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MANNING. S. C., AUG. 21, 1907. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year ...........- - --- .- - 150 Six months..........------ "'............. F'oul Iiths .................... ...... 5 AD)Vi-.xiING RATES: One square. one time. s1: each subsequent in sertion. 50 cents. obituaries and Tributes ok Respect chartied for as regular advertisements. Liberal contraCts made for three, six and twelve Communications must ne accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to reeive attention. No communication of a personal character will be published except as an advertisement. Entered at the Postoffice at Manning as See ond Class matter. Charleston has the pennant cinched, and "Bugs- und Schlitz did it. The telegraphers war is not settled yet, but efforts are being made to arbitrate the digerences, notwithstanding the great dis advantage the daily newspapers were at, the news service of both the State and News and Courier was excellent. The Charleston liquor situation is being watched by the entire State, and if Mayor Rhett suc ceeds in forcing the tigers to go out of business he will have ac complished a wonderful feat that will increase his chances of some day being chief executive of the State. Col. William Jennings Bryan rescued a woman in an automo bile accident, Vice President Fairbanks saved a chambermaid from drowning and Senator Lat imer caught a fleeing murderer, and it only remains f6r Mayor Rhett to capture the blind tigers before the hero medals will be distributed. With the government after the corporations, the courts break ing into the treasuries of the railroads, and the banks' threat ening a panic the country is in a rather muddled condition, but there need beno fear. everything will work out all right, and the great common masses will not be any richer either. There was a fearful accident at Florence last Monday reuIt ing from a lady and her child coming in contact with a live electric wire, and in all proba bility the electric light company will have to pay heavily in dam ages. The Florence accident should be a warning to all mnun icipal authorities to require electric light companies to make a daily inspection of their wires before any current is turned on them. The Democratic press is lay ing much unction to its soul by the reported divisions in the Re publican ranks. but in our judge ment the division is just as great among the Democrats, with the difference, that the Republican party has the advantage of thor ough discipline. whereas the De mocracy is in a helter-skelter condition, made up largely of would-be leaders and cranky isms. The prohibition craze has hit Mississippi, under local option the State of Mississippi has pro hibition in seventy-one out of seventy-eight econties, anid now they are going to press for a constitutional amendment to make the whole State dry. The gubernatorial candidates Brewer and Noel are both advocating prohibition and it is quite likely that a legalized liquor drought awaits Mississippi. There is no reason in the world why Manning should be behind Sumter or any other town as a cotton market and our busi ness men should now, before the staple gets on the market, come together and devise means whereby the cotton grown in this county shall be marketed here. It can be done. and should be done, and will be done if our cotton buying merchants are alive to their own interests. What the people want is the price and a square deal. The Georgia legislature has adjourned, but it did not sing "God be With Us Till We Meet Again." The session broke up almost in a riot and Governor Hoke Smith was scored by mem bers of the Senate who charged him with lobbying. The enact ment of a prohibition law was the most prominent feature of the session; just what will be the outcome of this legislation is yet problematical. If Georgit can enforce its prohibition legisla tion in anything like a decent manner then there is a strong probability that the wave of anti liquor legislation will cover the entire South. The tendencyof the rural masses is towards prohibi tion. this sentiment has been worked up by the churches and the Woman's Christian Temper ance Union, but in the cities the same sentiment does not prevail, and it is in these cities where tne authorities in Georgia will tind they will have a herculean task, and should it be shown that pro hibition in the cities of that State is a farce, and the express comn panies with liquor from other States, the virtual confiscation of taxable property will have been a mistake, and the result will be that the pendulum of liquor leg islation will swing the other way and the cause of temperance thrown back. B. R. Tillmau. Jr.. a son of the senior senator has upon his farm at Edgefield three of the immi grants who came over of the Wittekind, two men and