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LOUIS APPELT, EDITOR. 31MANNING, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, NOV. 4, 1896. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: )ne Year........ ............ $1.50 ;I% Months...... ... ............... 75 ?our Months.......................50 ADVERTISING RATES: One square, one time, $1; each subse quent insertion, 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regular advertisements. Liberal contracts made for three, six and twelve months. Communications must be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to receive attention. No communication of a personal char acter will be published except as an adver tisement. Entered at the Post Office at Manning as Second-Class Matter. BARGAIN DAYS With us are 313 days out of each year; in other words, every day in she year, less 52, which are Sundays. We have never been an advocate of special salesday; as can be noticed in a good many advertisements, people advertise something below cost, and when you go to purchase, it is either "awe are just out" or you can bet your last cent the difference will be made up on the next thing you buy or before you leave the store. We have but one price to everybody and that the lowest. If we have anything spec ial for our customers we let them know throulh the papers o-r some other medium, and they are quickly gobbled up. We be lieve in saving the customer every cent available-that is the reason of our o-id eeantpnees.' If we can sell matches at 4e doz we do it; we could get 5c just as easy. But that isn't the point-our profit ends in 4c and we sell them for 4c. Every price in the store is characterized by this cent-saving system. We would have it plainly under stood that we are not selling at cost. Watch the man closely who is selling yo' some thing at cost. We do business opposite Bank of Sumter, next door to DeLorme's drug store, Sumter, S. C. Shoes and Dress Goods a specialty. Charleston had a gay time of it last week and at the same time she filled her coffers to overflowing. The country people gave every evidence of friendliness towards the city by taking advantage of the cheap rail roa rates, and the cordial invitaiee extended. by the business pede of the eity-by-the-sea. It ' e wish of the country-folks t e on good terms with their ' rethern and we hope the rk towards this end so - ell begun will continue until the - -est restage of prejudice is wiped out. -Charleston is the natural market for Zheproducts of the farmers of South Carolina, and with proper efforts she will soon regain all she has lost by political antagonism. There is no doubt that Charleston has lost heavi ly through prejudice brought about bypoliticians; the politicians, them selves lost nothing, because they had nothing to loose, but business in terests, which to succeed and pros per, had to come in contact with, and 'hold close communion with the breth ern from the country snffered, and -that greatly. The Young Mens' Business League made a bold start last year to remedy the evil which was' lying across Charleston's path to prosperity and they made a con siderable headway; this year the Gala Week Association made another effort to extend the hand of fellow -ship and it was accepted by the ruralites who thronged the streets of that gaily bedecked city with glad hearts and smiling,faces andwhen they returned home they came with lots of empty pockets, Charleston's mer chandise and the best wishes for the citie's future. The people of the Sixth Congres sional District have been chided con siderably for insisting on keeping General McLaurin from entering the Senatorial race. Every where we have been we had to stand up and take a tongue-lashing for getting in the way of our representative's pro motion, but last Friday night the milk in the cocoanut leaked out and now the people outside of this District kno'g why we insisted on holding to McLaurin. We know a gcod thing when we see it and we know that in MLaurin we have a representative second to none in the Union. Last Fridayv evening he addressed in the Ger-an Artillery halin Char leston, one of the nicest audiences it has ever been cur good fortune to see, and when he entered the ball he was greeted with genuine en husiasm, and from the beginning to the close of his speech1 near two hours, he held his audience spell bound. We have heard General Mc Laurin on other occasions and while all of his speeches are good, the Char leston speech was his best. A few of such speeches in the city of Charles ton will open the eyes of those peo pe and they will learn that country men do not go about 'aith horns on their