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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-02-13

OF legislative progress 1ou on, naO
done as much dirty work against him
In politics and If that editor coulc
come down hare and forsake his prin
ciples, be (Ssnstor Blesss) was not
made of such stuff. BE did not care
tor his political future, he was no suck
er, he did his duty as he saw 1t; he
will not be a traitor to the 18, 900 peo.
pie who voted for him, be declared.
Senator Hardin, who rexs spoke,
endorsed the county dispensarY ard
said If the people wsnted the dispen.
sary to 60, let 1t 60
Various motions were made on the
matter Of taking 3 lecess and by 8
vote Of 20 to 10, the senate refused tc
adjourn and the aye and nay vote on
striking out the snac.ing words Of the
Rsrsor bill were called, resulting as
follows:
Yeas-Appelt, Bates. Brice, Brooks,
Carlisle, Carpenter, Christensen.
Crouch, Hardin, Haynes, Holiday,
Mauldin, McGovn, McKeithan, OTIS,
Sinkler, sullivan, IalOelG, IoOle, VII.
liams-Totsl 20.
Nsys-Biv.ns, Blesse, Clifton,
Earle, Efrd, Griffin, Hugh, Johnson,
Kelly, Laney, RayEor, Rogers, Stack
house, Townsend, Walker, Wells,
Weston Total II.
The following pairs were announc-
ed: Smith, present, who would have
voted yea" with Black, absent who
would have voted nay" Grsydon.
present, who would hsVe voted nay
with BEES, absent, who would have
voted yes
Senator Blease changed his vote
from "yea" to may" before result
was announced, making totals 1ead,
yeas 21, nays 16. This gives Senator
Blease the parliamentary right to
make the motion to reconsider.
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THE TREATY OF PORTSMOUTH.
General Belief That at Best It Gan Be
 Nothing More Than a Truce.

From Richard Berry's Underlying Japa-
 nese Humanities' in the September Cen
 tury.
 When the treaty of Portsmouth was signed, a million Japanese were fin Man churia and Korea. A quarter of these were new men, poured in after the battle of Mukden. They were mostly boys between sixteen and nineteen and men betwen forty-one and forty-five. They had come from homo eagerly, suprred by tales of recent glory, for a summer cam paign in Chosan. The age limit had kept them from tho paths of greatness through the first year of the war, while in impotent silence they had been com pelled to listen to the tales of the bray cry of their relatives and neighbors. At last their time came. and they marched gaily forth to join the valiant ranks.
 The three-quarters of million whom these recruits joined were seasoned yeter- ans, fit to face any troops the world has ever produced. Kuroki's men, in eighteen months. had marched tri- umphantly from chemulpo through Korea to the Yalu, and from the Yalu through Manchuria to within sight of the Sungari With throbbing hearts and stjied exultation they recalled five gr>. battles and ewenty-two smashing minor engagements, each a victory. bitterly bought, desperately held. Nogfs men in fifteen months, had made record which entitled them to rise above the centuries and bid the hail of. fellowship to Caesars Tenth Legion. For sever months they had held Port Arthur by
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cinating German animals which would ben carpet sweeper if 1t were more com, act and a caterpillar if 1t had more Aags.
 This spectacle Is making me hun grier every minute" said MT. Mclean to the head bellboy T observe that the dictates of fashion are demanding that hats shall look more and more like cold victuals. Last year now, twas different. Every mode that came over from Paris, and mighty near every Maud, had quite lot of fur wrapped around the dome of the lid. am reliably informed that toward the last of the season the demand for fur on the hat became so great that only a few of those precious creatures, the chinchillas, could afford to own their own skins any longer, but had to go about, their native land of Chin Chile wearing the domestic mink and the plebeian squirrel.
 Just now we appear to be very strong for both flora and fauna. just saw one hat go by here that looked so much like a pianked steak l caught myself sniffing for the gravy, and an other that was the breathing image of ehiffonade salad. and another that had feather in 1t that would pass anywhere for a half-portion of Spa ghetti Italiane, and a fourth that need ed but crust to be fruit pie. and many more. nm sorely tempted to break into a millinery stG!e and steal a cn11a ro meal
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THE CLOTHES HABIT
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the braid on the seams the same as the floor manager of a brakemans ball, and congress gaiters and hard surfaced white satin tie with a spray of blue forget-me-nots, painted on the face of it. Inside of twenty-four hours he was negotiating for some city-raised garments. l should judge that he has been steadily advancing ever since.
