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Look to Your interest. Here we are, still in the lead, and why suffer with your eyes when you ean be suited with a pair of Spectacles with so little trouble- We carrv the Celebrated HAWKES Spectacles and Glasses, Which we are offering very cheap. from 2.5c to $2.50 and Gold Frames at $3 to $6. Call and be Suited. W. M. BROCKINTON. L. B. DuRANT, Hardware, - Cutlery - a'l - Crockery, ST-TmTER, S. 0. In order to accommodate my growingf business. I have moved my quarters into the spacious store lately occupied by the Duck er-Builtmani Company ,and I am prepared to fill all orders. Call or write for what you want. My stock is com plete. in fact larger than ever before, having added to my im mense stock of Hardware, StoVes, Housefurnishing Goods, Harness, Saddles, Leather, etc., A Large Line of Crockery. I also handle in large quanties Paints. Oils and Window Glass. My store is headquarters for Guns, Pistols. Powder, Shot, Shell and all kinds of Sporting Goods. Engine and Mill Sutpplies. All of our Stoves warranted. L 8. DURANT, SUMTERe S. C. 2 CARLOADS COMING 2 Sumter. S. C.. Dec. 5. 1899. I leave for the West on the tith. where I will b~uy two carloads Choice Stock for this market, both Horses and Mules. H. HARBV. A small second-hand Safe; Cabbage Plants, grown in the open air. SEND NO MONEY E' 1r EVERHEAD O, ~ Special Offer Price $15.50 ouow hosadenwil return yur 615.5o any day yo areS.o0 510.00 51.0 1b2.0 ad up. all fully describdi our e Swin the greatest value ever offered by any house. . 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He cannot move hard or foot without their agency, and from the earliest moment of his life down to the last detail in connection with his burial their power and influence are the guid ing motives of his acts. All business and family matters are directly con trolled by superstitious sentiments, both rich and poor, young and old, being slaves to their force. To the average Chinaman his religion is a mere negative factor in his mode of life, to be followed or disregarded at will, but no true son of Han dares to act otherwise than in acccrdance with the strict prtcepts of thost. spiritual powers which directly control his life. There are some amusing superstitions connected with Chinese entertainments. A dinner party is an ordeal which once experienced is never forgotten. It con sists of from 40 to 50 distinct courses and occupies the greater portion of a day. )uring the whole of these repasts and notwithstanding the endless variety of dishes served the invited guest re tains the same plate throughout. The explanation of this strange custom is an old proverb, which has now become a superstition, that "he who changes the plates kills the housewife." Chinese proverbs explain several of the superstitious notions with regard to women. It is considered unlucky for a woman to mix with the builders of a house or other edifice during its erec tion, and to avoid any possibility of one straying into the premises all approaches are carefully guarded by watchmen, and a fence is erected around the pro posed building as soon as its founda tions are laid. The explanation of this is the saying, "Women mix ill with wood, and death lives in the house over whose founda tions a woman has walked." There is a similar horror of the fair sex interfer ing with any public matter of national interest or in any business transactions where men are concerned. " Women tie knots," says the Chinese proverb. "Let them remain at home." No funeral can take place until as trologers and professional fortune tellers have been consulted. These unscrupu lous diviners decide the place of burial, and in the event of disagreement no final interment can take place. This ac counts for the number of unburied cof fins which are seen about the country districts in China. Sometimes the coffin is temporarily deposited in a temple or kept in the house of the heir of the de ceased. Among the poor as often as not it is conveyed to some sheltered spot and covered with a mat. When in course of time (byaid of additional fees) the diviners can report that all objections to final burial are re moved, the funeral takes place amid re joicing and profane excesses. The mode of propitiation generally prescribed by astrologers