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One of the most useful success habits one can form Is that of learning some thing from everybody with whom he comes in contact. No Information which can be acquired is too trivial to be ig nored. Constantly measure yourself with the men you meet. You will find that every one can teach you something which you did not know before and which, per haps, you would never have a chance to learn again if you did not acquire it from him. Daniel Webster once made a great hit in arguing a case before a jury by repeating a story which he afterward said he had not thought of since he heard it fourteen years before. But Webster was always picking up some thing for future use. His famous reply to Hayne, the greatest speech ever de livered on the American continent, was largely made up of little reserves which he had picked up here and there in his reading, from studying men and from observation. Many a prominent novelist has col lected material for his stories by mak ing notes of his conversations with those he has met and by observation. Charles Dickens got a great deal of the matter for some of his novels in this way. One young man will go to a lecture and after spending an hour listening to the helpful, Inspiring words of some prominent man will leave the hall or lecture room without having derived any benefit from the address. Another young man will attend the same lec ture with an ambition to learn some thing. He will drink In the speaker's sentences as if he were never to hear such words of encouragement and In spiration again. At the conclusion of the address he will determine that he will make more of his opportunities in the future; that he will read more, think more, study more, be more than he ever was before. Such a young man has a purpose and Is determined to learn something from everything he comes in contact with and from every body he talks to. The other has no am bition, does not throw himself into what he does, lets his mind wander hither and thither, so that he never wholly understands what people are saying and therefore never derives any benefit or information from those with whom he converses.-Orlson Swett Mar den in Success. THE BULLET FROM AFAR. now Modern War Methods Try the Soldiers' Nerves. Today a man may die as soon as the enemy's guns, hidden away In the dis tant, cloud topped mountains seven miles away, begin to talk. And over that seven miles he must walk with caution, .with a wide interval between him and his pals on either hand. He must lie down at every short halt and scratch the ground hurriedly with his little spade at every long one, for the great shells are sailing toward him, and he sees by his officer's eye and hears -by his commands that It is con sidered that he may perish at any mo ment and that precautions are neces sary to preserve him. He sees, more over, how futile those precautions must be If one of those monsters howling overhead should land as near to him as' the last one did to that blasted tree. for Instance, with its scorched, dan gling limbs and the huge charred fis sure In Its stout trunk, or as the one before did to the team of mules In the ambulance wagon, now a screaming, struggling jumble of harness and bloody flesh. All this Is dispiriting and appears un necessary. The country on all sides Is as peaceful as his native dale, not a sign of an enemy. Even the great blue hill ahead, on which he Is told the ene my's long guns are posted, looks as quiet as the mountain on a Christmas card. Yet for two miles he walks through death,- thinking only of it be cause there is nothing else to think of, and then as twilight falls bivouacs in extended line, sees his friends run for their tea between the fall of the shells, notices one of them time his run back badly and meet a projectile In full ca reer, to part from it an awful. and dis gusting offense, and then lies down In the darkness with shaking nerves and the thought that five worse miles still intervene between him and the guns he knows he Is intended to take. Next morning he is awakened by a shell, is marched with Infinite caution for' two more miles, shelled the whole wy, Is shelled even In his bivouac by the light of the moon and as he watch es the projectiles bursting like water spouts of fire along his hiliside Is glad when he is told that tomorrow will be the battle, after which If he wins and If he lives be may be able to walk and sleep in peace for a space.