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te Paning Zimeu. LOUIS APPELT, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year....... .......... $1.50 Six Months......... ............... 75 Four Months....................... 50 ADVERTISING RATES: One square, one time, S; each subse quent insertion, 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regular advertisements. Liberal contracts made for three, six and twelve months. Communications must be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to receive attention. No communication of a personal char acter will be published except as an adver tisement. Entered at the Post Office at Manning as Second-Class Matter. MANNIING, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1895. Throw On the Light. The Reform Patriot, like some other narrow-gauge newspapers, seems to think the Manning Times is committing a political sin in send ing out the supplement pages con taining gold-bug arguments, but we want it distinctly understood that we shape the policy of the Times, and all advice from other quarters is entirely gratuitous. If ever a newspaper has worked hard for the Reform cause it has been the Times, and we feel confident our work has been the more effectual because we both have had the fairness to present sides of alljssues. The narrow-minded spirit of only showing one side never has the desired effect. It may have it temporarily, but the paper that shows up both sides and then takes a decided stand in its own utterances will make itself felt permanently. Our readers are intelligent and can distinguish the difference between the utterances of an editor and the writings of those not connected with the paper, and when they want our views on any subject they read our editorial columns and not the supple mental pages. The Patriot jumping on us and threatening to "jog us in the neck" might be pleasing to the average eurb-stone or cross-roads politicians, but with men who like to hear a subject discussed so they may form their own conclusions, it sounds like the mutterings of a demagogue. The editor of the Times is not fence riding on the financial issue, as our columns clearly show, but we profess to be educating the people, and we cannot do so properly without letting them see the dark side as well as the bright. The Ddference Between Us. The Greenville News says: "The Manning Times, a straight Reform newspaper in a straight Reform county, earnestly urges a fight at the general eleetih.a against the nomi __-ees of the so-called primary in Sumter. What is proper in one county is proper in another. If Re formers are advised by good Reform authority to bolt the nominations in Sumter they can feel free to do the same in Greenville." Our friend, who would use social, financial, pecuniary and other forces to win the election of delegates to the Constitutional convention, at tempts to mislead his readers by try ing to create the impression that we favor fighting the nominees of a primary. The Sumter case is different from the state of affairs existing in every other county. In that county certain candidates tendered pledges for the primary, and the county cha:;man ruled them out on the ground that they were presented after the time had expired, and, as we understand it, the county chairman himself was the cause of these candidates not getting in their pledges on time. We contend that under the cir eumstances the candidates had been unfairly dealt with, and, as the chairman was to blame, his refusing to accept their pledges, and relying upon a technicality to bolster him up in his position, left them with nothing else than an appeal to the people. We do not endorse fighting against primary nominees, but, on the con trary, we repudiate such couduct as worse than radicalism, but when white men express a willingness to enter a primary and are deprived through the arbitrary rulings of a county chairman, who is himself a candidate, we will ever advise going to the people to repudiate such tyran ny.The difference between the Green ville News and the Manning Times is that the former would advise its fol lowers to appeal to the negro under any and all circumstances, while the latter rep'udiates an appeal to the negro, and only advises an appeal to the general election when white Democrats are refused the privilege of running in a white man's primary, as was the case in Sumter. Uncle George B. Tillman comes out in a letter to the Greenville News, in which lie arraigns all of the Re form leaders. It is a very severe article, and had it been published before the primary, he would have been most ignominiously defeated. Not even the personal solicitations of his brother Ben would have saved him. Our