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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 osegay of flowers she had carefully irranged, red and white and yellow :oses, with a border of delicate ferns, md as the young master bowed, amid sincere applause, she threw it with vigor at him. There was a general laugh at the iovel feature, and then a spreading 'Ah !" of consternation. The big bunch had hit the rather ickety lamp on the orgar and knock ;d it to the floor. There was the ex >ected crash of breaking glass, but vorse, there was a burst of flame. The >il had caught fire. Of course there was a panic. Even nen, in their first fright, pushed to rar-l the door. Women screamed and :hildren cried. Everybody was certain that the yuilding would burn, and there was a general rush and hubbub. But Amy stood still. Her sister-id aw had grown almost hysterical, and ier brother had borne her out, and alled to Amy to follow. But she did not. She stood mo ionless and watched one figure on the >latform. Phil Oakes had snatched up the arpet from the temporary platform, ad was valiantly smothering the lames. Amy waited. She had done it! If ie was badly burned-if he was mothered-it would be her fault ers! And how differently she had neant it! She had been foolish, but surely she did not deserve that her oolishness should be to his injury. The time she stood miserably wait ng-waiting till he should see and :ome to her, as she knew he would for he must know from whom that >ouquet had come)-the time seemed ndless. When he came, white faced but smiling, the tears rushed to her anx ous eyes. "I was such a goose !" she said. 'What made me do it ? You are >urned-both your hands--and I did t !" "No, no ! A small burn or two othing !" said the schoolmaster, look ng handsome as he bent toward her. Don't think it! I have your flowers, ~nd they were worth it! Are you alone? et me take you home." She took his armh. He was not much urt, and he held her flowers tightly a his hand, and they were going out nto the cool night together, and she as almost glad. For otherwise she would be going iome with John and Margaret. "My sister-in-law was hysterical her elf, and my brother took her home. Ee 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 >ostulated. "But you haven't called on, me," m~iy retorted shyly. "And. I thought you were here done," he declared. "But I'm not," she replied, wonder .ng. The schoolmaster stopped short and 'aced her. "Is it possible,"~he said solemnly. 'Is it possible that that child is your 1epew ?" "Of course ! What else could he be," i.my cried. There was a silence of some min ates. "I thought he was your-son," said Phil Oakes, almost inaudibly. "I :hought you were a widow." "A widow !" she gasped. She leaned against a fence and~ laughed until she was weak. "I was sure you were a widow," he iaid. "You had on a black dress, you know." "With yellow bows on it !" she re plied, in a soft scream. "And the little boy was with you." "Oh, yes ! Malcolm loves mec. And iargaret was away that day." "And he looks like you." "Yes, everybody says so." "And you called him 'dear.' And I thought he called you 'mammy.' " "Aunt Amy," she corrected, faint with laughter. "I see," said the schoolmaster, slow ly. "Do you know," he added, gazing down upon her, "'that it has worried me ever sc much ? Somehow I didu't like to think of your being a widow. liked you," said the schoolmaster, 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 .I 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 said 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 porchI and croquet ground were rich in 01) portunity. Whben the young school master went back to college in the fall e left a modest diamond riug behind him. And when, two years later, the bright young graduate went to fill a remunerative position in Marsden, he took his young wife with himn.-Saar day Nig/ht. The MAorso Tms second Grand Gift Distribution is Nov. 28th. No postponement. At least twenty-five valuble prizes given awa THE MANNING TIMES. Published Every 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 rose 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 ia !" said the schoolmaster, though they were in. Amy mustered her courage. It 1 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 schoolonce 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. I "See, Malcolm, dear, that rat on the blackboard." "Yes, I illustrate their lessons for i my primer children," said the teacher laughing. "They like my pictorial i 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 1 man. He pinched Malcolm's fat check. "Malcolm is five," said Amy. "Have you many pupils? I had only six teen." "Oh, I can beat that! I have forty." "And yo:: do it all?" said Amy, her ] admiring eyes raised to his. "I'm afraid I'm presumptuous to try to have a congenial talk," she laughed, i ambiguously. "You see, I taught onlyi one term. I was spending the sum mer at Hinton, and the teacher was taken sick the first of the term, and I 1 taught it for her. But I'm afraid I did it for fun."b "I shall rank you among the peda- I 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 talk." "Perhaps we can," said Amy, with pretty laughter and a blush. They had it. Malcolm, sitting close to his pretty;6 aunt on the bench, listened round eyed, interested, if not comprehend Ing. 