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THE CHEROKEE ROSE. Romantic Indian Legend of This Beau tiful Flower. There is a beautiful romance con nected with the Cherokee rose. A. young Indian chief of the Seminole I tribe was taken prisoner by his ene-' mies, the Cherokees, and doomed to torture, but fell so seriousiy A11 that it became necessary to wait for his resto ration to health before committing him i to the fire. As he lay prostrated by disease in I the cabin of the Cherokee warrior the: daughter of the latter, a young. dark faced maid, was his nurse. She fell in love with the young chieftain and. wishing to save his life, urged him to escape. But he would not do so uni h she would flee with him. She consented. Before they had gone far, impelled by regret at leaving home, she asked permission of her lover to return for the purpose of bearing away some memento of it. So. retracing her footsteps, she broke a 1 sprig from the white rose which climb ed up the poles of her father's tent and. preserving it during her_ flight through the wilderness, planted it by 1 the door of her new home in the land of the Seminoles. And from that day 1 this beautiful flower has always been I known throughout the southern states j by the name of the Cherokee rose. Philadelphia North American. A SCRAP OF PAPER. Charred and Discarded, It Brought Wealth to a Poor Widow. Some years ago a poor widow kept a small shop in a Berlin suburb. One evening as she was serving a customer a workingman stepped into the shop and asked permission to light his pipe. Drawing a piece of paper from his pocket, he twisted it up and, after lighting his pipe, threw down the spill and walked off with a word of thanks. When sweeping the floor the follow ing morning the widow took up the chareed paper out of idle curiosity and, unfolding it, saw that it was a lottery ticket, only a portien of which had been burred. She folded it up. put it away in her pocket and had almost forgotten it, when the result of a large lottery drawing caught her eye in the paper. She then remembered the crumbled ticket in her pocket, and on producing it found, to her amazement and de light, that it had won a prize of $50, 000. She claimed the prize, and, al though she advertised widely for its original owner, with the intention of sharing it wita him, she was left in t undisturbed possession of her fortune. --Exchange.1 When John Was In Doubt. John was a coachman who took life I most seriously and. being very particu lar, would return frequently in the course of the day to make sure he un derstood the orders that had been I given him in the morning. One after noon he- presented himself before his mistress and began: "Mrs. T., Oi'm -not quite certain ez z to Mr. T.'s ordher this mornin'. 01 1 was droivin' him to the thrain, an' he I noticed that the horse was lame an' he told me to do somethin' to him, mum; but. sure, 01 don't know whither he told me to shoe him or to shoot him. Mebbe ye can till me." A shoeing was evidently required. but the execution of the order andi likewise of the horse was deterred uin-1 til Mr. T. returned Serious Interruptions.1 .*The ul lazy man is not a common figure in this country, and when he does appear he is not treated with 1 proper respect. Ideal inziness is an< art as difficult as playing on the violin. A writer in the Washington Star tells1 of one -member of the Sons of Rest who deserves recognition. "I s'pose John Is still taking life easy?" said the woman in the spring< wagon. 3 "Yes," answered the woman who1 was carrying an armful of wood. "John has only two regrets in life. One is that he has to wake up to eat, and the other is that he has to quit eat ing to sleep."-Youth's Companion. Ancestral Pride. "Do you still want this geneaology?" asked the man who digs up such things. "Sure, I do. Why not?" "Well, I've found that your great great-grandfather was hanged for mur der, your .great-grandfather was im prisoned for robbery, and your grand father was tarred and feathered for beating his wife. That's not a very ~roud record, is it?" 'I should say it is. Shows how my family is getting better each genera tion. I'm an improvement on' the whole bunch-never been. in jail yet. Let mne have those records. I'm proud of 'eml"-Cleveland Leader Applo Pie and Melted Cheese. Bake a pie crust in the bottom and on the side of a pie tin; fill with apple quarters stewed till tender and return to the oven, pmtting a little cinuamon, sugar and bits of butter over. When it is baked enough to set, draw it out and cover with a thick layer of grated cheese. Return to the fire and let the cheese melt and brown. Serve imme dlately.