idea is that the letter was written by Uncle George in anticipa tion of his defeat, he not being aware that his brother had sent out word to his friends that "George was get ting old, and he would regard it as a personal favor for them to vote for the old fellow." But lhe squeezed in, and Editor Williams, thinking it a good irritant, let it come out any way. We think it unfortunate for the convention that "Uncle George" was elected, because we believe he will do more obstructing than con structing, just to give vent to his pent-up spleen for being defeated by Tab~%or Congress. Gordon Clark, of Washington, D. D., Secretary of the American Bi metallic League, andAuthor of "Shy ock, is getting out a third large edition of that terrific book, and has written a brief supplement to it en titled "The Anarchists of Wealth." Our sincere sympathy goes out to Editor J. M. Knight of the Sumter Herald in this his hour of bereave ment. The blow that has befallen him is the severest of his life, and we hope that he will courageously stand up under it for the sake of the precious little ones that are left be hind. Those in charge of the silver move ment are making a great mistake in not getting their literature out to combat the deceptive arguments of the gold bugs. The mistake will be in waiting too long to show up the falsity of the arguments, now being scattered over the entire country by the hirelings of Wall street. In South Carolina the suffrage, homestead and school questions will keep the newspapers busy for the next three months, while the United States will wake up in the morning talking money, go to bed talking money, and the treasury and bank vaults and non-taxable bonds of the millionaires will remain closed up hard and fast against the pro ducer and wage-earner. The negroes of Hampton county have put out a ticket for the Consti tutional convention, and they have also organized a military company. We have no uneasiness of the dar kies doing much with their ticket in Hampton and still less with their military for the reason that Mc Sweeney, Mauldin, Gooding and others have had experience with such things before, and know precisely how to crush them out. The nominees for the Constitu tional convention should devote all of their spare time in studying the wants of the people and devising some plan by which the primary schools can get their just portion of the taxes. At present the schools of higher learning get the bulk of the money, while the local schools do not get enough to run them through the fall months. A better free-school sys tem is wanted, and if a better system can not be had, then wipe out both the free schools and the school tax. We are informed that for several nights past secret meetings have been held at various colored churches and private houses in this county among the negroes. Whether they propose to take advantage of the apparent indifference on the part of the whites and put out a ticket we do not know; but one thing we do know, and that is they had just as well let the coming election alone. We have also been informed that the negroes have been advised to go to the polls on the 20th instant whether they hold registration tickets or not, and that men would be there to see their votes polled and counted. The State Wins Again. The injunction case before Judge Goff, at Richmond, Virginia, yes terday resulted in another vic tory for the State. Judge Goff concluded that his great respect for the Circuit Court of Appeals inclines him to let South Carolina mange her own election affairs. He, there fore, refused to make permanent the injunction against the supervisors of registration. When this injunction was asked for, the Columbia State, with a knowing wink of the other eye came out and told its friends that "something was going to drop, and that the white men of this State have not yet elected their tickets to the convention." Something has dropped sure enough, and the Co lumbia State has made a partial pre diction, but that something was a great big lump of ice down the Co lumbia State's back. Stop Thief Cry Will Bot Deceive. Those urging the gold standard are now beginning to muddy the waters of discussion by making all kinds of false and absurd charges against the silver men. The latest is that the silver agitation emanates from rich barons and silver mine owners. It matters not where the agitation emanategthere is one thing certain -the silver question remained very quiet until after Congress .passed the bill which repealed the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman act ; then it was that the discussion started and the people became alarmed ; then it was that the peo pe saw the products of their labors cut down one-half, with