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THE MANNING TIMES. Pudlished Ecery Wednesday. Wednesday, November 20, 1889. The District School. "Come dear!" said Amy putting up her parasol. Dear came, a chubby five-year-old. "We'll take a stroll up the road Mal colm," said his young aunt. "All wight," said Malcolm. They had come, Malcolm and his parents and his father's pretty sister, to pass the summer in Gloster. Gloster was only a hamlet, but it was cool and green and delightful. "We'll go along by this stone wall, dear," said Amy. They passed a maple grove, a little old church, some farm-houses, and then came suddenly upon a square, white building, with two doors in front and yellow-blinded windows. Out of the doors bare-footed children, with dinner pails, were coming. "A district school !" said Amy. "And it looks so much like-but of course you don't remember, Malcolm. You were only two years old." Smiling in a pleasantly retrospec tive way, Amy strolled up to the door. She would have a congenial little chat with the teacher. Probably it was a spinster with a pointed nose and a shoulder shawl, but She and Malcolm went in, and the teacher r'ose from the desk. He was hardly a spinster! He was a tall, bright-eyed, dark mustached, indisputably good looking young man. "Oh !" Amy faltered. "Come is!" said the schoolmaster, though they were in. Amy mustered her courage. It was embarrassing, but after all it didn't alter the case. She would have her 'congenial chat just the same. "We thought we'd come in," she said, sweetly smiling. "You see, I taught a term in a district school once myself, and " "Certainly," said the master. "I am always glad to have visitors. I'm sorry my school is out." He hastened forward to meet her, and walked back down the aisle with her. "I'd have been glad to see it," said Amy--not very regretfully, however. "See, Malcolm, dear, that rat on the blackboard." "Yes, I illustrate their lessons for my primer children," said the teacher laughing. "They like my pictorial1 efforts." What a pleasant laugh he had, and what a clearness and gaiety in his eyes ! Amy's heart beat a little faster. "It's such work, isn't it, teaching babies?" she said. "I had an infant of three in my school." "Oh, I draw the line there ! But I have them as small as this young man." fle pinched Malcolm's fat cheek. "Malcolm is five," said Amy. "Have you many pupils? I had only six teen." ."Oh, I can beat that ! I have forty." - "And youi do it all?" said Amiy, her "admiring eyes raised to his. "I'm afraid I'm presumptuous to try to have a congenial talk," she laughed, -ambiguously. "You see, I taught only one term. I was spending the sum mer at Hinton, and the teacher was taken sick the first of the term, and I taught it for her. But I'm afraid I did it for fun." "I shall rank you among the peda gogues, all the same," the young schoolmaster declared gaily. "You've taught a school, and the insincerity of your motive doesn't matter. I don't know why we can't have a congenial "Perhaps we can," said Amy, with pretty laughter and a blush. They had it. Malcolm, sitting close to his pretty aunt on the bench, listened round eyed, interested, if not comprehend Amy wondered afterward how they ever drifted from school methods and monthly examinations to the prettiness of Gloster's rambles and the pleasant ness of the Clark's front porch, where Amy boarded, and the excellence- of their croquet ground. But they did; and they were honestly amazed when the clock on the wall gave its 'tehick' for half-past five. They looked at each other in flushed alarm. Their acquaintance was an hour and a half old. "I've hindered you," Amy cried. "You've got lessons to make out, or something." "I haven't,"- retorted the teacher, with a bright laugh. "I was going home. I live beyond the Clarks', and I hope you'll let me go with you." "Come, Malcolm, dear," said Amy, turning aside her smiling face. "I don't suppose you will care for my commencement," said the school master, at the Clarks' gate. "It's day after to-morrowv evemang. I call it commencemenit in some ironyv-it's the mere stepping off oif my higher class. Only it's something of a celebration, here, ron know. Everybody comes, and the school board and my gradu ates and I ornament the platform put up for the occasion, and it's a grand time-for Gloster. But it wouldn't pay you." "'But I shall come, of course," said Amy, and then blushed for having said "of course." But the schoolmaster looked happy. She went up the path smiling. Indeed it had been a congenial talk amazingly congenial! "Yes, Gloster's pretty .quiet," said Mr. Clark at the supper table. 