 As l say, met Higgins, and after I had partially recovered the power of vision and speech, he backed off to a suitable distance and gave me treat.
 Very opalescent.' I says. Tell me- I says, who was 1t staged you David Belasco?'
 "He smiled in a manner which indi- cated that he did not exactly hate him. self and laid his hand on vest that was giving a very credltable imitation of a checkerboard suffering from the German measles.
 ""Tis a confined pattern,' he says.
 "'So it should be- I says. Tell me- l says, did it break out unaided or did you help it to escape?'
 Higgins isn't working now He's given up his business so he can minis ter properly to the growing needs of his wardrobe. There's no taint of race suicide in his large and constantly in- creasing family of clothes. Roosevelt ought to send him a photograph for being the father of the biggest house. hold of North American trousers"
 Staying dressed in style is hard job" said the head bellboy, wistfully. They shift the cut on you so often"
 "Yes, that's the trouble with my friend. Higgins" said Mclean. Just when he thinks he's dressed to the minute, he finds out he's half an hour In nla
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the throat, every night and day under ire They had survived six grand assaults, each in Itself great battle. Barely ha ' they snatched their inestimable prize when they were hastened by forced marches, in tho dead of winter, three hundred miles across frozen plain, only to fight for twenty-five successive days through the battle of Mukden, and -barely-to win. Okus soldiers could look back to glorious Nanshan, the worthy brother of Balaklava and Mis- sionary Ridge, and then through the brunt of the work at the center in the acedamas of Atoyang. tho Sha, and Mukden. The followers of Nodzu and of Kawamura bore scars as worthy, If not as famous.
 Together, then. these mi1lion--the re- cruits, with the veterans-had four months of recuperation in balmy cli- mate, of waiting for the final effort fin smiling halo of lusty Manchu summer. and of an even mightier preparation, for successful combat. The army front was spread forth until it stretched, from tip to tip, 180 miles. From Kawa- mura's Yalu men. hid in the mountains of the east. to Nogi's cavalry patrolling the edges of the Gobi desert. there lay. in eager array. $50 00O0 fighting men, trained athletes in daily drill, anxious for tho word to make the supreme ef- IOFIS or llslT llNtS. Iotnlnd lHtblp oVV miles to Dalny the main base, were 350,000 non -combatants oiling the wheels of progress.
 Suddenly, almost without warning, came peace. only the week before the signing of the treaty did the larger part of the army know that negotia- tions were on. They supposed the long halt due to some strategic reason; that the recruits must be increased. and that the rainy season must pass. They were retired without explanation, returned home, and only when they reached Japan did hey learn that the ground they had won at such frightful cost was not to be theirs.
 These million men did not get their final fight. Confident with the morale of constant victory, which was not yet conclusive, they wanted war. When they came to consider the terms, they found they had fought splendid and audacious conflict, for which modern history holds no parallel, and that Tor their recompense they had secured nall | a rocky island which they did not want
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Hops, 1t may or not be true that It
 Hope 1t may not be true that It sometimes the more tailors man has the less of a man he is-but I'm pre- pared to say without fear of succesS- ful contradiction, that in New York 1t takes several tailors, in addition to a retail boot and shoe dealer, an ostrich farm, an emerald mine, paint shop, powder mill, an upholsterer, solo performer on the Marcel wave, a den tist, and @ dermatologist who can do redeeming while you wait, to make woman complete. In South Carolina lady Is person of the female gender, present tense, sometimes verging on the past, who's grandmother once danced a minuet with the Markee de La Fayette. In Boston, Mass, the test of a real lady Is, can she say limbs without thinking legs? But in New York, this great world metropolis and k1me of the arts, snch as sculpture, porch-climbing beauty-doctoring and postcard designing, 'tis the one who gets herself up to resemble the Uni formed Rank of the Knights of Pythias who Is regarded by discriminating judges as the real worsted motto.
