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THIRD ANNUAL REPORT GREENSBORO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY DIECEMBER 31st 1907 INCOME DISBURSEMENTS. Premiums ............. $266,059 83 Death Claim . ...,..3 00 Diidends and other p i1v Interest .................. 9,241 23 wents to policy holders 3,452 04 Annuities Certain........ 7 Paid tnder Annuities Cer Rea.n Estate... ...... . . . 4,93 0 Coonrissionsand Agency Sa3r04 a Expense..a......rs..10,272 6 Medical Fees and B .spec ASSETS. tions ................. 22,28 0 36 Advertising, Printing and 2 00 00 Postage ....... .. ..... 9,11 06 Mortgage Loans..... ....134,000 00 Taxes...... ... ..........".695 2, Home Office Expenses ... - - 6,99-- 4 Coliateral LoarsM ..........Fe00 00 Stccks and Bonds........5,475 00 Total Dtissu..ents. .-- -0-2,137- - -; Ecess Receipts over Dis Policy Loans and Notes 4%,,44U 5$ bursements ........ ....80,866 50 Cash at Interest .......... 3,221 S0 P2o3,004 06 Cash in BankT............a,000 00 LIABILITIES Furnitnre and Fixtures 2,662 9... 3Death Claims Outstand Due and Accured Interest 1,685 $9 ing..............3~00o,00 Due and Deferred Pr'ms 43,692 45 All other Liabil~ties.......,521 30 ____Surplus to Policy Holders 1b1,529 41; G ross Assets.. . . S n3,679 pd,6 $,3'3679 P411 INSURANCE ACCOUNT N1. POLICIES A30UNT In force December 31st, 1907j.................. 5, 1360 ........ ss$399,'05 00 In force December *3ist, 1906 ................... 3,657 ......... 5,948,178 00 Giain ........ ...................... ........ 1,6976 A-,451,Gr7 00 Written During 1907 ...............3,105 ........$S4,792,529 00 DURING 1907 NO. POLICIES AX0 UT fiained in Premium Income................. S 97 ,128 $7 57 Gained in Total Income..... ................. 97,006 61 52 Gained in Gross Assets ......................102,800 6 46 Gained inNet Surplus.......................... 5,633 GO 19 Gained in Insurance in Force............... 245127 00 41 Expected Death Loss, $69,631.00; Actual Death Loss, $34,327.16...............ain.......35,303 $4 49 Interest Necessary for Reserves, $3,943.23; Inter. e1t Earned, S8,737.57 Gain ...... 4,794 44 151 $2.27 of Assets for Every $1.00 of Liabili,9ty7 SUPRIOR~ IN QUJALITY AND ATTAINMENT. 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Subscipti~ pr~......Eve1rymPnumb em Tembr The-Weekly vso Human ife, Yarly bstri ida s'cein endid berseend ssu maps for Spare MomentstearmomSntscouriorePricturns..An..insta.men FarmNews Yerly ubscipto Piferom..the..great.- $250 ONLY oseials ADhLL GabdWt i eey aeTeNew Home Library Wal hrEsl ot....... 10 Yor be Paown r, theal fa crfimp.tI t ic e autifully . 1 Sn a nc.Ge igton prined n clor on ew lats pepaed epecallrfo Th (2. Th seondshet*rprsens mps n bautfu THE WELSHERS. How Absconding Bookmakers Ar3 Treated In England. One thing that deters people from wagering large sums at the tracks of England is the comparative frequency with which the bookie there departs with the stakes. This is a rascality almost unknown at an American course, and in the very exceptional cases when it does happen the turf as sociation always makes good all losses. But if the cry of "welsher" goes up on an English track. prepare for trou ble. Battle, niurder and sudden death generally follow. As everybody knows a gambling debt is illegitimate, so the mob's only recourse Is to take its money's worth out of the unfortu nate man's person. They knock him off his box, tear his clothes .to pieces, beat, kick and trample on him, and unless -he is rescued In time by the po lice they are apt to finish him alto gether. The authorities are on the alert to prevent such things, ;nd as soon as there Is a sign of trouble the terror stricken bookmaker Is sur rounded by a group of "bobbies," who fight their way through the dense mass and escort him beyond the reach of the fury of the mob.