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; aid they were honestly amazed when the clock on the wall gave its 'tebick' for half-past five. They looked at each other in flushed alarm. Their acquaintance was an hour and a half old. "I've hindered .yon," Amy cried. "You've got lessons to make out, or somethiing." - '-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 comimencemenit,' said the school master, at the Clarks' gate. "It's day after to-morrow evening. I call it commencement in soeeirony-it's the mere stepping of of my higher class.: Only it's something of a celebration, here, you knowv. Everybody comes, and thie 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 sh~tdl 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. "1 spose commencement, now'll have to last us rest o' the summer. It'll be worth seein', though. We've got as smart a teacher e.s you'll find. Born .nd 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 .-l in Marsden when lhe's ready, but: he's bounid to get educated first. He'll amount to something, Phil Gakes! Wal, yon bet ter go to commencement. You'll enjoy it-" "-I sh'all go," Amy muttered, butter ing her roll. rommeneement was drawing to a Females Excluded fromt Funerals. A new departure in the conduct funerals in Philadelphia is that of e cluding from the burial all female re: atives and friends of the deceased. I is now not unusual to see funeral nc tices in that city worded as follow: "Male members of the family onl are invited to attend the funeral." I New York most of the funerals ar attended only by the male member of the family of the deceased, and i European countries this scheme ha for a long time been in vogue. well known Philadelphia undertake says: "Ladies should not be take to the burial ground for more thai one reason, either in good or ba< weather. It subjects them toa grea nervous strain to see the body o some member of their family or soi relative lowered into the ground, an< Lime and time again I have seen la lies faint from this excitement. Some Limes there is a hitch in the dropping :f the coffin, so that considerable dif lculty is occasioned in getting i straightened out. Accidents of thil nature are very prolific of nervou prostration, and women should no be submitted to them. This city is just awakening to the fact that a big Funeral is a big folly. As a rule ev ry large funeral is the cause of th< leath of at least one person who at :ended it. Delicate women are con stantly jeopardizing their liyes b ;aking long rides in carriages an( :hen standing on the cold, dams round while services are held over the rave. Few women attend funerals is England, because they are aware of what would be the result of such as mprudent act." o. TIiE 5LO(OD, we.akues, Malaria, Indigestion and Bilousnres. taike B 1ii OWN S IRON BITTERS. It cures quickly. For se 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, ?ANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, TOILE' SOAPS, PERFUMERY, STATION ERY, CIGARS, GARDEN SEEDS, end such articles as are usually kept in i irst class drug store. I have just added to my stock a line of PAINTS AND OILS, end ran prepared to sell PAINTS, OILS LEAD, VARNISIIES, BRUSHES, n quantities to suit purchasers. L. W. NETTLES, M.D., Foreston, S. C. J J. BRAGDON, REA L E.STA TE AGENT, FORESTON, S. C. Offers for sale on Main Street. in busines: )rtion of the town, TWO STORES, witl itable lots; on Manning and R. R. street CWO COTTAGE RESIDENCES, 4 and i ooms; and a number of VACANT LOT! ~uitable for residences, and in different 10 alities. Terms Reasonable. Also, a plantation near Greeleyville, ~4 cres, 115 in cultivation, and a seven roon hweling and necessary ontbuildirngs. CHARLES C. LESLIE Wholesale & Retail Commission Dealer in rish, Oysters, Game and Poultry talla Nos. I and 2 Fish Market. Office, 1 t 203 Market Street, East of East Bay. Coun ;ry orders solicited. CHARLESTON, S. C. DR. CHARCOT'S LIFE ELIXIR PLEASANTLY Exhilarating CURES NERVOUSNESS and SL.EEPLESSNESS RIGHT AWAY. Free by Mail, 50 cents and $1.00. SEND rz' CIRCL-LAR. Life Elixir Co., 30 Vesey St., N. Y E BULWINHLE & C0. -DEALERS IN r ain, Hay, 1. M~ill Feed Southern Seed Rye, Southern Seed Barley, Western and Texas Red Rust Proof Oats a Specialty. io. 162 East Bay, and 15 and 1 Elizabeth Street, G S. Hacker & Son MANUFACTURERS OF oors, Sash, Blinds, Moulding -AND Building Material. ESTABLISHED 18/2. CHA ~RLESTON, S. C. NOTHING LIKE A BOOM. There is no boom like S'ioter's, and ni house in Samter on such a )om as the ol reliable Shoe Store of UIhtmxann & Bro., which is rzo will know to the Clarendon pecople that they oly wa to thank themr for parst patronage and :a for a continuance of same. Tiheir stock th: sesoU n i ore compflete and Shoes ai eheaper than ever l beoie. ELithera Wh~olesale or Retail they will satisfy you in prices. There a: many new stoics in Sumiter thuis seiason, an we all know 'a new brioom swee~ps clean but 'tis well niot to discard "the old frieni for the new." Tney carry in addition| BOTS AND SIIOES a nic e line of Trunks and Valises, and ane agentts for the "Light lRunnix White" Sewi ng Mauchine. BULTMANN & BRO., Opposite North Side Court House Square, IF YOU WANT THE WORTH OF '1 Your Money in Groceries, SPEND IT WITH H. A. LOWRY, Agt.. Choice Groceries. r Your attention is called to my large and varied assortnent of Fancy and Staple Grocer 1 ies. comprising everything in the way of of eatables that can be found in any first-clas: Grocery Store. Fine goods are speci'dties, and reasonable