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The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-20
A CLOSELY GUARDED CLOCK.
It Is the Most Accurate TimekesPeF
 Man Has Devised.

Tn the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland there is a clock that holds the worlds record for accurate time keeping. Over a period of several months it showed variation of only eight-thousandths of a second a day, which in a years time would be less than three seconds.
 Ship chronometers, which are the most accurate time measuring instru. ments in general use, cannot keep true time within less than three to five sec onds a month. Marine observations are absolutely dependent on accurate timepieces, but ships officers have to be satisfied if they can adjust their chronOmeterS so that they will either gain or lose a certain amount each day. Then they add or subtract and get ab- solutely correct time. In plotting rec. ords of a ships timepiece its desirabil- lty is judged by line that ascends or descends with absolute regularity. If the line rises and falls the instrument Is worthless.
 The Case clock stands on stone pier independent of the building that e1- tends sixteen feet to a natural shale foundation. It is In q small room sur rounded by two other rooms, all built with brick walls. Gas stoves heat the outer rooms. and electric contact ther- mometers regulate the temperature. The gas stove flame automatically rises or falls with the variation in the out side air temperature. Thus on warm days in August the flame In the gas stove is very low, while In below zero January 1t burns at its brightest Tn the clock room itself the temperature Is adjusted by an ordinary sixteen can dle power incandescent lamp that is flashed on and off by another electric contact thermometer. The school strict ly epforces the rule that there must never be more than two people in this inner room at one time.
 The clock, which stands five feet high, has three separate dials that reg ister the hours, minutes and seconds. It is inclosed in an alright glass jar, inside of which are delicate instru- ments for measuring temperature, at- mospheric pressure and moisture. A small amount of chloride of lime, which Is an efficient desiccating material, is kept always in the jar to absorb the moisture.
 By the aid of q set of dry batteries the clock automatically winds itself every seven minutes. The movement Is adjusted slow or fast by pumping air in or out of the glass container. Observations are made from the out side through double glass windows through the separating walls and by means of a small electric lamp placed over the dlals.
 Not only can this wonderful piece of clock mechanism be adjusted to show
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-20
The PGDl||y oI OTGrVOTE
Many Alaska People Are BegiG'
 ming to Feel the Serain

The 1eayy tax of oYerwork - tiB
 extra strain upon the back 30 necessary to many trades and occI- paticns is hard on the kidneys. TIC kidneys begin to- fail fin their woTk and the poisonous matter collects in the system. If your work seem3 harI fer you, if you have a lame, weak or aching back, if you seen tired and Mstless, if you nobice seGt- ment In the urine, unnatural colGr or irregular passagea and seem to I running down without apparent cause, begin Rt once wit Deans Kidney Pills. the rem edy that has proven so beneficial 0 SO many residents of this vicinity. H. has brought strength to rae nacks of thousands Nf working lIsn and women.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-20
PANES OF POSTAGE STAMPS.
And the Plate Numbers Lettero or
 Symbols They CarrY.
to by american Press Association.


 All our postage stamps are printed In large sheets of 400 stamps each. l These are then cut into four "panes" of 100 stamps each and sent to the various postofflces ln that shape.
 If you were to go to any United States postoflce and buy a complete sheet" or, more correctly speaking, complete pane" of 100 stamps you would find that 1t had on two sides an outer margin, and on each of these margins would be a number. This is the number of the plate from which that pane was printed. Under this number the authorities keep a record of the plate. the date of it's making, on what days 1t was in use, the Quan. titles of stamps printed from 1t and all such data.
 These plate numbers are usually ex- pressed in figures or letters or cOmbl- nations of both. but sometimes other symbols are used, such as the star" plates of recent date. Many stamp lovers form what are called plate number colections"-that Is, collec- ton in which every stamp still has at- tached to 1t the outer margin bearing the plate number. The object is, of course, to get every plate number that was ever issued
 It Is interesting and curious, too, be. cause the stamps arG arranged with the plate numbers in sequence, making them look very different from an ordi- nary collection. For instance, plate No. 253 Is a five cent postage stamp, while the next three. 254, 255 and 256, are postage due stamps. Plate 257 Is a special delivery, and 25S a newspa- per stamp. So a collection of these in sequence Is very varied and interest ing.
 And, again, many of the plates were in use at a time when the color of the stamp was changed, and the same plate number may be found upon both colors, as the one cent blue and the one cent green, or the ten cent green and the ten cent brown, the fifteen cent blue and the fifteen cent olive. Such a collection shows a wide range of shades that Is of great interest to a collector.-St. Nicholas.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-20
HietorEo Hampton Roado.

