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14OL c AtPPEJLT3. 1' dih or. MANNING. S. C.. AUG. 14. 1901. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. THE PEOPLE WILL TAKE A HAND LATER. The professional politicians seem determined to give the peo ple plenty of politics whether they want it or not, and from present indications, if we are any judge of such things, the people are showing a very disappoint ing indifferance to politics. Last week there was a two days meet ing at Union, which had been advertised and boomed for months, barbecues, brass bands, cheap excursion rates, and the tinest array of speakers that ev er went out on the hustings was promised, and the result was on the first day, according to the Columbia State's report, a crowd of about 500 and of this number 150 of them were ladies and chil dren. The next day the atten dence was somewhat increased but not exceeding 1000. Remem ber Union is a large town, and this speech festival was gotten up to draw a tremendous crowd, and the disapointment must have been great to the projectors of the scheme when they found af ter all of their drumming,- their meeting turned out such a flat failure. The politicians were out there in full force and all but qne picked on Senator Tillman's banjo. Hon. J. B. Cleveland, who announced that he was no candidate, was the only one of that grand array of rag-chewers who expressed views on the 1x of what may be ed the Progress'- mocracy, the oth ? their stunts on the Kan sas City Platform and every mother's-son-of-them pounded Senator McLaurin. But while McLaurin was being wind mauled by a crowd of political thugs before a very slimly at tended meeting, he was enter taining a crowd of 2,000 people at Westminster in Oconee coun ty. After playing their engage ment at Union the anti-McLaurin aggregation pulled out for Ches ter, where they claim to have been listened to by 1,000. Ches ter is a large county and no doubt some were attracted to the meeting to get an opportunity to shake hands with Hon. J. J. Hemphill who, after being de feated for Congress, became a professional lobbyist in Wash ington, where he has resided ever since. He is back in the di.'~ate now, and will take his .. chances in the Senatorial con test. When the fight begins in earnest his connection with cor porations will be well known to the people. According to the boasts of all of the opponents of McLaurin, that individual is a dead duck, vet all of them are jumping on, and trying- to hold down his corpse. They do not seem to have much confidence in their own boasts or they would not be in league to destroy him. If, as they say, there is no chance for McLaurin, why do they attack him in his absence, and why do they need the services of Ben Tillman to help them? It is amusing to see George John ston, the man who after being defeated in the race for Con gress, -ran up to Washington and had the Reformers black listed, now singing a chorus to Tillman's song. Then there is John Gary Evans trying to set up a better claim for a grip on Tillman's coat-tail than Latimer. McLaurin and Tillman have had a personal row, and every fellow who has aspirations for sena torial honors has taken up an idea that to win Tillman's favor heemust do -hard pounding on McLaurin, and they are vieing with each other for the prize. The people are not in this thing, they will be heard from later, and in our opinion there will ,be considerable side step ping among these same politi cians when the people do turn out. McLaurin is stronger to * day than he was two weeks ago, and while he may not win we have political discernment e nough to see that Tillman is not altogether satisfied that McLaur in is a loser. We predicted that Tillman, as soon as he saw the action of the Executive Coin mittee did not meet with the ap proval he wanted, would out herod Herod in .demanding that McLaurin be permitted to run in the primary, and our pr-e diction is made good by Tillman's loud clamor at Chester. If the Cubans don't go slow in their imitations of American po litical methods, they will be de clared unfit to govern them selves. The census reports that there is only one donkey in Washing ton city. Let's see, was Con gress in session when the enu merators were going around? Surely not. An Oklahoma marshall fired several shots at his female suc cessor merely to test hex- nerve and she fired back, piercing his hat with one of her bullets. Then they shook hands. This, we suppose, is the natural exu berance of a new country. A proposition to compel office holder-s who desire re-election to resign a nfionth before the day gn which the polls open has been voi~d down in Cuba, whereupon it is announced from there that the elections will be a farce. We'd like to see what would hap pen to a similar proposal in this An Appeal to Reason by T. Larry Gantt. ARTICLE III. I heard the Hon. William J. Bryan deliver his famous "Cross of Gold" speech in the Chicago Convention, and which oration secured him the presi dental nomination. Mr. Bryan is cer tainly an eloquent and majestic speak er, and the immense assembly who heard him on that occasion went wild with enthusiasm. I thought. at the