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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
What TIE UNITED STATES has
Done In A CENTURY
A TREMENDOUS STRIDE
Population Has Increased Twenty
Fold-Commerce Has Remark
able Record of Increasing Fifty
Fold-Interesting Pamphlet Issued
by Department Of Commerce.

A century survey Of the growth OF
the United States in population, COM
merce and industry is presented in a
pamphlet Statistical Record OF the
Progress of the United States, 1900
1913" issued by the Department Of
Commerce. The publication contains
monetary commercial and financial
statistics Of this country and, in less
detailed form those Of the principal
nations Of the world and the share
which the United States supplies Of
their imports and takes Of their ex-
ports.
In area the United States is shown
to have increased from 8s2,1s5
square mile in 1900 to s,026,7Ss in
1913, and in population from $685.
483 to 97,028,497 exclusive OF the Is
land territories now under the Amer
lean flag. Meantime the production
# basic articles Of industry shows
marked gains. Coal from 20 tons in
1870 ATT million in 1912; pig iron
from $4,000 tons in 1910 to 80 mil
lion in 1912; copper from 100 tons in
1S45 to 55S,000 in 1912, petroleum
from $4,000 gallons in 1859 to over
9 billion gallons in 1912; and corn
from 37S million bushels in 1910 to
over 3 billion bushels In 1912; wheat
from "a million bushels IN 1910 to
73O million in 1912; while similar in
creases are noted in other products
Of agriculture, mining and manufac-
ture.
The tables of the pamphlet show a
corresponding increase in foreign
commerce imports, from IS million
dollars in 1921 to 1878 mil
fon in 1913 and domestic e1-
ports from million in 1921 to
2,42s million in 1918, while the
share which manufactured products
(including prepared foodstuts from
of the total exports increased from
less than 18 million dollars in 1921
to / 1-2 billion dollars in 1913.
Other statistical data contained In
the data of the publication Is ques-
ton relate to national finance, educa-
tion, agriculture, transportation, con-
Of leading staples, prices
etc., comprising the principle facts; IN
epitomized form, to be presented in
the forthcoming 1913 edition Of the
Statistical Distract Of the United
States.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
STAND BY WILSON.
Senator Tillman's Questions Cover
nor Blease's Democracy.

nor Blease's Democracy.
Senator Tillman's letter, which
Is printed in The St. Matthews Rec
ord to-day, calls attention to q
matter which we have mentioned
several times in the last few months.
The Senator fatty raises q question
as to the party loyalty Of Governor
Blease, who is an avoWed candidate
for United States Senator. Senator
Tillman is the National Executive
Committeeman from South Carolina
and that makes him the spokesman
Of the South Carolina Democracy in
National politics, and what he says
should be needed by all true Demo-
Gratis.
Senator Tillman makes the pointed
assertion that Governor Blease "has
shown no loyalty to the Democratic
party" and declares that as the
Democrats have a majority Of only
seven In the Senate now, that he
would earnestly urge upon the peo-
pie, could he make but one speech to
them, their duty to support the
Democratic President by sending him
a loyal friend to the Senate and
that, "It would be criminal to do 9TH
erwise than to increase the Demo-
cratic majority" This is plain talk
and it must be indorsed by every true
Democrat.
Senator Tillman, who speaks as
the National Democratic Committee
man as well as Senator, puts
it straight to the Democratic voters
of South Carolina that the election
of the candidate in question would
endanger the Democratic majority IN
the Senate. Senator Tillman gives
to the race for the Senate an entire
ly new color. No longer Is the ques-
ton to him one solely of personal ft-
ness, Of ability and character, among
rival Democratic candidates, to serve
the State in the Senate, but whether
or not real Democrat who will sup
port the Democratic Administration
will be chosen.
The raising of this question by
Senator Tillman is timely and the
people should heed what he says
about it. President Wilson and the
Democratic Administration has al
ready done much good for the masses
Of the people. The farmers OF the
country have been specially benefit
ted by the use President Wilson has
made of the public money to move
the crops. This kept them out OF
the clutches Of Wall Street. Presi'
dent Wilson has more legislation in
view to benefit the masses and South
Carolina should send no man to the
Senate who would obstruct this good
work.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
HUERTA STANDS ALONE.
Soon Must Realize That World is
Against Him.

