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erencies at Home Stock on the Farm A, Kar, Liniment W inedicine chest Price 25c, 50c & ! .00 Se.cd for Free Booklef on Horses.Cati!e. Hoes 6 Pbultry. UAddress D. Er S S Boston, Mass. E12. W. C. Norwine, of Flat River, in the lead mine district of Missouri, has sent us this photo of a pair of Diamond Brand shoes worn 10 months underground where ordinary shoes average about 6 weeks. Our heavy Diamond Brand work shoes are in every way as superior in their class as are our highest grade dress shoes-and we make more fine shoes than any. other House in the West. WE. MAKE 10.qE /NE SHOES 7/fE NA Ai NV OTHEQ FiO /SE fM' THE WES . I L 9EA RE The fact that S. S. S. is a purely vegetable preparation, containing not the slightest trace of mineral in any form, has been one of the strongest points in its favor during its forty years of existence. It is recognized everywhere not only as the best of all blood purifiers, but the one medicine that can be taken wvith absolute safety by the youngest child or the oldest mem'ber of the family. Next in imoortance to removing the cause of any disease is the condition in which the'system is left aster a course of medical treatment. Medicines containing nmercury, potash or other strong mineral ingredients often do permanent injury by eating out the delicate lining and tissues of the stomach, producing chronic dy-spepsia. unfavorably affecting the bowels and so damaging the system that even if the original cause of the disease has been removed, it is left in such a deranged and weakened condition that $1,000 R EWAR D the health is permanently impaired. S. S. S.' enjoys the distinction of being the only blood W NOT PURELY medicine on the market that does not contain a mineral oroperty in some form. 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Should the insured continue to pay his premiums dur ing the second 10-year period and if death should occur during the second 10 years the company will add every premium to the face of the policy that has be-en paid during this period and pay it in cash plus the face of the policy. 11th. This nolicy can only be obtained from Reliance Life of Pittr'burg, the company having the LARGEST ORIGINAL SURPLUS to policy-holders of any COMPANY IN THE WORLD-A SURPLUS OVER THE RESERVE AND ALL OTHER LIABILITIES OF OVER ONE MILLION EIGHT H UNDRED THOUSAND DOLiLRS. Its Board of Directors is composed of recognized financial ability and busi ness integrity, it is oflicered by practical and experienced insurance men. The right man can secure a position by applying to JA MESHsW E EE,President Reliance Life insurance Co., Pittsburg, Penn. in tock te bes 1)-s'sorted lot of BUGGIES ve rought to thi maket. zrom 84-> up to S8~>., and feel as surd e a aeayn who wnts at good, comfortable Bugg.v. P!-IEATONS te~o seats fo neo 1o horses: ailso the best lot of | PIEDMONT WAGONS a -N b ~ o r e e q~ c u t t h t r d i he p e o pl e o f C l a rI e n d o n lDP. A KIN & CMPANY_ Competitive Examinations. Editor Manning Times: Will vou kiadly annotiucc that on Saturday, November I.. I will hold a competitive examination, for the purpose of making two appointments to Annapolis. This examination will be conducted by Profs. W. K. Tate. W. M. Whitchcad and Dr. H. S. Mc- I Gillivray, at the High School of Char leston, and will begin at 9 a. m. Applicants must he bona fide resi dents of the 1st Congressional district, and must furnish the board of exami ners with a physician's certificate of good health: not less than 16 or more than 20 years of age, 'nd shall not b, less than five feet, two inches, between the ages of 16, and IS: and not less than five feet four inches between the ages of IS and 20; and the mimimun weigh t at It years of age shall be one hundred pounds, with an increase of not less than five pounds for eacb additional year or fraction of a year overone-halif. GEORGE S. LEGARE, M. C. 1st District. S. C. Wounds, Bruises and Burns. By applying an antiseptic dressing to wounds. bruises, burns and like in juries before inflammation sets in, they may be healed without maturation and in about one-third the time required by the old treatment. This is the great est discovery and triumph of modern surgery. Chamberlain's Pain Balm, acts on this same principle. It is an antiseptic and when applied to such in juries, causes them to heal very quick ly. It also allays the pain and so're ness and prevents any danger of blood poisoning. Keep a bottle of Pain Balm in your home and it will save you time and money, not to mention the incon venience and