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42-f - MANH We are bound for Horn Dry Goods Co's,, the cheap est store in the State, where we know the best values are to be had. The position we occupy iN in the front rank. We stand before all others in our methods of doing business, aid the quality of the Dry Goods, Millinery and Shoes i sold every day means new eiTorts new adjustments and better equipments. We study the wants of CUSTOMERS and continual ly find new ways of pleasing. These are some of our 2 attractions. Yard wide Percales per yd...........................5c Fancy Silks worth $1.00 per yd at.......9 Best Prints (Garnets) per yd.. ................. .4c 40c. Waist Flannels per yd.. ..................29c Beautiful assortment Waist Goods per yd..........1c The greatest line of SHOES ever brought to this part of the State. Try a pair of our ROYAL BLUE SHOES for men, a guarantee goes with each pair. SOUTHLAND BELL SHOES for ladies. The best Shoe on earth at $1.50. Come to us for your And see how cheaper you can buy it here than you have been paying. Miss Olivia Ingram who has charge of our MILLINERY DEPARTMENT is too well known to need any commendation. ' Closing out our stock of Men's Clothing regardless of cost as we expect to discontinue that line. You can get a BARGAIN. We are the LEADERS OF LOW PRICES, and don't you forget it you are always welcome. SHORN DRY GOODS CO. Sumter, S. C. ImprOve Your Homes. I am making a specialty this season of putting within reach the material tot matke the HOM4ES ATTRACTTVE, and thereby increase thc v.alue of property.t The New Era Ready Mnixed Paint we:ighs 18 pounds to the gallon and is noted for its durability and for the vast < amount of space it will cover. THE HIAMMA.RBRAND is ainother line Paint. 1 gallon of Oil addei!, makes 2 gallons of verygheavy Paint. I want my customers to use these Paints nd I am in position to give Ge y piesi on Floor and Lubricating OILS, VA RNISHES, etc. EL/W~OODZ WVIRE FENCING For pastures and yards the best on the market, T huy by car load and will sell] at re asonable prices. Always on hand the best Rubber and Canvass Belting anid Machinery Sup phsMy store is headquarters for STOVES, FIARDWARE, CUTLERY, flAR NESS and SADDLERY. CARRIAGE and WAGON MATERIAL, and SPORTSMEN SUPPLIES. When you want anything in my line cme to see or write to, L_.tcS E3. DLJFRANT, a S. R. yENNING, Jeweer OEALEi IN WATCHES, CLCCKS, JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, EYE CLASSES AND t ALL KINDS CF FANCY NOVELTIES. I make a specialty or wEDDING and HoLIDAY PRiES ENTS and always cakrry a handsome line of -. ~ Silverware, Hand-Painted China, Blassware and numerous other articles siitable for G ifts or all kind. MEAND SEE 'rHEM All watch, clock and Jewelry Repairing done promptly and 4 guaranteed. nEVI BLocic, - MANNING. S. C. B, M, Doan' Shop Bil411 lIffY Frthe best llepair Work on Wagons. COME OT B:nrgies, Carts. ete- COET H Hor'seshoeing a Specialty. Mouzon Grocery. Yiou can get an allround job of first class work on Hoerseshoeing for80S ets- EARLY JUNE PEAS, FANCY See me and get your work dono first SWEETI CORN, BARTLE&TTE class and cheap. P EARS, CALIFORNIA PEACH ES, C. .JACKiSON, IPINEAPPLES, TOMATOES, Manning, S. C. B~EANS, Etc. --- All kinds of Flavorings, Candies, Crackers of all kinds, and fresh. Carolina Portland BUCKWHEAT, pnmnnuJ PANCAKE FLOUR,j Cement Om 8 atsnps, Pickles, Minee Meat, very choice A pples in quart cans, Tapioca, Charleston, S. C. Vermicelli, Postum Cereal, Cigars The best of Groceries, and Vegeta bles of e -ery variety. ~. The finest grades of Tea and Coffee, GAGER'S white Lime. Housekeepers, give mec a trial and I will please you. noee aked in 11 a 'ooler- P. B. M~OUZON. a('n tadr ooperage. Also dealers in Potad(mn.IB O23A I ~ sendale Cement, Fire Brick. IRoofing Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought I 'apers. Terra Cotta Pipe. e. Sintue Srin our Job Work to The Times office. * f 0 LALARREi By MARY 0 HARTWELL CATHERWOOD 0 (Based Upon the Mystery Surrounding the 0 Fate of the Dauphin, Son of Louis o XVI. and Marie Antinettc) * >Goydrht., I. bythBOWENMRMRL. MPANT )0000000000*00000000000009 [coNTINUED.] ad ~tne- )W -rvant 'lay dena across be doorstep. His mother would not t him go. The Indian dragged her on er knees and struck her on the head. [me. Jordan ran out at the risk of be ig scalped herself and got the poor Irl into her cabin. The Indian came ack for Madeleine's scalp. Madelcine id not see him. She never seemed to otice anybody again. She stood up ulvrering the