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Avant's Open Letter. Summerton, S. C., October :l, 1)03. To Our Customers and Friends: T lie very large increase in the volume of our Wholesale Gro cery business demanded us to discontinue our Retail Grocery, therefore we have closed up our retail part and have given the en tir 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. Our AuDnui M~illervDila 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, "conomies. 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 for Misses' and Children, fully talo carrye inl ine of Ladies' Read -Made Underwear as lowest prices. D.HIRSCH MANN, Next to Postoffice. Grand Bargain Sale Commencing Monday, Nov. 2, And Ending Friday, 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. Clothiing Department. $12 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 $2.25 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 wili slash the breeches almost in half. Nice 8~3 Trouser for $2.25, and as cheap as 50c per pair. Dry G~oods. Department, Usual $1 yard-wide Dress Goods for 75c and so on in propor tion, averaging 23 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 FURNISHINGS, IIATS, NOTIONS, Men's and Ladies' Underwear and all such articles. We have entirely too much arid all these must be sold off regardless of cost, so in these fire days supply yourself with all you need. Such opportunities are rare and the wise will come early. This is the greatest Undler Price Sale that has ever occurred. To miss it mm~ns not all lost to us, but many dollars of saving lost toyou need not believe all we say. but come in time and be con xinced. the time, from MONDAY, Nov. 2, to Remember FRIDAY, Nov. 6-Five Dy ny Greatest Bargain Sale of the season, at T HENE DA. M. M KRASRNOFF Thumrsda For three days I will retail My last Bargain Sale, Octc days, namely. NOVEMBER 5, 6 for them. ROCK I will have more of them n Twenty-five Bedroom Suits Seventy-five Rolls of Matt My entire line of Crockery ;"Remember the date an Thursday, S.,L. TEMPERANCE COLUMN. Conducted by Pnxviilo W. C. T. U. National Motto--For God. Home and Na tire Land." State Motto-- Be Strong and of Good Cour Our watchword-Agitate. Educate. Organize. pledg-e PGod 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. The Dispensary. Although it is in operation to some extent i'n North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, South Carolina is the only State which, as aState, has adopted this sys tem. The first dispensary in the United States was established at Athens, Ga., and as a temper ance measure is acknowledged to be a failure; in fact, those who are connected with it are classed as liquor sellers and vio lators of law and are on the same plane with other licensed liquor sellers. Some of the leading churches have taken action which debars any church mem ber from being in any way con nected with the dispensary. From a reliable source we learn that the preachers of South Car olina are against the dispensary. If a member of the Baptist church is appointed and accepts the position of salesman in a dis pensary, he is excluded from the church. Numbers of churches have excluded their members for renting their property for the use of the dispensary, proving that the dispensary has sown discord among the churches. Preachers and laymen say. "It is a biting curse". Mr. T. J.- LaMotte, of Colum bia, S. C., a gentleman of high standing, and whom we had the pleasure of meeting when we were there a year ago, gives a carefully prepared statement, based on carefully tabulated fig ures, which certainly ought to be convincing proof to those who really wish to know the amount of liquor sold increases and that the evils resulting therefrom in crease in like proportion. These figures plainly show that the dispensary system is even worse than the license system, for "comparing the statistics of crime under the dispensary with those of years immediately pre ceeding the present regime, we find that crime against the per son has increased over 10 per Icent, homicide nearly 100 per Icent, and against property more than 100 per cent for the six ears; during the last two years of the dispensary rule the figures are even still greater over the last two years of the old system. These figures are taken -from the reports of the Attorney General and must be correct-" There is no doubt but that the "purpose of every one in any way connect ed with the distribution of intox