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Hardware- Implemuent s- Stoes. L B. DuRANT, S. Being in close touch with the very best markets. I am better prepared to handle the trade than ever before, and I therefore invite an inslection of my stock. Reuember I am in the Ducker-Bult iau Company building,. Opposite the Court house. Come to see me when von want Hardware, Stoves, House Furnishing Goods, Harness, Saddles, Leather, &c., &c. A MAGNIFICENT LINE OF CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. My store is headquarters for Guns, Pistols, Powder, Shot, Shells and the very latest in Sporting Gfoods. I also handle large quantities of Paints. Oils, and Window glass. For Engine and Mill Supplies there is no better place to buy. Come and examine my large line of Cooking and Heating Stoves. Every Stova bought from me is warranted. L. B. DuRANT, SUMTER, . - - S. 0. Some Special Bargains. 40-ib boxes Starch. best . .- .--- -.............................................-- - - 3m stan Dried Herrings...... ....-....................................-- --'- per box New Mackerel. 14 good tish to kit.. d z............................... ...........90d Full Cream Cheese. to 4 s each. a -.................................. 13 d per Best )F'ancy Elgin Creamery Butter. 60-r-. tubs. t.....................................4c per lb American Sardines-new pack .........................................r.s5 per case 100 cans iO,-oz Tumbler Fruit Jelly. 3 doz to case............................................:x per doz-DsadT m te.'do inc e...... .............. .. ........._m z .em stand Tomatoes. . do. in cane......... p ...... ........eF....................^44 dz Half-pint bottles Assorted Pickes.. do in case .......... .P ....... .......- doz 1.18 cans Core Oysters, full weight. 2 and 4 dox in case ................................ 40e doz 2>-icans Fancy Maine packed Sugar Corn ...........................r.' o _-IL~ cans Fancy New York State packed Sugar Corn .....................Ido CRACKERS. FLOUR. Lemons. :.jc: Sic Sacks. ....5..lc per T 1 Best Fancy Patent ............ 4.45 bbl Ginger Snaps. Sc: Soda Crackers....7c per t. Best Half Patent ................... .1 bbl Sugar Crackers 6c: Fancy Mixed.c....6e per it Best Straight..................... 3.90 bbl Cream Lunch Biscuits ...............e 7cr bit Best Family........................3.25 bbl Oatfakes. - packages .............- O d Salt. --- --..................5c bag MEAL, GRITS, BACON AND LARD AT LOWEST PRICES. Cigars, Cheroots, Cigarettes and Tobacco. Diamond T Cigar. best oe seller. at -------------3-------------------- per 10 Success. none Supttlr f3 per 1.T"i F. L. Royal Cigar good smoke p4............................................ 25 per 1. Tr our Leader........................................ ................ i.. 0 .000: 60c box Oia Virginia Cheroots...................... .............. 3.15 per box of 2'0 Cheroots: 3 for 5c Old Glory Cheroots.......................................... 0 pe.o.o 0 Ceo Worlds Best Cheroots.................................... . r box of 25 Cheroots: 3 for c Duke's Cigarettes ............................................................ . 0 per 1.000 Cicycie Cig arettes .......................................... ..... per 1.00 A Big Supply of Tobacco, Mable.' L an Roohk. L ttlc Fany. Red Eve and various other kinds- prices rang.ing. frst '.,. 37c and 45c per lb. Big Drives in Soap. OCTAGON, VICTORY, TIP-TOP, ELECTRIC, IMPERIAL. SHOE BLACKING. INK. BLUEING. Etc. See us. or get our prices before you buy. CROSSWELL & CO, *~VT R - - S- cZ People's Tobacco Warehouse Company OF MANNING, S. C., Respectfully invite you to bring your Tobacco to their Warehouse to get Highest Marlket Prices. We claim for Manning the highest market in the State, and can prove it if you will bring us a load of your tobacco. Try us with a load, we will treat you right. C. M.MASON, Manager. TH CAROLINA GROCERY COMPANY, TEOMvAS WILSON, Pr'esident. -- Arn - COMMISSION MERCHANTS. 