whole length of her body nd laughed in his face. It was dread ozt Pil we, "It was dcadful to hear her." al to bear her above the cries of the hildren. The Indian went away like scared hound. And none of the oth rs would touch her."' After I heard this story I was thank a. every day that Eagle could not re imber, that natural happiness had ts way with her elastic body. Mme. Ursule told me the family arned to give her liberty. She rowed lone upon the river and went where he pleased. The men in La Baye ould step aside for her. Strangers isturbed her by bringing the con iousness of something unusual. Once I surprised Marie and Katarina itting close to the fire at twilight talk iz about lovers. Eagle was near them I a stool. *That girl," exclaimed Katarina, peaking of the absent with strong dis iproval, "is one of the kind that will ranother girl take her sweetheart ad then sit around and look injured! ~ow if she could get him from me she ight have him! But she'd. have to et him first!" Eagle listened In the attitude of~ a ung sister, giving me to understad y a look that wisdom flowed and she as learning. We rose one morning to find the ord buried in snow. The river was oen and its channel padded thick. s for the bay, stretches of snow fields rith dark pools and broken gray dges met lee at the end of the world. It was so cold that paper stuck to e fingers like feathers and the nails ngled with frost. The white earth :aked underfoot, and when a siled ent by the snow cried out in shrill mg resistance, a spirit complaining L being trampled. Explosions came om the river and elm limbs and tim ers of the house startled us. White ur clotfred the inner keyholes. Tree unks were black as ink against a ackground of snow. The oaks alone pt their dried foliage, which rattled e many skeletons, instead of rustling its faded redness, because there was life in it. But the colder it grew the higher rignon's log fires mounted. And when hknnels were cut in the snow both long the ridge above Green Bay and ross country in every direction rench trains moved out with jangling ells, and maids and men uttered voice unds which spread as by miracle on e diffusing air from horizon to hori n. You could hear the officers speak g across the river, and dogs were Ike to shake the sky down with their arking. Echoes from the smallest oses were born in that magnified, laring world. The whole festive winter spun past. [arie and Katarina brought young en to the peaks of hope in the "two ing" seat and plunged them down to espair, quite in the American fashion. hristmas a~nd New Year's day were eat festivals, when the settlement te and drank at Pierre Grignon's ex ense and made him glad as if he..fa tiered the whole post. Mine. Grignon pun and looked to the house. And a tiousand changes passed over the ndscape. But in all that time no e could see any change in my cloud iother. She sewed like a child. She ughed and danced gavots. She trod 1 snow, and muffled in robes with [e. Ursule and the girls flew over it a French train-a sliding' box with wo or three horses hitched tandem. ivery evening I sat by her side at the Ire while she made little coats and rousers for me. But remembrance Lever came into her eyes. The cloud od round about her as it did when I .rst tried to penetrate it. My own dim days were oi'ten in 2ind. I tried to recall sensations. But hadL lived a purely physical life. Ier lnders of judgment and delusion of odily shrinking were no part of my perence. The thinking self in me ad been paralyzed, while the think g self in her was alive, in a cloud. oth of us were memnoryless, except g her recollection of Paul. After March sent the ice out of river d bay spring came with a rush as it omes in the north. Perhaps many Lays it was silently rising from tree ots. In February we used to say, This air is like spring." But after eh bold speech the arctic region de ended upon us again and we were nowed in to the ears. Yet when the d of March unlocked us it seemed -e must wait for the month of Mary give us sof~t air and blue water. hen suddenly it was spring, and every iving soul knew it. Life revived with asson. Longings which you had for otten camne and took you by the liroat, saying: "You shall no longer e satisfied with negative peace. Rouse nd livel" Then flitting, exquisite, pur le flaws struck across milk opal water i the bay. Fishing boats lifted them elves in mirage, sailing lightly above waterm .a isltansat n high, with a eTishiif Far-under them. The girls manifested increasing in terest in what they called the Pigeon Roost