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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
MADAME" Fitted Him.
Manning, S. G.


The friends Of a certain senator say
that, although It Is admitted that some
one used senate stationery to promote
a mining scheme, It Is very unjust to
make any charge of dishonesty against
the kindly old man. 70 illustrate his
character, they tell this story: He
was one Of the funeral party that &C
sconpanied the body Of distinguished
senator to its burial place. On the
return trip he went early to bed. The
next morning his round, red face, de-
void OF hair, gentle Of expression and
wrfnkled, was thrust out Of his berth
as the Pullman conductor passed By.
Are we on time, captain?" called out
the senator in his thin piping voice.
3.Jnst on time, madame" said the con-
ductor, as he lifted his hat and passed
on.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
How To Give Qulnlne To Children.

FEBRILINEi Is the trademark name given to an
improved Quinine. Itis Tasteless Syrup. pleas
Children take it and never know It Is Quinine.
Also especially adapted to adults who cannot
take ordinary Quiuine. Does not nauseate aor
cause nervousness nor ringing in the head. Try
pose. Ask for 2-ouuce original package. The
name FEBRILINE is blown in bottle. Is cents.
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Remoaee ER2sPoA
Though Allah and earth pardon sin
remaineth forever ysnorBe.-Kfpls2y
Sick Two Years With Indigestion.

1.-TWO years ago wss greatly bene-
6ted through using two or three bot
ties Of Chamberlsia's.Tablets. " writes
Mrs. S. A. Keller. Elida, Ohio. BE
fore taking them I wns' sick for two
years with indigestion" Sold by al!
t!ealers.-Adv
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
National Floral emblems.

The following are the national en-
blemS Of some Of the more important
countries Of Europe: Scotland, thistle;
iresand, shamrock; Wales, leek;
France, heur-de-lis; Germany, cornr
flower; Prussia, linden; Saxony, mig
nonette; Spain, pomsgranate flower;
Italy. lily.
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Notice to Creditors.

AL persons having claims against
,he estate Of Alex A. Tindal, deceased,
will present them duly attessed, and
those owing said estate will make pay
ment to the undersigned qualified Exc
cutors OF said estate.
CHARLTON DURANT,
IDA TINDAL,
Executors .
Manning, S. c.. October II, 1914.
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You. coldas Dangerous Break Il Up--Now

A cold is readily catching. A run
down system is susceptible to Germs:
You owe 1t to yourself and to others OF
your household to fight the Germs at
once. Dr.. Bells Piue-Tar. Honey IS
fine for Colds and Coughs, It loosens
the Mucous, stops the Cough and sooth-
es the Lungs. It's guaranteed Only
Csc at YOUR druggist. ADV.
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Cures Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't cuss.
The worst cases, no matter of howlouz standing,
are cured by the wonderful, old reliable DR..
9orter's Antiseptic Healing OIL. 1t relieves
Pain and Heals at the same time. 2se, SOC, $l.S
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Hardware of the Right
Sort

can always be found atom store.
Onr stock is exceedingly large
and comprises ali that is 5est in
modern Hardware for household
use and all that the mechanic or
tradesmen could require along
this line. Our prices are always
right and proper.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
Dinner Sets

If the beautiful and good Din
ner Sets are sought, the search
need not extend beyond our
store. Here are pieces Of
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
chsmbe,laia's CoughlRemedy- Tie Moth
Favorite.

81 give Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy to nv children when they have
colds or coughs" writes Mrs. Verne
Shaffer, Vandererift, Pa. 1t always
help them and is far superior to any
other cough medicine have used. l
advise anyone in need OF such a medl-
cine to give it a trial" For sale by
all dealers.-Adv.
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ChlnaWdre

which will please from the stand.
point of quality, shape, decora-
tions and price. The equal Of
these goods cannot be found
anywhere at the price.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-16
About Sound MRvee.