Tn no territory of like extent in the United States Is more historical inter est gathered than in that which bor- ders Hampton Roads. Here was plant ed the first English colony in America; here was held the first gathering of the peoples representatives to make their own lawsi here were erected the first Notifications in the English speaking new world; here were fought the land battle that terminated Americas war of independence and the naval battle that reVolutionized the warfare of the sea.
 The first Qualifications where Fort Monroe now stands were built 305 years ago, in 1911. Since that time, with short lapses, there has been some sort of a fertilization always guarding the entrance to Chesapeake bay.-Na- tional Geographic Magazine.
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The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-20

Mrs. Margaret A. Nesary, 1513 Twenty-first Ave, S., Semitic, Wasi. says: If I wtorked too hard l dad dull, sjckening pains across my loins and hips. My whole system was affected and made ne feel EGor- lY in every way. Spells of dtzzi' ness came on and I had ai glimmer ing before my eyes at times. My kidneys were irregular in action and tho passages we're distressing. Doau's Kidney Pills greatly benefit cd me. In spite of my advanced age, am active and do all my cwn housework."
 Price soc, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills - tEe same that Mrs. NesaFy had. Foster 2Iilburn Co.,, Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-20

less than a three second annuaT var1a- ton, but it is also possible to make electric connections with other similar clocks elsewhere. With this as a mas. ter clock the others can be made to keep the same accurate time.-Youth's Companion.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-20
Lawyeru' Way.

'T can't understand why those two lawyers call 1t a deed of trust"
 "Why notP'
 From the care with which they are drawing 1t up 1t is quite evident that lhey don't trust each other."-Pitts- burgh Chronicle Telegraph.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-20
WI; !sals.

WT,t s5aT0s ''Your husband Is worse? Did you forget the medicineT "So as not to forget 1t gave him the whole bottle at once. ."-Browning's NIn c-n zina
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-20

HAIR TONIC Saves the Hair You Have - Stimd- lates tae Growth of Hair and ic DeatN to Dandruff - At Keller Bros, The San-Tox Drug Store.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-10-20

WORTH THE MONEY: Perhaps you need 0 hair brush with hard or soft bristles; q shaving brush that holds It's lather; a tooth brush. that doesn't shed bristles; in fact arvthing in the brush line. Ask Keller Bros, The San-Tox Drug Store to show you their line.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-11-22
Gamecock County Fair.

The first Gamccock County Fair
viii open up next Thursday, Novem-
ser %, AMI will continue for three
lays closing Saturday night, Novcm-
Ser 25th.
The prospects look bright indcel
LAST Saturday a number of the rura'
school teachers Of Sumter county met
It Sumter Chamber of Commerce ana
discussed plans for their school ex-
libits at the fair.
Seventeen rural schools entered for
competition on the liberal premium
lists so far, and more schools are ex-
>ected to enter this week.
The agricultural, poultry and live
itock departments have been fooled
with entries for pure bred hogs, beef
ma dairy cattle, horses, mules, colts.
,arious kind of poultry, individual
.afm competitive exhibits, and other
arm exhibits.
we'll represented by an exhibition
rom the domestic science dcport-
nents thereof. The girls canning and
;omato clubs, the womens home dem
onstration clubs, the boys pig and
;orn clubs, the retail dealers and
manufacturers of Sumter city and
'o"nty, big combination carnival
company with plenty of wholesome
attractions and free acts will arrive
:oday Monday the 20tn for the en-
tire week to add pleasure to the gala
week.
Every boy and girl of the rural and
:lty schools of Sumter co Inty and
their teachers will be admitted free
to the entire county fair, and Secre-
tary~ Reardon of the Chamber of
Commerce, with Misses Mary Lem
mon and Katy Pitts, home demonstra-
ton agents were busy last Saturday
serving out complimentary tickets to
the schools of the county.
Florence and Sumter high school
loot ball teams will clash this week
FOR the championship of the Pee Dee
section OF South Carolina.
Sumter will be in gala attire and
festive spirit as numbers of Sumter
merchants and banks have given ont
contracts to professional decorators
to decorate the fronts o: their build
lngs in honor of the boys, girls, men
and women of the rural districts, and
the entire week will witness plenty
OF music, free attractions, booster
trips, parades. etc. az. l. r."
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-11-22

