The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-01-29
ISSUES ATTRACTIVE FOLDER
The Southern Railway Mails One to
Every Railroad Agent

The Southern Railway has recently
issued and mailed to every railroad
ticket agent in the United States a
very attractive folder printed in two
colors, which booms the South as a
new field for settlers. The follow
lug Is copied from it:
Man Is migratory being. This is
particularly true Of the American.
AS far back as that point in time
when history fades into tradition,
man has sought the possible or the
impossible through migration.
When. In the days Of the later
Caesars, civilization took its west
ward trend the spirit or migration
began to develop. Its inspiration
then was battle, conquest, territory.
Emulation among men pressed for
ward the outposts Of civilization un-
til they belted the world. They were
advanced to the south and to the
north, and there came q day when
the remotest regions OF the earth
the north pole and the south pole
yielded to the militant spirit Of mi
grafton instilled through centuries
of conquest into man.
The spirit Of migration is as &C
tive in man to-day as it was in the
days Of the Roman legions. Its in
spiration, however, is not battle and
blood; but commerce and industry,
rest and recreation. 1t renders pos
slble a further extension Of the arts
of peace and the realms Of pleasure.
Through It's promptings fancy is
translated into fact; and man Is the
better for It.
. Civilization, too, has developed.
In this twentieth century migratory
man is supplied with the means of
gratifying the spirit Of moving in
nate in him. He is no longer chain
ed to e post. The railroad, the tele-
graph, the telephone, have removed
the bars Of business and man now
may indulge the spirit of migration
without suffering loss. He may MI
crate for pleasure, for health or for
commerce, assured that he will en-
10y all the conyeniences, comforts
and luxuries Of his own habitat-and
then some.
Man thus has become enthusiastic
In his migration. The forms Of his
movements are varied. He may
change his residence; he may take
a business trip; he may migrate for
pleasure or for health. But the spir-
it of his being is one tnat promotes
industry, prosperity and happiness.
Migration has become vacation. Man
yields to it's fascination and thereby
becomes the better acquainted with
his country, with nature, with
his family, with himself. His is an
amplifed life. He does not exist,
he lives. And he lets others
live. He does not waste time; he
finances it.
Through migration man: has been
his wits have been
and his intelligence has
been enlightened. No longer is the
man with a gun case, a fishing rod
Or a bag Of golf clubs regarded as
an idler or a drone. He is a man OF
ideas. He capitalizes brains. More
than likely he is a captain Of indus
try, a promoter of patriotism of a
of good citizenship. He IS
in a morally and physl-
:ally healthful way that spirit Of MI
grafton that was born in him. His
periods of migration are the results
If evolution and Of the superior de-
velopment of his own being.
Migrations for pleasure, for health,
:or Recuperation, for business, are
10 longer restricted by the seasons.
IN these days, the great empire OF
he south, which is gridironed BY
he lines of the Southern Railway,
affords delightful relief from the
hill blasts Of winter IN the north;
md in the summer, the beauties OF