everything they consumed bringing as high or higher prices than before. The agitation started among the the people themselves, just as an agitation would start if a demon was going to and fro, destroying every thing with which he comes in con tact. A farmer came to town not long ago to pay a debt which he contracted on a basis of eight-cent cotton, and he found that through some hocus pocus legislation he could only get four cents. At once the inquiry ran through his mind : " What has done this 7" He went home dissatisfied and disgruntled, and when he lay down to sleep his mind was so en grossed and agitated that it drove sleep off. Values cut down one-half in a few months, and that at paying time, is what he could not under stand, but the fact stared him in the face. What stronger argument could have been used to convince him that the repeal of the purchasing clause is what brought about the demoral zing condition ? Something did it. 'here is no use saying that barons mnd silver mine owners are agitating his question, for the people-the nasses-know it is not true. Every farmer, laborer, mechanic or age-earner of any kind is agitating ;his question, and every one of them DAVE TUCKER'S ADVICE To Would-Be Aspirants for Political Honors. Mr. Editor--The following letters have been received, and as the subject-matter is of general interest. I take the liberty of answering them in this public manner: Strawberry Plains, July 15. 1895. Mr. Tucker: - Dear Dave-I am going to run for the Constitutional convention, and. as we are old friends, I want you to do all you can for me at your beat in the primary. Please send me some dots on the subjects as I will have to make a few little speeches when we candidates go around. Can't you just write off some kind of a short speech for me? I will get it by heart. Be sure to give the niggers blazes on the voting mat ter and soft-soap the poor white man in it. Send the speech by next mail, as I want plenty of time to learn it. Don't tell any one you wrote it. Your old friend, JOHN J. STALUNG. .Now, John, you have gotten me where the wool is short, and our long friendship, I think, gives me the right to speak frankly and advisedly about this, and in these few 'broken paragraphs I shall proceed to do so. No sir-ree, Bob-Dick, I shall neither vote for you nor aid you in being elected a delegate to the Constitutional conven tion ; neither shall I-were I competent "write you a little speech" to say. You will have to go this thing alone-that's sure. I say this for your own good, John, for you are teetotally incompetent to fill the( position. and, if by chance you were to go, your ignorance would be exposed and thus destroy your usefulness and shame your friends at home. To be plain and tell you the truth, John, you are so chock full of egotism that you think you know it all, and what you think you don't know ain't worth knowing. I know you think you are just as competent as some other fellow that's trying to get there, but you see that's not the question. Are you competent? You think you are, but a kind and sympathizing public thinks that you are just as quali fied to fill this position as a jackass is to teach theology. So, John, take my advice and let this thing alone. You are a good farmer, make out well, a man of ordinary intelligence, happy at home, and there stay. Politics is not your forte ; it's a risky thing, and many a poor mortal gets everlastingly swamped in following it. It soon unfits a man for anything else, and if he ever fails once it'. for all the time; then he becomes a burden and charity upon others. Then, again, John, when a man gets into politics he gets lazy and indolent. You are sorter' smart now and, for the sake of yoni family, I want you to stay that way ; then some office-holders are afflicted with a peculiar disease called "big head," and the Lord knows, yours is big enough now, and and a little office would burst it. sure. Let me relate a little experience I once had in this line. I once entertained, voted for, and spread myself generally to elect a certain office holder. Soon after his election I had some business in has office and went to transact it, expecting a warm greeting from him. Judge of my surprise when he asked me my name. I told him, when-to add in sult to injury-he asked me if I wa one of the Tuckers that lived away out on Rough Brnch. By this time I was pretty mad, and I told him "no ;" that if he would step out in the street I would larrup in his thick skull a remembrance of me that would last longer than his term of office. He didn't go, and I was glad of it after I had cooled off. It was a case of "big head," and he had it bad. Now John, these remarks will'apply to other