The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-12-13

the election for Mcclellan, and
he is after others higher up
Orangeburg Patriot.
Several politicians are said to
be looking at Congressman LIE
ver's Shoes" If these politi
clans will come up close and ex-
anime them thoroughly they will
find that Levers shoes are on
tight, well tied, and good for at
least from two to four years of
wear.-Orangeburg Patriot.
There is a high wave of specu-
lation rolling. The mails are
full Of brokers circulars about
cotton and the money to be made
by buying orselling. tits strange.
but none of these circulars ever
suggest anything about losses.
The invitation is always that of
the gambler: "Come in and
win. ''-Greenville Daily Gews.
1t is "go-ahead South" sure
enough. Our banks have kissed
their hands to the banks of the
North, declining their aid with
thanks, our farmers have kicked
over the dinner bucket Of the cot
ton speculator. We are living at
home and boarding at the same
place. and we have gone ahead
with a vengeance. We are even
moving the centre of the black
belt and the percentage of illit-
eracy.-Florence Daily Times.
The next Legislature will be
called on to pass a compulsory
education bill. DR.. J. L. Mann
of this city is the chairman OF the
educational committee on that
subject. He has prepared bill
which seems to us to fit the con-
ditions in this State admirably
and to avoid most of the obiec-
tions that have been made to the
bills heretofore presented. No
bill will ever be framed to over
come all objections, because a lot
of people will always object to
anything. 1t seems to us that
the time is ripe in the State for
the passage of such a bill, and
we commend the Mann bill to
our own delegations from this
section of the State.-Florence
Daily Times.
Sympathy is the thing which
will win men, but it needs to be
a sympathy for men as they are,
not as they should be. The tears
which are shed over a novel or
theatrical performance may con-
vince the person who sheds them
that he has a generous heart
they will convince no one else.
Our hearts must go out to dis
tress and need in the bald and
uninviting reality. Imaginary
distress is idealized for the idle
the real distresses Of the world
are not rose-scented, morocco.
bound or set to music. Only as
we sympathize with poverty and
weakness and misfortune as they
really exist will our sympathy
count for anything better than a
soporifc to a conscience pervert-
ed to meet the requirements Of
refin ed selfshness,-
Press.
The Meriwether court martial
now being held at Annapolis
strikes US as being much ado about
nothing. Let it be granted that
Midshipman Branch was killed
in a fight with Midshipman Meri-
wether, and there remain no good
grounds for all the hurrah that
is being made over the incident.
Annapolis is supposed to be a
training school for fighting men,
and the young men when they
settle sheir differences by re-
course to the fstic arena are
merely putting into practice the
lessons they are taught. If the
naval cadets are not to fight
when the occasion demands, the
authorities may as well convert
the Academy into a seminary for
young women. A thousand col
lege boys have been killed or
crippled for life playing football
to one killed or crippled in a fist
fight; but thousands who appear
and applaud football hold up
their hands in hypocritical hor-
ror over clean and decent fist
light. Young Branch got killed
and MepiWether went to the hos
pital and that should end the
matter. 1t was a fair fight and
the best man won out then why
stir such a tempest in a teapot
unless it is the purpose of the
authorities to make Annapolis a
training school for milksops in
stead Of fighting men. If so,
they had better establish per-
manent board of arbitration con-
sisting of a dozen or two old
grannies of the Peace Congress
type to settle the differences that
arise between the cadets.-Sum-
ter Dailv Item.