put
it off until tomorrow. Your
neighborS and others have
and are listing each day.
Mr.. G. w. Walters and ].
X. Patterson have contract
books. See them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-17

cent. In only five years we have sold
and slaughtered almost one-third of
our herds, besides the natural increase
during that period.
For further proof that the meat
supply has thus been rendered short,
attention is called to the fact that,
during the first three months of this
year, as compared with the same pc
riod last year, there were slaughtered
at government inspected places $685.
173 less animals, being 15S,289 cattle,
59,475 calves, ,263, 667 hogs, and $685.
742 sheep. There has been this much
less meat on the markets-the amount
shipped abroad not being reckoned-
than there was a year ago Last year
there was an excess of marketing of
animals owing to high prices both of
stock and feed. The worst of this
rushing of stock to market last yel
was that breeding animals were sac
rificed and lambs and calves as well,
thus insuling a falling off both in
births and future beef and helping to
make the shortage permanent.
The only remedy for this meat
shortage, aside from importations
from Australia and Argentina, is an
increase of stock farming on the
small farms of the great interior re-
gion, particularly the corn belt Farm
experts everywhere are advising the
farmers to go into stock raising, and
the particular inducement held out to
them is the wonderful feeding value
and fertility restoring properties of Al
falfa Rotation of crops, with alfalfa
as the central one and soil re-
storer feeding the products of the
farm to stock, is the burden of the ad-
vice given from every agricultural ex-
pertinent station, by special farm ad-
visers sent out to educate the farmers
and by all agricultural papers. AL
falfa makes old soils new again, in
creasing marvelously all crops that
succeed it, and the feeding of animals
helps to retain the plant food elements
on the farm and restore them to the
soil Stock raising and alfalfa grow
ing are given as the key to profit Ill
farming, and should this advice he
taken in anything like the proportion
hoped for, the meat supply of the
country will be assured
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-17
THE DISAPPEARING STEER

A warning has been sent out by the
Department of Agriculture that meat
prices are going to be higher, if w
depend upon our own supply. 1t says
the ranges are being cut up and fenc-
ed off for farms, and the increase in
the price of corn and other feed has
made cattle feeding risky business
even at present high prices AS proof
OF it's lugubrious prophecy it says
that in 1907 there were 81, $4,000 beoi
cattle in the United States, while al
the beginning Of the present year
there were but S6,O3O,Ooo This is a
reduction of 15,5S6.OoO or 80 per
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-17
MARKETING OF FARM PRODUCTS

No doubt the methods of distribution
of products of the farm are not fuzzy
adapted to modern times. The devel-
opment of the country and the perfect
ing of business methods have not
been kept pace with by the American
farmer. Very slight changes have
been made in systems of marketing OF
these products since the days of our
fathers, as compared with the metam-
orphoses that have taken place in the
system of distribution of products of
the manufactures and the mines. Be-
tween the farmer aud the ultimate
consumer are many wastes the effect
.of which is reflected in the high co It
of living-though he would be far from
asserting that they are the controlling
factor among the many in that com
pick problem.
The middleman, especially the re-
tail grocer, is under fire both from the
farmer and the consumer, but We
doubt that either the commission mer-
chant or the grocer deserves the ha ID
things that are said OF them in this
connection. AS the business of the
distribution of agricultural produces
is conducted today both these are
necessary adjuncts to that business.
Perhaps they will long continue to be.
! Whether that deep searching into the
hidden cause of and remedies for ops
pressive burdens that rest upon the
great majority of us, growing out of
the prevailing unrest, shall change
their relation to the mass of the peo-
pie is matter for the future to re-
veal.
Last April there was a conference
o. FIVE hundred agricultural experts,
farmers and truck growers from thirty
states and Canada held in Chicago.
Much was said and done that was OF
great value to the farmer, but for our
present purposes some of the minor
illustrations of inequality of distribu-
ton are most pat to the subject. War
rem DunhamFoster, member of the
Homestead Commission of Massachus-
etts, said, Potatoes on truck farms in
Cummington, Mass. are rotting in the
fields, while in Worthington, Mass, Il
town practically adjourning Cumming
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-17
Americas, Ga, June II, 1913
4 4 = 4 \ = y \
= THEN AND NOW