icants through two larger cities in the State than the ninety-four dispensaries and the twenty-four illegal beer dispensaries run by the State by reason of their val uable patronage; the dispensa ries are screened from prosecu tion, as is shown by the fact that out of 2,311 cases of violation brought into court, only 550, or 24 per cent were convicted." We might quote similar state ments from sources of refornmers philanthropists and educators of the South. Miss Belle Kear ney, of Mississippi, who has spent much time in South Caro lina, writes: "When the dispen sayv was first fastened upon South Carolina several restric tions hedged it in to give the people some show of hope, but b degrees these were weakened, tuntil today, with the exception of only two or three features the dispensary is the same as an open saloon. The law regarding it is constantly violated,liquor is sold to minors and to drunkards, and in many establishments liquor is drunk on the premises." In view of all this it is not strange that some well-meaning people who a few months ago advocated the dispensary sys tern are changing their minds somewhat. They recognize the force of the argument of temper ance people that the municipality or the State should not be profit sharer-s in the liquor bnsiness, and they now advocate using HO ! >ff's B Ty, Friday & S my Furniture, Matting and Crocl iber 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 F ing at any price. at COST. Lamps of any kind. I don't be too late. Friday and Sa for inebriates' homes, for places of recreation and amusement. This is a distinction without much of a difference. As a rule the town or the State has to care for a large share of the inebri ates and in many places for their poverty-stricken families. I t may sound well to some people to talk of using profit made from the sale of strong drink to pro vide places of amusement and recreation, but no self-respect ing, well-informed man or wo man would care to patronize places of amusement or recreation supported in such a way, at such a price One of the arguments being presented to the people of Ver mont in the Battell bill in favor of a dispensary is the "financial results," stated as follows: "The profits of the sale of li quors are very great. A low es timate of these profits for Great Britain and Ireland, and also in the United States, based upon the known sales, gives about $3 per capita. Supposing these } sales co be reduced. by one-third by the State control system, there remains a profit of 81 per capita." The unreasonableness of presenting such a proposition, especially to a prohibition State, may be seen at a glance. In the State of Maine the entire revenue according to the internal revenue reports of the general govern ment, derived from the liquor traffic in Maine is only 4 cents~ per capita. Could any sane per son who desires the promotion of the welfare of the people pro pose to substitute for the prohi bitory law a system which in ad dition to carryin'g on the neces sary expense attendin~g places, however economically run,where liquor would be. sold,would leave a profit of $1 -per capita? The unreasonableness of such a state ment is apparent, and yet, strange to say, there are some who are befogged and misled by just such statements which are being sent out in many ways. in vari ous forms. It may 'be easy for a liquor seller to make "an eight cent profit on a ten cent drink," but it will be impossible for the ad vocate of the State control sys tem or for anybody else to find a way to make a one dollar profit out of four cents' income. Even as all forms of license in the past have proved ineffectual as temperance measures, so all of those now being proposed with a new setting will prove quite as unsatisfactory. To those who desire the overthrow of the liquor traffic, the prohibi tion of the sale for beverage pur poses of that which causes so much misery and crime is the on ly reasonable and method of* dealing with this great question. 