159 East Bay - - Charleston, S. C. Watches and Jewelry. I want lay friends and the public generially to know that when in need of a Wedding, Birthday or Christmas Present, That in the future, as well as the last. I ..'n prepatred to supply themu. My line of Watches Clocks Sterling Silver Diamonds Jewelry Cut Glass Fine China Wedgewood Spectacles and Eye Glasses Is complete. aed it wil agord ie pleasure to showv theiu. Speeial anc 3.ttention given to all Repairing in mys lin at pf:nP to suit the t Atlantic Coast I W.t FOLSOM, "SMTER Watch Inspec- W ~SC STHE TIME5 xeD Neatly and at Office Doe P Y '"X Lowest Prices His Opinion. Fiddleback-Are you going around to Miss Muffin's tomorrow night, Mrs. Von Blumer? Mrs. Von BIumer-She gives a chaf ing dish party, doesn't she? Fiddleback-Yes. Mrs. Von Blumer-We may. Are you? Fiddleback (smiling)-Well, hardly. Mrs. Von Blumer-Why, I thought you were fond of Miss Muffin. Fiddleback-I am, but not of her chafing dish parties. Mrs. Von Blumer-You mean Fiddleback-I mean the chafing dish part. Mrs. Von Blumer-You don't like that? Fiddleback-Well. I can stand a good deal, but the concoctions Miss Maffin gets up in that instrument of torture are too much for me. Mrs. Von Blumer-You are too hard on her, I am sure. Fiddleback-Hard on her, do you say! Well, I guess she is pretty hard on the rest of her victims. Mrs. Von Blumer-What particular dish of hers don't ya like? Fiddleback-Well, I can't say that I am partial to any of them. I've tried them all, and there isn't much choice. Her lobster New'ourg can pro duce about as much complex agony as anything else. But I think for suf fering long drawn out, for steady, un intermittent, ablebodied pain, her Welsh rabbit takes the blue ribbon. Have you ever tried Miss Muffin's Welsh rabbit? Mrs. Von Blumer-Oh, yes, indeed! Why, I have been giving her cooking lessons for the last six months!-Har per's Bazar. His Moments of Joy. Did you ever hear of the strange man who went out to a summer hotel once for a holiday? He impressed on the clerk the first day he was there that it was of vital importance that he be called at 6 o'clock next morning. He was called. He didn't come down stairs till 2 in the afternoon. The in junction to the clerk was repeated ev ery day, and every day the mysterious guest staid in his room till late in the afternoon. When he had been at the place a week and was about to leave, the clerk said to him: "I beg your pardon, sir; it's none of my business, but why have you left or ders to be called at 6 o'clock every morning and never got out of bed till several hours later?" "Well," he replied, "I'll tell you. Back in the city I've got a job that compels me to get up every morning, summer and winter, at 6 o'clock. This is my first vacation for five years. Ev ery day when your bellboy has come up stairs and banged at the door I've started up to dress and get down to the office and then suddenly let the convic tion steal blissfully over my brain that I didn't have to. Then I've gone back to bed, hugged the pillow and dreamed that I was in the Elysian fields. That moment of joy that has followed the banging on my door every morning has been worth three times the price of the bill."-Chicago Times-Herald. Sympathy Misplaced. One day during a cold snap last win ter I saw an old man in a grocery act ing rather suspiciously, and soon I saw him steal a potato from a barrelful of the tubers that stood outside the coun ter. The old fellow slipped out of the house as soon as he could convenient ly and limped away. I followed him, thinking to give him what change I could spare, for I thought he must be desperately poor If he must steal a po tato. When I caught up with him and of fered him a little money, the old man roared with laughter. When he had got his breath again, he said: "You saw me steal the potato, didn't you?" "Yes, sir, I did." "Well, lemme tell you, my son, I've got potatoes to sell. I raise thousands of bushels of them. I've got the big gest market garden in this county, and I've got more money than you ever saw. Carryia a potato in your pocket will cure the rheumatiz, but for it to do any good you've got to steal the potato. See? I saw. And I sawed wood.-Wil Visscher in Woman's Home Compan ion. Bad Manner. An old gentleman, walking up Cork Hill, Dublin, overtook a coal cart heav ly loaded and drawn by a wretched quadruped with Its legs bending under it, its bones sticking through its skin. "How can you ill treat your horse so?" he cried, addressing the driver. "It Is quite exhausted. Look at the way its tongue is hanging out." "Exhausted, is it?" answered the boy.' "Why, 'tis the bad manners of him. He's putting it out at you!"