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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-03-10
PARCEL POST MARKET
OF SIRUP BRINGS PROFIT

Maple, cane, and sorghum siru )
may be really shipped by parcel post
if property prepared for shipment,
according to investigators in the Bu-
reau of Markets, United States De-
partmcnt of Agriculture, who have
made experimental shipments from
many parts Of the country, over many
different mail routes. Of 304 ship
ments only 3 showed any material
loss because Of leakage and this was
due to unusually rough handling. The
average distance covered by these
shipments was greater than sirups
are likely to be sent by mail under
ordinary conditions.
Two types of 1-gallon tin contain
ers were found satisfactorily for par
cel-post shipments. Both types have
screw caps and arc provided with
outer cartons Of corrugated paper
board. Snugly fitting pieces Of cork
in the caps cover the opening in the
cans when screwed down tightly. Such
packages properly wrapped and Sc
curely tied, marked "fargilc" as re-
quircd by the postal regulations for
packages containing liquids, will carry
without danger Of leakage in the
mails. While the 1-gallon can is
most commonly used, any size up to
S gallons may be shipped under the
present parcel-pot weight limit of 70
pounds. Light but substantial wood
en- crates should be supplied for the
larger containers.
Suggestions on obtaining customers
and dealing with them by parccl-post
may be found in Farmers Bulletin
922, "Parccl-Post Business Methods"
which also suggests how consumers
mnV ~ct in touch with producers. A
coDy Of this bulletin will be sent free
on 'eceipt Of request addressed to
thc United States Department of Ag-
r.rrlLprc, Washington, D. G.
o.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-03-10

Fsn 1919 wheat crop, according to
reports received by the United States
DcDorCmcnt Of Agriculture, is the sec
on" .nIgcst ever grown in Kansas, the
crop # 1914 being the only one one
to Grpass it. 1t is also the largest
wheat crop harvested in any State
thj@ year, the nearest competitor pro-
duelug only 43 per cent as much as
Kansas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
SACRED AND SECULAR

looked called good. All D that the world God finished The
 of civilization buried in the earth waiting
 for the twentieth them forth The tears and all been implicit the of him whom God first made living soul The stars finished called them good They good they Gods
 between the freshly gded their God The shaped His wondewong hands The depth the the purpose rolling His caees made Gods and likeness
 We look the world today began of putting those things together Down through the things ne dead said: "These has part" the pity that ular" government of with their religious often this the that modng life the building These things ought to be- this world at the in the activities that think for touching the lives of Gods people All things will be but hollow mckery until they shining a the chief places We
  unworthy expects again purified A things Chrts; MIDDLETON
 O the Adyen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14

Germany's "Iron Man," was tool of the militarists. If so, it was good policy to let him continue at his post, maintain order by typically sPrussian methods and get out when told to do so. "Ebert the Fat" was perhaps never taken seriously by the reaction aries who felt that they could bowl him over whenever it, suited their con- venience. Despite the report that Holland kept close watch on the former Kaiser, it is believed that he has been in frequent communication with Berlin. If, as reported, he has been conspiring with the monarchists in Germany, as well as in Turkey, and receiving mysterious visitors after nightfall, the allied governments will have another bone to pick with Holland.
 The first advices received from Berlin revealed little but the bare facts. Ebert, Noske and Premier Bauer were swept from power with out bloodshed as if they were mere puppets. Dr. Won Knapp was named the new chancellor and General Von Luettwitz commander in chief of the army. Both are dyed-in-the-wool Prussians, although General Won Luettwitz is said to have an Ameri- can wife. Back of these stand the old leaders, among them Won linden burg.
 Whether or not the Hohenzollerns are restored to power, Germany is once more under the heel of the mili- tarists. So far as the allies are con- cerned, as long as the latest revolu- ton in Germany remains a strictly internal affair, they have no cause to interfere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
N x To Promote a Great Choral Organization