 "The careless lady who puts on her clothes with an egg beater and does her hair with both hands tied behind her back will do for the true Bohemian circle where genius walks arm in arm with the unsoaped ear. The short haired and gentlemanly>~ advocate ot woman's rights who believes that the proper way to assert her sex Is by dressing In such a way as to disguise it, may be all right for certain parts of New England, where the men have all moved away end limitations are welcomed. But on Broadway, this
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Robert F,deson inaugur his son at the Hudson "Classmates," a new A tas
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FEW YORK, August 1.-(special)- M The theatrical season of 1907-19OS l Is now open. Up to this week, there has been lively skirmish fire or openings, but this week the general en- gagement was fairly joined and from now on there will be continuous reinforce ments of heavy theatrical guns to the forces of General Thespis which are en- deavoring to separate the New Yorw pub lie from a goodly share of their more or less hard-earned dollars, and unless all signs fall, which only happens in ex- tremely dry weathr, the campaign will be successful.
 These were the new attractions which opened up this week:
 ! Monday-New Amsterdam, Maclyn Ar buckle in 'The Round Up; Criterion, Julia Sanderson and Huntley Wright in .'The Dairy Maids'; Yorkville, Nat M. Wills in "A Lucky Dog; Metropolis, 1yillon H. Turner in His Terrible Se- cret."
 Thursday-Hudson, Robert Edeson in sClassmates."
 saturday-Empire, John Drew in My Vife": Belasco Frances Starr In "The Rose of the Rancho; Daly's, Margaret Angln and Henry Miller in "The Great Divide; Hippodrome, "Neptune's Daugh- fer, and Pioneer Days; West End, Wan den Berg Opera company in p.Martha."
 Surely from this list 1t will not be hard to select entertainment for all hands and the cook Of these the most ann bilious as a work of stage craft was s"The Round Up"
 This new play is by Edmund Day. and Ii was first presented in Chicago last spring for three weeks run IL made ro great a hit that the original engage r,ent of three weeks was extended to one of three months.
 This production is one of the largest fxlaw & Erlanger have ever made. and they have omitted no detail In scenery pr equipment that would contribute In any way to the completeness of this great Atmosphere picture. The company IS a S-.ss ons and in addition to the lead
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BY IRWIN s. COBB
1RoM his onyx loophole in th'

-ROM his onyx loophole in the
 marble and bronze pagoda which \ serves the St. Reckless for an office, Aloysious Mclean, the hotel clerk, could gaze down vista of mir ror-lined magnifcence. It was at the crowded hour. Two elderly pink-and- white gentlemen, clipped and trimmed like those two performing poodles you see at a dog and pony show, held the seats at the head of the corridor. Past them, back and forth, eddied the ladies of Cockato Lane.
 There were some of mingled archi- lecture, having faces of the severe Gothic type and Renaissance fittings in the hair; there were some in the tightest of Princess frocks, goggle- eye as sun-perch from the pressure, with rows of gorgeous buttons r1ppling along their spines; some with polished and waterproof complexions of the best lacquered French enamel; some who achieved startling results in jew elry, with pearls as big as plums in their ear-lobes and gold napkin rings locked on their wrists; there was a very plump one in opera garb, who overflowed her bodice like charlotte russe and had arms like a little fat boys legs; there was a slender one dotted extensively with diamonds and securely chained to bull terrier which had the expression of Mr. Kid Broad and the underlip of a switch engine; there was one neither lumpy nor slim, n,bo +oued aftar her one of those faS-
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Millions In Needles.

More than s2.CooOoo worth of needles was sold in the United States last year, according to William K. Stewart in the Initial number of the American Business Man, which appears on the news stands today. MT. Stewart says:
 Tn the United States at the present time there is not a single hand-sewins needle made. All of the many millions which annually are sold in this country are impored from Europe, principally from England. France has only one needle factory Germany only three of any importance, and Russia but one. In England the needle making center is at Reddltch, where fifty-flve firms, large and small, are located. More than 100, 0,000.- OOO needles a year-about 1250,000 a day when Sundays and holidays are excluded arc the product of these factories. Fish hooks are also made at a number of them.