time, that T never listened to a more eloquent appeal. But the next morn ing, when I bought a paper and read that address in ;old print. I could scarcely recoguize it as the same speech that had so enthused the convention the day before. While every sentence was beautifully linked together, at the same time there was nothing in the speech characteristic of a statesman, or calculated to change one's convictions. In fact. it was not so much what Mr. Bryan said that created enthusiasm, but his manner of delivery. He is an orator, without being a statesman. I afterward heard Mr. Bryan during campaign at Charlotte, N. C., but his speech I thought rather common place. I believe M1r. Bryan to be a sincere, honest and incorruptible gentleman, but there is no denying the fact that he has an inordinate thirst for notor iety, and seems to live in constant fear lest the American people should forget his existence. The first mistake made by Mr. Bryan was after his defeat in 1896, when he hired himself to a syndi cate to deliver lectures over the coun try. But the people and the Democrat ic press saw that this would bring discredit upon our party and gave his lectures the marble heart. So after a few efforts Mir. Bryan returned from the public stage. Mr. Bryan next made a mistake when he hired his pen to those sensational newspapers in New York to discuss every possible topic. It would be right and proper for him to defend and up hold the great fundamental principles of the party that had so highly honor ed him, but he should have done this work from the standpoint of a states man, and not as a hired space writer for some newspaper. It seemed too much like turning the notoriety and honor bestowed upon him by a great litia arty into financial gain. Next the country is flooded with pic tures of Mr. Bryan, in every conceiva ble costume and attitude. For months you could not pick up a daily paper or periodical but, what your eyes were confronted with the wellknown face of Ir. Bryan, "copied from his latest photograph." When war with Spain was declared, Mr. Bryan was appointed Colonel of a regiment, but the only blood he shed was drawn by the mosquitoes around Savannah. But this patriotic act was followed by another flood of Bryan's photographs taken in uniform. As a life long Democrat, proud of the honor and dignity of my party, I must confess that I felt slightly nausiated by this apparent thirst for notoriety on the part of our national standard-bear er. But it was the last straw that broke the camel's back. The news was tele graphed over the country that Mr. Bryan had made a contract with some phonograph company to deliver speech es in their machines, and all a man had to do, to hear the Honorable William J. Bryan, was to drop a nickle in the slot. A presidential candidate, to secure the confidence, respect and votes of the people of this g'reat American republic must possess dignitsy,and not make him self too common, for "familiarity breeds contempt." And let me right here add that, by reference to the files of the Free Lance, it will be seen that I entered these same protests before the Kansas City Convention was held. At that convention, against the judg ment of many clear-sighted statesmen of the Democratic party.' Mr. Bryan was permitted to dictate our platform -a repetition of the Chicago platform and our party again. met with a most crushing defeat. But even this second repudiation of our platform by the voters of this coun try had no effect on Mr. Bryan. That gentleman seems to labor under the hallucination that he is not only the Moses, but the autocrat of the Demo cratic party and any ordinary man who refuses to be guided by him is a traitor. The last ukase issued by Mr. Bryan commands that no man be elected as a delegate to any convention who does not agree to support the Kansas City platform. In my loyalty to the time-honored principles of Democracy I yield pres tige to no man in my humble sphere of life. I have battlea with my pen and my voice for the success of my party whien Mr. Bryan was a Populist. The voters of our country have twice repudiated Mr. Bryan, and his nlat form, and it would be equivalent to disbanding our party, to enter a third campaign on those old issues. The South had as well attempt to elect a President on the slavery question. Since the Chicago convention, we have had a war with Spain and revo lutionary changes have taken place in our country and its government, and any political party, to secture success, must recognize and accept those chang es and shape its platform accordingly. The annexation of the Philippine Is lands is now settled, and those posses sions are as much a part of our country as Florida, Texas or the great Louisi ana purchase. Tue only issue we can make is, the best manner for developing and gov erning those Islands. The financial question, that has so long agitated this country. has been settled, and our currency is irrevocably fixed upon the gold standard. Hap pily, the discovery of the Alaska gold fields, and new process for extracting the precious metal, have enabled our country to adopt this change of values without a financial panic by even any great