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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01
POWDER EXPLODED

Causing the Death of Three Men by
Burning.
Three men were burned to death
Friday by an explosion in powder
house at Two Lick coal mine near
Ciarksburg, W. Va.
The dead: :.
Deshla Barnets, age %, single, ct
Bethlehem, Pa.
Nicolina Plenorites, 21, single, OF
Benwood, W. Va.
Frank Golf, 81, single, Clarksburg.
The powder ignited from pipe
one of the men were smoking. The
building was demolished.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01

Aworkngmans home usually with large family Children Of
ages and both being reared They subject slight ALL
winter and every time petty
The expense will keep the family poor.
such household Peruna becomes real blessing prompy meets
ailments the cold of winter the heat Of
stitch time prevents
serious and extended illness many time q
The wokgmen everywhere have realize that Peuna the
Workngman friend him Sickness but great many
dollars every year
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01

Wood is scarce and coal is high.
WHY not let the Orangeburg Material
Company put in a heating plant,
steam. hot water or hot air? Prices
are reasonable. Find us underneath
Postofice. Phone No. 10.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01
DIVORCE FREAKS
Soma Queer Cases Revealed by
the Census Bureaus.
CHICAGO is CENTRE. Re.

Strange Freaks of Domestic Infelicity
Brought to Light BY the Divorce
Courts. The Windy City Holds
the Record Of 1s2 to Every 10O,-
GOO Inhabitants Increasing in Ru-
raj Districts.
The divorce courts Of Chicago and
other cities of the United States re-
veal strange motivesof the martial
ipfelicity. It has remained for the
United States census bureau to col
lect the particulars of these frank
divorces and compile them into g
government report. For two years
10 agents Of the census bureau have
searched the court records Of the
country for odd and unusual featur-
es to divorce suits. The results of
these two years sabor are soon to be
presented in official form. With them
viii be presented the usual satisfies
revealing the growth Of the divorce
evil in the United States.
Chicago, as the repnted divorce
center" of the nation, will continue
,to hold her unenviable record, with
|132 divorces granted for every lOO,-
goo of population for the last twenty
years.
AS an indication of how many ap-
.plications for divorce have been filed
and not granted, the second ten-year
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01
A JAPANESE SPY.
Arrested Taking Photographs OF Bat
teries in Action.

A Japanese was taken into custody
Friday at the Texas state military en-
campment at Austin. It is charged
he was taking photographs of bat
teries in action and other features of
the camp. He is being held pending
an investigation on the part of the
state and federal authorities.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01

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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01

best routing" of a divorce tour at
the present time should begin in
South Carolina, where divorces are
not recognized at all.
The new husband should remain
with his bride in that state long
enough to acquire citizenship. Go
ing to some get-a-divorce-easy state,
the husband would file suit for di-
vorce on the ground of desertion.
These papers would be sent to the
sheriff of some other county in
South Carolina than that in which
the bride resided. Naturally, they
would be served upon his wife, and
returned unserved, the letter of the
state law would be carried out, and
the divorce granted without the
wife's knowing anything about it.
LEGALLY DEAD AFTER FIVE YEARS.
Chicago is another likely place if
the divorced man seeks another ven
ture. When he tires of this second
venture, the Judge advises his going
to Arkansas, which has system Of
automatic divorce accomplished by
desertion, In this state the absence
of wife or husband for five years
makes the absentee member of the
family legally dead. In Arkansas
the man married in Chicago and
leaving his bride there may sue for
divorce on the ground of desertion,
filing the summons to the defendant
in some obscure corner of an obscure
weekly paper.
Thereafter this man on the mar
riage route may go from state to
state, acquiring matrimonial bonds
here and divesting himself of them
there, finally after five years return
ing to Arkansas. There, if the first
wife be living, and without the pro-
cess of divorce court ne is privileged
to. marry two sexes. Is man so much
more the part of this first helpmeet.
Why the wife should be doubly dis
posed over her husband to seek di-
vorce is a question open to settle.
ment from the two points Of view OF
the two sexes. Is man so much more
the intolerable brute that where all
is serene to him the finer sensibilitles
of the wife suffer the agonies of the
lost? Or is the woman so "uncer-
tain, coy and hard to please" that
the poor creature Of coarser fiber
but greater loyalty to his vows must
be dragged by the heels into the dis
grace Of the courts?
Perhaps some of the stories Of do
mestic infelicity upon which divorce
DEGREES have been granted, and
which enter into the returns of this
Forthcoming divorce bulletin, may
shed material light upon the question
of a whole.
Merely because a man has literal
cold feet when crawling into bed
scarcely seems provocation to inspire
divorce proceedings on the part of a
wife. But the literal icy foot, scarce
ly less than the fugitive ice mitt,"
has served to break up many fami-
lies.
It is different in the case of the
man who shows that on the morning
after their marriage his wife came
into the room where he was still
sleeping, blacking both his eyes with
the heels of her shoes.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01