heads. They will also learn that country people are good enough to associate and do business with, and they will not look upon us as enemies invading the city whenever they see a contryman in town. In our last issue there appeared a communication from Mr. J. H. Bur gess, of Summerton, asking the farm ers of Clarendon to come together and hold a farmer's institute. He proposes to have here at an early date. some of the faculty from Clem son College and that the expenses of holding this institution is paid by Clemson College. Farmers, this is a grand opportunity for you, and a noble undertaking on the part of Mr. Burgess and we sincerely hope that when the notice appears fixing the date that our court house will be filled to over-flowing. The institute proposed, has been worked very suc cessfully elsewhere and the farmers have been greatly benefited. There is no doubt the good peo ple of Charleston feel ashamed of the ugly bray which eminated from that thing hitched to the Charleston Post last Friday afternoon, on the occasion of General McLaurin's arrival into the city. The thing must have been out the night before on the fantastic parade and when it learned of Mc Laurin's arrival it kicked and pawed at everything around it. Hon. J. Stanyarne Wilson, the brilliant young Congressman from Spartanburg, will soon take unto himself a wife. He marries a Miss Hazard, of Georgetown. Invitation cards have been received here by friends of the coming bride. A SHOT AT DEMOCRACY. The News and Courier of to-day says: The most remarkable camptign: in the history of Amuericau politics was concluded at the ballut-box yesterday. Tae returns from all the States are not complete at this writing, but it is safe to say that Mr. McKinley, the Republican candidate, has a large majority of both the electoral and popular vote. The official count in all the States will not be known, per haps, for several days, but the issues of the campaign have been decided against Bryan and the cause which he has represented with so much ability and eloquence. We have not agreed with him in his views, we have not regarded his arguments as at all conclusive of the questions which he has discussed, we have be lieved and said, and still believe and say, that his election in the circum stances would have been disastrous to the commercial and industrial in terests of the country. The causes of the defeat are- not far to seek. He' represented the spinri f8161ution, He was sup edby all the reactionary ele-1 ments of society. He was opposed to all the conservative forces of the, country. Against him was arrayed the combined wealth of the nation. The platforms on which he stood and which he defended in his letters of acceptance and in his campaigni speeches, contained nothing which appealed to the judi ment or the con science or the selfis interests of the wealthiest and mos influential and populous parts og the country. Besides the trusts and corpora tions and protected industries of the country, the most influen tial element of his own party were wellnigh solidly against him. Perhaps e might have been able to win even with such tremendous odds against him, but the was forced to bear the1 burden of the Tillmans and Algelds of the country. He repudiate d Till man at Chicago, but, he could not get away from him or convince the voters of the country that he was a safe ~ man to trust, coming to them as he I did with a Tillman stamp upon him. Mr. McKinley will probably make a safe President, although he repre sents a political party that cannot be trusted,and bestands for apolicy which ~ made the Bryan movement possible. Great promises have been made for ~ him and his Administration. We hpoe that they .will be fulfilled, but an im mediate revival of business can hardly be expected. The stability of the na tional credit will be maintained for the present at least, and, may we hope after the dangers through which we have passed, that there will be such I reforms in the financial system as will make all parts of the country equal. shares in the blesings of good gov ernent. It is too early in the morning to be-' come excited or unduly enthusiastitc. ~ The time for reflection and good counsel will come to-morrow and the next day during the next four years. There will be another Presidential election in 1900, and the issues of the coming contest will be determined by the kind of legislation and govern ment we shall have in the interval.1 The causes for revolution must ,be re moved if the country would be saved, from revolution. -. *- r Bryan and the free silver cause met I with an overwhelming defeat yester- e day at the hands of the voters of the ~ United States. We hope that this C will now remedy the unsettled busi- ' ness conditions and that the country a will now take on a renewed husiness e activity. The gold men claimed the ' election of McKinley will make times r better, and it now only remains to be I. seen whether they are right or will I the present depression get worse E than ever. In our opinion the Dem ecratic party is doomed for many years to come. c Clarendon like the rest of South r Carolina stood true to the cause ofA Democracy. The only question -4 which involved any issue was wheth bi er or not the people of this county v were willing to have themselves taxed ' to build a new jail. This questiond has been settled by a large majority voting against the proposition. It is t the people's jail and it w-as their privilege to say whether they wanted a new one or not. Now we hope. that future grand juries will stop y presenting the present jail building I as unfit to place a human into, since the people say they are. unwilling to| c A STATEMENT. The Grand Jury's Expert Thinks t Our Language was a Re flection on Him, but We do not Think Our Readers so Regarded it. 4r. Louis Appeltl Editor Tie M-auning Tiies. t Dear Sir:-I an sorry th-tt I feel alled upon to make a statement in t -our paper, but I notice that Mr. C. L Emanuel, foreman of the grand urv, bas had something to sey in -our pe )er concerning that bund t matter of yours, and you make a re ply in which you use the following anguage: "If ny iifornation is cor 'rect, neither the grand jury nor 'their expert discovered that my 'bond was not on record; it was Mr. 'A. C. Davis, and it was be who gave "them the information when the ex 'pert asked him who was on my 'bond while the records were being 'examined. I mention this to show "that the oversight might have es "caped the vigilant eye of this exam "ining committee had it not been for "Mr. Davis, as it did committees be. "fore them." After alluding to me several times in your article as expert for the grand urv, and then using these statements, ou place me in a very false light. I do not want any glory at all for dis- I covering that your bond was not on record. I was simply employed by the grand jury to do certain w, rk, but your language carries with it the reflection that I was inconpetent for the work which I was employed to o, and gives Mr. A. C. Davis credit for discovering that you had to bond. Here are the circumstances: [, as the assistant to the grand jury. t was looking into various matters per taining to all the county offices, a:d wVile in the clerk's oflice I asked Mr. Davis to turn to his rec)rds and gi V ne the names of the suroties o:: Vur bond. Mr. Davis tuirne-i to I; r :ords, ai remarkel u.u ie 1 ;ee NoUr 0on'i. F9urttr seireb W henl male, and we fomt"d that tihere was no bond on record fur your pres mnt term of office. Mr. Davis never t would have turned to the records to Look for your bond if I had not called pon him to do so, so it is mere .juibbling to say any more about how t was discovered. The wLle matter lu a nutshell is, that your bond was ot on record, and if there is aiy re- % ponsibility for this revelation I de- s ire that it be charged up to me, t bhile acting in the employ of the i rand jury committee. If you have ny information other than the above t tatements I desire to say it is incor- a eet. It matters not whose vigilant c ve this matter might have escaped, a et it is a fact that it did not escape t 'otice in this examination. As I said r bove, I -care nothing about the glory: t A discovering that your bond was ot on record. It did not take such s igilance to discover this, and had it iot been discovered then my duty to c he grand jury would have been poor~- t y performed. I do not believe thati o would intentionally reflect upon 2, but in justice to myself I feel that is my duty to set myself straight fer the inference that would natu- e. ally follow from the language usedr your article, and therefore requesth at you give this statement publi-d aton. J. H. LiSsNEt. RAILROAD SWIND)LERS. tepresenting Themiselves as Railroad'y Officials-They Relieve a Local Agent of His Job-One Takes Charge and Finally Skips With thea Cash and Money Orders. ci Swindles of the most improved I md, and crooks of the most unpari lelled nerve, come to light every a or two in the newspapers, but l'dom has thet-e been equalled in his line the scheme of a pair of arpers, brought t.o the notice of the a iublic by the express compan es of e city yesterdar. Suerintendent Agee, of M1obile, . as in the city yesterday en route to [ollendale. 