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THE IANEIG TIMES3 LOUIS APPELT, Editor. Wednesday, July 11, 1S94. GANTT EASILY ANSWERED. In last week's issue of the Pied mont Headlight Editor Gantt belched up a lot of his venom and fired it at the Times. He not only misrepre sented us in his several paragraphs of his stuff, but he wilfully made a charge against us that is not true. The Manning Times is not controlled by any man or set of men outside of the editor, and it always tries to be fair and just even to its opponents. We are not disposed to abuse and misrepresent our opponents in or out of the Reform Movement, and when we think a man has been wil fully misrepresented and slandered as John McLaurin has been by the Headlight we endeavor to expose the motive for the misrepresentation. We will not sit idly by and see the editor of the Headlight or anyone else attempting to smash character and confidence to gratify a petty spleen and jealousy. He calls the editor of the Times "McLaurin's Cuckoo," but as Gantt has been commissioned by one high in authority as the greatest prevari cator in the State, his calling us a cuckoo will be taken to be meant that the editor is not a cuckoo, and fartherest from one, because a man that "can out lie them all" would hardly come within shooting distance of truth. The Headlight has put some ques tions to us and asks that we answer its questions; it also asks . that we publish the paragraph containing the questions, which we will do to keep it from whining out that we have not treated it fairly. The paragraph al luded to reads thus: "We freely admit that Hon. J. E. Tindal is an honest and nice gentle man, but assert that he is not a suit able candidate for our Reformers to elect Governor, and for these reasons, which we think will be satisfactory: 1st. He has given employment to avowed Antis over true and loyal Re formers. 2d. His head clerk is now an outspoken Bntler man and was at the Greenwood "black jack" meeting hurrahing for Butler and Gordon, after Gordon had denounced and in sultelour Ref6rmers in his speech. 3d.-r. Tindal at first refused to 0submit his claims to our Reform voters, but withdrew from the race be cause the Antis were not given an opportunity to came candidates for the farmers. 4th. Every old ringrule paper in the State is helping Tindal. -Will the Manning Times please re produce this paragraph and then pro ceed to show why, under these ar raignments, that J. E. Tindal is bet ter fitted to represent our Reformers than John Gary Evans, whom the Antis hate worse than old satan?" Here is our answer: 1. The employees in the Secretary of State's office, appointed by Mr. Tindal, are true Reformers, and it is not true that Antis were appointed over Reformers by Mr. TindaL. Col. James Gibbes, agent for the State Sinking Fund Commission, is an Anti and has his desk in the Secre tary of State's office, but he does not hold his appointment from Mr. Tin dal, but from the Sinking Fund Com mission, which is composed of the or, Comptroller General, At - torney eral and others, and if weJ are correctly i wmwed the position is' one that needs an expeienc'ed man who will take his chances for com pensation out of commissions. 2d. Captain W. R. Brooks is the head clerk in Mr. Tindal's office, and 'we know that he was very. active in -organizing Reform clubs in Richland county in former campaigns when it meant social ostracism in Columbia, but in spite of it and the insults and sneers of his former friends he went ahead pushing on the cause of Re form, and his work received the high est praise from the Columbia Register whose editor at that time was T. L. Gantt, now the editor of the Head light. We do not doubt that Capt. Brooks is supporting Senator Butler, neither are we surprised when we re member that blood is thicker than water, and that Capt. Brooks is sup prting his kinsman. He is giving en. Butler his support openly, and by doing so shows his manhood. Were Mr. Tindal to dismiss Capt. Brooks for being a supporter of Gen. Butler, then we would be forced to say that Mr. Tindal was not a broad minded gentlemen, fit to enjoy the -honor of holding high position from the people of South Carolina. Were he to dismiss Capt. Brooks or any other clerk for supporting Gen. But ler, or even Evans, Ellerbe or Pope he would be converting a public trust into a machine of political op pression to further his individual ends instead of the betterment of the people that reposed this trust in him. 3d. Mr. Tindal never has refused to submit his claims to our Reform voters, nor did he withdraw from the race because the Antis were not given an opportunity to name candi dates for the farmers, and no one knows it better than the Headlight's editor. Mr. Tindal never was a can didate until after persistent urging on the part of his friends in and out of the county. It was Mr. Tindal's desire to not enter the race, and so wrote in a letter to Abbeville, but when his constituents appealed to his patriotism to come forward as the best man to perpetuate the Reform cause he consented, and we say right here if Mr. Tindal is not the choice of a majority of the Reformers he does not expect the nomination from any other source. 