candidates. for I have heard the can didates of two counties speak, and, with few exceptions, I heard precious little dis cussion of the matters and things that go to make up a constitution, while it is not necessary, nor a badge of competency, that a delegate to the convention should be a college graduate or a professional man, and 1 think he should have some educ> tion, plenty of common sound horse sense ; yet some of the candidates, I fear, are wofully deficient in ordinary colt sense when it comes to making constitutional laws. Another thing, John ; do quit this ever lasting harping- on your being a Reformer and the poor man's friend. That won't help you now, for it is the white-man against-the-nigger aff air. I am a Reformer myself, but for all that I do not think I am entitled to any more consideration than any worthy and competent Conservative. We are going halves in this thing with the Conservatives, and the country voters in good faith are going to stand by the Tar gain. We are tired of strife, and want peace and harmony to reign supreme among our white people, and maybe this convention will be the bond that will urite us. God grant it. Now, John, having fully answered you, I shall now proceed to atte~nd to the seduc tive missive I received in the same mail with yours. En Villa, July 22, 1895. Mr. Dave Tucker: Dear Sir-At the solicitation of many friends I have very reluctantly allowed my name used as a candidate for the Constitu tional convention as one of the Conserv'a tive delegates under the agreement had with the Reformers. I therefore beg that you will aid me with your influence in the primary. Though allied with that faction of' the Democratic party opposed to the Reform ers I have been very conservative in my view., and in so acting I am sure I have given them no offense, and I further flatter myself that I am least ob'jectionable to them than other candidates of my fretion. Hoping that you will see your way clear to do all you can for me, I am, sir, yours truly, ST. JULIAN DE GRIEGTON. No, sir, I don't see my way clear no bow you fix it ; it is full of stumps and gullhes. I am going to vote for two Conservativ'es, but you won't be one of them, and I'll tell you the reason why, St. Julian. Firstly, you are too young and inexper enced. You &ve just graduated from col lege this JuW past. and the wire edge ain't worn off vet. WVhat in the world can you possibly'know about constitutional law? You wouldn't know the difference between a' "bill of rights" and "finance and taxation." Then there is the all-ab sorbing qcestion of suffrage. How about that? These matters will require grave and serious consideration, and their solution must be left to wiser and more experienced and maturer judgment than you possess. Another thing against your candidature is the uncertainty as to what faction you really belong. In fact, your friends have been in doubt as to what side of the fence you were on. Hence, they have classed you with the "fence straddlers"-that class of politicians who curry favor of both sides for the sake of office, and from all such, Good Lord, deliver us. The lukewarm admission in your letter as ncting with the Conservatives is the first intimation that I've had of your position; this, therefore, it seems to me, can scarcely give you that prominence that befits a leader of that faction. But, notwithstand ing your literary attainments, your youth and inexperience would preclude your candidature. Now, my dear St. Julian, don't under stand me as desiring to discourage you in your endeavors ; on the contrary, it is my wish to encourage any one in gratifying a, laudable ambition. Such an exponent is to be commended ; but the seasoin is not yet ripe for yours to bud forth. Bide your time, r.nd if von exhibit the proper tale'ts an appreciative public will in due time give the reward you so desire. So keep to your pedagogics yet awhile, and your well-directed efforts in this line will in due time bring its just recompense. Your friend, DAtvE TUcKa'n. You cannot be well unless your blood is ] pure. Therefore purify your blood with I POTTER'S RAID. Rev. W. W. Mood Furnishes Some Interesting Addenda. Sumter, S. C., August 3,1895. Editor Manning Times: Dear Sir--As surances from several indicate that the re publication of "Potter's Raid" (abbrevi ated) has been of interest to the readers of The Manning Times. Permit, if you please, some addenda, which may of interest to those who have read the raid. Your readers remembet the elegant oil portrait of Colonel James E. Davis and his superb and costly uniform, which his wife sent to the parsonage for me to protect after the naval officers had raided her home from their gunbcat in Santee river. Hez bright