-Harper's Bazar. A Reminder. "Pa," said Bert. '-won't you double my allowance?" "Why should I, sonny?" "Oh. I thought if it was bigger it would be. more on your mind and you might remember to give it to me some times."-London Telegraph. The intellect Is perfected not by knowledge, but by activity.-Aristotle. An Old Idea. Macaulay was not the first man to frame the famous Image of the man of a new civilization standing amid the ruins of that which we know to day. Long before he wrote of his traveler from New Zealand meditat ing upon London bridge Mrs. Barbauld had used the same image, with the dif ference that she applied it to Black friars bridge. An earlier reviewer had used it in an article published in 1767. we are told by an English commenta tor, and Horace Walpole says in one of his letters, "At last some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul's." Revolts at Cold Steel "Your only hope," said three doctors to Mrs. M. E. Fisher, Detroit, Mich., suffering from severe rectal trouble.a lies in an operation." "'then I used Dr. Kings New Life Pills." she writes. '"till wholly cured." They prevent Appendi citis, cure Constipation, Headache. 25c. at Dr. W. E. Brown & Co.. and J. E. AGED LIONS. The Big Brutes Get Lazy and Spirit less as They Grow Old. As he grows old a lion gets lazy Lnd spiritless, says Everybody's. The iaughty beast that stares at the crowd >utside his cage usually is as fierce of ;pirit as a fat night watchman who )links out upon the dark world :hrough the circle of light cast by the amp at his feet. With plenty to eat, nothing to annoy im and a keeper to look after his mge, the king of beasts becomes as eaceful. portly and self satisfied as ome of our latter day human mon irchs, whose ministers of army, navy, ;tate and other things take proper are of the regal edge and see to it :hat the usual three square meals per lay await the royal gullet at the prop !r hours. The story book impression that lions ire always on the hunt in their native iungle is quite at variance with the :uth. Indeed, the older lions will fre luently go hungry cr seek the leavings )f another beast's kill rather than ;ummon the energy to huat prey for :hemselves. In a group of ten or twelve trained ions two or three young, nervous ani nals usually supply the act with all ts dash and spirit. The others are omnambulists. Tigers, too, frequently grow lethar ic with advancing years. but never to ;uch a degree as the aging lion. There s always a pinch of ginger in the big triped cat. For that reason he makes i more spectacular performer than the ion and usually a tougher proposition 'or the trainer. THE-. PARANOIAC. 2ueer Delusions That Come With This Curious Mental Disease. "That curious form of mental dis .ase known as paranoia is seldom or ver cured," said a noted Chicago lienist. "A paranoiac may be able to trans Lct business with a fair degree of effi riency, but, as a rule, few of this class :an be made to stick to work, as the iature of the malady prevents concen ration of mind. One so possessed is fflicted with strange delusions, espe ialy with the notion that he is being )ersecuted. Many an individual who s denominated a crank has paranoia. 'n general these unfortunates are mis inthropic, have no social intercourse xth their fellows and are brooding md introspective. Very often their nania leads them to the notion that :hey have been born to lead mankind n a religious way, and they proclaim :hemselves prophets of God. Quite fteu, too, they are discoverers of ;ome wonderful invention that will as :onish the world. "It was a paranoiac who followed he great actress Mary Anderson from lace to place, declaring himself her 'avored suitor and threatening to kill my man who sought her company. Chese threats were what led to the ocking up of the iemented creature, md I believe he finaly shot one of the sylum attendants. Paranoiacs very 'requently develop homicidal tenden -es, and it is prudent to watch them t all times."-Baltimore American. The Birds' Nests That Men Eat. The swifts arrive in the Andaman is ands toward the end of* November, )ut they take their time in building :e nests, which are formed from a elatinous secretion from the salivary ;lands of those beautiful members of :he swallow tribe. If there has been a met D~ecemrber, the first crop of nests s generally a poor one, being soiled by :he damp and drippings from the roofs >f the caves. Collectors, howevpr, be rin in January to go around the Island :o the different caves in an open boat. Ehe best quality resemble pure isin lass and are worth their weight in slver. Afterward there-are two other ollections. The caves in which the ests are found are scattered about :he Islands. Some are far inland. oth ers n rocks concealed in mangrove ;waps.