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LOUIS APPELT, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year .......-- -- - -....... $1.50 Six Months n.......- -..-. -..... 75 Four Months ....................... 50 ADVERTISING RATES: One square, one time, $I; 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. MANNING, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1895. Don't Let Them Dodge the Issue. After having given our readers some gold-bug literature, and in order to show the utter fallacy of their scheme, we present to our readers the following able article from the Silver Knight, of Washing ton, D. C., on the silver question: The issue of bimetallism and pros perity or gold standard and poverty. This issue has been buried under the rubbish of side issues for twenty years. Ever since Sherman stabbed the prosperity of the people of the United States by the Mint bill of 1878, demonetizing silver, the atten tion of the people has been diverted by the goldites from the real cause of their distress. The entire gold press, Democratic and Republican, have used the tariff as a monster cuttle-fish to darken the waters and obscure the vision of the American people from the crime 1873. It made no difference whether it was high tariff or low tariff or moderate tariff or tariff for revenue or tariff for pro tection, all agreed that it was -the tariff. The tariff has now been ad . justed and the people are now dis gusted with the tariff issue. They want a rest. Another favorite issue which has been used as a hobby horse both North and South was the negro ques tion. The gold men of the North, such as Harrison, Reed and McKin ley, want to monopolize the negro vote, and for that purpose they are willing to turn over to the adminis tration in power military control of elections. Southern politicians used this for all 'that it was worth to con solidate the South. All that was good for the gold party. It kept out of sight the real cause of the distress of the people which was and is the single gold standard. The Force Bill question is also settled and never can _be revived again, and the people North and South have learned that fact. There is no more political capital -in the negro question. The gold press declares that Democracy and Republicanism are the growing issue. When called upon to point out the difference between Democracy and Republicanism as construed by the administrations of Harrison and Cleveland, the Democratic gold press reply: Clevelandism is pure Democ racy. It is sound money and safe currency. The Republican papers -reply that Harrison, McKinley, Reed and Morton are representatives of 'pure Republicanism, sound money and safe currency. These subjects have been used until they are worn out as issues. It is easy for the two old parties with the aid of the money powers which furnished them the press, the railroads and the public plunder generally to nominate gold bugs for President on equivocal plat forms. It is more this year, without any issues except party names, to fool the people through the instru mentality of national conventions. The people commenced early last winter to force the the silver ques tion to the front. Silver leagues, sil ver conferences and silver conven tions were held throughout the coun try, and the gold press~has had very lively times in attempting to suppress the movement. The movement in Illinois, Texas, Mississippi, Misouri, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and throughout the North west has been growing every day and the press could not stop it. The gold organs as a last resort declare that the silver question is dead. The entire commercial press is engaged from day .to day announcing the death of the silver question. Mean while Georgia, Missouri and Texas speak in no uncertain tones. It is amusing to read the descriptions of the gold press of the blow that killed the silver question. They say it was killed in Kentucky. They do not. tell the public that every office-holder1 under the Government of the U. S. was compelled to become an agent in packing conventions; that the press was bought or subsided by the gold ring; that the railroads were forced into the service of gold monopoly; that the whiskey men being indebt ed to the banks and being in fear of' the power of the administeation were compelled to help pack that conven tion and seceure a resolution endors ing the administration which is odi ous to the people of Kentucky as to the people of any other State. Such a victory obtained at such a cost does not kill but makes alive. The flames of indignation kindled in Kentucky by the methods employed to stifle the will of the people has done much to arouse the country against the Rothschilds combination, and its Washington and Wall