Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Corn must have a sufficient supply of Potash in order to develop into a crop. No amount of Phosphoric Acid or Nitrogen can compen sate for a lack of potash in fertilizers [for grain and all A other crops]. We shall be glad to send free to any farmer ourlittlebook which contains valt able information about soil culture. N EwG AN KAL!. WORKS, At~nta Ga2*%SO.JgBsd St GeoS. Hacker &Son 31ANCUFMTURERS Or CIO LAJ - Doors, Sash, Blinds, Moulding and Building Material, CHARLESTON, S. C. Sash Weights and Cords. Window and Fancy Glass a Secialty. Do You Want PERFECT FITTING 00 T D TOES.? TB - COME OR SEND TO US. We have the best equipped Tailor in Establishment in the State. e handle High Art Clothing - solely and we carry the best line of Hats and Gent's Furnishings in the. Astk your most prominent men who rand they will commend you IL DAVID &BROW Cor. King & Wentworth Sts., CHARLESTON, - S. C. -Nothing has ever equalled it. Dr.King's New Discovery - For g~ a"ir ~A Perfect For All Throat and Cure: Lung Troubles. Money back if itfails. Trial Bottles s'0. The R. B. Loryea Drug Store. Caroliga Portland C-tent Company, Charleston, S. C. GAGER'S White Lime Has no equal for quality. strength and Cooperage. Packed in Heavy Cooper age and Standard Cooperage. Also dealers in Portland Cement, Rosendale Cement, Fire Brick, Roofing Papers, Terra Cotta Pipe, etc. Money to Loan. APPLY TO WILSON & DuRANT. Bank of SummneIon, CAP1TAL, $25,000. Its new building. soicts your business and Couty colection a specialty, and prompt re turs lwysgienICHARD B. SMYTH, President and Cashier. HENRY P. WILLIAMS, Vice-President. -DIRECTORS:. C S.GDDY- -.AGRSrn A. L LEsSE. CA D S Vm LEVI. JOS. F. RHA.ME. J- n. LESESNIE. RIIME & LESESNE, ATTOoRNEYS AT LAW, -MANNING, S. C. C. DAVIS, ATTORNEY .AT LAW, MANNING, S. 0. J. S. WILSON. W. C.-DURANIT WILSON & DURANT, Attorneys and Counselors at Lawe, MANNING, S. C. DR. 5. FRANK GEIGER. DENTIST, MANNING, S. C. 'Phone No. 6. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure sujets 4that you eat. We have opened up in the Furstenberg building, opposite the Central Hotel, where we will be glad to see you. Send Us Your Orders and remember you get nothing but fresh goods with prices as low as usual. W( brought prices down and intend to keep them down. Yours for saving money, The Manning Grocery Co. Magic Heaters. ~| Why shiver before an open fire-place when so much comfort can - 0 be had from HEATERS-especially Heaters scientifically made. Come and see us for these. Ask us to show you MAGIC HEAT ERS; let us show you one of them in operation that you may judge 0- what an up-to-date heatingo device it is. h MAGIC HEATERS combine the excellent qualities of the co a mon sheet iron air-tight heaters with the streugth and safety of the W old-fashioned box stove. They consume one-half the amount of wood required ira fre-place and give double the comfort. Fill them with wood before retiring and close up the draft; in the morning open the e draft and in a few moments you have a nice, bright fire started. If _ you will then replenish the wood and regulate the draft you will have a nice fire all morning without further trouble. They are strongly C made of the best material and are an ornament to any parlor or sit 0 ting room. They have no nickel work on them to get rusty and be an eyesore to the housekeeper. . . WE HAVE A NEW LOT OF 0. XI Cook Stoves ald Ranug. CO Those who would like to see our 0. K. RANGES can do so now 0~ as we have them in stock again. Our stock of LAMPS AND GLASSWARE is as good as we have - ever shown, and our stock of CROCKERY AND STONEWARE in Ssome respects better. ~0%o 0 We have a nice assortment of WILLOW BASKETS for clothes Z Sthat fill a long-felt want. thafl A new lot of OIL HEATERS, positively the only successful -.thing of the kind we have ever seen, the only heater made that has a C patent device to prevent smoking. Very truly yours. %.1111111g Hrdwre Co. CHRISTMAS- GOODS. ~ Santa Claus ilas Arrived ~ ~PRESCRIPTION I)RUG STORE i AND LEFT A SPLENDID LINE OF23 CHRISTMAS COODS, Presents for your Wife, Presents for your Sweetheart, Presents for the Little Folks and Presents for Everybody. S Call and see them before they are picked over. No trouble to ~show goods at