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STAR - TOT R O: N T& OF PUR *& E 5C 00 E f E3 T T .) A -Y, W LEON WEINBERG MANNING, S. C. Lower Prices than we quote mean but one thing- I the goods are of inferior quality Remember, "The best is none too good." And the best is thecheapest, be it Dry Goods or Groceries. STRAUSSROGIN COPANY. SUMMERTON, S. C. GETA MOVE ON YOU! Right now is the time to buy. Our Lines are corn -plete with everything in the lines of. FINE CLOTHING and the best Shoes, the newest Dress Goods and up to-date Millinery. It is a money saving for you. It will do your pocket book good. D. Hirschmann. The Clarendon Real Estate and^Fire Insurance Agency. MANNING, S. C. LEVI BUILDING. SOLID, SOUYD, SUCCESSFUL. TitE REASONS: * SOLID- Because it was originated and is controlled by men of energy, tact and businesss ability. SOUND-Because it has the best plans for doing business and is backed by 23 corporations with a total asset of SL,500, 000,000.00, including Fire, Life, Health,,~Accident, Plate-Class, Tornado, Steam Boilee, Burglary and Live Stock Insurance, and Surety Bonds; also Real Estate Purchase, Sale and Loans. SUCCESSFUL-Because its management spares no effort in the up building of the business, and the in.terests of its clients zealously guarded. See us and get the Best, It is Always the Cheapest. BRING YOUR. J O B. W OR K TO THE TiMFS OFFICE. D lNOT FIRE A SiOT Why Thousands of Indians Melt ed Away Before Forty Men. A STORY OF PIONEER DAYS. Captain McCabe Knew the Sioux Bet er Than They Knew Themselves, and the Indians Knew the Captain's Men Were Dead Shots and Scalp Takers. In the pioneer days to reach Mon tana from Cheyenne, in Wyoming. re quired a roundabout journey that in volved a double crossing of the Rocky mountains. with .a change of base at Salt Lake City. The United States government brought about a better condition of travel by constructing a trail through the Gallatin valley along the course of the Gunpowder river. reaching around the base of the moun tains in a curvilinear form, which avoided the heights of the Rockies. To protect this route from marauding In dians three forts were built-Reno. Phil Kearny and C. F. Smith. In IS6G the murderous Sioux from the Yellowstone valley pursued a san guinary course up through the Gallatin valley and into Montana. It was marked by rapine and plunder. They besieged Fort Reno and killed many of its garrison. They environed Fort Phil Kearny and wiped from the face of the earth every human being whose walls It failed to protect. Then they surrounded Fort C. F. Smith, where 200 soldiers found themselves sur rounded by more than a thousand death seeking Indians. Escape seemed impossible. A courier got word of this condition of affairs to General Han cock, who was then stationed at St. Paul, and he sent a messenger to the governor of Montana at Bozeman. The chief executive of the territory of Montana at that time was Green Clay Smith. He had been a member of congress from Kentucky, but Pres ident Lincoln made him territdrial gov ernor of Montana. He was seated on the porch of his residence In Bozeman when Hancock's message was handed to him. To a visitor he said: "What in the name of heaven can I do? Fort C. F. Smith is 250 miles away. The country between here and there is filled with Sioux Indians. Our militia force consists of exactly 427 men. Not a man of them could reach Fort C. F. Smith alive. I am absolute ly powerless. However. I will send for Colonel Howie." At that time Colonel Neil Howie was United States marshal for the territory of Montana. It was to this man that Governor Smith addressed himself, handing him General Hancock's dispatch and say ing: "Colonel, we can't do a-nything for those poor devils in Fort C. F. Smith. Am I not right?" "No," said Colonel Howie quietly, and with the gentle voice of a woman. "There Is no trouble about that, gov ernor. We can arrange that matter and still leave the Montana frontier protected. I will need some picked men and a good leader for them. I think Captain McCabe is best fitted for this undertaking. I will find him." McCabe was another gentle v~oiced man, with blue eyes. He didn't make much noise. He acted. He said to the governor: "Oh, yes; it Is easy enough. .But I'll need forty of the best men I can select You can keep the rest of your volunteer force here." Governor Smith looked at him in amazement. So did the visitor from the fort. They both thought he was either insane or a braggart. Governor Smith said to him, "How in the name of heaven do you expect to raise the siege of Fort C. F. Smith with forty men when you know that It Is sur rounded by more than 1,000 blood thirsty Indians and that the country between here and there ls:covered with thousands more of murderous Sioux?" Said McCabe quietly: "Why, gov ernor, it is easy enough. The Indians know us and know that we -know them better than they know them selves. You