1I 'spose commencement, nowv'll have to last us rest o' the summer. It'll be worth seein', though. We've got as smart a teacher as you'll find. Born and brought up in Gloster, too, Phil Oakes was. Ain't but twenty-two. ie's puttin' himself through college with his own hands-or his own head. Keeps up with his classes, somehow, right along with his teachin.' (Goin to have a first rate berth with his un cle in Marsden3 when lie's ready, but le's bound to get educated first. He'll amount to something, Phil Oakes! Wal, you bet ter go to commencement. You'll enjoy it." "I shall go," Amy muttered, butter ing her roll. \ Cmmencement was drawigg toa close. The audience, which was large, had listened, and applauded, and toss ed flowers, and vigorously fanned itself for nearly two hours. The grad uates had read their essays, and the chairman of the school board had presented their diplomas and made a short address. Now it was the turn of the young master, and the audience gave him a little round of cheers as he rose to speak the parting words to the grad uates. For Phil Oakes was certain to say something worth hearing. So he did. The conventional senti ments about the voyage of life and the port of success were for once neglect ed. The young master's speech was short, but good; terse, but bright and interesting and amusing. Amy looked and listened. She was with her brother and sister in-law, and she was rather in doubt as to the thing she intended doing; but she did not falter. How nice he looked ! And his bright eyes were turned toward her more than once. And she had deter mined to do it if it was eccentric. She grasped firmly the handsome nosegay of flowers she had carefully arranged, red and white and yellow roses, with a border of delicate ferns, and as the young master bowed, amid sincere applause, she threw it with vigor at him. There was a general laugh at the novel feature, and then a spreading "Ah !" of consternation. The big bunch had hit the rather rickety lamp on the organ and knock ed it to the floor. There was the ex pected crash of breaking glass, but worse, there was a burst of flame. The oil had caught fire. Of course there was a panic. Even men, in their first fright, pushed to ward the door. Women screamed and children cried. Everybody was certain that the building would burn, and there was a general rush and hubbub. But Amy stood still. Her sister-in law had grown almost hysterical, and her brother had borne her out, and called to Amy to follow. But she did not. She stood mo tionless and watched one figure on the platform. Phil Oakes had snatched up the carpet from the temporary platform, and was valiantly smothering the flames. Amy waited. She had done it! If he was badly burned-if he was smothered-it would be her fault hers! And how differently she had meant it ! She had been foolish, but surely she did not deserve that her foolishness should be to his injury. The time she stood miserably wait ing-waiting till he should see and come to her, as she knew he would (for he must know from whom that bouquet had come)-the time seemed endless. When he came, white faced but smiling, the tears rushed to her anx ious eyes. "I was such a goose !" she said. "What made me do it ? You are burned--both your hands--and I did it !" "No, no! A small burn or two nothing !" said the schoolmaster, look ing handsome as lie bent toward her. "Don't think it ! I have your flowers, and they were worth it! Are you alone? Let me take you home." She took his arm. He was not much hurt, and he held her flowers tightly in his hand, and they were going out into the cool night together, and she was almost glad. For otherwise she would be going home with John and Margaret. "My sister-in-law was hysterical her self, and my brother took her home. He told me to come, but I-" "Your brother ?" said Mr. Oakes. "Yes." "And your sister-in-law ?" "Why, yes." "But I haven't seen them !" he ex postulated. "But you haven't called on me," Amy retorted shyly. "And I thought you were here alone," he declared. "But I'm not," she replied, wonder ing. The schoolmaster stopped short and faced her. "Is it possible," he said solemnly. "Is it possible that that child is your nephew ?" "Of course ! What else could he be," Amy cried. There was a silence of some min utes. "I thought he was your-son," said Phil Oakes, almost inaudibly. "I thought you were a widow." "A widow !" she gasped. She leaned against a fenee and laughed until she was weak. "I was sure you were a widow," he said. "You had on a black dress, you "With yellow bows on it !" she re plied, in a soft scream. "And the little boy wvas with you." "Oh, yes ! Malcolm loves mec. And Margaret was away that day." "And he looks like you." "Yes, everybody says so." "And you called him 'dear.' And I thoughft be called you 'maammy.' " "Aunt Amy," she corrected, faint with laughter. "I see," said the schoolmaster, slow ly: "Do you know," lie added, gazing down upon her, "that it has worried me ever sc much ? Somehow I didn't like to think of your 'being a widow. I liked you," said the schjoolmaster, rather breathlessly. "I liked you right away. That was a congenial talk, wasn't it? and I-I admired you. But I was entirely persuaded that you were a widow with a young hopeful, and somehow If didn't like the idea in the least. On my soul I don't know why," said the young man, laughing as he looked down upon her. And he didn't know, though he blushed as he saiid it, and though she of the rose-bouquet had her pretty face turned away. But he knew later. The summer was long, and the Clarks' front porch and croquet ground were rich in op portunity. When the young school maste-r went back to college in the fall he left a modest diamond ring behind him. And when, two years later, the bright young graduate went to fill ia remunerative position in Marsden, he took his young wife with him.