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THE MANI~lNG TIMES I. APPELT--------------------------------------------Editor . M. SHOPE-------------------------- . -Business Manager PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1918. Do your New Year's resolving early. Paris seems to be large enough to accommodate two presidents. The government is perfectly reconciled this Christmas to having you buy extravagantly of one commodity: War Savings Stamps. There will be no difficulty in resolving to get on the water wagon this year. Your only trouble will be that you will probably find it crowded. After the restrictions on sugar and wheat were relaxed and we might reasonably hope to have a piece of cake, just. see what has happened to the price of eggs. A pitiful case of deprivation deserving prompt relief has been discovered. A Society for the Presentation of Christmas Gifts to Santa Claus ,hould be organized at once. It certainly takes nerve for a visitor, uninvited in the first instance, to make a second visit without an invita tion. Yet this is what the flu is doing throughout the country. The government proposes to reclaim 'swamp lands and arid lands for the benefit of the returning soldiers. If they could only dlump the swamp lands into the arid lands, how much labor could be saved? Will some wise person please inform us: With the president and the army on one side of the ocean, Congress and the Supreme Court on the other side of the ocean, and the navy all over the ocean, where is Uncle Sam? The news of Germany's bankruptcy will not be likely to surprise us when we realize that she not only had to sup port an army in Europe, but also an army of three hun dred thousand propagandists in the United States. The country has had three Wilsonless weeks and is beginning to look forward to the president's return. But we trust that the combination of much feting in Paris and a wintry voyage won't leave him a weakly Wilson. Now that the stringyness of eating is renewed let us hope that the service will fry up some Spagett a la Talian rather than Kraut ach Sour mir Hun. Or even an un wound onion would suffice to obliterate the hungry, hun nish, humbuggishness of odorous cabbage shrapnel. In our moment of rejoicing for the boys who will re turn to their homes and loved ones, let us cast a look to ward Him who holds the souls of the fallen who will not return and whose glittering valor rests alone on the simple band of his mother's, his father's, his sister's or his broth er's arm in the form of a goden star. THE WHEAT ACREAGE. The federal department of agriculture reports an in crease of 6,726,000 acres, or nearly 16 per cent winter wheat sown this full above the acreage sown in the fall of 1917. With conditions reasonably favorable, the yield of win ter wheat next year is forecast as 765,000,000 bushels, which is 80,000,000 more than the highest record. When the government called upon the farmers last year for an. increased acreage of wheat the response was be yond expectation. It is difficult to over-estimate the ef lect which the magnificent wheat crop of 1918 had toward the winning of the war. 1918 O WE wish I given us duris business. Our sonable Prices py New Year. ways find us r THE NEW r Z, 9 J'aeiiig the necessity of gre coming year, our farmers hE otic spirit by providing for. a ] The American farmer mer his country. RECLAIMING N At the close of the Civil W, ed a Western public domain less in extent. Many of the soldiers, accu perience to an out-of-doors l In large numbers they took devoted themselves to a far: Our great army, also comii of-doors life, is likely to feel Secretary Lane, realizing able public lands of forty-thr the reclamation of waste Ian to furnish the soldiers with farmers or fruit-growers. The secretary states that million acres of waste land of such transformation. Ti quiring irrigation for fertil drainage, and cut-over fore clearing. Bringing these lands to use expenditure of money, but would give an immediate o would eventually provide ma their own farms. It would also add material] he confers a benefit to huma of grass grow where one gr which makes land hitherto us also benefits humanity. First Christmas Observance The first Christmas celebrated inside a house on the American continent Was on December 25, 1018. Our Puritan ancestors finished their first house at Plymouth, Mass., having spent more than a month in wandering about in search of a place of settlement. The company was divided into 19 families, and to each person was assigned a lot for house and garden. It was not a very cheerful Christmas for the Puritans. All of them could not be accommodated in side the house, so that sonic of them were left out in the cold, but the religious features of the day were not forgotten, and it may be said that the Babe of Bethlehem was prayed to and sung to in a most fervent