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Necw Store~ AT SUMMERTON. Te hav the be.t line o Shoes on the imarket for wear and coflorL. We hand te celebrated Seltz Shoes, the Star 5 Star Shoes, the Wolfe Bros. Shoes and other well known brands. D )on't fail to call tisi see our line before you buy your fall and winter Shoes. :i remember it matters not, whom you want Shoes for or whI:1i. size or shaipe your foot is we can IVe you a lit iikl nie sanuation. rreBrwn Shoe, CO.& Y SHOES for Men. We handle the celeb rated Miayfield Pants, Pants that will wear. That's all. FU FNITU FE. I also carry a full stock of LFurniture and will be pleased to show you through my stoek and quote prices. No matter whether von want a kitchen chair or a fine parlor snite we are in position to meet your demands, and we will not be un dersold, quality considered, by any furniture house. We are here to please and when you wait. bargains, al Ways go first to S.L.KRA SNOFF, Summinerton, S. C. CLARK'S WAREHOUSE, FOR THE SALE OF LEAF TOBACCO... . Fair Dealings and Highest Market M y M o to. PicesEvery Day to Everybody. I guarantee this. I want my friends and the tobacco growers of this and ad join ing counties to remember that in the future as in the past my chief aim shall be to see that every pile of tobacco placedpon my floor shall bring its full market value. If yous want fair dealings and Highest Market Prices Load your tobacco and drive to CLARK'S WAREHOUSE. Thanking you for the liberal patronage that you have given me in the past, as -ever . orfred R. D. CLARK, Sumter's Stock Market. Boothi Live Stock C0mpaiiJ. To ar rive shortly, severial car loads of Horses and Mules. Just received a number of cars of the celebrated Columbia Buggies AND White Hickory Wagons, (ONE AND TWO HORSE.) We are also headquarters for Lime, Cement, Plaster, Fire Brich~, Shingles, Laths, Terra Cotta Piping and Builders' Supplies generally. We appreciate the business we are doing with the peo ple of Clarendont and solicit a continuance. We guarantee prices. Booth Live Stock Comp'y, hORACE JIARBY'S OLD STAND, ARMES 1N RETREAT SOME OF THE FAMOUS RETROGRADE MOVEMENTS IN WAR. Napoleon's Retreat From Moscow a Fatal Blund r-The Most Disastrous *.amliple Inl History Made by the inglish General Elphinstone. The problem of extricating a defeated army and conducting a masterly re treat is one of the most difficult, if not the most difficult, that a general in the field has to meet. Before every great battle such a contingency is plann2d for, but when the test comes many new things are constantly being brought before the commander in chief which must be decided on the instant and the right move chosen if a rout is to be avoided. The general who has been worsted must not only get his troops away from the enemy, but his guns and stores as well. The supplies for the army must be sent to the rear first, for without them the soldiers would have to fight hungry and the wounded go without proper attention. The guns and army follow the supplies, and the brunt of the fighting and a chance to win much glory fall on the rear guard. General Kuropatkin conducted a masterly retreat from Liaoyang to Mukden and destroyed what stores he could not remove from the doomed city. He was following in the footsteps of other Russian generals, for Russian troops have made some wonderful re trograde movements which have ulti mately been crowned with success, but it must be remembered that he was aided by a railroad, which was not the case of many another in his predica ment. Still, Kuropatkin's retreat from Liaoyong will rank well with the famous retreats of history. Napoleon was the world's master at wvar, yet he lost more men in his fatal retreat from Moscow than he did on the fiela of Waterloo. With a vast ar my of 400,000 men he crossed the Nie men in June and later fougit at Boro dino, where his losses were heavy. Then came the march to Ufoscow, the Russians retreating before him aud destroying everything as they march'ed. In the cold of the northern winter he turned his back on the buirnilg city, into which the eagles had bean borne in triumph, and began the most disas trots retreat in history. Famine, cold and the Russians on his flanks and rs cut down his soldiers as they pl ded, finally barefooted, through the snow, and the army melted away as it crawled over those 00 miles of dreary waste. All Napoleon could tell the anxious people at Paris was, "My health is good." He succeeded in sav ing practically nothing as he fled. Nearly a century before Napoleon In vaded Russia Charles XI. of