-From "The Peo ple and the Ponies," by C. F. Peters, in Bohemian. THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Whence It Comes and Whither it Goes No One Knows. The solar system Is well enough when picturesquely expounded, but when the solar system becomes a mere atom traveling some 400,000,000 of miles per annum toward some Incon ceivable goal, and when millions of $milar systems have to be contem plated, all pursuing some similar course, the lay Imagination is com pletely baffled. Nor Is It easy to believe that the most eager astronomer Is not sometimes perplexed and dismayed by the vistas opened up before him. For everything he learns merely -opens up vaster prob lems, and when he has extended his vision to stars from which light would take 2,000 years to reach this earth lie is no nearer finality than the child who thinks the sky but a spectacle of revolving lights. We are told that the heavens as we see them are occupied by two great streams of stars moving in opposite directions. That suggests at least two centers of revolution at some unimagi nable distance and adds to our aching embarrassment. We ask, Whence? Whither? And with all our science there is no answer.-London Times. Didn't Interest Kyri. A prominent Bostonian recently put up at his club a Chicago man bearing letters of introduction from a common friend. After dinner the two were lounging in the club library when the Bostonian chaneed to ask: "By the way, what do you think of the 'Origin of Species'?" "Never read it," was the reply of the man from Chicago. "In fact, old mal, I'm not In the least interested in finan cial subjects."-Succes Magazine. Charity. "I understand you refused to accept a gift from my daughter, sam?" "Yes, sah; I did,. sah." "You looked upon it as charity, I suppose, sam'-" "Yes, sah, and l's ob de op.iznion dat no man has a right to accept charity when his wife's got work, sih!"-Yon kers Statesman res [lay Paper st Matter 3s. All the news; The nducted by genial Aunt e market reports, of the ~s one posted right up to Sof the month's story fpage set of comics from eday. all Cuart of taitory. It also shows por' orli I- gives also a topographie ane - war with the history of it lplomatic relations. . tS are all bound together at the anger, and thus form a splendiid nylopedia of everything pre FREE! Edited By Alfred Henry Lewi: er Human Life you know exaetly t, You're going to get the onily is devoted entirely to people, not people, but men and women who men and women who are doing hm fame or fortune.. entertaining. A dull line is its 2.50 YA stituton, Monday, Wednesday one year and all of the above IS AND 'i $2.50, )n't miss a dopy. Address all PTES, Manning, . 0. VERY OBLIGING. He Answered All Questions and Ever Offered Further Information. A small, quiet looking man, smoking a large cigar, sat by the side of a me dium sized automobile that was drawn out of the road as a large touring car came along, driven by a man with an interrogatory aspect. The man in the touring car slowed tip and leaned over. "How long you been herey" "About two hours." "Can't you find out what the matter Is?" "'No."r "Trouble with spark plug?" "Think not." "How are your batteries?" "0 M." "Haven't got a short circuit, have you?" "Oh, no." "Got any gasoline.in your tank?" "Plenty." "Would you mind telling me, sir, just what's the matter with that machine of yours?" In answer the man pointed to a large red farmhouse in the distance. "See that house out there?" he asked. "Yes, sir." "Well, sir, there isn't anything the matter with this machine, but since noon my wife has been in that house kissing her sister's first baby goodby. When she gets through, if you are not over 1,000 miles away and will leave your address; I will telegraph or cable you the glad news at my own ex pense."-Collier's Weekly. SHOPPING IN GREENLAND. East Coast Natives Make Trips Last ing Four Years. When the Greenlander of the east coast goes a-shopping, It is no light matter of a day o.r a week. The snow ut holder of the far north, on finding that his supplies are running. low, packs up his belongings and walks off, with his wife and family. He keeps on walking, summer and winter, for it takes him anywhere from one to two full years to reach a settlement where there are shops. Whole colonies some times join in these pilgrimages from their northern dwelling places, camp ing by the way as weather aud inclina tion permit One might suppose that such protracted journeys would be fol lowed by long stays at the place of business. Not so. The Eskimo spends little more time over the shopping for which he has come so far than does a woman bargain hunter at the periodical drapery sales with us. Sometimes two hours finish the transactions, and the purchaser will start on his long return journey northward. The fne bear and fox skins which he has brought with him are bartered for secondhand clothes, tobacco, old iron and many articles not only valueless, but actually injurious to the buyer. A life which can afford a four years' shopping trip now and again does not strike one as overstrenuous.