stringency in the money market. That the Democratic party, unless rescued from the control and domina tion of the men wbo have well-nigh wrecked it is in danger of dissolution, every discerning man must see. It would be political suicide to permit such men as Bryan, Teller, Altgeld and their sattalites to longer shape our policy. We must select new leaders, accept the situation, and frame our next platform so as to meet the chang ed condition of affairs in our countiry. There ~are plenty' of questions upon which we can take issue with the Re publicans without a sacrifice to princi ple or loading our platform with obso lete demands, and secure the confidence the respect and the support of inteli gent and reasoning voters. The leading plank in our next plat form should be opposition to the grow ing power of trusts, which are encour aged and foster'ed by the Republican party. This is the greatest danger that now confronts our country, and unless something is done to check the frowing power of combined capital, our Republican form of government will be strangled by the almighty dollar. The long r'eign of power enjoyed by the Re publicans has encouiraged the most shameless corruption and which will furnish our Democr'atic orators with an $100 Reward, $100. The rcaders of this paper will be pleasedt learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity'. Catarrh being a constitutional dis ease. requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the sys te. thereby, destroying the foundation of the disas.and giving the patient strength by build ing up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The preprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, 0. inexhaustible supply of anmunition. And neither will the voters endorse that reign of carpet-bag government in our new possessions, but demand for these islands honest and business-like administration. These annual raids upon our national treasury to pension deserters and camp-followers, needs re form. in fact. there are a hundrel or more living issues from which the :Democrats can frame their next platforms, without continuing to thrash over that old populist straw for the West. While the Democrats of 'he South are willing to accord Mr. Bryan credit for honesty of purpose, a ad fitting praise for the untiring fight he has made for their party, at the same time they will not longer submit to his dicta tion, and when he attempts to say to the sovereign voter of South Carolina and other States who they must send to political conventions and who they shall rule out of their party, and then try to enchain them again to that old Kansas City corpse, it is time to call a halt on Mr. Bryan, and tell him that the intelligent voters of our party are competent to do their thinki:ag and rul ing out. I do not set myself up in opposition to the united wisdom of my party, in convention assembled, and when the Democrats again meet and formulate a platform and nominate a ticket, I shall loyally support that platform and its standard-bearers, even if they are in direct opposition to what I have advo cated. And there are many thousands of Democrats in the South who are with me. But I do contend, as an individual Democrat that I have a right to advise and urge such modifications and chang es in our platform as I honestly believe will promote the success of our party, the upbuilding of our country, and the happiness and prosperity of its people. The Kansas City platforris-a'dead issue, and we must no-rgo to work and construct a new platform. Every Dem ocrat, it matters, not how humble or obscure may be his position, has a right to advance such thoughts and suggest ions as his judgment tells him will be best for hi's party, without being ostra cised and denounced. :I yield to Mr. Bryan,the right to urge upon our party to hold to our old plat form, but, at the same time, I have an equal right to differ with him, without being politically ex-communicated. 'Out of a multitude of counsel comes wisdom." In our next national con vention I want to see every element and shade of Democracy represented and every delegate given a full -and free opportunity to express and defend his views. By mutual concession, any party can then formulate a broad and liberal platform, that will draw togeth er the different warring elements and features, and by presenting a united and unbroken front to the enemy, win a lasting victory. But suppose Mr. Bryan succeeds in ruling out of our party every Democrat who does not swear allegiance to the Kansas City platform? You would see our party worse torn up and dismem bered than during the last elections, and we had as well disband at once. And where is the need of even hold ing another Democratic ccnvention if any such gag-rule is applied?. Why not let Mr. Bryan, through his paper, issue a proclamation declaring that the Kansas City platform will remain the Democratic platform and then name our next standard-bearer. I believe the prospects for Democrat ic success are brighter tha:1 since the war, if we will only exerc se common sense and not make our party, any close corporation. Don't try to keep the people from hearing both sides of any