always keep bottle in the house, and
Mrs. Dukes thinks it has done her
more good than anything she has ever
taken.
"My little boy ten years old, was pale
and had but little life. He began to use
Peruna the day his mother began.
To-day his face Is rosy, and he is outin
the yard running and jumping. with tho
rest of the children"
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01

An ounce of common sense IS
worth a pound of book learning.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01

Mr.. Victor Patneaude, s2s Madison
street, Topeka, Kas., well-known car
penter and member Of Knights and
Ladies Of Security, writes:
"Twelve years ago l had severe at
tack of 10 grippe and l never really re-
covered my health and strength, but
grew weaker every year, until 1 was
unable to work.
1.-TWO years ago began using Peruna
and it built up my strength SO that in a
couple Of months I was able to go to
work again.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01
NOT ALLOWED TO RUN TO FIRE.


There is the story of the husband
who refused to let the children go 70
church, at the same time the case is
on record where the wife absolutely
refused to let her husband get up at
night and run to a lovely fire down
the street. If he went she insisted
on staying awake the rest of the
night quarreling about the little out
ing and rendering him unfit for work
the next DAY. This wife, too, never
had sown a button on for him, and
he brought witness to prove that
often the witness had seen the plain
tiff going around with only one but
ton on his waistcoat.
1t looked bad for a husband to
pinch his wife's nose until it becomes
so chronically red that neither face
bleach nor powder will serve to hide
her modification. But in one con-
trasting case a wife pulled her hub
by out of bed by his whiskers, while
in another case the poor husband pro-
duced as Exhibit B" in proof Of his
allegations a large tuft of hair which
the wife had abstructed from his
cranial roof.
There is the story of the husband
who one night threw boot at his
better half, missing her by half a
hard. But surely of greater signifi-
canoe are those other cases in which
the l90-pound wife struck the poor
man with stove lid, breaking rib
and later knocking him down with a
chair; where in the last year the
plaintiff with pokers, fatirons, and
other hard substances even that
case in which the wife struck her
otherwise life partner with a wire
b,ct form
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01
FIIRTATIoN ON WEDDING TRIP.

Another plan Of a wife that for
months at a time her husband would
not speak to her, scarcely stacks up
with the case Of the poor husband,
who, on the bridal trip from New
York watched his bride fall in love
with a. German fellow passenger.
"She sat on the mat seat with the
German, entwined in mis- arms and
kissing him." says the divorce peti-
ton. '"The plaintiff demonstrated,
but to no effect, the conduct of the
wife causing the husband untold men
tai suffering"
In another case a brutal husband
came home one night, and, with a
big knife in mis- hand, forced the wife
to sit up in bed until dawn, threat
ening to cut her heart out if she
moved from the position. But on the
other hand, an angered wife threw a
Dot of scalding tea in hubby's face
binding him in one eye for life.
One husband, who chronically fail
ed to work on the six days recon-
mended by the Ten Commandments,
would put on his old clothes early
Sunday mornings. and work like a
beaver till the COWS came home. But
that other case of the wife who re-
fused to cook for her husband, not
only for six days, but on Sunday, too,
seems to have been greater provoc-
tion.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01

