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-4AMERA L !k~~ NI LACE. BETTE SHOES FOR ESS AMRICAN GENT EN MORYflI The Vic an Boxt~r W Is the Text of Our Fall Annonce- Th.iian o Ial m llStle Better Stle: The most beautiful ever of fered. a 35;P t l designed and executed by experts w Leathers $4. E spent months in their preparation. Yo~u would probably buy this shoe if you Better Fit: An American Lady ho on y our culd take it in your hand and see its unusual Sfoot looks as well as it does in the picture be- beauty and style. feel the smooth. tlexib~ility of ____ ~ cause each shoe is carefully shaped on a natura the leather, note the exquisitely trimmed sole p last by specialists in this one operation. andH smrppy toe; the seamless imstep!, and all the details of good shoemaking that have pro Bettr Vlue Becusethee shes . ~ duced the 'Set Regis." our fall offer of a dress Scontain materials and workmanship. which you shoe. 15000 dealers sell them. shose for children. We sugges. that you really must not miss seeing our line of up-to-date Dress Goods, as it is Scomplete in every detail, and are injuring yourself by not personally inspecting it. Shaw & McCollumn Mercantile CO., IL M 1- ~ 8 . .C.r Phone 69. Souath Main Street. THE FAL STYLES ulerinth kes ndfrntan es s o te i est cutsighl lowr.o Abo the fres. The O richest Annd os enteal patrsta aeytpae .4 redyfo-srvcegament. BastiertlTes osteSctchu cevirots. etc ,tc NN~wNN NNNve -N hese woolensecoe in epancrsnatrlis Lanmothbesrps.4 You'lcertinlybe gratlysurprsedou what d proab. b1u50 th5. and e $2 ill o fo you h ter in : uy n Anmea wayel u we ll tailo e Fi iSyut. d n seit - We'tr l e wi aeth l ewesosa 3 lcdte"e ens.-01'fl)or f'a Ie E sho - honane 16.auteral an. wokasi..hco Nantfn nayoh. hea htpieOe :lreln feeproisails.10 N1 N N1K Na :9~ Nha ______IAD Nec...-ie o,: N NeUM7E S. CN N N: N N'tae-6 .SiuhMi te4 N2 MAN'S !NVENTIONS. Many of the Id bas Used Were Stolen DIreetl) lFron Nature. H1ouses are nort the invention of man. The idea was borrowed from the swal .low. Wheu the world was young its inhab Itants were troglodyates. They dwelt in holes in cliffs. One savage, more enter prising than his fellows, puzzled his brains to find out a way tq construct a cozy dwelling. On one occasion he caught sight of a bird gathering bits of clay with its beak. It was a swallow, and he ,atched it build a nest on a ledge of rock. "Wonderful," said he. -'Tli do like wise." He set to work at once and built a clay hut. His neighbors called him the "mudhole dweller" and laughed at his house. But, when they discovered that he was more snug than they, up went other buts. The savages lived in mud huts until the beaver came to visit them. In build ing a house for himself he gave early man a lesson in architecture. The bea ver not only showed him how to build houses that would stand all kinds of weather, but instructed him in the art of dam and bridge building. The gentlemen of the stone age had boats. This has been proved by the things left behind them. 'It is doubt ful. however, whether they invented vessels themselves. A well known antiquarian declares that the savage stole the idea for the sailing boat from a small shellfish hav ing a kind of fin attached to its back. By resting on a wave and erecting the fin it can skim over the waters at great speed when the wind is behind it. . It is generally believed that man in vented the thatch to keep barns and ricks dry. As a matter of fact, It was the weaver bird that gave the idea to him. With its beak it constructs a per fectly made, large, rainproof shelter, or thatch, over its nest. The Zulu huts in the Transvaal are roofed in almost the same way today. Dame Nature was a glassmaker long before man was created. Natural glass resembled the glass of which beer bot tles are made, and it is to be found in Iceland, Spain, Italy, Sardinia and al most every locality in which volcanoes have been at work. Its proper-name is obsidian, and there are enough cliffs of glass to fill all the window frames In Great Britain. Mica is another form of natural glass and is -largely used in the making of chimneys fork incandescent gaslights: It is dug out of the ground, will stand great heat and needs nothing but split ting to be made use of at once. Old brown Windsor soap, so common ly used for the toilet, is not the real thing at all, but merely an imitation. The only soap of that name is not made, but comes.from the bulbs of the Porto Rico soap plant, and it was used for washing purposes long before man thought of manufacturing soap from fat and -other substances. Its smell is exactly the same as London made old brown Windsor, and there is no doubt whatever that the latter is an exact-im itation of the natural soap. At one time the world was lighted at night with "farthing dips," long sticks of compressed fat with a thin string through the eanter. Before this the seeds of the tallow tree, which growvs in Algeria, Sumatra and China, were used for lighting purposes. The seeds, which are of a good size, need but a wick to burn with a clear, white flame. It will therefore be seen that the idea for both ancient and modern candles was stolen 'directly from nature.