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Watches and Jewelry. I want my friends and the public generally to know that when in need of a Wedding, Birthday or Christmas Present, That in the future, as well as the past, I am prepared to supply them. My line of Watches Clocks Sterling Silyer Diamonds Jewelry Cut Glass Fine China Wedgewood Spectacles and Eye Glasses Is comp!ete, and it will afford ue pleasure to show themu. Special and prompt attention given to all Repairing in my line at prices to suit the times. Atlantic Coast Line D l t i C M SUMTER. Watch Inspector. L. W . FOLSOM, SC. Wm. E. Holmes &Co.,' '209 East Bay, - CHARLESTON, S. C. -Dealers in PAINTS, OILS, VARNISH AND BRUSHES, LANTERNS, TAR PAPER AND BUILDING PAPER. Headquarters for the Celebrated Palmetto Brand of Cylinder, Planing, En gine Oils and Greases. Look to Your Interest. Here we are, still in the lead, and why suffer with your eyes when you can be suited with 'a pair of Spectacles with so little trouble? We carry the <*1* Celebrated HAWKES 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. R' ansTabules Doctors Find good Prescription for Mankind. FORSCENTS ATRUG STORES __ CASTORIA _______.,- ....qu11IL~p:1ll For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought i the StomuachsaMBoWeISof Bears the Signue Promotes DigestionCheerruI- Sga ness andRest .Contains neither o O".Morphne nor!IineraL Of NOT NARCOTIC. fU s Aperfeci Remedy forConslipa- Use ion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms,Convulsions,Feverish ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. o e FacSimile Signature of NEW YORK. irt Years EKACT CCPY OF WRAPPRER. BRING YOUR JOB. WORK TO THE TIMES OFFICE. THE TALE OF A DOG. A TRUTHFUL NARRATIVE OF CANINE TENACITY AND SAGACITY. s the Story of the Feat Was Related by a Preaeher Who Was a Party to the Incident No Further Testimony Is Necessary. A certain Nashville statesman is about one of the best story tellers in Tennessee, and his repertoire includes a lot of good ones, fish and otherwise. On the truthfulness of some he will stake his reputation for veracity, but he tells one which he always prefixes with the statement that it was told him by a minister of the gospel, Dr. Bard well, who will be remembered here by the older inhabitants as the assistant of Dr. Edgar of revered memory, who was pastor of the First Presbyterian church during the latter years of Gen eral Andrew Jackson's life and attend ed the old hero in his last illness. The story teller said: "Dr. Bardwell used to visit my fa ther's house when I was a boy, and the story I am about to tell you was relat ed to me on the occasion of one of these visits. We were out on the veranda smoking one evening after supper. The doctor was fond of dogs and was a pretty good sportsman and naturally the conversation turned on this subject "'Speaking of dogs,' said Dr. Bard well, 'reminds me of a dog which be longed to a friend of mine in Mississip pL. I had been invited to hold services at a church near this friend's house and wrote him to meet me at the sta tion, some six miles from his house, on the Saturday afternoon before Sunday, the day of the appointment "'He was on time with horses, and we started to his home. I noticed that a very handsome bird dog followed us, and, having heard that some one in that neighborhood owned an especially well trained trick dog, I asked my friend about it. "' "That's the dog," at the same time pointing at his dog, which had run ahead of us and was waiting at the forks of the road. "'I asked him to make him perform a trick. He got down from his horse, called the dog and, taking out his pock etbook, held it to the dog's nose. He then took out a silver half doliar and. walking some distance into the woods, raised up a large rock and put the mon ey under it We then resumed our jour ney, and when probably half a mile away my friend called his dog and told him to go back and get the money. "'The dog, without the least hesita tion, started back on a run, and, my' friend explained, as the rock was heavy the dog would be unable to turn it over, so would have to scratch under it to reach the piece of money, and he would not probably get home before we reached there, it then being about three miles farther on to his house. "'However, when we reached home the dog was not there. We ate supper, and still the dog did not come, nor had he put in an appearance when we re tired at about 10 o'clock. "'The next morning we got up about daylight, and, hearing a noise outside, my friend opened the door, and the dog rushed in dragging with him a pair of pantaloons, which he dropped on the floor. "'Of course we were both mystified, but had not long to wait an explana ion, for shortly afterward a man yho lived several miles from my friend's :ouse rode up on a mule and inquired S a dog with a pair of pantaloons in his mouth had come into the house. The dog, at this moment came out on the porch, and the man said. "Why, there's the dog now." "'My friend told his caller that the dog had really brought a pair of panta loons home with him, but he