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f. )a T PHONE, 14 Ebe ,Eanningq times. LOUIS APPELT. Editor PUBLIStHED EVERY WEDNESDA1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Focn months.......---.------.---. ---- ADVERTISING RATES: serton, 50 cen. Obituaries and Trbutes Respect chargedfor as regulnr advertisemenlts Liberal contracts made for three- six and twelv rel name ad address ot the wieinorder t receive attention. wil be published except an advetisemnt Entered at thePostomeie at Manning as Scc ond Glass matter. A SPASM OF VIRTUE. If there was nothing to arouse the "good people" of Charleston, and among them the editors oi the two newspapers are includ ed, the old city would be a "Sleepy Hollow" indeed. Every once in a while something turns up which takes the lethargy out of them, and they get busy hold Eng meetin~gs to uncork their splendid eloquence, and make bold promises, when this has been done they have done theii patriotic duty, and old Cha'stor goes on in the even tenor of its peaceful way. But they now have a proposition which may meat more than one gathering, and several speeches, together with bunches of resolutions and prom ises. There is in contemplation the establishing of a racing meet on an elaborate scale, the plant will cost over a hundred thous and dollars, possibly the whole investment will reach a million, because, if they succeed i r launching the scheme without legal interference, the racing headquarters of the United States will be in Charleston. T h e scheme has the endorsement of many of the business as well as a'great many of the professional men, but there are others, not ably the ministers, and both of the editors of the newspapers published in that city, who are tighting it. The club was char tered by the legislature several years ago; the present governol who was at that time a senator. foreseeing the consequences o: such legislation, secured the adoption of an amendment whici: orohibited betting on the. races. out when the bill got into free conference the anti-betting clause was stricken out, and the jockey club secured its chartcr as or. iginap introduced. This racing scheme was per mitted to lay low ever since thr charter was granted until recent ly, when all at once some omi blew the embers into lif~e alram 6 -W andi unes1e eitrrv oe th care thr isalklho cfta ct ecmn th Mecc fo th potn frtriyo h world. Th iitr r aual oppsig prpoiton \f hi naue nte run fmoai ialy, nd inkat heopgt hr el andownlveshc isotrioes in that city, beoand, whihe appar entlythe oting fatrity of the! of The minterns aoc traing opposing fatrpsto of thisac trek, theroud bo horse tracinwspapers rettingsqing truesbt for the same rie. i thisfueod imoali ar speop poseto anbwink wait they el kon attesp wtc put anstopros inthat cabiyg an, hct whpchr entlys een aperoitte ofith out teirtintference ransg Mha citrss mos laintuon the gaeblin eaitere of the fre true is t ate sae tie, if ifthese "good people" are so op pet gamblurfing whi citey.i hdo te not mp to ut tat theo lthue glin thaws city whic salwstbee intadopeitte wiked ot byther iereceallmss metn nthat city isust torl 1in therd aprmaryring the a ree tiof the dipeplsarey: aon hydo thmieynt setttat theetn lieur deaon stews are ed-< ersy them. sa e ecll n knowss I et fthe dispensary: aong o lated daily. yes, every minute, if~ not wxith their endorsement. it 1 may~ as well be, because, they do not attempt to have the law re- I spected, vet these "good people",. in an ou tburst of civic righteous-!I nes say to the people of the State they are opposed to hav-ing the race sport brought to Char eton, because forsooth, some of 1 the x-oung men may be tempted o go wr ong. Do these- people eer stop) to think that when they < encourag~e the violation of the lawsx made by the gene~ral atssem bly they are building a tempta ton for y-oung men to go wrong? Whbceeer the people ot Charles on1 lea1rn to resnect the laws1 -mdeb the State of South Car oii it will be then timie to ap pea 1for aid to reie(ve t~.hm of tireatening temptations. .1 WXe are qjuite sure if the racing mets are established in Charles on it wxill bring many dolars in- :1 to the toxwn, but whether thec amount of money1C put into circu aton will compensa:te for the< additional 'ices winc usu:ll Ii comu' in the wake of sh ' inst actual 1eeiece.L A far as weC MLI 'Don' Don't Nthat yo passed Noth: look, fe4 j/l'i ul clot. Our prove t ri/ ";i elixir o Just Clii! f the sport will prove de.uoral-i zing to the youth of the city is >uncombe, and nc argument for. .ts repeal. There is a law against rambling now, and if the opposi ~ion to betting is since re they can noke it to punish those violat-1 ng it, without calling upon the: egislature to take one position me year and a reversed position1 he year after. A GOOD SUGGESTION IF HEEDED. Hon. John L. McLaurin, for nery United States