-London Scraps. Queerest Town In England. The most curious town In England Is Northwich. There is not a straight street nor, in fact, a straight house in the place. Every part of it has the ap pearance of an earthquake. Northwlch is the center of the salt industry in Cheshire, England. On nearly all sides of the town are big salt works, with their engines pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of brine every week. At a depth of some 200 or 300 feet are immense subterranean lakes of brine, and as the contents of these are pumped and pumped away the up per crust of earth is -correspondingly weakened, and the result Is an occasion al subsidence. These subsidences have a "pulling" effect on the nearest build ings, and they are drawn all ways and give the town an extremely dissipated appearagee. The Gender of the Moon. In English. French, Italian, Latin and Greek the moon is feminine, but In all the Teutonic tongues the moon is masculine. Which of the twain Is Its true gender? We go back to the Sanskrit for an answer. Professor Max Muller rightly says ("On the Re ligions of India"), "It is no longer de nied that for throwing light on some of the darkest problems that have to be solved by the student of language nothing is so useful as a critical study of Sanskrit." Here the word for the 'moon is mas, which is mascaline. Mark how even what Hamlet calls "words, words, words," lend their weight and value to the adjustment of this great argument The very moon Is masculine and, like Wordsworth's child, is "father of the man."-"Moon Lore." Impertinent. Clara-Well, aunt, have your photo graphs come from Mr. Faceallo? Miss Maydeval (angrily)-Yes, and they went back, too, with a note expressing my opinion of his impudence. Clara Gracious! What was it? Miss May deval-Why, on the back of every pic ture were these words: "The original of this is carefully preserved."-Lon don Chronicle. Diplomacy Towne-Of course the scheme is a good one, but do you think your wife will approve of it? Browne-Yes, if by careful hinting I can get her to formu late It herself and make her believe it's her own.-Pearson's Weekly. Gravitation. Examiner-What do you know about the power of the earth's attraction? Candidate-It is the strongest at about 2 o'clock in the morning.-Flie gende Blatter. I believe rather in drawing men to ward good than shutting them out from bad.-Zola. Don't cough your head ofT whe-n you can get a uaranteed remedy in Bees Laxative Cough Syrup. It is especially recommended for chil dren as it's pleasant to take. is a gentle laxative thus expelling the phlegm from the system. For coughs, colds. croup. whooping cough. hoarseness ane all bronchial trouble. Guaran teed. Sold by The Manning Pharmacy. Motion and Heat. All visible motion when arrested be comes heat, even that of running wa er. If we take two pieces of solid ice and rub them together, they can be heated by the friction until the melting point is reached. If we should pour water into an ordinary rotary churn and turn the crank, the mechanical energy exerted against the water will be transformed into molecular energy, and the water will be warmed in pro portion to the amount of mechanical energy expended. Character. According to an old French saying, "A man's character is like his shadow, which sometimes follows and some times precedes him and which is oc casionally longer, occasionally shorter than he Is." Few men have been admired by HE MADE ONE MISTAKE. Quaint Persian Tale of the Taming of the Shrew. In Persia a wealthy man will often have a friend of whose society he is fond living In the house with him. Ab dullah was such a friend to Aly Khan, a very wealthy and Influential ner chaut of Ispahan, who was delighted with his charm and cleverness and so pleased with his services that he thought he would make a very good son-in-law and suggested him ag such to his beautiful daughter. Sh6 was very overbearing and bad tempered; but, thinking that Abdullah was rather good looking, she agreed to it. They were married. Soon his friends came to congratulate him, among them Housseyn, who was known to have a very overbearing and bad tempered wife. He said, "I congratulate you on your marriage," and then he asked the bridegroom, "Are you really happy