 'But if the United States does not make needles for hand-sewing 1t is pre- eminent In the manufacture of sewing machine needles. For the sewing machine is essentially an American production and It's most important single feature Is the needle which makes the lock-stitch. invented by Elias Howe in 1850. It is estimated that about 8 per cent of all the operative labor involved in the con struction of the sewing machine is eni- ployed in making the needle
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OPINIONS OF THE HOTEL CLERK L


tisement of a bright and promising case of inflammation of the lungs In side. I take 'em up to my room, l caress with a loving and reluctant hand, and then I lock these incendiary happenings In the bottom of the bu- reau drawer under my winter under clothes and stuff the keyhole so they won't keep me awake at nights. l am light sleeper, and noise disturbs me.
 "Still at the same time there are quite Q number among us who haven't any deep-seated prejudice against the hectic habiliments. Mark Twain ain't the only one that has the courage of his white flannel trousers. Coward that am, I envy those heroes, but do not emulate their brilliant example. Yet there are times when 'tis over done.
 "Something dazzling came out of Rectors the other day when l was passing, and blinded me. I had the impression of being smacked between the eyes by an Aurora Borealis. Pres ently, I recognized my old friend, Hig- gins, enmeshed in n series of the most vooiferous vestments I ever saw as- sembled in one locality Higgins was masterpiece of frenzied haberdash- ing. He looked as if he had been ex- ecuted by landscap gardener who was intoxicated at the time.
 q know Higgins well. We were raised in the same town. He was ever a tasty dresser. As young man grow ing up he'd never think of sitting down to dinner with his coat off where there were ladies present unless he had his shirtsleeves looped up with elastic bands with rosettes on them. We came to New York together. He hit the l ferry in his hobby black diagonals with
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the author of "Strongheart," William
 C. de Mile, written in collaboration with Margaret Turnbull, was given It's initial caring in New Yorw. "Class-
 mates" as suggested by It's title, finds its basic motive in the friendship of four young men who are in the last year of their training at the military academy in West Point, where the first
 act of the play Is laid, the action shift l ing to a home In Grammeroy Park. | thence to a South American Jungle. and reverting in it's final scene to New York. Everybody was glad to welcome "The Rose of the Rancho" back to her home In the Belasco theatre. Miss Rancess
 Starr Is as charming as ever. Margaret Anglin and Henry Miller's second New York year in The Great Divide" began in the redecorated Daly's theatre. the co-stars resuming
 at that famous playhouse the run which | was interrupted at the Princess last | spring by the expiration or the lease , on the latter theatre. The succeeding weeks will bring ad- ditional attractions for the theatre
 goers Here are a few of the openings
 which have been decided upon MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. Madison Square-Jameson Lee Finney l in The Man in the Case" l Herald Square-Virginia Harmed fin Anna Karenina."
 | Lincoln Square-"The Spoilers | Harlem Opera House-John Craig in | "Soudan."
 l Broadway-"The Rogers Brothers in 1 Panama"
 | TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3. 1 Hackett-Dorothy Donnelly in "The | Movers"
 i SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER '. | Circle-Adolf Philip In From Across the Pind."
 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. | Lyceum-Kyrle Below and Margaret | Ellington in "The Thief" l Bijou-Mme. Nazimova in Ruth" l Monday September B. New Amsterdam, "rhe Merry Widow" l Monday. october T. Weber's Music hall. l Hip. Hip, Hurrah.'
 | Butterfly"
 And there are others.
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state you can bet your eye that the lady who wins the voluntary tributes from the efficient walking delegates CT the rubber workers union Is she who comes nearest to looking like the an- nual parade of Veteran F1remens As sociation. You may have noticed that a hook and ladder truck attracts more attention on our main streets than hearse does. Hence, yon moving ex- hibition of beauty and art, and beauty depending on art, which you behold circulating through this expensive and commodious caravansary of ours.