-London N'ews. Bogus Antiques. Old statuary is made in great quan ities in Italy.- Bohemia and :Bel riulm furnish glass of the middle ages. md every European capital has its nakers of antiques. Berlin and Vien ra makers are kept busy with the dome trade, but Paris, London, Brus sels, Rome, Florence, Smiyrna and Mu aich are commercial centers for this lass of merchandise. The business ds grown to such proportions that Nuremberg, Vienna and Livorno have useums where counterfeit works are xhibted and where their style of Eanufacture may be studied.-Berlin Post Chinese Flat Noses. "The Chinese mother," the ethnolo gist explained, "carries her babe in a sack on her back. The babe's nose is pressed against her. Day in and day out, all through Its babyhood, the lit tle ting's soft and malleable nose Is pressed against its mother's back. ence it is no wonder, is it, that the Chinese are a fiat nosed race?" Too Much. "Of course," said the lady with the steel ound glasses, "1 expected to be :alled 'strong minded' after making a speech three hours long in favor of our sex, but to have it misprinted into strong winded' was too, too much." He Traveled Light. "That hall room boarder moved to aay." "I didn't-see any trunk go out." "There was none. I guess he placed his effects in an envelope and mailed 'em to the new address."--Kansas City Journal. Interference. Magistrate (to burglar)-Look here, my man, if you don't mend your ways you are sure to come to grief. What made you take to such a miserable business? Prisoner-The business Is good enough, only between your wor ship and the police It has been ruined. Broke the Rule. Creditor-Say. I sent you my bill a month ago. Edits -Yes, but you wrote across the back of it, "Please call and settle." We make It a rule to pay no attention to manuscripts written on both sides.-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Uncetain ways ursafest are and dot a greater mischief than despair. -Denham. Foley's Honey and Tar clears the ait assages. stops -the irritation in the bhroat, soothes the inflamed membran as, and the most obstinate cough disap ears. Sore and inflamed lungs are ealed and strengthened. and the cold s expelled from the system. Refuse an; ut the genuine in the yellow package, DIGNITY OF OWNERSHIP. The Feeling of Pride That Is Born of Paying Taxes. "Many a time," said a policeman in the southern part of the city, "when arresting men, especially intoxicated men, I have been told by wygrisoner that he was a taxpayer and that he helped pay my wages. "I always regarded this sort of back talk as merely drunken insolence and never paid much attention to It until about a year ago, when I bought a house and lot and became myself a taxpayer. I had always rented be fore and never gave a thought to taxes, but as soon as I moved into my own bouse I began to appreciate the feel hAgs of men who resented arrest be cause they paid taxes. "There is certainly a considerable ad dition to the dignity of the man who helps support the government. He feels a degree of responsibility that a renter or roomer never understands, and my idea is that every man in the country ought to become a taxpayer as soon as he can. And the mere fact that he does help support the govern ment and bears his share of the ex pense' makes him a better citizen. Habitual criminals are rarely taxpay ers. They know they may have to run ,auy day and perhaps never come back, so they do not buy real estate, but are roomers and lodgers all their lives." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A WHISTLER DINNER. Sealing Wax Played an Important Part at the Banquet. In the Pennells' "Life of James Mac Neill Whistler" is the story of a din ner given by the eccentric artist in which be was assisted by Mr. Luke Ionides, who describes the banquet: "I remember calling one early after noon, when Jimmy was busy putting things straight. He asked me if I had any money. I told him I had 12 shillings. He said that was enough. We went out together, and he bought three chairs at two and sixpence each and three bottles of claret at eighteen pence each and three sticks of sealing wax of different colors at twopence each. On our return he sealed the top of each bottle with a different colored wax. He then told me he expected a possible buyer to dinner and two other friends. When we had taken our seats at the table he very solemnly told the maid to go down and bring up a bottle of wine, one of those with the red seal. The maid could hardly suppress a grin, but I alone saw it. Then, after the meat, he told her to fetch a bottle with the blue seal, and with