tweden, with 43,000 men at his back, marched over much the same route and shared much the same ill fortune. After storming the Russian lines at Golov tchin he plunged into the Vabis in pur suit of the retreating Russians and lost many men and guns in his haste. But he kept his face toward Moscow and reached Smolensk at last, but there changed his plans and marched for the Ukraine, with Czar Peter lur ing him on. Then the Russians con fronted him with 70,000 troops at Pol tava, where Charles was wounded and charged at the head of his troops borne in a litter and was defeated, being forced to retreat with his handful of men into Turkish territory in anything but a dignified manner. One of the most masterly retreats in history was made by Sir John Moore in Spain in 1808-09. He marched his force between Astorga and Corua in a month and beat back Soult's army at the edge of the sea before his troops sailed away for home, leaving the body of their dead commander behind, to be buried without the walls, on the field where he fell. Soult retreated from Oporto, in Portugal, in the same war, and Beresford di'ove him across the mountains into Spain after taking the city. Wellington caught the French again in the same war, driving the ar my from Talavera, but the French re treat was good, and the Iron Duke lost his advantage through Cuesta's blun der, and he in turn led a clever retreat before the advancing French. The most fatal retreat in all history was that of the English army under Lord Elphinstone from Kabul, in Afghanistan, and it and its preceding events will always be a dark blot in England's military annals. In 1841 the British authorities in Afghanistan lost their light grip on the natives, and Sir Alexander Burnes, a high official at Kabul, was murdered in his home. The 16,000 English troops were scattered in forts outside the town under the command of Elphinstone, who remain ed inactive in the face of such a crime. Akbar Khan was at the head of the natives, and the English stooped to double dealings with him in order to get their army to Jelalabad in safety, but were outtricked, although promis ed a safe retreat. They started for Jelalabad Jan. (3, 1842, leaving all their cannon and military stores at Kabul. The natives followed on their flans, and the conditions were so bad that the English offcers gave them selves up to Akbar Khan as hostages for the 3afety of their troops. The army, without leaders, at last entered the narrow pass of Jugdulluk, and there the Afghans fell upon them and saughtered all but a few. The small party which escaped the shambles in the pass pushed on for Jelalabad but were pursued and all killed but one. Our own civil war furnishes one of the most famous retreats in history, and General i.ee handled his troops with consummate skill in the Wilden ness campaign. The campaign was a contest between two master minds, b0th foreseeing every move the other would make and meeting it with a heavy counter blow. At the beginning Grant thought "Marse Robert" would fall back on Richmond and fianked him to drive him in. But the Confederate turned and fought and turned and fought again, each offensive movement on both sides failing. The retreat end ed in the battle of Chickahominy and proved the Confederate general a past master of his craft. Lee's last retreat, which ended at Appomattox, was the end of his career, but he led the de feated army of a lost cause and had no provisions or stores when he head ed for the mountains after the fall of Richmond. Next to the retreat from Moscow, perhaps the most famous retreat of history-quite the most famous in lit erature-was that of Xenophon and his ten thousand, whose story is given to every schoolboy to cut his first Greek teetn on. The Greeks were far in the interior of Asia when the death of the prince for whom they were paid to fight left them without a cause, and they turned their faces toward the dis tant sea and marched 3,465 miles in 215 days. The retreat was a success, and the little band reached their goal intact after many hardships.