a woman. and so far they have proved very satisfactory. When Senator Latimer returns from abroad, it would not surprise us to know that he has brought over a Parisian, maid and valet, just to teach the one-gallus boys of Anderson the ditference between before and after taking. The National Executive Coml mittee of the Southern Cotton Association meets in Jackson, Miss. September 5th to discuss the general cotton situation and to fix the price for this season. President E. D. Smith of the State division has called a meeting ol the county presidents to meet him in Columbia Fridy, August 0. and he urges the county presi dents to have township meetings for the purpose of electing dele gates to a county meeting at the court house on the 24thsaid del erates to be prepared to furnish the crop conditions in their res pective townships. Read the county presidents notice else where. Iion. John. L. McLaurin has sold his home in Bennettsville for $16,000 and we are glad to see that lie has no idea of leaving the State, but that it is his in tention to build another house in Bennettsville. The ex-senator has not taken any active part in politics recently, has attention has been given to his private af fairs. but'although a private citi zen lie is regarded all over the country from California toMaine as one of the great men of the South, and the people every where yet expect to see him aga in in public life where his states manshio is greatly needed. The main reason why McLaurin is not in public life today, is that he is a man with a purpose, and that purpose is to upbuild the material interests of the South, this lie cannotdo, and be a polit ical tool of selfish politicians, and as long as the masses are content to be hoodwinked by po litical fa kirs, Statesmen with their country's interests at heart will not permit themselves to enter the public service. The county of Chesterfied has by a two to one vote decided to wipe out the dispensary, and in our judgment every county with the exception of possibly two or three will do the same thing, especially, when the vote is cca fined to a strict enforcement of the law with regard to voting. In every county where a vote has been taken not over one third of the v-otes of the county were polled, and yet the anti dispensary people claim the election. The reason the vote is so light. is because very few men have their registration tickets and tax receipts, and will not take the trouble to look them up, and without them they can not vote. and further, the regis tration books throughout the State are in such a fix that we doubt very much if the registra tion officers can tell whether the law has been complied with. In Chesterfield women took a hand at the polls, and many a weak kneed creature in britches voted against his judgment because he could not withstand the entreat ies of a .lot of women who had better been at their homes look ing after their domestic -affairs. If the women are to direct how men shall vote, it would be far better that the public atfairs be turned over to them, and let the men stay at home to rock the cradle or mend the clothes. We have no patience with such tac tics. It must be a sorry man indeed who is not self-willed enoughrto be guided by his own conscience, and permits himself to be led by fanatical women. Turbeville Dots. Special to The Mannim: Times: The Sardinia nine again de feated the locals on the former's ground on last Friday afternoon the score standing 13 to 4. The Turbeville boys were at agreat disadvantage as only five of the boys went and four had to be taken on at the grounds. They cross bats again at this place on Thursday afternoon and after the game is over an ice cream festival will be held for the ben eft of the home team. The club is in debt and let everybody come and help the boys along. The Turbeville second nine plays the Pudding Swamp second nine here Friday afternoon. The Children's Day exercises on last Saturday weire a gr-eat success. The chur-ch was beau tifully and artistically decorated with flowers and ferns and the programme, though not a lengthy one, was well carried out. There was a large crowd present, peo ple having come fronm Beulahi to Manning in one direction and from Lynch burg to Kingstree in another. Late in the afternoon after a heavy r-ain had wvet the ground, a game of ball was be gun between Turbeville and Workman, and at the end bf the fourth inning the score was 7 t in favor of Workman, and Workman qluit. Miss Lessye Phillips of Lamar was here a few days last week on a visit to friends. Messrs. D. E. Turbeville,D. L. Green and Dr-. W. H. Woods at tended the unx-eiling of General Sumter's monument in States burg last Wednesday. There will be a Children's Day picnic at Sunnvside on the 2th and also on~e at Horse Branch church on the Sth. The We Beckon Him Back. Through THE TIMES I beg to