4th. If the old ring rule papers in theiState are trying to help Tindal we can assure the pessimistic Gantt that it is entirely gratuitous. If Mr. Tindal had been allowed to gratify his own wishes he to-day would not be going over the State making sphes as a candidate for we know how anxious he was to come home to give his private interests a much needed attention. Now why ought Tindal be better fitted to fill thei dfice of Governor than John Gary ,vans? He ought to be on account if his unquestioned ability. His ,ears of experience obtained by: ravel and education. His past ef- ,e orts in the work of Reform. His the rears of hard labor at a rsonal sae- cal ifice for the agricult u its of the wa, ountry. His special fitness for re- ha< itoring peace and harmony among jin ;he people, and because the labor wh and money interests have full confi lence in him. co1 Senator Evans is a good, true Re- sor .ormer, and one that has been an tio: ble exponent of Reform measures. ve rhe records are sparkling all over I ike brilliant gems with his achieve- ott nents, but he is young and can afford hai o wait. Ut This is a Farmers' Movement and ** i farmer should hold first place in it- no gri GANTT AGAIN ANSWERED. an "Here is your proof that John L. sc 9fcLaurin is an enemy to Gov. Till- cl nan at heart, and now we want to thi see if the editor of the Manning in rimes has gumption and independ mce enough to digest the evidence: tin L. McLaurin refused to answer upon an he stand at Spartanburg the direct wa iuestion of whether he was for Butler . >r for Tillman for the U. S. Senate. Tb 1. While in Washington he runs to- nu ,ether with G. W. Shell, and they are un :olitical bed-fellows; and Shell wrote i letter to Greenville in the interest ole f Butler, while his postmaster in hat city has flopped over to Butler. ap 3. McLaurin wrote one of the dirt- 80 est attacks upon Tillman and the ac Reform Movement ever published, mnd which was designed tc injure the wi 3overnor. 4. The man McLaurin tri ippointed postmaster at Darlington g 'D'do, mnd who remained with him in the Washington for about a year, has ed iow taken the road in the interest of an Butler. There are no "insinuations" k n these assertions, are they?" ri 1st. McLaurin, we are proud to stc say, had the manhood- to refuse to fo gratify one who he had denounced as i I "political hell hound that could be tax bought like a piece of dog meat on fo< he market." His constituents know wa -xactly where he stands in the con- ' iest between Tillman and Butler, and so, hey are satisfied. in 2d. McLaurin is a gentleman and sa, reats Capt. Shell as one. He was be aot sent to Washington to refuse to pe be social with men that happen to ar< aot like the Headlight's patron saint en 0< enator Irby. He was sent there it 2owever to work for his people and th4 ie is doing it. It matters not what in shell did, McLaurin is not his spon- an or and has no control over his ac- u :ions. pa 3d. We deny the assertion that EcLaurin ever wrote an attack on l'ilman and the Reform Movement. Ee did write a letter in -which be ;aid to the people to send Tillman on o the Senate where his destructive ye genius will find a plenty to keep it us employed. McLaurin's enemies CS ned to make the public believe this fo :o be an attack and laid great stress m >n illman's genius being called de- a structive, but when Tilman gets to n the Senate they will change their to tunes and the last one will be prais- hc ing Tillman for bringing that de- r~ atructive genius into play and there- W by destroy the evils now existing. w 4th. Waddill is the man McLaurin b had aippointed postmaster for Dar-tl lington, but he failed to secure hisF commission. This left Waddill in bi the cold and McLaurin could do no more for him. The result was that "' Waddill, unable to secure more fa- P~ vors, turned his back on McLaurin tL and is now one of his bitterest ene mies. Waddill is working in Butler's ai interest and at the same time he h4 5 bentrying to work u opo h0 McLaurin. T re 4ctswi th h nothin~oii lature of an insinua-w about them. If exposing the hypocrital preten-N tions of a cer tain set of political' pie hunters is an attack on the Reform Movement then McLaurin is certainlyW guilty of the charge. He did eay that he was opposed to men asking for the votes of the people with noth- t ing more to recommend them than their ability to imitate Ben Tillman. s From a variety of unforeseen cir- b cumstances the Antis are finding they ei are not so indifferent to the Sena torial race as they thought they were. They tried to make us believe they had but little preference as between Tillman and Butler; but the plot thickens as the rocks fly. A few days fc from now mud and torches and ban ners and paid howlers and hotel fc speeches and abominations in gen eral will be revived in regulation fC "peace and unity" style. Their motto is "Butler or Bu4"-a bust disastrous, d complete and final.