suffering such injuries entail. For sale by The Arant Co. Drug Store. TIDAL FLUX AND REFLUX. Compfleated Movements of the B1 lowns of the Oceans. Those who sec the rise and fall of the tides in our Atlantic harbors sel dom think of the wonderful course of the ocean waves which cause the tidal flux and reflux. Such billows not only cross the sea, but flow from ocean to ocean, and in this way complicated movements are set going. Thus, for instance, once in every twelve hours the moon raises a tide billow in the southern Indian ocean. When this billow passes the Cape of Good Hope at noon its successor is al ready borh, and by the time the first billow has reached the Azores islands at midnight the second is rounding the cape, and a third has come into ex istence In the southern ocen. By 4 o'clock in the morning following its passage of the cape the tide billow reaches the English channel, and there the shallow waters delay it so much that it- does not arrive at the strait of Dover until 10 a. ni. Here the nar rowing channel causes the tide to rise very high and almost puts an end to the wave. In the meantime another branch of the billow run's around the western side of the British islands, rounds the north.point of Scotland and moves slowly do*n the eastern coast of Eng land until It finally flows up The Thames and laps the wharfs of Lon do:.--Philadelphia tecord. This is Worth Rememberlng. As no one is immune, every person should remember that Foley's Kidney Cure will cure any case of kidney or bladder trouble that is not beyond the reach of medicine. The White Headed Boy. The phrase "his mother's white head ed boy" is as old as the hills In Ire land. It appears in many of the Irish fairy stories of the last century. Irish mothers who knew good fairies always kept the secret for the "white headed boy" of the family. Gerald Griffin in one of his best short stories years ago used the phrase as one he had bor rowed from an old Celtic book. Mixed as to Definitions.. Hungry Higgins-Wot! You dunno wot a miser is? A miser is a man that denies hisself the necessaries of life when he has the money to buy 'em. Weary Watkins-Oh, I have met some of them fellers. But I t'ought they called theirselves Prohibitionists.-In dinapolis Journal. Fully Talued Then. "We ne-.er r"e'lize the full value of a thing until we lose it," remarked the man who was fond of moralizing. "That's right," replied the practical man, "especially if the thing lost was insred."-Philadelphia Ledger. His Balance Gone. Guile--Taylor bet all the money he had in the lbank that he would walk a slack wire for twenty feet. Quay-Did be win or lose? Guile-He lost his bal ance. To try to be happy at the expense of other people Is to be bad.-Deland. We have secured the agency for Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup, the new laxative that makes the liver lively, purifies the bi'eath, cures headache and regulates the digestive organs. Cures chronic constipation. Ask us about it. Sold by The Arant Co. Drug store. lie Wouldn't Wake. One evening last week 31r. Poindex ter, a traveling man, had a remarkable dream. He seemed to be exploring an old and unusued attic in his dwelling house. Presently he uncovered an ar. cient chest. He opened it and found it full of gold and silver. So strong was the impression upon him that he realized at once the utter folly of waking up. Thereupon he slept on and continued to dream.-Chi cago Tribune. Bad Error. "That was a rather serious mistake the types made In speaking of young Golightly." "In what way?" "Changed a 'a' into an 'a' and said he was a ragged specimen of athletic manhood." An Exception. "I never heard such a lot of gossip. The walls in that boarding house have ears, haven't they?" "Yes, everywhere except about the dumb waiter."-Baltimore American. In the Swiss Mountains. "Ethel, that awfully handsome guide kissed me a moment ago. Do you think I ought to deduct something from his pay or add to it?"-Fliegende Blatter.. Those edges soonest turn that are most keen. A sober moderation stands sure. No violent extremes endure. Aleyn.