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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
Clark Showed Good Sense.

The New York World thinks
Speaker Clark has shown good sense
in composing his quarrel with Secre-
tary of State Bryan. Mr.. Clark still
complains that it is beyond the pow
er of Mr.. Bryan or anybody else Ito
correct the injustice that was done
to me at Baltimore" The World
wants to know wherein was Mr..
Clark a victim Of anybody's injustice
at Baltimore and goes on to say he
chose to cast his political lot with the
bosses and reactionaries of the Dem
ocratic party.
When the issue was fairly Joined
the Murphys, the Taggarts, the Sulli-
vans, the Guffeys and the Wall street
Democracy all arrayed themselves
under the Clark banner. 1t was
Charles F. Murphy, boss Of Tammany
Hall, who voted New York's ninety
delegates as a unit and gave Mr..
Clark the numerical majority in the
convention which was expected tJ
start the stampede and give him the
two-thirds majority necessary to the
nomination.
Mr.. Clark was in very bad COM
pany, and for this ne has only HIM
self and his campaign managers to
blame. Incidentally, it may be worth
Mr.. Clark's while to ponder over the
fact that his most conspicuous jour
nalistic supporter has already repud-
lated the Wilson administration be-
cause the Democrats are carrying out
their pledges to reform the tariff.
This little incident in itself may
give Mr.. Clark little clearer idea OF
the character of the forces that we're
back of him-forces that would have
brought about his defeat even II he
had been nominated, and that would
have wrecked his administration even
if by chance he had been elected.
This is all ancient history, but the
Speaker should understand that II he
has been a:.victim Of injustice 1t was
the injustice that he worked to him
self in Misunderstanding the temper
of the American people and the char
acter OF the issue that presented it.
self to the Democratic party.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
WHY They Are Not Wanted.

The reason why California wishes
to exclude the Japanese is because OF
their effect upon the labor conditions
Of the white people Of the State. A
Sacraento paper suggest that Mr.
Bryan take an auto and ride to Per-
kins and on to Florin and Elk Grove
and see the Japanese women laboring
in the fields. Let him view the huts
they live in and contrast them with
the white mems homes next door. II
this continues, how long will it be
before the white women will be COM
pelled to labor in the fields to help
their husbands obtain even the Ceces-
saries of life? How long will 1t be
until the white families will be de-
graded to the same miserable huts?
Now these three towns mentioned are
all in this county, a few miles east
of the capital city of the State, under
the very nose of the Legislature, and
were formerly prosperous American
communities. And there are others
south of the city, towns where the
newspapers scarcely find it worth
while trying to maintain circulation
that formerly was large" It will be
seen that the Japanese settlers are a
hindrance rather than benefit to
California. Under the circumstances
we do not blame the people Of the
State for not wanting them as resi-
dents. We would not want them
here. There is no comparison be-
tween negroes and the Japs.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
MORE HEETER CHARGES
Accusations Come From Other Towns
Against Pittsburg Educator.

Additional charges are keeping up
against Sylvanus L. Heeter, superin-
Pittsburg, concerning his conduct in
Lagro and Converse, Ind, and st.
Paul, Mimi, where he was an educa-
tor before he accepted bic position in
Pittsburg. He IS now facing charges
preferred by two Pittsburg girls after
his acquittal on charges filed by a
former nurse girl in the Heeter
household.
Meetings of the citizens are being
held in protest against the proposed
secret sessions Of the committees OF
citizens appointed to Investigate the
Heeter charges. Thousands OF chill
dren are still on strike because OF
Heeter's return to duty, though he Is
now In North Manchester, Ind, his
old home, where he was summoned
because of the serious illness Of his
mother.
The investigators have completed
an outlie for their probe, but will not
start work until Heeter returns to
Pittsburg so that he may be present
and defend himself in person, If he so
desires.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
MAN ALMOST KILLED.
His Powerful Antagonist Uses Wrench
on His Head.

