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EARLY ARITHMETICS. Struggles of the Pilgrim Children With One of the "R's." Next to penmanship the colonial School and schoolmaster took firm stand on "ciphering." "The Bible and figgers is what I want my boys to know," said the old farmer. I have eimined with care a Wingate's Arith metic which was used for over a cen tury in the Winslow family in Massa chusetts. The first edition was printed in 1020. It is certainly bewildering to a modern reader. "Pythagoras-His Table" is of course our multiplication table. Then come *The Rule of Three." "The Double Golden Rule." "The Rule of I'ellowship," "The Rule of False." etc.. ending with "a collec tion of pleasant and polite questions to exercise all the parts o! vulgar arith metick." Wingate's Arithmetic and Hodder's Arithmetic were succeeded by Pike's Arithmetic. This had 363 rules to be committed to memory, and not an ex planation was given of one of them. It is the most barren schoolbook I have ever read. These printed arith meties were not in common use. Near ly all teacbers had manuscript -sum books," from which the scholars copied page after page of "sums." too often without any explanation of the proc ess, though there were also many and long rules, which helped the penman ship if they did not the mathematics. --Exchange. BARBED WIRE. A Lucky Device That Brought Millions to Its Inventor. '-The luckiest invention in history," said a patent official, "was that of barbed wire. It came about by acci dent. "Isaac L. Ellwood was the inventor of barbed wire. In his youth he lived in De Kalb, Ill., and, having a neighbor whose pigs trespassed on his garden, he put up one day a wire fence of his own make. This fence nad barbs and points on It. It was queer and ugly, but it kept out the pigs. "It was a real barbed wire fence, the first in the world, and there were mIllions of money in it, but young Eli wood and his friends laughed at its freak appearance. "One day two stranges .saw this fence, perceived how well it kept out the pigs, realized how cheap it was realized, in a word, its value-and or dered several tons of it from Ellwood. Furthermore, they contracted to sell for a term of years all the barbed wire he could produce. "Ellwood borrowed $1,000 and set up a little factory. A few years later on he had paid back that loan and was Vorth a small matter of $15,000,000 besides."-New York Press. A STUBBORN LOVER. He Lay Firm and Conquered the Bride's Close Fisted Father. I remember, says a writer on Irish Life,,the izarriage of the daughter of a well to do shopkeeper in the town of Galway. The father of the bride was considered to be decidedly close fisted. The bridegroom, as well as I remem ber, was of a station somewhat su perior to that of the family he pro posed to ally himself with. The wedding day came, but when the bridal party assembled at the chapel the bridegroom failed to appear. After waiting long and vainly for the lag gard the emissaries were dispatched to his abode to hasten his coming. They fodund him snugly ensconced in bed. "Sorra foot do I stir out of this." said the prospective benedict. "unless the fortune's doubled." For an hour and more lngrmedia ries ran backward and forward be tween the chapel and the bridegroom's dwelling, striving to make terms, while the bride waited at the altar with such patience as she could muster. The bridegroom, however, stood, or rather lay, firm, and at last the father, un willing that his daughter should be put to shame In the sight of all Gal way by returning to her father's house unwed, gave way and promised to double the ifortune as demanded, whereupon the bridegroom got up, dressed himself and went to church to Ne married. Largest Crater on thc Earth. The volcano Aso-san, in southern Japan, on the Island of Kiushu. pos sesses the largest crater known on the earth. It is about fourteen miles across in one direction, by ten or eleven in the other, and is surrounded by walls of an average height of 200 feet. Although the volcano Is still ac tive. its eruptions consist only of ashes and dust. Indeed, a range of volcanic mountains, evidently of subsequent formation, extends directly across the old 'crater. In these. particulars Aso san resembles some of the