9. Address, "Our National President's Work for the Prohi bitory Law of Maine." As the observance of our Red Letter Day, March 1st, the birth day of Mrs. Steven, is largely one of deeds in securing new subscriptions for our official or gan of which she is editor-in-chief it is fitting in connection with the commemoration o f Neal Dow's birthday, during the same month, to speak of the magnifi cent work of our National Presi dent is doing for the maintain ance of the prohibitory law of her nativ-e State, as well as her ~eforts in past years as a co worker with Neal Dow. For twenty six years Mrs. Stevens has been president of the Maine Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and has done incalculabie service on be half of our two great principles, total abstinence and prohibition. IGen. Neil Dow and Mrs. Stevens1 'were close counselors, and in Mr. Dow's later years Mrs. Stev ens became his chief co-adjutor, conferring with him 2 and 3 times each week in regard to State and local work. When General Dow knew that his earthly work would s~oon be end ed he turned to Mrs. Stevens as Ithe one on whom he could most safely depend to carry forward the agitation and education nec essary for the continuance and enforcement of the prohibitory law. Mr-s. Stevens' unremitting. 'fidelity to the best interests of Iher own State and her wise di-1 rection of the W. C. T. U. forces F1lk tirday, Nov. 5. :ery at WHOLESALE PRICES. purpose, and its repetition on a 1 iends from far and near to secure ER.S, ROC 6 ana 7. 'urniture Store for the happy peo] turday, Nov.' OFFTH Fu durden of duties as President of the National W. C. T. U., are be yond all praise. No'al Dow said: "The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is today the largest, best organized and most influential temperance society in -he country. It has attained this position by brains, conscience, true, persistent, and sympathetic work. The temper-I ance cause in all its departments is the only field of labor, and to this it devotes all its thoughts and energy. From a very small beginning the union has been brought up in a few years to its present commanding position in this country, only by the wisdom, prudence, singular devotedness and persistent work of the wo men who lead in its great endeav or to protect wives, mothers, childien and homes from the brutal, murderous warfare upon them by the saloons." DaC Good-It Pays. A Chicago 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 lend a helping hand. You cannot possiby lose by it." Most men appre ciate a kind word and encouragement more than sub.stantial help. There are persons in this community who might ruthfully say: "My good friend, cheer p. A few doses of Chamberlain's ough Remedy will rid you of your old, and there is no danger whatever from pneumonia. when you use that medicine. It always cures. I know it for it has helped me out many a time. old by The R B. Loryea Drug Store, saac M. Loryea. Prop. SCEOND WEEK JURORS NOVEMBER 2. JT. W. Holladay, Manning. W. R. Dingle, Davis Station. S. E. Lowder, Manning. J. M. Montgomery, DuRants. W. F. Harrington, Manning. J. H. Horton, Davis Station. I. C. Ingram, Manning. R. R. Tomlinson. Turbeville. D. C. M. Vassar, Seloc. R. C. Richardson. Jr., Panola. E. B. Tinaal, Manning. P. C. Cochran, Manning. J. P. Felder-, Felders. L. K. Hlowle, Mannig. W. 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. W. H. Muldrow, Wilson. S. G. Winidham, DuRants. J. H. Alsbrook, Jordan. E. A. Coker, Seloc. Peter Chewning, Summnerton. P. P. Roland. Turbeville. Charles M. White, Manning. J. L. Hurlong, Summerton. J.J. Welch, Jr., Seloc. S. S. Stone, Paxville. Jas. H. Blackwel!, Davis Station. A. W. Lanneau, Manning. J. P. Turbeville, Seloc. J. M. Bradham, Manning. H. L. Barrineau, Seloc. Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought of Perception of the Beautiful. An instance of the Italian child's quick, poignant perception of the beau tiful occurred the other day in one of the settlement libraries. A shy little maiden, with a world of dream thoughts in the depths of her dark eyes, stood by the librarian's desk waiting for Andrew Lang's "Gray Fairy Book.'' But when it was given into her small hands all the wealth of fairy lore between its covers was for a moment forgotten in contemplation of the cover, a dainty design in gray and silver. All thought of the story vanished. The child stood there ey ing the book with a look that was a carss, her hands just touching the binding, tenderly, as something of frag le beauty. And then, very softly, as if to herself, she said: "I mustn't get it the least bit dirty. It's so pretty." Everybody's Magazine. Lytton's Good Catch. Bulwer-Lytton was once entertaining at Knebworth a .young Australian when the visitor from Melbourne, shy and clumsy, took from the mantel piece a piece of china lately given his host by a grateful colonial. It slipped out of his hands. In another moment It