settlement affair. Mme. Ursule had no doubt told them what I said. They pitied my cloud mother and me with the condescending pity of the very young. and unguardedly talked where they could be heard. "Oh, she'll come to her senses some time, and he'll marry her, of course," was the conclusion they invariably reached; for the thing must turn out well to meet their approval. How could they foresee what was to hap pen to people whose lives held such contrasts? "Father Pierre says he's nearly twenty-eight; I call him an old bache lor," declared Iatarina; "and she was a married woman. They are really very old to be in love." "You don't know what you'll do when you are old," said Marie. "Ah, I dread it," groaned Katarina. "So do I." "But there is grandmother. She doesn't mind it. And beaus never trouble her now." "No," sighed the other. "Beaus never trouble her now." Those spring days I was wild with restlessness. Life revived to dare things. We heard afterward that about that time the meteor rushed once more across France. Napoleon landed at a Mediterranean port, gathering force-as he marched, swept Louis XVIII. away like a cobweb in his path and moved on to Waterloo. The greatest French man that ever lived fell ultimately as low as St. Helena, and the Bourbons sat again upon the throne. But the changes of which I knew nothing af fected me in the Illinois territory. Sometimes I waked at night and sat up in bed, hot with indignation at the injustice done me, which I could never prove, which I did not care to combat, yet which unreasonably waked the fighting spirit In ine. Our natures toss and change, expand or contract, in fluenced by invisible powers we know not why. One April night I sat up in the veiled light made by a clouded moon. Rain points multiplied themselves on the window glassi' I heard their sting. The impulse to go out and ride the wind, or pick the river up and empty it all at once into the bay, or tear Eagle out of the cloud, or go to France and pro claim myself, with myself for follower, and other feats of like nature being particularly strong in me, I struk the pillow beside me with my fist. Some thing bounced from it on the floor with a clack like wood. I stretched down-s ward from one of Mime. Trsule's thick feather beds and picked up what brought me to my feet Without let ting go of it I lighted my candle. - It was the padlocked book which Skene donk said he had burned. And there the scoundrel lay at the other side of the room wrapped in his blanket from head to foot, mummied by sleep. I wanted to take him by the scalp lock and drag him around on the floor. He had carried it with him or se creted 'it somewhere month after month. I could imagine how the state of the writer worked on his Indian mind. He repented and was not able to face me,.-but felt obliged to restore what he had withheld. So, waiting un til I slept, he brought forth the pad locked book and laid It on the pillow beside my head, thus beseeching par don and Intimating that the subject was closed between us. I got my key, and then a fit of shiv ering seized mc. I put the candle stand beside the pillow and lay wrapped in bedding, clinching the small, chilly padlock and sharp cornered beards. Remembering the change which had come upon the lIfe recorded In it, I hesitated. Remembering how It bad eluded me before, I opened it. The few entries were made without date. The first pages were torn out, crumpled and smoothed and pasted to place again. Rose petals and violets and some bright poppy leaves, crushed inside its lids, slid down upon the bed cover. [To BIE CONTfIUED.) Pickwicks In Livery. The dignity of some fat coachmen in New York is very Impressive. Their development Is outlined distinctly by their coats. They have swelled steadily and persistently year after year, and every now and then the coats have been let out and the buttons moved to accommodate Increasing Inches of girth. A coachman's figure has a great deal to do with his success. The at tempts of fat men to look lean some times verge on the humorous. They hold their heads high to escape the imputation of obesity and puff out their chests heroically. But with all their hauteur, pomposity and pretentious bearing they look only like very fat men in tight clothes, reminiscent of Pckwick in livery.-New York Press. The Dead Man's Threat. Returning home recently, a woman who had taken out a summons against her husband, a painter's laborer, on ac count of his ill treatment, saw by the light of the moon her husband stand ing, as she thought, behind the door ready to strike her. She ran away, but it was -afterward discovered that the man was hanging by a rope from a ventilntor over the door with his feet amost touching the floor. He was dead.