II you are going to College this
Fall? it will gay you to read this
ad.
so pieces of white goods in Madras
Pks, Nainsooks etc. Just what Is
needed for fall waists for school
wear. These are all new goods,
bought at a great sacrifice, lOc,
121sc and 15c per yard.
"a. ,. .-s, j.: rlA. k,-aA3lE4sa
20 Pieces of white and black figured
Madras, the popular thing for
winthrop College" Waists at loc'
This is q great value.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1907-08-01

We offer some very close prices on
Bleachings and Cambricks. These
goods are very much higher than
ever, but l am prepared to make
College Girls very close figures.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-12
NEW SCHOOL BOOK

nROF. ALEXANDER HOGG of Fort
Worth, Tex, is author of a work
Il on 1.-THE Railroad in Education"
intended for use in the public schools,
and it is hoped no corporate influence
may be permitted to thwart his plan.
The great mass of matter taught in
our public schools while it awakens a
desire and develops a capacity for
knowledge, leaves the scholar at the
end of grammar school course as
empty of practical information as it is
possible for him to be.
Good citizenship must rest on ade-
quate knowledge of things pressing for
attention in practical life, and the time
to lay foundation for such knowledge
is during the grammar school course.
'Of all subjects now seeking or likely TO
seek a satisfactory adjustment to pub
lie demands, the railroad subject is in
the lead, and technical knowledge of
such roads, their building, equipment
and management would furnish the
rising generation with a basis on which
to build policy toward them that would
insure safe legislation in the years to
come.
No man or set OF men could have
foisted on a people whose rank and file
were competent to judge their acts
such monstrous oppression as now ex-
lists from railroad domination, and that
these things may not be perpetuated
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-12
TIMELY REMINDER

MT EN- of the business world of Los
wi Angeles, unused to dealing with
AAA the needs of a great naval fleet,
should be prepared for that task soon
to come to them. Manifold and various
are the demands, ranging from nautical
instruments through all lines of equip
ment for the ships and their engine
rooms to the thousand things requisite
for the we'll being and comfort of the
officers and men, and the patronage Of
the fleet is. sure to well repay the mer-
chants who provide for these needs.
A large part of the fleet must rem
devious at San Pedro, and the almost
constant need of repairs and supplies
will test the resources of the city.
Moral and intellectual methods can
be made powerful factors in welcoming
the fleet, and agencies with that end in
view will be a welcome feature. The
American navy is not an aggregation
of drinking. carousing men; but rather
an aggregation of young men of the
best type of citizenship who are used
to good treatment by shore folk, and
no class of men in the nation gives a
more ready and kindly response to
courtesies than the sailor, and no man
resents churlishness so heartily.
The fleet will inject new element of
life among us, and it will be wisdom
and business sense to be ready to meet
and deal with 1t properly.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-12

it is imperative that the men to meet
future contingencies in that line should
be thoroughly informed on all points
likely to be at issue. This can be done
only by some such technical work as
that under discussion, and only when
the mind is open to such things under
competent teachers.
Over specialization is worse than no
specialization, but markets, transporta-
ton and taxation should be as clear in
their details to the young man about to
enter high school as to any man in the
land, and If books on special subjects
are furnished and competent instruc-
tors engaged to interpret them much
that now troubles the nation would be
impossible.
Prof. Hogg is pioneer in q path that
must needs be we'll trod If we, as
people, really desire to educate our
children to take the stage in the years
to come. All that grammar school
graduate of today knows of railroads or
their Importance in trade is worthless,
and yet in ten years these children
will be called upon to vote for or
against railroad franchises.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-12
PLANS COMPLETE FOR
SPANISH CELEBRATION
Anniversary of clty's Birth viii Be
PlcturesqueIy Observed at
Church of Our Lady
of Angels