street agents. The goldites are reckoning without their hosts. Even if they succeed in controlling both of the old parties in their national conventions in 1896, it will be by such gross fraud and bribery as to disgust the people a forc them to hurl from powers the men who have substituted the rule of an alien gold trust for the rule of the people of the United States. We are aware that Demo erats and Republicans are much af fected by their life-long associations with party. Democrats are Demo erats by birth and education; and Republicans are Republicans on ac count of the great record that party has made. But it must not be for gotten that honest Republicans and honest Democrats are in favor of con stitutional liberty as ordained and established by the fathers: that on the issue of English or American rule, which is now the issue, a majority of the American people will be on the American side. Gold monopoly is English first, last, and all the time. The combination to which the na tions pay tribute of more than five hundred millions annually is an En glish combination. Americans have been forced to be contributors to the wealth of that English syndicate by the legislation demonetizing silver, which that same English syndicate procured. That legislation took away the right of the American peo ple under the constitution to coin their own money and compelled them to borrow money of the English bankers. This has been done for twenty years, and has been com pounded by continuing to borrow money to pay interest on borrowed money until the debt of the United States to Europe, after applying our surplus exports, is annually increas ing from $250,000,000 to $300,000,000. Some statisticians put the annual in crease of the foreign debt of the Government and'people of the United States as much as $15,000,000. This is English rule, and the name of Democracy and Republicanism ap plied to this fraud cannot much longer deceive the people. The issue, as we stated in the beginning, is bi metallism and prosperity, or, what is the same thing, American independ enee or English rule. This may be regarded as strong language, but those who know from whence the or ders come which pass from New York to the White House and how they are obeyed, knows who governs the United States. When Lombard street speaks the administration de elares it is the voice of the people and that it is the duty of every good citizen to patriotically and unselfish ly obey that voice. Every Independent ticket in the State was buried yesterday, and it is to be hoped that Independentism is dead forever. $100 REWARD, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to care in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity, Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces- of th~e system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting natare in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hun dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. CNEYz & Co, Toledo, 0. Sold by druggists, 75c. . DISPENSARY FINANCES. Paid Baek 350,000 to south Carolina ad Have the Stocks Left. CorLUxmA, 8. G., Aug. 20.- -tate Liquor Commissioner Mixson speaks favorably of the South Carolina dispen saries. He said yesterday that while the legislative eommittee had not yet examined and approved his quarterly report, he .ould give in round numbers the figures showing the financial con dition of the concern. He saya that the dispensary has now, within the walls of the state dispensary building 885,000 to $75,000 wor-th of stock; out in the several county dispensaries they have stock amounting to about 8150,000; and in the state treasury they have $20,000 in cash with which to meet all expenses. Besides paying back the 850,000 appropriation, he says, they have paid all the revenue licenses for the year, about $3,000. This, he says, is the exact status of the dispensary business in the state of South Carolina. Henceforward, it is the purpose, he says, to run the business for the sole purpose of supplying the people with liquor at actual cost of purchasing and handling. THE JOHNS HOPKINS SAFE. It Wasn Flooded by Water, but the Fir. Did Brat Little Damaga, BALLIMzOaR, Md., Aug. 20.-The local observer of the.United States Weather Bureau, whose offices are located on the top floor of the Johns Hopkins Uni veraity building yesterday afternoon, found the roof of the building ablaze. An alarm was turned in,while the clerks busied themselves in removing to places of safety the files and valuable docu ments which were stored in the office. The fire department was quickly on the scene and deluged the place with water. Four floors of the institution were flooded and many of the valuable scientific instruments were damaged if not ruined. The university buildings are closed for the summer, except that portion used by the weather bureau. Attachees of the latter estimate the damage to their apparatus at $5,000; about $500 will cover the loss to the building. _______ RiOT IN A CHURCH. One a Fatally Hurt and Two Others Veriously Injured. ST. Jossuu, Mo., Aug 20.