craters of the moon. where a long history of suc cessive and -gradually enfeebled out breaks of volcanic force is graphically represented. All He Could Think Of. While driving along a country road a man saw the roof of a farmer's house ablaze. He gesticulated and called to the farmner's wife, who was calmly standing In the doorway: e "Hey, your house Is afire.'" "What-?" she bawled out. "I say, your house is afire!" "What did y' say? I'm a little deaf!" "Your house Is afire!" again yelled the man at the top of his lungs. "Oh. is that all?" calmly replied the woman. "It's all I can think of just now," re sponded the man ia a rather weak voice as he drove on.-Exchange. Toad as Assistant Gardener. By actual inspection of a b~g, fat toad's stomach it was found to contaIn not less than fifty large grapevine worijhs, fifty-five potato bugs, slxty sowbugs, forty anglewormns and thirty cabbage worms, with, by way of sea soning, numerous flies and mosquitoes. Now multiply this, and I think you will apprecIate the value of an army of toads on your premises, or any num ber required, according to the serv Ices that may reasonably be expected from one toad.--Suburban T~.fe. The Woman In Business. She handed in a check payable to Susan H. Smith. The cashier, who was a German, noticed that she had in dorsed it Susan Smith and gave it back with a polite "You haf forgotten the 'H.' " Overcome with contusion, she murmured, "Excuse me," and wrote below the indorsement. "Age twenty. three."-Lippincott's. Knowledge Demonstrated. "Would you like to attend a lecture on the fine arts?" "No," answered Mr. Cumrox. "oth er and the girls can make mec fee! .ny Ignorance sufficiently at home free~ of DUELING IN THE NAVY The Tragic Affair That Put an End to the Practice. A MIDSHIPMAN'S CHALLENGE. It Was Accepted by the Lawyer, and the Battle Was Fought In Delaware. Sad Fate of the Two Principals In the Unfortunate Mlecting. That settlement of quarrels by appeal to the code of honor was no longer to be the unwritten law of the American navy was determined by a duel in which William MIllier. Jr., a Phil!adel phia lawyer, was slain in a personal affair fought aloug the northerl cir-clc of Delaware. The man who ired ha fatal shot was 31idshlipjuman 'a i Hunter, and the enicotuter took place along Naamun's creek on the afterloon of Sunday. farch :1. 1610 Singula'rly enough. neither Miller, who lost his life, nor Hunter, who kill ed him. was principal In the original I quarrel that led to the meeting on the batik of the little e.eek in Delaware. Neiti'er had seen the other until a few hours before the challenge was sent and accepted. Simply a misshot in a game of bil liards played at Third and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, led to the tragedy that plunged two homes into sorrow and imbittered the life of the man whose pistol shot causelessly shed hu man blood. Henry Wharton Griffith and R. Dil lon Drake, prominent society men of Philadelphia, played the game of bil liards, and Griffith made the inisshot which called forth a taunt from Drake, who was immediately struck in the face with a cue by Griffith. A chal lenge to a duel was sent by Drake, but Griffith declared that the challenger was beneath his notice and that he would not demean himself socially by consenting to meet him. Then followed a long and wordy war fare in which each posted the other as a coward. Lieutenant Duryce of the United States navy was called to make an effort to settle the dispute, and it was then that Miller, the lawyer, and Hunter. the midshipman. became in volved in the quarrel. In ,.he hea-ted discussion Hunter accused Miller of publishing a contidential letter. and a eballenge was at once sent by tne mid shipmian and accepted by the attorney. It was decided that the duel should be fought early on Sunday morning of March 21, but it was nearly 10 o'clock: before carriages containing the princi pals, seconds and surgeons left a house that stood on Chestnut street above Sixth. The presence of the company excited some suspicion at Chester, where the party stopped for lunch, but they hurried down the past road, tied their horses close to the highway and proceeded 200 yards behind a clump of trees that would shield them from ob servation. As the sun was setting two pistol shots rang out simultaneously as one of the seconds counted "One, two, three -fire:" Hiunter stood unharmed as the; ball from his opponent's istol struck si, his feet, but Miller cried out that! he was shot, pilaced one hand on his breast and fell with a bullet ]ying close to his heart. In a few minutes he died, while pale and anxious faces watched the convulsive breathing of the dying man. 