T7THAT was a praise worthy move U ment which some one started here recently in the interest of high class music, namely, an association membership department of the Peo- ples Choral Society, the dues to be twenty dollars a year. It was pro- posed to enlist fifty associate mem- bers. One thousand dollars would pay the routine expenses and place the society on a permanent basis. But while the leaders of the move- ment are at it, why not raise two thousand dollars, so as to create a fund sufficient to guarantee the booking of concert orchestra to as- sist at the society first festival?
 Birmingham, like all cities of con- siderable size, has much good vocal talent. We should be able to assem- ble and rehearse regularly a chorus of two hundred and fifty voices. Few choruses are larger, except in short mass festival numbers, when trained choruses are brouht gfrom cities throughout the state for the perform ance when Mozart's "Halleluiah" and other familiar classics calling for mighty volume, are to be rendered. In orations, cantatas and complete compositions generally, finish rather than volume is essential.
 One of these days Birmingham will have an auditorium with vast seat ing capacity It will be dedicated with week of music. And our musi- caf forces should be getting ready for it. Let there be no delay in can wasting for the Peoples Choral so- ciety associate membership.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14

Watch the prediction. As soon as the tide of American tourists begins to inun- date Europe, Scotch whisky will go to well-nigh prohibitive figure.
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 The war has been over for some time, but people are still asking the Literary Digest's "Lexicographer'' how to pro- nounce Ypres.
 Where are the good democrats?" as1s the Selma Times-Jotirnal. Many are in heaven. but there are enough left on earth to make favorable showing at the polls in November
 ;. # #
 The motorist who ran over David War field in Los Angeles and broke his leg has assuredly never seen that eminent actor in The Music Master
 < < # The Spanish dons are smoking Amer lean cigarettes and we expect to hear at any moment that the "shimmy" has srpplanted the fandango.
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 President Wilson may be a fallen idol n Paris. but that doesn't prevent him from enjoying sun bath on the White House lawn. * < x
 The French dancer with the shapeIy limbs is already indebted to American newspapers for several million dollars worth of advertising.
 * # *
 Does anybody know whether or not Liberty cabbage resumed it's former name after the cessation of hostllities? Both the republican and democratic parties appear to be flirting with the wrath of King Alcohol Y The former Mrs. Dempsey promises Sensational disclosures" Gentlemen of of the press, prepare to do your duty!
 < * $ A war profiteer making leisurely sur- vey of European battlefields Is sight for the gods. # * $ A plain business suit is much more com fortable to wear than the imperial pur- pie and tinsel crown. # * # Sand mountain grows good corn, says the Sand Mountain Banner. How many gallons to the acre2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
Knoxville's Large
 Population Increase

m HE census bureau announces
 O Knoxville's population for 1920 as seventy-seven thousand eight hun dred and eighteenth increase of Iforty-one thousand four hundred and seventy-two, or TAI per cent, as compared with 1910. This is the larg- est increase of any city announced thus far in 1920.
 1 Is is the result of the extension of
 boundary lines. Knoxville has been
 cramped for some years past. It's area should have been extended years ago. Its size is now reasonable. Chattanooga had been thought to be larger city than Knoxville, but the census brought distinct disap- pointment to Chattanooga. In round numbers it has population of only | fifty-seven thousand, and yet it is one of the best advertised industrial cities of the south.
 The census returns thus far have
 shown. few large gains. Knoxville
 is the only city that has made a
 great jump.
 | Birmingham and Atlanta are yet to be heard from. The Georgia me- tropolis has a way, it is said, of counting weekend visitors; and in a pinch hotel registers and morgue records.
 Birmingham's population will rep
 resent only actual growth. No ter
 ritory has been acquired since the census of 1910. But there has been
 rapid gain
 In the meantime, the whole south
 will congratulate Knoxville on pop
 ulation of nearly eighty thousand. I x * *
 l A bearteous movie star figures in one
 of the greatest poker scandals New York
 has ever known. However. in justice to the fair Nor.ra it sbouid be stated that she was one of the victims.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
LUKE McLUKE SAYS