-There was quite a riot at St. Peter and St. Paul's Catholic church on Messanie street last evening, and as a result one man was fatally injured and six others badly used up, the injuries of two being serious The man fatally injured was Charles Wreckyoreck. The seriously Injured were Tony Ferdyce and Simon Wago nr. There is a faction of the church op posed . to the priest, and these men at tempted to break up the services. Sev eral arrests have been made. THE CAMPAIGN OPENED, liv a Joint Debate Between Gubernatorial candidates-6.OOO reopte 'resent. LouxsYH.., Ky., Aug. 20.-The open ing ofthe most vigorous political cam paign ever known in the common wealth of Kentucky was made at the Auditori um last night in the presence of 0,000 people, by a joint debate of three hours between General P. Watt Hardin and Col. William 0. Bradley. the demo cratic and republican candidates for governor, respectively. Mayor Henry S. Tyler presided, iuitroducing the THE DIFFERENCE Between Farming on the Cash and Credit Systems. AN ARTICLE OF INTEREST TO Every Planter in the State of South Carolina-A Vivid Contrast of the Two Systems. Editor Manning Times: Herewith I send you the result of the efforts of A and B to make cotton on improved and highly eulti vated lands at a living profit. These are not imaginary individuals, but farmers of experience, whose estimates have been carefully made and results accurate!y re corded. A plants stiff lands, B pine lands sandy with sub-stratum of clay. How ninny of us, in the attempt to im prove our lands and bring them up to the high standard shown in these two cases by the purchase of guano on credit have found themselves without land to improve? Who of us has enough of this imprpvcd land, either by guano or home-made manures, to make the amounts state 1 per acre? and yet we have been preachiza "intensive farming" and "recation ot acreage" for how many years? Shall we now swap masters, and by swindling the merchant, deposit his cotton with the banker to secure money to make more cotton ? Have you any cotton to put with the bank as collateral ? If we had the cotton where would we find the bank blind enough to aid and abet us in our folly ? The merchant might be willing to do this himself for his own benefit to pay his own obligations, and the collateral would be the merchant's, not yours. These are days of visionary financial methods, but the bankers are men of in telligence and will scarcely ac.ept us col lateral a perishable worthless security even to increaso circulation, which ultimately must result in a still further depreciation of their security- cotton. Why should the merchant dabble in this roundabout way with the cotton you have made, and which has already cost him more than it is worth, when he can go on Wall stieet or telegraph a broker and buy futures? When the time comes for another to lose and to continue to lose year after year. as merchants have through the farmer with out hope of profit, then it is time to ease the habit of losing, or socialism anid the millenium indeed are near. We can not get something for nothing public office, for example-without loss of self,respect, and it is high time for us farmers to cease to look up to any class for our daily bread and bacon. Shall we join in the hue and cry of the "majority" in our desperation against "the merchant, the bloated bondholder"-for whom we work harder than ever our slaN es were allowed to work for us in the days of slavery, when now they realize that our labor does not pay them nor support us? God forbid! If we bleed, their money has furnished the blood. They have lost the money ; we the labor. All of us-mer chant and farnier-suffer for our cotton folly ; we have ruined one another. If, however, they-the merchants-had seen their error and turned their investment to votes instead of cottoo somne years ago the finances might have been and the politics of this State would have been in a more healthy condition, our people more umnite-d and our families more contented and prois perous. See ? If the Farmers' Alliance, who, it seems~ have turned their attention to politie.s and~ to efforla to suck public pap-poor crea;t ures !-will not or can not control the cot tn acreage of its members as effectuall. as their votes at the pol:s, let the people of this State. at least when they meet in convention (too late' for this year) relieve us of this cotton-planting incubus regard less of protest ot farmer, merchant or broker. Let us show that we fully ap'pre ciate their CUnszs OF CnEDIT uad their abuses for not paying our debts. If they make advances to make cotton they deserve to lose. Amen ! Why did the merchant credit us? To make money and in many cases on borrowed capital he ran the risk of lending to us. 