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LOOKOUT! YOU BIRD HUNTERS!! We still have a few Guns on hand. both Single and Double Barrel, Ham mer and Hammerless. that we are closing out at reduced prices. Now is your chance to get a good Gun cheap. We 4. also selling Shot at $1.75 Per Sack. This price is less than you can buy them in any market wholesale. Leg gings, Hunting Coats. and Amunition. Lard Cans we have them in all sizes. Yours for business, DICSONHARDWARE COl. Levi Block. To Farmers and Garden Planters. We have added an up-to-date Seed Depart ment to our grocery line and have just re ceived our first shipment of Seeds from the reliable house of T. W. Wood & Sons of Rich mond, Va. We Have Exclusive Control of Their Seeds For Manning, and can supply your wants at catalogue prices. We also carry in stock Wood's Poultry Grain Food and Shredded Alfalfa, the proper foods to make hens lay during the winter months. Our motto is, to keep what the other fellow don't and if we haven't got it, let us know and we will get it.. The Manniiig Grocery Co. L. B. Dt7RANT, . R.f(. WILDER, P. M. PARROTT, President. -- Vice-President. Secretary. Opposite Court House. We invite the people of Clarendon to visit our store or write to us for prices when thev are needing anything in our line. We have added more capital to our businiess in order to meet the increasing demands, and our Mr. L. B. Du Rant will always welcome his friends from Clarendon. Inspect our immense stock of HARDWAREW FARMING IMPLEMENTS, HOUSEFURNISHINGS, HARNESS, SADDLES, MACHINERY SUPPLIES, BELTINGS of all kinds. BARB WIRE at prices which cannot be duplicated. We have just received a carload of Elwood Field Fencinzg, Guns, Powder. Shot, Shells and Sportsmen's Goods. Devoe's Celebrated Paints. .A. JAP-A-LAC, the Housekeepers' --- Delight for making old Furniture New. Come to see us. THE DURANT HARDWARE COMPANY, SUMTER, S. C. STHE.. _ I Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co. j OF PHTTADELPHIA, PA. E 3Apractical, mutual, profit-sharing American Company. No stock i or proprietary interest to absor'o insurance dividends. $ _The portion of premium that may be used for expenses is limited in policies, which limitation guarantees economy, protection of trust __ funds and liberal dividends to policy holders. The fulfillment of policy contracts is guaranteed by the reserve, __protected by the undivided surplus, the company's record of over__ ~ wnty-ix yars fo pro ~ y of camfvorable mortality, as Ratio of Assets to Liabilities..................121. w Let me show you our contracts that insure your insurance. i3 JOE 0. McCREERY, Dstricot Manager. Ei Columbia, S. C., and Manning, S. C. For Convenience and safety, Fe'sance.?*ime*Loc*n Bonded crsad elaExminaions", anorc"<" afnueugrothiien>euntr the cogdence reposed in us by the people of Manning Deposits October 1, 1904, $38,154,82. Deposits October 1. 1905, $723659.67. Iyourepatonaehiaiat a co"trbed ~to usccevthank you for same: Bank of Carendon,iamig,s.o. BRING YOUR 4CJOB WORKDM TO THE TIMES OFFICE. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON VilI, FIRST QUARTER, INTERNA TIONAL SERIES, FEB. 25. Text of the Lesson, Mark i, 1-12. Memory Verse, 5-Golden Text, Mark ij, 10 - Commentary Prepared by Rev. ID. M. Stearns. [CopyrIght, 1906, by American Prom Association.] The two lessons following this one and the first lesson of the next quar ter will all be in .vlhat is known as the sermon on the mount, and, accord ing to the harmonics, the draft of fishes, which was our !esson two weeks ago; the healing of the leper and the lesson'of today follow. in the order of events,- that sermon. The cg- of the leper, "If thou wilt, thou canst," drew forth the compas sion of Jesus, brought the touch of that healing hand, and with the words, *I will; be thou clean," there came perfect health to that poor leprous body, for Luke as a physician says lie was full of it. Although the man was asked to say nothing about his healing. he so blazed it abroad that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but withdrew Himself into the wilderness and prayed (Luke v, 10). Access to God is as open to us as it was to Him, for He is now there for us, but'how little we seem to know of the power and privilege of prayer! After some days He again re-entered Capernaum. and soon the house where He was could not hold the people who came. Luke tells us there were Pharisees .and doctors of the law out of every town of Galilee and Judaea and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was pres ent to heal them (Luke v. 17). Our les son says that He preached the word unto them. His teaching on the resur rection day as recorded in Luke xxiv, 27, 44. when He expounded in all the Scripture the things concerning Him self both from the law, the