-Aiken Times. Sumter District Conference. ur Following is a list of the members and C delegates who are expected to attend the et Sumter district conference, to be held in ir Manning Methodist church, Aug 1-->, 1894. Rev. W. C. Power, Presiding Elder. Sumter Station - Rev. J. W. Daniel, Rev. W. WV. Mood. F. A. Tradewell, F. A. Folsom. Ex-officio: R. 0. Pardy, J. M. ei Knight. e Sumter City Mission-Rev. T. G. Her- m bert, J. N. Phillips, C. L. Rhame. Sumter Circuit-Rev. T. J. White. Rev. H. A. Bass, L. E. White, S. J. Brown. Manning Station-Rev. H. M. Mood, J. W. McLeod, S. A. Nettles. Ex-officio-J. F. Rhamne. Jordan Circuit-Rev. R. A. Few, Rev. S, W. Kirton, W. T. Sprott, P. E. Ridgeway. 0 Exofficio-J. A. Sprott.c Santee Circuit-Rev. C. W. Creighton, Rev. N. J. Brown, Rev. J. A. Atkins, R. H. Griffin, J. S. Watt, L. M. Bagin. 7 Foreston Circuit-Rev. E. H. Beckham, JR Rev. Wmn. Carson, Dr. L. W. Nettles, J. W. q Cole. New Zion Circuit-Rev. J. C. Davis, Rev. L. E. Smith, Rev. J. P. W. Gibbons, J. P. Thomas, S. C. Turbeville, W. J. Keels. V Lynchburg Circuit-Rev. I). A. Darby, tA Rev. W. M. Baker, U. W. Scott, W. J. Mc- ft Leod. Oswego Circuit-Rev. B. 31. McLeod. Rev. T. WV. Munnerlyn, Rev. - Michaw, fu Rev. J. B. Weldon, Rev. B. M1. Robertson. Y L. A. White, J. E. Renmbert, W. T. Me. h Leod. Ex-officio-N. S. McLeod, L. S. ri McSwain. Bishopville Station-~Rev. T. M1. Dent, B. ~ . Dixon, Dr. R. Y. McLeod. Bethany Circuit-Rev. J. P. Attaway, j( Rev. E. B. Hayne, B. M. Marshall, C. 3. Rollins. Hanging Rock-Rev. 3. E. Mahaffey, T. C. Horton, L. R. Rollins, J. T. L. Storer.. Smithville Circuit--Rev. Peter Stokes, 3. 33 H. McLeod, C. M1. Alexander. - Camden Station-Rev. M1. L. Carlisle, C. g W. Birchmnore, 3. E. Vaughan. WVateree Circuit-Rev. S. D. Bailey, W. T. Lucius, D). E. Spencer.U Richland Circuit-Rev. J. W. Neely, T. 1i P. Smith, David Roberts. Wedgefield Circut-Rev. 3. C. Chandler, Rev. W. R. Reasonover, H. R. Thomas, M1. L. Hudson. Visitors-Rev. W. D. Kirkland, D. D. Rev. J. C. Kilgo, Rev. M1. Dargan, Rev. J. LONG SKIRTS. ,e Barlow Gives His Experience t With Trailing Dresses. E f there is anything in the fashionable C rld which is hateful, it is to be found in Bf superabundant appendages sometimes il led trails, seemingly so attractive to the nen of our country. How anybody can or the things is a mystery t!) me. We I really hoped, that at least, the very g ones had been banished from society, a en the other day we saw one at least a 0 d long dangling after a fashionable lady. comfortable in the sitting posture, in ivenient when standing, and trouble ae in walking; they require all the atten- e a of which the wearer is capable to pre kt entanglement before or behind. Lhis piece of fashionable dress requires re attention for its protection, than all er parts of feminine attire. The feet, ids and eyes have all to be taxed to their aost ability to secure a safe voyage fro'm point to another. hese elaborate appendages certainly do add to tho beauty of the figure or the I ce of movement. The parlor when large s I not crowded, and the wearer has t ooled herself into dexterous flirt of the nbersome article, and the movement de erate, the appendage is endurable. The ag stands no chance in a crowd and is i3 ufferable in nickness of motion. I he wearer AInever at ease for a moment an accident is liable to occur at any te. She has to be careful when she sits, I still more careful when she stands or a lks. b Lhey are extravagances coming directly t contact with every view of economy. is extra length of the skirt is just that ich wasted material, and the certainty of a timely injury brands itas excess. [hey are not cleanly, but becomei the ne of dust, dirt, and all manner of un anliness. :s it not strange that this superfluous pendage which puts at defiance reason, U1 >d taste, comfort, economy and cleanli. t is should be clung to for years by the ies of our country? :ate one afternoon I was out shopping i h some young ladies, when I saw a lady I pping along briskly. Hurrying up the I Is, I carelessly stepped out of the store 1 :r, when to my horror I put my foot on trail of the passing lady, who, infatiat by the accident, with both hands jerked C I pulled so furiously that my whole foot I s precipitated through the garment. She b pt on jerking and pulling at a violent e, and I hopped on one foot begging her p for a moment and let me extricate my t t. Finding at last that her locomotion s very much retarded, and no possibility c me to escape from the unfortunate en- b iglement, she stopped, and I pulled my it out of the most complicated difficulty it s ever in. t another time I was in a parlor in f ich the company present were enjoying g ne fine music. The performer on the itrument was assisted by several who . ig. Sitting at some distance from the I .trument I observed what I supposed to ] a shawl entangled under the feet of the b rformers. My gallantry was at once oused, and flying across the room I gath d up the injured object of my solicitude en lo! to my surprise and mortification, 1 >roved to be the elaborate skirt of one of x performers. She blushed crimson, and great embarrassment I let the thing fall, I though the unfortunate blunder oc ed several years ago, the modesty of the I .y was so shocked that she has never s rdoned my folly to this day. I danning, .C. PzC. Banio - The Campaign Meeting. the State campaign meeting was held sterday in the court house, and as ual it was orderly. Most of the udidates arrived the afternoon be r-e, and were met at the depot by imbers of the executive committee d escorted to the hotels in car ges. 