'rhe man from whom he borrowed took as muc'h of the risk as he who borrowed, for he knew how the merchant. would lend. WVe bor rowed from the merchant that we might work to make cotton-the only thing that we could make to represent money-that we might return in cotton the money bor rowed and exist on the hope to live. All this cotton was made for him. When we owned slaves they workud for us. but we fed and clothed them. A revolution came. Slavery was dent' away with ; we were all ruined. Another revolution has 'occurred. The majority of Us are worse off than in 1865. All and everything else is under mortgage ; the merchant is in the clutches of' the factor ; the factor in the hands of the banker. andl the farmer is ruined, but he is not free. The cotton planter (slave of the merchant) is still in the throes of slavery, and will always remain so as long as he can get credit to plant cotton for any one else than himself. He does not get feed and clothes. The effect of this credit system under lien or otherwise will and must ruin any people morally and financially. The mnerchant knows, or ought to know, that you can not make enough to pay him when he is making these advances. You know that you can not realize enough from all you are worth to pay him for these ad vances if cotton and all the securities are offered on the block. These losses and non-payment of liens have been iticreasing for five or six years until now the farmer has lost all heart, and in desperation will cease to strive to meet his obligations and begin-if he has not already begun-to de fraud the merchant. BEPOR'T OF .t-T'Ot'n aLs with improved seed : April 16, 1894--Planted. May 21-Seriously damaged by frost. May 24-Replanted. June 27-First bloom. June 27-Chopped and thinned to stand. August 3-Stopped pla iting. August 27-Cotton in spots matured ; stopped growing. By 1676 pounds lint at 5.40 cents per pound.......$90.50 By 2748 pounds seed (86 bushels say at 10 cents). 8.60 -$99.10 EEENDITUREs. [ent, $2 per acre... .$8.00 Acid phosphate, $2.40 per acre........ 9.60 Seed, 50e per acre. ... 2.00 Cultivation and pre paration at $5.51 per acre............ 22 04-$41.&4 To picking to Sept. 5, 1,300 pounds at 40c.... ...... 5.15 To picking te Oct. 1, 1471 pounds at 40c.... ...... 5.7 To picking to Oct. 23, 1392 pounds at'0c....-...... -5 50 To picking to Nov. 7, 234 pounds................ .71 To picking to Dec. 14, 35 pounds.... ............5 To ginning same, bagging and ties............... 7.08-$66.30 Profit..................... '2.80 Or $8.20 per acre. From this test it is seen that cotton can be made say at 3 9-16 cents per pound by iving the seed ($8.60) for ginning, bag. Hoe work, per acre, S'2.52 ;] plow work,I ging and ties ($7.08) and hauling to and from gin ($1.52). All plowing was valued and paid for at 30 cents per acre for two furrows and all hoe work at 40 cents per acre. Now if A had had 20 acres of land-nat ural or improved, to make 1108 pounds of seed cotton, and if he had planted this seed of cotton to yield him 419 pounds of lint per acre-37 13-16 lint per acre-at a cost to work, gather and prepare for nar k-t at a nost of $14.80 he would have re. alized, 'i he had received $5.40 per ewt. net-$S.20. Prodigious! in the words of Dominie Samson. And if HE HAD PLANTED THOSE TWENTY ACnEs to the mule he would have gotten for hi. experience, his supervision and his year's work (if he could have hired plow and hoe wolk to the day as needed on the twenty acres as on the four acres) $164. If he had done his own plowing, hoe work and pick ing, how much he would have save-d by this economy of labor. But-the, he could not have gone to alliance meetings to discuss finance and reform and abuse the newspapers. See? Now, in the northern soldiers' homes the cost of living is reported to be about 27 cents a day-exclusive of clothi4g, shoes, bedding, etc., if I remember correctly. They have, of course, no taxes to pay costing the institutions per annutn for -each inmate $98.55. They are furnish.d fish, fresh ait, sugar, coffiee, pie, etc. Their daily bills of fare, as pnbl:sbed in one of the leading magazines- the Century, I think it was-made my mouth water, and I am sure the reading of the menu woulI havo filled you with envy. Say now that A gets $164, and spends $98 55 for his clothes, for bis shoes, for his -maintenance. for his "cht-nially pure' someimes-o-casionally as oftt-n as he goes to Maniining or sonmewhere. else-and there will be lelt $65.45 for the wife and children. Slim rations and clothos for them, isn't it? Hold a hand primary anl let's sec who got $164 net Irom twenty acres this year or last year -count-not one! The State of South Carolina may Lave averaged a bale of cotton to three ac:es for the past four year-not more, but less, I think ; the statistics are not before me. But say that the yield has been given, and now let us Lee if we could have existed at 5-cent cotton for a single )ar. It takes ordinarily 1500 pounds to make a 500 weight bale. This is 500 pounds see.1 cot ton the acre. Let us estimate : Rent of three acres.........