______ _____ _ Beas the I9Kind You Have Always B8ught Signatr. DEADLY MUSHROOMS. THE BEAUTIFUL BUT VENOMOUS AMANITA FAMILY. Beneath the Plenresin Exterior of This Brilliant Fnzigis Lurkm a Vicious Poison That Is Fatal to the Lives of Men and Cattle. In the dark shade of lofty pine trees and under spreading oaks in more open woods a mushroom is found so remarkable in color and graceful in form that its beauty has excited ad miration for hundreds of years. The color of its bright orange cap arid its chalk white stem and gills is height ened by the surrounding darkness of the woods and presents a contrast as singular as it is beautiful. But beneath the pleasing exterior of this brilliant fungus a poison lurks so fatal to the lives of men and cattle that it is called the deadly amanita, and in different countries mothers cau tion their children to beware of its charms. Amanita muscaria, the deadly, or fly, amanita, is completely incased in a fleece-like covering during the early stages of its growth, which makes it decidedly egg shaped in form. As the stem lengthens this covering either adheres in loose patches to the top of the cap or it slips away and forms a sheathing. to the cup at the base of the stem. Another inner covering breaks away in its turn from the cap as the mush room exlpands and forms a conspicuous collar about the upper part of the stem. The bulbous base of the stem and these ruptured, fleecy coverings are pronounced characteristics which are most helpful in distinguishing this dangerous fungus from the other vare ties of mushrooms. It is strong, free from pests and grows to a height from four to sixteen inches. In color the cap is sometimes bright scarlet, again orange or yellow or reddish in the center and light yel low toward the edges, and it has no ticeable wartlike patches spread over the top. On old plants the color fades out, and late in the season particularly forms of the deadly amanita are found which are almost white. The stem is easily separated from the cup at its base. This mushroom is more generally known than any of the other poison ous species. It has long been used as a fly poison in Europe, and it takes its name, muscaria, from the Latin word for a fly. Its poisonous effect upon hu man beings begins a few hours after it has been eaten. The symptoms are nausea and faintness, with cold per spiration and stupor, followed in se vere cases by death from a gradual weakening of the heart. A. strong emetic should be given at once, and in all cases a physician should be called. Sulphate of atropin Is the only known chemical antidote for this poison, and to save.the patient it must be promptly administered by hypodermic injections.' The poison may also be absorbed through the pores of the skin, and bad cases of poisoning have been produced by simply holding an amanita in the closed hand or breathing its exhala tions in a warm room. If poisonous mushrooms are packed in the same box with edible ones the virus from the poisonous fungi is ab sorbed by the harmless mushrooms, and they become as dangerous to eat as the original offenders. In certain countries the deadly ama nita seems to lose some of its virulen cy, and in the north of Russia and parts of northeastern Asiia it is used in the same manner as wine for its in toxicating effects. The mushrooms are gathered in hot weather and are hung up in the air to dry or they are some times picked fresh and put into soup or sauces. A small amount swallowed whole is enough to produce a day's in toxication. Another fatally dangerous member of the amanita family is the death cup (Amanita phalloides), a beautiful mushroom which also grows in the woods, especially in pine forests. It is not so highly colored as the deadly amanita, and, unlike that mushroom, it has a smooth, satiny cap. It is usu ally white or straw colored, but speci mens are found which are light brown, green, yellow and spotted. The stem is white and nearly smooth, and the cup at the base of the stem is invaria bly present. The death cup is even more poison ous than the deadly amanita and stands firs,t among all noxious fungi for its poisonous qualities. It grows in the east.rn and middle states and in particularly large quantities near the city of Washington. Another amanita (Amanita vernus), found in~ the woods in spring, is also very poisonous and may be told by its color, which is a creamy white throughout. Although it is said that the amanitas are the only mushrooms which have proved fatal to human life, there are other varieties afhich cause such acute distress that it is wvell to guard against eating them. The boleti, for instance, have several varieties which are nonedible, although many kinds, on the other hand, make delicious food. The boleti are distin guished by a sponge-like surface of pores instead of gills beneath the cap. The harmful varieties are bitter, as a rule, and change color to blue or red when cut or broken. The edible varie ties remain white.-Annie Oakes Hunt ington in Youth's Companion. Pins. An exchange asks, What becomes of all the pins? Why, they fall to the earth and become terrapins.