Miguel Covarrubias, former Mexi-
can minister to Russia, is quoted by
The Daily Chronicle, of London, as
being of the opinion that Gen. Huerta
soon will be forced to understand
that he lacks the support Of civilized
countries and this, together with the
growing strength of the constitution
alists, will impel him to seek d way
out of the difficulty for himself. AT
present, says SenoT Covarrubias,
while Gen. Huerta believes he pos
sesses real power, he regards leaving
his post as an act Of desertion.
The ex-minister considers that
Venustiano Carranza would make a
good president, but that 1slesias
Colde-on would be the best man for
the position. Questioned concerning
President Wilson's policy, Senior Gov
arrubias said he believed the presi-
dent was guided by very statesman
like motives and that his policy was
practical rather than idealistic.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19

Most people are honest but not all
are honest from the same motive.
Some are honest because they believe
it is the best policy, as undoubtedly
is. Others are honest because they
like it. That is far more worthy
motive than the other and the man
who is thus honest takes positive
10y in it that the man who is honest
simply as a matter of eypediency can
never feel,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
GO ON STRIKE.
Atlantic Division Of Southern Pacific
Tied Up.

approximately $500 train and en-
ginemen on the Atlantic division OF
the Southern Pacific Railroad struck
at 7 o'clock Thursday night in &C
cordance with an ultimatum present
ed to the officials of the road at Hous-
ton, Texas. Thursday by a committee
representing the four union organi-
cations involved. The walk-out cul-
minated negotiations Of more than
six months which failed to bring
about an amicable adjustment Of diff
ferences between the company and
the men. An eleventh appeal to the
Federal board Of mediation and con-
ciliation by the railroad failed to stop
the walkout, and with engineers, fire.
men, conductors and trainmen idle
from Ell Paso TO New Orleans, the
Southwest faced a possibility Of one
Of the most serious traffic stoppages
in years.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19

1t appears that over in New Jersey
Mr.. Stokes accepted the Republican
nomination for governor and made
the fight merely as forlorn hope,
knowing all the time that he was
doomed. This is the way Democrats
in that state went into battle until
they discovered Woodrow Wilson,
comments the New York World.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19

Cicero said "a scensual and intem-
perate youth hands out a worn-out
body to old age". Young men, did
you ever think of this wise saying
of Cicero. 1t is true. 1ntemperance
and sensuality not only ruins the
body, but degenerates the mind and
entails disease and shame on chill
dren
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
Confessed to Killing.

Six members Of the party Of strlk-
ers accused of the murder Of four
u.nbers of an automobile party at
Trinidad, Col, en- route from Lavsta
to Oakview Saturday have made de-
tailed confessions, according to re-
ports Tuesday received By Adjutant
General Chase from Major Townsend
at Washington,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19

Have you done anything or said
anything during the past week to
help on this town and make 1t an
even mors desirable place in which
to live? Remember that it does not
need any organization or committee
to do that. Any ono can do it who is
50 disposad and every individual ef-
fort counts.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
TYPHOON SWEPT GUAM.
News of Great Storm on Island Re-
ceiyed in Washington.

First news of a great typhoon,
which swept the islam dof Guam and
threw the Collier Ajax ashore,
Thursday came to the navy depart
ment in a report from Lieut.. Conf
mander Alfred ". Kinds, governor OF
the island and commandant OF the
naval station there. Hospital Stew
ard George NJ. Nicholson was drown
ed. The storm demolished native
houses and destroyed roads, wharves,
lighters and telegraph and telephone
lines. The collier was severely DAM
aged. but her hull is in-act. AS uer
machinery can not be repaired at
Guam, the commander oi the -As!atic
feet probably will serd 4 vessel to
tow her to Olongano.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19

When a man confronted with some
difficulty says 1t can't be overcome
and gives up without trying he Is
bound to be failure. Men have ae-
complished great results by attempt
ing the impossible. Many an appar-
emily impossible task has proved
quite easy OF accomplishment when
undertaken with courage and resolu-
tion
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
Homicide liz Jacksonville.