Henry Counts, aged about 21,
was severely beaten over the head
late Monday afternoon with a "mon-
key" wrench welded by "Doc" Dixon,
a powerful white man of Greenwood.
Counts was knocked unconscious,
and is in; a precarious condition,
though not necessarily fatally injur-
ed. Dixon is in Jail charged with
assault and battery with intent to
kill.
From the stories of the witnesses
to the affair, it seems that Monday
afternoon Counts was driving Dix
on's automobile, accompanied by the
driver. In some way the machine
was run into an obstacle and damag-
ed. In the dispute which ensued as
to who should pay the damage, doc"
Dixon, who is much more powerful
man than young Counts, become en-
ragged, seized a monkey" wrench
it, rendering him unconscious. Medi-
cal attention was given the injured
man, and he gained consciousness
Tuesday morning. Dixon was locked
in the Jail.
Henry Counts comes from prom
inent family Of Laurens, and has
been working in an automobile shop
in Greenwood for some time. He Is
we'll liked. doc" Dixon, man Of
about 5 5years, formerly ran a butch
er shop in Greenwood, but lately has
been unconnected with any business
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
SWAT THE FLY.
Hit Him Hard - the Price Of the
Skins is 1Oc Per Pint.

The Orangeburg Times and Demo-
crat says:
The ladies of the Domestic Circle
Of this cit yhave inaugurated Swat
the fy' campaign and have arranged
to buy all the dead flies that can be
cornered and killed. All you have to
do it to get you a weapon, find the
flies and go to work. When you
have pint or over take 1t to
Uncle Wad" Way at the town hall
and you will be paid ten cents for
every pound: There is no time limit
you can begin now and kill them
as long as you want to.
But this is serious matter. Flies
carry disease, hundred Of germs may
be on the foot Of the fly walking over
your table, and these germs entering
your body start diseases. According
to an expert, germs enter the body in
only two ways: through the natural
openings such as your mouth or nose,
and then through cuts and punctures
in the skin. A great majority Of them
come through the first way.
AS soon as a germ enters your
body it hunts up favorable place
and begins breeding other germs.
They are some plentiful in little
while, too. A germ population dou-
bles it's inhabitants every hour. Now
figure for yourself how many germs
there will be in your body if one
germ enters and multiplies regularly
for two days. Of course that would
be impossible, for long before the
germs two days were up, you would
be-there wouldn't be room for an
other germ. Several hundred thou
sand millions times million germs
would have been brought into exist
ence, and it would take over one hun
dred freight cars of ordinary capacity
to carry them out. II you don't be-
lieve these figures, try it? Start with
one and double them each hour for
two days.
The fly is great carrier Of germs,
especially typhoid. The only way a
person can become infected with ty-
phoid germs is by taking to his body
an infinitestimal portion Of the excre-
ment Of another person who has the
disease. The fly is the carrier, swat
the fly and stave off disease.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
A GROWING EVIL.
Lack of Stability in American Fami'
~ Life Increasing.

Family life in the United States is
more unstable than in any country or
nation in the civilized world, ac-
cording to recent statement by
Prof. Charles Ellwood, of the depart
ment Of Sociology in the University
of Missouri. According to the latest
figures in the hands of sociologists,
it is stated $4,000 divorces were
granted in 1905 when the population
of the United States was S5,000,000.
IN Canada, in the same year, only
33 divorces were granted.
In France the rate of divorces is
one in every 80 marriages; Germany,
one in A: Switzerland, one in %,
and England, one in 400. In the past
20 years it is estimated divorces
have ben increasing three times as
fast as the population of the United
States. If the rate keeps up the pro-
portion of divorces viii be one in
four in 1850, and one in two at the
beginning of the Twenty-first cen
tury, asserts Prof. Ellwood.
In the state of Washington the d.
vorce rate is one in every five mar
riages; in Oregon and Montana, one
in five and a half; in Texas, Arkan'
sas and Kansas and Missouri, one II
eight. In the Eastern states the pro
portion is much higher, placing the
average rate of the nation at one
divorce in every twelve marriages
Many cities show high rates, and II
general statistics indicate that rura
communities show smaller proper
ton than cities and larger towns. .
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
What Booze Did for Him.