-London Tit-Bits. A Kind Eearted Lady. A Mrs. Abigail Vaughan left a legacy of 4 shillings per annum with which to buy fagots to burn heretics. She left It to St Martin Outwich, now demolish ed. Mrs. Vaughan's remains were among those removed to Irford from the Church of St. Martin Outwich. The facts are given in a history of St. Hel en's, Bishopsgate, by a late rector. Notes and Queries. Dangerous. "Papa," asked a 4-year-old youngster, "are little boys made of dust?" "Yes, my son," was the reply. "Well, then," continued the little fel hw, "I wish you would make nurse top using the brush on me. I'm afraid she'll brush me all away." Enjoyable. Tess-How did you enjoy yourself at her wedding? Jess-Very much. Her gown was a wretched had fit, and everybody was remarking how poor the presents were. -Exchange. Farmers, I Farmers! W. B. BOYLE, SUMTER, S. C., Liery, Sale and Feed Stables. -DEALER IN Morses and Mules; also Stock Food of All Kinds. Agent for Russell, Fish. WVebber' and Owensboro Wagons and the best vari et of Pleasure Vehicles in the city. Eakes, Mowers, Reapers, And all kinds of Farming Machinery and Implements. C ome' to see me. Let W. B. BOYLE, St;,,vRE SUMTER, S. C. OUR COMPLEX BRAIN HOW NERVE MESSAGES ARE CON VEYED TO AND FROM IT. It Is a Signal Box Which Records and Transmits All Sensation-Self Control the Key to Preserving Its Equilibrium. The science of medicine is year after year becoming more and more perfect. Its diagnoses are more reliable, and its method of treatment is more rational. Although the brain is the chief part of the animal man, yet there are many things about the brain which scientists have not yet fathomed. But great strides have been made in that knowledge which has only within recent years been discovered and which reveals to us what the cranium really contains. Shelving what has gone be fore and what has been taught as med ical law, the following interesting data on how the brain works are now what is accepted at the present time as the correct theory: The cerebrum-front and top-is the chief part of the brain and the imme diate source of all our mental action. The gray matter of the outer surface is made up of layers of nerve cells. These are the thinking centers. Experiments have clearly demonstrated that each convolution has a special function, and if destroyed it cannot be replaced. It has also been found that the left side of the brain is more active than the right. How has that been found out? Well, if an epileptic commences a fit by twitching the right thumb or hand one would find its cause in its nerve center on the left side of the brain. It is only within the past few years that medical men are now able to make a map of the surface of the brain according to the various functions performed. All impressions received from the outer world, whether through the me dium of sight, smell, hearing, taste or touch, are carried direct to the surface of the brain and recorded in the brain cells of their respective areas, while all movements are the result of im pulses from the cells in the different motor areas. Now, there are five large sensory areas In the make up of the brain. First, sight, which is the largest, at the back of the brain. Smell, taste and hearing have their positions at the side of the head in the temporal (temples) region and inner surface. Touch has its domicile at the top of the brain, while the large motor (giving motion) area takes up the bulk of the middle brain. These are so splendidly arranged by nature that the motor cells of the lips are in front, then those of the hand, arm and so on to the foot. To give you an example how the sensory and motor nerves work: If you touched anything hot or sharp, the impression would be conveyed to the sensory area along the nerves connected with It. The sensory cell which received the message would immediately communi cate with the motor cells to pull your hand away. Why is it easier to remember an ob ject than, say, a mathematical formula or a poem? The reason of this is that whereas the former has impressions stamped on several brain centers, such as sight, touch, smell, taste and the rest, the lator are stamped on centers which are not nearly so retentive as the former. In repeating poetry, for instance, it is the sound of the last line which suggests the next line, but an object prevents itself to the brain centers concerned Immediately. You know an apple or an orange when you see it because you are aided in distinguishing it by a set of centers which are not only more numerous, but quicker in perception. Though poetry is revived In the sight and sound centers, it is not so well fixed there as in the other case, because It calls up fewer cen ters. An apple, for instance, is stamped twice In the optic center, once as a grcen fruit and once as the printed word. There is an optic word center and a pictorial or photographic center. The poem is only stamped in the for mer, as of course it is not an object