did Dot understand it himself. "'The man said that late in the after noon the day before he found the dog scratching under a large rock near the road and. thinking he was after a rab bit, stopped and lifted the rock up, and, to his surprise, found a halt dollar on the underside. "'He put the money in his pocket, and the dog followed him home. The dog appeared to be friendly, and the man petted him and gave him his supper. At night when the family retired the dog was put on the outside, but he kept up such a racket that no one could sleep on the place, and when the man opened the door to drive the dog off he rushed into his bedroom and at once becgme very Quiet, lying down near the foot of the bed, where he slept alD night "'Early in the morning, the man said. he got up and opened the window, and the instant he did so the dog seized his pantaoons in his mouth and, jumping out of the window, fled. ""The man -followed as soon as he could get his mule. "'Hearing this story, my frIend got the pantaloons and on searching the pockets found the half dollar which he had hid under the rock the afternoon before.' "-Nashville Banner. Obeying Order. Geeral Harney was an officer of the old school, a strict disciplinarian who took no excuses for hesitation in obey ing orders. When he was on his way to Mexico, when the United States was at war with that country, be engaged teams to transport the baggage and placed in charge of them a Texan named Carter. The streams were all up, and Carter had much trouble, but whenever he tried to modify the gener a's requirements he was cut short with the admonition, "All you've got to do is to obey orders." Says Noah Smithwick in his recollec tions called "The Evolud:on of a State:" They camped one night near the Nue ces river, which Carter found to be im passable. He said nothing about it to the general, and the next morning the order was given to move on. Carter started with the wagon train and halt ed at the river, which was absolutely Impassable. Harney came blustering "Didn't you know that river was up?" he demanded. "Yes, sir," meekly replied the wagon master. "Why didn't you tell me?' "You didn't ask me, sir. You said my business was to obey orders. You or dered me to hitch up and move on, and I did it." - "You did quite right, sir. Turn round and drive back to camp." f the general had been "done," he was not going to show it Mr. Hare's Fountain of Youth. Mr. John Hare, the eminent English actor-manager, said that the most de lightful compliment he ever received was from Mr. Gladstone. It was a double ended compliment. Whichever way you took it It was satisfactory. Mr. Hare earned fame playing old men's parts, his character as Mr. Gold by in "A Pair of Spectacles" being a good example. Added to this was a horror of having his picture taken. ture ofi e actor, But he knew him well behind the scenes as well as before the footlights. The premier's favorite play was "A Pair of Spectacles." and he al ways went behind the scenes to chat awhile with the actor. The really old man and the made up old man would sit there and talk in the most delight ful way for an hour after the show. One day the Earl of Rosebery had Mr. Gladstone to dinner, and he also invited his friend. John Hare. The actor came in smooth shaved. looking about 35. He was presented to Mr. Gladstone, and the prime minister shook his hand most cordially and said: "My dear sir, I am very, very glad to meet you. I know your father very, very well. Splendid actor! Fine old man!" It took the whole evening for the earl and Mr. Hare to convince him that this son was really the father.-Saturday Evening Post. An Educational Mistake. Whether or not a college education is advantageous depends entirely upon the ability of the recipient to absorb and utilize such an education. Un fortunately such a view of the case is seldom considered by parents and gua.rdians who are inclined to send their children to college simply be cause It is considered the proper thing to do. Consequently we find through out the country thousands of young men who have passed through college acting as cheap clerks, bookkeepers or even as car conductors and restaurant waiters. Having learned no mechan ical trade for which they may be adapt ed and being unfitted by nature for a profession, they go through life discon tented with their lot and vaguely be lieving that the world owes them bet ter treatment because they have gone through college.-Los Angeles Times. The Appeal to the Record. Little Tommy returned sore and trembling from the torture room. "Doesn't your papa ever thrash you?" he asked his chum, who is the son of a cabinet minister. "I should say not!" replied the other loftily. "Every time he threatens to cane me I read him an extract from his great peace at any price speech in which he said: 'These barbarians are like wayward children, but have we on that account the right to take away their heaven sent privilege to do as they please? Let us treat them as we would our own wayward children plead with them, beseech them, but never coerce them with either gun or rod.'" "That's a good deal to remember," re marked Tommy. "Yes, but now he's got so used to it that he drops the cane as soon as I start."