-Salar day'l! Nil/hi. *The Mmasa~x Tmunzs second GrandJ Gift Distribution is Nov. 28th. Nc postponement. At least twenty-five Females Excluded from Funerals. A new departure in the conduct o funerals in Philadelphia is that of ex cluding from the burial all female rel atives and friends of the deceased. I is now not unusual to see funeral no tices in that city worded as follows "Male members of the family onl: are invited to attend the funeral." Il New York most of the funerals ar< attended only by the male member: of the family of the deceased, and ii European countries this scheme has for a long time been in vogue. .4 well known Philadelphia undertake) says: "Ladies should not be takei to the burial ground for more that one reason, either in good or bay weather. It subjects them to a grea nervous strain to see the body o: some member of their family or som< relative lowered into the ground, any time and time again I have seen la. dies faint from this excitement. Some, times there is a hitch in the dropping of the coffin, so that considerable dif ficulty is occasioned in getting it straightened out. Accidents of this nature are very prolific of nervow prostration, and women should not be submitted to them. This city is just awakening to the fact that a bia funeral is a big folly. As a rule ev ery large funeral is the cause of the death of at least one person who at tended it. Delicate women are con stantly jeopardizing their lives by taking long rides in carriages and then standing on the cold, dam ground while services are held over the grave. Few women attend funerals it England, because they are aware of what would be the result of such at imprudent act." weakcn., _.ialaria, Indigestion and Biliousness. tike niOWNS IRON BITTERS. It cures quickly. For sale by all dealers in medicine. Get the genuine. FORESTON DRUG STORE, FORESTON, S. C. I keep always on hand a full line of Pure Drugs and Medicines, FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, TOILE' SOAPS, PERFUMERY, STATION ERY, CIGARS, GARDEN SEEDS, and such articles as are usually kept in first class drug store. I have just added to my stock a line of PAINTS AND OILS, and am prepared to sell PAINTS, OILS LEAD, VARNISHES, BRUSHES, in quantities to suit purchasers. L. W. NETTLES, M.D., Foreston, S. C. J J. BRAGDON, REAL E~ST A T E AG EXT, FORESTON, S. C. Offers for sale on Main Street. in business portion of the town, TWO STORES, witi suitable lots; on Manning and R. R. street. TWO COTTAGE RESIDENCES, 4 and ( rooms; and a number of VACANT LOT; suitable for residences, and in different lo cities. Terms Reasonable. Also, a plantation near Greeleyville, 344 acres, 115 in cultivation, and a see 10oon dIwelling and necessary outbuidihngs. CHARLES C. LESLIE Wholesale & Retail Commission Dealer in Fish, Oysters, Game and Poultry Stalls Nos. 1 and 2 Fish MIarket. 011ice, 11 & 20 M1arket Street. East of East Bay. Coun try orders solicited. CHARLESTON, S. C. DR. CHARCOT'S LIFE ELIXIR PLEASANTLY E x hilar atin g CURES NERVOUSNESS and SLEEPLESSNESS RIGHT AWAY. Free by MIail, 50 cents and $1.00. SEN F-'R CII:CUI..n. Life Elixir Co., 30 Vesey St., N. Y H. BULWINLE & CO. -DEALERS IN Grain, Hay, 1. Mill Feed Southern Seed Rye, Southlern Seed Bar y, Western and Texas Red Rust Proof Oats a Specialty. No. 162 East Bay, and 15 and 1' Elizabeth Street, CHIAR LESTIOX, S. . G. S. Hacker & Son Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings Building Material. ESTABdLIS~HED 1842. CHA RLESTON, S. C. NOTHING LIlKE A BOOM. There is no b<.om like Smine's and i house in Sumter on such a boom as the o1 reliable Shoe Store of Uanianni- & Dro., whnih is so) well know" to the ClIarendon peole that they onily waz to thank them for paust pautrona:r~ and m: for a continufanlce of samen. Theair stockr th! season is mo're complete and Sho es at chaper thanu ever befo're. Either at Wholesale or Retai they will satisfy youl in. p'-i.'