send a word to my Clarendon friends. and enemies too, if I have any. Well, be that as it may. I have the message for all. From this kind of a "land's end," Beaufort, S. C., my mind goes backinto the interior and to days past and pleasures never to return. If any of it should re turn, there would be disappoint ment. for it would no-, look fa Smilia-. We exagerate the past. Some one has said that the sphere in which we moved, while only a star at the time, becomes a world wahn removed into the past. It is good thoughto recall the past and bless it. How about the future' If we have a small vision of it, the worse forus. To him whose vis ion of the future isof little prom ise, the future will likely bring little. Such a one is the pessim ist, and he is of little worth to himself or the world in which he lives. Have a pleasant view of the beloved past and a great, big, hopefulview of the promising fu ture. Let's see: How many new fields have 1 had since leaving Paxville? There is Fort Mill, Allendale and Beaufort. Three moves in three years. I am made to fear, some times, that in the etimation of my friends I have gained the unenviable reputa tion of a "gad about". I think. myself, more of the man who can hold down his job. and in the ministry this often means hold ing the same pastorate. The time is now at hand, in the Gos pel ministry, when a preacher must hold his pastorate a long time to hold the high esteem and respect o f his brethern. I shall try to hold a grip here and thus catch a new grip on those who have expected something of me. I hope these are not few, and that they will not give me up. Beaufort is one of the old towns in the State, and one of the antebellum communities of great wealth and culture. Here before the war, lived many of South Carolina's richest men, lordly rice planters. It was here that one of the earliest effort for a college was made, and, for a while and in a degree the effort succeeded. The college building is still standing and in first class condition, being used by the gra ded school. It is one of the few distinctly classical buildings in the State. o Not a few of the residences are the stately mansion of the gene ration that was on the stage of this life the early part of the nineteenth century, one hundred years ago. And these houses are monuments to the men of those days. They are broad and tall, and set in spacious premis es. The Baptist meeting house (the church is the membership) is one of the old buildings of the city-one of the few of it's kind in the State built by the people of those days when they thought grandly and built accordingly. It is of the Greecian order archi tecture, straight roof, high. plain walls with large windows~heavy tower, and portico with immense columns.Built to meet the de mand of those times, it has a gallery. About the only change in the house is the baptistery. Formerly the ordinance was ad ministeredl in Beaufort river. Well, that was a good place for it, as good as the places selected by John the Baptist for carrying on his ministry, "because there was water there." Beaufort is now enjoying a new fame. It is becoming quite well known that this is a delight-ful summer re sort. And the hotels and board ing houses are filled all the time. It is also a resort for those af ficted with malaria. The new business of truck farming is coming quite into prominence, now, and is holding out to this section the promise of a prosperity such as will be greater than inthose far off years the grand past witnessed. Now is the time, too, to invest in Beaufort property. While it has advanced considerably, re cently, it is still cheap. The trucking business will undoubt edly put Beaufort on a solid basis. such as she did not have, nor never could have had, with the phosphate industry and the naval station. A wise and beneficent providence has removed both these that.Beaufort may come in to her own. Well, I shall close now by say ing that about the next place to Beaufort is Paxville and round about to Sumter and Manning ad Summerton. Yours very truly, J. D. Huggins. Beaufort Baptist Parsonage. Aug. 14, 1907. Paxville Dots. Mr-. and Mrs. J. 0. Barwick and little son J1ohn Jr., are spend ing some time at D.alzell. Rev. JI. N. Tolarof Summertoni spent a day and night here last' week. Mr. Joe Hedge of Darlington accompanied by his little son Joe Tm, is here on a visit to his mother, Mrs. Alice Hlodge. Mr. Smith was in Sumter last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Tisdale, acm(!paied by Miss Annie T1is dal of Manning, left last Wed nesday to visit the exposition. Mrs. RZ. A. Browon and chil dren are visiting relatives at Wedgetield. Mr. Mobley of Dalzell was here last week. Paxville, S. C. Itch cured in 30 minutes by WYoolford'Vs Sanitary Lotion. Never- fails. Sold by HOME MISSIONS. NIANNING AUXLT:ARY The population of the United