which can be pictorially represented. The brain is nothing less than a big album of photographs and other sen sory impressions. The prefrontal region may be compared to a registry office where certain records are kept In the brain that particular part is the start ing place for the memory. If we wish to recall a subject, the stimulus must pass to the prefrontal or registry office of the braIn, whence the stimulus is sent to the brain cells containing the sensations to be recalled. It Is like a signal box on a railway. Now, unless your blood be in good order the active life of the brain will be affected. Blood is the nourishing agent, and if it be of a poor kind the work it does in the way of nourishment will be of a worthless character practi cally. Poor blood is an enemy of the brain, but happily it is not so disas trous a foe as worry. In that you have the real snemy of the brain. Worry disorganizes the machinery of the brain and mind and is little inferior to shock, which usually paralyzes both. Worry causes irregular nerve action, and if it be continuous it produces a confusion of ideas. This depresses the cells of the brain, and the usual result is if there Is no abatement in the worry complete failure of the brain's action and consequent mental disturbance. Self control is the key to preserving the equilibrium of the brain and to maintaining its natural healthy state. Pearson's Weekly. "Most Unique." One can hardly pick up a newspaper nowadays without seeing the vile phrase, "most unique," as "It was the most unique entertainment ever given in Podunk valley." If a thing is unique, it Is unique in the superlative degree. If it IS not unique in the superlative de gree, It is not unique. To say that an accident is "one of the most unique that ever occurred" is abominable. "Very singular" is a parallel solecism. -Exchange. Two Point. of Difference. "The difference between the cow and the milkman," said the gentleman with a rare memory for jests, "is that the cow gives pure milk." "There is another difference," re torted the millkman-"the cow doesn't give credit."-Indianapolis Press. They swapped. IA little boy in Bangor, Mie., was suf fering from a severe cold, and his mother gave him a bottle of cough mixture to take while at schooL. On b~s return she asked if he had taken his medicine. "No," he candidly re pied, "but Bobby Jones did. He liked It, so I swapped it with him for a hand ful of peanuts." It is imprudent to keep an oil or gas stove burning in a sleeping room. They consume the oxygen and thus vitiate Seed SEED OATS, Just arrived, three car k Proof Seed Oats. Farmers, we contracted for were cheap and are now giving cheaper than they have ever bees We want all of our custo: need at once, as they are going cars are sold the price will go his Yours ti THE PEOPLE'S I WHOLESAIL THE STAFF OF LIFE. Dread Seems to Be Fatling la Favor as an Article of Diet. "I look upon bread as an article of food destined to be completely abolish ed before many years," said a New York doctor, "for the number of per sons who are willingly giving up tihe use of it increases every year. The ma jority of them do this on the advice of their physicians, who find more ground for recommending abstinence from bread as they see the results that such a course of treatment has on their pa tients. "For nearly all forms of dyspppsia, gout, rheumatism and kindred ail ments the patient is first told to shun bread unless it be submitted to certain preparation and be taken only in cer tain forms. The great increase In the number of hygienic foods that have been put upon the market and the al most invariable success of any of these manufactures which prove an accepta ble substitute for bread and other starchy foods are other indications in the change of the public feeling toward bread as a simple food which could be taken under all circumstances. "Some years ago a man wrote a book devoted chiefly to exposing to the world the harmful qualities of bread. Persons at that time thought he was a crank, and little attention was paid to his very sound utterances on the sub ject. But his opinions are now re-ech oed by most physicians, and the great army of abstainers from bread gathers recruits every day. The revolt against such a well established institution is naturally a little bit slow. But bread is destined to be Nimately shunned even more than it is today, and this de struction of a tradition that has lasted centuries is already well under way. Most of its force comes from the com plete satisfaction of the persons who