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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
LITTLE DONE IN THE WEST
GERMANS SAY THEY EVACUATED
VERNELLES SATURDAY.
Activity Reported in the Argonne
DisGict-Heayy Cannonades and
Infantry Attacks Are Scattered.

Berlin reports via London: The
German evacuation Saturday night OF
Vernelles, southeast Of Bethune, was
officially announced Sunday. The
statement says:
"Vernslles was evacuated on ac-
count Of a continuous French artil-
lery fire which was causing unneces-
sary loss. Buildings which remained
stand We blew up and our troops
occupied prepared positions east OF
Vernelles, SO the enemy could not
follow in this direction.
Southeast Of Alkirch the French
renewed their attack with reinforce.
ments but without success, and they
suffered heavy loss
London reports: There has been
renewal of hard fighting in the Ar
gonne district, where the French
claim progress. On the whole, how.
ever, in these siege operations, sue
sesses and reverses only mean a gain
or loss Of a few hundred yards and
slight readjustment of positions.
Seemingly more important is the
unofficial statement that the French
have seriously interfered with the
German communications between
Metz and the Woevre district in
France, for her as elsewhere, com.
mand of the roads is of utmost I'M
portance.
Paris reports: eve have consoii.
dated our position to the north of the
house of the ferryman Con the cana
between Dixmude and Ypres). which
was captured December 4. On the
remainder Of the front there is moth.
| inc Of impo. .ance to communicate. .
Washington reports: offensive
operations by the French garrison o.
Belfort and German counter-attacks
were reported from the French for.
eign Office to the embassy at Wash
ington.
''The communication ads that de.
truction of German earthworks, men
toned in the war Office statement
took place near Thanh, a village
which has been disputed point since
the beginning Of the war"
London reported Saturday: There
have been no material changes in the
positions Of the bellige-ents on eith"l
| the eastern or western fronts during
the last "a hours. Fighting has con
tinued, but it would seem as though
on both fronts the vast armies have
been engaged largely in making pre-
paraticns for new battles.
Here and there heavy cannonades
or infantry attacks have occurred, al
Of which, however, were more in the
nature Of feelers than serious de
sign in the way Of an offensive or fol
the purpose Of an advance"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
FOUR ARE DROWNED.
Three Boats Capsize While Rescuirg
3iarooned Hunters.

The Wateree river claimed a toll OF
four lives, according to a report
reaching Columbia Monday from
Jacobs. Four .uen, James Griffin. a
young white man Of the Jacobs Sec
ton of Richland county, and three
negroes were drowned Sunday, when
they tried to rescue hunting party
narooned on an island, known; "a
Betty's Neck.
Last Tuesday Hamp Jacobs, Hor-
Lewis and Ben Walsh, with several
Lewis and Ben walsh. with several
others, left Jacobs for hunt Of sew
eral days in the Water river swamp.
They camped in an old house on
Betty's neck. The heavy rains caus-
ed the river to rise rapidly.
Saturday morning an old negro
came to Jacobs and reported that the
island was almost covered by the
water. A rescue party was formed.
Going to the river, the party Of ten
including the drowned men, tried to
cross the river to the island in three
boats. The three boats capsized at
the same time. Four Of the occu-
pants we're drowned. George SeeleJ
battled against the heavy current for
Eve hours before he was rescued.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
CAN REMOVE MINES.
How Two Ships Can Drag Ocean Bot
toms for Destroyers Of Hulls.

A means has been devised OF re-
moving floating bombs and mines,
but it is a difficult process, requiring
two vessels. After e field of maincs
has been locatedE-a treacherous occu-
patton at the best--a ship takes one
end OF s long steel hawser, while the
other end is taken by the sister ship,
which makes its way around the field
Of mines and drops overheard the
hawser, weighted with a mass OF iron,
so that, the steep rope may find its
way to the bottom of the sea.
Having done this, the two ships
take up their positions far apart and
start their engines, their paths con-
verging toward each other and pull
ing away the field Of mines. The
dragging Of the bombs explodes them,
or brings them to the surface, when
they can be towed to place where
they are harmless.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
WILSON A BRAVE MAN.
Secretary Bryan Praises the Man Wht
Occupies the White House.