and every question. Let there be the fullest and freest discussion of all pub lic issues. Our voters are patriotic and intelligent, and will not make any mistakes, when they cast their ballots. South Carolina is an iron-ribbed Demo cratic State, and will remaain in the Democratic column. If any candidate is tainted with Republicanism, the people will not support him. But the independent and free-born voters of the old Palmettc. State will never submit to Mr. Win. J. Bryan, or an outsider and stranger. acting as their self-constituted political guar dian, and dictating for whom they shall vote. Our South Carolinians are Democrats, and will ever remain Democrats; but they are intelligent men, who think and reason for themselves tand they can listen to the sides of any poiltical question without danger of contamina tion. We are free men, we live in a free country, and our people believe in free speech and a free ballot. In my next article I will discuss the financial situation. And let me just here sta . that I am not wreiting these articles either in the interest or at the request of Mr. McLaurin, f r I am non committed so far as the seriatorial con test is concerned. I have been asked to write a series of articles for our State papers, on the same line that I have adopted for nearly two years past -before the Kansas City convention. And neither am I writing for any moneyed consideration, but simply to employ my leisure momente, and to advocate such a course as]3 believe will further the success of my r arty It is my intention to discuss all pub lic issues calmly and dispassionately, and appeal not to the passion and pre judices, but to the intelligence and common sense of the people. I may be wrong in my views and am always ready to acknowledge an error when convinced. L. T. Gantt. A Minister's Good Work. SI had a severe attack of bilious colic, got:a bottle or Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diar rhoa Remedy, took two doses and was cured.' says Rev. A. A. Power. or Emporia. Kan. "M neighbor across the street was sick for over:a week. had two or three bottles or medicine fron the doctor. He used them for th:-ee or four days without relief, then called in another doctor who treated him for some days and gave him no relief, so discharged him. I went over to see him the next morning. He said his bowels were In a terrible fix, that they had been runnmng off so long that It was almost blooe y ilux. I asked him if he had tried Chamberlain 's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and he said, 'No.': went home and brought nim my bottle and gave him one dose: told him to take another dose in fifteen or twenty minutes if he did not find re lief, but he took no more anl was entirely cured." For sale by The R. 3. Loryea Drug Siore, Isaac M. Loryca. Prop. TII(MAN AND M'L.AURIN. A Deocrat's Opinion on the Action of the State Executive Cormmittee. In discussing the recent action of our State Democratic committee, we should not consider what effect any such ruling may have on Senator McLaurin or any other individual candidate,but we must consider, is not such conduct trampling under foot the fundamen :al principles of Democracy-the right of the people to decide who should ru e over themy and is not such arbitrary ruling not only intruding upon the domain of the sovereign voters, but is calculated to reate division, or at least give grave and serious cause for division in the ranks of our party'. Whether a voter endorse Senator Mc Laurin or- not, the question is, have twenty-one men (called to'gether- for an entirely different p~urp~ose) the right to demand the resignation of an officer elected by the peopley and then try to keep said officer from being heard in his own defense, and then let the voters of South Carolina decide w;hether or not he is wrong. In justice to the members of the State Executive committee, I do not believe that they would have considered any such resolutions as those passed, but that they were driven to do so under the lash of our senior Senator. I have no protest to make againsa Senator Till man's official record so far as I know: but the independent voters of South Caoina will not longer lamely submit to one man's dictation, for they are get ting very tired of his rule. The many friends, throughout our State, of the late laented Snaorm Tbh hoa not forgotten how Senator Tillman left his S seat in Washington, and used his great tl power and influence over the people to tl have Irby defeated; and neither have If they forgotten Senator Tillman's speech d, at Laurens, when Mr. McLaurin's Dem- t( ocracy was questioned, when he (Till- I man) replied: "If McLaurin is a Repub- a, lican then I am a Republican also." o0 John L. McLaurin's Democracy has p never been questioned, for he was ever iv as true to his party and his people as al the needle to the pole. If I mistake not tE it was Irby's single vote that saved this 01 country from that gigantic monopoly of the sugar trust. when he could have fr made a half million dollars or more by tl selling out his people. When Senator st Tillman had. John L. M. Irby defeated w for re-election. he (Irby) retired crush- p ed