-London Mail. Usieful Wood Lore. If you are lost in the woods sit down the moment you realize it and think it over. If you start off at random you will be sure to walle in a circle. None but the most experienced woodsmen can keep ai straight course, and even they go in a circle when they get really lost. If you know the directIon of camp tie some strip of wvhite rag to a tree and then start off. You can find the com pass points by remembueriag that moss always grows oni the north side of trees. Keep tying strips or rag to trees as you go on. Then you can find your way back to the starting point if you should fail to strike the path that leads to safety._________ The Mexican noundary Line. The inter-nationail boundary line be tween the United States and the repub lic of Mexico is marked by pyramids of stones placedl at irregular distances along the line all the way from the RIto Grande to tile lPacific ocean. Wher ever it was found practicable to do so these pyramids were built on promi nent peaks at road crossings, fords, etc. The line was not surveyed, as Is the usual custom, the location of the monuments being based on astronom ical calculations and observations. The Difference In slang. "She uses slang!'' said the cultured young woman in a tone of deep disap proval. "That Isn't the worst of it," answered Miss Cayenne. "She uses slang that hasn't yet received the sanction of OUR FIRST HUNT CLUB. It Was Organized In Pennsylvania Away Back In 1766. The year 170 is far back, but It is interesting to think that the mutter ings of the coming war storm were not yet so engrossing even then but that the sportsmen of Pennsylvania could turn their attention to a more system atic organization of their fox hunting forces and then establishid the first hunt club In the country, the Glouces ter Hounds. Not that this was the be ginning of the sport in Pennsylvania, that emInently horse loving country, for fox hunting had held a high place in the pastimes of the people many a year before. It was father the evi dence that the sport had become so Im portant that it needed syqematizlng so that districts might beNboroughly hunted in turn and contentions. rivalry and clashing dates be avoided. All the early fox hunting clubs had their origin in the pre-existing owner ship of a greater or less number of hounds by private owners. Every con siderable landowner in the south kept them, and good dogs they were, not always orthodox, according to the standard of the Belvoir and the Quorn of today, but nevertheless hounds de rived from the best English and Eu ropean stock and continued by judi clous selection of those who showed the instincts by conformation suitable to the country in which they were called- upon to work. Washington may be quoted as one of the southerners who kept bounds and hunted them too. Lafayette. moreover, sent him from France a splendid pack of French fox hounds, with qualities which still fur ther helped to complete the most per fect animal for American fox hunting, the American hound. From the formation of the Glouces ter Fox Hound club in 17G until to day clubs have played the most im portant part in preserving the sport and regulating Its practice. Not all clubs of equal importance, it is true, but all of the same spirit-Illustrated Sporting News. NEW YORK TIME. It Im the Standard Used In All Our Weather Bureau Stations. When we read a report from any of the 10 regular weather bureau sta tions throughout our land bringing the information that a rainstorm, a tor nado or some other meteorological phe nomenon began at a certain hour we need not suppose that the hour men tioned refers to the time at the place where the observation was made. The hour given is the exact New York time, for every clock at the regular weather bureau stations all over the land is set to the seventy-fifth meridian, or east ern standard time, which is exactly five hours behind Greenwich time. Only this standard of time Is used In the text of the Monthly Weather Review, and all weather bureau ob servers are required to record observa tions by it. The reason for this is that the best scientific deductions from the weather reports must be based upon the conditions of the atmosphere exist ing simultaneously in different parts of the country. It would be very ludicrous If all the hundreds of rseports sent daily had to be changed at the central office in Washington from local to eastern time, and so all the regular observers are re qufred to use the New York, or castern time, in making their reports. There are many volunteer observers and newspaper correspondents wvho in reporting weather phenomena use oth er standards of time. If the weather bureau has occasion to use their re ports the time is often corrected to agree with the eastern standard or the local standard is mentioned.