Secretary of State Bryan, speak
ing before the Baltimore Bar asso-
citation Tuesday night. deplored any
suggestion that the United States pre-
pare for war in the sense that the
nations Of Europe have prepared for
it.
~ have been fighting all my life. v
said Mr.. Bryan, "and 1 never fought
beside braver man that he who to-
day occupies the White House.
"Why should men be asked in
times Of peace to prepare to die for
their country when there is so much
need for them to live for their coun-
trv?"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
COTTON REPORT.
Cotton Ginning Prior to December
Amounted to 1906, 105 Bales.

Cotton ginned prior to December /
amounted to 13,G66,105 bales, the
census bureau announced Tuesday
Round bales included 36,195; sea is.
land, 62,991 bales.
Ginning by states: Alabama. l..
43s,3ss; Arkansas, s40.562: Florida
72,85s: Georgia, 2,2S5,607: Louis.
lana, 381,913; Mississippi, 9S6,99S:
North Carolina, 674,135; Oklahoma
1,018,2S7; South Carolina. 1925
467: Tennessee, 291,329; Texas, g.
1864. All other states, 103.S65
Sea island ginning by states: Flor
ida, 27,468 bales; Georgia. 33.101;
South Carolina, 2,422.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
BUYS $4,000 HORSES.
Italian Government Wants Artillery
horses and Cavalry Mounts.

The largest single contract prob
ably ever signed in the United States
for the purchase Of horses was made
in New York Friday on account of
the European war. It calls for the
delivery within short time of $4,000
perfectly sound animals, broken to
harness or saddle, at price said to
be between 5000 and $3.50 each. The
horses will be used for artillery and
cavalry service
p The amount of the contract is be-
tween s5,000,000 and s6,C00,o00.
The order comes from representatives
OF the Italian government It Is ad-
mtited that the horses are for the
artillery and c.valry. The fact gives
peculiar significance to reported COM
.plete mobilization Of the Italian army
and the rumor that Italy will be pre-
pared to enter the war before the end
Of this month.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
TRIED TO WRECK TRAIN.
Spartanburg Man Attempts to Derail
the Carolina Special"

Floyd Walker, Of Landrum, was ar.
rested at Spartanburg Junction Satur,
day night, charged with attempting
to wreck the Carolina Special" just
as the train left the yard Saturday
afternoon. AS the train approached
Walker is said to have thrown a
switch, which would have derailed
the whole train, had it not been that
an employee of the Southern, William
Densmore, saw what the man had
done and ran quickly to close it.
Walker is in jail. He is said to have
been intoxicated.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
AUSTRIA PREPARES.
Sends Two Hundred Thousand TroC.
to Austrian Border.

Advices from the Austrian frontier
via London published in Milan say
the statement Of Premier Salandra il
the Italian parliament Thursday had
an immediate echo in Austrian mill
tary circles. Friday night the CORE
spondeat says the railroad lines pour
ed troops all along the Italian Dor.
der and also into Pola, the Austrian
arsenal on the peninsula of Istria
It is estimated that 100000 men were
stationed along the Italian border
and 100000 at Pola.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

Australian System to be Advocated
Other Measures to Come Up.
Several measures concerning elec-
tions in South Carolina will be intro
duced In the next general assembly.
If measure is passed, 1t could not go
into effect before two years. NO
candidate would be affected and 1t
would not be aimed at any one IN
politics.
John J. McMahan, member OF the
Richland delegation, has been lead
or for primary reform. He will very
probably introduce measure to pro-
vide for the Australian system, which
has worked so we'll In Charleston
county.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
ASSAULTED AND SLAIN.
Body OF an Unidentified Girl Found
in Sacramento Church.

in Sacramento Church.
The body of an unidentified girl
about 10 years old who had been
assaulted and murdered was found in
the basement Of a church at Sacra-
mento, Cal, Friday afternoon. The
girl had been strangled to death. A
rope was twisted twice around her
neck with an initial moose. The body
was still warm and bore indisputable
evidence of criminal assault. There
had been struggle, little as the girl
was, and her face was torn and
scratched and beaten. A "V'' shaped
scar marked her left forehead and e
similar abrasion Of larger dimensions
was deeply imprinted on her left
neck, with crimson stains.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
BETRAYED BY SPY.
How Five Hundred Sleeping French
Soldiers Met Death.

