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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-12-28

Mr.. r. D. Plyler is visiting rela-
tives and friends in Lancaster this
week.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-12-28
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
TWENTY YEARS AGO
January I, 1902

:, Rev. S. A. Nettles spent several
days of last week in Manning.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-12-28

=, MISS Hattie Auld of Eastover, is in
Manning visiting Miss Lii Harvin.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-12-28

Mr.. w. e. Jenkinson, Manning's
pushing and appreciative merchant,
presented us with a very useful New
Years present in the shape of hand
some diary. We tip our hat to him and
wish nm many long years of useful
ness and prosperity.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-12-28

Mr.. w. A. Richbourg and Miss An
ME Cantey, daughter of Mr.. j. S. Can
tey, were married at the home of the
brides parents at Sumerton, on Thurs
day evening, December &c, Rev. Dent
officiating.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-12-28

Married by Rev. F. w. Gregg last
wednesday evening, at the residence
OF the brides mother, Mr.. w. Charlton
DuRant and Miss Lizzie A. Nelson.
me couple took the evening train for
Charlston and spent several days vis-
iting the exposition.
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1921-03-05
BOOK TWo-THE DEBT.

CHAPTER L-DAn, now thoroughly
peoncisnt in woods lore. learns from Len
nox that an organised hand Of outlaws.
Of which Bert Cfanston IL the leader. s
making trouble In the vicinity. Landry
Hildreth. 4 former member Of the gang.
has been induced to turn states evidence.
On his way to the city Hildreth 10 way
laid by Cranston. shot, and left for dead
Cranston, however. overlooked the fact
that Hldreth might have documentary
evidence on his person. and IN satisfied
that his enemy will never reach the city
70 tell what he knows OF the operations
OF the gang.
CHAPTER ia cougar, on . personal
nunting expedition. finds Hildreth in q
thiokst where he had crawied after be-
ing shot by cranston. The cougar an
ishes Cranston's work. and in striking
down man becomes . forest outlaw.
Failing, on his way homo from visit
TO 'Snowbird'S' lookout station, comes
upon Cranston in the act of starting
forest fire. The men quarrel and hght
Failing is no match for the sturdy noun
taineer and 10 saved from death only By
the Intervention Of "Suowbird," who
drives the outlaw from his victim by
thysAtenins him with . revolver.
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power Jeemed to be holding his wrist
bends bow. Pain dashed through him.
And then this dark hearted man, who
had never known the meaning of mer
cy, opened his lips to scream that this
terrible enemy be merciful to him.
But the words wouldn't come. A
and his tortured lungs sobbed for
breath. Then, for long time, there
was a curious pounding, flashing sound
In the evergreen boughs. 1t seemed
merciless and endless.
But Dan got up at last, in strange,
heavy silence, and swiftly went to
work. He took the rifle and filled 1t
with cartridges from Cranstons belt.
Then he put the remaining two boxes
of shells into his shirt pocket. The
supplies of food-the sack of nutri-
tious jerked venison like dried bark.
the little package Of cheese. the boxes
of hard tack and one of the small
sacks of prepared four-he tied, with
single kettle, into his heavy blan-
kets and flung them with the rifle upon
his back. Finally he took the pair of
snow shoes from the floor. He worked
coldly, swiftly, all the time munching
at piece of jerked venison. When he
had finished he walked to the door of
the lean-to.
1t seemed to Dan that Cranston whis-
pered family, from his unconscious
ness, as he passed; but the victor did
not turn to look. The snow shoes
crunchcd away into the darkness. On
the hill behind half dozen wolves
stragglers from the pack-frisked and
leaped about IN a curious way. A
strange smell had reached them on the
wind, and when the loud, fearful steps
were out Of hearing. 1t might pay them
to creep down, one by one, and inyesti-
gate Its cause. .NL
The gray circle about the FIRE was
growing Impatient. SnOwbird waited to
the last instant before she admitted
this fact. But 1t is possible only 30
long to deny the truth of q thing that
all the senses verify, and that moment
for her wss past.
She noticed that when she went to
her hands and knees. laboriously to
cut q piece Of the drier wood from the
rain soaked. rotted snag that was her
principal supply Of fuel. every wolf
woufd leap forward, only to draw back
when she stood straight again. She
worked desperately 70 kesn ~ IN
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1921-03-05