is the purchase of some stone or piece of iron, to which an elaborate ritual of prayer and sacrifice is made, or, if the client is wealthy, the building of a pagoda is suggested. in connection with which the mercenary fortune teller doubtless reaps a large commission. The last species of superstition to which we will call attention forces us to place China among the half civilized and brutal nations. One of these super stitions is that the soul of a dying per son takes possession of the bed and room in which the invalid is lying. To obvi ate such a curse as this the relatives of the dying person, as soon as they per ceive his end approaching, forcibly re move him from his bed and place him almost naked upon a board. If by chance a man should expire in his bed, it, to gether with all the furniture in the room, must be burned and many atone ments offered before the room is consid ered fit for habitation again. Many strange and inlhuman ideas are associated with the illness and death of children. If a child sickens and dies be fore the age of 12 years, its last mo ments are hastened by the horrible cruelty of its parents. So long as hope is possible the parents do their utmost to save their child, but as soon as the doctors abandon hope the child is strip ped naked and placed against the outer door of the house. When the end has come, the corpse is thrown out into the street to be picked up by the passing dead cart. The reasoni for this brutality is this: If a family loses a child before it has grown to maturity, its parents refuse to regard it as their offspring, but rather as some evil spirit who has worked its way into thleir home in order to bring ruin and misfortune upon it and them. -St. Peter's. PRECIOUS METALS. Gold and Platinum Are Cheap Com pared With Somte of 'rhemi. "The majority of people when asked to name the most precious metals usu ally mention gold as first, platinum as second and silver as third,'' said the proprietor of a large assaying and refin og establishment to the writer recently. "Now, let us see how near the truth they would be. Goild is worth about $250 per pound troy, platinum .$130, and silver about $12. "We will now compare these prices with those of thle rarer and less well known metals. To take them in alpha betical order barium, the metal which Davy isolated from its ore, baryta, in 1808, sells for $950 a pound when it is sold at all, and calciuk is worth $1.800 a pound. Cirium is a shade higher. Its cost is $160 an ounce, or $1,920 pier pound. These begin to look like fabu ous prices, but they do not reach the highest point, chromium being 8200. Cobalt falls to about half the price of silver, while didymium, the metal im lated by Masander, is the same price as calcium. Then comecs gallium, whh bd is worth $3,250 an ounce. With this metal the highest price is reached, and it may well be called the rarest and most precious of metals. "Glucium is worth $250 per ounce; Iindium, $150; iridium, $6583 a pound; janthaniunm, $175, and lithium, $160 per ounce. Nidium~ costs $128S per ounce; osmiumn, palladium, platinum, potas sum and rhodiuml bi ing respectively $640, $400. $130, $3'2 and $512 per poundl. Strontium costs $128 an ovnce; ttaumatn, $144; tiluriunm, $9: thorium, $272; vaniadium, $320 ; yttorium, $144, and zinconium, $250 an ounce. "Thus we see that the commonly re ceived opinion as to what are the most precious metals is quite erroneous. Ba rium is nearly four times as valuable a gold and gallium more than 160 tinmes as costly, while many of the other not. *ls mentioned are twice and thrice as valuable. Aluminium, which cost :2 and $9 a pound in 1890, is no0w plo duced as chmeaply as are iron, zinc, lead POPULIST JUDGE RESIGNED. Was Made to Believe That Ho Had Killed a Man. GENEVA, Ala., Dec. 22.