-Detroit Free Press. WEDDING PRESENTS. Somne Hints About. How and What and When to Send. It Is a golden rule to send your wed ding gift in good time, the first to azn rive beIng much more appreciated than that which is one of the many pouring in from nil quarters during the last week. ,By adhering to this rule you are also saved the annoyance of hearing that the salteellars are charming, the third set already received. A month before the weddIng day is not too early to send the present, which should be accompanied by a visiting card, to be ,laced on the gift when dis played am g the others. The package should be addressed to the bride if you are intimate with both the happy couple, and to the bride's house, addressed to the bridegroom, if it Is he with whom you are best ac quainted. Most people wish to give something novel, useful and pretty. The future circumstances of the happy couple should influence the choice. If they are going abroad, do not give anything unsuitable to the require ments of the climate or so cumber some that packing and conveying it tc Its destination will amount to half the value of the present. If the recipients willnot be particu larly well off, it is only kind to seleci some useful present In these days, when artistic taste is shown In all the necessaries of life, this should not be difficult If the happy couple are' likely to re ceive many presents, It Is safe to give something which will not be amiss if received In duplicate, such as silvei sweetmeat baskets for the dinner table or a set of afternoon teaspoons or s bronze or china ornament The Saliva. The poisons of some of the commoE and also some of the most loathsome diseases are frequently contained ix the mouth. In such case anything thai Is moistened by the saliva of the In fcted .person may, If it touches the lips of another, convey disease. The more direct the contact the greater the danger. It Is believed that much car be done to prevent contagion by teach ng habits of cleanlidess. But If suelt instruction is to be effectual it musi be continuous. The teacher In the pub lie school should notice and correct vio lations of these rules as habitually at violations of the more formal school rules are corrected. Enough said. Two Boston ladies strolling along road just outside of the borough camE upon the first milestone. On it was written. "1 ma. from Boston." Having never ventured so far from their nativE place before, they mistook the stone foi a sepulchral monument "How touch ing!" they exclaimed. "How simple How human! 'I'm from Boston.' What more needed to be said? So the deal speak"-ochester Post-Express. Basis.' "But, after all. Is not good digestlol the basIs of beauty?" "Ave,* what else may change tih grub into the butterfly?" exclaime Beatrice. attacking the sirloln zestful THE HOME IN FRANCE. It Is 1lanily an Adjunct to Life on the Outside. ev The father and mother In Paris eat at home when they do not eat out, but absolutely no informal social Inter course invades the apartment. which is more than anything else u sort of rac tory in which is produced whatever the family needs for life outside. A vast amount of sewing is done bere. French girls of even wealthy parents, after c they finish school, attend courses of dressmaking and millinery and to a great extent the industry which tucns out the French woman as a model of good dressing, to be followed by the world, is carried on by the women of the family in what would be the home if the French knew the meaning of the word. A reception day Is rigorously kept, and much entertaining at dinner and dejeuner may be done, but always of a formal character. A person having the penetrating qualities of a bgok agent might venture to try "dropping in" on C a French woman on a day when she is not regularly receiving, but In the nat ural course of ordinary social experi ence In Paris this would never happen, says Flora McDonald Thompson in Harper's Bazar. Such order of living readily permits great economy. One has not to waste time, good clothes or house room in daily preparation for the unexpected guest. Six days of the week a French