The long planned celebration OF the
anniversary of the founding of the city
of Los angeles will be observed Tnurs-
day at the Plaza church-the Church OF
Our Lady of Angels.
At o'clock the religious observance
will be held, according to the ancient
custom. 49,
In the evening the big celebration will
be held in the patio of the Plaza church,
where formerly the padres were wont
to walk in meditation.
A stage has been erected and seats will
be arranged to accommodate the large
audience. Spanish dances OF the olden
days will be given by children In cos
tune and several little playlets will be
presented. Addresses will also be made
in Spanish and English.
Mrs NJ G. Gonzales and her two tai
ented daughters, Misses Myrtle and Stel-
la, will take a prominent part In the
celebration. They will present come
delta, 1.-THE Little Rebel" Mrs. Con-
zales and her daughters are prominent
Spanish-Americans.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-12
DEcADENT SHIPPING

WHE bureau of statistics of the de-
partment of commerce and labor
"A reports an annual trade between
the United States and Latin America
amounting to 5000, 1000 in value, as
against $2S4,000,OO0 a decade ago, but
falls to tell suffering people that by
far the greatest part Of this immense
traffic was carried in foreign bottoms.
With the deserved failure of the ship
subsidy bill In the last congress, which
had 1t become law would have placed
the South American trade in the hands
of great monopoly, the withdrawal
of the American flag from Latin Amer
lean ports has been complete, and in
the face of such enormous figures the
Republican administration continues
policy that will keep our ships idle.
From South America our imports
were $15s. 100000 in value, and our At
lantic ports have housed the foreign
tramp steamship for this trade to the
exclusion of American registered YES
sells.
Recently three excellent sailing ships
were sold in New York, all American in
build and register. to be converted into
coal barges, because corporate power in
the United States senate will not pass
subsidy or other law that will give
aid to small owners as against corpora
lions that can grasp all the trade. I'm
just tariff laws make shipbuilding an
expensive luxury now, and subsidy in
some form must ultimately be given,
but the Republican senate will give it
only to great corporate interests or.
which amounts to the same thing, SO
construct the law that only railroad in
terests with steamship attachments can
profit by its provisions.
Another telling point against party
misrule lies in the fact that of an ex-
cess of 100000 in exports over last
year so or 70 per cent was in manufac-
tured goods, all of which sold, after
freight and all other charges were al
lowed, for much less in South American
cities than duplicates could be bought
for here. What with the loss of our
great carrying trade and the higher
prices charged at home, the glory of
such a large foreign trade is somewhat
dimmed.
The coming national legislature,
under spur of outraged public opinion,
will make some grandstand play to-
ward helping our dead shipping in
terests, as it will be good campaign
material, but effective and lasting re-
lief can come only from Democratic |
administration which cannot be COM
mitted to burdensome tariff.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-12
POWER OF A SMILE

4 MONG Los Angeles valuable assets
II is the growing propaganda of the
"A philosophy of the smiling face.
That its possession is a philosophical
deduction of sane business sense is
true, for often a smiling face may mask
troubled heart, but the imprint of a
smile on the nature of other men
always brings a smiling response, and
to cultivate the latter is to succeed in
private and public life.
What power for squirting subor-
dinates to duty a smile on the face of
an official chief has on Monday morn
ing, when all face the trying duties of
a new week! And what a damper on
heart and brain of all in their path are
a sour disposition and a scowl!
The highest prizes in the history Of
the race were won by the power of q
timely smile, and the tragedy of life
has ever been shot through and through
with its high lights, leavening the bur-
dens of men and making suffering bear
able.
The darkest outlook and most for
bidding aspect of affairs may be illu-
minated by the penetrating power of a
smile and unexpected possibilities de-
veloped in unexpected places.
The ethical demands of a business life
includeethe genial smile, and no more
encouraging sign of progressive citi-
zenship is in evidence in Los Angeles
than the smile which graces the bust
ness mans face, not only in business
hours but in his private affairs and
social intercourse.
The times call for men who can direct
great undertakings; men who can sup
ply initiative and suggestion; men who
can look difficulty in the face and
then overcome it; powerful men; men
of action and determination; truthful,
modest and unassuming men, but more
than all and as the peer of all we need
the smiling man to round off the con-
structive forces of the city.
Some men can smile and murder
while they smile, but the man in de-
mand is he who can smile because of
the altruistic principle that rules him;
the fact that the feelings of others have
weight with him. Such man and such
smile are as the running waters that
give life to deseht spots and make al
most divine the man and the power he
bears,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-12
OUTDOOR SERVICES
GROWING IN INTEREST
Park Meetings of Young People May
Be Extended Through the
Month of September.
Music Is Good