The other day Thomas Seabrooke
died in Chicago in the most miserable
surroundings. The Cedar Rapids Re-
publican says dozen years or so ago
he was easily the foremost comedian
on the stage. He was born come
dian. There was no horseplay effect
in his acting. At that time he was
able to make $4,000 year, for he
could draw. audiences that would
warrant manager in paying him
such a salary. The announcement
that Seabrooke was in the cast al
ways filled a theater in those days.
But, says The Republican, Sea-
brooke made one mistake. He
thought he could get away with John
Barleycorn and put him under the
table. He knew that other men had
failed, and failed miserably, in the
unequal contest, but the thought that
he was to be the one exception, the
man who could win the victory. But
he didn't win. They never do win
who start out on such trial OF
strength. The end is always the
same, dishonor, humiliation, shame
and suffering of every kind. Sea-
brooke died in delirium tremens.
He had one supreme agony OF
mind, when all the devils and snakes
of hell tormented him, and then he
was dead, dead at time when he
ought to be in the beginnings OF a
mellow maturity, the kind of matur-
ity in which Joe Jefferson was at his
best and during which he gave his
friends and admirers their greatest
pleasure out Of art. This is tenl-
perance sermon that should be heard
and needed by all men, but most es-
pecially the young men. Every man.
Young or old, who takes one drink
faces the awful fate that overlook the
talented SeaDrooke.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
TEACHERS OF AGRICULTURE
Are Scarce and the Government Calls
For More of Them.

The United States bureau Of educa-
ton at Washington Thursday issued
an appeal for agricultural teachers
in high schools. The bureau inciden-
tally pointed out that while the salar-
les of the majority OF male teachers
in the high schools average only 800
the teachers OF agriculture were re-
ceiving $1,000.
Lack of teachers" is the expla-
nation offered by the bureau as the
cause for the higher remuneration
for those who teach agriculture.
"Not only is it found that the av-
erage pay of instructors in agricul-
ture is higher than Of other teach
ers," says the bureau, "but that
teachers who are able to give such
instruction in addition to regular
work command better salaries than
they otherwise would and are more
likely to be advanced to principal
ships than if they had not specialized
in agriculture"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
DEVELOPMENT Of the Individual.


The development of the individual
is never complete. Solomon de.
scribes the path of the just as "like
the shining light that shineth more
and more unto the perfect day." and
Holland, putting the same into verse
says:
Heaven is not gained by a single
bound.
We build the lader by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted
skies,
And mount to it's summit round BY
round"
so with the work of government
and the work of civilization" says
The Commoner, Eve find an unfnish-
ed work when he arrive; We leave the
work unfinished when we are called
hence. Each day marks out our duty
for US. and it is for us to devote our
selves to it, whatever it may be, with
high purpose and unfaltering cour-
age. Whether we live to enjoy the
fruits of our efforts or lay down the
work before the victory is won, we
know that every we'll spoken word
has its influence; that no good deed
is ever lost. And we know also,
that no one can count his life on
earth as spent in vain, if when he
departs. it can be said: "The night
is darker because his light has gone
out; the world Is not SO warm be-
cause his heart has grown cold in
DEATH"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
PENSION FOR MOTHERS.
Fourteen State Legislatures Are Con-
sidering Beneficial Law.

Fourteen legislatures are now con-
sideraing Mothers Pensions bills,
while nine states have already enact
ed laws bearing either directly or
Indirectly upon the endowment of
motherhood. Wherever pension leg
islation has been enacted it has been
based on the theory that children
should not be separated from their
mother for reasons Of poverty alone.
The Tuesday club, Of st. Louis, an
organization composed entirely of
women, has found that broken homes
and institutional children produce
the Juvenile court offenders, and that
they in turn I'll the penitentiaries.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
VAST MAJORITY PURE
MOST MEN AND WOMEN LEAD
WHOLESOME LIVES
Every Person Should Be Trained For
Some Definite Work in Life To Es-
cape Want.
cape Want.