 Some of these days the women will compel the states to ratify Twenty first amendment prohibiting pastors from using the word obey" in the Mar riage Ceremony.
 v Many a girl goes. to a Hairdresser' s for Marcel Wave when she should
 "A man is an animal who will raise more Cain over losing his Collar But ton than he will over losing his Feputa- tion.
 Don't let your head get swelled. The fellow who thought he was going to make the world eat out of his hand is now eating a handout.
 Be good to your wife The man who gives the worst of it at home gets the worst of it when he is away from home.
 Prohibition has made some great changes. A drunken man used to be an object of Derision But nowadays he is an object of Envy. A lot of perfectly good Christians hope that Heaven will be large enough so they can dodge great many people whom they do not care to meet Funny how the Nonsense of pretty woman will attract men when the Sense of homely> woman will drive them away.
 When he got $15 per week. his wife called it his Pay Then he got $50 per week. and ne called it his Salary. Now The gets SSa ger week and she calls it his IIncome
 has been our humble observation 1 tAat those vho rob Peter-do lot of LhpldlAg oas on poor old Paul. l No sslye iothar will trust her Hus- sH fess the Baby. She knows 1 Fn fool would pin the clothes II id of on it. low who is teaching her is n sad eligible. it takes girl | a w arn a new dance as it does f Tn to swim. to tell the married girls | fl married ones: The unmar- ri sak of "the dining room, l"t e." ''the piano." and "the l.rA..s arried ones speak of my | dii EA my rug" etc.
 T. spiti C. he fact that nobody loves hinA fst man is lucky. When fat man sits lcwn to worry over his trou- bles ls fafs aaleeb and forgets them.
 Assnthar jreason why we love a Corn Fed xla1 \ ee ause she wears her nat ural edsnfal Tie. She may have to buy oiit-stxss rything. but she doesn't have le h aYs paint.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
TAMMANy AND THE LADIES

From the Sun and New York Herald.
 Tammany Hall was slow in coming to equal suffrage, but it does not delay fin taking advantage of an opportunity to attract women voters to its ranks. The democratic machine slate in this county for delegates and alternates to the national convention is half filled with women's names. Most of them are put down as alternates. but in five Congress districts women will 70 as delegates.
 MT. Murphy, whatever his ethical faults, is practical man. He is mak- ing a frank bid to women who wish to he active in politics We send five la dies as delegates" he can say, "while the republicans send only one to their national convention. Come into the wigwam Maud, and get the square deal.
 the even break. the fiffy-fifty di- vision"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
Q. E. D.


 From the Louisville Csurier-Journal. Twenty-Five or thirty years ago thAre appeared in Harpers Magazine some verses. .'An Idle Poet" which ran some thing like this: 'Tis said that when the nightingale His mate has found He fills no more the woodland deeps With songful sound. I sing not since I found my love For, like the birds, My heart is full of song, too sweet, Too deep, for words.
 That those who essay poetry are not always strangers to truth was shown. in this case, yesterday, by New York dispatch to the Courier-Journal reyopf> ing the suspension of magazins the Harvard. '.We were fools to start a magazine. confesses a valedictory edi- torial in the dying issue yWe haven't even one literary light. What's wC.-s,.e most of our writers have the bgheadl The bird who used to write all those swell love sonnets has fallen in love and has not turned out a foot of verse in two months
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
A MARYL.SD ROAD
From the Leonardtown Beacon.l

From the Leonardtown Beacon
 Clarence Herbert, our local mail carl rier, reports our "so-called" roads in a deplorable condition. He drove into one of our famous mud holes between Abell and Oakley. beut<his axle, broke his wheel, fell out on his head and swallowed his chew of tobacco, and had to "lasso" the mail bag and draw it out on the bank before he could con- tinue. He says if Uncle sam wants him to carry the mail on time he will have to build better roads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14

Since that day, some three years ago, this amateur agricultura:ist has sold pigs, and given away pigs. and sent pigs over to his old friend Capt Jack Phillips raeking house and had them killed and cured. He has eaten sausage and spare ribs ana backbone and hams and break fast bacon, and distributed the like among his friends.
 In the meantime, the rigs on Shades mountain have accumulated. They seem to have a faculty of hatching without notice.
 Only Friday afternoon cf the past week, when the writer thought he was almost shy of pigs. telephone message came from Jim. the Major Domo of the Shades mountain nest, which, when interpreted, was somewhat like thiss
 Please send out some feed tomorrow.
 "why feed? You had some month ago. What are you feeding?"
 What am I feeding? There has been a lot doing here today. Dolly has seven pigs. Princess has seven, Little Lady has six ana the little thoroughbred has three left, an automobile having run over two. There are twenty-three little ones out here"
 That ended the conversation. The food uae conf o4if
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
Monarchists of Germany
 Are Once More in Power