-"A Line man" in New York World. LINCOLN'S DISPATCHES. Why Many of Them Were Dated From the War Department. Surprise Is often expressed by very Intelligent people that so large a pro portion of President Lincoln's most im portant' telegrams and some of his let ters are dated from the war depart ment Instead of the executive mansion and none of them from the navy, treas ury or other administrative bureaus. This is generally deemed a very singu lar fact, and from it writers have plausibly drawn the conclusion that Lincoln personally liked the secretary of war better than any of the other cabinet officers. While this Indeed ap pears to have been true, It does not nec essarily so follow. He certainly held Mr. Seward In hIgh regard, yet he sel dom went to the state department. In the circumstances It was not at all singular. The explanation Is easy. War was the business of that time, and Lin coln's eyes were always bent to the army, especially when great military events were impending. He habitually haunted the adjacent war department and army headquarters, where abode General Halleck, his military adviser, for news and views. Head and heart were strenuously concentrated on the fight, wherever it might be. HIs fertile brain saw, too, the critical points In the game oftentimes far more clearly than some of his so called "ablest generals." He not only wished to know what was going on In the field, but performed his own part nobly. In the heat of action or at crucial moments his orders, sug gestions and inquiries were fired of! spontaneously from wherever he might be at the moment, and at such periods e was generally "over at the war de partment" with Mr. Stanton. That Is the chief reason why so many of his dispatches are dated at that depart ment and not because he perhaps held Stanton in higher esteem than the sec retary of the navy or state or treasury. -Lippncott's Magazine. If a man asks you a question you can't answer, make your answer so long and shadowy that he will be glad eo forget his qnntian.-A tcbhson Globha A DROLL CHARACTER "COUNSELOR" NOLAN WAS A WIT OF THE NEW YORK BAR. Somne of the Quaint Sayings of This Picturesque Legal Light, Who For Years Kept Gotham's Judges and Lawyers Laughing. In a book entitled "The Barrister" Charles Frederick Stansbury has brought together the best of the anec dotes of Tom Nolan, who was known popularly among members of the New York bar as "Counselor Nolan." For many years the counselor kept judges and lawyers of New York laughing, and at political conventions he was one of the Important, If not serious, attrac tions. The counselor was himself sul generis. His drollery was individual. Some characteristic stories from Mr. Stansbury's collection are here set down: At a political convention a friend asked Nolan: "Isn't it strange, counselor, that your friend Croker, who is such a mighty power down your way, does not get a nice political job for himself?" The barrister drew himself up, look Ing his inquisitor over from the corner of his eye, and then replied, with se verity: "'Tis a peanut brain you have, Clancy, to ask me that. Is there anny job he hasn't got?" Judge Horace Russell told the follow. Ing story: Nolan once had a client whose name was Mrs. Moriarity. After her case had been placed upon the calendar Mrs. Moriarity appeared ev ery day in Nolan's office with her elev en witnesses. Finally the case reached the top of the calendar, and Nolan was on hand to try it. The opposing coun sel asked for a postponement. Nolan fought the postponement with great eloquence, laying much stress upon the fact that Mrs. Morlarity had been put to enormous trouble and expense of coming every day to his offce with her eleven witnesses. Judge Dugro, who was sitting, was not convinced ap parently by Nolan's perfervid oratory and granted the adjournment. Then the barrister arose. "Your honor," said he, "has seen fit to grant a postponement of the case, and, while I humbly submit to the rul ing of the court, yet I would like to ask your honor to do me a personal favor" "Certainly, counselor, with pleasure," replied Judge Dugro. "What is It?" "Go you to my office," thundered the barrister, "and inform Mrs. Moriarity that this case has been'postponed." Witty and keen as Nolan was, he once In awhile got the worst of an en counter with a witness, as the follow ing incident Illustrates: The plaintiff, Mr. Foley, was suing Mr. W. for damages sustained by care lessness of defendant in allowing his donkey' to escape from his stable and trespass upon plaintiff's lawn. Foley is in the witness box. Barrister Nolan (for defendant)-You say that Mr. W.'s animal caused all this injury to your