-Spring. fieldRepubica MEASURING TIME. Method* Used Before the Advent of Clocks and Watches. Probably the oldest method of de termining the time of day was by the sundial, but other devices have been used for ages, including the water clock. the burning wick and the hour glass filled with sand. Popular legend attributes to King Alfred the invention of the water clock, but long before his time it was in use by the Egyptians and in Judea, Babylon, Chaldea and Phoenicia. The contrivance for meas uring time by means of water appears to have consisted of a basin filled with water and exposed in some niche or corner of a public place. At the ex treme end of the vessel was a spout or tap from which trickled the liquid drop by drop into a receiver having on its inside marks for indicating the hours of the day and night. In parts of southern India there was used a thin copper bowl about five inches in diameter and rather deeper than half a sphere. having a very small hole at the bottom. The bowl, placed in a vessel containing water and floating thereon, gradually filled. At the expiration of an arranged in terval it sunk, and a boy or another watcher then struck a gong and thus announced the time. It showed the lapse of periods of forty-five minutes with tolerable accuracy, but the time varied with the temperature of the wa ter. It was possible by the introduc tion of a cylinder containing a floating piston which worked on a cog wheel to indicate the hours. Plato introduced the elepsydra into Greece. It was used by the Romans also. The king of Persia is said to have presented Charlemagne with a water clock of bronze inlaid with gold. Water clocks were used up to the sev enteenth century. Even with the in troduction of the pendulum water serv ed "as the motor and the pendulum as a regulator." Good advice to women. If you want a beautiful complexion, clear skin, bright eyes, red lips, good health. take Hollister's Rockv- Mountain Tea. There is nothing liks it. 3:5e, Tea or Tablets. Dr. W. E. Brown & Co. SAUSAGES ARE ANCIENT. They Graced the Banquet Boards of Greece In Homer'd Time. The origin of sausage is indeed pre historic, since, if we are to believe our Homer, sausages were not unknown to the heroes of ancient Greece. Besides, Aristophanes, than whom none.has giv en us a more faithful picture of his own time, -makes mention of the suc culent sausage as a popular and estab lished article of Athenian diet. But if the fastidious Greeks knew and appreciated its worth it was Rome that raised its status to one of dignity and importance and imbued the sau sage with true artistic significance. Has not Juvenal left it on record as his unbiased opinion that "the pig is an animal created for the banquet hall?' while Varro avers (we quote from memory) that the beast destined after life to be known and appreciated as pork is "nature's good gift to the gourmet." Nay, has not Horace, too, sung its praises, and Apicius devoted whole pages to recipes on "sausage making" in his classic cookery book? While, lastly, was it not a Roman culinary artist who introduced that "set piece" the Trojan hog (in touching memory of the horse so named), which pig appeared at table whole of body (even as the horrible looking hare does at the present day in this country); then, while the guests were trying to digest what had gone before, would be performed a little "jeu de theatre" simulated wrath on the part of the master of the feast, "Why had the pig not been carved, by Jupiter?" A slave would be sent flging for the cook, and the cook would come trembling, as one who opined he'd done with life. Then indignant reproaches, responded to by abject apologies, when, hey, presto, the cook takes the knife, inserts it in the monumental pig, and out tumble roast ed birds and tiny sausages galore, and the delighted guests set to again with knives and fingers, since forks they had none. 'So much for the sausage of classic antiquity. As to its present home, the wurst, or rather the pig, which, after all, is the embryonic wurst, had its first habitat amid those dark forests where dwelt the old Germanic war riors. Clearly, then, it must have been the Latin race that, finding so much pig fattening about the Teudeburger Wald, spread the art of sausage miak ing among the barbarians, although in modern Italy there remains little to day beyond Bologna and Salami to tell the tale of its former greatness "sic transit gloria!"'-while ini the land of its adoption the festival-more espe cially of the crisp brown bratwurst is one of perennial importance and jol leation.