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Hurrah for theLeaders. 1-11 D1S FREE! FRE! To introduce our Clothing Department more extensively, we will give a WATCH ABSOLUTELY FREE with every Suit of Clothes at $5 and upward. The Watch is guaranteed to keep good time. All goods marked in plain figures. You get the Suit at our regular price and the WATCH FREE! R E3A D ON.-Great sales in DRESS GOODS, SHOES, CLOTHING, HATS, etc., at prices that will astomsh you. W2e~ Always Jrnderse411! Al Es'S SUITS CLOTHES from,. .$1.98 Sidt to $12.50 DR ESS GO ODS, worth 50c, at...............25c . ME.A'S P AXTS at........... 05c a pair to $4.50 DRESS GOODS, worth $1.00, at..........5 yard AEN'S and BOYS' CAPS, worth 20c and 25c, at 10c NICE CALICOES at.................-4c yard J and l~c. UDER WEAR and GET'S FURNISHINGS of all BOYS and..c descriptions. DRESS GOODS, worth loc , ----- JEA.7S, the 15c kind, at.......... .....loc yard DRESS GOODS, worth 20c, at.. JEANS, the 25c kind, at...............18c yard SHOES.I SHOES!SHESI Solid car load just in-the greatest line and the greatest variety e ave ever carried. Makes no differenc what kind of Soes yo want,h o e be fo e 1adies' Button and Lace Soes at 50c to $3.y50. "W30 A*&E 130 SIWXCX 3PEC3P1x A,1V3D 13N'T *vqc~ fIT Could quote hrdreds of other bargains if space would permit. Comec along to the Leaders of Low Prices and make yourselves at home hte o att u rnt sn rul o st hwgosadgv rcs One Price to all and everybody treated alike. Yours for bargains, DRSSGOwRN20 t.---------BS CO MPANYnSumter 0HOESE ST0OEI THEHTAES WHis'Bt OaLeSLe AND REcT AIL.o p LEV R TE RS'A ND S AD .O N'TTYO U F O R G-E TLL'S HORACE HARRY. 'A. F. HELLER. -W. P. HAWKINS. Our building has been completed and we now have a complete stock of goods in our line on hand. The crop prospect is not as good as it was a month ago and we realize that we must meet the purchasing public half way. We buy by the car load and pay cash for what we buy, therefore we are prepared to meet competition from any and every direction. Before buying a buggy you ought to examine our '' HACKN EY." She is a daisy, handsome and strong. New wagons are going out every day. The " i P=I:0CDMONT "1 is the one you ought to have; it will compare with any on the market and will GIVE SATISFACTION in every instance. We have Buggies at all prices and can suit our customers to what they want. Come and see our stock of Harness of All Gracdes, with prices lower than ever. LAP ROBES, BUGGY WHIPS. Our stock of Horses and Mules will be in as soon as the demand will justify us in buying. We trust that cotton will soon be T ES N E N T 5, so that our friends may be paid for their labor the past year and ready in the new year to lay the foundation for success, as it is very seldom two bad crop years come together. W. P. HAWKINS & CO. One Door Below the Bank of Manning. SPORTSMEN Should not fail to examine at an early date our splendid stock of Guns. It is the most complete ever shown in. this market. Our prices, too, are an agreeable surprise. Catalogue houses and local dealers, we arc sure, will not try to compete with us on this line. Having bought these goods early in the season at the lowest prices known in the gun trade and paying spot cash, we are able to name the following extraordinary low prices: SYRACUSE HAMMERLESS, weight 61 lbs., twist barrels- $21 75 a perfect gun........-.............................. * ECLIPSE CO'S HAMMER, Full Machine Made, Patent Fore $18.00 End, Twist Barrel; weight 7J lbs. A perfect beauty...... . ECLIPSE CO'S HAMMER, full Machine Made. Late Im proved Gun. A splendid value at.....................