property? Foley-Yes, sor. Barrister-Where did you first see this donkey? Foley-Tied up in defendants stable. Barrister-Where did you next see him? Foley-On me premises. Barrister-How do you know It was the same donkey? Foley (emphatically)-if I saw yez tied up in the sthable, don't yez sup pose I'd know yez whin yea got loose? The barrister excused Mr. Foley. It was in the old superior court be fore Judge David McAdam and a jury, and the barrister was trying a case on behalf of the plaintiff In a negligence suit against the Twenty-third street crosstown railroad, which was con trolled by Jacob Sharp, who afterward gave the name of "boodle aldermen" to the world. On rising to sum up on be halt of his client Nolani launched forth Into an attack upon Sharp, who had in no manner appeared in the case. Rals Ing his voice to a pitch that could be heard by citizens in the City Hall park, he concluded his peroration as follows: "And who, gintlemen of the jury, Is Jacob Sharp? I will tell you, gintie men. He Is a man so lost to all his sinse of ethics and the rights of man that for the sake of palthry prospec tive dividends he would run a railroad up your spine and make ties out of your ribs!" When the bar of the city of New York gave a dinner at Delmonico's In honor of former Justice Abraham B. Lawrence on his retirement from the bench, one of the remarks Nolan made was: "There's Recorder Smyth. He's a good judge, a toine judge, but he thinks ivery man ought to go to prison at least wance." Nolan on one occasion was a candi date for a municipal office, and in the course of his canvass he asked a wo man of his acquaintance If she would use her influence In obtaining for him her husband's vote. "Sure, I will," said the woman. "Are we not ever lastingly grateful to you ever since you got my husband off for stealing a gun?" "No, no, my !ar woman," cried the barrIster, "nob for stealing a gun, but for the alleged stealing of a gun." "Alleged be bothered," replied the woman. "Come up stairs and I'll show you the gun." Once arguing a case in behalf of lients who were sailors and while In the midst of an exhaustive display of nautical scholarship Nolan was Inter rupted by the court: "How comes It, counselor, that you possess such a vast knowledge of the sea?" "Does your honor think," responded Nolan, "that I came over In a hack?' Game Duck. Game duck of all sorts should be roasted quickly In a hot oven and are considered best when very rare. The blood should always follow the knife when carving the breast of a duck. It Is not possible to limit the roasting of a duck to any number of niinutes; It depends entirely upon the temnperature of the oven. If a game duck is being roasted for men, it should be much rarer than when it Is to be eaten by women. The Happy Family. The proprietor of a German menag erie keeps caged together a lion, a ti ger, a wolf and a lamb, which he la bels "The Happy Family." When asked confidentially; how long these animals had lived together, he an swered: "Ten months; but the lamb has to be renewed occasionally." -Philadelphia Times. j ______ -Knew His Business. "If I were the mayor," remarked the stranger who had attended a meeting of the city council, "I wouldn't permit the aldermen to waste so much time in useless wrangling over trivial matters.' "The mayor-knows what he is about," replied the citizen. "When they're wrangling, they're not doing any mis chie-Chicagogribune.~ AN INCENSE PARTY. Odd Etiquette of an interesting Jap anese Function. If you ever receive an invitation to a Japanese incense party, accept It promptly and thankfully. It has no counterpart in our own social system and is as merry and pleasant an affair as can be imagined. The people of the mikado's land have trained the nos trils for generations the same as we have trained the eye and ear, and they display a skill which at times is star tling to a westerner. There is an odd etiquette to be followed in these social affairs. For the twenty-four hours preceding the party each guest must avoid the use of anything which can produce any odor whatever. Scented soaps, perfumes, odorous foods and even spices must be avoided. These prevent the user from smelling accu rately and also Interfere with the other members of the party. When you dress, be careful to put on no garment that has been kept in the neighborhood of camphor wood, tobac co, bouquets, dried blossoms or scented powder. When you reach the house of your host, enter it as softly as you can and as slowly as possible. This is to prevent making a draft by the move ment of your own body. Be