-A unique po. litical sensation has developed in this county. Several weeks ago the probate judge was handed the resignation of Circuit Judge Partis and he notified the governor's office accordingly. This was followed by applications to thegov ernor for the appointment of several prominent people of the county. Two or three weeks afterwards the probate judge notified the governor to withhold the appointment, as there was no va cancy. It now appears that the friends of a Geneva county politician wanted Par. tis' place and laid a scheme to get it for their favorite. Tuey arranged to get Purtis very drunk and when he had commenced to sober up represented to him that while drunk he had killed a man, that they had spirited him away from the authorities and that in flight lay his only safety. They gave him $200, in consideration for his resigna tion in favor of their friend as clerk, and advised him to flee to Florida, which he did. Later on he sobered up, found he had not killed anybody, returned and de mands that his resignation be returned to him. There is a doubt as to whether he can withdraw it and the matter has been referred to the courts. Partis is a Pop ulist. BUiLD INDEPENDENT LINE. S-uthern Will No Longer Use L. & N. Tracks to Stevenson. CHATTANOOGA, Dec. 22.-The incor porators of the Memphis and Chatta nooga Rail-oad company held a meeting at the Read House in this city today and organized the company by selecting the following officers: President, H. S. Chamberlain, Chat. tanooga. Secretary and treasurer, George W. Ochs, Chattanooga. General counsel, Colonel W. A. Hen derson of Washington. the general coun sel of the Southern railway. Colonel Henderson and a party of the incorporators left for Huntsville, Ala., tonight to organize the company in that state. In reference to the company's plans, Colonel Henderson said that the char ter has been secured and the purpose is to at once build an independent line for the Memnhis and Charleston division of the Southern railway from Chattanooga to Stevenson, Ala., the road being oper ated for that distance now over the tracks of the Louisville and Nashville. Two routes have been surveyed, one being by tunnelling through Lookout mountain and the other by a more cir cuitous route, but less expensive. The Southern railroad has set aside $1,000,000 for the purpose of building this line. UGLY BLAZE IN ATLANTA. Business ',.rtiton of Alhama Street App n r-d Doti med. ATLANTA, Dec. 22.-One of the fiercest fires that has visited Atlanta this year -one that seemed to threaten the whole business portion of upper Alabama street for a time-broke out last night at 7:0 o'clock in the rear of the Rucker build ing, between ths Maddox-Rucker bank building and the fire department head. quarters. For an hour and a half the angry flames leaped up from the center of the block, and it seemed as if the whole of the street, including the Maddox Rucker bank building, the warehouse in the rear of the burning structure and smaller buildings on Madison street, would be consumed. Roughly speaking, the total loss sus tained will not exceed $40,000, an ex ceedingly smail figure when the head way the fire had obtained and the num ber and value of the buildings in the vicinity is considered. APPEAL TO LEGISLATURE. Orthodox People of Hzapton WVant Mormions Se-nt Away. CHARLESTON, Dec. 22.-Mormon el ders, two at a time, seven years ago, began to visit the great swamp section of Hampton county, near the seacoast of this state, and made many converts among the Baptist backwoodsmen near Ridgeland. They now have lso large a following that they have established a church, at which eight Mormon elders were at wcrk several weeks ago. The delegation to the state legislature has been asked by the orthodox people of Hampton county to work for a law to extirpate the elders and say that "prompt legislation may save them from having the mob violer~ce that some sister states have lately had in trying to rid themselves of this cect." ,Jailed to Pre-venzt Lynching. RALEIGH, Dec. 22.-Robert Fortune and John Taylor, young negroes, who robbed and shot Robert Hester, a prom inent farmer of Nash county, on the public road on his farm, were brought here and jailed this morning to prevent lynching. They confessed their crime and say they committe d it to get money, which they knew Hester had received yesterday. After robbing him they shot him three times, despite his ap peals, and left him lying in the road. Dight L. Moody De-ad. EAST NORTHFIELD, Mass., Dec. 22. Dwight L.. Moody, the famous evange list, died at noon today, aged 62 years. The cause of death was a general break ing down due to overwork. Mr. Moody's heart had been weak for a long time and exertions put forth in connection with meetings in the west last month brought on a collapse from which he failed to rally. Fiaht For 31ileage Books. JACKSONviLLE, Fia., Dec. 22.