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HOUSEKEPERS-"O We have just received a lot of nice, seasonahle goods which we know will interest you. Among other things are: TWO-GALLON WATER C(OOLEIS...........1 60 WIRE DISH COVERS.......... ............8c and 10e each THREE PRONG ICE CHISELS................-.---.-.-.- . 15o WIRE FLY TRAPS...............---- ...............1c each ICE CREAM FREEZERS-1-qt., $1.35: 2-qt.. $1.75: 3-qt.. 2.25: 4-qt., $2.5. STONE CHURNS......... ...........1-gal.. 2.c: 2-gal., .5c POTATO MASHERS...........---..--...... -- HAMMOCKS.............-----.......-- -1-2 TOOTHPICKS-large package...-.-..................-... We have lately received a large consignment of STOVE S, and can safely say that we have the best, assortment of them to choose from that has ever been shown in Clarendon County. Our prices, too, are so reasonable that they excite comment from every one. We can assure you that you can do as well with us in making purchases as you can anywhere. SFARMERS M We still have a few of those cheap Orangeburg Sweeps and Cotton Hots on hand. We have lately received a lot of Paris Green Distributors or Sprayers and will endeavor to have them on hand when wanted. Our One-Horse Harrows have been in great demand. \\v i1l have a few. HOUSEBUILDERS S Will find our stock of Builders' Hardware in good shape. We have Vality Tin, Locks, Hinges. Nails in endless variety. Also White Lead. Oil and Colors for Painters. Remember our COLUMBIA &BCCE CHARTFOR& BICYCLES Have been tried -d proven the best on earth. We have Bicycle Repairs at lowest prices. Very truly yours. Manning Hardware Co. CROSSWELL & CO. *p..O.OO.OO.** Did you know that we have the largest and most complete stock of Grocer ies of any house in Sumter, and always prepared to meet the demands in our line? Our trade has grown to such extent that we are forced to have more room. In addition to our large store and warehouse that we now have we are fitting up a 90-foot warehouse between the Atlantic Coast Line and Southern depots in order that we may be in better position to supply the demands. In addition to our large stock of goods on hand, we have lots of goods bought at facteries that we can ship direct to you and save you money. We give you a FEW PR~CES BELOW, but as we have not space to give you a full list of prices, will ask that you write or come and get our prices which we will furnish with pleasure. Best Large Lump Starch, 40-lb. boxes ...--...--.................... 3- - lb Best Soda, 60-lb. boxes, 1-lb. packages, at.............. .......... 2 per box Star Lye, $3 per case, 4 dozen. Delivered in 5 case lots. Rex Baking Powders i and 1-lb. cans, $3.60 per case of 100 -- and 50 lbs. Deliv cred in 5 case lots, with 1 case Rex Soda, 60 lbs.. fre.e. TEA.-Good Black and Green, 10-lb. caddies...................... 35c lb DIME MILK.-Four dozen in case. at ..................... $3.50 per case OLD VIRGINLA CHEROOTS-Three for 5c, at............$12.50 per thousand OLD GLORY CHEROOTS-Five for 10c........... ........$14 per thousand CIGARS-The finest 5c Cigars on the market............. $35 per thousand SCHNAPPS TOBACCO-10-lb. Caddies...................... 35c per lb EARLY BIRD TOBACCO-10-lb. Caddies.................... 3- c per lb SWEEP APPLE TOBACCO-10-lb. Caddies.................. 34c per lb LALLA ROOK TOBACCO-10-lb. Caddies...................32c per lb BIG WHISTLE TOBACCO-10-lb. Caddies...................36c per lb RED EYE TOBACCO-8 plugs to lb.. 10-lb. Caddies............ 27 e per lb M E :::::::::::::G R IT ~ LARDZE::::::MOL1ASS1ES And other Goods at LOWEST PRICES. Ask for prices which we will furnish CROSSWELL & CO, sTIUMT~n9, S.% C Look to Your Interest. Here we are, still in tae lead, and why suffer with your eyes when you can be suited with a pair of Spectacles with so little trouble? We carry the Celebrated HlAWES Spectacles and Glasses, Which we are offering very cheap, from 25c to $2.50 and Gold Frames at $3 to $6. Call and be suited. W. M. BROCKiNTON. 'THE CAROLINA GRO CRY COMPANY, TEOXIAS WILSON, President. COMMISSION MERCHANTS. 19 East Bay - - Charleston, S. C. - W We Wed1 In Eda to LEm You Write U2 for 7hieu,-e The Percival Manufacturing Oomipany, INCORPORATED. MEETING ST., near Line, - CHARLESTON, S. C. WE MANUFACTURE ALL KINDS OF ash, Doors, Blinds, Frames, Mantels, Turning, Moulding, Scroll Work, Stair Work, And every description of house-finishing wood work. We are prepared to compete with any establishment in the United States in prices and quality of work. Get an estimate from us before purchasing else where. YOu. ?Will- Sa.NTO Mcrny 1 It TD . M0 FFEIT S Allais In itatIon, A ids D Igestl n, BW(Teething Powders) TEETtINA Relieves the Bowed SA Trublesof Children of 0SCSony 2centS at DrtggStS, ANY AGE. Or ma etto C..MOFFETT, M. D., ST.LIOU IS. MO. THE TIMES j IThD7Neatly and at Offic Doe "" - ' -'Lowest Prices. ESCAPED FROM JAIL. THE CLEVER SCHEME THAT WAS WORKED BY ONE CROOK. He Wanted a Certain Book, and He Got It, Thanks to a Benevolent La dy, and Its Title Proved to Be Pe culiarly Appropriate. "The recent escape from the parish prison," said a secondhand bookseller on the old side who has almost as many reminiscences as he has vol umes, "reminds me of a very curious case of jail delivery in which I was an accessory before the fact. I was never arrested for it, but don't ob ject