A LOUD rapping on his hotel door
N in Washington awakened the vice
president, Andrew Johnson, to the
startling news that the president had
been MORALLY shot. Even before
Johnson took the oath the next morn
ing, strong men were laying plans.
with unseemly haste, to have him re
verse Lincoln's generous policy toward
the conquered south.
Power quickly cooled the vindictlve
passions kindled in johnson by his
long. bitter feud with the southern
leaders, and he returned to Lincoln's
policy of reconciliation. Wisely, no
one was punished for treason. hap
PLY, vengeance for great war was
not wreaked on any individual.
The radicals, who had secretly re-
joiced in Johnson's accession, turned
upon him furlOusly. 1t was easy for
them to excite the doubt of the north
in this southerner, and to estrange
the Republicans from this Democrat.
For the first time even the sobriety
of president was called into ques-
ton. Johnson's unfortunate condition
at his Inauguration as vice president
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1921-03-05

had shocked Charles Sumner into
starting whispered discussion of his
enforced resignation. When he be
came president his intemperance In
speech lent color to exaggerated re
ports of his intemperance In drink.
For two years before Lincoln died.
the radical leaders had been insisting
that congress, not the president, should
fix the terms Of peace for the south
nounced him as a despot, an autOcrat
and usurper, because of his policy
Of reconstruction. And congress had
persistently refused to admit the sen.
ators and representatives from the
states which he had reconstructed on
his liberal plan.
Apart from the Republican politi.
lists, the north was in favor of Lin
coins moderate policies. But when
it became question between Johnson
and the radicals, the radicals won over.
whelmingly In the congressional cleo
tlon Of 1866
With two-thirds majority In the
new house and senate, the Republicans
Overrode the presidents vetoes, and
congress took command of the govern.
ment. The reconstructed states were
cutlnwed. The south was divided into
military provinces. The ballot was
thrust ii.,o the unskillful hand of the
freedmen, Notwithstanding 1t was still
denied the negro in all but six states
of the north. At the same time
large class Of Southern whites was dis
franchised for disloyalty in the war,
which left several states to pass under
the corrupt government Of northern
carpet baggers'' and southern "scal-
awngs," who gained power by manipr-
lating the ignorant black vote and who
held 1t by force of federal bayonets.
As northern fire eaters" pressed to
the front, on one side OF the Mason
and Dixon line, southern fire eaters
took the lead on the other side. BY
night the Ku Klux Khan rode their ia
Bile horses in campaign Of terrorism
to frighten the blacks from using the
ballot.
Party and sectional politics, north
and south. still was the marplot of the
Union. AS 1t had fostered disunion
before the war, 1t was doing Its worst
to prevent reunion, now that the war
was over.
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be shot down without mercy. AM
few indeed were those that escaped
to collect on distant ridge, and, per
haps, to be haunted in dream by q
death that came out of the shadows to
blast the pack.
Again the pack song would be de-
spairing and strange in the winter
nights-that age old chant of Famine
and Fear and the long war Of exist
ence with only Death and Darkness In
the end. And because 1t is the voice
Of the wilderness itself, the tender
foot that camps in the evergreen for
est will listen. and his talk will die at
his lips, and he will have the begin
nings of knowledge. And perhaps he
will wonder II God has given him the
thews and fiber to meet the wilderness
breast to breast as Dan had met 1t :
to remain and to fight and to conquer.
And thereby his metal will be tested In
the eyes of the. Red Gods.
Snowbird stood waiting in the snow,
arms stretched to her forester as Dan
came running through the wood. But
his arms were wider yet. and she went
softly into them.
I'VE will take it easy from now on"
Dan Failing told them, after the camp
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clearing out by the flre-big as prize
ring Wen go out there-side by side.
And hands to hands wen settle all
these debts we have between us-with
no rules Of fighting and no mercy In
the endw
They measured each other with their
eyes. Once more Cranston's gaze stole
to his rife, but lunging out Dan
kicked 1t three feet farther into the
shadows of the iean-to. Dan saw the
dark face drawn with passion, the
hands clenching. the shoulder muscles
growing into hard knots. And Gran
ston looked and knew that merciless
vengeance-that age old sin and
Christless creed by which he lived
had followed him down and was
clutching him at last
He saw 1t in the position of the stall
wart form before him, the clear level
eyes that the moon light made bright
as steel, the hard lines, the slim. pow
erful hands. He could read 1t in the
tones Of the voice-tones that he him
self could not initiate or pretend. The
hour had come for the setting Of old
debts.
He tried to curse his adversary as a
weakling and degenerate. but the OBJ
scene words he sought for would not
come to his lips. Here was his fate,
and because the darkness always fades
before the light, and the courage of
wickedness always breaks before the
courage of righteousness, Cranston was
afraid to look 1t in the face. The fear
of defeat, of death, Of heaven knows
what remorselessness with which this
grave giant would administer justice
was upon him, and his heart seemed
to freeze in his breast. Cravenly he
leaped for his knife on the blankets
below him.
Dan was upon him before he ever
reached it. He sprang as a cougar
spings, incredibly fast and with shat
tering power. Both went down, and
for long time they writhed and strug-
gled in each others arms. The pine
bOughs rustled strangely.
The dark, gaunt hand reached In
vain for the knife. Some. resistless
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CHAPTER ~

