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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-05-19
RACING WITH DEATH.
Dying Miner Going From Bir1ning-
ham to Moscow.


Racing with death, which the ply
siclans have assured him is inevlta-
BILE, Alexas uaudent, g miner, is at
tempting with broken back, to
make the trip from Birmingham,
Ala. to Moscow, Russia. Parents Of
the young man reside in Moscow,
and 1t is due to an over-weenlng
desire to see them that he; has un-
dertaken the remarkable journey.
Landent was injured In an accident
in an Alabama mine several weeks
age, and reached Jersey City Thurs
day on his way to Russia. He will
rest in a hospital there for a tew
DAYS, and will then sail for home.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-05-19
HELD UP train
Six Murderous Bandits Cut En-
gine and Mall Car
FROM REST OF TRAIN
Take Them Several Miles Ahead,
Rifle the Mails of an Uncertain
Amount and Send Car and Engine
Back to Train on Wild Run, Hurt
ing Several Persons.

ing Several Persons.
Following the hold-up of Great
Northern passenger train by six
bandits between Colbert and Mead
Wash, Sunday night, twelve per-
sons were injured when the loco
motive and the mail car, cut on
from the rest of the train, were
run back wild by the bandits, after
they had rifed the mails of an un-
known amount, and collided with
the rest of the train.
The conductor saw the wild cars
coming back at 25 miles an hour.
He and another trainman placed a
lie on the track, but the cars, though
partly stopped, plunged into the
coaches, throwing passengers from
their seats, cutting them with broken
glass. A trainman sprang aboard
he locomotive as the collision oc-
urred, and shut off the steam, stop
ping the havoc.
Whsn the train reached Colbert
ate in the night, while the crew was
busy with some switching, two men
sprang into the cab and thrusting
revolvers against the breast of the
engineer and fireman, ordered them
to do as commanded. The engineer
and fireman complied, and the mail
cars were cut of from the rest of
the train by four other robbers. The
locomotive and mail car then ran
up the track a few miles. Then the
engineer and his fireman were forced
10 leave the cab. Two of the rob-
bers went to the door of the mail
:ar and ordered it opened. Their
command was obeyed by Benjamin
F. Stumps, mail clerk, who was hur-
ried away from the cars with the
engineman by dozen revolver shots.
Manning the locomotive themselves,
the outlaws took the mail cars down
the tracks and looted the registered
mail. Then they started the loco
motive back toward the rest of the
train and escaped.
Conductor G. L. Robertson cut in
a telegraph wire to send word to
Spokane. While he was telegraphing
about a half-hour after the loeomo-
tive and the mail car had disap-
oeared, he saw the powerful loco
motive careening towards the coach
es in which many were asleep.
Many of the passengers knew moth
ing of the hold-up until awakened by
the collision.
AS soon as Conductor Robertson
realized that collision was imminent
he called on the brakemen and por-
ters to aid him. While the conduc-
tor and another brakeman stood
ready to board the cab as soon as the
shock of the collision checked the
impetus Of the wild locomotive.
None of the passengers was fatally
hurt.
Two special train-loads of depu-
ties and doctors were brought from
Spokane. No trace Of the robbers
was found.
While is is reported that the ban
dts obtained as much as $4,000,
railroad officials and mail inspectors
sa the amount is not known. One
of the bandits who entered the cab
was more than six feet tall, and evi-
dently an experienced engineer. AS
the two robbers entered the cab this
man said to the engineer:
"You have heard of us before"
indicating that they had been in
vclved in similar hold-ups.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-05-19
Ends His Life.

A physical breakdown due, it Is
believed, to overwork, while employ
ed as clerk at the White House,
caused Thomas H. Netherlald to
commit suicide by shooting.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-05-19
DIED OF HYDRAPHoBIA.
This Case Did Not Respond to the
Pasteur Treatment.


P. D. Dial died from the effects
of hydropnobia Monday night at HE
residence, SO Fortress avenue, in At
lanta. In February Mr. Dial arose
from his bed one night to go out
and stop the barking of some dogs
in the neighborhood and while do
ing so was bitten by large bulldog.
For the next 81 days he took treat
ment regularly at the Pasteur lnstl-
tute. He never ceased from his work
as foreman OF the repair shops Of
the Georgia Car Company and was
not forced to take his bed until
last Tuesday night. The physicians
then summoned pronounced the dis
ease hydrophobia. although Drs.
Browner and Harris of the Pasteur
Institute are of a different opinion.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-05-19
Killed in Auto Accident.

