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40-0 TAR HEEL vs DIXIE. Read and Judge: In view of the recent advertising on the subject of - 0 Tar Heel and Dixie blankets, we deem it but just to our selves that we should publish the following letter from the manufacturers, which ought to settle the matter, and does. so far as we are concerned, as it confirms practically O every statement made by us. CHATHAM MANUFACTURING CO.. Manufacturers of BLANKETS. CASSIMERES. YARNS, ETC.. Elkin, North Carolina. .December 12, 1902. Messrs. O'Donnell & Co., Sumter, S. C. Gentlemen: Replying to Your kind favor of recent -00 date, we beg to state that our 'No. 200 blanket, which we have been selling you ticketed Tar Heel. is a better blan ket and costs us considerably more per pound than the No. 300 blanket ticketed Dixie. which we sold 'Messrs. Schwartz Bros. We manufacture blankets varying in price from 45 to 80 cents per pound. and No. 200 is next to the best grade we make. Blankets-are graded by quality ot stock and not by weight. for all the grades we make weigh the same in 10-4, 11-4 and 12-4. You are one of our oldest customers, and we have always given you the same prices that we get from the largest Eastern jobbing houses. If you desire some of the cheaper grades we shall be plea'sed to ship you. Thanking you for past favors and soliciting your fur ther valued orders, we are Yours truly, CHATHAM M1FG. CO. P. S.-Your valued favor of some days sinne would have received earlier attention but for the absence of the writer We trust that the above will be satisfactory and - that our delay has not seriously inconvenienced you. With kind regards, I am Yours truly, H. G. CHATHAMI. ' & CO, Sumter, S. C. oa 40~ a- -.qb 40P (iLAND STOVES& RANG ES, Are the Best Manufactured. WHY, LET'S TAKE REASON INTO CONSIDEPATION: BECAUSE: They are made, not of scrap iron, but of pure pig iron and'aluminum. BECAUSE: They are the only ones that have the ventilated Ovens, thus rendering them perfect bakers. BECAUSE: They are the heaviest and have more lasting qualities. BECAUSE: They have always taken first prize over all others. BECAUSE: They are high priced Stoves and the dealer cannot get but little profit out of them. BECAUSE: They have a reputation that none other has nor can wish to get. BECAUSE: They are handled by a man who is catering for the hardware trade, one who has and always will knock the spots out of any pri-es that can be offered you in the town of Manning. My prices will speak for themselves and sell the Stoves. Housebuilders, I know you have an eye to business. Watch my stock and save money. GUNS, SHELLS AND AMMUNITION cheaper than the cheapest. Yours for business, JF. DICKSON, Next Door to Levi's. TO OUR__ UnsloMers fil Trae Gecrall Most of you are aware that we handle the same goods as are handled by other first class stores, only our prices are lower, although we make Millinery in our store a specialty which we now sell at half price. We want to let you know that we have not forgotten our gentlemen friends. We have just received a beautiful line of Clothing, real fine Suits to suit any up-to-date wearer for the Xmas trade, which will save you from 15 to 35 per cent. It will pay you to come and inspect them. If you have waited for your Overcoat till naow why not see mine? They are Overcoats that sell eelsewhere for 10 and ,12: we sell them for $5 and $6. Those that others sell for $15 we sell at 7.50. Just think, the price CUT IN HALF. We also bought out a complete line of Children's Raglon Cloaks and Reefers. While they last you will get one for your little daughter at your own price. Our Dress Goods are still looking fresh and new things are still coming in with the latest of Trimmings. Our line of Remnant Ribbons is full for the Xmas shopper-sonme lovely colors. They are at the usual LOW PRICES. Dont fail to see our line of Christmas Goods. They are just the right things you are looking for and prices positively lower than anywvhere else. as we ask no fancy profits. This is a fact and facts are all that we care to advertise. Our line of Boys' Clothing is full and other things too numerous to mention. We carry a full line of the Kabo Corsets. No doubt you ladies have heard of it. It gives perfect fit and grace to the