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SPECIAL SALE FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS .I AT THE NEW STORE OF a HIRSCHMANN, ONPS BARGAINS! BARGAINS! Calico, worth 5c., at ................4'c Percale, worth 8'3c., at . ........6%/ c White Homespuns at . ........4%c I Check Homespuns at .. ...........4%2c Capes, from ......60c. up Ladies' Fine Shoes at 90c. and up Men's Shoes at ........95c. and up A good Everyday Suit at ... ...... $3.00 A Fine Clay Worsted Suit, in Black, at 4.50 French Clay Worsted Suit at........7.50 A fine Cheviot Suit at ...........4.00 Good Work Pants at ............40c All-wool Pants at ................98c All-worsted Pants at ..............1.25 Have a good many other things, too nu merous to mention. Don't forget the place. Have iochmy o tangs tnu Postoffice Block, - - Manning, S. C. P.S.-Also have a complete line of Millinery of the Finest. Trimmed Hats to suit any lady.I Why Do We I Hrwr-Ip lilt tvs Advertise? I L B, DURANT, "mer, We must keep ourselves before the public. Being in close touch with the very best markets, I am better prepared We want them to know that we have just received to handle the trade than ever before, and I therefore invite an inspection One car HLime, nd Two Haorse of member I am in the Ducker-Bultmnan Company building, opposite One ar Lme, nd To Hosethe Court House. Come to see me when you want, One car Hay, One car Oats. Our two cars of Buggies are not in yet, but they will Gh~. wlla~om o hndn~l c -alndFurnishing Goods, Harness, We are going to keep the ball moving. IAothe hcar ule nexsol lweeka.. HadwrSoeHue Anoter cr Mues nxt wek.Saddles, Leather, &c., &c. H. H RBY.A MAGNIFICENT LINE OF sumter, S. C., October 27, 1900 CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. - -- ---- ---My store is headquarters for Guns, Pistols, Powder, Shot, Shells and th ve alts an lare quntiie Gosof Paints, Oils, and Window Glass. Come and examine mylare liter ofCokng and Heating Stoves. Every Stova bought from me is warranted. A\egeablePreparationforAs- AlasBuh AIMSLON R P RE s h a i Beroh ~bci ~ it etesadDsa Promoes ion.CheerM-Sgate 'toer...R.AWHTS ness and etontains neitherHI UTD 'W EE W IH n M~orhine norineral.f .I TLS BAKMT HP nehdanyioldeinguoneaiv _____* tL.......Always. Bouilgutdonhtnw um Signaturet(~1 LME did n noUs e tso b .A.Wie Wiormsousons,Fireversh-m s eMkeTemLokNw ness and LosS OF SLEEP.F rWeaemknaspcltofeI FacSiie Signature oF aat n aoscep NEW YORK. 1551UU~w SLopB.DcRANTwB M ens __________ _WflH DE NOME I MAHANING.SALOCN EXACT CPY O~ RA2RER flcAS~WK!Aomer.n.i.. R A.IT, WILAOING AANT itherne s a nd elosatchaw I S A TROIALANGG .C ETHICS OF FISHING. A SCIENTIFIC VIEW OF THE ALLEGED CRUELTY OF THE SPORT. The Creatures Are Most Happy When They Are Hooked-They Have Little Capacity For Suffering and Even Little Pleasure In Eating. A little boy was fishing for the first time. With the customary luck of a beginner he had bass and perch galore to answer the invitation of his bait. Presently the impulses of the hu mane side of his nature made a little hesitating protest against the more savage Instincts of the sportsmanlike side. The wriggling of the fish when he caught them troubled him, and he sought to apologize to his conscience for the suffering he was apparently in flicting. He said, "I think the reason they jump so is that they are so glad to get out of that wet water." Curiously enough, if we may accept the testimony of the scientists, the lit tle boy was quite right. A fish is never so happy as when he is drawn out of the water. The air is to him quite all that laughing gas is to a human being. It gives him a hundred times more oxygen per second than his gills ever got for him from the inhalation of wa ter. It makes him delightfully drunk en. It exhilarates him. It fills him with a completeness of physical joy the only joy he is capable of feeling wholly unknown to him in his native element. He dies presently, It is true, but he dies in an ecstasy of enjoyment instead of dying in his appointed fash ion by suffocation in the maw of some bigger fish. In a footnote to the