to telling you the story. "One day in the summer of 1895 a good looking, well dressed man strolled into the shop and said he wanted to get something that would interest his old mother, whom he described as very religious and fond of antique books. "We picked out a dozen or so togeth er, Fox's 'Book of Martyrs,' 'Pilgrim's Progress,' Mather's 'Sermons of Occa sion,' Pusey's 'Daniel the Prophet' and among others a quaint, massively bound volume called 'The Friend In Affliction.' They were all interesting old copies, but my caller told me ho would like to submit them to his moth er before closing the purchase and of fered to leave a $50 bill as security. "That was agreeable to me, and he carried away the lot. Next day he re turned and brought back three or four of the books, among them 'The Friend In Affliction,' which he remarked laugh ingly had given his mother the blues. The others he paid for, and I have nev er seen him again from that day to this. "Almost a week after his visit, how ever, a thin, prim, precise, elderly lady, a typical spinster from head to toe, came in one afternoon and began look ing over the shelves. Presently she rkn across the same old 'Friend In Af fiction' that had fared so badly in the other trade, and, much to my gratifi cation, she purchased it on the spot. It was exactly the thing, she said, to give consolation to an unfortunate per son of her acquaintance who was then in great trouble. I was glad to get rid of the book and let her have it for a couple of dollars. "Fully a month afterward I was amazed to receive a visit from a big, burly man, who introduced himself as a detective, produced 'The Friend In Affliction' from a valise and asked me what I knew about it. "The book had suffered since I saw it last. One of its thick covers was rip ped open, and sticking inside was a small steel file. The story the detective told me was certainly extraordinary. "It seems that a noted northern crook had been in jail in a small town up the country on a charge of bank burglary and being a very smooth rascal had en listed the sympathy of a philanthropic old lady of the place who had a fad for prison reform. He persuaded her that he had thoroughly repented, and she used to visit him regularly and bring him tracts and delicacies. "Among other things he told her that while broke in New Orleans he had sold all of his belongings, including a keepsake from his mother-a volume called 'The Friend In Affliction.' He gave her my address as the place where he had left the precious relic and worked on her feelings to such an extent that she promised to secure the book for him the first time she visited the city. "How she discovered and purchased it you already know. On her return she carried it straight to the jail, and while ordinarily all gifts for prisoners were closely examined, this lady's high char acter made such precaution seem un necessary and she passed in the volume without question. "A few days later the turnkey found a barred window neatly sawed and the bird flown. He also found 'The Friend In Affliction' lying on the floor, and in one of the massive covers were several saws and the file I have mentioned. Of course the philanthropic old lady was immediately questioned, and her hysterical replies led to the visit of the detective, but nothing ever came of the quest The fugitive is supposed to have left on an outbound steamer-at any rate he was never caught. "What about my first customer, did you ask? Oh, he was undoubtedly theI 'pal who planted the saws."-New Or leans Times-Democrat. BABY'S PRETTY CURLS. Plled Them Off In a Car and Em barrassed Her Mamma. A well dressed woman with a beauti ful baby in her arms attracted the at tention of all the passengers on a Ger mantown car. Every one was fasci nated by the baby's pretty and smiling face and particularly by two golden curls which hung down her cheeks. After awhile the child became nerv ous and began to tug at one of the curls which protruded from her hood. The woman, presumably her mother, quickly stopped her, but a few mo ments later she looked out of the win dow. No sooner was her face turned than the child seized her bonnet with both hands and pulled it off. It offer er little resistance, but to the astonish ment of every one on the car the curls came with it, and the supposed golden haired baby showed that In reality Its head was without the semblance of a The child swung the bonnet to and fro and laughingly held it up for the inspection of the other passengers. It was almost a minute before the wom an turned around. When she saw what the baby had done, her face fused, and without a word she pick ed up the child and walked sedately out of the car. When last seen, she was trudging down Spring Garden street with the baby tucked under her arm like a sack of oats, but still hold ing tightly to the bonnet and cooing, 'See my pooty hair?"