'Preparations had been made' have the speaking on the court use square, but on account of the in the court'house was used, and it ws packed to overflowing. There re no seats in the buildisag,-the uches having been taken out, and ere was scarcely standing room. ally six hundred people were in the iilding, and excellent order was aintained. The speeches were all i the issues of the day, devoid of irsonalities, and the crowd enjoyed em .to their hearts' content-de ur hours the crow ~ 6d quietly Ld attentiev-tning to the h the exception of one an (and he was an Anti, too), who j 4d too much blind tiger abroad, it as a model of a meeting. The meeting was called to order at o'clock by County Chairman S. A. ettles, who requested Rev. H. M. ood to open with prayer, after aich Mr. Nettles requested that 1 >od order should be maintained. I ae speakers were then introduced in< e following order:I G. W. Whitman, of Union, for I perintendent of education. Gen. R. N. Richbourg, of Colunm a, for adjutant and inspector gen al. W. H. Yeddell, of Edgefield, for ilroad commissioner. Gof. B. R. Tillman, of .Edgefield,1 r senator. Senator M. C. Butler, of Edgefield, r senatof. Col. John Gary Evans, of Aiken, r governor. Gen. WV. H. Ellerbee, of Marion, r governor. Hon. James E. Tindal, of Claren mi, for governor. The Times regrets much that it annot give a full account of the eeting, but the editor is absent in olumbia attending the Reform Ex-1 ~tive Committee meeting, and the1 dulgence of the people is asked to xt week. Hon. James E. Tindal was present-' I with a beautiful bouquet of flow -s last Monday at the campaign eeting. Mr. D. R. Reaves handed em to him. Colonel Stone of Tennessee, when * was rnnning for governor, met >r the first time a delegate from one the rural counties to the state mnvention. The colonel said: "I am Ld to meet you. I have known our father for many years, but I ever had the pleasure of your ao antance. I see, however, that the n is better looking than the fa aer." "Look here, colonel," said te delegate, "you need not be flat iring me up, for I am out and out >rEarksdale f or governor, although < te old man is for you." "Why, Ii mply find you better looking than our father, but I did not say you ad half as much sense as he has," sturned the colonel. Those stand- s g around roared with laughter, in 'i hich the delegate good humoredly I >ined.-Exchange. "Who was the author of the say- a tg that a man is a benefactor who takes two blades of grass grow here but one grew before?" "Dunnto. Some lawn mower man Eacturer, I suppose."-Buffalo Cou- s er. t_______ No Disputing Her.t Lawyer-Im sorry, but hearsay r on't do here. We must have evi mece which noone will dare dispute. Client-Heavens, manl My moth- a A Hustler. I have a profound respect for "hus ers." They wear a different enthu asm for every day in the week. DI ne of them rushed several miles to e me and came into myroom pant tg and perspiring. "What's the matter?" I asked. "I've a great ideal" he gasped. s "Well, cool off, get your breath, d ad when you are in a proper state el E repose let her go." "It's a title for a book!" he said. s of Inspiration-worth $20,0001 I've >pyrighted it. You can do it in two reeks. There's a pot in it." sl "In what?" I asked. "In the book," he said glaringly. 1 "Have you got the book?" "No, sir. Better than that--I've otthe title. Don't you understand?" He leaped from the chair, pushed is hat back, crouched forward and wept his arm impetuously across ie side of the room. "Look at it there in big letters. c )rop by Drop ' Great Scott it's an istantaneous winner. 'D-r-o-p by & -r-o-p!' How does it sound?" "What's the book about?" I asked. it "I don't care for the book," he said 4 s he wiped the perspiration from his p row. "You write the book on any ing you like, but call- it 'Drop by I Irop!' That's all I want. Heavens ad earth, man, don't you see it?"- P t. Louis Globe-Democrat An Autograph Fiend. One day when Mr. Phelps was min- w iter to the court of St. James a gen leman from Omaha called upon him rith the modest request that he rould assist him in obtaining anum er of autographs of eminent Eng shmen. The visitor was indeed y ot scrupulous to emelude eminent 0' |nglish women, and if Mr. Phelps uld obtain for him a few friendly a nes from the queen they should , ave an honored place in his town all, on whose behalf he had under- q Iken the commission. Mr. Phelps was struck with the r1 uiet pertinacity of the man and elped him to a good many valuable utographs. Appetite growing with d rhat it fed upon, the gentleman rom Omaha declared he could not o back without obtaining a speci ien of the poet laureate's handWrit 2g. Mr. Phelps said he did notknow . ord Tennyson, and from what he adheard of him thought he was not pproadhableonthe subject. "But," e said, "you write to him yourself v a your own way; tell him your busi- : ess here and what you want from im." The gentleman from Omaha ii beyed the instruction, and after a a ew posts there reached him a manu- a cript copy of the first page of "IU a femoriam" in Tennyson's own hand- 'V nriting and signed by his name.