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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
Gladstone on the Balkans.

The traditional opposition Of Bulga-
ria to Turkey constituted. according to
Mr.. Gladstone. one Of the chief fac
tors of European progress. Speaking
OF the Balkan peoples, he once said:
They are like a shelving beach
which restrains the ocean. That beach.
it is true. is beaten by the waves; it IS
laid desoiate; 1t produces nothing; 1t
becomes perhaps nothing save a mass
of shingle. Of rock, Of almost useless
seaweed. But it is a fence behind
which the cultivated earth can spread
and escape the incoming tide, and such
was the resistance of Bulgarians, of
Servians and of Greeks. It was that
resistance which left Europe to claim
the enjoyment of her own religion and
to develop her institutions and her
laws."-London Chronicle
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
Scrvian Women.

There is no country in the world
where women occupy 4 more eignihed
or honored position in the home than
Seryia. The Servian idea is quite diff
ferent from that Of the Turk, who
keeps his women behind shut doors, or
the German, whose ideal woman is a
good hausfrau. In Seryia the woman
Is the companion Of the man A man
is responsible for his unmarried sisters,
and throughout the Balkan states 1t IS
considered rather q breach Of etiquette
for him to marry before his older sis
ter. No Servian girl would feel she
could hold up her head in society IN
less she could speak four languages.
There Is hardly Servian woman who
cannot play some musical instrument.
Embroidery, painting. drawing and
sculpture are all studied. Politics is
a popular feature among women. Ser
vian women are very domestcated, and
the highest ladies pay personal atten-
ton to trivial matters Of housekeeping
London Tit-Bits.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25

There is no doubt that the IL
cense system Will be best for cos
mopolitan Charleston. and the
coming legislature will have a
bill of this nature to consider.
We cannot see how any man Can
oppose a license for the selling
of intoxicants in city that has
demonstrated for the past sever
al years it will not accept the dis
pensary or, ,prohl bition. The peo
pie of Charleston do not ask for
the abolition of the dispensary
in the counties where such a sys-
tenn is in vogue, but they are ear
nestly pleading with the law
makers to give them a system
which they can respect and which
willsput stop to growing law
lessness.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
Ancient Glass.

In the S;lt.p collection at the British
museum III i.nI,inn the most ancient
specimen OF pure glass the date OF
which can be- approximately fixed is
small lions head beaTing the name Of
an Egyptian king OF the eleventh dy-
nasty. That is IL say at a period
which may Re Gns!rrately place5 at
more than 2GnO y2:.rs 3. C. glass was
made With skill which shows that
the art was far from new.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
Trousers,

Modern trousers came into fashion IN
1872. yet the column Of Trajan shows
q group of Sarmatians clothed in trous
ers that are just like ours. AS early as
A. D. 60 a Roman general created great
scandal by going to war in trousers.
which were regarded as 'barbarian-' y
When the Bulgarian King Boris was
converted to Christianity in the sew
enth century. among the 106 questions
be propounded to the pope was wheth-
er it was lawful for Christians to wear
trousers. The explanation Of this IS
that the Bulgarians had long been
among the trousered peoples. but as
conversion was coming from the flow
ing robed Greeks they feared that
robes instead of trousers might be es-
sential to Christianity.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25

with one another. One Of the
evidences that we have been re-
generated is that we love the
brethren. 1t does not indicate
much spirituality, to say the
least, where there is bitterness
existing among members in the
same church.
AS we make progress in the
Christian life we become more
patient, courteous, generous and
loving in our attitude toward one
another. IF a man love not his
brother, whom he hath seen,
how can be love God whom he
hath not seen.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25

President.eIect Wilson is not
hurrying himself to give to the
public the name of his appoint
ments for cabinet positions, and
the probability is that he will
not disclose the names of his
cabinet until a few days before
he takes the oath of Office. If
the press dispatches are to be
relied upon Col. W. ]. Bryan
will have a large influence in the
making up of cabinet selections,
and should this be the case, his
opponents will soon dub him the
Mark Hanna of the Wilson ad-
ministration.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
LEVER WORKING FOR TIE FARMERS.