and heart-broken, to the shades of e private life, a much poorer man than p when he was first elected United States Ii Senator. No one familiar with the his- w tory of the Reform movement in our tl State can deny that had there been no w John L. M. Irby to lead and manipulate p the Tillman fight in that March con- fil vention, that South Carolina's senior N Senator would today be an humble fol- a< lower of the plow. When Tillman had w despaired and given up, Irby remained zE at his post and secured the nomination yo of his friend by one vote, I believe it is was. After the result was declared, d< Irby said he found Tillman disconso- tl lately sitting on the banks of the canal. ai Yet as we South Carolinians all know, el Senator Tillman demanded the politi- T cal scalp of John L. M. Irby, and t was tr through his aid and instrumentality i. that this gory political trophy was Jc borne aloft by Mr. John L. McLaurin. Had Senator Tillman never interfered. h in that contest Irby would have re- Ce tained his seat, and, ' believe, well and tl alive today, for he certainly died a is broken-dearted man over the ingrati- 0 1ile of those men for whose advance- c; ment :ae had labored so loyally and so ai faithfully, and at the idea of being re pudiated by the people of his native d State, to whose interest and welfare he al had sacrificed not only his best services, it but hi; private property as well. st The meeting of our State Executive w committee was not to take action on the Senatorial contest, for it does not come < off until next year, but to arrange for : the election of a successor for the late a Congressman Stokes. Senator Tillman 0 was a national committeeman and the action of the State committee was not in his 'province. But he attended that meeting, made a very little speech against his colleague in the Senate and the result was the passage of that anti- C1 McLaurin resolution. I am neither a pl champion of Senator McLaurin nor a tb defender- of his vote in Congress. If ta McLaurin has been unfaithful to his trust, the people who elected him is the jury to try his case, which will be call ed next summer, and not a little packed committee of twenty-one men. And E again, if the political destiny of our state must be arbitrarily controlled by P one man, the liberties of the people are fo indeed in danger, and popular suffrage fa a misnomer. fr If that committee was honest in its m desire to gauge our every public officer of by the Kansas City platform, why did n< its members not also demand the resig- gc nation of Congressman Elliot, of the cc first South Carolina district, who is a at gold standard man and has ever been tv opposed to the free coinage of silver? sh If Senator McLaurin is a menace to the gC principles of Democracy, I would like bt to know how that committee classified N9 Congressman Elliot, who repudiates the gE principle plank in our platform? Is it jis right, is it fair, is it consistent, to make ei fish of one of our Democratic Repre- si sentatives in Congress and flesh of ano- 'i" ther of our Representatives in that of same Congress? B Senator Irby was struck down at the 'w command of Senator Tillman, and a w~ more honorable, loyal or true Democrat k< than John L. M. Irby never breathed s1 the breath of life. The people are now told that Senator ti McLaurin, who wears Senator Irby's i mantle must in turn be repudiated. And ti attempt has even been made to pre- ti vent him from explaining or defending . his position before the people. If it ti can be established to the satisfaction of te our voters, that McLaurin has been recreant to the trust reposed in him, m~ and that he has worked against the in- di terest of his people, then he ought to L be repudiated and certainly will be p) repudiated. But when arrainged the el blackest and most ignorant negro in our state has a right to a fair hearing, V and what applies to a criminal at the t' bar, should, with equal justice, apply i to a public servant, and who owes alle- F giance and is solely responsible to the Si people who elected him and not to a little packed committee of twenty-one c4 men.-Democrat, in the Spartanburg te Herald. b ---- .-- S TUsKEGEE, ALA., July ss, 1878. Dr. C. J. MOFFETT-Mv Dear Sir: Justice to t you demands that I should give you my exper- p] ence with your excellent medicine, TEETHINA. Our little girl, just thirteen months old, has had I much trouble teething. Every remedy was ex hausted in ti.e shape of prescriptions from f am- t 11y physioians, Her bowels continued to pass l ofi pure blood and burning (ever continued for days at a time. Her life was almost despaired el of. Her mother determined to try TEETHINA, and in a day or two there was a great change new lif e had returned-the bowels were regular,. and. thanks to TEETHINA, the little babe is ni now doing well. Yours. etc. W cVR Editor and Prop. Tuskegee (Ala.) News.d For sale by The E. B. Loryea Drug Store,.