-Pear' son's Weekly TRUSTING TO FATE. An Incident That Gives an Insight Into Russian Character. A few years ago I was taking a country walk in Kovno. The road lay trough a dense forest, and the day was oppressively hot. I arrived at last at a crossroad and sat down under the shade of the trees to rest. A signpost pointed its two arms down the con verging roads. On one of them was in scribed "14 versts to J'anova," on the other "17 versts to Shadowa." Present ly the creaking of wheels and the slow "clop, clop" of a horse's hoofs on the road behind roused me. A cart piled high with tifiware was cesming down the road, with the driver perched on the top of the load.' "Good day, brother," I called out as the cart, with its sorry horse, came abreast of me. The man returned my salute, and the horse,' glad of any ex cse to rest his weary legs, came to a standstill in the, middle of the road. "Which way are- you going?" I asked. "To J'anova. There is a market there tomorrow." "But there is also a market in Sha dowa," I answered, "and it is a more important place than Janova." "So it is, so it is," the driver replied, with perfect indifference. "What have you for sale?" "Plenty of good tinware, as you can see, brother. I have worked for six weeks to make this cartload." "Well, good luck to you and your tinware," I said, pulling and' eating the berries within reach. "Will you take it to Janova or Shadowa?" The man picked up thie bit of cord which served as reins and.;,prepared to go on. "I shall leave that to my- horse," he answered callously. The lumbering wagon mo'ved off and finally passed out of sight down the Janova road, which the horse had elect ed to take.-St. James' Gazette. FEATHERED MIMIICS. Ostrichien Roar Like Lions and. Jays Are Great Imitators. "The roar of the ostrich resembles the roar of the lion because the estrich stole from the lion this sound, even as one playwright steals from another a plot." An ornithologist made that odid as sertion in a taxidermist's shop. He went on to elaborate it as follows:: "Birds from the ostrich down are im itative. The ostrich w'here he lives alone is silent, but in a country w~here lions abound he roars. Why? Beenuse for centuries, admiring the majiesty and grandeur of the lion's roar,, he gradually learned to roar himself. Be lieve me, it is fine to see an ostrich throw back his little head and emit a roar like thunder. "Buntings imitate pipits, and green finches imitate yellowhammers. They seek their food in the winter together, and they gradually steal each other's call. "The jay is an insatiable imitator. Some jays will include in their reper tory noc only the whoo-oo of the kite, the scream of the buzzard and the hoot of the owl, but also the bleat of the lamb and the neigh of a horse. "Even the nightingale imitatds. In a nightingale's perfect song I have often heard the tip-sip-sisisis o~f the wood warbler and the bub-ub-ubble of the The Briton and Wnnhing. We have come to loo)k upon water as ant primarily to wash in, as an aid tablution rather h:mi a thing of beau ty. A story of a Somersetshire peas ant will illustrate what we mean. The individual in question had ne'ver seen the sea until he was taken to Weston super-Mare on a "eboir trent" excur sion. Naturally the vicalr, th', enrate and the rest of the tenors, trebles and basses as soon as the esplanade was reached gathered, around to see how the first sight of the ocean would strike the natural man.! Will it be believed that the words struck from him by the view of "the unfurrowed deep" lying in vast ex-panse before his eyes were these: "If I'd known what her were like; I'd have brought down a bit pf soap and had a good wash." The Iron, or. rather, the soan, had entered so deeply into his soul that he could only conceive the sea as a huge washing place.