31iss., on the track of two'e rooks, andl in cc' nection with his' t isit to that town a Times-Democrat porter learned the following story: i A person representing himself as a ailroad traveling auditor alighted P rom a Gecorgia Paeific railroad train few days ago, at Hollendale, MIiss., ~ little stattion near Greenville, 3Miss. e had with him a man wvho calle J imself J. W. Healy, who was an ex- S ert telegraph oper-ator, etc. I The assumed travelintg auditor-I anded his card to the railr-oad agent a the wvay of an official introduction: a e then l~roceeded to complain at the manner he had r-ender-ed his r-eports, ad finally decided to relieve him der the ~charge of incompetency. He proceeded to check up his -counts andl to transfer the agency t > his pal, J. W. Healy, both railroad A ad express accounts, inasmuch a.s it a joint office. When this h ad bee, nished, the assumed traveling and- n ;or boarded a train, left that place . ad the office in charge of his pal, . W. He-aly. This man Healy officiated some :t o or three days as the official rep- p: esentative of both railroad and ex- t ress companies, until he had ie ired mioney packages and collected ionev on account of the railroad >mpay, and finally left, carrying ith him all the cash on hand, to- si ether with a Southern Express min y order book bearing the following I umbers, 343. 175 to 313, 180, both rclusive, and it is supposed he will ndertake to negotiate these orders e~ r the maximum amount of $50 ach. c Healy is known in Newv Orleans, as y e lived hcre for some time, boarding e: a Wells street. Ele is an expert op- t<F rato, and wvhile here said he had i rorked for- the Illinois central rail- t ad at Sard.is, Panola county, and a. rwite City, La. Hec is a man about U ears of age, five feet t wo inches~ gI, wveighs about 120 :)uudn, eas a heavy black mustache and hen he was at Hdlleudtle ha,1 on a ark suijt wit a black slouch hat. w Orleans Timues-D~emocrat, Oe )ber 10. Attorney-Well, now you say that :u saw tho man who did the stabbing? s Witness-Yis, sor. I Attorne-And would you L.now the It aprit again if you saw him? Ot Witnss-d was't n cuirit.sor A BIG( TIME AT PANOLA. larendon's Troopers Will Go to the Fair. :ditor The Manning Times: Panola did lerself proud yesterday u(d one of the largest aud happiest brongs that ever assembled there ;ere ou the gro1muns or the acadentu o greet and cher our ching cara V, anc listen to the band aund enjoy' be barbecue. The intensely hot, iry suunner liol .t last dissiuated the sheet of water hatt for several ycars has covered his original parloe ground, and it Vas a pleasure! ,> see our cavalry gai upon this fine plaz:a of sixty cres as level as a sheet of water itil ithot a single sztunip or hole. The squadron presented a brave ight in their landsouie new nui ornis, with every horse handsomely quipped with military bridles and lothes from Philadelphia. After a horough inspection c' the arms ana quipieuts Col. Brailsford drilled lie connmand in every iovement :iiownm to the school of the battallion. )en. Watts, in his address, declared hat in perfect truth and candor, he mnhesitatingiy pronounced them not ne of the best, but absolutely the )est drilled, equipped and mounted qua:ron in the State. He begged hem to attend the State fair and take )art in the big parade on Wednesday, aying that as a representative of the tate government he felt authorized o say how proud the State would be f them. The conmand has voted to go vith every man and march around >y Statesburg and Camden. They leseive great credit for undertaking o so wortblynv represent,. as they cer ainly will, their coutv at the State iai. Tie Colonel has to organize is quartermaster ald commissary leparnnl'iAts, for t:ie feeding of near . inidreo wn :mn-l horses ean't be lo0. ou rf :1 !: :1 basket. The ::Ier.......r.w. I e sn: a da.' .b s! so ;irecar f !od for 1 be herses 'tStatt eho, a :! Camide'It hre the -m41:ti l halt for the xnigit. I am sure iie a(Iiire county w\isheb he boys-a bon voyage. A Visrron. IMPORTANT. Teachers Association. After having said what we have. e feel that it is altogethcr unneces ary to say anything further about he reasons for organizing a teachers ssociatioin. Remember that next Saturday is e day on which all of the teachers re expected to be in Manning at the ourt house by 12 o'clock. If you re interested, come the first time at the second meeting may LE made iore attractive by your adding to bie program. To the friends of education, the ane cordial invitation is extended. Let's make this movemnent a suc ess from the ver'y beginning and en there is no doubt about its liv Gts-r Gn. CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED hith local alpplications. ats