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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
ANOTHER WHITE SLAVE.
Women Accused of Leading Young
Girl Astray.

A Knoxville dispatch to The State
says that four women were arrested
there on Friday charged with decoy-
ing Efie Hydrick of Spartanburg, ag-
ed about 1S years, into house OF
i'll fame. The four women arrested
are Nellie Gray Pearl Minnick and
Hattie Wilson Of Asheviile and Pearl
Mayness Of Knoxville. They arrived
in Knoxville Thursday night with the
Hydrick girl and took her to the
house of Pauline Jones, house of
i'll repute, there they were found by
officers Friday. The Hydrick girl
said she went to Asheville to visit
Nellie Gray, and stopped at hotel
there. One night, she said, a carri-
age came for her and she was told
that the Gray woman had sent for
her. She was driven to house Of
i'll fame and kept there until brought
to Knoxville. The women will be ar
raEgned before the United States
commissioner at Knoxville.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
Dead in Woods,

At Lakewood, n. j., Mrs. Charles
Turner pretty brunette of middle
age, was found murdered in the
woods behind a studio building on
Fulton street, Friday afternoon. The
woman's face had been beaten in by
a big club, which lay nearby, stain
ed with blood. The body was found
by Arnold Turner, nephew, who
was searching for his aunt. who had
been missing since wednesday, when
she left her home to deliver some
dresses to women inmates Of local
sanitariun1.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
OUTLOOK FOR COTTON
MILLION BALES RE-
QJIRED TO CLOTHE
All the People Of the World Whcn
They Become Civilized and Wear

Clothes.
s'To clothe the whole Of humanity
would require 100000 bales Of
cotton each year." This statemert
was made by President Hobbs Of the
National Association Of Cotton Man
ufacturers, at its recent annual meet
ing in Boston. Mr.. Hobbs said that,
of the 1900, 100000 inhabitants of
the world only 5O0,OO0,0O0 are COM
pletely clothed, while 750,000,000
are only partially clothed and ESQ.,
100000 are practically not clothed
at all.
AS civilization advance, the proper
ton Of the partially clothed and the
unclothed will decrease, and this
with the increase Of the popula-
ton in civilized countries, will call
for an increased supply, of cotton.
The cotton belt of the United States
now furnishes fully two-thirds Of the
world supply of cotton, and, as the
demand increases will be be called
upon greatly to increase its annual
production.
In speaking Of the cotton situation
President Hobbs says: From the
present acreage the production could
be doubled if proper methods were
used" There must be improved
methods of cultivation, better
method Of pcking general i'm
provement in every step and process
between the planting of the seed and
the delivery Of the cotton to the
mill" 1--WE have drifted too long"
he said, and "the time is now ripe
for concerted and determined action
il we are to maintain our command
ing position"
While the rest Of the world is
"actively trying to find means to in
crease the production of cotton" we
Continue in the old ways Of produc-
ing and handling" and little I'm
provement has been made in many
years. It is estimated that only
about one-third Of the available area
| is cultivated, and if scientific know
ledge were applied to natural con-
ditions of soil and climate, 1--WE can
well raise 50,000,000 bales" Of cot
ton a year and elothe all mankind.
It is clear understanding Of this
condition that has led the Southern
Railway company to organize a Cot
ton Culture Department to work in
cooperation with the United States
agricultural department and the agri-
cultural authorities of the Southern
states, to keep the cotton production
of the South abreast Of the demand
| by bringing about the daption Of
those cultural methods which will re-
suit in larger average yields per acre,
thus increasing the proftableness of
cotton growing and leaving surplus
lands to be devoted to other crops
and the growing of live stock.
It is clearly more profitable to a
farmer to produce fifty bales OF cot
ton or fifty acres than to produce
the same amount on one hundred
acres, for he will receive the same
amount for his cotton and will nave
fifty acres for other uses. Under
ordinary circumstances, every in
crease yield Of cotton per acre re-
duces the cost of production per
pound and yields the farmer larg-
er margin Of profit between the cost
Of growing his crop and the selling
price.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
MINERS KILLED
Explosion in Coal Nine Brings DEATH to
Underground Workers
TWENTY THREE In Mine