London tells how 500 French
troops were betrayed by spy last
Tuesday is told in dispatches from
Dunkirk. The French soldiers were
sleeping in a. church at Lampernisse.
A spy displayed lights in the belfry,
which, notified the German artillery of
the presence Of the troops. A bonn
bardment followed and the sleeping
men were cut to pieces by exploding
shells. which also set fire to the straw
on which they had been lying.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
Strike Called OFF.

The Colorado coal strike, which
started in April. 1910, was called off
Tuesday, to take effect December 10.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
General Beyers Shot.

Brig. Gen. Christian Beyers. Of the
leaders in the South African rebel
lion. has been shot and is believed to
be dead.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
A Sure.Enourh President

Juan Isadro Jimiuez is the first
president of Santo Domingo elected
by the ballot since 1911. all the 9TH
ers being Of revolutionary origin.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
SEA ON LAND.
Heavy Wind Drives Ocean on Shore
of Virginia Towns.

Tidewater, Va, Saturday experiene-
ed what is said to have been the sew
crest northeast storm and highest
tide since 1888. In this city the wind
attained q velocity Of forty-two miles
an hour and a number Of streets near
the water front were inundated. 1r
one street row-boats were used tc
transport citizens.
At Fortress Monroe, the high seas
broke over the sea WILL and the plaza
in front Of the old part Of the fort
was inundated Some Of the streets
of Hampton, also are reported here as
having been flooded.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
Citadel Wins Scholarship.

J. A. Mood, of Summerton, Cita-
del cadet, has won the scholarship to
Annapolis as result of an examina-
tion held by Senator Smith.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16

Tried to Pass Dardanelles.
A British submarine attempted TO
run pass the Dardanelles but was
stopped by shots from the Turkish
forts.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
Austria ConfiscateS Oil.

The Austrian empire confscated
all the oil in the kingdom of Austria
and Hungary.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
Bread for BelgianS.

Forty thousand dollars worth Of
-four was purchased Friday by the
Belgian relief committee.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
Coast Line Salaries Cut,

All employees Of the Atlantic Coast
Line, whose salaries amount to moro
than $500 monthly, are to receive
cuts varying from to 10 per cent.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
Accidentally Shot by Police

When Policeman Colligan Of Sioux
City, Iowa, attempted to arrest a
man Tuesday he dropped his pistol,
which discharged itself, killing Her
man Blome, an onlooker.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
Sixty Thousand in Hospital.

Austrian official reports admit that
10000 wounded are In the Vienna
hospitals. ---.-A ~
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
Indicted for "Stealinc News

Three men yere indicted in New
York Friday for stealing news from
the Associated Press and serving 1t
ont to their patrons.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
TO STAY IN WAR.
japanese Premier Declares Naval
Duties VIII Continue.

Vice-Admiral Roiuro Yashiro, min
lister of marine. touching on the war
in a speech in the japanese diet Tues
day, say.
while war in Europe endures,
the Japanese navy's duties will con-
tinue. In the meantime our feet, n
conjunction with an English feet.
seeks the Germans in South Ameri-
can waters"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16

Cracow Defence is Strengthened.
Petrograd says that additional Ger
man troops have been fastened to
CraccT
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16