-Philadelphia Times. _ _ _ _ _ _ Behind the Scenes. "A good many people," said a veter an stage manager the other day, "have an Idea that beyond the scenes of a stage there is great fun and hilarity and that actors have a jolly sort of time between their appearances before the audience. The fact is a military camp during times of Inspection Is no more sedate than is the rear of any well regulated stage when the public in front of the footlights is being en tertained. The shifting of scenes and the proper execution of an intricate play require all the thought that can be given them. All the men and women have all they can do to properly per form their parts. if a manager is an easy going man, caring little for dis cipline, he soon gets to the end of his career. You may be sure there is no business that is carried on In a more businesslike way than Is the play house, and when the fun Is on in the front those behind the scenes are care fully watching to see that no hitch oc curs and that every one is ready to do his part at the proper time and does it properly when the time comes."' Washintnn Star. M- ANL Following are some of the appointed awarded the prize-$l by applying in person or sendin. Of all the stores in Manning That customers should come. There's none near so inviting As W. E. Jenkinson's. If people from the country Could only just but know Hlow they could save their money. To Jen'kinson's they would go. Whence came Mr. W. E. Jenkinson. This man who sells so low? From an humble farm in Clarendon. Kind friends you all must know. By toil on the plantation His life he thus began. To lay the true foundation Of every honest man. But the natural disposition Of this energetc young man Was to take a high position .Among the merehants of the lant. * 'ommencing at the bottoni round The ladder of Fame to climb. You'll find him here in this town To please you every tim'. Come. then. to Jenkinson's store. Where the loftiest goods are seen. With prices marked so very low They'll surely take you in. in his millinery department Are wonders to behold, The gorgeous, grand equipment Will charm your very soul. A magnificent line of dry goods. And shoes, both large and small. With the latest style in dress good' To suit the taste of all. It matters not your avocation. You'll sure be treated right By a host of clever salesmen Who'll serve you day or night. Now when you come to town Your purchases to make. Be sure and call around And you'll make no mistake. LIZZIE Baiuc.s. Silver, S. C. I) EARED by Christian parents and I imbued with an ambition for suc cess, Mr. Jenkinson has demonstrated nergy, enterprise and ability in his business. He was born near Fulton, Claren don county, South Carolina, in 1865. He worked on his father's farm until he was 18 years of age. He had saved his money and was eager for an edu cation, but there were no schools near his home. He determined to attend the Manning Academy locat ed at the county seat. He entered the primary department, applied himself diligently for four years and made rapid progress in all of his studies. In 1885 he accepted a clerk ship with Mr. S. A. Rigby in Man ning. In September, 1894, with this experience together with an ambi tion to emulate the most successful of merchants, he invested S1,000 in a stock of goods and began a mercan tile business. His stock was burned in February, 1895, but it was fully in sured. Scarcely had the smoke died away before a new stock was ordered. Today he carries a fashionable line of dry goods, clothing, shoes and millinery. Mr. Jenkinson considers honesty the greatest of virtues, and idleness the greatest of vices. He is the first in his store in the morning and the last to leave at night. In mercantile circles he is regarded as one of the leading merchants in Manning, up right in his transactions, prompt in meeting his bills, and he takes ad vantage of all discounts. He does an annual business of $50,000. In 1891 he married Miss Daisy Bag nal, a bright, accomplished young lady who has, in reality, been a co partner throughout his business ca eer, serving him as a competent ook-keeper and adviser. They have one child, an interesting little girl of five summers. Mr. Jenkinson is a ethodist, a Mason, a Knight of ythias and a Democrat. L. LUCILLE ALSBROOK. Age, 14 years. HIS is a broad and interesting sub I ject to consider. WVhen Mr. Jen kinson first moved to Manning he began clerking for Mr. S. A. Rigby and he clerked for him about five or six years, then he began business for himself, and by his energy, perse verance and good management, has built up onie of the largest dry goods usinesses in this town. Mr. Jenk inson is a man of good character. Mr. Jenkinson is one of the leading embers of the Manning Methodist church and contributes liberally to al its calls for help to any charitable purpose. Mr. Jenkinson is a friend f most all the people in Manning. He is a man that deserves credit, for the success which he has attained in the mercantile business. His success goes to show that he possesses the necessary qualifications that go to make up a good business man. Mr. Jenkinson was carrying all staple groceries, but he did not have room enough for his millinery and e sold out all his groceries and opened all the back of his store into a millinery department. ALPHONSO RIGBY. lF THE leading merchants of Man ning none have shown more com manding ability and won a more omplete measure of success than W. E. Jenkinson. He is a man of quiet manner, medium height, and is well built. His face indicates an amiable, sympathetic disposition with an in domitable will and energy. He was born in 1885 on his father's planta tion near Fulton, Clarendon county, There was no school in the neigh borhood and not until he was eigh teen years of age did he have an op portunity of attending