Disaster Occurs at Elk Garden, w.
Va, and Cause so Far Cnascer-
tained.-Rescuers Begin Work at
Once with no Hope Of Finding Any
Of the Victims Alive.
At Elk Garden, W. Va, twenty
three miners are entombed in OFT
mine, No. 20, Of the Davis Coal and
Coke Company, as the result Of
of debris that has thus far deferred
the progress of the reseeuers. 1t can
not be learned yet whether the exp1o-
sion was caused by dust or gas. Of
fcials of the company say they have
never known their mines to he gas
eous.
AS soon as the accident became
known, Superintendent Robert Grant
organized rescue corps of the min
ers off duty, and these attempted to
enter the mine after notifying the Of
fcials of the coal company at Cum
berland, Md.
The rescue parties had not advanc-
ed for into the workings before they
discovered it would take several days
to dig through the heaps of roof coal
and slate that had been Ioosened by
the explosion. 1t was then decided
to effect an entrance nearer the prob
ably point Of the explosion by cutting
through the wall of an adjoining
mine owned by the same company.
Late Manday afternoon the rescu-
ers had penetrated to No. 20 mine,
at point about 1000 form the out
side entry. They still remained about
the same distance to go before reach
ing the miners. The OFT mine, No.
go, is almost directly under the town
of Elk Garden. which is on a hill.
The mouth Of the mine is about half
mile from the town.
In striking contrast to the usual
mine explosions, the victims in this
case, with one exception are Ameri-
cans. The mine, usually employs
200 men on the day shift, and about
the same number at night. A tenn
porary suspension Of work, however,
required fewer men in the mines,
else the casualties might have been
greater.
After penetrating about mile
down the main entry, the rescuers
found the body of man not yet
! identified. Il was crushed beneath
a fall of slate, as though the roof
had crumbled as he was running
out Of the mine. The discovery OF
this body leads the rescue party to
believe that none of the others are
alive.
Several yards beyond, the passage
was completely blocked by the col
lapse of the roof. Behind and under
this fall, it is believed, the bodies
Of the miners lay. Havoc which
was wrought in the mine would indi-
cate that the explosion was terrific.
For a square mile or more the slate
and coal was slit and props were
splintered, letting the roof fall in
large portions.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
caesar HEAD" TURNED.
Famous Peak of Blue Ridge Suf.
fers from Earthquake.

a dispatch from Asheville, \. c.,
says belated reports from the noun
tain section of Pennsylvania County
state that Caesars Head" a famous
peak of the Blue Ridge, about twenty
miles from Brevard, had been over
turned by the earthquake shocks
which is said to have been felt in
various sections of Western North
Carolina Friday night. Caesar S
Head" has been one of the show
places of Western North Carolina
since this country was first developed,
and it would be greatly missed by
visitors if the earthquake has really
destroyed it.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
Fifteen Drowned.

The steamer Charles Pzat. operat-
ing between Manila and Corresigor.
foundered in a typhoon Sunday. It
is estimated that fifteen persons were
drowned. Fishermen rescued
of the crew and passengers.
One American is missing
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
Cause Of Disaster.

That the death of twenty-three
men was caused by blow out shot
fred by James Pritchard or his son,
was the finding of the coroner's jury
at the inquest into Mondays explo-
sion in OFT Mine OF the Davis coal
and coke company. W. Va. Both
Pritchard and his son were among the
victims.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
ONLY YES" AND "NO."
Saws That Her Husband VIII Not
Talk to Her.

After four years Mrs. Caroline E.
Schmidt, tired of hearing Louis
Schmidt, treasurer of the Blanke-
Wenneker Candy Co., of St. Louis,
Mo-, answer her only in yes" and
no and giving his taciturnity as
cause, has sued to divorce him. Mr.
and Mrs. Schmidt were married 80
years a?o and separated last Octo-
Der. They have three sons and three
daughters. Sometimes Schmidt, has
wife said, would not even speak at all
for periods of ten days and during
the four years he never said word
but yes" and mo-"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
i EiftH.Cent Word.

! little boy had got into the habit
of saying Darn" of which his moth
er naturally did not approve.
Dear" she said to the little boy,
s'here is ten cents: it is yours If you
promise me not to say Darn again.
All right, mother" he said, as he
took the money. II promise.
AS he lovingly fingered the money
a hopeful look came into his eyes,
and he said: Say. mother, | know
a word that's worth fifty cents.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
Offered Him a Bribe.

Out of Tennessee's political legis-
lative deadlock Friday afternoon
came a development bordering on the
sensational by the publication OF a
dispatch from Birmingham. Ala, de-
claring that bribe Of $500 had
been offered to Representative J. e.
Mcdonald of Overton county, Tenn,
to bind himself to vote with the So
called regulars" Democrats on all
questions coming before the leSlsta-
ture
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
Made a Baby Drunk.

Because Mrs. Peter Hobak refused
to take a drink of hard cider with
him, John Bostich. OF Greenwich,
Conn, took her four-year-old daugh-
ter to his home and got her drunk
with cider. He was arrested and held
for Superior court under 5000. y
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
When Man May Slap Wife.