'Gentlemen," said Hunter. "I had no enmity against this man. I never heard of him until two days age. Let! those whose qjuarrel embroiled him be responsible for his death." After a hurried consultation it was decided that the midshipman should leave the state at once, and he was driven rapidly to New Castle, Del., where he boarded a boat for Newv York and rejoined the navy. In order to hide the tragedy it was decided to wait until dark and take Mliller to Philadel phia in a carriage. Seating the dead man between them, two seconds held him in an upright position on the long journey to Phila delphia. News of the duel had reached Chester, and a crowd of men stood at Third street bridge to intercept the carriages. The first buggy contained the surgeon, and, as his explanation was satisfactory, he was permitted to proceed. The dead man in the second carriage was driven through the crowd without the ruse being detected, and at midnight the body was placed in at house in Walnut street, where vigil was kept by the seconds, who drank heavily to support them in the terrible strain under which they had been placed. Miller's father said that he held no malice against Hunter, but the mid shipman, who was suspended for a year for punishment, was haunted by the specter of the dead man lying on the bank of Naaman's creek, slain by his hand, and died a prematurely old man after a lonely life, shut off from all hope of preferment in the navy. He was buried by the newspaper men of New York, who erected a tombstone over his grave.-Philadelphia Ledger. Psychology of Gambling. The fundamental basIs of the injury done by gambling is a tendency to over rate the chances of winning. When a man speculates by staking, say, il on the chance of winning ?100, observes an English writer in Nature, the notion of winning ?100 makes a big impression on his mind and means something more real to him than the idea that the odds are 200 to 1 against him, say. He forms a clear mental picture of the prize, and the odds do not present the same picture to his mind. Consequent ly, he exaggerates his prospects. Appropriate. A. minister, having given out his "no tices," was about to read his hymn when he was reminded of one he had forgotten. Stopping, he made this an nouncement, apologizing for his forget fulness. Then, much to the amusement of his audience, he began to line out the hyn as follows: "Lord, what a thoughtless wretch am I."-Judge. It Wasn't Funny. "But he's a regutar professional fun n man." "I know he is." "But you referred to him as an 'un conscious humorist.'" "So he was on the occasion to which 1 refer. He had tried to be funny with a tough gent from the Fourth ward." 'hiadelphia Press. All Dear to Him. Wife-The doctor orders me to the mineral baths at Carlsbad, and you re fuse me the means to go. That shows how little you value me. Husband--I On the contrary, I do not wish to lose a pound of you.-Fliegende Blatter. Soak ink stains in sour milk, and! should a stain still remain rinse in a Sour Stomach No appetite, loss of strength, nwrvouse ness, headache. constipation, bad breath, general debility, sour risings, and catarrh of the stomach are all due to indigestion. KXodol relieves indigestion. This iew discov ery represents the natural juices of diges tion as they exist in a healthy stomach. combined with the greatest known tonio and recorstructive properties. Kodol for dyspepsia does not only relieve indigestion and dyspepsia. but this famous remedy helps all stomach troubles by cleansing, purifying. 