Special to The Herald.
PASADENA, Aug. 1.-Major George A.
Hilton of Alhambra, superintendent OF
the tent evangelistic campaign, was the
principal speaker at the open air meet
ing of the Young Peoples Christian
Union and Young Mems Christian assoc
citation at Library park today at 1880
o'clock. The Lincoln Avenue Epworth
league had charge of the music. Profess
sor Jones, leader of the First Baptist
choir sang.
The park meetings are growing in in
terest and attendance. A larger audience
than at any previous meeting was pres
ent at the services today.
On account of the interest manifested,
plans are being formulated to continue
outdoor religious gatherings through
September. Programs had been arranged
only for August, as it was expected the
meetings would not be carried on longer
Rev. j. G. Rogers, Phi D., will preach
next Sunday, and on August IS, Rev. H.
r. Keates. who is soon to leave Pasa-
dena for his new field of work in In
diana, will be the speaker and the oc-
casion will be made a rally day.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-12
NEW ELDoRADO

"HE sudden rise and marvellous sue
cess of the gold mining districts
In Nevada surpass the most fren-
zied writings of romance and give
promise that the whole western range
of mountains and foothills, from Beh-
ring sea to Panama, are studded with
auriferous deposits.
This boom in Nevada mining is very
important to Los Angeles, in that the
great volume of supplies for that coun-
try must come from here, and the
virility in the boom by reason Of the
class of men behind 1t is something to
be thankful for.
Two years ago western Nevada was
terra incognito to all but the lonely
prospector; today railroads costing
millions penetrate the country from
three directions; towns and cities have
been built of enduring nature, mills
and machinery costing other millions
are scattered over the desert hills, and
a financial income so great as to stag
ger belief is the result. Monthly divi-
dends from the mines are phenomenal
and the real estate market is keeping
pace with the mines. Men with money
and the highest scientific attachments
are f1ocking into this new Eldorado,
and the historic times of Gold Hill and
the Comstock are being repeated
minus the wild and woolIy trimming of
that time. Trade in all it's channels is
active and the assured future for it all
OF 10 do a{toir fV,61
the most helpful asset Los Angeles owns
in tributary wealth.
1t is incumbent on our men of action
to cultivate this field and to see to it
that no interest of trade or transporta-
ton is permitted to prey upon this
growing community of wealth pro-
ducers. Los Angeles is the geographical
base of supplies and the natural bank
ing point for the whole field, and judici-
GUS care will insure a wonderful return
TO all lines of business in this city.
This whole development story serves
to accentuate the virility and many
sidedness of American character Men
who were in broadcloth a few months
since are now in jeans working for the
development of the desert, and the very
best of brains and ability in the land
are in that district. Fortune has smiled
on scores of venturesome men, and the
end is not yet. Provincialism is foreign
to the American mind, and it will be
the part of wisdom to see to it that
provincialism is eliminated from the
business methods of Los Angeles in her
dealings with this field. The wonderful
latent or reserved power Of the Ameri-
can character was never more forcibly
exemplified than in the work of the
daring men who have reclaimed this
forbidding desert for the good of the
whole land.