wearer. D. HIR S CH MA NN, Nort anne n Pnanf'o THREE QUEER DISEASES. Two of Them Abide In the Kongo Region and One In Peru. There are two remarkable diseases, either or both of which may attack you if you elect to reside within the Congo basin, but you need have no dread of them if you live in any other part of the world. One is the sleeping sickness, a terrible, mysterious and in variably fatal malady. The patient is at first only drowsy, but ends by sleep ing almost continually, waking only for meals or when forcibly roused. Finally the torpor becontes complete. Ile cannot be roused even to take food, and dies of starvation. The other disease alluded to is even more curious, although fortunately not nearly so deadly, and is known to spe cialists in tropical diseases as ainhuin, from a negro word meaning a saw, a very apposite name, for the typical feature of the ailment consists in the slow amputation of one or more of the victim's toes by means of a serrated bony ligature which grows around the joint of the affected member just where it joins the foot. As soon as the ligature is completely formed it begins to contract, and off comes the toe as effectually, if not quite so quickly, as if it had been severed by the surgeon's knife. In the province of Cerro de Pasco, in Peru, may be contracted a strange malady which consigns its victim to certain and lingering death. The ail ment in question is termed verrugas (Spanish, a wart), and it occurs only in certain deep valleys in the highlands of that province. There, however, it is endemic and frightfully fatal, especial ly to the unacclimatized white man. The whole surface of the body in bad cases becomes entirely covered with spongy, wartlike excrescences, varying from the size of a raspberry to that of a pigeon's egg, and from every one of these the patient's life blood oozes out continually until he perishes of inani tlon.-Chambers' Journal. FIGHT S!CKNESS. Fear Will Harm and Courage Hel# You When Disease Comes. Illness is most like a cowardly cur which gives chase If you flee from it, but goes on about its business, that of seeking the fearful ones, if you pass on unnoticing. but courageous. The reasons for the ability of brave men to go unharmed through pest hospitals, as did Napoleon and as physicians do every day, are not only psychological, but physiological. The quality of mere courage seems to have a sort of pickling and harden ing effect upon the tissues of the body, like the plunge in brine, steeling them against infection, while fear, by "un stringing" the nerves, weakens the whole resisting power of the body, in viting the very evil feared most. The scientific health journals have 15een d1scussing this -potent fact in hy gienic laws to a great extent and urg ing its recognition by the masses. "Fear weakens the heart's action," says Health in an article on this sub ject, "induces congestion, Invites Indi gestion, produces poison through de composing foods and is thus the moth er of autopoisoning, which either di-1 rectly causes or greatly aids in the pro duction of quite 90 per cent of all our diseases." In recognizing tbis law, however, it is just as well to carry in a small pocket of one's memory the old adage, "Discretion is the better part of valor," and to avoid running needless dangers. But it is a wvell known fact that small pox and like contagions will attack first those who are trembling for fear1 of it, often leaving unscathed the brave ones who are in the thickest of it nursing, tending and even burying the< plague stricken. With an armor welded of equal quantities of precaution and couragei one stands a good chance of immunity from the attacking hordes of disease mcrobes.-New York Herald. The Least of the Lot. Mother-And so your friend Clara Is soon to be married? Daughter (just returned from a long absence)-Yes. Doesn't it seem strange? I hadn't heard a word about it until I called to see her this morning. She< showed me her trousseau. It's perfect ly lovely, just from Paris, and she has t the handsomest ring I ever. saw, and she showed me the house she is to live in and the furniture she has selected and the horses and carriages she is toE have. She showed me everything ex cept the man she is going to marry. I suppose she forgot about him.