do give up bread entirely. They are al ways the most enthusiastic advocates of the new theory on the subject." New York Sun. HE TESTED HIS SKILL. The Result Moved the Philosopher to a Discourse on Success. "Did you ever realize that the suc cess that one really enjoys comes only through hard work?" asked the philos opher. "I know the average mortal would prefer to gain his ends without hard toil, but few do, and I doubt If those few gain any pleasure from hav ing the plum drop in their laps without any effort on their part. "I had that fact impressed upon me only the other day. I chanced during an idle moment to pick up an empty Ink bottle, and something started my thoughts back to my boyhood days when an empty bottle furnished an Ideal mark to throw stones at. Smiling to myself at the childishness of it, I set the bottle on a hitching post, and after carefully selecting a number of stones I stood off about 30 feet and prepared to make a test of my skill. The very first stone that I threw caught the bottle fairly in the center an shattered It into a hundred pieces. I threw away the stones that I had so carefully gathered in disgust. I had accomplished what I had set out to do on my first throw, but I fully realized that it was only a fluke and that I might throw 50 more stones and not come anywhere near the mark. "Now, if, on the contrary, I had miss ed, I would have carefully noted where the fault lay and tried to have correct d it on my next throw. The throws that went too low and too high, as well as too much to one side, would have all been valuable lessons to me, and in the end I would have succeeded in placing a stone where I wanted it. That would have been success gained by working for it. The very few pee ple who gain success on their first throw have my sympathy."-Detroit Free Press. Nansen's Pancakes. From boyhood Nansen accustomed himself to the use of snowshoes and would often go 40 or 50 miles on them without taking any food with him. He had a great dislike to any outfit for his excursions. On one occasion he and some of his friends set off on a long snowshoe expedition, all except Nan sen having a wallet containing their provisions on their backs. When they got to the first resting place, Nansen unbuttoned his coat and took some smoking pancakes from the lining and asked his friends to share his food. They all refused, however, not caring for the mode of conveyance and heat ing. Nansen replied, "More fools you, for let me tell you there's jam In them." ________ A Drastic Measure. A Spanish magistrate, shocked by the extent of the food adulteration, Issued a proclamation, aflame withi righteous wrath, that "all wines, gro ceries and provisions which upon anal ysis are proved to be injurious to health will be confiscated forthwith and distributed to the different chari table institutions."-Woman's ,Tournal. WIth the exception of Norway, there Is no country In Europe whose area Is so taken up by forests as Germany, more than a quarter of its surface be ing devoted to them. The tongue Is a little thing, but it ill the universe with trouble Oats, SEED OATS! ads of Genuine Texas Red Rust these Oats last spring when they you the benefit by selling them i sold in Manning. ners to come and get what they very fast, and after these three her. uly, ONEY SAVERS, E GROCEES. Garriek and Murphy. Conferring the "freedom of the play house" on playwrights and men of let ters was common in Garrick's day, and without doubt the good natured man ager was often pestered for the same favor by persons who had no such claim. It was evidently Garrick's cus tom to give tickets of admission, per manent orders, to those whom he de sired to honor. It is recorde that the Irish writer, Murphy, annoy at what he thought ill treatment or neglect, re turned the ticket with the words, "As I do not foresee any further occasion for this obliging passport, I am not willing to trespass too long upon your civility." Garrick's answer was such 'as to re flect the greatest possible credit upon himself: "If you choose to relinquish your right to the freedom of Drury Lane playhouse, you certainly will do as you please. But without the ticket, I Imagine, Mr. Murphy will find the doors open to him, as usual, and be it further known to you, sir, that as I thought you were above an undue in fluence I never meant the ticket as the least tie upon the liberty of your pen or conversation." It may be safely inferred that Gar rick presented the same permanent passport to his gruff but faithful friend, Dr. Johnson. It is hardly