:; Near Salina, Kansas, A. ?. Riddle,
former Lieutenant Governor OF Kan
sas, was killed Thursday iu an auto
mobile accident.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
CENSORSHIP

T NGLISH censorship has been sup
n pressing plays so lavishly that
IL Bernard Shaw, one of the best
known victims of official suppression,
has uttered a roar Of protest. This is
Of singular interest to the public of
the United States, inasmuch as enter
prising American managers, avid for
sensation and new effects, are certain
to import the dramas that have been
tagged naughty or improper" A
special correspondent of Los Angeles
Herald in London writes the prohibi-
tion of Bernard Shaw's Showing Up
of Blanco Posnet' will certainly
strengthen the hands of those who
have been conducting the agitation for
the removal of the censorship.
In list of the plays which the En-
glish censor deems unfit for presenta-
ton before English audiences are
Maeterlinck's "Monna Wanna
Brieuxs 'Maternite," and Les Trois
Files de Nj, Dupont" Shaw's Mrs.
Warrens Profession" Granville Bar
kers Waste" Ibsen's Ghosts" Hous-
mans bethlehem" Garnett's 1.-THE
Breaking Point" Samson and Dalila, .
1.-The Mlkado" and buriesque of IAN
Englishman's Home"
1t is understood the japanese gov
ernment was responsible for the sup
preston of 1.-THE Mikado" and touchy
patriotism could not endure bur-
leque of "An Englishman's Home" a
play that has proved to be kind of
Marseillaise of the English drama.
Beyond prudery or pseudo-prudery,
the reasons for the application of the
poison label to the other blacklisted
works is not obvious especially as
the censor has permitted the public to
witness the following moral and ele-
waiting plays ''The Giddy Goats, y
"The Cuckoo" 1.-The Spring Chicken .
1.-THE Conquerors, fThe Girl from
Maxim's," IL Education du Prince, -
"Divorcons," LIE Marquis de Priole,
Dear Old Charlie and 1.-The Devil. .
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
GREATER LOS ANGELES

A VOTE for consolidation will be
IN vote for a city with it's future we'll
"A provided for. The demands OF
trade, the new conditions created by
the opening of the Orient and the
growth and prosperity of Australia and
New Zealand make change in condi-
tions necessary. The outlook of Los
Angeles is world wide. Its interests are
world wide. Its standards are not pro-
vincial standards. It's methods of re-
garding problems and of dealing with
them are aggressively metropolitan.
This metropolitan aggressiveness is
being applied to the problem of includ-
ing the natural harbor of Los Angeles
within it's political area by consoida-
ton of Los Angeles and the harbor
cities into a united municipality which
will be known as Greater Los Angeles
and the formation of Greater Los An
geles is the next logical step in the
history of the city. THERE'S every in
dication the time is ripe for consolida-
ton. The psychical moment has ar
rived when all the metropolitan inter-
ests must be united and all the metro
politan communities must cooperate In
the endeavor to make Los Angeles the
chief city of California and the metrop-
oils of the west.
As soon as consolidation is accom-
plished. the great city reconstructed
upon larger lines, with a scope of actiV-
ity which is in accordance with its long
visioned plans and purposes, will begin
to grow at a rate surprising any in its
record. Capital seeking investment will
be attracted by the possibilities OF Pa
cific industrialism and the certainty of
an incalcuIable increase of export trade
as we'll as import with the opening of
the Panama canal.
Goods made in California" are des-
tined to become known in every market
in the world, and with San Pedro, the
harbor of Greater Los Angeles, and the
completed Panama canal just as surely
as these lines are written and read the
day will come when California wines
will compete in France, Germany, Italy
and Spain with the wines of France,
Germany, Italy and Spain; and what
is more, if these countries should per-
sist in their present method of vending
their product by the vineyard to veal
thy patrons, leaving only the inferior
grades for domestic consumption, Cali
fornia wines will drive the domestic
wines of Europe out of the market.
And for every other industry Califor-
MIA will find or make markets. When
the railroad penalty is removed from
freight, and Southern California is at
liberty to compete with the other states
of the Union and with the world at
large without paying fine to a corpo-
ration, the Industrial and commercial
prosperity of this state will be increased
to an extent that, in combination with
its unequaled mineral wealth, win make
if the richest and most prosperous state
in the Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
THE REAL ROCKEFELLER