- u iheffield Independent. a Nothing Wasted. Chemistry, like a thrifty house rife, economizes every scrap. The torseshoe nails Aropped in the streets a re carefully collected and reappear a a swords and guns. The main in- e :reient ofthe ink with which Inow o rite was probably once the broken is LOOP of an old beer barrel. The chip- a iin~gs of the traveling tinker are al cired with the parings of horses' o Loofs and the worst kind of woolen e ags, and these are worked up into y n exquisite blue dye which graces he dresses of courtly dames. h The dregs of port wine, carefully ecanted by the toper, are taken in a he morning as a seidlitz powder to tl emove the effect of the debauch. e ~heoffal ofthe streets and the.wssfr ireserved in the ladies' smelling bot- a le, or used by her to flavor blanc ange for her friends. All thrift is n imitation of the economy of na ure, which allows no waste.-North f, Lmerican Review. fi The Original Fruit Canners.- t We are indebted to Pompeii for the - ;reatindustry of canned fruit. Years a Lgo, when the excavations were just 1' eginning, a party of Cincinnatianzs is ound in what had been the pantry a f a house many jars of preserved a igs. One was opened, and they were , ound to be fresh.Bnd good. Investi- e ation showed thatthe figs had beenl s ut into jars in a heated state, an r perture leftfor the steam to escape f nd then sealed with wax. The hint i vas taken, and the next year fruit a anning was introduced into the y nited States, the process being iden- r ical with that in vogue at Pompeii y ~0 centuries ago.-American Drug- t ist _ _ _ _ They Were Harmless. In her book on the poet Whittier, hdrs. Clafln relates the following rnecdote: An old Quaker friend vis ted Mr. Whittier. He was a bach lor, and when the hour for retiring ame he was shown to his room. soon after he was heard calling from , he top of the stairs in an excited t one: "I think thee has made amis- 0 ke, Friend Whittier. Ididfml arments in my room !" At which . riend Whittier replied: "Thee'd I etter go to bed. The female gar- f nents won't hurt thee." No Wonder. Jorkins-Mrs. Perkins seems avery i 5ad woman. Mrs. Jorkins--Well, she has reason b be sad. She has had several great lisappointments in life. Jorkns-Is that so? Mrs. Jorkins-Yes. She has been married three times.-New York t gerald. They Want Names. The Russel Art Publishing company, of 28 Arch street, Philadelphia, desire the cames and address of a few people in every b :wn who are interested in works of are a nd to seeure them they offer to send free ca Cupid Guides the Boat," a superbly exe- c1 uted water color picture, size 10x13 a: aches, suitable for framing, and sixteen ri tber pictures about same size, in colors, to ny one sending them at once the names ad address of ten persons (admirers of ne pictures) together with six two-cent tamps to cover expense of mailing, etc. 'he regular price of these pictures is $1.00, ut they can all be secnred free by any erson forwarding the names and stamps romptly' c NoTE.-The editor of this paper has al-I sady received copies of the above pictures fr ad consider thenm really "Gems of Art." u English Spavin Liniment removes all: a1 ard, soft or calloused lumps and blemishes : T -om horses, blood spavins, curbs, splints. eeny, ring-bone, stifles, sprains, all: gollen throats, coughs, etc. Save $50 by se of one bottle. Warranted the most onderful blemish cure ever known. Sold n y J. G. Dinkins & Co., druggists, Man- m ing . C. p -- . at A protracted meeting is in progress in td ie Methodist church. The pastor is being, ni HOW HE WROTE SPARTACUS. Kenogg Tells How the Famota Speech We! Composed. Talking with a correspondent of e Boston Herald, the Rev. Elijah llogg of Harpswell, Me., thus de ribed how he wrote that favorite clamation of schoolboys, "Sparta s to the Gladiators": "It was while I was at Andover," id he, smiling as the remembrance the event came back to him. N'e were required to prepare eeches for our rhetorical exercises, d after each man had spoken he as subject to criticism by his fel ws-and their comments weren't ways so complimentary as they are pointed. Then the professor uld follow with serious criticism, Ld he always found faults that uieed correcting. "So these speeches came to be ked upon with dread, and at last I ade up my mind that I'd try to get mething so different from anything D had had and so interesting that would hold their attention too sely for them to think about >ints on which to criticise me, and I would get off free. "Well, I wrote 'Spartacus.' When began, it worked just as I had ex ,ted. They were so taken by sur ise that they never thought of any ing but the speech. You could Lve heard a pin drop at any time hile I was speaking, and they did )t recover until I had finished and td come down to ask for criticism. "Then when Professor Payne rned to the students and inquired, Vhat criticism have you to offer, >ung gentlemen?' there wasn't ie of them had a word to say, for tey were all thinking of the piece id hadn't noticed anything else. "'Gentlemen,' said the professor, re are not here for theological dis isitions nor for learned argu ents, but these exercises are purely tetorical, and, gentlemen, that is tetoric.' "Then turning to me he