lively swift rotational motion pre-
valiing on that larger circle, and as
1T progressed toward the pole it
| would pass over ground moving more
and more slowly eastward, so that,
with reference to the ground, it
would have an eastward motion, or
again would be DETECTED toward the
| right
| This explains the fact that winds
| blowing toward a central point, or
atmospheric depression, some from a
souther y and others from norther-
ly quarter, form great rotating
storm called cyclone, and the cy-
clone, as whole, rotates, i'm the
northern hemisphere, in a direction
contrary to the motion of the hands
of clock. This is an inevitable re-
suit OF the constant tendency Of
winds to veer to the right of the
center toward which they are travel
| ing. In the southern hemisphere the
direction of veering is toward the left
hand, and in that hemisphere cyclones
rotate with the hands of the clock.
Even Rivers Eat Into Their Right
hand Banks More Than Into
the Left.
| IhlS same tendency OF moving OBJ
Jects IN the, northern hemisphere to
| eccI ~ IHe rlgnC causes rivers to eat
INTO their right-hand banks more than
into the left and it's effect may, theo-
retlcally at least, be traced in a great
variety of phenomena. A CORRESPOND
ent assures me that experienced rail
road engineers have noticed ten
dency of trains to press more against
the right-hand rail, and he even
thinks that he can perceive a great
er readiness of an automobile to turn
to the right than to the left.
Whether such a tendency is really
perceptible with trains and automo-
piles or not, at any rate there is no
doubt of the mathematical efficiency
OF the force above described.
! Here is another way to look at the
matter. If you could plant cannon
at the North Pole and shoot straight
along the line of any meridian. the
pail would veer to the right or the
west of that meridian as it progress
ed southwards, and if you planted the
cannon on the equator and shot along
a, meridian toward the North Pole
the ball would again veer to the right
or, this time, to the east of the meri,
d1an. In fact, even objects moving
eastward, in the northern hemisphere'
| must veer. toward the south, and
those moving westward toward the
| north. Such are some of the inter
essting results of living on rotatinp
riosity.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-11-22
WHY THE ROTATION OF THE
EARTH CAUSES CYCLONES

"Would you mind e. planning to me,
and give the real scientific reason,
why they say the equator Of the
sphere of the earth travels feaster
than the Arctic circle! I say it can
not, because the sphere is all one vol
ume. / am boy, but love science,
ana l wish to receive an answer which
I can show to our science class
2E. j. NJ, Jr., New York.
4 think your case illustrates the
flack Of sufficient oral instruction in
tbschool, of which l recently wrote. You
lhave an inquiring mind, but you have
missed the point in your textbook
and your teacher has not helped.
A Point on the Equator Travels in a
Larger Circle, /But in Less Time
and in Higher Speed.
S A place on the equator does travel
the Arctic circle. The Arctic circle is
much smaller than the circle of the
equator. If we call the circumfer-
ence of the equator, IN round num-
bers, $4,000 miles, then the circum-
ference of the Arctic circle is only
about 0,9G8 misles. Suppose a dis
tance on the equator to be one eighth
OF 1.-The circumference, or say about
5000 miles, then the corresponding
distance on the Arctic circle will be
only 1,l9G miles. But just because
the earth is, as you say, all one vol
'ume, or one body, point on the
Arctlc circle must, as the earth turns,
always keep in line with CORE
, spending point on the equator, and
consequently the shorter distance will
be Travelled in the same time as the
Alonger distance.
/ Now speed, or velocity, is measured
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-11-22
STkTL OF SOUTH CAROLINA
County of Clarendon.
SHERIFF"S SALE.