The. Prescription +Drug+8tore, - CAPERS p CO., 'Proprietors, 5z sruma-1- r - - 'S. c'. Look for the sign of the Big Cigar. SAY YOR DOLLARS This you can do by seeing and buying from our large stock of Buggies, Wagons and Harness, of all styles and best qiuality. We have a house full of them and must make room for our fall stock. If it is A NICE BUGGY you want at a right price we have it. If it is a serviceable FARM WAGON, we can supply you and guarantee prices and quality. In HARNESS we bought the best assortment ever shown here and have the Prices to Suit You. We make good all we say, so you cannot afford to stay away if in need of anything in our line. We have A Host of Satisfied Customers5 and will make one of you if you but givec us a chan'ce. Come to see us whether you buy or not, you will feel better. W. P. HAWKINS & CO. Loans Made j I can lend Money on Loans Made on Real Real Estate at reas- on Real E t a tce. onable interest and E st a te. on long time Call on or write to me. g i. A. vg gr E G Attorney at Law, SM A NNING, S. C. WHY CUBS AR E KILLED. &'rison Life Often Robs Animals of Maternal Spirit. Among the huge cages of the carniv rous animals-the lithe tigress, the treacherous and soft footed leopardess and frequently even the generous lion ess herself-the life of a baby wild anl mI becomes sometimes a tale of blood shed and tragedy. Nagged and galled by prison bars, by narrow confines that make exercise impossible and by the excitement of throngs of sightseers, these naturally nervous and high strung brutes become overwrought to a pitch where they satisfy an unnat ural cannibal appetite on their own flesh and blood. Like little bundles of sunshine the kittens of these ferocious brutes ap pear, mewing plaintively with tight shut eyes and groping In the darkness. Thousands of them have been born be hind the bars of menagerie cages-no fault lies with the stork himself-but most frequently the Irresponsible, crazy mothers pounce upon and devour them or else injure them beyond hope of re covery.' When the watchfulness and a pitchfork of a keeper succeed in rescu ing one of these kittens, It Is given in charge of some big mother dog, which adopts the stranger and rears him. Now and then, however, some strong, healthy, Intelligent member of this ferocious family ceases to worry and fret at captivity, and, the maternal in stinct cropping to the fore, the care of a litter of cubs becomes a welcome re lief from the stern monotony of prison life.-A. W. Rolker in McClure's. When Beards Were Barred. In the early part of the last century a social tyranny prevailed which re garded the beard as an outrage, says an English writcr. At one time only four men in Birmingham had courage to wear beards. They were followers of Joanna Southeott. They did it in Imitation of the apostles and were jeered at in the streets. George Fred erick Muntz, one of the first two Inembers elected In Birmingham, was the first member who'ventured to wear a beard In the house of commons, and he would have been insulted had he not been a powerful man and carried a heavy Malacca cane, which he was known to apply to any one who offered him a personal affront. The Rev. Ed mund I. Larken of Burton rectory, near Lincoln, was the first clergyman (that was as late as 1852) Fbc appear ed in the DJ~gi1with a beard, but he sheta the upper lip as an apology for the audacity of his chin. George Daw son was the first.nonconformist preach er who delivered a sermon In a full blown mustache and beard, which was taken in both cases as an unmistak able sign of latitudinarianism in doc trine. .In the bank clerk or the work man it was worse. It was flat insub ordination not to shave. The Natives Had Scruples. There is an amusing-story told about an old time south sea trader. He had been in the habit of carrying all sorts of tinned meats, which the natives bought with avidity. Each tin was branded with a colored picture--a cow for beef, a sheep for mutton and a fish for sardines. It happened that the firm who fur nished the mutton thought It a good plan to change their labels, that their goods might be more easily distinguish ed from others. The mark chosen was a red dragon. The natives came with their copra to trade as usuaL The new tins were shown them, but they recoiled with her ror and gave the