 "TIs much the same with the osten- sibly sterner sex There appears to be some kind of a foolish ozone in the climate of this here island that causes us lords of creation to feel that we ain't properly habitated for life In the teeming city unless our regalia is all to the spontaneous combustion.
 'In some sections of the Red Tim othy belt there Is deep-rooted opin- ion to the effect that rugged honesty is seldom accompanied by creases In the pants. To be truly successful as a financier In the bosky neighborhoods, the stall-fed President of the Farmers & Drovers' National Bank of North America, also Notary Public, capital stock $1S,O00, has to dress the part. Just as soon as it becomes generally known that he never wore a necktie and that his abundant facial foliage is believed to harbor several flying squir- rel's nests, the sturdy yeoman, or yeo- maness, takes down from the Joist Tn the kitchen the sacred sock containing the accumulation of large amalgam dollars and heads for the county seat to make the first deposit. According to the alfalfa understanding, the home
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Miss Craze George is announced for her
 final week in the Lyceum theatre, where
 her resumption of the run here of "Di-
 vorcons" is marked from night to night
 with all the indications of the same sort , of popular success that prevailed in her seven weeks spring run in thep lay at
 Wallacks theatre. The engagement as
 originally arranged is limited to Septem- Der '.
 Francis Wilson has made a great hit
 in the Garrick theatre Tn his new farce,
 When Knights Were Bold" Large
 crowds have been provoked. almost to
 laughing hysteria, over the adventures of Sir Guy DeVere, the genial and inof- fensive young nobleman who, as the hero
 of this farce suddenly is transplanted to
 mediaeval days and surrounded by an
 cestors who wear casques and coats CT
 mall, and whose swords were several feet
 longer than those used nowadays. These
 scenes are tremendously funny and give
 Mr Wilson a much greater opportunity than he had as the mountain climbing
 here of his last seasons success.
 Advanced vaudeville" certainly met with an enthusiastic welcome when 1t
 made It's first appearance in this city at
 the New York theatre. The playhouse has been redecorated and refurnished, and for its new career given, more or less,
 new interior. The audience at the bo- ginning was one interested In discovering what kind of bill was to be the result of the vaudeville war. In view or cne fact that all through the evening appre- citation was expressed loudly and enthus- iastically. 1t may be said that this marks
 the first victory for Klaw & Erlanser new business venture.
 Virginia Harnod, according to her press agent, bathes dsily in electricity. Miss Harmed we might add, expects to come | to the Herald Square theatre Labor Day | in Anna Kare.lina," a dramatization Of i Tolstors novel Of the same name. That may explain th. press agents open-hand' ed way of dealing out her lavatory Be- | crets.
 Oscar Hamerstein is still being impor' | tuned by Philadelphia men who want hlH | to give opera in that city. He still sayi that he will give grand opera there jus | as soon as he gets guarantee to cover | the expenses, and he is perfectly willing
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grown money king who eats his chew ing tobacco off the ear and doesn't care whether the scramble eggs are safely stored inside his chest or dec orating the front of 1t, is bound to be fairly saturated and palpitating with intense integrity.
 But here In this town we cherish no such feelings of distrust for the style of male costuming that Is mod eled on the side-show banners. I'm no bigot myself, dye mind. I think a yolk in the omelet Is worth two on the shirt. I don't hold with the notion that black finger nails and white vest make the proper combination for half-mourning. Every little while I detect myself in the act of permitting some inspired gents furnishing goods Adonis to saw off on me a necktie that is loud and piercing shriek. or one of those stop-look-listen westcuts with the mother of pearl butterplates for buttons. I buy 'em. I admit the weak ness. Somewhere about his system every man has concealed lurking desire to look like a scarlet tableau car instead of the Mourning Maria that runs between the jail and the work house. Inwardly I abhor the hellish custom that forces me to disguise my self ns pall-bc arer or a head waiter on those occasions when am expected to look my sladdest. 1 don't hato black, but red Is ths color of sunsets and ripe watermelons and jocund dawn blushing in the rosy East. and, secret ly, I love scenery.
 "So buy 'em. But don't wear 'em I lack the nerve. I can't bring myself to the point where I face the world with my w1shbone encased in what | might be taken for an outside adver-