-London Answers. Four Bears at a Shot. A number of years ago Mr. Withee was presented with two fine hounds, and, wishing to try their training and their grit, he took them out to do a lit tle bear hunting. The first morning Withee let the dogs out for a run while he 'vas getting the breakfast, expecting them to be back n a short time. When breakfast was over, the, dogs had not returned, so, taking his gun, Mr. Withee started out in the direction they ha-: taken. After traveling about a mile the faint bark ing of dlogs could be heard, and it was then plain why the dogs had not re turned. They had sceated game and were in pursuit. The sound of the barking led him far up the side of a mountain, and soon he eame in sight of the dogs standing arourd the upturned roots of a tree. Mir. Withee crept up eautiously until within about 15 feet of a cave that was near by, and then a black, shaggy head could be seen just above the roots. Taking good aim, he fired his .44 cali ber and awaited results. After several minutes he went up tc the cave, and what he saw there gare him a shock froma which he has never recovered. Two bears lay dead, and two moro were so stunned that a few quick pass es with a knife settled them. For the four bears Mr. Withee re ceived $20 bounty. $27.50 for their hides and $42 for the Lear oil, making $89.50 for one day'i hunt.-Maine Woods. All For Love. - It was a runaway mat ch. The young couple had nothing to live on but love, and they grew thin on it. for the butch er, baker, etc., heartlessly refused to barter any of the necessaries of life for a bit of love, and the landlady wouldn't accept even a large slice of it for rent. At last they were reduced to such ex tremities that starvati n stared them in the face. Wh'len tarvation does this, it, so to say, "pats you out of countenance.". "Oh, George," wailed the young wife, "what shall we do? I am so hungry!" "Alas, I know not,. darling!" he sigh ed fondly but sadly, toying with her luxuriant tresses. "But I know, George!" she suddenly exclaimed after a pause. "Sell my hair!" "What!" he almost shouted, with a horror stricken face. "Sacrifice your lovely golden locks! Ruthlessly cut off the greatest ornament a woman can possess? Never! Never! I will starve first!" "But, George," she assured him, "it does not require cutting off. See!" And she detached the glistening 3 guinea switch from her head and laid it in his hand. That night the young couple supped luxuriously, but still he was not happy. -Pearson's Weekly. Lighting Up the Coliseum. The Romans have the hideous habit of periodically lighting the Coliseum during the tourist season with Bengal lights and, what is more amazing still, usually succeed in making a financial success of it, although no one was ever known to go twice. There Is the additional abomination in these days of a big brass band and a chorus of 100 voices in an invocation to the Flavian amphitheater. The ef fect is tremendous, but somewhat stun nIng to those who are accustomed to their Coliseum empty and flooded with peaceful moonlight, where pic tures from the past rise with the clear ness of second sight. and no sound is heard but one's own breathing or the song of the nightingale. Contrast with such a scene the red, blue and yellow Bengal lights, the smoke, the confu sion, the hundred shriekIng throats and the clag~g o(f the brazen instru ments! Inginaitlon shriuks and curses the Roman of today with whom such a thing is possible. But is it his fault? As I said before, it is a great financial success, and the Italians certainly do not patronlze it. Query, Who does? Rome Letter in Pall Mall Gazette. some men never amount to much be cause they get Into the habit of fre quently beginning life anew.-Chicago The world owes every man a flving, but doesn't furnish a collector.-Den mm. Times. Drawing the Line. A good story is told in Missouri at the expense of its once famous govern or, Claiborne F. Jackson. Before he solved the enigma of lovelock he had married five sisters In reasonable lapses of consecutiveness. After one. wife bad been lost and appropriately mourned he espoused another, and he kept his courting within a narrow cir cle of his own relatives. for he rather liked the family. The antiquated father of these girls was almost deaf. and when the gov ernor went to this octogenarian to ask for his surviving daughter the follow ing conversation ensued: "I want Lizzie." "Eh?" "I want you to let me have Eliz-a beth." "Oh, you want Lizzie, do you? What for?" "For my wife." "For life." "I want-to-marry-her." "Oh, yes. Jus:: so. I hear you, hoy." "I'm precious ;;lad you do." muttered the governor. "Well," slowly responded the vet eran, "you needu't halloo so that the whole neighborhood knows it. Yes. you can have her. You've got 'em all now, my lad, but for gootlaess' sake, if anything happens to that 'ere poor: mis guided gal, don't come and ask me for the old woman!" Jackson gilemnly promised that he never would. Origin