$ 600 Guano-300 pounds at lic per pound-100 pounds per acre...................... 4.50 Ginning, etc., one bale cotton (500 pounds)............. 2.2.5 Plowing $9, hoeing $7.50 .... 16.50 Picking, at 40 cents........6. 00-S35.2. By 500 ponuds widdling at 5 cents..S2f,.00 Loss on three acres....... ..... $10.25 Or $3.42 per acre. Again, let us make another estimiate with more guano and a larger yield Rent or two acres ..... ....$ 4.00 une sack per acae at $30 per ton...................... 6.00 Ginning. baling, etc........ 225 Plowing $6, hoeing $5....... 11.00 Picking, 1500 pounds at 50 cents.................... 7.50-$30.75 By 500 loundsl at 5 cei ..... ... 25.0( Loss............ ........ .....$ 5.7! This on land producing a bale to twc aerus ! Suppose, now, that he does his plowing ($6) and his own hoeing ($5)-impossible, of course ; but say that he has done these, and that will leave him a cost on two acree of $19.95 ($9.87 per acre), and he receivef $25 for his bale of cotton, a profit of $5.21 ($2.621 per acre), and a profit on twenty acres of $52.50? The proposition of hoe to plow force was always estimated at two to one, thus giving three hands to one mule. Th se ordinarily cultivated thirty acres--twenty in cotton and 10 in corn, besides pottoes, etc. These three hands would eat oft corn meal 39 bushels, at. 80 cents...............$31.20 Per day 13 poiiuis ot bacon, per annna 547 loands of bacor., at 10 c,:t ts. ..... ... 54.70-$85.90 iy tiet ;-rec'eds of t-:t b-iies of cot tin frou: t wrt~ .y'rt-s. . .... .. .. .52.50 Loss............... ......d4 Th'i.- mian an-i his family lose only this aumo:t ! azni he cai tnot thnd so touch as ti:is i'z the comm:timity to steal. So lock Out or v yiutrseif, mearc'aet ! a's arcoi.D or corrcyi p.!at.t..-d 189J1 on fe~rt:. -eight acre - 1720 piouiis per ntel..............60,205 Patch fied-- I aere, 5-toot rows- 2043 pourits per acre... .. .... ...2,043 shop field -two ne'r. s 5-t.. n rows 1372 pons per it-ro......... ..2,745~ Shanty field-10 acre-, *4oot rows 1t0G5 pounns per acre. ..........10,658 Total on forty-eightt aeros....75,651 giving an average per acre of 1550 pounds of cotton, which yielind 35 per cent of lint-5-12 pounds lint cotton per acre which sold at an average, per pound, of 4A cents, thus :.iving $24.39 e-.-sh yield per acre. Trhe seed pays at 10 cente a bushel for hauling, ginning, bagging and ties. 'rhe rent of this land is plauced, per acre, at...$ 2.00 Manuores, per acre.........9.50 To plant, pier acre.... ...... .30 Seed, per acre....... ........30 Haniing out manures, per acre... ... ............. 1.50 To pick, att 40 cents per acre. 6 20' 11oe work, per aere. ... . .... 1.00 Prepare an-l pilow....... ... 3.0-$24.60 By sale of totton.................. 24.39 Loss....................... $ .21 Only a loss of 21 cents per acre, and a loss on his forty-eight acres of $10.08. Luckv B! All that saved hint was the 1550 poundls to the acre. LEnt-he nwade be sides his fifty-two bales of cotton on forty eight acres, for which ihe got $1,170.72-he put into his barn 1350 bushels of corn and 18,000 or 20,000 pounide: of fodder and 128 gallons molasses fromt three-eighths of an acre of sugar cane and saving weut. Sen sible B! He made his provisions as a famer should. S. W. NELSoN. Masnting, August 19, 189~>. Hot weather proves depressing to those whose blood is poor. Such people should enrich their blootd with llood's Sairsapa You run no risk. All druggists guaran tes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tfonic to do all hat the manufacturers cimn for it. Warranted no cure, noi pay. There are many imitationus. To get the genuine ask for Girove's. For sal: by Lorytn, the Drug gist. A FATAL W A ECK. Box Cars rrojected i-roanx a Mldtag Over the Main Track. MIDDLETON, N. Y., Aug. 20.-At an early hour yesterday morning Ontario and Western train No. 29, westbound, crashed into two box cars which pro jected from a siding over the main tracks at Brenhardt's Bay near Oneida. Firemen Cooper was instantly killed. Engineer Kinney and Head Brakeman Ureed were badly injured. The re sposibility for the accident has not been fixed. Shot and Killesi at Chureh. WATER VALLEY, Miss., Aug. 20.