trader to understand that they had had some religious in struction and were not to be deluded into eating tinned deviL. The trader was forced to eat his stock of mutton himself, for not a na tive could be persuaded to touch the accursed thing. Exchange of Complimentu. A village sexton in a Pennsylvania town, in addition to being gravedigger, acted as a stonecutter, carpenter and furniture mover. The local doctor, hav ing decided to locate In another county, employed the sexton to vssist in re moving his household gooiAll went well until It came to settlement, when the doctor deducted an old aceount due by the sexton. He wrote at the same time objecting to the charge made for removing his furniture, using these words: "If this was steady it would pay much better than gravedigging." In a few days back came this reply: "Indeed, I would be glad of a steady job. Gravedigging is very slack since you left the county."-Philadelphia Ledger. _ _ The Best of Three! After a criminal case in which Sir Frank Lockwood had secured an ac quittal for the prisoners, Lord Bramp ton, then Sir Henry Hawkins, privately congratulated him on the excellent way in which he had conducted the case and remarked especially on the alibi that had been established. "Yes," was the characteristic reply, "I thought It was pretty good-anyhow, the best of the three I had offered to mel"--Golden Penny. _____ __ He Knew Right 02f, "Ah," sighed the wretched Mir. New pop, "what can he more wearing on the nerves than a baby that cries all night long?" "Twns," answered the man who had been through it.-Chicago Record-Her Opposition. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a ,man. It Is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardships and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self relance.-John Neal. Our duty is to be useful not accord ing to our desires, but according to our powers.-AmieL. Th KndYou Hae Always Bought of Too Franke. Many take advantage of what they call a true interest in our welfare rin order to rub gall Into our wounds. The man who boasts of his frankness and of his hatred of flattery is usually not frank, but only brutaL Had the Years, Daughter-George and I are both old enough to marry, papa! Father-I was wondering if that~vas the only collateral George hadto start wth.-rooklyn Life. Sir Francis Jeune laid down the axiom that "no woman can love two men at once, while to a man the e.di vision of his affections comes natufa1 Beashe - h idYou Have Always Bought THE WORD "BUT." An Analysis of the American Habit of Using It. 'The word "but" is sometimes said to be characteristic of Americans. It inarks the qualifying spirit. which hesi tates at extremes and likes to adjust ':he balance of truth. If, for instance, ;tmnebody speaks extravagantly of Em ;.son's genius the critical spirit replies, "Yes, be was a genius, but" he had such and such limitations. If, on the other hand, the limitations are men tioned first at another time, the same spirit observes, "Yes, he has those faults, but he is a genius with it all." "But" expresses the desire to have both sides presented. Carried to ex cess, the habit leads to argumentative ness and carping. The person who gets only argument out of conversation is usually a barren companion. Some times also It shows an unkind nature, when the word is used regularly after hearing others praised. It becomes the index of envy or of the absence of en thusiasm. Qualifying-too constantly in appreciation is like damning with faint praise, or, rather, praising with an ac companiment of faint damns. The ar dent, imaginative temperament makes less use of qualificatiofi. - Carried along with a rush, whether of praise or re proach, it seldom stops to split the hair of exact truth. "But me no buts," It says. The little word is more leniently treated by judicial and scien tific minds. If its constant use is typ ically American. as the English not in frequently allege, it fits In with the proverbial idea of Uncle Sam-a sort of cautious and skeptical New England farmer, with his "Waal, I don't jest know," rather than with the American type which has been developed- since the west became a greater element in the compound.