remarked, could criticise you, Kellogg, but I >n't know whether it would do you Lore good or harm, and so on the hole I think I will say nothing.' "So," added the old gentleman, ith a chuckle, "I escaped criti sm.") Jealousy. "Man," shesaid, with anairof con ction, "is the most jealous creature i earth." "Why is it," he asked, not answer. Lg the question directly, "that if a -oman offends a man in any way ad he shows it ever so slightly she once attributes it to jealousy? Thy is it that if she puts a slight pon him and he resents it she jumps b the conclusion that he is jealous?" "She doesn't. She is never mis aen," she retorted. "Does she realize," he went on, that jealousy, when it is justifiqg ad it is never really justified unless man has a claim on a woman, ther as wife gr fiancee-is a proof ~one of two 'higseaither the man the worst kinadof a fool or the oman is beneath contemiipt? Does e realize the light in which her nclusion makes her pose, which ver explanation may be coriect? Thy do they do it?" "Possibly you know," she said aughtily. "Yes," he said softly as he looked round for his hat. "It is because of ieir innate self love and self con The engagement was broker. but e felt that he had squared accounts nyway.-Chicago Record. A Geological Barometer. Aremarkablegeologicalsubstance und in Finland is a stone which retels by a change of color the robable character of the weather in ie near future-a natural barometer -known by the name of semakuir, nd which is said to turn black short r before an approaching rain, while i fine weather it is motted with pots of white. For a long time, it ppears,.this interesting phenomenon ras inexplicable, but on an analysis f the stone it was shown to be a fos B mixed with clay, and containing a ortion of rock salt and nter. This ict being known, the explanation of de changes became easy. The salt, borbing the moisture, turns black rhen the conditions are favorable for an, while the dryness of the atmios here must as naturally bring out e salt from the interior of the stone i white spots on the surface.-New !ork Sun. His Source of Ignorance. B. M. Williams in the Educational l'ews presents the following letter com a parent to a teacher in the ublic schools: Da s.-: I hope as tomy sonJohn, you ill flog hiujust as offin as you kin. Hesa id boy-John Is. Altho I've been in the habit Steachin him myself, it seems to me he never 'In Isrn anithing-his spelling is ottragously efshent. Wallop him well, ser, and you will sceive my thaks P. . What accounts for John bein sich a ad scholar Is that he Is my sun by my wife's ust husbad. Political Economy. Tramping Tom-There goes one of he fellers that's responsible for half >ur troubles. Wayfaring William-What's he Tramping Tom-He works every ay in the year 'cept Sundays an arns people's money away from hem. If it wasn't for such fellers a him, folks 'ud have more money o give us.-New York Weekly. BUCKLEN'S ARMICA SALVE. The best salve in the worid for cuts, ruises, sores. ulcers. salt rheium, fevei >res, tetter, chapped bands. chilblains, >rns and all skin eruptions, and positively ires piles or no pay requiredl. It is guar. iteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money funded. Price 25c. per box. For sale by J. G. Dinkins & Co., druggists. NOW TRY T HIS. It will cost you nothing and will surely dc >u good, if you have a cough, cold, or any ouble with throat, chest, or lungs. Dr. ig's New Discovery for consumption, >ughs, and colds is guaranteced to give re af, or money will be paid back. Sufferers omn la grippe found it just the thing and1 ider its use had a speedy and perfect re >very. Try a sample bottle at our expense id learn for yourself how good a thing it is rial bottles free.. Large size 50c. and Si. J. G. Dinkins & Co., druggists. Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic is a perfect talarial liver tonic and blood puritier, lRe oves biliousness without purging. As asant as lemon syrup. It is as large as ty dollar tonic and retails for 50c. T1o get e genuine ask for Grove's. Sold on its erits. No cure, no pay. Sold by J. G. Two Colors of Tobacco Smnke. Smoke consists of minute particles of solid or liquid matter suspended in the air, and its color depends part ly upon the chemical constitution of such particles, but also largely upon their size. Exact experiment has shown that, as the size of minute partieles suspended in air is gradual ly increased, they give rise to colors varying from sky blue down through the whole range of the spectral scale. This is the cause of sunset and sun rise colors in the sky. Its effects can also be traced in the casb of the two kinds of tobacco smoke, modified by the murky tints of the carbonaceous products. The smoke given off from the heated surface of the burning to bacco in the bowl of the pipe consists of matter all of which has been highly heated and very fully oxidized and decomposed. It consists mainly of exceedingly small, solid particles, ex hibiting by virtue of their smallness a bluish color. On the other hand, that smoke which has been drawn through the tabacco into the mouth of the smoker carries with it a relatively large quantity of water and hydro carbon, which are condensed upon the solid particles above mentioned. The relatively large size of such par ticles explains the well known gray ish color of the smoke which issues from the mouth of the smoker.