-London Spectator. Wagner's Shorn Locks. Waguer, the composer, at one time became afflicted with headaches and determined to have his hair cut. He accordingly arranged with a barber to perform the operation on a certain day. That worthy resolved to make a good thing of it and informed all his cus tomers of Wagner's impending sacri fice. Most of them paid him a certain sum down in advance to make sure of a lock of the great musician's hair. To the barber's horror Mme. Wagner su perintended the cutting and when it was over appropriated the whole of the coveted locks. The barber. In de spair, confessed that he had sold them many times over, whereupon madam suggested that her butcher had hair very much like Wagner's. And the story goes that that night half Dres den slept with the butcher's hair un der its pillow. Historic Relic. The Chesapeake, famous for her en counter wth the British ship Shan non in the war of 1812, is still in ex istence. When she was captured by the British she was taken to England by her captor, Sir Philip Broke, and some years later her timbers were sold. The purchaser was a miller in Wiskham, and when he pulled down his old mill he built a new one from the timbers of the Chesapeake. Many of these timbers still have the marks of the Shannon's grapeshot, and in some places the shots are still to be seen deeply imbedded in the pitch pine. If the builder who made this ship knew that its timbers were being used in a mill which is making money for a subject of Great Britain there is no doubt that he would at least try to rise from his grave to right the wrong. '+ + EYE Defects +In The + School Room. + The greater per cent. of eye * .. trouble is acquired or developed + 4 during school days. Neglect at + +this time is responsible for much * of the present dag eye trouble. + + Twenty-five per cent. of all school + * children suffer from defective 4 * eyes. They fail behind in their +, 4 classes and are often out of school + Sthrough ignorance of the cause, ., . when a half hour with the opto- 4, 4 metrist would have remedied the -4 whole difficulty. - 4, 4, Many a so-colled "dull scholar" + + is so because of some defect of + the eye Don't neglect. tne eyes 4, 4, of your children. +, L, F.HCHMTH4t.. 4, OPTOMETRIST & OPTICIAN, * 4, No. 18 South Main Street. +, 4'Phone No, 359. - SUMTER, S. C. 4 Notice of Discharge. I will apply to the Judge of Pro bate for Clarendon County on the 26th day of October 1905, for let ters of discharge as executor of the estate of T. James Davis, deceased RItCHARD H. DAVIS, Executor. Manning, S. C., Sept. 25, 1905.. Notice to Creditors All persons having claims against the Estate of Willia~m J. Kelly~deceased, will present them duly attested, and those owing~said Estate will make payment to HATTIE J. KELLY. Administratrix. Manning, S. C., R. F. D. THE' S-evm~i5 snMEST, SIR ES,'BEST THE MURRaY W GSUK Gins, Feedsv.e~Unstc. GKBBES )A~UTc~ W HE N YOU COME TO TOWN CALL AT WELLS' SHAVING SALOON Which is titted up with an oye to the comnfort of his eastomners.-.-.-.-. -HAIR CUTTIG IN ALL STYLES, 8H AVING* AND SH MP0OOING Uone with neatness and di spatteb.. .. .-.. A cordiatl invitatioV ,.' ..'tr-nced... J1. L. W ELLS. bM-txvkiug Trimes~ Block. F LEY3IOlIEIAPTAR 1894 1905 Soo Square Feet $o,ooo Square . Floor Space, $17- Feet Floor Space 50 Stock $45,000 Stock The 15th day of September eleven years ago we open ed our doors to the trade with a stock amounting to $1750, occupying a-floor space of only 800 square feet. Today we - offer the greatest stock of goods ever offered by any one house in the county, amounting to over ,45,000, occupying a grand Department Store with its adjoining warerooms, amounting to something over 10,000 square feet of floor space. Many times during these years of success, toil and struggle, have dark and forbidding elonds sprang up on our business horizen and it looked like our frail bark w6uld be drawn upon the rocks of defeat, but by persistaint effort and untiring eneray. we have overcome great dificulties. Many times during these years powerful competitors have come upon the scene of action and tried to wrench the banner of victory from our hands, but never have we turn ed our backs to the roe with our banner dragging in the dust of defeat. 45,000 Worth of Merchandise offered to the people of Clarendon County,- at price-s that will command the attention of the most'careful buyers. Never during the eleven years we have been in busi ness have we been able to place our stock so advantage ously. Last May, while cotton was down to 7c.