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Avant's Open Letter. Summerton, S. C., October 21, 1903. To Our Customers and Friends: The very large increase in the volume of our Wholesale Gro cery business demanded us to discontinue our Retail Grocery, tiorefore we have closed up our retail part and have given the en tire space to handle our Wholesale stock. We are now prepared to take care of the wholesale buyers in this line. In conclusion will say that we are strictly Jobbers and Brok ers, and have right prices. We solicit the trade of the wholesale buyers. Very respectfully, AVANT MERCANTILE COMPANY. H. T. AVANT. OrAlnnMW~erv Disla Is announced, to which ladies are cordially invited. We promise this to be of great interest to you as for Style, Quality and Prices. We hope we are able to satisfy you after spending three months time at Northern markets. Our Dress Goods, Which is up-to-date in a nice variety offers great economies. FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING for Gentlemen and Boys, the best se lected styles and quality for the lowest prices ever paid. SHOES, SHOES! No matter how small its price. Well selected and fully guaranteed. We call special attention to our LADIES' JACKETS which we have in all prices, the very latest makes. Also finest Cloaks fnr Misses' and Children, fully Alo carry in ul ine of Ladies' Ready-Made Underwear at lowest prices. Next to Postoffice. Grand Bargain Sale A-T THE NE IDEA, Commencing Monday, Nov. 2, And Ending F'riday, Nov. 6. For these five days only we offer our entire large stock at such LOW REDUCED PRICES that something like it never came up in this place before. We don't mean to catch a few extra customers, we have too much goods, and to reduce stock prices must be reduced, and this is what we will do. We mean what we say and do what we promise. Uiotlillg Departm11nt1. 812 Men's Suits we will cut down to $8:50; the $9 Suits to $7.50; the $8 ones to $5.50, and so on in proportion to the cheap est, as low as $2.50 for a Men's Suit of Clothes. The YOUTH'S SUITS proportionately cheap. The $5 Child's Suit will go for $3: the $3 ones for $2.23 and so on down to the cheapest. as low as 50c for a pretty three-piece Child's Suit. PANTS.--We have the largest variety ever put out, at CUT PRICES. We will slash the breeches almost in half. Nice $3 Trousers for $2.25, and as cheap as 50c per pair. Dry IGoods Department. Usual $1 yard-wide Dress Goods for 75c and so on in propor tion, averaging 25 per cent less than usual prices, making regular 6c goods at 4tc per yard. Shoe Department. In this line we are leaders in Styles and Low Prices, and Quality well known. We will reduce the line through 25 per cent under regular price (excepting the W. L. Douglas Shoes.) So the $2 Shoes will cost you only $1.50. GENT'S FURNISIIINGS, IIATS, NOTIONS, Men's and Ladies' Underwear and all such articles. We have entirely too much and all these must be sold off regardless of cost. so in these five days supply yourself with all you need. Such opportunities are r-are and the 'wise will .come early. This is the greatest Under Price Sale that has ever occurred. To miss it means not all lost to us, but many dollars of saving lost to you. You need not believe all we say. but come in time and be con vinced. the time, from MONDAY, Nov. 2, to RememberFRIDAY, Nov. 6-Five Days Only. Greatest Bargain Sale of the season, at THNE IDA. M. M KRASRNOFF Kras'i Thuirsda For three days I will retail My last Bargain Sale, Octo days, namely. NOVEMBER 5, 6 for them. ROCKl I will have more of them n Twenty-five Bedroom Suits Seventy-five Rolls of Matti My entire line of Crockery ~=Remember the date an< Thursday,: S. L.I TEMPERANCE COLUMN. Conducted by Paxville W. C. T. U. National Motto-- .For God. Home and Na tire Land." State Motto-" Be Strong and of Good Cour age.'" Our Watchword-Agitate. Educate. Organize. Pledge 'God helping me. I promise not to buy. drink. sell or give Intoxicating liquors while I live: From bad companions I'll refrain and never take God's name in vain." Comfort for God's Children. There is no place in the Bible where we are encouraged to look1 for ease as God's children. The book is perfectly honest through out and forewarns any who de sire to become children of God that "In this world ye shall have tribulation." It speaks clearly of the "firey trials," "persecu tion," "enemies f o r Christs' sake," and so forth. All of these seem, to some hearts, to be good proof of a hard time all the way through in the Christian experi ence. If, however we will look