and cheerful face lies before me. I highly priz? this picture for many reasong, 1.e has passed sway. The visit of my brother-in-law, E. Ruth ven Plowden, and his brother, Captain Edgar Plowvden. is not forgotten by yont readers. They had jnst completed the utter de. struction of Brewington bridge. which was done under orders. Their amazement wo cowmi!cte when they found in my room Col. James E. Davis' uniform. "These thing mu..t not be found in your room," they said; "if found by the enciny, yon can make excise." an-i the box was drawn toward the fire. I protested -prohibited its destrnetion. Rnthven's pictire before me is gonod, Lis face telling that what he does is done well -whether it is Idanting corn and cotton or burning a bridge. Your readers will readily recall the visit of Major Pinckney G. Benbow at my gate as the forces were passing out of town toward Sumter, conveying the respects 01 Colonel Connors aEd urging me to retire before the approach of the negro army. I can now recall the intonations of the Iajor's voice as he bade me good bye, and saying: "We leave you, the only wbite man in the town, to the tender mercies of this negro army," I look upon his face Ile also has joined the silent majority. It is easily remembered that two tun rode by our home ; meeting Mrs. Norris in the street, and arranging with her to re turn to her home and drink coffee if thev saw no eneuiv. While at the table the cry arose: "The cuemy is on the street !" One of their advance guards had been shot down by Charles 11. Jones. He sent me his photograph several years age unsolicited. It is to the life. Purpose and determination is there-so well proven in his marvelous escape that day as Le fled past my door before his enraged pursuers. He held a responsible office in our town - Sumter-when his end came budenly. I was honored in being reqnested by his family to perforin his funenl rites. I had known Charles from his early manhood1. It was sixteen years afterwards before I learned who his companion was. He proved to be William A. Brunson, now an ex-mayor of Florence. S. C., a:d practising law. He is a conrtly, Christian gentleman. His photograph does not show the youth fulness of that day when he hustledl from the table with Charles Jones, graspel his gun, got into the street, a1nd so narrowly escalped, though losing a ve-ry valuabe horse. Those gentle knocks at my front door andl of the visitor telling nuy servant "I will not huit any ono. 3My t,-nt is pitched at your fence," are readily reenlledl; of my inviting him into my bed-room ; of my in terview, and then ot' my long and anxious search to find this friend, Lieut. Harrison L. Waterman. His photograph lies before me, with his wife and son. I certainly prize these pic tures. His face I somewhat recall. He is not fashionably dressed (:n a bdaeas suit); he is a man of busine-ss. As presi dent of a railroad and a coal mine he has snceeedel-having acnmnlated-andl is a leading citizen of Otnmwa, Iowa, where he reside. He is held in the highest re spect. I must say that I have a great long ing to see bin:-, to look him ni the face and thaenk him for his kindness to mue and mine that night. Your readlers will ramimb-l-r that in my search for Lieutenant Water sian I was brought in co.: mounication with Colonel James E. Place; that he spoke very kindly of him, and regnuesting mne. if I found him, to give him the io.mi'tion. It was only lately that I wrote to him. There lies before me a deeply-bordlered moburning letter dated June 5. 1895: "No. 995 Howard Street, Pasadlena, Cal. Dear Sir: Your postal was foi-warded to me from Cohoes, N. Y. Colonel Jas. E. Place died January 14. 1891. Yours respect fully, Mns. J.uns E r.Br. Captaein DaLvid IR McCallum's photograph lies before me. HeI appears in his full uni forum of Confederate gray. He entered the service, I think, as a p~rivate. This city Suwter-waus under his comman~i at the time of the Dingie's Mili fight. He em powered C. HI. Jones, W. A. B3runson and others to look alter the approaching negro army. In his profession as surgeon-den dist he has succeeded. II s office is over Dr. China's drug store. I prize his pi, ture. And there is Colonel James F. Pressley's pictunre, late ofSisian Cit3 Cal. He was my family physician in 1867, and I have c'ause to remember him. When General Potter left Gieorgetown to invade the State he-though ait home from wounds received in battle-hung upon his flanks and delayed his progress, so as to give his scat-ered furloughed and s'ck men time to rally. This was par:i:dily accom plished at Dingle's mill He art rwar l re mnove~d to California, where he dhiedI. I re call the many' kindnesses of the doctor and his family, and wdal ever remember