school. With hiis earnings he left home to attend the Manning Academy located at the ounty seat and taught by Mr. S. A. Nettles and his sister. His ambitious efforts soon won the esteem of his teachers and their hearty co-opera tion in his advancement. He speaks of Mr. Nettles in earnest, grateful terms as his teacher and a staunch friend in his business relations. Af ter four years' study he clerked for nine years. Polite, accommodating nd honest, he was popular. In 1894 he invested in a S1,000 stock of gen eral merehandise and began mer chandising. He advertises exten sively, gives close personal attention to his business, is upright in his transactions, prompt on demand to meet his accounts and does an an nual business of about $50,000. His stock was totally destroyed by fire in 1895, but lie was insured, and after a short delay was at his business a ga in. In 1891 he married Miss Daisy Bag naal, an accomplished young school marm. At once she became his book keeper, has contributed her share to the success of the business and is truthfully a copartner. A bright lit tle girl, five years old, is their only child. He is a Democrat, member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias fraternities and a Methodist. BISHOP NETTLES ALsBROoK, Manning, S. C. Age, 11 years. S OME eight or ten years ago there Ucame to Manning a young man from the lower part of Clarendon and engaged as clerk in the general merchandise store of S. A. Rigby. By his straight forward manner and accommodating disposition he soon won the esteem of the community, and when some six years ago he started out in business for himself, every one was sure that he would succeed.. . W. E. Jenkinson (for this is his xame) opened up a general merchan' dise business on a modest scale and conducted it with such prudence and good taste that in a short time gained the confdence both of the houses from which he bought and the entire ttading public and his business grew~ .. rpily wm hi mammoth dry ) MY E8LWE Compositions written on 'Me anc 0 in gold-to Miss Lizzie Briggs c : order. goods, clothing and shoe store stands a monument to sterling worth: The people of Clarendon no longer are obliged to take a costly trip to Sum ter to get what they need, no matter how fastidious they may be or how zealously they may search for the lowest prices. He has recently added a dressmak ing department, under the manage ment of the well-known dress-maker, Mrs. Barfield. He has enlarged his Millinery department and can show a complete line of everything that pleases the taste of woman, so if you want the latest styles in hats, go to W. E. Jenkinson. If you wish to buy a dress, from a silk to a calico and have it made in the latest style, go to W. E. Jenkin son. If you want fine shoes, go to Jenkinson. If a gentleman wants the latest styles in clothing, hats, etc., he can find them at Jenkinson's. SALLIE V. INGRAM, Manning, S. C. WHFN strangers come to the town of Manning and enter the busi ness portion their attention is imme diately attracted towards the store on the corner of Boyce and Mill streets, occupied by that hustling merchant, Mr. W. E. Jenkinson. The question is then asked, Vho is Mr. Jenkinson, and wherein lies his great success? When Mr. Jenkinson came to Man ning he entered the store of Mr. Rigby as a clerk, where he soon won, by his integrity and attention to business, the esteem of his employer and customers. A few years later he began business for himself, commen cing on a smali scale. But on enter ing his store today one may obtain the very finest and latest styles of men's and boys' suits, dress goods, shoes, millinery and dress-making; also school books. He is one of Man ning's leading merchants, and justly so, for not only has he made his store popular, but has done his town great good. Before, Sumter was visited by many ladies desiring dresses or hats, simply because they couldn't be got ten in Manning. This didn't suit Mr. Jenkinson and, by careful study of the wants of his customers, we have seen in the last few years the tide turned towards Manning, because now you can get what you want at Jenkinson's and as cheaply as at any other place. This stimulated his competitors, therefore both town and people are benefited thereby. There is no doubt that Mr. Jenkin son turned the mercantile business out of the old ruts. We think the secret of Mr. Jenkinson's success is his readiness to get for a customer whatever is wanted, that may not be found in his stock at whatever trou ble or expense. Let all comers know that the red flag floating so defiantly over the corner store means that it will never strike its colors to any competitors. SUDIE DAVIS, Manning, S. C. MR. W. E. JENKINSON, the enter prising young merchant of Man ning has done more for the people of Clarendon County in giving them the most goods for the least money. Before Mr. Jenkinson began business in Manning a large part of Claren don's trade went to Sumter, but his motto being low prices and quick sales, has brought the trade to Man ning. One cannot but admire his pleasant manner and good taste. Ladies have very little trouble in shopping-just give him an idea of what you want and he will fill your bill in latest style. When we enter his store we are promptly met by po lite clerks who lose no time in dis playing his beautiful assortment of goods. If you