dessert the one with the yellow seal was brought, and all were drunk in perfect innocence and delight. - He sold his ,picture, and he said he was sure the sealing wax had done it." A Queer Trunk Problem. One of the minor problems that pre sent themselves to managers of homes for elderly persons is the accumulation of trunks. Each new arrival brings one or more tranks, often several, and it Is not expected that these ever will be taken away, as the inmates are to remain permanently. It is not, how ever, considered safe to sell the trunks or give them away, as they are the private properly of the inmates, and there is a. possibility that the trunks may be needed again through some change in affairs or fortunes. The trnks therefore pile up until they become the despair of managers, and It is a relief. when some of the older or least substantial boxes break apart from mere decrepitude and can con scientiously be consigned to the scrap heap.-New York Press. -Napoleon's Bible. An Italian journalist has the copy of the -Bible which Napoleon used during his compulsory sojourn in the Isle of Elba. It is a copy of a cheap popular edition, illustrated with rough wood cuts, with the initial N.- and the in peial crown stamped upon its back. A number of texts are underlined, and the inference is that the exiled em peror searched the Scriptures for pas sages appropriate to his misfortune and his hopes. "I will smite the shep herd, and the sheep shall be scattered, is perhaps the most significant of them. The Bible was discovered in the sanc tuary of the Madonna del Monte, in Elba. Strategy. Rodrick-Great Scott! Has Bilkins lost his mind? Van Albert-I don't think so. Why? Rodrick-Just look at the Illumnina tion in his house. He has had every gas jet burning all day long. Van Albert--Oh, that's just a little scheme Bilkins has to increase his 'gas bill this month. His wife Is coming back to-morrow, and he told her hE had been remaining at home and read' ing every night since she went away. If she looked at the gas bill and found It to be only 32 cents, he would be cornered for an explanation.-Chicage News. Eternal Fitness. "I see a retired knockabout come. dian is going to buy a title and have a coat of arms." "Ha.s he decided on anything?" "I think he is considering Ph-o slap sticks crossed over a seltzer s?Qhon." Pttsburg Post. The Poor Sheep. Mr. Foolish-Why are sheep the most dissipated animals? Mr. Silly-Be cause they gambol all their lives, spern most of their time on the turf, many o: them are blacklegs, and all are fleeced In the end! Endeavor to do thy duty and thot wilt know thy capacity.-Goethe. The Coatly Brier Pipe. "People don't understand brier pipe making," said a dealer. "If they dk they wouldn't consider a five or sib Mir brier extravagant. Did yoi know, for Instance, that a brier pip< after its complefeion is ' put away t< season .for-nine or ten years? Frenc1 brier is the best material for thes pipes. It isn't, though, bridr, and 11 doesn't' come from France. It comes from - etymologically speaking - thi word 'bruyere,' which means "furze. French brier is really Italian furzs root, a growth of the Tuscan Alps The plant is as carefully cultivated af tobacco itself. All the sprouts an4 leaves are kept well pruned; thus al the sap goes to the root's nourishment The root is cut when fully develope( and boiled and dried before shipment Afterward the pipemaker boils ani dries It again. And when the pipe Il finished* he stores it away for furthe: drying-a matter of eight years or sc The best brier pipe is one cut cross wise of the grain, and the grain shoul be birdseye. Such a pipe lasts a life time-can be handed down from fathe CHINA'S GRAND CANAL. Sometimes It Holds Water Enough to Float the Boats. Of some of the crude and outgrown methods used on China's Grand canal a writer in the North China Daily News remarks: "The junction of the real canal with the Wei river was not by means of a lock, but simply a high and steeply sloping mud bank, over which the grain vessels had to te dragged by the force of perhaps many hundreds of men. It should be borne In mind that in China the lock of a canal is not much more like our Idea of what that name connotes than it is like a padlock. Amid constant and often serious changes of level, with an uncertain and not infrequently a scanty supply of water, and with a grain fleet which traveled in blocks of some eighty vessels under one officer, it was necessary to devise some way for keeping them together and for transferring them as a consolidated unit with tMis in view. "For this reason a Chinese lock on the Grand canal is nothing but a stone gateway into which large boards may