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0 I (lonees lohieg MEe.9 *\ anI nspe.i c4. lIy iens-e line ol9 i ry Goods, Notions, 8 Hats, Caps, SShoes, Clothing, Etc.,' 0 That are lailv a rrivingg. it certainly will be to your inoresit to do so. If prices and quality are of note I do not hesimate to say that I can please the most fastidious. Myv 1)ivs Gods Departmntt Is filed with the newest and most iashionable goods to be had. I will now enumerate a few of them: 6 Dirigo All Wool Venetians, Silk Poplin, Mohair, Mohair Florentine, e A Broad Cloth, Brilliantine, Pebble Cloth and Dress Silks, Etc. All departments in my store of general mer v baindise is filled with the newest and latest goods at pries thiat wvill make for in strong ain( lasting cns tomeors. Yours truiv. LOUIS LEVI. I @ 0 0 0 @ During the past ten months or since we have suc ceeded S. I. Till we have sold thousands and thousands Sof dollars worth of beautiful and stylish merchandise. have sold enough goods and have a class of customers that would be a credit to a bigger arnd more pretentious concern. For this we are proud and thankful to you; we _ are prouder still for the reputation we have made with Sthe people of Manning and Clarendon. We have always Sgiven you what you want and you always get just what you think you get. Sometimes you may find something _ that you think is cheaper or it seems to be cheaper to you, but you will not find a lower price than ours on the same Squality. Wfe have lots and lots of bright, new, stylish summer goods left and we want to make JIune our record-breakmng month. nAll or most of our summer goods must be sold and we will not carry them over. In order to get them out we - have put them all down at a ridiculously low price. Just a visit to our store will convince you of what we are doing. Not just ONE. TWO or THREE items, but every _ ~ Millinery Especially.I We have just got ina full line of Summer Sample SHats. Come in and see them at half price, if nothing m ore. S It makes no difference what others offer you goods at you certainly will not show good business judgment if you - buy before you come and see ours and get our prices on Q the same goods. OUR PRICES ARE LOWER. 3 This must be our record=breaking month. SJ. W. McLEOD. Fo. Iom. CHARLES C! : 1900. by CHAPTER IV. F all the smooth, elusive vil ture0 lurking in the shadow of the temple of justice or per-h ink,' upon it Nicholas Frye. or "Old Nick," -is many called him. was the most cunning. Nor did his looks belie the comparison, for he had deep set. shifty, yellow gray eyes. a hooked nose, and his thin ioeks, dyed jet black, formed a rinm about his bald poli. IIe walked with a stoop. as if scanning the ground for evidec4 or elews, and to add to his marked individuality-when he talked ho rubbed his hands together as though washing them with Invisible soap. It was not from any sense of canluiness that he did this. for they had many times been soiled willingly in the most nefarious transactions. A client was to hin a victim to he kept In waiting, exasperatcd in regard to his grievances by all possible inens. de iuded as to his cLesiceS of Success in quest of justice. deceived as to its cost and robbed in every way known to an astute lawyer. He had been the 1ea::l adviser of John Nason for many years. and when that busy merchant came to him on behalf of his son. who wanted to find a position for Albert Page, Frye readi ly promised to give him employment. It was not because he needed him. butI because he saw at once that through some frleudship for this young sprig of the law, as he intuitively considered Albert to be, he could strengthen his hold upon the father and obtain some secrets that might eventually be used to rob him. In plain words, he thought to use this young country lawyer as a spy. le knew that John Nason felt a keen Interest in his only son Frank, and that was another reason for em ploying that son's friend. Ie knew also that Frank was given a liberal allowance, spent It rapidly and most likely would be getting into various scrapes needing a lawyer's efforts to rescue him, and so he would have fur ther pickings in that direction. These were two good reasons for his ostensi ble acts of kindness, and so he at once sent for Page to come. When, the morning after his arrivali In Boston, Albert presented himself at Frye's ofilee. he found that lawyer busy reading his mail. "Take a seat, sir," said Frye politely, after Albert had introduced himself, "and excuse me until I go through my letters." And then for a long half hour Albert was left to