want your dress made up to-date you can have it done without leaving his store. You need not have any fear that your shoes are not good if you get them from his store, for h~e keeps nothing but the best. His slippers are beauties, and girls, if you want your feet to look small and pretty just get a pair. Just walk back to his millinery de partment and you can be suited with any style of hat you want. Go up stairs and you will be convinced that his line of men's and boys' clothing cannot be surpassed. We children love him because he resurrected Santa Claus whom we thought was dead. His beautiful line of toys gladden our hearts at Christmas time. May he live long and his business continue to prosper in the future as it has done in the past, is the wish of ALETHEA DAVIS. Age, 12 years. A COUNTRY lad early in life con ceived the idea that his talents did not suit the farm, but centered upon a mercantile life. Following the nat ural bent of his mind, ere he reached manhood the youth sought and found business in the town of Man ning, S. C. Even at the outset .he exhibited untiring energy and in domitable perseverance as a clerk. He put his whole soul in his busi ness. His attention to all who came to nis house was such that soon their number was greatly increased. His employer was highly pleased with him and placed more confidence in him than falls to the lot of clerks in general. Others besides his employer had their eyes on the young man. In a few years he started business for himself. He was aided in his ef torts and proved that he was an up to-date merchant. He seemed intui tively to know how and what to buy. Also that there is much in proper advertisment. He put those ideas in practice and found the result most satisfactory. He soon drew magnet ically many, very many, to his coun ters and gained the deserved credit of selling at only a living price. Un fortunately, the fire fiend destroyed his stock. He did not remain idlej 'while awaiting the result of insur ance, but we find him behind the counter of another merchant selling goods. His actions indicate conclu sively that he will not be thwarted in his purpose if possible to prevent it. ie again opened with a stock at prices which defied competition and has steadily increased his business. He has combined millinery with dry goods. His co-workers in his exten sive business understand and per form his and her parts well. W. E. Jenkinson has done much to build up the mercantile trade in Manning and stands without a com peer. ANNIE WHITE. WILLIAMI ELDRIDGE JENKIN ISON was born in Friendship township, Clarendon county, South Carolina, February 8, 1864. Though born and raised on a farm, he was not destined to quietly spend his life on the farm. He came to Manning and clerked for Mr. S. A. Rigby, and from his savings he embarked in the mercantile business, but he did not remain in obscurity very long. As a man, his honesty,integrity and perseverance soon pushed him to the front. As a merchant, prices and the quality of the goods, brought him before the public; and today, though only thirty-six years old, he stands in the front ranks with the mer chants of this section of the State, and the name Jenkinson presupposes bargains. When cotton went down to little over four cents and the mer chants all over the State began fail ing, Jenkinson, like a good ship in a roaring sea bravely stood the test Iand came out a mighty victor. ad the con+y npnpe and look IINESS. .My Business." The Committee f Silver. She will receive same W. E. JENKINSON. at the space used by Jenkinson-his flaming advertisements well show what is behind them. Jenkinson's progress has truly been rapid. It seems improbable that the Jenkinson who was once almost in obscurity has so rapidly risen that he now stands forth the best known mer chant in Clarendon county. No won der the ladies like to go-to Jenkin son's; there they are waited upon by a corps of efficient clerks. Personally Jenkinson is most ge nial, liked by all the ladies and re spe'!ted by all men. Salesmen like to sell him and the people like to buy from him. We cannot expect the idiosyncrats to like him, he can not afford to put up with their whims and fancies. Manning had no milliner until Jenkinson, in face of all persuasion to the contrary, got him a milliner. Has it paid? There are several in town. I but express the sentiments of the people when I say that though now a victor Jenkinson has yet to solve the hardest problems of his life. As you enter Jenkinson's store you immediately feel at home. Ask for what you want. Mr. Jenkinson him self often meets his customers at the door. Are you afraid to ask for what you want then? I think not. You feel perfectly at home talking to him. But as I said before, he has before him the hardest problems of his life, for today he has to compete with Sumter, Columbia and Charleston. In closing I cannot but say, surely there is yet a great reward in store for William E. Jenkinson. JoHN K. BREEDIN. SIME" IN this signifies the person of W. E. Jenkinson of Manning, S. C., and "My Business" means sim ply the trade carried on by this man in this town. Any one go ing to this town will see his sign in front of a large brick building on the main square. Entering the door of this building one's eyes will almost certainly fall upon a middle-aged man, of an average size, with very