-Collier's Weekly. Narrow Escapes. Mr. L. Golding gives in Chambers' ,ournal some remarkable instances of narrow escapes and curious fatalities during the siege of Ladysmith. "While at lunch In their mess but, which was protected by sand-bags, certain officers were engaged In a heated discussion. In anger, one of the offieers rose from the table and hastily left the hut. Hardly had he closed the door behind him when a shell came hissing through the air and pitched on the roof of the hut. Penetrating the Insufficiently pro tected roof, the shell fell and exploded in thao-enter of the grotip. of officers. killing or mortally wounding every one of them. The officer who a moment before had .gone out of the hut did not receive the slightest injury." A doctor ,who had not stirred from his dugout for a fortnight came out one Sunday, a day on which the Doers, as a rule, did not fire, and was killed by a shell, and the writer was- "impelled by a power he could not resist" to dismount from- his horse, whose saddle was Im mediately afterward slit by a fragment of shell. SAGACITY OF MR. SAGE. ills Reason For Refusing to Advance Another Loan. . One day a young man of Russell Sage's acquaintance-In fact, the grand son of an old friend of other days-ap roached him on the subject of a loan f $10 for two weeks and-got it. He promised faithfully to return the mon y at a stated hour, and the promise was as faithfully kept. Mr. Sage had very little to say when ho gave up the en and quite as little when he got it ack. A week or ten days later the young man came to see him again and this time asked him for $100, making all sorts of representations of what he would do with it Mr. Sage refused to ante. The young man was surprised, ot to say pained. "Why," he exclaimed, "you know i'll pay It all right Didn't I-say I'd have that ten for you on Monday, and wasn't there to the minute with it?". Mr. Sage beamed softly on the grand son of his old friend. "My boy," he said, with no trace of 2nkindness in his tone, "you disap pointed me once. and I don't want you to do it again." "I beg your pardon, I did not," ar gued the youth. "I said I - would pay you back, and I did." "Yes, my boy." purred Mr. Sage, "you paid back the ten, and I never expected you would. Now, if I let you have a hundred I should expect you to pay it back, and you wouldn't. One disappointment at my time of life is mough, my boy. Good morning."-Col her's Weekly. A Perugian Superstition,' The girls of the Perugian highlands believe as firmly as any heroine of The critus that a person possessing a lock of another person's hair can will pain, disease and even death to the owner of the hair, and thus when maidens give their betrothed lovers the cus tomary plaited tress It Is virtually their life and all their power of suffering that they give Into those trusted hands. If the man should prove unfaithful and disease descend upon the unhappy oman, she Is not, however, utterly lost The experienced matrons of her village have means to transfer the com plaint to a .tree, to an animal or to cast it into running water. The patient must rise in the early dawn, touch a ertain plant in a certain manner, say ing, "May thou wither and I flourish again," or bind her complaint to a tree in a given fashion, taking care never to pass again before that tree lest the disease, recognizing Its former posses sion, return to her again Trees In Japan Sacred to the Gods. Near every temple in Japan are cer tain trees that are supposed to be pe culiarly loved by the gods and to be sacred to them. Any one injuring or causing to be Injured one of them will bring down the wrath of the kami or god whose particular property It is. If the trees be Injured in the name of ny one the kami avenges himself on that person Instead. So when a girl finds that a swain's love has cooled and she thinks revenge would .be sweet she makes a straw manikin and calls it by his name. If she Is very vengeful she may also make one of her hated ria. At 2 o'clock at night (called the hour of the bull) she rises, and, clad In a white nightdress only, with high logs on her feet, her hair hanging loose and crowned with an Iron tripod, which three lighted candles are stuck, she proceeds to the shrine of the pat:on god of the family. A Ivarrow Footing. Emartcus-I didn't know Offisceker had had any experience as a tight rope vaker. Sparticus-He hasn't. Smarticus-Without it I don't see owhe's performing the feat of which he is accused--rmning on his own mer t.