-The Travelers' Protective association is working hard to have mileage books restored on railroads in this state, with prospects of success. They were taken off two years ago, and the traveling men have been fighting the question ever since. ____ N'w Icadustry F'or Rtomze. ROME, Ga., Dec. 22.-A company of Michigan capitalists have decided to Ibuild a craite and veneering factory in Rome. The plant will employ 300 hands, cvr9ce3and represent an TIwan' Material For StorIes. In Berlin, when one pays his fare to the conductor of a street car, he receives a ticket, which is soon afterward col lected by an inspector, who boards the car at a fixed point. One (lay, just as a joke, Mark Twain paid his fare 13 times on one trip, each timie throwing thc ticket out of the window or under his seat as soon as he had deposited the regular fare with the conductor. A few minutes later the inspector would get on the car and demand tickets all around. Of course Twain had none to show and had to buy another, apparent ly with reluctance. The performance amused the American, dumifounded the conductor, who hatd never met so reck less a passenger, and tickled the native passengers, who thought the foreigner well punished for his negligence. By this modest investment material was obtained for a capital story, which net ted Mark Twain just 9500.-Ladies' Home Journal. Public libraries spend vast sums of money to make their collections coni plete. In the Boston Public library is a collection of works relating to Shakes ODDITIES IN WILLS. SOME PECULIAR BEQUESTS AND CURI OUS CONDIT!ONS A Patriotic Anerienn's Desire to Be Heard After Death-Wills Which Proved That In tie Cases of Their Makers Marria=ge Was a Failure. The admiratioi of our American cous ins for their country is a prominent characteristic of their daily life, and some years ago a Mr. Sanborn desired that ii death as in life his body should proclaiul the glcry of the republic. He left ?1,000 to the late Professor Agassiz, in return for which be was, by an ex tremeJy scientific process set forth in tbe will to tan his (Sanborn's) skin into leather and from it have a drum made. Two of the most suitable bones of his body were to he nide into drum sticks, and with theso a Mr. Warren Simpson-to whom Sanborn left the re Imainder of his property-wa. "on every 17th of June to repair 0) th foot of Bunker hill and at sunrise boat on the drum, the parchment of which had been made out of the testator's skin, the spirit stirring strains of 'Yankee Doo dle.'" A somewhat similar bequest was made by a German in 1887. He died in Pittsburg and by his will directed that his body should be cremated and the ashes forwarded to the German consul at New York, who was to deliver them to the captain of the steanship Elbe. When in midcean, the captain was to request a passenger to dress himself in nautical costuie, and, ascending with the funeral urn to the topmast, to scat ter the ashes to the four winds of heav en. These strange directions were faith fully carried out. Quite as peculiar were the directions for the funeral of a Mr. John Under wood. He willed that he was to be buried in a green coimin with a copy of Horace under his head and of Milton under his feet, a Greek testament in his right hand and a small Horace in his left. Six friends, who were not to wear mourning, were to follow him to the grave and there to sing a verse of the twentieth ode of the second book of Horace. After this they were to "take a cheerful glass and think no more of John Underwood." Wills may also be admitted as evi dence of the mixed blessings of the matrimonial state. A nobleman wrote, "I give and bequeath to the worst of women, whom I unfortunately married, 45 brass halfpence, which will buy her a pullet for supper." A Glasgow doctor, dying some ten years ago, left the whole of his estate to his two sisters, and then came this ex traordinary clause: "To my wife, as a recompense for deserting me and leav ing me in peace, I expect the said sister Elizabeth to make her a gift of 10 shil lings sterling, to buy her a pocket hand kerchief to weep in after my decease." A Mr. Sydney Dickenson bequeathed to his wife the sum of ?60,000, "on condition that she undertakes to pass two hours a day at my