-Atlanta Journal. Better an egg today than a hen to morrow.-Germa n Proverb. In every clime its colors are unfurled Its fame has spread from sea to sea: Be not surprised if in the other world You hear of Rocky Mountain Tea. D-. W. E. Brown & Co. six Hlundred Tears Without a Doctor. According to Pliny, Rome flourished for 000 years without a doctor. It is maintained by some. however, that when making this statement Pliny was not aware that certain Greek physi cians resided in Rome at least during a part of the period named. But there is certainly no question that in the early days of its history physicians were very scarce in Rome and doubt less because there was little occasion for their services. With the advance of civilization maladies have multi plied, and with the increase of disease there has been a proportionate increase of physicians. Beaa the The Kind YOU Have Always Bought A BRAKE ON SUCCESS. The Habit of Making Excuses Will Retard Any Man's Career. Good excuses have kept back many a man from realizing a prosperous Ca reer. Once you get the excuse making habit formed you might as well have a ball and chain attached to your neck so far as your prosipects for rising to the top are concerned. There are two kinds of excuses which keep a clerk in the business world oc cupying a clerk's position when he is capable (has it in him) to be something better if he only would. The first class of excuses are the ones he makes to himself. These are often as enervat ing, subtle and death dealing as the nasty cigarette. A clerk sees a piece eg work which he knows ought to be done today. He knows that the best interests of the business require that this work should nQt be put off until tomorrow. But he has not yet reached a point where he realizes that his employer's interests are Identical with his own, and per haps he was out late last night and feels a lack of ambition today. So he excuses himself from doing the work on the ground that "the boss" didn't tell him to do it today. After soothing his conscience with this specious men tal dope he puts in his spare time read ing about the way Slobett knocked out Casey in twenty-one rounds. Several days later when the neglected work comes under the eye of "the boss" our clerk. is asked why he did not do it, and he then repeats his stereotyped excuse that he wasn't "told" to do it For such a one the gateway to success is always barred. This brings us to the second kind of excuse, that made to one's employer. Of the two this latter 'ind of excuse is the less injurious to the clerk's chance of advancement. When he excuses himself from doing obviously impor tant work lie instills into his own mind a subtle mental poison, a don't care-a-hang essence that breeds lack of backbone, lack of concentration, lack of continuity and application. He Weak ens and incapacitates himself far more when he excuses himself to himself be cause he will then often allow his mind to dwell on excuses so weak that he would never dream of giving them verbal utterance in the presence of his employer. And when he has once set the men tal habit of excusing himself he goes on and on binding the fetters which will forever hold him back from any rise. It is now only a short step to finding good excuses for not doing what he has been told to do. Then a little further along on the same line it will be strange indeed if he does not land himself on the boot toe that ele vates the incompetent and deposits them outside in the cold world. Shun excuses.-Spare Moments. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. It must be tough to hate a man everybody else likes. "I am sorry" does about as little good as anything in this world. If you want to keep your friends you must occasionally leave them alone. You can share your whiskers off quicker than you can get them back. Nearly every man Is henpecked, but a good many manage to disguise the fact People talk about the importance of "taking it easy." Some people take It too easy. The one thing that stands by you, keeps you interested in life ind is al ways the same is your regular work. When a woman bluffs she seldom has anything better than a bobtail flush, but it takes a mighty brave man to "call" her.-Atchison Globe. All a Trick. The other day a woman and a boy came into a shop to buy a hat After a time the woman was fitted to one. Looking in the glass, she said to the youngster: "How do I look in this hat?' "Like a thief," promptly responded the boy. The woman angrily darted toward him, but the boy fled from the shop. The shopkeeper laughed and thought it all very funny until their long ab sence made her realize that she had been robbed. Then she stopped laugh ing.