One OF those scientists ,'ho are a
ways developing apparent parsdo1es
in thought has come forward with the
statement that sound itself Is not eS-
traneous, but exists only because OF
nerve. In other words, If the ears OF
the human race were removed tomof-
row the world would be absolutely
noiseless to humanity. The contention
is that the sound waves, travelling At
q rate Of 1000 feet a second. create
Invisible ripples in the air Just as .
pool ripples whom rock is thrown
into It. The greater the force OF these
waves the louder the sound. But there
is no noise until these sound waves
strike the sensitive nerves Of the ear.
Thus, reverting to the original PROPOSE
ton, the air waves themseives would
be noiselsss did they not operate IN
conjunction with the human sesSs q
hearing.
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Dec. S, 1914.
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run away?' I asked.
"'Vanlshed,' says High Jack. Dis
appeared like your shadow when the sun
goes under a cloud. She was seen on
the street and then she turned "A COR
ner and nobody ever seen her after
ward. The whole community turned out
to look for her. but We never found
a clue
"'Thats bad-thats bad says I. SHE
was a mighty nice girl and as smart
as you find EN-
High Jack seemed to take 1t hard. !
guess he must have esteemed Miss Blue
Feather quite highly. / could see that
he'd referred the matter to the whisky
jug. That was his weak point and many
another mans. I've noticed that when
q man loses a girl he generally takes to
drink either just before or just after
it happens.
From Washington we railroaded II
to New orleans, and there took tramp
steamer bound for Belize. And gale
pounded us all down the Caribbean and
nearly wrecked us on the Yucatan coast
opposite little town without harbor
called Boca de Coacoyula. Suppose tn"
ship had run against that name in the
dark!
Better fifty years Of Europe than a
cyclone in the bay says High Jack
| Stakeholder. So We get the captain To
send us ashore in n dory when the squall
seemed to cease from squalling.
eve will find ruins here, or make EN-.
says High. The Government doesn't
care which we do. An Appropriation
is an appropriation.
"Boca de Coacoyula was n dead town
Them Biblical towns We read about
Tired and Siphon--after they was de-
stroyed, they must have looked like
Forty-second street and broadway COM
pared to this Boca place. 1t still claimed
800 inhabitants, as estimated and en-
| graved on the stone court house by the
census takcr in 1897. The citizens wer,
mixture of Indians and other Indians
but some OF 'em was light colored, which
| I was surprised to see. The town was
| huddled up on the shore, with woods 50
thick around 1t that n subpoena server
couldn't have reached a monkey ter
yards away with the papers. We won
dercd what kept It from being annexed
| to Kansas: but We soon found out tina
it was Major Bling.
| "MajOr l}ing was the ointment arOunt
the fly. lie had the cochineal. sarsapa
rllla, logwood. annatto. hemp and al
other dyewood and pure food adultera
ton concessions cornered, lie had five
siXths of the Boca de Thlngama jigger'
working for him on shares. II was
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beautiful graft. We used to brag about
Morgan and T.. II. and others of our
wisest when / was in the pruvinces-but
now no more. That peninsula has got
our little country turned into sub
marine without even the observation
tower showing.
Major Bing's idea was this. He had
the population go forth into the forest
and gather these products. When they
brought 'em in he gave EN- one fifth for
their trouble. Sometimes they'd strike
and demand sixth. The Major always
gave in to EN-.
THE Major had n bungalow so close
To the sea that the nine inch tide secpcd
through the cracks in the kitchen floor
Me and him and High Jack Stakeholder
sat on the porch and drank rum from
noon till midnight. He said he had piled
up 5000 900 in New orleans banks. and
High and me could stay with him for
ever if we would. But High Jack hap
pened to think OF the United States.
and began to talk ethnology.
"'Ruins?' says Major Bing. The
woods are full of 'em, don't know
how far they date back, but they Were
here before | came
High Jack asks him what sort OF
worship the citizens of that locality
We're addicted To.
"'Why,' says the Major, rubbing his
nose, i can't hardly say. | imagine its
infidel or Aztec or Nonconformist or
something like that. There's church
here--a Methodist or some other kind,
with a parson named Skidder. He ella inns
to have converted the people to Chris
lianity. He and me don't assimilate eX-
cept on state occasions. ] imagine they
worship some kind Of gods or idols
yet. But Skidder says he has 'cm in
| the fold
"a few days later High Jack and me
proving around, strikes n plain path
| into the forest and follows it "A good
four miles, Then branch turns to the
left. We 20 "A mile, maybe. down that
and run up against the finest ruin you
ever saw-solid stone with trees and
vines and underbrush all growing NJ
against it and in it ana through it. All
over 1t was chisclled carvings of funny
beasts and people that would have beer
arrested II they'd ever come out In
vaudeville that wa. We approached
| II from the rear.
| High Jack had been drinking toe
much rum ever since we landed in Boca
You know how an Indian is--the pale
duced him to firewater. He'd brough
II quart along with him.
"'Hunky,' says he, well explore TIL
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gives Jump