-London t Answers.' Lake Colors. Some lakes are distinctly blue,.others present various shades of green, sot that in some cases they are distin guishable from their level, grass cov ered banks, 'and a few are almost black. The Lake of Geneva Is azure hued, the Lake of Constance and the Lake of Lucerne are green, and the color of the Mediterranean has been 4 called Indigo. T1he Lake of Brienz Isli greenish yellow, and its neighbor, Lake!1 Thun, is blue.-London Spectator. Alternative of Educeation. "Education," said the impassioned orator, "begins at home." "That's where you're off," said the 1 calm spectator. "It begins in the kin dergarten, is continued in 'the boarding school, football field, Paris. London and Wall street and ends In either Sing Sing or Newport"-Life. At the Slors.e Show. McBrier-Did yez ever see a horse jump foive feet over a fince? McSwatt--Oi've seen 'em jump four feet over. I didn't know that a horse had foive feet!-!Indlanapolis News. A message travels over an ocean ca le at about 700 miles a second., TIi' KIND OF g Fr A mEs i To b~e used isiV~' veriuch a matterl' o (f tas te. It is important. thou gh, thait the frames set proprerly on a the nose and at the r'ight distance 3 Sfrom theL eyes: that. the lenses be perfectly centei'ed. and how arec~ y ou to know when one is guess i WE.. SNEVER 2 CLGESS. 2 l -Glasses Right, Good Sight." E. A. Bultman, JEWEL.ER AND OPTIOIAN. in chargec of )pt ical Dehpartm !emi. 17 S. Main St., - Sumter, S. C. E SERVANTS IN JAPAN A LAND WHERE DOMESTIC SERVICE IS CONSIDERED AN HONOR. The "Boys" That Wait on Table In Hotels and How They Work. Household Servants That Are Equal In Birth to Their Masters. They have some curious notions about servants in Japan. Instead of its being considered a disgrace to go into domestie service in that country it is an honor, writes Mr. Douglas Sla de-. Jinrikisba boys and grooms may not have the honor of being servants at all, but are tradesmen, which is the lowest thing of all in Japan short of being an eta, or member of the class of outcasts. Grooms are excluded as a betting, gambling, cheating lot (the Japanese think it impossible for a groom to be honest) and the rickshaw boys as rough people without any man ners. There are two classes of servants, personal and kitchen. Kitchen serv ants need have no knowledge of eti quette. They are sometimes rough creatures from the country, no better than rickshaw boys. They are dull, contented drudges, but Cook San (Mr. Cook) is held in a very different esti mation. In a small household he does the catering and keeps the accounts as well as superintends the ridiculous lit tle bird's nest of charcoal ash which cooks the meals in Japan. The personal servants show a hu mility to their emp!oyers which would paralyze an Englishman with any sense of humor, and their masters as sume an etiquette air of command. But from every one else these serv ants expect a considerable amount of politeness. Hotel servants are male and female. Hotels for Europeans generally have men housemaids as well as men wait ers and call-them all "boys." To go to a Japanese hotel for the first time is like going to a farce. -It is impossible to keep serious. In the din ing room you are surrounded by panto mime Imps dressed in indigo cotton doublets and hose, who run about shoeless and are called "boys" and look like boys until the day they die. Half of them know no English except the numbers. Each has a number to himself, and each dish on the menu has a number, even down to the pota toes. "No. 5," you say If you are new to it, "I'll have some 2, and I'll take some 7 and 9 with it, please." He catches some numbers and brings them, but you would have a far better chance of getting what you want if you simply said 2, 7, 9. You can hardly bear yourself speak for the scruff, scruff across the floor. You think it is lucky they don't wear boots. At very grand hotels they wear blue serge suits like ship's stewards and bad imitations of foreign shoes, and they don't run, and then they don't wait so weil. because it Is not natural for a Japanese "boy" not to run. A Japanese "boy" has one good qual ty. Though he cannot understand Eng lish, before you have been in the house three days he will know your tastes, md if you like the breast of a chicken better