-London Telegraph. The Common School. In higher education England is cer tainly the equal if not the superior of this country, but the benefits of that education are necessarily limited, and limited, by the way, to those who have no pressing need for it In the mat ter of common schools, however, we have done for our people what no country in Europe has yet attempted The results have naturally been an industrial and commercial forwardness that has made us sometimes the ad miration and sometimes the envy of the English.-St Louis Republic. Poor Augustus! Augustus Imperator, with -the world's wealth at his command, "had not a shirt to his back or a chimney to his kitchen." He had not a fork, either. or a teapot or an umbrella or a piece of soap. In the depth of winter Augus tus had no covering for his limbs. Land Outlook. The Umbrella. "Where's the umbrella I lent you yesterday?' "Jones borrowed It Whv?" "Oh, nothing; only the fellow I bor rowed it of says the owner has been asking for It" An Expensive Luxary. Hewitt-These cigars I am smoking are pretty expensive. Jewett-That's true enoughr; the last one you gave me cos, me a doctor's bill. -New York Press. Jealoui'y. The beautiful girl's sweet smiles changed to dark frowns. "You deceiver'" she hissed. "I hate you!" The young man dropped his cane in astbnishment "Hate me!" he gasped. "Why, it was only yesterday you said you loved every hair on my 'head." "es, but not every hair on your shoulder," she retorted as she held aloft a golden bit of evidence.--Chicago News. Softly Sentimental. "Have you any new song that Is soft and niellow?" "Well, here's one that just caime in. It's caled 'I Love My Little Oozy, Moozy Moo.' That sounds mushy, doesn't it?"-Cleveland Plain Dealer. The London Child. Th"London child's life is often very like a rabbit's-one long scurry from superior 'beings.-London Spectator. 1eason zgovernsl4e wise man and cudge the Afo1 --1m the Italian The Marvels of Science. When we hear of rays of light capa ble of achieving photography through a foot thickness of solid iron, of the charting of the sky itself on such ft scale that a thousand million menibers of the firmament can be recorded each in its appointed place, of the discov ery of something like the sense organs of human knowledge on the 'roots, stems and leaves of plants; of the tracking of diseases which decimate humanity to their obscure source in the parasite of a parasite and of the proc ess by which two patient and humble scientists working upon a few grains of an element in a mere secondary form managed to revolutionize our whole conception of the most stupen dous forces of the physical world it. seems indeed a mystery that the ap petite for surprise and sensation should turn aside from what the pursuit of truth can offer and prefer to regale itself with the petty products of trump ery, invention and ingenuity. - Pall Mall Gazette. Beauty of Clouds. It is not of first sight easy to say why people so rarely give more than a passing glance to the realm of air above them. Is it because we cannot have a finger in this department of the wonders of nature, cannot net and label anything in those blue fields, pin it down on cork or fatten It in Canada balsam; cannot here annihilate dis tance with our Ingenious instruments, that we neglect the phenomena of the sky? There above us, always ours for a lift of the eyes, is beauty in endless change for the contented mind and for the restless one the challenge of the ceaseless thaumaturgy which seems little nearer being found out than when the world began, and yet in com parison with such lines ot research as are offered by cuckoo's cggs or the "protective devices" of caterpillars the region of the clouds may 'be said to be unexplored.-Saturday Review. Stilt Mars on China. Hunting for stilt marks on old china is often good fun in itself. Almost ev ery old piece of flatware-i. e., plates. platters, saucers, etc.-shows three litV tle rough spots more or less clearly marked on both sides, usually on the margin. These spots were made in the firing by the cockspur of stilts, the lit 1ie tripods used between the plates in piling them up in the kiln. The three points where the cockspur touched the plate caused a defect in the glaze. Un fortunately stilt marks are not as sure a guarantee of authenticity as some collectors have supposed, for they are not only easy to imitate, but they are sometimes imperceptible on the old Staffordshire. Furthermore, they ap pear very frequently on modern table ware of the cheaper sort and so are no sign of antiquity.