HEN AND MN
= = = = \ = = = = y =
Time was when l put on my glad rags
each night
And was off to dance with the gay.
est delight
When l never came home save to eat
and to sleep
And joy was a goblet from which |
drank deep,
When life was lyric and love was a
song
And wanted to laugh and mix with
the thrCng;
But now-as the years all too swiftly
advance
My slippers and pipe l prefer to a
dance!
Time was when l capered with UNI
wearied feet
When motion and melody made life a
treat,
But now | have corns and my breath
ing is short
And gong out evenings has ceased to
be sport.
The white lights may beckon, the mu-
sic may call,
But somehow they cannot enchant me
at all
can't keep the pace, and my humble
desire
Is my slippers and pipe and place
by the fire!
Oh, the heart may be young, but the
limbs will grow old,
And the blood in its coursing grows
ever more cold,
And the joints become creaky, and
thinner the hair
And you find that seat in your biz
easy chair
Is far more enticing than ball rooms;
in sooth-
You'll know by these presents you'vl
finished with youth,
It's useless to bluff-no, there isn't q
chance,
When slippers and pipe you prefer t.
a dance!
Berton- Bradley, in Milwaukee
Journal
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-17

ton, they sell for $3.50 bushel." This
would seem. to be case of too few
middlemen
Different was the illustration given
in paper by Sidney E. Mezoz, presi-
dent of the University of Texas, who
said that "at Laredo, Tex, in our on
ion growing district, one day a short
time ago, onions were sold for 2 cents
pound the next morning Laredo on
ions were sold in open market at Aus
tin, Tex, at fifteen cents a pound"
This difference of thirteen cents
pound was distributed among the
transportation men, the commission
merchants and the retail grocer It
looks like a case of too many middle
men, or profits too great for the ser
vice rendered.
These examples would seem to in
dictate that some improvement is need
ed in the relations of the middlemen
to both the producer and the consum-
err; or more system in distribution.
Akin to wastes in distribution and
germane to the subject of marketing
are other wastes that affect the con-
sumer; growing, most of them, out Of
the system of selling by measure, or
number instead of by weight The
absurdity of selling by measure is
shown by such instances as in the sell
ing of such dissimilar products as
rice and watermelons Every man
who buys a bushel of rice gets about
as much food for his money as any
other purchaser of that quantity OF
rice; but suppose he wanted bushel
of watermelons 1t is impracticable
to sell watermelons by the measure
and announcement, though practicable
to sell them by weight Eggs should be
sold by weight in order to insure JUS
tice to all purchasers thereof, unless
the system were adopted in this
country that is said to prevail in Eu-
rope, that of sorting them according
to size and selling them at prices bas-
ed on those sizes, as such products IS
oranges are sold.
Then, too, crate full of beans may
leave the shipper we'll filled, by the
time it reaches the market it may
have shrunken in volume. The COM
mission merchant sometimes dumps
the beans on the floor, shakes them
up, returns them to the packages and
hunts up an empty crate or two to re-
ceive the beans he has left over, if the
consignment is one of several crates.
The retail grocer also shakes up the
beans he buys before he sells them to
the ultimate customer-for whom no.
body has any bowels of compassion -
and the latter unfortunate must pay
for all these beam shakes.-Florila
Times Union.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-17

IN self and has no interest in life, who
stands aside instead of keeping step, IS
not SO much old as that he is perver,-
ed In age. He has allowed its rightly
to seize him and give a last NANTES
tation Of selfshness. Unconsciously
such one Is simply trying to escape
responsibility; a poor preparation
surely for beginning that lie which
We insist is without end.