than the leg you will get it, and you will ha ve your steak to look purple yr burned under when it is cut, as you prefer. If he saw you using a teaspoon afterE rour wife, he would very likely bring ou a used teaspoon with your next rorning's tea. His motto is that there s no accounting for the madness of oreigner's and the forms it will take. But your bedroom boy Is a very dif erent person. He has intelligence and ~ften a fair command of English. There is nothing that a Japanese ~oom boy cannot do. I would trust him : mend my watch. I have tried him yn such varied problems as luring a rghtened canary back to its cage, ishing up a small coin that had fallen :rough a crack in the floor and mend ng the lock of a portmanteau. One of :hem 'even said that he could take in a elt hat which I gave him so large for iim that his ears did not stop it. The Japapese like their hats to rest ipon their eairs. They can mend your :lothes or put a button on and are iandier than sailors. They expect you :o show them all your purchases and tways tell you how much more or how nuch less you ought to have paid. In the transient life of a hotel you ee the farcical side of Japanese serv ints. The pristine and sentimental side ou only get In a private family, where he servants, like the pages of the mid lie ages, may be equal in birth to their nasters, but willing to do service in mis household because he is a famous oet or noble or man of science, so as o gather the crumbs of education hich fall from his table.--Exchange. Care of Puppies.* Puppies after weaning will keep trong and healthy and will grow fast f fed only on fresh buttermilk and ~orn bread, with soup instead of the Juttermilk twice a week, till they are ve or six months old. Do not feed hem sweet milk. Keep the puppies 'here they can get plenty of exercise. )o not crowd tiltem. Arrange their :ennels so that they can go In and out f their sleeping quarters. If fed in he same vessels, some dogs get more hn the~r share of food and lose their nazn-ners also. Fasten a number of hains where. they eat at such dis ances that no one can reach the other: hen feed in individual pans. Give lit le medicine and plenty of exercise, nd you will then have strong, healthy logs. An hour's run every day in the 'ear in the licids and woods, weather ermitting, is essential to good health. Get a True Focus. A habit of looking at things from a listorted angie, of focusing the vision n things that depress and suggest un appiness and misery, is a destroyer of mppiness and success. A man who oes about with a funereal face, think ng "hard times." fearing "dull sea ons," disaster, panic and failure therever his interests center, 1s never happy man, rarely a successful one. Pessimism is a destructive force in nen's lives, just as optimism is a con tructive agency.-Success. The Millennium. Little Dot-i knowv something my echer doesn't know. Mamma-Indeed! What is that? "I know when the world is coming o an end and she doesn't. I asked Ler and she said she didn't know." "Oh, well, who told you?" "Uncle John. Ie said the world ould come to an end when children topped asking questions that nobody ould answer." F Geraldine's Preference. Mother-If you are a good girl, Ger .dine, I will consent that you shall tave another piece of cake. Geraldine-I would prefer, maw, that( 'ou should make that indulgence de- r cndent on the cake's beIng good. imnmd TDispatch. JUMPING THE DEER. A Style of Hunting That Looks Easy Till You Try It. "Jumping a deer" is a highly attrac tire phrgse, quite apt to make a tin gling in the back hair of the tenderfoot who hears it for the first time. It is also intensely satisfactory to the chap who always has to shave before woo ing nature. You may, indeed, get a good shot in this way, and it is gener aflly the only way to see the grandest of all the si;ghts of the woods-deer rinnin:, thro.g:h a windfall. To see t e glosy curves of fur curl over the lofty lo;:: int iife piled on each other in bo:;dis confusion is well worth a trip to tie woods, while for him who loves the rifle as I do, more for what cannot be done with it than for what can, thlere is no such target elsewhere. But for the tyro who is dying to get that first deer, "jumping a deer" gen erally means out of sight and out of hearing both. For the deer that goes off to lie down after feeding does not go to sleep, but to ruminate and take life casy. Once in a great while one (ails into a doze, but almost always the head is3 well erect and all senses keen for danger. And even if one is in a doze it may slip away without your suspecting its c-isl -nce, for sleep dead ens little of the senses of this wary an mal. The man who "wouldn't shoot such an Innocent creature as a deer" should by all means see one getting out Df a heavy windfall, while the man who loves game that can get away can here find the attraction of the woods it its climax.