States is now estimated at 80, 000,000. About 64,000,000 of these are living in homes, the other part in hotels and lodging houses. Whether for ease and pleasure or necessity it means a loss to the State andthe individ ual. The man who owns his home is a better patriot, and the children that grow up without a true home life is deprived of that which nothing can replace. According to the census of 1900 tifteen out of every one hundred of the population of some of our large cities dwell in the slums. These miserable quarters rent for enormous prices, frequently absorbing one third of the ten ants income. Children are kept out of doors until midnight in warm weather because the rooms are unendurable: making clean liness of person, house and street difficult. making the foul air unwholesome, spreading conta gious diseases, interfering with separateness and sacredness of home life, leading to promiscu ous mixing of all ages and sexes in a single room, thus breaking down the barriers of modesty and conducing to the corruption of the young. So while we sit in our comforta ble homes and partake of the joys of family life, let us hush every murmur of discontent while we pray God to multiply good homes in our land and make them cen ters of life and. light and merci fully provide for those wretched ones. But let us not stop with praying. We should endeavor to make our own homes and family relations brighter and happier by bringing them under the rule of Christ our King, and then try as far as lies within our power to help God answer our prayers for others. Our Woman's Home Mission Society finds great and varied opportunities in its schools and in its City Mission work to foster the home spirit and to make the true home possible. Many young people of both sexes are in our schools that we are striving to give the true ideal of home, and to awaken in them a noble ambi tion to make such a home. SELECTED. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescrip tions from reputable physicians. as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can pos sibly derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure. manufactured,by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. 0., aing directly ruo the blood and mucu eur faces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh tur be:ure you gt the geuine. It istken Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists, price 7me. per bottle. IHall's Family Pills are the best. The Wrong Slip. "I have been engaged in the practice of law a good many years," said S. S. Urmy, police judge of Topeka, Kan.. "and about the most humorous thing I ever saw in a court room was in Topeka. "One day an old negro was be ing tried in the justice court that was before the office of police judge was created-and he de manded a trial by a jury of his peers. He could neither read nor write, and the lawyer insisted that the jury to be his peers, as required by law, must be unable to read or write, too. To avoid dispute I agreed to it, but we had a time finding twelve men in To peka who could neither read nor write. But we did find them and the case went to trial. "Before the jury retired I took two pieces of paper and wrote 'Guilty' on one piece and 'Not guilty' on the other. and instruct ed the foreman of the jury to de st-:-oy the one he did not wish used and return the other to me when the jury reached a verdict. The jury was out only a few minutes when it came in. Tlie foreman handed me a piece of paper with the word 'Guilty' written on it. "Well, gentlemen, you find him guilty, do you-:"' I asked. - No, sah, jedge, no, sah: we do'ne found him not guilty,' spoke up one of the jurymen. Then he added with disgust: 'I tole that fool nigger he was tear in' up the wrong piece of pa per.'" "-Kansas City Star. Big Suit Small Sum. A wealthy Fr-enchman recently bought a ticket at a Paris rail way terminus but missed the train he intended to take, while wait ing for the next train, which left two ]hours later, he studied the company's tariff to pass away the ti me. He then found that he had paid 14 francs 45 centimes, wher-eas the sproper fare was only 14 francs 42 centimnes. He asked for his money back at the office, but without result. An interview ith the station master was also unsuccessful. He afterward wrote a number of letters to the] co0many, but received no answer. lie then commenced an action to recover- the three centimes. He won the action in the lower . ourt, but the company took it to< thle appeal court, afterward to - tie Courde Cassation. Both ourts dismissed the appeal and he company was ordered to pay he plaintiff the thrce centimes. j The cost to the company a nounted to 8,250 francs, or $1, 350.