- f New Zion Dots.v Editor' The Manning Times: We have had considerable suffer- h< ing from malaria over here, it is an w epidemic and we cannot account for It. Our Sunday school was visited last Sunday evening by Mr. Hugh Me. c Collum of Alcoln and Miss Etta Shaw m of Sumnter-.t I am glad to report Mr. J. W. Flem- ca ing is improving.a Mr. J. E. Green has been spending b a few days with friends and relatives W here. A bout three years ago he ac cepted a position at Trio as section t~ master of the Georgetown and Wes- Pi tern rail-road. Mr. Editor your rea ders will remnember him as a corre spondent of THE TIMES from this place. All of us here were glad to see our jolly friend and I hope he E will come back soon. The Sardinia Dude has not been he seen with his "heart's idol" recently. er It may be that he feels secure for the sI "future day" or his hopes have been se dashed overboard and he is now a mS recluse, or perhaps if he has hit up . against such a proposition lhe has IS thrown care to the winds and he is now grazing in pastures new. H The State Democratic Committee 0f has certainly gone and done It. w' That body composed of a handfull of politicians sent forth to the world u a declaration which is nothing more ni than wilful presumption: What right is did the executive committee have in declaring against Sernator McLaurin Si or any body else? The executive w committee is presumed to be a non partisan body to direct the policy of al the party primary under the con- w stitution adopted in party conven- di tion. I have carefully gone over the Jo Constitution and there is no author- th ity whatever in it giving the execu tive committee the power to even b4 suggest that this or that man shall o. not run in the primary, but I do see ti3 where the Constitution makes it w clear that any white man who will ei take the pledge to abide the result T and support the nominees can run. P I am not altogether convinced that ti sight Was Her Terror. P SI would cough nearly all night long." writes Mrs. Charles Applegate of Alexandria, Ind., "and could hardly get any sleep. I had con sumption so bad that if I walked a block I would cough frightfully and spit blood, but, when all other medicines failed, three $1 bottles , f Dr. Kings New Discovery wholly cured me and I gained 58 pounds:" It's absolutely guar- b anteed to cure Coughs. Colds, LaGrippe, Bron. Si chitis and all Throat and Lung Troubles. Price o 5c and $1. Trial bottles free at The R. B. Lor ..a D,.,, Stor, 2 th enator McLaurin is the "dead due ie politicians are painting him, a 3eir actions surely belie their wor McLaurin has no following w o they make such strenuous effoi > keep the people from hearing hi have never declared myself for ;ainst McLaurin, but am teetotal pposed to anything like a close-c< oration in politics. I want the p taries kept as you have been urgi I along-for every white man to e ,r and let the people decide whetli r not they approve of his views. I was talking with a number lends last Saturday and one iem remarked that McLaurin hac :rong friend in you, and my rep: as, "Did you ever know Appelt rofess friendship for a man, that ver proved untrue to him?" T arty agreed with me that if you b eve you are right, you stand 1 hat you think and have always hi ie manhood to express yours( hether your views ieet with a royal or not. In this Senatori ,ht we all know you are Senat cLaurin's personal friend and v :mire your constancy. I can s. ith all candor that you have beer 'alous friend to the people and th ou have always looked out for the terests, and 1 was glad to see yo eclaration to urge your views un ie convention adopted a platfor ud tien you would stand by wha der action the convention too hat declaration has the ring of ue Democrat who fights for his opi ins but submits loyally to the in irity of his party. WVav is it that the merchants c; sive their leagues and the farme Lnnot? I am much of the opini mat a non-political farmers' leag a necessity, that we must ba: irselves together to resist the e -oachments of corporations whi re being organized every day. I see that Senator Tillman is now rector in a large corporation, at "ter his deuuneiation of such thin strikes me we have reached t age where we might ask ourselv ho can we trust. I am reading T. L. Gantt's "A al to Reason," published in Ti (MES with a great deal of pleasu id profit, and I hope he will ke i with his good work of educatic "B.' You know What You Are Taking When you take Grove's Tastel< sill Tonic because the formula ainly printed on every bottle showi ,at it is simply Iron and Quinine in steless form. No Cure, No pay. 5( Pinewood Points. ltor The Manning Times: On last Wednesday evening t inewood Dramatic Club render r the first- time in this town t rce-comedy "Hans von Smash om the pen of T. S. Denison. Song usic and tableaux made up the re the program. The audience w >t as large as we expected, but )od many were kept away on a punt of sickness; still we played anding room, for one person ga ro dollars to "rubber neck" tl Low through a window. We a >ing to play at Elloree and Orang irg as soon as we can get a dat e will have to play these towns 't back our money, for a good mat the troupe went to a good deal pense to make the entertainment ~ccess, expecting the support of ti ~ople as it was given for the bene the churches of the town. Ni roughton played the "Heavie hen he threw the dog out the ba indow