-Tit Bits. A Strong Lassle. "When-you talk about strong men, I can tell you a story," said a local truckman today. "It was before I was in the jobbing business that there lived in Lewiston a woman who could beat all the strong men from Samson to Cyr. "She was in the old grodery store on the corner one day when the pro prietor pointed to a couple of flour barrels, saying, 'Mary, if you'll carry them home I'll give them to you.' Sanborn, who was a truckman 30 years and who sold out to James Cole, was there and offered to bet that she couldn't carry one. "'Put them on the counter,' she said, 'and I'll take them both.' "Four men lifted the barrels up and she went up to them full of con fidence, and resting the bottom of one on her right hip, circled the bar rel with one of her long arms and then swung around so as to graspthe other in the same way, and as I live she carried them out and along the street to a place 300 yards down the road,'where one of them fell and up set her balance. You see, she rested them on her hips and didn't try to lift them by her back. The grocer gave her the flour."-Lewiston Jour nal. A Lesson In Grammar. Fun frequently comes out of the public schools, despite their functions as solid, solemn educators. But this isonlynatural. Theremustbefunand smiles where there are bright faces and youth and health. Not long ago a teacher in this city was drilling her pupils in the application of certain words in relation to other words. She had the youngsters much inter ested in building sentences around a given expression. One of the words presented was "use." Several chil dren had made a sentence containing the word, when the teacher called upon a particularly bright young ras cal to make a response. The youth didnot like another member of the class, and it suddenly dawned upon his young brain that it would be a good idea to apply his sentence ac cordingly. He faced his disliked companion, and pointing his finger at him scornfully said: "You's is no good." Of course the teacherlaughed. The other children laughed, and the boy laughed, too, but it took two days for him to learn that the slang contrac tion, "you's," was not the word de sired.-St. Louis Republic. Some German Houses. It is a hint that comes from a woman recently returned from a considerable residence in one of the German art cities that the closest in quiries should be made before takig lodgings or apartments into the cleanliness of the beds and furnish "In some of the most attractive ap pearing and apparently faultless places," she says, "we have been fairly driven out after a short stay, forfeiting the rent rather than un dertake to accept the conditions. At last we put the question bluntly every time, expressly stating that if on trial the apartment was found to be infested we should claim the right to move at once." This traveler's experience may have been exceptional. It is at least actual, and as such perhaps is a note of warning.-New York Times. See Only the Good. *There is an old pagan fable of a man who for some crime of injustice was cursed with the power of seeing other human beings, not in their beauty of flesh and blood, but as skel etons, gaunt and grisly. Too many of us have this miserable faculty, and go about stripping off every worthy charm and beauty with which our friends are clothed to find and expose some ugly trasit or passion underneath.Christian Advocate. The Dear Girls, Esther-Did he kiss you? Tena-He hadn't the nerve to do Esther-It would require consider able.-New York Herald. ANDIDATE'S OARVDS. For Supervisor. we the members of Pinewood Demo cratic Cub, do hereby present the name of Ma. E. P. GEDDmNos to the voters of Chiren don County at the coming primary election for the office of County Supervisor. PINEWOOD DE.\OCR ATIC CLU B. For School Commissioner. I hereby announce myself for re-elecction to the offce of School Commissioncr for Crendon County. subject to the decisionl of the Democratic primary.L.w L. School Notice. OFFICE SCHOOL Col.MISSIt)Nhi.) CL..W.ENDON COCNTY. Manning, S. C., Jan.. -ith Wsi:. Until futher notice I will- have mya' rliee open on Saturdaiy of each we~l;. 1 he other days will be. spent in vi-tolg the shools of the county. L. L. WELLS School Commissioner C. C. Parties desiring agricultural rent liens and supply iens can tirid them' at The. Mnning Times office, Tegetable Diet. Vegetarianism is often called a fad, but it is a healthy and innocent one and the natural reaction against the present state of things. It im parts lightness and elasticity to the body, brightness and clearness to the mind. The vegetarians I know are all unusually strong, active and young looking people for their age. One of them walked without stop ping for 34 and another time 27 hours without rest while on an ex cursion in Norway, feats not easily equaled by the most inveterate beef eater. Traveling, mountain climb ing, all seem easier and less fatiguing on this light and soothing diet, and why should it not give strength to tho limbs and sinews if one reflects that all the strongest animals who do the heaviest work in :he world, like horses, oxen and elephants, are entirely herbivorous?