-Pall Mall Gazette. Cured of Lame Back After 15 Years of Suffering. "I had been troubled with lame back for fifteen and I found a complete re covery in the use of Chamberlain's Pain Balm." says John G. Bisher, Gil lam, Ind. This liaiment is also without an equal for sprains and bruises. It is for sale by The R. B. Loryen Drug Store, Isaac 2M. Loryea, Prop. A Philanthropic Joke. First a halfpenny then a gold piece gave considerable amusement to a small crowd in the Ruc Daunou, Paris. The former coin was placed on the pavement and lay untouched for an hour and a half before it was picked up by an old lady, who carefully placed it in her reticule, despite the derisive cheers which were accorded her by those who were watching. An American gentleman then placed a twenty franc piece on the ground, and as pedestrian after pedestrian passed without seeing it, they were startled by the uproarious laughter from doors and windows. They stopped short, looked confused and then hurried away with indignant glances at the merry makers. The louis was at last picked up by a bent and feeble old man, who hobbled off with his treasure amid enthusiastic cheers.-London Mail. Rheum atismn, gout, backache. acid poison. are results of kidney trouble. Hollister's Rlocky Mountain Tea goes directly to the seat of the disease and cures when all elsefails '33 cents. Dr1. W. E. Brown & Co. A 7lurmese Golden Temple. At Rangun, the capital of lower Burma, is situated the famous .pagoda of a Buddhist temple the whold of the exterior of which is one mass of shim meing gold. This generous coating of the metal is the result of years -and years of votive offerings to Buddha, for devotees from all parts of the world go to Rangun.and take packets of gold leaf, which they place'on 'the LONG HAIR OR SHORT. Curious Customs of Nations In the Days of Yore. Among the ancient Greeks, all dead persons were thought to be under the jurisdiction of the infernal deities, and therefore no man coul resign his life till some of his hairs were cut to con secrate to them. During the ceremony of laying out, clothing the dead. and sometimes the interment itself, the hair of the de ceased person was hung upon the door to signify the family was in mourning. It was sometimes laid upon the dead body, sometimes cast into the funeral pile, and sometimes placed upon the grave. At Patroelus' funeral the Grecians, to show their affection and respect for him. covered his body with hair. Achilles cast it into the funeral pile. Osiris, the Egyptian, consecrated his hair to the gods, as we learn from Diodorus. and In Arians' account of India it appears that it was a custom there to preserve their hair for some god, which they first learned (as that author reports) from Bacchus. The Greeks and the Romans wore false hair. It was esteemed a peculiar honor amorg the ancient Gauls to have long hair. For this reason Julius Cae sar, upon subduing the Gauls, made them cut off their hair as a token of submission. In the royal family of France it was a long time the peculiar mark and priv ilege of kings and princes of the blcod to wear long hair, artfully dressed and curled, everybody else being obliged to be polled, or cut round, in sign of inferiority and obedience. In the eighth century it was the cus tom of people of quality to have their children's hair cut the first time by persons they had a particular honor and esteem for, who, in virtue of this ceremony, were reputed a sort of spir' tual parent or godfather to them. In the year 1090 there was a canon providing that such as wore long hair should be excluded from coming into church when living and not be prayed for when dead. Charlemagne wore his hair very short; his son shorter. Charles the Bald had none at all. Under Hugh Capet it began to appear again. This the ecclesiastics were displeased with and excommunicated all who let their hair grow. Peter Lombard expostulated the mat ter so warmly with Charles the Young that he cut off his own hair, and his successors for some generations wore it very short. A professor of Utrecht, in 1650, wrote expressly on the question whether it be lawful for men to wear long hair and concluded for the negative. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Aids Nature. Medicines that aid nature are always most effectual. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy acts on this plan. It, allays the cough, relieves the lungs, aids ex pectorations, opens the secretions, and aids nature in restoring the system to a healthy condition. Sold by The R. B. Loryea Drug Store, Isaac M. Loryea Prop. PAINFULLY SEDATE. A Professor's Evening Party In the Paris Latin Quarter. "It was difficult to imagine that I ras in the heart of Paris, among people bred and born in the capital," says a writer telling of the section of the ,Lat in quarter in which the professors of the University of Paris have their homes. '"These men, these luminaries of science, how different they looked among their womankind: Since then I have visited many professors' homes and have found them all curiously alike. No matter whether the apart ment be on a second, third