tLey cannot ab the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a 0.1 or conlstitutiorfal disease, and in or r to cure it you mnet take internal reme es. IaLl's Cure is ta':en interntdiy, and s directly on the blood and mucou< snr ces. l'~ s Catarrh Cure is not a quack edicine. It was pireribedl by one otf the est physieians in this country for years. ii is ai regular pr~escriptio)n. It is com-. red of the~ b st tonies5 known, combhinpd ith the best blood purifiers, acting dii -etic on the~ miuncons surtf~tees. T:.e in-r ' combination ot the' two ingredhents is bat pro Iinces suchi wo-:derful results in. iring Catarrh. Send for testumonials, F. J. Cli ENEY & CO.. Toledo, 0. WSold by Drn~gists, 75e. MIDWAT DOTS. .didwvay, Oct. 24.--I will give you lie from Salem. Cp-harvesting is ahout through these parts, all but a lifile frog 'ed tobacco. One of our tobacco txperts who me here to cure tobacco has about trued curin.: tobacco into house eping. Will tell you more about later. MIr. and Mirs. C. WV. Barrow wvas esente. with a twelve lb. daughter ednesday, Oct. 21. The old1 man >e says he is grandp t now. ch~armning widow. Mrs. Julia S. oung, of Georgetown, whio has been >ending some time visiting relatives this section, has returned to her >e. We regret to sec her leave. ope she will be in our midst soon in. ToM-. AN IPORIT.\Nf OFFIhE. proerly fill its aftiee and functions, it iportant that the blood be inue. When is int such a cond ition, the bodyv is abumOst eti to be healthy. A c'o:u plaint at thnis Ce i's es'trrh in somte of its. various forums. shih ed' It eeops. tb.' diseas. ii .t:e al Drolt igsi of"orruption passL5Niig into e ungs brng on con-. umption. le only iv o cure this disease is. to purity the od. 1The mnost ob~tlcate cases of catarrh eid to the ituedicinatl ptowers ot Hood's :parill as it by maic.,.. siuply because :eaebes the' seat of the di'sease, and by rifvog amnd vitahiu:n the blood. retoves e cause. Not only does Hood's ~Sasa .ril;a do this but it gives renewed vigor to e whole system. muaking it possible for d health to reign suprenbe. Not Eager For service In Cuba. Spanish soldiers are betraying an in. irmnountable aversin to a campamignI in ba, andl desertions have been very -eqlutnt of late. This has led to the :loption of an extremely strict surveil iuce along the Pyrenean frontier-, and i the trains running to France are irefully scrutinized by the Spanish ?ldares, to the annoyance and dis >ifort of tunny of the passengers. (ung men are subjected to a severe caminaion, and those whlo are unable establish their identity or give a sat factory exlilanatioin of thec motives of eicr journey are compellkd to alight id are ecnducted to the gendtarnmerie, here they atre again plied wvith ques os, all the deserturs detected in this ay being at once handed over to the ilitary authorities. This often entails maidrable delay, and in spite of the archfulness of t he c'fricials manmy young Idders still succeced in miaking their ay into France. -London Telegraph. SUlmE TO WIN. The pople reenaniza and apprciale real or~t. T'hat it why Hood's Sarsaparihll has. largest sales in the world. M'.rit in 'dicine means the flower to cure. Hor~d's rsaparilla en res-absol utelv',pernman en tly rs. It is the one true blood purifier. superior merit is an established fact. 1 merit wins. THE DUDE LISPED. And He Liktwise Effectually Disproed Mr. Haak TJ ilompson's Theory. One day, in tko old days at Cheyenne, when it was.,still the terminus of th< great Pacific. road, there arrived, all b3 himself, a yonng man about 20 year old, who had such a lisp and looked s< girlii that the rough crowd looked bin I over in Ustoiiishment. It was Hanl Thompson who finally walked up to the young man on a street corner and gruff ly demanded: "Say, baby, are you lookin for youm nursin bottle?" "Thir, do you addreth me?" asked the young man as he straightened up. "You bet. Whar's yer ma and how did you happen to get lost?" "My ma ith home, thir, and I am not losth. You aro very rude, thir." "You are very rude, thir,'" mocked the terror as he beckoned to the boys to close in and see the fun. "It theems to me, thir," said the young man as he looked the other over, "that you don't like my lookths." "No, I donth." "And that you want to pick a futh with me?" "A fuss with a baby. Ha, ha, ha!" roared Hank. "Thir, I can take care of mythelf." "Don't want any ma to rock you to sleep, eb" "No, thir, and I want you to go away before I hurt you. When I'm riled, I thoot." "Hear him-he thoots!" shouted the terror as he laughed all over. "Say, boys, what is this thing anyway?" " Wath you referring to me?" asked the