-Baltimore &merican ea th h Kind You Ha2ve Always Bought ofrfiff1fTTTy T iffifTY1iffiYYY THE KIND OF FrAmEs| c To be used is very much a matter : C of taste. It is important, though, : M that the frames set properly on : the nose and at the right distAnce i C from the eyes; that the lenses be a C perfectly centered. and how are you to know when one is guess- 2 ting? WE... NEVER GUESS. E "Glasses Right, Good Sight." I E. A. Bultman, JEWELER AND OPTICIAN. 17 S. Main St., - Sumter, S. C. 'PHONE 194. Buggies, Wagons, RBoad Carts and Carriages REPAIRED With Neatness and Despatch -AT R. A. WHITE'S WHEELWRIGH1T and BLACKSMITH SHOP. I. repair Stoves, Pumps and run water pipes, or I will put down a new Pump cheap. If you need any soldering done, give me a call. LANME. My horse is lame. Why? Because I did 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 ainting old Buggies, Carriages, Road 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. W H EN YOU COME TO TOWN CALL AT WELLS' SHAVING SALOON Which is fitted up wv.ithl . eye to the comifort'of his customers. .. ... HAIR CUTTXlm IN ALL STYLES, SH AVINcG AND SH AMPOOING Done with neatness an dispatch.. .. ..,. A cordial invitation. is extend~ed. . . J. L. WELLS. Manning Times Block. INSURANCE FIRE. I rE. ACCIDN E Tailor-Made Clothirig. A FULLtLIE OF SAMPLES. Also Ieady-Made Suits, Mackin toshes and Rain Coats. .1. L. WILSON. Bank of Manning, MANNING, 8. 0. STAR ANK A 00K PUTTING HIS1 10NEY AWAY. It's better to put your money away in a good bank than to s ee A BURGLAR. lisappearing withe it through a win aow. Don't wait until Mister Burglar comes-get the protection now. Indigestion Causes Catarrh of the Stomach. For many years It has been supposed that Catarrh of the Stomach caused indigestion and dyspepsia, but the truth is exactly the opposite. Indigestion causes catarrh. Re peated attacks of indigestion inflpmnes the mucous membranes lining the stomach and exposes the nerves of the stomach, thus caus ing the glands to secrete mucin instead of the juices of natural digestion. This Is called Catarrh of the Stomach. kodol Dyspepsia Ours relieves all inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the stomach, protects the nerves, and cures bad breath, sour risings, a sense of fullness after eating, indigestion, dyspepsia and all stomach troubles. Kodol Digests What You Eat -Make the Stomach Sweet. Bttles trialsiz, whichsellsfor50 cents. Prepared by E. C. DeWITT & CO., Chicago, i. The R. B. Loryea Drug Store. edeI Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. T-E R. B. OnnvA DRUG STRE. '~TLANTJC [OTAS&T11 BAUGHFARofiflVEL eatween he' 0 RTHAND SOUTH Florida-Cuba. A passenger service.unexcelled for luxury and comfortequipped with the latest Pullman Dining, Sleeping and Thoroughfare Cars. For rates, schedule, maps or any informa tion, write to WM..J. CRAIG, General Passenger Agent, Wilmington, N. C. CAROLINA PORTLAND CEMEN'T Coll CHARLESTON, S. C. JKILLJ AN Fire Brick, Fire Tile, Arch. Brick, Bull-Head and All Special Tiles. ALSO FINEST PREPARED FIRE CLAY. Carload Lots. Less Than Carload Lots. GLENN SPRINGS MINERAL WATER Nafure's Greatest Remedy FOR DISEASES OF THE Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Skin. Physicians Prescribe it, 'p/ .-Patients Depend on it, and Everybody Praises i FOR SALE BY The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has beea in use for over 30 years, bas borne the signatnre of ~ and has been made under his per. sonal supervision since its infancy. A3.owno one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and a"Just-as-good" are but~ Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotfe - substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend. CENUINE CASTORIA -ALWAS Bears the Signature of The Khdl Yoll Have Alway Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. TH E CENTAUR COMPANY. 7 MURnAY STRECT. NEW YORK CITY. The Witchery of a ,.~ Pretty Foot Few People Can - Resist - I A good fitting Stylish Shoe marks the well dressed lady. Ours is the Ladies Shoe Store. We carry Shoes exclusively and in all styles and shapes, for Ladies Gen tlemen and -Children. Write for illus trated catalogue. BULTMAN BROS., Relable Sho*e Deaers