nob's pedestal, but I can't make 'cm out.
The alphabet of this country seems To
be composed of sometimes n, t, /, u and
u, but generally rs Is and is
High Jacks ethnology gets the up
per hand of his rum for minute and
he investigates the inscription.
chunky says he, this is a statue of
TlotopaNl one of the most powerful
gods Of the ancient Aatecs.'
"'Glad to know him. says I. but in
his present condition he reminds me of
the joke Shakespeare got off on julius
Caesar. We might say about your friend:
"Imperious What's His Name. dead and
him on the phonc."'
"IIunky.' says High Jack Snake
feeder, looking at mo funny. do you be-
l."Ve in reincarnatlon?'
ait sounds tn me- says I. like either
a cleanup of the slaughter houses or a
new kind of Boston pink. | don't know.
81 believe says he, that | am the
reincarnatiun Of TlotopaXl. My re-
searches have convinced me that the
Cherokecs, Of all the North American
tribes, can boast of the straightest de-
scent from the proud Aztec race. That,
says he. was IA favorite theory of mine
and Florence Blue Feathers. And she
what If She
High Jack grabs my arm and walls
his eyes at me. Just then he looked
more like his eminent o-lndian muir
derer, Crazy Horse.
"'Well,' says 7. what II she, what II
| she, what If she? You're drunk, says
|. It's impersonating idols and believ-
| ing in-what was decentralization
Let's have Il drink says |. It's rs
| Spooky here as "A Brooklyn artificial
limb factory at midnight with the gas
turned down.
Just then heard somebody coming
| and dragged High Jack into the bed
| less bed chamber There was pccphulos
| bored through the wall So we could sre
| the whole front part Of the temple
Major Iiing told mo afterward that the
ancient priests in charge used to rub
| Der through them at the congregation.
| "In n few minutes an old Indian
| woman came in with IA big oval earther
| dish fun of grub. She set it down on
la square stone in front of the craven
| image and laid down and wallopcd hei
face on the floor n few times and theI
took IA walk for herself
"lilGh Jack and me was hungry s,
| "" came out and looked II over. Their,
was goat steaks and fried rice cakes
and plantans and cassava and hroilet
land crabs and mangoes-nothing lik,
what you get at Chubb's.
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youll find somebody waiting to take
charge Of the burnt offerings
"And then We took another swig of
rum and walked out to the parlor front
door to cool OFF, for II was as hot inside
as summer camp on the Palisades.
"And while we stood there In the
breeze We looks down the path and
secs a young lady approaching the
blasted ruin. She was barefooted and
had on a white robe and carried "A
wreath of white flowers in her hand.
When she got nearer we saw she had
a long blue feather stuck through her
black hair. And when she got nearer
still me and High Jack Stakeholder
grabbed each other To keep from tum.
bling down on the floor. For the girls
face was as much like Florence Blue
Feathers as his was ! Ike old King Toni
| cology's.
And then was when High Jacks
booze drowned his system of ethnology.
| lie dragged me inside back To the statue
| and says:
"Lay hold of II. Hunky. Wen pack
| il into the other room. | felt L all the
| time says he. I'm the reconsideration
| OF the god LoComotor- ataNia. and Flor
| ence Blue Feather was my bride a thou
| sand Years ago. She has come To- seek
me in the temple where used to
reign
| "'All right says I. There's no use
arguing against the rum question. You
take his feet.
| We lifted the 800 pound stone god
and carried him into the back room
| of the cafc-temple, ! mcan-and leaned
| HIM AGAINST the wall. II was more
work than bouncing three live ones
from an all night Broadway joint on
New Years eve.
Then High Jack ran ont and brought
in couple of them Indian silk shawls
and began to undrcss himself
"'Oh, figs says I. rs It thus Strong
Is it the heat ar the call Of the wild
that's got YOU
"But High Jack is too FIJI Of cNalta-
| tion and cane juice 10 reply. lie stops
the dlsrubing business just short uf the
| Manhattan Beach rules. and then winds
them rcd-and-white shawls around him
and goes out and stands ON - pedestal
as steady as any platinum deity YOU
ever saw. And looks through a peek
hole Ia see what he is up to,
"In few minutes in comes the Cir
with the flower wreath. DANCED If
wasn't knocked "A little silly when Sh,
got closr she looked So exactly much