equally leisurely in opening and closing doors, as a quick movement induces a sud den rush of -Ir In the drawing room the hostess .0s a series of Incenses, usually four or five in number. Each guest is allowed to take three sniffs of each incense and must then jot down its name and number upon a card. Each of the- four or five Incenses is burned two or three times, so that the number of cards will vary from eight to fifteen. At the end the cards are laid out on the table, and the hostess reads the names of the incenses em ployed, which are checked off upon the cards. The guest who has guessed the largest number receives a pretty prize, which is sometimes a silver or bronze incense burner, statuette or carving. Among the Japanese the aver age woman guesses correctly about six times in ten, while with the American women the ratio is three in ten.-New York rost. HER LOST DIARY. The Plaguy Thing Bad Al Her Dear est Secrets Recorded Too. "Diary!" fairly shrieked the pretty young lady, with flashing eyes, as she walked down the avenue with a com panion. "Diaryl Don't you say diary to me again. What do you know about It, Kate?" "Nothing, only that you told me that you had commenced keeping a diary, as usual, and I supposed you had drop ped it at the end of a month, as usual. I didn't mean to throw you into hys terics." "Kate, don't you ever breathe a word of It, but I've lost that diary; dropped It somewhere on the street. And the plaguy thing has all my dearest secrets in it. I wrote just what I thought too. It just sends me crazy. There it is in black and white that Lillian looks like a fright, that Hattie is turning green from jealousy, that Charley is just too sweet to live and that Fred hasn't sense enough to talk more than three minutes unless he rehearses In ad vance." "Why don't you advertise and 0ffer a reward?' "Indeed, I won't. 1 never want to see the thing again. If any one returns It, I shall declare that it's a forgery from beginning to end. I'll never own up the longest day I live." "What did you say about me, Edith?" "Oh. I don't just remember, but some thing nice. You can depend on that, for you're my very dearest friend." "I can help your memory. You wrote that I was the most inquisitive little minx in the city and that I thought~ It my special business to look after other people's business. Here's your diary. You left it at our house, and Tommy spelled out your estimate of me before I knew what be was doing. Good after noon." Then they looked at each other, both began to cry, fell Into each other's arms and in five minutes were criticising a mutual friend.-Kansas City Independ ent. S=lphur ana Silver. A sailor in the custom house the oth er day took out of his pocket some sil ver coins that had a strange yelloiv hue, and a clerk said to him, "What makes your money such a funny color, Jack?" "Well," replied the inariner, "we just got in with a cargo of fuel oil. It's the oil that turned my money yellow. Fuel oil has that effect on ev ry kind of metaL You ought to be on a fuel oil steamer some time. It would surprise you to see the cabin silver ware, the kitchen tins and every-blast ed bit of metal on board all having the jaundiced look. There Is sulphur In fuel oil, and it's this sulphur that does the yellowing. Nitric acid will bring bfck the original color again."-Phila delphia Record. SCIENCE SIFTINGS. Saturn's largest moon is 2,092 miles In diameter, slightly smaller than our own. Jupiter is one and a half times larger than all the rest of the planets put to gether. In size the sun equals 1,300,000 earths, but owing to its smaller density its weight equals only 300,000 earths. Careful scientific investigations show that the average speed of the transmis sion of earthquake shocks is nearly 16, 000 feet per second. Zinc expands up to the melting point. A bar of hammered zinc six inches long will expand 1.100 of an inch in rais g the temperature 100 degrees 19. The sun gives 600,000 times as much light an tbe full moon, 7,000,00,000 times as much as the brig~htest star in the sky and 36,000,000 times as much as all the combined stars of the heav The latest theory in connection with drowning is that no water enters the lungs and that heat properly applied, with artificial respiration, will resusci tate persons who have been under wa ter for an hour. This feat has been ac complished by the doctor who advances the theory._ _____ Theolog7 am He Understood It. Passengers In an uptown car one aft ernoon last week were very much en tertained and amused by a discussion of things spiritual by two colored pas