The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-21
Issued Against the Western Eat.
riE.onial Agency Which Did a
HHRlYING..BUSINESS
Ia Trying to Get Husbands and Wives
for Women and MeK Who Would
Employ Thsm From Time to
Time. Barred From the
Mails.

ington correspondent Of The State,
| says a rather novel fraud order just
issued by the postchace department. Is
against no less a hene6cent public In.
situstior than matrimonial agency,
an institution not much known In our
part OF the country. AS rule In the
South people Of manageable procliy-
ties have better way OF meeting each
other. II is only when they send afar
of for mate that they patronizs some
OF the Northern matrimonial agencies.
But In some Of these Northern
towns, where matrimony Is more of a
business than pleasure, the natri-
uonial agencies sometimes do almost
IS big business as the divorce courts.
Oae Adolph J. Miller OF Detroit,
Mich., has bean conducting one Of
shess agencies, snd with apparent
success, but at last be has run 3 muck
OF the postal laws Of the United
States, and they are about to put him
out OF business. Some OF the papers
announced something bout 1t Wed
nesday, but the quite interesting facts,
which this correspondent has obtain
ed at the department., were not given.
The Home Circle" is the name OF
this great Institution for the disren-
sation Of marital bliss, and the price
Tor enlistment is for men IS, for Ladies
(shere are no woneL) 81. The little
preliminary fee was to furnish iDfor.
nation to the men about tho ladies,
and to the ladies about the men, and
to cont1ive after some manner ap-
proved In society to introduce the one
to the other. So far, good. There Is
60 fraud il this. But the manager OF
THE Home Circle" bsgan, It is alleg-
ed, to misrepressnt the ladies, assgn-
iag to them traits Of character which
saey had not, CT wh1ca their acq7ain-
:srces knew nos Of. Tcis, Of courss,
<as b ghy rspreheEsiule, and Uncle
Sam in e:7ened go far as the use Of
he Iatss by the business Is concerned.
cnere must be squar9 deal, be says.
O1e of the advertisements In .
Washington (State) psper read:
''We ssek husbands for maiden lady
IN Washington; age %; worth 50 500
CASH; bachelor, girl, age %; worth
$4,000 Write u.s." No@ these be
valuable maiaens, one worth SO 500
md the other $4,000, and suspicion
,:...s naturally aroused. An investiga-
tion showed that this manager OF the
Home Circle really knew no such
maidens, at least none who had en-
trusted their future happiness to him.
One OF bis lstters to prospect
reads:
I'VE have a member living not SO
far from you who would like to cores
pond with s view to mar1isge. The
lady mentioned above is rs ye.rs Of
age, has dark haif and dark eyes;
teight S, S; weight 120; she wishes to
correspond with a vtew to marriage.
II you become member, we will
DO cur best to give you satisfaction.
We hsve reliable members In all parts
Of the United Statss, and can give
you a list and suit almost any desc1ip-
lions that you may wish.
'Ouc interest in you does not cease
when you become member. We are
more interested then ttau ever before.
When you are member We strive to
marry you speedily. /"
To this letter were appended few
Remarks" reading, Wa consider
this a brilliant chance; she has money,
Is handsome, and 2 lady In every sense
OF the wc1d."
The costofacs inspector reported
that this entsIprising manager was
misrepresenting some OF these ladies
be had on his list. Ee said the pames,
given with 80 much accuracy OF cetail,
etc., were fictitious. The manager, he
believes, knowing that there were
such ladies in the world somewhere
corresponding to the above descrip'
tion-aud wanting to get married, too
why he juss undertook to advertise
them. Anc somehow he seemed to
have done a good business, so that he
must have had some inside knowledge
Of human nature. Naturally q nat
rimonial agency, as tortuns teller,
must have.
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