and came near killing a ds y who was "rubber necking" t2 iow. Mr. J. P. Lawrence, Jr., handl me title role mruch to the credit ie show and to the enjoyment ose who where presenc. In fa me whole company deserves cred The tableaux were beyond a don me best ever given here by an am ur company. Much to our disappointment o .usical director was taken ill t y before the performance. M: eonora B. Lawrence presided at t iano in place of the regular mu an. The performance was closed 1 ralter D. Epperson and -Miller Lid ye black face comediasis, preser ig a short sketch entitled, "We Ur ree," Miller as Sam and Walter rah. Our baseball team has just iye a challenge from the Sumt am to play theum a game. It w m impossible for our boys to plh amter as our team has disbande re only have seven players and bh >borrow players every game Layed. Any ball teams are welcor >meet on our grounds. Jim Jason, colored, who was cut me back and over the right eye he st Saturday night a week, is reco -ing slowly. Mr. Spanu is very ill. Dr. Smith dropped in Saturda ight to spend Sunday at home. Mrs. R. F. Epperson and litt ughter, Margie, have return< om a month's visit to relatives irginia. Mrs. Murray of Orangeburg is orn sit to her son, Dr. M. D. Murray. Mr. M. C. Orvin, who is relievii r. Stack, will make this place lh >me when Mr. Stack goes back ork. BUSTER. It is Important that those who go on r taions for pleasure or health shou ake some p)rovisions against the: ck of bowel diseases. which not orn use them great inconvenience, b e sometimnes fatal in their results. ttle of PERRY DAVIS' PAIN-KILLE have found, a most effectual reme, ainst such attacks. Avoid subs tes, there is but one Pain-Killk arry Davis'. Price 25c. and 50c. ,Paxville News. itor The Manning Tiroes: The recent rains which we hav td, have been very beneficial to tl ops. I think that "look of d air" (?) which has heretofore bei en on the races of our farmers hr a mxeasure, disappeared. Mr. Eddie Searborough of Lunmb visiting friends in this coumnit Misses Hattie Brown and Augus ill spent several days at the hox> Mr. A. P. Hill near Pinewood ha eek. Mr. Isaac Hodge had the muisfoi 2e to lose his barn by fire Tuesd: ght, the 6th. 'The origin of the fi u nknow 'n. Mr. Editor, we too enjoy Jol ab's "Ruminations" and hope I ill vrite again. Paxville and Panola crossed ba Panoa last Friday. The bo ent in the morning and took .the nner picnic fashion, which was e yed by the boys on both sides, ink, (judging from the dinne ey ate.) This was done in order ~gin the game early and finish. r boys wvould not be so late in ge og home, but Panola insisted< aiting till 4 o'clock, so at the se ith inning the game was. calle be- score stood 9 to 13 in favor xxville, and every indication we Lat Paxville would have beaten he Le other two innings been playe 'e will play them yet, though, inola insists. "A SUBSCRIBER." Paxyville, S. C., Aug. 10, 1901. 0. . Buck, Beirne, Ark., says: ts troubled with constipation until lught D)eWitt's Littie Early Riser nce then I have been entirely curt my old complaint. I recommex m. e B. B. -ra n,,mg Str Stages of Water. 1d Camden. Aug. 9. S a. m.-Height of Waterec s. river. 28 feet. being a fail of 2.2 feet during past 24 hours. ts Aug. 12. 8 a. m.-T'iht of Watcree river, o' 15.5 feet. being a:i of -.5 feet during past 24 r hours. 3 Columbia. Au:- e. a a. so.- ifeig ht of Conga ree river. 5.2 feet. b:ing a fall of 5.3 feet dur ing past 24 hours. Aug. 12. 8 a. m.-iTeirht of Congaree river. er 5 feet. being a rise of 2.. feet during past 24 hours. of St. Stephen's. Aug. 9. 8 a. m.-Height of of Santec river. 6.4 feet. being a rke of 1.2 feet during past 24 hours. ly Aug. 12. 8 a. n--eight of Santee river. 7.4 to feet. being a rise of 5.10 of a foot during past :4 hours. e 1czema, Itching Humors, Pimples.-Trcat 3y ment Free. td Does your skin itch and burn? Dis , tressing eruptions on the skin so you P feel ashamed to be seen in company? al Do scabs and scales form on the skin, or hair or scalp? Have you Eczema? Skin ve sore and cracked? Rash form on the LY skin? Prickly pain in the skin? Swol a len joints? Falling hair? All run at down? Skin pale? Old sores? Eating sores? Ulcers? To cure to stay cured nr take B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) t which makes the blood pure and rich, m then the sores will heal and the itch ing of eczema stop forever, the skin be come clear and the blood pure. B. B. a B. sold at drug stores, $1. Trial treat n- ment sent free and prepaid by writing a- to BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, Ga. Describe your trouble and free medical Ln advice given. Over 3,000 testimonials "s of cures by B. B. B. Sold by The R. >n B. Loryea Drug Store. n- GRAND PRIZE SALE . sh At the People's Tobacco Warehouse, Friday, a August 23, 1901. id We are getting fancy prices on all I gs grades, so don't hesitate to bring or e send a load and compete for one of the es prizes. Don't forget the date. Fair play to all competitors. P' First Prize-For best average price on 800 pounds or over, $10 cash. re Second Prize-For largest load of P Graded Tobacco, $5 cash. - Third Prize-For largest load'of To bacco, $5 