man ner. MAKE IT A MERRY CHRISTMAS Cause Others to Be Happy and Feel the Joy of Sacrifice-All in the Front Ranks. Christmas! Every year it comes and every year we love it and wondler why we haven't miade the spirit of it last all through the year, writes Margaret Mott Gor dIon. Perhaps we do not have the time? But to what (10 we give our time? And why is It that at Christmas we all "take time" to do the many lit tle thoughtful things that wve have been postponing for months and months? One of the things we seem to forget is that the more we give to others the more we have ourselves, and( the more we have the capacity forr giving. It is a wondlerful thought andI one that wo should carry around~ with us all the time. For we always reel so tingling andl joyous when we have made a sac rifice or see that we have really made someone else unusually happy. __ GRJ ~o thank our pati tg the year 1918, Motto is: "Good ( ;." W e also exten Remember we a eady and willing Yours f or a yr IDE A atly increased exports in the ve again Chown their patrie arger wheat harvest in 1919. its the respect and honor of VASTE LANDS. ar the' United States possess which seemed almost bound stomed by their military ex ife, felt the call of, the land. upf)government claims and ming life. ig back from a vigorous out the same call. that we have not the desir ee years ago, wisely proposes is owned by the government, the opportunity of becoming there are over two hundred in the United States capable iey consist of arid lands re ity, swamp lands requiring st areas, needing further fulness would require a large under good administration iportunity for labor, and iy thousands of soldiers with y to the national wealth. If nity who "makes two blades ew before," certainly a plan elegs grow valuable pr'oducts This y..ir for most of us r very dif ferent than any we have yet lived, be cause, even though we are not all ae tually on the firing line, we are there in our hearts and the thought cannol but give us a strange exultant feeling -to be in the front ranks, marching with the music ! After all, that is just what the spirit of Christmas Is. During the Yuletide we are all In the front ranks and tril utniphantly moving forward, for we arc thinking, not of ourselves, but of others. And that very sense which loves and therefore serves, which un, derstands and therefore sacrifices, i the true spirit of Christmjis. It is the real thrill of life. It is the greates1 and most far-reaching emotion in thu world, and just to know that we art capable of that feeling, even though 1I should come only once a year, woulh show that there is the right spirit with in us, and with a little cultivation wi might make it last all through thi year. RED CROSS W3MEN CITED FOR BRAVERi American women at Epernay, soutl of Rheims, have h, a n cited In an orde of th, day for rein.ning at their post in an Amerlcan ib-d Cross canteen ui der bombard hitit for six day: Throughout this bl wie they continue to feed and care for wounded. + WHAT RED '.lOSS MEANS, * Your mwebeship in the great* 4' American lied ' 'russ means thee .i mothering of I ii. 0 little childrene + made desoite b~y the invasion of + the Hun. Alt s, l~ars Anderson in + ther r'ecent bookl on condlitions .1 over there says: "It is the poor, + homieless, mot4) herless kiddies that 4. someholiw innke~~ ail lie other hor + rors of war rade away into dis + tance. These fright "ned, crying, 4' dlying, innoc. ent c hi ldren, who do + not knowv what it Is all at:,,it +' they -.inug your lheartt dry." TE TIN' -ons 'for their ie and. ask a conti oods, Honest De d to you a Merry re here to stay, i to stand by every rsperous New Ye COMP fOR COLDS AND GiPPrP FOLLOW DOCrOR'S ADVICE. sk any physician or dtugglgt and he Svill tell you that the first -step in the treatment of a cold, cough, in fluenza or grippe should invariably be "a brisk calomel purgative, prefdr ably the nausealess calomel, called Calotabs." This alone is often suf ficiert to break up a severe cold over night, or cut short an attack of grippe and possibly prevent pneumonia. One Calotab on the tongue at bed time with a swallow of water,-that's all. No salts, no nausea nor the slightest interference with your eat ing, pleasures or work. Next morn ing your cold har5vanishe'd and. your entire system is 'piiufied and i'fresh ed. Calotabs are sold only in original sealed packages; .; price thirty-five cents. Recommended 'dfid- -guaranteed by druggists everywhere. Price re funded if you are 'not delighted.