prophets and the Psalms; His teaching as set forth in the sermon on the mount and the Olivet discourse.of Matt. xxiv, xxv and paralleled chapters in Mark and Luke give us some Idea of His teach ing at other times, but we must ever remember that He always said only what the Father told Him to say (John xii, 49; xiv, 10). The highest attain ment of teacher. or preacher is to have Matt. x, 20, fulfilled in them, "It Is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you," or Jer. 1, 9, "Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth," or IT Sam. xxiii, 2, "The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and His word was in my tongue." While these blind, self righteous Pharisees and doctors, who might be heald if they on!y knew their need of heiling, are listening to His wonderful words a caie of manifest and realized need is suddenly in their midst with a zeal and a de.termination sure to ac complish its end if it be at all possible of accomplishment. These four get their palsied friend into the presence of the Lord Jesus in anything but good form. Let the manner of this man's coming-or the story of the poor woman who pressed through the crowd and tremblingly touched the hem of His garment forever set aside all thought of the manner of our coming. The one thing to do is to come. Jesus is not disturbed by the break ing up of the roof nor by the apparent breaking up of the meeting, or at least this unseemly intrusion; but, looking upon the sick man, he says, "Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee" (Matt. 1x, 2). This He said when He saw their faith, for nothing pleases Him like confidence in Him, and "without faith it Is impossible to please Him" (Hab. xl, 0). If we were always of good cheer, how many we might cheer as we journey on day by day! -But the foundation of all real "good comfort" is the forgiveness of sins, for apart from this there is no peace nor comfort. The gospel that does not proclaim the forgiveness of sins Is not the gospel of God nor the gospel of the grace of God, but another gospel (Gal. 1, 0-9). The health of the soul is of more importance than the health of the body, for if our sins are forgiven by' the precious .blood of Christ we shall in due time, by virtue of that same precious blood, have a re eemed, a glorified body which shall never know sickness or weakness any more (Phil. ill, 20, 21). Whether this man's sickness was the result of spe-, lal sin on his part or not we do -not know, but our Lord attended to his greatest need first. As the blinded, self righteous scribes and Phiarisees who were present heard im, as they thought, pretend to for give sins they said in their .hearts, "This man is a blasphemer, for only God can forgive sins." Had they been teachable they might have said, "This must be our Messiah, for He forgives sins" But they were rebels agaInst God. This is Indeed "mind reading ex traordinary." but all things are naked nd open to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do (Heb. iv, 13). See Ps. exxxix, 2, 4; Ezek. xi, 5. How sur prised they must have been to have their thoughts told out bifore all the people, but more surprised possibly when they saw the -sick man arise healed and, tainr p his bed, go forth a well man! We do not wonder that they said, "We never saw It on this fashion" (verse 12) or, as in Luke v, 26, "We have seen strange things to day." It is said that "they glorified Go.d. who had given such power unto men".(Matt. Ix, 8). but it does not say that they glorifid this riian as God be cause He proved Himself such by heal ing both body and soul. His "I say nto thee" might have reminded them of the "Thus saith the Lord" of the prophets If they had -not been blind and alsied and leprous themselves, which they weie, but, knew~ tt not.. - Galveston's Sea Wall. - makes life now as safe in that city as on the higher uplands. E. W. Goodloe, - who resides on Datton St., in 'Waco, Tex., needs no sea wall for safe.ty. He writes: "I have used Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumnpton the past five sars and it keeps me well and .safe. efore that time I had a cough which for years had been growing worse.1 Now its gone." Cures chronic coughs, a Grippe, Croup, Whooping cough and prevents pneumonia. Pleasant to take Fery. ottle guaranteed at The R. B. Lryea* Drug Store. Price 50g. and8$1. Tra ~tteee. The Fir~I, Skates. As late as the-.