young man. "Of course I was. Whose trunk or carpetbag did you escape from?" "Thir, I thee thath you want me to thoot you, and therefore I will thoot unless you go away.'" "He will thoot! Ha, ha, hal Some body git some sugar and a rag. Mebbe he's hungry." "I don't like to thoot, but I thee I musth, " said the young man, and before anybody realized what he was at he had pulled out a little popper of a pop and sent six btckshot bullets into Hank Thompson's anatomy. The big fellow staggered about and fell down, and ev erybody thought he was done for until a doctor locked him over and said no vital spot had been touched. Hank lay with his eyes closed for a long, long time, but he finally opened them and faintly asked: "Boys, have I bin shot or what?" " Yes, you've bin shot," answered one. "Who did it?" "The young feller that looks like a girl and lisps." "Great Scott, you don't tell me!" "Yes, he driv six bullets right inter yer carcass, Hank, and you won't can ter about for a month to come." "And it was that feller?" "Yes." "Waal, durn my hide. I've allus heard that nuthin on the face of this airth could lisp and shoot, too, but the fellers that told me hadn't never run up ag'in a baby. "-Chicago News. His Mistake. Clergymen are frequently good story tellers, but, as a rule, a proper dignity prevents them from wanting to appear in that light publicly. The following was narrated to a reporter by a popular divine: 'In the days of my early ministry," he said, "I thought it necessary to im press thoughts of salvation by every thing I uttered, and I am afraid I was sometimes not altogether discreet. "My first work was in a western mining camp, and I had to remain over night at a rough hotel to wait for a stage to convey me to my destination. At the table a savage looking man said gruffly:. "'What might be yer line, young fel ler?" "'S'aving souls,' I said solemnl~y. "'UghP' was the only response. "After supper a coarsely dressed man approached me and said: "'Pardner, Ic' 's ntake some kind o' dicker. We're in ther same hue, an thar ain't room fer both. There's a camp furder up the criclk whar yo' could do well.' "'I think you are uiistaken, my friend,' I said, 'I am a minister of the gospel.' "''Sense me, parson, I thought yo' was a cobbler!' "-Washington Star. Just a Woman's Way. Two women stood on the wrong side of a cross street that intersects Droad way and signaled the cable cars, only to see them shoot by in the most aggra, vating way. "Well, of all the impudence!" "Did you ever!" "Why, it's worse than we read about. " Here one cf the gripmen shouted something and waved his hand back ward. " What did he say?" "Something about the wrong corner. " "Well, I've got his number, and I'll report him for not stopping." Here a policeman came up and took them to the lower side of the street, where the very first car stopped for them. And they both'said: "Well, the idea!" .-Kansas City Timcs. _____ __ From Her Point of View. Both were very young. They stood gazing into a store window, admiring the pretty frocks that children so love, and turning to look at the ragged figure beside her Marjorie said compassion ately, "Little girl, poor little girl, are those your bestus clothes?" "No," the other responded with a solemn shake of her head. "my bestus clothes is wored out. "-Boston Herald. The Acme of Knowledge. Muggins-Is Bjones well informed? Buggins-Yes, indeed. Why, he ac tually knows as much as the average roung man who has just been graduat ed from college thinks he know- -Phil sdelphia Record. Imjitation Leathers. Numerous varieties of imitation leather are produced from sheepskins. Considerable quantities are made to simulate glazed kid, black and colored, and alligator. These bear so close a re semblance to the real that the difference is not always discernible, even to men familiar with the trade. They are in use in the production of shoes that can be sold at low prices, for which the demand is greater than usual in these times. Shoe and Leather Reporter. Russia produces eight bushels of wheat to the acre and might produce twice or three times that quantity if the cultivation were as careful and sys tematic as in Germany or France. Atilla, the king of the Huns, was salled the Scourge of God. The desola tion he wrought in Europe cannot be ead even at this day without the ut nost horror. The first United States piano was made in Boston in 1823. COLORADO HOTEL RULE:. I The Gentlemen Guests Are rrohlbMd From Doing I; a of Thinga. A genthtmtnn of Carrolkon, who has lately returned from the west, has brought with him a copy of some of the rules he found posted in-a hotel dining room. The hotel was the