-"Hunting the Virginia Deer" In Outing. The. Ant's Toilet. A naturalist has been making ob ervations on the toilets of certain ants, nd has discovered that each insect goes through most elaborate ablutions. hey are not only performed by her ;elf, but by another, who acts for the :ime as lady's maid. The assistant ;tarts by washing the face of her com anion, and then goes over the whole )ody. The attitude of the ant that is eing washed is one of intense satis 'action. She lies down with all her imbs stretched loosely out; she rolls ver on her side, even her back, a per ect picture of case. The pleasure the little insect evinces in being ..hus :ombed and sponged is really enjoya Jle to the observer. - Philadelphia Press. The Way of the World. We met the people going one way -ith their arms loaded with beautiful lowers. "Whither do you drift?" we asked. "We go," they exclaimed, "to adorn he graves of our dead heroes." Later on we met them with their trms full of bricks. "And now where?" we asked again. "To throw these at our living he oes," they again explained, with pity ng smiles at our dumbness. The Smal Brother. "I heard him call you 'duckle,'" an iounced the small brother. "Well, what of it?" demanded his ister defiantly. "Oh, nothin' much," answered the mall brother. "I was only thinkin' naybe it's because of the way you valk, but it ain't very nice of him." Jhicago Post. ers the he Kind You Hav A;'.ays Booghit gnatue of $20,000. UPON TOTA1 lst SEPTr OON"TES"T OL MAGNIFICENT TI To the one Making the ex the receipts of cotton A 1902, tojanuary 10. 190 To the next neares To the second nex1 To the fve next ne To the ten next nes To the fifteen next To the twenty nexi To the fifty next ne To the one hundre4 For distribution among those ing within ,000 bales either wa Shouid the exact figures have there was offered to the success Crand total.. Conditions of Sending [1] Send 51.25 for WEEKLY CONS one estimate for the sUNNY SoUTHl and anothe [2] send 81.00 for WEEKLY CONS [3] send 50e for SUNNY soUTE on [4] Send 50c for one estim; wish to make a r~umbor oftestim; L.AR forwarded at the came time same time, without subscription cial discount being offered only estimate so received. Whe re sui ment that your estimate has bee [C] The money and the subscription and tion go together. This rule 1. posItive. [6] No estimate must be mailed later [71 In case of a tie upon any prize esti: BL.ANK FOB $1.00 AND THREI (To be changed ifsubsc PUBLIsHERS coNSTITUTION, Atlas Enter THREE estimates for me, for $1.0 1st Upon Total Port ReceIpts q2d September 1, 1902, IL to January 10, 1903. 3d Kame....................... Postoffice............. State ......... .. NOTE-If you wish only ONE estimate in the blanks. If you wish TE N estimates in tbe conte 1yon wish to subscribe to THE WEEKLY C make remttance indicated and send estimates the combination, changing this coupon accord Address all 'U orders to... M L he Atlanta Weekl~ )' we will give THIE MAxxINo 'he Constitution and The Sunr This is a fineopponntfnit. THE SPLASHING HOUSE. A French Yarn That Was Printed to Ridicule Englishmen. One of the most extraordinary tules ever invented about Englishmen by foreigners was the "splashing house" story, given to the world by the Paris journal Patrie in 18S. An Ingenious writer in the paper gravely informed a his readers that in the suburbs of Lon don were houses where "earth beaten h up into mud is retailed." To these houses men were accustomed to resort in hunting kit fur the purpose of being splashed with uud. "These curious establishments are provided with muUs of different coun ties, but principally of those counties where the hunting is best. The sale of the mud is conducted in the most Se rious manner Imaginable; the attend ant inquires, 'From what county, sir, do you wish It to be supposed you have just returned?' 