Buggy Lap Robe. Fourth Prize-Best pile of Wrappers of (i0 pounds or over, Fine Silk Um brella. SS Fifth Prize-Best price on 200 pounds 15 or over of Cutters, one Pair Gent's Fine 1 ig Shoes. a Sixth Prize-For best price on 200 . pounds or over of Fillers, Ladies' Wor sted Dress. Seventh Prize-For best price on 100 pounds or over of Scrap, a Trick with a. Hole in it. C. M. MASON, Manager. e CA OIR3I A. " Bet he The Kind You Have Alays Bought ~'Signatur m ~V st is r aa e- Don't be satisfied with temporary re to lief from indigestion. Kodol Dyspepsia ,e Cure permanently and completely re ie moves this 'complaint. It -relieves = re permanently because it allows the tir e- ed stomach perfect rest. Dieting won't e. rest the stomach. Nature receives = to supplies from the food we eat. The 'Y sensible way to help the stomache it to ouse Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, which di a .gests what you eat and can't help but= *. do you good. The R. B. Loryea Drug it Store. k A.BTORILA. r- ha A b8 Ind YDS 181 AW31S BO11t Ie Signature of ofThe Best Prescription for Malaria t. Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove's >t Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply iron a- and Quinine is a tasteless form.-No cure, no pay. Price 50c. ie Ii >yFOR SALE. .In order to dispose of perishable prop serty belonging to the estate of the late as A. I. Tindal, I offer f'or sale a fine y oung Horse in excellent condition and one e- Two-Horse Thimble Skein Wagon with er Body. cheap. Apply to jil W. SCOTT HARv1N, Executor. d. 1e I have opened up a Sewing Machine store next door to Mr. S. A. Rigby's in general merchandise store August 1st, re 1900. I will carry the L7 The new ball-bear-ing "New Home," the best machine made: also "New lIdeal"1and "Climax," from $18 to $40. dI sell on Instalment, Easy Payment mf Plan. I clean and repair any kind of machines for least money possible. a Call and sec me. A. I. BARRON, Ag't. is to Woman's Monthlly Trial There should beno dread lit Pof the monthly period. A1- -- To the wom~anin perfect ly health it should be a renewal of l strength and vigor. But to how r. many is it a period of miserable suffering! These periods may be made perfectly panless and I regular by using G.F.P. (Ger Toe stle's Female Panacea). le To much cannot be said for your worthy remedy for efealeireularsAessult whave astrog, ~nold boy who weighs 21 pounds. The mother is a very S. small woman but Is strong and hearty, and she claims that G. F. P. did It all, as all other remedies had failed. rW. H. N~r~soy, Prin. Mont Eagle, (Tenn.) Seminary. ~. If your case isnot fully covered by our FREE BOOK :a a* "HEALTH MOTHERS MAKE HAPPY HOMEs." ' ie a Write In confidence for free advice to 4LADIES HEALTH CLUB care L.Gerstle&co., i st Chattanooga, Tenn. U t-PRICE $1.00 A BOTTL.E. y If your drgitdoes not handle G. F. P. ask him to re enfoitotherwise send ia your order and P.00 and - L GERSTLE & CO., Chattanooga, Talu. te The R. B. Loryea Drug store, ISAAC M. LCRm:A. Prop. rSA. WEINBERG, I ATTORNEY AT LAW. --MANNNING, S. C. )o t- .. s. wII.sos. w. C. Dmuso~. n 4 -WILSON & DURANT, i Attlorneys. and Counselors~ at Law, LS d MANNING, S. C. iJOSEPH F. RHIAME, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ___ MANNING, S. C. C. DAVIS, d ATTORNEY AT LAW, e. M.\NNING,. C.O E ~ GUARAINTEED 3OIH~I ~d.OflS ~,oUNDEPO Some Reasons ;,, $,WDP5f Why You Should Insist on Having j R.R.FAREPAID EUREKA HARNESS OIL 0 FR Ee Unequaled by any other. Write 'Nuick 10 Renders hard leather soft. Especially prepared. AND Keeps out water. A heavy bodied oil. SUPPLIES HARNESS An excellent preservative. Reduces cost of your harness. Never burns the leather; its -A_______ Efficiency is increased. Secures best service. I ep[Ifl a Speciaity Stitches kept from breaking. Work done in first class manner by Experi enced Workmen OILBringyy~r Wheel and have it fIxEd so it winl is sold in all STAY ED. Localities Masetreby The Bicycle Hustler, Standard Oil CoupsaY. JMTT.~ 'El' G. Opposite Central Hotel. Telphone No. 63. HORACE HARBY. M. F. HELLER. W. P. HAWKINS. g0~p8~011 aBoollIriIk Pubic. SEING CONVINCED THAT CLARENDON COUNTY. coew support a first class, up-to-date Sales and Livery Sta )leB we have decided to show our faith by our works by-purchoas ..i nT the Sprott property east of the Bank of Manning, and toHu t .re flow building a large addition. It is our purpose to do busi ess as it should be done, on the live and let live policy. Si a For the present and until our buildings are completed, we of er a magnificent line of Buggi.es Wagons anld Car xuaranteeing our Vehicles to be of reputable builders.. Later we will have Horses and Mules from the best marketsx a the Union, and all purchases from us go with a view of ssta = ag our valued reputation. -. COME TO SEE US. WV. Pe HlAWKINS A& n n R t nn fwiP nlnnr Relnw the Rank of MNannlnw. pi's Toac Wanf 7 " N Brin Your Tobacco W i Prices Are High. Iw E HAVE SECURED A FINE LOT OF BUYERS and our floors can be relied upon to turn out the highest possible prices.' Fair Treatment Guaranteed 2 and every customer treated alike. 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