5 etening and strengthening the mucous membranes lining the stomach. M. s. S. Bail, of Ravenswood. W. V2.. says: MQs troubled with scur storach for twerty years. Kodo cured me ad we re now using it in milk for baby." FOR BACKACHE-WEAK KIDNEYS TRY eWITT'S KIDNEY and BLADDER PILLS-Suro aRd Safe Prepared by E. 0. DeWITT & CO., Chicag W. E. BROWN & CO. Within Her Rights. A very black worman in a silver gray nutomol)ile co t wvas seen a few morn ings ago hauling an unwilling and dis reputable looking yellow dog by a leather thoug. A friendly disposed policeman asked casually: "Why don't you turn the dog loose? le don't look able to run off. and nobcdy'll want to steal him?" "AIn't I a 'oman?' was the tart query. There was no disputing the fact "Ain't dis heah a dog?" Patent fact. "Ain't dis heali New York?" Obviously true. "Well, ain't I got a good right to walk on dese heah streets and put on all the style I choose?" No disputing a self evident proposi tion.-New York Times. Samuel Warren's Vanity. The vanity of Samuel Warren, the author of "Ten Thousand a Year," in his early years of authorship at least, was remarkable. and there is a story told of him to the effect that on one occasion at a friend's house he had to tae down to dinner a lady whom he had not met before, and as soon as they were seated at table asked her if she had ever heard of Samuel Warren. "Oh. certainly," was theokply. "My husband prefers Warren's blacking to any other. We always use it."-West minster Gazette. Choice of Evils. -Well, old man," said Sinnickson aft er the performance, "I certainly was surprised to see you In private the atricals." "Yes," replied Brightly, "but you see if I didn't appear on the stage I'd probably have to sit in the audi ence and be bored to death."-Phila delphia Press. Mother of Invention. Talk about necessity being the mother of invention: No such thing, I assure you. Accident is the mother of invention in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred.-Reader *Magazine. A Rude Little Girl. Maiden Aunt (reading)-"In heaven there is no marrying or giving in mar riage." Small MIazie-It must seem like heaven to you here on earth, doesn't it. auntie?-Chicago News. What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.-Pilpay. NORTHWESTERN R. R. OF S. C. TIME TABLE No. 6. In Effect Sunday. June 5. 1904. ETWEEN SU'MTER AND CAMDEN. Mixed. Daily except Sunday. Sou thbound. Northbound. N o. 69 No.7.; No. 70 No' 6S PM AM AM PM 25 9-36 Lv".. Sumter ..Ar.9 00 5 4n 6 7 I' 38 N. W. Junction....5 55 5 43 6 47 9 59........Dalzenl ......S 2 5 13 7 05 10 10........Borden ......3 00 4 5s 7 3 10 21 ........ Rembert's. ..7 40 4 43 7 30 10 31 ........Eller be...... 730 4 2 7 50 11 10..So. Rty. Junction..7 10) 4 25 s 00 11 10 Ar.. .Camden..Lve7 00 4 la PM PM AM PM BETWEEN WILSON'S .MILL AND SU'MTER Southbound. Northbound. No. 73 . Daily except Sunday. No. 7'2 PM PM 3 0) Leave...... Sumter ......Arrive. .1:2 30 3 0.......Summlerton Junction ...----.12 3 20............Tindal..........-....11 55 3 35............Packsville ..........41 30 4 45............... Sumnmerton..... 10 5 5 5........... Davis ......... ....-. 9 45 S 45............J ordan..........--* 9 .5 6 30 Arrive...ilson's Mill.Leav'e 8 40 pM AM BETWEEN MILLARD AND ST. PAULh. Daily except Sunday. Southbound. Northbound. No. 73 No. 75 No. 72 No. 74 PM AM AM PM - 05 10 20 Lye Millard Ar.10 45 5 30 4 15 10 30 A- St. Paul Lve.10 35 4 2 PM A M AM PM' EHOS. WILSON. President. DR. J. A. COLE. DENTIST, Upstair's ov'er Bank of Manning. MANNING, S. C. Phone No Ti. DR. J. FRANK GEIGEiR. DENTIST, MANNING, S. C. HARLTON DURANT, ATTORNEY AT LAW. MANNING, S. C. W. C. DAVIS. J- A. WEINBERC. DAwis &WENBERG, MANNING, S. C. P'ompt attention given to collections. H. LESESNE, ATTORNEY AT LAw, MANNING, S. C. jOSEPH F. RHAME. ATTORZNEY' AT LAW, MANNING. S. C. MCS W A ATN WOOD , . ATTORNEYAT AN Manoing, S. C. 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For rates, schedule, maps or any informa tion, write to WM. J. CRAIG, General Passenger Agent, Wilmington, N. C - KeenKutterToolsarein every case made of the best steel obtaia and are made by thoroughly expert tool-ake3 Throughout the whole line of these tools will be found the same sterling'quality-the quality that has made the Standard. All KeKutter unebe and Axes are wedged with the Greliner Patent Wedge which prevents the -head ever flying off or wodding loose, Keen Kutter Trademark covers a com-. plae ie oftookand cutlerg Gold by Dickson Har ware 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. BRING YOUR .4J O B WQOR K - TO THE TINES OFFICE.