Senator, rho perhaps, is one of the larg si planters in the State. has iven up a large law practice to fevote himself exclusively to ~arming, owning extensive areas f land he naturally is intensive y interested and concerned in he present situation. Mr. Mc aurin publishes a letter which, f heeded throughout the cotton1 elt, will we believe, have a ben-. ficial effect on the price. He has een a student of cotton culturei .d the marketing of it for manyi ears, it was because of his zeal n the interest of the cotton grow s of the South, that political1 ealousies were engendered, and is5 enemies succeeded in catch g the ear of the masses so that e retired from politics and,he is ow devoting himself to the de eloping his large land holdmngs. Then a man like this comes to he front and volunteers his ad ice to his fellow farmers, they hould give a listening ear. He loes not come forth with a blare f trumpets with a dictum but< -ather appeals to the business 1 ense of the masses. There is to be a conference of( he Governors on the 30th, and e should like to have South jarolina represented in this con-I] erence, should the governor not Tj e able to go in person we sug cst that he ask Mr. McLaurin to ittend. as his substitute. We feel urec Mr. McLaurin would accept< e stovernor's invitation with ~reat pleasure, because we know!a imi so well, his services can be 1 omanded at any time and to go ny where when the welfare of the ;outhern farmer is involved. t enator McLaurin is one of the I Qst qualified men to go into an disory body to devise a means o check the cotton price depres ;ion that we know of in the State. nd we shouid be very mluchj1 rati lied if Governor Blease willI avite him to attend the confer ne on the 30th. The following1 the letter McLaurin has givent o the press: "In October, 1007, there oc aLrred a panic in the financial -enters of the United States. It< legan with the failure of ther (nickerbocker Trust Company1 New York. which was follow d by the suspension of manyf enks in other great cities. Inc \tex York and elsewhere, no iR E look old unt: wear old st' ur bones ach4 a certain miu ing helps so r 31 and act you tes. _ _ New Suits; o be a splent f life. try them and pleasing LITS $10,. &: :RCOATS $7. :ERBOCKER ILR n the bank, you could not get a :heck of more than $100 cashed. anks, corporations and even crivate firms were permitted to ssue promises to pay which pass ad current as money. The secre ary of the treasury hastened to New York and placed the re ~ources of the United States ~reasury at the commands of 'the ~ew York bankers. In many tates, stay laws were passed, nd creditors were forbidden for i specified time to enforce the sollection of a debt. In this year of grace, October, 911, the cotton planters are in ust as serious a condition as ~vere'the bankers and mercantile 3asses in 1907. Yet I fail to see he government or any one else ushing to their aid. Odr prom ses to pay do not pass current Ls cash, and no stay law holds he hand of our creditors. It is not that anyone wishes to njure us. Our property is cer :ainly as safe a basis of credit as he stocks and bonds of the bank r. Stocks and bonds are all bas d on the values that come from he soil. Let the production of ~rain and cotton stop and see hat would become of securities. [t is merely worthless paper with >ut the fruit of productive labor yehind it. The difference lies in ;he fact that other classes are or ~anized; the farmer is not His issets are not in availabl6 com nercial shape for him to borrow noney upon them. Cotton is now below the cost f production and unless some hing is done speeding the remn dy will come too late for the ~rop. I make this suggestion: Let the national head of the ~armers' Union request every lanter, both white and black, iot to sell another bale of cotton or ten days. In October there re few who can not hold their :otton ten days. I believe that the market is in ouch a condition now, that it only eeds a start to have a consider ble advance. There is a very large short in erest. The world is on that side. iet the receipts suddenly stop rom any cause just as the frost eason approaches and start the horts to covering, and an ad ~ance of two and a half cents is lot unreasonable to espect. Another thing, no planter hould sell his cotton to a mill inder privilege to call for a set lement at a future date for the ollowing reasons; to wit: 1. It takes the mill out of the narket, thereby destroying the ompetitive buying which we iced to sustain the advance in >rices. . It is bad policy for you to urnish the capital to run anoth r man's business. and not get >aid for it. 2. Thi otton is not held off il you get old, 4le Clothes 01 s just because .e stone! ruch to rnake Eng as to wea2 and Overcoa lid tonic--a1 they're han ~ly in price. [5, $20 to $2 50, $10, $15 to . SUITS $2.50 CLOTHl the market; it is in the direct channels of consumption. 