B. 8. MeWhite Jr., a young man
from HendersonHlle, n. c., was stab
bed to death at Jacksonville. Fla.
Thursday night while on his way.
with a friend, to call on young wo-
man
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
LEVER TO SPEAK.
To Address Live Stock Gathering in
GreenViIlc.

Congressman A. F. Lever will
speak in Greenville on November 49,,
at which time a meeting will be held
in the interest of live stock raising
In GreenvIlle county. Mr.. W. w.
Long, State demonstration agent, will
also speak, and number Of other
prominent people will be on the pro-
gram. The agricultural department
Of the Greenville Chamber Of Com
merce have for some time been inter-
ested In raising live stock, and 1t Is
thought that the coming meeting will
gladly aid In the campaign.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
GNNlNGS BY COUNTIES
DIRECTOR ISSUES COTTON SUM.
MARY FOR THIS STATE.
Report Shows 619,72O Bales Ginned
to October Of This Year as Against
54O,S19 for Last Year.

Summary for South Carolina, CIV
ing the quantity Of cotton ginned in
each county up to October IS, in
comparison with the number Of bales
ginned to the corresponding date for
the crop Of 1912, was announced
Thursday by William J. Harris, di-
rector OF the United States census
bureau. Following is the summary
showing the number Of bales ginned
Counting round as half bales) prior
to Nctohor 1S.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
Fire DESTROYS Barn.

Fire early Tuesday destroyed the
barn and stable Of Mrs. Margaret Al
len, near Latta. Three mules, two
horses and a quantity Of feed and
farming implements were consumed.
There was no insurance.. The cause
of the FIRE Is unknown.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
On Serious Charge.

Charged with attempting to poison
members Of his wife's family, Patrick
Ursery, a farmer Of Hazelhurst. Ca,
Thursday was arrested and now Is In
the county Jail Ia default Of $1,000
bond.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
LIVED on HALF RATIONS.
German Steamship Reaches Savannah
Minus Food and Fuel.

Battered by storms and with her
supply of fuel and food practically
exhausted the German steamer Ho-
henfelde, Capt. Adolph Huist, arriV-
ed at Savannah Thursday from Ham
burg, eleven days overdue, having
left that port October 3. The last
ton Of coal Oh tho vessel was used In
steaning up the Savannah River. The
men had been living on half retions
for days and not q, loaf Of bread was
aboard the ship when she reached the
docks. Capt. Huist says the Hohen-
felde encountered storm after storm
throughout the voyage and was
blown hundreds OF miles out of her
ceuIse.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
BURGLARS Make Big Haul.

burglars Friday night went thru
a brick wall in the rear of E. A. Dun
ham & Co.'S private bank at Mon
tour Falls. y. Y. and robbed the
banks cash box Of about $4,000.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
KILLED In FATAL DERAILHENT OF
ALABAMA TRAIN
COACHES Leave TRACK
Broken Rail Causes Three Coaches OF
a Georgia Central Excursion Train
to Leave the Track, Injuing Moro
than One Hundred and Staying