folks from the east have an idea that what you call Indian atrocities are simply unmeaning exhi bitions of brutality; that scalping, for instance, is simply a form of torture. In that you are mistaken. The Indian believes that no man can go to the happy hunting ground- -heaven we call it-who has been deprived of his hair. Their motive In scalping a victim is to carry out fiendish hatred to its utmost by preventing him from having a hap py hereafter. Therefore to deprive an Indian of his scalp is to rob him of his hope of a happy hereafter. My men never kill an Indian without scalping him, and the Indians'know that The forty men I will select for this expedi tion are unerring in their aim with the rifle. They can shoot si:tteen shots in sixteen seconds, and every ball means. a dead Indian, and every dead Indian means a scalp, and every scalp means a warrior deprived eternally of a chance of ever reaching the happy hunting ground. My forty men will walk fro.m here to Fort C. F. Smith without firing a shot." "Incredible," said Governor Smith. "True," said Captain McCabe. What was the result? Forty men walked the 250 miles from Bozeman to Fort C. F. Smith. Indians watched them on every side. By days their progress was signaled by circling columns of smoke and by right by fire from mountain tops. But not a shot was fired. When they got within sight of Fort C. F. Smith the thousand whooping Sioux who held t:he garrison in siege fled, and the forty frontiers men from Bozeman marched in ,and escorted the 200 soldIers back to the territorial capital without the loss of a life. Not a shot had been fired. Not a scalp had been lifted. Free to all subscribers of this paper every reader of this paper wvho has any trouble with either Stomach or Liver, dn get a free sample of Rvcale's Stom ach Tablets or Liver Tablets or both if needed by writing to Rydale Remedy Co.,Newport News, Va. These two remedies are not cuae all, one is for stmach trouble only, the other solely for L-iver and bowel troubles. Guaran teed by W. E. Brown & Co. Why She Laughed. Nell-She always laughs at him so: and yet he isn't at all humorous. Belie -No, but I believe she heard that he had remarked once that he admired her teeth. Pure hearts are glad, and they who read the paths of duty find God's world sweet. We would ask our readers to notify us when they change their postoffice address, and when doing so, please say from what office the change is to be made. On last. Monday rural route No. 2. started from Manning, and many who are gettong their mail at Manirg, Foreston and Wilson, will BLOOD SUB UTE. Why Saline Solution Is metimes In jected Into the ns. Occasionally in case -of serious wounds where there has been great loss of blood the published reports state that "saline solution" was in jected into the veins to supply the de ficiency. The average reader, however, has a very vague if any idea how a solution of salt takes the place of blood. Not to go into a complete analysis of the blood, it is sufficient to note that of 1,000 parts, 780.15 is composed of water, albumen (5 parts, sodium and potassium S.371. coloring matter (supplied by the red blood corpuscles) 133. leaving only some 12 parts to be composed of ibrin. fat, calcium and magnesium. etc. Where there is seri ous loss of bloo'd a state of collapse sets in because. the normal weight of blood being reduced, the heart's action is diminished, there being less resist ance for that organ to overcome. To counteract the result of shock and collapse it is necessary to stimulate the heart by restoring the 'normal weight: in other words. to get it to work by giving it someiug to work on. As the analysis shows, of 1.000 parts of blood nearly 800 are composed of water and sodium. and therefore a plain saline solution makes a good sub stitute. The heart does not know the difference, and it goes to pumping away as usual as soon as this imitation blood gets in the veins. The saline so lution serves to tide the patient over the danger point. As the food is con verted into chyle. new blood is formed. the red corpuscles are supplied- rapidly from the normal tissues, and the saline solulion is thrown off through the se cretions in the usual way. Formerly transfusion of blood was the means employed, but this always objectionable method has been sup planted. The greatest objection to the transfusion of blood from one person to another was that to supply the necessary amount to restore the wounded patient it was inevitable that the volunteer should be almost as bad ly drained, so that the physician would have two patients on his hands where he had one. Besides, there was always the risk of transfusing disease to the patient with the other's blood. Dogs and sheep have been sarificed to sur gery for this purpose, but most people prefer to use blood of their own manu facture to any imported from beasts or their fellow creatures. The finest Coffee substitute