Dan Failing was really not badly
hurt. The quick. lashing blown had
not done more than severely bruise
the flesh of his face; and the mists Of
unconsciousness that had been falling
over him were more nearly the result
Of his own tremendous physical e1.
srtion. Now these mists were rising.
"Go-go away" the girl was COM
manding. II think you've killed him."
Dan opened his eyes to ind her
kneeling close beside him. but still
covering Cranston with her pistol. Her
hand was resting on his bruised cAsek.
BE couldn't have believed that q hu-
man face could be as white, while life
still remained. as hers was then. An
the lovely tints that had been such Q
delight to him, the play Of soft reds
and browns, had faded a. an aftss.
0low fades % The snSw.
CHAPTER IH.-Cranston grossly insults
the girl. Failing promises her ne wiz
punish him when he has fully recovered
his strength, and the girl looks on the
promise as q compact. A few days later
Silas Lennox. while chopping wood In the
yore., 4, mined under a falling branch
.nd hsdly hurt. "Snowbird" finds her
father and gets him safely to the house
and to bed
CHAPTER H.-DAn and ''Snowbird'
Bnd him and all realize that the situation
In desperate. The house destroyed, the
three are left with only a revolver con
taining three cartridges. and absolutely
no food. Dan constructs a rough sledge
and the party sets out for the nearest
safety, seventy miles away, They are
followed by packs OF wolves. The girls
snowshoe breaks and further progress
through the deep snow is impossible.
Dan sets out to find Cranston and seize
his arms and provisions. leaving Lennox
and "Snowbird' with the revolver. They
the wolves at bay. Dan reaches Gran
sciousness. and starts back with guns and
provisions He arrives barely in time to
rescue the two. the wolves being on the
point of attacking. With supply OF
food and the necessary arms for defense
the party is comparatively safe. While
they rest Dan, feeling that he has re-
deemed his promise to punish Crnnston,
and also kept the pact. claims Snow
bird" The girls attachment to him has
not been much In doubt. and II Ia ar.
ranged that after their marriage they
shall live near Lemons rebuilt home
Dan enters the service A. a forest ranger
the idea of that promised six months OF
life being looked ON now a. something OF
Q Joke.
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was built high. 1--WE have plenty of
food; and we will travel little while
each day and make warm camps at
night. Well have friendship fires, just
as sometimes we used to build on the
ridge"
But after you get down in the val
ieys?" LennoX asked anxiously. Are
you and Snowbird coming up here to
live?"
The silence fell over their camp and
wounded wolf whined in the dark
ness. do you think i could leave 1t
now?' Dan asked. By no gift Of words
could he have explained why; yet he
knew that by token of his conquest,
his spirit was welded to the dark for
ests forever. But heaven knows what
I'll do for living"
Snowbird crept near him, and her
eyes shone in the bright fire light.
I've solved that" she said. "You
know you studied forestry-and told
the supervisor at the station how much
you knew about it. l wasn't going to
tell you until-until certain things hap
pened-and now they have happened,
/ can't wait another instant. He said
that with little more study you could
get into the forest service-take an
examination and become ranger.
You're natural forester If one ever
lived, and you'd love the work"
Besides" Lennon added. at would
clip my Snowbird's wings to make her
live on the plains. My big house will
fires in the fire place on the fall
nights. There is no use of thinking
Of the plains"
"And there's going to be smaller
house-just a cottage at first-right
beside It," Dan replied. He could go
back to his forests, after all. He
wouldn't have to throw away his birth
right, fought for SO hard; and 1t
seemed to him no other occupation
could offer SO much as that Of the for
est rangers-those silent, coOl-nerved
guardians Of the forest and keepers Of
Its keys.
For long time Snowbird and he
stood together at the edge of the fire
light their bodies warm from the
glow their hearts Drumming with words
they could not utter. Words always
come hard to the mountain people.
They are folk of action, and Dan. rath-
er than to words, trusted to the yearn.
ing Of his arms.
7 Were made for each other, Snow
bird. darling" he told her breathlessly
at last. "And at last ! can claim what
I've been waiting for all these months. I"
BE claimed it; and in open defiance
to all civil law, he collected fully 100
times in the next few minutes. But 1t
didn't particularly matter, and Snow
bird didn't even turn her face. May
| be you've forgotten you claimed II
when you FIRST came back, too" she
said. ..l
So he had. 1t had completely slipped
his mind, In the excitement Of his hght
with the wolf pack. And then while
Lennon pretended to be asleep. they
sat, breathless with happiness, on the
edge Of tn. sled and watched the dawn
come out.
They had never seen the snow q
lovely In the sunlight.
| fTHE ENID
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1921-03-05
BOOK NATURALIZATION.