or fourth foor, whether it be an expensive or cheap one, the inmates are all alike, talk alike, dress alike. If you have seen one home, you have seen them all. Follow me to a fourth floor in the Rue Gay-Lussac. We are ushered into the drawing room. The furniture is ma hogany, always mahogany, and of a bad period. Tfhere are no flowers, but a dusty fern in a majolica pot; on the mantelpiece a clock and a candela bra, with framed photographs in the spaces between; over the cottage pi ano the portrait of M. le Professeur in the green embroidered uniform of a member of the Academy of Science, with his dress sword, over which he generally stumbles. But do not think that the professors' families are blind to beauty. They will admire and ap preciate a work of art as well as you or I, but in their homes they consider beauty a negligible quantity. They also give very little attention to their bodies-to the inner or outer man. I have often wondered whether the same tailor supplies them all with their old fashioned coats. "Nor does the inner man fare much better. The cooks in their establish ments seem to be altogether different creatures from those we meet else where. They eschew slang, their gram mar is better, but their cooking is worse-very much worse-than in the homes of the less intellectual members of society. The women form a distinct type. They seem to belong to a past generation, and their dress is in keep ing with the style of their hair. Liv ing among themselves, they appear to have no notion of what is occurring in the worldly part of Paris. Their dress makers are 'of the quarter,' and their milliners make their hats with the odds and ends brought to them. Such a thing as a fashion paper never crosses~ their path. I am certain these ladies are much more interested in the latest microbe than in the latest hat. They have little notion of comfort. "An evening party at one of their houses is a never to be forgotten en tertainment for the outsider. They still dance the schottish, but the greater part of the evening is devoted to what are called 'society games,' a gaping trap to the butterfly from across the Seine. I have forgotten the name of the fiendish game, but I re call that we wei-e all seated in a ring about thirty of us--old and young, and we had to answer questions and find out some antediluvian fact. To them it was child's play, but if it had not been for the six-year-old child of the house who prompted me I should have cut a poor figure. Imagine coming from the electric lights of the boule vards to the oil lamps of the profess ors' salon and being suddenly called upon to know that Dalma~ia was con quered by Metellus in 118 B. C.!D lightful evening!" Are you lacking in strength and vigor? Are you weak? Are you in pain? Do you feel all run down? The blessing of health and strength come to all who use Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 eents. Dr. W E. Brown &Co. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. Bargains For 10c. In addition to our Groceries we have added a 1o cents Bargain Coun t e r. Come and examine these Goods and you will be surprised at t h e Bargains w e have for 10 cents in Glassware. Tin ware, etc. P, B MOUZON&cOo PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM mCeanes and beatics teha?.t ~..JeverFals to estore GraYI HO~3Oairt t o u olr.git ARTISTIC MONUMENTS. I am representing the largest Marble and Granite quarrys in in the world, and can furnish any Tombstone or Monument direct from the quarry. Over 500 designs to select from. Spec ial designs .furnished for large Monuments. I also furnish any kind of Iron Fences, Ornaments and Wood Mantels. S. L. KRASNOFF, MANNING, S C WREN YOU COME TO TOWN CALL AT WE LLS' SHAVING SALOON Which is titted up with an eye to the comfort of his enstomlers..... HAIR CUTTING IN ALL STYLES, S H AVING AND SHAMPOOING looue witi ieatness aud .1 cordial i n vitation ix extendAd. J. L. WELLS. Manuing Times Block. E0LETYilO14EPARA for chUda-n: safe, cc'-. JV0 ,pte"e STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Clarendon. By James M. Windham. Esq., Probate Judge. WHEREAS. A. I. Barron, Clerk of ICourt, made suit to me. to grant him Letters of Administration of the estate of and effects of August Johnson. These are therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said August John son, deceased, that they be .nd-ap pear before me, in the Court of Pro bate, to be held at Manning on the 25th day of September next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given uder my hand, this 15th day of \ugust. A. D). 