thirteenth canto of "Don Juan" Byron denounces Izaak Walton as a "sentimental savage" and characterizes fishing as "the cruelest, the coldest of pretended sports." That only shows how little Byron knew about the matter. His sports involved the sacrifice of women rather than worms. It is time to set this matter of fish ing upon its moral legs, as it were, an end to be accomplished merely by tell ing the truth about it. A fish is the very lowest form of the vertebrates. It is incapable of any joy except that of getting hooked and thus drawn out of the water to which its nature con demns it and for a time breathing the air that intoxicates it in delightfully deadly fashion. It has not even the in stinct of sexual association except in the case of a few rare species. It knows nothing of companionship, for the scientists tell us that even when fish swim in "schools" It is only be cause they are engaged in a common predatory pursuit of prey, each endeav oring to snatch from the others the morsels they seek to swallow. So low in the scale is the fish that even in eating he has no pleasure ex cept that of distending his stomach. For the scientists find no "taste gob lets" at the base of his tongue, and ev ery fisherman knows that the fish swallows his prey whole, with no pos sibility of detecting its flavor. And further, every fisherman who has troll ed knows that the fish is so far an in discriminate gormand in his search for food that he will swallow a coffee spoon with a bur attached as readily as the daintiest bait morsel that could be displayed in front of his greedy eyes and his rapacious mouth. Still, again, every fish that is caught upon a hook gets only what he de serves. He is caught every time In an attempt to swallow some other crea ture whole and digest It In slow tor ture. Indeed the entire life of every fsh is passed in a ceaseless endeavor to catch and swallow other fish. So far as science can discover, fish of most species make no distinction even in fa or of their own young, their only ground of selection being a considera tion for their individual throats in the act of swallowing. On that account alone the severely spined sunfish es apes the predatory perch. and the bullhead the moment his "horns" are hard ceases to be in danger even from the most voracious of pickerel. The fisherman is not a monster of wanton cruelty. He is merely a de scendant of Adam exercising that "do minion" over inferior creatures which God authorized him to exercise. George Cary Eggleston in New York World. A Lunatie's Wit. As Horace Mann sat in his study one evening an insane man rushed into the room and after abusing him for all kinds of fancied grievances challenged him to a. fight. Mr. Mann replied: "My dear fellow, It would give me a great pleasure to accommodate you, but I can't do it, the odds are so unfair. Iam a Mann by name and a man by nature-two against one! It would never do to ight." The insane man answered: '"Come ahead. I am a man and a man beside myself. Let us four have a fight." Don't Be Slow. If a child is "slow" around home and takes an hour to dress when only a quarter of that time is necessary, It Is a bad habit The "slow" men and wo men are those who fail to make a suc ess of life. How often you see grown people tinker about something a half a day that could be done in an hour! They learned the habit as children. Atchison Globe. An Insinuation. Lawyer (examining witness)-Where was your maid at the time? Lady-In my boudoir, arranging my aIr. Lawyer-And were you there also? Lady (indlgnanty)-Sir!