ever made, has recently been produced by Dr. Shoop of Racine Wis. You don't have to boil it twenty or thirty minutes "made in a minute," says the doctor. "health coffee" is really the closet cof fee imitation ever Yet produced. Not a grain of real coffee. in it either, health coffee imitation is made from pure toastel cereals or grains, with malt, nuts, *c., really it would fool an expert--we ; he to unknowingly drink it for coffee. The Manning Grocery Co. ITEMS OF INTEREST.. The first of the modern bank notes were made in China about the year 1000 A. D. Blood in its natural state contains a surprising amount of pure air, amount ing to nearly seven-eighths of Its en tire bulk. The 'wasp's nest is constructed of a first class article of papier mache, made from the pulp of wood, with an animal glue specially prepared by the wasps for the purpose. The honey of the sna pdragon can not be extracted by the common bee, which has not weight enough to pull down the lower jaw of this curious flower. Only the bumblebee has ac cess to the interior. The first trapdoor was made by a species of African spider whieh has its nest in the ground and closes the entrance by means of a trapdoor open ing outwardly and covered with bits. of earth and grass in order to escape observation. Women's Love of Ugly Men. The illustrious men in history who were distinguished as much for the fas cination which they exercised over the fair sex as for their talents and abili ty wvere, as a rule, plain and insignifi cant in appearance. Julius Caesar was a very ill favored man, and yet when a mere strippling, before his fame in Rome, girls of his own age sighed for him and mature women longed for his love. Among the men of later times who were renowned in like manner were Sir Philip Sidney, plain almost to ug liness; Paul Searron, the comic poet, a cripple; Voltaire, unmistakably ugly, and Rousseau, whose manners were awkward as his face was plain, while John Wilkes, who had the power to subjugate any woman who spoke to him .for even five minutes, was admit ted by his own showing to be the ug liest man in Engla'nid in his time. The Toe Nails. Owing to the friction and pressure to which toe nails are exposed in all per -sons who wear boats or shoes there is a -:re' tendency -be thickening on the under. t of the free growth, the por tion of J.e nail that extends beyond the toe point. This thickened part some times gets pressed against the flesh. and then very painful corns result The preventive treatment is to keep the nails cut short and to remove the rather soft thickened parts with a blunt pocket knife or scissors blade. Trial Catarrh treatmen't are being mailed out free, on requ~est. by Dr. Shop, Racine Wis. These tests are proving to the people-without a pen ny's cost-the great value of this scien t~ific prescription~ known to druggists everywhere as Dr. Shoop's Catarrh Remedy. Sold by W. E. Brown & Co. Two Ways of Looking at It. There is a young artist in Washing ton who classes himself as of the im pressionistic school and who, being somehat out in drawing, generally makes up for his lack of technique by spreading color recklessly and count ing on distance for his effect. At an amateu:- exhibition he once hung one of his. most extraordinary performances. "Well," said a friend whom the art ist had taken to see the work, "I don't want to flatter you, old chap, but that is far and away the best stuff you have ever done. I congratulate you." Much pleased, the artist was receiv~ ing the compliment .with becoming modesty' when he chanced again to glance at the picture and turned very red. The committee had hung it up side down. Hurrying to the head of the commite tee, he was about to launch into a loud complaint when he was informed ,of the good news that an hour before the picture had been sold for $01. The original price mark had been $19 CRUTCH %VALKING. Trials of the Man Who Tried It For the First Time. "No one who has never tried to use crutches can have any idea of the trouble It is to learn to walk with them." says a St. Louisan temporarily disabled by an injury to one foot. "When I was first laid up I antici pated a speedy recovery. but progress was slow, and in order that I might have a little exercise the doctor recom mended a pair of crutches. 