1905. JAMES M. WINDHAM, [SEAL.] Judge of Probate. HOLLISTER'S .ky Mountain Tea Nuggets a .;:: c.dioirno foer Basy People. .:-. r ien I-2.Rh t~t Renewed Vigor. eieor Cousiipa'.ion, Indigestion, Live Ean-- 'r:lhies-. Pimples. Eczema, mpr -s . .~ . unain Tea in tab 5 i Grm. :r e.-o air>.. Genuine reade by 2 ..::m~n Dar' G~eY 3adison, Wis. GODE NM T FOR SALLOW, PEOPLE Notice of Discharge. I will apply to the Judge of Probate for Clarendon County on the 11th day of August, 1905, for letters of dis iiarge as Guardian for Helen E. Tin EMMIE E. ANDERSON. Summerton, S. C.. July 11. 1903. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE. I have special facilities for buying and selling Resic~iences. anCa "Farmns wherever located. placed in good s'~rona Companies. Your business solicited. 3. L. WILSON. NEW FIM!I WHEN IN MANNING, COME TO THE First-Cl ass Restaurant for good, hot meals. J. 3lcD. Richard son and Eliza Davis have consolidated their Restaurants under the firm name Richardson & Davis Restaurant. We have separate apart ments for white and colored, and can serve you most any hour during .the day, guaranteeing irst-class service. We solicit the patronage of all our f-ends. We also handle Groceries and Green Groceries, and catnsaif your wants in these lines. Richardson & Davis. Woodmen of the World. Meets on fourth Monday nights at Visiting Sovereigns invited. Makes Kidneys and Bladder Right ring -ur Joh Work to The Times offiCe "Cotton Is King." Sumter Is the Greatest Market in the State. It is conceded that our establishment has done more to wards building up the Sumter cotton market than any other agency, and it is all because we pay the' very highest market price Twenty thousand bales were handled by us last year, and much of this came from our friends in Clarendon. With facilities for paying a high price for cotton and for selling goods cheap, we invite our friends in Clarendon to come and inspect this season's purchases, and if we cannot satisfy you in 'f. Dry Goods, - g Notions, W Shoes, 'Clothing, SHats, t Groceries, and all other articles that can be handled in a general mer chandise store, then we would not have you to buy from us7, There is no gainsaying it that our buyer has this seasoin has supplied our store with everything the trading pablica desire and at prices to permit us to sell at surprisingly low. figures. All that we ask is for an opportunity to show or goods. You know us, and where we do business. Come. Yours, etc., LEVI BROTHERS<, L. B. DURANT, R. K. WILDER, P.- AROT President. ~. Vice-President. Sceay THE DUIANT HARDWARE CMAY Opposite Court House, Su.mater, - - S.O We invite the people of Clarendon to visit our store or write to us for prices when they are needing~nything in our line. We have added more capital to our business in order to meet the increasing demands, and our Mr.. L. B. Du-' Rant will always welcome his friends from Clarendon. Inspect our immense stock of HARDWARE, FARMING IMPLEMvENTS, - HOSEFURNISHINGS, HARNESS, SADDLES, MACHINERY.SUPPLIES, - BELTINGS of all kinds. BARB WIRE at prices which cannot be duplicated. We have just received a carload of Elwood Field Fencing, Guns, Powder, Shot, Shells and Sportsmen's Goods. Devoe's Celebrated Paints. JAP-A-LAC, the Housekeepers' ~ Delight for making old Furniture New. Come to see us. THE DURANT HARDWARE COMPANY, iSUMTER, S. C. S. R. VENNING, Jeweler k ... Dealer in ... - - WATCHES, Ci.OCKS, JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, EYE CLASSES ARIC ALL KINDS OF FANCY NOVELTIES. I make a specialty of WEDDING and HOLIDAY PR~ES ENTS and always carry a handsome line of Silverware, Hand..Painted Chiina, Glassware and numerous other articles suitable for Gifts of all kind. COME AND SEE THEM. All Watch. Clock and Jewelry Repairing done promptly and guaranteed. ~. Q E .A-'lla ~AUNLevi Block. ~ ~ u~ia U~~iu MANNING.- 8. C Harvest Time Has Come. YOU NEED A GOOD WAGON. We have just received a full line of one and two horse PIEDMONT AN]) HACKNEY WAGONS that we propose to sell at close figares. These Wagons are guaranteed. WVe also have in our warerooms an excellent assortment of standard Buggies from the best manufacturers, and will ask that you inspect them beUo e Hbuy e e{ePA RT'. ENT is well stocked with Single and Dou ble Harness, Collars, Wbips, etc., and we are anxious to prove to the pub li that we want to merit their confidence. When the weather gets cooler we will have in our Horses and Mules. We guarantee what we sell and ask your patronage. W. P. Hawkins & Co., MANNING, S. C. BRING YOUR IJ OB W OR K TO THE TINES OFFICE.