-Exchange. The men-of-war of the Romans had a rew of a'bout 225 men, of which 174 were oarsmen working on three decks. The speed of these vessels was about six miles an hour in fair weather. Farmers, Farmers! W.B. BOYLE1, SUMTER, S. C., ivery, Sale and Feed Stables. --DEALER IN orses and Mules; also Stock Food of All Kinds. Agent for Russell, Fish, Webber and )wensboro Wagons and the best vari ty of Pleasur-e Vehicles in the city. a1es, Xowers, Reapers, nd all kinds of Farming Alachinery .d Implements. Come to see mec. W. B. BOYLE, ibrty S+t. SUlMTER,-2 S. C. STEER BY THE STAR. Night on the sea, and one lone ship In the midst of the darkness there; A trackless waste spread all about, And the blackness everywhere. But gleaming in th'e sky above Are seen the beacons of the night, Set there to guide that lonely ship Across thq pathless sea aright. The waves roll high and toss the ship, A plaything on their turbid crest; The sea lifts up its eager arms And opens wide its heaving breat. But safely still the vessel rides, For one there is who guides aright, Because his eyes are fixed upon Those faithful beacons of the night. N No vessel sailing o'er life's sea But safely may the harbor find If the Great Beacon of the sky Be ever kept in sight and mind. The light at times may shine but dim, The way seem dark, the harbor far, But he cannot get off the course SWho guides his vessel by the Star. -Arthur J. Burdick in Los Angeles Herald. YOUR OWN VOICE. You Would Be Surprised if You Heard Its Exact Imitation. "One of the strangest things in life," said an amateur philosopher of Camp street. "is the fact that we never really become acquainted with our physical selves. Here I have been living in this body of mine for nearly 50 years, yet I have no idea how I look, bow I hear myself. what sort of an impression I make on the minds of others when they meet me in daily intercourse. I don't even know how my own voice sounds, although I've been listening to it ever since I can remember. Did you ever hear yourself talk in a phono graph? No? Well, try it the next time you have a chance, and you will not only be astonished, but, what is still stranger, you will be disappointed, probably a little shocked. Everybody has that experience. "I supposed that I was perfectly fa miliar with my own voice and thought privately that it was rather agreeable. I had been told so plenty of times by other people and never knew that they were only 'jollying' me until 1 made a phonographic 'record' and set it grind. Ing. At the first word I jumped back in dismay and nearly pulled my ears off in the listening tubes. "'Merciful heavens!' I said to myself. 'Is it possible I talk like that?' I thought there must be something the matter with the cylinder and called in a friend to hear it. He grinned with delight. 'That's one of the most natu rai records I ever heard in my life.' he declared heartily, and I yearned for his gore. "But, as I just remarked, everybody who tries the experiment has the same experience. The voice is always abso lutely unfamiliar and positively un pleasant. Yet there is a certain some thing about it that differentiates it from any other voice you ever heard in your life - something indescribable that gives you a little secret thrill clear down to the soies of your feet. It is the voice of the mysterious body which you inhabit and don't know."-New Orleans Times-Democrat. Mistake of the New Riveter. A party of six brawny men were en gaged in an animated discussion at Mc Kees Rocks. It was noticed that five index fingers were missing fromp the gesticulating hands. Only one man had all of the fingers he was born'with. "They're riveters from Schoenville." said a man who was asked. "They say most of the male children born down there now have the forefinger missing from their right hand. The riveters at the Pressed Steel Car shop work one inside of the car and one outside. The man inside shoves the rivets through, and the man outside swings the ham mer. They are paid by 'the piece.' and they work fast Often the rivet won't uit, and if the man inside of the car happens to be new at the work he sticks his fin ger through the hole to learn what is wrong. The man outside promptly smashes the finger with his sledge. He doesn't do it purposely, but he works so rapidly that he can't tell a blacken ed finger from a rivet. lie never knows his error until he sees the blood spurting from the stump of the finger. None of the riveters has lost more than one finger in that way."