light hair and corresponding mus tache. This man is the proprietor of the business. He comes forward with quick but firm step and is ever ready to welcome customers. Looking around, the visitor can soon get some idea of what is meant by "My Business" at the beginning of this. One side of the room is filled with dry goods, while an immense stock of shoes fills the other. The millinery department occupies one side of the back part of the room. To the right of this is found the gro cery department, while over these an upper floor is filled with trunks, gent's clothing and the like. In this store can be found almost everything wished for, and the prices are always very reasonable. The goods kept are new and stylish, so they always please the customers. This man and his business are widely known and the people from all sections of the county furnish him an extensive trade. LILLIE LAVENDER, New Zion School. Age, 13 years. IN THE year 1882 there came to the town of Manning an obscure far mer boy, born and reared on his father's farm, near Panola, in Clar endon county, to attend the school then conducted by S. A. Nettles, ac quiring an education and supporting himself in the meantime by serving as salesman for S. A. Rigby, where he obtained such a thorough knowl edge of merchandising that, 'when In 1893 he engaged in merchandising on his own account, success attended him from the start, and from a mod est beginning the business has grown and increased until it has become the most important dry goods busi ness in the town of Manning or the county of Clarendon. Having grown up with the town and his interests being identical with the interests of his home town, the history of Man ning is so interwoven with the his tory of the subject of this sketch, viz, W. E. Jenkinson, that a history of our county seat that did not in lude W. E. Jenkinson and his busi ness would not be complete. He in troduced the spring and autumn mil linery openings into Manning and his is always grand. So in his example let every young man find something to learn in his honesty and good ex ample generally. LILLA M. PLOWDEN, Pupil of Mill Branch School. Age, 12 years. M R. JENKINSON has proven himself to be a thorough business man and a successful merchant. Quiet but with a determination to succeed, he has won the confidence of the public. He was born near Fulton, Clarendon county, in 1865. There were no schools in that neighborhood and he assisted his father on the farm until he was 18 years old. Then with money he had saved, he entered the Manning Acad em. He barely could write his name, but' during the school term he made the most improvement in penmanship and won the gold pen awarded. He attend ed the Manning Academy about four years then began clerking. He soon became the most popular clerk of the firm. In 1894, having been a clerk for nine years, he began business for himself. Each year since, he has increased his stock and this year commands a half million business- He was burnt out in 1895, but was fully insured. He at once ordered another stock and while it was on the way and the insui-ance was being settled, he clerked again. His stock consists of dry goods and no tions, also shoes; besides, he has milli nery and mantua-making departments. He is always the first in his store and the last to leave. He works harder than any of his clerks. He was married to Miss Daisy Bag nal in 1891. She keeps books and works as hard as he does. She is competent, lever and popular. They have one child, Martha, a black-eyed, rosy cheeked little girl. He is a member of the Methodist church, of Masonic and Knights of Pythias lodges and a Demo rat. DIMPLE ALsBROOK, Manning. S. C. Age. S years. F ROM what I know of Mr. Jenkinson he commenced clerking for Mr. S. A. Rigby when quite a young man, on an ordinary salary, and gradually became the head clerk of Mr. Rigby's store. Soon Mr. Rigby gave him charge of his dry goods department. Mr. Jenkinson managed this department so well that I feel sure Mr. Rigby is sorry that he ever let him get away. Mr. Jenkinson oot his start in this way and opened up a store here a few years ago. At first he just kept a dry goods store, then he opened up a general merchandise busi ness and from the remarks and compli ments paid him I am sure he pleased everybody with the general merchan dise business, but Mr. Jenkinson thought that he could please every body better with a strictly dry goods and millinery store. He has strictly got it and a nice one at that. Come and see him, he always takes pleasure in show ing any one and in quoting prices. Mr. Jenkinson can sell you just as cheap or cheaper than you can buy anywhere else and the good part about buying from Mr. Jenkinson is. when you buy an article from him you know it is worth having. I know one or two thought they could do better elsewhere, but they changed their minds before they closed the bargain. Come and give him a call and I feel assured that you will trade with him hereafter. WTT.TIAM BARRON. CHIMNEY FIRES. Why Salt Is Commonly used to Put Them Out. In accounts of chimney fires it is common to read that the fire was ex tinguished by throwing salt down the chimney. Salt is used because there is liberated from it when it comes into contact with the fire a gas that within an inclosed space like a chiwey is very effective in extinguish' ifire. The