of "Whig." Several reasons have been assigned to account for the word "Whig." uni versally known to all the English speaking people. By some the word is supposed to be a contraction of a lon ger one, "whiggainore." which in some parts of England and Scotland, espe cially Scotland, signifies a drover or herder. It was In 1G79 that the word first became common in the British Isles, when the struggle was In progress be tween the peasantry and the aristoc racy to have or not to have the bill passed by parliament to exclude the Duke of York from the line of succes sion. All who were opposed to placing the duke in the line of succession were derisively called "whiggamores," or "drovers," just as the city dude of to day speakers of the "grangers," the "grays," the "chin whiskers" and the "hayseeders." But Scotch tradition gives altogether a different reason for the existence of the word. It is this: During the early religious wars In Scotland the weakest of the factions used the words "We Hope In God" as a motto. The Initials of these words were placed on their banners thus, "W. II. 1. (.." and soon all the followers of that clan were giv en the title of "Whig," which-was aft erward attached as a party nickname. The Captain of an Ocean Liner. Nowadays the captain is the host of the ship. He is no longer the gruff, rough scadog in a pea jacket of years gone by. He must observe some of the social amenities; he must talk to the passengers now and then when the wether is fine; he must take his seat at t:able when he may; he must be a kind of diplomat also and possess wit and tact and a patience sublime; he iust see that no jealousles develop among the passengers. I have been told of the very obliging captain who, to please the lady who asked to be shown the equator while the ship was in southern seas, pasted a hair across the large end of a spyglass and told the lady to look. And the lady through the glass declared she could see the equa tor "as plainly as A B C." One other polte captain I have heard of--one who directed an officer on the bridge to "do as the lady wishes," when the lady re quested that the captain steer the ship over to the horizon so she could see what the horizon was like.-Captain .ameson in Collier's. A Korean Prison. The gate was wide open, and the courtyard was full of prisoners, and the surrounding buildings were old and tottering. I asked the chief, whom one of the two or three listless attendants called for us, why the prisoners did not run away. "Oh,'' he replied, "they would be caught and beaten again and kept longer. Now they will get out soon." But as I looked at them I saw they did not run because they could not. The life was beaten out of them. The keepers brought the heavy red cord with a brass hook at the end and trussed up a man with it to show how the beating was done and then brought us the stiff rods with which victims were pounded over the shins and thighs until the beaten spots were sim ply, masses of festering rottenness. There was a room, black, foul, leprous, in which the men were fastened in the stocks. The Black Hole of Calcutta was scarcely less merciful than this. Ladies' Monthly. Teleraping With Cannon. When the first vessel completed the passage of the then new Erie canal in 1825, there being no, such thing an a telegraph in those days, the news was communicated to New York and to Buffalo by cannons placed within hear ing of each other all the way along from Albany to each of the other cities. The signal was passed along in this way from Albany to New York city and back again to Albany in 58 min utes. The experiment was a costly one, but was a success in every particu Her sentiments. They were looking over the paper to gether. "Oh, my, how funnyl" said "What is It?' he asked. "Why, here's an advertisement that says, 'No reasonable offer refused.'" "What Is there odd about that?" "Nothing, nothing," she replied, try ing to blush; "only those are rry senti ments" Another wedding shortly. Rolland CustO~pm Holland lgs some peculiar customs. In many towns bulletins are affixed to the doors of houses in which persons are sick in order that their friends may be apprised of the state of their health without knocking or ringing, and in Haarlem the birth of a cflid is an nounced tby mens of a small placard. dred with red silk and lace. A Long Wait. Katrine-I was reading thIs morning of a man who cooked his own break fast for 13 years. Max-He must have been very hun ry when he finally got it done. A medical journal declares that len tls are not only richer In protelds than peas or beans, but are also more digestible. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The only two great European capitals that never have been occupied by a oramein e.a Lonrion nd St. Peters 90 BATTERY EN4.co' $ ISLAND F. W. WAGENER, PRE Town Tax Ordinance. AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE for the Assessment and Collection of Taxes in the Town of Manning. Be it Ordained by the Intendant nd Wardens of the Town of Man uing, and by Authority of the same: SECTIoN 1. That a tax of twenty Bnts on every one hundred dollars f the assessed value of all real and personal property, situate and being in the corporate limits of the Town f Manning, shall be levied and col lected for the fiscal year commencing the second Monday in April, 1901, and ending the second Monday in April, 1902; also -that this tax shall apply to all life and fire insurance companies, or other corporations do ing business in this town, upon the oss premiums or incomes of said mpanies or corporations. SEC. 2. That all parties owning or hving under their charge taxable roperty shall list same for taxation by October 15th, 1901. SEC. 3. That the clerk shall after at date make up the tax register ased upon the records for the pre os year, in cases where par-ties ither fail to list their property for taation, or to return it at a fair val ation. SEC. 4. That the commutation tax nlieu of work on streets shall be wo dollars. SEC. 5. That all taxes herein re rired shall be paid between Nov. 1 nd Dec. 1, 1901. SEC. 6. That a penalty of 15 per nt shall be added after that date r fifteen days, after which execu tns shall be issued to enforce pay ent of any delinquent tax.. Ratified by Council Aug. 26, 1901. WV. E. BROWN, Intendant. E. J. BROWNE, Clerk and Treasurer. ALL WOMEN Wine of Cardui is the guardian of a woman's health and happi ness from youth to old age. It helps her safely into w~omanhood. It sustains her during thc trials of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood, lnatking labor easy and preventing flooding and mis carriage. It gently leads her through the dangerous period known as the change of life. WINEoFCARDU I cures leucorrhcea, falling of the; womb, and menstrual irregularity in every form. It is valuable in every tryinig period of a woman's life. It reinforces the nervous system, acts directly on the geni tal organs and is the finest tonic for women known. Ask -your druggist for a $1.00 bottle of Wine of Cardui. I ai; usin Wne olCardulad hd fod's Black-Draught and I feel like a different woman alreadyv. Several la die here keep the mecicines in their homes all the time. I have three girls and they are usirng it wiOWDER. W HE N YOU COME TO TOWN CALL AT WELLS' SHAVING SALOON Whieb is altted up with an eye to the comfort of his enstomners... .. .. HAIR CUTTIG IN ALL STYLES, SH AVING AND S H AM POOI NG Done with neatness an dispatch... .. .... A cordial invitation is extended. . J. L. W ELLS. anning Tinms lock. eI PLEASANT *S L PNCNEYa ARA~Nr oFPUMAZ )PENING DEC. 1S1 1901k CLOSING JUNE )$T 1902. r' SIDENT. JNO. H. AVERI LL, -DIRECTOR GENERAL-_. The Manning Times:I ...AND... AK3Both for $1.5. .. 4 w e nave arrangea to give our reaaers aaaitonai reaamg-mar ter in the shape of a first class Agricultural Journal, a pa with a world renowned reputation as a farm helper and a fa com panon. Prominent among the many departments may be men tioned the Farm and Garden, Market Reports, Fruit Culture,".. Plans 'and Inventions, Live Stock. and Dairy, Talks with a Lawyer, Fashions and Fancy Work, The Poul try Yard, Plants and Flowers, Household Features, The Treatment of Horses and Cattle, and Subjects of a Literary and Religious character. The Farm and Home is-published semi-monthly, thus givingyo T 24 numbers a year, making a volume of over 500 pages. No bet ter proof of its popularity can be offered than its immense circula tion. By special arrangement we are enabled to send THE FARKM: AND HOME to all of our subscribers who pay up their arrearage,. and to all new subscribers who pay one year in advance, withou= any additional charge. Every new yearly subscriber will be entitled to THE FARM AND HOME and THE MANNING TIMES for $1.50; also every old subscriber who pays up his arrears. This is a grand offer and we hope the people will appreciate it. N O 77 O P'N Bring Your Tobacco While Prices Are High. W E HAVE SECURED A FINE LOT OF BUYERS and our floors can be relied upon to turn out tbe highest possible prices. Fair Treaftleht Guarantd Sand every customer treated alike. Bring your product to the Best Warehouse in this section of the State. Yours, etc., 1 M. MAS;ON, South Carolina Co-Educational Institute (S. C. C. I.) EDGEFIELD, S. C. OLDEST AND LARGEST CO-EDUCATIONAL COLLEGE IN THE STATE. Over 300 Students enrolled last session, representingZ 10 States. Young men under strict military discipline. Faculty comnposed of ~2 I C'ollege and University graduates-9 men. Thorough Litera.ry Course~s leading to the degree of B. E., B. S.. and A. B Superior Advantage~s oil'ered in the Departments of Music. A rt and Business. Four M\agnificent. well equipped buildings. Thousands of dollars recently spent in improvements. From $100 to $1440 covers expenses in Literary .Department for the entir{ school year. Du'ring the past session 107'~ Boarders were enrolled. A large number of applications were rejected for want of room. Additional room will be pro vided for the coming session. If you contemplate attending our College, write for catalogue and applica tion blankc to F. N. K. BAILEY, President, EDG3EFIEID, S- C Next Session Begins Thursday, Sept. 26, 1901.