Congressman Levers agricul-
turai bill has met with the unan-
iuous approval Of the Bankers
Association of the District of Co
lumbia. Mr.. Lever was present
at the meeting and made speech
explaining his bill, showing to
them to that he proposes to have
trained men for the farms, who
will be to farmers what the ply
sician is to the family. Congress-
man Lever is without doubt one
of the most active men in con.
gress, and it would not surprise
US if he is rendered by the presi
dent elect the position of Secre
tarv of Agriculture. He has done
a great work for the farmers and
his present extension bill, if it
becomes a law,-it has fine pros
poets of going through, will give
an additional impetus to the pro-
fession of farming. We take the
following summary of Mr.. Le-
ver's speech delivered at the
Bankers Association meeting,
from the Washington Post Of
the 18th:
DOCTORS" FOR THE FARMS.
His bill, Mr.. Lever said, is
built upon the idea of furnishing
to every agricultural county IN
the United States a trained man
who will be to the farmer what
the physician is to the family
one to whom the agriculturist
may go for advice as to methods
to pursue to correct the evils
which beset his land.
To accomplish this purpose,
the measure proposes Federal
appropriation of $4,000, to
be expended over a period of ten
years, with the States of the
Union subscribing an equal
amount. Belgium and other Eu.
ropean counties, the speaker de-
clared, through the introduction
of intensive farming methods,
are producing from two and one
half to three times as much per
acre as America. Were this coun-
try to approach this European
scale, he added, it would be equiv
alent to the discovery of colony
equal in size to the present terri
tory of the United States.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
Ihtouoh the Earth.

If there was tunnel through the
center Of the earth and IN iron ball
was dropped into it where would the
bali come to rest? Unless ii was re.
tarded by the resistance Of the air the
bali would go through 10 the other side
and then fail back to it's starting point.
repea ting this operation forever. II re-
tarded by the resistance Of the air it
would ultimately come to rest at the
center Of the earth
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
Deafness Cannot be Cured

By localappllcatlons, as they cannot reach tht
diseased portion Of the ear. There is only ont
way to cure deafness, and that is by conStitu
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition Of the mucous lining OF ths
EuStachian Tube When this tube gets inflam
ed you have runbling sound or imperfect hear
ing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is
the result, and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out aud this tube restored TO its norma
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
nothing but an inhamed condition Of the mu
couS surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case OF Deafness Caused by catarrh) that car
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send fol
circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo, o.
Sold By druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
When the Worm Turns.

But the point is. my dear sir" the
father asked in pompous tones, "can
you support my girl In the style to
which she has been accustomed%
"I'm afraid not"
"Then what the"-
The young man waived the remark
aside.
"She has assured me, however" be
added. that she will not expect me to
buy so many gloves as I have been
providing or to take her away from
home whenever she wants anything
good to eat Nor does she expect to
ride in a taxi, as we have always
done, when a tram will do. In short.
we are going to live quite sensibly.
and
"Oh. all rightr' growled the father.
If you are going to be mean about
the business take herr"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
Why They Preach.

The distinction between good
preacher and a bad preacher has not
changed much since Archbishop Whate-
" declared that "a good preacher
preached because he had something to
say and bad preacher because he had
to say something"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
Pure Malice.

"The boys In my neighborhood broke
= winGow last night"
''The playful exuberance Of youth. Of
course"
Nothing of the sort. It was my
ow."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
All About Stealing.

"Iyhy do you call your story The
Thieves Romance"
because It is all about stealing"
"How?"
"Well. the story Of the romance goes
this way: She stole look: then he
stole kiss. Next they had stolen
meetings. they stole a march on their
friends and both stole away"
u suppose the next thing they will
be stealing back"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
Her Dear-Friend,

Miss Homeleigh-Perhaps you won't
believe it. but a strange man tried to
kiss me once. Miss Cutting-Really!
Well. he'd have been a strange man
II he'd tried to kiss you twice.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
HAS THE STATE THE RIGHT To MURDER
HUMAN BEINGS.

| Inc Governor OF Arkansas is
being severely criticised for his
recent action in liberating pris
oners from the State peniten
tiary. He characterizes the Ar
kansas penitentiary as a "burn-
ing. seething hell," consuming
human beings, who are "being
fed into it in manner which re-
suits in nothing but making for
tunes for contractors. " The con-
ditions in Arkansas must be sim
liar to those in the State prison in
South Carolina which Governor
Blease has been striving to
relieve, and, unless there is
something done to relieve the
condition it will be up to the leg
islature to determine between
the fortune-making contractor
and humanity. Governor Blease
appears to be in earnest to re
lieve what he regards the inhu-
man conditions in this State. and
unless the legislature comes to
his assistance be has threatened
to exercise his powers under the
constitution, which in a case like
this, means the liberation of pris-
oners who have long sentences
to serve.
AS we understand the matter
there has been made an investi-
cation of the hosiery mill in the
penitentlary by a body of ex-
perts, doctors of high repute,
who said the conditions in that
institution are not wholesome
and dangerous to the health of
those who are forced to work
there; the Governor being back
ed up by the expert opinion of
these gentlemen certainly has
strong grounds for the action he
has threatened if the law making
power continues Indifferent to
his appeals we hope however,
that Governar Blease will not act
hastily in this matter, as it would
be a very serious condition to
turn loose upon the State a large
mum Der of convicts-it would be
exceedingly unfortunate did not
the general assembly make some
effort to prevent a repetition OF
the Arkansas incident.
The Newberry Observer in
discussing the hosiery mill alleg-
ed threat of the governor says he
has the power to abolish the hos.
iery mill oy pardoning the con.
victs, but be has no right to do
so. There may be difference in
having the power and the right,
we thought that the power given
! makes it his right, and should he
pardon every convict the consti-
tuition gives him the power and
hence the right; if in the exercise
OF that right or power he has
abused it, it would be up to
the general assembly to call him
to account, but when his conten
tion is endorsed by a body of e1-
perts who made a special inves-
tigation of the situation, in our
opinion. the general assembly
would find it difficult to convict
him of abusing the power given
by the constitution.
The whole contention simmer
ed down means one of two things,
either the Governor and the
board of eminent doctors are
wrong or the hosiery mill is a
pest house unit for human habi
tation, if it is unfit, the monetary
consideration should be consid
cred only after the mill has been
abolished.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
The Choice Of a College.