study the bare office walls and peculiar looks of his future employer. Finally Frye turned to him and asked rather abruptly, "Well, Mr. Page. what (do you know about law'" rt the same time scanning him as If expecting to see hayseed ad hering to his garments. "Not much perhaps." replied Albert modestly. uncertain of his ground. "I have been in practice only a year at Sandgate, and the few people there do not have much use for a lawyer.'' '-Then why didn't you stir 'em up a. little and bring 'em to see they needed your services?" was F~rye's next query. "You will never succeed as a lawyer unless you make business. Did you bring your sheepskin with you?:" "No, sir." answered Page. "I didn't think It necessary after what I wrote you. I have it In my trunk." '"Weli, bring it tomorrow," said Frye. "I make it a rule to take nothing for granted and have everything in writ ing." And then he added, with a searching look, as if he was about to utter a crusher. "What is your ideat of a lawyer's chief object in existence?:" Page was a little nonpiused. "Oh, I suppose." lhe replied slowly. "to see that laws are properly executed and justice done." Frye looked at him a full minute without making any further comment. while a sardonic grin gradually drew his lips apart, showing a full set of false teeth, and then, as he began rub bing his hands together, he said: "It's evident, young man, you have much to learn In your profession. LawsI are made for lawvyers and are the tools of our trade. If the world does not see fit to use those tools, it is our business to make them. and, as for justice, that Is an allegory, useful in addressing a jury, but considered a fable by the judge. Laws are useful to oppose oth 0 "Whtu do you kntow abot law?" er laws with, and various deelsions are only good in so far as they help your ease and hinder your opponent's. "You seem anhonest appearing young man, whic~h is well so far as our rela tions go, but no further. I want an as sistant, one who Is read~y and will Ingto do just as I direct and to ask no questions. Do- you think you can fill the-bill?" y "I can try," replied Albert quietly, "anid as soon as r get used to your methods of procedure here I think I can succeed." He.was.a little startled at the pecul ar character of his 'employer and in a way slightly disgusted, but he was not In a position to cavil or feel squeamish over apparent lack of honesty and re solved at once to ignore It. "What do you wish me to do':" he continued after a momen~t. "I wil do the best I can for you and am ready to go to work now." "You are to be at the office at 8 o'clock sharp." replied Frye, '-take one hour for lunch and remain till 6." Then he added by way of a spur to his slave's fidelity: "I am paying Iyou $75 a month on the rocommend of ,ARK MUNN LEE eD. SHEPA*R- - d tonfui'orhis 'ol. it~Tas your good luck to have this son's friendship, as ie belongs to a wealthy family. Hle is a spendthrift. of course. but that Is no matter and all the better for us. Tlake my advice and cultivate him all you cUan. it may be the ilealis of bringing us more business. What I say to v.o I shall expect you to coil sid.i a professIonal secret, and I 1hope you will iiiake ;good use of yOior tile whin wvith this young friend of yours and heed well what I have said to you." That ended tli interview. and AlherL was set at vork cupying legal ducii wnt-s and at the s:metimc trying to reconcile himself to his new surround ings. Tlhat night he wrote to Alice: "I have hired out to a ost unmitigat ed old scoundrel aiid yet one of the sharpest lawyers I ever met. 11e as sured me I must lay aside My con science if I Imezan1 to succeed, anl hint ed that he might use me later o>n as a sort of spy. up->n Frank, 1 ima::ine. lie emuploys a stcinographlr of uncer tainl age, who comes in :<A takes die tation and does her work ouitszdm'. The only stupid thing he has said was to war'n tWe not to tiirt with Ler." Then he wrote to his friend Frank. telling him where he was located, thanking lin for his assistaince and begging hin to call at an early date. After that he smoked for aln hour in glum silence. Ilis room was small and cheerless and in comparison with his home quarters a mere den. But it was a question of saving, and the lux ury of space even he could not afford. There is no mere lonesome placo in the wide world than a great city to one born and bred amid the freedomu of the wide fields and extended wood lands., as Albert had been, and now that he was shut in by brick walls all day and imprisoned in one small room at night, with a solitary