CHAPTER L-waznsd BY his pAys1saaA
49, - has nj more than alx moatAa -
~. yAilinS sits desponAantly - . part
ksash. wondering WHARF ~ should sDsAA
kAe0s III Asntha. A friendly squirrel
Deantinally Ascdss the mattsr fer hin.
tNs baooA y plonsss blood, and h dsoidss
b ed his days In the forests Of Oregon.
tfsasrias Of liz grandfather and . deep
wv fur all things Of the Wild holD hin
en reaching . decision.
CHAPTER Hin . large southern Ore
80 alty b meets people who had known
AAA lived - grandfather. = famous iron
tleFsmaA. He makes his home With 6ilas
Lsnnox. . typical westsrner. The only
ether members Of the household are Len
n0x's son. "Dill." and daughter. Snow
blra" Their abode 10 many miles from
"civ1lixatfo in the Umpoua divide. and
there Failing plans to live out the short
span Of life which he has been told 10 his.
Hls extreme weakness In the face Of even
. Night sxsrtion convinces him that the
Doctor had made q correct diagnosis Of
~ case.
CHAPTER m.-From the nrst Faiings
health shows q marked Improvement, and
IN the compAnionship of Lennox and his
son and daughter he ats into the woods
life a. II he had been born to It BY
quick thinking and q remarkable display
Of nerve" he saves Lemons life and his
own when they are attacked by . mad
coyote. Lennon declares he 10 q rein
carnation Of his grandfather. Dan Fail
Ing I. whose fsme as q woodsman v .
housshold word.
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1921-03-05
ANDREW JOHNSON

1s08-December 90, Andrew
johnson born at Raleigh,
N. C.
1826-opened tailor shop at
GreenvilIe, Tenn.
1e27-May II, married Eliza
McCardIe.
183o33-Mayor of GreenviiIe.
1835-39-Member Of legislature.
1e41-3-State senator.
1843-53-Conoressman.
1s63-67-oovernor Of Tennessee.
1e57.62-Senator.
1s62-5-MlIitary governor OF
Tennessee.
1864-Elected vice president.
1865-ApriI IS, took the oath
as seventeenth president
aged Hfty-six.
1966-April, congress OVERRIDE
his veto Of the civil rights
BILL.
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1921-03-05

IT eouldn't spare you II you went on
your knees before me. You've got a
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-09-17
PUBLIC NOTICE OF REGISTRY AND
ELECTION,