} like Florence Blue Feather. wonder
] says TO myself, III she has been rein
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ancient temple. 1t may be that the
storm that landed us here was propi-
tious. The Minority Report Bureau of
E,hnology.' says he. may profit by the
vagari6s OF wind and tide
I'VE went in the rear door of the bum
edifice. We struck n kind of alcove
without bath. There was a granite dav-
export and n stone washstand without
any soap or exit for the water and
some hardwood pegs drove into holes
in the wall. and that was all. To so
out Of that furnished apartment into a
Harlem hall bedroom would make you
feel like getting back home for an ANA
teur v!o,oncello solo at an East Side
settlement house.
"Whlle High was examining some
hieroglyphios On the wall that the stone
masons must have made when their
tools slipped ! stepped into the front
room. That was ut least thirty by fifty
fest. stone floor. six little windows like
square portfolios that didn't let much
light in.
Il looked back over my shoulder and
sees High Jack STAGE three feet away.
"'High' says l. of all the
"And then noticed he looked funny
and turned around.
He'd taken of his clothes TO the
waist and he didn't seem to hear me.
touched him and came near beating It,
High Jack had gurned to stone. l had
been drinking some rum myself.
"Ossified.' says to him loudly. i
knew what would happen If you kept
it up
"And then High Jack comes in from
the alcove when he hears me CunVersinp
with nobody, and we have look AT Mr.
Stakeholder No. .. It's stone idol 81
god or revised statue or something, AN,
II looks as much like High lacksas ON,
green pea looks liz" itself It's gut cN'
actly his face and size and color: bu
it's steadier ON its pins 1t stands on 4
kind of rostrum or pedestal, and you
can see it's been there ten million years
"He's a cousin of mine sings Higl
ana then he turns solemn.
CHUNKY he says, putting one han'
| on my shoulder ana one on the statue :
| I'm m the holy temple Of my ancestors
"'Wcll, II looks goes for anything
says |. you've struck n twin. Stan,
side 10y side with buddy and lets see /
there's any difference
There wasn't. You know an Indial
can keep his face as still as an irol
| dogs when he wants to, SO when IIigl
Jack froze his features you couldn'
have told him from the other one.
| "'There's some letters, says !, on hi
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generated too. II could Sec -tvs I TO
myself, whether she has m IN her
left but the next minute | tha.-N, she
looked one -eighth of "A shade dar. han
Florence. But she looked good l' that,
And High Jack hadn't drunk all %. rum
that had been drank.
The girl went UP within t,a ,..t o.
the bum idol and got down and mas.
saged her nose with the floor .... The
rest did. Then she went n.a',- and
laid the flower wreath on tn, 'l IS ~
stone at High Jacks feet. Rum1.. as |
was. ! thought 1t was Kind uf 3. .. u
her to think Of offering flower .'--ad
of household and kitchen PR. Us.
Even "A stone god ought tn app, ~, =
little sentiment like that on t'p -. Pee
fancy groceries they had piled .. n
front Of him.
And then High Jack steps d'N' f.'m
his pedestal, quiet. and ment"n- '.T
words that sounded just like IL. .-o-
llyphics carved on the walls of '.' '.1.
The girl gives little jump hl. '..A,
and her eyes fly open as big as ..-
nuts. but she don't beat it.
why didn't she? III tell you $751;,
think why. 1t don't seem t. 81 -'. ~
supernatural unlikely. stran-o 200!
startling that a stone god Shouli o."
To life for her. II he was t. d. r. 'r
one of them snuh nosed brown -.l.- -
the other side Of the woods. Nn'
would be diffcrent-hut her? '''
she said 10 herself: Well. gpoln,s> i.,.
you've been a long time getting on -
job. I've half mind not to speak 90
you
but she and High Jack holds ha. il
and walks away out Of the temp
cether. BY the time I'd had t.m
take another drink and enter up..
scene they was twenty yards .'..
going up the path in the woods 'I.' ."
girl had come down. With tn,
scenery already in place, II Vt- .
Ike play To watch 'cm-sh, ...-
up at him, and him giving h..
the best that an Indian can haui
the way of a googou eNr. I.'
wasn't anything in that rrvu"r.'
and revulslon to tintypr for M
Hey, Injun'' ! yel,s oH' p.
Jack. We've got board n..
town and you're leaving M
cent. Brace up and cut out t'.
tan fisher maidcn and let
home
"But on the two goes w!'h.V
ing once back until, as you M