-Railway Engineering Re iew. "Regular as The Sun" s an expression as old as the race. NoI loubt the rising and setting of the sun s the most regular performance in the r1 ilverse, unless it is- the action of the iver and bowels when regulated with 3r'. King's New Life Pills. Guaranteed He Wanted The Job. A "drurmmer' has handed the fol lowing to The State: "Employers WhO want experieuced men at otice boy salaries may profit by this. I enclose herewith a letter written by a young man to a Philadel phia merchant who advertised in the Philadelphia Ledger for an experienced stenographer and typewriter at $:; per week. It is not a joke, but a fact." The letter is as follows: I., 20:; Ledger Office. bear Sir: I beg to offer myself as an applicant for the position ad vertised in this morning's Ledlger. I am a voung man, 37 years of age, having had a business experience of 23 years. being connected with the United States embassy at Madagascar for some time, and feel confident, if you will give me a trial, I can prove my worth to you. I am not only an experienced book keeper, proticient stenographer and typewriter, excellent telegraph opera tor and erudite college professor. but have several other accomplishments which might make me more desirable than ordinary mortals. I am an ex oerienced snow-shoveller, a first. class cornhusker and peanut roaster. have some knowledge of removing super fuous hair and clippling puppy dog's ears and a medal for reciting "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight," am a skillful chiroptdist, and practical farmer. can cook, take care of horses, crease trous ers, open oysters and repair umbrellas, and am also the champion plug-tobacco chewer of Pennsylvania. my spitting record being 39 feet 6 inches. Being possessed of great physical beauty, I would not only be useful but ornamental as well, lending to the sa cred precincts of your oftice that de lightfal artistic charm that a Satsuma vase or a tutfed billy goat would. My whiske feing quite luxuriant and ex tensive, my face could be used as a doormat. penwiper or feather duster. I can furnish high recommendations from Chauncey M. Depew. Jacob S. Coxey, Kaiser Wilhelm, Capt. Clarke, the prime minister to Dahomey, the dog catcher general of Timbuctoo and the Akoond of Swat. As a salary. I would feel I was rob bing the widowed of bread and swin tug snonge cake from the orphaned if I were to take advantage of your munifi cence by accepting the fabulous sum of $3 per week. I would be entirely wil lirlg to give my services for less, and by accepting $1.37, it would not only give me a clear conscience, but would also give you an opportunity of increasing your donation to the church. pay your butcher's bill, keep up your life insur ance, found a home for indigent fly paper salesmen and endow a free bed in the cat home. Really, old man, your unheard -of charity borders on the su pernatural, and, to the ordinary mind, appears like reckless extravagance. I can call to see you any Saturday night after 11 o'clock, or can be seen any Sunday morning in the choir loft of our church (Broad and Dock streets) where I am at present employed as first assistant organ blower and under study of the janitor. Hopefully yours, SOCRATES M. Goo. 4-11-44 Ramcat Alley. P. S.-Now, honestly, what kind of man do you expect for $3 per week? Do you 'want one made of tin, or would a nice. juicy. newly.laid putty gentle man fill the billy-The State. A Marriage License Law. The New York legislature has re centiv done what ought to be done in SoutLi Carolina, enacted a marriage license law, under the provisions of which a license must he obtained at least five days before a marriage may be legally performed. One or two attempts have already been made to pass a marriage license law in this State. but without success. In every instance it was voted down solely on the ground that it might prove an entering wedge for a divorce law. Not one, who opposed the meas ure, was able to advance a single solhd reason why the State should not have such a la'w. All that its opponents attempted was to raise a scare that it might possibly lead to divorce, and this was sufficient: for, unfortunately, since the anti-divorce law of South Carolina is worshiped as a sort of fetish, the average legislator usually hasn't sense enough to see that a mar riage license law would have no bear ing whatever on the subject of divorce. The necessity of such a law, on both moral and legal grounds, is very ap parent. It would do away with the loose marriages that are now so preva lent. As the law now stands, anybody may mnarry a couple in this State. It freuently happens that persons under the legal age get married. This has occured time and agaiQ in mill villages, to the great scandal of good morals. Brit the chief reason for the enact ment of a marriage license law is one of a legal nature. Property rights of persons are often lost through their inability to prove a marriage. We have had to come under our observa