(. There ai many ne.w stores in Sumnt, this seasonI, an~ we all know "a new broom s:weepscla lbut 'tis well not to disecird *"the old frien for the new." Tiney carry in addition1 OOTS AND SlHOES a nice ilne of Trunks and Valises, and aure agents for the "Light Runnir White" Sewina Maebine. BULTMANN & BRtO., IF YOU WANT THE WORTH OF Your Money in Groceries, t SPEND IT WITH H1. A. LOWRY, Agt., I OChoice Groceries. Your attention is called to my large and varied assortment of Fancy and Staple Grocer ies, comprising everything in the way of of eatables that can be found in any first-class Grocery Store. Fine goods are specialties., and reasonable prices rule throughout. No baits, but legitimate profits, prompt attention0o orders, courteous treatmnent and honest representations are the princioles that characterize my businrss, and upon which I de pend for a liberal support. MY PRICES ARE AS LoW AS THE LOWEST. Canned Goods and Fine Delicacies. Make your cash secure the best possible results in supplying the necessaries of life. If you would do this, come to me; I will give yon honest goods, full weight ana measure and sa'isfactory results for every dollar you leave with me. Cassard's Lard, Purest Leaf Lard Made. No matter what you want in Groceries, I will endeavor to supply yon. Your trade is what I want, and in order to secure it will exert myself to please in every way. All Heart Cypress Shingles Always oii Hand. To s I take this means of announcing to my friends, customers, and the public generally that. I have received and am receiving daily an enormous stock of General Merchandise, and kindly request my old customers to inform their new friends of the style I have of giving the greatest satisfaction to all cash customers. My prices can never be lowered. I never wait for reduction made by my competitors. I reduce prices on every article as soon as there is a decline. I Sell Everything Cheaper Than any Firm in Clarendon County, My Motto: Live and let live; Quick Sales and Small Profits. I have my store full of almost every kind of goods, and think I can suit you in quality and price. Call and Examine My Goods and Prices. I shall be delighted to serve you, whether you buy or not. LOUIS LOYNS, LEADER OF LOW PRICES, Man n -i3ag, S. C. FURESTU 'lU THE Fl UMT' One of the largest and beat selected stocks of goods ever offered in this maiket, is now being daily received by C. M. MASON, F'oreston, S. C. A splendid assortment of DRY GOODS of every variety and style, sure to please. We have some of the most handsome patterns of prints that have been designed for many years. Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes. Our stock surpasses anything we have heretofore exhibited to the public, both as regards quality, style, and price, and we believe that we can please our people, and will make it to their interest to PATRONIZE HOME. Groceries of Every Kind at Lowest Living Figures. Tobacco, Cigars, &c. Our store is well supplied with a full stock of all kinds of Plantation Supplies. Also, we will pay highest cash prices for cotton, and every other kind of country produce. V rBe sure to call to see us. 0. M. M.A.SON, Foreston, S. C. s A. Edwards Keeps always on hand at the 0MANNING BAKERY, a full supply, and choice assortment, of FAMILY AND FANCY GROCERIES. Bread, Cake, Candy, Fruit,Etc. I always give a full 100 cents worth of goods for the Dollar MRS. A. EDWARDS, Manning, S. C. ESTABLISHED 1844. Charleston Iron Works, Manufacturers and Dealers in Marine Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers, Saw Mill Machinery, Cotton Presses, Gins, Railroad, Steam boat, Machinists', Engineers' and Mill Supplies. M1 Repair. e.recuted with lronptie.s and Di. patch. Send for price ists. East Bay, Cor. Pritchard St., Charleston, S. C. R. (. ]. :umLEY, President. C. BIssEL JENKINs, Gen'l Manag'er. RIcnAr.D S. Gsarr, Sec. & Treas. The Cameron& Barkeley Gompany. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, -AND AGENTS FR Erie City Engine and Boilers, Atlas Engiue and Boilers, the famous little Giant Hydraulic Cotton Press, Eagle Cotton Gins. We have ill stock one each 60, 65, and 70 saw Eagle Gin, only shop worn, that we are offering way below cost. Send for prices. Oils, Rubber and Leather Belting, and a complete line of Mill Supplies. 'We 6 Guarautice Lowe.t Prices for Best Quality of Goods. CA MERON & BARK ELE Y CO., Charleston, S. C. SAtlantic Phosphate Company, os~~ m -o r s. c. MANUFACTU~E!~s OF STrANDARDI FERTILIZERS, AND) LlPORTPERs OF - PIELZER, RODGERS, & CO., General1Agts., BR2OWN's WH{ARF, CHARLEsTON, S. C. Mu. M. Lavi. of MIanning, will b~e please d to s.upply his frie-nds and the public gen erally, with any ofl the above~ brands of Fe rtili rs. g. MONEY TO LEND. Hemes etarat upIE AT LANTrA TLRUST A2NDKin Street ir s on easy terins. For 1,icrti ap- Opp. A eademy of Music, 25 VALUABLE PRESENTS --TO BE GIVEN AWAY! The Manning Times Grand Gift Distribu tion will be Thursday, Nov. 28, 1889, At which time we will distribute to our paid-up subscribers not less than twenty-five valuable and useful prizes. See double column notice on another page. Every subscriber to the Manning Times, who, before November 28, 1880, pays his subscription to or beyond SEPTEMBER 1, 1890, will receive a ticket for the Distribution, and will have his Name Published in Honor List. It makes no difference whether you are a new subscriber or an old subscriber, whether you have been taking the paper since it was first started, or whether you subscribe the day befor' the Distribution takes place, if on the 28th day of November,. 