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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
Mail Bag Stolen.

It has developed that the stolen
mail hag said to contain aboutS 400,-
0o0 was not on La Provence but on
La sayoie, and it is virtually estaD-
lished that the registered mail was
distracted after the bags reached
The railroad stations at Paris, France
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
TRAINING SHIP OVERTURNS
From Terrific Si":r, and Fifty Men
Are Missing.

At Copenhagen Denmark, while
400 workmen were overhaulink the
Danish training ship, Viking, in the
ship yard, the vessel overturned dur
ing a severe storm. Between forty
and fifty men are missing and believ-
ed to be drowned A number OF
bodies have been washed ashore and
scores of thrilling rescIes have been
m sGa
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
RIyA q BROTHERS FIGHT
Roth Loved the Same Woman anu
Nav Die From Wounds

A. New York two brothers VINO
ien,ves loreu 'a and clubs in an East Side sa-
loon n,et arly Thursday, until botn were were
~ soou desnerately &C. wounded that they
ohahiv ~ will die. The men are
Sto Georee and Givanni francesca, who
@V eame TO New York from Palermo
s shont two years ago. There they
had both been rivals Tor the nano
of the same girl, who eventually ac-
cented George, the elder.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
Gets Twenty Years.

Joshua Harrison, at Elizabeth CITY
N. c., was sentenced to twenty years
imprisonment for the kidnapping
and murder of Kenneth Beasley, a
young lad.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
Against Cigaretts.

A Texas farmer declares that a
laborer who does not smoak cigar
cites is worth at least $3.50 per
month more than one who does.
Farm labores who desire to amass
wealth should therefore cut out Gig
arettes.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
Got It at Last.

A man at New London, Conn,
Swallowed a piece Of glass thirty
years ago, and it has Just been re-
covered by a surgeon to whom ne
complained Of a pain in the shoulder
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
Dies From Hiccoughs

I1SS = ZULU 2A4~S~o2Aeo>--
Dennis Simon Briggs, prominent
lumbr merchant Of Wilmington, n.
c., died. suddenly Thursday from hic-
coughs while on a buslness tItp to
Washington, n. c.. s.zzss;:,.ss .sssss
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
CANE TOO HIGH.
The Church Committee Had To GeS
Cheaper Attraction.

Believing that William Jennings
BRYAN would be a frst-class drawing
card the committee Of arrangements
Of the Central Pennsylvania confer
ence Of the Methodist church wrote
him for his terms to deliver the prln-
cina, lecture at the annual session.
to he held this week in Tyrone. HIS
nrice was so high it took the clergy
mans breath away. His fee was
lager than whole years salary OF
some OF the ministers. The commit
tee concluded to get less-expensiVe
attraction.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-03-27
BOOZE AT ALL HOURS.
The Williamson Authorities Report
The Express Agent.

The Express Agent.
The chief Of police Of Williamson
makes complaint to the governor
that the express companies at that
place are delivering liquor after Of
fce hours and on Sunday. This De,
ing interstate business 1t is no'
thought that the state authorities
can Interfere but it is believed thai
if the matter is called to the atten'
ton of the express people they vii
be disposed to conform to the law:
Of the state.
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13

the wood. No matter what your skill
and perseverance, you will not sue.
coed.
Now pass through the eye of the
needle a simple bit of thread, and
you will be successful in the feat
without the slightest difficulty The
little light "make-weight" that you
have added to your impromptu javelin
transforms 1t into a veritable arrow,
and causes the point, given the i'm
pulsion, to strike the object aimed az
and ito stick"
This result, from such small means,
will strike the spectators with aston
ishment, having first shown the i'm
possibility of aiming a naked needle,
and will elicit their compliments in
celebration of your wondrous SKILL
Magical Experiments.
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13
A Funny Game.

