The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-12-18

7ate ruin sad lifted tra;n and dashed
i 3oxp, s miehtier hand thsn tGae Of
engineer cn the airbrake. Cyclone in
EanSss, cy!one in Missouri, cyclone in
Wisconsin, cyclone in Illinois, cyclone
il Icval Sztsn, prince Of the power
Of tie air, never made such cyoionio
disturbances as he has in ou7 day.
and am I rot right in saying that enc
Of tae characteristics Of the tlmo II
which We live is disaster cyc!onlc?
But lock at toe disasters coeanlco
Shall ( csli sbe roll Of the dead shipping?
y, monsters Of tie deep, aos.er when
| csll yoar names. The Vile de BavTe,
the S,bi:ler, the City Of B)>toa, tie
M.lv&.e, the Pcesiasnt, the Cinarls,
the O:escn, the Mohoyao. Bat Why
saeuld / so OF calling she r2ll
w>ea nose g thau answers sni tee
ro!! ia as ing IS the Vbi:e scroll Of TIA
Av:satic surf g. Cape H.tteras brssS-
er.? Il tie o>can;c cables could repor:
eli the scattered life and sll thu
b?aaohad bc2es that they rub against il
he ocgsn. whats message Of pashos and
sgedy fer both oeaches! Il one storm
eiyAty fishermen perishsd of the coast
Of Nsvfouadlsni aad whole a:e:s Of
them Il .he c2sst Of E 1g lsrd Cos
help the poor fellows at ses and Civ,
high aeats in heaven to the Graoa Dsr-
lioss a3d the Ida Lswises sad lifeooa:
men hove1ing around Good 8i1 sands
and the SSerries! The sea, oEDlog
three fourr15 Of the earth, proposes to
ca0;u-e the other fourth and is bon,
sa-6iog tbe land all svound the earth.
Ghe moving Of TIE ho!sis as Brighton
Beach backward lG0 ysris from vhere
they once s;ocd typs Of Whist is going
- s!l sropad the word on evsry coast.
?'he Dead S Ills today shere the sn
c:ert cisiss stood. ? lisrs Of temples
hat ssn5d On hills, g'closists now hao
:h!ee.Q ;ar ers under Gae saser or alto
sethsr submerged. The sea, having
ssrs cS: q 50 msny merchantmen and ~
ti!lss. Ssots to wreck tia continents,
aud s,eass d':ssters ocesaic. Alas for
Gsivssson a1d other cities almost
cr,wcec!
Lock at the Gisas:er; srideu:c I
speak not Of the plaque N !ee fourth
century ,hat ravased Europe aud ln
liescov saG the Nes poI!taa com!nlons
snd Msrseijles wrought such terror in
the eighteenth century, but [ look at
the yellow levers snd tie choleras sni
tie diphtherias snd the Eoarles fe7erS
sid the typbo'ds Of our time. Fcon
Hud var Iodis, Ghsre lv-gy twelfth
year 3, 600, coo de7otees corgEega.e, the
caravans brought the cholera, and that
oae disesse slew ls, ,000in eighseen days
IN Bossorab. Tvsi7e thousand in one
summer slain by it in India snd 2o GOO
i Egypt. Disasters epidemic. Sone
Of the finest monuments in Greenwood
and Lsurel Hi an! Mouos Aubura are
to doctors who los. their lives battling
with southern epidemic.
But now tura the leaf 10 my sub.
jsot, and l plant the white lilies and
the palm tree smid tie nightshsdes and
the myrtle. This age no mocs chs1ac-
tsrizad By wonders Of saster than By
wonders Of olessing-5lessins Of lon
ge7itg; the average Of human life rap
IDLY increasing. Forty years now worth
400 years cncs. Now ! can travel from
Msnisobs to New York in less than
three days. In other times it would
have tsken three months. In other
words, three days now are worth three
month Of other dsys. The sVsrsge OF
human life pr1cticsIly greater nov than
when Noah lived, with his $50 years,
and Metbussleh ltvad his e69 years
Blessings Of Intelligence: The Sal
mon P. Chsse8 and the Abrsham LIN
coins snd the Henry Wilson's Of the
coming time will not be r:Q1!red to
read By pine knots or seated Oh shoe
nsker's bench, nor will the Fergusoos
havs to study satronomy Waile watch
ing the cattle. Keosledse rolls its
tides a'org every mans door, aud his
children may go down and bathe in
them. If the philosophers Of hun
Gred years ago we're called up to recite
il olass with our boys and girls, those
old philosophers would be sent down to
the foot OF ths class because they fslieo
to aosRer the qlss.ionsl Free libra
ries Il sli ths important eoHns and
cities Of the land, Historical alcoves
and pceticsl shelves and magazine Ia
blss for sil VINO desire to walk through
them or ST down at them.
Blessings Of quick information:
NaRspapeIs 3,liog al around Us thick
IS leaves in September cQuinoctial.
News three DAYS oil rancid and stale.
We see the waole world twice day
through the ns@spsper 81 the breakfast
tatle ani through tae newspaper st the
teassblc, with an ''eItra' mere and
there between.
Blessings O. gospel p.olan alton: Do
you 20 know that nearly al! the mis-
sie1ary societies hsvs bcea born within
hundred years aad nearly all the
3 bic societies end nearly al the g:eat
pai!a1throp;c movements? Christian
i;7 is on the march, while ini1elity IS
aain6lirg into im5ecility. While inf.
dslity is tSus 6wind:iug the wheel Of
Christianity is making about thous-
nc revolutions in q minute. All the
copies OF Shakespeare srd Tenpy=on
and Die.scli and OF any ten o. tie most
popular writers Of the day less in num-
Der ttsn the copies Of the Bible going
out fr, Il cur printing presses. A fsT
years ago in six weeks more than
1000, 900 copies Of the New Testament
pu7cbassd--uos given away, but puc
chased, because the world will have It.
l'he most popuisr book today is the
3 BILE, and tie nightiest Institution Is
the church, sad the gressest nsno
among the nations and more honoce6
than aay is the name Of Jesus.
Wonders Of ss;f sacrifice: A clergy
man told ne in the northwest thst lor
SIX vars he Wss g missionary st the