window opening on an area devoted to ash barrels and garbage, it made him homesick. He was a dreamer by nature and loved the music of running brooks, the rustling of winds in the forest and the song of bIrds. The grand old moun tains that surrounded Sandgatc had been the delight of his boyhood. and to fish in the clear streams that tumbled down through narrow gorges and wound amid wide meadows or in the lily dotted millpond his pastime. He had the artist's nature in him also and loved dearly to sketch a pretty bit of natural scenery, a cascade in the brook or a shady grotto in the woods. He loved books, flowers, music, green iecadows. shady woods and fields white with daisies. H1e had been reared among kind hearted., honest. God fear ing people who seldom locked their doors at night and who believed In and lived by the Golden Rtule. The selfish and distrustful life of a great city, with its arrogance and wealth and vanity of display, was not akin ao him, and to put himself at the beck and call of a mernla ry and utterly unscrupulous oldl villain, as he believed Frye to be, was gall :: ni 1:it terness. For two weeks he. worked ipatiently, hoping each day tha t the one andl only friend the ciy held for him would call, passing his ev enin gs, as lie w'rote Alice. "in reaing. smiokinig and hating myself a lit tie and Frye a good deal." He had hesitated to write F-rank in the lir'st place. (disliking to ask favors, but it could not be helped, and now he began to feel that his friend meant to inore him. This humiliating conclu sin was growing to a certainty and Albert feeling moi-e homesick than ever when one afternoon wvhile he was, as usual, hard at work in Frye's offiee Frank came jil. "lPray excuse nme, old man," remark ed that youth briskly after the first greetIngs. "for not calling sooner, but I was ol Oilnimy yacht about the time you camine, and then I ran downu to New York to take in the cup races. You see, I'm1 so, busy I do not get any time to myself. I want you to come ovecr to the club and lunch with me today, and we can talk matters over." "You wi'll kindly escuse mae," replied Albert. "1 have a lot of work cut out and anm only allorved one hour for lunch. Can't y'ou come around to my roou tonight and have a smoke talk?" "Maiybe." replied Frank. "and we can go around to the club later. You will meet some good fellows there, and we always make up a game of draw small limit, you know. Say, old man." he added Interestedly, "how do you lke Frye~' As that worthy happened to be out just then the two friends had a good chalce to exchange opinions. Albert's is alr'eady known, but, for reasons, he dId not care to express it to Frank at this time. "Frye is a shrewd lawyer, I pre sumae." he answered, "and so far I have uo fault to find, Hie takes good care to see I have work enough, but that is what I am hired for, and I have been rather lonesome and glad of it." Then to change the subject he added: "I want to thank you once more, Frank, for getting me the place. Things were in a bad way at home, and I needed it." "You may thank dad, not me," re plied Frank. "I was just going off on a tr'ip when your letter came, and I turned the matter over to him. Frye's his attorney, you see." "Are you personally well acquainted with Mir. Frye?" asked Al'bert, having an object in mind.. "No. not at all, except by sight," was the answer. "I believe he is con sideredl a v'ery sharp lawyer and al most inv'ariably wins his cases. Dad says he has won out many times when ta iAw was all against him and is 2ot o'verserupulous how he does it. Tley say he is rich and a skitint. ie always reminds me of a hungry buzzard." Albert thought of Burns' apt cyn icm just then and wished that Frye might for one moment see himself as others saw him. He felt tempted to tell Frank just what Frye had said ad what his opinion of himn was, but wIsely kept it to himself. "Well, I must be goIng," saId Frank at last. "I've got a date for the mat. this aft., so ta-ta. i'll call round some eve, at your room and take you up' t the club." When his friend had departed. Albert resumed his rather monotonous copying the gist -of a lot of decisions bearing upon a case that Frye had pending just then, and when he0 wenCt OUt to lunch it was, as usual, lone and to a 3 alcht, plenty of i : l. to do but spend it," he s:id I, hn !I, fully that night as ho Sot in I):- vh"".: rss room smoking and hvelling upon rhe picture of a gay life vs disclosed by friend. *But we are not all born to fortune, and perhaps, after ali. I might i-- worse off," which, to say the least, the best way to look at it. ITO BI: (INTINUE11.J Strikes Hidden Rocks. \Ve l your * 111-Shil Of health striok'S the Iden rocks of conslumption. pIC onia. etc.. you ar lost. if you ' t help from Dr. King'* New% Disov :-.v for Consumption. .1. W. leKin wn of Talladeza Sprin..