Have a sheet or screen so placed
that shadows may be cast upon IT,
Facing it have one of the players
sitting in such position that he can
see only the screen-not anything that
is going on behind him. This player
is called 'the Waterman" Now be
hind the Waterman, and at such a dis
lance that there is space for a person
to walk between the Waterman and
the light, place a candle.
The object of the game is for the
Waterman to guess from the shadows
cast who is passing behind him.
The players. going one by one, may
disguise themselves by limping, bow
ing the head or wearing a hat; but
generally the Waterman. If he is dis
corning, may detect the player by
some popularity For every one he
guessea correctly a forfeit must be
paid by the one dlscovered.-T
Waterman.
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13
FOR THE RAINY DAY.
Try Making Dogs Out of Bits of String
or Paper.

"Some very amusing dogs can be
made in the following way from pieces
of string or tissue paper. Take piece
of thin string, about nine inches in
length Chat which the grocer ties
round the packets of tea, and such
like is the BEST, and twist 1t up as
tight as possible by holding one end
between the teeth and the other end
with the fingers. Now double the
string, and 1t will be found that each
half will twist round the other, but
not so tight as it should be, so it
should be twisted again as much as
possible. The whole secret of the max
ing of a string dog really lies in the
twisting of the string before being
doubled, as explained above. II you
try and twist a piece of string when
doubled without having previously
twisted 1t up tightly you will find that
1t will come unwound again almost di-
rectly. When the string has been dou-
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JUST FOR FUN.
Wittcisms for the Willing Away Of
the Dull Hour.

Sweetness long drawn out-The mu.
sic of an accordion.
The man who digs bitches geti
spade well for his work.
A keg is like a sick animal, because
il is a little bear i'll.
A ship that has two mates and no
captain-Courtship.
The original fall style happened in
the Garden of Eden.
Jones calls his dog Hickory, be-
cause he has a rough bark.
Taking the cents of the meeting
passing around the hat.
All men are not homeless, but some
are home less than others.
A swallow may not make a summer,
but a frog makes a spring.
The letter ID is truly an old salt
been following the c for years.
The most wonderful fight on record
was when the chimney flue.
Billiards must be an easy game, for
it's mostly done on cushions.
Before states were used people mul.
tiplied on the face of the earth.
The best telephone bell-the hello
girl at the other end of the line.
A goose is an inoffensive fowl, and
yet everybody gets down on her.
A milk shake-When a cow is tossed
from the track by locomotive.
Spices are not as a rule noisy, but
you have all heard the gingersnaps.
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13
. 2eR1RERT 51uzWM 4cA0zzR

r HE prevalence Of divorces in the
United States is a reproach alike
to the country and to the church, is
the declaration of Dr. Robert Stuart
Macarthur. The American republic
has a most unenviable prominence in
! this regard. The detailed accounts Of
suits for divorce, as these suits are
pressed in the various courts, are dis
| gushing in the extreme. They bring
reproach alike upon American men
and women in all parts Of our country
These facts are admitted and at the
same time are sadly regretted by our
| best citizens and our most devoted
churchmen and churchwomen.
The causes for divorce are numer-
Gus. They are not limited in re-
sponsibility, either to men or to
women. 1t is not sufficient state
ment to say that the broader educa-
! ton of women and their emancipa-
ton from the greater subsection Of
| former years is the chief cause, as
Mrs. Anna Rogers says. The nen
and women who rush into the divorce
courts elicit our contempt for their
vulgarity and coarseness, not to use
even stronger terms. 1t is difficult so
to control ones moral indignation be-
cause of the vulgarity of these di.
vorce cases as to speak of them with
the restraint becoming a newspaper
article. How men and women can
stoop to charge abominable crimes
against each other in order to secure
divorces makes one ashamed of his
race. Idleness, lack of spiritual occu-
patton and suggestion, and vulgar con-
formity to low ideals in life-these
are causes largely responsible for the
prevalence of divorce. Hasty mar
riage is also somewhat responsible.
Many men and women rush into mar
riage with less serious thoughfulness
than they would show regarding any
ordinary business transaction. The
clergy also are somewhat responsible
by the haste with which they Of
ficiate at marriages without knowing
the facts in the case of those who de-
sire to enter into this relationship.
Marriage must be made more hon.
orable, it's obligations must be lifted
to higher level. In a single word,
the correction of the evils of divorce,
as in the case of all other evils, must,
in its finality, depend upon higher
spiritual ideals, nobler characters and
more religious conceptions of all the
duties and obligations n life in its
manifold relations. Uniform divorce
laws in the states would partially re-
move the evils of divorce. There is
no one specific cause-there is no one
specific cure. When men and women
realize their dignity and glory as the
children of God and heirs of eternity,
they will so order their lives that i'll
advised marriages will be rare, and
they will then so conduct themselves
In their married relations that di.
vorces will be practically unknown.
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THE reason for so many divorces is