be lowered through a groove in the stones, restraining most of the water from its flow, until there is a depth sufficient to float all the craft. when the boards are pulled up and the en tire fleet passes through. "After this the boards are again lowered for another division of the grain boats. In case the water gives out-a by no means unlikely occur rence-there Is nothing to do but to wait until more comes from some where." THREE EMPIRES. Governments That Practically Sprang Into Being Overnight. Prior to Jan. 1S, 187:1 the German empire, as we know it today, had no existence. Instead it was a jumble of kingdoms, states, duchies, grand duchies and principalities, all joined together by a like language and com mon political aspirations, it is true, but otherwise quite separate and distinct. Then came the historic ceremony .in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Par is had just been captured by King William of Prussia, and it was held to be a fitting time and place to proclaim him the first German emperor. Never since the dawn of history was an em pire born more dramatically. By a strange irony of fate, too, its birth took place amid the-ruins of the French empire, itself the creation of a day, or, rather, to be strictly accurate, of a night. France went to bed on the evening of Dec. 1, 1851, a republic. When it awoke next morning it was an empire. During the hours of dark ness Paris had been occupied by troops, and the prince-president had become Napoleon III. Equally sudden and almost as sensa tional in its way was the birth of the modefn Greek empire. After the yoke of the Turks had been thrown off in the war of Inde endence the country became a repuylic. But the people soon tired of that democratic form of government and promptly proceeded to assassinate their first and only pres ident. Then they met together, elect ed a king and settled themselves down to be ruled by him in a quite orderly and contented fashion.-San Francisco Chronicle. Exploiting the Antique. A gang of swindlers arrested by the Toulouse police had for stock in trade a beautiful antique cabinet and a con siderable stock of audacity. With these they took, for a short lease, a historic chateau near Toulouse. in stalling a venerable old lady to play the part of owner. Then they found a collector of antiques, persuaded him to visit the chateau and sold him the really valuable cabinet at a good round price. After the bargain was concluded they invited the victim to lunch, and while he was eating the meal the real cabinet was replaced by a perfect imitation, which the victim carried off with him. The swindlers, before their arrest, succeeded in selling their cabinet thirty-three times, at prices varying from $500 to $3,000. When Animals Are tII. Said a prominent veterinarian: "An imals when sick are the most helpless and appreciative of' all creatures, and the way of administering relief and medicine In many instauces is as novel as it is effective. The most savage and revengeful animals during spells of se vere paIn are, as a rule, as docile and tractable as a child. Relief must come from a human being, and come quick ly, and they seem to know it. The most vicious horse when groaning with pain would allow a mere child to administer relief, and many of the wild animals when in sickness seem to forget their savage instincts." The Greyhound. Various explanations, have been giv en of the origin of 'the term grey hound, some authors claiming that the prefix grey is taken from Gralus, meaning Greek. others that It signifies great, while still others say that it has reference to the color of the animal. In no other breed of hounds Is the blue or gray color so prevalent, and consequently the last mentioned deri vation seems the most plausible.-Lonl don Notes and Queries. .Thought He Knew. Mrs. Gewjum:--John, do you know what you said in your sleep last night? Mr. Gew~tum-Oh, yes; I suppose I said. "Maria, for heaven's sake.. let me get in a word edgewise!"-C~hicago Tribune. Strangely enough, It's when a man comes right to the point that he Is con sidered blunt.-E:hiladelphia Record. Then He Subsided. "I have made It a rule through life," he said at the table the other day to a man at his left. "never to meddle with another man's business." "That's right--perfectly right," was the reply. "But I see you have a new confiden tial clerk." "Yes, sir, yes." "He's a hard looking case. I have seen him intoxicated a dozen times. and I wouldn't trust him out of my sight with a sixpence. Took him out of charity. eh?" "Well, not altogether, you know. He happens to be my eldest son."--Lon don Mail. 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