-Lady Paget in Popular Science Monthly. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the, ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by consti tutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or im perfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the resilt, and unless the inflammation can be taken ont and this tube restored to its normal condition, hear ing will be destroyed forever;nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrb, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circular; free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0. 7D Sold by Druggist, 75 cents. Skin Eruptions and similar annoyances are caused by an impure blood, which will result in a more dreaded disease. Unless removed, slight impurities will develop into Scrofula, Ecze ma, Salt Rheum and other serious results of I have for some time been Bad a sufferer f r o m a severe blood trouble, for which I took many remedies that did me no good. I ba Bl now taken four bottles of withthemost wonderful results Am enjoying the best health I ever knew, have gained twenty pounds and my friends say tey never saw me as well. I am feeling quite like a new Man' joH2 '5. EDELIX, Covernment Printing Office. Washington. D. C. Our Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases . mailed free to any address. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. D R. CHARLES B. GEIGER, PIIYSWCTA.V AND SURGEOY, Offers his professional services to the peo ple of Manning and vicinity. Office at J. G. Dinkins & Co.'s drug store. MANNING. S. C. JOSEPH F. RUfE. W. . DAVIs ATTRKYSAT LAW MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. -WILSON, Attorney anud Counselor at Law-, MANNING. S. C. A. LEVI, L 1 MANNING, S. C.. Notary Public with seal. Associated wit: R. 0. Purdy, Esq., in litigated cases. TEFFERSON D. ALSBROOK, eJATTORNEY'AT LAW MANNING, S. C. Office in TIfEs building. Special atten ion given all business in his charg.. H.L. B. WELLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW SUMTER. S. C. fEO. W. DICR, '7DENTIST. SUMTrER, s. C. Office hours-9 to 1:3A 2:30i to 5 Ov, Levi Brothiers' dry goods store WIthrop State Normal College COLUMBIA, S. C. Cpen to white girls ove-r 17. Session be gin ; September 26. Graduates si cure gooc positions. Each county given twoc scholar shios, one usotth $l150.('0 a session, and on of free tuition. First schiolari-hips nos vacnt in countie's of Abbeville. Aiken, Ar derson, Bai:n well. Beaufort, (Charlestot Clarendon, Chester, Chesterfield. Florenec Greenville. Georgetown. Hatoin, Horr: Keshaw, Lancaster, I.am ens, L~exingtor Newberry, Oconee, Oraingebutrg. Picken Richand, Snuter. S1artanba):re, York. Comipetitive exatinratl*Iio ul 17 cA com house of each county . Address D. B. JOHNSON, Piesidenit, Colunmbia, S. C. e IF YOU WANT IN YOUR HOME t 1'E FINEST AND MOST PERFECT PIANO PRODUCED IN THE KNOWN SWORLD YOU WILL BUY THE STELNVA! 9 r~tfudi n other piano." I Peect in tone, act'on and finish." "Ue ythe greatest lhving arists .througthout the world." ! "Chosent by nil musical connoisseurs and pople of rerinement who appre-4 ciate exquisite torne and the artistic ally beautitul." SPECIAL (f you want a sTEINWAY w ean save you money n its pur-d p hase. Our house is thieSOUTII. ERN sTIN WAY DEPOT for rive e htire state:. Steinway's New York Oprices duplicated. Not a dollar cand Vbe saved 1i buyinlg direct. All *' styles relarly n stock. 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In sending money for articles not quoted in this list or our free catalogue, send the amount of retail price less 20 per cent. Any difference will be returned by next mail. Our business is STRIiCTLY c.isn. Goods sent C. 0. D. to re sponsible partic.s. We solicit a shre of your mail orders. Our Regu Price. lar. Allcock's Porous Plasters, 10 25 Belladon. Plasters, 15 23 Capcine Plasters, 13enson's, 15 25 Alleock's Ennion Plasters, large 18 25 Allcock's Corn Plasters, 08 10 Our Little Liver Pills, 15 25 Cuticura Resolvent, 85 1 00 Cuticnra Salve, 10 50 Cuticra'. 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We will mail our catalogue to any address about April 1st, 1894. While this catalogu~e is not complete it will give somie idea of the stock we carry. 217 KING STREET, (One Door North of Wenitworth.) Opposite Dime Savings Bank. a S. THOMAS, Jr.. J. M. THOMAS. Stephen Thomas, Jr. & Bro. JEWELRY, SILVER & PLATED WARE, Spectacles, Eye Glasses & Fancy Goods, SWWatches and Jewelry repir'.d by . competent workmen. 257 KING STREET, CHARLESTON, S. C. WM. N. BAHR~ & BRO., r D)EAT.Eus IN AND 3OANtTM'TURlEns or Cakes, Biscuits and Plain and Fancey Candies. Penny Candies and Chewing Gums. French Mixtures and Chrystallized Fruits. - 319 King- Street, CHIARLES'ION, S. C. WOODWORK E MST THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST. send TEN cents to 28Union Sq.,N. Y., for our prize game, "BSlind Luck," and win a New Home Sewing Machinoe The New H omeSewingMachineOg, '?.Cmsf FOR SALE BY erAssIM& .* E. BROWN MANNNG, S. C. L. W. FOLSOM, Signf 0f the Big Watch, -. 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