John D. ROCKEFELLER of "Ran-
dom "reminiscences" is a revela-
- ton. His book seems to have
been written ingenuously; and perhaps
the oil magnate is not aware he has
pleased the Socialists of the United
States immensely by advocating bust
ness as well as political union In order
to produce 'the greatest good for the
greatest number" Mr.. Rockefeller
maintains the only remedy for hard
times is to stop overproduction. All
overproduction, he argues, is waste
not only waste of money and material
but of human thought and energy,
which if economically employed never
would be used for the purpose of add
ing to the stock of goods with which
the world is already oversupplied.
Mr.. Rockefeller says he saw that in
order to put the industry in which he
is interested on a successful economic
basis it was necessary to eliminate
waste by eliminating overproduction.
1T is with this idea," he writes,
that we proceeded to buy the largest
and best refining concerns and CEN
tralize the administration of them with
view to securing greater economy
and efficiency"
Mr., Rockefeller says the days of the
competitive system are numbered and
we might as well make up our minds
to it, What is to take the place of
competition? Economic combination
and cooperation" Mr.. Rockefeller, of
course, would not use the word so
cialism." His excellent periphrasis,
however, will fill with joy the hearts
of advocates of cooperation, who rec
ognize in Mr.. Rockefeller not only a
friend and ally but a powerful advo-
cate.
Mr.. Rockefeller declares: "a business
philosopher would be most careful to
avoid in his investments of time, ef-
fort and money unnecessary duplica-
ton of existing industries He would
regard all money spent in increasing
needless competition as wasted or
worse. The man who puts up a second
factory when the factory in existence
will supply the national demand ade-
quately and cheaply is wasting the ma
tional wealth and destroying the ma
tional prosperity, taking the bread
from the laborer and unnecessarily in
Producing heartache, and misery into
the world. Probably the greatest sin
gle obstacle to the progress and hap
piness of the American people lies in
the willingness of so many men to in
vest their time and money in multiply
ing competitive industries instead of
opening up new fields and putting their
money into lines of industry and de-
yelopment that are needed
What is the difference, excepting in
name. between a business philosoph-
er" of the type indicated by Mr.. Rock
efeller and political philosopher of
the type called SOCIALISM" Extremes
meet. Have our captains of Industry
and great business organizers rounded
big circle and swept on a connecting
arc into Socialism,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
LIBERTY

<kVT f SHALL know the truth and
the truth shall make you
IL FREE" said Jesus. He knew
that ignorance of all kinds is slavery.
Whenever a human being makes new
discovery for the good of the race the
listening ear may hear the clash and
clank of chains dropping into the abyss
of time. Whenever a human being gets
an inkling of truth for himself his fet-
ters are loosed.
In the twentieth century it is hard
for us to imagine or realize the bond
age of our forefathers long ago, afraid
to sail far out on the sea for fear they
would reach the end of the world and
drop off; afraid to conduct chemical
experiments because they associated
them with incantations and pacts with
the devil; afraid to travel because Of
wild beasts or thieves; afraid to stay
at home because of pestilence and
assassination. Think of the agonized
FORCE behind the old. old prayer,
"From plague, pestilence and famine,
from battle. murder and sudden death,
GOOD LORD, DELIVER US!"
Fear inspired prayers, and children
were told to FEAR God. Fear was
everywhere-in heaven above, on the
earth beneath and in the waters under
the earth. In heaven reigned a punitive
Deity, ready to execute vengeance and
to repay wrongdoing. On earth were
dangers of wild beasts or of wilder
men. In the waters under the earth
lurked fear-limned shapes, the imag
lining of which in the mirk of the
moon drove strong men crazy.
Every kind of fear which terrified
our poor forefathers was the result of
ignorance.
1.-The unknown God. whom ignorantly
ye worship. him declare 1 unto you"
said Paul, and in more modern times
men began to preach the fatherhood of
the unknown Cod" and to make him
known as a God of Love and not of
Dread, of mercy and not of punish
ment. When religious and supersti-
tious fears began to cease from troub-
ling humanity other fears began to
disappear. ManlSnds wonder-history
of modern achievement dates back to
the dawn of light after the dark ages;
to the revival Of literature learning ana
art, to the banishment of the fear of
unknown monsters. When unknown
monsters and unnatural perils We're no
longer feared, earth's most formidable
creatures and the dangers of the deep
and beyond also lost their terrors. The
world began to be active. Explorers
found new lands. Astronomers found
new stars. New discoveries were made
in every department of the material
world; and gradually mankind began
to awaken to consciousness of the nat
ural law in the spiritual world, and the
spiritual law in the natural world.
In the realm of physics, dynamics
and economics the natural law is be-
ing discovered and expounded and is
conquerlng and to conquer. In the
realm of ethics, morality. politics. do
mesticity, government, the spiritual
law is being discerned and is conquer
ing and to conquer. and that is why,
with all the increasing complexities Of
civilization and all the new perplexing
paths of life, the world is growing bet
ter and better. We are beginning to
know more and more and more of the
TRUTH, and the TRUTH is emancipa-
ton; the TRUTH is making us free.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Ow, Tommy, amt you card the news
That mykes my faint cart 'op?
'Ow hall the powers is i'll ruse
To clean the bloomin shop?
The ruse is this, they'll fill the plyce
With soldiers in disguise.
In all the streets they'll swarm like mice;
Ow, .blawst their bloomin eyes.
THEY'LL tyke lush with you and me
They'll treat us till we swim
THEY'LL tell us 'ow they'd love to see
Lie ike one grand sweet 'ymn.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
PLAY TIME