graveside, for the ten years following my decease, in ompany with her sister, whom I have reason to know she loathes worse than she does me." Another husband stated that he would bave left his widow ?10,000 if she had allowed him to read his newspaper in peace, but as she always commenced playing and singing when he started to read he left her only ?1.,000. Such in stances could be mutiplied indefinitely, but one other is worthy of note. A husband left hiis wife 212,000, to be increased to ?24,000 provided that she were a widow's cap aflter his death. She accepted the larger amount, wore the cap for six months, and thea put it off. A lawsuit followed, but the judge held that the testator should have inserted the word "always" and gave judgment in favor of the widow, who the day aft er re-entered the state of matrimony. Thus the husband's little plan for pre venting his widow marrying again fail But the most curious will which the writer has ever come across is that of M. Zalesky, a Polish landlord, who died in 1889, leaving property valued at 100,000 rubles. His will was inclosed in an envelope bearing the words, "To Be Opened After My Death." Inside this was another envelope, "To Be Opened Six Weeks After My Death." When this time had passed, the second envelope was opened and a third uncovered, "To Be Opened One Year After My Death." At the end of the year a fourth en velope was discovered, to be opened two years after the testator's death, and so the game went on until 1894, when the actual will was discovered and read. It was quite as eccentric in its disposi tions as the directions attached to its opening. The testator bequeathed half his fortune to such of his heirs as had the largest number of children. The rest of the property was to be placed in a bank and a hundred years after his death to be divided, with the accumu lated interest, among the will maker's descendants. Thus by 1989, at 5 per cent compound interest, the 50,000 ru bles will have swelled into 6,000,000 rubles. But what will this be among so many descendants?-Household Words. ORIGIN OF KALAMAZOO. Pretty Legend That Is Responsible For the Town's Name. The name of Kalamazoo, like Oshkosh and one or two others, has conme to he to foreigners a synonym of American absurdity. It is often chosen, fer some occult reason, to illustrate that form of vernacular English known as "United States." But all thought of ridicule vanishes when its romantic origin is considered, for it is the echo still lingering about the memory of two dusky lovers, who, in that long gone time when Michigan was the home mainly of Indian tribes, lived and loved on the banks of tihe riv er which now hears their names. Kahla, the young warrior, was straight of limb and eagle eyed, while to Mahzoo had been givcn by the Great Spirit the many graces and virtues for which Indian maidens have become noted in song and legend. Life to these two possessed all the charm which true affection has ever granted to lovers, and the days, as thecy ctuue and went, brought only abounding joy. Each summer evening, as tho twilight depned and the time drew near for her lover's return from the chase, the maiden wvatebed from her bower in the swaing branches of a giant cin over hanging the river's edge for the first sign of his coming. As the bow of his canoe shot round the curve away in the distance her clear musical voice called to im, "Kahla, Kahla !'" and from the young warrior came ini loving tones the repone, "Mahzoo!"-Chicago Times Herld. Hardly. Miss D.-Angelina, why don't you marry Lieutenant Y.? Mis A.-First, because he has no brains-and lie can't ride, dance or play tennis. Whbat could we do with him? "But he swims beautifully." "Oh, yes; but one can't keep one's husband in an aquarium, you know. " CHERRY RIPE. There is a gardn n I h---r faco Where roses anl white lilies grow; A heavenly paradis.