Knicker-Doas your son want an ed
ucation? RocGer-He says he is will
ing to be quarterback in the eiec-
toral college.-New York Sun.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-25
'.AGR1cULTURE GREATEST AS.
SETS, /"

"Agriculture is this nations
greatest assets" he said, ''the
agricultural capitalization is ap
proximately S41, 900, 600, 900, or
practically four times as much
as the capitalization of the ma
tons railroads, and probably
four times as much as the total
capitalization of it's national
banks.
"Should the farmers of the
country determine to go upon a
strike for twelve months, every
bank in the nation would be com
PEELED within a few brief months
to close it's doors; not a railroad
would be able to turn a wheel,
and every city in the land would
be: within six months, upon the
verge Of starvation.''
"This problem of agriculture, u
he continued, (which many of
the unthinking are inclined 10
laugh and sneer at, is the most
important up for solution at the
hands of the American people.
The high cost Of living is a vital
question for the people of the
city. 1t will never be solved un'
til we have solved the problem
of production of food and raj
ment, and reached a more direct
route for the passage of these
products from the man who pro-
duces them to him who consumes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-28
Rush Through Ice Fields "Most Unwise y"
Mount Temples Captain Tells Senate
Committee Investigating Disaster.
FALSE, POSITION BALKED RESCUE
Though Fleet Of Vessels Was Near, Aid from Any Was
impossible, and Minutes That Meant Human Lives
Were Wasted in Effort to Find Liner
Amid Bergs Moore Tesifies

Failure to give her exact position great field OF floating
ice that offered frgd barrier to ships hrng to the rescue
and the mistake of her captain in rushing at top speed
through an cecovered seaa these combined to send the IT,
anc and her sixteen hundred victims to their watery grave IN
The North Atlantic according to testimony heard yesterday IN
WASHINGTON bv the Senate committee investigating the ocean
tragedy.
Captain James H. Moore of the steamship Mount Temple
which was hurried the Titanic response to wireless calls fo
hep told of the great stretch of field ice which held him Off.
Within his view from the bridge he discerned he sald
strange steamer probably tramp and schooner which was
making her way of the ice The lights Of this schooner ne
thought probably those by the anxious SURVIVORS OF
the Titanic and which they frantcaly trying to reach
Captain Moore denounced most unwise the action OF
The Tancs commander in rushing at 21 knots through the
night when he had been advised Of the proximity OF lce Ihe
Mount TEMPLES commander testified that he had spent twenty
seven wears in the North Atlantic Whenever ice was around
he said he doubled his watch and reduced speed and it he hap
pened to oct caught in an ice pack he stopped his engines and
,lrifted until he clear.
The witness also was emphatic in his assertion that the posi-
on sent ont by the Titanic wrong He said the ship was
ph miles further eastward than its operator reported Ih
he declared he proved by observations taken the st tng on
the day fc" wing the disaster.
With what virtually fleet of steamers within RADIUS
of fifty miles of the Titanic Captain Moore said that this mis-
take in fixing accurately the position of the doomed snip was
fatal one With cebrg and floating ice covering the northern
sea- ship of even the size of the Titanic might well be over
looked. he said through such variance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-28
URGES PARCELS POST TO
STRIKE At M|DDLEMAN
Representative Powers Tells
House Farm Products Should
Go Directly to Consumer,
WOULD REDUCE THE COST
Kentucky Member Asserts Pres
ent Methods Double Price ct
Rural Produce - Mr..
Sisson's Attack.
from III. Tribune Bureau :