with a woman who is known to have such a bad temperl" "I assure you that she Is perfectly charming and that I am perfectly happy." "May I ask how you manage It?' "Certainly," answered Abdullah. "On the night of the marriage I went Into her apartments in full uniform with my sword on. She did not take any notice of me, but put on a supercilious air and made a parade of stroking her cat. I quietly picked up her cat and cut off his head with my sword, took the head in one hand, the body in the other and threw them out of the win dow. My wife was amazed, but did not show it. After a few seconds she broke into a smile and has been a most submissive and charming wife ever since." Housseyn went straight home and put on his uniform and went into the harem. The domestic pet came to greet him. He seized it with the hand that was accustomed to caress it, drew his sword and with a single blow de capitated It. At the same moment he received a blow in the face delivered by his shrewish .wife and before he recovered from his astonishment a sec. ond and a third. "I can see to whom you have been talking," the lady hissed, "but you are too late. It was on the first day that you ought to have done this." A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH. The Forcefulness of Native Customs In Morocco. In Morocco, the Baled-el-Maghrab (the. land of the setting sun of the Arabs), the Lex Talionis Is as much an integral part of the social system as-are life and death. The Moors, It may be said, are frankly brutal. They have a certain rude code of honor to which they adhere when convenient, but among themselves they devise every possible exeuse for not fulfilling en gagements with the giaour. On the other hand, they are extreme ly punctilious in exacting full measure from Europeans with whom they have dealings, and many stories might be told showing how Moorish judges mete out justice to their own people to the detriment of the alien. For instance, It Is not very long since that a British subject riding through the Soko (or market Vlace) at Marakesh had the Ill fortune to push against a half blind old woman, who, falling to the ground, broke off two of her front teeth. The Englishman promptly offered compensation. It was refused, and the injured woman before the local caid demanded that her innocent aggressor should have two teeth knocked out in retribution for her Injury. Protest followed on protest against this exaction until finally-the matter was carried to the sultan himself. That potentate (and this instance is given to show the forcefulness of. na tive custom) begged the Englishman to comply with the old woman's de mand and publicly sacrifice his inci sors, in return for which oblation he granted him concessions which have made that English merchant and his fahily foremo'st among the wealthy foreigners in Morocco.-Lonfdon Spec tator. Manzan Pile Remedy comes ready to use, in a collapsible tube, with nozzle. One application soothes and heals, reduces inflammation and re lieves soreness and itching. Price 50c. Sold by The Manning Pharmacy. CART TAIL FLOGGING. -This Peculiar Punishment Flourished In England Up to 1836. Although flogging at the cart's tail is generally sup~posed to have ceased after 1827, various instances are on record up to 1836 when a man con victed ef robbery from the person was .slowly paraded through the principal street of Saltash "with bare back and flogged at the cart's tail, to which one of his hands was lashed at either side. Two men, armed with cat-e'-nine-tails, laid on heavily and were scolded by the beadle or crier in uniform for not hitting harder." The punishment was sometimes reduced to a farce when the administrating hand had been well "oiled" or belonged to a soft hearted officer of justice, as in a case mentioned by the poet Cowper where the thief was the only one con cerned who suffered nothing. A youth had stolen some ironwork at Olney. "Being convicted," says Cowper, "he was ordered to be whip red. which operation he underwent at the cart's tall, from the stone house to the high arch and back again. He seemed to show great fortitude, but It was all an imposition upon the public. The beadle who performed it had filled his left hand with red ocher, through which after every stroke he drew the lash of his whip, leavgig the appear aice of a wound upourthe skin, but in reality not hurting him at all. This being