- is tihat place Wherein all pleasant frits do flow. There cherries grow v.hi-h none may buy Till "Cherry ripe" L*ml-:tivtes do cry. Those cherries fairly 6(o) inclose Of orient pearl a doulelL ro.w, Which when her lr-ly laughter shows They lcok like ro-! buds filled with snow. Yet them nor peer Inr nrince can buy Till "Cherry ripe" i*aselves do cry. Her eyes like angels watch them still, Her brows like bended bows do stand, Threatening with piercing frowns to kill All that attempt with eye or hand Those sacred cherries to come nigh Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry. -Thomas Campion (1610). THE SLY POLAR BEAR. How lie Gets His Dinner of Seal or Walrus Meat. In his native home the polar bear does not often meet with small boys anxious to treat him to buns and other dainties. The consequence is that bruin has to devise many curious ways of se curing his food, and none is more strange and interesting than that relat ed by two trustworthy travelers in Greenland, that country of strange sights. They have known the polar bear to take a stone or a huge lump of ice in his fore paws and from a favorable I height, as a cliff or a precipitous ice hill, to hurl tLe missile down upon the head of a walrus, an enormous brute often twice the size of the bear, and so stun him that bruin could rush in and complete the destruction at his leisure, thus securing a month's rations. The most usual food of the ice bear, as the Germans very appropriately call this beast, is the common seal of the arctic regions. The latter is the wari est animal of the north, and both Eski mo and polar bear need their best strat egy to catch it. In the summer time, when the snow is off the ice of the ocean shore and islets, the seals can be plainly seen as black dots on the ice, probably asleep, but always near their holes, which lead down through the thick ice to the water below, and into which they can throw themselves by the least movement. Bruin, seeing one afar, walks up as near as he deems safe and then begins crawling on his wary prey. The seal, if the weather be sunny and pleasant, takes short naps, relieved by shorter moments when it is scanning the vicinity for signs of an enemy's ap proach. During these times the bear is very quiet and as still as death itself, with eyes apparently closed, though really a corner of each is kept open, and in this way he hopes the seal will take him for a heap of snow, an appearance which his coat readily helps him to as sume. During the naps he creeps forward with greater or less rapidity, according to his rearness to the seal and conse quent fear of being heard or seen. When but 10 or 12 yards away, and the seal is in the depths of a good nap, the bear rushes upon him and with a single blow of his powerful paw knocks the smaller brute senseless and so far away from the hole that he cannot escape by that way, even if the blow received is not immediately fatal. In winter time the ice is covered with snow, and this is hollowed out by the seal into a snowhouse, covering the hole in the ice and connecting at the top of the dome with an aperture about the size of a shilling, called the blowhole, for it is through this that the seal breathes when he is in want of' fresh air. Here the bear watches for many a long hour if necessary, and when the notofte seal are heard he crushes in the fragile dome of the snowhouse with his paw, impaling the seal on his curved claws, and proceeds to practi cally demonstrate how polar bears can subsist in a arctic winter.-London Telegraph. DELAUNAY''S SAD FATE. A Presentiment of Ills Death Thnt Was Strangely Fulfilled. Delaunay, the director of the Paris observatory, was one of the most kindly and attractive men I ever met, says Professor Simon Newcomb in The At lantic. I found it -hopeless to expect that he would ever visit America, be cause he assured me that he did not dare to venture on the ocean. The only voyage he had ever made was across the channel to receive a gold medal of th~e Roal Astronomical society for his work. Two of his relatives, his father. ~ I believe, his brother, had been drown ed, and this fact gave him a hortcr of 'the water. He seemed to feel somewhat as tne clients of the astrologists, n; ha., aving been told how they were to diie, took every precaution to prevent it. I remm ber, as a boy, reading a history cf astrology, in which a great many casr-s of this sort were described, the pecu liarity being that the very measures which the victim took to avoid the de cree of fate became the engines that ex ecuted it. The sad fate of Delaunay was not ex actly a case of this kind, yet it couldl not but bring it to mind. He was at Cherbourg in the autumn of 1872 Walking on the shore with a relative. a couple of boatmen