the forest swallowed 'om up
never saw or heard of High D.
feeder from that day to this.
know II the Chcrokccs cam '.-
Aspics: hut If they did 500.
went back.
"All could do was ~ Nu-''.
| to that Boca place and panha'i
Bing. lie detached himself T. 100
of his winnings to buy me rise
And I'm back again on 'N'
| Chubbs sir. and I'm co.us
| steady. Come around and
the steaks as good as ever
wondered what HUNS
thought about his own story
him If he had any theories
| imagination and transm"sr
such mysteries as he had tuH.
| Nothing like that sad
| positively. what allied II
was too much hoo2" AND
| They'll do an Indian up every
Gut what about Mss E'H
| persisted
Say" said Hunky with
little lady that stol" Ja'E
give Sne "A jar when ti'-
at her but it was only fer
remember told you HIN j..
Miss Florence Blue Feather
from home about a year
where she landed four da.
in as neat five room o.
TwentN-third street as N'H
sideways through: and >.,
Magcc ever since
CCopYrigM BY nc Nori
',l I#I
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I'VE ate hearty
and had another
round of rum.
1t must he old
Tecumseh's - or
whatever you call
him - birthday
says /. or do they
feed him every day?
] thought gods only
drank vanilla on
Mount Catawaum-
pus.'
Then some more
native parties in
short kimonos that
showed their abor-
inpinees punCtured
the near horizon
and me and High
had to skip back
into Father Axle
trees private hou-
doir. They came by
ones, tw os and
threes. and left az
sorts of offerings
there was enough
grub for Bingham's
MIN gods of war
with plenty left
over for the peace
conference at The
Hague.
IT h ~ brought
jars of honey and
lunches of bananas
and bottles of wines
and stacks of tort!l-
las and beautiful
shawls worth on
hundred q ollars
apiece that the In
dian women weave
uf a kind Of vcget-
able fibre Ike silk.
All of I'm got down
and wr.gglci on the
floor IN front of that
hard finish god and
N en- Sn.akrd off
through the woods
again.
80 I wonder who
gets this rakeor?'
remarks High Jack.
Oh says /.
there's priests or
deputy idols or n
committee If disar-
rangements some
where in the woods
on the job. Wher-
ever Won find n god
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who does?) to the
mound builders Of
Ohio with income
prehension and re-
spect. And when I'd
tell her about the
Bowery and Coney
Island and sing n
few songs that I'd
heard the Jamaica
niggers sing at
their church lawn
parties she didn't
look much less in
terested than she
did when High Jack
would tell her that
he had a pipe that
the first inhabitants
Of America origin.
ally arrived here on
stills after a freshet
at Tenaily, n e W
Jersey.
But | was going
to tell you more
about High Jack.
About six months
ago l got a letter
from him saying
he's been commits
stoned by the Mi
nority Report Blu
reau Of Ethnology
at Washington TO
go down to Mexico
and translate some
excavations or dig
up the meaning Of
s o me shorthand
notes on some ruins
or something of
that sort. And II I'd
go along he could
squeeze the price
into the expense ac-
count.
We'll. I'd been
holding a napkin
over my arm at
Chubb's about long
enough then. so /
wire d High Jack
yes and he sent
me a ticket and l
met him in Wa sh-
ington. and he had
a lot of news to tell
me. First of all was
that Florence Blue
Feather had sud-
d o n ! y disappeared
from her home and
l
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-07
"UNL OADED" GUN is
INSTRUMENT IN
HOMICIDE CASE

Simon Stephenson, colored. was
shot and instantly killed yesterday
morning shortly after 8 O'CLOCK by Eff
fe Jones, also col0red, and the shoot
ing occurred on the farm Of Mr.. S. J.
Upchurch. near Raleigh. The Jones
woman was arrested by Sheriff J. ].
Harvard and was bound over to mex
term of court by Justice Of the Peace
Separk on a three dollar
bond.
1t was a curious story hat the WON
an told, another case of the "unloaded
gun" According to her explanation
Of the case she was pressing a suit
Of clothes for Stephenson which he
had sent to her or Friday. Yesterday
morning she went to her home after
being absent for a short time and
found Stephenson lying on her door
step. She asked him VIVA he wanted
there. He did not reply. Then de-
claring hat she would make him an
swer she took down a shotgun from
a rack in the house, thinking to scare
him. He still failed to move and she
pulled the trigger, the barrel pointed
| at S~tephenSon's head. The entire load
entered. ~perforating the brain.