-Country Life In America. * Weighing Common Air. The weight of air has often been tested by compressing it in receptacles by the air pump. That it really has weight when so compressed is shown by the fact that the weight of the ves sels is increased slightly by filling them with compressed air and that such vessels become specifically "light er" as soon as the air contained in them is exhausted. Many elaborate experiments on the weight of air have proved that the cubic foot weighs 536 grains, or something less than one and a quarter ounces. The above expern ment on the weight of air is supposed to be made at the surface of the earth with the temperature at 50 degrees F. Heated air or air at high elevations is much lighter. A Deferred Call. In a certain town in the county of Wexford there Is a house the door of which must be raised a little to be opened, and for this purpose the hatchet is generally used. One night lately a knock came to the door, and a y~oungster was sent to see who was there. "Who is there?" he Inquired. "Me," said a voice outside. 'Tie youngster, knowing the voice, shouted back (in such a tone that the person outside could hear him): "It's Mrs. Murphy. Get the hatchet!" Needless to say Mrs. Murphy didn't wat-Pearson's Weekly. His Retort. Laird-Well, Sandy, you are getting very bent Why don't you stand straight up like me, man? Sandy Eh, mon, do you see that field o' corn over there? Laird-I do. Sandy Weel, ye'll notice that the full heids hang down and the empty ones stand up.-Glasgow News. Economical. "Mother said she thought you were extravagant, Tom, but I proved you were not." "You darling! How did you do that?" "Told her you were with me two hours last night and only kissed me once." gi1YWTiTYvIVfiTVYBI i17filfVYffiffiffiffifT1IIfl SAINIT E S. L. KRASNOFF. Undertaker, Open day and night to meet t] dertaking Establishment is com Coffins from $2.00 to $25.00; Caske draped in the most artistic manne: and colored people. Besidences, halls, rooms and i provedmethods of modern scienc< t fectious germs of every nature. BAB Flaoirid.5 C tion, ritedt WM. J. {ier Zorostrian Beliefs. The Zoroastrian faith acknowledges Ormazd, Ahura Mazda, "Lord Wis dom," as the supreme god, with siX archangels, Amesha Spenta, and a company of angels, Yazata, about him to rule and guide the world. The in fernal host of fiends and archfiends who war against heaven and strive to destroy thefuture life of man is led by Anra Mainyu, the evil spirit. In dis cussing with these Zoroastrians the subject of the origin of evil I found that they look upon the supreme being, Ahura Mazda, as comprising within himself the two powers of good and evil-namely, Spenta Mainyu, the holy spirit, and Anra Mainy, the evil spir it. This is similar to the monotheistic view held by the Parsis of India in oppositionL to the statement frequently made that Zoroastrianism is pure dual ism. They believe also in the resurrec tion of the dead, which their faith has taught them since early times, and this doctrine is connected with the belief that there will come a saviour or mes siah, called the Saoshyant.-A- V. Wil liams Jackson in Century. Blind From Birth. It would be of great interest to know how much Helen Keller, losing her sight at nineteen months, really retain ed of the sense of sight. With. Laura Bridgman, a woman of much less in tellect, there was evidently little or nothing left, even as a memory. With her taste and smell were very feeble, so that communication with the world was, indeed, through a narrow pas sage. Her sensitiveness to vibration was so fine that without any trace of the sense of hearing she was aware of the tolling of a bell. But her biogra pher, giving us in detail the record of the slow steps of her education, tells us little of what idea she was able to form of things. It is Schopenhauer who gives one hint of what we all want to know of the born blind. He says that a man blind from birth to whom sight was given by an operation put his hand to his eye to grasp there and not in their place the things he sawALondon Chronicle. The Crumpet Story. OliverWendell Holmes professed to have a profound respect for the Dutch, possibly on account of what he used to call "the European aborigines of America" being Dutch. He gave an aspect of slyness to his respect which inspired the idea that it was not un tempered by humor, but le maintained that the Dutch, in spite of their stolidi ty, had a great deal of humor them selves. "For instance," he would say, "the crumpet story has a Dutch ori