invited them to take a sail. Through what inducement Delaunaiy was led to forget his fears will nev er be known. All we know isi that he venturedl into the boat, that it was struck by a sudden squall wvhen at some distance from the land, and that all the members of the party were drowned. It suited. The other afternoon I was in a gen teman's outfitting shop when a cus tomer came in to purchase a hat. He tried on several and was evidently hard to please, the counter becoming covered with the rejected. At last the salesman picked up a brown felt bowler, brushed it round with his arm and extended it admiringly. "These are being very much worn this season, sir,'' he explained. "Are they?" said the customer thoughtfully, surveying himself in the mirror, with his hat on his head. "Do you think it suits me?" "Suits you to perfection, sir, if the fit's right. " "Yes, it fits very well. So you think I had better have it?" "I don't think you could do better, "No, Idon't think I could, solI won't have a new one." The salesman had been praising up the old hat.-Pearson's Weekly. The Poor Wife. "John Henry, it isn't any good, I know, that keeps you down town so late, when you ought to be at home with me and the children." (Shrugging his shoulders.) "'Honi soit qui mal y pense,' my dear." "That's right ! Swear at your wife in Latin. "-Chicago Tribune. Apparent Contradiction. "It seems very strange to me." said the educated parrot, "that a thirst for learning can be satisfied with a lot of dry information." - Cincinnati En IFURNITURE; I ~LAMPS; C HINA AND I QLASSWARE AT I ELITZER'S, I SUMTER, S. C. I From Cheapest to Best, The Times DOES NEAT Job Printing. GIVE US A. TRIAL. Buggies Wagons loadclarts carriages With Neatness and Despatch -AT - R. A. WHITE'S Wheelwright and Blacksmith Shop. I relpair stoveq, purips and run water pipis, or I will pit down a :e.w ):nnap char p. If yo.t nee. nny so.lering done give mue a cali.. LAME. .y lrst- is bane. W hy? B, cans I did not 'zive it shod by It. A White, the nan tlat ttS on such oe:t shoes and makes borgcs trial with so mneh ease. We Make Them Look New. We- are maing a specialty ofI repainting old bncgie-s, carriage-s, road carts and wag. onis ceep. Conie and seP nie. My prices will pleuse you. :m:0 1 gnrntos aill of ru, wm k. R. . HITE, MA NN1NG, S. C. STATE! OF SOUTH ARULIA, County of Clarendon, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Ella Y. Butler, in her own right .and as Trustee, Plaintiff, against Hedges Spencer Butler,Marion Moise and Wiillinam Morgan Butler, De fendants. Decree for Sale. UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A Judgment Order of the Court of Comn mon Pleas, in the above stated ae tion, to me directed, bearing date of December 1, 1899, I will sell at pub lie auction, to the highest bidder for cash, "at a price not less than three hundred and fifty dollars." at Clar endon Court House, at Manning, in said county, within the legal hours for judicial sales, on Monday, the 1st day of January, 1900, being salesday, the following. described real estate: "All that lot of land in the town of Manning, county and State afore said, containing one-half acre, more or less, known as a part of the Bar field lot, bounded east by West Boundary street of said town; south, by ]ot of P. B. Mouzon, and on all other sides by land said to be of Al fred Setzer." Purchaser to pay for papers. J. H. TIMMONS, Clerk of Court Common Pleas. Manning, S. C., Dec. 6, 1899. The Name on a Can Or a package is not nearly so imortzant as the name and standing of the dealer it is bought of. The canner or packer may be hundreds of miles away-. The dealer is close at home. You can go to him any day and demand attention to any short comings of the goods. Every item we sell is guaranteed by the maker, and to this we add our own guaran tee-that makes you doubly safe if you buy here. ~We want to say to the good people of Manning that we are large receiv ers of everything known to the G*ro eerv trade. iR~ RICE We have a larger stock than many wholesale dealers and can furnish all grades, from 2 cents a p)ound upw~ards, in any quantity. Samp>les mailed free on application. HOLIDAY GOODS are now in dle mand and we have a full supply of everything that is necessary for the full enjoyment of this season. Our stock