1889, your subscriptionis paidto or beyond Sep. 1, 1890. you will have an equal chance in the drawing. Subscribe at once. Send mon ey by registered letter or by money order to S. A. NETTLES, Editor Manning Times. Manning, S.-C. We are pleased to state that we now have in store and are daily receiving one of the most COMPLETE STOCKS of Merchandise ever brought to the interior. Our stock consists of All Lines of Merchandise. Hardware, Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Queensware, Tinware, and in fact any and all articles and items that the average man or womn could want. We Have on hand one of the finest lines of Cooks ever brought to any market. We M have in this line of Cooks all numbers and sizes. Small enough for the young man just mar ried, and large enough for a family of twenty. We have taken great pains this year in the se lection of our stock of Fancy and Staple Croceries, and all we can say is that we want all the good accounts in town and in the country. We can and will sell you all the goods you want cheaper than you can buy them, and all you will have to do to convince yourself of this fact is to come and see, and you will be convinced th stock by far is superior to any thing in this section of the State. We keep no goods but what we.ouy from first bands, and all such we can recommend. Besides this we have abolished the old mode of transacting business. In former years, we owing to the fact that we like all Americans like to keep up with the fashion and the ways of all around us, have sold goods too high in order to make a good showigg of assets. But the writer had a dream. He was in his office, he had ledgefs pisadliigh ~ e~ thousands of dollars. 3-8 claims out of date, barred by the Statute of limitation,'-8 barred by the right of the landlord, and 2-S barred by the drought and expiration of wind in the lungs of old ponies and blind mules. All these amounts kept running on; each year they were footed. up as assets--a big bubble made, filled with air, and like the boy's soap bubble soon burst, ten ant gone, account worthless. Ie had run the tenant in the spring and summer, when naught was in sight; the landlord took him up when the cotton came in. He awoke, and swore-that he would never follow such business again; that bright as the prospects might be, that armed with all the wisdom and energy he could command, and closing his ear to the suffering of the past, He would forever quit the old mode, and chage' his business to something tangible. So this year we have done so-we will sell you all the goods you want for credit or cash at lower prices than you ever bought at before; but let's have some idea when you are going to pay. Ve don't want any more millennium accounts or notes. Ve may not be present to collect them and the banks don't want any paper over four months, and we sincerely trust we will get the crop of 1889 out before it comes, for we have one of the largest crops this year that we have ever had. No introduction is needed, no apology is offered for 1889. It comes freighted with the wisdom of centuries and each corn crib is loaded with the richest treasure that God ever gave man. Bread no object and Bacon at the price we are sell' no one can conplai. And all should feel good this year. Let us get out of debt; let all -s commence anew, and the lirices we are selling any and all lines of goods at to-day, will con vince all that come that some inuraculous change has taken place. Well it has. We Want to Live, and Want You to Live! and we therefore shall try and please all in prices and goods, and we want to build up in Man ning what Clarendon County needs, a first class store where you can get what you want andare in need of at a living price, and in order to convince vogi of this we must ask you to come and e. Yes, crops are magnificent this year; cotton bringing better prices than for years: let us get out of debt, and work on a cash basis. I am lprepared to offer for the cash the greatest I inducements that any mer'ianut can offer. Come to see me. Yours respectfully, MOSijS LEVI. --.AT H. T. AVANT'S RACKET STORE. CHEAPEST STORE IN SUMMERTON. When old high prices had his iangers in your eyes I canme and pulled them out. Now keep themi out by trading with ime. I aiways have on hand a big stock of General Merchandise. HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID FOR COTTON. H. T. AVANT, Summerton, S. C.