A man is justified in slapping his
wife for going through his pockets,
is the opinion of Justice NJ. c. Lee'
of the Superior Court, Of New Jer-
sey. Judge Lee made this ruling IN
2 divorce suit brought by Elizabeth
England against her husband, John
E. England.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
Dragged !fy Train.

Tuesday night NJ. S. H. George.
of Augusta. was painfully injured at
iNIIontmorenci by falling from train.
While his injuries gre very painful
they are not thought 10 be of a
serious nature. His body was drag
ged for some distance.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
Brings Big Price.

The first book ever printed from
movable type Monday night brought
the highest price ever paid for any
book. The prize was the "Gutten-
berg Bible,' the purchaser Henry E.
Huntington, of Los Angeles, and the
price was s50,000.' 1t was sold in
New York at the Hoe library sale.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
Wants Everybody pardoned.

Following the unusual number of
pardons, paroles and combinations,
the governor of South Carolina has
received a letter, written in an un.
educated tone asking that he pardon
all of the convicts in the State penl-
tentiary next Thanksgiving Day. The
letter has been taken under ccnsld-
edation by the chief executirc. Over
100 prisoners have been liberated by
the present governor in three
months.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
Kills Self in Old Hole.

Frank Reeser. aged 60 years,
committed suicide this week in the
cid swimming hole near York. Pa,
where he swan when youth. For
several months he complained Of
having an irresistible desire to die.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
SOUTHERN YOUTH NEGLECTED.
While the Heather Children Age Be-
ing Looked After.


Americans are doing more for the
children of Guam and the PHILIPPINE
Islands than for those in the South
ern mountain districts Of this coun-
try. declared Miss Martha S. Gielow
of Washington, D. c., representing
the Southern Industrial Educational
association, at the International Con-
Zress of Child Welfare in that city
on Friday. She said children in the
Southern mountains often were COM
pelled to walk seven miles to school.
More than 100000 American chill
dren. she said, were being brought
up without educational facilities OF
any sort.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
HARD BATTLE WITH PIRATES.
Chinese Bandits Captured Steamship
After Long Struggle.

A long battle with pirates follow
ed the wreck near Shanghai, China,
the week of the steamship Asia,
bound from Honk Kong for San
Francisco. Warships will probably
be sent to dislodge the pirates, who
finally captured the ship after the
764 passengers had been rescued
The vessel carries cargo valued at
100000, made up chiefly OF silk.
The ship is a total loss.
For hours the officers and crew OF
the Asia. with rifles, shotguns and
revolvers, and finally with rude clubs
and winches, fought off the pirates,
who swarmed up her sides with the
hope of looting her valuable cargo.
A. E. Cozen, engineer of the Asia,
and r. Arundel, water tender, were
captured by the pirates, but after
ward were ransomed for $500. =
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
REPAYS DEBT TO PETE"
Son of Former Slave Hero Acquitted
of Murder.

At New York James W. Osborne,
former assistant district attorney,
whose life was saved by "Pete.
slave in his fathers family in Char
lotte, n. c.. when he was boy, re-
paid the debt Monday afternoon by
winning for ''Pete's' son verdict of
acquittal on murder charge. The
Jury was out less than fifteen min
utas, following an earnest plea OF
Mr.. Osborne. The defendant was
Edward Osborne, pete" having
adopted the name Of his former mas
ter. who was charged with killing
another negro during quarrel. He
pleaded self-defence.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
Five To Hang.

At Oklahoma City five negroes
were sentenced to hang from the
same scaffold on June p, for the
muredr Of W. H. Archie, who was
robbed and killed March 9.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03

The Lumber Trust buncoes the
consumers Of lumber out Of Sos,-
100000 per year, and not s5,000,o0o
as we stated a few days ago.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-03
AGREE ON PEACE
England and United States Will Arbitra1e
All Differences.
ADVOCATES OF PEACE

Most Significant Meeting Held in the
Venerable Guild Hall in London.
Resolutions Adopted plcdging
Support to Complete Anglo-Amer-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-27
MISPLACED CRITICISM.
,ditor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In view Of the attack on the pres
ent Commissioner Of Immigration, fe seems
opportune 10 suggest that the same source
seems to want a continuous performance
of appointments OF both federal and city
commissioners.
Charges, innuendoes and mud singing
are becoming so chronically common tnat
ones faith I'm the freedom of speech ana
the press is somewhat shaken The stat
ing Of only a part Of the truth IS often
where by design, worse than lie. So, too
Is attacking the Commissioner for the la"
and Congress Legitimate criticism might
we'll be levelled az Congress for not haV-
ing responded 70 repeated requests for
more adequate facilities at ellis Island
and for better salaried officials. inspectors,
doctors, attendants and the like
Yet that such inadequacv should be
charged up as inhumanity and the enforce
rnent Of the law should be pictured as
brutality" on the part Of a Commissioners
who has eliminated fraud from the COM
missarv. exposed fake" charity agents
end put the whole administration and con-
duct of affairs at Ellis Island. as Williams
has done. on a basis Of honesty, humanity
and merit. merely reveals the need OF a
careful discrimination on the part of the
public az to where license begins and free
dom of speech and the press ends.
]. X. MOORE.
Nav York Nav "a 1911
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-27
WALSH WON'T ASK PAROLE NOW
Morse's Friends Hopeful That Next
Plea Will Be Granted.