Fifteen persons were killed and
more than a hundred injured, some
of them fatally, early Thursday when
three coaches Of Central Of Georgia
passenger train left the rails at q
point seventeen miles south of Eu-
faula, Ala, and plunged down a steep
embankment. The train, which con-
sisted Of five cars crowded with ezr
cursionists, was en- route from Ozark.
Ala, to Enfaula, where Fair Is be-
ing held. The identified dead are:
Pomp Utsey, Clayton, Ala; Aonrie
Floyd, Clayton, Ala; Miss Bonnie
Brock, Clio, Ala; Mrs. Curb Bell.
Clayton, Ala; Mrs. Laura Wilkinson,
Clio, Ala; Mrs. Wilbur Mclean, Clio;
Mrs. Alto Adams, Elamville, Ala:
Zack Peak, Clayton, Ala; child Of B.
F. Brock, Clio, Ala; Lennie Fryer.
negro, Clio, Ala; Maude McRae, NO
gro, Clio, Ala; Brown, negro, Clio.
Ala. The fatally injur are: Wash
McRae, Clio; Mrs. W, Kendrick,
Clayton; Irene Round !, aged 2.
Louisville, Ala.
A broken rail Is sale have been
the cause Of the acci lent. AS the
crowded excursion train rounded a
curve the three cars at the rear, lit
orally packed with passengers, sud-
denly left the track and breaking
away from the others dashed down
the steep embankment. The wreck
ed coaches practically were demolish-
ed. Shrieks and groans OF the IN
jured rose above the rending crash OF
splintering timbers.
Occupants Of the two coaches
which remained on the rails imme-
diately bent their efforts to rescuing
the hundreds who were caught in the
tangled mass Of wreckage. Word OF
the disaster quickly reached Clayton,
Ala, three miles away, and relief
trains, bearing surgeons and nurses,
were dispatched from Ozark and Eu-
faula, where most Of the dead and
injured later were taken.
Many Of the victims were cared for
at Clayton, where citizens turned
their residences into emergency hos
pitals. Every physician within q
radius Of many miles hurried to tho
scene Of the wreck and assisted in
caring for the injured. SO large was
the number Of victims, however, that
available space at Clayton soon was
exhausted and many had to be plae-
ed on cots on porches and In front
yards. Because OF the isolation Of
the place where the wreck occurred.
and the confusion which prevailed,
Identification of the dead and injured
was slow.
Thursday night many OF the intur-
ed were carried to Eufatla from
Clayton, those suffering most being
rushed to local hospitals by a special
train. Others were transported
by automobiles, carriages and other
vehicles. A majority Of the injured
sustained painful scratches and
bruises from splintered woodwork
and cuts from flying glass. There
were many, however, who suffered
broken bones and similar hurts Of q
dangerous nature. Railroad officials
have issued a statement in which
they ascribed the wreck to a broken
rail. 1t was announced that an inves-
tigation will be instituted at once by
officers Of the Central Of Georgia,
with view Of definitely fixing the
blame for the accident.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
on GOOD TERMS.
South Carolina Senators Have No
Hard Feelings.

Hard Feelings.
Both Of the South Carolina sena-
tors were callers at the White House
Wednesday and saw the president,
but at different tiues. The personal
relations between the senators are
now quite pleasant, and there is no
doubt that Senator Smith is gratifed
at the statement recently made by
Senator Tillman, declaring that the
junior senator has served his State
we'll and ought by all means to be re-
elected. There is no evidence. how
ever, that the deadlock over the dis
trict attorneyship and marshalship is
any nearer solution, and it may
continue until the chances Of the ad-
ditional Federal district bill are def
initely decided at the regular session
Of Congress.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19

Look at the label on your paper
and zee how much you owe us.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19

desired aad In otherwise contributing
to a peaceful solution.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
GIRL FATALLY BURNED.
Clothing Of Anderson County Child
Catches Fire From Hearth.

Bonnie Lee Bolt, the six-year-old
daughter Of W. B. Bolt, Of the Town
VILE section Of Anderson county, was
fatally burned Wednesday, when her
clothing caught fire from an open fire
place. The little girl was In the room
with two younger children, while her
father was in the yord. Her mother
Is dead. When the father entered
tho room he found the little girls
clothes in flames. Her death IS e1-
pected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14

served her franchise for seat on Par
nassus than a manufacturer OF steel
bonds
Beckford, I said. was no vuIgarian,
though a commoner. Ills father was a
wealthy merchant. alderman of London,
twice lord mayor, famous radical, but
owner of vast estates I'm the West Indies,
with thousands of slaves, and of one
place in Wiltshire, to which wealth the
son succeeded when he was a boy in his
11th year. His annual revenue was sup
posed to exceed half million of dollars.
which certainly represents more than a
million today There was some connec-
tion with the aristocracy, rather senti-
mental mother, and step-sister who en-
couraged the boy in a sort of fantastic
dream-life. Instead of being placed under
school discipline he had, private tutor,
who could not fill the need. At the age
of II he visited Italy, got benediction
from the aged Voltaire, and came
back to England in 177S, when he
wrote a burlesque account of the pictures
in the galleries of the Fonthill abbey, his
beautiful home. Again he travelled until
his coming of age and after that a third
time, in great state, returning lit
1873 for his marriage to Lady Mar
garet Gordon. who died three years
later, leaving two children who
seem to have been quickly for
gotten by the father. This union appears
to have been effected against the will of
the lady's relatives. Mr. More points out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
THE CALlPH VATHEK-By George Eaves, D. D.