The vast majority of men and wo-
men, no mater how humble their
means and how hard their privations,
are wholesome and pure in life and
deserve to be named among those
who do the nation honor, in the opin-
ion of Secretary Redfeld, head Of the
Department of Commerce. He de-
clares that records of his department
which is at the head of every nation
al investigation Of the white slave
traffic, indicate that an insucienfdt
wage is not of itself a temptation to
wrong-doing, but is only one of the
conditions which give bad causes a
chance to do evil work.
Secretary Redfeld aserts that the
United States must now bend every
effort to creating new conditions
which will tend to strengthen the en-
vironments which let the forces that
lift up have play, and destroy the
conditions under which the forces
which drag down work.
Commenting on his own expert
ences, Secretary Redfield asserts that
a young woman recently called at his
Office and asked for work. In answer
to a question as to what she could
do she replied nothing" There
was a place where the downward
drag had a good chance" comments
Secretary Redfeld. Neither her
brain nor her hand had been trained
to do practical work"
The Department Of Commerce is
now urging every mother who knows
the path of danger she herself trod
to make the paths of boys and girls
of the present age safer by giving
them training in some vocational
work so that they may not get out in
to life and find it a blind alley and
finally be led to a position where they
must face a condition of moral over
strain to win a livelihood.
Secretary Redfeld insists that lack
of virtue is not mathematical equa-
ton, and that it is not cose Of SO
few dollars and so much vice, or so
much money and so little vice. He
declares that an insufficient wage is
not in itself a cause of misdoing, but
one of the causes which give chance
for bad causes to do evil work.
Low wages are cited as keeping
girls constantly distressed and lacking
the normal things that a girl ought
to want and cannot get. 1t IS this
condition which frequently leads to a
fall, and it is named by the secretary
as one of the conditions that must be
eradicated by modern society II
progress is to be made in the fight
against immortality.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
"FIoods of Goddess Men"

In speaking Of the recent foods
Louis F. Post contributes most in
teresting article to The Chicago Pub
lie. He says precisely this is what
the catastrophes Of the past week in
reality are" floods of goddess men.
Not of particular men who are god
less. but Of the goddess men in each
of US. Trace those floods back to
their physical causes. Scrutinize
those moral causes, and you find
them to consist of that deadly love
for unearned dollars from which
none of US is entirely free, and a
wicked Indifference to common
rights, Of which all Of US are in some
measure guilty.
"They are the floods Of goddess
men"-of the unrighteousness that
is in all men. 1t is well, therefore,
that all contribute som ewhat to the
relief of the misery all have caused
and are causing. Large aggregate
contributions from many persons in
small individual amounts, would best
express the general consciousness OF
guilt. But that is enough to wash
away the stain. The goddess men,
within US can not be evicted or sup
pressed by gifts to relief funds. The
only effective penance is new COM
munal life.
$50 long as we get something for
nothing-nay, even so long we in
differently allow others to get some
thing for nothing-so long shall
there be floods Of goddess men" with
all their calamitous consequences;
for none can get something for moth
ing unless others get nothing for
something. To relieve calamities we
must give when calamities come, no
matter why they come. But to pre-
vent calamity, We must arouse our
selves to the benefcent commands of
the moral law. It's punitive sanctions
can not be averted by relief funds.
To stay the floods Of goddess men"
our "godless men" must be reduced
to order. To make physical laws
serve US we'll we must hitch them to
the moral law"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
Give Their Full Time.