'There's no trick at all in learning to use them.' He spoke of it as a matter of course. and I supposed that all I had to do was to pick up the crutches, put them under my arms and walk off, fast or slow, just as I pleased. I had seen men with crutches walking at as brisk a gait as I had ever been ab-e to achieve in my best walking days, so I was delighted with the prospect of get ting out of the house. "The crutches were ordered and sent home. I took them with alacrity, and at the very first step I sat down so hard on the floor that it seemed lo me my spine was driven halfway into my skull. After recovering from the shock I concluded there must be something wrong with the crutches. and a visitor to the house after trying them himself pronounced them entirely too long. So I took off the rubber tips and cut off an inch, then tried them again and would have had another sitting jolt had I not been held. The crutch expert declared they were still too long, so we took off another inch, then two half inchies. That remedied matters some, but I speedily discovered after walking a few steps with a man holding me up that my hands and arms were about to give out and that on the slgltest provocation the crutch slipped from under my arms and wabbled so alarm ingly that I felt every moment as if I was going headlong to the ground. "Then I discovered that I must rest more weight on the top'of the crutch and less on the handles. This was an improvement, but in five minutes the muscles under my arms were so sore that I couldn't stand the pain. Then I put pads on top, only to find out that a brick pavement is the roughest walk ing place on the earth. A Rocky Moun tain path is like granitoid compared to it. The slightest inequality caught the tip of the crutch and sent me stag gering. When I raised my foot to take a step forward my shoe always caught against the bricks, and I would have had twenty falls every fifteen minutes if I had not been supported. "Crutch walking is a science. It must be studied and learned like other sciences. Now when I see a man trav eling along on two crutches I am filled with admiration for his dexterity, but when .I observe a cne legged man getting over the ground on only one crutch I feel that he is a born genius." -St. Louis Globe-Democrat When the Stomach, Heart, or Kidney nerves get weak, then these organs al ways fail. Don't drug the Stomach, nor stimulate the Heart or Kidneys. That is simply a makeshift! Get a pre scription known' to druggists every where as Dr. Shoop's Restorative. The Restorative is prepared expressly for these weak inside nerves. Dr. Shoop's Restorative-tablets or liquid and see how quickly help will come. Free sample test sent on request by Dr. Soop, Racine Wis. Your health is surely worth this simple test. W. E. Brown & Co.. Work and Worry. "I am working too hard. My work is killing me." The man is mistaken. Work does not kill. Work is medicine to the body and mind and spirit. Work is the salvation of men. Work cures a thousand ills. Worry kills. Dissipation kills. 'Worry is largely a matter of nerves or indigestion or liver, or It may be a quality of temperament or it may spring from envy or some other hateful habit of thought. In most cases worry is concerning things pure ly imaginary-things that cannot be helped. One of the best cures for the worry habit is work, hard work of body and mind. Work requires concen tration of effort and mind. That makes one forget his troubles. Work may be made a joy, and In the joy of work ing there is no room for worry. Right living, right thinking, work-these are specifics for most of the ills caused by worry. Dissipation kills.-Atlanta Journal. The Original New Eggland. Not one man in a thousand living on the Pacific coast knows that as a mat Iter of fact the accents of our mother tongue were heard on the beach not far from San Francisco forty-one years before English was spoken on Plym outh Rock. More amusing still is the fact that the original New England was. on the Pacific coast, for Francis Drake in 1579. at the close of .a month's stay, took possession of the country for his sovereign, Elizabeth, -and named the new acluisition Nouva Albion (New England) because he thought the white cliffs near what is now Point Reyes resembled f.he 'chalk clift's near Dover. -Outiur. One of the best formuias use can be made by a combination of Kerose' - Oil Spirits Turpentine, Origanum. zscher Iand Ammonia. Whe' these different oils are made into an emulsion it is the most penetrating of all liniments. Ell iott's Emulsified Oil Liniment is made Ifroan the above formula and is put up in Ihalf pint bottles in yellow package and Isell for 25c. a bottle. Sold undergua antee W. E. Brown & Co. Men's Hats In Great Britain. There Is a difference of two sizes be tween the average hats worn in Bir mingham and Glasgow, and It is gen erally conceded that the average size in Birmingham is smaller than in any other town in the kingdom. Taking the whole of England, the average size of hat required by men is a '7, or nearly twenty-two Inches in circumference; in Wales '3% Is the average, the Irish Ian averages a 7 full, while the can nie Scot's average Is 7%.-Tailor and Cutter. Where Ignorance Was Not Bliss. . story Is told of a man who, cross Ing a disused coal field late at nigh.t, fell into an apparently bottomless pit and saved himself oinly by grasping a prjecting beam. There he clung with great difficulty all night, only to find when day dawned that his feet were only four Inches from the bottom. Today the Best. One of the Illusions is that the pres ent hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that ev *ery day is the best day in the year. ;No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is ldoomsday.