We are at peace with all the world.
No one spe;Al counsel based on fact
or drawn from just and candid In
depreciation of realities can say that
there is reason to fear that from any
quarter our independence or the in
tegrity of our territory is threatened.
Dread Of the power of any other ma
ton We are incapable of. We are not
jealous of rivalry in the fields Of COM
merce or Of any other peaceful
achievement. We mean tc live our
own lives as We will; but We mean
also to let live. We are, indeed, a
true friend to all the nations of the
world, because We threaten none,
covet the possessions of ncne, desire
the overthrow of none. Our friend
ship can be accepted and is accepted
without reservation, because it is Of
fered in a spirit and for a purpose
which no one need ever question or
suspect. Therein lies our greatness.
We are the champions of peace and
Of concord. And We should be very
jealous of this distinction which We
have sought to earn. Just now we
should be particularly jeaolus of it..
because it is our dearest present hope
that this character and reputation
may presently in Gods providence,
bring US an opportunity such as has
seldom been vouchsafad any nation,
the opportunity to counsel and obtain
peace in the world and reconciliation
and healing settlement of many a
matter that has cooled and interrupt
ed the friendship of nations. This is
the time above all others when we
should wish and resolve to keep our
strength by self-possession, our in
fuence by preserving our ancient
principles Of action.
No Big Standing Army.
From the first We have had a clear
and settled policy with regard to mil
itary establishments. We never have
had, and while we retain our present
principles and ideals We never shall
have, large standing army. If ask
ed, Are you ready to defend your
selves? We reply, Most assuredly, to
the utmost; and yet We shall not turn
America into a military camp. We
will not ask our young men to spend
the best years of their lives making
soldiers of themselves. There is an
other sort Of energy in us. 1t will
know how to declare itself and make
itself effective should occasion arise.
And especially when half the world is
on fire we shall be careful to make
our moral insurance against the
spread Of the confogration very def
mite and certain and adequate indeed.
Let US remind ourselves, therefore,
Of the only thing We can do or will
do. We must depend in every time
of national peril, in the future as in
the past. not upon a standing army,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16

| vance in international civilization.
We should show our earnest coed
faith in great matter by adding our
| own acceptance Of it.
Alaskan Coast Survey.
There is another matter Of which I
must make special mention, if am to
discharge my conscience,l lest it should
escape your attention. 1t may seem a
very small thing. 1t affects only a
single item of appropriation. But
many human lines and many great
enterprises hang upon it. 1t is the
matter of making adequate provision
for the survey and charting Of our
coasts. 1t is imediately pressing and
exigent in connection with the i'm
mense coast line Of Alaska, a coast
line greater than that Of the United
States themselves. thought it is also
very important indeed with regard to
the older coasts of the continent. We
can not use our great Alaskan do
main, ships will not ply thither. If
those coasts and their many hidden
dangers are not thoroughly surveyed
and charted. The work is incomplete
at almost every point. Ships and lives
have been lost in threading what
were supposed to be we'll known main
channels. We have not provided ade-
quate vessels or adequate machinery
for the survey and charting. We
have used old vessels that We're not
big enough or strong enough and
which were so nearly unseaworthy
that our inspectors would not have
allowed private owners to send them
to sea. This is matter which, as I
have said, seems small. but is in real
ity very great. Its Importance has
only to be looked into to be appre-
ciated.
Economy in Government.
Before I close may I say few
words upon two topics, much discuss
ed out of doors. upon which it is
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16

turned upon them, the door smut last
at which thousands of vigorous men,
full of initiative, knock clamorously
for admittance. The water power OF
our navigable streams outside the ma
tional domain also, even in the East
ern States, where We have worked
ard planned for generations, is still
not used as it might be, because We
will and We won't; because the laws
we have made do not intelligently
balance, encouragement against re-
straint. We withhold by regulation.
l have come to ask you to remedy
and correct these mistakes and onis-
sions, even at this short session of a
congress which would certainly seem
to have done all the work that could
reasonably be expected Of it. The
time and the circumstances are extra
ordinary, and so must our efforts be
also.
Conserving Resources.
Fortunately, two great measures,
finely conceived, the one to unlock,
with proper safeguards the resources
VI Il1C QOAud1u, IIS OlASA w
encourage the use of the navigable
waters outside that domain for the
generation Of power, have already
passed the House of Representatives
and are ready for immediate consid-
Grafton and action by the Senate.
With the deepest earnestness I urge
their prompt passage. IN them both
We turn our backs upon hesitation
and makeshifts and formulate a gen
uine policy Of use and conservation.
in the best sense of those words. We
Cwe the one measure not only to the
people of that great Western country
for whose free and systematic derel-
opment. as 1t seems to me, our legis-
lation has done so little. but also to
the people of the national as whole;
and we as clearly owe the other in
fulhllment of our repeated promises
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-09

derful. All sQreness goes i'm
stantly and the feet feel de-
lightful- Corns and cAllouses
can be peeled right on. II
gives immediate relief for s0re
bunions. sWeaty, smelly and
aching feet A twenty-five
cent box Of CAlocide f. said to
be suff1cient % cure the worst
feet 1t works through the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-09
and prayed before it in the night time.