BY virtuc Of a Decree Of the Cc.;~c
pf Comomn Pleas for Clarendon
coHnty, in the case of Bank of TurH;t..
vile against Anna Keen Ella Robin
son, William Harrison Robinson, ct
al, | will sell, at public auction to the
highest bidder, at the Court House
in Manning, in the County Of Clar-
endon, State of South Carolina, on
ialcsday in December, 1916, being
the 4th day Of said month, during
The usual hours Of sale, the following
described real estate, 20 wit
All that certain piece, parcel or
tract of land situate, and being in
Inc County of Clarendon, State of
South Carolina, containing seventy.
i've acres, more or less, bounded
North by land of p. p. Rowland and
estate of S. c. Tprbevilc, East By
and of j. NJ. Coker, South by land
Of Z. \. c. Player and r. ri Ter
,oker, and West by land of Ira ElI-
lin and r. \. Green.
Terms of sale cash; purchaser to
nay for papers.
+. b. GAMBLE.
Sheriff for Clarendon County.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-11-22
DOCTORS PRAISE, is TRUMP FOR
TANLAC.
Atlanta Physicians Gains IS Pounds, Re Dec ts
TOOK THREE BOTTLES.
'Pm Obliged 10 Think Well of A Medicine That
Accomplished What TaRIaC Did,"

DR.. J. l.. E. Brantley, prominent
practicing Atlanta physician, residing
at 605 South Pryor Street, went into
Jacobs Pharmacy to purchase an
other bottle of Tanlac for his wife,
and made the following statement
regarding the benefits she has de-
rived from the medicine.
81 am obliged to think well of a
medicine that accomplished what
Tanlac has in my wIle's case. She
has gained all Of fifteen pounds on
three bottles of the medicine and she
is now a well woman in every re-
spect.
"She has suffered from indigestion
ana nervousness since 1909. She
could not retain anything scarcely on
her stomach and she was troubled a
great deal by the formation of gas.
She suffered constantly with head
aches and backachcs and was nau-
seated more or less all the time. She
could not sleep or rest we'll at all,
on account of her nervous. condition,
and she became very weak and thin.
Il decided to buy Tanlac for her
because it was so highly recommend
ed for troubles like hers, and I am
glad to say the results have been
most gratifying. She eats anything
she wants now and her stomach us
all right. Gas has stopped forming
and she retains and digests her food
properly and has built up wonder
fully: The headaches and pains in
her back are broken up and she
sleeps we'll every night. l consider
her Improvement almost remarkable
and can now recommend Tanlac fol
what it has done for her"
Coming from the nigh source il
does, and especially from member
of the medical profession, this
straightforward utterance of DR.
Brantley is more than a recommenda-
ton. 1t is triumph. Tanlac, ma
ture's great vegetable tonic, correct
i've and system builder, is ruly one
of the greatest discoveries of the de-
cade, and the best evidence of this
is the confidence and high esteem in
which it is held. Not only by the
great masses of people. No other
medicine has ever established the rep
utation Tanlac has nor any other re-
ceived the high endorsement of mel
lcal men and laity.
Clarendon County.
Dickson's Drug Store, Manning: /,
W. Nettles, Jordan; Shaw & Plowden
New Zion; Farmers Supply Co., Sill
yer; d. O. Rhame, Summcrton.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-11-22
ADMINISTRATORS SALE

Persuant to an order of J. NJ
Windham, Judge Of Probate, l will
sell to the highest bidder for cash, at
Monday. Nov 20. 1916. Mt II o'clock.
the residence of the late William L..
McFadden in Clarendon County, S.
c., all of the personal property be-
longing to the estat of tn said Will
liam L. McFaddcn, consisting of
mules, horses, ohgs, cattle, cotton,
corn, fodder, peas, plow implements,
hay, oats, buggies, house hold and
kitchen furniture, bank stock, etc. AS
mentioned in the inventory and ap-
praisement of the said estate, same
being on file in the office Of Judge of
Probate for said County and State.
JAMES V. BURGESS,
Nov. 5, 1916. Administrator.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-11-22
THE State OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County Of Clarendon.
SHERIFF'S SALE.

G. A.~Lemon, p. F. Sullivan and
R. 0. Purdy, as Trustees for the es-
tate of A. A. Strauss. Plaintiffs,
against jeff Dickerson, Defendant.
Under and by virtue of A Judg-
nent Order Of the Court Of Common
Pleas, in the above stated action, to
ne directed. bearing date of October
the 7th, 1916, | will sell at public
auction, to the highest bidder, for
ash, at Clarendon Court House, at
tanning, in said County, within the
'cgal hours for judicial sales, on
Monday, the 4th day of December,
91G, being sales day, the following
escribcd real estate:
All the right, title and interest of
'cif Dlckerson in present, in expect
'ncy, anil in future, in and to that
ract of land situated in the County
# Clarendon. in said State, contain
ng fifty (50) acres, more or less,
Dolndea Oh the North and West by
,ands of j. j. Boyd and Of G.. X.
Boyd, East by lands of John J. Boyd,
md S. r. Boyd, and South by lands
Of Boykin Cantcy.
Also insurance policy No. 501750,
'ssued by The Penn Mutual Life In
surancc Company of Philadelphia,
?. A. for the Sum Of One Thousand
Dollars, dated January 30th, 1909, on
the life of Jeff Dickson. Purchaser
20 pay for papers.
f. B. GAMBLE,
Sheriff Clarendon County.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-11-22