them in love. Dr. Pressey was in the thickest of the tigh: at Ding's mill, being made conspicnons by his arm being in a sling. Another picture of gre'at interest to me is that of Captain Co'leolugh. Hie is in the full dress ol Co~nfedlerate gray as captain. I never knew Captain Colelough, but have in moy note-book his va, ions past oeices. Whtile in the army he would be followed by certain n ewsp~apers - partienultriy by'the Southern Christian A~ivo,-.te. This was done through the aff,-etionalete d: otionr of a near relativ". They have both passed from earth. Captain (olel-ogh a'-tedl vr can spienonsly at the- lighbt at Dingles muill. Anad e'ven another phiotograeph of' still greater interest is bet'ore mec -that of Win. Reeder. He has his army hat of Confed erate gray upon his head. At the first roll call of the Palmetto Guards .dr. Reeder nnswered "Here !" on a furlough for a short time from Virginia, he visited his mother (she was a M~uekenfatss) and s'isters f Charleston, who wvere then at Manning. Hie was fearfully wvoundeud at Dingle's mill on Sunday, April 9, 18G5. He lingered until Tuesday, when he died. He was born in Charleston, S. C.. September 8. 1843, and died at Sumter April 11, 1865. The very peculiar circumstances under which I found General Potter's address from Mr. B. W. Burnet-the readers of the raid will remember ; and though that con vrersation on the train took place in '69 or '70, it was only in May last that I wrote making inquiry of him. Hie wired at once : "I am still living and anxious to hear from you," Of ecourse he has heard, and his photograph lies before me, and he prom ises me his wife's and two sons'. Mr. Enrnet's photograph is strikingly good. You take to him as yo obok at it. With a white necktie on he'd be easily and readily taken for Bishop-and all who see t will say so. I peculiarly prize this pie uie, for thioughi him it was that I found 3iy friend Lieutenant W'aterman. 'I feel sure that my visit and interview s-ith ex-Gov. John Lawrence Manning in :erested your reatders. I so tunchi regret hat his photograph is not h,-fore mte. ?bov. Manning's father's name was Richard [rvin Manning, his mother's Elizabeth P~eyre Richardson. Gov. John Lawrence klanning was born January 29, 1816, near 7nlton, Snmter District, Sonth Carolinna, He was Governor of Sonth Carolina in 1852-54, serving two ternis. le! die-1 Oct. 29, 1889, at the resilene of his sor.in-law --David t.-and daughter--Ellen Clarke- I Williams in Camden, South Carolina. I A have only regretted once--and that has t been all the time-that I did rt "br-ealc bread" with bim and speu4 the night under his hospitable roof ; surely be pressed me t to do so. General Edward E. Potter's photograph is bi-fore me. le is in a stanln-'in.s p-a;tion in a suit of l~ack biro'adtiloth. His b-aver is in his hand. He i< -1.an -biven. with a heavy black ruoustaeliv. He is tall. I shonil say. The picture was taken in t 1858. He died sn.ldeniv abont five vears ago in New York e-ity. H- nevrr married. g OFFICIAL VOTE Of Clarendon County in the Recent Primary Election. MAN-.\(;, S. C.. Angust 1, 1895. The County Demoeratic Ex.-entiva Con mittee met to-day. Those p rpsent were Jane E. Davis, connty chairman; J. W. Kennedy (f New Town, A. 1). Witherspoon of Pinewjol, J. C. Johnson of Packsville. 1. 1i (hb-on of Silver, S. W. Mecntosh of Miiway, J. F. lhehbourg of CRoihal-s. D. J. I1radhlmni of the Fairiers' Platform Club, C. T. Rilgeway of the Forestoni l formn Clnb. J. Elbert Davis of Jorian, C. R. Felder of P nAI -nd E. D. [i 0: .Ileoln. The b-aes were opened-a. ana.1 the following result atnonneel Pinewool .............32 32 32 7 25 Foreston Reform.......41 44 44 42 5 Panola.................18 19 18 13 S Midway ...... ........12 13 13 2 12 Cross Roads.........311 36 31: 34 2 New Town..... .......28 21; 2$ 24 6 Manning F. P........105 105 105 91 11 Suurrmmerton..... .... ..22 22 22 22. Jordan ........... ....38 '39 39 :3 1 Packsville........ ...9) 91 9) 8 5 Doctor Swamp .... ....23 31 34 33 7 Silver.................24 2,1 21; 24 2 Douglass...............41) 43 44 10 39 New Zion ............. 9 9 9 1 8 Total ........ ....523 539 540 440 131 On motion of J. Elbert Davis the f:>nr candidates having received the highest majorities were declared nomrinated. Mr. E. D. Hodge of Alco!u inade sone remarks giving reasons why the Conserva ties did not vote, and pledging hinsself to stand by the nominees. The meeting then adjourned. J. E. Davis. County Chairmant. DArr.L 3. UnhDuM.r Secretary and Treasurer. HERMON AND HERM1E. Their Sad Parting on the Banks of the Beautiful Pee Dee. Dear Hermie-Your letter to the Manning Times, dated July 19, and written from Silver, S. C., was a sur prise to one who had for some time lost sight of you. Why, may I ask, have you so completely isolated your self from your friends and old asso eiations? You remember our parting, when the lordly Pee Dee rolled in silent majesty before us and at our feet, winding through the greenest of I lowlands-a stream of silver-in the ~ soft ebb tide of a brilliant day,h while the splash of its 'waters, blended with the song of birds, made I a sublime orchestral accompanimient c to the winds, which played their grand diapason in the pines. In the hazy distance the spire of old St. David's peered solemnly, up. ward-a voiceless messenger from earth to heaven. It was an event ful time-that fair, soft eve ; an epoch in the grand march of des tiny, for, having decreed you a gay young votary of fashion, a social butterfly, I awoke to find ycu a woman quick in intelligence, ardent in sympathy, and fully alive to the i great end and value of life-that - "grand and solemn gift" to hu manity.] Your parting words awvoke from the inner recesses of my heart new thoughts, new resolutions and new - vows. I had hitherto judged woman from an egotistic standpoint- im agined her unequal to the ascent of intellectual heights; in her affections man's superior, in reason his in ferior. Plain conclusions, Hermie, but nevertheless, what I thought un biased after years of study. Now, pondering over these things, and, as I east my eyes around my library, f where voices from the past -that silent realm of memory from sage, poet and philosopher-hold solemn conclave, where mind outlives mat ter in the sublimity of intellect, where Homer and Milton clasp - hands across the mists of cyeles, where Voltaire and Rousseau battle with Pascal, where in the wide ra nge.I of thought the mystic tread "whence, um wherefrom and whither" find no re- of sponse in their mute pages, the ques- dr tion arises: "Can a woman hold a ur hand in this conflict ? can she probe th the heart of science, or must she sC merely stand on the threshold of A philosophy, incapable of penetrating c its systems or entering its venerable M works. As in a vast and consecrated in fabric, vistas and aisles open up on every side, high thoughts raise the mind to heavep; pillars and niches l and cells within cell s mix in seeming ,.; confusion and a vail of tracery and and foliage and grotesque imagery is thrown over all, but all rich with light streaming through 'dirm re ligious forms,"-all leading up to God and blessed with an influence _ dimmed and half-lost in the con taminated reason of man." S Glancing again over your letter another idea stands prominent. Woman is made a potent factor in a movement which raises wan to a C "liigher plane of spiritualizy." . Is it possible for woman in her I passive humanity to standl on a Ei higher plane in matters of faith, love and spirituality ? Is there a door through whose evangelic por tals man follows woman, andI by her aid climbs to that higher plane?I Can there be a plane higher than that claimed exeelusively by man the domain of reason and intellect? u One more question, and I have i done. Should woman, in her price- b less purity, her faith, her love, her power as a Christian, embark on the voyage of life with one whose anchor h and rudder are reason and intellect only ? Would her faith suffer ship wreck, or would it prove a life-boat - to her? Tell me of this movement eo in your beautiful town of Silver- tw this ascent to a "higher plane of le, spirituality," of its exponents, its to methods, and, above all, its fruits. wr Awaiting your reply, I am your eac friend, HERMON. an Foreston, August 4, 1895. of Malaria produces weakness, general de-! an bility, biliousness, loss of appetite, indi gestion and constipationa. Grove's Tasteless 15 Chill Tonic removes the cause which pro duces these troubles. Try it andl yon will " be delighted. Fifty cents. To get the genuine ask for Girove's. No cure, no pay. Italians and negroes are havimg a arrot-and monkey time in illinois. 'lie Italians do not want to work 'ith the negroes, and have driven hern at the point of guns fron the tines. The negroes are orgtizing > give battle to the dagoes, adl(i it iakes but little difference which ide whips. You run no risk. All druggists guaran ar Gr.,e's Tastlless Chill Tonic to do all aat the tnannfacturetrs chiii for it. Varra ted no eure. no pay. There are inv imitations. To get the genuine ask r Gr o'e's. For sale by Lory-, th~e I)DUg St. In ,Health means so much more than you imagine-serious and fatal diseases result from trifling ailments neglected. Don't play with Nature's greatest gift-health. If you are feelin out of sorts, weak and generally ex Brov v ~ hausted, nervous, have no appetite and can't work, begin