too much to say that the great player's generosity was as notable as his act ing, and his acting was probably such as the world has never surpassed. How Foxes Get Rid of Fleas. By an old hunter ahd naturalist of 1o cal repute a story has been told here confrming as absolutely true and trust worthy the published account, which has had few believers until now, of how foxes rid themselves of fleas. The fox, according to the book narrative, simply backs slowly into a stream of water with a portion of the pelt of a rabbit In his meuth after the fox has made a meal off the rabbit The water drives the fleas first up the fox's legs and then toward his head and finally out on the piece of rabbit fur, and then the fox drops the fur, and his pests are done for. The local hunter and naturalist re ferred to, strange to say, had never heard or read this story when he told of the actions of the fox which he ob served in the waters of the Patapsco river, The little animal, he stated, backed into the river slowly with so much deliberation that he wondered what it meant It carried something he did not know what-in its mouth and dropped the something when out in deep water. Then the fox hurried away. The object left floated near to the observer, and he hauled it ashore with a stick. Fleas literally swarmed through the object, which was found to be a bit of raw rabbit fur. The ob server had a puzzling mystery explain ed to him. He says his admiration for the shrewdness of the fox grows more and more as he grows older and learns his ways.-Baltimore Sun. It Troubled the Customer., "A funny thing occurred here the other day," said a barber as he was putting the finishing touches on a hair cut. "A fellow came In to be shaved who was somewhat under the influ ence of intoxicants. He took his place in the chair, and all proceeded well till I had shaved one side of his face, when he stopped me. "'Hold on,' he cried. 'I want this thing 'splained.' "I asked him what was the matter, and he replied: 'There's a fly on my cheek, and you have shaved the lather and whiskers off, but the fly didn't move. Now, what's the mazzer with him? "I told him there was no fly on him, but he pointed to the mirror and said: 'You think I can't see hign. I ain't so drunk that I can't see a fly.' "I turned to the glass, and there stood the fly on the mirror and in such a position that from my customer's range of vision it seemed to be on his cheek. He afterward said that he had felt that fly tickling him all the time and wondered how I could shave un der it and not cut its legs off."-London Tit-Bits. Wantu a Diagram. "That Fuddlethwait girl makes the flattest remarks of anybody I ever saw. And people laugh at them too. I can't understand it It must be be cause she has money." "What's she been saying nowy' "I was telling her the other evening that my parents had 13 children." "Yes." "Well, she looked at me awhile and said, 'Oh, are you the thirteenth? Then everybody snickered. Now, will you kindly tell me what there was funny about that?"-Chicago Times-Hersld. History's Notorious Fault. "I must insist," declared Diana, who was the acknowledged leader of the Olympian Woman's Suffrage party, "that the purity of the ballot would be conserved by allowing us to vote." "Nonsense," protested Mercury, lead er of the opposition. "You wouldn't be able to control the Muse of History. She's a natural born repeater."-Phila delphia Press. Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but give them cen tuies to try it in they are found to be Bilge Water. I am quite well aware that there are objections to hospital ships in the trop ics. When they are moored, there is the burning question of bilge water. I will not discourse on the subject of bilge water, as inexperience thereof might make the explanation weari some. Any one acquainted with the bilge water question knows it is of en grossing interest. Bilge is a prince among smells, and if you have ever fallen under its power you will always think that every terrific thing in smells is a manifestation of bilge water. I remember on one occasion when on board a moored hulk, not a hospital ship, smelling in the evening some thing that called for mention, so I mentioned it. "Oh," said my com panions, more under the -sway of bilge water than I was, from their greater knowledge of its power, "it's only our bilge water." In the morning we found it was the rotting carcass of an ele phant that had floated down the river and now hung in the mooring chain. After a considerable time was spent in getting rid