by the distance divided by the time.
The time in this case would be three
hours; 5000 miles, divided by three
nours, would give speed of 1000
niles per hour, while 1,196 miles, di-
lided by three hours, would give a
speed of trille less than 800 miles
per hour.
Your difficulty arises from confus-
!ng angular velocity, or the speed Of
turning of the earth as whole, with
velocity in space, which depends up
on the distance travelled, and is meas
ured by the size of the circle.
Why a Wind From the North Veers
to the Westward as it Nears
Equator.
l am glad that you have been
thinking about this subject, because
if you continue to investigate it YOU
will be led to understand some Won
derful things about which,. l am
afraid, many thousands of your eld-
ers know no more than the racoon
knows about the moon, whose light
reveals the riches of the farmers
cornfield-and, unfortunately for the
cornfield, enables the farmer to see
his gun-sights.
One of these things I will try to
illustrates: Suppose current of air
to start from the pole toward the
equator. At the beginning it shares
the slow, circular movement of the
ground near the pole, but as it pro-
crosses toward larger and larger cir
clcs of the earth it finds the ground
beneath it carried round eastward with
continually increasing speed. Ipertia
prevents it from rapidly acquiring
this increase of speed, SO that, with
reference to the ground, the direc-
tion toward which the wind blows
gets more and more westward, or, in
other words, the wind keeps veerine
toward the right hand.
On the contrary, if it started on
the equator, It ould share the rela-
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-11-22
State Of South Carolina
County of Clarendon.
CLERKS SALE.

NJ. A. Plowden, Plaintiff, VS.. Alex
Capers, Sadie Benbow, and Toot Ben
bow, Defendants.
Decree dated September 9th, 1916,
to be sold, sales,lay in December
1916, being the 4th day of December
All that piece, parcel or tract of
land lying, being and situate in the
town OF Summertoni Clarendon Coun-
ty; ~ State aforesaid. and bounded as
follows, to wit: North "by Belser
Street; East by lands of Edith Ca
pers;, South by lot OF Virginia Nc
lntosh, and West by Ghnrch Street.
said lot having a front on Church
Street of fifty feet, an q depth of
forty-four feet, being tho lot that was
conveyed to Elith Capc,;s. including
the buildings thereon by w. II. An
derson.
Purchaser to pay for papers. Terms
Of sale cash
A. |. BARRON,
Clerk of Court Clarendon County.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-11-22
SHERIFF'.S SALE.
State of South Carolina,

State of South Carolina,
Clarendon County.
Nell O'Donncll, as Treasurer of
the Board of Trustees Of the Tuomv
:lospltal, Plaintiff, against John +.
Morris, Defendant
Under and by virtue of Ju lp
Hcnt Order of the Court of Common
Pleas, in the above stated case. to
ne directed, bearing date of July %,
1916, | will sell at public auction. to
the highest bidder for cash, at Clar-
IN ION Court Hose, at Manning, in
said County, within the legal hours
Tor judicial sales, on MONDAY the lth
day of December, 1916, being sales
lay, the following described real
estate
All that tract Of AMI situate in
Clarendon County, in the State aforc-
sad, containing thirty-two acres,
more or less, boun led on the North
by lands of J. +. Norris and West
by lands of Wesley Minis, South said
parcel of land being that which WAS
conveyed to me by j. }. Floyd by
deed dated February goth, 1914.
Also that tract Of land situate in
said County and State, containing
one hundred and forty-eight acres,
more or less, bounded by and adioin
ing lands of M. M. Robertson, Fannie
Lavender, land now or formerly of
Rush, and lying on Horse Branch,
the said land being that which was
conveyed to me by S. G.. Turbcyille
by deed dated April 10th, 1910, re-
corded in book 3 at page 7O4.
Purchaser to pay for papers.
f. b. GAMBLE.
Sheriff Clarendon Comfy