at once tak ing the most relia ble strengthening miedicine,which is Brown's Iron Bit ters. A few bot tles care-benefit elS comes from the very first dose-it B itt-tws' .tai Yner teeth, and it's pleasant to take. It Cures Dyspepsla, Kidney and Liver Neuralgia, Troubles, Constipation, Bad Blood Malaria, Nerv-ous ailments Women's conplaints. Get only the "enuine-it has crossed red lines on the wrapper. All others at e sub stitutes On receipt of two 2e. sta:nps we will send set o1f 1 en fScautsiu! World's Fair Views ca.I boo!:--ftee. BROWN CH EoC.:CA CO ALT;aORE. MD. PORTER'S 4TiSEPTIC HEALING OIL For Barb Wire Cuts. Scratches, addle and Collar Galls, Cracked Heel urns, Old Sores, Cuts, Boils, Bruises, 'iles and all k'nds of inflammation on tan or beast. Cures Itch and Mange. The gore, Cut or Sta 1w11l noter mater siter the oil i been aslid. De prepared for accidents by keeping is in your ause or stablc. Al D rugglsts selI it on a guaranitee. Cure, No Pay. Price as ets. and $z.oo. .If your raggist does not keep it send us a5 cts. in pos. ge stamps and we will send it to you by mail, Paris, Tenn., Jan. 20th, lSm4 Dear sir:I have used Portr'. Antiseptie Hea!aC et Harness and saddle Galls.scratches and Darba Wire Cu! th perfect satisfaction,. and I heartily recomntcnd it t C. B.eyan c IRVINE, Livery and Feed str.u:. BABY BURNED. Gentlenen .-I am pleased to sprak a word! for Pote ttsepts Healise ott. My baby was burned a few :no:.. a and after Irvin anl other remedies I a pplied youar ' :? d the Srst appletion gave relief, and in a few dz y.I re was well. also used the oil oan :ny stoe!: aalnd i ,. Is the best remedy for this purpose that I have .er ua -. Yours. C- T-.EWs Paris. Tenn.. January it. 1891 PARIS MEDICINE Co., sT. L.omts, ;%U For sale by R. B. Loryea, the Druggist. annig, S. C. )sEPN F. RH.urE. W . C. DAvis. HIAME & DAVIS, ATTORNEYS A7 LAW, MANNIN G, S. C. LEVI, ATTORNEY AT LAW MANNING. S. C. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. DAMON LODGE No.13 5. Thursdaiy nights. Every -'meniber requested to at .tend regularly and prompit ly Visiting brothers n' - rc .a. J. H. Etoi.ny, C. C. -' K. of R. &. S. Notice. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT Sby virtue of the powe~r conferred upon byit comnmiss;ion issued by thc Secretary th State of South Caro'ina, bearing te the 30th daxy of July. 1895, we, the dersigned, the board of corporators ereirn amed, will open books of sub. ription to the capital stock of "D. W. deran & Sons Company." a p~roposed rporaition, at the~ onlice of D. W. Abk-r in at Alcoln, on the Cental] railroad. Clarendon coniuty, Suth Carolina, at 12 :lock noon on the, first day of Antnsi. 95, the said books to relmin open unat tathe stck has br-en snbscribed to. The capit'd stock is to be $150,000, di ie~l into 300 .hares of the ar va n of D..m .Sn.iw, ]U'ard of* Coarpaon !r-. f ATE Of SOUTH CAROLiNA, COUNTY OF CLARENOON. OURT OF COMMON PLEAS. atsa J. Me-b-uet. and .J<,hn I. Maeb-tte, ~eendaun. JDCMENT FOR FORECLOSURE AND~ SALE. NDER, AND) TY VIRTUE OF A jdmttee t order of the Court ofl Com' m Pleas, in the avc-stalt'.1 ::ci on, to direc'e I bearing dlate October 10th, ) I wiin sel' tat public auction, to the 'h. st bidde cr for eai-h, at Clare'on conrt use, at Lanuinag, in satid connty, iiithin; Slegaal hart. for judiiet:al sales, on Moni y, tile 2 1 day of Septemnber, 1895, being esdy, thie followi*'ng decri beo real es. XAll that piece,. parcel, or tract of land, n a" ben' anda situae in Ctarendoni rnty, and t e afore'ad, contairning uhundred r n to ifty-ivie acres. mnore or I boun'ded anda ltted as follows, w it: Nrtt hi landsl of Jameis M. C'ald I ni so, or lormedy a the;ir lanids; -t hvina ta of 1r R.i 1 . Dinglie: soulth as'timb. ast by lands newi or formely Gr ..iOln a n rle~s 1 tel, ad we t aq atiwet by landls of S~ata nei Li. aIn un I Ed ward Rich bourg. For :rthaer r-.rence see ai drarin by D. tut~dge. aurveyorI J auary 1ih, se.,ventylivefi acres bain beenIa cult off d t;at itace sidt ptlat viasI' h-. tnrebaser to p.ay for papert. D. J . r..mux, Sheritl Clarend-tn County. Mnning S. C.. August '7. 189. artford icycles >0 80 Elegant in Design S.uperior in Workmanship Strong and Easy Running Hartfords are the sort of bicycle most makers charge $100 for. . Columbias are far superior to so-called g "specials," for which $125 or even $i 10 is asked. ::kV It is well to be posted upon the bicycle K price situation. The great Columbia plant is working for the rider's benefit, as usual. Columbias=100 POPE MFG. CO. General Offices and Factories, . HARTFORD, Conn. .45 DRANCH STORMS Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Buffalo, Providence. 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