nR. ROBERT ]. BURDETTE is to
be congratulated on his choice of
Sunday morning sermon topic.
The subject, playing on the Streets
in its relation to the subject of public
Fairgrounds, is one of vital interest
and Importance to this community.
Dr. Burdette realizes the American
educ-t tion of the future must be an all
around education, not so many hours
school drill and study and so many
hours in which, owing to lack Of fa-
cilities leading to a better fate, the
student is invited to undo the good
that has been done in school and to go
to the dickens
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Leslie r. Hewitt, in his admirable
address to the City club yesterday on
the question of the hour, said every
consideration makes 1t a solemn duty
consolidation, and voters should make
the judgment of the city emphatic.
Mr.. Hewitt is right. Let all who are
interested in Greater Los Angeles do
all they can to make certain that big
vote will be cast.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

CIAIRO, Egypt.-It is estimated ina.
1 about 5000 of the visitors to Egypt
" each winter are persons seeking
,,oa1th mr. Measure beneath sunny SKIES
Tbe climate is credited with vast pos
sihilities in the matter of the restora-
tion of health. Possibly not enough
credit is given to the European OF
American physician whom the inVallu
brings with him in many instances, or
TO the Occidental practitioner estab-
Iished in Cairo. Until recently at any
rate, foreign doctors had to depend en-
tirely upon foreign practice. The ma
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
Far and Wide
Should Be Thankful

Considering the s1.sOOOOO cash payment
by the Waters-Pierce oil company, the
Standard OIL people should thank their
lucky stars that they had to deal with
of Texas in that s29OOQ00O affair.-Port-
land Telegram.
g
Not Surprising
Senator Guggenheim of the lead trust
family was not among the Republican SEN
ators who broke away yesterday and voted
for reduction of the Aldrieh duties on pig
sensational news.-Springfield Republican.
-s+-
The Tariff
Expecting to get something they know
they won't get" is the way Governor john
son characterizes public attitude toward the
polntment. he might have ladded.-Louis-
Vile Courier Journal,
Backward
The Young Turks are not yet progress
sive, however, as to do their hanging inside
the walls of prison-omaha World
Herald
Build Now
NSw is the time to begin building add-
tions to the Smithsonian insttution.--ch
ToIstoy
Tolstoy took his reproof like a gentleman
and philosopher. without resorting to any
gargoyle Observation-Disclosures Star.
Had To
1t l. significant fact, too. that H. II.
Rogers left behind him all the money he
had made.--Portland Telegram.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

A man who is visiting Los Angeles
emotions in the exclamation, GREAT
SCOTT" In view of the evidences of
unparalleled progress and prosperity
which have thus compressed his vo-
cabulary of admiring amazement he is
certain Los Angeles will have reached
the half-million mark in population ere
five years have come and gone.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
AT THE THEATERs