-\a.. w rAia : 1 had been very ill vith i.oimonia. ;nder~ thi care of Iwo diios. lut was -tting" no0 ht-!ler wvlit l hi t to lake .King's New DiscovirY. Tii' li rs ).e gave relief. anil ow. b *ti-r iic." Shre cure for oro l'oat. broln ;itis. coughs. and cold!-. Guaraner-,. ::'. The IR. 13. Loryvea Druig .tir-. pie The Denecration of Milton'm Tob.ul. The body of the great poet Milton was once on view at a charge of three pence a head. It was inl 1790, after a little carousal. that two overseers and a carpenter entered the Church of st. Giles, Cripplegate, where Milton lay burled, and, having discovered the leaden coffin which contained his body, cut open Its top with a mallet and chisel. "When they disturbed the shroud." Neve says, when telling the story of the ghoulish deed. "the ribs fell. Mr. Fountain confessed that he pulled hard at the teeth, which resist ed until some one lilt them with a stone." Fountain secured all the fine teeth in the upper jaw and generously gave one to one of his accomplices. Al together the scoundrels stole a rib bone, ten teeth and several handfuls of hLir, and to cro .-n the diabolical busi ness the female gravedigger after ward exhibited. the body to any one willing to pay threepence for the spec tacle.-Westmiinster Gazette. A Remedy Without a Peer. --I find Chaimberlains SOMUacI and Liver Tablets more beneficial than any other remedy I ever used for stomach trouble." says .1. P. Klot e. of Edina. %lo. For ayUv (isorier of t.he stomach, biliousness or constipation. these Tab letsare without a peer. For sale by The 1. B. Loryea Drug Store. Isaac M. Loryea. Prop. ALCOLU F D.AILY ECEI EiTeetive Sept No. 1. No. :t. No. . Mixed. Mixed. Pas. A. 'M P. 'M.1 . [ N1. i0 15 700 7 45 Ii............ Ale 0 20 7 1cj -L50 ............ L...... e ' 10 25 7 I) 7 ' i I . .................Hurt 10 3 7 1 00 . .. ................. Dul 1] 00 7 45 30 13U ............. Sari 11 10 755 8 35 14 .................GaM it15 00 4 1 .................. Be 11 25 8 10 1 45 17 ..................Wibt I i 55 S 40 9 05 M .................Huds 1' 45 4 30 1010 .. ............... .lk thle P. M1. P. M. P. M. No. 1 and . Mondays. Thursdays and No. 3. ondays and Fridays. No. 4. Tuc-days. Wednesdays and .Ma No. 5. Tlues.days and Sauturday.s. No. 6. Saturday. *Mc.teod. Harby.c Berds andl HIud..ns daIge P. i. AT LDERAN. G. F. & P. A. jefp '1 I'roli line 01 all Fresh Sleepy Eye Floud fromT Mi Kingam & English Smae Sie4 get the bene11t in best g.oo Quality the Prices Li. FY. ELP PINEWO kid dtd is not btilter. RUSSIAN WOMEN. The Many Restrictions to Which They Are Now Subjected. It is dif11cult for an American to un derstand that freedom as we know i, does not exist in Russia. There the le gal position of woman Is far from sat isfactory. She hardly ever belongs to herself, but Is always under the tute lage of some one. As a daughter the Russian woman 's under the entire control of her parents. Her coming of age does not alter her position. She simply changes the au thority of her parents for the no less rigid authority of her husband. As the Russian statute puts It, "One person cannot reasonably be expected to fully satisfy two such unlimited powers as that of husband and parent." The unlimited power of the parent Is withdrawn and that of the husband substituted. She cannot leave her lord even to visit a neIghboring town with out a "Pass" from him. He names the time she is permitted to stay, and at the end of that time she Is bound to re turn to get the pass renewed. A husband may appear In a court of law as a witness against his wife, but a wife Is not allowed to appear against her husband. A woman's evidence in Russia is always regarded as of less weight than that of a man.-Harper's Weekly. Incredible Brutality. It would have been incredible brutal ity if Chas. F. Lemberger. of Syracuse. N. Y.. had not done the best, he could for his suffering son. "Mv boy," he says, "cute. fearful gash over his eye. so I applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve. which quickly healed it and saved his eve." Good for burns and ulcers too. Only 25c at The R. B. Loryea Drug Store. Behind the Bars. If you are an amateur photographer and have a negative of some friend whom you would like to see locked up for a long term, put your printing frame just Inside a wire mosquito net ting when you print the next picture from the negative. The result will be a print showing your friend behind the bars. The effect will be almost startling. EOTI3f5ONEPTAR Ges Goldsl Provwts phAmuMa ZAILROAD. >T SUNDAYS. ember 20. 