'From the county of Kent.' The pretenJed sportsman there upon takes a seat on a wooden horse whose legs throw up the selected mud; after having been well splashed the customer pays his bill (3 shillings), casts'an eye of approbation toward the mirror, takes a whip in his hand and e goes to exhibit his muddy clothes in Piccadilly. Bond street or Pall Mall, in order that it may be supposed that he has just returned from a grand k hunt." In addition to the chance of marry- t] ing an heiress which this remarkable display of dirty clothes confers on their wearer, says the French news paper man, the patron of the "splash ing house" has another more imme diate advantage. "The mud with which he is splashed affords, if not proof, strong presumptive evidence that he Is a landed proprietor In the a county whose mud bespatters him." y And landed proprietors being held in I vast esteem as solvent and desirable creditors, the man can obtain anything p he likes at any shop on credit. p One wonders whether such a wonder- a ful tale finds any believers among those who read it.-London Live Stock Journal. Economy. Fudge-Yes, Spinks has a splendid system of economy. Judge-How so? k "He goes to work and lays aside t( woney for something he doesn't need." 0 "No economy in that." 0 "Isu't there? Well, by the time he d has the money saved he always findis out he -doesn't want the thing-and then the money is saved."-Baltimore Herald. An Annoying Insinuation. L "I don't suppose he meant anything a unkind," said the young woroan, "but a' it was a very startling coincidence." "What do you mean?" "Just before Harold and I got mar ried his friends persuaded him to join a 'don't worry' club." - Washington Star. The Stopover No Trouble. .h Hennepeck-Do our tickets allow us a) to stop over? p Mrs. Hennepeck-You cnvn stop over ri anywhe--e you like. The trouble will i all come when you get on the next ". train to continue the trip with the, a, same old ticket-Los Angeles Herald-. i A Use For Money. ,p Rector-Remember, my young friend, R there are things in life better than money.bu Young Friend-Yes; I know that,bu it takes money to buy them. 00 DASH ( OF TEATLANTA CONSTITUTION PORT RECEIPTS C , 192, TO 10th JAN OSES DECEMVB E ENTY THOUSAND tt, or the nearest to the exac' T ALL UNITED STATES PORTS : estimate nearest.-----------..---..-. tret--------------$300 each rest...---------- 200 each rearest-------. 100 each nearest.---------50 each ----- ares~t.- ---------- 10 each nearest-.------...5 each stimates (not taking any of the above of the exact figures............. been given during the contest prior to l estimate, if made before then... Estimates in This Mlammoti TTUTIoN and sUNNY SOUTH, both on. year, and sen' estimate for THfl OONSTITUTION. ITUTION one year and with it one estimalte in the co: ear and with it one estimate in the contest. ito alone in the contest If you don't w tes on this basis you may send T H REE stimates are sent. if as many as TE th sender may forward them with 0r to estimates of ten. A postal card I ~scriptions are sent the arr ivai of the pe received ancd carefully recorded. ~he estimate must come in the same envelope every time. an December 31st, 1902. nate, the money winl be equally divided. ESTIMATES, WITHOUT SUBSCRIPTION. pons and estimates both are sent.) ta, Ga. Ienclosed, in your ourrent contest as follows: I I I l I I | I I I I I I .1 I I I I ..........-......--e*"-" ..............--.-----"" ontest, send FIFTY CEN Tis and fil out only one line tsendHREEDOLLAR.S and write your own tigUr NsTITUTIONorsUNNY sOUTH, or both, as aboveoffere REE-one estimate for each yearly subscription, or two I nly and e nclose with remittance. Constitution " H Tu.sandi The Sunmy Southl fob y South with Tm:E MANNiNG TDC; r to get radringr matter cheap. HE WENT TOO FAR. Mhat the Sweet Girl Did, Could and Could Not Accept. Who shall fathom the heart of a wo tan? If he had not been so young, he -ould not have tried to. But the ingenuousness of youth was pon him. There was no uncertainty about his ction as he put his arm around her aist and, drawing her to him, kissed