-adv. NOTiCE. All persons having claims against the Estate of Horace McWeaver Thames will present such claims duly verified, and all persons owing said Estate will make payment to the undersigned qualified administrator of said Estate. Susan Elizabeth Thames. December 7, 1918. NOTICE OF DISCIIARGE. I will apply to tlhc- Judge of Probate lor Clarendon County on. the 13th day of January, 1919, for Letters of Di charge as Admiristrator of the Estate of James eaves, deceased. Robert H. Reaves, Administrator. Alcolu, S. C., I'c ' th, 1918 DELINQUENT TAX SALE. Under and by virtue of sundry Ex ecutions issued by L. L. Wells, Treas urer of Clar-ndon County, and to me directed, I will offer for sale on Mon day the 6th lay of January, 1919, ia front of the Court House at Manning, the following real estate for taxes for 1917. Fulton. Charles Bracy, 12 acres, '2 lots, 1 building. Julia Dickerson, 15 acres. Edward Griffin, 1 lot. Katie James, 6 acres. Boston R. Parker, 27 6-100 acres, 1 building. H. F. Stack, 35'acres, 1 lot, 1 build ing. Calver. Clarise Johnsop, 1 .lot, 1 building. J. B. Jones, 1 lot.' Friendship. Fredrick Oliver, Sr., 3 3-4 acres, 2 buildings. IHettie V. Ragin, 57 2-10 acres. 0 Est. Julius Roberson, 1 1-2 acres, 2 buildings. Dorcas Spann, 20 acres, 1 building. Virgina Young, 17 acres. Margaret C. Hodge, 15 acres. Moses Jones, 1 lot, 1 building. Phillis Oliver, 4 acres. Edward Richbourg, 1 lot. Abie Dyson, 3 acres, 2 buildings. Santee. r Est. Samuel Bennett, 100 acres, 1 building. ing. Madison Cantey, 36 acres, 1 build 1 ing. A. F. Pringh, 20 acres. Josephine Richbourg, 1 acre. Sidney Sigleton, 6 acres. St. Marks. . Est. Collin Mack, 206 acres, 2 build ings. St. James. I'Miller Bennett, 25 acres. Manning.. Robert Boyd, 1 lot. II . C. DeLaine, et al., 1 lot, 2 build y mngs. Mrs. E. C. Groce, I lot. Mary Hlatifield, 2 lots, 1 building. R. Williams, 1 lot. Brewington. Swvan Broom, 6 acres. 'Sam, Bradshaw, 20 acres. I, P Mill. I'Mrs. Alice May Hlodge, 81 1-2 acres, I' 4 buildidgs. Harmony > Mrs. Minerva Lee, 45 acres. S Adline Traylor, 45 acres, I building. peral patronage nuance of their alings, and Rea Xmas and H ap md you will al sale we make. ANYT How Lyda E. Pnkh Vegetable'Com Q Is Prepared FQr. Womap'p Uoe., ' A visit to the laborory w Successful remedy is made;in even the casual looker-on Vitl"t abjlity, accuracy, skill and "ld) insaa,.3 which attends the making o> rat ' ' medicine for woman's ills. Over 350,000 pounds of variQuo24e are used anually and all haeo gathered at the season of ti' r w their natural juices and mediqI , The most successful solver to extract the medicinal pro these herbs. . Every utensil and tank that a . contact with the medicine is, sler and as a final precaution in cld~nl the medicine is pasteurized and s in sterile bottles. It is the wonderful combin do roots and herbs, together It , skill and care used in its preM ; which has made this famous ' ? so successful in'. the tre tit female ills. $ The letters from women wlho ki9a' been restored to health by thd'use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Coin pound which we are continualIy pubs' lishing attest to its virtue. Midway. A. B. Bennett, 36 acres, 1 lhuilding Annie McFaddin, 60 acres, 1 build Mary F. McFaddin, 3 1-2 acres. Eat. Mat McRay, 35 acres, 1 build ing. f New Zion. Tom Brogdon, 44 acres, 2 building'Y4l Est. R. A. Chadler, 100 acres, 5 buildings. W. S. B. Chandler, 1 lot. Douglas. J. D. Floyd, 22 acres. E. B. GAMBLE, Sherif5 Clarendon Count: - CITATION. The State of South Carolina, County of Clarendon. WHEREAS, John 4G. Hodge mae suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of *he Estate and of fects of Robert Allison Hodge, THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to, cite r..nd admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said Robert Allison Hodge, deceased, that they be and app,.ar before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Mann ing on the 6th day of January, ' after publeation hcreof, at 11 o'clock in the 'forenoon, to slo cause, if any. they have, why the said Adminh,!tra tion should -not be granted. GIVEN under my hand this 17th (lay of December, Anno Domini, 1918. J. M. WINDHAM, Judge of Probate. r CASE AFTER CASE Plenty More Like This in Manning. Scores of Manning people can tell you about Doan's Kidney Pills. Many a happy citizen makes a public state ment of his experience. Here is a case of it. What better proof of merit can be had than such endorsement? James E. Reardon, mnchinist, Mann ing, gave the following statement Jan uary 30, 191 -"Some years c.go I used Doan's lKidney P'ilis and found them a valuable remedy. At that time my kidneys were giving me consider- '' able trouble. I had backaches and panins across: my loinu. I used D~oan's Kidney Pills a'nd they gave me promplt andl lasting relief." AFTER A LAT-SE OF SEVEN YIMARS, Mr. Reardlon said: "you can riill un~e the statemecnt wvhich I gave some time ago praising D~oan's .Kid ncy Pills. Doan's certainly are a good remedy for 0.11 kinds of kidney trouble." 'Price 60c, at ailldealers. Dent simlply .as.lLjor a kidney remedy-get Dean's Kidney Pills--the same that Mr. Roar, (donl hadl. F'ostcr-Milburn C'o., Mfgrs., 1919 4 ORRIS NESS, Manager.