1905. No. 2. No 4 No. 6. Mixed. Pass. Pass. P M. A. M. A. M. 0.u ............... 25 4 30 8S 30 12 30 .............. V 4 10 8 15 12 05 0................. 0 4 05 8 10 12 00 int.. ............. 18 4 00 1 8 cc 11 55~ Unia ................ 13 3 30 7 3 11 25 le 4................. I 1 3 20 7 30 11 20 1. ........ .......... 10 3 15 7 25 11 15 as.................. 8 05 7 20 11 10 mf ................ 4 2 45 7 00 10 5) im............... . o :1 0 0 45 10 35 P. M.jA. MA.IM. ridays. rdays. tations for all trains. F. L.. COL LINS. Superintendent. interest. and the in terest of all our cus tomers. have always been the first con S sideration w ith us. We believe that if we give you the best that an buy we are ser vingi your interests. T1his- is why we have the exclus.ive agen ey'' for the justly el ebrated CanuHa2TT BR AND o RKING - eLoTHING. There is no other br1and be) t t er than this Ibrand. T h e r e is none as good. We invite your inspec .tion. We satisfy or 1 ourtoe BACK kinds of Tale Delicacies. Bread made from the famous nesota. Jo.' s Hanis, nd1 stips, the kind every ~tdy of our businesss. you ds at lowest prices. Best, the Lowest. deI gZoods.* wC pick thos~e of beJIxen a tPi al'iler. DD,S. C. ml Meal at all times the gg iFurniture On Easy Payments. JIlilMl E SNEW PUETD. E IN I I We have received some new Furniture that will prove of great interest to the folks hereabouts who know what it is to save money. Saving money is making money. E Saving money is making money. We have been very suc cessful in buying at specially low prices and offer these -- goods at low prices, giving you the benefit of our good fortune. E YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD HERE. New shipment of Oak Beds. Strong and &2 . styli Special................. E Some of the best straight Chairs ever seen 7f here for the small price of............. A good, serviceable Bedroom Suite,. solid oak............... 0 (Can't be matched at this special price.) Rockers, bought at special prices, une qualled at .. . .. . up. Mattings. Curtains and such home necessities and comforts should be put in right now before the weather gets cold. We can save you money on all this line of goods. Mattings. special at.... ...............15 C yd. THE FURNITURE THAT LASTS. S. L. KRASNOFF, Undertaking and Furniture, Manning, S. C. II SThe Furniture Man. HRWMSWR 3 It Is Useless -. For a man to have an aim in life unless he has the ammunition to back it up. 5 It would be useless for us to offer you bar gains through these columns unless we have - them (of which we are proud to say that there is not a merchant in this community who can offer you as good goods at such low prices). Just have patience and compare the following prices with others, then we are certain that you will not 'fail to make our - store headquarters for your fall and winter -~ apparel purchases. - *We have lately introduced in our business. the method of a plamn figure mark, which - means, all goods that are to be sold at cut prices are dressed with new price tickets marked in plain figures so the public can dis tinguish the goods that are to be sold at re duced rates. The following is our plain figure mark 3 For the Next.Two Weeks '. Excellent quality fine texture Cashmeres, in all shades, well worth $1, only 39c. 5. Better quality and finer weave previously ~ sold at $1.50, for 69c. SThe regular 50c ones, special for 23c. 9 . The 15c ones. w'e will not have enough, but as long as they last you can get them for 10c. 5 Heavy Storm Serge, 44 inches wide, guaran teed standard quality, at the unheard-of price ~ of 39c. - ~ 5 Good quality Women's Shoes, sizes 4 to 7, at 69c; better grades at 85c, 98c an d up to $4. Our Shoes are bought from the largest man -~~ ufacturers in the United States. consequently they are better ma-i 9 the feet and wear ~ better than any othe the same price. *We handle the w~ell-kuwn best line of Shoes on the market for men by SW. L. DOTUGLAS SHOE 00., THE ZEIGLER BROTHERS, and THE RROWN SHOE COMPANY'S Shoes for- Women and Children cannot be ex celled. 6 The above mentioned lines speak for them- ~ -2 solves and it is useless for us to waste words - ~ in pris of these Shoes. Onice you buy a ~ :2. pir ofthem you are our customer. -d - Do your trading at THE NEW IDEA and be -~ Your-s truly. ? RASNOFF : MERCANTIL : CO., ~ MANNING, S. C.