THE reason for so many divorces is
that women do not spend enough
time studying the characteristics of
their intended husbands, according to
Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon Walling. 1t is
not caused by the fact that modern
machinery and inventions have taken
womans domestic work from her,
thus leaving her with lots of time on
her hands to flirt and get into mis-
chief. The athletic girl is all right. l
have nothing against her.
A young woman living in Nine
teenth street married a man she had
only known three months. One day,
in looking from her front window, she
saw him sitting in a back window of a
Twentieth street apartment, writing
letters and reading a newspaper COM
placently.
She asked him what he was doing
there. He replied he was visiting his
friend Johnson. Subsequently il de-
veloped that he had wife and family
there. Isn't this appalling?
The young woman came to me
heartbroken. What could l do? When
people understand that marriage is a
sacrament as the church knows it to
be there will be fewer divorces, and
to a large extent there will be no
marital unrest.
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13

WHAT we need is a doctrine OF
w marriage. There is no clear
cut doctrine of marriage. The church
is tied up to the ethics of 1000 years
ago, the oriental fantasies of Paul.
THE old idea of marriage was in
culcated and secured through two
fundamental inciples-reverence to
parents and the understanding that
marriage was to be permanent. These
principles are both imperiled,' is the
idea of DR.. Felix Adler.
"UndeT present conditions they are
no longer tenable, for the first was
founded on the idea that the child had
no rights except through its parents.
It's position was one of the sub
servience, of unquestioned obedience
to the parents, and as regards the per-
manence of the marriage tie, it was
chiefly bond that tied the woman to
the man. Her position was one Of
subordination.
To-day we admit that the child has
rights which we are bound to respect
and that the woman is the equal of
the man.
"One trouble with modern marriage
is that the masculine element pre-
dominates in the ceremonial. This
should not be so. The great trouble
is that people who marry nowadays
look in marriage only for happiness.
Happiness is not the end of marriage,
as most people think, but only an in
cident of married life. They are
bound to find many trials. They should
respect the etchical ideals; their great
responsibility is to future generations,
the good of the race!
Under the multiplication of di-
vorces in this country the issue is
whether the sensuous nature of the
marriage contract is to prevail or
whether the spiritual is to FREEDOM
mate. l believe in separation, but
never in divorce"
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13
The Working Diagram.

bled and twisted round in the proper
manner it appears as in Fig. l. The
next thing to be done is to pull the
string out as indicated in Fig. 2. (This
is best done by the aid of pin.) After
having pulled the string apart, as
shown in Fig. 2, the two pieces of
string pulled out land marked and p
should themselves be twisted round
tightly. 1t will be found that they have
an inclination to twist round without
aid The dogs head and ears have
now been made. Now commence to
pull out the string in a similar fash
ion as shown in Fig. 3, and twist
round again as before, and the fore
legs will be completed For making the
fore legs the string should be pulled
out where marked A in Fig. 2. The
hind legs and tail are now treated in
exactly the same manner as the fore
legs were made, only the string should
be pulled out where marked in Fig.
q When the hind legs are completed
the inch or so of string over repre-
sents the tail, and the dog is now
completed, as shown in Fig. 4. If the
tail is considered to be too long it
may be shortened with pair of scis-
sors. Now, to make the dogs out of
paper, only thin, strong tissue should
be used. The paper required should be
about nine inches in length and half
an inch in width. Twist the paper fair
ly tightly, as shown in Fig. 8, and
then twist it very tightly, as in Fig.
g. Now double it and twist again, and
deal with in the same manner as with
the string"
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13

rush Immediately and without second
thought to the divorce courts?
The reason. II just got tired OF Al
fred" or Margaret became such a
bore" has been given by more than
one person who has applied for d.
vorce. Looking In marriage for indi-
vidual happiness only. how could they
remember their duty TO the state?
Sociologists, writer's. doctors and
legalists on all hands are asking.
what is to be done? Should there
be a uniform divorce law that all the
different states will ratify? Should
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13