Pursuant to law. notice is hereby given
that the Board of Registry and Elections
in and for every election district in
LINWOOD BOROUGH,
in the County of Atlantic, State of New
Jersey, will meet on
TUESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1921,
at the hour of seven O'Clock A. NJ, and
remain in session until 8 O'Clock in the
evening, at which time and places said
board shall proceed to transcribe and
make up from said canvassing books two
lists or registers of all persons in their
respective election districts entitled to
the right of suffrage therein at the next
election, or who shall personally appear
before them for that purpose, or who
shall be shown to the satisfaction of such
board of registry and election by the afi-
davit in writing of some voter in that
in.
And again on
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1s, 1921,
at the hour of one o'clock in the afternoon
and remain in session until Q o'clock in
the evening, for the purpose of revising
and correcting the original registers. OF
adding thereto the names of all persons
entitled to the right of suffrage. and OF
erasing therefrom the name of any person
who after a fair opportunity to be heard,
h be shown not to be entitled to vote,
ton.
AIN ~ PRIMARY ELECTION
for all political parties will be held in
each election district in
LINWOOD BOROUGH,
on the Twenty-seventh day of September
1921, between the hours of 7 o'clock A.
NJ. and 9 O'Clock p. NJ, for the purpose oil
making nominations of candidates for the
following offices:
Two A~ssemblymen
One Coroner
Mavor for TWO Years
Two CounciImen for Three Years
Two Justices of the Peace
And to elect one male and one female
n1aFnhar of fhc RaptthIfaan County Tryaa-
utive Committee, and one male and one
female member of the Democratic County
Executive Committee
And notice is hereby further given, that
the board of registry and election will
meet at the following designated places:
Borough Hall, Poplar Ave, Llnwood.
GENERAL ELECTION
will be held on Tuesday. November Sth,
1921, for the purpose of electing candi-
dates to fill the following offices:
Two Assemblymen
One Coroner
Mayor for TWO Years
Two CounciImen for Three Years
Two Justices of the Peace
Also for the purpose of voting for or
against the adoption of the following:
Shall the act entitled IAN act authoriz-
ing the creation of a deb of the State OF
sion and concerning the institutions of
the State under the State Board of Con-
troll of Institutions and Agencies, by the
issuing of bonds in an amount not to ex-
coed fourteen million dollars; providing
the ways and means for the payment of
the interest accruing on said debt and
for the payment of the principal of said
debt at maturity, and the expenses in
connection herewith, n providing for
the submission of this law to the people
lat the next general election" approved
April eighth, one thousand nine hundred
and twenty-one, be adopted.
And that the election officers will sit as
a board of election at the places above
mentioned on the above day, commencing
at 6 o'clock in the morning, closing at Z
O'Clock in the evening.
JAMES PARISH,
Borough Clerk.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-09-17

mittee from the First Ward, one male
and one female member of the Republican
County Committee from the Second
Ward, and one male and one female
member of the Democratic County Com
mittee from the City at large.
And notice is hereby further given, that
the board of registry and election will
meet at the following designated places:
First Ward-Anchoraee Hotel.
The First Election District is all that
part of the City East of Main Avenue
Second Ward-city Hall.
The Second Election District is all that
part of the City West of Main Avenue
GENERAL ELECTION
1921, for the purpose of e~lecting candi-
dates to fill the following offices:
Two AssembIymen
One Coroner
One Mayor, term 2 years
One Councilman First Ward, 8 years
One Councilman Second Ward, 8 years
ON Constable Second Ward, 2 years
Also for the purpose of voting for or
against the adoption of the following:
Shall the act entitled A act authoriz-
ing the creation OF a debt of the State of
New Jersey for the construction, extern
sion n concerning the institutions of
the State under the State Board of Con-
troll of Institutions n Agencies, by the
lssulng OF n in an amount not to ex-
coed fourteen million dollars; providing
the ways and means for the payment of
the interest accruing on said debt and
for the payment of the principal of said
debt at maturity, and the expenses in
connection herewith, and providing for
the submission of this law to the people
at the next general election approved
April eighth, one thousand nine hundred
and twenty-one, be adopted.
And that the election officers will sit as
a board of election at the places above
on the above day, commencing
at 6 O'Clock in the morning, closing at Z
in the evening.
JAMES Z. SCULL,
Ctfu CiarI-