closely we can find, with every one of the above statements, a I promise of refuge. See it is not only stated that "In the world ye shall have tribulation,'. but the book says also, "Be of good heer; I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). That is, I am the overcomer, and if you put' your trust in me, though you be n the midst of "tribulation,"you may comfort yourself with this thought, that I will deliver you. Again we are not only told that we shall walk through the fire, but also, "Thou shalt not be burned; ueither shall the fiame kindle upon thee" (Isa. 43:2). And so we might go on and find throughout that while no ease in ion is promised to any of God's wn, yet in every way and by umerous figures, God wants his hildren to have comfort. "Com fort ye, comfort ye, my peopleI saith your God" (Isa. -40:1). The mphasis must be laid here upon the expression, "my people. Ihere is no comfort to any oth-' rs. The very same truth which brings comfort to the child of* God brings misery to the unsav ed. The same passage which ells us that "He that believeth nd is baptised shall be saved." ells us also that '"He that be ieveth not shall be damned" Mark 16:15). And so it is the way through to the resurrection. See John 5:28-29). Marvel not1 t this, for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the rave s!'all hear His voice and shall come forth; they that have one good, unto the resurrection f life; and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of dam ation." His people are the only people who can have comfort ere or hereafter. Is it not strange, therefore, that so many who are really striving to be Christians have failed to enter into this blessing that God has for them. So many are "careful" that is, full of care and worry about something, and seem to ae skipped that place in the epistle to the Ephesians, where we are told to be "careful for nothing." There is just one con dition of heart and mind in which we can enjoy this comnfort, and that is when we have entirely given ourselves over into God's eeping, with full faith that "He careth for" us. Some men have a sham comfort, from the things of this world. The rich fool in the Bible is an example. He seems to have had perfect confi dence in the ability of his pos sessions to take care of him. His 'idea of comfort was to "eat,drink and be merry." But here we see the folly of having perfect and possibly sincere faith in the wrong thing. Again, in the Old Testiment we find a king whose doom is written on the wall when he is revelling in the comfort which power position, is addition to wealth, have brought him. These illustrations show us that there can be no real and lasting comfort and joy, bought or brought by the mighties of earth's forces. The child of God who goes to him with the full assurance of faith and commits to him his entire being is the one who will have the peace and com "Thou wilt keep him in per fet peace whose mind is staid on thee; because trusteth- in he" /Tsa 26:.) Be aeful for H-O0! cff's B y, Friday & Sa my Furniture, Matting and Crocl ber 8, has proven the truth of my and 7, will give a chance to my fi ERS, ROCK ext Bargain Sale, NOVEMBER 5, at Bargain Prices, at Krasnoff's I .ng at any price. at COST. Lamps of any kind. I don't be too late. Friday and Sa SRASN nothing but in everything by prayer with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God which passeth all under standing will keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (Phil. 4: 6-7). "Stir things. If nobody else is ready, stir up yourself." "Many Christians have such poor appetites that they fall asleep at their meals." "Whenever God wants to do some stupendous thing for you, He asks you to do some little thing for him." The earnest soul needs relief from the cold critic-the brother who never turned any part of the world upside down but knows well how it ought to be done. One word of "God bless you" is worth more than a thousand "If I I were you." An old saint of God said, "I had in the past committed an im mense mistake; I had been doing most of the speaking. God has very much to say to us. There are many who seldom or never listen to the secret whisper of God in their hearts." A Dco Good-It Pays. AChicago man has observed that, "Good deeds are better than real estate deeds-some of the latter are worthless. Act kindly and gently, show symyathy and ]end a helping hand. You cannot possiby lose by it." Most men appre ciate a kind word and encouragement more than substantial help. There are persons in this community