-- - 1-- - 0 FINE DOUBLE-BARREL GUN-Extension Rib, Bar Re bounding Locks, with Steel Works; Low Circular Ham mers; trade mark registered "WONDER," at.............. 1450 In addition to these we have a fine lot of Double-Barrelled Guns at $S, $10 and S12.50-all Breech Loading and good values. OUR SINGLE-BARREL BREECH-LOADERS are marvelous sellers with the boys. We have a "Leader we are offering at $5 while they last that cannot be duplicated anywhere for the money. This is an opportu nity for every boy to get a good gun at a low price. We are also selling other models at $6 and $7 that must be seen to ap preciate them. Just Received, TEN THOUSAND NEW CLUB LOADED SHELLS. Besides we have a stock of BLUE RIVAL and NITRO-LOADED. Let us sell you a case of 500, mixed, from No. 1 to No. 9, any size Shot at S7.50. When buying a Gun from us do not fail to secure our latest things in HUNTING COATS and VESTS, BELTS, RUBBER BOOTS. etc. TRAPPERS Will find that we have the usual good stock of GAME TRAPS they are accustomed to find at our place. We ask that our old customers come and select what they will want before the stock is broken. We look-for higher prices on these goods later in the season. Very truly yours, Manning Hardware Co. MAX O'RELL SAYS: The Charming Woman is Preferable to the Pretty or Beautiful One. I prefer the pretty woman to. the beautiful woman and I like the charming woman best of all. The pretty woman remains pretty longer than the beautiful woman remains beautiful, and the charming woman lasts for ever. The beautiful woman is often selfish and conceited, the pretty woman seldom, and the charm ing woman never. Do I object to perfect beauty in a woman? Do I find fault with regular features, with clas sical outlines and absolute attic figure? Well, no-yet, there is some thing cold about perfection, and I have known the whole charm of a woman to be, if not actually produced, at any rate enhanced by a few little defects; a nose slightly turned up, an Austrian upper lip, showing the teeth and making the mouth just a little disdainful; a suspicion of a small salt-cellar breaking the unifor mity, I was going to say the monotony, of a perfectly smooth throat. The absolutely beautiful wo man is a statue, and very often a few little defects give her life. The beautiful woman may ap peal to our artistic sense, but seldom to any other sense. In her presence we feel be numbed, and, as we get quite close to her, we often have a sensation akin to that of a man with no clothes on leaning against the North pole. She is haughty and seldom cheerful. She has no sense of humor. She ever stands sentry at the door of her majesty, and as she walks, stands and sits, she never loses sight of her out lines. If she were your wife you feel you would have to spend your life in constant deadly fear lest you should crumple something and break the symmetry of the I whole ensemble. The sensation would be very much like the one you have in some of those oldfashioned puri tanical houses where you find all the chairs placed in a row against the wall at perfectly equal distances. You dare not sit down for fear of causing immediate disaster and confusion. If you are press ed, and you do sit down, you want to apologize, for, somehow, it doesn't seem fair on the furni ture. The beautiful woman is to be admired at a respectful distance, like the Venus of Milo in the Mothers everywhere praise One Minute Cough Cure for the suterings it has relieved and the lives of their little ones it has saved. Strikes at the root of the trouble and draws out the in lammiation. The children's favorite Cough Cure. The RI. B. Loryea Drug Louvre, who is seen at her best from the beginning of the suite of rooms at the end of which she stands in all her unapproacha ble, majestic beauty. I object to perfection in gener al, and the beauty of woman makes no exception to my rule. I am not happy or contented when I find nothing to be de sired. I sometimes like to suggest myself my own little improve ments to a sight of nature, to a work of art. I like my imagi nation to be at work. The beautiful woman is seldom clever and seldom interesting Like the peacock, she should be seen and not heard. At school or college she did not stoop over books, because it might have spoiled her figure, and her hands never stroked her head for fear of disarranging her hair, and native genius sel dom goes with great beauty. Female geniuses are, as a rule, well labelled by a thoughtful Providence who saw that men ran few or no risks. The perfectly beautiful woman should be avoided as much as perfect geniuses in the tender relations of the sexes. Madame de Stael, George Sand and George Eliot were man ly in feature and gait, and very plain. Rachel was not beautiful. It would be ungallant to mention some others who are still alive. Beautiful and pretty women are never jealous of female geniuses, for beautiful women are masterpieces