The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-12-26
REMARKABLE RECORDS.
Quick Time in Getting Married and
Divorced.

La the cream coiorcd city OF MIL
vaukee, where the best families speak
the language in which Heine once
-coffe:l aud S:aopenhauer sighed. Louis
Hirsch, one fac July day, fixed a new
criterion on the perilou5 side of mair!-
n,ony by wedding his mother-;n-law,
Mrs. Al5ersina Aorahams. 1t was said
that he had learaed to love her cooking
before he proposed aud she accepted
him. Many of the wise and learned
have married their cooks, but Hirsch,
waving disparity in age, cutdid the
old tine philosophers and solved the
mcther-iu Law problem by one bold
stroke Of genius. The bridegroom was
80 aud the bride 80.
In Minneapolis, the other day, Ed
ward Roto shattered conventional ideas
by marrying his stepdaughter, who is
lS this proceeding having tranaposed
his for ner wife, frOm whom ne was d.
vorced, iato his mother-in-laW. The
latter is said to have been as Indifferent
to the chsnge as if she had never met
her son in Law.
From Chicago, long note d for its sur
prising statistics in marriage and dl.
7orce, comes the record for the swi'test
courtship of the year, though not the
speediest divorce. Oae cold, jphospi
table February day Charles Korpes
stepped into Chicago saloon in search
If drink to warm the innermau. Now
it happened that the owner of this par
ticulsr bar Was buxom widow. Korpes
bought a drink-a long one-and while
slowly sipplDg it like true connois
seu1 sized Of the comfortable surround
irgs Alter fifteen minutes OF wooing
he proposed and was accepted. The
SEQUEL was told in court one month
later, when the eTssHhlIe buxum widow
WIS seeking relief from her husband S
extravsgance and his habit of drawing
reyoiver on her to enforce his de-
mands.
More marriage licenses were issued
in Chicago in June, 1900, than in any
previous month of Cook county's his
tory, 2, 15u couples OBJ, aiming permits to
wed. Cnicsgos Gletns Green is St.
Joseph, Mich, ACROSS the lake. Ali
Sunday ua1rimonlsl records were bTok-
en- there on August y, when 7o couples
we're joined together for better or for
wo7se-mostly worse probably.
The blue ribbon for sundering the
greatest number Of tangled hymeneal
ties in single day was proudly taken
by St. Louis. Yet people sometimes
will sneer at St. Louis as slow town.
Poor little overwosked Cupid was bat
tered and hammered ard twisted out OF
all recognition, on Nov. 2, when four
circuit court judges took If their coats
fgu1atively speaking, and after hear
log the total Of 100 oiYorce cases grant
ed SO decrecs.
San Francisco contributes the record
for the speediest divorce, and neat
and wcrkmanlike job it seems to have
been. Edwin W. Evans, wlde.aTake
commecial traveller, with the timely
aid Of swift California court got his
decree Of legal separation from an IN
com patible partner of the maiden name
of o B:ien in precisely 20 minutes. At
10 o clock on tie morning Of July q
he FLED his complaint; 10 minutes later
a lawyer submitted the Wlfes ansHer;
at 10 20 the judge sigoed the decree
and the liberated husband bol,ed from
she c5Uru room to catch train. But
Mr.. Evans it is proper TO add, brought
to his aid in preparing the case the
knowledge Ct a professional. He was
no amateur. He had everything cut and
dried. He had been in the divorce
mil before ana had carefully written
Gu, copy of an old decree, which the
judge cbiiglugly signed so that he
shouldn't miss his sra,o.