primary purpose in throwing salt or anything else down a burning chim ney is to dislodge the burning soot, chimney fires being caused by the igni tion of the soot clinging to the inside of the chimney. Salt is used for this purpose not alone because of its pecul iar effectiveness, but also because it is something available for the purpose that can commonly be found at hand in a house. It is thrown down the chimney In such a manner that It will rattle down the sides and by its weight knock down the soot and sparks cling ing to the chimney's insides. A bucket of sand has been put to the same use with good effect, and some times a scuttle of coal has been poured down the chimney, the coal bounding about from side to side as it dropped and so doing its work effectively. Sometimes a brick is taken from the chimney itself and, tied to a clothes line, is hauled up and down the chim ney, with the same result. At the hearth below or at the bottom of the chimney wherever the sparks may fall there is stationed a man with a pail of water to put out whatever fire may drop. Water is not played on a chim ney fire from a hose because it is not necessary, and the water would do more damage than the fire. The damage caused by a fire in a chimney when it is confined there is nothing or next to nothing. Left alone, however, a chimney fire might work its way Into a building and so prove de structive, and therefore slight as they may be in themselves or as they might be in their consequences chimney fires are always put out and commonly in the manner described.-Exchange. EAGLES AND THEIR PREY. A Giant Bird Whose Race Has Hap pily Become Extinct. There is at the present moment at the Natural History museum a model of the skull of an eagle so gigantic that the imagination can scarcely fit it into the life of this planet at all. The whole head is larger than that of an ox, and the beak resembles a pair of hydraulic shears. Unlike most of the giant beasts, this eagle, which in habited Patagonia, appears from its remains to have differed little from the existing species. Its size alone distinguishes it. The quills of the feathers which bore this awful raptor through the air must have been as thick as a walking stick and the webs as wide as car blades. It would have killed and torn to pieces creatures as large as a bison and whirled up into the sky and dropped into the rocks the gigantic carapaced animals of prehistoric Patagonia as easily as a modern eagle of California does the land tortoise on which it feeds. Even today there are few carnivo rous animals, whether birds or beasts, which have so wide a range of prey as the eagles. Like the kinged drag ons of old story, they can ravage earth, air and sea and feed promiscu ously on the denizens of all three ele ments. From serpents on the burning desert to seals on the everlasting ice, from monkeys in the tropical forests to marmots on the Alpine slopes, from dead sheep on highland hills to pea cocks in the Indian jungles, no form of fish, flesh or fowl comes amiss to them, and the young eagle, driven by the in exorable law of his race from the home where he was reared, finds a free breakfast table wherever he fles. Corhill Magazine. HOW TO CATCH A COLD. he Various Ways In Which It May Be Aecomaplished. The various ways in which a cold* may be brought on are thus describ ed by Dr. J. H. Kellogg: "A little knife blade of air blowing in through a rack in a window upon some part of the body will chill that part, and the blood vessels of that region will be come contracted, affecting somewhere in the interior of the body an area In refex relation with this portion of the surface of the body. "For instance, the blood vessels of the skin of the top of the shoulders and the chest are associated with the blood vessels of the lungs, so that whatever happens to the blood vessels of the skin of the shoulders and chest hap pens also to the blood vessels of the lungs. If there is a contraction of the blood vessels of the back of the neck, here will be a contraction of the blood vessels of the nose and throat, and If there is a contraction of the blood ves sels of the top of the shoulders and the shoulder blades there will also be a contraction of the blood vessels of the lungs. When the influence of the old is continued, this contraction is followed by congestion. "When one puts bis hands into cold' water for a few minutes, they are first pale and then red. This Is reaction. The longer the application and the more Intense the degree of cold the greater will be the contraction and the ongestion. So if the back of the neck is exposed for a long time to the influ ence of cold one Is likely to have a cold in the nose and throat If the shoulder blades and the tops of the shoulders are exposed, one is likely to take cold in the lungs and suffer from ongestion of the lungs. If the cold is long continued, It may cause not only a congestion, but an inflammation of the nose or the lungs. "So if the bottoms of the feet become wet or chilled a weakness of the blad der may result if there has ever been a trouble there or a weakness of the stomach if there has been a catarrh of that organ."