-Pittsburg News. Sulphur Disinfection. To disinfect a room with sulphur aft er washing all the surfaces in the room, the floors, walls and ceilings, bring In a washtub containing a few inches of water and several bricks. Put the sulphur in an iron kettle and place it on the bricks. Pour one pint of alcohol over the sulphur and set It on fire. Every crevice about the win dows and doors should be stuffed with rags, the room tightly closed and left for a day and night. About five ounces of sulphur should be used for every hundred cubic feet. After the 24 hours have elapsed the floors and woodwork should be washed with a solution of carbolic acId and then with soap and water. Wanted a Big Collar. It was told of Daniel Webster that when he asked at a Boston haberdash er's one day for a collar or "dickey" the clerk took a critical look at his cus tomer's neck and then said: "We haven't got your size. You'll have to go to the next store around the corner for it." That was a harness maker's who made a specialty of horse collars. The Other Man's View of It. Little Willie-Pa, what's a financier" Pa-A financier, my son, is a man who is capable of Inducing other men to pile up a fortune for him.--Chicago News. The wood of the redwood tree never decays, it is said, and fallen trunks which have been overgrown by old for ests are as solid as the day they fell. It takes a good horse to run down a giraffe, and If the least advantage is permitted the wild creature the race Is lost Gee. S.Hacker&Son Doors, Sash, Blinds, Moulding and Building Material, CHARLESTON, S. C. Sash Weights and Cords and Builders' Hardware. Window and Fancy Glass a Specially. That Vulnerable Spot. Achilles was a Greek. He was bomb-proof everywhere except in his heel, but that one weak point was the death of him. Hector found it out and devoted his entire atten tion to the heel, and it was all up with Achilles. Beware of little vulnerable spots. Trifles make perfection and the little things in our stock - the things different and better than those you get elsewhere-are the things we depend upon to keep your trade. We issue a MONTHLY PRICE LIST That has been aptly described by an enthusiastic lady cus tomer as the little School Mas ter of the Grocery Business. Have your name put on our mailing list and we'll gladiy mail you a copy of each issue. WELCH d EASON, Universal Providers, 185 & 187 Meeting & 117 Market Sts, CHARLESTON, S. C. Healthy Mothers Few mothers are. healthy, because their duties are so exacting. The anxiety of pregnancy, the shock of childbirth, and the care of young children, are severe trials on any woman. But with Wine of Cardul within her , every moh-every woman in land-can pay the debt of personal health she owes her loved ones. Do you want robust health with all Its privileges and pleasures? Wine of Cardin will give It to you. strengthens the female organs and lavig orates weakened functions. For every female Ill or weakness It Is the best medicine made. Ask our druais for $1.00 bottle Wine of , ake no subsitute under any ccuinden e Ms. Ewin CmrmeMc~ We a e enir two i half a mie and piked andwbani. We ay Patciedws dborln suveyd than m 24 hm w ileb c rcive mo s decab ef mIad nomac At a the nidotg n.c this time lpe rh t 1mn toa ay gl, a wasin labor only two hewi, with but Sofa P" adI haeppledto withipoed instru metis myhetthlthafkGod am aedCgduLi" For advice na"rs ii= .rbs ments. Address,' S.oo O.CAiNEY, DsREYOs Cr. Paiestdsiring suvyou aneats mad wriilly eciemyosts arefd and d Nacure antenteninn rcn strupited wthuspoedist r ens. Iti Add es icvre iet ant ad toic. Sumotertn S.earaC. Dyspepsiagsin Certurn, FDatuee, whur ytoah aea ikHadcahestalghaCramandd all ongthe rexstomedfc digestieon. gane5. I athe1 Laresizsconeains se te santliseooanbdspesiamedflycree epa byE.C.DesioT HeCa..bus, Sikheada.h, LoralgaDrg Ste IsAAc M!. LoRYEA. PRoP. THE Bank of Manning, MANNING, 8. 0. Transacts a general banking busi Prompt and special attention given to depositors residing out of town. Deposits solicited. All collections have prompt atten Business hours from 9 a. mn. to 3 JOSEPH SPROTT, . EV, Cashier. President. BOARD OF DIRECTOBS. I. W. 3MCLEOD, 'W- E. BROWi, . 3. NEXSEN, JlOSEPH SPROTT, A. LEVI. Money to Lend n improved farming lands. Terms is long as wanted; interest, s per cent n large loans: 8 per cent on small loans. Eor particulars apply to LEE & MOISE, Sumter. S C. r to F. B. HOFFMAN. 