and prayed before it in the night time.
ROwley argued and pleaded and
threatened. But the men sat stolid and
the women wept. The little picture
Of the great man they must keep in its
sacred place less a worse thing befall.
Finally he offered to give them big
picture for the little one II they would
hang the large one on the wall and re-
store the figure to the little cross. They
would do that. they said, but they must
have the big picture first.
When Mr.. Rowley came back to To-
peka from that trip he went straight
to Frank Willard and told him he
would have to take a big picture for
him. And he went on to tell the story
of the poems and the kodak down in
Mexico. Willard made the picture and
Mr.. Rowley sent it down to his sub
jects in the wilds. And they hung 1t
on the wall and sent the little likeness
back to their benefactor.
Just a little story about the way the
American of the better type does bus
mess with the poor Of desolate lands.
After all. it was more natural than
strange, the action of those poems In
regard to the picture of their new pa
tron saint. Back for generations they
had suffered under the heavy hand OF
the Mexican landowner who reaped
where he had not sown. Here was a
man from another country who came
among them and gave them land to
plant and rejoiced at their sowing and
reached not forth his hand for single
blade or kernel Of their harvest. Sure
they would set up his image as a
household deity. The Greeks, who
were the wisest people Of olden times.
worshiped the god that blessed their
fields. In these United States many
people worship the god of mammon and
set the golden eagle up on their man
tells in place of the cross.
Wizards story about the late James
Rowley was not so strange as it might
have been. Topeka people did not wor-
ship him but they liked him a lot. He
was a modest. retiring man and he
often hid the light of his works under
a bushel. But he could not get away
from the gratitude of those poor poems
in that outcast land to the southwark
The newspaper man looked again at
the picture Of the gentle, kindly man
with the gray hair as it hung in the
Willard studio. And he thought that
the little story of the kodak picture
on the mantel of the dobe hut was finer
than the conquest of Peru or the rat
tie of crowns or the trappings Of pow
err The man who sat for that kodak
picture was greater than he that TAX
9th q city. q.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-09
EAST SIDE NOTES.


Pythian Sisters temple No. will hold
a business meeting Saturday evening in
X p. hall.
Mrs. W. H. Doorley entertained the
Wild Rose Needle club Tuesday after
noon at her home In Maryland avenue.
The members in attendance were: Mrs.
Mary Begelle. Mrs. w. M Houser, Mrs
H. Irons. Mrs. Upton Irvine. Mrs D.
W. McNeilly, Mrs. I. NJ. Orner. Mrs.
III. g. Schneider, Mrs J. s. Taylor. Mrs
w. A. >Thornburg, Mrs. c. II. Taylor.
Mrs. W. L. Wilkinson. Mrs Doolrey.
The next meeting will be held with
Mrs. W. NJ. Houser. GIL West Sixth
street
J. C. Cornish, of the Juvenile court,
will give a talk Friday afternoon at
the meeting of the East w. c. T. U. at
the home of Mrs. L. H. Mears. 502
Chandler street.
Easter programs will be given Sunday
at all of the East Side churches.
The Brotherhood class of the Third
Presbyterian church will meet Tuesday
April IA, at the church. A special in
attend. The subject for the evening
debate: Resolved, Women should moi
have been given the right of suffrage
until the majority of them had asked
for it," Papers will be read by r.
Jones and Mrs John Norton, and thu
discussions will be led by Mrs. william
Patterson, Mrs. Rush Spurlock. Mrs
! John Alexander, A. d. Shupe and Geo
Adamson.
The Fidelity club was entertained