would have been shivered upon the hearth. The host, from his sofa, saw what had happened, was up in an in stant, stretched out his hand and caught the bowl just ore it descended on the marble. "Fielded, by .Tove! But I save my crockery, which I would rather not have written 'Money' than have lost," cried the novelist. A Dangerous 'tem. "I see that choice Bengal tigers have been marked down to $1,000 each." "For goodness' sake, don't let my wife read that paragraph! Here's my knife. Cut It out. If those tigers are on the! bargain counter she'd want at least 6&47. rger scale to continue for three the many bargains in my store KERSU >le. 5, 6 and 7. irniture Man. A PUBLIC SCOLDING. Ihe Way a Scotch Minister Rmebuke4 His Wife In Church. "I cherish a story I once heard in Scotland," said- a well known author, "a stiry that is, I think, typical of a. certain porKtion of the people. "This story concerns a minister who caught a member of his congregation. sleeping and rebiked him from the pulpit. .'Awake, SanDera.' he said. 'Man, it's a disgrace to sie. the kirk.' "Saunders was much-burt. He spokS up and said: "'Look to yer ain pew, an' mayhap ye'll find ithers sleepin' here besides mysel'.' "The minister looked, and there was his wife slumbering soundly. He awakened her, and he told Saunders that if she fell asleep again he might call attention to her by holding up his hand. Then 2he proceeded with his srmon. "Soma weeks went by, and one Sun day Saunders, sure enough, put his band up. The wife was asleep again. The minister thundered out her name, bade her rise to her feet and said to her before the whole congregation: "'Mrs. MacGregor, anybody kens that when I got ye for a wife I got no, beauty; yer friends ken I got no aillerr now, if I dinna get God's grace I shall1 have a puir bargain indeed.' "-Kansas City Journal. King snake and Water Mfoeeasin. "Two years ago," says a writer in the Scientific American, "It was my good fortune to witness a combat be tween a king snake and a water moc casin. I was attracted to the scenet by a negro laborer. When I reached the spot I found the snakes coiled to gether in a pool of water, the king snake gripping his enemy with the .tip f his tall just back of the head. It was clearly his intention to drown the moccasin. For the purpose of taking a photograph I lifted the two strug gling, writhing serpents to a rock. Just before I took my photograph the king snake pulled the moccasin's head in the excact position he wished and quick ly stretched his jaws over It. Thought lessly enough, I put the snakes back into the water, thinking that the king snake would also drown. Very soon, however, he left the pool, stretched his victim straight out before him and leisurely began to swallow him. In my efforts to take another photograph he was frightened away. Both snakes were nearly the same size, being about three and a half feet in length." The Art of Listening. There is a grace of kind listening as well as a grace of kind speaking. Some men listen with an abstracted air which shows that their thoughts are elsewhere, or they seem to listen, but by wide answers and Irrelevant ques tions show that they have been occu pied with their own thoughts as being more interesting, at least In their own estimation, than what you have been saying. Some interrupt and will not hear you to the end. Some hear you to the end, and forthwith begin to talk to you about a similar experience which has befallen themselves, making your case only an illustration of their own. Some, meaning to be kind, listen with such a determined, lively, violent at tention that you are at once made un comfortable, and the charm of con versation Is at an end.- Many persons whose manners will stand the test of speaking break down under the trial of listening. Hastings and Tilden. Hugh Hastings, when editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser, was incessant in bitter attacks upon Samuel: 3. Tilden. One day he received a let ter from Henry F. Spaulding, then president of the Central Trust comn pany, to the effect that his attacks' upon Mr. Tilden appeared 'unwarrant ed, and unless lie could give some sat isfactory explanation Mr. Spaulding would discontinue taking the Commer clal Advertiser. Mr. Hastings replied. "When I was a clerk in Albany Sam Tilden was known as the boy who. sold grated tur nips for horse radish, and he has been doing it ever since." Mr. Spaulding did not stop the Com mercial Advertiser.