AUDITORIUM-Dark.
MASON-Marie DOrO in 'Ihe Morals of
Marcus"
BELAsCO-Riehsrd Bennett in THE Lion
and the Mouse"
BURBANK-"A Milk White Flag.
GRAND-"NO Mother to Guide Her"
MAJESTIC-Kolb and Dill In Lonesome
Town"
ORPHEUM-Naudeviile.
Los ANGELES-Vaudeville.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
EAIPIRE-Naudeville.
UNIQUE-Vaudeville and comedy, THE
MasqueFaders."
FTSCHERS-Musical comedy.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

A big new consignment of cars is on
the way to Los Angeles. Perhaps the
time will come when Los Angeles,
which already is one of the greatest
street railroad centers of the North
American continent, will build all its
own cars and send consignments to
other cities.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Chicago proposes to try an interest
ing educational experiment by substi-
tuting lesson leaflets for text books. Tt
is claimed the leaflets viii always he
down to date and the information they
contain always accurate, which is more
than can be said of some of the text
books. which often are out of date and
ready to be Lummised and labeled long
before they are dog scared.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Rev. U. G. B. Pierce, who for three
years was pastor of the First Unitarian
church of POMONA, may be appointed
chaplain of the United States senate.
California will be honored by having
a representative in such an important
position, and the honor is increased by
the fact the former Californian has
been found worthy to succeed man of
the name and fame of Dr. Hale.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

[ l We II : y y q -
would have none of
his medicine, pre-
ferring to pin his
faith to remedies in
use when the pyra-
mids We're building
rather than trust to
discoveries of the
infidel and out
lander.
u II TIL recently
village BARRIERS and
old women consti-
tuted the medical
advisers of the ma
tives. Mohamme-
dams cured their
ailments by texts
from the Koran,
and Copts doctored
themselves by APP
plying e xc e rp t s
from the Psalms or
gospels. An oper-
alton warranted to
cure all but fatal
diseases consisted
in drinking Nile
y
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Matthias Blumer, a murderer sent to
San Quentin twenty years ago to serve
a life sentence, has fallen heir to an
estate in Germany and has been pa
rolled. And now all the other ''lifers"
are praying long lost relatives in for
eign climes may die and remember
them generously in their wills.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
The English War-Scare

But wen it comes to dark o night
They'll toll parsin' BELL
They'll cut our throwts-Im blew with fright
An raise exceeding ell!
Ow Tommy, cawn't we gov an ide
Hunti the storm is DER?
Fain on hearoplyne Id glide
Far from me nytive Shore
For sure as anythink as is
Our earthly ryce is ruin
No use attendin' now to biz,
Old Henglands dyes is done! D. G. B.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
The State Press
Syndicates 8

For many years syndicates have been in
operation grinding out sermons for minis
ters of the gospel who have so many other
duties to perform that they have no time to
prepare their weekly talks to their congre
cations, and there those who will write
"a fairly creditable campaign speech for the
aspiring politician, and editorials for the
overworked editor. In short money will
buy about anything you want ready-made,
whether it be sermons. prize essays, editor
ials or campaign speeches-Salnas Dem
Ocrat
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
Preposterous aProtectlonD

The promoters of the tea industry, for
instance, would fost upon the people an ex-
orbitant price without being able to supply
one -hftieth of the demand and without
even the excuse of desiring to protect It's
labor which is probably colored and low
paid. OF course congress will reject the
proposal as ridiculous, or perhaps record 1t
as one of the real jokes of the season. San
Jose Mercury.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

After lively debate that lasted for
several hours Mr.. Heney, who had ap-
pealed to the court for permission to
tell the name of the man who was
the boss of San Francisco during the
administration of Mayor schmitz was
denied the privilege. Common sense
suggests, however that the jurymen
are not ignorant OF the fact.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13
Evil Cause Thrlves

Visalia is growing. and occasionally there
is found poverty Some of it would be
permanent -but for the kind and finding
hand of the Salvation Army. 1t is the
same old story-those who live in the light
cannot see those who dwell in the darkness.
We shudder that such things are allowed to
exist. hut the cause that gives life to the
condition thrives on. But 1t is life.-Vsalia
Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

This is the month of graduates and
of brides Many young men and wom-
en- will go out into active life. And
many young men and young women
win join the noble army of American
home builders.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

Good roads will help Los Angeles and
Southern California to fight their battle
for fair play in railroad rates. With
good roads and auto. vehicles this great
agricultural and industrial territory
will not be at the mercy of rate-mak-
ing railroad barons..