-ixteenth century skates in England were v.ery primitive, for we learn that tffe London appren-< tices used to tie bo'bes to their feet and under their heels." Writing.fr. 1661,K Evelyn speaks of "the strange and wonderful dexterity of the sliders" In s. James' .parg "perflormed '1eforej their majestles by .divers gentlemnen d others with scheets, after -the man ner of the Hollanders, with what swift nesse they pass, how suddain~ly thef1 stop In full carriage upon th&e-" e. 4 TAMMANY SOCIETY. The Origin of the Organization In the Time of Jefferson. Tammany was the heir of the spirit of the Sons of Liberty of the Revolu tionary war. It was kin in some of its purposes at least to those who were then beginning the revolution in France. It was enthusiastic in its sup port and approval of that revolution. Indeed a misty legend has been handed down from generation to generation in the hall that the suggestion came from JefTerson himself, who, called from France to Washington's cabinet, was pained to see that aristocracy, English in its impulse and fostered by the So ciety of the Cincinnati, wa-s rooting it self so early in our national life. To crush that impulse. at least to fetter It, Jefferson gave the hint, and Tammany, with its tomahawk, stood facing the Cincinnati and its sword. William Mooney. an upholsterer, but, like many of the meghanics of that day, keenly interested in politics, suggested that there be brought together in an as sociation those who dreaded the aris tocracy and who suspected that the purpose of Hamilton was to force the government into something like a lim ited monarchy. Mooney found a good many mechanics and merchants who thought as he did. and so a common purpose, the grouping Impulse rather than any cunning planning of one man for personal advancement, brought some of the ablest political and per sonal foes of Hamilton and Jay togeth er. and with some mystery of oaths and ritual. the pipe of peace, the feath ered headdress, even the painted face and leathern costume. with wampum for its ornament, these men were bound l co.e association as the Tam many society, or Columbian order. Kodol Digests What You Eat. Just a little Kodol after meals will re lieve that fulness, belching, gas on the stomach, and all other symptoms of in digestion. Kodol digests what you eat, and enables the stomach and digestive organs to perform their functions na turallv. Ke o1 is a thorough digestant and will aff'r-rd relief from any disorder due to imperfect digestion or mal-as similation. Sold by The R. B. Loryea Drug Store. BURIED LIVING PERSONS. Horrible Custom of Japanese Prior to Year 646 A. D. Rrior to the year 64#3 A. D. the Japa nese had one of the most horrible burial customs that can be imagined that of burying all the immediate friends and retainers - of a prince or other person of note in a standing po sition around the potentate's grave and leaving them in the earth up to their necks to perish of thirst and hunger. The custom cannot be said to have been general as late as the date given, for the Japanese records prove that in the time of the Emperor Suinin (9T-30 B. C.) the- burial rites of royal person ages wvere so modified as to partially abolish former cruelties. Speaking of a young brother of Suinin, who died and had his retinue buried standing around his grave, the old record says: "For many days they died not, but wept and cried aloud. At last they died. Dogs and crows assembled and ate off their heads. The emperor's compassion was aroused, and he de sired to change the manner of burial. When the empress died, soon after, the mikado Inquired of his offleers if some thing in the way of a change could not be suggested, and one proposed to make clay figures of men and bury them as substitutes." That this did not entirely do away with the former custom is proved by an edict issued In the year 646 A. D., the date given first above, which forbid the burial of living persons and pro vided a penalty for further adherence to the awful rite.-St. Louis Republic. Placing Him. "foung man," began the dignified .Antleman in black dress, "have you fully considered the fuxture? Have you made provisions for the hereafter? Is It not time" "Pardon me one moment, please, but are you a minister or a life Insurance agent?"-Milwaukee Sentinel. CASTOR IA For Tnfants and'Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of BEAUTY SPOTS. Japanese women gild their teeth. In Greenland women paint their faces blue and yellow. The ladles of Arabia stain their fin ers and toes red. In India the women of three high 2astes paint their teeth black. Borneo women dye the hair in fantas tie colors-pink, green, blue and scarlet. A HTindoo bride is anointed from head to fot with grease and saffron. In New Holland scars made carefully ith shells form elaborate patterns on :he ladies' faces. In some South American tribes the women draw the front teeth, esteeming is an ornament the black gap thus ade. In New Guinea the ladies wear nose :ings, piercing the nose in the same endish way that civilized women erce the ears.--Phladelphia Bulletin. ars the e Kind Youl Have Always 80i~* of s The Way of It. The Missus-Mary Ann, please ex )lain to me how it is that I saw yoti tissing a young man in the kitchen last right. The MaidmSure, I dunno how it s. ma'am, on1'ess yez*swere lookin' rough the keyhole.