When the census bureau began its
investigation it had to leave out near.
ly 100000 cases which were pending,
and of the 1900 investigators, clerks.
etc, employed in the bureau in the
preparation of this report lao are still
at work getting it in its final and COM
plete shape.
France has only 70 divorce courts,
Germany only %, England only one,
and the United States has 1921 courts
empowered to grant divorces. These
facts alone are sufficient to give the
thinker pause and ask What is the
remedy?"
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13
"New Woman" Blamed.

Writers who defend the conven-
tional and domestic" type of woman
put all the blame on the new wom-
an" They say she has left her legiti-
mate sphere-the home-that she no
longer loves or inspires love, and that,
in defiance of all history and her own
apparent destiny, refuses" to consider
marriage and motherhood the object
of her existence.
They urge she has abandoned the
hearthstone to become a writer, an
artist, a playwright, an actress, a
teacher, or whatnot, and during the
period in which she has gained L er
rights" (the last 20 years. the mar
riage Institution has been assailed on
all sides.
is it the new woman's" fault?
The new woman" differs from her
sister in this respect at least-she
has no flattery for "the tyrant man.
She turns right around and places all
the blame for the marital unrest on
his shoulders.
MAN does not understand our COM
pick nature" she says, land while he
considers marriage as only one stage
of his own mental and spiritual devel-
opment, he insists that we shall con-
slider it the only excuse for our ex'
istence.
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Disappointed.

Dorothy. aged three. was to be
taken on her first long trip. relates
the Boston Herald. She seemed most
interested when told that she was on
a ferryboat. After a few moments
her mother noticed a look of disap-
pointment come over her little girls
face. Asking the reason, Dorothy
said:
Where are they, mother?"
"Who?" asked her mother.
why. mother, you told me this
was fairyboat, and I've looked and
looked and can't find single fairy"
sighed little Dorothy.
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13

into? Rev. DR.. Houghton, pastor OF
The Little Church Around the Cor
ner," now has the bans called, which
means that three weeks public notice
is given Of all intended marriages in
the church.
Do husbands and wives expect to
find in marriage only a continuation
of the romantic bliss of courtship?
And when they find each day there is
less ecstasy and more imperfections
discoverable in each other do they
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13
Other Reasons Given.

Or is it that young couples look at
marriage too childishly and do not see
the economic, sociological and political
sides of the family? Do they not
realize its integral relation to the
state?
Do they consider IL as a personal
thing, and does their dull sense of the
sociological aspect Of marriage dull
them to the sociological aspect of di-
vorce?
Or are marriages too lightly entered
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13
From Various Views.

The different churches have diff.
ferent beliefs concerning marriage,
the different states have different
laws governing it. and they are both
content to rest their case there!
Thus the greatest sociological prob
lem in the United States to-day is be-
ing tossed back and forth as If it
were some rubber ball, and yet
100000 divorces in 20 years are sure
to leave their influence on many lives
and many families.
Back in 174S Nine. de Chateauroux
said: Il see plainly that there will be
a general overthrow if no remedy is
used"
What she said about the political
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13

I AM a minister of the gospel. be
lieve in the Bible. 1t is regrettable
that there are so many different state
sorry for the children of all these di-
vorced people, says Rev. Phoebe A.
Hanaford.
No, it is not the fault Of the new
woman" There is no new woman"
A woman is a woman. There are good
women and bad women, but no new
women"
There are too many hasty mar
riages. This should be looked after.
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13
Mo Fun There.

An American who travelled in Arabia
for a year says that he did not see
one girl have a doll of any sort, nor
did he see one playing at keeping
house" Not boy played ball OF
marbles or any other game, but
walked around and tried tc look like
a man. When a sheik was spoken to
about II he replied:
you must be a queer people In
America to let your children get their
hands dirty by playing
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13
THE MAGIC JAVELIN.
Made from a Medium-Sized Sewing
Needle and Bit of Thread.