Washington, May 2s-The federal prison
parole board. which will meet in Leaven-
worth penitentiary next week, will not
consider the case of John r. Walsh. the
convicted banker whom President Taft re-
fused to pardon. There is still an in
dictment against Walsh, which prevents his
application for parole Otherwise he might
be released in September II the indict-
ment is quashed. Walsh might be released
after the board has meeting in the fall.
Friends Of Charles w. Morse point our
that President Taft in refusing 10 pardon
the banker gave leave for him TO RENEW
his application after January I. 1919. The
hest Morse's friends hoped for was that
President Taft might commute his fifteen
year sentence TO five years with the usual
allowance for good behavior This vou,o
reduce Morse's sentence 70 three wears and
eight months His friends say that ~
Morse successfully renews his plea FOR
communication after January I. 1918. he wiz
be released from the Atlanta penitentiarv
as quickly as II President Taft had rr5n;,
ed MS application last Wednesday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-27
TOWING Up IN THE P4RhS.

Commissioner Fosdick's inquiry INTO
the conditions Of the Park Department
in this borough and the reorganization
that Is resulting from 1t are wholesome
thing. Those who have passed through
Central Park since the Investigations
began have beheld the extraordinary
spectacle of jealous work being done
No doubt before the reorganization Is
complete there will he wedding our
oe many incompltents, process inst
has already been begun. 1t was sadiy
needed. If proper appointments are
made to the places thus vacated cohdi
tons will he greatly improved SO far as
the working force Is concerned.
But for any great improvement of per
manent value in the administration OF
the parks Commissioner Slower himselr
will have TO mend his ways. If he OBJ
tains efficient superintendents and fore
men he must sustain their efforts ana
not disorganize the discipline of the de-
partment as he has been doing by his
habit of constant temporizing. And 10
organize the business Of the department
and make it run smoothly Mr.. Slower
will have to cultivate the habit Of quick
decision The worst defect from which
the department suffers is the Commls-
sioner's lack Of executive capac city. That
is something Mr.. Fosdick's investigators
cannot supply.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-27

The United States Senate has again
illustrated that expedition in the dis
patch Of public business for which il is
noted 10y deciding 20 vote on the direct
election amendment on June 10. That
decision allows something over two
weeks more for discussion of the va
ilou> phases and sub-phaseS of the
proposition Ia take the power Of cboos-
lr@ Senators away from the legislatures
and give it 10 the people. If the resolu-
t'o' submitting IN amendment is passed
either in the unnecessarily complicated
form preferred by the Hous. of Repre-
stntatives or in the simpler and more
appropriate form voted on by the Senate
on FEBRUARY 2S last the deliberative
branch can again congratulate itself on
the celebrity which il exhibits i'm handling
affairs of state The present session be
gan on April I. and II will have taken
only siXty-nine days TO get the Senate's
legislative machinery actually in motion
THAT is doing better than was done las
winter. for the short session Of the
G1st Congress began OH December Z and
~ was February % before the first vote
on any measure of consequence was
taken. The tuning up period has there
fore been reduced from twelve weeks ia
less than ten
The suggestion may be made by per
sons of an impatient temperament that
ina smuch as the greater part Of the last
session was devoted 10 debating the
amendment on which vote is 10 be
taken Oh June 10 the Senate might have
cut this sessions warmed over delibera.
tion shorter. But such an animadyersjop
hetrays ignorance of the Senate's tradi.
lions. II might be called "mal-animad-
version 10 use phrase coined the
other day by n distinguished member Of
the upper house. Practically every Sen
atOr holding over from the 61st Con
gress put his views ms 10 the proposed
amendment on record al the last session
ond showed by his vote exactly where
ha stood. Most Of the new members
have also expressed their opinions on the
stump or in addresses 10 the legislatures
which elected them. But the conven-
items Of the most august deiherative
body on earth" require that nothing said
in one Congress shall he taken for
'anted In another Congress and that
everything said in private capacity
before entrance into the Senate shall be
subject 10 revision under the soldering
and tranquillizing influences which oper-
ate within its walls. Even judgments
already formed must take on the ap-
rearance Of having been remellowed by
the processes of deliberation which
reach their slow perfection in the Sen.