4 Bowling Green, New York, N. Y. [Oct17-3m Land Surveying and ILeveling, I will do Surveying, etc.. in Claren on and adjoining Counties. Call at office or address at Sumter, S. .P. 0. Box 101. mOHN Ii HANEWORTH. ATLANTIC COAST LINE. CnaBLSTON, S. C., Jan. 14, 1900. On and after thi. 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-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. f Daily except Sunday. No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central R. T. 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 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 in, Bennetsville 9.21 p m, Gibson 9.45 p in. 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 in. Leave Hartsville daily ex cept Sunday 7.00 a in, arrive Darlington 7.45 a in, leave Darlington 8.55 a in, arrive Florence 9.20 a in. Leave Wadesboro 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 9.20 a M. J. R. KENLEY, JNO. F. DIVINE, Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Sup't. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. H. M. EMERSON, Gen'l Pass. Agent. W.C.&A. South-Bound. 55. 35 52. Lv Wiimuington,*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 in. North-Bound. . 54. 53. 32. Lv Columbia, '6 40 A. 4 15 P. Ar Sun.ter, 8.05 5.35 Lv ;,-niter, 8 05 *6.06 P. Ar Florence, 9 20 7.20 Lv Florence, 9 50 Lv Marion, 1034 ArWi!mington, 115 *Daily. No. 53 reins through to Charleston, 8. C., via Cential R. R., arriving .Manning 6.04 p in, Lanes, 6.43 p in, Charleston 8.320 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 m, arrive Chadbourn 11.50 a in, leave Chadbourn 11.50 a*m,arrive at Hub 12.25 pmreturning leave Hub 3.00 p in, arrive at Chadbourn 3.35 p M. Daily except Sunday. J. R. 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. Junct., 9.38" Lv Sumter, 9.40 " Ar Columbia, 11.00 " No. 53 Lv Columbia, 4.00 P. Mi. Lv Sumter, 5.13 - Lv WV. & S. Junct. 5.15 Lv Brogdon, 5.27 " Lv Alcoln, 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 B. R. 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. M. Lv Orangeburg, 5.02" Lv Creston, 5.27 " Ar Sumter, 6.18 " Trains 32 and 35 carry through Pullman palace buffet sleeping ears between New York and Macon via Augusta. W iiSon and Summerton R. R. Tmmz Taar~z No. 1, In effect Monday, June 13th, 1898. Between Wilson's Mill and Daizell. South bound. Northbound. Noj. 73. Daily except Sunday No. 72. P M Stations P M 1 45 Le...Daizel....Ar 1 30 2 08 ...NW Junction... 102 3..00.........uamter..... 23 303 ...NW Junction... 1227 3 15...........Tindal.........11 55 3 33.........Packsville.......-11 30 3 50...........Silver..........11 10 4 05 10 45 435f.....Millard..........1015 4 45........Summerton.... 10 10 5 15...... .... Davis......... 940 540.........Jordan.......... 925 6 00 Ar..Wilson's Mills..Le 9 05 P M A M Between Millard and St. Paul. Southbound. Northbound. No. 73. No. 75. No. 72. No. 74. P M A M Stations A M P M 4 05 10 15 Le Millard Ar 10 45 4 35 4 15 10 25 Ar St. Paul Le 10 35 4 25 P'M AM ,. AM PM THOS. WILSON, President. Noic Iii1 ERecaI8, Imi01o1os61[, Orrzcz or JUDGE OF PROBATE, Manning, S. C.. August 1, 1900. To Executors, Administrators, Guardians and Committees: I respectfully call your attention to annexed statute. You will please give this matter early attention. Very respectfullIDyA. Judge of Probate. Sec. 2064-(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 just and true ac count, upon oath, of the receipts and expedi tures of such estate the preceding Caendar year, which, when examined and approved. shall be deposited with the Inventory and ap praisement'or other papers belonging to such estate, in the office of said Judge of Probate. there to be kept for the inspection of such per sons as may be interested in the estate-(uinder Approved he 2dday of March, 1897. For Sale. Two Second-Hand Gins, Feeders and Condensers. complete, will be sold cheap. They are in good condition. 'A. L. LESESNE, Manning, S. C. DR. J. FRANK GEIGER, DENTIST, MANNING, S. C. 'Phone No. 25.