of creation, and the female geniuses are its freaks. On the other hand, the most famous female genius might re sent being told that she was not beautiful. Talleyrand was one day sitting at table between Madame de Stael and the exquisitely beauti ful Madame Recamier. "Here I am," he remarked, "sitting between genius and beauty." "Without posessing either," retorted Madame de Stael, piqued at the remark of the wily states man, who was a very ugly man. - For three days and nights I suffered agony untold from an attack of cholrea morbus brought on by eating cucumbers, " says M. E. Lowther, clerk of the district court Center ville, Iowa. "I thought I should surely die, and tried a dozen different medicines but all to no purpose. I sent for a bottle of Chamber lain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and three doses relieved m.e entirely." This remedy is for sale by The R. B. Loryca Drug Store. Hotel Burned at Lanes. Georgetown, Oct. 2.-The Gordon house, a large hotel at Lanes, was des troyed by fire Sunday alternoon. Capt. and Mrs. D. E. Gordon saved only a part of the furnishings. The property was valued for $2,000, about one-half its value. It is reported that a new building will he er-ecteL of more modern architecture. The damage is a heavy loss to the owners. The cause of the fire is unknown.-The State. - Pyny-BasaBm stops the Tickling, man l nitdaya iammatioan hetrot. SOLOMON'S POOLS. Interesting Discoveries Recently Made In Jerusalem. The ancient aqueducts and re servoirs of Jerusalem testify to the abundant provision that was made for running water in the Holy City when it was the me tropolis of the Jewish state. It is only within the last few weeks that they have been brought again into the service of the city, which during intervening cen turies, has been dependent upon the scanty accumulations of rain water. The drouths of the pres ent summer led to distress, which happily, the new governor of Jerusalem, Mohammed Pjevad Pasha, had the will and energy to combat. He secured the Sul tan's consent to lay immediate ly a pipe from Solomon's pools, nine miles south of the city. The pipe draws from the seal ed fountain mentioned in the song of So*omon: "My beloved is like a spring, shut up in a fountain sealed," the deep down subterranean spring, which, from the time of Solomon, flowed through an arched channel to a distributing chamber. The tun nel is roofed with stones in the shape of an inverted V. It is one of the oldest structures in existence. It passes through the valley where the beautiful ancient gardens of Solomon are mentioned in Ecclesiastes. It passes the spot where Elijah is said to have rested in his flight from Jezebel, and crosses the plains of Ephriam, where David, in the heat of the battle with the I Philistines, longed for water from the well of Bethlehem. Finally, after passing around the sl6pe of Zion, it enters the city through the mosque of Omar, which is in the old temple area. This drawing from Solomon's pools will enable the use of twelve ancient fountains in the city. It will require 20 kilome ters of piping, ten centimes in diameter, when finally installed. The governor has also success fully repaired the virgin's fount, in the valley of Jehosophat, outside the city walls. Its waters pass to the pool of Siloam to a tunnel built by Hezekiah, as his workman recorded by a rough hewn Hebrew record, which is the oldest inscription extant. It was stolen, but afterwards re I covered, and is now in a miuseum in Constantinople, What a Wonderful Discovery is PERRY DAVIs' PAIN-KILLER: It not only cures the ills of the human family, but is also the sure remedy for horses and cattle It has never been known to fail in a cure of the worst cases of colic: and for sprains, galls. etc.. it never fails-try it once. Directions accompany each bot tIe. Avoid substitutes, there is but one Pain-Killer, Perry Davis.' Price 25c. and 50c. Bers the Kiend You Have Always Bought Signature of 6 r ' Will Yo Sel Yor Cotton Seed? Farmers are now facing the cotton seed problem. To sell or not to sell-that's the question. The mills are now paying $14 a ton which is equal to 21 cents a bushel of 30 pounds. The Pro duco mill proposes to exchange with farmers, giving 1200 pounds of meal and $1. commission