woman may run her sewing machine in the middle of hes salon if she likes, secure froin the interruption of chance callers. It is said that the chief func tion of the petit salon of a Paris apart ment is to provide storage room for ball gowns which on receptie days are 0 taken down from the chandelier and S locked up In a bedroom till the guests have departed. Judicial gnoraee. The ignorance of worldly nafrs on the part of judges is proverbial, but a county court- judge the other day cer tainly amazed the court, says an Eng- C lish newspaper. Counsel happened to 4 say that the defendant, a vocalist, could not "turn up" at a certain place. "Turn up!" said the judge in bland surprise, "but he is a vocalist, not an o acrobat." This recalls the story, of the judge who asked. "What Is the Stocc Exchange-a cattle market?" 01 All on One Side. "I am told your bride Is very pretty," said Miss Peppery. "Yes, Indeed!" replied Mr. Con Seet "Several of the guests at the ceremony were pleased to call it a 'wedding of beauty and brains.'" "Well, well! She must be a remark able woman! That's an unusual com bination In one person."-Philadelphia Press. 0 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Clarendon County, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. : Esther L. Moise, Plaintiff, against Eliza Jones. Alice Taylor, Fannie Jones, Robert Jones, Ellerbe: Jones, sometimes called Eddie Jones, Benjamin E. Jones, James Montgomery, Emma Montgomn ery, Thomas Montgomery, James* Monitgome'ry, Jr., Jesse Mont gomuery, Hugh Montgomnery, Mary Montgomery, Malvimia Jones, sometimes called Molly Jones, Junius Jones. sometimes called Isaac Jones, Azilee Jones, Sabine Jones, Leila'Jones, John Francis, Isaac Frances, Eliza Francis, Toney Taylor, Eliza -Taylor, Mary Alice Taylor, Thomas Taylor, McLeod-Wilkins King Compad, Marion Moise, J. W. McLeod; 1). W. Alderman & Sons Company, John S. Cole and J. D. Blanding, Defendants. - 'Decree. UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OP A Judgment Order of the Court of Coin mon Pleas, in the above stated ac tion, to me directed, bearing date October 31, 1903, I will sell at p)ubbiCe lie auction, for cash, to the highest bidder, at Clarendon Court House, at = Manning, in said county, within the legal hours for judicial sales, on Mon day, the 4th day of January, 1904, being salesday, the following de scribed real estate: "All that tract of land in Claren don County, in said State, contain - ing two hundred and nine acres, more or less, bonnded on the north by land of R. M. Montgomery; east, by land of Gordon & Brother, or Paul Gordon; south, by land of i ram Seymour, and west, by land of David Shaw. The said land being more fully described in the Deed of Conveyance thereof by E. W. Moise to Isaac Jones." Parchaser to pay for papers. J. E LBERTI. DAVIS, Sheriff Clarendon County. Manning, S. 0., December 7, 1903. The Times ~DOI'S NEAT Job Printing. GIVE US A TRILAL. yorthwesternl R. R. of S.C. .Ir TmE A2L No. 7. M'oa; 'bon n'd. Northuuad, N.. '.). N'>. 71 N', 70. N,. 68 ;7 Uy u.7 N. W .iwi'ta ii 58i 5 43J 7: m; ..uemberts' . 7 4i) 4 43 7:% M0 ..Ek-rer. 730) 4 28 7 a 1 05 Xoll i- .nne~t' 710t 4 25 :4 (0L Il 15 Ar.unden . . l 7 00 1 15~ Yt 'i'4 A M I A Dtween Wilson's M~lII uand tnoter. Sothbou.i. Northbound. N. 73. Daily e.xc..pt Snn day No. 72. U M\ Stations. I M 00 Le.......8 mter......r 11 45 -3 * ... W Jnetjion-- 11 42 - -Tod......... 10 - Iacktsville......... 1045 - Silver ... 02 4 15..Milflrd..------- - 3 r o;....S umeirton ... 9 25 5 45 --Davis......... 900 -60 ..-- ordan....... 847 - 45 Ar.W.. ilson's Mills. L e 8 30 I>.M AM Between M~illard and St. Paul. Daily except Snncay. Sethbonfd. Northbound. Na 73. No. 75. No. 72. No. 74. - p: 11 A M Staitions9 A M P 9~' '30 Le Millard Ar 10 00 4 40 24 9 40 Ar St. Paul Le 9 50 4 30 CLO SiNC OUT IL AND, WINTER The..geason is drawing to a close and ,good business methods require no car rying over of stock. I therefore offer o my entire stock of Dry Goods, Shoes, E lothing and Fancy Goods From now uantil the first day of Janu- -o Come and examine these goods while a the opportunit is athp.-hr are =great big bargains for you.-. ,'ours. truly,. =LOU IS L-E ZZ CHRIS-4-4 llS ~ilM~i4 WIHCOPLET OT F Seasnabl andValuble ifts Te~ao sdaigt ls and gObusies methGods.repairte ntar Will oberdm of thee. a thfewoffer wil Rugs entrtokf Squry Gaods, Tabej Clothg and ls F ancy insds hn soeAot GrFu, i tovs N oeckn exaineteseandkerchile theoporuners. Beso aha Threar Inrour blig arinto youil\in Shoe tosuioallsizes., - stW15'E~i., - C