ing ground of the true, the beautiful and
the good 1t is an early example of
Oriental license in English literature.
There was a. story told by Beckford
about his writing the s'Vathek' romance
at one sitting, which lasted three days
and two nights. and during which he
never took off his clothes. The truth is
that he was at work on that little book
for several years, writing it in French,
his friend and Oriental scholar named
Henley, furnishing notes and the trans
Iation into English. This English version
was certainly checked and approved by
Beckford, but it was published in 1856,
without his permission, pretending to be
translated from the Arabic, before the
French original saw the light in 1887.
Beckford, of course, exposed the villainy
and treachery of his false friend.
The theme calls to mind Goethe's
Faust" the story Of how the self-torture
that lusts for experience and burns in
cense to egotism must end In further tor
ture and llmitless experience of further
lust. Beckford's hero is an eastern
prince, of a long and powerful line. who
seeks the quintessence of indulgence. He
builds five new wings to his palace, each
dedicated to the indulgence of one of his
five appetites. But his thirst for knowl
edge equals his thirst for pleasure, and
his power is so vast that when he is an
CRY one of his eyes becomes so fierce
that it sometimes slays the wretch OIL
whom ii is fixed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14

had begun to do notable things when he
was only II. The work of Beckford serves
Mr.. More as a starting point in his study
of modern tendencies in the philosophy of
life. His story of the Caliph Vathe1 was
in the nature of a surprising discovery,
which Casselrs Popular Library provided
for us long ago.
Beckford is the true prototype of the
early Chicago and Pittsburg millionaire,
the newly rich of the newspaper wits, of
whom, from California to New York,
stories are told. But Beclsford was no
blatant vulgarian, such as he who, hav-
ing bought seat in the Senate and erect
ed an opera house in his own western
capital, returned from Washington to in
spect and formally dedicate the theatre
named in his honor Passing up the ves-
tibule, he noticed the niche filled with a
copy of the Stratford Shakespeare
WHO'S that" asked the senator, and
was enlightened. . Shakespeare" he
queried in minatory and believing tone
What did he ever do for this city?
built this theatre! Fake him down and
put me up therer' So also our dear sis
ter Atlanta has actually done upon her
Carnegie library, over whose fair por-.
t1co the donors name competes with those
of Homer, Virgil. Milton, and the rest of
the immortals. Atlanta has shown her
singular aptness as representative of the
new age: but one would have supposed
that there were many who better de
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14

how extensively purple some of the letters
are which Beckford wrote to other women
while still counting Lady Margaret
Strange and exciting rumors of life at
Fonthill were current. and a book writ
ten by him about that time was with
drawn from circulation probably because
its romantic tendency might give some
color to the stories about the author"
Here then is young English lad, of
romantic and ecstatic sort of mind, pos
sessed of boundless wealth. welcomed to
his patrimony by armies of retainers and
friends, carrying out imperial dreams of
display, spending unheard of sums in
costly buildings, taking 800 men from the
royal works on st. Georges chapel, Wind
sor that they might toll in continuous
gangs at Fonthill as though he were
some genie, or could command all the
genii of the Arabian Nights Later. he
surrounded his vast palace, and its tower,
800 feet in height, with a stone wall u
feet high, nearly eight miles in circuit
With the power and the impulse to end
less Indulgence. what else could happen
than this shrinking from the eyes of
men?
In his old age he was lonely and un-
loved He was compelled to sell Fonthil1
retired to Bath, where he built another
tower. and died in 1874
II is this mans one famous book, Vat
HEX" which Mr.. More selects as the start
ing point in the modern romantic move
ment away from the old classical stand