sengers. As the debate waxed warmer the voices of the debaters grew louder until what was said was plainly audi ble to all in the car. After each had made a confession of faith and given his views of the means whereby mortal man could gain salvation one of the pair blurted out in a tone that Implied that all his hope for the next world was embodied in the words: "Well, sab, I b'lleve dat what's gwine to be is sho'ly gwine to be." "Hu," grunted his companion con temptuously, "den yo' b'leves in proe .unem+hun.."atimnorOASun. HAVE WOMF.N INTUITION One Writer Says They Have Never Shown It In Literature. Literature Is the final expresstoa of human thought. If women can lay claim to a special faculty of intuition, why do they not manifest it in their writings? Intuition, if it means any thing, means the faculty that gets down to the germ of actions and char acteristles and focuses external traits into a central verity recognizable to the general public. Now, there are more female writers than male. No woman poet has ever written an in evitable line, a line that flashes spon taneously out of the unknown and casts an illuminating light upon the abyss. Woman has added practically nothing to our stock of familiar quotations. Take down your Bartlett or your an thology, and you may be surprised to find that from Mrs. Browning to Mrs. Meynell women have never coined a phrase which has passed into the com mon currency of speech. Mrs. Brown ing has ind-ed written fine lines, but nothing of hers can be said to have be come a household word. Nor has any woman novelist created any character that is generally recog nized as typical. George Eliot has come closest with her Tito Melema and Mrs. Poyser. You would appeal only to the educated few if you de scribed a person as a Tito or a Poyser. But call a man a Don Quixote, a Micawber, a Dogberry, a Falstaff, a Colonel Newcome, a Bilfil, a Parson Adams or Bob Acres, call a woman a Mrs. Malaprop, a Becky Sharp, a Bea trice, a Diana Vernon, a Meg Merrilies, and even the illiterate will mentally classify the individual as you wish him or her to be classified. "Ah, but," you fay, "in real life wo- I men are the true intuitions. They size up a man or a woman at a glance. They are never mistaken when they trust to their instincts." I can only testify to my own experi ence. I have not found that women's snap judgments of character are im bued with any special verity. They form likes or dislikes quicker than a man does because they are quicker on the trigger of conjecture. They can only be one of two things, right or wrong. If time proves that they are right, as they must be In 50 per cent of cases, the right guess is remembered and treasured np by the slower minded man as an extraordinary instance of intuition. The wrong guess Is forgot ten.-William S. Walsh In Era. To Save Tempers and Collars. "You button your collar the wrong way," said the salesman as he was selling neckwear to a customer. "How is that?" "You have buttoned the right side last. Now, when you go to take It off you will have to tug at the end of the collar and crumple it, because you can't get a proper hold of it, but If you had the left end on top you could get It off easily, then loosen the collar beI hind, and the right end could be easily detached. That's why men have, so much trouble taking off well laundered collars. Remember to fasten the right side first and then the left, and'you will save your collars and your tem per." "I never supposed there was a right and a wrong way of putting on col lars." "Try both ways and you will see." New York Times. Astronomical Solutions. Though 300 years have elapsed since the death of Tycho Brahe, It appears that we are in many lines almost, as far from the ultimate goal as when he began the great work of exploring~the skies before the days of Kepler, when all Europe was slumbering in intellec tual darkness. The science of the stars Indeed has been refined and perfected in an unparalleled degree and infinItely extended in all directions, but with the bounds of darkness pushed back step by step the goal is not and never will be in sight. An Infinity of objects and causes and an endless variety of phe nomena are yet to be explored, and the work of the mind Is rather a process of development to the perfect under stnding of the universe than the solu tion of a simple -mathematical problem. -Atlantic Monthly. She Got a Thrifty Husband. Mrs. Smith-I reckon our Ja~ne has got a first- rate husband. Mrs. Browvn-Well, you ought to be thankful. Mrs. Smith-I hope I am, Gusty. Of course he isn't much to look at, and he ain't oversmart, but there's one thIng, and that Is he's saving. Wby, the very first day after the marriage he told Jane she'd better let him take the engagement ring back and get the mon ey returned. He said there was no longer any use for her to wear It nOW that she was married.