-A. S. Pipkin, one of the supervisors of Yal abushe county shot and fatally wounded William Burns, a young farm r at Long Branch church near hera, Sunday night after services were over. Pipkins, it is said, accused Burns of in sulting a lady. Burns pronounced it as a lie, and strus'k Pipkin, who snhot Burns. Pipkin made his escape, but ificeers are in pursuit. Saloons Most Close at Tea. ATLAN-rA, Aug. 20.-The city counell ba refused to allow the saloons to be open later than 10 o'clock at night. The saloon keepers petitioned the coun il for permnission to run their bars till ! o'clock at night during the Exposi ion. Yesterday the petition was re HE PASSEJ,'S AmWA. Associate Justice Strong Follows the Lato Justice Jackson. A LIFE OF HONOR AND USEFULNESS. ]36 Filled Ddftorent Vo Sti-ans in Life as a StategmSn, X .JurVt ti14 a Chris tVan, In % h.C. He Will Be Greatly 31issed. WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug. 20.-Asso oiate Justice Strong (retired) of the Supreme Court of the United States, died at Lake Minnewaska, N. Y., yes terday. The direct cautse of his death was paralysis, but he has been much ailing for severe. yrears. William Strong, son of the Rev. Lighthouse Strong. was born in Som ers, Tolland county. Conn.,. May 6th, 180. le was educated at the Plain field Academy and Yale College, gradu atiug at the age of twenty years. After a brief career as school teacher he returned to New fleven and gradu ated from the law achoo' of Yale. Re moving thence to Philadelphia, he was admitted to the bar in 1852. The young lawyer chose Ieading. Pa., for his home, and entered u;-on the practice of his profession. In 187i. having taken an active interest, he was elected to represent the district in congress and served two terms. lie then returned to the practice of his profession, and in 1857 was elected a judge of the supreme court of the-state of Pennsylvania for a term of fifteen years. On October 1st, 1888, he resigned that position and re sumed his practice at the bar. Appouated by GOeneral Grant. While a member of the iupreme court of the state, the deceased justice won a reputation for juri:.il learning that extended far beyond its limits and when, in 1870, President Grant trans mitted his name with that of the late Justice Bradley to the senate for con firmation as assoeate justices of the supreme court of the United btates, there was a very gen-ral feeling, among the members of his profession. On the fif teenth of January, 1872, Mr. Justice Strong announced the decision of the court affirming the constitution ality of the legal tender acts, and Jus tice Bradley concurred in a lengthy opinion. But the legal tender question was not the only one of importance grow ing out of the war in the settlemont of which Mr. Justice Strong took a prom inent part. The Part In National Adjudication. The constitutional amendments in tended to crystalize and preserve the results of the war, and the congression al legislation necessary to give these constitutional provisions force and ef fect were before the court. In Hige low vs. Forest, Mr. Justice Strong pre pared the decision announcing that un der the confiscation act of July 17th, 1832, a decree and sale only established a confiscation during the life of the one for whose offense the land was con demned and sold. In Tennessee vs. Davis, he delivered the opinion of the court establishing the principle that the judicial power of the United States embraced alike civil and criminal cases atising under the constitution and laws of the United States, and that their re moval from a state to a federal court was no invasion of state domain or power. In Virginia vs. Dives he also prepared an opinion of the court hold ing that the effect of the constitution which authorized the enactment of the statutes for the removal Into the fed eral court of civil suits or r-oseeztionaI against any person who was denied or could not force in state courts any rights secured to him by any law pro .viding for the equal rights of citizens of the United States, was to place the colored race, in respect of civil rights upon a level with the whites. In ex parte Virginia Judge Strong announced the decision of the court that whoever by virtue of public position under a state government deprived another of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, or denied or took away the equal protection of the laws, vio lated the constitutional. inhabition: that his act as such oti er was the act of the state; that power was given to congress to enforce its provisions by ap propriate legislation and that such leg islation must act, not upon the ab stract thling called the state, but upon the persons who are agents of tho state. Frominent in Be.dgious Viroe. Justice Strong