4. With the merger of the mills under one head it is pecu iarly dangerous. Wth a reason able supply assured, they can stay out of the open market, de press the price and so fix the amount which they shall pay for the cotton delivered under con tract. JNo. LOWN~DES MCLAURIN. WHAT'S THE USE? We look for a movement to or ganize this State into Woodrow Wilson clubs so that South Car olina will send a Wilson delega tion to the national Democratic conventioni, but we do not see the necessity for such organizations, inasmuch as we have the State already organized into Demo cratic clubs where the supporters of the New Jersey governor can get in their crochet work If Woodrow Wilson is the choice of tue Democracy of this State, the clubs when they as semble next Spring can make it known, they will send delegates to the convention which will carry out their preference- The organization of clubs in the inter est of any man is not needed, and to attempt to get up these organ iations will be construed as hav ing some other purpose: it has been hinted already that there is a ground mole political method at work in the State, men secret ly going about setting their traps to catch the unwary voters in the primary to come off next sum mer, it is being kept quiet now, but later it will be sprung to the dismay of the other side- When one side attempts to organize, it invites organization, and the con sequence is, that neither side ac complishes anything other than to create strife. The people of this State as a whole are not losing any sleepI over who is to get the Democrat ic nomination for President, they have been reared in the belief that it is heresy to even think the Democratic party can make a mistake in selecting a standard bearer, therefore they will vote and holler for the nominee. mat ters not whether he represents the interests of Wall Street, the~ Trusts, or what not. The nomi nee may be as strong a Republi can as Grover Cleveland and vet they will lovally obey the party behest. so what's the use of get ting up any excitement in this State over national polities.' There is not a man in public life in South Carolina who would dare to fight the nominee of a Democratic convention, even if he could prove beyond a doubt that his nomination was pur-ch ased by Wall Street and the Big Trusts. All of us know that the Demo 4.a.i nominee stands no chane I: 'F Sadmit * youv'e a man -'cheer ts will egular dsome, ~5. $35. .to $10. of election without the aid of Re publican votes, therefore the convention is bound to find a spotted Democrat if it hopes to win, the man must be built ac cording to Republican standards as was the only Democratic pres ident 'the country has had since the war between the States, and unless the party can capture such a Democrat they may as well save the expense of a campaign. A SAD SPECTACLE. It is deplorable to see in some of the newspapers of the State so many communications endors ing the action of the Anderson mob that lynched a negro for a horrible crime. It was bad enough for the law to be ignored, but to now give encouragement to lynching by publicly endorsing it, in our judgment, is bound to have a bad effect. And to make a. hero of the Hon. Josh Ashiecy for having lead the lynching party is worse than foolhsh: if Josh Ashley is the hero some of the correspondents would make of him, it is a good financial prop osition to engage him for a sea son to be exhibited over the coun try as "South Carolina's Hero. The man who captured a little 17 year old negro alive, and with the aid of a large crowd armed with shot guns K-I-L L-E-D Him."' The investmrent would only re quire an outlay of a few dollars to purchase a tent with flaming banner-s, and one good lusty baker. There is no telling what one would do if the crime for which this negro boy was lynch ed was brought home to him. but if he was wrought up sufticientlyj to take part in the lawlessly do in away with the fiend, decency should at least prevent any boasting. WHAT IS SACRED MUSIC? An Asheville preacher is de termined to have the Sunday laws of North Carolina enforced! if he can get the machinery to work. Hie swore out a warrant tor the arrest of Creatore the celebrated Italian bandmaster! on the charge cf violating North Carolina's Sunday laws when he and his band gave a sacred con cert last Sunday. Should the case get into the courts the question of sacred music will be a knotty one for the juries to determine. The modern music in the fashionable churches may have tbe sacred words but the tunes have a strong twang of! "Casey Jones," Dixie, Yankee Doodle and other popular airs: besides some of the hured choirs sing anthems which have the breezy swing of the vaudeville, 2nd the soloists mimic the operas o closely that congregations frequently find themselves empted to clap their hands in ~~?' -a.SUM the cse aainstCreaore wll-b rmins tob5en- f raoei detrmne inhsdfneAn passe thecaseto t~a hghes cour it houl deermie exctl whatis scredmusi, it decsion mightforcea revsion f th hvo bokan. eerlds cardng o th Sunay shoo te caste interst Croe hill bedi remahes to beommunifceatoeithth pases oftha city to e highes courtd wtsould dterain allcndy wats scredublicite ecioven mirght fore wantsvihough the carding of the psdscihool placngtisel. ne biain toathedaes Huhessa bheelorer ien is ink followed trougthe way the sae usnda the dletiin iraw ine the interest fhis crad r.Hughes co miaeghtheoo mendand would make al candis dateyor blicw doffice'ber govern fuwa he ats thr ors thbe colmn Pofgh ress Reubicanst aeifte helune obitcliscapiof torteidess. Then theye re-e igt after the naoitin Car'L lsont is bein follwda thgh ouet the Stiae, adopsthed elcto dra Wicna r the tresidgecy. maad beothe voice of business Mayor buset wob fvery much fhecna the powersofhat brge ares aft theptical scawlp ofn Pisaidefor Tte dey Tare go in e he nomination isanthra-r Bforlte toiscnerenday itheys houet thiago Tadtewud be plat for, and tendr LaFollette re ofndisconiinmeorsthespresidency. Teutpitaofrahs confernce ism )saitohantes ao t ofsu-resi Neaeof h oimes fCar that Crontain sivmsrcut whl uet etro the wes i led hind otelherne defea wof Tft when ternin;. ton the mucothe suraer.c tcehould neher Tae used e osrp matedfrom toute psitiona bhedaat noywi. d i te aFolte foceps sntaind pai merr.ans lit intey ortinc rclyupntes alost snue.ur cesa of tents Inbyiort Catarrh a oti 'ur eure'wvo urgel dthy enuine t ismaeln atendaoltly eanae ne Thole shio.b F.en Htarins Failt Pillsg the muoe bsure. Sc Ntice of Itvrb decp~pschrge. tIe will dopl t do the Judg yo cnPo siladie fron thaem.o county otrhue. oth day of Ner r d 1 fot lettersly facdisc hae s.I urin for Mattrie [nnl. ardaein eo.athi. bler ud My Gilberstsprc. erv, botlel batenor W.edo Scoty. nthe, Guardian. Mannig S. C. Octobe tn 1911. I'E, . . Literary Cure For Snoring. To the snorers who ask for the cure let the cause be announcedi Snoring is the result of stomachic repletion and mental vacuity. A correspondent who has suffered from both prescribes the cure-a light supper- or none, to avoid repletion, and the frequent repe tition of some literary phrase to pro vide occupation for the mind during sleeping hours. Go to bed and think of some short literary phrase to occu py your r ind. The combination of the two prescriptions aganst snoring-the abstention from food and the medita tion upon a literary phrase-may be found in Ecclesiasticus, the ninetieth verse of the thirty-first chapter; "How sufficient to a well mannered man Is a very little, and he doth not breathe hard upon his bed."-London Specta tor. A Sibl~cal lwathematician, An interesting problem in mnathe matics assumes the form of a trad~O3n connecting Itself with the name of Jo sephus, the Jewish historian. After the Romans bad captured Potopat, so the story runs, JTosephus and forty oth ers sought shelter ina cave So afraid were they of falling into the hands of the Romans that all of them excepting Josephus and one other man resolved to kill themselves. The wit of the his toran began to work, devising a scheme to save himself and this other man who was like minded with him self. He therefore proposed that they all stand in a semicircle, that they put each other to death, killing every third man in regular order and that the last surviving man should then commit sui cde. This agreed upon, he was care ful to place his -like minded comrade in the sixteenth place in the line andi himelf in place thirty-one, with the result that the two 'were the last that were left and by this means escaped death. It is a true problem. and the question was to know before the kill ing began which numbers In line the two friends should assume.-Louisville Courier-JournaL. Getting Near to Nature It was not always perfectly clear at first thought just what Ben Caldon meant when he spoke. The best at hearer could do was to guess at the most obvious meaning and let It go at that. In the matter of a captive moose. which belonged to Ben, the doctor fol lowed this course. The moose was undobedly sick, and a veterinary bad been summnoned to attend him. Ben went out to the pen to assist the doc "Is he mortal, doc?" asked Ben with extreme concern "Are you asking if he is sick?" haz arded the doctor. "Sure," replied Ben, "only I meant is he goin' to die from it?" "It's too soon to tell you yet," re pled the doctor, "but he has pneumo nia pretty badly." Ben's eyes grew round with surprise. Pneumonia in his experience had been confined to humankind. "Why. doc," he burst out, "does a moose have features like a grown per son?"-Youth's Companion. Immortality. "Speaking of immortalty, what's the matter with the hen?" "Go on-" "er son never sets,"-New York Timan