According to a recent ruling OF
Postmaster General Burleson, post
masters of the first, second, and third
classes are expected to give their full
time to the work. The post Office de-
partmept will no longer permit such
postmasters to run the post Office as
a side issue for some other business.
He rightly holds that since the peo-
pie contribute the money to pay the
sgalary, tine people have the right to
expect that the postmaster himsel, is
earning it, instead Of letting his sub
ordinate do all the work.
Postmaster General Burleson
thinks that if the postmasters devote
their entire business time to their
work, there will be need for fewer
subordinates, and thus great econ
omy will be effected. Every Repub-
lican administration for the past six
teen years has regarded post offices
as legitimate game for political job
hunters. Mckinley postmasters were
thrown out to make room for Roose-
velt postmasters, and 80 on. The Re-
publican factions fought among them
selves for the spoils.
Fir sixteen years under Republican
rule the small town post Office has
been political reward pure and SIM
pie. And as result, fully two-thirds
of the post Offices Of the United States
are filed with men who continue
some other line Of business activity.
They are merchants, manufacturers
and bankers. Once day they drop
in at the post Office to see if every
thing is running all right, and then
are free for the rest Of the day to
pursue their private money making.
The $4,000, s2,50e, $4,000 or 3d.
500 which they draw in salary is pure
velvet. The low paid clerks do
the work.
Postmaster Central Burleson has
informed the Democratic applicants
that this practice must cease. Only
efficient men, and men who will give
complete attention to their post Office
duties, will be appointed. Somehow
this doesn't sound like the spoils sys-
tenn against which the Republicans
were warning the country last fall.
But how different the actions Of the
Democrats: Never before in our his
tory have the qualifications of candi-
dates for post Office jobs been exam
ined with such care.
1t is predicted that for every pro-
fessional politician offended by the
order, there will be five or six votes
created for the Democratic party by
decency, honesty and economy in the
administration. 1t is hoped that the
administration will not swerve from
it's announced policy. And after it
has thrown from office the profes-
sional politicians drawing the sal
aries while doing little or none Of the
work, and that the civil service will
be extended to protect permanently
the good men who will be placed in
the thousands Of post Offices by the
present administration.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
FOR ENTIRE ARBITRATION
American Peace Conference Suspects
a 'Hankering" After War.


'sHankering" After War.
The fourth American Peace Con-
sress began a three days session at
st. Louis Thursday morning with del
egates present from all parts Of the
country. The chief address, Of the
morning was delivered by Andrew
Carnegie.
benjamin F. Trueblood, secretary
of the American Peace Society spoke
on the present Demands of the Peace
Movement" saying eve have heard
too much about national honor and
vital interests and hair splitting
distinctions between justifable and
non-justifable disputes. Are We not
trying to conceal a hankering after
war and pilage every time we use
one of these vague and indefinable
terms? There are no unarbitral con-
troversies in our day between nations
where independence mutually is rec
ognized."
He also urged that the United
States take the lead for an agreement
among the powers for limitation Of
armament
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
MINERS RETURN TO WORK.
Gov. Hatfield Sure All Trouble is OV'
er in West Virginia Field.

cne-third Of the miners in the
Kanawha field in West Virginia have
returned to work, and the remainder
are eager to work under the terms
suggested by Gov. H. D. Hatfield and
agreed to by the miners convention
and operators.
Gov. Hatfield spent several days in
the coal fields this week. He found
the operators ready to take the men
back, excepting in the cases OF few
of the most radical of the strike lead
ers. He asserts that before the end
Of the week all the men in the region
will be back on their old jobs, which
they left over year ago.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
ASKS TO BE HANGED
Man Tells of Murder of Missouri
Family Years Ago.

Driven, as - said, by the pains OF
conscience, man, who gave his
name as George Taylor, walked into
police station at St. Louis, and asked
to be locked up for murder. Years
ago George Taylor escaped from the
Carrilton Jail on the eve of his exc
cution and officers seal ehed for him
the country over without avail. The
officer in charge of the police station
asked the visitor if lie was The man.
Certainly I am" was the reply,
land / am tired of being at large,
for I am murderer. My brother
and killed four of the Meeks family
near Lineus, Linn county, in 1896.
He was hanged and I got away. My
mind has been bothering me since.
You can take me out and hang me
now if you like"
Later the man became confused
in reciting his story, and will be held
until his dnetiy is established.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-07
WIDOW ACCUSED OF MURDER
Mrs. Laura T. Reuter- Will be Tried
at Bartlesville, Okla.

Charged with knowing the plans
of the slayers of her husband, Charles
Reuter-, one of the most promising
young attorneys Of Tulsa, Okla, his
widow Mrs. Laura T. Reuter-, will be
placed on trial this month in Bartles-
Vile, Okla. She declares she is inno-
cent of the charge and will establish
her innocence by the same confession
through which the prosecution plans
10 condemn her. ~
Guy D. Mackenzie and Joe Baker
are now serving life sentences charg-
ed with the killing of Reuter-. Against
them the confession of Bud Bellew,
a chauffeur, was used. 1t is asserted
in his confession he did not mention
Mrs. Rueter directly.