-Ceveland Lead Eakos Kidneys a 8&dder" Rli Doctor-You mulff4e a quarter in hour's walk before ,e~ery m~ tout Patient-But. doctor, you sur lon't want me to wallb'all day long 'liegende Blatter. +. .. Affection soothes, it hallog~s, elevai ubdues and bringeth down to ea ts native heaven.-Landonl. . Cennedy's Laxative Honey and'? s al ouas.nd expels Colds tI Rough us-nds Made Smooth. A man who once had rough and horny hands made them soft and smooth with Witch Hazel Salve, but he used the genvine-that bearing the name "E. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago." For sores, boils, cuts, burns, bruises. etc., it has no equal and affords almost iminediate relief from blind bleeding itching and protruding piles. Sold by The R. B. Loryea Drug Store. "Homie, Sweet Home." "Home. Sweet Home," Payne's song, was originally a number in the opera "Clari, the Maid of Milan," a produc tion brought out in 1823. The opera was a failure, and nothing is now known of it save the one song, which became instantly popular. Over 100, 000 copies were sold in the first year of Its publication, and the sale in one form or another has been constant ever since the first appearance of this beautiful theme. The melody is a Sicilian folk song and was adapted to the words by Payne himself. For Biliousness and Sick Headache, Take Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup. It sweetens the stomach, aids diges tion and acts as a gentle stimulant on the liver and bowels without irritating these organs. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup cures biliousness and habitual constipation. Does not nauseate or gripe and is mild and pleasant to take. Remember the name Orino and refuse, to accept any substitute. The R. B. Loryea Drug Store, Isaac M. Loryea, Propr. An Eye For an Aye. "Mr. Speaker," said the congress man, "I have tried vainly to catch your eye and" "Sit down!" thundered the speaker. "I have tried vainly tiu catch your 'aye' several times when it w~s, ueeded." I1iladelphia Ledger. . So They Do. "Some men are born great" Yes, but gracious, how some of them dto sbrink! -London Tit-Bits. The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, let there be truth between us forore.r erEmerson.. The End of the World of trouble that robbed E. H. Wolfe, of Bear Grove, Ia., of all usefulness, came when he began taking Electric Bitters. He writes: "Two years Kidney trouble caused me great suffering, which I would never have survived had I not taken Electric Bitters. They also cured me of general debility." Sure cure for all stomach, liver and kidney com plaints, bloed diseases, headache. diz ziness and weakness or bodily decline. Price 50c. Guaranteed by The R. B. Loryea Drug Store. "Robbing Peter to Pay PauL' This saying had its origin In the rivalry between St. Peter's cathedral, now Westminster abbey, and St Paul's, when, in 1550, an appropria tion was made from St. Peter's to make good a deficiency In the accounts of St. Paul's. Much opposition was shown to this, and it was for the time a popular outcry, "Why rob Peter to pay Paul?" The saying was revived as a proverb upon the death -of Wil liam Pitt, earl of Chatham, in 1778. The city of London argued that so illus trious a statesman should be buried at St. Paul's, while parliament held thait the remains of so great a leader should be placed with the dust- of kings and that to bury him away from the Abbey of Westminster would be again a rob bing of Peter to pay Paul, Itching Piles. If you are acquinted with anyone who is troubled with this distressing ailment you can do him no greater favor than to tell him to try Chamber lain's Salve. It gives instant relief. Price 25 cents per box. Sold by The R. B. Loryea, Drug Store. Brazen Thefts. During the South African war an im mense stone monument was removed at Cape Town during the night, and no one knows to this day by whom or why it was taken. Some years ago, in broad daylight, a clever argd bold gang of thieves carried off p. valuable fountain fourteen feet high from Uibridge with out exciting the suspicions of any one and quite recently an omnibus was calmly removed, horses and all, while standing unguarded outside a public house In London and has never been seen or heard of since. It would seem, indeed, that it is often far easier to steal a big thing than a little one. London Telegraph. .