perceived by Constable Hlinsch comb, who followed the beadle, he applied his cane without any such management or precaution to the shoulders of thie too merciful execu tioner. "The scene immediately became more interesting. The beadle could by no means be prevailed upon to strike hard, which provoked the constable to strike harder, and this double flogging continued till a lass of Silver End, piting~ the pitiful beadle, thus suffer ingr under the hands of the pitiless con stale, joined the procession and, plac iig herself immediately behind the lat ter, seized him by his capillary club and, pulling him backward by the same. slapped his face with a most amazoniatn fury."-St. James' Gazette. Makes One Feel Worse. It is a fact that one' cannot tell how 'bad he really feels without feqling worse. The way to feel good is -to not talk too much about your Ills. Think how well you are, how well you have done and feel good about It, and if there is anything the matter with you think it won't last long and that It Iis not worth thinking about. - Ex hange. Weak Kidneys Olan ore trouble than= othex rg 0 abheo,r The uno of the u to sep tea and ixt n PO DesstfrsCi10y and toBderithem Lhean ttoudang.romthebodytlroEg the bladder. Therefore When the dne. become dseased and weak they farin anaib o rn teirworkpr a and urinary dli*24MZ A"e the restlt. it 19 IIrauTov -a U e nref be sforded. Wbed. . B On m the kau fS DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills Promtlelmut oOs from the system, and at the sa tiez'as the kidnesawell and strong. For Weak Kidneys Packaeb., In fls~rnration of the biadder anid all uiaytroubles Do Witt's Kidney and ;1dder Pilfs are %inguw3aS" A Week's Treatment for 25&, Mopesy back If they taL. W. E. BROWN & CO. Bank of $umme0o, Summerton, S. C. CAPITAL STOCK - $25,000 00 SURPLUS - - - - - - 8,000 00 STOCKHOLDERS' - LIABILITIES - - - - 25,000 00 $58,000 00 IN OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT We pay interest at the rate of .4 Per Cent. per annum, compounding same quarterly. RICHARD B. SMYTH, President JOHN W. LESESNE, Cashier. P.B.Mouzon has one of the besti Cold Storage plants in town. We are the house keepers delight. At our Grocery every thing is clean and fresh, and ,only the best goods are handled. CANNED GOODS, COFFEES AND TEAS, CAKES AND CRACK ERS, FRUITS AND CONFECTIONERY, CHOICE BUT TER, HAMS AND BREAK FAST STRIPS. Everything that is handled in a First class Grocery. It is my object to please and I invite your patronage. P. B. Mouzon STATE OF SOUTH CAROL.INA, Clarendon County. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Decree. W. Scott Haryin,'Plaintiff against J. E. M. Hodge, Cassie C. Hodge, Ed ward S. Ervin, and F. P. Erviun, the last t wo named co-partners do ing business onder the firm name and style of Manning 'Hardware Company, and Dunbar C. Ervin, Defendants. UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A Judgment Order of the Court of Com mon Pleas, in the above stated ac tion, to me directed, bearing date of March ., 1908, I will sell at pub lic auction, to the highest bidder for cash, at Clarendon Court House, at Manning, in said county, within the legal hours for judicial sales, on Mon day, the 6th, day of April 1908, being salesday, the following de scribed real estate: "All that piece, parcel or tract of land containing five-eights (5-8) of one acre, more or less, and bounded on the North by lot of Lizzie E. Bell; bounded on the East by WVest Bonn dary Street; bunded on the South by Boyce Street, formerly the Man ning and Fulton Public Road, and bounded on the. West by lands of Harriette L. Setzer." Purchaser to pa for ppers. Sheriff Clarendon County. W.o. W. Woodmuen of the World. Meets on fourth Monday nights at 8:30. Visiting Sovereigns invited. DR. J. A. COLE, DENTIST, Upstairs over Bank of Manning. - MANNING, S. C. Phone No 77. DR. J. FRANK GEIGER. DENTIST, MANNING, S. C.. JH. LESESNE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. M cS WAIN WyOODS, C. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Manning, S. C. Office Over Levi's Store. t. 0. PURDY. ' S. OLIVER O'BRY P URDY & O'BRYAN, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, MANNING, S. C. CHARLTON DuRANT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. W. C. DAVIS. J- A. WEINBERG. DAvis & WEINBERG, ATTORNEYS AT LAW , MANNING, S. C. omptatnion given to collections.