of the carcass I said, "For goodness' sake, gentlemen, stir up your bilge water, and let the smells fight it out together while we go ashore for a spell" "No," said my companions, terror stricken at the sug gestion. "You do not know our bilge water when its back's up. It would stretch you if you were half way across Africa. This elephant is mere lavender water to it." This was a more dreadful bilge water than a hospital ship would have. Still, though bad, bilge water is not neces sarily fatal under proper management. -Chambers' Journal. A Historic Die. On the desk of the secretary of one of the oldest copper manufacturing firms in this city is a steel die which has served as a paperweight for 35 years, and the coins struck off by it are now, for the most part, in the hands of collectors. This die was used for strik ing copper tokens which symbolized the contest between President Andrew Jackson and the old United States bank of Philadelphia in 1832. The engraving on the die represents President Jack son, sword in hand and apparently standing in a money chest. Around the central figure is stamped Jackson's ex pression, "I take the responsibility," which arose out of his controversies with the bank. When this die was made, the prede cessors of the present company not only manufactured copper wire, but also made a special feature of copper coins, chiefly for South American coun tries and for private business firms which made a practice of issuing their own copper coins to be redeemed by them afterward. During the civil war and just preceding it many private cor porations issued tokens which circu lated as pennies, and some of them are now worth a great many times their original value to collectors.-New York Sun. Paid His Debt. When Joe Chamberlain entered the house of commons, he was anxious to try his oratorical powers. A certain leading politician, who was piloting a bill through the house, was approached by one of Mr. Chamberlain's friends, who said: "Chamberlain would like to speak on the bill. Can you give him a chance?" "Well, you know, I think it would .not do. He's a new member, and no body knows what the dickens he might Time went on. Chamberlain gained ground-became a power in parlia ment. T'he leading politician, on the contrary, had made a series of blunders which had Imperiled his position. An election was imminent. Forgetting his previous record, he thought that if he could get Mr. Chamberlain to speak for him he would strengthen his position. He, therefore, applied to the right hon orable gentleman. The latter calmly surveyed him through his eyeglass and said: "Well, you know, I think it would not do. I am a new member, and no body knows what the dickens I might say!" _______ Chinese Porcelain. Chinese porcelain was common in Europe for 400 years before a German potter succeeded in finding out the process of making it This Chinese pottery is scattered all over the world and everywhere valued, but nowhere was the distribution more curious than in western Canada. Early in the nine teenth century a Chinese funk was cast away on the Pacific coast of America just south of Vancouver island, -and its cargo of willow pattern plates fell Into the hands of the Hudson Bay compa ny's officers. Still in the remotest trad ing posts of the fur traders a few fine specimens remain. Wanted His Full Share. Little Willie, sitting down to tea with his grandmother, who is just about to cut the cake. Willie (hastily) -Grannie, before you cut my piece of cake I want to ask you a question. Grannie-Well, dear, what is it? Willie-I want to know if your spec tacles magnify ? Grannie-Yes; a little, dear. Willie-Well, then, will you please take them off while you cut my cake? The Theory. "So he regards himself as a senatori al possibility?" said one politician. "Undoubtedly," answered the other. "On what theory?" "I don't know unless It's the theory that the unexpected always happens." -Washington Star. Unhappy Coincidence. Creditor-I wouldn't ask you for the money If I wasn't awfully hard up. Debtor-And if I wasn't awfully hard up you should have It. Curious coincidence, isn't it?-Boston Tran script For Sale. Two Second-Hand Gins. Feeders and Condensers, complete. will be sold cheap. They are in good condition. *A. L. LE5ESNE, Manning. S. C. R. L. BELL MANNING. S. C., MANUFACTURER OF Wagons and Log Carts. All work entrusted to me will be done with neatness, despatch and durability and guaranteed. HORSESHOEING A SPECIALTY. Bring on your work. R. L. BELL. F. RHAME, JR., A TTORNEY AT LAW, M ANNING,"'. C _" ATLANTIC COAST LINE, C5anLsToN, S. C., Jaun. 14, 1900. On and after thin date the following passenger schedule will be in effect NORTHEASTERN R1AILIt0AL) 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-Bound. *78. '32. '52. Lv Charleston, 6.33 A. 5.17 P. 7.00 A. Ar Lanes. 