-. Common Colds are the Causds of Many Serious Diseasps. Physicians who haye gained. a na tional reputation as acalystsof the ause of varipps .dise~ase, claixn-: that if atching cold could' be avoided a ,long list of dangerous ailments would never be heard of... Every one -kgows _that pneumonia and consumption-.ri'nate from a cold, and chronic catar~h,%bron hitis, and all throat and luno ruble re .aggravated, and rend44.mo~re serious by each attack. Do t' iisk our life or take chances when youj have a cold. Chamberlain's Coughl Remedy will cure it before these dis ases develop. This remedy contains no pium, morphine or other harmful rug and has thirty years of raputation :ack of it, gained by its cures under eery condition. For sale by The R. B. oryea Drug Store. Different Service. "Yes, sir," said the soldierly looking man, "I have spent fifteen years of my life in the service of my country." "So have L." volunteered the low browed individual, offering his band. "What were you in for?"-Houston Methusala was all right, you bet For a good old soul was he, Tey say he would be living yet, -Had he taken Rocky Mountain Tea. r. W. E. Brown & Co. Arab Steeds as Churn. The noble Arabian st'eed Is uome imes put to ignoble uw'es. A travelr-e #1tricon'delastic ideas said: -"Youbate eard ofthe Arabian horse's beauty, its ocility, its intelligence,.its enduran'e. Did you '.know that it churned the family butter.?. Among the desert trIbes. when b*u4ter Is'needed the milk Is puf' n a sheepskin bag and tied by a short ope to the horse's saddle. The horse s then urged into. a trot, and this gait up until the milk In the sheep joggled into butter. A fine, - ooth butter it is." * A New Idea. -time cough syrups bind the This is wrong. A new idea was 3d two years ago 14 Kennedy's -e Honey and Tara:This' remedy1 the mucous mnem'brag~es of . the - nd lungs and. loosens the bow ne same time. It expels all cold .e system. It clears the throat, hens the mucous membranes, 3 coughs, colds, croup, whoop gh, etc. Sold by The R. B. n-g te. Ask for the The new Laxative that does not gripe or nauseate. Vleasant to talie. The R. B. L, Do You1 Wait PERFECT FIT11NG CLOTHES? THEN COME OR SEND TO US. We have the best equipped Tailor ing Establishment in the State. We handle High Art Clothing solely and we carry the best line of Hats and Gent's Furnishings in the city. Ask your most prominent men who we are, and they will commend you to us. i. L, DAVID & BRO, Cor. King & Wentworth Sts., CHARLESTON, - S. C. Buggies, Wagon, Road Carts and Carriages R EPAIRED With Neatness and -Despatch -AT R. A. WHITE'S WHEELWREGHT and BLACKSMITH SHOP. I repair Stoves, Pumps and run water pipes, or I will put.(g a new Pump If you need any soldering done, give me a call. LAME. My horse is lame. Why? Because I did not have it shod by I. A. White, the man that puts on such neat shoes and makes horses travel with so much ease. We Make Them Look New. We are making a specialty of re painting old Buggies, Carriages, Road Carts and Wagons cheap. Come and see me. My prices will please you, and I guarantee all of my work. Shop on corner below R. M. Dean's. R. A. WHITE, MANNING. S. C. A New Firm. --:o: The undersigned having formed a copartnership under the name of L L WELLS & CO., desire to extend a cordial welcome to their store in the Levi block, where they will always hlave on hand a full and complete stock of FANCY STAPLEGroceries, FRUITS, CONFECTIONE, CRACKERS and everything pertaining to a first se il oentinue keeping a fll TIONERYand choice- books for the home. Comne to see us. - L. L. WELLS, * F. W. DICKSON. MAKES~ FACES." Quite a number of Mgrging people have Sbepour patrons-the: pasthnonth. G ive us a call arnd see: our sadpI s. ofpho Stos. W ~e ever?-: thing n6~ our line; it costsn higt and begniinced. : It is E~rd 6hd GOOD: photogiaph,' ch ake mane2 . Your friends bi-fa'izly wouldk Sapi-eciate a photoraph mer t'hari anything you can give them. sWhen you come to Sumter Hart's Studio is the place to meet. (Get some of those$ p. "PING-PONGS," + Only 25c, per dozen, + Just for Fun. $4 Notice. The regular monthly meering of ;he Board of County Commissioners 'ill be held on Saturday, January :0th, 1906, instead of the first Satur lay. E. B. BROWN, Clerk Board Co. Coin. KodoR Dyspepsia Cure nigeats what yon oat. PEPSIA 'aT= DIGESTS WHAT YOU EAT The 1.00 bottle contains 2% times the trial ize. which sons for 50 cs, PREPARED ONLY AT THE LAoOATORY OF E. C. DeWITT & COMPANY. CHICAGO. II.Le Ie X.. B. .Lry-ea :Dr-ug store. 1906 Kodol Almanac-and 200 Year Calendar. I fl Cures Stomach and Liver trouble and i iL Fruit Syaoup C chrocCnsipaton. >ryea Drug Store, Isaac M. Loryea, Prop. GLENN SPRINGS -I," M INE R A L fi~l~mlliWATE R. Nature's Greatest Remedy FOR DISEASES OF THE Liver, Kidneys, Stomaoh and Skin. Physicians Prescribe It, Patients Depend on it, and Everybody Praises it. FOR SALE BY w. E. BRcwN d CO. IF YOU WISH TO BORROW L Loans Blade Money on long or short time, Loam Mad Ol on improved real estate, I am On Improved in a position to serve you. Improved Real Estate. 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