661M FER TAG" has dawned again
 lV in Germany. The downfall of the Ebert government will cause no surprise in America where it has been suspected for a year or more that German monarchists and mili- tarists were only biding their time. The wonder is that they did not strike sooner. Perhaps they felt sure of their ground and but waited until the hour arrived for a coup which would make the overthrow of the so- called German republic an easy matter.
 Conditions in the fatherland may have withheld the blow. Just after the war, and especially before the peace terms were made known to the German people, the monarchists might not have found it safe to test their strength. There was a great deal of resentment felt toward the old order and the bitterness of de- feat, following the prolonged hard ships they had endured, did not inn prove the temper of the German people.
 The proclamation of the peace terms, far more drastic than expect ed, gave the militarists and monarch ists-as a matter of fact, they are identical-their first opportunity to begin crystallizing public sentiment, It was easy for the plotters to profit by spirit of discontent which spread through the country, was intensified as the months dragged on snd reached climax when the allied gov- ernments demanded Germany's war criminals for trial, including the esiser.
 It has been whispered that Noske.
 .h
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
, BOHEMIAN EASTER CUSTOM

In various parts of Bohemia. now the principal state of the new Czecho- Slovak republic. curious old custom prevails. that of Easter riding" Each Easter day
 at o'clock in the morning the riders assemble, dressed in black and carrying crosses. flags and other emblems. rrom schonwald they proceed ons three hours ride to Kuhn. where they attend service. The priest. after a sermon wherein he refers to the horse as sym bol of power. bestows his benediiction on the animals and their riders. This done. tho riders visit the nsishborlng
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14

TIN THESE days of politics much has
 been said about increased registra-
 ton.
 It is said that some 5000 men can vote in Jefferson county in the May primary.
 The newspapers say that full 5000 more voters are registered in this county than two years ago.
 The word registration reminds the writer of his present day troubles.
 It was only a few years ago when he happened to visit Demopolis with Mrs Mathis and other agricultural orators. On that visit he learned that there were such things as registered" pigs. He visited an alfalfa farm on which were grazing many Tamwortn pigs; and By accident, or otherwise, acquired a pair of these pigs of English origin-thorough breds. They were red of color, of the razor-back type-tall and elongated, but so high bred that they looked of the racehorse type.
 We'll to make long story short. a pair of these pigs landed at Bracewood on Shades mountain.
 Being an amateur farmer and novice in raising pigs, some ono advised that there should be trio. A Jersey lady pig III added "a tha nan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
2,eJs1ouea
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A GREAT UPLIFTER.

A GREAT UPLIFTER.t My friend" said the uncouth stran-i ger. do you go in much for this uplift stuff"
 Yes" replied the prosperous looking citizen. I've made millions out of it." Just as I thought. I suspected somebody was getting rske-off from all the money donated for first one thing and then another. Whats your line?"
 T manufacture 'TNT.~
 SAFE PREDICTING Does Blobbs set himself up as political prophet% 'of the negative kind" .How's that?"
 He can tell you the names of a dozen favorite sons who won't be elect ed President"
 THE EXPECTED HAPPENS. Another shakeup in Germany, I hear"
 What's the latest newsr' '"rhe vons' seem to be on top again.r
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT TAMWORTH PIGS
 AND TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCE WITH THEM

But why in the world should m anna teur go into the pig business?
 With a start of three insignificant red pigs. within three years there Is . rsc- ord of more than 300.
 At the present price of pork, why shouldn't some one who knows something about it make fortune out of raising pigs.
  At this same place there are pigs and chickens. and but few eggs. The pigs seem to hatch more generously than the hens. Rabbits only produce eggs at Easter time; but these Tamworth pigs seem to hatch at all times.
 If there happens to be anyone around about this Birmingham interested in pigs, or pigs of the Tamworth kind, composed of a steak of lean and streak of fat, which makes the ideal breakfast bacon and ham, they might drive by this little place on Shades mountain this sun day afternoon. if 1t be a pleasant day. and observe for themselves the busy life of the pig.
 If pigs could vote this writer would be o ,oxuar in nolitics
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
BIG GAME.