tion one or two cases of this sort, in which large landed interests, that ought to have gone to the children, were diverted and went to other par ties, because the marriage of the chil dren's parents, who had moved to and accumulated property in another State. had not been made a matter of record in South Carolmna. Persons that were married fifty years ago would, we sus pect, find it very difficult to prove their marriage. All the witnesses and the lliciating clergyman or magistrate may be dead, or the certificate of mar riage, which is sometimes, but not always, given the woman, may be lost. n these circumstances, it would be impossible to prove a marriage, and vet on its proof might depend the prop arty rights of children.I To prevent the iunmorality that isI sometimes practiced under cover of the! preseot loose marriage law, and to prevent children being cheated otit of! their prop)erty rights, every marriage n South Carolina should be made a atter~ of recor-d. Some day we may zet a legislature that will take this riewv and enact a law providing for .icens~s.--Columbia Record. Jamestown Exposition. Rates fr-om Manning, S. C.. as fol Season ticket, $17.60. Sold dailyI prii 19th to November :0th. 60o D[ay ticket, $t4.70. Sold daily pril 19th to November 30Oth. 11) Day ticket. $l13.05. S.>ld daily pril 19th to November ;0th. Coach Excursion $7.40. Sold each 'uesday: limit seven days. Endorsed 'ot good in parlor or sleeping cars." Through Pullman sleeping cars from Port Tampa and .Jacksonville, Fla.,, htlanta and Augusta, Ga.. Wilming ,on, N. C.. via the Atlantic Coast Line ?ailroad.I Write for a beautiful illustrated older containing maps, descriptive natter, list of hotels, etc. For reser' 'ations or any information, address WV. . Craig. Passenger Tralie Manager, >r T'. C. White. General Passenger \gent., Wilm ingtem N. C. rale People Made Rudy by Rydale's Tonic. Pale people are pale because the >ood is deficient in quantity or poor n quality, or both. This imnpovished ondition of the blood is almost invari-, bly caused by some waisting disease, The cause may be a chronic disease uch as dyspepsia, consumption, ma aria., etc., or may be the result of an .cute disease such as fever, etc. It mat ers not what cause produces this im ovished condition of' the blood. Ry tale's Tonic will restore it to its nor al state and bring back the hue of mealth to the pale cheek. Rydale's ?onic is put up in 50c. and 81 sizes. The large size contains 2 1-2 times the It R. JENKINSON. F. C. MROT(O. JENKINSON & HORTON, ~Insurance. Representing the following companies: American Central Insurance Co.. of St. Louis, Mo. Hanover Fire Insurance Co.. of New York. N. Y. Tanburg-B remen Fire insurance Co., of Hamburg Germany. Shawnee Fire Insurance Co.. of To )eka. KanSaS. The rig-ht kind of companies repre sented by the right kind of agents. ''If it is Written by Jenkinson & Horton it is Written Right." Yours for protection, JENKINSON & HORTON. Notice to Creditors. All persons having claims against the estate of Mary A. Reynolds, de ceased, will present them duly at tested, and all those owing said estate will make payment to the undersigned qualified Administrator of said estate. DAVID R. LIDE, Administrator. Pine wood, S. C., August 17. 1907. Notice to Creditors. All persons having claims against the estate William H. Reynolds, deceased, will present them duly attested, and those owing said estate will make pay ment to the undersigned qualified ad ini'istrator of said estate. DAVID R. LlDE, Administrator. Pinewood, S. C., August 17. 1907. Administrator's Sale. Pursuant to an Order of James M. Windham, Probate judge, I will sell at public auction, at the Court House in Manning, to the highest bidder for cash, at 12 o'clock (noon) on Thursday the 5th day of September, 1907, the fol lowing personal property of the Estate of Samuel M. Nexsen. deceased: One Gold Watch, one double-barrel led shot gun. and Thirteen Shares of the Capital Stock of the Bank of %lan ning. The said Bank Stock to be sold in blocks of one and two shares. JOHN S. WILSON, Qualified Administrator of the Estate of Samuel M. Nexsen. Deceased. August 16, 1907. An Ordinance To Provide for the Assessment and Collection of Taxes on All Taxable Property in the Town of Manning, and for the Assessment and Collee tion of a Per Capita Tax in Lieu of Working on the Streets of Said Town for the Fiscal Year, Com mencing the Second Monday in April, 1907, and Endlng the Second Monday in April, 1908. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Manning in Council Assembled, ad by the Authority of the same: 6ECTION 1. That a tax of five mills on every dollar of the assessed value of all real and personal property ly ing or being within the corporate limits of the Town of Manning, in cluding bonds and stocks of banks and other corporations, and the gross income of insurance conipanies doing business in the said town, ex cept such property as is exempt by law from taxation, be and the same is hereby levied, for the fiscal year commencing the second Monday 'in April, 1907, and ending the second Monday in April, 1908. SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of all persons, firms or corporations owning or having under their con trol any property subject to taxation under this ordinance, to list the same with the clerk of council not later than September 20th, 1907; anid upon the .failure of any person or persons, firm or corporation, to list the said property, it shall be the duty of said clerk,of council to enter up against said 'person or persons, firm or corporation, a list of the said property for taxation as the same shall be found to appear from the office of the County Auditor for Clar endon county, or carry forward the amount from last year's town tax register. SEC. 3. That a commutation tax of three dollars per capfta on all per sons liable to work on the streets of said town for the fiscal year above mentioned in lieu of working on said streets, be, and the same is hereby levied, which said commutation tax shall become due and payable when other town taxes are payable. That all able-bodied male persons between the ages of eighteen (1$) and fifty (50) years, not otherwise exempt are liaL ble to the said tax; and.all persons who shall be living within the corpo rate limits of the said town at any time up to the close of the fiscal year ending the second Monday in April, 1908, shall become liable to the said tax, unless the said person or per sons can show satisfactory evidence of having performed road duty, or duty upon the streets of some other town or city. or produce a receipt for the payment of a commutation tax in lieu thereof. SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of the marshals and they are hereby in structed to keep watch of, and to call upon, all non-residents who may from time to time be found here, and wvho make up what is commonly known as the "floating or moving" class, for their commuutationj tax as soon as it appears that such person or persons are other than visitor-s in the said townm. That said commnutation tax shall then and there become pay able, andl that uplonl failure to pay same, if found liable, said person or persons shall be sa bject to a penalty of beinxg sent to the chaingang for a period of not less than five days nor more than thirty days in the discre tion of the council, SEC. 5. That all taxes levied under the provisions of this ordinance other than are spezialized in Sec. 4 of this ordinance shall becomie due and payable to the clerk of the town concil of Manning between October first, 19107, and Novemnber fifteenth, SEc. 0. That if said taxes are not paid on or before the said fifteenth day of November, 1907, a penalty of ten per cent. shall be added until the fifteenth day of December, 1907. SEC. 7. That after said December 15th the clerk shall make out execu tions against all property on which taxes have not been paid in the same manner as is prescribed for failure to pay State andl County taxes, and the same shall he subject to levy and sale as in the case of the delinquent County and State taxes. Ratiied by Council July 99)th, 107. D. M1. BRA~DH AM, E. .1. BROWNE, Mayor. Clerk. LOOK FOR Scott & Smith's' BLACKSMITH SHiOP. South Side White's Grist Mill. If you wvant to save money ir getting tour'repair work done on wagons, buiz ries, and all kinds of vehicles, sec us Sefore you trade. We build log carts LH ORSESHOEING vith the greatest satisfaction to the inmi n. Gieu a trial. SUMMER GOODS N MUST GO, We begin this week to -close out remaining Stock of all Summer Goods. Our Fall Stock will soon be com ing in and we must have the room. The prices have been lowered to the bottom notch. Cost will have no consideration. You can buyN Lawns, Batistes, Organdies, Etc., at less than wholesale value. Don't fail to come and secure them, and while NZ here we will be glad to show you some new Fall Goods already in. We want your trade. No one will appre ciate your patronage more than we, and we wjill meet all competition. Our Buyer is now in the markets of Baltimore and New York N seeking bargains for you. THE YOUNG RELIABLE, .H.RIGBY IN THEIR NEW STORE. DICKSON HARDWARE COMPANY has moved S into the store recently occupied by the Mutual Dry Goods Co. (Levi Block). We now offer to the trade of Clarendon county a large and up to-date stock of HARDWARE. ij WE HAVE A beautiful Line of Dinner Sets, Ice Cream Sets, Fancy Dishes, Glassware, and a fine lot of Lamps. Come to look, we know _4 you willI stay to buy. a DICKSON HIRDWIARE CO. F. P. ERVIN. W. KOGER.McINTOSE. W. E. JENKINSON. MANNING, S. C. Bring us a load of tobacco. The very highest prices and polite attention is guaran teed.