-Good Health. How to Dry Rubber Boots. It was a problem how to dry out hip rubber boots. In the sitting room there w'as an open grate fire which was cov ered every night with fine coal and a few shovelfuls of ashes, so that the room never became quite cold. We found that if we heated a piece of old flannel as hot as possible and stuffed it down into the foot of a boot and stood the boot in front of the fireplace It was as dry as a bone next morning. The handiest thing to keep the boot leg open is a spring steel corset rib about 18 inches long by three-quarter Inch in width.-Forest and Stream. Refrigerated Eggs. Eggs become unwholeof wnI kept in refrigerators. A foundu foym th in them which is easilys fondt nte microscope, althoughe iunus otnti ble to the taste.he feuconsdershow tutes daare consumed by all classes of 5ycIety, and people of delicate con stitutions ought to be particularly care ul that they eat fresh and not kept ATLANTIC COAST LINE, CHARLESTON, S. C., Jan. 14, 1900. On and after this date the following passenger schedule will be in effect: NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD. South.Bound. *35. *23. *53. Lv Florence, 3.25 A 7.55 P. Lv Kingstree, 8.57 Ar Lanes, 4.38 9.15 Lv Lanes, 4 38 9.15 7.40 P. Ar Charleston, 6.03 10.50 9.15 North-Bonnd. *78. *32. *52. Lv Charleston, 6.33 A. 5.17 P. 7.00 A. Ar Lanes. 8.18 0.45 8.32 Lv Lanes 8 18 6.45 Lv Kingstree. 8.34 Ar Florence, 9.28 7.55 *Daily. tDaily except Sunday. No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central R. R. of S. C. Trains Nos. 78 and 32 run via Wilson and Fayetteville-Short Line-and make close connection for all points North. Trains on C. & D. R. R. leave Florence daily except Sunday 9.55 a in, arrive Dar lington 10.28 a m, Cheraw, 11.40 a m, Wadesboro 12.35 p m. Leave Florence daily except Sunday, 8.00 p m, arrive Dar. lington, 8.25 p m, Hartsville 9.20 p in, Bennetsville 9.21 p m, Gibson 9.45 p m. Leave Florence Sunday only 9.55 a m, ar rive Darlington 10.27, Hartsville 11.10 Leave Gibson daily except Sunday 6.35 a m, Bennettsville 6.59 a in, arrive Darling ton 7.50 a m. Leave Hartsville daily ex cept Sunday 7.00 a m, arrive Darlington 7.45 a in, leave Darlington 8.55 a w, arrive Florence 9.20 a m. Leave Wadesboro daily except Sunday 4 25 p m, Cheraw 5.15 p m, Darlington 6.29 p in, arrive Florence 7 p M. Leave Hartsville Sunday only 8.15 a in Darlington 9.00 a m, arrive Florence 9.20 a m. J. . KENLEY, JNO. F. DIVINE, Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Sup't. T. M. EMERSON, Trafic Manager. H. M. EMERSON, Gen'l Pass. Agent. W. C. & A. South-Bound. 55. 35. 52. Lv Wilmington,*3.45 P. Lv Marion, 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, 10.20 11.00 No. 52 runs through from Charleston via Central R. R., leaving Charleston 7 a in, Lanes 8.34 a ni, Manning 9.09 a in. North-Bound. 54. 53. 32. Lv Columbia, 0.40 A. *4.15 P. Ar Sumter, 8.05 5.35 Lv somter, 8.05 *6.06 P. Ar Florence, 9 20 7.20 Lv Florence, 9.50 Lv Marion, 10.34 Ar Wilmington, 1.15 *Daily. No. 53 rrns through to Charleston, S. C., via Cential R. [R.. arriving Manning 6.04 p w, Lanes, 6.43 p in, Charleston 8.30 p m. Trains on Conway Branch leave Chad bourn 5.35 p m, arrive Conway 7.40 p i. returning leave Conway 8.30 a m, arrive Chadbourn 11.50 a in, leave Chadbourn 11.50 a in,arrive at Hub 12.25 pm,returning leave Hub 3.00 p m, arrive at Chadbourn 3.35 p m. Daily except Sunday. J. R. KENLY, Gen'l Manager. T. M. EMERSON, Trafic Manager. H. M. EMERSON, Gen'l Pass. Agent. CENTRAL R. R. OF SO. CAROLINA. No. 52 Lv Charleston, 7.00 A. M. Lv Lanes, 8.34 " Lv Greeleyville, 8.46 " Lv Foreston, 8.55 " Lv Wilson's Mill, 9.01 " Lv Manning, 9.03 Lv Alcolu, 9.16 " Lv Brogdon, 9.25 " Lv W. & S. Junct., 9.38" Lv Sumter, 9.40 Ar Columbia, 11.00" No. 53 Lv Columbia, 4.00 P. M. Lv Suater, 5.13 " Lv W. &S. Junct. 5.15 " Lv Brogdon, 5.27 " Lv Alcolu, 5.35 " Lv Manning, 0.04 " Lv Wilson's Mill, 5.50" Lv Foreston, 5.57 " Lv Greeleyville, 6.05" - Ar Lanes, 6.17 " Ar Charleston, 8.00 " MANCHESTER & AUGUSTA R. 1R. No. 35. Lv Sumter, 3.47 A. I. Ar Creston, 4.43 " Ar Orangeburg, 5.10" Ar Denmark, 5.48 " No. 32 Lv Denmark, 4.28 P. M. Lv Orangeburg, 5.02 Lv Creston, 5.27 - Ar Sumter, 6.18 " Trains 32 and 35 carry through Pullman palace buffet sleeping cars between New York and Macon via Augusta. W1Ailson and Snmmerton R. R. TIME TADIE No. 1, In effect Monday, June 13th, 1898. Between Sumter and Wilson's Mills. Southbound. Northbound. No. 73. Daily except Sunday No. 72. P M Stations. 1? M 200 Le.......Suter...Ar 1230 2 03 ....W & SJunction. 3227 220.......... Tindal.........1155 2 38.........Packsville.......11 30 2 50...........ilver.........11 10 3 05 (......Millard........ .10145 333511 3 50 ...Summierton... 10 10 4 20...... .... Davis..........945 4 45.........Jordan ... .......935 5 15 Ar..Wilson's Mills..Le 9 05 P M A M Between .Mtillard and St. Paul. Southbound. Northbound. No 73. No. 75. No. 72. No. 74. PFM A M Stations A M P M 305 1015 Le Millard Ar 10 45 335 3 15 10 25 Ar St. Paul Le 10 35 3 25 PM AM AM PM THOS. WILSON, President. THE Bank of MannIng, MANNINC, 8. C. Transaets a general banking busi ness. Prompt and special attention given to depositors residing out of town. Deposits solicited. All collections have prompt atten tion. Business hours iromn 9 a. mn. to p. nm. .JOSEPH SPROTT, A. LEVI, Cashier. President. BOARD OF DIREcTOBs. J. W. McLuov, W. E. Baows S. M. NEISEN, JOSEPH SPEOT' A. LEYI. J. S. wILSON. W. C. DURANT. WILSON & DLRANT, Allorneyis and Couns'elors at J.au-, MANNING, S. C.