who might truthfully say: "My good friend, cheer up. A few" doses of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will rid you of your cold, and there is no danger whatever from pneumonia when you use that medicine. It always cures. I know it for it has help-ed me out many a time. Sold by The R. B. Loryea Drug Store, Isaac M. Loryea, Prop. Court convenes October 26, Judge Watts presides, the following is the JTohn C. Jenkinson, Panola. Jos. S. DuRant, DuRant. Butler R. Morris, Turbev-ille. W. P. McKnight, Workman. T. P. Broughton, Pinewood. WV. H. Gaillard, DtRant. W. S. Dennis, Turbeville. Willie McCall, Manning. RI. E. Burgess. Bethlehem. J. R. Bradham, Manning. Douglas Holladay, Panola. H. Grier Frierson, Manning. J1. A. Barfield, Manning. J. J. Brogdon, Oakland. J. W. Rigby, Manning. J. J. Gardner, St. Paul. J. J. Nettles, Alcolu. P. B. Harvin, Silver. WV. M.. Mitchum, Manning. H. S. Dollard, Manning. R9. H. Green, Turbeville. J. C. D~ennis. Turbeville. J. D. Pack, Paxville. H. D. Barrineau; Manning. O . E. Webber, Manning. M. B. Corbett, Paxville. WV. W. Johnson, Manning. D. M. Bagnal, Wilson. P. E. Lowder, Jordan. J1. E. Beard, Tuirbeville. WV. A. Richbourg, Summerton. WV. T. Tobias, Manning. J. P. W. Gibbons, Jr.. New Zion. J. S. Evans, Workman. J. Marion Bradham, Paxville. E. J. Buddin, New Zion. SCEOND WEEK JURORS NOVEMBER 2. J. W. Holladay, Manning. WV. R. Dingle, Davis Station. S. E. Lowder, Maaning. J1. M. Montgomery, DuRants. WV. F. Harrington, Manning. J. H. Horton, Davis Station. I. C. Ingram, Manning. IR. R. Tomlinson, Turbeville. D. C. M. Vassar, Seloc. RI. C. Richardson, Jr., Panola. E. B. Tindal, Manning. P. C. Cochran, Manning. J. P. Felder, Felders. L. K. Howle, Mannig. WV. H. Trescott, Manning. T. G.. Turbeville, Turbeville. J. P. Coleman, Davis Station. J. E. Haley, Manning. T. H. Ridgeway, Manning. Early Thompson. Manning. M. H. Lackey, Paxville. XW. H. Muidrow, Wilson. S. G. Windham, DuRants. J. H. Alsbrook, Jordan. E. A. Coker, Seloc. Peter Chewning, Summerton. P. P. Roland, Turbeville. Charles M. White, Manning. J. L. Hurlong, Summerton. .T. J. WXelch, Jr., Seloc. S. S. Stone, Paxville. .Jas. H. Blackwell, Davis Station. A. W. Lanneau, Manning. J. P. Turbeville, Seloc. J. M. Bradham, Manning. H. L. Barrineau, Seloc. Bers th h Kind You Have Always Bought P0H FOOR ,tirday, Nov. 5, :ery at.WHOLESALE PRICES. purpose, and its repetition on a 1 iends from far and near to secur< ERS, ROC 6 and 7. urniture Store for the happy peo turday, Nov. ro~pE 0 Ft PISCATORY STUPIDITY. The Fish's Capacity For Learning Is Painfully Contracted. Most fishes seek their food by sight,. says Professor Edmund Clark Sanford! in the International Quarterly, and these do not usually notice it by any other sense. But those that are accus tomed to find it by smell seldom pay any attention to it when they merely, see it. Catfish depend principally on the sense of taste, and they seem to taste all over, not only in the mouth, but by. the outer skin as far back as the tail fin. It is uncertain whether fishes can feel pain or not. There is a good deal of evidence to show that they cannot. A fish that has lost its sight may learn to avoid an obstacle after swim ming against it a single time, but fshes that can see will jump against the plate glass wall of an aquarium day after day, sometimes for a year, in the effort to catch things outside. The elements of consciousness in the mind of a fish foot up a total "equiva-i lent,.perhaps, to the lowest idiocy when measured by human standards." It is, possible that the fish's capacity for learning is "about on a level with that of a man in deep sleep or preoccupa tion." Birds That Exercise Ingenuity. Birds building on high trees are not so wary about the concealment of their nests as hedge builders and those that seek the springing corn or grass land for the shelter of their homes, trusting to the loftiness of situation !or secu ity. A nest placed upon the ground s in constant danger of exposure. Al rowsing animal might destroy it. 'hen the scythe with one sweep occa sionally lays bare one or more nests, thereby endangering the eggs or callow estlings. This renders the parent1 birds very wary and causes them to practice great ingenuity In their ef orts to protect the young birds. The skylark has been known to carryI its egg or offspring to a place of safety after an exposure of the nest, and it as been said its long hind claw-the use of which has puzzled many natu 'alists-is specially adapted by nature for more easily grasping and transport Ing its treasures from the source of anger. When the young birds are; too bulky to be thus removed the par nt bird carries them on its back, hough this mode of removal Is a some wEat difficult one.