-New York Times. A Lot of Sick Ones. A delegation of clergymen once call ed on President Lincoln to recommend one of their number as consul at the Hawiin Islands and In addition to qualifications for fitness appealed to the president's sympathy on the ground' that the candidate was In poor health, and a resldence in that climate would' be of great benefit to him. Lincoln questioned the man closely as to his symptoms, thien remarked: "I am sorry to disappoint you, but there are eight other men after 'this place, and every one of them is sicker than you are."-"The True Abraham Lincoln." _ _ _ _ _ _ _ With the Persians the writing of poetry and beautiful and witty say jugs is described as the "threading of pearls." It takes a mighty good speller to write with some one looking over his DICKSON BAIRD'~AI COMPANY, AND 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 DEEF9ING Every one who has used a Deering Machine for a day nows what can be done with it. We have them setup Iill be glad to point out to you their many advan tages. We are now offering the Tho Disc Harrow. You have but to see to appreciate what a valuable machine they are for brea a and pulverizing the.soil. We have, too, the Thoma in Drill and Fertilizer Distributor, which we claim and -ve to be 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 0. K. STOVES and RANGES. Merit-tells. Come and let us show them to you. Very truly yours, 1alnning. Hardware Co. ENGAGEMENT A. K. HAWLKE>R The Famous Atlanta Opticia; Direct froin the home ot~ee of this Great Optical House, or one of his pract icai Opticians and will remain at the store of his Agent, l.R. W. M. BROCKIN TON, Druggist. :His Engagemen:t is for Three Days Only, beginning November 6th. This will give the citizens of Manning and vicinity a rare opportunity of having. EYE-SIGHT TESTE1D FREE by one of the most renowned and successful as well as reliable Opticians in the United States. Mr. Hawkes has all the modern appliances for the scientific ad justment of glasses to the eye. There is no Optician in the United States who enjoys the confidence of thie people more than Mr. Hawkes. His name is a familiar word throughout a section of country inhabited by over twenty-five millions ot people. Mr. Hawkes has probably adjusted glasses to, the es of more people of national and international fame than any other Optician lvng. This firm was established in 1870. EYE STRAIN is often the cause of headache, dizziness, nervousness and dimness of vision. This can be cured in many cases by the correct titting of his Crystalized-lenses to the eye. Call early, he positively remaius but THREE days, as he has other en AgTmen . orul d ctsaution the public against buying spectacles from peddlers going from house to house with a lot of spectacles representing them to be Hawkes' or selling the same grade of gcods. Hawkes' spectacles are NEVER peddled. Many of the inferior glasses that flood the country are posi tiely injurious to the eye. From Ex-Presidenlt of United States, Grover Cleveland. . Executive Mansion. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 1895. A. K. HIAwKES, Esc.-Miy Dear Sir: nd your Crystalized Lenses well suited to my eyes for far-seeing. And I sha.. enjoy them on my shooting trips. Yours very truly, GROVER CLEVELAN~D. The Great Warrior and Statesman.. MR. A. K. HAwKES- -Dear Sir: when I require the use of glasses I wear our Pantiscopic Crystalized Lenses. In respect to brilliancy and clearness of vision, they arc superior to anyasses If 'have ever used.FIzUHLE Consul General to Cuba. One of Our Greatest Statesmen. MR. A. K. HAwKE--Dear Sir: The Pantiscopic glasses you furnished me some time: since have given excellent satisfaction. I have tested them by use and must say they are unsurpassed in clearness and brilliancy by any that I have ever worn.' Respectfully. GEN. JOHN .B3. GORDON, Ex-Gov. of Ga. and U. S. Senator. ? E. Hawks Beoeived Gold Medal Highest Award Diploma of Honor rSuperor Lens Grindintg ana Excellency in the Manufacture of Spectacles nd Eyelasses. Sold in over 8,000 Cities and Towns in the United States. -.ESTABLIHED 1870. CAUTION .--These Famous Glasses are never peddled. W AIT FOR H IAWKES and not only get glasses scientifically adjusted to Sour eyes, but secure a. pair~ of his Crystalized Lenses, the most briliant spec tacle lenses in existence. A. K. H AW KES, Inventor and Sole Proprietor of all the HAWKES PATENTS. He Wil Positively Remain But Three Days.