er fervently-kissed her with that ac uIred ease, that sureness of touch, 2at lack of embarrassment, that mes from a perfect understanding. And she did not even blush. "Dearest," he said, "I have just been inking that we have known each ther a whole week." "It seems, oh, so much longer than iat!" she replied. "Doesn't It? Isn't It wonderful how iuch feeling, how much love, can be >mpressed into such a short time? I ke to dwell upon it." "It is nice." "Yes," he went on. "The first even ig we met as I looked into your eyes felt that I loved you, and yet I did ot dare that night to do anything tore than press your hand as we part [." "But afterward you were" "Yes; the next evening, with that rt of confidence that came to me I now not why. I went further. I held our hand in mine, I drew closer, and en I suddenly left you, not daring to 1ighten you with the sudden intensity f my love." "And then the next night?" "Ah, then it was that my arm un msciously and as it were inevitably ole around your waist, and, inspired y your sweet acquiescence, I kissed Du. Since then I have loved you more ad more until now I feel I must show au some real substantial token of my >ve." He drew from his pocket a small ackage. He handed it to her trium aantly. She opened It rapidly. It was diamond pin. There was a silence. Then she hand it back to him slowly, reluctantly. "What!" he cried. "Are you not go ig to accept it?" She shook her head. "I cannot." she replied. "Don't you ow that it wouldn't be proper for me i accept anything more than flowers candy from a man I have known aly a wieek?"-Tom Masson in Bran :r Magazine. Took the Order Literally. A suburban golf club has a Japanese eward named Ocka. He Is an ex fllent cook and his neatness and good ste are beyond question, but he has very slight knowledge of English, id this sometimes causes him to ake ludicrous mistakes. A young oman gave a tea at the clubhouse id sent for Ocka a few days ahead of me, so that all the details of her rty might be perfected. She ar mnged for everything and at the end id: "Now Ocka, at the tea we must ive apple pie order." "Yes, madam, ,ple pie," Ocka returned. "No, apple e order," said the young girl. "All ght. Me uriderstand. Apple pie," eka repeated with an obstinate smile. Apple pie order," the other corrected ain, and Ocka took his leave. He rved at the tea along with the dainty tle sandwiches and cake twenty huge eces of apgle pie. - Philadelphia ecrd. One of the worst things that can hap n a young man is to get the notion at he can't have a good time without asting tils mnoney.-Atchison Globe, IONT ESTI WF COTTON~ ., 1903. R| 3st, 3902. DOLLAR OFFER. t, estimate of from Sept. 1, ..... $5000 .... 2,000 ...... 1000 ......... I,500 ......... 1,500 1...... ,000 ....... 500 ......... 500 203 prizes) comn- 8,0 ...... ..... $2,800 517,500 Sept. 1st ......................2,500 .................. $20,000 i $20,000 Contest. two estimate. in this contess-that is itost. ant a subscriptiose, or If you estimates for every ONE DOL N estimates are sant at the ily TH RE E dollars--this spe eceipt will be sent for each per itself Is an acknowledge - 'The estimate, the money and the subscrip - STA TISTICS OF LAST SEVEN CRO?'S. THE PORT RECEIPTS for the past few years. from Sep tember 1 through the first ten days of Januatry. are even to aid you in mia'ing au intelit gent estimate in this contet. It is -not necessary to itemxizo ~ your estimate. g~ve It in ene t~ plain sum expressed in flgure's only; let them mean just what you mean to say. TtlPr Cotton Year- sent. I to -s January Io. 1895-6...... ...... 3.662.196 -...-............5.139.272 F I89 -98.. .. .. .. ...595!.263 3898-9... .. .......6.156.2a3 ' 1899-1900.. .. .....4.27 55 ~ 1900-01.... .. ...--.4.04.514 1901-02.. ... ... ...5.137.2:9 Secretary H~ester. of the New Orleans Cotton Exchtanan, will es furnish the official tigures to d decide this ctontest. )rDon't forget. every ,,.bscrlp-r tion for yourself or your ft 2ewi" a will entitle you to an estm:.te -in the great 520.000 conl"t. e Manning Times $2.00 a Year, or both ATLANTIC COAST LINE. CEAnLzEs-O, S. C.. April 13, 1902 On and after this date the ft6lowimg passenger schedule will be in effect: NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD. South Bound. '35. *23. *53. Lv Florence, 3.00 A 7.55 P. Lv Kingstiee, 3.56 9.07 Lv Lases, 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 7.2U *Daily. t Daily except Sunday. No.52 runs through to Columbia via Central R. R. 