-London Tit-Bits. Hie Had Followed Directions. A. little black boy sat on the soap box which served as a front step to the tumble down shanty. His skin was more than black. Here and there It looked as if It had been varnished. His fingers clung together when he at tempted to open his hands, and films f silky sweetness were spun about him as he threw back his head and pened his mouth in epicurean ecstasy. ousehold Words explains this happy ondition: "Goodness, law!" exclaimed the old ammy, who came suddenly round the orner. "What yo' sittin' dat a-way for when I jes' been tryin' to clean y0' up? Ef yo' ain' went an' molassed yo'se'f V'm head to footl" "Dat ain' 'lasses, mammy." "Whut's de use o' tryin' ter make 7' look 'spectable, 'd like ter know? I wash ye' an' dress yo', an' den I tells o' ter go an' use de comb, didn't I?" "Yes'm. An' I look aroun', an' all de comb I could fin' was dis yere hon eycomb. But I don use dat, mammy; sho'ly did." Spiders Like Music. A violinist says spiders are notori ously and historically fond of music. At one of his performances the concert ail was made disagreeable by a sud den invasion of spiders, which were drawn by his violin out from the cracks and crannies of the ancient building. They crawled about the floor and on. to the stage, and he could see the annoyed audience stamping on the insects. The writer adds that he has known a small garden snake to be at tracted by piano playing and a young alf to whisk his tail and prance about most gleefully at the first notes of a French horn. His neck would curve about proudly, his hoofs tread lightly and his ears wag joyously when the tooting began, and he never qiuieted down till the music ceased. Peculiar Privileges. The speaker of the house of commons has several peculiar privileges. Every year he receives a gift from the master of the buckhounds of a buck and doe killed in the royal preserves. This cus tom goes back so far that there is no record of it. Later in the year the speaker receives another tribute from a different source. The donors on the second occasion are the Cloth Workers' company of London, who send to the speaker of the house of commons and to several of his majesty's ministers a generous width of the best broadcloth to be found In England. The Rule Suited Him. The new boarder had been three weeks in the house. "It is usual," said' the landlady, with great delicacy, "for my boarders to pay as they go." "Oh, that's all right," he replied af ably "I'm not goineg for a long time. 6 & 7. arger scale to continue for three the many bargains in my store KERS. ple. 5, 6 and 7. irniture Man. THE CHINESE CARPENTER. His Method of Mending a Hole In a Floor Amazed a Caucasian. "Did you ever get a Chinese carpen ter -to stop up a hole in the floor?' ask ed one flat dweller of another. The other had to admit that he had not. Then the first proceeded to tell his wonderful tale, which the listener would not believe until he tried an oriental for the same purpose the next month. -"'There was a worn place in the floor that sneeded patching, and, I thought I'd shw my wife what a carpenter I was, so I sawed a square section of the planks out. But I cut my hand the first minute and had to send or the Chinaman who has right around the corner. When he got t door he grunted something that sound ed as if it might mean 'Where?' and I pointed to the square hole over in a dark corner. "'Wow,' he said as he squinted at it a minute. Then he turned around and walked .out. I thought-well, I didn't know what to think, I was so amazed. I couldn't understand his giving up such a simple job. I was still puzzling over it half an hour later when I heard a knock. He said 'Wow,' or some other word like it, and held up a square board. Then he walked over to the dark corner of the room and-what do you think? He put the square in, and it fitted just as if it had grown there. And he had just taken a peep at the hole from where he was standing in the door." The flat dweller's tale is no fairy story. 'That's the way a Chinese car penter stops a hole in the floor.