-Emerson. It Is difficult to say who does you ?the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the The new Laxative that does not gripe or nauseate. Vleasant to take. L Geo.S. Hacker &Son MANUFACTUiRM or C-D C= _ CL. Doors, Sash, Blinds, Moulding and Building Material, CHARIESTON, S. C. Sash Weights and Cords. Window and Fancy Glass a Specialty, Rydale's LIVER TABLETS CURE ALL LIVER TROUBLES WE GUARANTEE THESE TAB LETS TO CURE CHRONIC CON STIPATION, BILIOUSNESS, TOR PID LIVER, JAUNDICE, AND ALL APFECTiONS OF THE LIVER, IN TESTINES AND BOWELS. 50 CHOCOLATE COATED TAB LETS IN A CONVENIENT BOX. PRICE. 25 CENTS. rupared and Guaranteed by THE RYDALE REMEDY CO., Newport News, Virginia. Dr. W. E. Brown & Co. Undertaking. IAconpiete stockc or caskcets. Coffns, and Fu !nerd Supp les always on hand. mv hearse wil be sent to any part of the county, and calls wil be reslinded to by mr. A. I. white. fuiaers director and undertaker, night or day. W. E. JENKINSON CO. Eat and Grow Fat FRESH MEATS AT ALL TIMES. EV ERYTHING GOOD TO EAT. Give us a Trial. Clark & Huggins. W.H E N YOU COME WELLS' I H AVTNG SALOON Which is litted uip with anu eve to the comforrt of his ensatoners. .. .. HAIR CUTTIDU IN A LL STYLES, S HAV IN(O AND S HA MPOOI NG Done with neatness arid dispatch.. .. .. .. A cordial invitatio - Is extended. . . Maninig Times Block. WI1S Weak Women Towakad il~wmth ere of nerve.on workt help Buo th th es a, t d ramns sbed combd sunae heas local. weane s ss and t .onal b e ohar e mor abt estam Dr. ~ ng Shoop'sNihCreiteLoa Dr. Shoop'sRetrtv.teCntttoa N igome-.hto' NiCure-Iaol~ Coat d TeRstorasthogtte elnti y to . s eki re the o u er keepersue adlg .A bood a oeryeery Thei gh Cre asSn me le, doy te wokies oslep.I soodl ed. radinlm C NED Guoussrfc s, alsloca wekessAND dichEs, whilE S Cet RA CK-ssnevu E RSteen , esRewe vorandabto Evengthingr tht'ande T a ir os andIiiteou patonae. P. B. Mouzon haLEs oneY e eTA Cures Stomach and Liver trouble and ixative Fruit Syrup Chronic Consipatio. The Arant Co. Drug Store. 1 when you are out hunting Bargains in Hardware that Dickson Hardware Co. will treat you right. We have a complete Line of Crockery, Glass and Chinaware. all pretty desiqns. Also Stoves, Ranges and Heaters of all kinds. SPORTING GOODS, Guns and Rifles, Hunting Boots, Coats, Vests and Pants, Shells with Smokeless Powder and Chilled Shot for small and large game We now handle two brands of Paint which are the best brands on the market. -No matter wh-at you need, come to see us and save money. Dickson Harware Co ALCOLO, With every facility of the large towns for handling goods, we are in position to offer ourselves to the trad ing public's consideration for their trade, and cordially invite an inspec tion of our large stock of Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Hats, Crockery-, aud Glassware, Fancy and Heavy Gro ceries. F Come to see us,' we* will serve you right, and prove to yon that we merit your confidence. ALCOLU, - --'S. C. BStop! Listen! Besure to inspect otur Line of Perfumery before buying elsewhere. Als-o. a com plete of Camphor Ices, Of'eam, M~assages, Shampoos, Etc. Don't forget us when -want ypur Pre scriptions filled, or need anythingi in' the way of medicines. THE MANNING PHAR G The Splendid Values \ we are offering in Stoves are unprecedented. We are posit' -~ Sy'Selling our Stock of 0. K. Stoves and Ranges at the same pri Sthey have been sold at for the past six years. On the eve of the.a -vance made by the Store manufacturers last seasoni we bought' the largest stock of Stoves and Ranges ever brought to our market with the inr.entioh of saving our patrons the u~imost cent That we suc ceeded our prices indicate. We now).have more than twenty sty~les Eand sizes to select from and on shortinotice fit any home with in up to-date Stove or Range at prices prevailing forthe past six years. -Our Line of Heaters is the most attractive and -up-to-date that has ever been exhibited on our floor. -We now confine oui- stock to staple crockery, though we have Sa few exceptional bargains in China which it will pay the house Skeeper to investigate. Our Stock of Johnson's White Granate is now complete and we are selling it at regular~import prices. . PLOWS and -SMOOT HING HARROWS. Syracuse-- Plows and Smnoothing Harrows, che best farm implements made. SAmerican Field Fencing. We have now in stock the largest and best asscrtment of the above well known Fencing ever gotten together in our oounty. we *have all the best and most popular heights at the lowest possible Sprice. FARMERS, you can double the value of your property by -fencing it. Come cnd let us figure with you as to cost. - Very .truly your SMANNING HARD VAR COFMP'NY2 Brig Your Job Printing to ThU Tin.