Rustlers' Rest, at Little Cayuse Creek, Colo. The "rules for the guidance of guests" follow: "All gents with shooting irons or other weapons must check them before entering the dining rcom. Waiters are too scarce to be killed. "Gents are requested not to attract waiters' attention by throwing things at tht.m. This is no deaf mute asylum. "Seven kinds of pio are given with every dinner. "Tablecloths aro changed every Sun day. "Our food is all of the best quality. Our niilk is pure, eggs new laid, and the butter speaks for itself. "Guests tipping waiters must pay funeral benefits in case one should die from heart disease. "No more than six eggs will be given each at a sitting. Any guest found try ing to work off shells on a neighbc will be fired from the table. "Biscuits found riveted together can be opened with a chisel supplied by a waiter. Tho use of dynamite is strictly forbidden. "Disputes over articles of food must be settled (utside. "Don't las::o the waiters, because the guest who can't throw the r-opiwill be at a disadvantage. "Gents can take off their ooats if they want to, but they must kee-p on their vests. "-Baliimore Sun. The Little Toe to (. A comparative aaatomist says that the little toe has got to go; that it is a useless appendage, already showing signs of degeneration or withering away. It is proved that the horse, in the course of several centuries, has dropped four toes and now travels on one, and some think that man's pedal extremities are bound to follow a sim ilar line of evolution. In the horse it is the middle digit which has survived as the fittest. In man it will bo the first The Arabs, anxious to impose upon travelers, often sell as genuine "mummy wheat" grains taken from their own fields. REMEMBER THE PLACE: Dr. W. M. Brockhiton's UP-TO-DATE DRUG STORE, Prescription Work Our Specialty. Good Goods and Pure Goods Onr Motto. GRAPHOPHONE! This Great Wonder of the Wonders of the Age is to be GIVEN AWAY FIEE. -ALSO ONE SOLID COLD PLATED WATCH. ONE SOLID COLD RINC ONE LADIES' OR CENTS' COLD WATCH CHAIN. ONE FINE LADIES' BELT BUCKLE. How will it be done ? Whien 3,000 Tickets are Given 0.t. We will give to each ens~tomer pumchasing at our store 50c worth of goods for cash, a tieket absolutely free. When all are given away, a sealedl envelope containing a cor responding number to one of those given out, will be opened. W HE N YOU COME TO TOWN CALL AT GALLOWAY'S SHAVING SALOON Which is fitted up with an eye to the comfort of his customner. .. .. .. HAIR-CUTTING IN ALL STYLES, SH AVING AnD SH AMPOOING Done with neatness and dispatch.... .. .... A cordial invitation is extended... A. B. GALLOWAY. Enigleberg Rice HllJers. The only machine that in one operation will clean, bull and polish rough rice, put ting it in merchantable condition, ready for table use. SIMPLE AND EASY TO MANAGE. --ALSO CORN MILLS, SAW MILLS, PLANING MACHINES, Aunl all kinds of WVoodl-Working Ma chiny. Talbott and Liddell Eniginies and Boilers On hand at Factory prices. V. C. BADHAM, General Agent, COLUMCBIA, S. C. Geo., S. acker Son CHA L S ON .C., SASH EIGHS AN CORDS AN BUILERS HADWAE SAHWIGHTS ANDFAC GLASS THE LEADERS OF FASHION! The Leaders in Low Prices, The Leaders in Large Stocks, The Leaders in Best Assorted Stocks, The Leaders in Everything. We have the lead and advantage of buy ing in very large quantities and can quote you prices so low that You wonder how we do it. GOLD OR SILVER,' Greenbacks, Nickles, Dimes, Pennies, Stamps, are all the same with us no matter how the Election may go. Come to Sumter and we will save you more than your ex penses at the prices we will sell you and you can be better p -ased in selecting from the LARGSasT sToo I the LARGEST DEPARTMENT STORE In the State of BOUTT:9Wx C a3R OLI-21%T.A..t J. RYTTENBERG & SONS, SUXTEE1, S. C. The arge Store on the Corner of Main and Liberty Streets. Acree's Warehouse, + + + + Danville, Va. WAIUEDRE are the Headquarters of the Tobacco 'Irade of Vi ginia WHERE and North Carolina ? DAINVVLE, VA with her yearly sales reaebiLrg over 42,000, 1; 000 lbs. Other markets are 1,abies b<-side her. Which is the Leading and Favorite House of tie Dauville Trade? Easily answered: A ! E. F. ACREE & BRO., Owners and Proprietors. AUKEE'S. They lead Danvilie as Danville leads the world. Why is it? Because after long trial and test they have proven their Honesty, Capacity, Security, Promptness and Accommodating Dibposition. Then Patronize Them, and Thus Serve Your Own Best Interests. ARTHUR BELITZER, The -:- Furniture MlanI At Sumter, S. C. Will Save You Money. To Arrive this Week! One car each Horses and mules. HI. HARBY, siumter. S. 0.. Nov. 2, 18S9