was designated by the electoral commission net of 1877 as one of the judicial members of the famous tri-partite tribunal which passed upon the contested presidential election of 1878. In 1880, Mr. Justice Strong, hay ing reached the age at which, under a constitution, retirement from the bench after ten years of service .thereon is permitted, retired, and had since then made his home in this city. Justice Strong was a prominent resident of Washington, taking an active interest in benevolent and religious projects. lIe was a ruling elder in the church of the Covenant, and a leading officer in the American Bible Society and in American Tract Society, usually pre siding over their annual gatherings. When General Booth, commander-in hief of the Salvation Army visited Washington In 1894, hie wa-s presented to the vast audience which gathered to greet him In convention hall, by Mr. Justice Strong. In these lines he will be sadly missed. In 1836 Justice Strong married Pris illa Lee, of Easton, Pa., by whom he had a family of one son and several daughters. The son died in 1892; two of the daughters are married and reside in Pennsylvania; two unmarried daughters have been their father's inti mate companions since the dcath of their mother some years ago. Crisp Going to .Ccotlend. LoNDoN, Aug. 2o. - Mr. Chases F. Crisp, ex-speaker of the United States house of representative, has returned frow Paris greatly iunproved in health. The ex-:.peaker left this city again yes terday on a four days tour of Scotland. GETTING READY TO RAGE. ho Vaikyrle la Getin in sihape to Test the Defender's Speed. NEW YonK, Aug. 20. -The Valkyrie, which arrived Suilday, was towed to the Erie basin yesterday, where her racing spars will be substituted for the tnes the used in crossing the ocean. She will then be docked and ecaned. scraped and painted. The dock that she will use is now occupied by a Span ish steamer, but that will not causo any delay as the work of changing the spars and rigging wvill take four days. HOTEL BURNED. Guests of Boekawry Beach Jlarely Es cape Alive. RIocKAwAY Baicu, Aug. 20.-The Ocean View hotel, on the beach be tween Hammel's Station and Arverne, which was sheltering over 20(0 guests, was burned last night. Many of the guests were asleep in their rooms, and barely escaped with their lives, leav ing all their personal property behind. It s believed that there was no loss of life, although a child of one of the -u+ts isneoted as missing, Must Praise Hood's "I was troubled with Dyspepsia, and was in such a condi tion I could not walk. In a week after I commenced taking Hood's Sarsaparilla' I Felt Better Since takingfourbot ties I am perfectly / C cured-never felt bet ter in my life. I can - work hard, eat heart ily and sleep well. My wife says there s. Isnothingilke Hood's OhnW.5II Sarsaparilla. Can't help praising Hood's." JOhN W. SNYDER, Saville, PC.rr: ..nia. Remember, Hood's Cures Hood's Pills cure al Liver Ills, Biliousness, CoLtipation. Sick Headache, Indliestion. E:STA.\:L1ED16. L.W. FCs RO :.nofteinWc, SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA E - D -- I - _ -- C 4P' P *ri 1P -II ' P *e. R - S - -- E --N -- T WATCHES -:- 1)AMOM:S ALWAY.- ON H.\ND] .\T The Well-Known and Helhible st..ek of dirugs. M I:e..:e asstrotilt:nt c Spec And the tho::-- an na. thi: usnail1y fornndin ;..I y ri e3 a ONLY FIRST-CLASS Soda WaT 4i!!t il IN MANNING, S. C. ~ T H 53S !3FONY)AI y/Hi O . AK ES A ND E~ &LL6 STANDAl ALES ERE80KRIC UIST STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CLARENOO~s Notice of Sale of Delinquent Property for Taxes. N OTICE L4 HER~EDY GIVEN THlAT jby several executions to me directed by S. J. Bowman, Treasurer for Char.-ndon County, I will sell at public outcry, at the Court House, in Maunoing, on salesday in September next, being the second day of the month, the following property : One red brindle o::: levied upon as the property of W. S. Logan. One printing outtit, levied upon as the property of the Clarendon Enterprise. At the snit of the Stite for taxes. Purchaser to pay for the papeYr. DANJIL J. BRADHAM, .Sheriff Clarendon Coun ty. Manning, S. C., August 21, 1805. KNIGHTS OF PYTIAS. DAMON LODGE No. 13 o mneets every iirst aund third 'Thursday nights. Every nen:ber requested to at tend3 regniarly n d p'rompt ly. Visiting brothers al Sways welcome. ca J. IH. Rrc.nv, C. C. 0. E. W EBBERI, K. of R.