-New York Times. Smoke Farthings. Smoke farthings were offerings paid in olden days in England at Whitsun tide to the priest, according to the num ber of chimneys in the parish. Some times these dues were demanded by the bishop of the diocese, as an old manuscript records: "The bishop of Elle hath out of everie parish in Cam bridgeshire a certain tribute called smoke farthings, which the church wardens do levie according to the num ber of chimneys that be in a parish." We learn from Notes and Queries that Peter's pence or smoke money was still paid at the end of the six teenth century in many English par ishes. Similar to this was a chimney tax levied from time to time to raise funds. This was most obnoxious to the people, nd Pepys in his diary notes, "Much clamor against chimney money, and the people say they will not pay it without force." It was abolished in the reign of William and Mary. An Auction Incident. A Japanese vase had been brought forward, and a German in the crowd fered $2. A second bid not being heard the vase was withdrawn, the auctioneer stating that he could not sell on one bid. "Now, ladies and gentlemen," the auctioneer cried out, spreading a large rug on the floor, "here is a piece of oods worth $00. Do I hear $50? Do I hear $40?'' "Ten dollars," shouted the Gerniali who had bid on the vase. "Ten dollars--gone! Sold to my friend there." the auctioneer replied, jotting down the price on a pad. "Hold on a minute," cried out the purchaser, "you can't sell on vim pid." "Oh, that's optional with the 'aue toneer," stainmered out the for.u.er. "ell, den," the German called back, with a parting nod. "keep your rug if its obtional on a rug und unobtional on . vase."-New York Post Broke It to Him Gently. A north Missouri editor received a note the other day telling him that one of his subscribers was dead and ask Ing that his paper be discontinued. A few days later the editor met the "de ceased" subscriber on the street and told him about the note. "I wrote that note myself," returned the sub scriber. "What for?" asked the editor. "Well, I wanted to stop yer paper," said the subscriber candidly, "an', knowin' how bad you need the money, I didn't have the heart to come right out an' do it. So I jes' wrote you the note about bein' dead. You wouldn't send a paper to a corpse, would you?" -Kansas City Star. An Odd Bequest. The following Is one of the oddest be quests ever recorded in a last testa ment. It appeared in the will of a Bristol mariner proved In 1795. The old gentleman ordered his executors to "pay out of the first moneys collected, to my beloved wife, if living, 1 shil ling, which I have given as a token of my love, that she may buy hazelnuts, as I know that she is better pleased with cracking them than she Is with mending the holes in her stockings." .. Her Audience. "How are you getting on with your music, my dear?" inquired a lady of her niece. "Well, of course," replied the niece diffidently, "it wouldn't be proper of me to compliment myself, but some of the neighbors have told me they have stayed awake at night for hours listen ing to my playing." DICKSON HARDWARE COMPANY. We can now offer you beyond-a doubt the largest, best and most complete line of GUNS, RIFLES, LOADED AND EMPTY SHELLS, PRIMERS, SHOT and POWDER of the best quality. HUNTING COATS, VESTS and BELTS. GAME TRAPS OF ANY SIZE. We always have the E. C. Smokeless Powder. Also the Shells loaded with same. We would have you understand that these goods are of a high standard and the prices are right. Yours for business, Dickson Hardware Comp'y. Levi Block. It is not yet too late to save many tons of hay. Call and let us sell you one of our Mowing Machines. It is enough for us to tell you that we sell THE DEEFRING Every one who has used a Deering Machine for a day knows what can be done with it. We have them set up and will be glad to point out to you their many advan tages. We are now offering the Thomas Disc Harrow. Yotr4ave but to see them to appreciate what a valuable mach' ' ov are for breaking an verizing the soil. We have, too, - Fertilizer Distributor, which we claim -an to ' the best thing of the kind made. Do not fail to see and get our prices on Cane Mills and Evaporators. We are selling the Golden Cane Mill and Cook's Pat tern Evaporators. We have interesting prices in these goods. HOUSEKEEPERS, we are getting in another lot of O. K. STOVES and RANGES. Merit tells. Come and let us show them to you. Very truly yours. Manning. Hardware Co. O~tJ Wrie fr Pice onthee God P4lTEOV OC -- 2 Wreig f idyor c soChsma Grese N ~atches aStrig nivrDiaod Jewery CtGls Fine China Wedgewood Spectacles and Eye Glasses coplete.,irand it will afford me ple.gun- to~ sh~ow thm. Special and prompt attention given to all Repairing != T: 4t prices to snit the t u-s. Aanti*ceoast L W.A FO SM SUMER. BRING YOUR? TO THE TINES OFFICE.