-Boston Tran script _ _ _ _ _ _ niecomlmenalng ?oaL A promoter of a recently discovered coal mine In Rhode Island sent a quan tity of the material to Professor - of New York university. Afterward he asked for a certificate of Its quality, whereupon the professor wrote: To Whom It May Concern: This is to certify that I have tried this coal in my fireplaces, grates and stoves for several weeks, and, having done so, I can confidently recommend to all my friends that they hurry into the state of Rhode Island on the day of judgment, be ing well satisfied that it will be last por tion of the earth to burn. -Pittsburg Dispatch. An Extempore Paa. An oft quoted old English wit Is Dan iel Purcell, who Is worthy of immortal ity as a master of repartee. The best of the reported witticisms of this for gotten jester is as follows: Purcell was desired one night In company by a gentleman to make a pun extempOre. "Upon what subject?' asked Daniel) "The king," answered the other. "The king, sir," said he, "is no sub ject." The Teeth. One of the commonest causes of bad teeth Is that of taking very hot food. If you take a cup of very hot tea or coffee, the enamel on the teeth ex pands, and breathing the cold air after ward causes It to contract. This alter nate expansion and shrinking of the enamel works havoc with it, and when it cracks, as It soon does, the inner part of the tooth crumbles away In no Her Dearest Friend. "If you were I," she said to her dear est friend, "would you be married In the spring or the fall?" "If I were you," was the unhesitatingi reply. "and had actually secured a man, I would set the welding for the earliest date possible."-Chicago Post A Great Success. Old Friend-Was your daughter's marrage a success? Hostess-Oh, a great success. She's traveling in Europe on the alimony. wra vork Weekly. LAUNDRY. Hotel Sumter STEAM LAUNDRY, THOMAS NIMMER, Agent. All linens kept in reasonable repairs FREE OF CHARGE. I will call on my regular customers or their laundry. Parties desiring laundry work done n first class style will do well to entrust heir goods to me. THOMAS NIMMER, MANNING, S. C. THE Boak of Manning,' MANNING, S. 0. Transacts a general banking busi ess. Prompt and special attention given o depositors residing out of town. Deposits solicited. All collections have prompt atten ion. Business hours from 9 a. m. to 2 In. JOSEPH SPROTT, k. LEVI, Cashier. President. BOARD OF DIRECTOBS. F. W. McLEOD, W. E. BROWN, 5. K. NEIsEN, JosEPHR SPROTT A. LEVI. Buggies, Wagons, Road Carts and Cariages REPAIRED With Neatness and Despatch -AT R. A. WHITE'S WHEELWRIGHT and BLACKSMITH SHOP. I repair Stoves, Pumps and run watei 'ipes, or I will put down a new Pump ,heap. If y'ou need any soldering done, give me a call. L AME. - My horse is lame. Why? Because I id not have it shod by R. A. White, the man that puts on such neat shoes and makes horses travel with so much ease. We Make Them Look New. We are making a specialty of re painting old Buggies, Carriages, Road arts and Wagons cheap. Come and see me. My prices will please you, and I guarantee all of my work. Shop on corner below R. M. Dean's. R. A. WHITE, MANNING. S. C. O0 Noigidit E~us. GM illis.~o OFFIcE or JUDGE or PROBATE, Manning, S. C.. August 1, 1900. f To Executors, Administrators, Guardians and Committees: rstpectfuly cal your attention to annexe attentior.. Very respectfully. HAM Judge of Probate. Sec. 2061-(194i). Executors, Administrators, whl rians estate remis in heir careannus at any time before the f rst day of July of county from whom they obtin Ltrrs Testa ters of Guardianship. etc., a just and true ac-~ cont, upon oath of the receit and expendi shal be deosited wit he Inventor and ap estateme or theoo said Judge of Probate ren asmay beiterested in the estate-(under Aproed the 2dday of March. 1897. MONEY TO LOAN. I am prepared to negotiate loans on good real estate security, on rea sonable terms. R 0. PURDY, ATLANTIC COAST LINE, CHARLEsroN, S. C., April 13, 1902. On and after thio date the following passenger schedule will be in effect: NORTHEASTERN RAILROAV. Sonth-Bound. *35. *23. *53. Lv Florence. 3.00 A 7.55 P. Lv Kingstree, 3.56 9.07 Lv Lanes, 4 11 9.27 7.32P. Ar Charleston, 5.40 11.15 9.10 North-Bound. *78. *32. *52. Lv Charleston, 6.45 A. 4.45 P. 7.00 A Lv Lanes. 