-&. S. 1-' R.J. FRANK GEIGER, DENTIST, MANNING, S. C. Oflice in Manning IHotel open fromt S a ni. to ii p. mn. PORTER'S. ANTISEPTIC H EALING OILt For Barb Wire Cuts. Scratches, Saddle and Collar Galls, Cracked Hecl 3urns, Old Sores, Cuts, Boils, Brui::e. Piles an~d all k'nds of inflarmation c: zna~ or beast. Cures Itch and Man.. Tas E@e, Cst 'a rEil :ah? ZIrda 1.t I2. De prepared for accients by keeping it isycur -ui or stable. All IDruggists:|:ail it cn a Suarsftide. No Cure, no Pay. P'rice a cts. an $t.. .U 0I ruggist does : k::ep it send u~s y cts. : taie stanpa :.d 'v v:iil ato:d it to you ', ". ., D rr Sir: I hav-: used Portar'. AM --'A . -( N rlarne and sadtCe G!:.scran-hJ and ',:r Wt icIu with perfe.ct satisfaction, and I hartly: .:u w tt .4 Livry and stuckian.iy -,Lv-yr:dEeif~' DASY URNEC. Gentle nci.-I am pleac. t->:e .1 * --.r. . ?cr:.-' a utis eptio Heatluag Ol. My I-Ay . i.o. and after Ir in.: all otner red.-r. ....our C ,oe a well. -: i '. .di ta -~ II th best remcar-for this puew t.c . . .. -- Pari. Tens.. haiuarv ~ -i PARIS MEDiC!LE .O-r For aale by 1.. U. Loryea, the~ Druggist. COLUMBLAS-They a!mnoi: fty. Bicycling for Women Physicians recommend bicycling. Dame Fashion says it is "good form." Two new models for women's use in Columbia bicydes $100 MODEL 41 COLUMBIA MODEL 42 COLUMBIA Model 42 COLUMBIA has been especially designed for the many ladies who prefer to wear knicker bockers rather than cumbersome skirts. Ladies' wheels also in HARTFORD Bicycles at lower prices-80, $60, S50. Send for BRANCR STORS: Catalogue. Free at any Boston Columbia Now York Agency, or Chicago by mail for San Francisco tbyo 2-ceMt Providenco "&WW' Buffalo stamps. Six handsoine paper dolls, showing ladies' bicycle costumes by noted designers, will be mailed for five ::-cert stamps. j Exhausted Soils are made to produce larger and better crops by the * use of Fertilizers rich in Potash. Write for our "Farmers' Guide," a :.:-pge illustrated book. it is brim full of useftl inforrmation for farmers. It will be tent free, and will make and save you money. Address, GERMAN KALI Wl C, KS,3 Nassau r*c Nec nk. SHEPHERD SUPPLY CO., SUCCESSORS TO WM. SHEPHERD & CO., 232 MEETING ST., CHARLETSTON, S. C. stoves, store ware, Agate ana~ ThEnmened wares, T.in W7are, . Tin Phate, . Sh:eet Troni, Tinniers' Surppies Bath Tu'os, Tee Cream Freezers, Refrigerators, Water Coolers, Housi~e Furiisihing G.ood!s. TOBACCO BARN F'LUES at LOWEST PRICES. S5"QUALzrnCrrY BArtsG PowniEE" T9 of o2l trc'ro ?ouad taehe 4(Abolutly pr andoolesom7e, (Orit.) . . . , . Emr.r~ Maov o? re W{t pen ies get asaz-ple Gfyu rocesr ann- da7y; u enc 7 {H.5lon-est tri-al's all suf-. fl-clent, F iluretherew'.n never; e SFor success wil ey-er fol-low (Oir.a.) . . . . hos3Who u1-tQ. C. B. 2 .Mi jOUr grocer ifo It ~ eeqc cB. . ~co., caona 1r.. J. L. WILSON, Agent for the South and North American Lloyds. New York and Chicago Lloyds. I offer Fire Insurmwe'i. at Re&duced Rae on all prop I :un~ also Merchani(e Bro.ker. (het iny p)rices on ciroceries be';>re p'hwin*: yo':r orde2r. Office Opposite Dr'. Brown's - - - Mannaing, S. (3 TATE Of 89UTh CARONA,CE T T HE BEST When you are about to buv a Sewing Machine do not be deceived by alluring advertisements COUJNTY OF CPEiMFNO. a.l be led to thinh you can get the hesi made, rinest ta:ished and OURT OF COMMON PLEAS. MOst Popular - >----m-re song. See to it that ' - : r:n rehiabte manu- , he'i Iank of M.ann.ing, Pi.iri2G.. . 'it.hat ha've gainedi a *t.ayhoe::t'~aadsquare g in t ..Yu vwifl then get a ..ag :a e that is noted, mnar~ -J. itllette .; a ! Me t . e we -er for its dura ' it ou want the one that . , D'efej dan ts~ . ' is i.st "o mangze ar. - '.Light Running recr it none in the world that Scan equal in mecharnieal con - ste-ertion, durability of wo'rking FURE;LOUREAN' ~'''~parts. :eness ftinish, beauty yoR COSRE ND ALiE. m. ~! appearance, or has as many mmproveme2nts as the NDE:' AND) Y v:.T:UE Ok .~ L x 1 NI jnor e1.: nt rdr'o -t~ C o of bmi--o nel ('ncdothr cun Ph-c, i th 1) -tte h:nn t Nwtn~ac/d.dxighehn J4. I wi sell atpbi aci t o najsalettrhehsrduigficin ighes b2d- .j.r :-: a>;;Che;:-J'n Wo R ITtO IRUA neat Ia:.n~'n j, 'n .ad munty. uII i thin E O4ESWN ~AH O iele". t 'or ur'V'j ' jud ien :-:a 'ie n *. Mon- A).B5~,NA yte Csi day. ofL at. LembsXe1 DA~>,. beingi "-All that pie, p ie--1 or tract ofI land, VR ~ C B -ng, iminag and simate in Clarendon >unty, and :v.t t rtsaid, contaiing ~0YY l~ NN, .C t' hudred id I.. ty-!v ac sres. m!ore or- - 1s andb t.-d r ,"Id butted a' folkows, .oI .ISN wit: NowtL h" 'Iade of J :e:s M. Cahl-3 tell and sons, o'r I:rery their rands; ast by !andse of Mr.\ . Dn.gle; south !1 l-f711(J.ir0/Lw rd s.outheast by hd n: w or formexrlv G (riilin anrd Charbs P.::. ad wet andN;G.S.C mu.west by land. 1 r S :e! L. lRantin------- - --- d Edlward4 ichh'our..:.'~ E "F ii trer r-:' rne . ;- >.t drawna by rD. l.IM!dg. . *rv:.r Jnary ISt!. :GNI:t~M~ ~EC hW7, :,-~venty--.. ce ::av n en cut o0 dd tract sincesi pa na maxele.c i~rv e'~ t Purchaser to pyi for papexrs. n rA.ondsv:Stch epe D. J]'.Unor. o rmrrrC~" La 1.onl adn justabicm cetrstsdcingfition torfl ~~lrrirrirg. S. (. the minimum.O.E~'n .C