~per pognd, we placed our orders for all the Arown Homespun. Check Homespuns, Bleached Homespun and Sheeting and Call eoes that we would need for the entire fall and winter, and the result is today, we have on- :at, stock of Domestics in the house, at from '25 to 35 i-ant. less than they can be landed today. This puts u. ;.. a position to take- eare of our friends, and we will do it if they will give us a chance to figure with them on their fall bills of Dry Goods. 25 Dozen Pair of Boys' Knee Pants at 15 cents per pair or two pair for 25 cents. Mens-nice 3-piece Suits at .55.00 per Suits. The grandest line of Men's all-wool Suits at $7.50 and $10.00, ever shown in this town, or anywhere else for the, same money. 'Young men, it will do you good to see our great line.of nice Dress Suits, at S12.50 and $15.00 per Suit. Those who wish to furnish their -homes will-do welt to see our great line of Furniture. Nice Bed-roomsSuits at $8.50 per Suit. Nice real Oak Bed-room Suits, plate glass 6 Mirrors, at $12.50 per Suit. All kinds of Chairs, Sideboards. Wardrobes, Chiffoniers, China Closets, Hall Racks, andy everything in the Furniture and House Furnishing Lines at very close prices. If you need a bill of Furniture, it will do you no harm to let us figure with you. 'Our Great Fall Opening. Our grandopening of Pattern Hats, Millinerf Goods,. Dress Goods and Silks, Cloaks. Wraps and Furs, will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, October 4 and .5th. Everybody is cordially invited to cahl and. see our grand display of Fall Goods, as it will be the' most important we - have ever shown. Come, it matters not whether you buy; one cent's worth or not, we wish you to come and see our', grand display of Fall and Winter Goods. Now, don't for get the date,- Wednesday and Thursday, October 4 and 5th. 25 dozen Boys'. Knee Pant at 15e. per pair or two'pair for 25c. We would especially call your attention-to our great values in Linen Towels, Na kiws and Table Demask, White Bed Spreads and Figured oilies. -Linen Table De mask with Napkins to match at 75e., $1. afid S,1.25 per yard. Dont't forget the great values we.are'offeringin lour" Furniture Depa-rtnient. Poplar. Bed-room Suits at $8.50 per Suit.' Oak Bed-room Suits, plate glass Mirrors at $12.50. Don't forget our great Fall Opening of Pattern Hats. Millinery Goods, DresS Goods, Silks, Cloaks, Wraps and" Furs, Wednesday and Thursday, October 4 an&5tb. When you come to town don't fail to visit the great est Department Store in Clarendon County. IW.EK.JEIIISOI CL ARE TOlREAD!? 'Are you ready td fit up your Ginnery? We have a nice stock of. Valves, Fittings and Oils~ We also offer you'The well.kuown and high grade guaranteed' GANDY BELT that we have' always sold you. 'Don't buy an in ferior grade. We have this season the celebrated KEEN KUTTER AXES. HATCHETS, SAWS and POCKET KMLVES--all guaranteed to be the best that skilled workman can make. Gent's! you will soon be ready to select that gun you expect to buy., All we ask is for you to call and examine. The largest sand most' complete line otDouble anid Single Guns ever offered the trade of Clarendon county. L es call and see our beautiful and fine Stoves aud Lae, Ranges. We cau please you in goods acdprices remember us when you need Builditig Sup FarDmers, pies, Paints and Oils. Cotton Scales. Pos. Tin and Agateware, Pumps and Pipe. Yours for busmness, Levi Blok)4k NEW FIM! WENYP IANNING. COMF. To0 Fist-liss An Account LRestairfalt With Us. for good, hot meals. JT. McD. Richzard- You can then pay~ yvour son and 'Eliza Davis have consolidatedblswihcekwih their Restaurants under the firm namebilwthcekwih Rihadon&Dai we return to you the Richrdso & D visfirst of each month and Restaurant. We have separate apart ments for white and colored, and can which are thus made a serve you most any hour during the receipt in full for every day, guaranteeing first-class service. We solicit the patronage of all our dollar you pay out. friends. We also handle GI~ro eries You can always make change and Green Groceries, and can satisfy - with a check. your wants in these lines. Richardson & Davis. W. O. W. -BankoISumm~ioR Woodmen of the World. Summerton, S. C. Meets on fourth Monday nights at Visiting Sovereigns invited. Notice of Discharge. for Claredo Coutnt on the 11th :ii akS Widns and Btadder NS of August, 1905, for letters of " --charge as Guardian for Helen 8. Tm-~ Kodol Byspepsia Cure dal EMMIE E. ANDERSON. nistso what 7018 eat. ' I Summerton. S. C., July11, 1900.