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 m, arrive Dar lington 10.28 a in, Cheraw, 11.40 a M, Wadesboro 12.35 p m. Leave Florence daily except Sunday, 8.00 p m, arrive Dar. lington, 8.25 p m, Hartsville 9.2C p m Bennetsville 9.21 p m, Gibson 9.45 p 2. Leave Florence Sunday only 9.55 a M, ar rive Darlington 10.27, Hartsville 11.10 Leave Gibson daily except Sunday 6.35 a w, Bennettsville 6.59 a in, arrive Darling. ton 7.50 a m. Leave Hartsville daily ex. cept Sunday 7.00 a in, arrive Darlington 7.45 a m, leave Darlington 8.55 a in, arrive Florence 9.20 a m. Leave Wadesboro daily except Sunday 4 25 p m, Cheraw 5.15 p M, Pirlington 6.29 p in, arrive Florence 7 p m. Leave Hartsville Sunday only 8.15 a m Darlington 9.00 a m, arrive Florence 9.2t a M. J. R. KENLEY, JNO. F. DIVINE, Gen'I Manager. Gen'l Sup't. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. U. X. EMERSON, Gen'l Pita. Agent. W.C.&A. South-Bound. 55. 35. 51. Lv Wilmington,*3.45 P. t6 00 A. Lv Marion, 6.40 845 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 1105 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 m. North-Bound. 54. 53. 50. Lv Columbia, *6.55 A. *4.40 P. Ar Sumter, 8.20 6.13 32, Lv Svm ter, 8.20 *6.19 Ar Florence, 9.35 7.35 t7 40 P. Lv Florence, 10.10 815 Lv Marion, 10.53 854 Ar Wilmington, 1.40 11 30 *Daily. tDaily except Sunday No. 53 runs through to Charleston, S. C. via Cential R. &., arriving Manning 6.53 p m, 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 m, Charleston 1135 a m, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Trains on Conway Branch leave Chad bourn 12.01 a in, arrive Conway 2.20 p ino returning leave Conway 2.55 p m, arrive Chadbourn 5.20 p in, leave Chadbourn, 5.35 p in, arrive at Elrod 8.10 p in, returning leave Elrod 8.40 a M, arrive Chadbourn 11.25 a m. Daily except Sun day. H. . EMERSON, Gen'1 Pass. Agent. J. R. KENLY, Gen'i Manager. T. 61. EMERSON, Traffic Manager CENTRAL. Rt. Rt. OF 30. CAROLINA. North-I ound No. 52 Lv Charleston, . 7.00 A. M. Lv Lanes, 8.37 " Lv Greeleyville, 8.50" Lv Foreston, 8.59 " Lv Wilson's Mill, 9.07" Lv Manning, 9.17 - L~v Alcolu, 9.25 " Lv Brogdon, 9.34 Lv W-. & 5. Junct., 9.48" Lv Sumter, 9.50 " Ar Columbia, 11.10 " South-B~ound No. 53 .Lv Columbia, 4.40 P. M. Lv Sumter, 6.10 Lv WV. & 5. Junct. 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, 730 Ar Charleston, 9.10 " MA NCHESTER & AUGUSTA B. R. No. 35. Lv Suniter, 4.02 A. M, Ar Creston, 4.51 " Ar Orangeburg, 5.14 ' Ar Denmark, 5.48 " Ar Augusta, 7.57 - No. 32 Lv Augusta, 2.201P. M. Lv Denmark, 4.20 - Lv Orangeburg, 4.55 " Lv Creston, 5.19 ' Ar Sumter, 6.09 Trains 32 and 35 carry through Pullman palace buffet sleeping cars between New York and Macon via Augusta. Nort1Iweter R. R- o?s S. C Tnmx Tarax No. 7, In effect Sunday, Jan. 15, 1902. B~etween Sumter and Camden. Mixed-Daily except Sunday. South boun d. Northbound No. 69. No. 71. No. 70. No. 68. PM AM AM PM 6 25 9 45 Le. Xuumter ..Ar 9 00 5 45 6 27 9 47 N. W. Junctn 8 58 5 43 6 47 10 07 . ..Dalzell... 8 25 5 13 7 05 10 17 ... Borden... 8 00 4 58 7 25 10 35 ..Remberts . 7 40 4 43 7 35 10 40 .. Ellerbee,.. 7 30 4 38 750 1105 Soty Junctn 710 425 8 00. 1115 Ar..Uamuden..Le 700 415 (S U & G Exi Depot) PM.PM AM P31 Bettween Wilson's Mill and Sumter. Southbound. . Northbound. No. 73. Daily except Sn day No. 72. P M1 Stations. IP M 3 00 Le.......Suter......r 11 45 3 03 ...N W Juniction... i1 42 3 17...........indl.........110 3 30.........Packvile.....- 10 45 405 .'.i....ver......... 0 20 ............Millard .... 5 00........Summerton ... 9 25 5 45...... .... Davis..........00 6 00.........Jordan.... 8 47 6 45 A r. ilson's Mills..e 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 4 15 9 30 Le Millard Ar 10 00 4 40 4 20 9 40 Ar St. Paul Le 9 50 4 30 PM AM AM IPM THOS. WILSON, President. We promptly obtain U. 8. and Foreign send model, sketch or p of inventionfa free report on tetnn.For free book How to Securen InCII teI Ptents and HR UL to Opposite U. S. Patent Office WASHINGTON D.C. 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