8.18 6.45 8.32 Lv Lanes, 8 18 6.45 Lv Kingstree, 8 34 Ar Florence, 9.28 7.55 'Daily. t Daily except Sunday. No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central R. E. 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. B. R. leave Florence daily except Sunday 9.55 a in, arrive Dar lington 10.28 a m, Cheraw, 11.40 a in, Wadesboro 12.35 p in. Leave Florence daily except Sunday, 8.00 p in, arrive Dar lington, 8.25 p in, Hartsville 9.20 p m, Bennetsvilie 9.21 p in, Gibson 9.45 p m. Leave Florence Sunday only 9.55 a in, ar rive Darlington 10.27, Hartsville 11.10 Leave Gibson daily except Sunday 6.35 a in, Bennettsville 6.59 a in, arrive Darling. ton 7.50 a m. Leave Hartsville daily ex cept Sunday 7 00 a in, arrive Darlington 7.45 a in. leave Darlington 8 55 a in, arrive Floreice 9.20 a m. Leave Wadt..boro daily except Sunday 4 25 p in, Cheraw 5 15 p in, Darlington 6.29 p in, arrive Florence 7 p in. Leave Hartsville Sunday only 8.15 a m Darlington 9.00 a in, arrive Florence 9.2ii a m. J. R. KENLEY, JNO. F. DIVINE, Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Sup't. T. M. EMERSON, Traffc 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 in, Manning 9.09 a M. North-Bound. 54. 53. 32. Lv Columbia, '6.40 A. '4.15 P. Ar Sumter, 8.05 5.35 Lv Snuter, 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 rruns through to Charleston, S. C., via (Centzal R. Rt., arriving Manning 6.04 p in, Lanes, 6.43 p in, Charleston 8.30 p in. Trains on Conway Branch leave Chad bourn 5.35 p in, arrive Conway 7.40 p in, returning leave Conway 8.30 a in, arrive Chadbourn 11.50 a in, leave Chadbourn 11.50 a um,arrive at Hub 12.25 pm,returning leave Hub 3.00 p in, arrive at Chadbourn 3.35 p in. Daily except Sunday. J. B. KENLY, Gen'l Manager. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic 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, 9.09 " Lv Alcolu, 9.16 " Lv Brogdon, 9.25 " Lv WV. & S. Junet., 9.38" Lv Sumter, 9.40 Ar Columbia, 11.00 No. 53 Lv Columbia, 4.00 P. M. Lv Sumter, 5.13 " Lv W. &S.Junet. 5.15 " Lv Brogdun, 5.27 " L#fAlcolu~, 5.35 " Lv Manning, 6.04 " 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. B. - No. 35. Lv Sumter, 3.47 A. M. Ar Creston, 4.43 " Ar Orangeburg, 5.10 - - Ar Denmark, 5.48 " No. 32 Lv Denmark, 4.28 P. 14. 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. W ilson and Summerton R. R. TifE TaBLE No. 1, In effect Monday, June 13th, 1898. Between WVilson's Mill and Dalzell. Sothbond.Nothbotnd. No. 73. Daily except Sn nday No. 72. P M Stations. P' M 1 45 Le...Dazll.:....Ar 1 30 2 08 ...N WJunction... 102 210 J 100 300 .........nimter........ (123J 3 03 ...N W Junction... 12 27 3 15..........Tindal.........11 55 3 33........ .Packsville........11 30 3 50...........ilver..........11 10 .....Millard .... 44 .....Summecrton ... 10 10 5 15 .. ..Davis...........940 5 40..........Jordlan ..........9 25 6 00 Ar.I .ilsoni's Mills. ..Le 9 05 P M A M Between Millard and St. Paul. Southboun d. Northbound. No. 73. No. 75. No. 72. No. 74. P M A M Stations A M P M 4 05 10 15Le Millard Ar 10 45 4 35 4 15 10O25Ar St. Paul Le 1035 4 25 PM AM AM PM THOS. WILSON, President. Noig Ial Fuors cMminlles OmFcE OF JCDGE OF PROnATE, Mannin::. S. C.. August 1. 1900. To Executors. Administrators, Guardians and Commiittees: I respectfully call your attention to annexed statute. You will Dlease give this matter early attention. Very respectfully, J. M. WINDHAM, Judge of Probate. Sec. :3064-(1942). Executors, Administrators. Guardians and Committees. shall annually while any estate remains in their care or cus tody, at any time before the first day of July of each year, render to the Judge of Probate of the county from whom they obtain Letters Testa mentary or Letters of Administrators or Let ters of Guardianship, etc.. a jus~t and true ac count, upon oath, of the receipts and expendi tures of such estate the preceding Calendar year, which, when examined and approved, shall be deposited with the Inventory and ap praisemnent or other papers belonging to such estate, in the omice of said Judge of Probate, there to be kept for the inspection of such per sons as may be interested in the estate-(under former penalties.) ApprOved the 2d day of March, 1897. The Times DOES NEAT JbPrinting. TVE TTS A TRIAL.