8.16 6.10 8.35 Lv Kingstree, 8.32 6.25 Ar Florence, 9.30 7.20 *Daily. t Daily except Sunday. No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central I. U. 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. Ii. leave Florence daily except Sunday 9.55 a m, at rive Dar. lington 10.28 a in, Cheraw, 11.40 a in, Wadesboro 12.35 p in. Leave Florence daily except Sunday, 8.00 p n, arrive Dar. lington, 8 25 p m, Hfartsville 9.2( p m, Bennetsvilie 9.21 p in, Gibson 9.45 p in. Leave Fiorence Sunday only 9.55 a in, ar rive Darlington 10.27. Hartsville 11.10 Leave Gibson daily except Sunday 6.35 a n, 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 n, leave Darlington 8.55 a in, arrivo 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 mn. Leave Hartsville Sunday only 8.15 a m Darlington 9.00 a m1, arrive Florence 9.2o a in. L R. KENLEY, JNO. F. DIVINE, Gen'l-Manager. Gen'1 Sup't. T. Al. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. H. M. EMERSON, Gen'l Pass. Agent. W.C.&A. South-Bound. 55. 35 51. Lv Wilmiington,*3.45 P. f6 00 A. Lv Marion, 6.40 8 45 Ar Florence, 7.25 9 25 Lv Florence, *8.00 *3.30 A. Ar Sumter, 9.15 4.33 52. Lv Sumter, 9.15 , *9 25 Ar Columbia, 10.40 11 05 No. 52 runs through from Charleston via Central R. R., leaving Charleston 6 40 a in, Lanes 8 15 a m, Manning 8.57 a in. North-Bound. 54. 53. 50. Lv Columbia, *6.55 A. *4.40 P. Ar Sumter, 8.20 6.13 '2. Lv Sumter, 8.20 *6.19 Ar Florence, 9 35 7.35 f7 40 P. Lv Florence, 10.10 8 15 Lv Marion, 10.53 8 54 Ar Wilmington, 1.40 11 30 *Daily. tDaily except Sunday No. 53 runs through to Charleston, S. C. via Cential R. R., arriving Manning 6.53 p in, Lanes, 7.35 p m, Charleston 9.20 p m. Train No. 53 makes close connection at Sumter with train No. 59, arriving Lanes 9 45 a in, Charleston 11 35 a in, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Trains on Conway Branch leave Chad bc arn 12.01 a m, arrive Conway 2.20 p P, returning leave Conway 2.55 p in, arrive Chadbourn 5.20 p in, leave Chadbourn, 5.35 p in, arrive at Elrod 8.10 p m, returning leave Elrod 8.40 a m, arrive Cbadbourn 11.25 a in. Daily except Sun day. H. U. EMERSON, Gen'l Pass. Agent. J. R. KENLY, Gen'l Manager. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. CENTRAL It. R. OF SO. CAROLINA. North-Bound No. 52 Lv Charleston, 7.00 A. M1. Lv Lanes, 8.37 " Lv Greeleyville, 8.50 " Lv Foreston, 8.59 " Lv Wilson's Mill., 9.07" Lv Manning, 9.17 Lv Alcoln, 9.25 " Lv Brogdon, 9.34 " Lv WV. & S. Junct., 9.48" Lv Sumter, 9.50 " Ar Columbia, 11.10" South-Bound No. 53 Lv Columbia, 4.40 P. M1. Lv Sumter, 6.10 " Lv W. & S. Junect. 6.13". Lv Brogdon, 6.28 " Lv Alcolu, 6.38 " Lv Manning, 6 46" Lv Wilson's Mill, 6.57 Lv Foreston, 7.05 " Lv Greeleyville, 7.15" Ar Lanes, 7.30 " Ar Charleston, 9.10 MANCHESTER & AUGUSTA U. RL. No. 35. - Lv Sumter, 4.02 A. 31 Ar Creston, 4.51 " Ar Orangeburg, 5.14" Ar Denmark, 5.48 " Ar Augusta, 7.57 " No. 32 Lv Augnsta, 2.20 P. Md. Lv Denmark, 4.20 " Lv Orangeburg, 4.55" Lv Creston, 5.19 " Ar Sumter, 6.09 " TIrains 32 and 35 carry through Pullman palace buffet sleeping cars between New York and Macon via Augusta. N~rthwestern R." R"'f * C. TxME TABLE No. 7, In effect Sunday, Jan. 15, 1902. Between Sumter and Camden. Mixed-Daily except Sunday. Southb~ound. Northbound. No. 69). No. 71. No. 70. No. 68. PM AM AM PM 6 25 945 Le,. Sumnter ..Ar 9 00 ~5 6 27 9 47 N. W. Junctn 8 58 5 43 6 47 10 07 '. ..Dalzell.. . 8 25 5 13 7 05 10 17 . ..IBorden.. . 8 00 4 58 7 25 10 35 ..Remberts.. 7 40 4 43 7 35 10 40 .. Ellerbee .. 7 30 4 88 750 1105 Soly Junctn 710 425 800 1115 Ar..Camden..Le 700 415 (S C & G3 Ex Depot) PM IPM AM PM Between Wilson's Mill and Sumter. Southbound. Northbound. No. 73. Daily except Sn nday No. 72. P' M Stations. P' 3 3 00 Le.......umter...Ar 11 45 3 03 ...N WV Junction... 11 42 317..........Tindal.........1110 3 30........Packsville.......10 45 405...........ilver.........1020 .....Millard ....... ..10 5 00........umnmerton .... 9 25 545........... Davis..........900 600 ......Jordan..... ....847 6 45 Ar..Wilson's Mills..Le 8 30 P M A M Between Millard and St. Paul. Daily except Sunday. Southbound. Northbound. No. 73. No. 75. No. 72. No. 74. P M A M Stations A M P M 415 9 30 Le Millard Ar 10 00 440 4 20 9 40 Ar St. Paul Le 9 50 4 30 P'M AM AM PM T1HOS. WILSON. President. J. S.BELL, Opp. Central h-otel, Manning, S. C -:DEALER IN: Bicycles and Bicycle Supplies, I also repair wheels and guarantee my work. MACHINERY REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. All work entrusted to me w' prompt attention e' . J..