Take a medium-sized sewing needle
with a very sharp point (Which most
needles have). Take up a position
about three feet away from piece of
soft wood hung on door, and, hold
ing the needle between your finger
and thumb, endeavor, strongly launch.
ing it, to throw it, point forward, into
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13

M ARITAL unrest is neither an OF.
Nl spring of the new woman nor the
evil outgrowth of freer and juster d.
vorce laws, declares DIR. Clarke
Houghton. 1t is as old as the world.
To charge IT up TO the conscience of
the new woman" is neither fair mind
ed nor rational. The Old Testament
reeks with Il, and the biographers of
our great warriors, statesmen, poets
and prophets all the way down the
ages, from Earle or Gorky OF the pres
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13
Calls Contentious Unfair.

This is unfair" she continues.
1--WE are not to be classed with our
domestic sisters. We pity them but
we are not of them. We have aims,
aspirations and ambitions the same as
men. and to attempt to force us into
domesticity is to suffocate us. We
object TO being called undutiful help
meets because we are not submissive
to our husbands misconception and
misunderstanding of u.s."
But" the defenders OF the conven-
tional type of woman reply, you can
not accomplish anything great in lit
erature. science or religion, and you
never have produced works OF great
and universal genius. The most you
can do is to make your own bread and
butter. Your trivial creations in art
and literature can be spared. and II is
your intellectual discomfort and un'
rest that is spreading the divorce
germ. which threatens soon to dc
veIop into a divorce epidemic. Take
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
OF DIVORCES In THE
UNITED STATES
WHY?

the place assigned to you by nature,
be mans helpmeet and all will be
we'll"
Has higher education made woman
dissatisfied with the domestic sphere?
Or is it that the nigh tension of
modern everyday business life has
prevented the husband from giving
his wife the romantic attentions and
caresses demanded by her nature?
Modern Man Too Busy.
1t is not uncommon for the wives
of business men to spend summer in
Europe and winter in the south, and
many times they find in these places
the romantic companionship and at
tention their own husbands had not
time to give them at home.
Like birds in a gilded cage" they
were treated, their husbands sending
them packages of lace and bundles of
silks, and bringing them home hand
fuls of jewels, but if they ever sus-
pected their wives need OF romance
and tenderness they were unable to
supply it, because of the demands on
their time by their many business in
terests.
Or is It that the modern inventions
for picking, preserving, dyeing and
cleaning have left the twentieth cen
fury woman with vast leisure" on
her hands, and has her lack of domes-
tic occupations and cares made her
dissatisfied and hypercritlcal of her
busy and worried husband?
And does she brood over his cold
ness" all day because in his haste to
keep some business engagement he
hurries forth without the morning
kiss?
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13

ing il in front as
in Fig. /; put the
string in your
mouth at the point
where it crosses
itself. and holding
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13

it firmly between the teeth, an.
nounce your intention of removing it
from the neck by passing the rest Of
the string a second time over the
head.
To do this. first drop the cord from
both hands for a moment, and in TAX.
ing hold Of it again let your hands
exchange places, being careful to
have the string which is uppermost
where it crosses in your mouth re-
main uppermost, so that what appears
to be a second crossing of the string
will be really its increasing; now
throw the rest of the cord over your
head, and though you seem to be en-
circled by double cord, draw both
sides backward, as in Fig. 2, releasing
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13

preacher. when marrying couples. i'm
press upon them the sociological as
pect of their union, as well as the
spiritual and romantic?
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wonders.

string still tied together as in the be-
ginning, and ready for numberless more
wonders.
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13

IS still at work preparing the complete
and official report.
This is an increase of 100000 in
the last 20 years over the 20 proceed
ing years, and the appalling part of
1t is that two-thirds. or nearly 100000,
of these divorces have been granted,
says the New York Sunday Herald.
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13

condition of France then we may say
about the divorce situation in the
United States to-day.
The divorce congress two years ago
accomplished practically nothing, well
intentioned as it was. If federal legis-
lation is urged in the spring on the
strength of the detailed report of the
census bureau it will be challenged on
the ground of its being unconstitu-
tional.
The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13

the string from
your still closed
mouth in what
seems quite a
marvellous way.
You will find
yourself disentan
gled. and the