prices rule throughout. No baits, but legitimate profits, prompt attention to orders, courteous treatment and hones representations are the princiules that characterize my business, and upon which I de t pend for a liberal support. MY PRICES ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST. f 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 you honest goods, full weight and 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 you. Your trade i What I want, and in order to secure it will exert myself to please in every way. All Heart Cypress Shingles Always on Hand. To M ?Mers 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 aiid 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, ORSTON TO TH FRONT! One of the largest and best selected stocks of goods ever offered in This maiket, is now being daily received by C.M; MASON, Foreston, 8. 0. A splendid assortment of DRY GOODS of every variety and style, sure to please. We have somec of the most handsome patterns of prints thai -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 Hind at Lowest Livirng 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 ci country produce. WBe sure to call to see us. C. M. MASON, Forestonl, S. C. rs .Edwards Kees avar onhand at the a ull supp~ly, and choice assortment, of FAMILY AND FANCY GROCERIES. Bread, Oake,Candy,Fruit,Etc I Jalways g-ive a full 100 cents worth of goods for the Dollai MRS. A. EDWARDS, Manning, S. C. Charleston 'Iron44 Works, Manufacturers and Dealers in Marine Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers, Sav Mill Machinery, Cotton Presses, Gins, Railroad, Steam boat, Machinists', Engineers' and Mill Supplies. Li&pairs exrecuted with promplacss andl Di.spatchz. Sendfor price lidts. East Bay, Oor. Pritchard St., Charleston, S. C. Ru. C. B REI.Er, President. C. BbsEL -IENKIVs, G,.n- 3nag ~er. Rrcuan S. Garr, Sec. & Treas. The Cameron & Barkeley Company. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, .-AND AGENTS FDR Erie City Engine atnd Boilers, Atlas Engine and Boilers, the famous littl< - Giant Hydraulic Cotton Press, Eagle Cotton Gins. We have in~ stock one each 00, 65, and 70 saw Eagle Gin, only shop worn that we are offering wvay below cost. Seud for prices. oOils, Rubber and Leather Belting, and a complete line of Mill Supphies j We (Guaranlice Lowest Prices for Best Quality of Goods. ICAMERON & BARKELE Y CO., Charleston, S. C. F. J. P'ELZER, President. F. S. R~ODGERX, Treasurer. ~Atlantic Phosphate Company, 3IANUFACTrUxERS OF STANDARD) FERTILIZERS, AND IPORTIERS OF d PELZE R, RODG ERS, & CO., Genecra1 Agts., nnoN's wHARF, CHA RLEsTON, S. C. 3Ma. 3M. Lravi, of Alanning, will be pleased to supply his friends and the public geli erally, with any of the above brands of Fertilizers. KMONEY TO LEND. HmesPetuat UiE ATLANTA TRUST AND IRANIN&2 ig tet -ICompany wuil mah~e loanson unlprov' ~ 2SIin te farmis on easy. termis. Fr~ pmarticu1lars apl- Opp. A cadenly of Musie, ',s t Lotis AP'PEI~LT.CH LEOS.. 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, 1889, 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 before - the Distribution takes place, if on the 28th day of November, 1889, your subscriptionis paid to or beyond Sep. 1, 1890, you will have an equal chance in the drawing. Subscribe at once. Send mon ey by registered letter of 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 woman, could want. We have on hand one of the finest lines of Cooks ever brought to any market. We 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 Groceries, and all we can say is that we want all the good accounts in town and in the country. We can and will sell von 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 that our stock by far is superior to anything in this section of the State. We keep no goodsiii What wie 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 showing of assets. But the writer had a dream. He was in his office, he had ledgers piled high, that represented. thousands of dollars. 3-S claims out of date, barred by the Statute of limitation, 3-8 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. Ile had run the tenant in the spring and summer, when naught was in sight; the landlord took him up when the cotton caine 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 change 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. TI don't want any more millennium accounts or notes. We may not be present to collect them 3 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 selling, no one can complain. And all should feel good this year. Let us get out of debt; let all'efas commence anew, and the prices we are selling .any and all lines of goods at to-day, willcon -vince all that come that some miraculous 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 youi of this we must ask you to come and see. es, cro>s are magnlificent this year: cotton bringing better prices than for years: let ee uet out of debt. and work on a cash basis. I ail prepared to offer for the cash the greatest inducements that any merchaiit can offer. Come to see me. Yours respectfully, MOSijS LEVI. BIG BA R G AINS H. T. AVANT'S RACKET STORE. CHEAPEST STORE IN SUMMERTON. -When old high prices had his fingers in your eyes I came and pulled them out. Now keep them out by trading with me. I always have on hand a big stock of General Merchandise. HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID FOR COTTON. H. T A VANT SPummerton, S. C.