gin." "What is the crumpet story?" people would ask. And he would tell them that it bad many variants, but the one with which he was familiar was about a man who .was going to be hanged and was asked whether he had any last request to make and said he would like to have a dozen hot crum pets, very buttery, because he had nev er dared to eat more than one before. Postmaster Robbed. G. W. Fouts, Postmdstec at River ton, Ia., nearly lost his life and was robbed of all comfort, according to his letter, which says: "For~20 years I had chronic liver complaint, which led to such a severe case of jaundice that even my finger nails turned yellow; when my doctor prescribed Electric Bitters; which cured me and have kept me well for eleven years." Sure cure for Bil iousness, Neuralgia, Weakness and all Stomach, Liver, Kidney and Bladder derangements. A wonderful Tonic. At The Arant Co. Drug store. Why Cut Glass Breaks. Cut glass makers explain why it is that there are frequent reports of cut glass suddenly breaking or crumbling on a table, shelf or sideboard in homes and elsewhere, although the glass was not in use. They assert that whenever 'the tone of any .,ut glass article comes into contact with its responsive chord the life of the glass will go with the tone, by which it is affected, and the glass collapses or crumbles. It is on record a famous opera singer could break cut glassware by reaching high C in her singing. .Several tests were made in New York and Paris, and by he singing she broke several pieces of cut glassware. The tone of a violin if attned so as to be in true accord with cut glass will destroy it. Hebrews. and the Sabbath. There is not, and there never was in tended to be, any such feeling of Puri tanism or of Calvinism with regard to our day of rest as there is connected with the Lord's day of our, neighbors. The Jewish Sabbath was to be a de light, and we read that in the mediaeval ghetto dancing, among other recrea tions, was common on that day. There is nothing contrary to the spirit Of Judaism in the playing of games or in dulgence in any form of light recrea tion on Saturday so long as it is com bined with a due regard for the sacred claims of divine worship. -Jewish World. 1iVi 1Vif filif i VTv Tif f VYliffli T I THI Y If f!V! AION. L. W. COX, Funeral Director ie demands of the needy. Our Un plete in every respect. We carry - ts from 10.00 to $300., finished and 7We have Hearses for both white sontents disinfected by the most ap-m i, destroying all contagious and in espectfuly, uc0 cAT INEt UGHFAofi~AfliL . -Cuba. e unexcelled for luxury with the latest Pullman Thoroughfare Cars. ,maps or any. informa. RAIG, eral Passenger Agent,' Wilmingnn N C' The PHliS8f8er Cl aim ssustained UNITED STAT58 COURT OF CLAIMS T!e 'n:r of Webster's iternaional Dictionary :denc that itn 'i-- in faerthe popu. m:r I~iridlged thorongnfl~ re.edited inl r eve deta il.and v.ivem-iuebe inevery part wit t ,e P r ig it to meet the larger Ssev-e requireme:tts of arlother genera Iv tre cf the opiion that this oalegation MOSS !em.wi a1d accurately describes the m~ te iaA been secouiniished and the rwoul tthathasbeenSreached. lie Dictioury, Is ft r, %7 nds, has been thoroughly re cdiKd i;l every detail, has been corrected in every paIrt. ad is adnirab]5y:tiapted to meet the arger and severe regtiirements of a generation which deands uore of popular philologicul :knowledgo thn any generato that tlhe wo~rld haeecnand it is perhaps needless Co add that we refer to the dictionary in our judicial work-asof the highest authority in accuracy of dellni tion; End that in tho futtreasi he pastit will be the source of constant reference. 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Also S.hool District No. 24, Special, 1 Mill; School Districts Nos. 11, 16, 17 18, and 25,- Special 2 mills, School Districts Nos. 2, 5, 15, 21, 27 and 28 Special 3 mills; School Districts Nos 7,9, 19, 20, 22 and 26, Special 4 mills 5 mills additional 'Special levy; for School District No. 22,. for bonded in debtedness, 1 per cent penalty added for the month of January,.1907. Ad ditional. penalty of 1 per eent or month February, -1907. Additional 5 per cent for 15 days in March, 1907 Road tax. for 1907, one dollar. S. J. BOWMAN. Treas. Clarendon 09 Mouzon & Rig FancyGrocernes, Fruits, Etc _. VEGETABLES IN SEASON. Always on hand a fresh, el of Staple and Fancy Groceries, C ned Goods, ete.. We supply others tables,. why not yours? Giv'e us your orders for anything in the Grocery line. We fill and de liver all orders prompy. 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