Washington, April 27.--An unlimited
rural parcels post. which will heneht
both the farmer and the ulItpat" con-
sumer, was strongly urzeS IN III" House
to-day by Representative Caleb Powers
Of Kentucky, who presented startlinS
figures to show the profit of the middle
man. Mr.. Powers, who spoke during me
debate on the postofiice appropriation
bill, which provides for the esta hilsh-
ment of a general parcels post with an
eleven-pound limit and an experimental
parcels post on rural routes, created sur
prise when he said
The farm products of the country last
year had an estimated aggrega'e vaIu" ot
50 600 NDOOO The farmers used perhaps one
third OF these products. the remaining
ss N0n Oon nC worth cost tho ultimat" con
sumer sl3OonT"o0o in other words. IN"
price Of the farm product vas NOR" than
doubled from the time II left N" faih
until It reached the mouths OF the con
sumer, through the medium ~ th" m'H'I"-
men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-28
$4,000 THEFT IN SUBWAY
Passenger Reports Loss of Bag
Containing Jewelry.

Jacob Lande. of No. 1876 Wilkins ave.
nuc. The Bronx. rushed into Police Head
quarters last night and told the lieuten
ant on the desk that he rad Just been
robbed of leather satchel containing
more than 5000 worth Of ieNery. He
said he had been riding in a northbound
subway train about q o'clock and had
placed the satchel between his feet when
he sat down. Between the Brooklyn
Bridge station and 14th street. Lande
said. some one took the jewelry
Lande. who is A manufacturing Jew
eller at No. II Nassau street. boarded a
train at the Brooklyn Bridge station
and secured seat near the entrance.
He placed the leather satChel between
his feet and started to read his paper.
He did not think Of the iewelry aga in
until just as the guard had closed tho
doors after the stop at 14th street. and
then II was gone.
In spite of Lande's hvsterical protests
10 the guard 10 let him out Of the train
he was forced 10 ride to the next stop,
Al the Grand Central Station. before he
could get out He then took the mex
southhound express and ran 10 Police
Headquarters. where he reported his
loss
He was sent 10 the 9th street police
station, where Detective Kelly was as
signed 10 the case. Ldnde could give the
police no accurate description Of the men
who were pressing about him IN the
crowded subway car.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-28

Advocating the establishment Of
parcels post which will permit TN" hand
ling of farm products over mail routes.
MIR Powers declared that TN" farmer
ought TO have the right /" send ms
produce direct 10 the consumer, instead
of having it go through dozen hands
before If reaches the table Of the con
sumner"
The Kentucky Representative on
pressed the hope that the COMMISSION
which 1t is proposed shall be created l."
investigate the subject of an unlimited
narcels post may devise some means 10
extend the system so as to benefit the
farmer and the consumer by permitting
the handling of farm products in larg"
quantities."
The postoflcc appropriation bill
authorizes the establishment of an c%-
detrimental parcels post on rural mail
routes for period Of two years II also
provides general parcels post. appIl-
cable to all routes, with a package limit
of eleven pounds, at the rate of - cents
| the contention that the lower rate ac-
corded strictly rural route shipments
Disseminated in favor Of the farmers
The haul would be shorter. he said. and
the rate of five cents a pound for the
| first pound and two cents for each addi-
| tional pound up 10 eleven pounds on
rural route shipments was justified. He
| deprecated the fact that the bill did not
provide even more liberal treatment for
shipments originating and delivered on
rural routes.
Referring TO the proposition to estab-
Hsh a general parcels post, Mr.. Powers
said:
There arc twenty-threc foreign nations
which now have right 10 transmit our
malls fourth-class packages up To a weight
of eleven pounds. for which there Is a
charge of ~ cents d pound. II - proposed
10 make this provision applicable To our
own people, putting their mall matter on
| q parity with that OF foreign nations. II
| Is lust that the mails OF this country
| should be available for the use OF citizens
| of the United States on terms AS fair ann
reasonable as those accorded these twenty
| three foreign nations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-28
WOMAN DEPUTY CONSTABLE
Mrs. Curry, of San Jose, Noted
for Physical Prowess.

b Ielfgrdph TO Inc lrlblh'
San joss. Cal, April 2I.-Mrs. William
T. Curry, wife of a clerk Of the Justice
Court Of San Jose township, was sworn
i'm to-day as a deputy constable.
Interesting stories are told of Mrs.
Curry's physical prowess, and although
she has not yet made her first arrest, it
is expected that she will give a good
account of herself should she have occa-
sion. Every morning she boxes with
her husband and they start the day
with a lively three round go.
That she has a punch in either fist was
demonstrated recently when she took IA
hand in A domestic quarrel in her neigh
borhood and administered a beating to
husband who was i'll treating his wife