BIG GAME. "who is the man surrounded by an admiring crowd?" "A big game hunter"
 "Ah! Is he just back from Africa?' NO; from the mountains of this state He led .posse, that captured twenty three moonshiners' and nine stills with total capacity of 1.5oo gallons a day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
A New s.Underwoodp story

One of the cleverest stories l nave heard recently was one that was told the other day in which Senator Oscar Underwood plays the leading part said Dolly Dalrymple. ''The popular senator Is the latest statesman to incur the penalty of having babies named for him. as Is usually the case during senatorial campaign, and the gentle man who named his latest offspring for Senator Underwood is none other than Mir Kidd. The gentleman wrote the senator recently that a lit tle Kidd" had arrived at his house and that 1t had been christened Oscar Underwood Kidd.
 "The senator was properly pleased and fiattered over the new namesake and wrote the fond parents in his graceful way thanking them for the compliment and -eongratulating them upon the youngsters arrival adding that he hoped that none of the young Kidds friends would be of facetious turn of mind.
 Mentioning this to friend, the senator was asked why. and he re- piled:
 "Because 1t would be embarrassing to the young man to be hailed as o. U. Kiddr"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14

am A little late in congratuiatlhe Mrs. W. D. Smith. president VI Drama League, for giving It's mempefs n chance to hear something out or 'he ordinary. for those who were priNu saaa +o hear the distinguished Hindu coet and dramatist. Dhsn Gopal Mu- kerti. wilt not soon forget nm.
 was never seriously interested Ill oriental literature until LOOK 'no course in Comparative Religions al the rr,iversitv of Berlin under Herr Pro- fassor Deussen. At the time l had no thought of the ministry. put nao so ten interested in speculative theoiosy while studying philosophy, ana IL was on easv step to wish to know aoout the worlds great faiths
 Tam led to write along this line pe- cause of the reference which Dnan Gonal Mukerji made to the changing types of missionaries being sent 10 the far east. He opened up most inter- estfng vista and one which IS peins much studied and warmly depated py the great evangelical denominations working in China. Korea. Japan lnola' Turkey and Egypt and other places where Christianity comes in confiict with other religions.
 
 ,1x- oan,ira tim for the men and women of faith who pioneered the way in the mission fields when r -neant not only danger from climate and the perils of the wild. but in many cases cost them their lives through the fanatIcism of the people among whom ines to face such odds. and while we were passing into a closer and better knowledge of the countries whose doors at one time were closed to mis- sionary endeavor. there isNalso more honest effort being made to find ou are being planted.
 think from training. travel and iong and sympathetic study that l am in a position to understand those whose idea of missions to merely carry the gospel message and hurry on until all mankind has heard it. and those who believe in schools. hospitals and other means of getting foothold in order to demonstrate the effects of the q e~~. . l ta t.rSfl in theory and in practice by showing the kind of character it produces ip individual believers and the kind of in- stitutions 1t perLetuates. II But there Is vet a wider cleavage. and it's one of the big things which is being attempted to settle at present by the InterchurchN movement and the Federal Council and other organiza- tions whose outlook is broader than that of denominationalism. For years there has been not only an overlap ping at home bv the competition of the various churches but gradually 1t is heinz done on the foreign field. For long time there was the talk Of the partitioninE of China. but John Hay immortalized himself and added luster to American diplomacy by hold ing out for the "open door, policy. Then there was much talk among the great powers about spheres of influ- ence" in China It was this thing which got Germany her footing at kiao
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
PARADISE REGAINED

From the London Daily Mail. Near Chalfont St. Giles a new poul- try farm has beeen called the Para vertiised
 ground He wrote of Paradise Lost but here
 'tis found"