comprises RAISINS, CURRANTS, CITRON, DATES, FIGS, NUTS, SHELLED ALfONDS, CRANBERRIES, MINCE ?'EAT, PLUfl PUDDING, CONFECTIONERY, ETC., ETC., and hundreds of other items. We are offering, for CASH ONLY, Standard Fine Granulated 0 LB Sugar at only.... Orders filled for any quantity from 1 pound to a dozen barrels if y-ou want them. We issu.. a monthly PRICE LIST which wil he gladly mailed you It cota ins amuch informuat ion ini a small sace nd is a valuno ble guide in or dermng your supp~llies. WELCH & EASON, Universal Providers, 185 & 187 Meeting & 117 Market Sts, CH ARLESFCTON, S. C. ATLANTIC COAST LINE CRIuLESTON, S. C., Nov. 19, 1"99. On and after this date the flowing pasS l-r scbednle will be in cffecr: NORTIEASTERN fRAILROA o. South Bound. *35. -23. '53 Lv Florence, 3 25: A 7.55 P. Lv Kingste-+. 8.57 Ar Lants, 4.38 9.15 Lv Lanes, 4 38 9.15 7 40 P. Ar Charleston, 6 03 10.50 9.15 North-isouui. *78. -32. '52. Lv Charktstov, 6 33 A. 5.17 P. 7.00 A. Ar Lanes. 8.18 6.45 8.32 Lv Lanes. 8 18 6 45 Lv Kingstre, 8 34 Ar Florence, 9.2t 7.55 *Dainly. f)Da ily excep t Snday . No. 52 runs througb to Columibia via Central i. R. of S. C. frains Nos. 78 and 32 ran vi-, Wvil-son and Fayettevilb. --Siort Lire-an-i take clos.e coinnection for all ponits Narth. Traius ou C. & D. R. U. ;eave F.orence diily except Sunda- 9.55 a it, a rv Dar lington 10.2)8 a U", Cheraw, 11.40 a In, Wades loro 1235 > !-:. Lave Florence daily exc-ept Sunday, 8 00 p mu, arrive Dar lington, 8.25 p m, lartsville 9.20 p m, B nnetsvile 9.21 p ni, Gibson 9.45 p m. Leave Fiorence Sunday only 9.55 a m, ar rive Darlington 10.27, Hlartsville 11.10 , Leave Gibson daily except Sundlay 6.35 a w, Bennettsville 6.59 a m, arrive Darling. ton 7.50 a m. Leave Hartsville daily ex cept anndav 7.00 a w, arrive Darlington 7.45 a in, leave Darlington 8.55 a m, arrive Florence 9 20 a in. Leave Wadesboro daily except Sunday 4 25 p m, Cheraw 5.15 p m, irlington 6.29 p w, arrive Florence 7 p m. Leave Hartsville Sunday only 8.15 a m Darlington 9.00 a mi, arrive~ Florence 9.20 a M. J. 1.. KENLZY, JNO. F. DIVINE, Gen't Manager. Gen'l Sup't. T. M. EM1ERSON, Trffiec Manager. H. M. E.MERSON, Gen' Pass. Agent. W.C. &A. South-Bound. 55. 35. 52. Lv Wilmington,*3.45 P. Lv Atarion, 6.34 Ar Florence, 7.15 Lv Florence, *7.45 *2.34 A. Ar Sumter, 8.57 3.56 Lv Sumter, 8.57 *9.40 A. Ar Columbia, 1O-20 11.00 No. 52 runs through from Charleston via Central R. R., leaving Charleston 7 a mi, Lanes 8.34 a m, Manmng 9.09 a m. North-Bound. 54. 53. 32. Lv Couuibin, '6 40 A. *4 15 P. Ar Sumter, 8.05 5.35 Lv.-v.nter. 805 *606P. Ar Florence, 9 20 7.20 Lv Florence. 9 50 Lv ,.rion, 10 30 Ar Wilmington, 1 15 *Daily. No. 53 runs throogh to Charleston, 8..C., via Vent,al R. 1., arriving MIanning 6.04 p in, Lanes, 6.43 p m, Charleston 8.30 p in. Trains on Conway Branch leave Chad bourn 5.35 p m, arrive 'onway 7.40 p n, returning leave Conway 8.30 a w, arrive Chadbourti 11 20 a in, leave Ubadbourn 11.50 a in,arrive at H n b 12.25 pm,retovning leave Hnb 3.00 p ma, arrive at ChadboGin 3.35 P in. Daily except Sunday. J. R. KENLY, Gen'l Manager. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. H. M. EMERSON, Gen'l Pas. Agr-rt. CENTRIAL it. 1. OF SO. CA.OLiNA. No. 52 Lv Charleston. 7.00 A. ;0. Lv Lans, 8.04 Lv Greeleyv!, S.46 Lv Foreston, 8.55 Lv Wilson'si~ Mi .0. Lv Manning, 90 L&s Aleola, Lv Brogdon, 92 Lr W. &~ S. .J Unet.,9.8 Li Sumster, Ar Columibi:.. 1 0 LvlhoNo.;53 .Lv1k-oin Lv Mianingii, [ Lv Foreste,, 57 Lv Steele:. viU:. Ar Carest, b0 No. 35. Lv Sunsr, 7.02 A. -'. Ar Ongebrg, 8.41 Lv C~smoi, .15 3'JMETABLENo. 53 Iii ~ lionday Jun l'z 189. Southbond. Norhb27 nd Ar3 C.arY-Sonc o 80 27 220.N..HETiul...AUGU.TA1155t 2 38........Pai~svl N. . ..i3 250.......mter, ..24.. .. 0 Ar 50 str. 5.19ico 101 44r.OrangebJra .41.....93 5 5Ar.WDenmark, 6il.Le 9 " Southbound.Nothb32 d Lo 73.aNo.u75 , o. 72 - 4 LvA Crsti 5.1 A - 3 Ar ll1 S LmeildA 6.0 45 33 Trin 3 1nd 25 ary alL thrnh 35l3man Bokank Maof v MaAgusta. Inaresacts onay ene 13thn b898. ProtwenS and Wilsbteon givs. Dontbund :sNorthbtund Al M ol e tnae prompt atM tion ...Y&SJnto.. 2 Bu2inss........m aidl...... to55 250 ....., iler. ... ... 1r 1 335 O----- 0 -------TOBS 5 5 15 Ar....Wls.' Mil... L 9 05 P B. .~WN A.M EIF .JSntHud Northbound.EV No . N . 75~' . o. 72 o 4 Brin Aor o M rtato Th TiMe offce