for a ton of seed. Placing the aver age per cent of ammonia at 8J in cotton seed meal, that would give 98 pounds-in the 1200 pounds of meal, also 28 pounds phos phoric acid. According to the estimates put on these elements at Clemson College, they are worth $13. Now the ton of cot .ton seed has 62 pounds of am monia, all the potash and phos phoric acid to be found in 1,000 pounds of hulls, besides the lin ters and oil. The question for the farmer to settle is this; Is one ton of seed worth just as much to his land as the 1200 pounds of mealY If it is he loses the hauling to and from the mill. Cot ton seed have about 3 per cent of ammonia. That is, in five bushels of cotton seed to the acre, thelfarmer will get as much ammonia as he does in 200 pounds of commercial fertilizer. One ton of cotton seed and one ton of acid-phosphate 10.3, will make a pretty fair application for ten acres of land. The cost would be about $2.50 per acre. Ten ants and others who are com pelled to sell seed will find $14 a fair price. That makes the seed from a bale of cotton worth about $6. But can the farmer who wishes to improve his land sell his seed, or exchange for meal at the above rates? He can afford to buy seed at 21 cents a bushel. He will find them cheaper than guano.-Carolina Spartan. W. T. Wesson, Gholsonville, Va, druggist, writes: "Your One Minute Cough Cure gives perfect satisfaction. My customers say it is the best remedy for cough, colds, throat and lung trou bles. The R. B. Loryea Drug Store. Dropped Dead In is Hotel. RALEIGH, Oct. 5.-0. J. Carroll of Raleigh, a well known commercial trav. eler, fell dead in a hotel at Morehead City yesterday while tallng to the pro prietor. He was 46 years of age and served in 'the confederate army. He was marshal of the eastern district of X th Carolina during Cleveland's last a ministration. Big Deal In Coal Lands. BiruINGHA, Ala., Oct. 5.-A big deal has been made in coal lands at Centerville. The Miller lands, embrac ing 2,000 acres, were sold to I-. G. B. Orowe of Birmingham for $11,500. It is supposed the lands will be developed soon. If they are, they will be the nearest mines to that place. To Cure A Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's sig atue is on meh bogv. 25c. U'DO.NNELL & COU Blankets.an S For ten years we have been selling TAR -:- HEEL -: BLANKETS Sand our success with them has justified us in placing the largest order for this season's delivery that we have ever made SThat is the number of blankets we bought from this mill; and Swhen you add to that our line of medium and cheap goods it Swould indicate a stock large enough for an ordinary .jobbing e house to handle. S We expect to sell them, particularly the _ Tar Heel Brand. ~zIf not it will be the first time that we have failed, for it is a fact Sthat we have never carried a pair of this brand from one season a to the other. S The very large contract made by us enables us to put them Son the market at a price never before equalled $:3.65 Per Pair, Sand while the price is lower, the quality is better, for they have a Sbeen constantly improving on them, until now their style and Sfinish cannot be excelled by any Eastern mill. Our recent obser Svations while in the Northern markets justify us in sayingthat ~. Sthere is bothing that can be bought there to compare with them that we could sell at less than OF-'l APPV T -.4 S There is every reason why this should be the best value that Scan be obtained for the money. The mill is situated in a little Smountain town inm NORTH CAROLINA, . - Swhere the mountaineers bring in their wool in wagons, carts, Shorseback, and some of them on their own backs, thereby saving 2 Sto the manufacturer the exorbitant railroad charges on the raw Smaterial. ~ S The transportation charges from the mill to Sumter is a frac- 22 Stion over ONE PER CENT, so that it is practically equal to hav Singa a Woolen Mill at Your Own Door. S There are families in the county, who bought this blanket Sfrom us &--Ole Swho could not be induced to part with them at the price even -. then paid for them, unless they could be assured of gettig an Sother pair. The best is the cheapest, Buy the Tar Heel, - w and the only place it can be had in EASTERN SOUTH CARO LINA is at O'DONEL&CO'.S,I S0~MT., s. c.